Le Concert des Nations with Jordi Savall, in Barcelona. Catriona Young presents.
Ludmil Angelov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Natchev (conductor)
Stabat mater for soloists, chorus & orchestra vers. standard
Maria Belcheva (soprano), Stefka Mineva (mezzo soprano), Tsvetan Tsvetkov (tenor), Dimitar Stanchev (bass), Bulgarian National Radio Mixed Chorus, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
Avramov String Quartet, Vladimir Avramov (violin), Stoyan Sertev (violin), Stefan Magnev (viola), Konstantin Kugiyski (cello)
Kim Walker (bassoon), Sarah Warner Vik (bassoon), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Arvid Engegard (conductor)
Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas on Building a Library with Kirsten Gibson and Andrew McGregor
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4, 5 & 8
A Consort’s Monument: music by Coprario, Lawes, Monteverdi, Ferrabosco etc.
Kaleidoscope - Beethoven Transcriptions: Saint-Saëns, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Beethoven
Another chance to hear Kirsten Gibson discussing the available recordings of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and making a recommendation.
Uncertainty surrounds the origins Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. It's thought to be from the late 1680s, towards the end of Purcell's short life, and some evidence points to a Chelsea girls' school as the unlikely venue of its premiere. Unlikely because the exceptional quality of its music and drama make the English court a more probable location for one of the greatest of all English musical stage works. Based on part of Virgil's Aeneid, love, abandonment and despair are its eternal themes, all of which are devastatingly portrayed in its most famous number, Dido's lament 'When I am laid in earth', an aria which has always attracted some of the most starry singers.
The current catalogue shows Dido is an internationally acknowledged masterpiece and the preserve of period performance specialists, but its recorded history began in the 1930s, long predating both of those aspects.
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Handel Variations
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri: Missa Laudate Pueri Dominum and Giovanni Croce: In spiritu humilitatis
Historic Brass of the Guildhall School and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Edward Seckerson joins Andrew McGregor to review 'Herbert von Karajan - Complete Decca Recordings', a new 33-disc box set of remastered recordings made by the best-selling conductor in the history of the gramophone.
Apotheosis: Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets Vol. III
Just weeks after Ravi Shankar's 100th anniversary, Tom Service speaks to author Oliver Craske about his new biography of one of the 20th century's most significant musicians.
Tom Service talks to author Oliver Craske about his new biography, which marks the 100th anniversary of one of the 20th century's most influential musicians, Ravi Shankar. Composer, Erkki Sven Tuur turned 60 last year. He speaks to Tom, from his home on an island in the Baltic Sea, about his Ninth Symphony and how his orchestral piece Sow the Wind is especially relevant during these times. We continue to mine the Music Matters archive and there is another chance to hear Angela Hewitt talk about Beethoven and Bach. And as lockdown continues to impact artists the world over, Tom talks to violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, percussionist Claire Edwardes, and the composer Kamala Sankaram whose new opera “All decisions will be made by consensus,” was composed especially for live online performance premieres this week.
Jess Gillam with... Lloyd Coleman
Jess Gillam is joined by Lloyd Coleman, composer, clarinettist and associate music director of the British Paraorchestra. Their musical choices include a sabre dance, sounds of the sea from Debussy, a 'modern classic' by Anna Meredith, the glorious finale of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony and Kraftwerk.
From musical beginnings in a carnival band, to being the first ever saxophone finalist in BBC Young Musician, and appearances at the Last Night of the Proms in 2018 and at this year’s BAFTA awards, Jess is one of today’s most engaging and charismatic classical performers. Each week on This Classical Life, Jess will be joined by young musicians to swap tracks and share musical discoveries across a wide range of styles, revealing how music shapes their everyday lives.
Quatuor pour la fin du temps: V. Louange à l'Eternité de Jésus
Conductor Gabriella Teychenné draws together a riveting collection of music spanning dreamy impressionism by Debussy and Ravel, a love duet by Monteverdi and startling sound worlds from Jonny Greenwood.
Gabriella also introduces us to a composer who, despite writing over twenty symphonies, is rarely performed today - Mieczysław Weinberg. Plus we’ll hear from his contemporary Dmitri Shostakovich, with a piece of music that might leave you feeling unsure whether to laugh or cry.
And perhaps appropriately for these difficult days, Gabriella chooses a movement from Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis (mass in troubled times) and finds that the music brims with determination and optimism.
A series in which each week a musician reveals a selection of music - from the inside.
Jessica Curry's adventure into the exhilarating, joyous world of video game music continues with guest Paul Wolinski of band 65 Days of Static.
Kathryn Tickell with new releases and classic tracks from across the globe, including music from Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate and the debut album from Saigon Soul Revival, who perform the music of 1960s Vietnam. Algeria's Mother of Rai Cheikha Rimitti is the Classic Artist, and there is a Road Trip to Colombia.
For the first in a new series of J to Z Home Sessions, Julian Joseph presents a collaboration from pianist Kit Downes and bassist Ruth Goller, recorded in their front room. Kit Downes is one of the UK's most highly regarded young pianists, now recording for the prestigious label ECM, while Goller is known for her work with progressive UK groups Vula Viel and Melt Yourself Down. Together they perform two lyrical compositions and Downes also shares a remote collaboration he's been working on that features bassist Petter Eldh and Scottish fiddler Aidan O'Rourke.
Also in the programme, Danish bassist Jasper Høiby, one third of acclaimed group Phronesis, shares much loved music from his bass heroes, among them Jaco Pastorius and Avishai Cohen.
Tonight’s Opera on 3 was originally scheduled to feature the soprano Karita Mattila in the planned ROH production in April of Janacek's Jenufa. That production was cancelled with the current closure of the Opera House but this repeat broadcast is an opportunity to hear Karita Mattila in another opera, Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.
Karita Mattila stars as the prima donna who appears later as Ariadne and Roberto Sacca is the tenor, later Bacchus, in this often funny work which once again sets a libretto by Strauss's greatest collaborator, the librettist Hugo von Hoffmansthal. The work was originally intended as a short divertissement to be performed after Hoffmansthal's version of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme which itself had incidental music by Strauss. However, it soon became clear that in this version the work wouldn't be performed often due to the expense. So it was revised as an opera in a prologue and one act, albeit with a small orchestra and with another of Strauss's great soprano roles.
Presented by Ivan Hewitt, and was first broadcast in July 2014 as part of the Richard Strauss 150 celebration
Ariadne / The Prima Donna ..... Karita Mattila (Soprano)
Bacchus / The Tenor ..... Roberto Sacca (Tenor)
Zerbinetta ..... Jane Archibald (Soprano)
The Composer ..... Ruxandra Donose (Mezzo-soprano)
Harlequin ..... Markus Werba (Baritone)
Music Master ..... Thomas Allen (Baritone)
Dancing Master ..... Ed Lyon (Tenor)
Wig Maker ..... Ashley Riches (Baritone)
Lackey ..... Jihoon Kim (Bass Baritone)
Scaramuccio ..... Wynne Evans (Tenor)
Brighella ..... Paul Schweinester (Tenor)
Truffaldino ..... Jeremy White (Bass)
Officer ..... David Butt Philip (Baritone)
Naiad ..... Sofia Fomina (Soprano)
Dryad ..... Karen Cargill (Mezzo-soprano)
Echo ..... Kiandra Howarth (Soprano)
Major Domo ..... Christopher Quest (Speaker)
Kate Molleson chooses new music performances by Barbara Hannigan, Håkan Hardenberger, and the Estonian Festival Orchestra, with music by Luigi Nono, Olga Neuwirth, Kamilya Jubran and Werner Hasler, and Erkki-Sven Tüür.
SUNDAY 26 APRIL 2020
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000hms6)
Robert Mitchell
What goes through a musician’s head before they embark on a long solo improvisation? Pianist Robert Mitchell shares his aspirations and the mental preparation process he went through for his forthcoming album. It’s a 37-minute solo performance dedicated to Cecil Taylor and recorded in a familiar setting for Robert, the Jazz Cafe in Camden.
Also in the show, Corey shares new music from the American experimental jazz vocalist Patty Waters and there’s an uplifting, energetic performance by Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra recorded live at Molde International Jazz Festival in 2019.
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000hms8)
Baltic Blues
Catriona Young presents a concert by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra including Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.
01:01 AM
Peteris Vasks (b.1946)
Pater noster
Swedish Radio Choir, Klaus Mäkelä, (conductor)
01:09 AM
Peteris Vasks (b.1946)
Laudate Dominum
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)
01:25 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975)
Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 60, 'Leningrad'
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä, (conductor)
02:47 AM
Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933)
Symphony No 3 (3rd mvt)
Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki (conductor)
03:01 AM
Lepo Sumera (1950-2000)
Symphony No 2 (dedicated to Peeter Lilje) (1984)
Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peeter Lilje (conductor)
03:20 AM
Ceslovas Sasnauskas (1867-1916)
Requiem
Inesa Linaburgyte (mezzo soprano), Algirdas Janutas (tenor), Vladimiras Prudnikovas (bass), Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Petras Bingelis (conductor)
03:54 AM
Rudolf Tobias (1873-1918)
Julius Caesar, overture
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
04:04 AM
Janis Medins (1890-1966)
Aria, 'Suite No 1'
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor)
04:10 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV.118 (excerpt)
Collegium Vocale Ghent, Collegium Vocale Ghent Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
04:16 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Pezzo capriccioso - morceau de concert
Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), Katya Apekisheva (piano)
04:23 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for strings Op 20
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
04:35 AM
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909)
The Highlander's Fantasy, Op 17
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:44 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Rondo a capriccio in G major Op.129 (Rage over a lost penny) for piano
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
04:51 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Finlandia, Op 26
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards (conductor)
05:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Coriolan Overture, Op 62
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
05:08 AM
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto grosso in E minor, Op 3 no 6
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (conductor)
05:18 AM
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
String Quartet no 2 in B flat major
Lysell String Quartet
05:33 AM
Nino Rota (1911-1978)
Concerto for bassoon and orchestra
Christopher Millard (bassoon), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:51 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Mladi (Youth)
Anita Szabo (flute), Bela Horvath (oboe), Zsolt Szatmari (clarinet), Pal Bokor (bassoon), Gyorgy Salamon (bass clarinet), Tamas Zempleni (horn)
06:09 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Lyric Pieces - selection from Books 1 & 2
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
06:26 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue (BWV.542) 'Great' (orig. for organ)
Guitar Trek
06:34 AM
Kaspar Forster (1616-1673)
Viri Israelite (dialogus de Juditha e Holoferne for chorus and instruments)
Gundula Anders (soprano), David Cordier (counter tenor), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Harry van der Kamp (bass), La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata Koln, Roland Wilson (director)
06:50 AM
Jean Francaix (1912-1997)
Serenade for small orchestra
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000hmpv)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m000hmpx)
Sarah Walker with an inspiring musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Sarah takes us on a musical journey to Poland, through Naples and then to Sweden for a wedding. She time-travels too, with a recording of the tenor Jussi Björling from 1937.
