The Swiss National Youth Orchestra performs works by Ravel and Stravinsky. Presented by Catriona Young.
François-Xavier Poizat (soloist), Swiss National Youth Orchestra, Kai Bumann (conductor)
Dietrich Henschel (baritone), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
Luca Sulic (cello), Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Shuntaro Sato (conductor)
Musica Alta Ripa, Bernward Lohr (harpsichord), Anne Rohrig (violin), Ursula Bundies (violin), Klaus Bundies (viola), Albert Bruggen (cello), Hans Koch (double bass)
Piece en forme d'habanera arr. Gillet for oboe and piano
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
Lukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jose Maria Florencio (conductor)
Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Beethoven: Piano Trio Op. 70 No. 2 & Symphony No. 2
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar'
Gál: Music For Voices, Vol. 1
Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Katy Hamilton chooses five of her favourite recordings of Proms composer Ludwig van Beethoven, including chamber, orchestral and choral music, and explains why you need to hear them.
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Bagatelles Op. 126
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 'Spring'
Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Septet in E flat major, Op. 20
C.P.E. Bach: Complete Piano Trios
New Generation Artists: Kate Molleson begins her Saturday summer series showcasing the current members of Radio 3's prestigious young artists' scheme.
In this first programme, James Newby celebrates 'Nature's Beauty' at the Oxford Lieder Festival. Also today, Alexander Gadjiev plays Beethoven's 'Waldstein' sonata - the third movement of which has been likened to a beautiful sunrise - and the touching Andante favori, originally intended as the sonata's second movement. This gracious miniature touched many hearts in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy exchanged tender glances. Beethoven himself often played this piece in Viennese society circles, hence the title, 'favourite Andante.'
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Established two decades ago, Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme is internationally acknowledged as the foremost scheme of its kind. It exists to offer a platform for artists at the beginning of their international careers. Each year six musicians join the scheme for two years, during which time they appear at the UK's major music festivals, enjoy dates with the BBC orchestras and have the opportunity to record in the BBC studios. The artists are also encouraged to form artistic partnerships with one another and to explore a wide range of repertoire, not least the work of contemporary and women composers. In recent years Radio 3's New Generation Artists have appeared at many of the UK's music festivals and concert halls. The BBC New Generation Artists Scheme is not itself a prize, rather it offers a unique two year platform on which artists can develop their prodigious talents. Not surprisingly, the list of alumni reads like a Who’s Who of the most exciting musicians of the past two decades.
Jess Gillam with... Fiachra Garvey
Jess and pianist Fiachra Garvey swap the music they love, including Bernstein that makes them both want to dance, Holst's joyful Jupiter from The Planets and Fiachra embraces his Irish roots with Thin Lizzy's Whiskey in the Jar.
Natalie Clein is a world-renowned cellist whose musical explorations have led her to work with composers, dancers and writers.
Today, from her living room in Berlin, Natalie starts where her career began - with Bach’s cello suites. She then finds personal relevance in Steve Reich’s looping melodies, before enjoying some sumptuous violin playing from Anne-Sophie Mutter.
She also muses on how a simple transition from one note to the next can make you feel as if you’re sinking into the depths of an ocean, and reveals how a simple fairy tale by Prokofiev may be concealing a more profound statement of longing.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
The Staatskapelle Dresden and its Chief Conductor Christian Thielemann open with Beethoven’s most radiant, smiling work, his sublime Violin Concerto, in the sure hands of Nikolaj Znaider.
After the interval this famously rich-toned orchestra digs into Max Reger’s affectionate and beautifully orchestrated Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart and finally Richard Strauss’s witty and abrasive depiction of an impish figure from German folklore, his outlandish tone-poem telling of ‘Till Eulenspiegel’s merry pranks’.
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Julian Joseph presents live music from American piano great Carla Bley and her trio with Steve Swallow on bass and Andy Sheppard on saxophones recorded at the 2019 Stockholm Jazz Festival. Bley has been a pivotal figure in free jazz since the 1960s when she worked with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and many more and recorded her celebrated jazz opera, Escalator Over The Hill. Now in her 80s she’s still a prolific performer. Her latest trio album, Life Goes On, is playful, lyrical and steeped in the blues.
Also in the programme, manager, promoter, record producer and historian Maxine Gordon shares music and memories from her life in jazz, including a track by her late husband, saxophone great Dexter Gordon.
Beethoven’s only opera is a passionate musical protest against political oppression that also celebrates the power of human love. This performance from 1996 of the opera’s first version (it was later revised as Fidelio) was only its second ever at the Proms, and the first featuring period instruments. Sir John Eliot Gardiner favoured this earlier version of the work, conceived at a time when Beethoven was fired up by the ideals of Napoleon and the social fragmentation of society in the wake of the French Revolution. This performance came soon after the experience of recording all of Beethoven's symphonies with his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. The period instruments, he said, gave the music ‘greater transparency of texture, more sharply differentiated character of the instruments and an almost visceral struggle with the musical material.'
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
Tom Service presents the latest sounds in new music ranging tonight from music for a single clarinet to the exigencies of the modern symphony and electronics as heard at last October's Donaueschingen Music Days. And, in 'Proms Premieres,' Tom revisits the unforgettable night in 2008 when Karl Heinz Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses left the Proms audience gasping and bewildered. One critic wrote: "As rumbling and splintering noises ricocheted around the Albert Hall, it felt as if Stockhausen had dropped a microphone into deepest space."
Billy Strayhorn / Duke Ellington arr. Joost Buis: Chelsea Bridge
Harold Muenz BeethovEnBloc. Tape composition with the 37 movements of Beethoven's 9 symphonies
SUNDAY 19 JULY 2020
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000cl2m)
Dulcet tones on a dulcitone
Corey Mwamba presents Adam Fairhall performing on a dulcitone, a keyboard instrument from the 19th century, which he prepares in a way that evokes the sound of an African balafon, played in a way that’s inspired by the fast repeating figures of Keith Tippett. Plus there’s music from Tim Hill’s new quartet based on the piano-less groups of Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton, and a track by bandleader Laura Cole with her octet Metamorphic.
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00:00:07 Tim Hill Quartet (artist)
The Bear's Farewell
Performer: Tim Hill Quartet
Performer: Tim Hill
Performer: Nick Malcolm
Performer: Dominic Lash
Performer: David Insu-cao
Duration 00:05:50
02
00:07:28 Anna Webber (artist)
Kore II
Performer: Anna Webber
Duration 00:03:45
03
00:15:36 Adam Fairhall (artist)
Mechanica
Performer: Adam Fairhall
Duration 00:06:41
04
00:22:13 Resolute (artist)
I Just Want To Be Cool For You
Performer: Resolute
Duration 00:07:00
05
00:30:46 Han-earl Park (artist)
Therianthropy IV
Performer: Han-earl Park
Performer: Catherine Sikora
Performer: Nick Didkovsky
Duration 00:06:27
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00:38:17 Sàmhach String Quartet (artist)
Chord Space Chord
Performer: Sàmhach String Quartet
Performer: Tim Vincent-Smith (violin)
Performer: Kate Young (violin)
Performer: Mairi Campbell (viola)
Performer: Atzi Muramatsu (cello)
Duration 00:05:20
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00:43:36 Elaine Mitchener Quartet (artist)
UpRoot
Performer: Elaine Mitchener Quartet
Performer: Alexander Hawkins
Duration 00:08:53
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00:53:39 Metamorphic (artist)
Deer Medicine (For Ellen Scrimgeour)
Performer: Metamorphic
Duration 00:06:18
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000l28k)
Recital by the Fritz Kreisler Competition Winner Milan Al-Ashhab
From the Rudolfinum in Prague, a recital by violinist Milan Al-Ashhab and pianist Adam Skoumal. Catriona Young presents.
01:01 AM
Nathan Milstein (1904-1992)
Paganiniana
Milan Al-Ashhab (violin)
01:11 AM
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Nigun, from 'Baal Shem, B. 47'
Milan Al-Ashhab (violin), Adam Skoumal (piano)
01:18 AM
Adam Skoumal (b.1969)
Djinnia
Milan Al-Ashhab (violin), Adam Skoumal (piano)
01:31 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Violin Sonata no 2 in A
Milan Al-Ashhab (violin), Adam Skoumal (piano)
01:49 AM
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814-1865)
Study No. 6 'Die letzte Rose'
Milan Al-Ashhab (violin)
01:59 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Kaddish
Milan Al-Ashhab (violin), Adam Skoumal (piano)
02:05 AM
Franz Waxman (1906-1967)
Carmen Fantasy
Milan Al-Ashhab (violin), Adam Skoumal (piano)
02:17 AM
Adam Skoumal (b.1969)
Variation on a Gipsy Melody
Milan Al-Ashhab (violin), Adam Skoumal (piano)
02:23 AM
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Pelli meae consumptis carnibus
King's Singers
02:32 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No.5 in D major "Reformation" (Op.107)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
03:01 AM
Felix Nowowiejski (1877-1946)
Missa pro pace, Op 49 no 3
Polish Radio Choir, Andrzej Bialko (organ), Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)
03:39 AM
Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
Piano Sonata No 9 in B minor, Op 145, 'Grande fantaisie en forme de Sonate'
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
04:12 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
04:19 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Fantasie and variations on a theme of Danzi in B flat, Op 81
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet
04:26 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Serenade No.2 in G minor for violin & orchestra, Op 69b
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval
04:35 AM
Carl Ludwig Lithander (1773-1843)
Rondo for flute and keyboard Op 8
Mikael Helasvuo (flute), Tuija Hakkila (pianoforte)
04:42 AM
Sigismondo d'India (c.1582-1629), Jacopo Sannazaro (lyricist)
Interdette speranz'e van desio (Forbidden dreams and hopeless love)
Consort of Musicke
04:50 AM
Sebastian Bodinus (c.1700-1759)
Trio for oboe and 2 bassoons in G major
Hildebrand'sche Hoboisten Compagnie
05:01 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Carnival Overture Op 92
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
05:11 AM
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900)
Etudes instructives, Op 53. 1851
Nina Gade (piano)
05:21 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Der Abend (Op.34 No.1) for 16 part choir
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
05:30 AM
Johann Rosenmuller (1619-1684)
Sinfonia Quinta
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
05:41 AM
Luigi Donora (b.1935)
There where Kvarner lies… for viola and strings
Francesco Squarcia (viola), I Cameristi Italiani
05:48 AM
Petronio Franceschini (1650-1680)
Sonata for 2 trumpets, strings & basso continuo in D major
Yordan Kojuharov (trumpet), Petar Ivanov (trumpet), Teodor Moussev (organ), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Yordan Dafov (conductor)
05:57 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Waldszenen - 9 pieces for piano, Op 82
Stefan Bojsten (piano)
06:22 AM
Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611/2-1675)
Suite in G minor/G major for winds
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
06:36 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216
Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000l1y5)
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 (m000l1y7)
Sarah Walker with a stirring musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today Sarah discovers a lively dance by Elizabethan composer John Johnson, and finds a rainbow of harmonic colour and atmosphere in a piece for solo flute. She also reveals ultimate musicianship in a vibraphone and piano duo, and some virtuosic cornet playing.
