Catriona Young presents a concert given by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko, with Baiba Skride as the soloist in the Szymanowski violin concerto.
Baiba Skride (violin), Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Symphony No. 7
9 Variations on 'Quant' e piu bello' for piano, from Paisiello's opera 'La molinara' (WoO.69)
Dixit Dominus for SSATB soloists and double choir and orchestra in D major (RV.595)
Unidentified soloists, Choir of Latvian Radio and the Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
Engegård Quartet - Arvid Engegård (violin), Atle Sponberg (violin), Juliet Jopling (viola), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)
Jed Wentz (solo flute), Marion Moonen, Cordula Breuer (flutes), Musica ad Rhenum
Zagar, Peter (b. 1961)
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord), Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin/director)
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
Elegy (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Colm Carey (organ of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London)
Michael Müller (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Thierry Fischer (conductor)
3 Motets for 12 part chorus, continuo & 4 trombones (Exultate omnes; Beata es, virgo Maria; Quae est ista)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Frode Larsen (violin), Emery Cardas (cello), Knut Johanssen (harpsichord).
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... wind instruments'. From the rude sound of the rackett and crumhorn to the acrobatic bassett horn and the sweet tones of a pair of recorders, Sarah showcases several species of early woodwind. Featuring music by Susato, Pleyel, Bach, Rhaw and Mendelssohn.
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
Sarah's guest is the award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland. Jonathan started out as a reporter for The Washington Post, and for BBC Radio 4's 'Today' and 'Newsbeat' on BBC Radio 1. He's currently the executive editor of The Guardian's opinion section and writes a weekly column for the paper, as well as for The Jewish Chronicle and The New York Times. Besides his memoir 'Jacob's Gift', he has also penned a best-selling series of thrillers using the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and presents Radio 4's history series 'The Long View'. Jonathan will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah every day at
During the BBC Proms 2015 Sarah and Rob present Vintage Proms 1915, looking at the Proms season from a century ago and playing music that reflects a time when concert programmes were quite different from those of today. This week Sarah features music ranging from the Japanese National Anthem to Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite, and a first performance by Debussy.
This week Sarah features recordings by one of the leading pianists of his generation, Leif Ove Andsnes, who brings his complete Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to the Proms this week. Sarah features the Norwegian pianist in concertos by Haydn and Grieg, chamber music by Schumann and solo works by Schubert and Janacek; works which capture the pianist's crisp and poetic playing.
Poulenc's collaboration with the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska leads to several important large-scale commissions.
Poulenc could claim many of the leading performers, artists and patrons of the day among his circle of friends. This week Donald Macleod looks at some of the more significant of those friendships and explores how these associations led to artistic collaborations, starting with one of the earliest, with pianist Ricardo Viñes, followed by harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, poet Paul Éluard and singers baritone Pierre Bernac and soprano Denise Duval.
Poulenc always thought of himself as a product of the prevailing artistic climate of Paris. Born in 1899, he grew up in cultured and comfortable surroundings. His father and two uncles ran a company manufacturing high quality industrial chemicals, while his mother was an accomplished amateur musician, who gave the young Poulenc his first piano lessons.
Poulenc's first encounter with the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska was at the house of the Princesse de Polignac, one of the most influential patronesses of the day. There and then, Landowska charged the young Poulenc with writing her a concerto. It was the start of a series of concertos, and a life-time friendship between them. Meeting her, Poulenc said was, "a capital event in my career".
This week's lunchtime concerts come from the Cheltenham Festival, performed by the Canadian virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin, and the award winning Carducci Quartet. Today's programme features music by Mozart, Shostakovich, and a UK premiere by Marc-André Hamelin, performed in two historic settings - the Tithe Barn at Syde Manor and the Pittville Pump Room.
Carducci Quartet: Matthew Denton (violin), Michelle Fleming (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Emma Denton (cello)
Another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards perform music by Haydn, Stravinsky and the world premiere of HK Gruber's percussion concerto "into the open ..." with soloist Colin Currie.
Haydn:Symphony No. 85 in B flat 'La reine'
HK Gruber: into the open ... (world premiere)
Petrushka, with its bustling Shrovetide fair and colourful carnival characters ends a programme which begins with Haydn's symphony 'La reine', the second movement of which shares Stravinsky's sophisticated approach to folk music. Viennese maverick HK Gruber's percussion concerto 'into the open ...', echoes the ballet's vivid scoring with a vast assortment of percussion instruments from Thailand, Africa and South America. Colin Currie joins the BBC Philharmonic and its Principal Guest Conductor John Storgards.
One of the world's finest dramatic sopranos, Susan Bullock turns her hand to music from the Great American Song Book and sings live in the studio with pianist Richard Sisson ahead of their concert at Branscombe Festival in Devon.
Organist James O'Donnell, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Thomas Søndergård live at the BBC Proms in music by Stravinsky, Haydn and Mozart, and Poulenc's organ concerto
J Haydn: Te Deum in C major, Hob. XXIII
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'
The Royal Albert Hall's great organ is showcased in a series of Proms this year, starting with Poulenc's Baroque-inspired Organ Concerto - all Gothic flourishes and grand gestures. Also gazing back to the Baroque, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms is a devout musical gesture, reimagining religious rituals on a symphonic scale. The second half pairs two Classical masterpieces: Haydn's cheery Te Deum and Mozart's enduringly popular 'Jupiter' Symphony.
Miss Pulkinhorn is strong in her faith, but increasingly unhappy about the way in which her cathedral is led. When a homeless man joins the congregation, his ecstatic and what she considers indulgent devotions before the sacramental lamp force her to act - with fatal results.
Writer: Awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 and the Booker Prize in 1980, William Golding is best known for his classic novel Lord of the Flies.
Organist James O'Donnell, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Thomas Søndergård live at the BBC Proms in music by Stravinsky, Haydn and Mozart, and Poulenc's organ concerto
J Haydn: Te Deum in C major, Hob. XXIII
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'
The Royal Albert Hall's great organ is showcased in a series of Proms this year, starting with Poulenc's Baroque-inspired Organ Concerto - all Gothic flourishes and grand gestures. Also gazing back to the Baroque, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms is a devout musical gesture, reimagining religious rituals on a symphonic scale. The second half pairs two Classical masterpieces: Haydn's cheery Te Deum and Mozart's enduringly popular 'Jupiter' Symphony.
Ahead of his Proms appearance later in the season, a chance to hear tenor Robin Tritschler in recordings made specially for the BBC when he was a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme. This evening he's joined in Britten's third canticle by a current member of the scheme, horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill.
Profile of the leading writer in Scandinavia and one of the top contenders for the Nobel Prize. Recorded on location in Oslo, Norway, and Petterson's writing hut in the country.
Petterson's novel 'Out Stealing Horses' has won many awards including the 2007 IMPAC Literary Award. It is the best selling work of Scandinavian fiction (leaving aside crime) in the last fifty years. Petterson is a writer who has suffered tragedy in his life: both parents and one of his brothers were killed in a ferry fire in 1990.
Paul Binding, the author of a study of Ibsen, admires Petterson "for his eschewal of the artificial or fashionable ways of fiction. He doesn't seem tempted to go down any route but the one his theme demands. I suspect that he has always harboured feelings of being unlike other people, and that the ferry accident must have enforced the sense of having a lonely race to run.'