She also reflects on the work of conductor and composer Hilary Campbell, and plays her spine-tingling ‘Song of the Dane Woman’.
Plus sumptuous sounds from Tony Bennett and Bill Evans revealing the hopefulness of spring.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m000hmpz)
John Dyson
John Dyson spent 23 years as a judge, moving up through the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and finally becoming Master of the Rolls. He retired as Master of the Rolls three years ago, but he’s back working on international arbitrations, busier than ever; in fact, he presided over the recent decision that the Saracens rugby team were being overpaid.
Through it all, the great passion that has sustained him is music. He's an accomplished pianist and took lessons from the legendary teacher Dame Fanny Waterman. Piano music is his first love, and so his music choices include Beethoven’s exuberant first piano concerto; Schubert’s F Minor Piano Fantasy for Four Hands, and Bach’s Goldberg Variations. He loves opera too, especially Verdi’s Otello, an opera written when the composer was in his seventies. Choosing Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms becomes an opportunity to talk about his Jewish heritage, and about his grandmother, who escaped from Bergen Belsen. John Dyson talks too about the rise of anti-Semitism now; he says: “our suitcases are packed.”
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
SUN 13:00 Liam Byrne's String Theories (m000hmq1)
Friction
Viola da gamba player Liam Byrne selects his favourite music for strings, drawing out threads of connectivity in unusual places. This final episode looks at interactions between multiple string instruments and the magical friction that occurs when two voices rub up against each other. Featuring traditional Swedish music for nyckelharpa, a jangly assemblage of bowed and sympathetic strings and wooden keys; a multi-tracked cello that sounds like a synthesised organ; and repetitive yearning semitone figures for a 10-stringed fiddle.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000hmq3)
Music in 18th-century Portugal (1/2)
The first of two programmes exploring the music of 18th-century Portugal. This programme delves into the music heard in the royal court and opera houses of 18th-century Lisbon.
Marcos Magalhães, director of the ensemble Os Músicos do Tejo takes us on a tour of the city, from the theatre of São Carlos, to the district of Bairro Alto, where soprano super-star Luísa Todi lived and sang; to the modern-day Praça do Comércio, near which the old royal palace was located, before its destruction in the earthquake of 1755.
The 18th century saw the Portuguese court consciously try to rediscover the grandness of their 15th- and 16th-century predecessors during the so-called ‘Age of Discoveries’, when the Portuguese first established their overseas empire. With it came a musical heritage that was both inspired by those of Italy and France, but also sought to bring Portuguese talent to the fore.
Presented by Hannah French.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b00rs64d)
Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London
A service from the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London.
Introit: Troparion of the Resurrection (Rautavaara)
Responses: Gabriel Jackson
Psalm: 37 (Pike, Macpherson, Teesdale, Bramma)
First Lesson: Song of Solomon 3
Office Hymn: Christians, to the Paschal Victim (Victimae Paschali)
Canticles: The Norwich Service (Gabriel Jackson)
Second Lesson: Matthew 28 vv16-20
Pater Noster (Vytautas Miskinis)
Anthem: Angelus Domini descendit de caelo (Ivan Moody)
Final Hymn: Finished the strife of battle now (Surrexit)
Organ Voluntary: Praeludium in C (Buxtehude)
Rupert Gough (Director of Music)
William Baldry (Organ Scholar)
First broadcast 7 April 2010.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000hmq5)
26/04/20
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records from across the genre, as requested by Radio 3 listeners with music from Benny Goodman, Ben Webster and The Bad Plus.
DISC 1
Artist Benny Goodman
Title Temptation Rag
Composer Weslyn / Lodge
Album 1949-1951
Label Classics
Number 1436 Track 11
Duration 2.28
Performers: Benny Goodman (clarinet), Teddy Wilson (piano), Terry Gibbs (vibes), Johnny Smith (guitar), Bob Carter (bass) and Charlie Smith (drums). 24 Nov 1950
DISC 2
Artist Miles Davis
Title Sweet Sue (First version)
Composer Harris / Young
Album Miles Davis with John Coltrane – The Complete Recordings
Label Columbia
Number CK 65833 CD 2 Track 4
Duration 4.20
Performers: Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums). 10 Sept 1956
DISC 3
Artist Marty Paich
Title No More
Composer Russell / Camarata
Album Four Classic Albums
Label Avid
Number 1173 CD 2 Track 11
Duration 4.26
Performers Jack Sheldon, Al Porcino, Conte Candoli, t; Bob Enevoldsen, George Roberts, tb; Vince DeRosa, frh; Art Pepper, Bill Hood, Bill Perkins, reeds; Russ Freeman, p; Victor Feldman, vib; Joe Mondragon, b; Mel Lewis, d; Marty Paich, arr, dir. 30 June 1959.
DISC 4
Artist Zoe Gilby
Title Caravan
Composer Tizol
Album Twelve Stories
Label Zoe Gilby
Number Track 8
Duration 6.16
Performers: Zoe Gilby, v; Noel Dennis, t; Mark Williams, g; Andy Champion, b; Richard Brown, d. 2013
DISC 5
Artist Jimmy Giuffre
Title I’m Old Fashioned
Composer Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
Album Ad Lib (in Four Classic Albums)
Label Avid
Number 1103 CD 1 Track 9
Duration 8.37
Performers Jimmy Giuffre, ts; Jimmy Rowles, p; Red Mitchell, b; Lawrence Marable, d. January 1959
DISC 6
Artist John Dankworth
Title Tomorrow’s World
Composer Dankworth
Album I Hear Music
Label Salvo
Number 403 CD 2 Track 5
Duration 3.32
Performers Martin Drover, Trevor Barber, Henry Shaw (tp), Henry Lowther (tp,vln), Ken Gibson, Malcolm Griffiths (tb), Johnny Dankworth, Stan Sulzmann, Don Rendell, Mike Page, Duncan Lamont (reeds), Tony Hyams (p,el-p), John Girvan (g), Daryl Runswick (b), Harold Fisher (d), February 1973
DISC 7
Artist Ben Webster
Title Blues for Yolande
Composer Hawkins
Album Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (Four Classic Albums)
Label Avid
Number 1354 CD 1 Track 1
Duration 6.47
Performers Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, ts; Oscar Peterson, p; Ray Brown, b; Alvin Stoller, d. 16 Oct 1957.
DISC 8
Artist The Bad Plus
Title Layin’A Strip For The Higher Self State Line
Composer King
Album Give
Label Columbia
Number CK 90771 Track 7
Duration 4.14
Performers Ethan Iverson, p; Reid Anderson, b; David King, d. Oct 2003
DISC 9
Artist Pat Boone
Title Crazy Train
Composer Osbourne
Album In a Metal Mood: No More Mr Nice Guy
Label MCA
Number 24008 Track 11
Duration 4.30
Performers: Pat Boone, v; with Charlie Davis, Frank Szabo, Rick Baptist, t; Alan Kaplan, Dana Hughes, Slide Hyde, Lew McCreary, tb; Gary Herbig, Joel Peskin, Pete Christlieb, Terry Harrington, Tom Scott, reeds; Paul Smith, p; Mitch Holder, g; Andy Simkins, b; Greg Bissonnette, d; Doug Cameron, vn; Alfie Silas, Carmen Twillie, Clydene Jackson Edwards, Mona Lisa Young, v. 1997.
DISC 10
Artist Helen Merrill with Gil Evans
Title Where Flamingos Fly
Composer Harold Courlander / Elthea Teal / John Brooks
Album Dream of You
Label Emarcy
Number 514 074-2 Track 8
Duration 2.48
Performers: (include) Art Farmer, t; Jo Bennett, tb; John LaPorta, cl; Jerome Richardson, fl, as; Danny Bank, bars; Hank Jones, p; Brry Galbraith, g; Oscar Pettiford, b; Joe Morello, d; Gil Evans, dir. 27 June 1956.
DISC 11
Artist Manu Dibango
Title Soir au village
Composer Dibango
Album Afrojazzy
Label Polydor
Number 831 720-2 Track 4
Duration 5.21
Performers: Manu Dibango. v, ss; Justin Bowen, Ray Lema, Steohane Joly, kb; Jerry Malekani, Vincent Nguini, g; Michel Alobo, b; Paco Sery, d. 1986
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m0005sl8)
Countertenors - classical rock gods!
From Frankie Valli and Jimmy Somerville to Andreas Scholl and Iestyn Davies - Tom Service celebrates the male singers hitting the high notes.
Why do they do it? How do they do it? And why is it so uniquely thrilling a sound? And it's not about singing like a woman!
With inside knowledge from countertenor Lawrence Zazzo.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b02x939j)
Three
The power of trios, trinities and triangles. Hattie Morahan and Jonathan Slinger read words by Wordsworth, Donne and Christina Rossetti with music by Prokofiev, Janacek and Bach.
