NDR Radio Philharmonic and NDR Philharmonic Brass perform American classics including Copland's Clarinet Concerto and Appalacian Spring Suite. Presented by Catriona Young.
Mirjam Budday (cor anglais), Stephan Schultz (trumpet), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
Sharon Kam (clarinet), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
Sharon Kam (clarinet), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
Appalachian spring - suite vers. for 13 instr.
Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
Zwischen dir und mir; Herzendiebchen (Op.17 Nos. 4 & 5)
Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Bela Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 & 5
Nigel Simeone recommends his favourite version of Janáček's opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
Also known as Tales of Vixen Sharp-Ears, this Czech-language opera was composed from 1921 to 1923. Its libretto was adapted by the composer from a serialised novella by Rudolf Těsnohlídek, which was first published in the newspaper Lidové noviny. The opera contains Moravian folk music and rhythms as it recounts the life of a clever fox as well as a few humans. The music is wonderfully life-affirming while avoiding any sentimentality about cute animals whatsoever. And the final scene, a great meditation on the cycle of life, was played at Janáček's own funeral.
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Exactly 12-months before the COP26 rescheduled UN climate change conference begins in Glasgow, Tom Service asks what climate change means for classical music.
Jess Gillam with... Cecilia De Maria
Jess Gillam and harpist Cecilia De Maria share the music they love, with Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air, Grieg's Holberg suite, new jazz sounds from Polar Bear, Dorothy Ashby's Soul Vibrations from Afro-Harping and classic film theme by John Williams.
Edvard Grieg - Holberg suite Op.40 vers. for string orchestra: Praeludium (Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi)
Jack Liebeck’s choices include music by Friedrich Gulda that makes the cello sound as if it’s being played by Jimi Hendrix, and a piece for cor anglais and strings by the most fidgety composer he knows.
He also reveals how imperfections in performance can give music deeper human resonance and talks about the power that film composers have to make us cry.
Plus, hear how Jack’s photographic skills led him to a front row seat at Alfred Brendel’s farewell recital in Vienna.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
Matthew Sweet with a selection of film music inspired by the theme of Halloween, from the classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to more recent manifestations such as - Halloween.
Matthwe looks at representations of Halloween in film in ths likes of 'ET -The Extraterrestrial' and 'Meet Me In St Louis' and turns to scores from some of the great and scariest horror films, such as Suspiria, The Quatermass Xperiment, Doctor Who, The Night Of The Hunter, Psycho, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Babadook, The Candyman, Insidious, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark , Sinister, and - the Classic Score of the Week - John Carpenter's influential music for the 1978 Halloween.
Lopa Kothari with new sounds from around the world, including a Road Trip to Mexico introduced by Betto Arcos.
Jumoké Fashola presents live music from pianist Ashley Henry, a rising star on the London scene. Plus, Manchester-based trumpeter, producer and DJ Matthew Halsall shares some of the music that inspires him – reflecting on his love for spiritual jazz. And Jumoké plays a selection of classic tracks and the best new releases.
Another chance to hear Puccini's Tosca recorded in 2011 - Jealousy, torture, murder and suicide: the path of true love certainly produces a bumpy ride.. It's a work that can make for a compelling night at the theatre. But when, as here, you get a cast, conductor and orchestra all at the top of their game, it is positively overwhelming. Three of the great operatic performers of our time are united: Angela Gheorghiu sings the title role, Jonas Kaufmann is her lover Cavaradossi, and Bryn Terfel is that menacing embodiment of sadistic evil, Baron Scarpia. Antonio Pappano conducts. Not to be missed.
Presented by Suzy Klein in conversation with William Ward who puts Tosca's Rome setting in context.
Tosca ..... Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano)
Cavaradossi ..... Jonas Kaufmann (Tenor)
Scarpia ..... Bryn Terfel (Baritone)
Spoletta ..... Hubert Francis (Tenor)
Angelotti ..... Lukas Jakobski (Bass)
Sacristan ..... Jeremy White (Bass)
Sciarrone ..... Zheng Zhou (Baritone)
"How has this time of isolation been for you?” Four-year-old Sara and new grandmother Felicity miss cuddles. Frankie is used to being alone but is experiencing a new kind of loneliness. Ramadan is very different this year for Sayra’s family. And Janet, living with cancer, feels even more restricted and uncertain amidst this new ‘normal’.
