The WDR Symphony Orchestra plays music by Mozart and composers working in Vienna at the same time as him. Reinhard Goebel conducts. Presented by John Shea.
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op 34
Mirijam Contzen (violin), WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Oren Shevlin (cello), Johannes Wohlmacher (cello), WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
Christine Schornsheim (fortepiano), Michael Niesemann (oboe), Neue Dusseldorfer Hofmusik
Martin Frost (clarinet), Tobias Ringborg (violin), Ingegerd Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello)
Julia Fischer (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900), P. Gunther (arranger), U. Teuber (arranger)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
The Barcelona-based Cuarteto Casals perform three highly contrasting quartets; 'The Bird' from Haydn's set of six quartets from Opus 33 which was considered to be ground-breaking and crucial to the development of the string quartet form, written 'in a new and special way' according to the composer. Bartok's intense third quartet which makes use of extended technique to dramatic effect and end with Beethoven's expansive quartet from his 'Razumovsky' set commissioned by the Russian ambassador in Vienna at the time and performed live from the Queen's Hall. Presented by Donald Macleod
Interval at approx.
Rachel Podger starts her three concert Biber series this afternoon at the Edinburgh International Festival – The Rosary Sonatas. 15 mystical meditations on the life of Christ performed in Edinburgh’s oldest concert hall, St Cecilia’s Hall. Donald Macleod introduces Sonatas 1, 2 and 3 from her recording of the complete Rosary Sonatas for violin.
Meredith Monk (b. 1942)
American composer Meredith Monk finds her unique voice, presented by Donald Macleod.
Meredith Monk has been described as one of America’s coolest composers. She is also a singer, director, choreographer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Monk's singular voice has been the central component in the work she has created over a trajectory spanning more than fifty years. As a pioneer in extended vocal technique and a composer of vocal and instrumental music, she has developed distinct sound worlds that have been described as "a beguiling repertoire of aviary microtones, robust yodels, and dusky, low-range chanting" and also as "a peerless mixture of otherworldly and human". Her music is identifiable as distinctly Meredith Monk, and has historically provoked strong reactions from audiences and critics alike. Now in her seventies Monk still tours performing her own works, and it was in Cologne where Donald Macleod caught up with her for Composer of the Week, to discuss her remarkable life and unique music.
Music and singing is in Meredith Monk’s DNA. Her mother sang operetta, popular songs, and jingles for commercials. Her grandfather was an operatic bass who set up a conservatory in Harlem, and her great-grandfather was a cantor in a Moscow synagogue, and was invited to sing for the Tsar of Russia. In conversation with Donald Macleod Meredith Monk discusses her early influences from family, school and college, and how her career went on to develop in New York at a time, 1965, when she had a revelation about the possibilities of the human voice.
Arr. Meredith Monk
Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edward Gardner performing Mahler's Das Lied von Erde; Leif Ove Andsnes joins them in part one for Britten's Piano Concerto.
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INTERVAL - Proms Plus Talk: Hannah French and former Proms Controller Sir Nicholas Kenyon discuss Henry Wood’s relationship with 20th-century music in the second of three events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Proms founder-conductor's birth.
Claudia Mahnke and Stuart Skelton are the soloists in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. This sweeping orchestral song-cycle is a powerful, personal statement of loss, orchestrated with infinite variety and skill.
It’s paired with another mould-breaking work Britten’s Piano Concerto. Premiered at the Proms in 1938 with the 24-year-old composer as soloist, the work is as much a celebration of orchestral texture as pianistic bravura, bursting with youthful energy and invention. Norwegian pianist and Proms regular Leif Ove Andsnes is the soloist.
Live music and conversation, with Sean Rafferty, including a performance by pianist Asagi Nakata, and a performance from violinist David Juritz and pianist David Gordon, who are also members of London Tango Quintet. Opera director Julia Burbach and theatre producer Mehmet Ergun also join Sean to talk about Grimeborn Opera 2019.
In Tune’s specially curated mixtape featuring musical depictions of ancient gods and goddesses - Bacchus, Pan, Jupiter, Apollo, Venus and Mars. The music is by Delibes, Mouquet, Mozart, Britten, Cambefort and Holst.
Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6. Plus Weinberg's Cello Concerto with soloist Sol Gabetta.
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Proms Plus Talk: Shahidha Bari presents readings of Tchaikovsky’s letters, many of which were suppressed because of what they revealed about his sexuality. She is joined by composer Rolf Hind. Recorded earlier at Beit Hall, Imperial College.
Dalia Stasevska makes her Proms debut as the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor.
Cellist Sol Gabetta joins them to celebrate the centenary of one of the 20th century’s great unsung heroes, Mieczysław Weinberg, whose Cello Concerto – premiered by Rostropovich in 1957, a decade after it was written – deserves a place alongside those of his great friend and colleague Shostakovich.
The programme also includes Tchaikovsky’s much-loved ‘Pathétique’ Symphony, with its thrilling Scherzo, and Sibelius’s suite Karelia a stirring celebration of Finland’s proud history.
A revolutionary in his personal life as well as in his art, Mayakovsky sought to overthrow traditional practices and became the spokesperson for a radical new society. But the tensions and demands of speaking on behalf of the state would take its toll. In 1930 a nation went into mourning when Mayakovsky took a pistol and shot himself through the heart.
Ian Sansom has been reading Mayakovsky since he was a teenager, inspired by Mayakovsky's uncompromising example as a total artist, prepared to sacrifice everything for his vision.
Ian travels to Mayakovsky's birthplace in Georgia and speaks to poets, translators and academics who are seeking to keep Mayakovsky's legacy alive. With rare archive recordings of Mayakovsky reading his own work, a Russian Futurist soundtrack from the period and on-location recordings from Moscow, Georgia and London, Ian attempts to resurrect the spirit of Mayakovsky.
Radio 3 presenter Tom McKinney celebrates the birdsong-inspired music of the twentieth-century French composer Olivier Messiaen and its special place in his life.