Producer: Natalie Steed
Readings
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
The Three Ravens - Anon
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakey's Version Of "Three Blind Mice" - Billy Collins
Beattie is Three - Adrian Mitchell
Three Years She Grew - William Wordsworth
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close - Emily Dickinson
Break, Break, Break - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Eumenides - Aeschylus, translated by Richard Latimer
Holy Sonnet IXV - John Donne
A Triad - Christina Rossetti
Three Violins Are Trying Their Hearts - Carl Sandburg
In Defence of Adultery - Julia Copus
The Inferno, Canto V - Dante Alighieri, translated by Paul Batchelor
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy, translated by Benjamin Tucker
01 Henry Purcell
Chorus and Orchetra of the Academy of Ancient Music
02
00:00:07
3 witches from Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Hattie Morahan
03
00:00:11 Christoph Willibald Gluck
Dance of the Furies, Orfeo ed Euridice
04
00:05:11 Dorough,Huston, Mercer, Mason, Jolicoeur (artist)
The Magic Number
Performer: Dorough,Huston, Mercer, Mason, Jolicoeur
05
00:08:27
The Three Ravens by Anon (trad)
Hattie Morahan
06
00:26:17 Sergei Prokofiev
Le prince et la princesse, The Love of Three Oranges, Symphonic Suite
07
00:12:17
I Chop Some Parsley to Art Blakey's Version Of "Three Blind Mice" by Billy Collins
Jonathan Slinger
08
00:12:21 Curtis Fuller (artist)
Three Blind Mice
Performer: Curtis Fuller
09
00:17:30 Arthur Sullivan
Three Little Maids From School, The Mikado
10
00:19:02
Beattie is Three by Adrian Mitchell
Hattie Morahan
11
00:19:30 George Gershwin
Three quarter blues for piano
12
00:20:21
Three Years She Grew by William Wordsworth
Jonathan Slinger
13
00:22:14 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soave sia il vento (trio)
14
00:25:13
My life closed twice before its close by Emily Dickinson
Hattie Morahan
15
00:25:37 Dmitry Shostakovich
Largo, Trio No. 2 in E minor for piano, violin and cello
16
00:26:27
Break, break, break by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Jonathan Slinger
17
00:29:23
Aeschylus, translated Richard Lattimore Chorus, Eumenides
Hattie Morahan
18
00:31:06 Orlande de Lassus
Videntes Stellam Magi, motet for 5 voices
19
00:31:27
Holy Sonnet XIV by John Donne
Jonathan Slinger
20
00:34:22 Henry Purcell
Three parts upon a ground for 3 violins and continuo
21
00:38:47 Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers (artist)
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Performer: Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
22
00:45:41
A Triad by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Hattie Morahan
23
00:47:00 Edward MacDowell
To a wild rose from Woodland Sketches
24
00:48:17
Three violins are trying their hearts by Carl Sandburg
Hattie Morahan
25
00:49:19 Fred Ebb, John Kander (artist)
Two Ladies from Cabaret
Performer: Fred Ebb, John Kander
26
00:52:28
In Defence Of Adultery by Julia Copus
Hattie Morahan
27
00:53:41 Johann Sebastian Bach
Three part inventions no 11
28
00:57:24 Franz Schubert
Andante con moto, Trio
29
00:58:14
Inferno Canto V by Dante Alighieri trans Paul Batchelor
Hattie Morahan
30
01:08:10
Leo Tolstoy trans Benjamin Tucker - Kreutzer Sonata
Jonathan Slinger
31
01:08:11 Leos Janáček
Adagio, Quatuor no. 1 Sonate a Kreuzer
SUN 18:45 Between the Ears (m000hmqb)
Songs of the Mojave Desert
A collaboration with Natalie Diaz, celebrated Mojave American poet and language activist. Her award-winning poetry collection, When My Brother Was An Aztec, draws on her experiences growing up on the Fort Mojave Indian reservation, a 40,000 acre stretch of desert spanning California, Arizona and Nevada. Her hotly anticipated second collection, Post Colonial Love Poem, will be released in June.
Natalie brings us to Mojave Valley, to the home of her uncle Hubert McCord. At 91, Hubert is the last fluent Mojave speaker who is also a singer. Together they have been working on a language recovery program for young people, whilst also recording ancient bird and clan songs for future generations.
Immersing us in Mojave language and culture, we hear stories of the Colorado river. For Mojaves, there is an inseparable relationship between the body and the land which they have inherited from the creator, Matevil, who Hubert simply calls the great man.
Mojaves call themselves Aha’Macav - which means the river runs through their bodies and through their land. Today this is the most endangered river in the United States - so how will Natalie say "I am am carrying the Colorado river in my body, I am the river" when this river is gone?
The valley is surrounded by a ring of mountains including Avi kwame (Spirit Mountain) where Mojaves were created, the rock who cried, and the sand dunes where Mojaves go on to the next life. Despite brutal attempts to silence Mojave language and culture in the 20th century, Mojave ancient songs, with their stories of animals, the river, and ancient beings, still resonate with life today on the reservation. Although many traditions are at risk of dying out.
Produced by Victoria Ferran
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 19:15 Sunday Feature (m000hmqd)
New Generation Thinkers: The Crankiness of CW Daniel
Dr Elsa Richardson studies the history of life reform in Britain, tracking subjects which today are of mainstream importance but were, back in the early years of the 20th century seen to be the territory of eccentrics and cranks. In the process of reading about vegetarianism, herbal medicine, nudism, sunbathing and alternative forms of spirituality as conceived by writers in the early 1900s, she began to notice the significance of the publisher CW Daniel.
In this programme Elsa explores the Daniel publishing story, its roots in Tolstoyan Christianity and the way it became a hub for radical thinkers far removed from the political activism of the women's suffrage and rising Labour movement. CW Daniel's story, his arrests during the First World War for publishing pacifist material and his relationship and meeting with Leo Tolstoy towards the end of the great Russian novelists life, are extraordinary. At the heart of his publishing efforts was a periodical The Crank, which celebrated the spirit of change and progress that he and his wife to be Florence Worland, believed in so passionately.
Elsa also asks how the breadth of the Daniel's interests has fared over time. There was a renewed interest in the 70s but many of the lifestyle ideas, which seemed so radical in the 20th century are now accepted as something close to mainstream in the 21st.
Producer: Tom Alban
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m000hmqg)
Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
Rebellion is brewing in Britain.
King Henry must reunite his country but how when even his own family is divided?
As Henry's rule is threatened his son Hal appears unconcerned, wasting his time in the company of the comically corrupt Falstaff and common thieves, apparently more interested in play than the politics of state. Yet what kind of leadership is needed to unite the country might well be found in the taverns of Eastcheap as within the Palace of Westminster.
King Henry ..... Iain Glen
Falstaff ..... Toby Jones
Hal ..... Luke Thompson
Hotspur ..... Tom Glynn-Carney
Worcester .....Mark Bonnar
Lady Percy .....Natalie Simpson
Glendower ..... Steffan Rhodri
Lady Mortimer ..... Bettrys Jones
Westmoreland ..... Roger Ringrose
Northumberland/Douglas ..... John Dougall
Bardolph/ Sir Walter Blunt ..... John Lightbody
Peto/Sherriff/Vernon ..... Sargon Yelda
John/Mortimer ..... Chris Lew Kum Hoi
Poins/Messenger ..... Hasan Dixon
Mistress Quickly ..... Elizabeth Counsell
Music composed by John Nicholls.
Adapted and directed by Sally Avens.
SUN 21:30 Record Review Extra (m000hmqj)
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including the complete recommended version of the Building a Library work, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
SUN 23:30 Slow Radio (m0003t20)
The Cathedral
The evocative sounds of Durham Cathedral recorded in a single day. Huge spaces in a remarkable 12th-century building, the 300-year-old bells and quiet moments in smaller spaces.
We spent a whole day recording sounds from early morning when the cathedral is opened up at
7.00 am; the contemplative early morning spoken service; visitors to the huge nave of the cathedral; quieter moments in the smaller spaces of cathedral cloisters; the magnificent bells calling the congregation to prayer; the bustle of the cafe at lunchtime; the cathedral choir and organ; and the cathedral settling back down again to silence as it's locked up again at the end of the day.
MONDAY 27 APRIL 2020
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m0006m0k)
Peter Robinson
The Bowie of classical music and why Ravel didn't win the classical X Factor. Popjustice creator and music journalist Peter Robinson tries Clemmie's classical playlist and tells her exactly what he thought.
Peter's playlist in full
Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1
Maurice Ravel – String Quartet in F (2nd movement)
Reynaldo Hahn - L'Heure exquise
Anthony Holborne – Image of Melancholy
Scott Joplin – Magnetic Rag
Classical Fix is a podcast from BBC Radio 3. If you're new to classical music and wondering where to start - this is where you start.
01
00:04:38 Erik Satie
Gymnopédie No 1 in D major
Performer: Pascal Rogé
Duration 00:03:11
02
00:09:49 Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène
Duration 00:06:26
03
00:15:44 Reynaldo Hahn
L'heure exquise (Chansons grises)
Singer: Philippe Jaroussky
Performer: Jérôme Ducros
Duration 00:02:15
04
00:17:52 Anthony Holborne
The Image of Melancholy - pavan for 5 instruments
Performer: Bjarte Eike
Ensemble: Barokksolistene
Duration 00:05:34
05
00:24:14 Scott Joplin
Magnetic Rag
Performer: Joshua Rifkin
Duration 00:05:18
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000hmql)
Bach from Copenhagen
Concerto Copenhagen and Lars Ulrick Mortensen with an all-Bach programme. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57, cantata
Eline Soelmark (soprano), Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass), Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
12:54 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
01:13 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sinfonia, from ‘Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209', cantata;
Eline Soelmark (soprano), Gerald Geerink (tenor), Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass), Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
01:45 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Air, from 'Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068'
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
01:48 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 30 in E major, Op 109
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
02:07 AM
Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)
Meine Freundin, du bist schon - wedding piece
Maria Zedelius (soprano), David Cordier (alto), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
02:31 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Symphony No.2 in B flat major (Op.15)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Christian Eggen (conductor)
03:05 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Quartet for strings no.4 (Op.25) in A minor
Oslo Quartet
03:42 AM
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Ave Maria
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
03:48 AM
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Meditation and processional
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
03:55 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Suite for chamber orchestra (1946)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
04:03 AM
Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716)
Overture in D minor
Hildebrand'sche Hoboisten Compagnie
04:12 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Franz Liszt (transcriber)
Isolde's Liebestod transc. Liszt for piano, S447
Francois-Frederic Guy (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
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Carnival Overture Op 92
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
04:41 AM
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900)
Etudes instructives, Op 53. 1851
Nina Gade (piano)
04:51 AM
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
De profundis (Psalm 129) in D minor
Czech Chamber Choir, Virtuosi di Praga, Petr Chromcak (conductor)
05:00 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Concertino for clarinet and orchestra (Op.26) in E flat major
Hannes Altrov (clarinet), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paul Magi (conductor)
05:11 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Chanson perpetuelle (1898)
Lena Hoel (soprano), Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano), Yggdrasil String Quartet
05:19 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Trio in E flat major, D897, 'Notturno'
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Vadim Repin (violin), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)
05:28 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Rossiniana - suite from Rossini's "Les riens"
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
05:55 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for piano duet in B flat major, K358
Leonore von Stauss (fortepiano), Wolfgang Brunner (fortepiano)
06:06 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Eri Klas (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000hntf)
Monday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000hnth)
Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five composers’ Opus Ones.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b084czqy)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Volant fingers
This week Donald Macleod focuses on Handel the organist. Today, Handel impresses the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, dazzles his Roman audiences and invents the organ concerto.
