In the 1920s, Louis Armstrong transformed jazz from entertainment into art. Geoffrey surveys the influence of his early masterpieces, from Billie Holiday and Bunny Berigan to Miles Davis and Guy Barker
Alexandre Tharaud is the soloist in Ravel's piano concerto for the left hand with BBC Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena, followed by Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents.
2 Pieces Op.9 for piano (left hand) - no. 1 Prelude in C sharp minor
Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor
Missa sancta No.1 in E flat major, (J.224) 'Freischutzmesse' for soli, chorus & orchestra
Norwegian Soloist Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen Helgerød (conductor)
Vladislav Brunner jr. (flute), Herta Madarova (harpsichord)
Lamentabile Consort: Jan Stromberg & Gunnar Andersson (tenors), Bertil Marcusson (baritone), Olle Sköld (bass)
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arr. Perry, Harold
Divertimento (Feldpartita) (H.
) in B flat major arr. for wind quintet (attributed to Haydn, possibly by Pleyel)
Bulgarian Academic Wind Quintet: Georgi Spasov (flute), Georgi Zhelyazov (oboe), Petko Radev (clarinet), Marin Valchanov (bassoon), Vladislav Grigorov (horn)
Zagar, Peter (b. 1961)
Clifford Curzon (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
James Jolly celebrates the month of May, with music including Schumann's complete Dichterliebe, and he concludes the Sunday Morning cycle of Mozart piano sonatas with no 18 in D Major, K 576.
Tim Rice has written the lyrics for some of the most successful musicals of our generation: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ... Jesus Christ Superstar ... Evita ... For 45 years he has been creating hit songs, collaborating first and famously with Andrew Lloyd Webber, then with Abba, Elton John, Freddy Mercury and Madonna. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, thanks to the success of his songs in Disney movies The Lion King, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. A three-time Oscar winner, he has been knighted for services to music.
In Private Passions, he talks to Michael Berkeley about the process of lyric-writing, about why it's an extraordinary experience to work with Elton John, and about what it is that makes a successful song lyric. He also reveals that his early ambition was to be a pop star, and that he started out as a singer - in fact, he recorded a single.
Music choices include a satirical operetta by Offenbach, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Vaughan Williams's London Symphony, The Swan of Tuonela by Sibelius, Malcolm Arnold's Peterloo Overture and Britten's arrangement of the folk song The Plough Boy. And Tim Rice ends by revealing which is his favourite musical of all - music his father introduced him to as a boy: My Fair Lady.
Parisian viola player Antoine Tamestit has received high praise for his recordings of the Bach solo cello suites, music with which he has great affinity. Today he plays two of the suites, alongside a recent commission and UK premiere by Olga Neuwirth, Weariness heals wounds.
As part of the BBC's current focus on Dance, Lucie Skeaping is joined by dance historian Barbara Segal to discuss the finer points of Renaissance terpsichore. European theatrical extravaganzas - Italian Intermedi, French Ballet de Cour and English Masques swirl effortlessly alongside traditional Branles and even Morris Dances. Meanwhile, to the accompaniment of The City Waites, Lucie tries out some of the dances herself, under Barbara Segal's expert guidance, of course!
Hymn: Ye Choirs of new Jerusalem (St. Fulbert)
Sara Mohr Pietsch explores the domestic choral music of Brahms with biographer Katy Hamilton. Vanessa Redgrave also joins Sara to for a chat about her involvement in choral singing, with a selection of choral favourites. We'll hear another of the UK's amateur singing groups in "Meet My Choir", plus Sara explores the great Choral Classic Handel's Zadok the Priest.
An invitation to Arcadia to celebrate the god Pan in poetry and music. Haydn Gwynne and Anton Lesser read work by Shelley, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walter de la Mare, Kenneth Grahame and Ted Hughes. Debussy, Ravel, Dvorak, Carl Nielsen, Alberto Ginastera, Lionel Monkton and Pink Floyd provide music.
Sukhdev Sandhu introduces a rare radio-minded feature by the celebrated critic, novelist and thinker John Berger. Now in his ninth decade, Berger talks about the songs in his life and about Charlie Chaplin's radical power. Featuring Katya Berger and the music of Woody Guthrie, Cesaria Evora and Yasmin Hamdam among others. Producer: Tim Dee.
Versatile Danish chamber group Ensemble MidtVest perform Nielsen's Wind Quintet, Beethoven's 'Gassenhauer' Trio, a trio for clarinet, cello and piano by Julius Rontgen, and Smetana's Piano Trio, in a concert given last March in the London Chamber Music Series at King's Place, London.
Ensemble MidtVest is a versatile group established in 2002 to perform chamber music across the range of scorings for combinations of winds, strings and keyboard. The ensemble is based in the town of Herning, where it runs its own series and even has its own concert hall. On this visit to London they performed for the London Chamber Music Society in their regular series at King's Place.
The music included Nielsen's sunny and popular wind quintet; Beethoven's brilliant early trio for clarinet, cello and piano; a wind trio by German composer Julius Röntgen (better known as a founder-conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra); and Smetana's powerful Piano Trio, whose powerful ending is inspired by the death of the composer's first child.
A translation of Ibsen's sensuous and erotic play The Lady From The Sea adapted by Frank McGuinness and starring Lia Williams and Hugh Bonneville.
Needing financial security, Ellida Wangel has settled for a life as second wife to a dull, provincial doctor and is stepmother to his two resentful daughters. However, she is still spiritually possessed by the mysterious Stranger, a former sailor-lover, and she is left with a desperate yearning for the sea; the promise and ecstasy of the unknown. When this figure, a blatant representation of unrepressed sexuality, returns to claim her, it forces a crisis in her sterile marriage. This startling arrival stirs her desires and lures her back to the water's edge where she must confront both the past and a desire for the freedom that could destroy her.
McGuinness poses the question is it better to suffocate on dry land or drown in the freedom of the sea? The radio is an ideal medium to explore this notion with a soundscape that depicts in the mind the vast ocean beyond that is waiting to spirit Ellida away. The surprising ending leaves the listener with a warm sense of hope and well-being.
Continuing the Norwegian theme, Grieg's evergreen Piano Concerto from Stephen Hough with the BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda.
MONDAY 04 MAY 2015
MON 00:30 Through the Night (b05sy2yw)
Gala Concert for May Day
Jonathan Swain presents a Gala Concert to celebrate May Day, with music by Gade, Arutiunian, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky, Jarre, Halvorsen, Strauss & Leroy Anderson with the WDR Radio Orchestra conducted by Helmuth Groschauer and Keith Lockhart.
