Jonathan Swain presents the Swedish RSO in a programme of Strauss waltzes and polkas conducted by Daniel Harding.
Huldigung der Königin Victoria von Grossbritannien (Homage to Queen Victoria of Great Britain), Op.103
Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (alto), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Kurt Moll (bass), Netherlands Radio Choir, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Introduction, Theme and Variations on Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre (Op. 28)
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Brewaeys, Luc (b.1959)
Three Carols (From lands that see the sun arise; Make we joy; There is no Rose of such Virtue)
Trad. arr. Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet: Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (violin), Frederik Øland (violin), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola), Fredrik Schøyen Sjölln (cello)
Rosamind Illing (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Heribert Esser (conductor)
Nelson Goerner (Erard piano of 1849), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
Back in August, Breakfast listeners were challenged to compose a choral setting of a specially commissioned poem by Roger McGough, "Comes the Light." After a great response from very many talented people, the time has now arrived for the result of the voting on the six shortlisted finalists. The winning entry will be performed live by the BBC Singers.
The six carols were shortlisted by a panel including Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music, and David Hill, Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers.
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season Rob has chosen a singer who was known as the 'Swedish Caruso", Jussi Björling. Rob serves up a feast of songs including works by Verdi, Beethoven, Puccini and Grieg. Along the way he showcases Björling's versatility, his dramatic sensibility and his deep connection with Scandinavia.
Take part in today's music-related challenge and identify the place associated with a work.
Rob's guest is the original Newsround anchor and Countryfile veteran John Craven. John is remembered by generations of children for his afternoon news bulletins and jazzy jumpers, and nowadays brings his unique brand of welly-wearing journalism to an audience of millions as he chronicles modern rural life in Countryfile. John will be sharing some of his favourite classical music, including wintery scenes from Sibelius and Vivaldi, a very merry rendition of O Come all ye Faithful courtesy of the American tenor and Hollywood star Mario Lanza, and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto.
Rob places Music in Time. The spotlight is on the Baroque with John Blow's Chaconne in G in which a repeated bass line gives the opportunity for the creation of colour and variety.
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Rob features recordings of major works by leading Nordic composers. Throughout the week Rob explores music from the frozen North, showcasing composers including Stenhammar, Kraus and Alfven.
Symphony No. 2
Donald Macleod considers the most creative period of Franz Berwald's life, during which he composed the symphonies which are his lasting legacy.
It was only after his death that Franz Berwald acquired his reputation as Sweden's great symphonist. During his lifetime his music was largely dismissed or ignored. To make ends meet he pursued several other careers alongside composition and proved to have a sharp business mind. He made a living as an early physiotherapist, dabbled in publishing and ran a saw-mill and a glass works. Once, when he was asked if he was a composer his reply was "No, I'm a glassblower".
Both the man and his music were often misunderstood. We now appreciate his musical legacy, particularly his symphonies and opera overtures, his tone poems and his music for violin. But relatively little of his music was performed in his own lifetime - and that which was performed was sometimes badly received and reviewed. A reputation for arrogance and reserve probably didn't help either and he was outspoken in his criticism of the Swedish musical establishment. Yet he was also capable of great generosity to friends, students, and even to complete strangers. Donald Macleod tells the story of a composer whose work was too often neglected in his own lifetime but who was eventually hailed in Sweden as "our most original and modern orchestral composer".
By the late 1830s, Franz Berwald had made a name for himself in Berlin - but not as a composer. Soon after he wrote his tone poem Serious and Joyful Fancies he had put aside his music to establish a very successful orthopaedic institute - a treatment at which he proved to be a skilled practitioner. However, by 1841 he was ready to embark on a new lease of life. He married Mathilde Scherer, who at 24 was nearly half Berwald's age, and the couple moved to Vienna where Franz once again took up music. Donald Macleod recounts the most creative period of Berwald's life, the years in which he composed his four symphonies - only one of which he would actually hear in his lifetime.
Symphony Serieuse (No. 1 in G minor) - I. Allegro con energia
Symphony Capricieuse (No. 2) - III. Finale: Allegro assai
New Generation Artists, the members of the Danish String Quartet continue the lunchtime concert series this week from St Andrews in Fife. Recorded live, the quartet perform Nielsen's String Quartet No 2 in F minor, written whilst on sabbatical from his post at the Danish Royal Chapel Orchestra. It's followed by the music Nielsen would have been steeped in as a child - traditional Nordic folk music. Many of these arrangements were made by members of the Danish String Quartet, themselves folk musicians from an early age.
Danish trad. arr. Danish String Quartet: 'Sekstur from Vendsyssel: 'The Topped Hen / The Peat Dance'
Poul Bjerager/Trad. arr Danish String Quartet: 'Easter Sunday/Polsk after Rasmus Storm'
Swedish trad. arr. Danish String Quartet: 'Jasspodspolska'
Johannes Rusten arr. Danish String Quartet: 'O Fredrik, O Fredrik'
Norwegian trad. arr. Danish String Quartet: 'Old Reinlender from Sonndala'
Danish trad. arr. Nikolaj Busk: Sonderho Bridal Trilogy - Part III "Brudestyke"
Penny Gore presents performances from Nordic ensembles for Northern Lights. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven conducted by Herbert Blomstedt and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Nielsen.
An Archive service from St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City in December 2007.