“A fine and delicate touch, a Volant finger and a ready delivery of passages the most difficult, are the praise of inferior artists. They were not noticed in Handel, whose excellencies were of a far superior kind, and his amazing command of the instrument, the fullness of his harmony, the grandeur and dignity of his style, the copiousness of his imagination, and the fertility of his invention were qualities that absorbed every inferior attainment.” So wrote Handel’s biographer John Hawkins, attempting to capture in words the effect made on him by the almost ineffably brilliant organ-playing of his subject. Things could have turned out very differently. Handel’s father, court surgeon to Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, had wanted his son to pursue a career in the law, but fate intervened when the Duke overheard young Georg Frideric playing the organ after service one Sunday and strongly encouraged Georg senior to allow his son to have a musical training. Within a few years, Handel left to seek his fortune in Italy, where a contemporary account has a snapshot of him playing the organ in Rome, “to the astonishment of everyone”. At this point in his life, the organ was an instrument Handel improvised on rather than – with a handful of exceptions – composed for, and it’s not until the mid 1730s that he produced the first of his organ concertos, for performance between the acts of a revival of his oratorio Esther.
Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a; (Sonata – ‘Taci, qual suono ascolto’)
Le Concert d’Astrée
Emmanuelle Haïm, organ and direction
Fugue in G, HWV 606
Ton Koopman, organ of St James’, Great Packington
Concerto Grosso in D, Op 3 No 6 (HWV 317)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski, conductor
Deborah, HWV 51 (Act 2, ‘In the battle, fame pursuing’)
James Bowman, countertenor (Barak)
Paul Nicholson, chamber organ
The King’s Consort
Robert King, conductor
Esther, HWV 50b (Act 1 scene 1, extract)
Rebecca Outram, soprano (Israelite woman)
Rosemary Joshua, soprano (Esther)
Handel Orchestra and Chorus
Laurence Cummings, conductor
Organ Concerto in B flat, Op 4 No 2 (HWV 290)
Ottavio Dantone, organ and direction
Accademia Bizantina
Esther, HWV 50b (Act 2 scene 4, extract)
Handel Orchestra and Chorus
Laurence Cummings, conductor
Producer: Chris Barstow
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09r453c)
Wind power
From the Wigmore Hall, London, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists perform works by Beethoven and Poulenc.
Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Beethoven: Wind Sextet in E flat major, Op 71
Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
Beethoven: Octet in E flat major, Op 103
SCO Wind Soloists
First broadcast on 12 February 2018.
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000hntk)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich
Tom McKinney presents a week with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
The week begins with a concert given in January at Munich’s Hercules Hall in which Robin Ticciati conducts a programme packed full of drama and excitement ! Wagner’s 1880 opera “Parsifal” is based on the Arthurian Knight Percival’s quest for the Holy Grail, and it’s dripping with Wagnerian leitmotifs and incredible harmonies. The concert opens with a Suite from the opera, constructed last year by Claudio Abbado.
They then move on to a work by British composer George Benjamin – “Sudden Time”, inspired “by a dream in which the sound of a thunderclap seemed to stretch…as if in a spiral through my head”.
That concert concludes with Sibelius’ final foray into the symphony – his 7th – one of the last pieces he ever wrote.
The final piece in today’s programme is Schubert’s Mass No.6 in E flat, from a concert also recorded in Munich last October, under the baton of Riccardo Muti.
2.00pm
Wagner, arr.Claudio Abbado: Suite from “Parsifal”
George Benjamin: Sudden Time
Sibelius: Symphony No.7 in C major, Op.105
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Robin Ticciati (conductor)
3.20pm
Schubert: Mass No.6 in E flat, D.950
Ilse Eerens (soprano),
Henriette Gödde (mezzo-soprano),
Nicholas Phan (tenor),
Maciej Kwasnikowski (tenor),
Gianluca Buratto (bass)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000hntm)
Polyhymnia Ensemble
The Polyhymnia ensemble performs motets by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault and a recorder suite by Louis-Antoin Dornel Dornel in a concert given at Romainmôtier Abbey in Switzerland.
Clérambault: Motet pour le jour de Noel;
Clérambault: Motet pour les trois jours qui precedent le Caresme
Louis-Antoin Dornel: Suite No.2
Clérambault: De profundis
Polyhymnia ensemble
Charles-Edouard Fantin (lute)
Florence Boeuf-Albert (recorder / viola da gamba)
Franck Marcon (organ / director)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m000hntp)
Stephen Hough, Natalya Romaniw
Katie Derham introduces a Home Session by pianist Stephen Hough and talks to soprano Natalya Romaniw about her new album of Slavic song: 'Arion - Voyage of a Slavic Soul'.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000hzwr)
Classical music to fill half an hour
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000hntt)
Mozart in Munich
Presented by Fiona Talkington
For the great nonagenarian conductor Herbert Blomstedt, conducting “is a good profession to grow old in, because it’s always a challenge, and you need challenges when you get older.” And in this concert, he continues his longstanding collaboration with the magnificent Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a programme full of challenges. With Mozart, as Blomstedt says, “you have to articulate very precisely and can’t rely on power and impact.”
7.30: Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat, K. 543
8.00: Interval: Mozart: Piano Sonata in D major, K576
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
8.20: Mozart: Mass in C minor, K. 427
Christina Landshamer, soprano
Tara Erraught, soprano
Robin Tritschler, tenor
Jóhann Kristinsson, baritone
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
(Concert given in the Gasteig, Munich on 20th December 2019.)
Brahms: Horn Trio Op 40
Sarah Willis, horn
Kotowa Machida, violin
Cordelia Hoefer, piano
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000hmrr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m0000kgp)
Music of the Spheres
Music: The First Theory of Everything
Could the wonders of the universe and nature of creation be explained through music? The music of the spheres was a serious intellectual idea that applied music theory to the search for underlying order in the natural world.
Conceived in the 6th century BC, the concept survived for centuries, influencing poets and playwrights, including Shakespeare and Milton, and artists such as Botticelli. It culminated in the 17th century when German astronomer Kepler used the music of the cosmos to give birth to modern astrophysics.
In these five essays, astronomer and award-winning science writer Dr Stuart Clark argues that the concept of harmony – still so prevalent in art – continues to underpin science as well.
Episodes feature original music, composed and performed by Carollyn Eden, to underscore the ideas being discussed. We hear Pythagoras’s scale for the nature of the night sky, the different medieval church modes associated with the cosmos and music based on the intervals that Kepler calculated for the planets – which still hold true today.
In this first essay, Stuart traces the origins of the music of the spheres. From a blacksmith’s shop in Italy, to the universal harmony sung by the universe – where the planets all revolve around the Earth.
The music of the spheres was the first theory of life, the universe and everything. But is it really so different, or far-fetched, to today’s theory that the universe is made up of tiny wiggling bits of string?
This series of essays is produced by Richard Hollingham and is a Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 3.
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000hntw)
Adventures in sound
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 28 APRIL 2020
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000hnty)
Beethoven's First Piano Concerto and Seventh Symphony
Andrew Manze conducts the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hanover. With Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto no 1 in C major, Op 15
Martin Stadtfeld (piano), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
01:05 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Will the sun forget to streak, from 'Solomon, HWV.67', arr. for piano
Martin Stadtfeld (piano)
01:10 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony no 7 in A major, Op 92
NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
01:50 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet no 2 in A major, Op 81
Janine Jansen (violin), Anders Nilsson (violin), Julian Rachlin (viola), Torleif Thedeen (cello), Itamar Golan (piano)
02:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Georg Christian Lehms (author)
Cantata No.170 "Vergnugte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust" (BWV.170)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
02:52 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Le Temple de la Gloire, orchestral suites opera-ballet (1745)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
03:23 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
La Campanella
Valerie Tryon (piano)
03:28 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
The Hebrides Overture, Op 26
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
03:39 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Concertstuck for viola and piano (1906)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Monique Savary (piano)
03:48 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Early one morning for voice and piano
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Paul Turner (piano)
03:52 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
V prirode (In Nature's Realm), Op 63
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
04:05 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The Four Seasons - Summer
Davide Monti (violin), Il Tempio Armonico
04:16 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Dalila's aria: 'Mon coeur s'ouvre' (from "Samson et Dalila", Act 2 Scene 3)
Helja Angervo (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Soderblom (conductor)
04:23 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
L'isle joyeuse (1904)
Balazs Fulei (piano)
04:31 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Spanischer Marsch Op 433
ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Guth (conductor)
04:36 AM
Jose Marin (c.1618-1699)
No piense Menguilla ya
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Rolf Lislevand (baroque guitar), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Arianna Savall (harp)
04:42 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da Chiesa in B flat major, Op 1 no 5
London Baroque
04:49 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 4 in D major, K.19
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
05:02 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
From 24 Preludes for piano, Op 28: Nos. 4-11, 19 and 17
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
05:18 AM
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
Violin Concerto no 2 in D minor, Op 22
Mariusz Patyra (violin), Polish Radio Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
05:42 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
4 Songs for women's voices, 2 horns and harp, Op 17
Danish National Radio Choir, Leif Lind (horn), Per McClelland Jacobsen (horn), Catriona Yeats (harp), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
05:57 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite in E major BWV.1006a
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
06:18 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Friedrich Schiller (author)
Sehnsucht ('Longing') (D.636) - 2nd setting
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
06:22 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for 2 trumpets and orchestra in C major, RV.537
Anton Grcar (trumpet), Stanko Arnold (trumpet), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000hnl3)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000hnl5)
Suzy Klein
Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five composer’s Opus Ones.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b084dbss)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Alexander’s Feast
This week Donald Macleod focuses on Handel the organist. Today, as London audiences lose interest in Italian opera, oratorio - with tailor-made organ concerti - is where it’s at.
Handel - not just a great composer but an astute businessman too - got into oratorio at precisely the right time. Since the late 1720s, the London public’s appetite for opera in Italian had been on a downward trajectory. Then in 1733, a rival company - the Opera of the Nobility - set itself up in direct competition to Handel, making the Italian-opera pound even harder to earn. Handel’s return to oratorio began with what might have been a one-off revival of a fifteen-year-old work, Esther, to mark his 47th birthday. But when, a couple of months later, a ‘pirate’ performance of the same piece was put on without his permission, Handel recaptured the initiative by quickly mounting a new, substantially revised version. It was a great success, which he followed up first with Acis and Galatea - an English revision of his Italian oratorio Aci, Galatea e Polifemo - and then with a new oratorio, Deborah. From this accidental sequence of events, the English oratorio tradition was born – along with the organ concerto, which Handel introduced to beef up the evening’s entertainment to match the experience of an evening at the opera. In Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Musick, the concerti – for organ and harp – are actually integrated into the narrative.