12:31 AM
Gade, Jacob [1879-1963]
Jalousie - tango
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor)
12:36 AM
Arutiunian, Aleksandr Grigori [1920-2012]
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Reinhard Ehritt (trumpet), WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)
12:53 AM
Borodin, Alexander [1833-1887]
Polovtsian dances for orchestra
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)
1:12 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
Eugene Onegin - Polonaise
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)
1:18 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975]
Jazz Suite no 1 (excerpts)
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)
1:28 AM
Kabalevsky, Dmitri [1904-1987]
Komedianti - suite Op.26 for small orchestra (excerpts)
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)
1:37 AM
Jarre, Maurice [1924-2009]
Dr Zhivago - Lara's Theme
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)
1:45 AM
Halvorsen, Johan [1864-1935]
Entry March of the Boyars
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor)
1:51 AM
Kabalevsky, Dmitri [1904-1987]
Colas Breugnon - Overture
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor)
1:57 AM
Strauss, Johann, II [1825-1899]
An der schonen, blauen Donau - waltz Op.314 for orchestra
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor)
2:06 AM
Anderson, Leroy [1908-1975]
Concerto for piano and orchestra in C
Michael Chertock (piano), WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor)
2:26 AM
Anderson, Leroy [1908-1975]
Fiddle faddle for orchestra
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)
Double concerto in D minor for violin, piano and string orchestra
Jaroslaw Zolnierczyk (violin), Andrzej Tatarski (piano), The "Amadeus" Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
3:06 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Missa in duplicibus minoribus II for 5 voices
Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar, Ensemble Giles Binchois, Ensemble Cantus Figuratus der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Dominique Vellard (director)
3:40 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
10 Variations on 'La stessa, la stessissima' for piano, from Salieri's 'Falstaff' (WoO.73)
Theo Bruins (piano)
3:51 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
The Duke of Gloucester's trumpet suite
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
4:03 AM
Sanz, Gaspar (17th century)
Suite espanola for guitar
Tomaz Rajteric (guitar)
4:13 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Petite Suite - for brass septet
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
4:21 AM
Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921) [text: Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867)]
L'Invitation au voyage
Christa Pfeiler (mezzo-soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
4:28 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
The Nutcracker - suite Op.71a - Trepak
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)
4:31 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857]
Ruslan i Lyudmila - overture
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Helmuth Froschauer (conductor)
4:37 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Klavierstück No. 2 in E flat, D. 946
Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
4:49 AM
Sheppard, John [c.1515-1558], Dove, Jonathan [b.1959]
In manus tuas (Sheppard)& Into Thy Hands (Dove)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
5:00 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
South Ostrobothnian Dances 1-5 (Op.17) (1909)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kari Tikka (conductor)
5:09 AM
Desprez, Josquin [1440-1521]; Anon (c.1500)
3 pieces (Josquin): In te Domine speravi (in 4 parts) ; (Anon) Zorzi, Giorgio - Saltarello ; (Anon) Forte cosa e la speranza (in 5 parts)
Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano), Musica Antiqua of London, Philip Thorby (director)
5:18 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
12 Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman' (K.265) (arranged from piano solo for wind quintet)
Yur-Eum Woodwind Quintet
5:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Suite No.4 in G major for orchestra (Op.61), 'Mozartiana'
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
5:55 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor (Op.31)
Alex Slobodyanik (piano)
6:05 AM
Barber, Samuel [1910-1981]
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Op.14)
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor).
MON 06:30 Breakfast (b05sy2yy)
Radio 3 Young Artists Day
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show on Young Artists Day, with two young poets live in the studio each reading from their own work. Also featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk
Radio 3 salutes some of the new and upcoming talent active in the arts today under the age of 25. As well as hearing from young choreographers, composers, musicians and writers throughout the day, Radio 3 will be playing music of great composers in their youthful periods, alongside recordings of seminal performers made when they were young.
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b05sy2z0)
Young Artists Day - Sarah Walker with Folu Odimayo
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... youth orchestras'. Especially for the week of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah explores recordings by top youth orchestras, including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, with music by Bartók, Debussy, Adès and Ginastera.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
As part of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah's guest is the up-and-coming dancer and choreographer Folu Odimayo. Folu will talk about his career and choose his favourite classical music.
10.30am
To mark Radio 3's Young Artists Day Sarah is featuring the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. At just 22 years old, Grosvenor is a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the youngest artist ever to sign to Decca Records and is the youngest soloist to have performed at the first night of the Proms. Throughout the week Sarah showcases Grosvenor's recordings of works by composers including Bach, Ravel, Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Gershwin.
11am
Today's Essential Choice is taken from the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
Scriabin
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op 60
BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
Radio 3 salutes some of the new and upcoming talent active in the arts today under the age of 25. As well as hearing from young choreographers, composers, musicians and writers throughout the day, Radio 3 will be playing music of great composers in their youthful periods, alongside recordings of seminal performers made when they were young.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05sy2z2)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Young Artists Day - A Child Prodigy
As part of Young Artists Day on Radio 3, Martin James Bartlett, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2014, joins Donald Macleod to explore the early life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, discuss life as a young pianist, and also perform in the studio part of Mozart's Piano Sonata in F major K332.
He took the 'land of the clavier', Vienna, by storm, becoming something of a pioneer in composing piano concertos, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From his early beginnings in Salzburg as a child prodigy, being paraded by his father around Europe performing for kings and queens, and up until his early death in Vienna, Mozart was a prodigious composer in many genres including chamber music and opera. It was his talent as a pianist that really had audiences speechless in Vienna. He organised subscription concerts in the Auergarten, arriving on stage in a succession of fancy coats, and then proceeded to amaze his listeners with his latest piano concertos. This week Donald Macleod focuses each day on one of Mozart's piano concertos, and the period in which it was composed.
Nannerl said of her brother Wolfgang, that he had to be restricted from composing or practicing the keyboard at all hours. The child Mozart was a prodigy, and was keen to show off his talents. His father Leopold took Nannerl and Wolfgang on a number of trips around Europe, where they performed for the nobility and royalty. Mozart's main instrument was the harpsichord, but he also took to the violin. One of his first works to appear in print was his sonata for keyboard with violin accompaniment in C major K6.
Leopold described his son as a miracle which God caused to be born in Salzburg. However Leopold realised that Salzburg was too small a place to restrict the talents of his prodigy son, so he made sure Mozart's abilities were recognised far and wide. It was whilst on tour in London that Mozart composed his early Symphony No 4 in D major.
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05sy2z4)
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Elias String Quartet and Simon Crawford-Phillips
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, the Elias Quartet give the world premiere of 'Afference', a new work by Liverpool-born composer Emily Howard, and are then joined by pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips for Schumann's sparkling Piano Quintet.
Emily Howard: Afference (world premiere)
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 44
Elias String Quartet
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano).
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05sy2z7)
Young Artists Day
As part of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Ian Skelly presents a special edition of Afternoon on 3 featuring performances of music by Bartok, Schoenberg, Richard Strauss and Mendelssohn by youth orchestras from Spain and Switzerland. With contributions from three of today's young musicians: the video artist Ruth Spencer, the composer Lloyd Coleman and the oboist and composer, Michael Sluman.
2pm
Ruth Spencer Jolly talks about life as a young video artist
c.
2.10pm
Bartók
Divertimento for Strings
Spanish National Youth Orchestra
Günter Pichler
c.
2.35pm
Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht
Spanish National Youth Orchestra
Günter Pichler
c.
3.05pm
Lloyd Coleman talks to Ian Skelly about life as a young composer
c.
3.20pm
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Verbier Festival Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden
c.
3.45pm
Michael Sluman talks about his life as a young oboist and composer
c.
3.55pm
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op.28
Spanish National Youth Orchestra
Lutz Köhler.
MON 16:30 In Tune (b05sy2z9)
Young Artists Day: The Roundhouse, London
Sean Rafferty is joined by young musicians, writers and radio producers under the age of 25 to celebrate Radio 3's Young Artists Day. They share the stage in front of an audience at London's legendary Roundhouse in a special In Tune dedicated to young artists.
Carnival band Kinetika Bloco open the show to create a festival atmosphere for the bank holiday, they're joined by the Roundhouse Choir who will perform a folk tinged selection of works. Roundhouse Artist Jess Carmody has reworked a song by Elizabeth Maconchy and the award winning Artesian Quartet from the Royal Academy of Music perform works by Haydn, Wolf, Britten, Beethoven and Soler.
Alongside the live music, Catherine Brinkworth and James Hunter have produced two radio features exploring different aspects of classical music.
Be in the audience: visit the Roundhouse website for free tickets.
BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
Radio 3 salutes some of the new and upcoming talent active in the arts today under the age of 25. As well as hearing from young choreographers, composers, musicians and writers throughout the day, Radio 3 will be playing music of great composers in their youthful periods, alongside recordings of seminal performers made when they were young.