His books tell us - from his own experience - that the dreadful does happen, and to people we love and are close to, but that our respect for them and their lives and our love for other people (and too for ourselves) can and does carry us through. His exploration of that lonely race has made him able to portray one-to-one relationships, particularly the familial, more strongly and honestly than any living writer.
At the heart of the documentary is Petterson's uneasy relationship with his mother which because of her sudden death he was never able to resolve. We also touch upon the nature of fictionalised personal narrative and the blurred lines between 'making things up' and imagining what 'could have' happened in life.
Presented by author David Szalay.
Recorded at the Laugharne Live Festival, in the grounds of Laugharne Castle, West Wales, in 2014.
Five leading writers and artists reflect on the ways in which they connect with one of Wales's most famous cultural exports, Dylan Thomas.
Andrew Davies reflects on the influence of Dylan Thomas on a child growing up in Wales in the 1950s, with aspirations to be a writer. A day trip to Rhossili beach and a Cornish pasty chimed with Davies's role model's account in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog", but was this the gateway to a future as a poet?
Max Reinhardt with highlights from the Late Junction Lavish Lounge stage at last week's Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Including today the gorgeous voice of Zimbabwean-born singer-songwriter Eska, who travelled from West Africa especially for her Latitude set. A hereditary musician, her band incorporates traditional influences into the world of groove-based psychedelic rock. Plus Nick Luscombe introduces a series of Secret Sessions recorded with main-stage artists in the intimate setting of Late Junction's very own Luton van. Later in the week there's experimental quintet Polar Bear, and Monoswezi, who fuse sounds from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Scandanavia along with jazz and American minimalism.
BBC Radio 3's eclectic late-night music programme Late Junction returns to the Latitude Festival for the fifth time to curate a stage in the festival's 10th edition at Henham Park, bringing eight captivating contemporary acts to the Lavish Lounge stage in a new location in the woods. With a wide cross-section of contemporary artists, influences range from 1970s horror films, ping pong balls and the Mojave Desert, to contemporary Nordic jazz, traditional West African musical storytelling and groove-based psychedelic rock.
The hand-picked line-up will bring a wide range of diverse and cross-genre artists spanning jazz, contemporary and folk music to Latitude and Radio 3 listeners, including the intriguing sounds of multi-instrumentalist Marcus Hamblett, experimental quintet Polar Bear, the beautiful tones of Jesca Hoop and the Japanese performance artist, instrument builder and musician ICHI who creates sounds from everyday objects including tape loops and ping pong balls.
WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b062jrlf)
Piano Duets from the 2014 Bunt Belgrade Festival
Catriona Young presents a concert of piano duets by Barber, Nancarrow, Bolcom, Rzewski and Bernstein, recorded at the 2014 BUNT Belgrade Festival.
12:31 AM
Barber, Samuel [1910-1981]
Souvenirs - ballet suite, arr. for piano duet
Lidija Bizjak (piano), Sanja Bizjak (piano)
12:49 AM
Nancarrow, Conlon [1912-1997] arr. Adès, Thomas [b.1971]
Study no. 7
Lidija Bizjak (piano), Sanja Bizjak (piano)
1:01 AM
Bolcom, William [b.1938]
Recuerdos, Three Traditional Latin American Dances
Lidija Bizjak (piano), Sanja Bizjak (piano)
1:14 AM
Rzewski, Frederic [b.1938]
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Lidija Bizjak (piano), Sanja Bizjak (piano)
1:24 AM
Bernstein, Leonard [1918-1990], arr. Musto, John [b.1954]
Symphonic dances from 'West Side Story'
Lidija Bizjak (piano), Sanja Bizjak (piano)
1:46 AM
Benjamin, Arthur [1893-1960], arr. Trimble, Joan
Jamaican Rumba
Lidija Bizjak (piano), Sanja Bizjak (piano)
1:48 AM
Duruflé, Maurice (1902-1986)
Requiem (Op.9)
Jacqueline Fox and Stephen Charlesworth (soloists) BBC Singers, David Goode (organ), Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
2:31 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Symphony No.5 (Op.100)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
3:12 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Quintet for piano and strings (Op.44) in E flat major
Ingrid Fliter (piano), Ebène Quartet
3:43 AM
Söderman, August (1832-1876), lyrics by Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Three songs from 'Idyll and Epigram'
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
3:49 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Ballade No.2 in F major (Op.38)
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)
3:57 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sonata da chiesa in E minor (Op.3 No.5)
Camerata Tallinn: Jan Oun (flute), Mati Karmas (violin), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
4:05 AM
Fontana, Giovanni Battista (c.1592-1631)
Sonata undecima for cornet, violin and bass continuo
Le Concert Brisé - William Dongois (cornet/director), Christine Moran (violin), Carsten Lohff (harpsichord), Anne-Catherine Bucher (organ/harpsichord), Benjamin Perrot (theorbo)
4:14 AM
Holmboe, Vagn (1909-1996)
Lauda, Anima Mea - from Liber Canticorum II (Op.59c)
Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt Jensen (conductor)
4:21 AM
Auric, Georges (1899-1983) arr. Philip Lane
Suite from 'The Lavender Hill Mob'
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
4:31 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-c.1757)
Concerto for 2 flutes and orchestra in G minor (Op.5 No.2)
Musica ad Rhenum
4:40 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Danse sacrée et danse profane for harp and strings
Eva Maros (harp), orchestra and conductor not credited
4:51 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
3 Songs for chorus (Op.42)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:01 AM
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896)
Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann in F sharp minor (Op.20)
Angela Cheng (piano)
5:11 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Egmont, incidental music: Overture (Op.84)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Arthur Fagan (conductor)
5:20 AM
Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962)
Trois Pièces Brèves
Galliard Ensemble
5:28 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Satukavia (Fairytale Visions) (Op.19)
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
5:43 AM
Fauré, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Sonata for cello & piano No. 2 (Op.117) in G minor
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
6:04 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Suite No.1 in C major (BWV.1066)
Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b062jsth)
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 (b062jzjq)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Jonathan Freedland
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... wind instruments'. From the rude sound of the rackett and crumhorn to the acrobatic bassett horn and the sweet tones of a pair of recorders, Sarah showcases several species of early woodwind. Featuring music by Susato, Pleyel, Bach, Rhaw and Mendelssohn.
9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.
10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland. Jonathan started out as a reporter for The Washington Post, and for BBC Radio 4's 'Today' and 'Newsbeat' on BBC Radio 1. He's currently the executive editor of The Guardian's opinion section and writes a weekly column for the paper, as well as for The Jewish Chronicle and The New York Times. Besides his memoir 'Jacob's Gift', he has also penned a best-selling series of thrillers using the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and presents Radio 4's history series 'The Long View'. Jonathan will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah every day at
10am.
10.30am
During the BBC Proms 2015 Sarah and Rob present Vintage Proms 1915, looking at the Proms season from a century ago and playing music that reflects a time when concert programmes were quite different from those of today. This week Sarah features music ranging from the Japanese National Anthem to Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite, and a first performance by Debussy.