Cecilia, volgi un sguardo, HWV 89 (No 8, ‘Tra amplessi innocenti’, extract)
Jennifer Smith, soprano
John Elwes, tenor
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock, conductor
Concerto Grosso in C, HWV 318 (Alexander's Feast)
Collegium Musicum 90
Simon Standage, conductor
Harp Concerto in B flat, Op 4 No 6 (HWV 294)
Frances Kelly, harp
Brandenburg Consort
Roy Goodman, conductor
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musick, HWV 75 (Pt 2, No 25: ‘Thus, long ago, 'ere heaving Bellows learned to blow’)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor
Stockholm Bach Choir
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
Organ Concerto in G minor, Op 4 No 1 (HWV 289)
Ton Koopman, organ and direction
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Producer: Chris Barstow
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09hvs64)
Shostakovich Plus: Carducci Quartet
This week's series of lunchtime concerts, recorded at LSO St Luke's in London, is entitled Shostakovich Plus. It explores key chamber works by the composer contrasted with works by others from different periods - selected by the performers themselves.
The Carducci Quartet have chosen music by Beethoven, who like Shostakovich triumphed creatively despite political upheaval and personal adversity - his 'Serioso' quartet was composed as Napoleon laid siege to Vienna and while the composer was already fighting his own battle of losing his hearing.
Beethoven: String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op 95
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 4 in D major, Op 83
Carducci Quartet.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000hnl7)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Bartok
Tom McKinney presents more from this week’s featured orchestra – the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and a concert recorded in Munich last November with conductor Lahav Shani. This was an all-Bartók programme, including his Hungarian Pictures and his tour-de-force Concerto for Orchestra, composed following his emigration to the USA in 1940. Violinist Renaud Capuçon joins the orchestra to play Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.2 – written for Zoltán Székely in 1938.
The programme continues with a short overture by Schubert, from another concert in Munich, this time under Riccardo Muti.
And to end today's Afternoon Concert, two highlights from a concert recorded in Munich last October with conductor Daniele Gatti. They begin with a wonderfully atmospheric piece for string orchestra by Henri Dutilleux - Le mystère de l’instant, and end with Shostakovich's mighty Symphony No.5
2.00pm
Bartók: Hungarian Pictures, Sz.97
Bartók: Violin Concerto No.2, Sz.112
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lahav Shani (conductor)
3.40pm
Schubert: Overture in C, D.591
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
3.50pm
Henri Dutilleux: Le mystère de l’instant
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniele Gatti (conductor)
Presented by Tom McKinney
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000hnl9)
Kevin O'Hare, Steven Devine
Katie Derham talks to Kevin O'Hare, Director of the Royal Ballet, and introduces a Home Session from harpsichord player Steven Devine.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000hnlc)
Classical music to lift the spirits
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000hnlf)
Lianne La Havas with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
The soulful music of UK vocal sensation Lianne La Havas is given the symphonic treatment at the Barbican Hall by the BBC SO and its new Creative Artist in Association Jules Buckley.
With influences from Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald to Lauryn Hill, Grammy-nominated Lianne La Havas is known for her pure voice, filled with personality. In this concert, recorded on 28 February this year, Lianne and the BBC SO showcased the virtuosity of the full symphony orchestra alongside Lianne’s groove, performing arrangements by Jules Buckley and others from her acclaimed debut album ‘Is Your Love Big Enough?’ and her last album ‘Blood’. Plus her latest single Bittersweet.
Presented by Jules Buckley.
Hudson Mohawk arr. Jules Buckley: CBAT
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Lianne La Havas arr. Jules Buckley: No Room For Doubt
Lianne La Havas arr. Jules Buckley: Grow
Lianne La Havas (vocals & guitar)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Lianne Le Havas arr. Jules Buckley: Wonderful
Lianne La Havas, Willy Mason arr. Tim Davies: Green & Gold*
Lianne La Havas arr. Jeremy Levy: Paper Thin*
Lianne La Havas (vocals/ vocals & guitar*)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Lianne La Havas arr. Jules Buckley: Gone
Lianne La Havas (vocals)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Son Lux arr. Jules Buckley: Breathe Out
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Lianne La Havas: Au Cinema
Lianne La Havas (vocals & guitar)
Nick Drake arr. Robert Kirby, Harry Robertson & Jules Buckley: River Man
Lianne La Havas (vocals)
Justin Quinn (guitar)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Lianne La Havas arr. Harry Kirby, Harry Robertson and Jules Buckley: Good Goodbye
Lianne La Havas (vocals & guitar)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Patrick Watson arr. Jules Buckley: Hommage
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Lianne La Havas arr. Tim Davies: Unstoppable
Lianne La Havas arr. Jeremy Levy: Midnight*
Lianne La Havas (vocals/vocals & guitar*)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Lianne La Havas/Matt Hales/Willy Mason arr. Damiano Pascarelli: Is your Love Big Enough?
Lianne La Havas arr. John Metcalfe: Courage
Lianne La Havas (vocals & guitar)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Lianne La Havas arr. Simon Hale: They could be Wrong
Lianne La Havas (vocals)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
Lianne La Havas: Age
Lianne La Havas (vocals & guitar)
Lianne La Havas arr. Jules Buckley: Bittersweet
Lianne La Havas (vocals)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m0008w2j)
Mark Haddon
The Porpoise, Haddon's latest novel is now out in paperback. Anne McElvoy talks to him about the language of bloke, writing female characters and taking inspiration from Shakespeare and the legend of Pericles. The conversation ranges across his career in theatre, children's writing and stories for adults, the impact of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time which he published in 2003 and his recent illness.
Recorded in front of an audience as part of the BBC Proms Plus series of discussions.
You can find a playlist of In Depth Conversations on the Free Thinking website with guests including James Ellroy, Edna O'Brien, Sebastian Faulks, Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak, Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Hanif Kureishi and others. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ly0c8
Producer: Fiona McLean.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m0000khj)
Music of the Spheres
The Sound of the Moon
Could the wonders of the universe and nature of creation be explained through music? The music of the spheres was a serious intellectual idea that applied music theory to the search for underlying order in the natural world.
Conceived in the 6th century BC, the concept survived for centuries, influencing poets and playwrights, including Shakespeare and Milton, and artists such as Botticelli. It culminated in the 17th century when German astronomer Kepler used the music of the cosmos to give birth to modern astrophysics.
In these five essays, astronomer and award-winning science writer Dr Stuart Clark argues that the concept of harmony – still so prevalent in art – continues to underpin science as well.
Episodes feature original music, composed and performed by Carollyn Eden, to underscore the ideas being discussed. We hear Pythagoras’s scale for the nature of the night sky, the different medieval church modes associated with the cosmos and music based on the intervals that Kepler calculated for the planets – which still hold true today.
In his second essay, Stuart begins on the battlefield where warrior Er has been shown the true arrangement of the heavens. A siren sits on the orbit of each planet singing a single pure note, which blends together into a glorious cosmic harmony. In the Manual of Harmonics, Nicomachus assigns notes to the planets but it doesn’t turn out quite how he expects.
While it’s easy to dismiss the music of the spheres as guesswork, today’s theory that mysterious dark matter holds the universe together might appear just as far-fetched.
This series of essays is produced by Richard Hollingham and is a Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 3.
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000hnlk)
Night music
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL 2020
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000hnlm)
Les Passions de l'Âme
Fux's Serenade in C, K352, and Ragazzi's Missa tertia Carola Sextus, performed by Les Passions de l'Âme. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741); Angelo Ragazzi (1680-1750)
Serenade in C, K. 352; Missa tertia Carola Sextus
Les Passions de L'Ame, Meret Lüthi (conductor), Larynx vocal ensemble, Jakob Pilgram (choirmaster)
01:42 AM
Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
Piano Sonata No 9 in B minor, Op 145, 'Grande fantaisie en forme de Sonate'
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
02:15 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Concerto for violin, harpsichord and orchestra in C minor, BWV 1060
Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (harpsichord), Risor Festival Strings, Andrew Manze (director)
02:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
03:08 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Slatter Op 72
Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (piano)
03:45 AM
Leopold Ebner (1769-1830)
Trio in B flat major
Zagreb Woodwind Trio
03:52 AM
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Pelli meae consumptis carnibus
King's Singers
04:01 AM
Tauno Pylkkanen (1918-1980)
Suite for oboe and strings, Op 32
Aale Lindgren (oboe), Finnish Radio Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
04:10 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Sonatina for cello & piano
Laszlo Mezo (cello), Lorant Szucs (piano)
04:19 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Ya pomnyu chudnoye mgnoven'ye - song
Petteri Salomaa (baritone), Ilmo Ranta (piano)
04:23 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Norwegian Dance (Allegro marcato) (Op.35 No.1)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)
04:31 AM
Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799)
Concerto grosso in G minor, Op 3 no 1
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
04:41 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano no. 1 (Op.20) in B minor
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
04:51 AM
Matthias Weckmann (1616-1674)
Wenn der Herr die Gefangenen zu Zion erlosen wird
Rheinsche Kantorei, Musica Alta Ripa, Hermann Max (conductor)
05:00 AM
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet 'Spartacus' (Act 3)
NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
05:10 AM
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Flute Cantata
Maurice Steger (recorder), La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basle, Maurice Steger (conductor)
05:20 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Romance, Op 85
Adrien Boisseau (viola), Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra, Jose Maria Florencio (conductor)
05:30 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Trio in B flat major, K 502
Amatis Piano Trio
05:54 AM
Chan Ka Nin (b.1949)
Four seasons suite
Ottawa Winds, Michael Goodwin (conductor)
06:06 AM
Thomas Tellefsen (1823-1874)
Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 19
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Concerto Koln, Michael Guttler (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000hn1l)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000hn1n)
Suzy Klein
Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five composer’s Opus Ones.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b084dbsv)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
A head full of maggots
This week Donald Macleod looks at Handel the organist. Today, Handel enriches the orchestration of his oratorio Saul with a carillon, three trombones and a brand new organ.
When Handel’s librettist Charles Jennens paid a visit to the composer while he was at work on his oratorio Saul, he found his head to be “more full of Maggots than ever” - maggots being not the larvae of flies, but an archaic term for ‘bizarre ideas’. The first thing to disconcert Jennens was “a very queer Instrument which He calls Carillon. ’Tis play’d upon with Keys like a Harpsichord, & with this Cyclopean Instrument he designs to make poor Saul … stark mad.” Then there was the trio of sackbuts (trombones) Handel was planning to use - creatures about as rare in 18th-century London as Muscovy ducks. And to cap it all, there was to be a specially commissioned contraption - “an organ of £500 price, which, because he is overstock’d with Money, he has bespoke of one Moss of Barnet.” The carillon, the sackbuts and the bespoke organ - which features in a number of florid concerto-like movements - all contributed to an orchestral texture that prompted Handel scholar Winton Dean to suggest that “in its richness and grandeur of orchestration, Saul has scarcely a rival in 18th-century music.” Handel kept the trombones for Israel in Egypt, but its predominantly choral sound seems to have had a relatively lukewarm reception from audiences that had previously appreciated his operas.