MON 18:30 Composer of Tomorrow (b05sy2zd)
In this special programme for Young Artists Day, the Scottish composer James MacMillan gives a masterclass to young composers.
BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
Radio 3 salutes some of the new and upcoming talent active in the arts today under the age of 25. As well as hearing from young choreographers, composers, musicians and writers throughout the day, Radio 3 will be playing music of great composers in their youthful periods, alongside recordings of seminal performers made when they were young.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05sy2zj)
Young Artists Day Concert from the RNCM
As part of Young Artists Day, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a special concert live from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, featuring young composers and musicians.
BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
Tom Harrold Sonata for saxophone and piano
Michael Jackson saxophone
Chris Illingworth piano
Lucy Pankhurst BREATHE I for flute, optional digital delay and audio track
Amy Yule flute
Carmel Smickersgill Humanity I Love You for voice and piano
John Holland Avery baritone
Rachel Fright piano
Antonín Dvorák Adagio from String Quartet No 9 in D minor
Siobhan Doyle, Diego Vassallo violins
Joseph Fisher viola
Joshua Salter cello
Aaron Breeze Five Madrigals for saxophone quartet
Abelia Saxophone Quartet
Emma McPhilemy soprano saxophone
Hannah Corcoran alto saxophone
Isobel Williams tenor saxophone
Catherine Hanson baritone saxophone
Ernest Bloch Agitato from Violin Sonata No 1
Kana Ohashi violin
Ben Powell piano
INTERVAL
Sergio Cote Líneas del Raval for solo cello
Sarah Gait cello
Grace Mason Diamond Dust II for clarinet and prepared piano
Marcus Norman clarinet
Aaron Breeze piano
Jack Sheen All my favourite films (and television shows) for saxophone and ensemble
Harry Fausing Smith saxophone
Joseph Fisher viola
Elinor Nicholson harp
Jeremy So piano
Ashley Clegg percussion
Igor Stravinsky Three Movements from Petrushka
Alexander Panfilov piano.
MON 22:00 The Verb (b05sy2zn)
Young Artists Day - The Young Verb
As part of Radio 3's Young Artists Day celebration, The Verb presents a special cabaret of the word showcasing young writers and performers, recorded in front of an audience at MediaCity.
Ian will also announce the winners of this year's prestigious Verb New Voices scheme. In association with Arts Council England and a range of writing organisations, The Verb will be mentoring four new writers from across the North to produce innovative new work for radio. Ian will introduce the very youngest of the winners on this show.
Producer: Jessica Treen
BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
Radio 3 salutes some of the new and upcoming talent active in the arts today under the age of 25. As well as hearing from young choreographers, composers, musicians and writers throughout the day, Radio 3 will be playing music of great composers in their youthful periods, alongside recordings of seminal performers made when they were young.
MON 22:45 The Essay (b05sy2zs)
Young Artists Day: Sunita
A new short story by acclaimed young Nigerian writer Chibundu Onuzo for BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day
For Dolapo, a young Nigerian graduate job seeker living in London, getting her first hair weave is a bit of a milestone. But whether your hair is wavy, straight, light or dark, is a highly contested issue in her community. For her it's about aspiration. And so despite her misgivings about using human grown hair from India, she gets her first weave. But when she starts having strange dreams about her new hairstyle's origins, she is forced to reconsider some of her own assumptions about identity.
Writer: Chibundu Onuzo
Reader: Joan Iyiola
Producer: Simon Richardson
BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
Radio 3 salutes some of the new and upcoming talent active in the arts today under the age of 25. As well as hearing from young choreographers, composers, musicians and writers throughout the day, Radio 3 will be playing music of great composers in their youthful periods, alongside recordings of seminal performers made when they were young.
MON 23:00 Jazz on 3 (b05sy2zv)
Young Artists Day: Tomorrow's Warriors Youth Orchestra
Jazz on 3 celebrates the future of British jazz on Radio 3's Young Artists Day with Tomorrow's Warriors Youth Orchestra in concert.
Founded by bass player Gary Crosby, the Tomorrow's Warriors scheme has been an important cornerstone of British jazz for over 20 years - shaping the careers of young musicians through workshops, performance platforms and a restless collective spirit. Today the Tomorrow's Warriors Youth Orchestra continues to produce some of the finest next-generation players and here at London's Southbank Centre the 17-piece ensemble premieres new work by some of the collective's esteemed graduates, including Nathaniel Facey, Yazz Ahmed, Peter Edwards, Ben Burrell and Binker Golding.
Titled Bridge To Our Memories, the new series of pieces evokes African storytelling, high-life, Caribbean folk and Arabian rhythms, embodying the individual cultural backgrounds of the writers and reflecting on the changing face of Britain.
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producer: Chris Elcombe
BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
Radio 3 salutes some of the new and upcoming talent active in the arts today under the age of 25. As well as hearing from young choreographers, composers, musicians and writers throughout the day, Radio 3 will be playing music of great composers in their youthful periods, alongside recordings of seminal performers made when they were young.
TUESDAY 05 MAY 2015
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b05sy415)
Casals Quartet in Mozart, Ligeti and Brahms
The Casals Quartet plays Mozart, Ligeti and Brahms. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
String Quartet in C major (K.465) "Dissonance"
Casals Quartet: Vera Martínez-Mehner and Abel Tomàs (violins), Jonathan Brown (viola), Arnau Tomàs (cello)
12:59 AM
Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923-2009)
Quartet no. 1 (Metamorphoses nocturnes) for strings
Casals Quartet: Vera Martínez-Mehner and Abel Tomàs (violins), Jonathan Brown (viola), Arnau Tomàs (cello)
1:22 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Quartet for strings no.1 (Op.51 No.1) in C minor
Casals Quartet: Vera Martínez-Mehner and Abel Tomàs (violins), Jonathan Brown (viola), Arnau Tomàs (cello)
1:55 AM
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946)
El Sombrero de tres picos - suite no. 2: Dance of the miller (Farruca)
Casals Quartet: Vera Martínez-Mehner and Abel Tomàs (violins), Jonathan Brown (viola), Arnau Tomàs (cello)
1:59 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony no. 5 (D.485) in B flat major
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.38 (K.504) in D major 'Prague'
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
3:01 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Klid for cello and orchestra (B.182) arr. from no.5 of 'From the Bohemian forest'
Shauna Rolston (cello), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
3:07 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Serenade for String Orchestra in E flat (Op.6)
Virtuosi di Kuhmo, Peter Csaba (conductor)
3:34 AM
Walpurgis, Maria Antonia (1724-1780)
Sinfonia from 'Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni' - Dramma per musica
Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord/director)
3:41 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Mazurka No. 32 in C sharp minor, Op.50 No.3
Tobias Koch (piano)
3:46 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Mazurka op. 24 no.2 in C major for piano
Janusz Olejniczak (piano)
3:50 AM
Blow, John (1649-1708)
The Graces' Dance; Gavott; Sarabande for the Graces - from Venus and Adonis
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
3:57 AM
Schulz-Evler, Adolf (1852-1905)
Concert arabesque on themes by Johann Strauss for piano transcribed from "An der schonen, blauen Donau" (Beautiful Blue Danube)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
4:07 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Forlane from Deuxième Récréation de musique d'une exécution facile in G minor (for 2 flutes/violins and continuo, Op.8)
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:12 AM
Grossman, Ludwik (1835-1915)
Csárdás from the comic opera Duch wójewody (The Ghost of Voyvode) (1875)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
4:22 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe [1683-1764]
Gavotte in A minor
Alexander Romanovsky (piano)
4:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (Conductor)
4:42 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in D minor for strings and basso continuo (RV.128)
Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez (conductor)
4:48 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Der Abend (Op.34 No.1) for 16 part choir
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
4:57 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Krakowiak - rondo for piano and orchestra (Op.14) in F major
Nelson Goerner (Erard piano of 1849), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
5:13 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
A song about King Stephen
Hungarian Radio Chorus, Peter Erdei (conductor)
5:18 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Song without Words (Op. 109)
Miklós Perényi (cello), Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
5:23 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio Sonata in E flat major (H.XV.29)
Kungsbacka Trio
5:40 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Kinderszenen for piano (Op.15)
Håvard Gimse (piano)
6:00 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), completed by Zóltan Kocsis
Rondo (Concert rondo) for horn and orchestra in E flat major (K.371) completed by Zoltán Kocsis
László Gál (horn), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)
6:07 AM
Andriessen, Hendrik (1892-1981)
Qui habitat
Netherlands Chamber Choir; Uwe Gronostay (director)
6:15 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Capriccio (Op.81'3) in E minor
Brussels Chamber Orchestra
6:23 AM
Boulogne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1748-1799)
Ballet music from the opera 'L'amant anonyme' (1780)
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b05sy4jf)
Tuesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b05sy4q7)
Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... youth orchestras'. Especially for the week of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah explores recordings by top youth orchestras, including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, with music by Bartók, Debussy, Adès and Ginastera.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
10am
Sarah's guest is the veteran actor Martin Shaw. Known for his roles in The Professionals, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently, Martin will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah.