Adrian Scarborough and Sophie Thompson read prose and poetry on the often uneasy relationship between domestic servants and their employers. From St Zita, patron saint of servants, to Mrs Danvers and Jeeves, the put-upon "odd man", the awkwardly placed governess, and the exhausted servants to the Bennets at Longbourn, it's a story of hard work, a battle of wills, and a striving to make sense of status. Music includes Haydn's "Farewell Symphony", written to make a point to his employer, Richard Strauss's affectionate portrayal of knight and servant in Don Quixote, and Johnny Mercer's party with The Waiter and the Porter and the Upstairs Maid.
Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the music making of the BBC New Generation Artists. Today, the German baritone, Benjamin Appl sings an imaginative selection of songs for Christmas and the Danish Quartet tackle one of the peaks of the entire string quartet repertoire. Also today, Esther Yoo plays Max Bruch's most famous violin concerto.
Beethoven: Der Mann von Wort, Op. 99
Beethoven: Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
BBC Proms 2015: the San Francisco Symphony with their Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and pianist Yuja Wang play music by Ives and Bartok and Beethoven's Third Symphony.
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'
Chinese virtuoso Yuja Wang is the soloist in Bartók's Second Piano Concerto - a work the composer intended to pose 'fewer difficulties for the orchestra' and to be 'more pleasing in its thematic material' than his First. Beethoven's emotionally charged 'Eroica' Symphony forms the second half - the ground-breaking symphony that would pave the way for the mighty Romantic works of Mahler and Bruckner. The concert opens with Charles Ives's atmospheric Decoration Day, inspired by his father's marching band.
Grammy Award-winning pianist Sir András Schiff is a titan of the keyboard, bringing his distinctive blend of clarity and authority to repertoire from Bach to Bartók. Tonight he continues his long association with Bach's music in a performance of the composer's 'Goldberg' Variations - a monumental work composed, according to its title-page, 'for the refreshment of the spirits'. The resulting Aria and variations are a compositional wonder, a sequence of musical miniatures unequalled in all Bach's output.
Dr Karl Seigfried explores the Nordic Yule myths and why Norse mythology still speaks to people, a thousand years after the Christian conversion of Scandinavia. Producer: Phil Pegum.
Mara Carlyle presents an alternative festive mix, including Georgian choral music from Gori Women's Choir, a boombox sound sculpture from Phil Kline and Lhasa de Sela singing a Spanish Christmas carol.
THURSDAY 24 DECEMBER 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b06s97gt)
Puer Natus in Bethleem
Jonathan Swain presents a concert entitled 'Puer Natus in Bethleem' with Vox Luminis, from The Temple Church in London.
12:31 AM
Puer Natus in Bethleem - Part 1 - Advent:
Scheidt, Samuel [1587-1654] Das alte Jahr vergangen ist
Bach, Johann Michael [1648-1694] Sei, lieber Tag, wilkommen
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director), Anthony Romaniuk (organ)
12:43 AM
Puer Natus in Bethleem - Part 2 - Annunciation:
Schütz, Heinrich [1585-1672] Deutsches Magnificat
Schein, Johann Hermann [1586-1630] Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
Schütz, Heinrich [1585-1672] O lieber Herre Gott
Bach, Johann Michael [1648-1694] Fürchtet euch nicht
Schein, Johann Hermann [1586-1630] Von Himmel hoch
Praetorius, Michael [c.1571-1621] Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director), Anthony Romaniuk (organ)
1:09 AM
Puer Natus in Bethleem - Part 3 - Nativity:
Scheidt, Samuel [1587-1654] Puer natus in Bethleem
Schütz, Heinrich [1585-1672] Hodie Christus natus est
Scheidt, Samuel [1587-1654] Jauchzet Gott alle Land
Schütz, Heinrich [1585-1672] Ein Kind ist uns geboren
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director), Anthony Romaniuk (organ)
1:30 AM
Puer Natus in Bethleem - Part 4 - Adoration:
Pachelbel, Johann [1653-1706] Singet dem Herrn
Praetorius, Michael [c.1571-1621] Angelus ad pastores ait
Praetorius, Hieronymus [1560-1629] In dulci jubilo
Schein, Johann Hermann [1586-1630] Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ
Scheidt, Samuel [1587-1654] Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein; O Jesulein süss, O Jesulein mild
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director), Anthony Romaniuk (organ)
1:53 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in A minor (Op.42) (D.845)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
2:31 AM
Foulds, John [1880-1939]
Holiday Sketches (Op.16)
Cynthia Fleming (violin), Katharine Wood (cello) BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
2:46 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Children's Corner
Roger Woodward (piano)
3:04 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764) compiled Marc Minkowski
L'Apothéose de la Dance - orchestral suite of dance music by Rameau compiled by Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
3:42 AM
Dupré, Marcel (1886-1971)
Variations on 'Adeste Fideles'
Tong-Soon Kwak (Rieger organ at the Torch Centre for World Missions in Seoul, Korea)
3:51 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Introduction and waltz from 'Eugene Onegin' - lyric scenes in 3 acts (Op.24)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
3:59 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Le carnaval des animaux (for flute, clarinet, glockenspiel, xylophone, 2 pianos, string quartet & double bass)
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (director)
4:23 AM
Tormé, Mel (1925-1999) / Berlin, Irving (1888-1989) / Martin, Hugh (b.19??) arr. Cable, Howard (b.1920)
Christmas Medley - The Christmas Song (Mel Tormé & Robert Wells) / White Christmas (Irving Berlin) / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Hugh Martin & Ralph Blaine)
Louis Quilico & Gino Quilico (baritones), Toronto Children's Chorus, Judy Loman (harp), Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)
4:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 (BWV.1047) in F major
Alexis Kossenko (recorder), Erik Niord Larsen (oboe), Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Elise Båtnes (violin), Risör Festival Strings, Knut Johannessen (harpsichord)
4:43 AM
Adam, Adolphe (1803-1856) arr. Howard Cable
Cantique de Noël
Gino Quilico (baritone), Judy Loman (harp), Toronto Children's Chorus, Members of the Toronto Symphony, Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)