Nick Luscombe plays work songs in different guises, from cut up odes to the office from a suit-wearing city worker, to farming songs from a Tanzanian women’s group. Formerly the drummer with Mica Levi in Micachu and the Shapes, Marc Pell now goes under the name Suitman Jungle and makes spoken word drum and bass about his day job while The Akina Mama women’s farming group sing joyful choral songs while weeding the village cotton in Tanzania.
For artist and improviser Adam Bohman however, the line between work and play is unclear. His life is a continual bricolage: from tape diaries to collages, he has been documenting his everyday life and collecting a bizarre amalgam of musical objects since the year dot. We dip into his autobiographical tape collection and hear an exclusive preview from a new film about his work called Adam Bohman: By Biro and Umbrella Spring.
Produced by Alannah Chance.
WEDNESDAY 07 AUGUST 2019
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0007cd5)
From Russia with Fate
Glinka, Haydn and Tchaikovsky performed by the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra with conductor Lio Kuokman. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture
Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Lio Kuokman (conductor)
12:37 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto no.1 in C major Hob VIIb:1
Pablo Ferrandez (cello), Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Lio Kuokman (conductor)
01:02 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony no. 5 in E minor Op.64
Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Kuokman, Lio (conductor)
01:47 AM
Jacobus Gallus Carniolus (1550-1591)
Madrigal: Musica noster amor a 6 (M 28)
Ljubljanski madrigalisti, Matjaz Scek (director)
01:49 AM
Jacobus Gallus Carniolus (1550-1591)
2 Motets from Opus Musicum
Ljubljanski madrigalisti, Matjaz Scek (director)
01:53 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Suite from Platee (Junon jalouse) - comedie-lyrique in three acts (1745)
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director)
02:19 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV.1056
Angela Hewitt (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
02:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme of Haydn (Op.56a) 'St Antoni Chorale' vers. for orchestra
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
02:49 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Concerto for piano and orchestra no.5 in F major Op.103, "Egyptian"
Pascal Roge (piano), UNAM Philharmonic Orchestra, Ronald Zollman (conductor)
03:17 AM
Antonio Caldara (c.1671-1736)
Pietro & Maddalena's duet: 'Vi sento, o Dio' & Chorus 'Di quel sangue'
Ann Monoyios (soprano), Michael Chance (counter tenor), Hugo Distler Chor, La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
03:30 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Sonata No.1 in G major for string orchestra
Romanian National Chamber Orchestra, Ludovic Bacs (conductor)
03:44 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
9 Variations in C major on Dezede's arietta 'Lison dormait' for piano (K.264)
Bart van Oort (fortepiano)
03:55 AM
Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)
Fenton's aria "Horch, die Lerch singt in Hain"
Roberto Saccà (tenor), Swiss Romande Orchestra, Armin Jordan (conductor)
04:01 AM
Daniel Bacheler (c.1572-1619)
Mounsiers almain for lute
Nigel North (lute)
04:08 AM
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (arranger)
A Night on the bare mountain, ed. Rimsky-Korsakov
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
04:19 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Excerpts from Songs Without Words, Op 6 (1846)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Overture to the "King and the Charcoal Burner" (1874)
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)
04:39 AM
Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
When David heard (O my son Absalom) - for 6 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (director)
04:44 AM
John B Escosa (1928-1991)
Three Dances for 2 harps
Julia Shaw (harp), Nora Bumanis (harp)
04:50 AM
Charles Avison (1709-1770)
Concerto Grosso No.4 in A minor (after Domenico Scarlatti)
Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon (director)
05:03 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Hungarian dances for piano duet (Nos.1; 11; 13; 17; 8)
Noel Lee (piano), Christian Ivaldi (piano)
05:16 AM
Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630)
No.26 Canzon for 5 instruments in A minor "Corollarium"
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (descant viola da gamba), Jordi Savall (director)
05:21 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Sonata for violin and piano (M.8) in A major
Janine Jansen (violin), Kathryn Stott (piano)
05:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Air from Suite for orchestra no.3 in D major (BWV.1068)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares (conductor)
05:54 AM
Carlos Salzedo (1885-1961)
Variations sur un theme dans le style ancien, Op 30
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
06:04 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Symphonic Suite from the Opera 'Gloriana'
Peter Pears (tenor), SWF Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0007d1s)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m0007d1v)
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: The Shetland Bus, Barber's Adagio
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
WED 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m0007d1x)
2019 Queen's Hall Series
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason
Siblings Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason return to the Edinburgh International Festival with a recital of two great cello sonatas; Mendelssohn’s passionate second sonata written for his cellist brother Paul, and Debussy’s forward-looking sonata in D written at speed during the First World War. Beethoven variations on a Mozart theme open the recital followed by Polish composer Lutoslawki’s single-movement work, written in memory of his close friend the musicologist Jarocinski. Presented by Donald Macleod
Beethoven: Variations in F Major, Op.66
Lutoslawski: Grave for Cello and Piano
Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor
Interval at approx.
11:35
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 2 Op.55, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and Herbert von Karajan
11:55
Fauré: Élégie, Op.24
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No.2 in D, Op. 58
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Presenter: Donald MacLeod
Producer: Laura Metcalfe
WED 13:00 Composer of the Week (b080xygb)
Meredith Monk (b. 1942)
Singing beneath a dolmen
Meredith Monk sits and sings beneath a dolmen in France, presented by Donald Macleod.
Meredith Monk has been described as one of America’s coolest composers. She is also a singer, director, choreographer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Monk's singular voice has been the central component in the work she has created over a trajectory spanning more than fifty years. As a pioneer in extended vocal technique and a composer of vocal and instrumental music, she has developed distinct sound worlds that have been described as "a beguiling repertoire of aviary microtones, robust yodels, and dusky, low-range chanting" and also as "a peerless mixture of otherworldly and human". Her music is identifiable as distinctly Meredith Monk, and has historically provoked strong reactions from audiences and critics alike. Now in her seventies Monk still tours performing her own works, and it was in Cologne where Donald Macleod caught up with her for Composer of the Week, to discuss her remarkable life and unique music.