10.30am
To mark Radio 3's Young Artists Day, this week Sarah is featuring the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. At just 22 years old, Grosvenor is a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the youngest artist ever to sign to Decca Records and is the youngest soloist to have performed at the first night of the Proms. Throughout the week Sarah showcases Grosvenor's recordings of works by composers including Bach, Ravel, Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Gershwin.
11am Essential Choice
This week Sarah explores depictions of Prometheus.
Alkan
Grande Sonate: Les quatre ages, Op 33
Marc-André Hamelin (piano).
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05sy53p)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Battles with Authority
He took the 'land of the clavier', Vienna, by storm, becoming something of a pioneer in composing piano concertos, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Relations between the Archbishop of Salzburg and one of his employees, young Mozart, were not going well. The Archbishop found Mozart insubordinate and rebellious, and forbade him to compose any further symphonies. Instead Wolfgang was expected to regularly churn out suitable entertainment music for his employer including serenades, marches, and divertimenti, including his Divertimento in F major No 10 K247.
Mozart however pushed against the boundaries where he could, including writing a series of violin concertos. He also had the opportunity to compose much liturgical music including his Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento K243. It was however for a visiting French pianist that Mozart composed the first of his great piano concertos, No 9 in E flat major K271. He wrote this work in the month that he turned twenty-one, and there was a sense of dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra, which was quite new for listeners at that time.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05sy57y)
Glasgow RCS - Poulenc
Episode 1
Michael Collins and friends begin a week's celebration of the chamber works of Poulenc at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. The, at times mournful, sonata for clarinet is a late work written for Benny Goodman and dedicated to his friend, the composer Honegger. The sextet for piano and woodwind is quite clearly in the neoclassical vein in the mode of Stravinsky and Poulenc makes full use of the instruments' characters to produce his trademark acerbic yet witty finish. Glinka's Trio is by contrast a work of full-blown and theatrical romanticism. He is joined for Poulenc's Sextet by Members of Stevenson Winds, all students at the RCS making their Lunchtime Concert debut.
Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Glinka: Trio Pathetique in D minor
Poulenc: Sextet for Piano and Wind
Michael Collins, clarinet
Peter Whelan, bassoon
Scott Mitchell, piano
Members of Stevenson Winds:
Alasdair Garrett, flute
Alice McArthur, oboe
Christopher McShane, bassoon
Andrew MacLean, horn.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05sy5s5)
Klarafestival 2015
Episode 1
Katie Derham continues the week of Afternoon on 3 with highlights from this year's KlaraFestival from Belgium. Including music by Locatelli and Mozart from ll Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini; and ending with Berlioz's great dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette from Les Siècles under François-Xavier Roth.
2pm
Locatelli
Il Pianto d'Arianna, op. 7 no.6
ll Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
2.17pm
Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216
ll Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Isabelle Faust, violin
2.41pm
Berlioz
Roméo et Juliette, op. 17, dramatic symphony
Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano
Jean-François Borras, tenor
Jérôme Varnier, bass
Aedes Chorus
Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth.
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b05sy68v)
Richard Uttley, Stuart Skelton, Rebecca von Lipinski, Christian Blackshaw
Sean Rafferty's guests include rising star young pianist Richard Uttley. He'll be playing live in the studio ahead of his recital at St John's Smith Square in London.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05sy53p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05sy6qs)
Britten Sinfonia - Mozart, Haydn, Stravinsky
Live from Birmingham Town Hall
Presented by Tom Redmond
Britten Sinfonia directed by soprano Barbara Hannigan perform works by Mozart, Haydn and Stravinsky.
Mozart: Overture to Idomeneo
Stravinsky: Anne's Recitative, Aria and Cabaletta (The Rake's Progress, Act One, Scene 3)
Haydn: Symphony No 49, La Passione
8.05 Interval music, including chamber works from Britten Sinfonia
8.35
Mozart: Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
Mozart: Bella mia fiamma, addio
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Britten Sinfonia
Barbara Hannigan (soprano and director)
Britten Sinfonia performs the first of its "Barbara Hannigan in Focus" concerts from Birmingham Town Hall
When Le Figaro wrote 'this woman must come from another planet' they got it absolutely right! Barbara Hannigan is an exceptional artist, revered for her sensational voice and her charisma, and tonight she brings her passion for music and her skills as a singer and as a musical director to a programme which plays with the contrasting and complementary sound worlds of Mozart, Haydn and Stravinsky.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b05sy6qv)
Sir Thomas Browne and Adventures in Human Beings
Matthew Sweet talks to Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Claire Preston and Gavin Francis about the mind-adventures of doctors in time and space. Aldersey-Williams has written The Adventures of Thomas Browne in the 21st Century, while Claire Preston is editing Browne's complete works.
Browne was a man fascinated by everything from nature to religion, to the shock of the new. How does his story resonate now? Gavin Francis, 21st-century GP, has written Adventures in Human Being which records his own experiences mapping the human body via extensive travel, wide reading and varied medical experiences.
Presenter: Matthew Sweet
Guest: Hugh Aldersey-William 'The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century'
Guest: Gavin Francis 'Adventures in Human Being'
Guest: Claire Preston 'Sir Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science'; co-ed with Reid Barbour 'Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed'
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b05sy7xy)
Postman's Knock
David Hepworth remembers the ancient teenage ritual of Postman's Knock. It was how boys met girls in the early 1960s. Not long afterwards etiquette changed and the old rules of dating were abandoned. But now, in the age of social networking and hook-up culture, they're back.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b05sy7jb)
Tuesday - Mara Carlyle
Mara Carlyle plays tracks from Concrete, the debut solo release just out from Brighton based multi-instrumentalist and producer Marcus Hamblett. Plus new tuba music from Ore, and dance music in all styles, part of the BBC's current focus on dance including Dances from Terpsichore by Praetorius and early Youssou N'Dour with energetic Mbalax moves from Senegal.
WEDNESDAY 06 MAY 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b05sy417)
Proms 2014: Baroque Greek Legends
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of baroque music reflecting Greek myths and legends from the 2014 BBC Proms, including Handel, Gluck, Lully and Hasse, performed by Armonia Atenea.
