In the 1930s, Duke Ellington encouraged his star sidemen - stars like Johnny Hodges and Cootie Williams - to record on their own, and their small group sessions form a rich addition to the Ellington canon. Geoffrey Smith selects some gems.
BBC Proms 2013 - Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko with Baiba Skride as soloist in Szymanowski's Violin Concerto. Presented by John Shea.
Violin Concerto No.1 (Op. 35)
Baiba Skride (violin) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927). Lyrics by J.P.Jacobsen
Nacht und Traume D.827, arr. Reger for voice and orchestra
Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
Concerto for horn and orchestra (C. 38) in D minor
Camerata Quartet: Wlodzimierz Prominski, Andrzej Kordykiewicz (violins), Piotr Reichert (viola), Roman Hoffman (cello)
Victoria Postnikova (piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
Night and festal music - prelude to act II from the opera Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba)
Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
This Sunday, Rob Cowan presents depictions of love in music by composers as diverse as Henry Purcell and Bedrich Smetena, with additional variations on the idea from Puccini, Gershwin, and de Falla.
The week's Beethoven violin sonata is No.1 in D Major, Op.12 No.1 in a recording by Josef Suk and Jan Panenka, The cycle of lesser known symphonies continues with Glazunov's Symphony No 6 in C minor.
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss shares her extraordinary life story with Michael Berkeley and reveals the music that has brought her comfort, that conjures memories, and that brings her joy.
Eva Schloss was born into a happy middle-class Jewish family in Vienna in 1929, but her childhood came to an abrupt end when she was nine and had to flee with her parents and older brother to escape the Nazis.
Before going into hiding in Amsterdam Eva's family befriended Anne Frank's family, and after the war, the Frank legacy was to play a large part in her life - Eva's mother married Otto Frank and Eva and her mother worked tirelessly to promote Anne Frank's legacy through her diary.
Like the Franks, Eva's family was betrayed, and she and her mother were captured by the Gestapo on her 15th birthday and transported to the Birkenau concentration camp. They were two of only a few prisoners still alive when the camp was liberated in January 1945. Her beloved brother and father did not survive the neighbouring camp of Auschwitz.
Somehow Eva learned to live alongside the memories of those terrible years and after the war rebuilt her life in England. Now in her 80s she tours the world spreading her message of reconciliation and hope, and in 2012 she received an MBE for her work with the Anne Frank Trust and other Holocaust charities.
Eva's choices of music include Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Strauss, who take her back to her happy Viennese childhood, as well as music by Mahler through which she recalls the pain of her teenage years.
From Wigmore Hall, London. Pianist Pascal Roge plays an all-French programme: the nostalgic Suite Bergamasque by Debussy and Sonatine by Ravel, Satie's gentle and haunting Gnossienne No 3 and Poulenc's suite inspired by memories of games with his friends on summer nights, Les Soirees de Nazelles. Presented by Sarah Walker
Sophie Yates visits The Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments in Edinburgh to play extracts from Rameau's Pièces de clavecin on three extraordinary double-manual French harpsichords made in the late 1700s and fully restored to playing condition. She talks to the museum's curator, Darryl Martin, about the history of the instruments, and to harpsichord maker Andrew Garlick about how they each produce their own unique sound.
Celebrant: Rev. Father Michael Lang
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with news of choral events happening across the UK. Another amateur singing group invites listeners to "Meet My Choir" at
To get in touch with the programme, email thechoir@bbc.co.uk or send a tweet to @bbcradio3.
Angel Coulby and Raymond Coulthard read texts inspired by the colour blue, from seas and skies, to a lover's eyes, and blue's associations with sadness and hope. Texts include John Keats' Blue! Tis the Life of Heaven, Rudyard Kipling's Blue Roses, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge's The Blue Bird, and excerpts from H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau and James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. Blue-toned music ranges from Stanford's setting of Coleridge's poem to a jazz trio arrangement of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and tracks by Joni Mitchell, Brian Eno and Miles Davis.
The very public death of television playwright Dennis Potter (1935-94), author of 'The Singing Detective', 'Blue Remembered Hills' and 'Pennies from Heaven' was an event which has eclipsed our memory of his remarkable work. Matthew Sweet reassesses the life, work and legacy of Potter with his friends and colleagues including Michael Grade, Melvyn Bragg, Alan Yentob, Janet Suzman, Kika Markham, Kenith Trodd, Jon Amiel and Tony Garnett.
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the RIAS Chamber Choir with a reconstruction of a charity concert organised by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in 1786 to raise funds for an almshouse in Hamburg.
Georg Friedrich Händel: Aria "Ich weiß, dass mein Erlöser lebt" and chorus "Alleluia" from Der Messias
By Steve Waters. Starring Simon Callow and Henry Goodman.
In July 1944, with the most disastrous war in history in its death-throes, a secret meeting took place in a hotel deep in the forests of New Hampshire. Bankers and economists from over forty nations met to draw up a settlement to save the world economy and secure the peace. Everything depended on two men - John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White.
Seen through the eyes of the main participants (including the eccentric Lady Keynes) this dive into big money and high politics takes Bretton Woods as a lens to reflect on one of the most burning issues of our times. Out of this meeting emerged two powerful institutions, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The international gold standard had come to grief in the Depression of the 1930s. A succession of countries, led by Britain, detached their currencies from gold rather than be forced by a fixed exchange-rate to cut demand and increase unemployment. By the summer of 1941, Britain was in debt not just to the United States but to the countries playing host to her armies, such as India and Egypt. Without currency controls, Britain was bankrupt. John Maynard Keynes envisaged a supernational bank in which trading accounts would be settled in bank money that would be available to members as an overdraft facility according to their share of world trade. Behind it would stand the greatest creditor nation, the United States. Over just three weeks in July 1944, the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, better known from the Mount Washington Hotel's railway stop as the Bretton Woods conference, established a currency regime and the IMF and the World Bank.
Steve Waters' plays include English Journeys (1998), After the Gods (2002) and Fast Labour (2008) all produced on Hampstead Theatre Main Stage. The Contingency Plan (2009) 'Ignorance/Jahiliyyah', (2012), and Little Platoons (2011). Steve is currently under commission to Birmingham Rep and the Donmar Warehouse. He lectures in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
Elgar Symphony No.1 in A flat, Op.55, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles.
MONDAY 16 JUNE 2014
MON 00:30 Through the Night (b046cql5)
John Shea presents a concert of musical Vespers for Dresden Cathedral, with music by Gabrieli and Schutz.