Saul (Act 1 scene 2, Symphony)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Saul (Act 1, Symphony)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Saul (Act 2 scene 1, ‘Envy, eldest born of Hell’)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Saul (Act 2 scene 5, Symphony)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Saul (Act 3 scene 5, Elegy on the Death of Saul and Jonathan)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 (Pt 2, ‘The people shall hear and be afraid’)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Organ Concerto in F, HWV 295 (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale)
Bob van Asperen, organ and direction
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Producer: Chris Barstow
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09hw37z)
Shostakovich Plus: Truls Mork and Havard Gimse
Fiona Talkington presents Truls Mork and Havard Gimse playing cello sonatas by Prokofiev and Shostakovich as part of the Shostakovich Plus series at LSO St Luke's.
A rare chance to hear the cello sonatas by both these composers in the same concert. The two pieces were written 15 years apart and here is an opportunity to hear the both the similarities and differences between them.
Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C major, Op 119
Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40
Truls Mork, cello
Havard Gimse, piano
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000hn1q)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Mahler
We continue this week of programmes from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with a concert recorded last October in Munich, under the baton of Daniel Harding.
Gustav Mahler completed his Second Symphony in 1894 after six years of work on it. It was his first major work that established his lifelong view of the beauty of afterlife and resurrection. Mahler believed that a symphony should be “like the world – it should contain everything”, and there aren’t many critics who question his success in that quest in this work. The “Resurrection” was voted the fifth-greatest symphony of all time in a survey of conductors carried out by the BBC Music Magazine.
2.00pm
Mahler: Symphony No.2 in C minor “Resurrection”
Katharina Konradi (soprano)
Okka von der Damerau (mezzo-soprano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)
Presented by Tom McKinney.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b0b12bq7)
Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge
From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
Introit: My beloved spake (Julian Anderson)
Responses: Leighton
Psalms 12, 13, 14 (Goss, Hylton Stewart, Stanford)
First Lesson: Hosea 13 vv. 4-14
Canticles: Gloucester Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv. 50-58
Anthem: Dum transisset Sabbatum (Taverner)
Voluntary: Organ Symphony No 6 in G minor, Op 42 No 2 (Finale: Vivace) (Widor)
Andrew Nethsingha (Director of Music)
Glen Dempsey and James Anderson-Besant (Organ Scholars)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000hn1s)
Anastasia Kobekina plays Schubert
Showcasing the BBC New Generation Artists:
Anastasia Kobekina and Elisabeth Brauss paired up at the BBC studios to make this eloquent recording of Schubert's famous sonata.
Schubert: 'Arpeggione' Sonata in A minor D.821
Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Elisabeth Brauss (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000hn1v)
Anna Prohaska
Katie Derham is joined by the Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska to talk about her new release 'Paradise Lost': an eclectic song selection recorded with pianist Julius Drake.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b098hqdw)
Taverner, Haydn, Maxwell Davies
A mixtape including soaring Tudor choral music from John Taverner, minimalism from Steve Reich, a Polish folk tune and a setting of Robert Burns by Ed Sheeran.
01
00:00:42 Steve Reich
Duet for 2 violins and strings
Ensemble: The Smith Quartet
Duration 00:05:07
02
00:05:49 John Taverner
Agnus Dei 2 (Missa Corona spinea)
Choir: Tallis Scholars
Director: Peter Philips
Duration 00:03:56
03
00:09:47 Ed Sheeran (artist)
The Parting Glass
Performer: Ed Sheeran
Duration 00:08:48
04
00:12:43 Peter Maxwell Davies
Farewell To Stromness
Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies
Duration 00:04:45
05
00:17:27 Joseph Haydn
Keyboard Concerto in D major, H XVIII 11 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin
Orchestra: Les Violons du Roy
Conductor: Bernard Labadie
Duration 00:04:09
06
00:21:31 John Dowland
Lachrimae Pavan
Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort
Duration 00:05:20
07
00:26:47 Traditional
Od Morawy Deszcz Idzie (Rain comes from Moravia)
Ensemble: Volosi
Duration 00:03:15
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000hn1x)
Smetana, Chopin, Dvorak
Another chance to hear the BBC SSO and conductor Matthias Pintscher perform music by Smetana and Dvorak, with French virtuoso David Kadouch joining them to play Chopin's Second Piano Concerto.
Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Smetana: 'Vltava' and 'Sarka' from Ma Vlast
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
c.
8.25pm Interval
8.45
Dvorak: Symphony No 4 in D minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
David Kadouch, piano
Another chance to enjoy a concert originally broadcast live in April 2018. It begins on a journey down the river Vltava with two movements from Ma Vlast, Smetana's patriotic symphonic poem about his homeland. Young French virtuoso David Kadouch joins the orchestra for Chopin's romantic Second Piano Concerto, written when he was only 20, and the concert ends with Dvorak's stirring Fourth Symphony.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000hn1z)
Cary Grant
Matthew Sweet and guests imagine an evening in the film star's company. Born in 1904, he starred in films by Alfred Hitchcock, played opposite actors including Doris Day and Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr and Sophia Loren and Katherine Hepburn, and sat on the board of MGM films, before his death in 1986.
Charlotte Crofts runs the bi-annual Cary Grant Festival and is an Associate Professor of Film-making at the University of the West of England.
Pamela Hutchinson blogs about silent cinema at SilentLondon.co.uk as well as contributing regularly to Sight & Sound and the Guardian.
Mark Glancy is a Reader in Film History at Queen Mary, University of London
The Cary Comes Home weekend in Bristol is due to take place 20-22 November 2020
Producer: Craig Smith
WED 22:45 The Essay (m0000kk4)
Music of the Spheres
Our Inner Music
Could the wonders of the universe and nature of creation be explained through music? The music of the spheres was a serious intellectual idea that applied music theory to the search for underlying order in the natural world.
Conceived in the 6th century BC, the concept survived for centuries, influencing poets and playwrights, including Shakespeare and Milton, and artists such as Botticelli. It culminated in the 17th century when German astronomer Kepler used the music of the cosmos to give birth to modern astrophysics.
In these five essays, astronomer and award-winning science writer Dr Stuart Clark argues that the concept of harmony – still so prevalent in art – continues to underpin science as well.
Episodes feature original music, composed and performed by Carollyn Eden, to underscore the ideas being discussed. We hear Pythagoras’ scale for the nature of the night sky, the different mediaeval church modes associated with the cosmos and music based on the intervals that Kepler calculated for the planets – which still hold true today.
In this third essay, Stuart explores the idea that music was the key to understanding the universe, from the movement of the planets to the core of our very being.
We hear that those who produce music are the lowest form of musician, as well as claims that others could change the seasons through playing music. We know that music has the power to move us but could it also control every aspect of our being?
This series of essays is produced by Richard Hollingham and is a Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 3.
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000hn21)
Around midnight
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 30 APRIL 2020
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000hn23)
Lemminkainen and Till Eulenspiegel
Sibelius and Strauss performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Berwaldhallen concert hall in Stockholm. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks), op. 28
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan (conductor)
12:47 AM
Eduard Tubin (1905-1982)
Double Bass concerto
Rick Stotijn (double bass), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan (conductor)
01:06 AM
Emil Tabakov (b.1947)
Motivy, for solo double bass
Rick Stotijn (double bass)
01:10 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Lemminkainen Suite, op 22
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan (conductor)
01:59 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
Biava Quartet
02:31 AM
Param Vir (b.1952)
Cave of luminous mind for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
02:53 AM
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)
Symphony No 5
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards (conductor)
03:21 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 535
Scott Ross (organ)
03:28 AM
Artemy Vedel (1767-1808)
Choral concerto No.5 "I cried unto the Lord With my voice" Psalm 143
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
03:38 AM
Traditional Bulgarian
Folksong
Avi Avital (mandolin)
03:43 AM
Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 89
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet
04:07 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Prelude and Fugue No.1 in E minor (Op.35)
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
04:16 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Scherzo Capriccioso, Op 66
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
04:31 AM
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Triumphal Entry of the Boyars
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
04:35 AM
Sebastian Bodinus (c.1700-1759)
Trio for oboe and 2 bassoons in G major
Hildebrand'sche Hoboisten Compagnie
04:44 AM
Francesca Caccini (1587-1640)
Maria, dolce Maria - from Il primo libro delle musiche a una, e due voci
Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (director)
04:48 AM
Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c.1510-1556)
O Maria Vernans Rosa
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
04:54 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Partita for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
05:08 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Sonata No.2 in B flat Minor (Op.36)
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
05:27 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quartet in G major (K.156)
Australian String Quartet
05:39 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra, Op 31
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), James Sommerville (horn), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
06:03 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Five Hungarian Folksongs BB 97
Polina Pasztircsák (soprano), Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
06:08 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Concerto for cello and orchestra No 1 in A minor Op 33
Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000hppg)
Thursday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000hppj)
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b084dbsx)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Handel and Milton
This week Donald Macleod focuses on Handel the organist. Today, Handel gets out of the opera business for good, and his new oratorio gets a warm reception - in frosty conditions.
When Handel’s collaborator Charles Jennens tried to interest him in “a collection from Scripture” - Messiah, he called it - the composer wasn’t initially interested. But when Jennens steered him in the direction of the writer whose work was probably, after the Bible, the most widely read and admired in this country, John Milton, Handel responded with enthusiasm. The initial proposal was for a work based on two of Milton’s poems, L’Allegro (the cheerful man) and Il Penseroso (the pensive man), to which Jennens then added text for a third character, Il Moderato – the moderate man. If this plotless concoction sounds like an unpromising basis for a composer of Handel’s dramatic flair to build on, the end result - the oratorio L’Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato - is full of simply wonderful, poetic music that evokes the landscapes and pastoral moods of Handel’s adoptive country. There was nothing pastoral about the conditions of the première. Because the winter of 1739-40 was unusually severe, the initial run of performances had to be pushed back from New Year to mid-February. Even then, it was so cold in the theatre at Lincoln’s Inn Fields that a newspaper ad was placed to reassure punters that the venue had been “secur’d against the cold by having curtains placed before every door, and constant fires being ordered to be kept in the House ‘till the time of the Performance.” Following the great success of L’Allegro, Il penseroso ed Il moderato came a pair of operatic flops, Imeneo and Deidamia, after which Handel devoted himself more or less exclusively to oratorio – producing first Messiah, about which he had had a change of heart, then Samson, inspired by another Milton poem, Samson Agonistes. As was Handel’s usual practice, both L’Allegro and Samson were provided with fine organ concerti, written specially for the occasion.