11am
This week Sarah features recordings by one of the leading pianists of his generation, Leif Ove Andsnes, who brings his complete Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to the Proms this week. Sarah features the Norwegian pianist in concertos by Haydn and Grieg, chamber music by Schumann and solo works by Schubert and Janacek; works which capture the pianist's crisp and poetic playing.
Schumann
Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.63
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Tanja Tetzlaff (cello).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b062jstk)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Poulenc's Poetic Voice
Poulenc's affinity with poetry began with Apollinaire and lead to an artistic association with poet Paul Éluard .
Poulenc could claim many of the leading performers, artists and patrons of the day among his circle of friends. This week Donald Macleod looks at some of the more significant of those friendships and explores how these associations led on to artistic collaborations.
Poulenc always thought of himself as a product of the prevailing artistic climate of Paris. Born in 1899, he grew up in cultured and comfortable surroundings. His father and two uncles ran a company manufacturing high quality industrial chemicals, while his mother was an accomplished amateur musician, who gave the young Poulenc his first piano lessons. However, Poulenc did not follow the orthodox route of musical training by attending either the Paris Conservatoire or the Schola Cantorum. His artistic associations often came about through his social connections.
In today's episode Donald Macleod considers Poulenc's admiration for the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Éluard. Poulenc became close friends with Éluard, regarding him as a "spiritual brother". Over some twenty odd years, Poulenc set over thirty of Éluard's poems to music.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b062jxkf)
Cheltenham Festival 2015
Mahan Esfahani, Carducci Quartet
This week's lunchtime concerts come from the Cheltenham Festival, performed by the former BBC New Generation Artist and baroque keyboard player Mahan Esfahani, and the award winning Carducci Quartet. Today's concert features music by Bach, Martinu, Maconchy and Shostakovich, and was performed in two historic settings - the Tithe Barn at Syde Manor, and the Pittville Pump Room.
JS Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV903
Martinu: Harpsichord Sonata H368
Maconchy: Notebook for Harpsichord
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 6 in G, Op 101
Carducci Quartet: Matthew Denton (violin), Michelle Fleming (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Emma Denton (cello)
Produced by Luke Whitlock.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b062jxkh)
Proms 2015 Repeats
Prom 02: Ten Pieces Prom
Afternoon on 3 - with Verity Sharp
A second chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard perform music from Ten Pieces, the initiative that aims to inspire children to get creative with classical music.
Introduced by Clemency Burton-Hill at the Royal Albert Hall
Holst: Mars (from The Planets)
Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor (first movement)
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Britten: 'Storm' Interlude (from Peter Grimes)
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Anna Meredith: Connect It (BBC Commission; London Premiere)
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Mozart: Horn Concerto No.4 (third Movement)
Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt)
Stravinsky: The Firebird (Suite 1910) (finale)
Barney Harwood (presenter)
Dick and Dom (presenters)
Tim Thorpe (horn)
Ten Pieces Children's Choir
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
Since the Ten Pieces film launched last October, children in schools across the UK have been working on their own creative responses to music by Beethoven, Britten, Mozart, Mussorgsky and others, with the help of BBC ensembles. Some of the results now come to the Royal Albert Hall, where they will be performed alongside extracts from the Ten Pieces that inspired them. This Prom is a musical celebration showcasing digital art, dance and new composition, bringing the first year of the BBC's Ten Pieces project to a triumphant close. Barney Harwood and Dick and Dom join in the fun.
Recorded last Saturday at the Royal Albert Hall.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b062k1r1)
Choral Evening Prayer from Buckfast Abbey
Choral Evening Prayer for the Feast of St Mary Magdalene live from Buckfast Abbey, Devon, sung by the Exon Singers
Introit: When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house (Tallis)
Responses: Plainsong
Office Hymn: Sing we all the joys and sorrows (Plainsong)
Psalms 30, 32, 63 (Plainsong, Purcell)
First Lesson: Zephaniah 3 vv14-20
Canticle: God be merciful unto us (James Burton)
Second Lesson: John 20 vv11-18
Homily: The Rt Revd Dom David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast
Magnificat (James Burton) - first performance
Lord's Prayer (Léon Charles) - first performance
Motet: Ave Maria (Palestrina)
Final Hymn: Mary, weep not, weep no longer (Tantum ergo)
Organ Voluntary: Scherzo (Duruflé)
Jeffrey Makinson (Organist)
Richard Wilberforce (Director of Music).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b062jxz4)
Leif Ove Andsnes, Iestyn Morris, Marie Arnet
As he prepares to embark on a complete Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle with Mahler Chamber Orchestra at this year's BBC Proms, Leif Ove Andsnes plays live in the studio. Plus we catch up with countertenor Iestyn Morris and soprano Marie Arnet - Peter Pan and Wendy in Welsh National Opera's new production of Peter Pan being performed at the Royal Opera House in London, with music by Richard Ayres and librettist Lavinia Greenlaw.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
WED 18:00 Composer of the Week (b062jstk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:00 BBC Proms (b062k1r3)
Prom 07
Prom 07 (part 1): Delius, Nielsen, Hugh Wood and Ravel
Mark Simpson, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis live at the BBC Proms in music by Delius, Nielsen, Hugh Wood and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe suite No 2
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Penny Gore
Delius: In a Summer Garden
Hugh Wood: Epithalamion (BBC commission) (World premiere)
7.45 pm Interval
8.05 pm
Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto, Op 57
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No. 2
Mark Simpson, clarinet
Rebecca Bottone, soprano
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Afternoon heat breeds musical languor in a Prom that drifts from Delius's summer garden to the classical landscapes of Ravel's lovers Daphnis and Chloe. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mark Simpson is the soloist in anniversary composer Nielsen's intimate, playful Clarinet Concerto. Hugh Wood's Epithalamion is a new cantata, featuring soprano Rebecca Bottone, that delights in John Donne's sensuous and jubilant verse.
[This Prom will be repeated on Friday 24th July at
2pm].
WED 19:45 BBC Proms (b062wkks)
Proms Interval
The Landscapes of Charles Jencks
The Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, with its two substantial buildings, is set in extensive grounds. As you approach Modern One, a surprising vista awaits. The lawn to the front opens onto a sweeping, serpentine mound, with curving terraces shaped from the grass. These terraces are reflected in three crescent-shaped pools of water. You pause, compelled to gaze at this dramatic work, drawn to its strange beauty and serenity.
It was designed in 2002 by architect and writer Charles Jencks who at the age of 50, with his wife Maggie Keswick, started to design what he called 'landforms', landscapes that are themselves a work of art, a mixture of 'landscape plus architecture plus urbanism'. It was Maggie who, after being diagnosed with cancer, started the Maggie's Centres, where Jencks has played a guiding role. Since her death, he has spent the last twenty years designing and creating extraordinary landscapes across Scotland - with one in China.
In this Interval, recorded on the summer solstice, writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson travels to Dumfries on the west coast of Scotland to meet Charles Jencks as he guides her through his latest creation, the Crawick Multiverse.
Jencks creates contemporary settings with the organic grandeur found in Neolithic temples and stone circles and Crawick he describes as "a landscape worthy of the ancients". His landforms explore how we as humans are connected to this, physically and spiritually. He discusses the philosophy behind these very distinctive works, detailing his fascination with the patterns displayed in nature.