12:31 AM
Gabrieli, Giovanni [c.1554/7-1612]
Kyrie for 12 voices, from Sacrae symphoniae (1597)
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
12:37 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
4 sacred pieces - Eile mich, Gott, zu erretten SWV.282; Der Herr sprach zu meinem Herren (Psalm 110) SWV.22 for double chorus and continuo; O Jesu, nomen dulce SWV.308 for tenor and continuo; Die Himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes SWV.386
Kölner Kammerchor , Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
12:52 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
2 sacred pieces - Anima mea liquefacta est SWV.263 for 2 tenors, 2 instruments and organ (from "Symphoniae sacrae" 1629); Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist (Psalm 133) SWV.412 for chorus, 5 instruments and continuo
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
1:06 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
2 sacred pieces - Spes mea, Christe Deus, SWV.69; Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (Psalm 84) SWV.29
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
1:17 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
Freuet euch des Herren SWV.367 for 3 voices, 2 violins and continuo
Kölner Kammerchor , Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
1:23 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
3 sacred pieces - Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich SWV.415; Nun will sich scheiden Nacht und Tag, after SWV.138; Herr, unser Herrscher (Psalm 8) SWV.27
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
1:35 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
Magnificat anima mea Dominum SWV.468
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
1:45 AM
Gabrieli, Giovanni [c.1554/7-1612]
Plaudite omnis terra for 12 voices, from Sacrae symphoniae (1597)
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
1:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Mein' Augen schliess' ich jetzt - chorale BWV.378
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
1:53 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Partita for solo violin No.1 in B minor (BWV.1002)
Rachel Podger (violin)
2:09 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for keyboard and string orchestra No.1 in D minor (BWV.1052)
Raphael Alpermann (harpsichord), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
2:31 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Symphony No.2 (Op.27) in E
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
3:30 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Petite suite for piano duet
Anna Klas, Bruno Lukk (piano)
3:43 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Abendempfindung (K.523) for voice and piano
Elly Ameling (soprano), Jörg Demus (piano)
3:48 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Or est maintenant, l'éternel regnant (Psalm 99)
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Peter Phillips (conductor)
3:53 AM
Foulds, John [1880-1939]
Isles of Greece (Op.48, No.2) (from Impressions of time and place)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
3:58 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), André Laplante (piano)
4:06 AM
Anonymous (14th century Bohemian)
Czaldy waldy
Les Ménéstrels
4:10 AM
Farnaby, Giles (c 1563-1640) arr. E. Howarth
Fancies, toyes and dreames - A Giles Farnaby suite arr. Howarth for brass ensemble
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
4:16 AM
Grothe, Franz (1908-1982)
Illusion - from the film Illusion (1941)
Robert Kortgaard (piano), Marie Bérard (violin), Joseph Macerollo (accordion)
4:21 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
L'Heure du berger
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)
4:31 AM
Wagenaar, Johan (1862-1941)
Concert Overture 'Frühlingsgewalt' (Op.11)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
4:39 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
17 Polish songs Op.74 (selection)
Hans Jorg Mammel (tenor), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
5:00 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Cello Sonata in A major (Op.69)
Jong-Young Lee (cello), Keum-Bong Kim (piano)
5:24 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Hear my prayer - hymn, arr. for soprano, chorus & orchestra
Jennifer Adams-Barbaro (soprano), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:36 AM
Moscheles, Ignaz (1794-1870)
Sonate melancolique for piano in F sharp minor (Op.49)
Tom Beghin (fortepiano - built by Gottlieb Hafner, Vienna, ca. 1830)
5:48 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Quartet for strings in F major (unfinished)
Vertavo Quartet
6:05 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony no.8 (D.759) in B minor 'Unfinished'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Markus Lehtinen (conductor).
MON 06:30 Breakfast (b046cqm7)
Monday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b046cqmp)
Monday - Sarah Walker with Mark Damazer
with Sarah Walker and her guest, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, Mark Damazer.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Weber: Overtures - Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble
10.30am
In the week marking the 800th anniversary of the formal creation of the role of Chancellor of Oxford University, Sarah's guest is Mark Damazer CBE, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and former controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7.
Previous to these posts, Mark had an extensive career in news and current affairs journalism working at ITN and at the BBC - in the World Service and on news programme such as Newsnight and the Nine O'Clock News. Later he was responsible for the BBC's news and current affairs journalism from Westminster, including Question Time, and Yesterday in Parliament, becoming Deputy Director of BBC News in 2001. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.
Mark is a Board Member of the V&A, and of the Centre of Contemporary British History. He currently writes columns for The London Evening Standard and The Guardian.
Mark suffers the misfortunes of Tottenham Hotspur and enjoys opera, gardening and Italian painting.
11am
Rameau
Pièces de Clavecin
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b039pnzh)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Holidays in Hell - Gluck the Reformer
Donald Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck. Gluck is probably best known today as the composer of Orfeo's lament, 'Che faro senza Euridice?', recorded by generations of singers. Gluck also has the reputation of being the man who 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the ludicrous excesses of the high-flown Italian opera seria style that little by little had become a vehicle for overpaid warblers to show off their vocal agility. "I sought to retract music", said Gluck, "to its true function of helping poetry to be expressive and to represent the situations of the plot, without interrupting the action or cooling its impetus with useless and unwanted ornaments." All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this extraordinary composer, the sheer quality of whose music is often overshadowed by his reputation as an innovator.
In today's programme, Donald explores the works that established Gluck's revolutionary credentials: the opera Orpheus and Euridice, from which comes the aforementioned lament; and the much less well-known ballet that immediately preceded it, Don Juan, based on the same legend that inspired Mozart's Don Giovanni. Orpheus and Don Juan both go to hell, but while Orpheus cannily negotiated a return ticket, Don Juan's journey is strictly one-way.
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b046cqpq)
Wigmore Hall: Alban Gerhardt
From Wigmore Hall, London.
Young German cellist Alban Gerhardt pairs one of Bach's solo suites with a masterpiece of the twentieth century repertoire
Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat, BWV.1010
Kodaly: Sonata for solo cello, Op.8
Alban Gerhardt (cello).
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b046cqps)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 1
Katie Derham profiles the recent music-making of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the concert hall and in the recording studio. Today's music ranges from an anguished late symphony by Dylan Thomas's friend Daniel Jones to the perfumed oriental world of Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherazade. Also today, Llyr Williams plays William Matthias's extrovert Second Piano Concerto and Arturo Pizarro uncovers a seldom-heard piano concerto from late nineteenth-century Brazil.
Alun Hoddinott
Jack Straw - Overture Op 35
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
William Matthias
Piano Concerto No 2, Op 13
Llyr Williams (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
c
2.30pm
Daniel Jones
Symphony No 10
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
c.
2.50pm
Handel
Aria: Cara sposa from Rinaldo
Christine Rice (mezzo soprano),
BBC NOW, Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)
c.
3.05pm
Rimsky Korsakov
Scheherazade - symphonic suite, Op 35
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
c.
3.50pm
Henrique Oswald
Piano Concerto No 10 (1890)
Artur Pizarro (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
MON 16:30 In Tune (b046cr00)
Piazza - Blossom Street, BBC Concert Orchestra, London School of Samba
Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein present a special edition of In Tune on the launch day of BBC Music, live from the outdoor piazza at Broadcasting House in London.
Live music from members of the BBC Concert Orchestra linked to a new initiative to introduce classical music to primary schools across the UK, and from vibrant UK vocal group Blossom Street as they gear up for the London Voices festival.
Plus as the World Cup kicks off in Rio, we'll have live Samba from the London School of Samba.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
MON 18:30 Composer of the Week (b039pnzh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
MON 19:30 Opera on 3 (b046cr02)
Schoenberg's Moses und Aron
Presented by Christopher Cook.
A rare opportunity to hear Arnold Schoenberg's masterpiece "Moses und Aron" from Welsh National Opera. Loosely drawn from the biblical stories of Moses, his brother Aaron and the flight of the Jews from Egypt, the opera is a culmination of Schoenberg's pre-occupation with musico-dramatic form and the prevailing cultural conflicts of the 1920s and 30s. Responding to the rise of fascism and anti-semitic rhetoric, in this old testament adaptation, Schoenberg reconnects with his own Jewish identity and faith as Moses, a spoken role, performed here by Sir John Tomlinson, struggles to overcome his despair that he will be unable to find the right words to tell the people of God's will.
Still incomplete at Schoenberg's death in 1951, the two acts performed in WNO's new production nonetheless reach a dramatic point of conclusion, when the gap between Moses, acting under the direct authority of God, and Aron, whose talent for communication presents persuasive, yet confusing images to the chosen people, widens to become morally irreconcilable.