Weaving together the words and stories of the British public with a blend of rap, jazz, a cappella and verbatim theatre, this half-hour musical documentary blurs the line between songwriting and social research in capturing a snapshot of this unique moment in history.
‘Isolation, In Your Words’ was written and recorded by Mandeep Singh, Leanne Sedin and Kevin Fox, and produced by Arun Dhanjal (Zar). It was commissioned as part of the BBC Culture in Quarantine programme; funded and supported by The Space Arts, BBC Arts and Arts Council England.
Kate Molleson presents live recordings of music by Roberto Sansuini, Li-Ying Wu and Niels Christian Rasmussen. There are new releases from Meitei, Anna von Hausswolff and Catherine Lamb, and we hear from composer Dai Fujikura, in conversation with Robert Worby.
SUNDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2020
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000p093)
Joyful, Joyful
Corey Mwamba presents music that ignites joy and happiness. Featuring trumpeter Dave Holsworth’s rollicking interplay with his group New Brew and a playfully inquisitive saxophone duo from Dee Byrne on alto and Cath Roberts on baritone.
Plus, a luminous sound collage bringing together snippets of pop music samples and layered electronics with the inimitable voices of saxophonist Lol Coxhill and bassoonist Lindsey Cooper, best known for her work with Henry Cow. The recording is from 1999 and comes from the archive of Scatter, a gig series in Glasgow and also features the keyboardist and sound maker Pat Thomas and Bill Wells on electric bass.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000p095)
Romanian Radio Day
Cellists Marin Cazacu and Razvan Suma with the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra perform music by Vivaldi, Handel and Beethoven. Presented by Catriona Young.
01:01 AM
Constantin Silvestri (1913-1969)
Three Pieces, for strings
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ferenc Gabor (conductor)
01:12 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor, RV 531
Marin Cazacu (cello), Razvan Suma (cello), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ferenc Gabor (conductor)
01:24 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra
Marin Cazacu (cello), Razvan Suma (cello), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ferenc Gabor (conductor)
01:41 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Largo, from 'Cello Concerto in B minor, RV 424', arr. for two cellos
Marin Cazacu (cello), Razvan Suma (cello)
01:44 AM
Jean-Baptiste Barriere (1707-1747)
Allegro prestissimo, from 'Sonata No. 4 in G for Two Cellos'
Marin Cazacu (cello), Razvan Suma (cello)
01:48 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 1 in C, op. 21
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ferenc Gabor (conductor)
02:15 AM
Traditional Romanian
La Vileem colo jos (Down there in Bethlehem
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Romanian Madrigal Choir, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare (conductor)
02:18 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony no 4 (Op. 36) in F minor
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Alexander Rudin (conductor)
03:01 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No.2 in C minor for soprano, alto, chorus and orchestra "Resurrection"
Roxana Briban (soprano), Jadwiga Rappe (contralto), Romanian Radio Chorus, Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
04:26 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in G major (L. 387)
Dinu Lipatti (piano)
04:28 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
2 Nocturnes for piano (1939)
Viniciu Moroianu (piano)
04:36 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Sonata no. 1 from 6 sonatas after Domenico Scarlatti (1939)
Concordia
04:37 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Chorale for String Orchestra
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
04:43 AM
Mihail Jora (1891-1971)
Sonatine for piano Op 44
Ilinca Dumitrescu (piano)
04:53 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Overture 'Ruslan i Lyudmila'
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
05:01 AM
Ion Dimitrescu (1913-1996)
Symphonic Prelude
Romanian Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal (conductor)
05:10 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
French suite for keyboard no 2 in C minor, BWV.813
Cristian Niculescu (piano)
05:24 AM
Traditional
Steaua sus rasare (from Trei cantece de stea din Dobrogea )
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Romanian Madrigal Choir, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare (conductor)
05:28 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Romanian Rhapsody no 1 in A major, Op 11 no 1
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
05:40 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Sonatina for violin and piano (op. 1) 1933
Cristina Anghelescu (violin), Octavian Radoi (piano)
05:55 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sarabande, Gigue & Badinerie
Ion Voicu (violin), Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, Madalin Voicu (conductor)
06:02 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Concertante Symphony for 2 pianos and string orchestra (Op. 5) (1939)
Mihail Horia (piano), Lorry Wallfisch (piano), Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
06:22 AM
Ciprian Porumbescu (1853-1883)
Ballad for Violin & Orchestra
Ion Voicu (violin), Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, Madalin Voicu (conductor)
06:28 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor, K.466
Karina Sabac (piano), Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare (conductor)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000p2c5)
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 (m000p2c7)
Sarah Walker with guest Sharuna Sagar
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, and puts a musical spin on events.