In 1965, Meredith Monk had a revelation regarding the capabilities of the human voice, and created her own unique vocal technique. From the start, Monk was interested in primordial utterance, the first sounds humans made. It was on a trip to France where she had the opportunity to visit a megalithic Dolmen. Sat beneath this stone table structure, singing with friends, Monk was inspired to compose Dolmen Music. During the 1970s she was also busy creating large-scale site-specific works, including her opera epic Vessel. Quarry, another opera, she composed in 1976. Monk has said that in her whole lifetime, she felt most on fire when composing this work.
Gotham Lullaby
Meredith Monk, voice and piano
Vessel (Little Epiphany/Sybil Song)
Meredith Monk, voice and piano
Paris
Ursula Oppens, piano
Our Lady of Late (Unison)
Meredith Monk, voice and glass
Colin Walcott, glass
Gotham Lullaby
Meredith Monk, voice and piano
Quarry (Quarry Weave 2)
Musica Sacra
Richard Westenburg, condcutor
Dolmen Music
Andrea Goodman, voice
Meredith Monk, voice
Monica Solem, voice
Paul Langland, voice
Julius Eastman, voice and percussion
Robert Een, voice and cello
Producer Luke Whitlock
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0007d20)
Prom 21 repeat: Olivier Latry
Afternoon Concert with Fiona Talkington.
Another chance to hear Olivier Latry (organ), with a selection of musical favourites and novelties including works by Bach, de Falla, Beethoven, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Gigout, Khachaturian and Widor.
Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Aram Khachaturian - Gayane – Sabre Dance (transcr. Kiviniemi)
Manuel de Falla - El amor brujo – Ritual fire dance (transcr. Latry)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Adagio in F major (for mechanical clock)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Eugène Gigout - Air célèbre de la Pentecôte
Franz Liszt (arr. Guillou) - Prelude and Fugue on the name BACH, S 260
Charles‐Marie Widor - Bach's Memento – No. 4: Marche du veilleur de nuit
Camille Saint‐Saëns - Danse macabre (arr. Lemare)
Olivier Latry (organ)
Celebrated French organist Olivier Latry returns to the Proms for the first time in over a decade for a programme centred around transcriptions and arrangements for the ‘King of Instruments’. The organist of Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral roams through 250 years of music in a wide-ranging recital programme that stretches from Bach to Falla. There’s a rhythmic charge to the recital, which includes virtuosic transcriptions of Khachaturian’s frenzied Sabre Dance, Falla’s hypnotic Ritual Fire Dance and Saint-Saëns’s devilish Danse macabre, as well as Bach’s dramatic Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and Bach arrangements by French organist-composers Widor and Gigout.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m0007d22)
Eton Choral Course (1998 Archive)
An archive recording from Eton College Chapel, sung by members of the 1998 Eton Choral Course (first broadcast 29 July 1998).
Introit: Adjuro Vos (Dering)
Responses (Piccolo)
Psalms 142, 143 (Atkins, Barnby)
Hymn: Come to Us, Jesus Christ (New World)
First Lesson: 1 Samuel 17 v.55 - 18 v.16
Canticles: Gloucester Service (Sanders)
Second Lesson: Luke 20 v.41 - 21 v.4
Anthem: Lord Let Me Know Mine End (Parry)
Hymn: Lord of All Hopefulness (Slane)
Voluntary: Seven Pieces (Finale) (Dupré)
Ralph Allwood (Director of Music)
Stephen Disley (Organist)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m0007d24)
Kathryn Rudge and Fatma Said
New Generation Artists: Fatma Said and Kathryn Rudge - both of whom are appearing in tonight's Proms performance of the Mozart Requiem - are heard in recordings made whilst they were members of Radio 3's prestigious young artist scheme.
Roxanna Panufnik Love Sought
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano), Rachel Roberts (viola), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Louis Couperin Tombeau de M. de Blancrocher in F major B`D.81
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
Mozart Abendempfindung (Abend ist's) K.523
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Schubert Die Junge Nonne D.828
Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade D.118
Fatma Said (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0007d26)
James Newby and Gary Matthewman, Robert Ames
Sean Rafferty's guests include baritone James Newby, with pianist Gary Matthewman, and conductor Robert Ames, ahead of his appearance at the BBC Proms with London Contemporary Orchestra, exploring the 'Sounds of Space'.
WED 19:00 BBC Proms (m0007d28)
2019
Prom 26: Mozart's Requiem
Live at BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Nathalie Stutzmann with Fatma Said, Kathryn Rudge, Sunnyboy Dladla and David Shipley perform Mozart's Requiem.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Brahms:
Tragic Overture, Op 81
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WW 90: Prelude and Liebestod
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7.40pm
Interval - Proms Plus
The power of tragic tales - with poet Clare Pollard and Dr Jennifer Wallace hosted by Rana Mitter. Clare Pollard is the author of Ovid’s Heroines and Dr Jennifer Wallace from the University of Cambridge is author of the forthcoming Tragedy Since 9 /11. Produced by Zahid Warley.
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8pm:
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K 626 (compl. Süssmayr)
Fatma Said (soprano)
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano)
Sunnyboy Dladla (tenor)
David Shipley (bass)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)
Love and loss, life and death collide in an emotionally charged concert given by Nathalie Stutzmann and the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales.
Turbulent shifts of mood characterise Brahms’s Tragic Overture, and their ripples continue through the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s powerful operatic exploration of forbidden love, Tristan and Isolde.
At the heart of the programme is Mozart’s Requiem – the composer’s final work, left unfinished at his early death, and his own musical epitaph. Soloists include former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Fatma Said and Kathryn Rudge.
WED 21:30 Sunday Feature (b09z5qnn)
Exit Burbage - the man who created Hamlet
Imagine where we'd be without Shakespeare's plays. It's difficult to contemplate now. But it was thanks to another man that many of them were brought to life.
Today, Richard Burbage is a not a household name. But he should be. He's the man for whom many of the great Shakespearean roles were created. One of the founding members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing at the newly built Globe in 1599, he's one of the foundations upon which British theatre was built. Andrew Dickson talks to leading actors, rummages among the archives and dissects some of the greatest parts in acting to discover Burbage's crucial role - and realises that without Richard Burbage, there could be no Shakespeare.
