The BBC has announced that it has a sustainable plan for the future of the BBC Singers, in association with The VOCES8 Foundation.
The threat to reduce the staff of the three English orchestras by 20% has not been lifted, but it is being reconsidered.
See the BBC press release here.
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Jonathan Swain presents music from the 2016 Delta Chamber Music Festival - Delta Chamber was created to bring great chamber music repertoire to the Ebro Delta (south of Catalonia). The concert was recorded at Terres de l'Ebre Museum Hall, Amposta-Tarragona and includes music by Glazunov, Debussy and Martinu.
12:31 AM
Alexander Glazunov [1865-1936]
Rêverie orientale, for clarinet and string quartet
Pau Rodríguez (clarinet); Maria Radauer-Plank (violin); Elena Graf (violin) Arthur Hornig (cello); Adrià Gorrias (viola)
12:39 AM
François Devienne (1759-1803)
Siciliano, for flute, clarinet and viola
Matthieu Gauci-Ancelin (flute); Pau Rodríguez (clarinet) Adrià Gorrias (viola)
12:44 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Danse sacrée et danse profane
Esther Pinyol (harp); Plank (violin); Elena Graf (violin) Arthur Hornig (cello); Adrià Gorrias (viola)
12:53 AM
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Tarantelle Op 6, arr. for flute, clarinet & piano
Matthieu Gauci-Ancelin (flute); Laura Ruiz Ferreres (clarinet); Kasia Wieczorek (piano)
1:01 AM
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Chamber Music No 1 (Les fêtes nocturnes)
Maria Radauer-Plank (violin); Arthur Hornig (cello); Adrià Gorrias (viola); Laura Ruiz Ferreres (clarinet); Esther Pinyol (harp); Kasia Wieczorek (piano)
1:21 AM
Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970)
Secret People
Laura Ruiz Ferreres (clarinet); Pau Rodríguez (clarinet); Matthieu Gauci-Ancelin, (flute) Esther Pinyol (harp) Kasia Wieczorek (piano); Arthur Hornig (cello); Adrià Gorrias (viola)
1:26 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No 2
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
1:44 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, David Robertson (conductor)
2:31 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
String Quartet in F major
Vertavo Quartet
2:48 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Lemminkäinen Suite (4 Legends from the Kalevala), Op 22
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:34 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph (1642-1703)
Der Gerechte
Cantus Cölln: Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Graham Pushee (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk & Wilfred Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Christoph Anselm Noll (organ), Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:38 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Preludes Op 28: No 16 in B flat minor; No 17 in A flat major; No 18 in F minor; No 19 in E flat major; No 20 in C minor
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
3:47 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883]
Prelude to Act 1 of 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)
3:57 AM
Piazzolla, Astor [1921-1992]
Milonga del Angel, arr. for string quartet
Artemis Quartet
4:05 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto No 3 in E flat major
Concerto Köln
4:15 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
3 Lieder, arr. for cello and piano
Sol Gabetta (Cello), Bertrand Chamayou (Piano)
4:23 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706) [text Psalm 100]
Jauchzet dem Herrn
Cantus Cölln , Konrad Junghänel (director)
4:31 AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
The Bartered Bride - Overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (Conductor)
4:38 AM
Granados, Enrique (1867-1916)
Quejas o la maja y el ruisenor (The Maiden and the Nightingale) - from Goyescas: 7 pieces for piano (Op 11 No 4)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
4:45 AM
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643); text Anon
Amor che deggio far? (from libro VII de madrigali - Venice 1619)
Concerto Italiano; Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord & director)
4:49 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Violin Concerto in D, Op 3 No 9 (RV 230)
Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi (conductor)
4:57 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Pavane for orchestra, Op 50
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
5:05 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828], orch. Reger, Max [1873-1916]
Am Tage aller Seelen (D343)
Dietrich Henschel (baritone), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
5:12 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Violin Sonata in C major, K303
Tai Murray (violin), Shai Wosner (piano)
5:23 AM
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894)
España - rhapsody for orchestra
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
5:30 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Piano Quintet in A major, D66), (Trout)
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Alban Berg Quartet
6:08 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat K449
Maria João Pires (Piano), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
with Andrew McGregor.
9.00amPresented by Kate Molleson
In a continuing series about music and language around the British Isles, Kate is in the South East to meet the Kent-based folk singer Chris Wood, and explores how the region's English-speaking Romany communities are exchanging words and songs with European Roma migrants.
Kate also meets the American trumpeter, band leader, composer and educator Wynton Marsalis, who has been in London this month for concerts with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
And as the new music organisation CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) celebrates 25 years, we hear the experiences of amateur musicians from the organisation's national network of instrumental and vocal ensembles.
In the first of two programmes, Rachel Podger, "queen of the Baroque violin", introduces some of the music that inspires her.
01 00:03 Leonard BernsteinMatthew Sweet dusts off his tux and strolls back in time to the red carpet of the 1940 Oscars. It marked the year of The Wizard of Oz, Goodbye Mr Chips and Mr Smith Goes to Washington but it was Gone with the Wind that stole the show.
1939 had been a golden year for cinema. Among the scores and films that Matthew looks at are Erich Korngold's 'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex'; Ferdinand Heinz Provost's 'Intermezzo'; Alfred Newman's 'Wuthering Heights'; Richard Addinsell's 'Goodbye Mr Chips'; Anthony Collin's 'Nurse Edith Cavell'; Aaron Copland's 'Of Mice And Men'; Max Steiner's 'Dark Victory'. 'Ninotchka'; 'Stagecoach'; 'The Wizard of Oz' and of course 'Gone With The Wind'.
One of the most innovative and influential pianists in jazz, Earl Hines is featured in this week's pick of requests from listeners for all styles of jazz, presented by Alyn Shipton.
Artist Glen ManbyJulian Joseph presents a special edition from the grounds of George Heriot's School, as part of the 2017 Edinburgh Festivals including performances by The Dime Notes with their brand of early jazz and ragtime music, vocalist Gwyneth Herbert accompanied by pianist Ned Cartwright plus a duo performance by saxophonist Andy Sheppard and guitarist John Parricelli.
The young Japanese geisha girl Cio-Cio-San marries a dashing American Lieutenant, Pinkerton, only for him to desert her soon after the wedding. She's sure he'll come back to her one day, and three years later he does - but with a new wife, and wanting to take his and Cio-Cio-San's child away with them. Ermonela Jaho sings the tragic Butterfly, with Roberto Aronica as the man who breaks her heart.
Presented from the Met by Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff.
Puccini Madama Butterfly
Cio-Cio-San ..... Ermonela Jaho (soprano)
Suzuki ..... Maria Zifchak (mezzo-soprano)
Pinkerton ..... Roberto Aronica (tenor)
Sharpless ..... Roberto Frontali (baritone)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Marco Armiliato (conductor).
Tom Service presents Squib-CRAM's gig 'Baggage', which was recorded at the Old Dentist in East London in December last year. The gig centres around a collaboration with violinist Chihiro Ono in a new performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, plus performances by the Two Bennys (Adam de la Cour and Benedict Taylor), and improvisations by trombonist Sarah Gail Brand with live electronics by Steve Beresford. Plus in Sound of the Week, Carsten Nicolai, aka Alva Noto, talks about radio static.
Two Bennys Set 1
Adam de la Cour (voice and tap dance)
Benedict Taylor (voice and viola)
Neil Luck (voice - radiophonic commentary)
Mary Ann Hushlak (voice - radiophonic commentary)
Stomatology (free improvisation)
Sarah Gail Brand (trombone)
Steve Beresford (live electronics)
Two Bennys Set 2
Adam de la Cour (voice and tap dance)
Benedict Taylor (voice and viola)
Neil Luck (voice)
Mary Ann Hushlak (voice)
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Chihiro Ono (violin)
Benedict Taylor (viola)
Gaia Blandina (cello)
Samuel Rice (double bass)
Adam de la Cour (voice, tap)
Federico Reuben (live electronics)
Laonikas Psimikakis-Chalkokondylis (Shakuhachi and guitar)
Neil Luck (tabletop objects and voice)
Neil Georgeson (organ).
Vocal queens of the Swing Era, Mildred Bailey (1907-1951) was famed for her bouncy beat and perfect diction, while Lee Wiley (1908-75) entranced listeners with her husky sensuality. Geoffrey Smith celebrates their diverse styles.