Producer: Caitlin Smith
Photo credited to David Cheskin.
WED 20:05 BBC Proms (b062xgs1)
Prom 07
Prom 07 (part 2): Delius, Nielsen, Hugh Wood and Ravel
Mark Simpson, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis live at the BBC Proms in music by Delius, Nielsen, Hugh Wood and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe suite No 2
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Penny Gore
Delius: In a Summer Garden
Hugh Wood: Epithalamion (BBC commission) (World premiere)
7.45 pm Interval
8.05 pm
Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto, Op 57
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No. 2
Mark Simpson, clarinet
Rebecca Bottone, soprano
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Afternoon heat breeds musical languor in a Prom that drifts from Delius's summer garden to the classical landscapes of Ravel's lovers Daphnis and Chloe. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mark Simpson is the soloist in anniversary composer Nielsen's intimate, playful Clarinet Concerto. Hugh Wood's Epithalamion is a new cantata, featuring soprano Rebecca Bottone, that delights in John Donne's sensuous and jubilant verse.
[This Prom will be repeated on Friday 24th July at
2pm].
WED 21:15 BBC Proms (b062k1r5)
Proms Composer Portraits
Hugh Wood
Hugh Wood, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, discusses the world premiere of Epithalamion and introduces performances of his chamber works played by students of the Royal Academy of Music. The first of this year's Proms Composer Portraits recorded earlier today at the Royal College of Music.
WED 22:15 BBC Proms (b062k1r9)
2015
Prom 08: Late Night With...BBC Asian Network
Live from the BBC Proms, the BBC Philharmonic is joined by Benny Dayal, Palak Muchhal, Naughty Boy and Bobby Friction.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Benny Dayal, vocalist
Palak Muchhal, vocalist
Kanika Kapoor, vocalist
Arrow Benjamin, vocalist
Emeli Sandé, vocalist
Naughty Boy, live producer
Bobby Friction, presenter
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Davis, conductor
Indian singers Benny Dayal and Palak Muchhal, together with British Asian DJ, songwriter and producer Naughty Boy, headline a Prom by the BBC Philharmonic in association with BBC Asian Network and as part of the 50th anniversary this year of Asian programmes on the BBC. The event launches a new series of Proms curated in collaboration with six BBC national radio stations - including 6 Music, Radio 1 and Radio 2 - and BBC Music. Bobby Friction presents the very best of South Asian music, from Bollywood to contemporary sounds.
THURSDAY 23 JULY 2015
THU 00:00 Late Junction (b062wrzt)
Latitude Festival 2015 - Polar Bear
Max Reinhardt with a set from experimental quintet Polar Bear, recorded at Late Junction Lavish Lounge stage at last weekend's Latitude Festival in Suffolk.
BBC Radio 3's eclectic late night music programme Late Junction returns to the Latitude Festival for the fifth time to curate a stage in the festival's 10th edition at Henham Park, bringing eight captivating contemporary acts to the Lavish Lounge stage in a new location in the woods. With a wide cross-section of contemporary artists, influences range from 1970s horror films, ping pong balls and the Mojave Desert, to contemporary Nordic jazz, traditional West African musical storytelling and groove-based psychedelic rock.
The hand-picked line-up will bring a wide range of diverse and cross-genre artists spanning jazz, contemporary and folk music to Latitude and Radio 3 listeners, including the intriguing sounds of multi-instrumentalist Marcus Hamblett, experimental quintet Polar Bear, the beautiful tones of Jesca Hoop and the Japanese performance artist, instrument builder and musician ICHI who creates sounds from every-day objects including tape loops and ping pong balls.
The stage is hosted by Radio 3 presenters Max Reinhardt and Nick Luscombe. Highlights recorded at the event on 17th, 18th and 19th July will be featured in Late Junction throughout this week.
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b062jrlr)
2014 International Chopin Piano Festival in Poland
Catriona Young presents a piano recital given by Claire Huangci, including Chopins's 24 Preludes Op.28, as part of the 2014 International Chopin Piano Festival in Poland.
12:31 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
24 Preludes Op.28
Claire Huangci (piano)
1:05 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
3 keyboard sonatas (1. Sonata in D major Kk.443; 2. Sonata in A major Kk.208; 3. Sonata in D major Kk.29)
Claire Huangci (piano)
1:16 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
25 Variations and fugue on a theme by G F Handel Op.24
Claire Huangci (piano)
1:41 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Nocturne no.20 in C sharp minor Op.posth
Claire Huangci (piano)
1:45 AM
Tiersen, Yann (b.1970)
Comptine d'un autre été, from the film 'Amélie'
Claire Huangci (piano)
1:47 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Aria, from Goldberg Variations BWV.988
Claire Huangci (piano)
1:50 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.41 in C major (K.551) 'Jupiter'
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
2:31 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
String Quartet in C Major (Op.42)
Bernt Lysell (violin), Per Sandklef (violin), Thomas Sundkvist (viola), Mats Rondin (cello)
3:02 AM
Vieuxtemps, Henri (1820-1881)
Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor (Op.46)
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
3:31 AM
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594)
Christus resurgens ex mortuis - motet for 5 voices (1582e)
The King's Singers
3:33 AM
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594)
Motet: Praeter rerum seriem (Josquin Desprez)
The King's Singers
3:38 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings, No.4 in E minor
Concerto Köln
3:48 AM
Paganini, Nicolò (1782-1840)
Sonata for violin and guitar No.3 in C major from Centone di sonate (Op.64)
Andrea Sestakova (violin), Alois Mensik (guitar)
3:53 AM
Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) [1843-1907]
Norwegian Dance No.1 (Op.35) for piano duet
Leif Ove Andsnes & Håvard Gimse (piano)
4:00 AM
Tobias, Rudolf (1873-1918)
Vivit (motet)
Eesti Projekt Chamber Choir
4:05 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sarabande, Gigue & Badinerie
Ion Voicu (violin) (1925-1997), Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, Madalin Voicu (conductor)
4:12 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Fantasia in G major for organ (BWV.572)
Theo Teunissen (organ of Jacobikerk, Utrecht. Built by Gerrit Petersz in 1509)
4:22 AM
Krajci, Mirko [b. 1968]
Four Dances from the ballet 'Don Juan'
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Mirko Krajci (conductor)
4:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Music to a Scene
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:37 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957), arr. Taubmann, Otto
Canzonetta, rondo of the lovers - from 'Kuolema' ('Death', incidental music)
Arto Noras (cello), Tapani Valsta (piano)
4:40 AM
Juon, Paul (1872-1940)
Fairy Tale in A minor for cello and piano (Op.8)
Esther Nyffenegger (cello), Desmond Wright (piano)
4:46 AM
Kilpinen, Yrjo (1892-1959)
Spielmannslieder (Op.77)
Sauli Tiilikainen (baritone), Pentii Kotiranta (piano)
5:00 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1751)
Concerto a 5 for 2 oboes and strings (Op.9 No.9) in C major
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director)
5:11 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
String Quartet No.2 in C major (D.32)
Orlando Quartet
5:31 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
4 songs
Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano)
5:43 AM
Smit, Leo (1900-1943)
Concertino for cello and orchestra (1937)
Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ed Spanjaard (conductor)
5:54 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for violin and fortepiano in E flat (Op.12 No.3)
Hiro Kurosaki (violin), Linda Nicholson (fortepiano)
6:13 AM
Walters, Gareth (b. 1928)
Divertimento for Strings (1960 - BBC Commision)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b062jstm)
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 (b062jzjx)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Jonathan Freedland
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... wind instruments'. From the rude sound of the rackett and crumhorn to the acrobatic bassett horn and the sweet tones of a pair of recorders, Sarah showcases several species of early woodwind. Featuring music by Susato, Pleyel, Bach, Rhaw and Mendelssohn.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland. Jonathan started out as a reporter for The Washington Post, and for BBC Radio 4's 'Today' and 'Newsbeat' on BBC Radio 1. He's currently the executive editor of The Guardian's opinion section and writes a weekly column for the paper, as well as for The Jewish Chronicle and The New York Times. Besides his memoir 'Jacob's Gift', he has also penned a best-selling series of thrillers using the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and presents Radio 4's history series 'The Long View'. Jonathan will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah every day at
10am.