12:31 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Sinfonia from Act 1, Artemisia
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
12:37 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Mi lagnero tacendo, from Siroe, re di Persia
Myrsini Margariti (soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
12:45 AM
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)
Overture from Alessandro
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
12:51 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Non so frenare il pianto, from Antigono
Irini Karaianni (mezzo-soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:00 AM
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)
Suite from Phaeton
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:13 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
O placido il mare, from Siroe, re di Persia
Myrsini Margariti (soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:19 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Dance of the blessed spirits; Dance of the furies, from Orfeo ed Euridice
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:29 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Ma fille, Jupiter (Clytemnestra), from Iphigenie en Aulide
Irini Karaianni (mezzo-soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:34 AM
Paisiello, Giovanni (1740-1816)
E mi lasci così? ... Ne' giorni tuoi felici (recit and duet), from L'Olimpiade
Myrsini Margariti (soprano), Irini Karaianni (mezzo-soprano), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:41 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Sinfonia from Act 1, Siroe, re di Persia
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou (conductor)
1:44 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613)
Tenebrae responses for Good Friday for 6 voices (Omnes amici mei; Velum templi; Vinea mea electa; Tamquam ad latronem; Tenebrae factae sunt; Animam meam dilectam; Tradiderunt me; Caligaverunt oculi mei; Jesum tradidit impius)
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
2:31 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei [1891-1953]
Symphony No.3 in C minor (Op.44)
Orchestre National de France, Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)
3:06 AM
Bruch, Max Christian Friedrich (1838-1920)
Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor (Op.26)
Roland Orlik (violin), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Marek Pijarowski (conductor)
3:32 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in C major (K.420)
Ilze Graubina (piano)
3:38 AM
Mudarra, Alonso (c.1510-1580)
Claros y frescos rios
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
3:43 AM
Raitio, Vaino [1891-1945]
Serenade for orchestra
Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri , Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:48 AM
Doppler, Franz (1821-1883)
Fantaisie pastoral hongroise (Op.26) (version for flute & piano)
Ian Mullin (flute), Richard Shaw (piano)
3:59 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706) [text: Psalm 46]
Gott ist unser Zuversicht - motet for double chorus & bc
Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel (director)
4:03 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo [1653-1713]
"Giacona" from Trio Sonata No.12
Stockholm Antiqua
4:06 AM
Muffat, Georg [1653-1704]
Passacaglia from Sonata No.5
Stockholm Antiqua
4:16 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Impromptu No.4 in A flat major - from Impromptus for piano (D.899)
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
4:22 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Polonaise de concert in A major (1867)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zygmunt Rychert (conductor)
4:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arranged by Harold Perry
Divertimento in B flat Major (H.
2.46) arranged for wind quintet
Galliard Ensemble BBC New Generation Artists
4:40 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Introduction in C minor and Rondo in E flat major, (Op.16)
Dina Yoffe & Daniel Vaiman (pianos)
4:52 AM
Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927) [text: Oscar Levertin]
Ithaka (Op.21)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
5:02 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
La Gitana (after an 18th century Arabo-Spanish Gypsy song) for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
5:05 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Liebesfreud for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
5:09 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No.1 in E flat
Kullervo Kojo (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Söderblom (conductor)
5:32 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Trio Sonata in C minor (Op. 2 no. 1)
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori (ensemble)
5:45 AM
Janequin, Clément (c.1485-1558)
Escoutez tous gentilz (La bataille de Marignon/La guerre) - from Chansons de maistre Clément Janequin, Paris c.1528
The King's Singers
5:53 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata No.1 in D major (Op.12 No.1)
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
6:12 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Daphnis & Chloe - Suite No.2
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b05sy4jh)
Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b05sy4r4)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... youth orchestras'. Especially for the week of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah explores recordings by top youth orchestras, including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, with music by Bartók, Debussy, Adès and Ginastera.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?
10am
Sarah's guest is the veteran actor Martin Shaw. Known for his roles in The Professionals, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently, Martin will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah.
10.30am
To mark Radio 3's Young Artists Day earlier this week, Sarah is featuring the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. At just 22 years old, Grosvenor is a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the youngest artist ever to sign to Decca Records and was the youngest soloist to perform at the first night of the Proms. Throughout the week Sarah showcases Grosvenor's recordings of works by composers including Bach, Ravel, Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Gershwin.
11am Essential Choice
This week Sarah explores depictions of Prometheus.
Liszt
Prometheus - symphonic poem, S99
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05sy53r)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Wolfgang in Vienna
He took the 'land of the clavier', Vienna, by storm, becoming something of a pioneer in composing piano concertos, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
In the early 1780s, Mozart was making his way as a freelance musician in Vienna. He'd finally left the employment of Archbishop Colloredo in Salzburg, and was now dazzling Viennese audiences with his music, such as his the Rondo in D major K382 for piano and orchestra. His latest opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail also had quite an impact in Vienna, even though Emeperor Joseph II was supposed to have said that the music was too beautiful, and "a monstrous many notes".
On top of Mozart's growing popularity, there was another reason for his interest for remaining in Vienna. Wolfgang had previously fallen in love with Aloysia Weber, but she was now married. His affections turned to her younger sister Constanze, whom he then married. During this same period, Mozart's career as a virtuoso performer in Vienna was in the ascent. In partnership with a musician called Martin, he organised and gave a number of subscription performances. At these concerts which often included in the audience the Emperor, Mozart wowed his public with his artistry, performing his latest works including the Concerto No 13 in C major K415 for piano and orchestra.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05sy580)
Glasgow RCS - Poulenc
Episode 2
Former Cardiff Singer of the World winner, Nicole Cabell and pianist Simon Lepper celebrate Poulenc's profound love for the contemporary poets of his day in Paris in this recital from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
Banalités' is a group of five songs from various sources of which, 'Hotel' and 'Voyage a Paris' come from a group of short poems also entitled 'Banalités' by the poet Apollinaire which appealed to him because of their silliness. The group of poems are disparate and have no obvious thematic thread however his settings, beautifully illuminate the sometimes obscure texts.
The poetry of Louise de Vilmorin gave Poulenc the opportunity to write specifically for the female voice in 'Fiancailles pour rire'. The cycle begins with the expression which has come to represent the duality of Poulenc's musical personality -) the monk and the street urchin - the sublime alongside the ridiculous. The final song of the cycle, "Fleurs," is one of those grave songs of love and loss that no one else but Poulenc could have composed.
Poulenc's works are contrasted with two well-known song cycles by his older contemporary, Maurice Ravel; the magically evocative song cycle Shéhérazade originally written for soprano (or tenor) and orchestra and his Cinq populaires grecques which were written around the same time for voice and harp to illustrate a lecture his friend Pierre Aubry was giving on Greek folk song. They are all popular songs which range in mood from the carefree 'Tout gai', to the atmospheric and meditative 'La-bas, vers l'eglise'.
Poulenc: Banalités
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire
Ravel: 5 Popular Greek Songs
Nicole Cabell, soprano
Simon Lepper, piano.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05sy5s7)
Klarafestival 2015
Episode 2
Katie Derham presents a concert given at this year's KlaraFestival from Belgium. Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini play music by Haydn and Mozart including arias sung by the German soprano, Mojka Erdmann and also Mozart's 5th Violin Concerto with soloist Isabelle Faust.