Plus Ravel’s perfect pizzicato, and a wind quintet that will have you humming a tune for the rest of the afternoon.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 The Future of the Past - Early Music Today (m0009zpz)
Pioneers of the future
Nicholas Kenyon tells the story of classical music’s greatest revolution.
Fifty years ago a revolution began in classical music. Back then, there was little doubt how to play a Mozart symphony or a Bach passion – it meant big symphonic forces, heavy textures, slow speeds and modern instruments. But then along came period performance: a new generation of musicians researched and revived period instruments, performance styles and forgotten composers. With lighter forces, faster speeds and new tools, they declared war on the interventionist musical culture of the mid-19th century. To start with, they were largely dismissed as eccentrics - Neville Marriner called them "the open-toed-sandals and brown-bread set” – and academics unable to play in tune. But throughout the 1970s and 80s they multiplied and gathered force. Along with the advent of the CD, their newfound repertory and fascinating new-old sound gave a boost to the classical recording industry. They overturned the way classical music was listened to and performed, making household names of musicians whose scholarly credentials became almost as important as their performing flair.
Nicholas Kenyon tells the story of that revolution, from the earliest pioneers to the global superstars of today. Across the series, he’ll uncover the musical detective-work which went on in universities and rehearsal rooms, reliving the incredible vitality of the times through landmark recordings which took the musical world by storm.
In today’s episode, Nicholas digs into where this historical impulse came from. Reviving the music of the past has long been part of the narrative for composers and certain connoisseurs, but the idea of ‘clothing music in its own fur and feathers’ really became public after the war. We’ll hear about the first stirrings of the movement, and the iconic soloists, ensembles and innovators that made it happen. Why did we want to reimagine the past?
Handel: Solomon (Arrival of the Queen of Sheba)
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock, conductor
Handel, arr. Beecham: Faithful Shepherd Suite (Overture)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Beecham, conductor
Monteverdi: Chiome d’oro
Hugues Cuénod, tenor
Paul Derenne, tenor
Nadia Boulanger, piano
Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in G major, K 124
Wanda Landowska, piano
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 (3rd movement)
Busch Chamber Players
Adolf Busch, director
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice: Che faro
Kathleen Ferrier, alto
Orchestra of Netherlands Opera
Charles Bruck, conductor
Purcell: Music for a while
Alfred Deller, countertenor
Walter Bergman, harpsichord
Dowland: Fine knacks for ladies
Peter Pears, tenor
Julian Bream, lute
J. C. Bach: Quintet in D, Op 11 No 6 (1st movement)
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
Corelli: Sonata in B flat major, Op 5 No 11 (2nd movement)
Frans Bruggen, recorder
Anner Bylsma, cello
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord
Victoria: O vos omnes (Tenebrae Responsories)
Westminster Cathedral Choir
George Malcolm, conductor
Anon: The Play of Daniel (The Vessels Restored - Regis vasa referents)
Dufay Collective
Williams Lyons, director
Susato: Basse danse Bergeret sans Roch
Early Music Consort
David Munrow, director
Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker
SUN 13:00 BBC Proms (m000l1y9)
2020
Proms Chamber Music: Jeremy Denk
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
Bartók: Piano Sonata
Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, 'Black Mass’
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Jeremy Denk (piano)
(From BBC Proms 2015, 24 August)
Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists – a musician the New York Times hails as someone ‘you want to hear no matter what he performs’. In 2015 he put Beethoven’s final piano sonata at the core of his debut Proms recital. This majestic work – which he later recorded for a 2019 disc entitled ‘c.1300–c.2000’ – blends extrovert passion with a depth that characterises all of the composer’s late works.
Denk paired the Beethoven with Bartók’s only piano sonata – a piece strongly coloured by Hungarian folk melodies and rhythmic attack – and Scriabin’s ‘Black Mass’ Piano Sonata. His most famous work in the genre, Scriabin’s sonata is a disconcerting, phantasmagoric musical journey – and a gleeful vision of horror.
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000l5dj)
Taylor Consort at Pau Casals International Music Festival 2019
French harpsichordist Justin Taylor directs his own consort in an all-Bach recital at the Pau Casals Auditorium in Tarragona as part of the city's 2019 International Music Festival. The ensemble is joined by soprano Elena Copons who sings arias from some of Bach's cantatas, alongside performances of two Trio Sonatas and excerpts from The Well-Tempered Klavier.
Presented by Lucie Skeaping.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000ktdq)
Chichester Cathedral
From Chichester Cathedral during the 2010 Southern Cathedrals Festival, with the choirs of Chichester, Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals.
Introit: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (SS Wesley)
Responses: Tomkins
Office Hymn: O thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Psalm: 108 (SS Wesley)
First Lesson: 2 Kings 4 vv.1-7
Canticles: Wesley in E
Second Lesson: John 2 vv.1-12
Anthem: Faire is the heaven (Harris)
Final Hymn: God is love (Alleluia)
Voluntary: Choral Song and Fugue (SS Wesley)
Sarah Baldock (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Simon Lawford (Assistant Organist)
First broadcast on 22 September 2010.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000l1yf)
19/07/20
Alyn Shipton plays jazz records from across the genre as requested by Radio 3 listeners with music from Louis Armstrong, Blossom Dearie, Keith Tippett and Don Weller.
DISC 1
Artist Gerry Mulligan sextet
Title It Don’t Mean a Thing
Composer Ellington / Mills
Album California Concerts Vol 2
Label Pacific Jazz
Number CDP 7 468642 Track 13
Duration 3.44
Performers Jon Eardley, t; Bob Brookmeyer, vtb; Zoot Sims, ts; Gerry Mulligan, bars; Red Mitchell, b; Larry Bunker, d. 14 Dec 1954
DISC 2
Artist Django Reinhardt
Title Manoir de mes Reves
Composer Reinhardt
Album Retrospective
Label Saga
Number 038 161-2 CD 2 Track 6
Duration 3.20
Performers Andre Lluis, Gerard Leveque, cl; Django Reinhardt, Eugene Vees, g; Jean Storne, b; Gaston Leonard, d. 17 Feb 1943
DISC 3
Artist Blossom Dearie
Title If I Were A Bell
Composer Loesser
Album Once Upon a Summertime
Label Essential Jazz Classics
Number 55458 Track 5
Duration 3.08
Performers Blossom Dearie, v, p; Mundell Lowe, g; Ray Brown, b; Ed Thigpen, d. Sept 1958
DISC 4
Artist Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra
Title Tail End Charlie
Composer Bill Finegan
Album Flying Home
Label MYJO
Number Track 9
Duration 2.58
Performers Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra 2010.
DISC 5
Artist Jimmy Giuffre Trio
Title The Train and The River
Composer Guiffre
Album Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Label Charly
Number X 686 CD 2 Track 1
Duration 4.34
Performers: Jimmy Giuffre, cl, ts; Bob Brookmeyer, vtb; Jim Hall, g. 1958
DISC 6
Artist Louis Armstrong
Title Wild Man Blues
Composer Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton
Album The Okeh, Columbia and RCA Victor Recordings 1925-33
Label Columbia Legacy
Number 88697945652 CD 2 Track 10
Duration 3.18
Performers Louis Armstrong, t; John Thomas, tb; Johnny Dodds, cl; Lil Armstrong, p; Johnny St Cyr, bj; Pete Briggs, tu; Baby Dodds, d. 7 May 1927
DISC 7
Artist Claire Martin and Callum Au
Title Let’s Get Lost
Composer Frank Loesser / Jimmy McHugh
Album Songs and Stories
Label Stunt
Number 20062 Track 2
Duration 4.14
Performers Claire Martin, v; Louis Dowdeswell, Tom Walsh, George Hogg, James Davison, t; Andy Martin, Andy Wood, Callum Au, Chris Traves, Barry Clements, tb; Sam Mayne, Simon Marsh, Paul Booth, Tom Richards, Martin Williams, reeds; Rob Barron, p; Tommy Emmerton, g; Jeremy Brown, David Hughes, b; Matt Skelton, Jamey Tate, d; James Turner, Joey De Leon, perc. 2019
DISC 8
Artist Esbjorn Svensson Tio
Title Serenade for a Renegade
Composer Svensson
Album Strange Place For Snow
Label ACT
Number 9011-2 Track 2
Duration 4.26
Performers Esbjorn Svensson, p; Dan Berglund, b; Magnus Ostrom, d. 2001
DISC 9
Artist Stan Tracey / Keith Tippett
Title Parallax
Composer Tracey / Tippett
Album Supernova
Label Resteamed
Number RSJ 105 Track 3
Duration 6.10
Performers Stan Tracey, p; Keith Tippett, p. 1977.
DISC 10
Artist Don Weller
Title Killing me Softly
Composer Charles Fox
Album Nine Songs
Label Trio
Number Track 4
Duration 5.59
Performers Don Weller, ts; Mark Edwards, p; Andrew Cleyndert, b; Spike Wells, d; Simon Baggs, Ruth Funnnell, vn; Rachel Calaminus, vla; Matthew Forbes, vc. May 2007
DISC 11
Artist Don Weller Big Band
Title Four By Three
Composer Weller
Album Don Weller Big Band Live
Label 33 Records
Number 032 Track 1
Duration 11.38
Performers Gerard Presencer, Henry Lowther, Patrick White, Steve Waterman, t; Andy Fawbert, Mark Nightingale, Malcolm Griffiths, Pete Beachill, tb; Nigel Hitchcock, Peter King, Don Weller, Mornington Lockett, Alan Barnes, reeds; David Newton, p; Andrew Cleyndert, b; Bryan Spring, d. 1997
SUN 17:00 Words and Music (m000l1yh)
The Power of Music
As the 2020 BBC Proms gets under way Words and Music explores The Power of Music in a special programme featuring recordings by all the BBC-affiliated performing groups. Readers Clarke Peters and Maggie Service read poetry and prose exploring the unique place music has in our lives, from the 'thousand twangling instruments' which magically fill the air in Shakespeare's The Tempest, to the 'mute glorious Storyvilles' that Philip Larkin imagines when he hears Sidney Bechet play. We'll feel the jealousy and awe that Mozart inspired in Salieri in Peter Schaffer's Amadeus, and the erotic urgency of Langston Hughes' Harlem Night Club. In this special edition of Words and Music the BBC orchestras play a starring role. There are special remote recordings from members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers, and Rachel Weld, a viola player from the BBC Philharmonic, has recorded a series of postcards reflecting on life as an orchestral musician, and what the enforced distance from her fellow players has been like during lockdown.