4:47 AM
Reger, Max (1873-1916)
Maria Wiegenlied (Op.76 No.52)
The Toronto Children's Chorus, Judy Loman (harp), Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)
4:49 AM
Yon, Pietro Alessandro (1886-1943)
Gesù Bambino
Louis Quilico (baritone), Toronto Children's Chorus, Judy Loman (harp), Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor)
4:53 AM
Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) (1843-1907)
Andante con moto for piano trio in C minor
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
5:04 AM
Horovitz, Joseph (b. 1926)
Music Hall Suite
The Slovene Brass Quintet
5:14 AM
Strauss (ii), Johann [1825-1899]
An der schonen, blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) - waltz Op.314
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
5:26 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
A Ceremony of Carols (Op.28)
Polyphonia, with soloists Katya Dimanova, Evguenia Tasseva, Penka Kazandzhieva, Ivelina Ivancheva (piano), Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor)
5:50 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata for piano (K.309) in C major
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
6:07 AM
Palmgren, Selim (1878-1951)
Cinderella Suite (1902-3)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b06sfr5r)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Christmas Eve Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny. Petroc presents a musical Christmas feast, including listener requests, and opens the last window in our musical Advent Calendar.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b06sfmcr)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with John Craven
9am
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season Rob has chosen a singer who was known as the 'Swedish Caruso", Jussi Björling. Rob serves up a feast of songs including works by Verdi, Beethoven, Puccini and Grieg. Along the way he showcases Björling's versatility, his dramatic sensibility and his deep connection with Scandinavia.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related place.
10am
Rob's guest is the original Newsround anchor and Countryfile veteran John Craven. John is remembered by generations of children for his afternoon news bulletins and jazzy jumpers, and nowadays brings his unique brand of welly-wearing journalism to an audience of millions as he chronicles modern rural life in Countryfile. John will be sharing some of his favourite classical music, including wintery scenes from Sibelius and Vivaldi, a very merry rendition of O Come all ye Faithful courtesy of the American tenor and Hollywood star Mario Lanza, and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto.
10.30am
Rob places Music in Time. The arch-Romantic Schubert incorporates an almost operatic narrative with just a singer and a piano in a selection of melodies from his song cycle Die schöne Müllerin.
11am
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Rob features recordings of major works by leading Nordic composers. Throughout the week Rob explores music from the frozen North, showcasing composers including Stenhammar, Grieg, Kraus and Alfven.
Alfven
Swedish Rhapsody No. 3 Op. 47 (Dalarapsodi)
Icelandic Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06sq1x7)
Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
I'm a Glassblower
Donald Macleod focuses on Franz Berwald's operas, the young musicians he nurtured and, beyond music, the business acumen which saw him managing a glassworks and later a saw-mill.
It was only after his death that Franz Berwald acquired his reputation as Sweden's great symphonist. During his lifetime his music was largely dismissed or ignored. To make ends meet he pursued several other careers alongside composition and proved to have a sharp business mind. He made a living as an early physiotherapist, dabbled in publishing and ran a saw-mill and a glass works. Once, when he was asked if he was a composer his reply was "No, I'm a glassblower".
Both the man and his music were often misunderstood. We now appreciate his musical legacy, particularly his symphonies and opera overtures, his tone poems and his music for violin. But relatively little of his music was performed in his own lifetime - and that which was performed was sometimes badly received and reviewed. A reputation for arrogance and reserve probably didn't help either and he was outspoken in his criticism of the Swedish musical establishment. Yet he was also capable of great generosity to friends, students, and even to complete strangers. Donald Macleod tells the story of a composer whose work was too often neglected in his own lifetime but who was eventually hailed in Sweden as "our most original and modern orchestral composer".
By 1849 Berwald was struggling financially. A second journey abroad to develop his music and build an audience had achieved little and he returned home to Stockholm, disheartened and disappointed. The Swedish musical establishment once again turned its back on him and he was overlooked for two key musical posts which might have brought him financial security. He had to look elsewhere for employment and found himself managing the Sandö glassworks in the north-east of Sweden. He was very successful in the role and was soon offered partnership in the firm. He later diversified into running a saw-mill. Donald Macleod also recalls how Berwald supported and nurtured the careers of young musicians, including the pianist Hilda Thegerström and the soprano Christina Nilsson.
Den 4 Juli 1844 (Konung Oscar)
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Bengt Forsburg, piano
'By Dark Thoughts Eternally Tormented' - Aria from Estrella di Soria
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Lena Nordin, soprano
Stig Westerberg, conductor
Piano Trio No.1 in E flat major
Bernt Lysell, violin
Ola Karlsson, cello
Lucia Negra, piano
Piano Quintet No.1 in C minor - III. Allegro assai e con spirito
The Gaudier Ensemble
Susan Tomes, piano
'Queen of Golconda' - Overture
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Roy Goodman, conductor.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06s98st)
Danish String Quartet in Scotland
Episode 3
The Danish String Quartet recorded live at the Citadel in Aberdeen, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Danish composer Carl Nielsen. In this third concert from the Scottish tour the Danish String Quartet play an energetic early Quartet by Nielsen and one of the first quartets by his musical idol, Beethoven.