Musical pictures of lotus blossom, fire flowers and an ant’s wedding all feature in Sarah’s selection today. She also discovers a cello concerto that may or may not be by Joseph Haydn and a Greek-inspired piece by composer Dorothy Howell that was championed by Sir Henry Wood.
Plus, the austere sounds conjured up by Igor Stravinsky in his mesmerising Symphonies of Winds Instruments.
At
10.30am, Sarah invites journalist and broadcaster Sharuna Sagar to join her for the Sunday Morning monthly arts roundup, focusing on five cultural happenings that you can catch either online or in person during November.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m000p2c9)
Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry’s novels are like extraordinary highly coloured dreams - or nightmares. Her bestseller The Essex Serpent features a mythical sea-creature that roams the Blackwater marshes, and the novel that followed, Melmoth, is a terrifying gothic tale with a female ghost who always seems to be just behind you, almost out of sight.
In Private Passions, Sarah Perry talks to Michael Berkeley about ghosts and Gothic nightmares, and admits that the ghost in Melmoth haunted her too. She wrote the book high on painkillers amidst the ‘torment’ of spinal collapse, an experience of pain which thankfully she recovered from, but which has changed her view of life. She looks back on her upbringing in the Strict Baptist Chapel, in which popular culture was banned – but classical music was played on speakers so large they reached her shoulders, and Beethoven blasted her out of bed at night.
She talks too about Essex, and trying to live down the social shame of being an “Essex Girl” – before realising that Essex girls have a proud tradition, and being an Essex girl was something to aspire to: loud, pleasure-loving, refusing to fit in.
Sarah Perry was a viola player as a child, and her music choices include one of Hindemith’s sonatas for viola – which she describes as “the Essex girl of instruments”. She also loves late Beethoven quartets, and Dvorak, and Bach, and the contemporary composer Stephen Crowe, whose setting of fragments from Sappho is one of her choices. She hates jazz – well, almost all jazz. She invites us to hear the one track that completely seduced her.
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000nvd6)
Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver
Violinist Chloë Hanslip and pianist Danny Driver perform violin sonatas by Beethoven and Franck, live at Wigmore Hall in London.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Violin sonata in G major Op. 30 no. 3
César Franck:
Violin sonata in A major
Chloë Hanslip (violin)
Danny Driver (piano)
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m0000nkd)
Possessed! Demons, Witches and Sorcery
Lucie Skeaping takes her second musical journey through the mysterious world of possession, featuring witchcraft, demons, sorcery and madness, and including pieces by Handel, Tartini, Purcell and Charpentier.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000nvz9)
Chapel of Merton College, Oxford
From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.
Introit: Give us the wings of faith (Bullock)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm 119 vv.1-16 (Woods, Parratt)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 3 vv.11-18
Office hymn: The eternal gifts of Christ the King (Gonfalon Royal)
Canticles: Dyson in F
Second Lesson: Jude vv.1-4, 17-25
Anthem: A New Song (James MacMillan)
Hymn: Jerusalem the Golden (Ewing)
Voluntary: Hymne aux mémoires héroiques (Grunenwald)
Benjamin Nicholas (Director of Music)
Simon Hogan (Organist)
Kentaro Machida (Organ Scholar)
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000p2cc)
01/11/20
Alyn Shipton with jazz records from across the genre, as requested by Radio 3 listeners, with music today from Ahmad Jamal, Billie Holiday and Vic Dickenson.