All the music in this special edition is recorded by BBC performing groups and affiliated orchestras and ranges from the BBC Philharmonic playing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales playing Shostakovich, to the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing with Lianne La Havas. There's also Britten played in a special remote recording by BBC Symphony Orchestra harpist Louise Martin, Haydn from a BBC Philharmonic Orchestra quartet and Cole Porter's Night and Day sung by members of The BBC Singers.
READINGS
Saturday - Ian McEwan
I Am In Need of Music - Elizabeth Bishop
The Tempest - Shakespeare
If Bach had been a beekeeper - Charles Tomlinson
For Sidney Bechet - Philip Larkin
My Last Dance - Julia Ward Howe
The Harlem Dancer - Claude McKay
Amadeus - Peter Schaffer
An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
Harlem Night Club - Langston Hughes
Grace Notes - Bernard MacLaverty
Siege and Symphony - Brian Moynhan
Tess of the d’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Music when Soft Voices Die - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Everyone Sang - Siegfried Sassoon
Howard's End - EM Forster
SUN 18:15 BBC Proms (m000l1yk)
2020
Programme 1
Starting a series of six weekly programmes, Georgia Mann explores the coming week's Proms together with a group of guests, including Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director of the Barbican Centre; Gillian Moore, Director of Music at Southbank Centre, and Helen Wallace, Artistic Director at Kings Place. As Radio 3 opens its rich archives during the summer, the guests offer tips, recommendations and rediscoveries in a unique chance to hear some historic and memorable recordings. The most significant people and events coming up in the week ahead are put under a spotlight, and the guests react to both archive interviews and fresh material recorded especially for the programme.
SUN 19:00 The Listening Service (m000dj3x)
Beethoven Unleashed: Getting to grips with Beethoven
Beethoven: deaf for most of his life, unbearable egotist, flagrant opportunist and musical anarchist whose music reaches the heights of ecstasy. Where do you start with this bundle of contradictions, probably the most admired composer in western music, whose works have unfailingly filled concert halls for over 200 years? Tom Service goes in search of what makes Beethoven Beethoven and suggests a few key pieces to help unlock the man and his music.
David Papp (producer)
SUN 19:30 Record Review Extra (m000l1ym)
Katy Hamilton's Beethoven
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including one of Katy Hamilton's top Beethoven recordings in full.
SUN 21:00 BBC Proms (m000l1yp)
2020
Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
Presented by Tom Service
Finding the terror alongside the spiritual awe, the questioning doubt as well as the faith, Beethoven’s mighty Missa solemnis is a work of visceral power – a public statement of intensely private belief. ‘From the heart – may it return to the heart!,’ the composer wrote at the top of a score that stretched the proportions and ambitions of the orchestral Mass to new limits.
A work close to Harnoncourt’s heart, the Missa solemnis was also the work he conducted in his final public performance before retiring in December 2015. Experience the raw intensity of his account here with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Arnold Schoenberg Choir at the 1998 BBC Proms.
Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Ruth Ziesak (soprano)
Bernarda Fink (alto)
Herbert Lippert (tenor)
Neal Davies (bass)
Nikolous Harnoncourt (conductor)
(From BBC Proms 1998, 11 September)
SUN 23:00 Mindful Mix (m000hgr3)
Escape for a moment with meditative and calming music
Featuring a selection of calming and meditative music, the Mindful Mix is a classical music curation, which usually features on BBC Sounds. This mix contains wonderfully haunting vocal music composed by Hildegard of Bingen, piano music by Leos Janacek, Erik Satie and Claude Debussy and more. If you find yourself wanting more Mindful Mixes, head over to BBC Sounds and search 'Mindful Mix' to find more.
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00:02:01 Frédéric Chopin
Berceuse in D flat major, Op 57
Performer: Maurizio Pollini
Duration 00:04:24
02
00:06:20 Amy Beach
Dreaming
Performer: Judith Herbert
Performer: Diana Ambache
Duration 00:06:08
03
00:12:36 Claude Debussy
Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)
Performer: Stephen Hough
Duration 00:04:55
04
00:17:22 Leos Janáček
On an Overgrown Path, Book 1 (No 2, A Leaf Blown Away)
Performer: Charles Owen
Duration 00:02:36
05
00:19:49 R. Nathaniel Dett
Cinnamon Grove - suite for piano: 2; Adagio cantabile
Performer: Clipper Erickson
Duration 00:03:49
06
00:23:43 John Field
Nocturne no.15 in C major
Performer: Benjamin Frith
Duration 00:05:07
07
00:28:42 Georgs Pelēcis
Flowering Jasmine
Performer: Andrei Pushkarev
Performer: Gidon Kremer
Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica
Conductor: Gidon Kremer
Duration 00:06:41
08
00:35:22 Hildegard von Bingen
O felix anima
Choir: Anonymous 4
Duration 00:06:31
09
00:42:03 Erik Satie
Gymnopedie No.1
Performer: Reinbert de Leeuw
Duration 00:05:58
10
00:48:07 Ludwig van Beethoven
Diabelli Variations, Op 120 (Variation 24)
Performer: Georges Solchany
Duration 00:03:53
11
00:51:58 Franz Liszt
L'idée fixe – Andante amoroso d'après une mélodie de Berlioz, S395
Performer: Leslie Howard
Duration 00:06:35
MONDAY 20 JULY 2020
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000l1yr)
Nadine Shah
Guest presenter Jules Buckley stands in for Clemmie Burton-Hill in a brand new four-part series of Classical fix, mixing bespoke classical playlists for music-loving special guests. In the first episode, Jules is joined by Mercury-nominated singer and musician Nadine Shah, whose highly-acclaimed new album 'Kitchen Sink' explores her own experience of life as a 30-something woman. Also featuring later in the series is musician and Savages singer, Jehnny Beth.
Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Jules Buckley is a Grammy-winning conductor, arranger and composer who pushes the boundaries of almost all musical genres by placing them in an orchestral context, and has earned himself a reputation as a 'pioneering genre alchemist' and' agitator of musical convention'. He leads two of the world’s most versatile and in-demand orchestras - the Heritage Orchestra and the Metropole Orkest - and over the past nine years he has been responsible for some of the most groundbreaking BBC Proms, including the Ibiza Prom, 1Xtra's Grime Symphony, The Songs of Scott Walker, Jacob Collier and Friends, and tributes to Quincy Jones, Nina Simone and Charles Mingus.
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000l1yt)
Music from London's Restoration Theatreland
Soprano Rachel Redmond and early music group Le Caravanserail perform music from Restoration theatre, including the Purcell brothers, Matthew Locke and their contemporaries. With Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Matthew Locke (c.1622-1677)
Curtain Tune (The Rare Theatrica)
Le Caravansérail, Bertrand Cuiller (conductor)
12:34 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Overture (The Virtuous Wife)
12:37 AM
Giovanni Battista Draghi (c.1640-1708)
Where are thou, God of Dreams? (Romulus and Hersilia)
Rachel Redmond (soprano)
12:40 AM
Henry Purcell
Hornpipe (The Fairy Queen)
12:41 AM
Giovanni Battista Draghi
Must I ever sigh in vain (The Theater of Music)
Rachel Redmond (soprano)
12:43 AM
Daniel Purcell (c.1663-1717)
I see, she flies me (Aureng-zebe)
Rachel Redmond (soprano)
12:44 AM
Henry Purcell
Second Music (The Virtuous Wife)
12:47 AM
Henry Purcell
O Solitude (The Theater of Music)
Rachel Redmond (soprano)
12:53 AM
Henry Purcell
First act tune (The Virtuous Wife)
12:54 AM
Henry Purcell
Minuet (Abdelazar)
12:55 AM
Henry Purcell
Twas within a furlong of Edinboro town (The Mock Mariage)
Rachel Redmond (soprano)
12:57 AM
Samuel Akeroyde (fl.1684-1706)
From drinking of Sack by the Pottle (The Theater of Music)
Rachel Redmond (sopano)
12:58 AM
Anonymous
Royal College of Music (Excerpts)
01:03 AM
Louis Grabu (fl.1668)
Jealousy (Albion and Albanius)
Rachel Redmond (soprano)
01:07 AM
Henry Purcell
Curtain Tune (The History of Timon of Athens)
01:09 AM
Matthew Locke
Fly, my children (Cupid and Death)
Rachel Redmond (soprano)
01:13 AM
Matthew Locke
The Conclusion, A Canon a 4 in 2 (The Tempest)
01:15 AM
Henry Purcell
See, even night herself is here (The Fairy Queen)
Rachel Redmond (soprano)
01:20 AM
Henry Purcell
Symphony (King Arthur)
01:22 AM
Matthew Locke
The Descending of Venus (Psyche)
01:25 AM
James Hart (1647-1718)
Adieu to the Pleasure (The Tempest)
Rachel Redmond (soprano), Le Caravansérail, Bertrand Cuiller (conductor)
01:32 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Sinfonia concertante in B flat major, Hob.
1:105
Erik Niord Larsen (oboe), Per Hannisdal (bassoon), Jon Elsrud Gjesme (violin), Bjorn Solum (cello), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
01:54 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Symphony No 5, Op 50
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)
02:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Quartet no 3 in C minor, Op 60, 'Werther'
Havard Gimse (piano), Stig Nilsson (violin), Anders Nilsson (viola), Romain Garioud (cello)
03:06 AM
Franciszek Lessel (1780-1838)
Piano Concerto in C, Op 14
Leonora Armellini (piano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pawel Przytocki (conductor)
03:35 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Ave verum corpus, K618
Coro Maghini, Claudio Chiavazza (director), Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
03:38 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op 35 No 1
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
03:48 AM
Marco Uccellini (c.1603-1680)
Sonata sopra la Bergamasca
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
03:53 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture (La Gazza Ladra)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
04:03 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Adios Nonino
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
04:10 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet No 4 in A major K298
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Frode Larsen (violin), Jon Sonstebo (viola), Emery Cardas (cello)
04:21 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Coriolan Op 62 (Overture)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
04:31 AM
Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter (1665-1742)
Ouverture & Entree from Serenade No 3 in G minor
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (director)
04:37 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in D major, K311
Mateusz Borowiak (piano)
04:48 AM
Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Divertimento for string quartet in A major, MH.299, P121
Marcolini Quartet
05:04 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Concerto for string orchestra in D major, 'Basle concerto'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oleg Caetani (conductor)
05:17 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Missa Brevis in D, Op 63
Katya Dimanova (soloist), Evgenia Tasseva (soloist), Velin Liev (organ), Polyphonia, Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor)
05:31 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in G minor 'per l'Orchestra di Dresda'
Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
05:40 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor, Op 44
James Ehnes (violin), Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
06:06 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Jubilate Domino, omnis terra, BuxWV 64
Bogna Bartosz (contralto), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)
06:14 AM
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000)
Excursion Ballet Suite
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000l1m0)
Monday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000l1m2)
Suzy Klein
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five beautiful love duets.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000l1m4)
JS Bach (1685-1750)
Bach and the Organ
Donald Macleod journeys through Bach’s early career as an organist, which took him from Eisenach to Weimar.