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18
Nielsen: String Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op.13
Danish String Quartet
Frederik Øland - violin
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen - violin
Asbjørn Nørgaard - viola
Fredrik Sjölin - cello
Presenter - Kate Molleson.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b06s9csy)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Tchaikovsky - The Tsarina's Slippers
With Ian Skelly.
A second chance to hear Tchaikovsky's rarely performed only comic opera, his Christmas story The Tsarina's Slippers (Cherevichki), which was produced at London's Royal Opera House in 2009.
Inspired by one of Nikolai Gogol's most famous short tales, Christmas Eve, the opera is a mix of village comedy and fairy-tale fantasy. The beautiful Oxana will only marry her besotted blacksmith Vakula if he finds the Tsarina's little leather slippers for her. The desperate Vakula finally uses the Devil to help him fulfil his beloved's wish. There is much devilry, mistaken identity, hiding of lovers and drunken villagers along the way. The music ranges from popular dances and Christmas carols to deeply moving lyrical scenes such as Vakula's despairing monologue in Act 3.
14.00
Tchaikovsky: The Tsarina's Slippers (Cherevichki)
Solokha (a witch) ...... Larissa Diadkova (mezzo-soprano)
The Devil ...... Maxim Mikhailov (bass)
Chub (an elderly Cossack) ...... Vladimir Matorin (bass)
Panas (Chub's friend) ...... John Upperton (tenor)
Oxana ...... Olga Guryakova (soprano)
Vakula ...... Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor)
Pan Golova (The Mayor) ...... Alexander Vassiliev (baritone)
The Schoolmaster ...... Vyacheslav Voynarovskiy (tenor)
Wood Goblin ...... Changhan Lim (baritone)
Echo ...... Andrew Macnair (tenor)
His Highness ...... Sergei Leiferkus (bass)
Master of Ceremonies ...... Jeremy White (bass)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Alexander Polianichko (conductor).
THU 16:30 Words and Music (b04b2373)
The Kiss
Pippa Nixon and Jonathan Cullen read poems and prose about kisses, from Shakespeare's famous scene in Romeo and Juliet to Fleur Adcock's poem on 'Kissing', and from Herrick's romantic kisses to Sylvia Plath's warning, 'Never try to trick me with a kiss'. There are many types of kisses: the innocent first kisses of a baby, kisses of affection, the first romantic kiss, ritual kisses and the kisses of betrayal.
Music includes Stravinsky's 'The Fairy's Kiss' and Irving Berlin's 'Kiss me Honey'.
THU 17:45 New Generation Artists (b06s9gjt)
Benjamin Appl, Pavel Kolesnikov, Laura Jurd
Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the music making of the current roster of BBC New Generation Artists. Today, the jazz trumpeter Laura Jurd plays with her band Dinosaur. Also today, the Siberian pianist, Pavel Kolesnikov plays a typically quixotic sonata by CPE Bach and joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for one of the most famous concertos in the piano repertoire.
Michael Head: The Three Mummers
Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
CPE Bach: Sonata A minor Wq 57/2
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
Peter Cornelius: 3 Weihnachtslieder, Op.8
Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op.23
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero (condcutor)
Laura Jurd: Hardanger
Laura Jurd (trumpet) with Dinosaur.
THU 19:00 BBC Proms 2015 (b06s9glb)
Prom 14: Prokofiev - The piano concertos
The pianists Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan and Alexei Volodin join the LSO and Valery Gergiev to perform the complete Prokofiev Piano Concertos at the BBC Proms.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Concerto
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 in B flat major
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major
Daniil Trifonov (piano) (Concertos 1 & 3)
Sergei Babayan (piano) (Concertos 2 & 5)
Alexei Volodin (piano) (Concerto 4)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev conductor
All five Prokofiev piano concertos in one concert - it's a feat conductor Valery Gergiev achieved in 2012 at the Mariinsky and now brings to the Proms, along with three of his original pianists. It's a rare opportunity to hear three international soloists back-to-back, to compare styles and approaches, as well as to explore the composer's later, lesser-known concertos with their newly expressive tenderness. Daniil Trifonov, the prodigious young winner of the Tchaikovsky and Chopin Competitions, shares the bill with his teacher Sergei Babayan, while Alexei Volodin tackles the rarely heard Fourth, commissioned, like Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein.
THU 21:40 BBC Proms 2015 (b06s9hvq)
Prom 68: Bach - Six Cello Suites, Nos 1, 2, 3
Yo-Yo Ma performs the complete solo cello suites by JS Bach at the BBC Proms (Part I)
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Bach: Suite No. 1 in G major for solo cello, BWV 1007
Bach: Suite No. 2 in D minor for solo cello, BWV 1008
Bach: Suite No. 3 in C major for solo cello, BWV 1009
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
American cellist Yo-Yo Ma has been a regular Proms soloist for almost 40 years, now tackling perhaps his boldest performance to date. He performed the complete Bach solo cello suites - over two hours of music - in a single concert: a feat as challenging intellectually as it is physically. Though neglected until the 20th century, the suites represent some of Bach's greatest musical achievements - music at its purest and most profound. Ma's relationship with them extends back over many decades and multiple recordings, generating expressive performances distinguished by their depth of emotion. The second part of the concert can be heard tomorrow evening at
9.10pm.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b06s9dh9)
Religion in the North
Christmas Father: Lars Petter Sveen
Lars Petter Sveen Christmas memories of a Christian child growing up in an atheist family. His father wouldn't even allow a star on their Christmas tree, so coming out as a Christian was going to be difficult. Producer: Phil Pegum. Translated by Deborah Dawkin.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b06s9hvs)
Thursday - Mara Carlyle
Mara Carlyle presents an alternative soundtrack to Christmas Eve, including new music from Anna Meredith, Vic Chesnutt's White Christmas, Weddell Seals recorded by Chris Watson and Icelandic choral music.