01 00:01 Mildred BaileyJonathan Swain presents a concert of early music from the 2014 Poznan Baroque Festival featuring the Nevermind ensemble
1:01 AM
Couperin, François (1668-1733); Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Prélude, from 'L'Art de toucher le clavecin' (Couperin); Harpsichord Concerto No.5 in D minor, from 'Pièces de Clavecin en Concert'
Nevermind: Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac'h (violin), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba), Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)
1:15 AM
Machy, Sieur de (1685-1692); Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
Prélude (Machy); La Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris for violin, bass viol and continuo, from 'La Gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie' (Marais)
Nevermind: Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac'h (violin), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba), Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)
1:27 AM
Couperin, François (1668-1733)
Trio Sonata 'La Françoise' - from Les Nations, Suite No 1
Nevermind: Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac'h (violin), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba), Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)
1:34 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Quartet in E minor, TWV.43:e4 'Paris Quartet' for flute, violin, bass viol and continuo
Nevermind: Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac'h (violin), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba), Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)
1:53 AM
Guillemain, Louis-Gabriel (1705-1770)
Allegro from Sonate en quatuor in D minor, Op 12 No 3, for flute, violin, bass viol and continuo
Nevermind: Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac'h (violin), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba), Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)
1:58 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Piano Sonata No 21 in B flat, D960
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
2:38 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
Trio in B flat for oboe, cello and piano, Op 11
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe) , Katerina Apekisheva (piano), Boris Andrianov (cello)
3:01 AM
Benoit, Peter (1834-1901)
Hoogmis, for tenor, choir and orchestra
Donald George (tenor), BRTN Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Brussels, Kokokklijk Vlaans Muziekconservatorium Antwerpen Choir, Koninklijke Chorale Caecelia, Gemengd Koor Ars Musica Merksem, Zingende Wandelkring Sint Norbertus Choir, Alexander Rahbari (conductor)
3:57 AM
Franck, Cèsar (1822-1890)
Élévation
Joris Verdin (organ of the Cathedral of St-Étienne de St-Brieuc)
4:03 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Academic Festival Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
4:14 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Serenade No 2 in G minor
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
4:23 AM
Henderson, Ruth Watson (b.1932) [Text Winston Harrison]
The River (in memory of John Ford)
The Elmer Iseler Singers, Claire Preston (piano), Lydia Adams (conductor)
4:27 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Preludes No 21 in B flat major; No 22 in G minor; No 23 in F major; No 24 in D minor - from Preludes, Op 28
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
4:34 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Aria 'O let me weep' - from The Fairy Queen
Irena Baar (soprano), Tomaz Lorenz (violin), Maks Strmcnik (organ)
4:42 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in C major, RV 114, for strings
The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
4:48 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Die schöne Melusine - overture
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
5:01 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
5:04 AM
Bridge, Frank (1879-1941)
Valse Russe' - No 1 from 'Miniatures', Set 3
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
5:08 AM
Bridge, Frank (1879-1941)
Hornpipe - No 2 in G minor from 'Miniatures', Set 3
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
5:12 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-c.1757)
Concerto in D major, Op 5 No 1
Musica ad Rhenum
5:20 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata quasi una fantasia in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2, 'Moonlight'
Håvard Gimse (piano)
5:34 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet (fantasy overture, 1880 version)
Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Pinchas Steinberg (conductor)
5:55 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
"Porgi amor qual que ristoro" - from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' (K492)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kent Nagano (conductor)
6:00 AM
Walton, William (1902-1983)
Violin Concerto
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
6:30 AM
Strauss, Johann Jr (1825-1899) arranged by Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Kaiser-Walzer, Op 437, arr Schoenberg for chamber ensemble
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
6:42 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Rêverie
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)
6:47 AM
De Vocht, Lodewijk (1887-1977)
In ballingschap (In Exile), symphonic poem
Vlaams Radio Orkest, Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Sarah Walker looks forward to International Women's Day this Thursday (March 8th) with music ancient and modern, from Hildegard of Bingen to Roxanna Panufnnik, and featuring performers including Karita Mattila, Penelope Thwaites, Lavinia Meier, and Sylvia McNair. In a wide-ranging collection Sarah covers various styles and periods with pieces both sacred and secular, the former from Hildegard of Bingen, Mozart and Roxanna Panufnik, the latter (bridged by Debussy's Danse Sacrée and Danse Profane for harp and orchestra) including music from Haydn, Franz Lehar and Ernest Tomlinson. Plus keyboard music from J S Bach, Beethoven and Friedrich Gulda.
In a special edition to mark International Women's Day next week, Michael Berkeley talks to Britain's most decorated female Olympic athlete, the rower Dame Katherine Grainger.
Katherine won a silver medal in Rio in 2016 - at the age of 40. It was her fifth medal from five consecutive Olympic Games, including a gold in the double sculls at London 2012. On her return from Rio, she was voted the Olympians' Olympian by her fellow Team GB athletes. The holder of six World Champion titles, she has an MBE and a CBE, was made a dame in 2017 New Year's Honours list, and, since last summer, has been the Chair of UK Sport.
On top of her huge sporting achievements, Katherine has a PhD in Criminal Law and is Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.
Katherine tells Michael how music has helped her to cope with the pressure of competing at the highest level, and how music has been an important part of her life since her Scottish childhood. She chooses a Mozart aria to remind her of her grandparents in Aberdeen, and Rachmaninov for her rowing partner Cath Bishop, who is a talented pianist.
In celebration of International Women's Day, all but one of her choices - which include Elgar, Chopin and Bach - are performed or conducted by female musicians.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
From the Wigmore Hall, London, Aleksander Madzar plays Beethoven's monumental Piano Sonata Op 106, known as the 'Hammerklavier'.
Introduced by Clemency Burton-Hill.
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 106 (Hammerklavier)
Aleksander Madžar (piano).
Looking ahead to International Women's Day, Lucie Skeaping talks to Rebecca Cypess of Rutgers University in New Jersey about music played, collected and commissioned by the Jewish salon hostess Sara Levy (1761-1854), student of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and great-aunt of Felix Mendelssohn. Levy was a remarkable woman and was hugely important in the preservation and perpetuation of the Bach family tradition in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, before Mendelssohn ignited the widespread craze for Bach's music in 1829.
At a time before Jews had legal rights in Prussia, Levy's father received special status as a "court Jew" (ie, financier) to Frederick the Great. Sara and her siblings benefited from his wealth and position, and received the finest musical education available. By 1774 she was studying harpsichord with no less a teacher than Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784), eldest son of the great JS Bach). In 1783, when she married Salomon Levy, Friedemann presented her with a song, "Herz, mein Herz sey ruhig" (Heart, my heart, be still) as a gift. Around the time of her marriage, Sara began to host salon gatherings in her home, in which men and women, Jews and Christians, gathered to socialize and to discuss new cultural ideas. However, unlike other salons hosted by women in Enlightenment Berlin, which were centred primarily around literature, Sara's salon was musical. She became a keyboard virtuoso, defying the expectation documented in the many collections of "Damen Sonaten" (Ladies' Sonatas) of the late 18th century that women could play only easy pieces. By the mid-1790s she was performing outside of her salons as well, in concert series and, later, as a concerto soloist at the amateur music society known as the Singing Academy of Berlin.
Sara Levy was also a collector - among the first to take an interest in the preservation and performance of music of previous generations, especially that of J.S. Bach. This was at a period when older music in general was neglected in favour of newer music, and when the music of Johann Sebastian in particular was viewed as old-fashioned and overly difficult to understand. Yet Sara Levy, along with her sisters and her husband, played solos, chamber music, and concertos by Bach and his contemporaries, and their soirées constituted what the composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt called a "Bach cult." Around 1813, Sara donated the majority of her enormous collection of manuscript scores and printed sheet music to the Singing Academy of Berlin. It was there, in 1829, that her great-nephew Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy staged his famous performance of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion - the event that sparked the so-called "Bach revival" of the 19th century.
Sara was also a patron of new music. Some of the keyboard fantasies of W.F. Bach are preserved only in manuscripts associated with Levy and her circle, suggesting that she or her family may have commissioned them, heard the composer play them, and played them themselves. It's thought she may also have commissioned the late quartets of C.P.E. Bach.
Recorded in Durham Cathedral Chapter House with the Durham Cathedral Consort of Singers.
Introit: Super flumina babylonis (Palestrina)
Responses: Shephard
Psalms 136, 137, 138 (Plainsong)
First Lesson: Job 1 vv.1-22
Canticles: Norwich Canticles (John McCabe)
Second Lesson Luke 21 v.34 - 22 v.6
Anthem: Ne irascaris Domine (Byrd)
Hymn: Jesu, grant me this, I pray (Song 13)
Organ Voluntary: Voluntary for my Lady Nevell (Byrd)
Francesca Massey (Director)
Daniel Cook (Organist).
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of the very best organ music and performances. Including original music for the instrument by Sweelinck, Gigout and Prizeman - as well the pioneering 20th century Frenchwoman Rolande Falcinelli. There's also a chance to hear two charming - and very contrasting - transcriptions of William Walton.
The French horn, elemental and atavistic, noble and heroic, has long held a special place in composers' affections. Just think of the horn writing of Bach and Handel, at once earthy and sophisticated, the concertos and chamber music of Mozart, the horns of Beethoven symphonies! Not to mention Schumann's supercharged Konzertstuck for four horns, or the central role the horn plays in Wagner's epic Ring - and in the orchestra of Brahms, Strauss and Mahler. And then there are today's composers...
Tom Service unwinds this 12-foot metal tube to discover its continuous appeal over three centuries with the help of natural horn virtuoso Anneke Scott and self-confessed French horn superfan Oliver Knussen, whose very personal concerto for the instrument was inspired by family and friendship, as well as the great horn writing of the past.
David Papp (producer).
As we look ahead to International Women's Day, this edition of Words and Music explores mothers and daughters. The readers are real-life mother and daughter Samantha Bond and Molly Hanson. From Shakespeare's domineering Lady Capulet and bewildered Juliet to Austen's neurotic Mrs Bennet and her brood of daughters, the mother and daughter relationship is one fraught with concern and competition but also - often - full of love. From the adoration of Christina Rosetti in her 'Sonnets are full of love' to the tussle over identity in Gillian Clarke's 'Catrin', this is a journey through one of life's most multi-faceted relationships with music by Ives, Dvorak, Laurie Anderson and Richard Strauss,.
01 GriegJazz writer, social historian, acclaimed photographer: over six decades, Val Wilmer has become "a world figure in the history of African-American musical culture". What drives her?
In 1956, Valerie Wilmer - aged 14 - took a snap at London Airport of a grinning Louis Armstrong. Thus began a remarkable career that has brought her close up to almost every significant figure in post-war jazz, blues and R&B.