Johann Sebastian Bach is often acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all time and yet, during his lifetime, he was often more famous as an organist. Bach became very much in demand as a performer and a teacher. He was often asked to advise on the design and renovation of expensive church instruments. He composed a great deal of music for organ and was particularly productive during his twenties and early thirties when working at the court in Weimar. All this week Donald Macleod examines Bach’s life and music through the lens of his life-long fascination with the organ, focusing particularly on his time in Weimar and exploring his role as performer organist, teacher, servant, entrepreneur and composer.
In this first programme Donald Macleod takes us from Bach's first childhood encounters with the organ, through to his move to Weimar and a visit to Dresden where he was asked to take part in a musical play-off against the French keyboard player Louis Marchand, a musical competition that had a surprising result.
Brandenburg Concerto No 3, BWV 1048 (ohne Satzbezeichnung)
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock, director
Sonata No 2 in C minor, BWV 526
Peter Hurford, organ
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 550
Simon Preston, organ
Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63
Claron McFadden, soprano
Sally Bruce-Payne, alto
James Gilchrist, tenor
Peter Harvey, bass
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Elliot Gardiner, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales
MON 13:00 BBC Proms (m000l1m6)
2020
Proms Chamber Music: Apollon Musagète Quartet
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
Webern: Langsamer Satz
Colin Matthews: String Quartet No. 5 (European premiere)
Beethoven: String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3
Apollon Musagète Quartet
(From BBC Proms 2015, 3 August)
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Apollon Musagète Quartet present the European premiere of the Fifth String Quartet by one of Britain’s foremost living composers, Colin Matthews. Commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the Tanglewood Festival in 2015, the piece remains the last work Matthews has written in the medium.
Bookending the Quartet are Webern’s youthful Langsamer Satz – an ecstatic piece that showcases the composer’s formal skill within a lyrical idiom – and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3. Of Beethoven’s six Op. 18 quartets, No. 3 is both the lightest and the hardest to pin down: the scherzo is fleeting, and even the framing movements have an unusual delicacy and wistfulness about them.
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000l1m8)
Summer Festivals
A new series of great Proms concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs, launched by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D major (Classical Symphony)
Qigang Chen: Iris Dévoilée (London premiere)
with Meng Meng, Anu Komsi and Piia Komsi (sopranos), Jia Li (pipa), Jing Chang (zheng) and Nan Wang (erhu)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor
BBC NOW
Conductor Xian Zhang
George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by the composer
Throughout the 2020 Proms season Afternoon Concert celebrates top music-making at Summer Festivals, with four weeks of concerts from 2019 summer festivals across Europe and four weeks of great Proms performances from recent years by the BBC Orchestras and Choirs. This week features all six BBC-associated orchestras including the Ulster Orchestra, plus the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus; the BBC National Chorus of Wales will feature in two weeks' time. The series will also celebrate the 60th birthdays in 2020 of two great British composers, George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Turnage, and highlight some of the best Proms premieres from James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie in 1990 to the present day.
To launch the series today Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang makes her Proms debut in a hyper-Romantic 2015 concert featuring two Russian blockbusters and a gorgeous recent work by her compatriot Qigang Chen. Plus George Benjamin conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the piece whose 1980 Proms premiere catapulted him to fame, and film favourites from a 2011 Prom by the BBC Concert Orchestra and their then Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart - who feature throughout this week.
MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000l1mb)
Mexican Baroque from Latvia
Fiona Talkington presents the Latvian Radio Choir with funky rhythms from Baroque Mexico - a concert from the 2019 Early Music Festival in Riga, directed by the polymathic English Baroque harpist and conductor Andrew Lawrence-King. You may not have heard of the composers, but the music will have you dancing - including one tune that's become a popular hit.
MON 17:00 In Tune (m000l1md)
Vadym Kholodenko, Matilda Lloyd
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Vadym Kholodenko to discuss his new recording of works by Prokofiev. Today's Home Session is by trumpeter Matilda Lloyd.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000l1mg)
A blissful 30-minute classical mix
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
MON 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l1mk)
2020
Leif Ove Andsnes plays Beethoven
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
This evening we've another chance to hear a Prom from 2015 - Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra present Beethoven’s Second and Fifth piano concertos – the composer’s first and final experiments in the genre. In No 2, a spacious and gentle central adagio is framed with Mozartean grace in the outer movements, while the Fifth is the composer’s last word on the subject – a musical emancipation of the soloist that anticipates the Romantic concertos of Beethoven’s successors.
Opening tonight’s concert is Stravinsky’s Octet, written for wind ensemble. Looking to the musical past for inspiration once again, Stravinsky’s Neo-classical masterpiece pastiches the forms and textures of the 18th century, colouring them with a mood and mischief all his own.
Presented by Andrew McGregor, who chats to Leif Ove between the two piano concertos.
Stravinsky: Octet
c.
7.55pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major
c.
8.35pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, ‘Emperor’
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano/conductor)
(From BBC Proms 2015, 26 July)
MON 22:00 BBC Proms (p02xfqpc)
Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains
Before becoming a leading neuroscientist, Daniel Levitin worked as a musician and record producer. In "Unlocking the Mysteries of Music in Your Brain", the Proms Lecture given in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music, he explores the new thinking about the crucial relationship between music and our neural responses.
(From BBC Proms 2015, 18 July)
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000l1mn)
Music for midnight
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 21 JULY 2020
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000l1mq)
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Louis Lortie gives a recital at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 2 in A major, Op 2 no 2
Louis Lortie (piano)
12:56 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 11 in B flat, Op 22
Louis Lortie (piano)
01:21 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 17 in D minor, Op 31 no 2 ("Tempest")
Louis Lortie (piano)
01:46 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 6 in F major, Op 10 no 2
Louis Lortie (piano)
01:58 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 7 in D major, Op 10 no 3
Louis Lortie (piano)
02:23 AM
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824)
Duo concertante in C major
Alexandar Avramov (violin), Ivan Peev (violin)
02:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op 64
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)
03:20 AM
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Sonata in D major for 2 violins and continuo
Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director)
03:29 AM
Andrew York (b.1958)
Sanzen-in
Tornado Guitar Duo (duo)
03:34 AM
Ana Milosavljevic ((b.1982)
Red
Ensemble Metamorphosis
03:41 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Fantasy in C minor (K.396)
Juho Pohjonen (piano)
03:49 AM
Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (c.1690-1768)
Concerto a 5 for flute and strings in E minor
Ernst-Burghard Hilse (flute), Musica Antiqua Koln
04:01 AM
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
White-flowering days, (A Garland for the Queen), Op 37/8
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
04:06 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Norfolk Rhapsody no 1 in E minor
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Heinze (conductor)
04:17 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Joseph Eichendorff (author)
Wehmut (No 9) & Im Walde (No 11) from Liederkreis, Op 39
Olle Persson (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
04:21 AM
Charles Gounod (1818-1893),Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Meditation sur le premier prelude de Bach (Ave Maria)
Kyung-Ok Park (cello), Myung-Ja Kwun (harp)
04:27 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Lauretta's aria 'O mio babbino caro' from Gianni Schicchi
Irma Urrila (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor)
04:31 AM
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
Night and festal music - prelude to act II from the opera Die Konigin von Saba
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
04:38 AM
Leslie Pearson (b.1931)
Dance Suite, after Arbeau
Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
04:47 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for Viola da Gamba in D minor, BWV 1023
Teodoro Baù (viola da gamba), Andrea Buccarella (harpsichord)
05:00 AM
Herman Meulemans (1893-1965)
Five Piano Pieces
Steven Kolacny (piano)
05:19 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
L'Arlesienne Suites Nos 1 & 2
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
05:41 AM
Jacques-Francois Halevy (1799-1862)
Gerard & Lusignan's duet: "Salut, salut, à cette noble France"
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Brett Polegato (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
05:52 AM
Leander Schlegel (1844-1913)
Violin Sonata, Op 34 (1910)
Candida Thompson (violin), David Kuyken (piano)
06:14 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Mon coeur s'ouvre from 'Samson et Dalila' (arr for trumpet & orchestra)
Jouko Harjanne (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
06:21 AM
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
Barcarola e scherzo
Min Park (flute), Huw Watkins (piano)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000l22b)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000l22g)
Suzy Klein
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five beautiful love duets.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000l22l)
JS Bach (1685-1750)
Bach the Servant
Donald Macleod explores Bach’s role as an employee of the court in Weimar.
Johann Sebastian Bach is often acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all time and yet, during his lifetime, he was often more famous as an organist. Bach became very much in demand as a performer and a teacher. He was often asked to advise on the design and renovation of expensive church instruments. He composed a great deal of music for organ and was particularly productive during his twenties and early thirties when working at the court in Weimar. All this week Donald Macleod examines Bach’s life and music through the lens of his life-long fascination with the organ, and focusing particularly on his time in Weimar and exploring his role as performer organist, teacher, servant, entrepreneur and composer.
Bach spent much of his early career in service to local aristocrats around central Germany. Musicians were regarded as servants and during Bach’s teens, when he was briefly employed at Weimar, the court accounts describe him as a 'lackey'. Bach returned to Weimar in 1708, as organist to the elder Duke of Saxe-Weimar. There, he spent much time in the Court Chapel, also known as the 'Himmelsburg' or 'Heaven’s Castle', wrestling with the unsatisfactory positioning of the organ relative to the choir. Bach was evidently valued by his employer and promoted to the position of Concertmaster, which gave him more opportunities to compose cantatas. However, Bach increasingly found himself caught in the middle of court disagreements.
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Piet Kee, organ
Concerto for Harpsichord in G minor, BWV 1058
Ton Koopman, harpsichord & director
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Cantata No 162 ‘Ach, ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe’, BWV 162
Yumiko Kurisu, soprano
Yoshikazu Mera, counter-tenor
Makoto Sakurada, tenor
Peter Kooy, bass
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki, director
Concerto in A minor, BWV 593
Daniel Chorzempa, organ
Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000l22q)
Chamber Music in Manchester (1/4)
Highlights from the 2019/2020 Manchester Chamber Concerts Society season at the Royal Northern College of Music, and guitarist Milos Karadaglic at the city's illustrious music school, Chetham's.