FRIDAY 25 DECEMBER 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b06s97gy)
Christmas carols from Denmark, Romania, Belarus and the UK
Jonathan Swain presents Christmas Carols from Denmark, Romania, Belarus and the UK.
12:31 AM
Warlock, Peter, Carter, Andrew
3 pieces
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
12:41 AM
Nielsen, Carl, arr. Dyrst
Christmas at home; The sky is vast and grim
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum
12:47 AM
Bartók, Béla)
Romanian Christmas Carols
Wilhem Latchoumia (Piano)
12:58 AM
Trad. Romanian
Three Magi from the East; Down there in Bethlehem; Trei cantece de stea din Dobrogea
Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano), Romanian Madrigal Choir, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare
1:08 AM
Kalistratov, Valery
Szel proszel mesyats
Belarusian Radio Academic Choir, Tatiana Loisha (piano), Pavel Shepelev (Piano)
1:10 AM
Trad. Russian/Trad. Belarusian/Kalistratov, Valery/Kulikovic, Nikola
A uczora z viaczora/Belarusian Christmas Song/Christmas/My Cold Winter
Belarusian Radio Academic Choir, Pavel Shepelev
1:16 AM
Ireland, John
The Holy boy
BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill
1:19 AM
Byrt, John/Howells, Herbert/Warlock, Peter
All and some (Nowell sing ye)/3 pieces for Christmas/3 Christmas pieces
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
1:45 AM
Leighton, Kenneth
Fantasy on "Veni Emmanuel"
Greg Morris (Organ)
1:51 AM
Samuel-Rosseau, Marcel
Variations Pastorales sur un vieux Noel
Erica Goodman (Harp), Amadeus Ensemble
2:00 AM
Anon. / Praetorius, Michael
I saw a rose spring forth; Resonet in laudibus
Paul Hoxbro (Recorder), Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum
2:07 AM
Hartmann, Johan Peter Emilius/La Cour, Niels/Rung, Henrik
Blooming like a rose garden/Hodie Christus natus est/Chime, you bells
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum
2:17 AM
Rathbone, Jonathan/Wishart, Peter
Oxen/Alleluya, a new work is come on hand
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
2:23 AM
Leontovych, Mykola/Trad. Belarusian/Atrashkevich, Yelena
Carol of the bells/Heaven and Earth (Belarussin Christmas Song)/O you Winter!/Juraczka
Belarusian Radio Academic Choir, Pavel Shepelev
2:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
Act II of The Nutcracker: ballet
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky
3:13 AM
Kverno, Trond H. F.
Corpus Christi Carol: Missa Fidei Mysterii
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Helgerod
3:31 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Edward Price (Baritone), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill
3:43 AM
Esterhazy, Pal
Ave, dulcis Virgo
Maria Zadori (Soprano), Capella Savaria, Pal Nemeth
3:47 AM
Chedeville (Le Cadet), Nicolas
Les Saisons Amusantes Part IV (L'Hiver)
Ensemble 1700, Dorothee Oberlinger (Director)
3:56 AM
Berlioz, Hector
Trio des Ismaelites from L'enfance du Christ
Nora Shulman, Virginia Markson (Flutes), Judy Loman (Harp)
4:03 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio (BWV.248)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjetil Haugsand
4:09 AM
Liszt, Franz
Christus - Pastorale and Herald Angels Sing (extract)
Walter Coppola (Tenor), Franko Tunde (Bass), Hungarian Radio Choir, Hungarian Radio & Television SO, Pesko Zoltan
4:15 AM
Torelli, Giuseppe
Concerto a quattro in forma Pastorale per il Santo Natale (Op.8 No.6)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon
4:22 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo
Ave, dulcissima Maria
BBC Singers, Bo Holten
4:26 AM
Praetorius, Michael
In dulci jubilo
Paul Hoxbro (Recorder), Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum
4:31 AM
Bridge, Frank
Sir Roger de Coverley - Christmas dance
BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill
4:36 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo
Concerto grosso (Op.6 No.8) in G minor 'per la notte di Natale'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Roy Goodman)
4:51 AM
Haydn, Michael
Run ye shepherds, to the light
Wolfgang Brunner, Salzburger Hofmusik
5:01 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergei
Bogoroditse Devo
Polyphonia, Ivelin Dimitrov
5:04 AM
Stravinsky, Igor
Ave Maria
Tallinn Boys Choir, Lydia Rahula
5:07 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
Swan Lake
RTV Slovenia SO, Marko Munih
5:28 AM
Poulenc, Francis
Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Evi Eespere
5:39 AM
Salzedo, Carlos
Concert Variations on "O Tannenbaum"
Judy Loman (Harp)
5:43 AM
Gruber, Franz/Wade, John Francis, arr. Willcocks
Silent Night/O come all ye faithful
Belarusian Radio Academic Choir, Pavel Shepelev
5:49 AM
Braunfels, Walter
The Glass Mountain: suite
BBC Concert Orchestra, Johannes Wildner
6:14 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Gloria in Excelsis Deo (BWV.191)
Ann Monoyios (Soprano), Colin Ainsworth (Tenor), Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b06sfr5t)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Christmas Day Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including the winning entry in the Breakfast Carol Competition. Plus your musical requests and suggestions.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b06sfmct)
Friday - Rob Cowan with John Craven
9am
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season Rob has chosen a singer who was known as the 'Swedish Caruso", Jussi Björling. Rob serves up a feast of songs including works by Verdi, Beethoven, Puccini and Grieg. Along the way he showcases Björling's versatility, his dramatic sensibility and his deep connection with Scandinavia.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge. Two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?