Moses ..... John Tomlinson (Speaker)
Aron ...... Mark le Brocq (Tenor)
A Young Maiden/First Naked Virgin ..... Elizabeth Atherton (Soprano)
A Youth ..... Alexander Sprague (Tenor)
Another Man/Ephraimite ..... Daniel Grice (Baritone)
A Priest ..... Richard Wiegold (Bass)
First Elder ..... Julian Boyce (Bass)
Second Elder ..... Laurence Cole (Bass)
Third Elder ..... Alastair Moore/Julian Boyce (Bass)
Sick Woman/Fourth Naked Virgin ..... Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (Mezzo-soprano)
Naked Youth ..... Edmond Choo (Tenor)
Second Naked Virgin ..... Fiona Harrison (Soprano)
Third Naked Virgin ..... Louise Ratcliffe (Mezzo-soprano)
Chorus of six solo voices ..... Fiona Harrison (Soprano), Amanda Baldwin, Sian Meinir (Mezzo-sopranos), Peter Wilman (Tenor), Alastair Moore/Alastair Merry, Laurence Cole (Basses)
Chorus and Extra Chorus of Welsh National Opera
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Lothar Koenigs (Conductor).
MON 22:00 Night Waves (b017m17m)
The Singing Detective
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective. Produced for the BBC by Kenith Trodd and directed by Jon Amiel, the drama revolves around the personal entanglements -real, remembered, and imagined - of a crime writer, Philip Marlow (played by Michael Gambon), who is suffering from acute psoriasis and from the side-effects associated with its treatment. The result is a complex, multi-layered text which weaves together the varied interests and themes of the detective thriller, the hospital drama, the musical and the autobiography.
Matthew Sweet is joined by Kenith Trodd, Bill Paterson (who played the psychiatrist in the series), the critic Anne Karpf and the writer and actor Mark Gatiss to discuss one of television's most celebrated dramas.
First broadcast in November 2011.
MON 22:45 The Essay (b01ryt6w)
Unknown Cities
Hobart
It's over the mountains, it has no major roads, it's too dangerous, or tourists don't get it at all. Five writers with a desire for travel or living elsewhere recall a city that once captured their hearts and minds for reasons of secrecy or isolation, or simply being off limits.
Novelist Nicholas Shakespeare once lived in Hobart, Tasmania, and reveals to us its convict and whaling past, and the story of a monkey...
Producer Duncan Minshull
First broadcast in April 2013.
MON 23:00 Jazz on 3 (b046cr0n)
Highlights from the 2014 Emulsion Festival
BBC New Generation Artist Trish Clowes curates Emulsion Festival: a two-night event in east London fusing jazz with contemporary classical music, while keeping improvisation at the heart of the celebration.
Trish kicks of the festivities with new material written for her own quartet, Tangent. Guitarist Chris Montague, double bass player Calum Gourlay and drummer James Maddren help her interpret some beautifully crafted, melodic chamber-jazz.
They join the members of composer/conductor Luke Styles' Ensemble Amorpha to form the Emulsion Sinfonietta, also featuring Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen and British saxophonist Iain Ballamy, whose apple tree inspired the piece Trish composed especially for the Sinfonietta: Apple Boy.
Experimental keyboardist Dan Nicholls brings his band Strobes, featuring the powerful rhythms of drummer Dave Smith and the searing guitar of Chris Sharkey in an exploration of electro-improv and Afrocentric grooves.
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producer: Miranda Hinkley.
TUESDAY 17 JUNE 2014
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b046crcg)
The Concertgebouw Orchestra from the archives. Riccardo Chailly conducts Hindemith's Metamorphoses after Themes by Weber, and George Solti conducts Shostakovich's 1st Symphony. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Hindemith, Paul [1895-1963]
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
12:53 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975]
Symphony No. 1 in F minor Op.10
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
1:22 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Trio for piano and strings (Op. 1'1) in E flat major
Grieg Trio (Norway): Sølve Sigerland (violin), Ellen Margrethe Flesjø (cello); Vebørn Anvik (piano)
1:53 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Symphony No. 8 in G major (Op.88)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Berhard Gueller (conductor)
2:31 AM
Kilar, Wojciech (1932-2013)
Chorale Prelude (1988)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
2:49 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No.7 in A major (Op.92)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
3:26 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
Variations on a Polish Folk theme in B minor (Op.10)
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
3:46 AM
Trad. Hungarian
18th Century Dances
Csaba Nagy (solo recorder), Camerata Hungarica, László Czidra (conductor)
3:52 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Fantasia in C minor (Op.53)
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
4:01 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Overture to Halka (Original version)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
4:10 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Eight Ländler (German dances) (from D.790)
Leif Ove Andsnes piano
4:18 AM
Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1924)
Guitarre
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)
4:22 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in D major
Friedemann Immer (trumpet), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
4:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Suite Champêtre (Op.98b)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
4:38 AM
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto No.5 in F minor (from Sei Concerti Armonici 1740)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
4:49 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La plus que lente
Roger Woodward (piano)
4:54 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) ed. Eric Fenby
La Calinda - concert version for orchestra from 'Koanga'
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4:58 AM
Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857)
Allegro for 4 string quartets in D minor
Viotta Ensemble, Viktor Liberman (conductor)
5:10 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Danish Folk-Music Suite
Claire Clements (piano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
5:29 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Quartet for Strings (Op.74'3) in G minor "Rider"
Ebene Quartet (string quartet)
5:51 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) arr anon
Rosenkavalier - suite arr. anon
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor)
6:15 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Scherzo Capriccioso (Op.66)
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Raffi Armenian (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b046crf7)
Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b046crjb)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Mark Damazer
with Sarah Walker and her guest, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, Mark Damazer.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Weber: Overtures - Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble
10.30am
In the week marking the 800th anniversary of the formal creation of the role of Chancellor of Oxford University, Sarah's guest is Mark Damazer CBE, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and former controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7.
Previous to these posts, Mark had an extensive career in news and current affairs journalism working at ITN and at the BBC - in the World Service and on news programme such as Newsnight and the Nine O'Clock News. Later he was responsible for the BBC's news and current affairs journalism from Westminster, including Question Time, and Yesterday in Parliament, becoming Deputy Director of BBC News in 2001. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.
Mark is a Board Member of the V&A, and of the Centre of Contemporary British History. He currently writes columns for The London Evening Standard and The Guardian.
Mark suffers the misfortunes of Tottenham Hotspur and enjoys opera, gardening and Italian painting.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dance, Suite No.2
Philharmonia Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor).
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b039pvjk)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Gluck's Pre-Reform Operas
Donald Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck, probably best known today as the composer of Orfeo's lament, 'Che faro senza Euridice?', recorded by generations of singers. Gluck also has the reputation of being the man who 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the ludicrous excesses of the high-flown Italian opera seria style that had become a vehicle for overpaid warblers to show off their vocal agility. "I sought to retract music", said Gluck, "to its true function of helping poetry to be expressive and to represent the situations of the plot, without interrupting the action or cooling its impetus with useless and unwanted ornaments." All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this extraordinary composer, the sheer quality of whose music is often overshadowed by his reputation as an innovator.
Gluck may be known as one of the key reformers of operatic history, but reforms don't spring out of thin air, so in today's programme Donald explores a handful of the 30-odd stage-works Gluck turned out before he was ready to create his game-changing opera Orpheus and Euridice. Four of them - The Duped Judge, The Chinese Women, The Dance and Innocence Justified - were written for Vienna, where in 1755 Gluck secured the first of several court appointments. The fifth, Ezio, was written several years earlier for Pietro Mingotti's travelling opera troupe, an upmarket outfit who put on shows for royal weddings and other such gala events; at this point Gluck was essentially a composer of no fixed abode, though a tolerably successful one.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03k0nkk)
Music from Scotland
Hebrides Ensemble
The Hebrides Ensemble begins this week of lunchtime concerts recorded in Orkney and Aberdeen. From the St Magnus Festival comes the World Premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies's Oboe Quartet, Schubert's unfinished String Trio in B flat, and Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F, alongside Britten's virtuosic work for solo oboe. Performed in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall.
Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
Schubert: String Trio in B flat, D.471
Peter Maxwell Davies: Oboe Quartet
Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F
The Hebrides Ensemble;
Emanuel Abbühl - Oboe
Alexander Janicek - Violin
Catherine Marwood - Viola
William Conway ? Cello.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b046crsb)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 2
Live from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. The BBC National Orchestra perform Wagner, Mozart and Richard Strauss.
And after that, this week's profile of the recent work of the BBC NOW continues with a cello concerto written for Raphael Wallfisch and a colourful song for soprano and orchestra by Grace Williams with a the text from Book Five of Milton's Paradise Lost..
2pm LIVE from Hoddinott Hall presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Wagner
Overture to Tannhäuser
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cornelius Meister (conductor)
c.
2.15pm
Mozart
Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major K.467
Zizhou Zhang (piano),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cornelius Meister (conductor)
c.
2.40pm during the interval
Berlioz
Scene d'amour from Romeo et Juliette
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
LIVE
c.
3pm
Richard Strauss
Aus Italien Op.16
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cornelius Meister (conductor)
then at c.
4pm with Catriona Young
Joubert
Concerto in Two Movements
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, William Boughton (conductor).
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b046crv0)
Smith Quartet, Lars Vogt, Anderson and Roe
Sean Rafferty with live music from the Smith Quartet, pianist Lars Vogt and piano duo Anderson and Roe.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b039pvjk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b046cry7)
Aldeburgh Festival 2014 - Christian Blackshaw
Live from Snape Maltings as part of the Aldeburgh Festival
Presented by Tom McKinney
Pianist Christian Blackshaw plays sonatas by Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart.
Mozart: Sonata in F K533/494
Beethoven: Sonata in E Op.109
Interval - Looking ahead to some of the highlights of this year's Aldeburgh Festival.
Schubert: Sonata in C minor D958
Three musical revolutionaries epitomised in some of their greatest piano works: Mozart's exquisite introspection and harmonic daring; Beethoven, mercurial, fluid, fleet-footed; and Schubert's imposing, impassioned defiance, the first of his titanic triptych of late works for the instrument.
The poise, clarity and character of Christian Blackshaw's playing - revelling in inner detail, illuminating and strengthening the musical architecture - ensures fresh insights into these most radical of landmarks in the piano repertoire.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b046crzz)
Radical Bookshops, Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher's novel The Emperor Waltz draws together stories about a man who founds the first gay bookshop in London, a young painter who joins the Bauhaus and a woman fascinated by a Roman cult. He joins Matthew Sweet in the Free Thinking studio. Radical bookshops are also discussed by the poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and Anthony Joseph and the co-founder of New Beacon Sarah White.
New Generation Thinker Daisy Hay looks at the Victorian practice of keeping hair as a personal memento.
The Sheffield documentary festival has just premiered a film called "Peter De Rome Grandfather of Gay Porn - Matthew Sweet has been to meet him.
John La Rose's New Beacon project was the focal point of a black radical publishing industry that emerged in the UK in the late sixties. Its aim was to give a platform and voice to a post-independence generation of Caribbean writers whilst nurturing homegrown work by Britain's growing black population. As the Black Cultural Archives settles into its own home in Brixton and The George Padmore Institute makes New Beacon's archive available, Matthew Sweet asks if this period is now consigned to history or are such small, vibrant, personality led spaces as important as ever for diversity and the enrichment of the literary voice?
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b01ryv0q)
Unknown Cities
Kunming
It's over the mountains, it has no major roads, it's too dangerous, or tourists don't get it at all. Five writers with a desire for travel or living elsewhere recall a city that once captured their hearts and minds for reasons of secrecy or isolation, or simply being off limits.
The novelist Romesh Gunesekera can't wait to tell us about Kunming, which is so unlike any other modern Chinese city...
Producer Duncan Minshull
First broadcast in April 2013.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b046cs34)
Tuesday - Max Reinhardt
Vintage South African Jazz from the Blue Notes feat. Dudu Pukwana, vintage Thai pop from Thepporn Petchubon , John Lee Hooker's Goin' Mad Blues plus new music from Neneh Cherry and Joan As Police Woman. Presented by Max Reinhardt.
WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 2014
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b046crcj)
John Shea presents a selection of Chopin songs with soprano Hana Blaziková and pianist Wojciech Switala.
12:31 AM
Tomásek, Václav Jan (1774-1850)
Starozitné písne Královédvorského rukopsiu (Ancient Songs from the Králové Drur Manuscript), op. 82
Hana Blaziková (soprano), Wojciech Switala (piano)
12:44 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
2 Nocturnes for piano (Op.62) - no.2 in E major
Wojciech Switala (piano)
12:50 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk
Gdzie lubi (A Girl's Desire) Op. 74/5; Precz z moich oczu (Out of my Sight) op. 74/6; Wiosna (Spring) op. 74/2; Moja pieszczotka (My Sweetheart) op. 74/12; Zyczenie (A Young Gir's Wish) op. 74/1;
Posel (The Messenger) op. 74/7; Sliczny chlopiec (The Handsome Lad) op. 74/8; Pierscien (The Ring) op. 74/14; Nie ma czego trzeba (Faded and Vanished) op.74/13
Hana Blaziková (soprano), Wojciech Switala (piano)
1:16 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk
2 Nocturnes for piano (Op.48) no.1 in C minor
Wojciech Switala (piano)
1:22 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk
2 Nocturnes for piano (Op.48)no.2 in F sharp minor
Wojciech Switala (piano)
1:30 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
V národnim tónu op. 73 (In Folk Tone)
Hana Blaziková (soprano), Wojciech Switala (piano)
1:40 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
V národnim tónu op. 73 (In Folk Tone): 3. Ach, neni tu (Nothing can change for me)
Hana Blaziková (soprano), Wojciech Switala (piano)
1:44 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
A London Symphony (Symphony no.2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 9 (K.271) in E flat major ('Jeunehomme')
Plamena Mangova (piano), Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
3:03 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Credo from Mass in B minor (BWV.232)
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, conductor Grete Pedersen
3:35 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
3 Pieces from Slåtter (Op.72)
Haavard Gimse (piano)
3:44 AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris for violin, bass viol and continuo
Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor)
3:53 AM
Ramovš, Primož (1921-1999)
Woodwind Quintet
The Ariart Woodwind Quintet: Matej Zupan (flute), Maja Kojc (oboe), Joze Kotar (clarinet), Damir Huljev (bassoon), Bostjan Lipovsek (horn)
4:02 AM
Charlton, Richard (b. 1955)
Dances of the Rainbow Serpent
Guitar Trek: Timothy Kain, Carolyn Kidd, Mark Norton, Peter Constant, (guitars)
4:13 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Caesar's aria: 'Va tacito e nascosto' (from 'Giulio Cesare in Egitto', Act 1 Sc.9)
Graham Pushee (countertenor), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (artistic director)
4:20 AM
Svendsen, Johann (1840-1911)
Festival Polonaise - for orchestra (Op.12)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Jordan (conductor)
4:31 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
The Wasps - Overture
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
4:40 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne No.6 in D flat major (Op.63)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
4:50 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Laudate Pueri (O praise the Lord)
Polyphonia, Ivelina Ivancheva (piano), Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor)
4:59 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Adagio and Allegro (Op.70)
Arto Noras (cello), Konstantin Bogino (piano)
5:09 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sinfonia for 2 violins and continuo in D major, H.585
Les Adieux: Mary Utiger and Hajo Bäss (violins), Christina Kyprianides (cello), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5:19 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Danse sacrée et danse profane for harp and strings
Eva Maros (harp), orchestra and conductor not credited
5:29 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli (Op.42)
Duncan Gifford (piano)
5:50 AM
Ireland, John (1879-1962)
A Downland Suite
The Hannaford Street Silver Band, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
6:07 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Trio No.4 in B flat major, 'Gassenhauer-Trio' (Op.11)
Arcadia Trio: Reiner Gepp (piano), Gorian Kosuta (violin), Milos Mlejnik (cello).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b046crf9)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b046crjd)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Mark Damazer
with Sarah Walker and her guest, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, Mark Damazer.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Weber: Overtures - Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble
10.30am
In the week marking the 800th anniversary of the formal creation of the role of Chancellor of Oxford University, Sarah's guest is Mark Damazer CBE, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and former controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7.