Presented by Tom McKinney
Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia (arr Jelte Althuis): Ensalada, obra de 8 tono alto
Calefax
Villa-Lobos: Five Preludes
Milos Karadaglic, guitar
Mozart: Quartet in D major ‘Hoffmeister’ K499
Schumann Quartet
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000l22v)
Summer Festivals
Fiona Talkington presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC Singers in Palestrina and Judith Weir and Ulster Orchestra in Tchaikovsky. Venezuelan Rafael Payare makes his 2016 Proms debut as Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra with Tchaikovsky's Fifth and a brand-new work by Professor of Composition at Queens University, Belfast, Piers Hellawell, plus Haydn with the cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, who was then a BBC New Generation Artist. Plus a 2017 Prom at Southwark Cathedral with Palestrina from BBC Singers and their then chief conductor, David Hill, who are joined by the Nash Ensemble for another world premiere by Master of the Queen's Music Judith Weir.
Piers Hellawell: Wild Flow (world premiere)
Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C major
with Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5
Ulster Orchestra
Conductor Rafael Payare
Proms at… Southwark Cathedral
Palestrina: Motet 'Confitebor tibi, Domine'; Missa 'Confitebor tibi'
Judith Weir: In the Land of Uz (BBC commission: world premiere)
with Adrian Thompson (tenor), Stephen Farr (organ) and Nash Ensemble
BBC Singers
Conductor David Hill
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000l22z)
Robert Plane and Lucy Gould, Martin Simpson
Sean Rafferty talks to clarinettist Robert Plane and violinist Lucy Gould, about the 2020 online edition of their Corbridge Chamber Music Festival and also about their new recordings with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Gould Piano Trio. Today's Home Session is by guitarist and singer Martin Simpson.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000l234)
Classical music for your journey
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
TUE 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l23b)
2020
The world premiere of John Tavener's 20th-century classic, The Protecting Veil
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
Kate Molleson introduces a Prom from 1989 conducted by the late Oliver Knussen, one of the most respected figures in British contemporary music. She is also joined by the soloist in tonight's concert, cellist Steven Isserlis.
Knussen composed his Flourish with Fireworks for American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, to reflect a shared admiration for the music of Stravinsky, here represented in the symphonic poem he made in 1917 from his opera The Nightingale. Song of the Nightingale later became a successful ballet, with choreography by Massine and later Balanchine.
Also premiered were two other works by British composers: the Symphony by Minna Keal; and John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil for cello and orchestra, a radiant expression of Tavener’s faith which, in his own words, attempted to ‘capture some of the almost cosmic power of the Mother of God’. Commissioned by the BBC, it has since become a contemporary classic, having received over a dozen recordings.
Knussen: Flourish with Fireworks
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Keal: Symphony, Op. 3 (first concert performance of complete work)
Tavener: The Protecting Veil (world premiere)
Mussorgsky: Intermezzo in modo classico (orchestral version)
Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Steven Isserlis (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
(From BBC Proms, 4 September 1989)
TUE 22:00 BBC Proms (b04b2lwg)
Proms Plus
Tavener and Literature
Matthew Sweet and his guests, the award-winning poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts and musician, priest and broadcaster Richard Coles, explore the inspiration John Tavener took from poems written by George Herbert, John Donne and William Blake. Tonight's Proms broadcast includes The Protecting Veil, which earnt Tavener a nomination for the Mercury Prize and whilst this work takes its cue from an icon and the Orthodox feast of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God, other pieces by Tavener draw on literary sources.
Originally recorded before an audience at the Royal College of Music at the BBC Proms on 23 July 2014.
TUE 22:20 BBC Proms (m000l23m)
Proms Plus
Birds
Helen Macdonald, author of H Is For Hawk and Tim Birkhead, Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at the University of Sheffield and author of Bird Sense, share their experiences of observing birds closely and their pick of writing inspired by real and fictional birds. Professor Birkhead’s recent research has been into the adaptive significance of egg shape in birds and Helen Macdonald won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award for her writing about the year she spent training a goshawk. The presenter is New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell who researches birds in British 18th-century literature. Tonight's Proms concert broadcast ends with a performance of Stravinsky's Song of the Nightingale.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
Originally recorded with an audience at BBC Proms on 26 July 2018.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b0b941th)
The Meaning of Beaches
Dover Beach
A further series of essays by Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, following her much-praised The Meaning of Trees and The Meaning of Flowers, Fiona explores the symbolism, importance, topicality and surprises of five British beaches, all of which are unique and quintessentially British in very different ways. Fiona deconstructs what we thought we knew of these five beaches, with the multiple surprises and eloquent wordsmithery which has captured so much attention for her previous five series of essays.
Dover beach symbolises Brexit, war, resistance, fortitude, commerce, smuggling, desperation and racism. A beach steeped in British history and meaning, yet Calais is visible across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel, attracting centuries of channel swimmers, with ferries and cargo ships bustling in and out by the white cliffs. Dover beach is shingle with the medieval Dover Castle overlooking it. It's now a popular spot with tourists with a promenade, deckchairs and kiosks but it's not your average tourist who comes to Dover beach. It receives a much higher percentage of Brexit voters, Churchill devotees and fossil-hunters than an average British beach. Its former incarnations as hotbeds of smuggling, of goods, contraband and people have echoes of the modern realities facing this beach which is at the forefront of the UK's future. It is the inspiration for one of the UK's favourite poems, "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, a really pertinent poem for Britain today.
Producer - Turan Ali
A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000l23r)
The late zone
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2020
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000l23w)
Transylvanian International Piano Competition
Piano recital of music by Bach, Berg, Haydn and Liszt given by the 2018 winner, Nikita Volov. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Capriccio in B flat, BWV 992
Nikita Volov (piano)
12:40 AM
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Piano Sonata, op. 1
Nikita Volov (piano)
12:52 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in B flat, Hob. XVI:52
Nikita Volov (piano)
01:11 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178
Nikita Volov (piano)
01:41 AM
Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)
Requiem mass, for a capella choir
Radio France Chorus, Donald Palumbo (conductor)
02:06 AM
Joseph Leopold von Eybler (1765-1846)
Symphony in C major
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
02:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Violin Concerto in D major (Op.35)
Joshua Bell (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
03:06 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Der Herr lebet - cantata (Wq.251)
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Hilke Helling (alto), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei, Hermann Max (conductor)
03:43 AM
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Firste Pavian and Galliarde
Andreas Borregaard (accordion)
03:49 AM
Denes Agay (1911-2007)
5 Easy Dances for flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, horn
Tae-Won Kim (flute), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon), Kawng-Ku Lee (horn), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe)
03:57 AM
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675-1742)
Concerto a piu istrumenti in C major Op.6'10
Il Tempio Armonico
04:04 AM
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), John P.Paynter (arranger)
Little Suite for Brass Band No.1, Op 80
Edmonton Wind Ensemble, Harry Pinchin (conductor)
04:11 AM
Bo Holten (b. 1948)
Alt har sin tid (There's a time for everything)
Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor)
04:21 AM
Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750)
Sinfonia in F major
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
04:31 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Le Carnaval romain overture Op 9
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
04:40 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
12 Variations for piano in B flat major K.500
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
04:49 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
3 Songs for chorus, Op 42
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
05:00 AM
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (1626-c1677)
5 pieces: Achas; Bacas; Ruggiero; Xacaras; Espanoletas
Margret Koll (arpa doppia)
05:09 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809),Ignace Joseph Pleyel (1757-1831), Harold Perry (arranger)
Divertimento 'Feldpartita' in B flat major, Hob.
2.46
Academic Wind Quintet
05:18 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV.1056
Angela Hewitt (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
05:29 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music (Op.61)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
05:53 AM
Lorenzo Allegri (1567-1648)
Primo Ballo della notte d'amore & Sinfonica (Spirito del ciel)
Suzie Le Blanc (soprano), Barbara Borden (soprano), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (director)
06:03 AM
Ludvig Norman (1831-1885)
String Sextet in A major (Op.18) (1850)
Stockholm String Sextet (sextet)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000l1dg)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000l1dj)
Suzy Klein
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five beautiful love duets.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000l1dl)
JS Bach (1685-1750)
Bach the Entrepreneur
Donald Macleod explores Bach through the window of his business dealings.
Johann Sebastian Bach is often acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all time and yet, during his lifetime, he was often more famous as an organist. Bach became very much in demand as a performer and a teacher. He was often asked to advise on the design and renovation of expensive church instruments. He composed a great deal of music for organ and was particularly productive during his twenties and early thirties when working at the court in Weimar. All this week Donald Macleod examines Bach’s life and music through the lens of his life-long fascination with the organ, focusing particularly on his time in Weimar and exploring his role as performer organist, teacher, servant, entrepreneur and composer
Much of what we know about Bach's early career has been preserved in the accounts and contracts written at the institutions where he worked. In this programme Donald Macleod explores what these sources can tell us about Bach and the world of business. Bach had already demonstrated his ambitious and determined nature from an early age; aged 20, he had undertaken a walk of 250 miles to hear the greatest organ virtuoso of the day, Buxtehude. Bach remained in Lübeck far longer than he should have, and was taken to task on his return for abandoning his duties. Bach argued that his visit to hear Buxtehude had greatly helped him develop as a musician. He quickly worked through appointments at Arnstadt, Mühlhausen, and then Weimar. Each new job brought better prospects and an improved salary. Bach negotiating skills extended to using a job offer from Halle to bargain for in increase his salary and status from his current employer, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar.
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Marie-Claire Alain, organ
Concerto for two violins and strings in D minor, BWV 1043
Simon Standage, violin & director
Micaela Comberti, violin
Collegium Musicum 90
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Dorian), BWV 538
Carlo Curley, organ
St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Nicholas Mulroy (Evangelist), tenor
Dunedin Consort and Players
John Butt, Director
Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000l1dp)
Chamber Music in Manchester (2/4)
Highlights from the 2019/2020 Manchester Chamber Concerts Society season at the Royal Northern College of Music, and guitarist Milos Karadaglic at the city's illustrious music school, Chetham’s.
Presented by Tom McKinney
Jehan Alain (arr Raaf Hekkema): Litanies
Durufle (arr Jelte Althuis): Prelude et fugue sur le nom d’Alain, Op.7
Calefax
Granados: Andaluza and Oriental
De Falla: Danza del Molinaro from The Three-Cornered Hat
Milos Karadaglic, guitar
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 9 in E flat, Op.117
Schumann Quartet
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000l1dr)
Summer Festivals
Hannah French presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today Stephen Hough and the BBC Philharmonic play Brahms's mighty First Piano Concerto.