Her books, articles and photographs delve deep into the minds, lives and politics of jazz's most famous exponents - John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus - as well as countless unrecognised men and women who have shaped African-American culture since the 1950s.
How does she reveal the intimate humanity of her subjects? How, "as a white woman, as an English woman!", has she gained such trust and respect? What makes her "a world figure" in the history of Black music?
Val Wilmer is a woman with remarkable stories to tell. Here, for BBC Radio 3, she brings her encounters and recollections vividly to life... and shares her strong views on racism, feminism, and responsible journalism.
Includes contributions from Margaret Busby (publisher and co-founder of Allison & Busby), Paul Gilroy (writer and academic), Richard Williams (journalist and biographer), Andrew Cyrille (musician and drummer), and Clive Wilmer (poet, and brother of Val).
Producer: Steve Urquhart
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3.
Clemency Burton-Hill presents highlights from a concert Barbara Hannigan gave as singer and conductor with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris last year. Berg's Lulu Suite and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht are contrasted with Gershwin's Suite from Girl Crazy.
Debussy: Syrinx
Thomas Prévost (flute)
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op 4
Berg: Lulu-Suite
George Gershwin, arr Bill Elliot: Suite from 'Girl Crazy'
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor).
Byzantium
By Robin Brooks
Poison, intrigue, rebellion, torture, eunuch armies, black magic, political and sexual intrigue: this fast-moving historical epic tells the story of the Empress Zoe. Soft-hearted and politically naive, she nevertheless has the strongest claim to the throne of Constantinople, and lives for several eventful decades at the centre of vicious power struggles for control of the Byzantine Empire. It is a true story, based on contemporary histories of the 11th Century.
Empress Zoe ..... Catherine Shepherd
Psellus ..... Adrian Scarborough
Constans/Nicholas ..... Julian Wadham
Romanus ..... Raad Rawi
John, the Orphan Master ..... Jasper Britton
Michael ..... Alex Waldmann
Justin ..... Noof McEwan
Abbess/Witch ..... Gilian Cally
Alexios, the Patriarch ..... Sagar Arya
Theodora/Wife ..... Rose Reade
Other parts played by members of the company.
Producer/Director, Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design, Lucinda Mason Brown
An Allegra Production for BBC Radio 3.
Elin Manahan Thomas presents highlights of a concert of baroque violin concertos given by Giuliano Carmignola with Concerto Köln at the George Enescu International Festival and Competition in Bucharest. Vivaldi's Four Seasons is paired with less familiar works by Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco and Charles Avison.
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco Concerto in D minor, Op.2'1 from 'Concerti a quarto da chiesa'
Charles Avison Concerto no.6 in D, from '12 Concertos in Seven Parts'
Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons:
La Primavera, Violin Concerto no.1 in E, RV.269
L'Estate, Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor RV.315
L'Autunno, Violin Concerto no.3 in F, RV.293
L'Inverno, Violin Concerto no.4 in F minor, RV.297
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Concerto Köln
Mayumi Hirasaki (director).
Max Bruch's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in A flat minor, Op 88a, performed by Guher and Suher Pekinel, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Neville Marriner.
Jonathan Swain presents a concert given by the BBC Philharmonic at the 2015 BBC Proms, including music by Mozart, Ravel and Stravinsky.
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Idomeneo (ballet music), K367
BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
12:55 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Piano Concerto in G major
Jean Efflam Bavouzet (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
1:17 AM
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), orch. Christopher Dingle
Un Oiseau des arbres de vie (Oiseau tui)
BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
1:22 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Symphony in Three Movements
BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
1:44 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937), orch. Colin Matthews
Oiseaux tristes (Miroirs)
BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
1:49 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
La Valse
BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
2:02 AM
Dutilleux, Henri (1916-2013)
Métaboles
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier
2:19 AM
Vierne, Louis (1870-1937)
Clair de lune - No.5 from Pièces de fantaisie: Suite for Organ No.2, Op.53
Stanislas Deriemaeker (Organ)
2:31 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
Missa Dei filii (Missa ultimarum secundat) ZWV 20 for soloists, chorus and orche
Martina Janková (Soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Contralto), Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak (Tenor), Felix Rumpf (Bass), Dresden Chamber Choir, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Václav Luks (Conductor)
3:13 AM
Bruch, Max (1838-1920)
Symphony No.1 in E flat Op 28
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (Conductor)
3:44 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
8 Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' (WoO 28) arranged for oboe and piano
Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Ja-Eun Ku (piano)
3:53 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Cello Sonata in G, Op 5 No 8 - from 'Eight solos for the violincello with a thorough bass'
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello continuo)
4:03 AM
Dall'Abaco, Evaristo Felice (1675-1742)
Concerto a piu istrumenti in C major Op 6 No 10
Il Tempio Armonico
4:10 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Impromptu No 3 in B flat major (from 4 Impromptus D935) (1828)
Ilze Graubina (Piano)
4:19 AM
Addinsell, Richard (1904-1977)
Warsaw Concerto, for piano and orchestra
Patrik Jablonski (piano), Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Wojiech Rajski (conductor)
4:31 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Fantasy, Theme and Variations a Theme of Danzi, Op 81
László Horvath (clarinet), New Budapest String Quartet
4:39 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
2 Charakterstücke for piano, Op 1
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
4:49 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Gesänge, Op 32
Ruud van der Meer (baritone), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
4:59 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata in D minor for recorder and continuo - from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Köln: Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (cello); Sabine Bauer (harpsichord)
5:09 AM
Gabrieli, Andrea (1532/3-1585)
Aria della battaglia à 8
Theatrum Instrumentorum, Stefano Innocenti (conductor)
5:19 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 1 No 4 (HWV.362)
Tomaž Lorenz (violin), Jerko Novak (guitar)
5:29 AM
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974)
Le Globe-trotter, Op 358
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:48 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata No 12 in F major, K332
Kevin Kenner (piano)
6:07 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat major, Op 74
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor).
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this the conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
Donald Macleod in discussion with Rachel Portman explores her studies at Oxford and early career
Donald Macleod this week joins the Oscar winning film composer Rachel Portman in her studio in London, to chat about her life and music for film and the concert platform. Portman was the first female composer to win an Academy Award, an Oscar, and a Primetime Emmy Award for her various film music projects, as well as many other Academy and Golden Globe nominations. In more recent years her music for the film The Duchess has been added to the A-level music syllabus for students to study. Portman also has an interest in ecology and environmental issues. There'll be an opportunity to hear part of her choral symphony The Water Diviner's Tale, a collaboration with Owen Sheers, plus the orchestral work Endangered specially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week there will also be music specially recorded by the BBC Singers including Portman's Magnificat, and her Christmas Carol We Were There composed in collaboration with Michael Morpurgo.
In conversation with Donald Macleod, the composer Rachel Portman discusses her early musical influences, and the importance of her mother in encouraging her development in music. Portman was one of the first female students to study at Charterhouse, where she was first introduced to the music of Ravel, a composer she still greatly admires. After Charterhouse, Portman went on to study at Oxford which was both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand she was encouraged to write atonal music, which Portman wasn't interested in at all. But through collaborating with other faculties at the university she began to compose music for projects working alongside fellow students such as Hugh Grant. After university when Portman was in her twenties, she was composing music for film, radio and the concert hall, but this still didn't bring in a regular income, so she supplemented her composing work with a number of other jobs, including waitressing, and also cooking lunches for city directors.
Main Titles (Chocolat)
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Chocolat (excerpts)
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Ravel
Concerto in G for piano and orchestra (Adagio assai)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
The Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Portman
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
BBC Singers
Libby Burgess, organ
Benjamin Nicholas, conductor
Main Titles: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
In the Park (Benny and Joon)
Studio Orchestra
J.A.C. Redford, conductor
End Titles: Ethan Frome
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
Leon McCawley plays piano music by Haydn, Gál, Chopin and Beethoven.
Live from Wigmore Hall, London.
Introduced by Clemency Burton-Hill.
Haydn: Piano Sonata in C minor, HXVI:20
Hans Gál: Three Preludes, Op 65
Chopin: 2 Nocturnes, Op 37
Beethoven: 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80
Leon McCawley, piano
Leon McCawley's world première recording of Hans Gál's piano works championed the music of a composer who fled the Nazis to find refuge in Britain. Gál's Three Preludes complement Haydn's dramatic C minor Sonata and the elegance of Chopin's Nocturnes.
Jonathan Swain begins a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with music by four English composers: Edward Elgar, William Walton, Dorothy Howell and Richard Rodney Bennett. Also on the programme: a recording of Beethoven's breakthrough Eroica Symphony.
2pm
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town) - overture, Op 40
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85
Walton: Symphony No 1 in B flat minor
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
3.20pm
Dorothy Howell: Piano Concerto in D minor
Danny Driver (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rebecca Miller (conductor)
3.45pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55 (Eroica)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
4.30pm
Richard Rodney Bennett: Summer Music; Sinfonietta
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
English music features largely in today's Afternoon Concert. To begin, there's the two sides of Edward Elgar: on the one hand his playful overture Cockaigne; on the other his powerful Cello Concerto, a rite-of-passage for many a cellist, today in the capable hands of Leonard Elschenbroich. William Walton's First Symphony caused the composer plenty of problems before he finally arrived at a version with which he was satisfied. Indeed, the first public performance had to be given without the finale. That finale is intact in this afternoon's recording.
Elsewhere, John Wilson conducts music by the versatile Sir Richard Rodney Bennett; there's a rarely heard piano concerto from Dorothy Howell, and a performance given last November in Leeds of Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica'.