Producer: Penny Murphy
WED 22:15 BBC Proms (m0007d2b)
2019
Prom 27: The Sound of Space: Sci-Fi Film Music
Live Proms from the Royal Albert Hall: London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames in music from sci-fi films including Alien: Covenant, Interstellar and Under the Skin.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Georgia Mann
Jed Kurzel: Alien: Covenant
Hans Zimmer: Interstellar
Mica Levi: Under the Skin
Clint Mansell: Moon
Steven Price: Gravity
John Murphy: Sunshine
Carly Paradis: The Innocents
London Contemporary Orchestra
Robert Ames (conductor)
A Late Night Prom with a futuristic spin brings together some of the best sci-fi film music. Excerpts from cult soundtracks come together with recent works by Hans Zimmer and Mica Levi.
The award winning London Contemporary Orchestra – whose collaborators include Radiohead, Goldfrapp and Steve Reich – perform music from Under the Skin, Interstellar and the recent Netflix series The Innocents, among other titles, as well as from Alien: Covenant, whose soundtrack the LCO recorded.
There will be no interval
WED 23:30 Late Junction (m0007d2d)
Notes from the French Underground
Nick Luscombe dissects the Francophone underground scene of the last ten years with melancholic cold wave and electro-acoustic noise art. We hear a new take on Afghan folk music filtered through spiritual jazz courtesy of Kefaya and Elaha Soroor, and Portugese fado from the early 20th century from a new release on Canary Records.
Elsewhere we languish in the space between the notes with a piece of percussive minimalism by the Danish artist Niklas Adam, and an extended piece for guitar by English composer Sam Cave.
Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
THURSDAY 08 AUGUST 2019
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0007d2g)
All-Night Vigil
Rachmaninov's Vespers performed by the Moscow Region State Chorus. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op 37
Moscow Region State Chorus, Polina Shamaeva (mezzo soprano), Grigory Kuznetsov (tenor), Nikolai Azarov (director)
01:40 AM
Hans Huber (1852-1921)
Cello Sonata No.4 in B flat major (Op.130)
Esther Nyffenegger (cello), Desmond Wright (piano)
02:06 AM
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
2 Poems for piano, Op 32
Jayson Gillham (piano)
02:11 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Ma mere l'oye - suite vers. for orchestra
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson (conductor)
02:31 AM
Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797)
Ballet music from "Les Troqueurs"
Capella Coloniensis, William Christie (conductor)
02:46 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No.41 in C major (K.551) "Jupiter"
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
03:26 AM
Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921), Paul Verlaine (author)
Clair de Lune
Roberta Alexander (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
03:29 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Divertimento for 2 flutes and cello in C major , Hob.4.1, 'London trio' No 1
Les Ambassadeurs
03:38 AM
George Shearing (1919-2011)
Music to Hear (Five Shakespeare Songs)
Vancouver Chamber Choir, Peter Berring (piano), David Brown (double bass), Jon Washburn (director)
03:51 AM
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Overture to Mireille
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
03:59 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Eight Landler (German dances) (from D.790)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
04:07 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Violin Concerto in A minor (BWV.1041)
Reinhard Goebel (violin), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
04:18 AM
Leo Delibes (1836-1891)
Couplets de Nilacantha de l'acte II de l'opera "Lakme"
Nicola Ghiuselev (bass), Orchestre de l'Opera National de Sofia, Rouslan Raitchev (conductor)
04:22 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Serenata in vano (FS.68)
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Jonathan Williams (horn), Per Hannisdahl (bassoon), oystein Sonstad (cello), Katrine oigaard (double bass)
04:31 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Franz Liszt (transcriber)
Isolde's Liebestod transc. Liszt for piano, S447
Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)
04:38 AM
Herman Streulens (b.1931)
Ave Maria for tenor and female voices (1994)
La Gioia, Diane Verdoodt (soprano), Ilse Schelfhout (soprano), Kristien Vercammen (soprano), Bernadette De Wilde (soprano), Lieve Mertens (mezzo soprano), Els Van Attenhoven (mezzo soprano), Lieve Vanden Berghe (alto), Ludwig Van Gijsegem (tenor)
04:43 AM
Lodewijk De Vocht (1887-1977)
Naar Hoger Licht (Towards a Higher Light), symphonic poem with cello solo (1933)
Luc Tooten (cello), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)
04:51 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata for oboe and continuo in B flat major (Essercizii Musici, 1739-40)
Camerata Koln
05:04 AM
Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937)
Konzertstuck for harp & orchestra, Op 39 (1903)
Suzanna Klintcharova (harp), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
05:20 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), R.Klugescheid (arranger)
My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice, arr. for piano trio
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
05:24 AM
Carolus Antonius Fodor (1768-1846)
Symphony no 2 in G major, Op 13
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Halstead (conductor)
05:49 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Grand duo in E major on themes from Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable'
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
06:00 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Suite espanola , Op 47
Ilze Graubina (piano)
06:23 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Ich bin die Auferstehung und das Leben, Bux WV 44
Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (director)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0007ctc)
Thursday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m0007ctf)
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Soler's Fandango, Liszt's Irish Extravaganza
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
THU 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m0007cth)
2019 Queen's Hall Series
Baritone Michael Volle & pianist Helmut Deutsch
German baritone Michael Volle presents a programme of high drama and poignancy accompanied by his fellow countryman, Helmut Deutsch, on piano. Schubert's setting of 'Der Taucher' (The Diver) tells the tragic tale of King's challenge to retrieve a gold goblet from the water to win his daughter's hand in marriage. This is followed by three songs from Mahler's song collection 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'. After the interval Micheal Volle and Helmut Deutsch perform three rarely heard songs by Strauss and they conclude with Mahler's poignant Rückert-Lieder. Presented by Donald Macleod
Schubert: Der Taucher
Mahler: Rheinlegendchen
Mahler: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt [Anon]
Mahler: Lob des hohen Verstandes
Interval at approx.