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
David Sawer: the greatest happiness principle
Haydn: Symphony No 99 in E flat major
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b0b9z46w)
Genesis Sixteen at St Alban's Church, Holborn, London
From St Alban's Church, Holborn, London, with Genesis Sixteen.
Introit: Salve Regina (Poulenc)
Responses: Rose
Psalms 93, 94 (Macfarren, Clark)
First Lesson: Isaiah 49 vv.8-13
Magnificat octavi toni (Vivanco)
Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 8 vv.1-11
Nunc dimittis (Plainsong)
Anthem: Maria Magdalena (Guerrero)
Hymn: Love's redeeming work is done (Savannah)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541 (Bach)
Harry Christophers, Justin Doyle, Benedict Preece (Conductors)
Timothy Wakerell (Organist)
First broadcast on 18 July 2018.
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000l1dt)
Alexander Gadjiev plays Brahms
New Generation Artists: Alexander Gadjiev plays Brahms's autumnal Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118. Urgent yet serene, these enigmatic late works are the work of a master craftsman with nothing left to prove. Dedicated to Clara Schumann. they have attracted many of the great pianists of our time. In these new BBC recordings, current Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Alexander Gadjiev brings his searching musicianship to these profound miniatures.
Brahms: Dein Blaues Auge
Catriona Morison (mezzo soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
Brahms: 6 Pieces Op.118 for piano
Alexander Gadjiev (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000l1dw)
Adrian Bradbury
Sean Rafferty talks to cellist Adrian Bradbury about his project to record the operatic fantasies of 19th-century virtuoso cellist Alfredo Piatti.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000l1dy)
Switch up your listening with classical music
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
WED 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l1f2)
2020
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Proms
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
The sparkling overture from Rossini’s opera Semiramide opens this Prom given by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, led by Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly. Flexing his Beethoven muscles, Chailly gives his unique reading of the composer’s First Symphony – a work later captured as part of a complete cycle, recorded with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester from 2007 to 2009.
Rounding off the programme is Prokofiev’s striking Third Symphony. Written in 1928, it was a direct and spirited reaction to the disappointment Prokofiev experienced with his opera The Fiery Angel, whose first performance, accepted by Bruno Walter for Berlin, had been summarily and indefinitely postponed. Though the second act was given in a concert in Paris conducted by Koussevitzky in June 1928, the opera as a whole was not seen until 1954. Prokofiev rescued some of the material by developing it symphonically; the result is a work of great drama and intensity.
Presented by Ian Skelly
Rossini: Semiramide – overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
(From BBC Proms 1990, 11 September)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000j3jn)
Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland
Anne Applebaum's new book The Twilight of Democracy has the subtitle The failure of democracy and the parting of friends. She talks to Anne McElvoy about what happened when she tried to connect up with past friends whose politics are now different to her own. The American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman is most famous now for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper. Will Abberley tells us about her view of fashion and why women should not seek to stand out because a focus on their appearance was counterproductive to them gaining more public power. Gilman conjured a female utopia in her 1915 book Herland. And 2020 New Generation Thinker Sophie Oliver from the University of Liverpool writes us a postcard about the actress Ingrid Bergman and the way she and her would-be biographer Bessie Breuer tried to carve out a different public image for a female star in a novel Breuer published in 1957 called The Actress.
Will Abberley's book is called Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture
You might be interested in the Essay Series Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf which looked at Yolande Mukagasana, Storm Jameson, Margaret Oliphant, Lady Mary Wroth and Charlotte Smith
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwff
and this Essay about another feminist utopia in the writing of Sarah Scott https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7hrw4
You can find previous Free Thinking conversations with Anne Applebaum to download as Arts & Ideas podcasts on Marxism https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0x6m0
and Russian Nationalism https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094f9p0
Producer: Ruth Watts
WED 22:45 The Essay (b0b9435w)
The Meaning of Beaches
The Giant's Causeway
A new series of essays by the popular Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature, Somerville College Oxford, following her much praised five series of essays The Meaning of Trees and The Meaning of Flowers. Fiona explores the symbolism, importance, topicality and surprises of five iconic British beaches, all unique and quintessentially British in different ways. Fiona deconstructs what we thought we knew of these beaches, with the multiple surprises and eloquent wordsmithery that captured so much attention for her previous essay series.
The Giant’s Causeway is the ultimate beach-as-symbol with its 40,000 basalt hexagonal columns spawning myriad myths and legends across the millennia, still fascinating mathematicians, geologists, writers, artists, witches and tourists many of whom visit Northern Ireland primarily to come to this beach. The iconic rocks are a result of volcanic eruption 50 million years ago, with some of the weathered formations described as resembling a giant’s boot, chimney stacks and a camel’s hump. Some of this County Antrim beach is owned by the National Trust, but not all of it. Some is owned by the Crown Estate and some by private landowners. Parts of the beach are now restricted and have opening and closing times, with the gift shop supporting a craft industry in Northern Ireland as it has a rule that 80% of crafts sold must be made in Northern Ireland. Large numbers of visitors is perhaps unsurprising since the Giant’s Causeway is Northern Ireland’s only Unesco World Heritage site. The size of the columns was dictated by how fast the lava from the volcano cooled, the faster the cooling, the smaller the columns hence the diameter of the hexagons varies cross the beach.
Producer – Turan Ali
A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000l1f6)
A little night music
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 23 JULY 2020
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000l1fb)
Desires and dreams
Hakan Hardenberger plays Henri Tomasi's 'unplayable' trumpet concerto. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
12:41 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (orchestrator)
Tarantelle styrienne (Danse)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
12:47 AM
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971)
Trumpet Concerto
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
01:04 AM
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
My Funny Valentine
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
01:07 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Symphony in D minor, op 48
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu (conductor)
01:43 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Pièce héroique in B minor (M.37) No.3 from 3 Pièces pour grand orgue (M.35-37)
Ljerka Ocic-Turkulin (organ)
01:52 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Sonata for cello and piano in G minor (Op.19)
Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Francine Kay (piano)
02:31 AM
Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950)
Phyllida and Corydon - choral suite (1939)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
03:00 AM
Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1909-1981), Johan de Cock (arranger)
Ruri
Gauteng Choristers, Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
03:06 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet No 1 in F, Op 18 No 1
Sebastian String Quartet
03:39 AM
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
El Salón México
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
03:51 AM
James MacMillan (b.1959),Robert White (c.1538-1574)
Christe qui lux es et dies (White) & A Child's Prayer (MacMillan)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
04:00 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
4 Studies for piano Op.7
Nikita Magaloff (piano)
04:07 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
String Quartet No.1 in D minor (1837-1840)
Camerata Quartet
04:23 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture to Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail – singspiel in 3 acts (K.384)
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Patrick Fourniller (conductor)
04:31 AM
Traditional, George Topirceanu (author)
Lumps of cold ice
Veronica Ungureanu (singer), Sandu Sura (cimbalom), Dan Bobeica (violin), Sergiu Pavlov (violin), Veaceslav Stefanet (violin), Vlad Tocan (violin), Vitalie Turcanu (saxophone)
04:36 AM
Ester Magi (b.1922)
Duo rahvatoonis for flute and violin
Jaan oun (flute), Ulrika Kristian (violin)
04:39 AM
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Malcolm Sargent (arranger)
Notturno (Andante) - 3rd mvt from String Quartet No 2 in D major
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
04:47 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Lied (Lenau): Larghetto; Wanderlied: Presto Op 8 Nos 3 & 4 (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:53 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates), Op 89
Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
05:02 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975)
Quartet for Strings No 7 in F sharp minor, Op 108
Atrium Quartet
05:16 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Andreas Staier (arranger), Tobias Koch (arranger)
Vom Himmel hoch - canonic variations BWV.769 arr piano
Andreas Staier (piano), Tobias Koch (piano)
05:28 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Soirees de Vienne No.6 in A minor
Teresa Carreno (piano)
05:36 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Alexander Nevsky (Op.78)
Russian Radio and TV Academic Chorus, Unidentified (mezzo soprano), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
06:12 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
The Alchymist - incidental music HWV.43
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000l2tz)
Thursday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000l2v1)
Suzy Klein
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five beautiful love duets.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000l2v3)
JS Bach (1685-1750)
Pupil and Teacher
Donald Macleod looks at what it might have been like to learn the organ alongside the great JS Bach.
Johann Sebastian Bach is often acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all time and yet, during his lifetime, he was often more famous as an organist. Bach became very much in demand as a performer and a teacher. He was often asked to advise on the design and renovation of expensive church instruments. He composed a great deal of music for organ and was particularly productive during his twenties and early thirties when working at the court in Weimar. All this week Donald Macleod examines Bach’s life and music through the lens of his life-long fascination with the organ, focusing particularly on his time in Weimar and exploring his role as performer organist, teacher, servant, entrepreneur and composer.
In this programme Donald Macleod explores Bach's experiences as an organ student and, later, as a a highly sought after teacher. Bach’s own education in music was sometimes fraught. His older brother wouldn’t allow the young Johann Sebastian to explore a book of keyboard pieces he owned, so Bach secretly purloined the book at night and studied it by moonlight. Bach would eventually have pupils of his own and his reputation grew to such a pitch that pupils would travel to study with him from all over the German-speaking lands. His students would often live in with Bach's family, and the composer would charge them accordingly! Whilst in Weimar, Bach trained a number of organists and his pupils would often take on extra duties like copying out music or pumping the bellows of the organ.
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Karl Richter, organ
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
Lionel Rogg, organ
Brandenburg Concerto No 2, BWV 1047
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock, director
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Prelude and Fugue in C major), BWV 867
Andras Schiff, piano
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Prelude and Fugue in C minor), BWV 847
Andras Schiff, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000l2v5)
Chamber Music in Manchester (3/4)
Highlights from the 2019/2020 Manchester Chamber Concerts Society season at the Royal Northern College of Music, and guitarist Milos Karadaglic at the city's illustrious music school, Chetham's.
Presented by Tom McKinney
Lennon-McCartney (arr Assad): Beatles Medley
Milos Karadaglic, guitar
Mendelssohn (arr Althuis): Prelude in G major (Op 37 No 2)
Mendelssohn (arr Althuis): Fugue in C minor (Op 37 No 1)
Francois Roberday (arr Hekkema): selection from Fugues et Caprices 1660
Calefax
Bach: Suite in C minor BWV 997
Milos Karadaglic, guitar
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000l2v7)
Summer Festivals
Proms Opera Matinee: Michael Tippett's masterpiece The Midsummer Marriage from the BBC SO, BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus conducted by Andrew Davis - an acclaimed performance from the 2013 BBC Proms. Tippett asked TS Eliot to write the libretto for his first opera, but Eliot recommended the composer to try it himself. The result is one of the unusual but haunting operas ever written, a kind of 1950s Magic Flute. Its three acts are filled with some of the most beautiful operatic music composed since the Second World War, from the chorus's opening hymn to the sun and Mark's rapturous love song to Jenifer through the famous Ritual Dances of Act 2 to the deeply moving aria for the oracle Sosostris at the heart of the final act.