10am
Rob's guest is the original Newsround anchor and Countryfile veteran John Craven. John is remembered by generations of children for his afternoon news bulletins and jazzy jumpers, and nowadays brings his unique brand of welly-wearing journalism to an audience of millions as he chronicles modern rural life in Countryfile. John will be sharing some of his favourite classical music, including wintery scenes from Sibelius and Vivaldi, a very merry rendition of O Come all ye Faithful courtesy of the American tenor and Hollywood star Mario Lanza, and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto.
10.30am
Rob places Music in Time with Mozart's early Divertimento in E flat K166 - Classical wind music that would have formed the background for an aristocratic soirée.
11am
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Rob features recordings of major works by leading Nordic composers. Throughout the week Rob explores music from the frozen North, showcasing composers including Stenhammar, Grieg, Kraus and Alfven.
Grieg
Holberg Suite
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b06sq1xc)
Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
Feeling and Reason
Donald Macleod explores Franz Berwald's last years, in which he sees his opera Estrella de Soria staged and is finally admitted as a Fellow of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music.
It was only after his death that Franz Berwald acquired his reputation as Sweden's great symphonist. During his lifetime his music was largely dismissed or ignored. To make ends meet he pursued several other careers alongside composition and proved to have a sharp business mind. He made a living as an early physiotherapist, dabbled in publishing and ran a saw-mill and a glass works. Once, when he was asked if he was a composer his reply was "No, I'm a glassblower".
Both the man and his music were often misunderstood. We now appreciate his musical legacy, particularly his symphonies and opera overtures, his tone poems and his music for violin. But relatively little of his music was performed in his own lifetime - and that which was performed was sometimes badly received and reviewed. Donald Macleod tells the story of a composer whose work was too often neglected in his own lifetime but who was eventually hailed in Sweden as "our most original and modern orchestral composer".
Today Donald explores Berwald's lifelong love of opera. Sadly, it was a largely unrequited love: it took over twenty years for his romantic grand opera Estrella di Soria to be performed. At the time Berwald was running a brick-making factory. He wrote his last opera, the Queen of Golconda with his talented pupil Christina Nilsson in mind for the title role of the beautiful, widowed queen. Sadly, Berwald never saw Nilsson - or indeed anybody else - playing the queen - the opera was never performed in his lifetime.
Although Berwald stuck his contemporaries as arrogant and reserved, underneath the forbidding, haughty exterior there was actually a man of compassion, generosity, even humour. He once said, "Art may be coupled only with a cheerful frame of mind. The weak-willed should have nothing to do with it. Even if interesting for a moment, in the end every sighing artist will bore listeners to death. Therefore: liveliness and energy - feeling and reason"
Overture to Estrella de Soria
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sten Broman, conductor
Du hatar ej den sorg (You hate not the grief) - Aria from Queen of Golconda
Royal Orchestra Stockholm
Elizabeth Söderström, soprano
Stig Westerberg, conductor
Symphony No. 1 in G minor (Sérieuse) - II. Adagio maestoso
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
String Quartet in A minor - Finale: Allegro molto
The Frydén String Quartet
Symphony No. 3 in C Major (Singulière) - II. Adagio & III. Finale: Presto
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, conductor.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06s98sw)
Danish String Quartet in Scotland
Episode 4
The fourth and final lunchtime concert by the Danish String Quartet celebrating the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen, recorded live at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Nielsen's Fourth String Quartet in F major was written around the time of his comic opera Maskarade, and it's full of the same grace and fun. It's followed by music Nielsen would have been familiar with as a boy, playing with his father's village band - Nordic folk tunes. The Danish String Quartet play personal arrangements of these traditional tunes from Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Nielsen: String Quartet No 4 in F major, Op.44
Nordic Folk Music Selection:
Faroese/Danish trad. arr. Danish String Quartet: 'Ye Honest Bridal Couple/Sonderho Bridal Trilogy'
Norwegian trad. arr. Danish String Quartet: 'Vigstmoin'
Swedish trad. arr. Danish String Quartet: 'Waltz after Lasse in Lyby'
Danish trad. arr. Danish String Quartet: Ribers No. 8 "Sterrands Rand"
Danish trad. arr. Danish String Quartet: 'Five Sheep, Four Goats'
Bosse Nordin arr. Danish String Quartet: 'Bosse Nordin's Schottis'
Danish String Quartet
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen - violin
Frederik Øland - violin
Asbjørn Nørgaard - viola
Fredrik Sjölin - cello
Presenter - Kate Molleson.