DISC 1
Artist Buddy Rich
Title Moment’s Notice
Composer Coltrane
Album Very Alive at Ronnie Scott’s
Label BGO
Number 785 CD1 Track 1
Duration 3.39
Performers Lin Biviano, Wayne Naus, Jeff Stout, John Deflon, t; Bruce Palson, Tony DiMaggio, John Leys, tb; Pat LaBarbera, Brian Grivna, Jimmy Mosher, Don Englert, Joe Calo, reeds; Bob Dogan, p; Paul Kondziela, b; Buddy Rich, d. 1971
DISC 2
Artist Ahmad Jamal
Title Ponciana
Composer Simon / Bernier
Album At the Pershing / But Not For Me
Label Chess (MCA)
Number 09108 Track 6
Duration 8.07
Performers Ahmad Jamal, p; Israel Crsoby, b; Vernell Fournier, d. 16 Jan 1958
DISC 3
Artist Art Tatum / Ben Webster
Title My One and Only Love
Composer Wood / Mellins
Album The Album
Label Essential Jazz Classics
Number 55403 Track 6
Duration 6.15
Performers Ben Webster, ts; Art Tatum, p; Red Callendar, b; Bill Douglas, d. 11 Sep 1956.
DISC 4
Artist Billie Holiday
Title Back In Your Own Backyard
Composer Jolson, Rose, Dryer
Album All of Me
Label Marshall Cavendish
Number CD001 Track 10
Duration 2.42
Performers Buck Clayton, t; Benny Morton, tb; Lester Young, ts; Teddy Wilson, p; Eddie Durham, g; Walter Page, b; Jo Jones, d. 12 Jan 1938
DISC 5
Artist Vic Dickenson
Title Russian Lullaby
Composer Berlin
Album Five Classic Albums
Label Avid
Number 1073 CD 1 Track 1
Duration 9.23
Performers Ruby Braff, c; Ed Hall, cl; Vic Dickenson, tb; Sir Charles Thompson, p; Steve Jordan, g; Walter Page, b; Les Erskine, d. 29 Dec 1953
DISC 6
Artist Jack Sheldon
Title Get Out of Town
Composer Cole Porter
Album The Quartet and the Quintet
Label Pacific Jazz
Number CDP 93160 Track 6
Duration 2.30
Performers Jack Sheldon, t; Walter Norris, p; Ralph Peña, b; Gene Gammage, d. 1954.
DISC 7
Artist Scott Hamilton / Rossano Sportiello
Title Wonder Why
Composer Kahn, Brodsky
Album Midnight at Nola’s Penthouse
Label Arbors
Number 19415 Track 1
Duration 8.48
Performers Scott Hamilton, ts; Rossano Sportiello, p. 25 Feb 2010
DISC 8
Artist Simon Deeley Blue Haze Quartet
Title Hay! It’s Samba De Hay
Composer Deeley
Album From The Blue Hills
Label Simon Deeley
Number Track 5
Duration 5.20
Performers Martha Skilton (saxophones), Simon Deeley (piano) Ian Cooper (bass) Ian ‘Charlie’ Russell (drums) 2018
DISC 9
Artist Keith Jarrett
Title My Wild Irish Rose
Composer trad
Album La Fenice
Label ECM
Number 676 5853 CD 2 Track 5
Duration 7.03
Performers Keith Jarrett, p. 19 July 2006
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m000p0j4)
Tricky timing
Two, three and four beats in a bar are pretty standard in music. But what happens when a composer decides to go with 7 or 5 or 13 as the underlying structure? And why would they do that?
Tom Service talks to composer Anna Meredith and conductor Martyn Brabbins about the fascination and challenge of the off-beat beat.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000p2cf)
Magic Numbers
Numbers are beautiful, and mathematics is an art: that is the formula for this episode, in which Sule Rimi and Alibe Parsons read work from poets and philosophers entranced by the beauty, order, irrationality, and infinite wisdom to be found in digits, numerals, and counting.
In addition, they are accompanied by music from composers embedding numerology and codes into their work, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Olivier Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis.