10.30am
During the BBC Proms 2015 Sarah and Rob present Vintage Proms 1915, looking at the Proms season from a century ago and playing music that reflects a time when concert programmes were quite different from those of today. This week Sarah features music ranging from the Japanese National Anthem to Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite, and a first performance by Debussy.
11am
This week Sarah features recordings by one of the leading pianists of his generation, Leif Ove Andsnes, who brings his complete Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to the Proms this week. Sarah features the Norwegian pianist in concertos by Haydn and Grieg, chamber music by Schumann and solo works by Schubert and Janacek; works which capture the pianist's crisp and poetic playing.
Janacek
On an Overgrown Path: Series 1
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b062jstp)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
A Performing Duo
Poulenc's most famous performing partnership with baritone Pierre Bernac, an acclaimed interpreter of his music.
Poulenc could claim many of the leading performers, artists and patrons of the day among his circle of friends. This week Donald Macleod looks at some of the more significant of those friendships and explores how these associations led to artistic collaborations, starting with one of the earliest, with pianist Ricardo Viñes, followed by harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, poet Paul Éluard and singers baritone Pierre Bernac and soprano Denise Duval.
Poulenc always thought of himself as a product of the prevailing artistic climate of Paris. Born in 1899, he grew up in cultured and comfortable surroundings. His father and two uncles ran a company manufacturing high quality industrial chemicals, while his mother was an accomplished amateur musician, who gave the young Poulenc his first piano lessons. However, Poulenc did not follow the orthodox route of musical training by attending either the Paris Conservatoire or the Schola Cantorum. His artistic associations often came about through his social connections.
Today Donald Macleod looks at Poulenc's longest running performing partnership, with the French baritone Pierre Bernac. Their professional association lasted for twenty-five years, until Bernac's retirement. Bernac became a respected authority on interpreting Poulenc's songs and Poulenc both trusted and relied on Bernac's judgement.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b062jxkk)
Cheltenham Festival 2015
Marc-Andre Hamelin, Carducci Quartet
This week's lunchtime concerts come from the Cheltenham Festival, performed by the Canadian virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin, and the award winning Carducci Quartet. Today's concert features music by Schubert and Shostakovich, performed in two historic settings - the Tithe Barn at Syde Manor and the Pittville Pump Room.
Schubert: Four Impromptus D935
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 7 in F sharp minor, Op 108
Carducci Quartet: Matthew Denton (violin), Michelle Fleming (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Emma Denton (cello)
Produced by Luke Whitlock.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b062jxkm)
Proms 2015 Repeats
Prom 06: Poulenc, Stravinsky, Haydn and Mozart
Afternoon on 3 - with Verity Sharp.
Another chance to hear organist James O'Donnell, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Thomas Søndergård at the BBC Proms in music by Stravinsky, Haydn and Mozart, and Poulenc's Organ Concerto.
Presented at the Royal Albert Hall by Petroc Trelawny.
Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Haydn: Te Deum in C major, Hob. XXIII
Mozart: Symphony No.41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter'
James O'Donnell (organ)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård (conductor)
The Royal Albert Hall's great organ is showcased in a series of Proms this year, starting with Poulenc's Baroque-inspired Organ Concerto - all Gothic flourishes and grand gestures. Also gazing back to the Baroque, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms is a devout musical gesture, reimagining religious rituals on a symphonic scale. The second half pairs two Classical masterpieces: Haydn's cheery Te Deum and Mozart's enduringly popular 'Jupiter' Symphony.
Followed by great recordings from some of this week's Proms Artists.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b062jxz6)
Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr, Leon McCawley, Susanna Malkki
Recently appointed Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki visits the studio to discuss her upcoming BBC Proms appearance at the helm of the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing works by Holst, Boulez and Luca Francesconi.
There's also live music from pianist Leon McCawley as he prepares for a concert of Haydn, Chopin, Beethoven, Schumann and Rachmaninov at the Oxford Philomusica Piano Festival, and folk duo Andy Cutting & Nancy Kerr perform cuts from their new album 'Murmurs'.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b062jstp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (b062k67m)
Prom 09
Prom 09 (part 1): Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra live at the BBC Proms embark on the Beethoven piano concerto cycle, and Stravinsky's classically inspired ballet Apollon musagète
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C major
Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
8.40 Interval
9.00
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G major
Mahler Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes piano/director
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes embarks on his Proms cycle of Beethoven piano concertos, directing the dynamic Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Each concert features a work by Stravinsky (in this case the composer's classically inspired ballet Apollon musagète ('Apollo, Leader of the Muses') - music, the impresario Diaghilev claimed, 'not of this world, but of somewhere above.'
[This Prom will be repeated on Sunday 26th July at
4pm].
THU 20:40 BBC Proms (b062k67p)
Proms Extra
Beethoven and the Piano
As Leif Ove Andsnes performs Beethoven's complete works for piano and orchestra at the BBC Proms, Tom Service explores Beethoven's writing for the piano, from his solo works to the influence of Mozart on his concertos. With Misha Donat and David Owen Norris.
Recorded earlier at the Royal College of Music.
THU 21:00 BBC Proms (b062k67r)
Prom 09
Prom 09 (part 2): Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra live at the BBC Proms embark on the Beethoven piano concerto cycle, and Stravinsky's classically inspired ballet Apollon musagète
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C major
Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
8.40 Interval
9.00
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G major
Mahler Chamber Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes piano/director
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes embarks on his Proms cycle of Beethoven piano concertos, directing the dynamic Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Each concert features a work by Stravinsky (in this case the composer's classically inspired ballet Apollon musagète ('Apollo, Leader of the Muses') - music, the impresario Diaghilev claimed, 'not of this world, but of somewhere above.'
[This Prom will be repeated on Sunday 26th July at
4pm].
THU 22:00 Sunday Feature (b04xrq3w)
Zola in Norwood
In July 1898, one of France's most famous novelists Emile Zola was sentenced to a 3000 francs fine and a year's imprisonment for libelling the military court in his famous public letter 'J'Accuse', written in defence of Alfred Dreyfus. Rather than serve the sentence, this international star fled to the unlikely refuge of suburban south London. There he stayed in hotels and lodgings being minded by his long-suffering translator, Ernest Vizetelly. Michael Rosen explores the political, literary, and personal tensions and overlaps in Zola's life during his eleven month exile.