11.50am
Donald Macleod introduces recordings by Colin Currie who will be performing at the Edinburgh International Festival with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
J.S. Bach - English suite no. 2 in A minor BWV.807 for keyboard: Prelude
Reich – Music for Pieces of Wood
12.10pm
Strauss: Vom künftigen Alter Op 87 1
Strauss: Und dann nicht mehr Op 87 3
Strauss: Im Sonnenschein Op 87 4
Mahler: Rückert-Lieder: Ich atmet' einen linden Duft, Liebst du um Schönheit, Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder; Um Mitternacht, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Michael Volle (baritone)
Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Donald Macleod (presenter)
Gavin McCollum (producer)
THU 13:00 Composer of the Week (b080xygn)
Meredith Monk (b. 1942)
Music at play
Meredith Monk discusses humour in her music - and coyotes! Presented by Donald Macleod.
Meredith Monk has been described as one of America’s coolest composers. She is also a singer, director, choreographer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Monk's singular voice has been the central component in the work she has created over a trajectory spanning more than fifty years. As a pioneer in extended vocal technique and a composer of vocal and instrumental music, she has developed distinct sound worlds that have been described as "a beguiling repertoire of aviary microtones, robust yodels, and dusky, low-range chanting" and also as "a peerless mixture of otherworldly and human". Her music is identifiable as distinctly Meredith Monk, and has historically provoked strong reactions from audiences and critics alike. Now in her seventies Monk still tours performing her own works, and it was in Cologne where Donald Macleod caught up with her for Composer of the Week, to discuss her remarkable life and unique music.
In 1978 Meredith Monk founded her own ensemble to perform her music. This group she feels are a part of her own body, and that the singers’ bodies are an integral part of the expression of her music. One long serving member is the cellist and singer Robert Een. They collaborated together on Facing North in 1990, which includes the sounds of coyotes, demonstrating Monk’s interest in humour and playfulness. Monk also discusses her thoughts on other choirs and ensembles performing her music.
Folkdance
Ursula Oppens, piano
Bruce Brubaker, piano
Facing North (Arctic Bar)
Meredith Monk, voice & piano & organ
Robert Een, voice
Facing North (Hocket)
Meredith Monk, voice
Robert Een, voice
Atlas (Part II: Lonely Spirit)
Randall Wong (Lonely Spirit), voice
Meredith Monk (Alexandra), voice
Opera Orchestra
Wayne Hankin, conductor
Atlas (Part II: Forest Questions)
Meredith Monk (Alexandra), voice
Robert Een (Erik Magnussen), voice
Dana Hanchard (Gwen St. Clair), voice
Stephen Kalm (Franco Hartmann), voice
Shi-Zheng Chen (Cheng Qing), voice
Emily Eyre (Forest Dweller), voice
Janice Brenner (Forest Dweller), voice
Katie Geissinger (Forest Dweller), voice
Randall Wong (Forest Dweller), voice
Carlos Arévalo (Forest Dweller), voice
Robert Osborne (Ancient Man), voice
Allison Easter (guide) voice
Ching Gonzalez (guide), voice
Katie Geissinger (traveller), voice
Victoria Boomsma (traveller), voice
Opera Orchestra
Wayne Hankin, conductor
Nightfall
Musica Sacra
Richard Westenburg, conductor
Volcano Songs (Offering)
Meredith Monk, voice
St Petersburg Waltz
Nurit Tilles, piano
Producer Luke Whitlock
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0007ctl)
Prom 19 repeat: Strauss, Schumann and MacMillan
Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann.
Another chance to hear BBC SSO & Thomas Dausgaard with pianist Alexander Melnikov. Schumann's Piano Concerto and James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.
Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
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2.35pm
Interval; Proms Plus: Composer Sir James MacMillan, 60 this year, discusses The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and talks about his inspiration and ideas. Recorded earlier at Imperial College Union. Producer Helen Garrison.
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3pm
Part 2
Schumann: Piano Concerto
James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
‘I always wanted a great bravura piece by him,’ wrote Clara Schumann of her husband. Her hope was answered in Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto a work whose broad, symphonic scope explores and tests the relationship between soloist and orchestra.
Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov joins the BBC Scottish SO and its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard for a programme that also includes the sweeping drama of Strauss’s tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra, with its memorable opening sunrise (heard on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey) and the violence and compassion of Sir James MacMillan’s early masterpiece The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, inspired by the execution of a 17th-century ‘witch’ and premiered at the Proms in 1990.
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0007ctn)
Mishka Rushdie Momen
Sean Rafferty presents live music from the Aris Quartet and pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen.
THU 19:00 BBC Proms (m0007ctq)
2019
Prom 28: Rachmaninov, Borodin and Huw Watkins
Live at BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and the Philharmonia Chorus conducted by Tadaaki Otaka with Natalya Romanov, Oleg Dolgov and Iurii Samoilov.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Nicola Heywood-Thomas
Takemitsu:
Twill by Twilight
Huw Watkins:
The Moon
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7.35pm
Interval:
Proms Plus
The American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a pioneer of Gothic and horror fiction and verse, including ‘The Raven’. His poem The Bells inspired the Rachmaninov piece in tonight’s concert. Laura Purcell, author of The Corset and The Silent Companions and Iain Sinclair, whose books include Downriver, join presenter Matthew Sweet. Produced by Torquil MacLeod.
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7.55pm
Rachmaninov:
The Bells, Op. 35
Borodin:
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Natalya Romanov
Oleg Dolgov
Iurii Samoilov
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Philharmonia Chorus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka
Sleigh bells, wedding bells, warning bells and mourning bells all peal through Rachmaninov’s choral symphony The Bells – which sets a text by Edgar Allan Poe with broad brushstrokes and bright colours.
Borodin’s exotically seductive Polovtsian Dances also features, alongside a world premiere by Huw Watkins inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the Moon.
THU 21:15 New Generation Artists (m0007cts)
Anastasia Kobekina plays Myaskovsky and Weinberg
New Generation Artists: Anastasia Kobekina plays Russian music.
The brilliant young cellist plays the Cello Sonata written for Rostropovich by Myaskovsky along with a beautiful fantasy for cello and orchestra by Mieczyslaw Weinberg,, born 100 years ago this year.