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Pt 1, ‘Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee’)
Jeremy Ovenden, tenor
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Paul McCreesh, conductor
Organ Concerto in B flat, Op 7 No 1 (HWV 306)
William Whitehead, organ
Gabrieli Players
Paul McCreesh, conductor
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Pt 3, duet: ‘As steals the morn upon the night’)
Gillian Webster, soprano
Jeremy Ovenden, tenor
Gabrieli Players
Paul McCreesh, conductor
Samson, HWV 57 (Pt 2, ‘Return, O God of Hosts!’)
The Sixteen
The Symphony of Harmony and Invention
Harry Christophers, conductor
Organ Concerto in A, Op 7 No 2 (HWV 307)
Ton Koopman, organ
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09hvskl)
Shostakovich Plus: Trio Wanderer
Fiona Talkington presents Trio Wanderer playing Copland, Suk and Shostakovich as part of the Shostakovich Plus series at LSO St Luke's.
In the third instalment of this series which partners chamber works by Shostakovich with music by other composers, Trio Wanderer have chosen music by Aaron Copland and Josef Suk. Copland's Vitebsk is "a study on a Jewish theme" and indeed the last movement of Shostakovich's second Piano Trio, which closes the programme is also based on Jewish melodies. Shostakovich wrote this work as a memorial to a friend - the music critic Ivan Sollertinsky - which links it to Elegie - a tribute from Suk to the writer Julius Zeyer.
Copland: Vitebsk
Suk: Elegie
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2 in E Minor, Op 67
Trio Wanderer
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000hppl)
Opera Matinee: Vivaldi's Dorilla in Tempe from Wexford
Presented by Elizabeth Alker.
Antonio Vivaldi’s 1726 opera Dorilla in Tempe is based on themes from Greek myth. The story takes place in Tempe. Like the music, the plot intertwines pastoral and heroic elements and centres on the shepherd Nomio, who is in fact Apollo in disguise. Nomio falls in love with Dorilla, the daughter of Admeto, King of Thessaly, who is herself in love with the shepherd Elmiro. Admeto is forced by the gods to save his kingdom by offering his daughter as a sacrifice to the sea-serpent Pitone, but she is rescued just in time by Nomio. Nomio claims the hand of Dorilla as his reward, but she remains reluctant and escapes with Elmiro. The pair are captured, and Elmiro is sentenced to death. Finally, however, the intervention of Nomio, revealing his divine identity, saves the situation and Dorilla and Elmiro are reunited.
This production was recorded last November by the Wexford Festival Chorus and Orchestra under the baton of Andrea Marchiol, accompanying a cast including Manuela Custer as Dorillla, Marco Bussy as Admeto, Véronique Valdès as Nomio and José Maria lo Monaco as Elmiro
The opera is followed by more from this week's featured performing group - The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Kodály's Dances of Galánta, which was written to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Budapest Philharmonic Society in 1933 and is based on the folk music of the region.
2.00pm
Antonio Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe
Dorilla - Manuela Custer (soprano)
Admeto, King of Thessaly - Marco Bussy (bass)
Nomio/Apollo - Véronique Valdès (contralto)
Elmiro - José Maria lo Monaco (soprano)
Filindo - Rosa Bove (contralto)
Eudamia - Laura Margaret Smith (mezzo-soprano)
Ninfa - Rebecca Hardwick (soprano)
Ninfa - Lizzie Holmes (soprano)
Pastora - Meriel Cunningham (mezzo-soprano)
Pastora – Emma Lewis (mezzo-soprano)
Wexford Festival Chorus
Wexford Festival Orchestra
Andrea Marchiol, conductor
4.40pm
Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000hppn)
Dudok Quartet, Francesco Tristano
Katie Derham talks to David Faber, cellist with the Dudok Quartet, about their new release of Haydn's music, and about their various other current projects. She also introduces a Home Session from the pianist Francesco Tristano.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b09fp6zy)
Piazzolla, Vivaldi, Brahms
A specially curated mixtape including music from Piazzolla, Steve Reich and Stravinsky. Plus an arrangement of Vivaldi for voice and cello.
01
00:00:10 Astor Piazzolla
La muerte del ángel
Performer: Martin Frost
Music Arranger: Göran Fröst
Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration 00:03:31
02
00:03:37 Yo‐Yo Ma (artist)
Andante
Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma
Performer: Bobby McFerrin
Duration 00:04:02
03
00:07:37 Johannes Brahms
String Quartet in A minor, Op 51 No 2 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet
Duration 00:04:47
04
00:12:17 Claudio Monteverdi
Zefiro Torna
Performer: Stephen Stubbs
Singer: John Potter
Singer: Douglas Nasrawi
Ensemble: Red Byrd
Duration 00:05:57
05
00:17:59 Steve Reich
Music for 18 Musicians (Pulses)
Ensemble: Ensemble Signal
Director: Brad Lubman
Duration 00:04:33
06
00:22:29 Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Op 87 No 2
Performer: Alexander Melnikov
Duration 00:02:20
07
00:24:46 Igor Stravinsky
Sacrificial Dance (The Rite of Spring)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Duration 00:04:55
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000hppq)
BBC Philharmonic - Mahler Symphony No 3
Described by Mahler as a "great hymn to the glory of every aspect of creation", his majestic Third Symphony entrances and humbles us as we are taken on an epic journey through nature; through the meadows, through the animal and human kingdoms to "the love of God". However, he doesn't neglect the "everyday"; we hear a military march, a children's song and fragments of a folk dance too. Mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill joins the orchestra for the awestruck fourth movement, which Mahler titled "What night tells me (mankind)", setting a poem by Nietzsche who searches desperately to make sense of the grief and joy of the world, and the Boy and Girl Choristers of Gloucester Cathedral and the ladies' voices of the BBC National Chorus of Wales bring us the chiming bells and the song of the angels.
Recorded at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to open the BBC Philharmonic's 2017-18 season.
Presented by Tom Redmond
Mahler: Symphony No 3
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Boy and Girl Choristers of Gloucester Cathedral
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000hpps)
Neolithic Revelations
Hetta Howes learns that the absence of dental floss in the Neolithic era has left archaeologists with invaluable information about how our ancestors lived and where they travelled to. While piles of pig bones near Stonehenge reveal a communal society that used feasting as a form of negotiation. Penny Bickle and Jim Leary, who both lecture in the University of York's Department of Archaeology, uncover their findings from research projects in the Vale of Pewsey, Alsace and Stonehenge.
Penny's current project is 'Counter Culture: investigating Neolithic social diversity', while Jim has been working on 'Neolithic Pilgrimage? Rivers, mobility and monumentality in the land between Avebury and Stonehenge'.
This episode is one of a series of conversations - New Thinking - produced in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research & Innovation.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
You might be interested in other conversations about archaeology in the Free Thinking archives. Seek out The Power of Ancient Artefacts episode in which Mike Pitts sharing insights about key digs in Britain and the long history of our connections across Europe https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009c8t
Archaeology: Alexandra Sofroniew, Damian Robinson, Raimund Karl & New Generation Thinker Susan Greaney join Rana Mitter to share their experience of digs and the challenges facing the profession. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03xpn5p
The Legacy of the Trojan War https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bg2k
Holes in the Ground hears from the engineer Professor Paul Younger from Glasgow University ; Ted Nield editor of the bi-monthly magazine Geoscientist and MIT's Rosalind Williams https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vs6g0
THU 22:45 The Essay (m0000knr)
Music of the Spheres
Music and Astronomy in Crisis
Could the wonders of the universe and nature of creation be explained through music? The music of the spheres was a serious intellectual idea that applied music theory to the search for underlying order in the natural world.
Conceived in the 6th century BC, the concept survived for centuries, influencing poets and playwrights, including Shakespeare and Milton, and artists such as Botticelli. It culminated in the 17th century when German astronomer Kepler used the music of the cosmos to give birth to modern astrophysics.
In these five essays, astronomer and award-winning science writer Dr Stuart Clark argues that the concept of harmony – still so prevalent in art – continues to underpin science as well.
Episodes feature original music, composed and performed by Carollyn Eden, to underscore the ideas being discussed. We hear Pythagoras’s scale for the nature of the night sky, the different medieval church modes associated with the cosmos and music based on the intervals that Kepler calculated for the planets – which still hold true today.
In this fourth essay, as the ‘dark ages’ come to an end, we hear how the weight of evidence begins to threaten the music of the spheres as a theory of everything. With the discovery that the Earth isn’t the centre of the cosmos, new ways of explaining the universe – and new ways to define music – will have to be found.
This series of essays is produced by Richard Hollingham and is a Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 3.
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000hppv)
Music for the Darkling Hour
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000hppx)
Elizabeth Alker with music that defies classification.
FRIDAY 01 MAY 2020
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000hppz)
Frankenstein's fiddle
Half guitar, half cello - the arpeggione is resurrected for this concert. Catriona Young presents a chamber concert from Switzerland.
12:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonatine in D major, Op 137
Martin Zeller (arpeggione), Els Biesemans (fortepiano)
12:45 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptu in B flat, op. post. 142/3
Els Biesemans (fortepiano)
12:58 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Arpeggione Sonata in A minor
Martin Zeller (arpeggione), Els Biesemans (fortepiano)
01:22 AM
Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (1767-1841)
Adagio in E major
Martin Zeller (arpeggione), Els Biesemans (fortepiano)
01:25 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Tempo di Polacca in A, from 'Faust'
Martin Zeller (arpeggione), Els Biesemans (fortepiano)
01:28 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Five Song Transcriptions
Martin Zeller (cello), Els Biesemans (fortepiano)
01:47 AM
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Variations on 'La Monferrina', Op 54
Martin Zeller (cello), Els Biesemans (fortepiano)
02:02 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Franz Liszt (transcriber), Martin Zeller (arranger), Els Biesemans (arranger)
Leise flehen meine Lieder
Martin Zeller (cello), Els Biesemans (fortepiano)
02:08 AM
Ludomir Rozycki (1883-1953)
Anheli, Op 22
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janusz Przybylski (conductor)
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
02:58 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Rondino on a theme by Beethoven
Taik-Ju Lee (violin), Young-Lan Han (piano)
03:02 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44
Igor Levit (piano), Signum Quartet
03:32 AM
Andrea Falconieri (c.1585-1656)
Folias para mi Señora Doña Tarolilla de Garallenos; Begli occhi Lucent
Jan Van Elsacker (tenor), United Continuo Ensemble
03:39 AM
Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937)
Etude de concert, Op 13
Paloma Kouider (piano)
03:43 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Fechtschule (Fencing School)
Stockholm Antiqua
03:51 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Matthaus Casimir von Collin (author)
Nacht und Träume, D827
Edith Wiens (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
03:55 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne in F major, Op 15 no 1
Tanel Joamets (piano)
04:00 AM
William Walton (1902-1983)
Johannesburg Festival Overture
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton (conductor)
04:09 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz Op 29 No 2
Vienna Chamber Choir, Johannes Prinz (director)
04:15 AM
Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Ballade for flute and orchestra
Matej Zupan (flute), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
04:24 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Conclusion in E minor for 2 flutes, strings and continuo TWV 50:e5
Giovanni Antonini (recorder), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Jaroslaw Thiel (conductor)
04:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture in D major D590 'in the Italian style'
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
04:39 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Sergey Rachmaninov (arranger)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Scherzo)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:44 AM
Frantisek Jiranek (1698-1778)
Violin Concerto in D minor
Marina Katarzhnova (baroque violin), Collegium Marianum
05:00 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Festival Polonaise, Op 12
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Jordan (conductor)
05:09 AM
Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-1986), Sigfrid Siwertz (lyricist)
De nakna tradens sanger, Op 7 (Songs of the Naked Trees)
Swedish Radio Choir, Gote Widlund (conductor)
05:25 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 35 in D major, K385 'Haffner'
Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
05:45 AM
Frank Martin (1890-1974)
Trio sur des mélodies populaires irlandaises
Delta Piano Trio
06:01 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
3 Songs - Liebesbotschaft, Heidenroslein & Litanei auf das Fest
Bryn Terfel (bass baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
06:10 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000hpxg)
Friday - Petroc's classical alternative
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 (m000hpxj)
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.