2pm
Haydn
Overture to L'isola disabitata
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
2.08pm
Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K219
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Isabelle Faust, violin
2.36pm
Haydn
Symphony No. 8 in G, Hob. I:8 ('Le Soir')
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
2.56pm
Haydn
Solo e pensoso, Hob. XXIVb:20
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Mojca Erdmann, soprano
3.03pm
Mozart
Ch'io mi scordi di te, K490
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Isabelle Faust, violin
Mojca Erdmann, soprano.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b05sy7rw)
The Queen's College, Oxford
Live from the Chapel of The Queen's College, Oxford
Introit: View me, Lord (Lloyd)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalms 32, 33, 34 (Turle, Marsh, Davy, Buck)
First Lesson: Numbers 12
Office Hymn: Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old (St Matthew)
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: Luke 5 vv12-26
Anthem: I know that my redeemer liveth (Cecilia McDowall)
Final Hymn: Jesu, lover of my soul (Aberystwyth)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne (Buxtehude)
Director of Music: Owen Rees
Organ Scholar: Harry Meehan.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b05sy68x)
Sam Lee, Kathryn Tickell
Sean Rafferty's drivetime guests include two of the biggest names in British folk - celebrated Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell, winner of the BBC Radio 2's Folk Awards 2013 Musician of the Year, and acclaimed Mercury prize nominee Sam Lee - curator of the 2015 Voices Now Festival held this week at The Roundhouse in Camden, at which they will both perform. They'll be performing live in the studio.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05sy53r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05sy6qz)
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Kirill Karabits conducts his Bournemouth forces in Verdi's Requiem. From the hushed opening via the tumult of the Dies irae to the blazing trumpets of the Tuba mirum, Verdi invests his setting of the Requiem Mass with all of his instinctive dramatic genius. The work is not just one of the most theatrical pieces of music ever written but one of the most emotionally sincere.
Presented by Martin Handley live from the Lighthouse in Poole.
Aga Mikolaj (soprano)
Mariana Pentcheva (mezzo)
Barry Banks (tenor)
Alastair Miles (bass)
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra,
Kirill Karabits (conductor).
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b05t71hk)
Antony Sher
Philip Dodd in extended conversation with the actor Antony Sher whose recent roles include Willy Loman and Falstaff.
Sher has just published his account of playing Falstaff in Gregory Doran's 2014 RSC production of the two parts of Henry IV - Year of the Fat Knight: The Falstaff Diaries.
Another RSC production, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, also directed by Doran, is about to transfer from Stratford to the Noel Coward Theatre in London, with Sher in the role of Willy Loman.
Producer: Torquil Macleod
Image: Antony Sher in Death of a Salesman
Photo Credit: Ellie Kurttz.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b03w0fz4)
Forgiveness
Madeleine Bunting
A series of essays on what Forgiveness is, what it isn't, and how you do it. Journalist Madeleine Bunting: 'Forgiveness is not some fairy wand which magics away the pain and anger. It's not a feeling at all. It's a choice'.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b05sy7jg)
Wednesday - Mara Carlyle
Mara Carlyle with more dance music in all styles, part of the BBC's current focus on dance. Plus tunes about trains and music
from Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld's new collaboration: a collection of new works for horn and violin.
THURSDAY 07 MAY 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b05sy419)
British Symphonies: Elgar's Second and Vaughan Williams's London
British Symphonies. Proms performances of Elgar's Second and Vaughan Williams's 'London' symphonies. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Symphony no. 2 in E flat major Op.63
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
1:27 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
A London symphony (Symphony no.2)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, David Atherton (conductor)
2:14 AM
Foulds, John [1880-1939]
Keltic Suite (Op.29)
Katharine Wood (cello) BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
2:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite for Solo Cello No.6 in D major (BWV.1012)
Guy Fouquet (cello)
3:02 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
String Quintet No.2 in G major (Op.111)
Members of Wiener Streichsextett:
3:32 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Regina coeli for soloists SATB, chorus, orchestra & organ (K.276) in C major
Olivia Robinson (soprano), Sian Menna (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Stuart MacIntyre (baritone), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
3:39 AM
Smetana, Bedrich [1824-1884]
2 Dances from "Czech Dances, Book II"
Karel Vrtiska (piano)
3:48 AM
Faure, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Reflets dans l'eau from Mirages (Op.113)
Ronan Collett (baritone), Nicholas Rimmer (piano)
3:53 AM
Walton, William (1902-1983)
Where does the uttered music go? - for SATB chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)
3:59 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto Grosso in D minor (Op.3'2)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
4:10 AM
Flury, Richard (1896-1967)
Three pieces for violin and piano
Sibylle Tschopp (violin), Isabel Tschopp (piano)
4:19 AM
Janequin, Clément (c.1485-1558)
La Chasse
Ensemble Clément Janequin: Dominique Visse (countertenor), Bruno Boterf (tenor),Vincent Bouchot (baritone), Francois Fauché (baritone), Massimo Moscardo (bass), Eric Bellocq (guitar), Massimo Moscardo (lute), Matthieu Lusson (bass gamba)
4:24 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin' (Op.24)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:31 AM
Rosetti, Antonio (c.1750-1792)
Grande symphonie in D major
Capella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (director)
4:46 AM
Bortnyansky, Dmitry [1751-1825]
Concerto for chorus No.6 "Glory to God in the Highest"
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
4:52 AM
Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) (1843-1907)
Andante con moto for piano trio in C minor
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
5:02 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Kyrie eleison in G minor for double choir and orchestra (RV.587)
Choir of Latvian Radio, Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
5:13 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata - from Années de Pèlerinage: Deuxième Année (S.160 No.7)
Yuri Boukoff (1923-2006) (piano)
5:29 AM
Stamitz, Johann (1717-1757)
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra in B flat major (1750)
Jann Engel (clarinet), Capella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
5:46 AM
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672)
Wohl denen, die ohne Wandel leben - Motet for 2 choirs & continuo (SWV.482) (from Königs und Propheten Davids Hundert und Neunzehender Psalm in Eilf Stükken... (Dresden 1671)
Rheinische Kantorei, Musica Alta Ripa (lower strings & chamber organ (played by Bernward Lohr), Hermann Max (conductor)
5:51 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Sonata for viola da gamba and keyboard No.3 in G minor (BWV.1029)
Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
6:05 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Notturno in B major (Op. 40)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Stanienda (conductor)
6:13 AM
Arensky, Anton Stepanovich (1861-1906)
Suite No.2 for 2 pianos (Op.23), 'Silhouettes'
James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton (pianos).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b05sy4jk)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b05sy4rd)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... youth orchestras'. Especially for the week of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah explores recordings by top youth orchestras, including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, with music by Bartók, Debussy, Adès and Ginastera.
9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge - listen to the clues and see if you can identify the mystery person.
10am
Sarah's guest is the veteran actor Martin Shaw. Known for his roles in The Professionals, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently, Martin will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah.
10.30am
To mark Radio 3's Young Artists Day earlier this week, Sarah is featuring the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. At just 22 years old, Grosvenor is a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the youngest artist ever to sign to Decca Records and was the youngest soloist to perform at the first night of the Proms. Throughout the week Sarah showcases Grosvenor's recordings of works by composers including Bach, Ravel, Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Gershwin.
11am Essential Choice
This week Sarah explores depictions of Prometheus.
Schubert
Prometheus, D674
Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
Fritz Schwinghammer (piano)
Wolf
Prometheus
Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin
Kent Nagano (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05sy53t)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Dissatisfied in Vienna
He took the 'land of the clavier', Vienna, by storm, becoming something of a pioneer in composing piano concertos, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
In 1786, Mozart organised a number of subscription concerts at the Burgtheatre in Vienna. At these events he performed his latest music, including the Concerto No 23 in A major K488 for piano and orchestra. His popularity as a concert pianist had by now peaked, and Mozart was frustrated that he'd still not been able to secure a position at court.