Myaskovsky Cello Sonata no. 2 in a minor Op. 81
Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Paloma Kouider (piano)
Mieczyslaw Weinberg Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra (1956)
Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Berne Symphony Orchestra, Kevin Johne Edusei (conductor)
THU 22:00 Sunday Feature (b0b91r0z)
Tony Harrison's Prague Spring
Chris Bowlby travels with Tony Harrison to Prague, to discover how one of Britain's best known poets was shaped by the cultural energy and tragedy of 1960s Czechoslovakia. Harrison reads from his Prague poems in the locations where they were written. And he relives with Czech friends stories of cafes and cartoons, sex and surveillance and the hope and despair of a people fighting Soviet tanks and secret police with words, plays and tragic self-sacrifice.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b09z65c9)
Secret Admirers
Kathryn Tickell on Percy Grainger
Radio 3 presenter Kathryn Tickell celebrates a composer whose music is particularly important to her: the Australian-American folksong fanatic Percy Grainger.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (m0007ctv)
Late-night music for the elements
Pianist Lubomyr Melnyk is known for his continuous music style, an exploration of notes played rapidly in complex series, which is inspired by Indian classical music, Terry Riley and Haydn. He describes it as ‘a classical technique advanced into a constant river of sounds.’ We hear an extract from an interview with him and Nick Luscombe recorded earlier this year at Sea Change festival, discussing how nature infuses everything he plays and finding out where his body ends and the piano begins.
Plus, Nick plays an ode to our disintegrating ecosystem by Kazakh composer Angelina Yershova; Korean quartet Black String update the sound of the geomungo, the Korean six-stringed zither, with pedal-driven electric guitar; and the latest from Matana Roberts’ COIN COIN guise, a project which weaves African-American history with jazz, spoken word and afrofuturism.
Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
FRIDAY 09 AUGUST 2019
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0007ctx)
The Huntsman and the Sorcerer
Sao Paulo State Orchestra play Franck, Saint-Saens and Dukas. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Symphony in D minor, op. 48
Sao Paulo State Orchestra, Louis Langree (conductor)
01:10 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), symphonic poem
Sao Paulo State Orchestra, Louis Langree (conductor)
01:25 AM
Camille Saint-Saens
Danse macabre, op. 40
Sao Paulo State Orchestra, Louis Langree (conductor)
01:33 AM
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, symphonic scherzo
Sao Paulo State Orchestra, Louis Langree (conductor)
01:45 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Kinderszenen for piano (Op.15)
Havard Gimse (piano)
02:05 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Quintet in B flat major Op.34 for clarinet and strings (J.182)
Lena Jonhall (clarinet), Zetterqvist String Quartet
02:31 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
String Quartet No.4 in A minor (Op.25)
Yggdrasil String Quartet
03:06 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
24 Preludes Op.34 for piano
Igor Levit (piano)
03:41 AM
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
Scherzo for orchestra in E minor, Op 19
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)
03:48 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1590-1664)
Tu es Petrus - motet for 6 voices
Silvia Piccollo (soprano), Emmanuela Galli (soprano), Fabian Schofrin (alto), Marco Beasley (tenor), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Emmanuela Galli (soloist), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
03:54 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in E minor, Kk81
Bolette Roed (recorder), Joanna Boślak-Górniok (harpsichord)
04:02 AM
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Violin Sonata in G major
Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)
04:10 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
March of the Cudgelmen
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atso Almila (conductor)
04:12 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Introduction & variations on a theme from Herold's Ludovic (Op.12) in B flat
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
04:20 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in D minor (Op.3 No.11) from 'L'Estro Armonico'
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
04:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Anton Webern (orchestrator)
6 Deutsche Tänze, D820
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
04:40 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Three Mazurkas, Op 59
Kevin Kenner (piano)
04:50 AM
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Thou mighty God; When David's life; When the poore criple for 4 voices
Ars Nova, Bo Holten (director)
05:01 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Crispian Steele-Perkins (arranger)
3 Airs from Vauxhall Gardens
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), King's Consort, Robert King (director)
05:12 AM
Joseph Kuffner (1776-1856)
Clarinet Quintet (Introduction, theme and variations) in B flat Op.32
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet
05:23 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Abegg variations Op.1 for piano
Annika Treutler (piano)
05:31 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No.94 in G major, "Surprise"
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Entremont (conductor)
05:54 AM
Robert Hacomplaynt (c.1455-1528)
Salve Regina (a 5)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
06:05 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Quintet for wind (Op.43)
Cinque Venti
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0007dc7)
Friday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m0007dc9)
Ian Skelly
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
FRI 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m0007dcc)
2019 Queen's Hall Series
Llyr Williams
Pianist Llŷr Williams evokes the fairytale world of Nordic folklore with a selection from Grieg's Lyric Pieces plus some of Liszt virtuosic arrangements of Wagner's greatest hits. Presented live from the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh by Donald Macleod.
Grieg: Lyric Pieces (selection)
Grieg: Bellringing Op 54 6 'Klokkeklang'
Grieg: To Spring Op 43 6 'Til våren'
Grieg: March of the Trolls Op 54 3 'Trolltog'
Grieg: Puck (Little Troll) Op 71 3 'Småtroll'
Grieg: Vanished Days Op 57 1 'Svundne dager'
Grieg: The Brook Op 62 4 'Bekken'
Grieg: Evening in the Mountains Op 68 4 'Aften på højfjellet'
Grieg: Cradle Song Op 68 5 'Bådnlåt'
Grieg: Homewards Op 62 6 'Hjemad'
Interval at approx.
11.50am
Donald Macleod looks at another artist who will appearing at the EIF this year, soprano Joyce Di Donato
Handel: 'Scherza infida' from Ariodante
Mozart: ‘Voi che sapete' from The Marriage of Figaro
Rossini: 'Una voce poco fa’ from The Barber of Seville
12.10pm
Wagner / Liszt: Fantasy on Themes from Rienzi
Wagner / Liszt: Spinning Chorus from Flying Dutchman
Wagner / Liszt: Entry of the Guests from Tannhäuser
Wagner / Liszt:: Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Sonata for the book of Mrs.M.W
Llŷr Williams, piano
Donald Macleod (presenter)
Gavin McCollum (producer)
FRI 13:00 Composer of the Week (b080xygq)
Meredith Monk (b. 1942)
Codifying Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk talks about the challenges of allowing her music to be written down and published. Presented by Donald Macleod.