1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five composer’s Opus Ones.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b084dbsz)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Last thoughts, fading light
This week Donald Macleod focuses on Handel the organist. Today, Joshua’s a hit, Theodora’s a flop - as Handel said, “there was room enough to dance there, when that was performed”.
Written at great speed in 1747 during the most disastrous months of the War of the Austrian Succession, Handel’s oratorio Joshua tapped in to contemporary events with a tale of conflict, heroism and deliverance, and was not surprisingly a huge success with its first audiences. By contrast, the bleak and inward-looking Theodora - about the Christian martyr of that name and her Roman lover Didymus - failed to make an impression, and ran for just three performances. It’s now widely regarded as one of Handel’s finest works - the last thoughts of a great master. A month after he finished Theodora, Handel noted what he called a severe “relaxation” of his left eye. Within two years his blindness would be complete. Even then he continued to play the organ, though now he had to be guided to it, then back towards the audience to take his bow.
Organ Concerto in D minor, Op 7 No 4 (HWV 309) (4th mvt, Allegro)
Bob van Asperen, organ and direction
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sinfonia in B flat, HWV 347
Concerto Köln
Joshua, HWV 64 (Act 2, ‘Glory to God!’)
James Gilchrist, tenor (Joshua)
Kölner Kammerchor
Collegium Cartusianum
Peter Neumann, conductor
Organ Concerto in G minor, Op 7 No 5 (HWV 310)
Paul Nicholson, organ
Brandenburg Consort
Roy Goodman, conductor and harpsichord continuo
Theodora, HWV 68 (Act 3, ‘Streams of pleasure ever flowing’; ‘Thither let our hearts aspire’)
Robin Blaze, countertenor (Didymus)
Susan Gritton, soprano (Theodora)
Gabrieli Players
Paul McCreesh, conductor
Organ Concerto in B flat, Op 7 No 3 (HWV 308)
Richard Egarr, organ
Academy of Ancient Music
Producer: Chris Barstow
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09hvt1t)
Shostakovich Plus: Meta4 and Alasdair Beatson
Fiona Talkington presents Meta4 and Alasdair Beatson playing Mustonen and Shostakovich as part of the Shostakovich Plus series at LSO St Luke’s.
In today's concert we hear two works written by composer-performers - indeed Dmitri Shostakovich and Olli Mustonen both played the piano parts in the initial outings of these piano quintets. Both works have similarities - the use of contrapuntal techniques in movements marked Prelude, Fugue and Passacaglia - and both works are emotionally direct. The Mustonen is an outgoing and energetic work whilst the Shostakovich, in contrast, is a more introspective piece.
Olli Mustonen: Piano Quintet (UK Premiere)
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57
Meta4
Alasdair Beatson, piano
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000hpxl)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich
Tom McKinney brings this week of performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to a close.
They begin with a concert recorded in Munich in November 2018 which saw conductor Simone Young making her debut with the orchestra. The concert opens with Mozart’s final symphony - the Jupiter – arguably one of the greatest symphonies of all time, written some three years before the composer’s death in 1791. They conclude with Richard Strauss at his most heroic – Ein Heldenleben, his eighth tone poem, said to be autobiographical, although Strauss himself vehemently denied it.
The afternoon continues with a highlight from another concert given in Munich last autumn. This time, Riccardo Muti takes to the podium to conduct the symphony that Schubert left incomplete at his death in 1828 – the 8th, in B minor.
The week ends with former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Beatrice Rana in a performance of Prokofiev’s 3rd Piano Concerto, which he completed in 1921.
2.00pm
Mozart: Symphony No.41 in G minor “Jupiter”, K.551
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young (conductor)
3.15pm
Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor “Unfinished”, D.759
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
4.00pm
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 in C, Op.26
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)
Presented by Tom McKinney
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m0005sl8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000hpxn)
David Hill
Katie Derham talks to conductor David Hill about three new releases of music by Herbert Howells, Will Todd and JS Bach.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000hpxq)
Your daily classical soundtrack
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000hpxs)
Rattle at Radio 3: The Damnation of Faust
Another chance to hear Sir Simon Rattle conducting Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust. In September 2017, as part of the celebrations to mark his inaugural season as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon conducted Berlioz's 'dramatic legend', a tale that captures the extremes of man's ambition and folly. Berlioz's fantastical setting of Goethe's Faust is, as Rattle says, "A dramatic legend waiting for cinema which needs to be experienced live... within forty-five seconds, you're in an ecstatic world."
Recorded at London's Barbican Hall and presented by Martin Handley
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust, Parts 1 and 2
Interval
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust, Parts 3 and 4
Marguerite ..... Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Faust ..... Bryan Hymel (tenor)
Mephistopheles ..... Christopher Purves (baritone)
Brander ..... Gábor Bretz (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus, Simon Halsey (chorus director)
Tiffin Boys' Choir, Girls' Choir and Children's Chorus, James Day (Tiffin choirs director)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000hpxv)
Ian McMillan and guests explore the world of language and literature.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m0000kyh)
Music of the Spheres
The True Harmony of the Universe
Could the wonders of the universe and nature of creation be explained through music? The music of the spheres was a serious intellectual idea that applied music theory to the search for underlying order in the natural world.
Conceived in the 6th century BC, the concept survived for centuries, influencing poets and playwrights, including Shakespeare and Milton, and artists such as Botticelli. It culminated in the 17th century when German astronomer Kepler used the music of the cosmos to give birth to modern astrophysics.
In these five essays, astronomer and award-winning science writer Dr Stuart Clark argues that the concept of harmony – still so prevalent in art – continues to underpin science as well.
Episodes feature original music, composed and performed by Carollyn Eden, to underscore the ideas being discussed. We hear Pythagoras’s scale for the nature of the night sky, the different medieval church modes associated with the cosmos and music based on the intervals that Kepler calculated for the planets – which still hold true today.
In his concluding essay, Stuart tells the story of Johannes Kepler and his efforts – partly through deceit – to explain the movement of the planets. As science rises, so the theory of the music of the spheres is abandoned.
But for scientists today, music still matters and the ideals of the search for the first theory of everything continues to be underpinned by the symphony of the universe.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000hpxx)
Alaskan folk and brass from a bridge
Jennifer Lucy Allan has been taking this time at home to shine some light into the dark recesses of her music collection and has discovered some strange releases she had forgotten she owned. She takes a deep dive into the back catalogue of boundary-pushing French singer Brigitte Fontaine; selects a wild performance by the trumpeter Don Cherry with the late Krzysztof Penderecki; and pulls out a song of the sea from John Angaiak, a Yup’ik Eskimo folk singer from Alaska.
Elsewhere we feature new releases from computer music pioneer Maggi Payne; feral post-punk from Triple Negative, and an extract from composer and saxophonist Lea Bertucci’s new work for brass, recorded in the acoustic space inside the 440m Deutzer bridge in Koln, Germany, which spans the Rhine.
Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
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 (m000hntk)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m000hnl7)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m000hn1q)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m000hppl)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m000hpxl)
Between the Ears
18:45 SUN (m000hmqb)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m000hmrm)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m000hmpv)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m000hntf)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m000hnl3)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m000hn1l)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m000hppg)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m000hpxg)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b00rs64d)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b0b12bq7)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m0006m0k)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b084czqy)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b084dbss)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b084dbsv)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b084dbsx)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b084dbsz)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (m000hmqg)
Early Music Now
16:30 MON (m000hntm)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m000hnth)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m000hnl5)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m000hn1n)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m000hppj)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m000hpxj)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m0008w2j)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m000hn1z)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m000hpps)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m000hms6)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m000hzwr)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m000hnlc)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (b098hqdw)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (b09fp6zy)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m000hpxq)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m000hntp)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m000hnl9)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m000hn1v)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m000hppn)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m000hpxn)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m000hmrw)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m000hms2)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m000hmq5)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m000hpxx)
Liam Byrne's String Theories
13:00 SUN (m000hmq1)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m000hmrr)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m000hmrr)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m000hms0)
New Generation Artists
16:30 WED (m000hn1s)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m000hms4)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m000hntw)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m000hnlk)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m000hn21)
Opera on 3
18:30 SAT (b04960rh)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m000hmpz)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b09r453c)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b09hvs64)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b09hw37z)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b09hvskl)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b09hvt1t)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m000hntt)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m000hnlf)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m000hn1x)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m000hppq)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m000hpxs)
Record Review Extra
21:30 SUN (m000hmqj)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m000hmrp)
Slow Radio
23:30 SUN (m0003t20)
Sound of Gaming
15:00 SAT (m000hmry)
Sunday Feature
19:15 SUN (m000hmqd)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m000hmpx)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m000hmq3)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m0000kgp)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m0000khj)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m0000kk4)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m0000knr)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (m0000kyh)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m0005sl8)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m0005sl8)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m000hppv)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m000hpxv)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m0005gtp)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (m000hhpw)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m000hms8)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m000hmql)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m000hnty)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m000hnlm)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m000hn23)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m000hppz)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m000hppx)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (b02x939j)