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Live music today comes courtesy of soprano Carolyn Sampson, who performs with The Bach Choir in London tomorrow, and violinist Hugo Ticciati, who performs a recital in Lancaster this coming weekend. Plus Sean chats to choreographer Cathy Marston, whose production of Jane Eyre with Northern Ballet opens in Leeds on Wednesday.
Today's Mixtape includes melons as dark as caves- it's another extract from William Walton's Facade! Plus a good wholesome Mozart piano duet, an introduction to the regal Gondoliers of Gilbert and Sullivan, jaunty Americana from Dvorak's string quartet, sprightly clarinet in Weber's quintet, the sounds of Seville from Issac Albeniz and - to finish it off - the original Mack the Knife, courtesy of Kurt Weill and Bryn Terfel. What a mix!
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Produced by Philip O'Meara.
Paris-Manchester 1918. Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire join forces at London's Cadogan Hall to explore music performed in Manchester and Paris during the First World War. Included in the programme is music by Richard Wagner, a composer championed by Sir Thomas Beecham in his wartime concerts with the Hallé Orchestra.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Interval
Wagner: The Ring, an orchestral adventure (arr. de Vlieger)
Musicians from the RNCM and Paris Conservatoire
Markus Stenz (conductor)
This concert forms part of Paris-Manchester 1918, a partnership project between the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) that combines performance and research to shed light on the musical life of Paris and Manchester during the First World War.
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art.
Dr Heather Jones of the LSE explores Elizabeth Bowen's novel "The Last September"
In 1922, 26 counties of Ireland seceded from the UK, becoming independent, a final epilogue to the Great War. It is this story that Bowen chronicles in her great novel, The Last September - an elegy for the death of the Anglo-Irish class for whom the First World War and the violence it triggered in Ireland marked the end.
Heather Jones explores how the novel mirrors Bowen's own contested loyalties between Ireland and England and investigates how the central character mirrors Bowen herself.
Producer: Emma Kingsley.
Soweto Kinch with a concert by Tommy Smith and the Bulgarian Radio Big Band, directed by Antoni Donchev, playing music by John Coltrane, Marcus Miller and Wayne Shorter, as well as Tommy Smith himself. Plus, Emma Smith meets vocalist Victoria Hummler.
Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 14 & 27. With Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto no.14 in E flat major, K.449
Mikhail Voskresensky (piano), Pavel Slobodkin Centre Chamber Orchestra, Moscow, Leonid Nikolaev (conductor)
12:53 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto no.27 in B flat major, K.595
Mikhail Voskresensky (piano), Pavel Slobodkin Centre Chamber Orchestra, Moscow, Leonid Nikolaev (conductor)
1:23 AM
Jadin, Hyacinthe (1776-1800)
Trio No.3 in F major (1797)
Trio AnPaPié: Alice Piérot (violin), Fanny Paccoud (violin), Elena Andreyev (cello)
1:44 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony no.6 in F major (Op.68) 'Pastoral'
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos (conductor)
2:31 AM
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Alma Redemptoris Mater; Ave Maria, O auctrix vite - Responsorium
Sequentia
2:42 AM
Welffens, Peter (1924-2003)
Stabat Mater
Flemish Radio Choir, Members of Flemish Radio Orchestra, Johan Duijck (conductor)
3:00 AM
Hoof, Jef van (1886-1959)
Symphony No.1 in A major (1938)
BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra, Fernand Terby (conductor)
3:33 AM
Chopin, Frederic (1810-1849)
Nocturne in F major (Op.15 No.1)
Tanel Joamets (piano)
3:38 AM
Tournier, Marcel (1879-1951)
Vers la source dans le bois
Rita Costanzi (harp)
3:43 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)
Pimen's Monologue - from "Boris Godunov"
Robert Holl (bass), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
3:50 AM
Demersseman, Jules August (1833-1866)
Concert Fantasy for 2 flutes and piano (Op.36)
Matej Zupan, Karolina Santl-Zupan (flutes), Dijana Tanovic (piano)
4:02 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Two Lyric Pieces: Evening in the Mountains (Op.68 No.4); At the cradle (Op.68 No.5)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:10 AM
Martini, Giovanni Battista (1706-1784)
Ex Tractatu Sancti Augustini - Motet for harpsichord with salterio obbligato and alto solo
Maria Sanner (Contralto), Hager Hanana (Cello), Komalé Akakpo (Psalter), Dagmara Kapczynska (Harpsichord), Joanna Boslak-Górniok (Organ)
4:23 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Andante for flute and orchestra in C major (K.315)
Anita Szabo (flute), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)
4:31 AM
Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) [1843-1907]
Norwegian Dance No.1 (Op.35) for piano duet
Leif Ove Andsnes & Håvard Gimse (piano)
4:37 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Overture in C minor D.8 for strings
Korean Chamber Orchestra (formerly Seoul Baroque Orchestra)
4:47 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Caesar's aria: 'Va tacito e nascosto' (from 'Giulio Cesare in Egitto', Act 1 Sc.9)
Graham Pushee (countertenor), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (artistic director)
4:54 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata for violin and harpsichord in B minor (H.512)
Les Adieux: Mary Utiger (violin), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5:12 AM
Bologne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
Symphony in G major (Op.11, No.1) (1779)
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
5:27 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Gaspard de la nuit for piano
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
5:48 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp (L.137)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Jon Sønstebø (viola), Sidsel Walstad (harp)
6:06 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
6 Orchestral songs (Nos 1-5 only) (EG.177)
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor).
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this the conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
Donald Macleod and Rachel Portman discuss the period when she won an Oscar for the film Emma
Donald Macleod this week joins the Oscar winning film composer Rachel Portman in her studio in London, to chat about her life and music for film and the concert platform. Portman was the first female composer to win an Academy Award, an Oscar, and a Primetime Emmy Award for her various film music projects, as well as many other Academy and Golden Globe nominations. In more recent years her music for the film The Duchess has been added to the A-level music syllabus. Portman also has an interest in ecology and environmental issues. There'll be an opportunity to hear part of her choral symphony The Water Diviner's Tale, a collaboration with Owen Sheers, plus the orchestral work Endangered specially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week there will also be music specially recorded by the BBC Singers including Portman's Magnificat, and her Christmas Carol We Were There composed in collaboration with Michael Morpurgo.
In Rachel Portman's studio in London, Donald Macleod joins the composer to chat about her film music projects in the 1990s. This included working with the American puppeteer and film-maker Jim Henson, where for one project they had to find a whistle that made the sound of rubies. Portman also discusses her process in writing for film, from playing freely at the piano without click-track, to providing a short-score with details of instrumentation for an orchestrator. In 1996 Portman worked on the film Emma, which won her an Oscar. Portman recounts her experiences of receiving that award, going to the ceremony, and how it impacted upon her career.
Portman
End Titles: Great Moments in Aviation
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Portman
Chasing the Fox (War of the Buttons)
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Portman
Terra Magica (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 99 (Passacaglia)
Nicola Benedetti, violin
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits, conductor
Portman
Emma (excerpts)
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Portman
Beloved (excerpts)
Studio Vocalists
Studio Orchestra
David Arch, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
Sarah Walker presents highlights from the 12th CLASSIX Kempten.
The 2017 festival was devoted to the performance of chamber music written by women composers; along with the more familiar names like Clara Schumann and Amy Beach, the festival also programmed music by previously virtually unknown women composers of the past two centuries along with some important names from our own times. As the festival's programme declared: "CLASSIX Kempten 2017 does not want to open a feminist debate about the reasons and consequences for the exclusion of female composers from the music business. On the contrary, it is simply a question of illuminating and arousing interest...by performing a range of pieces that can be appreciated for what they are: great creations."
Zara Levina (1906-76)
Poem for viola
Elizabeth Kufferatch (viola)
Oliver Triendl (piano)
Ivana Stefanovic (b 1948)
Ordinary Conversations, Op 41
Céline Moinet (oboe)
Eriikka Maalisma (violin)
Amy M.C. Beach (1867-1944)
Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 67
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Elisabeth Kufferath (violin)
Nina Karmon (violin)
Mari Fukazawa (viola)
Amy Norrington (cello)
Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923)
Elegy, Op 34
Vineta Sareika (violin)
Oliver Triendl (piano).
Jonathan Swain introduces more recordings of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today: Martyn Brabbins conducts Debussy, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and John Wilson conducts the music of Richard Rodney Bennett.
2pm
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat major, K271
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74 (Pathétique)
Arthur Jussen (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
3.20pm
Amy Beach: Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op 45
Danny Driver (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rebecca Miller (conductor)
3.55pm
Richard Rodney Bennett: Marimba Concerto; Symphony No 3
Colin Currie (marimba)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
Afternoon Concert this week focuses on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and today's programme begins with a full concert recorded in January at Aberdeen Music Hall. Martyn Brabbins conducted three cornerstones of the repertoire: Debussy's groundbreaking tone poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony and an early Mozart Piano Concerto featuring the young Dutch pianist Arthur Jussen, also known from the duo in which he performs with his brother Lucas.
Danny Driver is the soloist in another concerto, by the 19th and 20th century American composer Amy Beach, and percussionist Colin Currie is the soloist in Richard Rodney Bennett's Marimba Concerto. This is a recording made last year in Glasgow by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor John Wilson joined them to conduct a number of works by the late Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, whose versatile musical vision took in classical and jazz. Today there's also a chance to hear his Third Symphony.