Readings:
Bertrand Russell - The Study of Mathematics (Extract)
Mary Cornish - Numbers
Philip Larkin - Counting
Jo Shapcott - Shapcott's Variation on Schoenberg's orchestration of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, St Anne (Prom 24)
Carl Sandburg - Number Man
Ben Jonson - VI. - To the Same
Emily Dickinson - It’s all I have to bring today
Daniil Kharms - A Sonnet
Velimir Khlebnikov - Numbers
Plato - Epinomis (Extract) (trans. Edith Hamilton, Huntington Cairns)
Emily Dickinson - ‘Tis One by One - the Father counts -
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare
Wisława Szymborska - Pi
Jakob Bernoulli - Treatise on Infinite Series
Douglas Goetsch - Counting
Paul Erdos - a famous quote
Michael Donaghy - Two Spells for Sleeping
Produced by Jack Howson.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
01
00:03:30
Bertrand Russell
The Study of Mathematics (Extract) read by Alibe Parsons
Duration 00:00:44
02
00:07:17
Mary Cornish
Numbers read by Alibe Parsons
Duration 00:01:25
03
00:11:23
Philip Larkin
Counting read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:00:30
04
00:16:56
Jo Shapcott
Shapcott's Variation on Schoenberg's orchestration of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, St Anne (Prom 24) read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:00:30
05
00:17:55
Carl Sandburg
Number Man read by Alibe Parsons
Duration 00:01:05
06
00:19:35
Ben Jonson
VI. - To The Same read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:01:00
07
00:22:28
Emily Dickinson
It’s all I have to bring today read by Alibe Parsons
Duration 00:00:30
08
00:28:11
Daniil Kharms
A sonnet read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:01:45
09
00:31:14
Velimir Khlebnikov
Numbers read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:00:35
10
00:32:04
Plato
Epinomis (Extract) read by Alibe Parsons
Duration 00:01:20
11
00:35:14
Emily Dickinson
‘Tis One by One - the Father counts - read by Alibe Parsons
Duration 00:00:40
12
00:39:26
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:00:55
13
00:46:20
Wisława Szymborska
Pi read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:02:15
14
00:56:42
Jakob Bernoulli
Treatise on Infinite Series read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:00:29
15
01:01:34
Douglas Goetsch
Counting read by Alibe Parsons
Duration 00:03:40
16
01:05:43
Paul Erdos
A famous quote by read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:00:20
17
01:07:54
Michael Donaghy
Two Spells For Sleeping read by Sule Rimi
Duration 00:01:10
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m000p2ch)
Curves and Concrete
How did a maverick Scottish architect revolutionise the design of UK skateparks?
Forty years ago, Iain Urquhart had a vision: to create Britain’s first full-scale, architecturally planned, outdoor concrete skatepark – in Livingston, West Lothian.
Iain visited emerging parks across California, taking specialist advice from skateboarders and designers. When his masterpiece opened in 1981 he persuaded some of the biggest international stars of skateboarding to come to Scotland to “skate Livi”.
Iain died two years later, aged just 44 – yet Livingston Skatepark continues to thrive. Tony Hawk, perhaps the world’s best-known skateboarder, describes Livi as “super-challenging… such a legendary spot”.
How did Iain Urquhart convince funders to support his ambitious cultural venture? How did local people react to a vast, Noguchi-esque concrete “moonscape” being constructed for the sole purpose of a niche recreational activity, on what had been a lush green valley? How has the town of Livingston itself been shaped by its pioneering skatepark?
As skateboarding becomes an Olympic sport (in Summer 2021), the documentary maker and sound artist Steve Urquhart presents an audio memorial to his uncle Iain, blending exclusive and personal access to the late architect’s archive with the sounds, music and voices of skateboard culture and counter-culture. In doing so, he reveals a bigger story of artistic ambition and cultural aspiration in Britain’s vibrant 20th-century “new towns”… and a surprising connection with a swimming pool, created by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto…
Includes music featured in acclaimed skate films and video games – from John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and Roy Ayers, to Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Gang Starr, and Lupe Fiasco.
‘Livingston: A Town for the Lothians’ audio extract courtesy of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive.
Produced and presented by Steve Urquhart
A Far Shoreline production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (b09qcyy4)
Love Is Not New in This Country
By Samantha Ellis. Introduced by Qais Akbar Omar.
In Kabul in 2005, after the defeat of the Taliban, German-Syrian actress and director Corinne Jaber worked hard to achieve what many thought was an impossible task: to bring together a company of Afghan actors to stage a Dari production of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Revolutionary things happen in rehearsal - male and female actors appear on the same stage, make eye contact, become friends, and even talk frankly about love, but are plagued by fears that Afghanistan hasn't really changed that much. The Taliban are making death threats against the actresses.