Previous to these posts, Mark had an extensive career in news and current affairs journalism working at ITN and at the BBC - in the World Service and on news programme such as Newsnight and the Nine O'Clock News. Later he was responsible for the BBC's news and current affairs journalism from Westminster, including Question Time, and Yesterday in Parliament, becoming Deputy Director of BBC News in 2001. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.
Mark is a Board Member of the V&A, and of the Centre of Contemporary British History. He currently writes columns for The London Evening Standard and The Guardian.
Mark suffers the misfortunes of Tottenham Hotspur and enjoys opera, gardening and Italian painting.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Dvorak
Czech Suite, Op.39
Prague Chamber Orchestra.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b039pvjm)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Alceste
Donald Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck, probably best known today as the composer of Orfeo's lament, 'Che faro senza Euridice?', recorded by generations of singers. Gluck also has the reputation of being the man who 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the ludicrous excesses of the high-flown Italian opera seria style that had become a vehicle for overpaid warblers to show off their vocal agility. "I sought to retract music", said Gluck, "to its true function of helping poetry to be expressive and to represent the situations of the plot, without interrupting the action or cooling its impetus with useless and unwanted ornaments." All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this extraordinary composer, the sheer quality of whose music is often overshadowed by his reputation as an innovator.
Today's programme focuses on Alceste, premièred in Vienna in 1767 then revised for the Parisian stage eight years later. Writing the opera reduced Gluck to a state of nervous exhaustion: "it seems to me that I have a hive of bees in my head that buzz continually", he said. It's a tale of matrimonial devotion set in legendary times. King Admetus is dying. The God Apollo decrees that only if someone should freely offer their life in his place will Admetus be spared. His wife, Alcestis, does so, but when Admetus finds out, he refuses to acquiesce in her sacrifice and decides to die alongside her. Impressed by the strength of their love for each other, Apollo allows them both to live happily ever after. Gluck wrote Alceste in tribute to the Empress Maria Theresa, recently widowed, but he sensed that the opera would outlive the circumstances that produced it: "Alceste is not a work for a single season. I declare that it will please as much two hundred years hence, for I have grounded it in nature, which does not change with every passing fashion.".
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03k0prm)
Music from Scotland
Episode 2
Soprano Christine Brewer is joined by Roger Vignoles on piano for a lunchtime recital from last year's St Magnus Festival in Orkney. They perform Wagner's glowing Wesendonck-Leider, alongside songs and folk ballads of romance, longing and love by Strauss, Dougherty, Quilter and Britten.
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (Der Engel; Stehe still!; Im Treibhaus; Schmerzen; Träume)
Richard Strauss: Breit' über mein Haupt
Richard Strauss: Die Georgine
Richard Strauss: Allerseelen
Celius Dougherty: Shenandoah
Celius Dougherty: Waly, waly
John Jacob Niles: Black is the Colour of my True Love's Hair
John Jacob Niles: Go 'way from my Window
Liza Lehmann: There are fairies at the bottom of our garden
Herbert Hughes: She Moved through the Fair
Roger Quilter: Ye Banks and Braes
Benjamin Britten: The Last Rose of Summer
Celius Dougherty: Review
Christine Brewer, soprano
Roger Vignoles, piano.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b046crsd)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC NOW in Haydn and Mahler
This week's profile of the recent music-making of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales continues with a concert recorded at the end of May in the Grand Theatre, Swansea.
Presented by John Shea
Haydn
Symphony no. 87 in A major H.
1.87
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen (conductor)
c.
2.25om
Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G major
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b046cs50)
Guildford Cathedral
From Guildford Cathedral
Introit: Cibavit eos (Byrd)
Responses: Richard Shephard
Office Hymn: The mighty Word of God & O salutaris Hostia (Verbum supernum prodiens & Elgar)
Psalms: 110, 111 (Attwood; Atkins)
First Lesson: Exodus 16 vv2-15
Antiphon: O how sweet, Lord, is thy spirit (Plainsong)
Canticles: Gray in F minor
Second Lesson: John 6 vv22-35
Anthem: Homo quidam (Tallis)
Hymn: Soul of my Saviour (Anima Christi)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata in B flat minor (Vierne)
Katherine Dienes-Williams (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Paul Provost (Sub Organist).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b046crv4)
Thomas Guthrie, Kate Dimbleby, Mark Deller
Sean Rafferty's guests include multi-talented director, actor and musician Thomas Guthrie. He talks about his enterprising new staging of Bach Motets, Death Actually, for the Spitalfields Festival in London, joined by a host of singers and members of the Norwegian early music ensemble Barokksolistene.
Plus, we have live music from jazz singer Kate Dimbleby as she brings her successful show, The Dory Previn Story, to central London for three nights.
And ahead of the 52nd Stour Music Festival starting on Friday 20th June, Sean speaks to the festival's music director Mark Deller about what's in store this year.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b039pvjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b046cry9)
CBSO - Mendelssohn, Abrahamsen, Strauss
Andris Nelsons conducts a programme of Shakespearean works by Mendelssohn and Abrahamsen, and the Symphonia Domestica by Strauss.
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Presented by Ian Skelly
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture
Abrahamsen: let me tell you (UK premiere)
8.15: Interval
Strauss: Symphonia Domestica
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Richard Strauss wasn't one to throw the baby out with the bathwater. His extraordinary Symphonia Domestica is a no-holds-barred musical diary of a day with the Strauss family, from morning lie-in through to bathtime for baby! In the first half of the concert come two enchanting classics - one a much-loved favourite, one freshly-written for the soprano Barbara Hanningan, but both inspired by the magic of Shakespeare.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b046cs01)
Colour: Sean Scully, Jamie Ward, Caroline Cox
Philip Dodd talks to the celebrated abstract artist, Sean Scully and neuroscientist Jamie Ward and fashion expert Caroline Cox explore our perception of colour.
Producer: Zahid Warley
Sean Scully: Kind of Red
Installation view, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, June 2014
Copyright, Sean Scully. Photo by Todd White Fine Art Photography
You can download this programme by searching in the Arts and Ideas podcasts for the broadcast date.
First broadcast June 2014.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01ryv0v)
Unknown Cities
Makhachkala
It's over the mountains, it has no major roads, it's too dangerous, or tourists don't get it at all. Five writers with a desire for travel or living elsewhere, recall a city that once captured their hearts and minds for reasons of secrecy or isolation, or simply being off limits.
Vanora Bennett describes Makhachkala in Russia as 'beyond the mountains', yet these days it's on the brink of enormous change...
Producer Duncan Minshull
First broadcast in April 2013.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b046cs36)
Wednesday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt brings together Lucie, a Bulerias by guitar virtuoso Myrrdin, Steve Lacy's Precipitation Suite performed by Ideal Bread and two sojourns in the animal kingdom: Martin Green's Mess of Crows and Culpho Dog Gymkhana's surf art epic performance of The Supreme's It's a Little Bear.