At the outset Zola and his friends were very concerned that he could be extradited but even when it became clear that he wouldn't be, he kept a low profile - unlike the time he came to London five years earlier when he was feted by thousands. During his stay, he wrote a novel ('Fécondité' - 'Fruitfulness'), a ghost story, many letters and a memoir, between going on regular cycling trips and taking hundreds of photos of the new suburbs in Surrey and Crystal Palace. He observed the English and lamented his isolation. Thanks to his wife Alexandrine's self-sacrifice, first his lover Jeanne and their children came to see him, followed by Alexandrine later.
Michael Rosen follows in Zola's footsteps from the Gare du Nord, Paris to London, Victoria and to Zola's places of stay. He discovers contrasting views of Zola in the Press and examines Zola's literary trajectory at the end of his life. Anton Lesser and Harriet Walter are the voices of Emile and Alexandrine Zola.
Many of the photographs taken by Emile Zola when he was in England and on view in our online gallery, can be seen in 'Emile Zola: Photographer in Norwood South London 1898-1899', published by The Norwood Society.
The music used in the programme is ‘Rambouillet: Nuptial’ taken from Promenades (1893) by Albéric Magnard and played by Stephanie McCallum.
Producer: Emma-Louise Williams.
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b042bqd1)
Dylan Thomas Centenary
Dylan Over the Pond
Five leading writers and artists reflect on the ways in which they connect with one of Wales's most famous cultural exports, Dylan Thomas.
Linking up from New York, writer, poet and activist Kevin Powell looks at Dylan Thomas's far-reaching influence on Black American writers, from his own introduction to Thomas's words in the new poetry and spoken-word scene happening in New York in the early 90s, to the new wave of Black American artists inspired through hip-hop, spoken word and America's oral tradition.
Recorded in front of an audience at the Laugharne Live Festival.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b062k687)
Thursday - 2015 Latitude Festival
Max Reinhardt with highlights from Late Junction's stage at last week's Latitude Festival.
FRIDAY 24 JULY 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b062jrlw)
Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov in Schumann and Brahms
Catriona Young introduces a recital from Danish Radio, featuring the violinist Isabelle Faust with pianist Alexander Melnikov, playing music by Brahms and Schumann.
12:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No.2 in A major, Op.100 (Thunder)
Isabelle Faust (Violin), Alexander Melnikov (Piano)
12:50 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
3 Romances Op.94 for violin and piano
Isabelle Faust (Violin), Alexander Melnikov (Piano)
1:03 AM
Dietrich, Albert (1829-1908); Schumann, Robert (1810-1856); Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata (F.A.E.)
Isabelle Faust (Violin), Alexander Melnikov (Piano)
1:30 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No.1 in G major, Op.78 (Rain)
Isabelle Faust (Violin), Alexander Melnikov (Piano)
1:58 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Overture to Genoveva Op.81
Orchestre Nationale de France, Heinz Wallberg (Conductor)
2:08 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Gestillte Sehnsucht for alto, viola and piano (Op 91 no.1)
Marianne Beate Kielland (Mezzo Soprano), Morten Carlsen (Viola), Sergej Osadchuk (Piano)
2:15 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Songs for women's voices, 2 horns and harp (Op.17)
Danish National Radio Choir (Choir), Leif Lind (Horn), Per McClelland Jacobsen (Horn), Catriona Yeats (Harp), Stefan Parkman (Conductor)
2:31 AM
Taneyev, Sergey Ivanovich (1856-1915)
Symphony No.4 in C minor (Op.12)
Marinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (Conductor)
3:12 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Violin Sonata No.1 in F major (Op. 8)
Vilde Frang Bjaerke (Violin), Jens Elvekjaer (Piano)
3:33 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in D minor for strings and basso continuo (RV.128)
Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez Banzo (Conductor)
3:39 AM
Praetorius, Michael (c.1571-1621)
Renaissance Concerto for brass ensemble
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
3:44 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
2 graduals for chorus: Locus iste & Christus factus est
Danish National Radio Choir (Choir), Jesper Grove Jorgensen (Conductor)
3:52 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98 for orchestra
Hungarian State Orchestra, Janos Ferencsik (Conductor)
4:04 AM
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Rondeau (Op.28 no.4)
Henry-David Varema (Cello), Heiki Matlik (Guitar)
4:08 AM
Praetorius, Jacobus (1586-1651)
Praeambulum in F major
Geert Bierling (Small organ in the Grote or Sint Andreaskerk, Hattem)
4:10 AM
Cernohorsky, Bohuslav Matej (1684-1742)
Fuga in D minor
Marcel Verheggen (Organ)
4:13 AM
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1789)
Concerto Grosso in B flat major (Op.3 no.1)
Elar Kuiv (Violin), Olev Ainomae (Oboe), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Magi (Conductor)
4:23 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Sonatina No.3 for piano (Op.67 no.3) in B flat minor
Eero Heinonen (Piano)
4:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture from Tafelmusik
Crispian Steele-Perkins (Trumpet), Frank de Bruine (Oboe), The King's Consort, Robert King (Director)
4:38 AM
Carreño, Teresa (1853-1917)
Valse Petite in D major
Dennis Hennig (Piano)
4:42 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Introduction to Act III & Dances of the Highlanders from Halka (original vers.)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (Conductor)
4:49 AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
Extase - for voice and piano
Catherine Robbin (Mezzo Soprano), Stephen Ralls (Piano)
4:53 AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
Elegie - for voice and piano (1874) (after Thomas Moore's 'O! Breathe not his name', on the death of the Irish patriot Robert Emmet)
Catherine Robbin (Mezzo Soprano), Stephen Ralls (Piano)
4:56 AM
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643),Uccellini, Marco (c.1603-1680)
2 madrigals by Monteverdi and a Sonata by Uccellini
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (Director)
5:08 AM
Cassado, Gaspar (1897-1966)
Requiebros
Il-Hwan Bai (Cello), Dai-Hyun Kim (Piano)
5:14 AM
Suchon, Eugen (1908-1993)
Elegy and Toccata for piano, strings and percussion
Klara Havlikova (Piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Ondrej Lenard (Conductor)
5:23 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Carnaval romain - overture (Op.9)
Orchestra di Roma della RAI, Leonard Bernstein (Conductor)
5:31 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
Bartok String Quartet
6:00 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Missa sine nomine
Silvia Piccollo (Soprano), Annemieke Cantor (Alto), Marco Beasley (Tenor), Daniele Carnovich (Bass), Diego Fasolis (Conductor)
6:15 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K417
James Sommerville (Horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b062jstr)
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 (b062jzk1)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Jonathan Freedland
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... wind instruments'. From the rude sound of the rackett and crumhorn to the acrobatic bassett horn and the sweet tones of a pair of recorders, Sarah showcases several species of early woodwind. Featuring music by Susato, Pleyel, Bach, Rhaw and Mendelssohn.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music have been altered. Can you identify them?