Could this one production really, as one actor vowed, "challenge the whole country"?
Based on the book 'A Night in the Emperor's Garden' by Stephen Landrigan and Qais Akbar Omar.
Corinne ..... Amita Dhiri
Qais ..... Nima Taleghani
Nabi ..... Philip Arditti
Parwin ..... Nathalie Armin
Breshna ..... Géhane Strehler
Marina ..... Sarah Agha
Kabir ..... Paul Chahidi
Shahla ..... Jumaan Short
Tawab ..... Mustafa Aryan
Music by Milad Yousofi
Sound design by Alisdair McGregor
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer
Executive Producer Joby Waldman
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
SUN 21:00 Record Review Extra (m000p2ck)
Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Janáček's opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
SUN 23:30 Slow Radio (m000p2cm)
Household Gods
Composer Iain Chambers’s celebration of the domestic sound world, starting in the present day before travelling back in time.
Lockdown gave us the excuse to consider our own home environments in a new way. Household Gods takes this new focus further, exploring in depth and amplifying the sounds of domestic objects, arranged into a through-composed musique concrète work.
This is a joyful sonic celebration of the domestic environment, starting in the present day, and travelling back in time to explore earlier homes, through historic sound research and sound design.
At times the domestic sound world is bustling, at others a haven of peace. We hear the technology that helps us cook, clean, relax, eat, pass time.
During lockdown, many of us rediscovered the hidden joy in the objects that surround us that we hadn’t properly considered before our enforced isolation.
Composed and produced by Iain Chambers.
MONDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2020
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000p2cp)
Arlo Parks
Guest presenter Jules Buckley stands in for Clemmie Burton-Hill in a new series of Classical fix, mixing bespoke classical playlists for music-loving guests. This week Jules is joined by poet and singer Arlo Parks.
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. In 2019, Jules joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra as Creative Artist in Association.
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000p2cr)
Theodora
In a battle between love and faith, which will triumph? From the 2018 BBC Proms, one of the most powerfully dramatic works Handel ever produced. An all-star cast is led by Louise Alder and Iestyn Davies as tragic lovers Theodora and Didymus. Jonathan Cohen directs his period ensemble Arcangelo. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Theodora - Oratorio in 3 acts: Act 1
Louise Alder (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter tenor), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Ann Hallenberg (mezzo soprano), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Arcangelo Chorus, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
01:36 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Theodora - oratorio in 3 acts: Act 2
Louise Alder (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter tenor), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Ann Hallenberg (mezzo soprano), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Arcangelo Chorus, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
02:23 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Theodora - oratorio in 3 acts: Act 3
Louise Alder (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter tenor), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Ann Hallenberg (mezzo soprano), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Arcangelo Chorus, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
02:59 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
25 Variations and fugue on a theme by G F Handel for piano, Op 24
Simon Trpceski (piano)
03:24 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Concerto for cello and orchestra No.1 in A minor (Op.33)
Jozef Podhradsky (cello), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
03:45 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Quartet in E flat major, K493
Paul Lewis (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Patrick Demanga (cello)
04:13 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Henri Busser (orchestrator)
Printemps (Tres modere; Modere)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ludovit Rajter (conductor)
04:31 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Petite Suite
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
04:39 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for 2 violins, 2 cellos & orchestra in D major, RV 564
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
04:49 AM
Bo Holten (b. 1948)
Nordisk Suite
Det Jyske Kammerkor, Hanne Hohwu (soprano), Birgitte Moller (soprano), Mogens Dahl (conductor)
05:01 AM
Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1924)
Valse for piano in E major, Op 34 No 1
Dennis Hennig (piano)
05:09 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
String Sonata no 5 in E flat major
Camerata Bern
05:24 AM
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Content is rich
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rose Consort of Viols
05:29 AM
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Symphony No.4 (H.305)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Valek (conductor)
06:06 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Sonata for cello and piano (Op.65) in G minor
Zara Nelsova (cello), Grant Johannesen (piano)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000p1mv)
Monday - Georgia’s classical rise and shine
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000p1mz)
Ian Skelly
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Well-known musicians reveal their favourite performers.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of fireworks music.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000p1n3)
Beethoven Unleashed: Titan
'The moral law within me...'