Meredith Monk has been described as one of America’s coolest composers. She is also a singer, director, choreographer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Monk's singular voice has been the central component in the work she has created over a trajectory spanning more than fifty years. As a pioneer in extended vocal technique and a composer of vocal and instrumental music, she has developed distinct sound worlds that have been described as "a beguiling repertoire of aviary microtones, robust yodels, and dusky, low-range chanting" and also as "a peerless mixture of otherworldly and human". Her music is identifiable as distinctly Meredith Monk, and has historically provoked strong reactions from audiences and critics alike. Now in her seventies Monk still tours performing her own works, and it was in Cologne where Donald Macleod caught up with her for Composer of the Week, to discuss her remarkable life and unique music.
Meredith Monk’s music is unique. A distinctive sound world often using extended vocal techniques from sighs to whoops. Her music is not easy to write down, but in 2000 Monk allowed some of her works to be published. She discusses with Donald Macleod how this is not an easy process, and in one particular work of hers which lasts a couple of minutes only, it took two nearly years to write it down. Another area Monk has been exploring since 2003, is composing more instrumental music starting with an orchestral commission from Michael Tilson Thomas. In more recent years she has received honorary doctorates, been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, named Composer of the Year by Musical America, and in 2015 she was honoured with the award of the National Medal of the Arts from President Obama. Yet for all her success, she says that composing music is still as difficult as it ever was.
Mercy (Shaking)
Theo Bleckmann, voice
Meredith Monk, voice
Katie Geissinger, voice
Ching Gonzalez, voice
Allison Sniffin, piano
John Hollenbeck, percussion
Gotham Lullaby
Bjork, voice
Meredith Monk Arr. Don Byron
Click Song #1
Don Byron, performer
Impermanence (Particular Dance)
Meredith Monk, voice
Theo Bleckmann, voice
Katie Geissinger, voice
Ellen Fisher, voice
Silvie Jensen, voice
Ching Gonzalez, voice
Sasha Bogdanowitsch, voice
Allison Sniffin, piano
John Hollenbeck, percussion
Bohdan Hilash, double ocarina, Balinese flute, zaphoon, punji
Impermanence (Between Song)
Meredith Monk, voice
Katie Geissinger, voice
Allison Sniffin, voice and piano
John Hollenbeck, percussion
Bohdan Hilash, clarinet
Songs of Ascension (Shift)
Todd Reynolds, violin
Courtney Orlando, violin
Nadia Sirota, viola
Ha-Yang Kim, cello
Bohdan Hilash, bass clarinet
John Hollenbeck, percussion
Songs of Ascension (Vow)
Katie Geissinger, voice
Todd Reynolds, violin
Nadia Sirota, viola
Ha-Yang Kim, cello
Songs of Ascension (Burn)
Ellen Fisher, voice
Katie Geissinger, voice
Ching Gonzalez, voice
Meredith Monk, voice
Bruce Rameker, voice
Allison Sniffin, voice
Sasha Bogdanowitsch, voice
Sidney Chen, voice
Emily Eagen, voice
Holly Nadal, voice
Toby Newman, voice
Peter Sciscioli, voice
Todd Reynolds, violin
Courtney Orlando, violin
Nadia Sirota, viola
Ha-Yang Kim, cello
Allison Sniffin, violin
Bohdan Hilash, bass clarinet
John Hollenbeck, percussion
Songs of Ascension (Strand: Inner psalm)
Meredith Monk, voice
Allison Sniffin, voice
Katie Geissinger, voice
Ellen Fisher, voice
Bruce Rameker, voice
Ching Gonzalez, voice
John Hollenbeck, voice
Courtney Orlando, voice
Holly Nadal, voice
Nadia Sirota, voice
Ha-Yang Kim, voice
Peter Sciscioli, voice
Todd Reynolds, violin
Bohdan Hilash, bass clarinet
Light Songs (Click Song #2)
Meredith Monk, voice
On Behalf Of Nature (Water/Sky Rant)
Meredith Monk, voice
Bohdan Hilash, Eb clarinet, Macauan bird calls, Burmese whistles, seljefløyte
John Hollenbeck, prepared vibraphone, cuica
Allison Sniffin, keyboard, French horn, voice
Laura Sherman, harp
Producer Luke Whitlock
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0007dcg)
Prom 20 repeat: Pekka Kuusisto and the BBC SSO
Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann
Another chance to hear Sibelius' Violin Concerto and Fifth Symphony performed with special Finish folk music introductions.
Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Trad: Finnish Folk Music
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
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2.45pm Interval
Proms Plus Talk: Kate Molleson talks to Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Leah Brand about the music in this concert.
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3.05pm
Trad: Finnish Folk Music
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (original version, 1915)
Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Taito Hoffrén (singer)
Ilona Korhonen (singer)
Minna-Liisa Tammela (singer)
Vilma Timonen (kantele)
Timo Alakotila (harmonium)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
Violinist Pekka Kuusisto memorably set the entire Proms audience singing a Finnish folk song in 2016. Now he returns for a Prom joined by fellow Finnish folk musicians, which sprinkles rustic Finnish folk music among two pinnacles of Finnish orchestral sophistication: Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto (with Kuusisto as soloist) and his Fifth Symphony – a work suffused with light and autumnal warmth.
Thomas Dausgaard conducts the symphony’s original, four-movement version, allowing a glimpse into the creative process of a work that Sibelius revised over a period of four years.
Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (b0948p5s)
Codes, ciphers, enigmas
The Listening Service returns to its regular slot now the Proms are over, and chooses one of the BBC's "Ten Pieces III", Elgar's "Enigma Variations", to look at codes, ciphers and hidden messages in music.