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Live music today comes courtesy of from violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and pianist Huw Watkins, who are in recital at Saffron Hall in Essex this weekend.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites together with lesser-known gems, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
The BBC Philharmonic's Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon in a UK premiere, 'This Midnight Hour' by Anna Clyne, Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 and Mahler's First Symphony
From the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester
Presented by Tom Redmond
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour (UK premiere)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor (K466)
Music Interval
Mahler: Symphony No 1
Richard Goode (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon (conductor)
Ben Gernon, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic opens this evening's concert with the UK premiere of Anna Clynes's 'This Midnight Hour', a piece he describes as having "bite and relentless energy". Richard Goode, great American pianist and one of today's leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic piano repertoire joins the orchestra for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 (K466), one of only two of his piano concertos written in a minor key with an interestingly Romantic feel as a result. The story goes that the ink was still wet on the orchestra parts as he launched himself into the solo part at the premiere in 1785, a picture entirely plausible given the huge amount of music he was writing at that time. We are invited into the vast world of Mahler's First Symphony after the interval; a work as immediately engaging as any in his catalogue with its array of moods, tunes and dance rhythms as well as Mahler's sheer joy in the glory of orchestral sound.
Arundhati Roy, the Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner, is in conversation with Philip Dodd about a life in the public eye and the novel she published 20 years after The God of Small Things.
Arundhati Roy's second novel is called The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in their work.
BBC Correspondent Lyse Doucet, fresh from her experiences in Afghanistan and Syria, introduces novelist Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France, 'Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort'.
Wharton, best known for 'The Age Of Innocence' and 'The House of Mirth', was granted unique access to the Western front and wrote one of the most evocative and undeservedly neglected accounts of life in France in World War One.
In its pages, penned early in the war, are Wharton's painterly descriptions of the country's overnight transformation from peace to war, her deep love for France and its people, and her accounts of the destruction wrought upon the villages and towns in the path of the German invader.
Producer: Benedict Warren.
Verity takes you on as many sonic adventures as possible within a ninety-minute time frame.
Expect some Adult Jazz, AGF, Ani DiFranco, and Art Zoyd... and that's just the artists beginning with the letter 'A'.
Also tonight, hear music to preview a few upcoming, magically monikered music festivals: Borealis in Bergen, Counterflows in Glasgow, and Lake Of Stars in London and Lake Malawi.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
Jonathan Swain presents Rossini's La Cenerentola ('Cinderella'), from the 2015-2016 Season at the National Opera Theatre of Ukraine. Soprano Lena Belkina sings the title role.
12:32 AM
Gioachino Rossini [1792-1868]
La Cenerentola (Cinderella) - opera in two acts, Act 1
Lena Belkina (Mezzo-soprano, Angelina (Cenerentola)); Petro Ostapenko (Baritone, Dandini); Taras Shtonda (Baritone, Don Magnifico); Serhiy Pashchuk (Tenor, Don Ramiro); Serhiy Kovnir, (Bass, Alidoro); Olga Nahorna, (Soprano, Tisbe); Olga Fomichova (Soprano, Clorinda); National Opera of Ukraine Chorus; National Opera of Ukraine Symphony Orchestra; Volodymyr Kozhukhar (Conductor)
2:07 AM
Gioachino Rossini [1792-1868]
La Cenerentola (Cinderella) - opera in two acts, Act 2
Lena Belkina (Mezzo-soprano, Angelina (Cenerentola)); Petro Ostapenko (Baritone, Dandini); Taras Shtonda (Baritone, Don Magnifico); Serhiy Pashchuk (Tenor, Don Ramiro); Serhiy Kovnir, (Bass, Alidoro); Olga Nahorna, (Soprano, Tisbe); Olga Fomichova (Soprano, Clorinda); National Opera of Ukraine Chorus; National Opera of Ukraine Symphony Orchestra; Volodymyr Kozhukhar (Conductor)
3:06 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Cello Sonata no.2 in G minor, Op.117
Torleif Thedéen (cello), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
3:24 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Overture to Maskarade (FS.39)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (Conductor)
3:30 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Waltz in A flat major Op.34 No.1
Zoltan Kocsis (Piano)
3:35 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto da Camera in F major (RV.99)
Camerata Köln: Michael Schneider (recorder), Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Michael McCraw (bassoon), Mary Utiger & Hajo Bäß (violins), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)
3:43 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Serenade No.1 in D major for violin & orchestra (Op.69a)
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (conductor)
3:52 AM
Soler, Antonio (1729-1783)
Fandango
Fredrik From (Violin), Benjamin Scherer Questa (Violin), Teodoro Baù (Viola D'Arco), Hager Hanana (Cello), Joanna Boślak-Górniok (Harpsichord), Dagmara Kapczyńska (Harpsichord), Gwennaëlle Alibert (Harpsichord), Bolette Roed (Flute), Komalé Akakpo (Dulcimer)
3:59 AM
Falla, Manuel de [1876-1946]
7 Canciones populares espanolas arr. for trumpet and piano
Alison Balsom (trumpet), Alisdair Beatson (piano)
4:10 AM
Richard Strauss [1894-1949]
Morgen (Op.27 No.4)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Lazar Shuster (violin), Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)
4:15 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Gypsy Dance - from the idyll 'Jawnuta' (The Gypsies)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)
4:19 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concert aria: Ch'io mi scordi di te...? Non temer, amato bene (K.505)
Tuva Semmingsen (soprano), Jörn Fosheim (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
4:31 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
4:38 AM
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896)
Scherzo for piano in D minor, Op.10 No.1
Angela Cheng (piano)
4:43 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) or possibly Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) arranged by Harold Perry
Divertimento in B flat major H.2.46 arr. for wind quintet
Galliard Ensemble
4:52 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), arr. Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Tarantelle styrienne (Danse)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)
4:58 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847] Text Heine, Heinrich [1797-1856]
Auf Flügen des Gesanges (On Wings of Song) (Op.34 no.2)
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Sinfonia of London, Rafael Frϋbeck de Burgos (conductor)
5:01 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for 3 oboes and orchestra in B flat major
Peter Westermann, Michael Niesemann, Piet Dhont (oboes), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
5:11 AM
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968)
Concert transcription for cello and piano of Figaro's aria 'Largo al factotum' from Rossini's 'Il barbiere di Siviglia'
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
5:17 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Sicut cervus - motet for 4 voices
Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
5:22 AM
Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857)
Overture "Le Bandit"
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (Conductor)
5:29 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sinfonia concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and orchestra (K.297b) in E flat major (K.297b)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)
6:00 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13
Apollon Musagète Quartet: Paweł Zalejski (violin), Bartosz Zachłod (violin), Piotr Szumieł (viola), Piotr Skweres (cello).
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this the conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
Donald Macleod joins Rachel Portman to chat about writing her opera The Little Prince and working with children
Donald Macleod this week joins the Oscar winning film composer Rachel Portman in her studio in London, to chat about her life and music for film and the concert platform. Portman was the first female composer to win an Academy Award, an Oscar, and a Primetime Emmy Award for her various film music projects, as well as many other Academy and Golden Globe nominations. In more recent years her music for the film The Duchess has been added to the A-level music syllabus for students to study. Portman also has an interest in ecology and environmental issues. There'll be an opportunity to hear part of her choral symphony The Water Diviner's Tale, a collaboration with Owen Sheers, plus the orchestral work Endangered specially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week there will also be music specially recorded by the BBC Singers including Portman's Magnificat, and her Christmas Carol We Were There composed in collaboration with Michael Morpurgo.
During the 1990s and into the twenty-first century, composer Rachel Portman was still very busy composing film scores. During this period she wrote one of her own favourite works, The Cider House Rules. Portman received a letter from an American soldier telling her that throughout his time working abroad, he would listen at night to her music from this film, to give him peace of mind. Portman found herself getting pulled more and more into films, working with legendary directors such as Robert Redford, yet she craved for something different and so turned her attention to composing an opera for children. The Little Prince was written to appeal to both adults and children, and it was Philip Glass who recommended Rachel Portman for the project.
Augie's Photos (Smoke)
Studio Orchestra
Jonathan Schaeffer, conductor
The Cider House Rules (excerpts)
John Lenehan, piano
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Junuh sees the field (The Legend of Bagger Vance)
Andrew Crowley, trumpet
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Final Salute (Hart's War)
Studio orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Opening Credits (The Human Stain)
John Lenehan, piano
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
The Little Prince (Act I: The Businessman; The Lamplighter; We Light our Lamps)
Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Pilot), baritone
Joseph McManners (The Little Prince), boy soprano
Timothy Robinson (Lamplighter), tenor
Richard Suart (Businessman), baritone
Vocal Ensemble
Children's Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Charles Abell, conductor
What If All This Is A Dream? (The Manchurian Candidate)
Studio Orchestra
Theodore Sperling, conductor
Michael Kosarin, conductor
Lucas Richmond, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
Sarah Walker presents highlights from the 12th CLASSIX Kempten.
The 2017 festival was devoted to the performance of chamber music written by women composers. Today's programme sees music written in the second half of the twentieth century which, will, as the festival says: "Illuminate and arouse interest in this music as great creations."
Sofia Gubaidulina (* 1931)
Sounds of the Forest, for flute and piano (1978)
Stephanie Winkler (flute)
Oliver Triendl (piano)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (* 1939)
Double Quartet, for string octet
Eriikka Maalisma (violin)
Elisabeth Kufferath (violin)
Yura Lee (violin)
Nurit Stark (violin)
Hariolf Schlichtig (viola)
Jennifer Stumm (viola)
Peter Bruns (cello)
Amy Norrington (cello)
Johanna Senfter (1879-1961)
Trio, op. 103, for clarinet, horn and piano
Matthew Hunt (clarinet)
Olivier Darbellay (horn)
Oliver Triendl (piano).