Beethoven has found a quote by Kant, which seems to fit with the poetic, spiritual music he is writing in this, his final creative period – “There are two things which raise man above himself and lead to eternal, ever-increasing admiration: the moral law within me and the starry sky above me.” However, below Kant’s starry skies, Beethoven’s life is in some disarray.
This week, Donald Macleod explores Ludwig van Beethoven’s life and work between 1822 and 1824 – a period during which the composer completed his greatest late masterpieces. It was also a time in which Beethoven became acutely aware of his own mortality, struggling with both his dwindling finances and his deteriorating health, and sought help from, among others, his brother Johann and a new secretary - Anton Schindler.
Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
Symphony no. 9, Op.125 - II. Molto Vivace - Presto
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wiener Singverein
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Missa Solemnis, Op.123 - Sanctus - Pleni sunt cœli - Osanna
Ann-Helen Moen (soprano)
Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Benjamin Bevan (baritone)
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)
Music for Consecration of the House - "Wo sich die Pulse jugendlich jagen"; "Laßt uns im Tanze", WoO.98
Sylvia McNair (soprano)
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Fidelio, Op.72 - O namenlose Freude!
Gundula Janowitz (soprano)
René Kollo (tenor)
Manfred Jungwirth (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Piano Sonata no 32 in C minor, Op.111
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Producer: Sam Phillips
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000p1n7)
Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton
Live from Wigmore Hall, London.
Andrew McGregor presents a programme of songs by Wolf, Haydn and Schubert, given by soprano Mary Bevan and pianist Joesph Middleton, a programme inspired by classical mythological muses of their times.
Wolf:
Goethe Lieder:
Ganymed
Mörike Lieder:
Seufzer
Auf ein altes Bild
Gebet
Gesang Weylas
Spanisches Liederbuch Geistliche Lieder:
Die ihr schwebet
Haydn: Arianna a Naxos HXXVIb:2
Schubert:
Ganymed D544
Strophe aus Die Götter Griechenlands D677
Son fra l'onde D78
Vedi quanto adoro D510
Mary Bevan, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000p1nc)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (1/4)
Tom McKinney introduces recent concert recordings from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by its principal conductor, Jonathan Nott, today featuring music with a strong French influence. Including:
Debussy: Jeux
Debussy: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra in G
(Jean-Frederic Neuburger - piano)
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Paul Dukas: Symphonic Scherzo - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Eric Montalbetti: Flute Concerto ('Memento Vivere') First performance
(Emmanuel Pahud - flute)
Ravel (arr. Marius Constant): Gaspard de la Nuit
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott
MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000p1nh)
Tom McKinney continues this afternoon's Swiss theme with music performed by the Amarcord Ensemble at the 2020 Lake Constance Festival, featuring music by Ockegham and Binchois.
Anonymous: 'Missa in festo S Thomae Apostoli' - Sanctus
Johannes Ockegham: 'Missa de Plus en Plus' - Agnus Dei
Loyset Compere: Missa de DNJC in loco Deo Gratius' - Da Pacem Domine
Gilles Binchois: Adieu, adieu
Josquin des Prez: Nymphes des bois ('La Deploration de Johannes Ockeghem')
Amarcord Ensemble
01
00:01:17 John Eccles
Overture (The Mad Lover)
Ensemble: Ensemble “Il Falcone”
Duration 00:02:05
02
00:05:30 Marc‐Antoine Charpentier
Noires Divinites (Medee)
Singer: Bernard Deletré
Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants
Director: William Christie
Duration 00:03:04
03
00:08:34 Marc‐Antoine Charpentier
C'est peu, pour contenter la douleur (Medee)
Singer: Jill Feldman
Singer: Gilles Ragon
Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants
Director: William Christie
Duration 00:01:38
04
00:11:57 Anonymous
The Lunatick Lover
Performer: Richard Wistreich
Ensemble: The City Waites
Duration 00:04:02
05
00:16:00 Henry Purcell
Mad Bess of Bedlam, Z.370
Performer: Anthony Rooley
Performer: Richard Campbell
Performer: Christopher Hogwood
Singer: Emma Kirkby
Duration 00:03:36
06
00:21:32 John Danyel
Can doleful notes?