What might be the "dark saying" or mystery tune that the Enigma Variations are based around? Which other composers were keen on the use of codes and ciphers in their music?
And if we can't crack the codes, does it matter?
With Tom Service and Prof. Marcus du Sautoy.
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0007dcj)
Alice Neary
Sean Rafferty with live music and conversation, including a performance by cellist Alice Neary.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0007dcl)
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (m0007dcn)
2019
Prom 30: The Warner Brothers Story
Live at BBC Proms: the John Wilson Orchestra, the Maida Vale Singers and John Wilson in the Warner Brothers Story with works by Korngold, Warren, Romberg, Steiner, Tiomkin, Willson, Loewe, Arlen, Styne, among others.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Sea Hawk
Harry Warren: We're in the money
Sigmund Romberg: The Desert song
Max Steiner: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dimitri Tiomkin: The Old Man and the Sea
Meredith Willson: Seventy-Six Trombones
Harold Arlen: Blues in the Night
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20.25
INTERVAL: Proms Plus Talk: a discussion of some of the great film scores being played tonight, with Matthew Sweet, David Benedict and Pamela Hutchinson
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20:50
Frederick Loewe: My Fair Lady (excerpts)
Max Steiner: Now, Voyager (excerpts)
Sammy Fain: The Deadwood Stage (from Calamity Jane)
(Doris Day tribute)
Jule Styne: It's Magic
Alex North: A Streetcar Named Desire (excerpts)
Frederick Loewe: Camelot (excerpts)
Henry Mancini: The Days of Wine and Roses
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Constant Nymph (excerpts)
Mikaela Bennett (singer)
Louise Dearman (singer)
Kate Lindsey (singer)
Matt Ford (singer)
Maida Vale Singers
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
Ten years since their first Proms appearance together, John Wilson and the John Wilson Orchestra present an evening of sumptuous technicoloured scores from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. With music from films including The Sea Hawk, The Constant Nymph, Calamity Jane, A Streetcar Named Desire and Harry Potter.
FRI 22:30 Between the Ears (b09r38xx)
Drever, Ligo
The detection of Gravitational Waves in 2015 was hailed as an astounding breakthrough in the world of physics and a triumph for the. LIGO project, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. But the discovery was also a triumph for the men and women who had worked at LIGO during tumultuous times. DREVER, LIGO, is the poet Robert Crawford's meditation on the Scottish physicist Ronald Drever, and his role in the search for Gravitational Waves.
Music by Jeremy Thurlow.
Producer: David Stenhouse.
FRI 23:00 Music Planet (m0007dcq)
Stella Chiweshe in session with Lopa Kothari
Lopa Kothari introduces a session from pioneering Zimbabwean musician Stella Chiweshe, and, in this week's Road Trip, Betto Arcos reports from Lisbon with a focus on the Portuguese guitar.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (m0007cbg)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m0007cc8)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m0007d20)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m0007ctl)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m0007dcg)
BBC Proms
19:30 SAT (m0007c0m)
BBC Proms
11:00 SUN (m0007c27)
BBC Proms
13:00 SUN (m000754k)
BBC Proms
16:00 SUN (m0007qtv)
BBC Proms
19:30 SUN (m0007c2h)
BBC Proms
13:00 MON (m0007cbd)
BBC Proms
19:30 MON (m0007cbn)
BBC Proms
19:30 TUE (m0007ccr)
BBC Proms
19:00 WED (m0007d28)
BBC Proms
22:15 WED (m0007d2b)
BBC Proms
19:00 THU (m0007ctq)
BBC Proms
19:30 FRI (m0007dcn)
Between the Ears
22:30 FRI (b09r38xx)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m0007c07)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m0007c23)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m0007cb5)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m0007cbr)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m0007d1s)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m0007ctc)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m0007dc7)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m0007684)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (m0007d22)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m0002zn2)
Composer of the Week
13:00 TUE (b080xrqn)
Composer of the Week
13:00 WED (b080xygb)
Composer of the Week
13:00 THU (b080xygn)
Composer of the Week
13:00 FRI (b080xygq)
Early Music Late
21:45 SUN (m0007c2k)
Edinburgh International Festival
11:00 MON (m0007cb9)
Edinburgh International Festival
11:00 TUE (m0007cc2)
Edinburgh International Festival
11:00 WED (m0007d1x)
Edinburgh International Festival
11:00 THU (m0007cth)
Edinburgh International Festival
11:00 FRI (m0007dcc)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m0007cb7)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m0007cbx)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m0007d1v)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m0007ctf)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m0007dc9)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (m0007c0r)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m0007cbl)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m0007cck)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m0007dcl)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m0007cbj)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m0007ccd)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m0007d26)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m0007ctn)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m0007dcj)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m0000qx6)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m00027cd)
Jacob Collier's Music Room
23:00 SUN (m0002c9c)
Jazz Now
23:00 MON (m0007cbs)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SAT (m0007c0h)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (m0007ccz)
Late Junction
23:30 WED (m0007d2d)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (m0007ctv)
Music Planet World Mix
00:30 SAT (m00076x4)
Music Planet
23:00 FRI (m0007dcq)
New Generation Artists
11:45 SAT (m0007c0c)
New Generation Artists
18:30 SAT (m0007c0k)
New Generation Artists
12:30 SUN (m0007c29)
New Generation Artists
16:30 WED (m0007d24)
New Generation Artists
21:15 THU (m0007cts)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m0007c0p)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m0007c09)
Sound of Cinema
15:00 SAT (m0007c0f)
Sunday Feature
22:00 MON (b096g5lk)
Sunday Feature
22:00 TUE (b09fmkh5)
Sunday Feature
21:30 WED (b09z5qnn)
Sunday Feature
22:00 THU (b0b91r0z)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m0007c25)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m0007c2c)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b09z5x3f)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b0b0b9h9)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b09z65c9)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (b0948p5s)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m0004n5w)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (m00076x6)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m0007c0t)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m0007c2m)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m0007cbz)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m0007cd5)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m0007d2g)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m0007ctx)
Words and Music
18:15 SUN (m0007c2f)