Michael Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage
Mark ….. Paul Groves (tenor)
Jenifer, his fiancée ….. Erin Wall (soprano)
King Fisher, her father, a rich businessman ….. David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Bella, his secretary ….. Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Jack, her mechanic boyfriend ….. Allan Clayton (tenor)
Sosostris ….. Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
He-Ancient ….. David Soar (bass)
She-Ancient ….. Madeleine Shaw (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Andrew Davis
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000l2v9)
With Sean Rafferty
Music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000l2vc)
Classical music to inspire you
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l2vf)
2020
Mariss Jansons conducts Dvorak and Strauss
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
The late, great Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra mark the centenary of Dvořák’s death in a 2004 Prom also featuring a popular tone poem by Richard Strauss. Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Mariss Jansons
(From BBC Proms 2004, 30 July)
The late Latvian maestro Mariss Jansons appeared at the Proms in 2004 with his renowned German orchestra, of which he was Chief Conductor from 2003 until the end of his life. Together they present Richard Strauss’s autobiographical showpiece, Ein Heldenleben.
Opening the programme is Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony. Written at his brother-in-law’s estate around 30 miles outside of Prague, the symphony reflects Dvořák’s pastoral surroundings, and gives a flavour of the profusion of ideas to come in his ‘New World’ Ninth.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000k9ws)
Dada and the power of nonsense
Subversion in art and writing and a project to re-imagine Dada. Curator Jade French, artist Jade Montserrat, writer Lottie Whalen and 2020 New Generation Thinker Noreen Masud are in conversation with Shahidha Bari.
You can find more about today's guests and their research at https://jademontserrat.com/
https://www.jadefrench.co.uk/research
http://www.takedadaseriously.com/
http://lucywritersplatform.com/author/lottie-whalen/
https://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/staff/?id=17758
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year to use their research to make radio.
In the Free Thinking archives you can find a playlist featuring artist interviews and discussions https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p026wnjl
Radio 3 broadcast a ten part series looking at the life of Arthur Cravan called The Escape Artist https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000djhy
Producer: Robyn Read
THU 22:45 The Essay (b0b949d1)
The Meaning of Beaches
Barra Beach
A new series of essays by popular Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature, Somerville College Oxford, following her much praised five series of essays The Meaning of Trees and The Meaning of Flowers. Fiona explores the symbolism, importance, topicality and surprises of five iconic British beaches all unique and quintessentially British in different ways. Fiona deconstructs what we thought we knew of these beaches, with the multiple surprises and eloquent wordsmithery celebrated in her previous essays.
Barra’s ‘Great Beach’ (An Tràigh Mhòr) symbolises survival and ingenuity the only beach airport in the world with scheduled flights and tides and wind dictating whether aircraft can land. Barra’s Great Beach has twice saved islanders from disaster and ruin. In times of famine, the cockles found in great quantity on the beach formed an essential part of the islanders’ diet when crops failed, not a rare occurrence on Barra. Cockles collected by the cartload were shared across the island. The beach has also saved the island economically. Carrageen, a fine seaweed and a ubiquitous glossy thickening agent in so many modern foods, can be gathered in significant quantities here. The sand is calcium rich, made of crushed shells making it a very different dazzling white beach, compared to the usual British brown silica sand beaches. Compton Mackenzie, author of Whisky Galore, the world famous novel of whisky smuggling, lived over-looking Barra beach. Barra Airport beach is bordered by machair which is a Gaelic word meaning fertile low -ying grassy plain. This is the name given to one of the rarest habitats in Europe which only occurs on exposed western coasts of Scotland and Ireland.
Producer – Turan Ali
A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3
THU 23:00 BBC Proms (m000l2vh)
2020
Baroque classics from Anne Sofie von Otter and Les Musiciens du Louvre
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
In this late-night concert from 2003, Anne Sofie von Otter joins French conductor Marc Minkowski and his period-instrument orchestra in a pair of arias from Handel’s mighty opera Ariodante – which they recorded together in 1997 – and one of Bach’s most beautiful and consoling solo cantatas, ‘Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust’.
Rounding off this all-Baroque affair is a colourful selection of dances by Jean-Philippe Rameau, a near-direct contemporary of Bach. The suite, which was compiled by Marc Minkowski, draws from a selection of the French composer’s operas.
Bach: Cantata No 170, ‘Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust’
Rameau: L'apothéose de la dance – suite
Handel: Ariodante: Scherza infida; Doppo notte
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor)
(From BBC Proms, 10 September 2003)
FRIDAY 24 JULY 2020
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000l2vk)
Bach from Barcelona
Lutenist Thomas Dunford plays Bach in the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011
Thomas Dunford (lute)
12:55 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cello Suite No. 3 in C, BWV 1009
Thomas Dunford (lute)
01:17 AM
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
Thomas Dunford (vocalist), Thomas Dunford (lute)
01:21 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude, from Cello Suite No. 1 in G, BWV 1007
Thomas Dunford (lute)
01:24 AM
Doug Balliett (b.1982)
Song
Thomas Dunford (vocalist), Thomas Dunford (lute)
01:28 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Trio No.4 in E Minor, Op.90 'Dumky'
Beaux Arts Trio
02:02 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Haugtussa - song cycle
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
02:31 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Konstantin Balmont (author)
The Bells (Kolokola) for soloists, chorus and orchestra (Op.35)
Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor), Roumiana Bareva (soprano), Stoyan Popov (baritone), Sons de la mer Mixed Choir, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
03:09 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
24 Preludes for piano (Op.28)
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
03:48 AM
Vaino Haapalainen (1893-1945)
Lemminkainen Overture (1925)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atso Almila (conductor)
03:57 AM
Leopold Ebner (1769-1830)
Trio in B flat major
Zagreb Woodwind Trio
04:04 AM
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)
A Sad paven for these distracted tymes for string quartet
Pavel Haas Quartet
04:11 AM
Nicolas Chedeville (1705-1782)
Les Saisons Amusantes Part I - Transcription of Vivaldi's Le Printemps
Ensemble 1700, Dorothee Oberlinger (director)
04:15 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Friedrich Schiller (author)
Die Gotter Griechenlands D.677b
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
04:20 AM
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
Dream Pantomime (Hansel and Gretel)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
04:31 AM
Ludwik Grossman (1835-1915)
Csardas from the comic opera Duch wojewody (The Ghost of Voyvode) (1875)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
04:40 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestucke, Op 73
Aljaz Begus (clarinet), Svjatoslav Presnjakov (piano)
04:51 AM
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Lauda Jerusalem (psalm 147, 'How good it is to sing praises to our God')
Concerto Palatino
05:01 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade for piano No.1 (Op.23) in G minor
Hinko Haas (piano)
05:11 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Sonata in C major, K 303
Tai Murray (violin), Shai Wosner (piano)
05:21 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Pierre Louys (author)
Chansons de Bilitis - 3 melodies for voice & piano (1897)
Paula Hoffman (mezzo soprano), Lars David Nilsson (piano)
05:30 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Sextet for piano and strings in D major, Op 110
Wu Han (piano), Philip Setzer (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), Cynthia Phelps (viola), Carter Brey (cello), Michael Wais (bass)
05:53 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonata a quattro in C major
Ensemble Zefiro
06:05 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Suite No.4 in G major, Op 61, 'Mozartiana'
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000l2z5)
Friday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000l2z7)
Suzy Klein
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five beautiful love duets.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000l2z9)
JS Bach (1685-1750)
Bach the Composer
Donald Macleod surveys Johann Sebastian Bach’s development as a composer whilst in Weimar.
Johann Sebastian Bach is often acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all time and yet, during his lifetime, he was often more famous as an organist. Bach became very much in demand as a performer and a teacher. He was often asked to advise on the design and renovation of expensive church instruments. He composed a great deal of music for organ and was particularly productive during his twenties and early thirties when working at the court in Weimar. All this week Donald Macleod examines Bach’s life and music through the lens of his life-long fascination with the organ, focusing particularly on his time in Weimar and exploring his role as performer organist, teacher, servant, entrepreneur and composer
In this programme Donald Macleod looks at how Bach evolved as a composer during his years at the Weimar court where he had a rich array of instrumental forces at his disposal. As well as writing for his employer, Bach also composed a great deal of music for his family to perform at home. He also often turned to instruments that were archaic even at the time, like the viola da gamba, recorder and lute. One of his primary friendships during this period was with his cousin Walther, who was an organist at the town Church. Walther and Bach enjoyed exploring together the music that Prince Johann Ernst had brought back to Weimar from his Grand Tour in Italy. Bach and Walther drank in works by Albinoni, Corelli, Frescobaldi and, especially, Vivaldi. These Italian influences started to creep into Bach’s own music.
Lute Suite in E minor, BWV 996
Sean Shibe, guitar
Concerto in D minor, BWV 596 (Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op 3 No 11)
Christopher Herrick, organ
Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (Osanna in excelsis, Agnus Dei, Dona Nobis Pacem)
Robin Blaze, alto
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus and Orchestra
Masaaki Suzuki, director
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532
Wolfgang Ruebsam, organ
Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000l2zc)
Chamber Music in Manchester (4/4)
Highlights from the 2019/2020 Manchester Chamber Concerts Society season at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Presented by Tom McKinney
J S Bach (arr Althuis): Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542
Calefax
Franck: Deuxieme Choral in B minor M.39
Calefax
Smetana: Quartet No 1 in E minor ‘From My Life’
Schumann Quartet
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000l2zf)
Summer Festivals
Hannah French presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC Orchestras & Choirs - today a feast of 20th and 21st century music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In this remarkable BBC Prom from 2008 Ilan Volkov - then Principal Conductor of the BBC SSO, now their Principal Guest Conductor - leads a beautifully shaped concert featuring classics of electronic music by the French-American pioneer Edgard Varese and the modern master Jonathan Harvey, plus a Harvey world premiere. The concert is launched by two Proms premieres: from another towering French modernist, Olivier Messiaen, and Harvey's tribute to him on the centenary of his birth.