FRI 14:00 A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (b06s9hzg)
Recorded yesterday from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Hymn: Once in Royal David's City (desc. David Willcocks)
Bidding Prayer read by the Dean
What Sweeter Music? (John Rutter)
First lesson: Genesis 3 vv 8-19 read by a Chorister
This is the truth sent from above (David Willcocks)
Adam Lay Ybounden (Boris Ord)
Second lesson: Genesis 22 vv 15-18 read by a Choral Scholar
Ding, Dong, Merrily on High (David Willcocks)
In Dulci Jubilo (Robert Lucas de Pearsall)
Third lesson: Isaiah 9 vv 2, 6-7 read by a Representative of the Cambridge Churches
Sussex Carol (arr. David Willcocks)
Hymn: It came upon the midnight clear (desc. Stephen Cleobury)
Fourth lesson: Isaiah 11 vv 1-3a, 4a, 6-9 read by a Representative of the City of Cambridge
A Tender Shoot (arr. Otto Goldschmidt)
A Spotless Rose (Philip Ledger)
Fifth lesson: Luke 1 vv 26-38 read by the Master over the Choristers.
The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came (arr. David Willcocks)
Nova, Nova (John Scott)
Sixth lesson: Luke 2 vv 1 -7 read by the Chaplain
In The Bleak Midwinter (Harold Darke)
Dormi, Jesu (John Rutter)
Seventh lesson: Luke 2 vv 8-16 read by the Director of Music
The Shepherd's Carol (Bob Chilcott)
Hymn: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (arr. David Willcocks)
Eighth lesson: Matthew 2 vv 1-12 read by the Vice-Provost
The Flight (Richard Causton - newly commissioned)
Here is the Little Door (Herbert Howells)
Ninth lesson: John 1 vv 1-14 read by the Provost
Hymn: O come, all ye faithful (arr. David Willcocks)
Blessing
Hymn: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (arr. David Willcocks)
Organ voluntaries:
In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) (Bach)
Sortie on 'In dulci jubilo' (David Briggs) [broadcast on Radio 3 on Christmas Day only]
Director of Music: Stephen Cleobury
Organ Scholar: Tom Etheridge
Producer: Philip Billson
For many around the world, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, live from the candlelit Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, marks the beginning of Christmas. It is based around nine Bible readings which tell the story of the loving purposes of God. They are interspersed with carols old and new, sung by the world-famous chapel choir who also lead the congregation in traditional Christmas hymns.
Explanatory notes from Director of Music Stephen Cleobury:
"This year's selection has a very strong King's basis. The commissioned carol is from Richard Causton, a Fellow of King's College, and a university lecturer in composition. He has, in turn, commissioned a new text from George Szirtes, which has strong contemporary resonances.
In September we heard the sad news of the death of one of my predecessors here at King's, the legendary Sir David Willcocks. His many carol arrangements and descants are known the world over, and we include a number of these. Near the beginning and the end are pieces by Vaughan Williams and Howells, both composers having been very closely associated with David Willcocks.
Also, during the summer, the world of church and organ music mourned the loss of John Scott, whose setting of Nova, Nova comes after the Annunciation lesson.
We mark the 70th birthday of John Rutter by including two of the carols he has written for King's over the years. Bob Chilcott, 60 this year, is a former chorister and choral scholar of King's, and his commission for the Choir is also programmed.
Carols by Boris Ord, Harold Darke and Philip Ledger also find a place. Ord and Ledger were, respectively, the predecessor and successor of Willcocks, while Darke looked after the Choir during WW2.".
FRI 15:45 Sean Rafferty at Home (b06s9hzj)
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
In the first of two Christmas and New Year's Day specials, Sean Rafferty visits soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at home in the Sussex countryside to find out about her interests and musical passions.
Famous for her performances on the stages of the major opera houses throughout the world, especially in the works of Mozart and Richard Strauss, in this interview we get to meet the person behind the Countess and the Marschallin, the very private Dame Kiri. She talks about her love for her pet dogs and about her passion for teaching as she now devotes much of her time to passing on a lifetime of experience to young singers through the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation. Sean discovers her secret love of painting and she demonstrates one of her favourite things - a mechanical musical instrument.
FRI 17:00 Words and Music (b00wlj9g)
Gifts
Sheila Hancock and Scott Handy read poems and prose on the festive theme of giving and receiving gifts. Through the words of writers from Robert Herrick to O. Henry, and from Edward Lear to Walt Whitman, Sheila Hancock and Scott Handy unwrap simple gifts of friendship and lavish gifts of love. They explore the desire of gifts and the rejection of friendships. Music includes Siegfried Idyll by Wagner, which was composed as a birthday present for his wife Cosima, and Colleen's musical boxes.
Producer: Elizabeth Arno.
FRI 18:00 New Generation Artists (b06s9j43)
Olena Tokar, Peter Moore, Beatrice Rana, Danish String Quartet
Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the music making of the BBC New Generation Artists. Today's programme features two of the youngest members on the current programme; nineteen-year-old trombonist Peter Moore, who last year became the youngest ever member of the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Italian pianist Beatrice Rana who, at 22 years of age has already appeared with some of the world's leading orchestras. She's heard today in Chopin's famous 'Funeral March' sonata.
Kreutzer: Das Muhlrad
Olena Tokar (soprano), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)
Jongen: Aria and Polonaise
Peter Moore (trombone), Jonathan Ware (piano)
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 In B flat minor, Op. 35
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Carl Nielsen arr. Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen: Bohemian-Danish folktune
The Danish Quartet
Scriabin: Romance for horn and piano [1890], arr. for cello and piano
Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
Michael Head: Star Candles; Slumber song of the Madonna
Kitty Whately (mezzo soprano), Gamal Khamis (piano).