Mozart now cancelled any further subscription concerts, and considered moving to France or England where he thought the prospects were better. The Emperor Joseph II upon hearing the rumours that Mozart was planning to leave, promptly offered him the post of chamber musician. Set against this good fortune, was the tragic news that Mozart's father Leopold had died. Around this time of grief Mozart composed relatively little, but he did complete his opera Don Giovanni K527.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05sy582)
Glasgow RCS - Poulenc
Episode 3
Bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu and pianist Joseph Middleton team up to perform songs by Poulenc contrasted with works by Fauré, Ibert and Duparc from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Poulenc wrote his Chansons villageoises in 1942 during World War 2 and described them as 'a defiant celebration of the French way of life impervious to the German occupation'.
Fauré: L'horizon chimérique
Duparc: Le manoir de Rosemonde
Duparc: Phidylé
Duparc: La vague et la cloche
Ibert: Don Quichotte
Poulenc: Chansons villageoises
Jonathan Lemalu, baritone
Joseph Middleton, piano.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05sy5s9)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Paisiello - The Barber of Seville
Katie Derham presents The Barber of Seville - not in the famous setting by Rossini, but in a lesser known version by Paisiello, who wrote his opera a generation before Rossini. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under René Jacobs brush the dust off this rarely performed sparkling comedy, recorded in March at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, during this year's KlaraFestival.
Giovanni Paisiello
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Topi Lehtipuu, tenor, Il Conte d'Almaviva
Mari Eriksmoen, soprano, Rosina
Pietro Spagnoli, baritone, Bartolo
Andrè Schuen, baritone, Figaro
Fulvio Bettini, baritone, Don Basilio
Christoph Seidl, bass, Lo Svegliato / Un Notario
Erik Arman, tenor, Il Giovinetto / Un Alcalde
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
René Jacobs
2pm
Act 1
3.15pm
Act 2.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b05sy691)
Toby Spence, Mike Leigh and David Parry, Steven Osborne, Jean Johnson
Sean Rafferty's drivetime guests include British tenor Toby Spence, performing live in the studio ahead of this year's Wardsbrook Concerts - an enterprising series of concert with top artists which he set up on a farm in East Sussex.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05sy53t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05sy6r7)
BBC SSO - Janacek, Shostakovich
Live from City Halls Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alpesh Chauhan perform an evening of vividly coloured orchestral music.
Shostakovich's final symphony, his 15th, seems to sum up much of the composer's life: but can also be seen as exploring new ground. In the midst of a rich web of musical quotations, references to Rossini and Wagner, sits music which encompasses the classicism of Mozart and Haydn and modernistic rhythmic invention and techniques of serialism. As always with Shostakovich the Symphony treads lightly, and heavily, between the forces of darkness and light.
From 40 years earlier, the composer's first piano concerto seems an altogether brighter affair - bursting with humour and wit. The soloists, pianist Garrick Ohlsson and BBC SSO principal trumpet Mark O'Keeffe, engage in sardonic exchanges in music full of jazz-inflected rhythms, dazzling colours, and trumpet fanfares.
And the concert opens with another fanfare, by a composer who seems to stand outside the usual categories of music history: Janacek. In his Sinfonietta, opening as it does with an unfolding fanfare of 12 trumpets, he creates by means of extremely compressed music a jewel-like work which references military bands and fairy tales as much as the titular musical form.
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 1, for piano, trumpet and string orchestra
8.20 Interval
8.40
Shostakovich: Symphony No 15
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Mark O'Keeffe (trumpet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b05sy6r9)
Anne Enright, The Economics of Psychological Therapy, Christopher Hampton
Anne Enright, Ireland's first Laureate for Fiction, discusses her new novel The Green Road with Anne McElvoy. In 2007 she won the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering.
The labour economist Richard Layard and David M. Clark, Professor of Psychology at Oxford and leading expert on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, discuss the economics of psychological therapy - the subject of their book Thrive: The Power of Psychological Therapy. The authors are giving a talk at The Royal Institution in London, on Wednesday 13 May at
7pm.
Playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton explains his approach to translating the plays of contemporary French dramatist Florian Zeller whose play The Mother won the Moliere prize in 2011.
The Theatre Royal Bath stages the UK premiere of The Mother from May 21st to June 20th. And the Theatre Royal production of The Father is being performed at The Tricycle Theatre in London from May 7th to June 13th.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03w0k66)
Forgiveness
David Starkey
Continuing a series on what Forgiveness is, what it isn't, and how you do it. Historian Dr David Starkey delves into the past as well as the present for examples.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b05sy7jj)
Thursday - Mara Carlyle
Mara Carlyle is joined in the studio by Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire and Bryce Dessner from The National ahead of their appearance at the Barbican's Mountains & Waves American music season in London.
FRIDAY 08 MAY 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b05sy41d)
Wagner's The Feast of Pentecost and other rarities
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of rarities, including Wagner's oratorio The Feast of Pentecost, and works by Croatian composers Kelemen and Devcic.
12:31 AM
Kelemen, Milko (b.1924)
Symphony
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)
1:04 AM
Devcic, Natko (1914-1997)
Ballade for Piano and Orchestra
Bruno Vlahek (piano), Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)
1:23 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Prelude in G sharp minor, Op.32 no.12
Bruno Vlahek (piano)
1:26 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (The Feast of Pentecost)
Men of the Croatian Radio-Television Chorus, Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)
1:56 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), arr. Reinhard, August (1831-1912)
Good Friday Music (from Act III of "Parsifal")
Vovka Ashkenazy (piano), Giulio Mercati (harmonium)
2:07 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Rosenkavalier -- Grand Suite
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Franz-Paul Decker (conductor)
2:31 AM
Huber, Hans (1852-1921)
Cello Sonata No.4 in B flat major (Op.130)
Esther Nyffenegger (cello), Desmond Wright (piano)
2:57 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
String Quintet in G minor (K.516)
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Jessica Linnebach (violin), Jethro Marks (viola), Donnie Deacon (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
3:34 AM
Kutev, Filip (1903-1982)
Pastoral for flute and orchestra (1943)
Lidia Oshavkova (flute), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
3:45 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) [lyrics: Ludwik Syrokomla]
Lirnik wioskowy (Country Lyrist)
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano), Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska (piano)
3:52 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) [lyrics: Jan Czeczot]
Dumka
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano), Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska (piano)
3:55 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings (D.438)
Pinchas Zukerman (violin/director), The National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada
4:10 AM
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672)
Ride la primavera for 5 voices (SWV.7)
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (conductor)
Emma Kirkby & Evelyn Tubb (soprano), Mary Nichols (alto), Andrew King (tenor), Richard Wistreich (bass)
4:14 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Ich ging mit lust durch einen grünen Wald (I walked with joy through a green forest) (no.7 from Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit)
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
4:19 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata in A major - from Der Getreue Music-Meister
Camerata Köln: Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba), Harold Hoeren (harpsichord continuo)
4:26 AM
Méndez, Rafael (1906-1981)
Csárdás for trumpet and piano
Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet) (b.1985 Switzerland), Enikö Bors (piano)
4:31 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante (Op.22)
Ludmil Angelov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
4:45 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Ariettes oubliées - song cycle for voice & piano
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Gary Matthewman (piano)
5:02 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
5:19 AM
Striggio, Alessandro [c.1540-1592]
Ecce beatam lucem, for 40 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
5:28 AM
Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto No.6 in E flat major (from Sei Concerti Armonici 1740) (orig. no.5; formerly attrib. Pergolesi & Ricciotti)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
5:37 AM
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986)
Croquiser - for piano (Op.38) (1947)
Marten Landström (piano)
5:53 AM
Le Roux-Obradovic, Maya (b.1963)
Ballade de la vallée magique
Maya Le Roux-Obradovic (guitar), Sinfonietta Belgrade, Aleksandar Vujic (conductor)
6:09 AM
Dussek, Jan Ladislav (1760-1812)
Sonata for piano (Op.35 No.1) in B flat major
Andreas Staier (Broadwood fortepiano of 1805).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b05sy4jm)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b05sy4rj)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... youth orchestras'. Especially for the week of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah explores recordings by top youth orchestras, including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, with music by Bartók, Debussy, Adès and Ginastera.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Sarah's guest is the veteran actor Martin Shaw. Known for his roles in The Professionals, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently, Martin will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah.