Jonathan Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and tape
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Messiaen: Concert à quatre
with Emily Beynon (flute), Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe),
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello) and Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Harvey: Mortuos plango, vivos voco; Speakings (world premiere)
Varèse: Poème électronique; Déserts
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Ilan Volkov
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000dj3x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000l2zh)
John Mauceri
Sean Rafferty talks to the conductor and writer John Mauceri about his new book 'For The Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening'.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000l2zk)
Your invigorating classical playlist
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l2zm)
2020
Hollywood Rhapsody Prom
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. This evening's concert, from 2013, features Proms favourites John Wilson and his orchestra in a celebration of classic Hollywood film scores.
Connecticut-born child prodigy Alfred Newman’s ‘Street Scene’, from the 1953 classic How to Marry a Millionaire, contrasts with the music of Jewish émigrés Erich Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman, with suites from Korngold’s swashbuckling score for Robin Hood, Steiner’s nostalgic music for Casablanca and Waxman’s brooding score for A Place in the Sun – all of them Academy Award-winners – making for a red-carpet event.
Presented by Georgia Mann
7.30pm
Newman: Street Scene
Kaper: Confetti
Raskin: Laura - New Suite
Herrmann: Psycho Suite
Herrmann: Salammbo Aria (Citizen Kane)
Korngold: Robin Hood - Suite
Moross: The Big Country
c.
8:20pm Interval
c.
8:35pm
Steiner: Casablanca - Suite
Various: Main Title - Song Medley
Waxman: A Place in the Sun
Rózsa: Ben-Hur - Suite
Venera Gimadieva (soprano)
Matthew Ford (vocalist)
Jane Monheit (vocalist)
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
(From BBC Proms 2013, 26 August)
FRI 22:00 Sunday Feature (m00057gv)
Alexander Korda - Producer, Director, Exile, Spy
Matthew Sweet unearths the great film-maker Alexander Korda's wartime role as a British agent.
He retraces Korda's identity-shifting journey from rural Hungarian poverty to the heart of the anti-Nazi English aristocracy, where this legendary operator befriended leading intelligence officers, and Winston Churchill.
Matthew explores Korda's innovative, high-stakes role as a British propagandist in America, and his part in the desperate effort to coax the Americans into the war as Britain struggled to keep going against the Nazis through 1940 and 1941.
But Matthew also uncovers the more shadowy side of Korda's work for the British, identifying the spies in Latin America he was helping to fund, and tracking the FBI's efforts to expose what he was up to.
And he speaks to Korda's nephew, the writer Michael Korda, about his memories of this extraordinary man and his relationship to the country he made his home, and for which he took such risks.
Speakers include: Angela Allen, Roderick Bailey, Sarah Churchwell, Charles Drazin, John Fleet, Henry Hemming and Michael Korda.
Producer: Phil Tinline
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b0b94d99)
The Meaning of Beaches
Crosby Beach
A new series of essays by the popular Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, following her much praised three series of essays The Meaning of Trees and two series of The Meaning of Flowers, Fiona explores the symbolism, importance, topicality and surprises of five iconic British beaches all of which are unique and quintessentially British in very different ways. Fiona deconstructs what we thought we knew of these five beaches, with the multiple surprises and eloquent wordsmithery which has captured so much attention for her previous series’ of essays.
Crosby Beach marks the end of the Mersey, and the edge of Liverpool. This unstable, dangerous, partly toxic mud beach is now home to Antony Gormley statues, 100 naked bronze figures facing out to sea scattered across the beach, bearing witness to the depth of history and the unpredictable future of this ever-changing beach. It was once the site of vital and modern imports and exports by tall sailing ships, both legal and illegal slavery, goods and hopes. Many shipwrecks have occurred at Crosby beach and Britain’s last slave ship sailed out of Liverpool harbour past Crosby beach in 1807. The beach is part soft sand, part mud with a risk of fast tides meaning bathing is banned and the beach has many tide warnings. Attempts to stabilise the beach have been made since the mid-19th century - including attempts to build a sea wall, a scheme to plant old Christmas trees and the use of bombed buildings from the Blitz in WW2 making some parts of the beach potentially hazardous due to asbestos from remnants of those buildings sometimes being found. Crosby was also the site of the SDP’s most famous by-election victory for Shirley Williams. Crosby beach has an ancient and very modern history.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m0009lm1)
Akari Wauja and Nathaniel Mann
Nathaniel Mann, a composer, singer, and sound artist from Essex, recently travelled to the Xingu reservation in Brazil to visit the indigenous community, the Wauja. There he met and recorded with renowned musician and storyteller Akari Wauja, whose mission is to keep his culture alive for younger generations, and to draw attention to the plight of the rainforest habitat and its people.
Tonight this remarkable, unique collaboration comes to the BBC Studios in London, for a live session of improvisation and open-form composition, featuring foot bells, bamboo drums, electric bass, and singing. Late Junction is honoured to host Akari Wauja for his first-ever radio performance, on his first trip to Europe.
Elsewhere in the programme we move from the Amazon to London’s Heathrow Airport, as Verity Sharp showcases Kate Carr’s field recordings from under a flight path.
Produced by Jack Howson.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
01
00:00:03 Otim Alpha (artist)
Tongwen
Performer: Otim Alpha
Featured Artist: Leo Palayeng Kenna
Duration 00:03:57
02
00:04:58 Akari Wauja (artist)
Kapojai
Performer: Akari Wauja
Duration 00:02:23
03
00:08:33 Jaimie Branch (artist)
prayer for amerikkka pt. 1 & 2
Performer: Jaimie Branch
Duration 00:11:26
04
00:22:26 Kate Carr (artist)
Don't You Think You Should Find Out
Performer: Kate Carr
Duration 00:05:15
05
00:27:25 Mary Halvorson (artist)
Vega's Array
Performer: Mary Halvorson
Performer: Mary Halvorson
Performer: John Dieterich
Performer: John Dieterich
Duration 00:05:31
06
00:27:26 Mary Halvorson (artist)
Vega's Array
Performer: Mary Halvorson
Performer: Mary Halvorson
Performer: John Dieterich
Performer: John Dieterich
Duration 00:05:31
07
00:38:43 Akari (artist)
Hahari
Performer: Akari
Performer: Nathaniel Robin Mann
Duration 00:03:42
08
00:47:51 Akari (artist)
Ariranha (Giant Otter)
Performer: Akari
Performer: Nathaniel Robin Mann
Performer: Yanamakuma Wauja
Duration 00:05:51
09
00:58:37 Akari (artist)
Kuwau (Little Owl)
Performer: Akari
Performer: Nathaniel Robin Mann
Performer: Yanamakuma Wauja
Duration 00:04:40
10
01:05:17 Ian Wellman (artist)
Nitrogen/Woodpeckers
Performer: Ian Wellman
Duration 00:03:37
11
01:08:39 Laurie Anderson (artist)
Homage to the Gurus
Performer: Laurie Anderson
Performer: Tenzin Choegyal
Performer: Jesse Paris Smith
Duration 00:03:31
12
01:12:02 Nour Sokhon
Keynote Speaker
Author: Rashida Sanni
Singer: Cherrelle
Duration 00:02:53
13
01:16:09 Mariam Rezaei
That Magnificent Colour
Author: Habon Duale
Singer: Nafisa
Duration 00:08:09
14
01:24:52 Anna Meredith (artist)
Inhale Exhale
Performer: Anna Meredith
Duration 00:03:47
15
01:29:17 Stuart Chalmers (artist)
Stuart Chalmers - Part 1
Performer: Stuart Chalmers
Duration 00:09:03
16
01:37:23 Unknown (artist)
Procession At Pisac
Performer: Unknown
Performer: David Lewiston
Duration 00:01:57
17
01:40:05 David Lewiston (artist)
Suqullay Yamanyawy
Performer: David Lewiston
Performer: Salvador Palomino
Duration 00:02:33
18
01:42:24 Pete Fosco (artist)
Variations On Themes For Blind Dogs
Performer: Pete Fosco
Duration 00:04:35
19
01:47:46 Karen Dalton (artist)
Katie Cruel
Performer: Karen Dalton
Duration 00:02:19
20
01:50:42 Lankum (artist)
Katie Cruel
Performer: Lankum
Duration 00:09:18
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 (m000l1m8)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m000l22v)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m000l1dr)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m000l2v7)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m000l2zf)
BBC Proms
15:00 SAT (m000l289)
BBC Proms
18:30 SAT (m000l28f)
BBC Proms
13:00 SUN (m000l1y9)
BBC Proms
18:15 SUN (m000l1yk)
BBC Proms
21:00 SUN (m000l1yp)
BBC Proms
13:00 MON (m000l1m6)
BBC Proms
19:30 MON (m000l1mk)
BBC Proms
22:00 MON (p02xfqpc)
BBC Proms
19:30 TUE (m000l23b)
BBC Proms
22:00 TUE (b04b2lwg)
BBC Proms
22:20 TUE (m000l23m)
BBC Proms
19:30 WED (m000l1f2)
BBC Proms
19:30 THU (m000l2vf)
BBC Proms
23:00 THU (m000l2vh)
BBC Proms
19:30 FRI (m000l2zm)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m000l281)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m000l1y5)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m000l1m0)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m000l22b)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m000l1dg)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m000l2tz)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m000l2z5)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m000ktdq)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b0b9z46w)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m000l1yr)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m000l1m4)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m000l22l)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m000l1dl)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m000l2v3)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m000l2z9)
Early Music Now
16:30 MON (m000l1mb)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m000l1m2)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m000l22g)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m000l1dj)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m000l2v1)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m000l2z7)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m000j3jn)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m000k9ws)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m000cl2m)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m000l1mg)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m000l234)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m000l1dy)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m000l2vc)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m000l2zk)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m000l1md)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m000l22z)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m000l1dw)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m000l2v9)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m000l2zh)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m000l287)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m000l28c)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m000l1yf)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m0009lm1)
Mindful Mix
23:00 SUN (m000hgr3)
New Generation Artists
11:45 SAT (m000l285)
New Generation Artists
16:30 WED (m000l1dt)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m000l28h)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m000l1mn)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m000l23r)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m000l1f6)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m000l22q)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m000l1dp)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m000l2v5)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m000l2zc)
Record Review Extra
19:30 SUN (m000l1ym)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m000l283)
Sunday Feature
22:00 FRI (m00057gv)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m000l1y7)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m000l5dj)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b0b941th)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b0b9435w)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b0b949d1)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b0b94d99)
The Future of the Past - Early Music Today
12:00 SUN (m0009zpz)
The Listening Service
19:00 SUN (m000dj3x)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m000dj3x)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m0008pmt)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (m000kx6m)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m000l28k)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m000l1yt)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m000l1mq)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m000l23w)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m000l1fb)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m000l2vk)
Words and Music
17:00 SUN (m000l1yh)