THURSDAY 19 JUNE 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b046crcn)
The Guarneri Trio, Prague play Mozart, Smetana and Beethoven. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Trio in G major K.564 for piano and strings
Guarneri Trio, Prague - Cenek Pavik (violin), Marek Jerie (cello), Ivan Klánsky (piano)]
12:48 AM
Smetana, Bedrich [1824-1884]
Trio in G minor Op.15 for piano and strings
Guarneri Trio, Prague - Cenek Pavik (violin), Marek Jerie (cello), Ivan Klánsky (piano)]
1:14 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Trio no. 1 in D minor Op.49 for piano and strings
Guarneri Trio, Prague - Cenek Pavik (violin), Marek Jerie (cello), Ivan Klánsky (piano)]
1:44 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Trio in B flat major Op.11 for violin, cello and piano 'Gassenhauer'
Guarneri Trio, Prague - Cenek Pavik (violin), Marek Jerie (cello), Ivan Klánsky (piano)]
1:49 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio in G major no. 39 H.
15:25 'Gypsy'
Guarneri Trio, Prague - Cenek Pavik (violin), Marek Jerie (cello), Ivan Klánsky (piano)]
1:53 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Symphony No.3 in F major (Op.90)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
2:31 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Der Herr lebt ? Cantata Wq.251
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Hilke Helling (alto), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei, Hermann Max (conductor)
3:08 AM
Franck, César [1822-1890]
Sonata for violin and piano (M.8) in A major
Jennifer Pike (violin) , Tom Blach (piano)
3:37 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata in F major from ?Der Getreue Music-Meister?
Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (positive organ)
3:44 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.3 in C sharp (Op.39)
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
3:51 AM
Martucci, Giuseppe (1856-1909)
Notturno (Op.70 No.1)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
3:59 AM
Platti, Giovanni Benedetto (1697-1763)
Trio in C minor for oboe, bassoon and continuo
Ensemble Zefiro
4:09 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Mephisto waltz no. 1 (S.514)
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
4:19 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Overture from Suite no.1 in C major (BWV.1066)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Adagio & Fugue in C minor, K.546
Risør Festival Strings
4:38 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Preludes No.16 in Bb minor; No.17 in Ab major; No.18 in F minor; No.19 in Eb major; No.20 in C minor ? from Preludes (Op.28)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
4:47 AM
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981)
Agnus Dei for chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4:55 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Harpsichord Concerto No.5 in F minor (BWV.1056)
Lembit Orgse (harpsichord), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
5:05 AM
Sermisy, Claudin de (c.1490-1562)
5 Chansons
Ensemble Clément Janequin
5:15 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Polonaise in A major for violin & piano (Op.21)
Piotr Plawner (violin), Andrzej Guz (piano)
5:25 AM
Groneman, Johannes (c.1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in E minor
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
5:36 AM
Janácek, Leos (1854-1928)
Pohádka for cello and piano
Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Francine Kay (piano)
5:48 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt Suite No.1 (Op.46)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
6:04 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concerto in E flat for 2 pianos and orchestra (K365)
Jon Parker and James Kimura Parker (pianos), CBC Radio Orchestra, conductor Mario Bernardi.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b046crfc)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b046crjg)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Mark Damazer
with Sarah Walker and her guest, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, Mark Damazer.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Weber: Overtures - Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble
10.30am
In the week marking the 800th anniversary of the formal creation of the role of Chancellor of Oxford University, Sarah's guest is Mark Damazer CBE, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and former controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7.
Previous to these posts, Mark had an extensive career in news and current affairs journalism working at ITN and at the BBC - in the World Service and on news programme such as Newsnight and the Nine O'Clock News. Later he was responsible for the BBC's news and current affairs journalism from Westminster, including Question Time, and Yesterday in Parliament, becoming Deputy Director of BBC News in 2001. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.
Mark is a Board Member of the V&A, and of the Centre of Contemporary British History. He currently writes columns for The London Evening Standard and The Guardian.
Mark suffers the misfortunes of Tottenham Hotspur and enjoys opera, gardening and Italian painting.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bach
Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV1068
Music Antiqua, Köln
Reinhard Goebel (director/violin).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b039pvjp)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Gluck Storms Paris
Donald Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck, probably best known today as the composer of Orfeo's lament, 'Che faro senza Euridice?', recorded by generations of singers. Gluck also has the reputation of being the man who 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the ludicrous excesses of the high-flown Italian opera seria style that had become a vehicle for overpaid warblers to show off their vocal agility. "I sought to retract music", said Gluck, "to its true function of helping poetry to be expressive and to represent the situations of the plot, without interrupting the action or cooling its impetus with useless and unwanted ornaments." All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this extraordinary composer, the sheer quality of whose music is often overshadowed by his reputation as an innovator.
In today's programme, a courtly entertainment; a close shave; and success in Paris.
The courtly entertainment is Gluck's Philemon and Baucis, part of a suite of operatic one-acters commissioned to spice up the marriage celebrations of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, a grandson of Louis XV, to Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria and daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa in July 1769. The close shave relates to an opera Gluck wrote the following year; Paride ed Elena tells the story of the adulterous love between the Trojan prince, Paris, and Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. In his anxiety to secure a venue for the production, Gluck gambled most of his savings on an ill-starred joint venture with a conman who went by the name of Count Afflisio. Gluck was duly fleeced, and learnt a costly if not catastrophic lesson. Success in Paris came four years later with Iphigenia in Aulis, his first opera to be conceived from the get-go for a French text. This time there was no difficulty in securing a venue, as Gluck had an influential backer: Marie Antoinette.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03k0prp)
Music from Scotland
Notos Quartet
The young Frankfurt-based Notos Quartet perform chamber music by Brahms and Estonian composer Edward Tubin. Recorded in the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen.
Edward Tubin: Piano Quartet in C sharp minor
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No.3 in C minor
The Notos Quartet.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b046crss)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Puccini's La Rondine
Opera matinee - Puccini's La Rondine
Angela Gheorghiu stars in this highly-acclaimed production recorded last year at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Magda enjoys a comfortable life as the mistress of the rich banker Rambaldo, but this all changes when she meets the young Ruggero who falls in love with her. She leaves Rambaldo for him, but is she really in love with Ruggero, or just trying to recreate the exciting romances of her youth? Angela Gheorghiu sings Madga, the restless swallow in the title of Puccini's light opera La Rondine, with Charles Castronovo as her unfortunate lover. Marco Armiliato conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra in Puccini's little-known but very tuneful score.
Presented by Katie Derham
Magda ..... Angela Gheorghiu (soprano),
Ruggero Lastouc ..... Charles Castronovo (tenor),
Lisette ..... Sabina Puertolas (soprano),
Prunier ..... Edgaras Montvidas (tenor),
Rambaldo Fernandez ..... Pietro Spagnoli (baritone),
Yvette ..... Dušica Bijelic (soprano),
Bianca ..... Hanna Hipp (soprano),
Suzy ..... Justina Gringyte (mezzo-soprano),
Gobin ..... Pablo Bemsch (tenor),
Périchaud ..... John Cunningham (baritone),
Crébillon ..... Ashley Riches (bass),
Georgette ..... Kathy Batho (soprano),
Gabriella ..... Melissa Alder (soprano),
Lolette ..... Amanda Floyd (soprano),
Rabonier ..... Jonathan Fisher (bass),
Young Man ..... Elliot Goldie (tenor),
Distant Voice ..... Dušica Bijelic (soprano),
Maître d'hôtel ..... John Bernays (bass),
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conducted by Marco Armiliato
followed at approx
3.50pm by one of the three cello concertos featured this week written for Raphael Wallfisch.