Jonathan Swain introduces a concert of music from Hungary given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
2pm
Kodály: Summer evening
Bartók: Violin Concerto No 1
Bartók: Rhapsody No 2 (arr. for violin & orchestra)
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin
Today's afternoon concert was recorded in Glasgow last month, and featured works by two titans of Hungarian music: Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók. The Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen brings a countryman's understanding to Bartók's First Violin Concerto, with its powerful and plaintive melodies. There's also a chance to hear the orchestral arrangement of Bartók's Second Rhapsody (originally for violin and piano), and music from the score to his controversial ballet The Miraculous Mandarin.
An archive recording from Chichester Cathedral (first broadcast 7 June 1972).
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm 37
First Lesson: 1 Samuel 17 vv.1-30
Canticles: Watson in E
Second Lesson: Luke 4 vv.1-13
Anthem: Why rage fiercely the heathen? (Mendelssohn)
John Birch (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Nicholas Cleobury (Assistant Organist).
Dedicated to International Women's Day 2018, today's programme features a selection of recordings and performances by female composers. Former New Generation Artist, violinist Elena Urioste performs a stirring miniature by Amy Beach at her Wigmore Hall debut in 2013. Also today, the Signum Quartet's energetic performance of Elizabeth Maconchy's Bartók-influenced String Quartet No. 3 at the Proms Cadogan Hall in 2013 and the remarkable music of Jewish poet Ilse Weber who perished in the Holocaust.
Cecile Chaminade: Thème varié for piano
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet no. 3
Signum Quartet
Amy Beach: Romance Op. 23 for violin and piano
Elena Urioste (violin)
Michael Brown (piano)
Ilse Weber: 'Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt'; 'Wiegala'
Benjamin Appl (baritone)
James Baillieu (piano).
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. His guests include baroque group Florilegium, who perform live in the studio before a Wigmore Hall recital tomorrow.
A specially-selected playlist with music by Bach on harpsichord, John Cage on prepared piano, and a Last Song by Richard Strauss, together with some sounds from Kinshasa.
Producer: Roger Short.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo on tour in Hiroshima, Japan. Music by Britten, Sibelius's 5th Symphony & Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Alina Pogostkina.
Recorded at the Ueno Gakuen Hall, Hiroshima on Friday 2nd March 2018
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Britten: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Op.35
08.25
Interval: Andrew McGregor finds out more about musical culture in Hiroshima
08.45
Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E Flat, Op.82
Alina Pogostkina (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor).
How self-revealing and frank should a writer be? Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn and Xiaolu Guo join Matthew Sweet to look at the life of Doris Lessing and her 1962 novel in which she explores difficult love, life, war, politics and dreams.
Inspired by her re-reading of Doris Lessing, Lara Feigel has written a revealing book which is part memoir part biography called "Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing".
Melissa Benn's books include Mother and Child, One of Us and School Wars
David Aaronovitch is the author of Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists and a former winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Journalism.
Xiaolu Guo has written a memoir Once Upon a Time in the East, and novels including UFO in Her Eyes, and Lovers In the Age of Indifference.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
The poet and translator Sasha Dugdale explores the impact of the First War on the great Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova.
Her focus is on the collection, White Flock, published in 1917, but written during the war. In many poems, Akhmatova mentions the war directly, and in others, echoes of loss and war sound, refracted through peculiarly Russian folk imagery.
Sasha focuses on a two-part poem called 'July 1914'. In the first stanza, the turf has been burning for four weeks and the dry summer smells of smoke and fumes. The birds aren't singing and the aspen isn't moving. A one-legged wanderer comes to the house with terrible prophecies and predicts that 'soon there won't be room for all the fresh graves'. In the second part, the juniper's sweet smell rises from the burning wood and the widow's cry sounds. Instead of water and the rain they have prayed for, a warm red wetness floods the trampled fields.
Sasha's powerful Essay includes a new translation of the poem and a poignant account of how some of its motifs are now reappearing in contemporary writing about the war in Ukraine.
On the eve of the first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern, the painter, sculptor, ceramicist, poet, and playwright is an inspiration for several of Verity's musical choices tonight. Travel with her to 19th century Spain, to pre-war Paris, and to the world of surrealism.
Also featured on the programme are contemporary multi-disciplinary artists playing with aesthetic, abstract, and avant-garde approaches to sound and music-making. These include Ryoko Akama, Yas Clarke, Claire Tolan, and Anna Zaradny.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
12:31 AM
Valborg Aulin [1860-1928], transcr. Tor Aulin [1866-1914]
Elegy for violin and piano Op 8 No 3
Per Sporrong (violin), Johan Ullén (piano)
12:35 AM
Valborg Aulin [1860-1928]
From 5 Tone Poems, Op 7
Johan Ullén (piano)
12:46 AM
Valborg Aulin [1860-1928]
Sonata for violin and piano
Per Sporrong (violin), Johan Ullén (piano)
1:00 AM
Valborg Aulin [1860-1928]
Albumblad
Per Sporrong (violin), Johan Ullén (piano)
1:06 AM
Rennes, Catharina van (1858-1940), text Emil Claar
3 Quartets for women's voices and piano (Op.24)
Irene Maessen (soprano), Rachel Ann Morgan & Christa Pfeiler (mezzo-sopranos), Corrie Pronk (alto), Franz van Ruth (piano)
1:11 AM
Coulthard, Jean (1908-2000)
Excursion Ballet Suite
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
1:26 AM
Carreño, Teresa (1853-1917)
Valse Petite in D major
Dennis Hennig (piano)
1:30 AM
Calame, Genevieve (1946-1993)
Sur la margelle du monde
Bienne Symphony Orchestra, Franco Trinca (conductor)
1:41 AM
Caccini, Francesca [1587-1640]
Excerpts from Act One of La Liberazione di Ruggiero
Suzie Le Blanc (soprano), Barbara Borden (soprano), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Christian Hilz (baritone), Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (director)
2:02 AM
Hélène Tham [1843-1925]
Helsning; Svanen: Från nya hemmet; Erinran
Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano), Michael Engström (piano)
2:10 AM
Hélène Tham [1843-1925]
6 piano pieces - Tempo di Minuetto
Michael Engström (piano)
2:13 AM
Helena Munktell [1852-1919]
Det Förste Möde (The first meeting) (text Bjøornstjerne Bjørnson); Åter i Sorrento (Salut Sorrente) (text Carl Snoilsky)
Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano), Michael Engström (piano)
2:19 AM
Fredrika Peyron [1845-1922]
Böljeslag (Dashing of waves) from suite 'I det fria' (In the open air)
Michael Engström (piano)
2:24 AM
Ingeborg von Bronsart [1840-1913], text Heinrich Heine
Die Loreley
Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano), Michael Engström (piano)
2:31 AM
Walpurgis, Maria Antonia (1724-1780)
Sinfonia from 'Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni' - Dramma per musica
Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord/director)
2:38 AM
Walpurgis, Maria Antonia (1724-1780), text Walpurgis
Talestri, regina delle amazzoni - excerpts
Christine Wolff (soprano) , Johanna Stojkovic (soprano) , Marilia Vargas (soprano) , Ulrike Bartsch (soprano), Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord/director)
3:17 AM
Laura Netzel [1839-1927]
Romance Op 40 for violin and piano
Iskandar Komilov (violin), Maria Rostotsky (piano)
3:21 AM
Hélène Tham [1843-1925]
8 Piano Pieces (no. 4)
Maria Rostotsky (piano)
3:25 AM
Laura Netzel [1839-1927]
Suite for flute and piano
Julia Crowell (flute), Maria Rostotsky (piano)
3:33 AM
Alice Tegner [1864-1943]
Etude romantique
Maria Rostotsky (piano)
3:36 AM
Laura Netzel [1839-1927]
Tarantelle
Iskandar Komilov (violin), Maria Rostotsky (piano)
3:39 AM
Strozzi, Barbara (1619-1677)
Hor che Apollo è a Theti in seno'
Musica Fiorita: Susanne Rydén (soprano), Enrico Parizzi & Roberto Falcone (violins), Rebeka Rusó (Viola da gamba), Rafael Bonavita (theorbo), Daniela Dolci (harpsichord/director)
3:52 AM
Pejacevic, Dora (1885-1923)
Nocturne
The Croatian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (Conductor)
3:57 AM
Pook, Jocelyn (b.1960), text: Motion, Andrew (b.1952)
Mobile
The King's Singers
4:01 AM
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969)
Suite for chamber orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
4:09 AM
Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983)
Sonata for harp
Godelieve Schrama (harp)
4:19 AM
Leonarda, Isabella (1620-1704)
Sonata Prima a 4 (Opera Decima Sesta)
Maniera: Emma Alter (violin), Marsha Skinns (violin), Sophie Willis (cello), Leah Stuttard (harpsichord)
4:31 AM
Chaminade, Cecile [1857-1944]
Concertino
Maria Filippova (flute), Ekaterina Mirzeava (piano)
4:39 AM
Rossi, Camilla de "La Romana" (fl1707-1710)
Cielo, pietoso Cielo (Sant' Alassio)
Agnieszka Kowlaczyk (soprano) ; Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (diretor)
4:43 AM
Ingeborg von Bronsart [1840-1913]
Romance
Christian Svarfvar (violin), Henrik Måwe (piano)
4:52 AM
Amanda Maier-Rontgen [1853-1894]/Julius Rontgen [1855-1932]
Swedische Weisen und Tanze Op 6
Christian Svarfvar (violin), Henrik Måwe (piano)
5:15 AM
Cozzolani, Suor Chiara Margarita (1602-c.1677)
Laudate pueri
Cappella Artemisia (choir); Maria Christina Cleary (harp); Francesca Torelli (theorbo); Bettini Hoffmann (gamba); Miranda Aureli (organ); Candace Smith (director)
5:24 AM
Bacewicz, Grażyna (1909-1969)
Symphony No 3
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
5:56 AM
Maurice, Paule [1910-67]
Tableaux de Provence - 5 pieces for saxophone and orchestra
Julia Nolan (saxophone), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6:11 AM
Williams, Grace (1906-1977)
Sea Sketches
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor).