10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland. Jonathan started out as a reporter for The Washington Post, and for BBC Radio 4's 'Today' and 'Newsbeat' on BBC Radio 1. He's currently the executive editor of The Guardian's opinion section and writes a weekly column for the paper, as well as for The Jewish Chronicle and The New York Times. Besides his memoir 'Jacob's Gift', he has also penned a best-selling series of thrillers using the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and presents Radio 4's history series 'The Long View'. Jonathan will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah every day at
10am.
10.30am
During the BBC Proms 2015 Sarah and Rob present Vintage Proms 1915, looking at the Proms season from a century ago and playing music that reflects a time when concert programmes were quite different from those of today. This week Sarah features music ranging from the Japanese National Anthem to Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite, and a first performance by Debussy.
11am
This week Sarah features recordings by one of the leading pianists of his generation, Leif Ove Andsnes, who brings his complete Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to the Proms this week. Sarah features the Norwegian pianist in concertos by Haydn and Grieg, chamber music by Schumann and solo works by Schubert and Janacek; works which capture the pianist's crisp and poetic playing.
Haydn
Piano Concerto No.11 in F major, Hob XVIII:11
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano/director)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b062jstt)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Poulenc's Soprano
Poulenc's performing partnership with soprano Denise Duval, for whom he created the role of Blanche in Les dialogues des Carmélites.
Poulenc could claim many of the leading performers, artists and patrons of the day among his circle of friends. This week Donald Macleod looks at some of the more significant of those friendships and explores how these associations led to artistic collaborations, starting with one of the earliest, with pianist Ricardo Viñes, followed by harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, poet Paul Éluard and singers baritone Pierre Bernac and soprano Denise Duval.
Poulenc always thought of himself as a product of the prevailing artistic climate of Paris. Born in 1899, he grew up in cultured and comfortable surroundings. His father and two uncles ran a company manufacturing high quality industrial chemicals, while his mother was an accomplished amateur musician, who gave the young Poulenc his first piano lessons. However, Poulenc did not follow the orthodox route of musical training by attending either the Paris Conservatoire or the Schola Cantorum. His artistic associations often came about through his social connections.
In the final part of his survey Donald Macleod looks at the artistic collaboration Poulenc enjoyed with the soprano Denise Duval. As well as touring with Poulenc giving recitals, Duval created the solo roles in La voix humaine and La dame de Monte-Carlo and it was for Duval's voice that Poulenc made the role of Blanche de la Force in Les dialogues des Carmélites.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b062jxkt)
Cheltenham Festival 2015
Mahan Esfahani, Carducci Quartet
This week's lunchtime concerts come from the Cheltenham Festival, performed by the former BBC New Generation Artist and baroque keyboard player Mahan Esfahani, the award winning Carducci Quartet, along with the pianist Marc-André Hamelin. Today's concert features music by Couperin, WF Bach, Hamelin and Shostakovich, and was performed in two historic settings - the Tithe Barn at Syde Manor, and the Pittville Pump Room.
Couperin: 3 Pieces in G minor
WF Bach: Sonata in E flat
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Hamelin: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (UK premiere)
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110
Carducci Quartet: Matthew Denton (violin), Michelle Fleming (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), Emma Denton (cello)
Produced by Luke Whitlock.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b062jxkw)
Proms 2015 Repeats
Prom 07: Delius, Nielsen, Hugh Wood and Ravel
Afternoon on 3 - with Verity Sharp.
Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor laureate Sir Andrew Davis at this year's BBC Proms.
Presented at the Royal Albert Hall by Penny Gore.
Delius: In a Summer Garden
Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto Concerto for Clarinet, Op 57
Hugh Wood: Epithalamion (BBC commission) (World premiere)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No.2
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis conductor
Afternoon heat breeds musical languor in a Prom that drifts from Delius's summer garden to the classical landscapes of Ravel's lovers Daphnis and Chloe. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mark Simpson is the soloist in anniversary composer Nielsen's intimate, playful Clarinet Concerto. Hugh Wood's Epithalamion is a new cantata that delights in John Donne's sensuous and jubilant verse.
Recorded last Wednesday at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Followed by great recordings from some of this week's Proms Artists.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b062jxz8)
Voces8, Quatuor Voce, Leila Josefowicz
Live music from a cappella vocal group VOCES8 as they look ahead to their new album featuring the music of Benedetto Marcello, and hosting their Milton Abbey International Music Festival and Summer School in Dorset. Prizewinning French ensemble and 2013/14 ECHO Rising Stars, Quatuor Voce perform live in the studio with music by Schubert and Beethoven ahead of their concert at Wigmore Hall, plus Sean talks to violinist Leila Josefowicz as she prepares for her Proms appearance, performing a new violin concerto written specially for her by Luca Francesconi.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b062jstt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (b062k6h6)
Prom 10
Prom 10 (part 1): Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra live at the BBC Proms continue the Beethoven piano concerto cycle, alongside music by Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat major 'Dumbarton Oaks'
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor
8.30pm Interval
8.50
Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, Op 13 (a cappella version)
Beethoven: Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra, 'Choral Fantasy' Op 80
BBC Singers
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes piano/director
David Hill, conductor
In his Third Piano Concerto Beethoven opened up a new dramatic and physical scope, pushing the instrument to new expressive lengths. The same maverick energy pulses through the 'Choral Fantasy', anticipating the Ninth Symphony in its unexpected resort to words in its finale. In Schoenberg's tour de force Friede auf Erden ('Peace on Earth') the composer takes tonality to its limits. Stravinsky's 'Dumbarton Oaks' Concerto is a delightful neo-Classical romp, an elegant homage to the 18th century.
[This Prom will be repeated on Monday 27th July at
2pm].
FRI 20:30 BBC Proms (b062k6h8)
Proms Extra
German Romantic Poetry
Professor Karen Leeder and Professor Robert Vilain explore the great German Romantic poetry which inspired Beethoven throughout his life from Schiller's Ode to Joy to Goethe's Egmont and Treitschke's Fidelio.
Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music.
FRI 20:50 BBC Proms (b062k6hb)
Prom 10
Prom 10 (part 2): Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra live at the BBC Proms continue the Beethoven piano concerto cycle, alongside music by Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat major 'Dumbarton Oaks'
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor
8.30pm Interval
8.50
Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, Op 13 (a cappella version)
Beethoven: Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra, 'Choral Fantasy' Op 80
BBC Singers
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes piano/director
David Hill, conductor
In his Third Piano Concerto Beethoven opened up a new dramatic and physical scope, pushing the instrument to new expressive lengths. The same maverick energy pulses through the 'Choral Fantasy', anticipating the Ninth Symphony in its unexpected resort to words in its finale. In Schoenberg's tour de force Friede auf Erden ('Peace on Earth') the composer takes tonality to its limits. Stravinsky's 'Dumbarton Oaks' Concerto is a delightful neo-Classical romp, an elegant homage to the 18th century.
[This Prom will be repeated on Monday 27th July at
2pm].
FRI 22:00 Sunday Feature (b04wmhbc)
Thom Gunn: Appropriate Measures
Author Colm Tóibín profiles the Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn (1929-2004), self-professed lover of "loud music, bars and boisterous men", whose tightly-wrought poetry imposed control and order upon his hedonistic lifestyle.