Christopher Wright: Cello Concerto
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, William Boughton (conductor)
c.
4.10pm
Mozart
Ah, lo previdi ... Ah, t'invola - recitative and aria K.272
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b046crv6)
James Rhodes, Karita Mattila, Adrian Brendel, Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and chat, with live performance from British pianist James Rhodes as he marks the release of his new album and his new record label; cellist Adrian Brendel and Ensemble 360 play live ahead of their appearances at Plush Festival in Dorset; concert pianist and Aldeburgh Festival Artistic Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard discusses this year's lineup; and renowned soprano Karita Mattila on Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Opera House in London.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b039pvjp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b046cryx)
BBC SO - Peter Maxwell Davies Studio Concert
Live from Maida Vale Studios.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's upcoming 80th birthday in a live concert from London's Maida Vale Studios.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Throstle's Nest Junction (London Premiere)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: A Spell for Green Corn - The MacDonald Dances (London Premiere)
c.
8.10pm MUSIC INTERVAL - The BBC Singers perform Maxwell Davies's choral masterpiece, Westerlings
c.
8.30pm
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Worldes Blis
Chloë Hanslip, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal, conductor
A concert devoted to the music of one of the UK's most important and individual composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, with a programme demonstrating the breadth of his work. Two works from the 1990s make up the first part of the concert, starting with the tone poem Throstle's Nest Junction, described as a memento of a Lancashire childhood. This is followed by A Spell for Green Corn, with soloist Chloë Hanslip, inspired by an ancient Orkney rite of blessing crops. The concert's finale is his monumental masterwork Worldes Blis, a piece which Davies himself conducted for the notorious world premiere with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1969.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b046cs03)
Libertarianism, Trevor Paglen and Surveillance, Civil War Ranters
A new collection of Ranter writings from the English Civil War sheds light on their extreme libertarian views. Anne McElvoy is joined by the book's editor Nigel Smith, Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton to talk about how they became the enemy of seventeenth century orthodoxy, whilst cultivating an array of lively literary prose styles.
Libertarianism has long left the contrarian political fringes it occupied during Britain's revolutionary period and seems to be on the ascendance. Journalist Rod Liddle and Conservative Party politician Douglas Carswell join Anne to discuss the ideology today.
A 62 metre photographic installation unveiled at London's Gloucester Road Tube station depicts the US reconnaissance base in North Yorkshire. Anne speaks to the image's creator Trevor Paglen about how much - or little - we understand of global surveillance.
New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton reflects on the Actresses' Franchise League.
Producer: Georgia Catt.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01ryv0z)
Unknown Cities
Asmara
It's over the mountains, it has no major roads, it's too dangerous, or tourists don't get it at all. Five writers with a desire for travel or living elsewhere, recall a city that once captured their hearts and minds for reasons of secrecy or isolation, or simply being off limits.
Travel writer Michela Wrong sees beautiful Italianate buildings, and all things Futurist - in Africa. In Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, to be precise.
Producer Duncan Minshull
First broadcast in April 2013.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b046cs3b)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
La Tristeza - Invitando A Salvadora from Colombia's Meridian Brothers, the Lamento: Adagio movement from Ligeti's Hommage A Brahms Trio For Violin, Horn And Piano, two Island artists, Inge Thomson and Keayrt Dooyrt plusan exploration from the Bugge Wesseltoft & Henrik Schwarz Duo . Integrated and marinated by Max Reinhardt.
FRIDAY 20 JUNE 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b046crcq)
John Shea presents a concert given by the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century at the 2012 Chopin and his Europe Festival. It features piano concertos with distinguished soloists Martha Argerich and Maria Joao Pires.
12:31 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
"Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 (Op.21) in F minor
Janusz Olejniczak (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen (conductor)
1:03 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Mazurka op. 24 no.2 in C major for piano
Janusz Olejniczak (piano)
1:06 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Aufschwung from 'Phantasiestucke', Op.12
Janusz Olejniczak (piano)
1:10 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 3 (Op.37) in C minor
Maria Joao Pires (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen (conductor)
1:47 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op.15) in C major
Martha Argerich (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen (conductor)
2:21 AM
Grieg, Edvard [1843-1907]
Morning from 'Peer Gynt' arr for piano four-hands
Martha Argerich (piano), Maria Joao Pires (piano)
2:25 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Allegro Molto from Piano Sonata in D major, K381
Martha Argerich (piano), Maria Joao Pires (piano)
2:31 AM
Couperin, François (1668-1733)
Bruit de Guerre
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
2:35 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Harold en Italie (Op.16) ? symphony for viola and orchestra
Milan Telecky (viola), Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
3:20 AM
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
Italian Serenade for string quartet
Ljubljana String Quartet
3:29 AM
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725)
Ero's aria 'Leandro, anima mia' (from 'Ero e Leandro')
Gerard Lèsne (counter-tenor), Il Seminario Musicale
3:40 AM
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986)
Pastoral Suite (Op.19) (1938)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
3:54 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Sonata quasi una fantasia for piano (Op.27 No.2) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight'
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
4:08 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875) (Suite 2 compiled by Ernest Guiraud)
Selection from L'Arlésienne Suites Nos.1 & 2
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
4:31 AM
Pacius, Frederik (1809-1891)
Overture for Large Orchestra
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kari Tikka (conductor)
4:37 AM
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b. 1928)
Cantus Arcticus ? 'a concerto for birds and orchestra' (Op.61) (1972)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:56 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
L'oiseau des bois (Op.21) ? idyll for flute and 4 horns
János Balint (flute), Jeno Kevehazi, Peter Fuzes, Sandor Endrodi, Tibor Maruzsa (horns)
5:02 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No.1 (S.244 No.1) in E major
Jenö Jandó (piano)
5:16 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.67 (Hob I:67) in F major
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
5:42 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) [text Friedrich Schiller]
Sehnsucht (D.636 Op.39)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano ? after Johann Fritz, Vienna c.1815)
5:46 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Auf dem See (D.543) (On the lake)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
5:50 AM
Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich [1855-1914]
The Enchanted Lake (Op.62)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaenko (conductor)
5:58 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Water Music: Suite in G major for 'flauto piccolo', sopranino recorder, 2 oboes, bassoon and strings (HWV.350)
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
6:09 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat major
Markus Maskuniitty (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Junichi Hirokami (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b046crff)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b046crjj)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Mark Damazer
with Sarah Walker and her guest, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, Mark Damazer.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Weber: Overtures - Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble
10.30am
In the week marking the 800th anniversary of the formal creation of the role of Chancellor of Oxford University, Sarah's guest is Mark Damazer CBE, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and former controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7.
Previous to these posts, Mark had an extensive career in news and current affairs journalism working at ITN and at the BBC - in the World Service and on news programme such as Newsnight and the Nine O'Clock News. Later he was responsible for the BBC's news and current affairs journalism from Westminster, including Question Time, and Yesterday in Parliament, becoming Deputy Director of BBC News in 2001. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.
Mark is a Board Member of the V&A, and of the Centre of Contemporary British History. He currently writes columns for The London Evening Standard and The Guardian.
Mark suffers the misfortunes of Tottenham Hotspur and enjoys opera, gardening and Italian painting.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bartok
Dance Suite
London Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b039pvjv)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Gluck's Last Act
Donald Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer of the Week, Christoph Willibald Gluck, probably best known today as the composer of Orfeo's lament, 'Che faro senza Euridice?', recorded by generations of singers. Gluck also has the reputation of being the man who 'reformed' opera in the second half of the 18th century, rescuing it from the ludicrous excesses of the high-flown Italian opera seria style that had become a vehicle for overpaid warblers to show off their vocal agility. "I sought to retract music", said Gluck, "to its true function of helping poetry to be expressive and to represent the situations of the plot, without interrupting the action or cooling its impetus with useless and unwanted ornaments." All this week, Donald Macleod explores the life and work of this extraordinary composer, the sheer quality of whose music is often overshadowed by his reputation as an innovator.