Georgia Mann presents a special edition of Breakfast for International Women's Day. Also featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this the conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
Donald Macleod in conversation with Rachel Portman discusses The Duchess which has been included in the A-level music syllabus
Donald Macleod this week joins the Oscar winning film composer Rachel Portman in her studio in London, to chat about her life and music for film and the concert platform. Portman was the first female composer to win an Academy Award, an Oscar, and a Primetime Emmy Award for her various film music projects, as well as many other Academy and Golden Globe nominations. In more recent years her music for the film The Duchess has been added to the A-level music syllabus for students to study. Portman also has an interest in ecology and environmental issues. There'll be an opportunity to hear part of her choral symphony The Water Diviner's Tale, a collaboration with Owen Sheers, plus the orchestral work Endangered specially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week there will also be music specially recorded by the BBC Singers including Portman's Magnificat, and her Christmas Carol We Were There composed in collaboration with Michael Morpurgo.
In conversation with Donald Macleod, the composer Rachel Portman reveals how films can take over your life when you work on them. Specifically how a dark and traumatic film may impact upon her, to working on a lighter film such as Chocolat, and how during the process of composing for this film she kept on eating and craving chocolate. Portman also talks about her environmental concerns, and working with the poet Owen Sheers on the ecological music drama The Water Diviner's Tale. In recent years her music for the film The Duchess has been included on the A-level music syllabus, and Portman discusses how she thinks this came about.
The Battle of Watermelons (The Emperor's New Clothes)
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
The Little Prince (Act II: The Fox; The Taming; Here's my Secret; If We Don't Find a Well; The Walk to the Well)
Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Pilot), baritone
Joseph McManners (The Little Prince), boy soprano
Lesley Garrett (Fox), soprano
Vocal Ensemble
Children's Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Charles Abell, conductor
Oliver Twist (excerpts)
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Thea Musgrave
I am my mammy's ae bairn; Ca' the yowes to the knowes (Songs for a Winter's Evening)
Lisa Milne, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor
Portman
The Water Diviner's Tale (excerpt)
Nonso Anozie, narrator
Helen Williams, soprano
Frances Bourne, mezzo-soprano
Robert Burt, tenor
Riccardo Simonetti, baritone
Paul Reeves, bass
Hertfordshire Country Youth Choir
Berkshire Youth Choir
Bromley Youth Choir
Chantage
Taplow Youth Chorus
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Water Children
David Charles Abell, conductor
BBC Concert Orchestra
The Duchess (excerpts)
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
Sarah Walker presents a live BBC Introducing concert from the BBC's Maida Vale studios featuring music by women composers past and present.
In January BBC Radio 3 invited submissions via BBC Introducing for music by women composers. We had hundreds of responses - and we've invited a few of the composers and performers who submitted tracks to give today's live International Women's Day lunchtime concert.
Full programme (TBC):
Dani Howard: Two and a half minutes to midnight
Tabea Debus (recorder)
Leokadya Kashperova: Cello Sonata (first movement)
Yoanna Prodanova (cello)
Somi Kim (piano)
Fumiko Miyachi: Air
Tabea Debus (recorder)
Karen Tanaka: Wind Energy (from Our Planet Earth)
Natalie Bleicher: Deine schönen Hände (variation on Stölzel's "Bist du bei mir")
Issie Barratt: Before Time
Natalie Bleicher (piano)
Hildegard of Bingen (arr Sarah Tenant-Flowers): O virtus sapientiae
Libby Larsen: Jack's Valentine
Papagena
Electra Perivolaris: Delicate granite rock, crumbling apart in my hands
Francisco Sanchez Diaz (soprano saxophone)
Adam Hall (cello)
Monika Palsauskaite (piano)
Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps
Bukolika Piano Trio:
Grazyna Bacewicz Piano Sonata No 2 (finale)
Anna Szalucka (piano).
Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music, is Kate Molleson's live guest in the Afternoon Concert studio for International Women's Day. Our Opera Matinee is Judith Weir's The Vanishing Bridegroom, and it's complemented by music she loves by women composers from Hildegard to Saariaho.
Opera Matinee
Judith Weir: The Vanishing Bridegroom
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Anna Stéphany (mezzo)
Andrew Tortise (tenor)
Owen Gilhooly (baritone)
Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Overture to Céphale et Procris
Performers TBC
Kate Whitley: I am I say
Sarah-Jane Lewis (soprano)
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Kender Primary School Choir
St. John's and St. Clement's Primary School Choir
Lyndhurst Primary School Choir
Multi-Story Orchestra
Conductor Christopher Stark
Kaija Saariaho: Petals
Scott Roller (cello)
Thomas Neuhaus (electronics)
Barbara Strozzi: L'Eraclito amoroso (Heraclitus in Love)
Dorothée Leclair (soprano)
Lea Rahel Bader (cello)
Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)
Jory Vinikour (harpsichord)
Arlene Sierra: Aquilo
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Jac van Steen
Judith Bingham: Vol de nuit, from The Secret Garden
Tom Winpenny (organ)
Hildegard of Bingen: work TBC
Tiburtina Ensemble
Director Barbora Kabátková
Sofiya Gubaidulina: String Quartet No 4
Kronos Quartet
Weir: Moon and Star
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins.
Sean Rafferty presents a special programme for International Women's Day. His guests include Jane Glover, who conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra tonight at LSO St Luke's, and folk singer Ange Hardy, who performs live in the studio. Plus the Wihan Quartet play music from their latest CD live.
In Tune's specially curated playlist for International Women's Day: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring female composers from the worlds of classical, jazz and folk music. Including Barbara Strozzi, Maria Malibran, Meredith Monk and Kate Rusby.
Fiona Talkington presents a concert live from LSO St Luke's in which the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Jane Glover perform music by five distinguished but unjustly forgotten women composers.
Florence B Price (1887-1953): Concert Overture No 2
Marianna Martines (1744-1813): Two arias from the oratorio 'Sant' Elena'
Augusta Holmès (1847-1903): Allegro Feroce
Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941) Three Songs
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940): Symphony
Soprano tbc
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Jane Glover.
How did interior design help gain women the vote? Were arson attacks justified? Who took part in a six-week march? What role did an Indian princess play?
Helen Pankhurst, Jane Robinson, Fern Ridell, Shahida Rahman and Miranda Garrett discuss the history of women's suffrage with Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough in this centenary year of the Bill which gave some women the right to vote.
Helen Pankhurst is the author of Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights, Then and Now.
Jane Robinson has written Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote.
Miranda Garrett is co editor with Zoë Thomas of Suffrage and the Arts: Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise
Producer: Fiona McLean.
Virginia Woolf spent the First World War on the Home front mainly in London. It was an anxious time; she lost several cousins in the conflict, and her brother-in-law Cecil Woolf died at the Front; in 1915 she suffered a mental breakdown.
For Woolf the war had changed everything, and her three novels written soon after it - Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) - display a marked shift in style. 'There had to be new forms for our new sensations', she wrote in a 1916 essay, and in 1923 went further:
"We are sharply cut off from our predecessors. A shift in the scale - the war, the sudden slip of masses held in position for ages - has shaken the fabric from top to bottom, alienated us from the past and made us perhaps too vividly conscious of the present."
In 1925, Woolf's brilliant novel Mrs Dalloway would amaze readers with its literary techniques and its counterpointing of society hostess Clarissa Dalloway and war veteran Septimus Warren-Smith. Here was a work of fiction in which the principal characters never meet, where the Victorian staples of plot and family relationships are eclipsed by a new emphasis on what the characters think rather than what they do or say.
For Dame Gillian Beer this thronging novel with its cast of war profiteers, war casualties, and passers-by ultimately has a positive message. In Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf draws the reader and the novel's characters together: "Whether known or unknown to each other, in a shared humanity," she says, "her work draws us all alongside, across time.".
As part of BBC Radio 3's schedule marking International Women's Day, Verity Sharp celebrates the female musical collective in all its forms, styles, and structures.
A special Late Junction collaboration session has been assembled for the occasion, featuring members of notable performance collectives past and present. Included within the ensemble are Maggie Nichols, who co-founded the Feminist Improvising Group, and Verity Susman, formerly of Electrelane. Tonight, hear the results of this historic, improvised musical meeting, as well as a roundtable conversation between participants on the history and future of the female collective.
Also featured on the programme is music from all over the globe made by women working together. Expect to hear: folk supergroup Coven; loose sound art collective Egyptian Females Experimental Music Session; electronic choir GRRRL; traditional Tuareg trio Les filles de Illighadad; jazz band Nérija; hip hop crew Reykjavíkurdætur; and performance art improvisers Sheer Frost Orchestra.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
Jonathan Swain presents a concert given in Zagreb by the Sebastian String Quartet, featuring quartets by Felix Mendelssohn and Boris Papandopulo.