FRI 19:00 BBC Proms 2015 (b06ttmln)
Prom 67: Bernstein - Stage and Screen
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Katie Derham
Louise Dearman (vocalist)
Lucy Schaufer (mezzo-soprano)
Scarlett Strallen (vocalist)
Julian Ovenden (vocalist)
Maida Vale Singers
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
John Wilson and his orchestra are an annual Proms highlight, bringing the glitz and glamour of old-time stage and screen to the Royal Albert Hall. The second of their two performances this year is all about Leonard Bernstein - America's multi-talented conductor, pianist and composer. He reinvented the musical with the anger, energy and feral beauty of West Side Story, his updated take on Romeo and Juliet. A starry cast of soloists including Proms favourite Julian Ovenden and the West End's Louise Dearman join the John Wilson Orchestra and Maida Vale Singers for a tribute to the composer that includes Bernstein's biggest hits as well as a selection of rarities.
FRI 21:10 BBC Proms 2015 (b06s9js7)
Prom 68: Bach - Six Cello Suites Nos 4, 5, 6
Yo-Yo Ma performs the complete solo cello suites by JS Bach at the BBC Proms (Part II)
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Bach: Suite No. 4 in E flat major for solo cello, BWV 1010
Bach: Suite No. 5 in C minor for solo cello, BWV 1011
Bach: Suite No. 6 in D major for solo cello, BWV 1012
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
American cellist Yo-Yo Ma has been a regular Proms soloist for almost 40 years, tackling perhaps his boldest performance to date. He performs the complete Bach solo cello suites - over two hours of music - in a single concert: a feat as challenging intellectually as it is physically. Though neglected until the 20th century, the suites represent some of Bach's greatest musical achievements - music at its purest and most profound. Ma's relationship with them extends back over many decades and multiple recordings, generating expressive performances distinguished by their depth of emotion.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b06s9dhg)
Religion in the North
A Swedish Christmas: Andrew Brown
The religious journalist Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the '70s he married a Swedish woman and raised a family there. He remembers how his mother-in-law was dedicated to keeping the Swedish Christmas traditions alive. Producer: Phil Pegum.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b06sfp5d)
Womad 2015 Highlights
Episode 2
Lopa Kothari presents the second of two programmes with unheard highlights from this summer's WOMAD, the international festival introducing cultures and music from across the globe. The bands featured tonight include French-Nigerien desert rock trio Ezza, Macedonian Romani brass band Kocani Orkestar, Honduran Garifuna singer-songwriter Aurelio Martinez, and French producer Jerome Ettinger's Egyptian Project, a fusion of electronic dance music and Egyptian traditional styles.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
14:00 FRI (b06s9hzg)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (b06s92dp)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b06s9csp)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b06s9csw)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b06s9csy)
BBC Proms 2015
19:00 MON (b06s96d2)
BBC Proms 2015
21:25 MON (b06s96l2)
BBC Proms 2015
19:00 TUE (b06s9dqc)
BBC Proms 2015
21:20 TUE (b06s9dqy)
BBC Proms 2015
19:00 WED (b06s9fd1)
BBC Proms 2015
21:25 WED (b06s9fzs)
BBC Proms 2015
19:00 THU (b06s9glb)
BBC Proms 2015
21:40 THU (b06s9hvq)
BBC Proms 2015
19:00 FRI (b06ttmln)
BBC Proms 2015
21:10 FRI (b06s9js7)
Between the Ears
21:30 SAT (b06s75pm)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b06s75n1)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b06s791d)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b06s92bp)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b06sfr5m)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b06sfr5p)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b06sfr5r)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b06sfr5t)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b06s75n3)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b06rwy7p)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b008jyxt)
Christmas around Europe
13:00 SUN (b06s79lc)
Christmas around Europe
16:00 SUN (b06s7bh8)
Christmas around Europe
19:45 SUN (b06s7drt)
Christmas around Europe
23:00 SUN (b06s7dtq)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b06sq1x2)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b06sq1wy)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b06sq2pm)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b06sq1x7)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b06sq1xc)
Drama on 3
21:00 SUN (b015ygzz)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b06sfggs)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b06sfmcm)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b06sfmcp)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b06sfmcr)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b06sfmct)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b06s7918)
Hear and Now
22:00 SAT (b06s762j)
Jazz Line-Up
17:00 SAT (b06s75nf)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SAT (b06s75nc)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b06s96l6)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b06s9f2r)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b06s9g17)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b06s9hvs)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b06s75n5)
New Generation Artists
17:45 MON (b06s93qb)
New Generation Artists
17:45 TUE (b06s9dmz)
New Generation Artists
17:45 WED (b06s9fcz)
New Generation Artists
17:45 THU (b06s9gjt)
New Generation Artists
18:00 FRI (b06s9j43)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (b06s75nh)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b06s791j)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b06c9nwj)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b06s98sp)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b06s98sr)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b06s98st)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b06s98sw)
Saturday Classics
13:00 SAT (b06s75n7)
Sean Rafferty at Home
15:45 FRI (b06s9hzj)
Sound of Cinema
15:00 SAT (b06s75n9)
Sunday Feature
19:00 SUN (b06s7drr)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b06s791g)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b06s96l4)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b06s9dh1)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b06s9dh6)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b06s9dh9)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b06s9dhg)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b06rlgmk)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b06s791b)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b06s90wc)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b06s97gk)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b06s97gp)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b06s97gt)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b06s97gy)
Words and Music
16:30 MON (b01nwc9y)
Words and Music
16:30 TUE (b01s5mb0)
Words and Music
16:30 WED (b03wppty)
Words and Music
16:30 THU (b04b2373)
Words and Music
17:00 FRI (b00wlj9g)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b06sfp5d)