In the last of this week's programmes, Gluck bows out with two operatic hits and a miscalculation, all produced for the Parisian stage. Armida initially caused controversy by setting a libretto originally written the previous century for the sainted Lully; like Gluck, Lully was a foreigner, but he had become a French national icon, and his work was not to be tampered with. Two years further on, when the orchestra of the Paris Opera first struck up the opening bars of Iphigenia in Tauris, not with an overture, but hurtling the audience straight into the action, it was to herald the greatest triumph of Gluck's entire career in France. According to one newspaper report, "Some of the audience were seen to weep from beginning to end". If they were weeping at the première of Echo and Narcissus just two months later, it was for a different reason. The opera, which was to be Gluck's last, a pastoral confection a world away from the classical seriousness of Iphigenia, was an unmitigated turkey. Gluck quit the French capital in dismay and returned to Vienna, where he lived out his remaining years.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03k0prr)
Music from Scotland
Nicolas Altstaedt, Jose Gallardo
German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt is joined by Argentinian pianist José Gallardo in a programme of chamber music by Schumann, Webern and Rachmaninov. Recorded at the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen.
Schumann: Fantasiestücke Op.73
Webern: 2 Pieces for cello and piano (1899)
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor Op.19
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
José Gallardo, piano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b046crsv)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 4
Katie Derham concludes her focus on the work of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with two masterworks by Brahms and the last of the three concertos heard this week written for and recently recorded by Raphael Wallfisch. Also today, Artur Pizarro reveals another nineteenth century piano concerto, this time by the Portuguese-Brazilian, Alfredo Napoleão.
Brahms
Variations on on a Theme of Haydn
BBC NOW, Josep Caballé-Domenech (conductor)
c.
2.20pm
Alfredo Napoleão
Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat minor, Op 31
Artur Pizarro (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
c.
2.50pm
Sibelius
Valse triste; The Cranes - from incidental music to Kuolema Op.44
BBC NOW, Richard Hickox (conductor)
c.
3.05pm
Robert Simpson
Cello Concerto (1991)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Wiiliam Boughton (conductor)
c.
3.35pm:
Brahms Symphony No. 1 (Op.68) in C minor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b046crvc)
Noah Stewart, Alice Coote, Christian Blackshaw
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music and chat, with guests from the arts world
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b039pvjv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b046cryd)
BBC NOW - Dvorak, Bruch, Brahms
Live from The Grand Theatre, Swansea
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Cornelius Meister, plays Bruch's Violin Concerto, with Jennifer Pike, and Brahms's Second Symphony.
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor
8.10 Nicola Heywood Thomas talks to soloist Jennifer Pike about her career since leaving Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme, and listens to her recent recordings.
8.35
Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D major
Jennifer Pike (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Cornelius Meister (conductor)
The final concert from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's Swansea season. The exciting young German conductor Cornelius Meister makes his debut with the orchestra in two great celebratory works: the irresistible high-spirits of Dvorak's Carnival Overture and the spring-like fresheness and joyous mood of Brahms's Second Symphony, one of the most popuar of all Romantic symphonies. Bruch's concerto is a true jewel of Romantic violin music, played by Jennifer Pike, winner of BBC Young Musician 2002 and a past Radio 3 New Generation Artist.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b046cs05)
Isy Suttie, Lavinia Murray
Ian McMillan's guests on the 'cabaret of the word' include the performer and comedian Isy Suttie, who is looking at private family speech for our series on Secret Languages, and dramatist Lavinia Murray, with her short drama based on the diaries of Ysabel Birkbeck, a WWI ambulance driver.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01ryv13)
Unknown Cities
Holguin
It's over the mountains, it has no major roads, it's too dangerous, or tourists don't get it at all. Five writers with a desire for travel or living elsewhere, recall a city that once captured their hearts and minds for reasons of secrecy or isolation, or simply being off limits.
Simon Calder recalls the small-scale delights of Holguin in Cuba. It' so different to the capital city, but worth the detour - if you can get there!
Producer Duncan Minshull
First broadcast in April 2013.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b046cs3d)
Martin and Eliza Carthy in Session, Commonwealth Connections 20
Lopa Kothari presents a live session with Martin and Eliza Carthy, plus music from Mozambique and Malaysia in Commonwealth Connections.
Commonwealth Connections - Feature: Malaysia
In the capital of Malaysia's southernmost state of Johor, traditional Malay Ghazal and Zapin dance music is popular despite the country's race to modernity. We hear from On Jaafar and Shafie Bin Ahmad how Zapin music and dance arrived with the Arab Missionaries and that the tradition of Ghazal came from Persia; graduating from royal palace performances to the local community.
Commonwealth Connections - Heritage Track: Mozambique
Mozambique is something of an anomaly in terms of Commonwealth membership. It only became a member in 1995 and was never under British control. Instead the country was ruled by Portugal from 1505 until independence in 1975. As a result Portuguese remains the official language and strong ties remain between Mozambique and Portugal. Swimmer Jessica Teixeira Vieira is part of that story, having been raised on the island and has chosen to represent them at events such as the Olympics. Her chosen piece of music is a Marrabenta a musical form typical of Mozambique, and the song is A Nkama wa hi Siya sung by Mingas.
Live studio session: Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy
Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Martin Carthy and his twice Mercury nominated daughter Eliza join us live in the studio to play songs from their new album 'The Moral of the Elephant' their first duo album ever.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (b046cqps)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b046crsb)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b046crsd)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b046crss)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b046crsv)
BBC Performing Groups
23:35 SUN (b046cqhs)
Between the Ears
21:30 SAT (b046cpvb)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b04697vw)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b046cqd3)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b046cqm7)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b046crf7)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b046crf9)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b046crfc)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b046crff)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b04697vy)
Choir and Organ
16:00 SUN (b046cqf4)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b045xx3q)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b046cs50)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b039pnzh)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b039pnzh)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b039pvjk)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b039pvjk)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b039pvjm)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b039pvjm)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b039pvjp)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b039pvjp)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b039pvjv)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b039pvjv)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b046cqhq)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b046cqmp)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b046crjb)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b046crjd)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b046crjg)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b046crjj)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b046crzz)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b046cs01)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b046cs03)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b046cpx0)
Hear and Now
22:00 SAT (b046cpvd)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b046cr00)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b046crv0)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b046crv4)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b046crv6)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b046crvc)
Jazz Line-Up
18:00 SAT (b0469rb5)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b0469rb3)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b046cr0n)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b046cs34)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b046cs36)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b046cs3b)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b04697w0)
Night Waves
22:00 MON (b017m17m)
Opera on 3
19:30 MON (b046cr02)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b046cqd7)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SAT (b046cpv8)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:00 SUN (b046cqgd)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b046cry7)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b046cry9)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b046cryx)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b046cryd)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b0469r9x)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b045xjhp)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b046cqpq)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b03k0nkk)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b03k0prm)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b03k0prp)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b03k0prr)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b01kjvnq)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b0469rb1)
Sunday Feature
18:15 SUN (b046cqg0)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b046cqd5)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b046cqd9)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b01ryt6w)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b01ryv0q)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b01ryv0v)
The Essay
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The Essay
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The Verb
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Through the Night
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Through the Night
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Through the Night
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Through the Night
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Through the Night
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Through the Night
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Through the Night
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Words and Music
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World on 3
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