12:31 AM
Antun Sorkocevic (1775-1841), arr. Felix Spiller
Trio in A flat, for two violins and basso continuo, arr. for string quartet
Sebastian String Quartet
12:45 AM
Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991)
String Quartet No 3 ('Folk')
Sebastian String Quartet
1:07 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13
Sebastian String Quartet
1:39 AM
Papandopulo, Boris (1906-1991)
Dodolice: a traditional folk ceremony for soprano, piano and girls' choir, Op 27
Slovenian Chamber Choir, Miljenka Grdan (soprano), Vladimir Krpan (piano), Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)
2:00 AM
Škerjanc, Lucijan Marija (1900-1973)
Violin Concerto
Igor Ozim (violin), Slovenian Philharmonic, Samo Hubad (conductor)
2:31 AM
Jarzebski, Adam (1590-1649)
Concerto primo à 2, Concerto secondo à 2, Concerto terza à 2, Concerto quarto à 2 (1627)
Bruce Dickey (cornetto), Alberto Grazzi (bassoon, in No.4 only), Michael Fentross (theorbo), Charles Toet (trombone), Jacques Ogg (organ), Lucy van Dael (conductor)
2:44 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11
Håvard Gimse (piano), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Josep Caballé-Domenech (conductor)
3:25 AM
Anonymous/Ebb, Jannes
Shenandoah
Phoenix Chamber Choir, Ramona Luengen (conductor)
3:29 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, Op 66
Antonio Meneses (cello), Menahem Pressler (piano)
3:40 AM
Morawetz, Oskar (1917-2007)
Overture on a Fairy Tale
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
3:51 AM
Donizetti, Gaetano (1797-1848)
Aria 'Quel guardo il cavaliere', Norina's Cavatina from Act 1, scene 2 of "Don Pasquale"
Adriana Marfisi (soprano), Oslo Philharmonic, Nello Santi (conductor)
3:57 AM
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) for string quartet
Moyzes Quartet
4:04 AM
Ponchielli, Amilcare (1834-1886)
Capriccio for oboe and piano, Op 80
Wan-Soo Mok (oboe), Hyun-Soo Chi (piano)
4:15 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Divertimento in D major, K136
National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pinchas Zuckerman (conductor)
4:31 AM
Bertali, Antonio (1605-1669)
Sonata prima à 3 for two recorders, bass viol and continuo
Le Nouveau Concert: Frederic de Roos and Patrick Denecker (recorders), Sophie Watillon (bass viol), Guy Penson (harpsichord)
4:38 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Keyboard Sonata in A minor, Wq 57 No 2
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
4:47 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Serenade in E minor, Op 20, for string orchestra
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4:59 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Aria and Variations - from Keyboard Suite No 3 in D minor
Jan Jongepier (1740 Johann Michaell Schwarzburg organ of Waalse Kerk, Leeuwarden, Netherlands)
5:11 AM
Widor, Charles Marie (1844-1937)
Suite for flute et piano, Op 34
Katherine Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano)
5:30 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 33
Anatoli Krastev (cello), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Kazandjiev (conductor)
5:50 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV 630
Marita Kvarving Sølberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)
5:58 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Toccata in D major, BWV 912
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
6:10 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Macbeth Overture, Op 23
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this the conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
Donald Macleod chats with Rachel Portman about her training in Psychotherapy and its parallels to writing music for film
Donald Macleod this week joins the Oscar winning film composer Rachel Portman in her studio in London, to chat about her life and music for film and the concert platform. Portman was the first female composer to win an Academy Award, an Oscar, and a Primetime Emmy Award for her various film music projects, as well as many other Academy and Golden Globe nominations. In more recent years her music for the film The Duchess has been added to the A-level music syllabus for students to study. Portman also has an interest in ecology and environmental issues. There'll be an opportunity to hear part of her choral symphony The Water Diviner's Tale, a collaboration with Owen Sheers, plus the orchestral work Endangered specially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week there will also be music specially recorded by the BBC Singers including Portman's Magnificat, and her Christmas Carol We Were There composed in collaboration with Michael Morpurgo.
In 2010 the composer Rachel Portman not only became the first female composer to win a top honour for Film and TV from BMI, but she also received an OBE. Her career as a composer has gone from strength to strength, including composing a programmatic orchestral work entitled Endangered, commissioned by the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and premiered for the World Environment Day Concert in 2013. In more recent years Portman has been studying psychotherapy, and in conversation with Donald Macleod she discusses its parallels with her work in film: both involve getting to grips with understanding personalities and situations.
We Will Be Laotong (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan)
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Never Let Me Go (excerpts)
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Endangered
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal, conductor
Skye Boat Song
BBC Singers
Libby Burgess, piano
Benjamin Nicholas, conductor
We Were There
BBC Singers
Libby Burgess, piano
Benjamin Nicholas, conductor
Katya Remembers (Despite the Falling Snow)
Studio Orchestra
Jeff Atmajian, conductor
The Final Event (Race)
Studio Orchestra
Joris Batrsch Buhle, conductor
End Titles: Still Life
Studio Orchestra
David Snell, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
Sarah Walker presents the last programme this week of highlights from the 12th CLASSIX Kempten.
The 2017 festival was devoted to the performance of chamber music written by women composers.
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Dumka, duo concertante for violin, viola and piano
Nurit Stark (violin),
Jennifer Stumm (viola)
Oliver Triendl (piano)
Erzsébet Szönyi (b 1924)
Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
Gunars Upatnieks (double bass)
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
Nonet in E flat, op. 38
Stephanie Winkler (flute)
Céline Moinet (oboe)
Matthew Hunt (clarinet)
Olivier Darbellay (horn)
Diego Chenna (bassoon)
Eriikka Maalisma (violin)
Hariolf Schlichtig (viola)
Peter Bruns (cello)
Gunars Upatnieks (double bass).
Kate Molleson concludes a week of concerts featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Today: Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich recorded in Edinburgh, and Schumann with violinist Ilya Gringolts from a concert recorded in Leeds.
2pm
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23
Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 in G minor Op 103
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)
3.40pm
Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
4.00pm
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
lya Gringolts (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
Afternoon Concert this week focuses on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and concludes with a concert they gave at Edinburgh's Usher Hall in December. They were joined by the powerhouse Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin for Tchaikovsky's enduringly popular First Piano Concerto, while the second half of the concert was given over to Shostakovich's giant depiction of the events of the 1905 Russian Revolution: his Symphony No 11.
That's followed by a pair of orchestral depictions of winter by the Scottish composer Helen Grime, her Two Eardley Pictures: 'Catterline in Winter' and 'Snow'.
Then there's a recording made in Leeds last November, in which the Russian virtuoso Ilya Gringolts joined the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to perform Schumann's Violin Concerto. This was a work, written towards the end of the composer's troubled life, that remained unheard for over 80 years, finally seeing the light of day in the 1930s.
Sean Rafferty launches this year's Free Thinking Festival with a programme of live music making and chat. Among his guests are the Festival Lecturer Linda Yueh, New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt, who researches the links between arts and health, and the choir Voices of Hope, who perform a brand new piece by composer Lucy Pankhurst marking a hundred years since the first women in this country won the right to vote, with a text by Helen Pankhurst based on words by her great-grandmother, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites together with lesser-known gems, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
Adam Tomlinson presents Royal Northern Sinfonia with works by Beethoven, Bruch and Mozart as part of this year's Free Thinking Festival, live from Sage Gateshead.
Oh Vienna. The city is writ large over tonight's concert, opening with Beethoven's tempestuous overture-without-incidental-music to Heinrich von Collin's play Coriolan, a hit in the capital at the time. There's Beethovenian tenderness in Bruch's Romance for viola, and the sun rises over the city in the opening to Mozart's last concerto for violin - a cosmopolitan work of warmth, depth and humour. And to close, Mozart again with his 'Linz' symphony, written in the city in just four days for an impromptu concert: "there will be an academy [concert] in the theatre here and, as I have not a single symphony with me, I am writing a new one at breakneck speed."
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Mozart: Violin Concerto in A, K219, 'Turkish'
INTERVAL
Bruch: Romance in F, Op 85
Mozart: Symphony No 36, 'Linz'
Julian Rachlin (conductor/violin/viola)
Royal Northern Sinfonia.
Leading economic expert, Linda Yueh, delivers her vision for restoring faith in the free market to an audience at Sage Gateshead. Chaired by Philip Dodd.
We live in a world where experts of all stripes are struggling to win over the confidence of the general population. Last year, the Bank of England said it was stepping up its efforts to minimise a 'twin deficit' of public understanding and trust in an area that has come under particular fire recently: economics. In a timely defence of her profession, and by drawing on ideas put forward by several titans of economic theory, Linda Yueh, the former Chief Business Correspondent for BBC News, opens the Free Thinking festival 2018 with a unique take on how we fix the globalised free market to benefit the one and the many.
Linda Yueh is Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School and Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University as well Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics IDEAS research centre. She is the author of The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today.
Producer: Craig Templeton Smith.
Kathryn Tickell with a cappella shanties and sea songs from The Keelers, the young duo of fiddler Eryn Rae and guitarist Scott Turnbull, and from BBC Introducing, Amharic singer and krar player Haymanot Tesfa performs a set of improvisations on traditional Ethiopian songs, accompanied by Iranian percussionist Arian Sadr. Recorded at Sage Gateshead earlier this evening. Plus new releases from Sons of Kemet, Cath and Phil Tyler, The Turbans and Camarao.