It's just over a decade since Thom Gunn died aged 74 at his San Francisco home, after a heroin-fuelled tryst with a man who disappeared into the night. He left behind the love of his life, Mike Kitay, his partner for more than half a century - and a legion of admirers who adored the thrilling tension in his work between its wild, often explicit subject matter, and Elizabethan verse forms of Gunn's literary heroes, Donne and Shakespeare.
Thom Gunn rose to prominence aged only 25, when his first volume "Fighting Terms" was published, just a year after he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. Its purity of language and use of traditional metrics led Gunn to be bracketed with Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and others as "the Movement" - a loose group of poets whose cool, spare verses set them in opposition to the overblown imagery and linguistic excess of 1940s poetry, particularly Dylan Thomas.
Yet a move to the USA that same year would change Gunn's life forever. Following his American lover, Mike Kitay, across the Atlantic, he found himself beguiled by the Harley Davidsons, leather jackets and rock and roll of his adopted homeland - and later, the LSD, free love and gay bathhouses of 1960s San Francisco - all of which he chronicled vividly in his poetry.
His British critics were appalled: for them, Gunn had sadly 'gone bad', squandering his dazzling intellect in debauched experience and worse of all - experiments in free verse. But in the USA it was a different story, as Gunn chronicled LSD trips, sexual adventures and street vagrants in a poetic voice reminiscent of Thomas Wyatt or Ben Jonson.
Gunn would finally receive universal acclaim with his 1992 volume "The Man With Night Sweats" - a profound meditation on the effect of AIDS on the people and community that he loved, and his own feelings on remaining HIV-negative. It is, perhaps, the greatest volume of poetry on what San Franciscans called "The Plague" in English. Yet Gunn was increasingly struggling to write - and as his poetic inspiration dried up, he began to engage in increasingly risky behaviour, endangering his life as he sought out new adventures of experience.
Irish writer and poet Colm Tóibín grew up furtively reading Gunn in a society where his own homosexuality was officially proscribed. He guides us through the themes of control and experience in Gunn's work, and explores the single most shattering event in Gunn's life - one which, Tóibín argues, precipitated the outpouring of his mature poetry and construction of his poetic identity: the suicide of Thom Gunn's mother, when he was only 15.
With contributions from Mike Kitay, Bob Bair, August Kleinzahler, Clive Wilmer, Wendy Lesser, Joshua Weiner, Tom Sleigh, Anne Winters, Jim Powell and Don Baird. The feature includes sexual issues and discusses drug-taking.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b042bqd3)
Dylan Thomas Centenary
Dylan's Bardic Heritage
Recorded at the Laugharne Live Festival 2014, in the grounds of Laugharne Castle, West Wales.
Five leading writers and artists reflect on the ways in which they connect with one of Wales's most famous cultural exports, Dylan Thomas.
Poet and musician Twm Morys explores the links between Wales's poetic heritage and Dylan Thomas's writing. Drawing on memories of living in Thomas's hometown of Swansea, he considers whether Thomas's writing is universally acknowledged to represent the cultural landscape that nurtured its creation.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b062k6qk)
WOMAD Live 2015
Souad Massi live plus highlights from the Mahotella Queens
Mary Ann Kennedy and Lopa Kothari introduce the first of a weekend of broadcasts from the globe's leading festival of world music, live from the festival site in Charlton Park in Wiltshire. Algerian star singer-songwriter Souad Massi is live from the Siam Tent, and the Cambodian Space Project present their 60s Khmer pop revival live on the BBC Radio 3 Charlie Gillett Stage. There are highlights from veteran South African divas the Mahotella Queens, family band Kapela Maliszow from Poland, and BBC Introducing discovery Nazim Ziryab. Plus interviews and visits to the Radio 3 Session Tent, starting off more than eight hours of live broadcasting across the WOMAD weekend.
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
16:00 SUN (b062hpf6)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (b062jmcv)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b062jxk9)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b062jxkh)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b062jxkm)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b062jxkw)
BBC Proms
18:30 SAT (b062hkwr)
BBC Proms
19:35 SAT (b063j1j8)
BBC Proms
21:00 SAT (p02xfqpc)
BBC Proms
19:30 SUN (b062hps7)
BBC Proms
19:55 SUN (b062r7pd)
BBC Proms
20:15 SUN (b062r7pg)
BBC Proms
13:00 MON (b062jlwm)
BBC Proms
19:30 MON (b062jmcz)
BBC Proms
19:55 MON (b062jn0r)
BBC Proms
20:15 MON (b062jn0t)
BBC Proms
19:00 TUE (b062jzxk)
BBC Proms
19:50 TUE (b062k077)
BBC Proms
20:10 TUE (b062k079)
BBC Proms
19:00 WED (b062k1r3)
BBC Proms
19:45 WED (b062wkks)
BBC Proms
20:05 WED (b062xgs1)
BBC Proms
21:15 WED (b062k1r5)
BBC Proms
22:15 WED (b062k1r9)
BBC Proms
19:30 THU (b062k67m)
BBC Proms
20:40 THU (b062k67p)
BBC Proms
21:00 THU (b062k67r)
BBC Proms
19:30 FRI (b062k6h6)
BBC Proms
20:30 FRI (b062k6h8)
BBC Proms
20:50 FRI (b062k6hb)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b062hkw7)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b062hpbt)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b062hsdn)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b062jstc)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b062jsth)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b062jstm)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b062jstr)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b062hkw9)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b061gq5q)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b062k1r1)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b062jcng)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b062jcng)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b062jstf)
Composer of the Week
18:00 TUE (b062jstf)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b062jstk)
Composer of the Week
18:00 WED (b062jstk)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b062jstp)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b062jstp)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b062jstt)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b062jstt)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b007g0dq)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b062hsdq)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b062jzjn)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b062jzjq)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b062jzjx)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b062jzk1)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b01rl2hx)
Hear and Now
22:00 SAT (b062hm9r)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b062jmcx)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b062jxz2)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b062jxz4)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b062jxz6)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b062jxz8)
Jazz Line-Up
17:00 SAT (b062hkwp)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SAT (b062hkwm)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b062jp1j)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b062k0w1)
Late Junction
00:00 THU (b062wrzt)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b062k687)
New Generation Artists
12:15 SAT (b062hkwc)
New Generation Artists
23:40 SUN (b062hq92)
New Generation Artists
21:30 TUE (b062k0fh)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b062hpby)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b062hkwf)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b061fqzz)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b062jxk7)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b062jxkf)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b062jxkk)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b062jxkt)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b04fqr4d)
Sunday Feature
22:00 MON (b042bh3f)
Sunday Feature
22:00 TUE (b043p4wn)
Sunday Feature
22:00 THU (b04xrq3w)
Sunday Feature
22:00 FRI (b04wmhbc)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b062hpbw)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b062hpc2)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b042bk3l)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b042bqcx)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b042bqd1)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b042bqd3)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b061gmf1)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b062hpbr)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b062hsdl)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b062jrl7)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b062jrlf)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b062jrlr)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b062jrlw)
Twenty Minutes
19:15 SAT (b01m5lh7)
Words and Music
18:15 SUN (b062hps5)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b062k6qk)