10.30am
To mark Radio 3's Young Artists Day earlier this week, Sarah is featuring the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. At just 22 years old, Grosvenor is a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the youngest artist ever to sign to Decca Records and was the youngest soloist to perform at the first night of the Proms. Throughout the week Sarah showcases Grosvenor's recordings of works by composers including Bach, Ravel, Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Gershwin.
11am Essential Choice
This week Sarah explores depictions of Prometheus
Beethoven
Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 55 (Eroica)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05sy53y)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
The Last Piano Concerto
He took the 'land of the clavier', Vienna, by storm, becoming something of a pioneer in composing piano concertos, this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The year 1790 began well with the premiere of Mozart's opera Cosi fan tute. It was a success in Vienna which earned him a fee of two hundred ducats. Unfortunately his finances were not in a good state, and one friend found Mozart and Constanze dancing around their apartment simply to keep warm. Through an act of generosity came a commission, for which Mozart composed his String Quintet in E flat major K614.
1791 would prove to be Mozart's last. It was then that he completed his final piano concerto, No 27 in B flat major K595, although the paper he used to write this work, suggests that this concerto dates from an earlier period. Money remained tight for Mozart, and so he accepted a mysterious commission for a Requiem. In the last hours before his death, Mozart dictated this work to his pupil Süssmayer, and puffed out his cheeks imitating the sound of the timpani passages.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05sy584)
Glasgow RCS - Poulenc
Episode 4
Pianist Pascal Rogé performs the music of Poulenc and Ravel, for which he has a strong affinity, from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Poulenc: 3 Mouvements perpétuels
Poulenc: 3 Improvisations
Poulenc: 3 Novelettes
Ravel: Sonatine
Poulenc: Soirées de Nazelles
Pascal Rogé, piano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05sy5sc)
Klarafestival 2015
Episode 3
Katie Derham ends this week of highlights from Belgium's KlaraFestival from Belgium. Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini play music by Mozart. And the afternoon also includes a performance of Prokofiev's dramatic score for the ballet, Romeo and Juliet with Musica Aeterna under Teodor Currentzis.
2pm
Mozart
Padre, germani, addio, from Idomeneo
ll Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Mojca Erdmann, soprano
2.08pm
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet, op. 64
Musica Aeterna
Teodor Currentzis
3.50pm
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211
ll Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini
Isabelle Faust, violin.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b05sy695)
Simon Callaghan, Tippett Quartet
Sean Rafferty's drivetime guests include pianist Simon Callaghan, performing live in the studio music by Roger Sacheverell Coke - a 20th century British composer so neglected that he doesn't even have an entry in Wikipedia. Callaghan has recently made a CD of world premiere recordings of Coke's piano music.
Also today, the Tippett Quartet perform live ahead of their upcoming London concert in celebration of the king of crooners, Frank Sinatra.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05sy53y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05sy6rc)
BBC NOW and Chorus - Haydn's The Creation
Live from St. David's Hall, Cardiff
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, conducted by Stephen Layton, perform Haydn's Creation.
Haydn: The Creation Part I
8.15 Nicola Heywood Thomas talks to Stephen Layton about his work with the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and Polyphony, with music by David Briggs and Karl Jenkins.
8.35
Haydn: The Creation Parts II & III
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Allan Clayton (tenor)
Matthew Brook (bass)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Stephen Layton (conductor)
"When I think of God I can only write joyful music" said Joseph Haydn when he began to write what is generally accepted as his masterpiece. Taking collective inspiration from Genesis, the Psalms and John Milton's epic poem 'Paradise Lost', The Creation is a work of musical invention, a sensational biblical homage to our living planet. It also owes a debt to another great choral composer from the eighteenth century - Handel. Haydn first heard performances of Messiah and israel in Egypt in London in 1791, with a massive chorus and orchestra numbering over 1000 people. The impact was immense, and he immediately remarked to a friend that he should like to write something similar, but was stuck for a libretto. In return the friend thrust a Bible into Haydn's hand and said "begin at the beginning!" The final result gives a lasting impression of uncomplicated joy in the world, from the pen of a 66 year old composer.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03bfqm1)
Food Writing
This week The Verb is looking at Food Writing. Ian McMillan's guests include the novelist Emma Jane Unsworth, Caroline Hobkinson, an artist who creates 'Experimental Dining Experiences' and the food writer Diana Henry, who owns 4,000 cookbooks. We also have The Bookshop Band, who have written a song for us based on a book with food at its centre.
Producer, Cecile Wright
First broadcast 27/09/2013.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03w0k6b)
Forgiveness
Michael Symmons Roberts
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts: 'We've lost faith in the next world. Forgiveness once was under-girded by a belief that justice would be done there. But if there is no next world...'.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b05sy7jl)
Lopa Kothari - Namvula in Session
Lopa Kothari with Scottish Zambian singer songwriter Namvula live in session.
Namvula's music is a fusion of the traditions of her Zambian homeland with Latin, jazz and folk drawn from her Scottish roots and connections with the London music scene.
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 (b05sy2z7)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b05sy5s5)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b05sy5s7)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b05sy5s9)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b05sy5sc)
BBC Performing Groups
23:50 SUN (b05sxz6q)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b05sxths)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b05sxy5d)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b05sy2yy)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b05sy4jf)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b05sy4jh)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b05sy4jk)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b05sy4jm)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b05sxthz)
Choir and Organ
16:00 SUN (b04k7zf5)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b05s3st9)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b05sy7rw)
Composer of Tomorrow
18:30 MON (b05sy2zd)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b05sy2z2)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b05sy53p)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b05sy53p)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b05sy53r)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b05sy53r)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b05sy53t)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b05sy53t)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b05sy53y)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b05sy53y)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b00nkx97)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b05sy2z0)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b05sy4q7)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b05sy4r4)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b05sy4rd)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b05sy4rj)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b05sy6qv)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b05t71hk)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b05sy6r9)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b01hq204)
Hear and Now
22:15 SAT (b05sxv52)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b05sy2z9)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b05sy68v)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b05sy68x)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b05sy691)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b05sy695)
Jazz Line-Up
21:30 SAT (b05sxv50)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b05sxv4w)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b05sy2zv)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b05sy7jb)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b05sy7jg)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b05sy7jj)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b05sxtj5)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (b05sxv4y)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b05sxy5j)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SUN (b05t2q04)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b05sy2zj)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b05sy6qs)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b05sy6qz)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b05sy6r7)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b05sy6rc)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b05sxtj8)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b05s3dhx)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b05sy2z4)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b05sy57y)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b05sy580)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b05sy582)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b05sy584)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b05sxtjb)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b05sxtnl)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (b05sxz6l)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b05sxy5g)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b007gbtb)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b05sy2zs)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b05sy7xy)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b03w0fz4)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b03w0k66)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b03w0k6b)
The Verb
22:00 MON (b05sy2zn)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b03bfqm1)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b05s3sy6)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b05sxy5b)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b05sy2yw)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b05sy415)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b05sy417)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b05sy419)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b05sy41d)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (b05sxz6j)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b05sy7jl)