Performer: Thomas Dunford
Performer: Jonathan Manson
Singer: Iestyn Davies
Duration 00:02:13
07
00:23:46 Thomas Campion
Move now with measured sound
Ensemble: The Newberry Consort
Duration 00:03:32
08
00:28:56 Robert Johnson
Full fathom five
Performer: Julian Behr
Singer: Andreas Scholl
Duration 00:02:07
09
00:31:03 Anonymous
The Shaking of the Sheets
Ensemble: Faran Flad
Duration 00:02:38
10
00:34:51 George Frideric Handel
Saul and the Witch of Endor (Saul)
Singer: Christopher Purves
Singer: Jeremy Budd
Singer: Stuart Young
Choir: The Sixteen
Duration 00:06:13
11
00:41:58 Henry Purcell
Two daughters of this aged stream (King Arthur, Z.628)
Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants
Director: William Christie
Duration 00:02:29
12
00:44:29 Henry Purcell
Wayward sisters / Ruin'd ere the set of the sun (Dido And Aeneas, Z.626)
Ensemble: Taverner Consort
Conductor: Andrew Parrott
Duration 00:05:10
13
00:51:34 Giuseppe Tartini
Violin Sonata In G Minor, 'Devil's Trill' (3rd mvt)
Performer: Andrew Manze
Duration 00:06:13
14
00:58:30 Anonymous
Soulcake Song
Ensemble: The City Waites
Duration 00:01:17
MON 17:00 In Tune (m000p1nm)
Brodsky Quartet, Nicolas Hodges
Katie Derham with live music from the Brodsky Quartet, and pianist Nicolas Hodges talks about his new album A Bag of Bagatelles.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b0bb68k9)
Let's Be Happy!
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. The perfect way to usher in your evening. Tonight, good humour all the way with Mozart, Mendelssohn, Debussy, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Taraf de Haidouks, The Tapiola Children's Choir and some Swedish Klezmer.
01 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade (K.361) in B flat major for 13 wind instruments
Ensemble: Maurice Bourgue Wind Ensemble
Duration 00:03:22
02
00:03:22 Leslie Sarony
Jollity Farm
Performer: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Duration 00:02:25
03
00:05:47 Gustav Holst
The Planets - Jupiter
Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Conductor: Edward Gardner
Duration 00:07:24
04
00:13:11 Traditional South Ostrobothnian (artist)
Young Rascals from Harma village (Mina olen Harman Kankaapaasta)
Conductor: Traditional South Ostrobothnian
Choir: Tapiolan kuoro
Performer: Uki Ovaskainen
Conductor: Kari Ala-Pöllänen
Duration 00:02:26
05
00:15:37 Claude Debussy
Children's corner for piano: The Snow is dancing
Performer: Noriko Ogawa
Duration 00:02:26
06
00:18:03 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker - suite (Op.71a), no.2f; Dance of the reed-pipes
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
Conductor: James Levine
Duration 00:02:06
07
00:20:09 Traditional
Briu
Ensemble: Taraf de Haïdouks
Duration 00:02:00
08
00:22:08 Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56, 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Duration 00:04:05
09
00:26:13 Träd
Let's be Happy
Performer: Martin Fröst
Performer: Christian Svarfvar
Performer: Asa Hallerback Thedeen
Performer: Göran Fröst
Performer: Torleif Thedéen
Performer: Svante Henryson
Duration 00:03:27
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000p1nr)
Nicholas Collon and the Residentie Orkester The Hague
Mozart's dark, brooding D minor piano concerto and the symphony of Anton Bruckner's known as "the Romantic" performed by Ronald Brautigam, Residentie Orkester The Hague and Nicholas Collon
Presented by Fiona Talkington
7.30pm
Mozart
Concerto in D minor, K.466
8.00
Interval:
Beethoven
Sonata in F minor, Op.57 "Appassionata"
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano
8.25
Bruckner
Symphony No.4 in E flat "Romantic"
Ronald Brautigam, piano
Residentie Orkester Den Haag
Nicholas Collon, conductor
Followed by music off disc:
Joseph Haydn
Symphony no. 86 in D major, H.
1.86
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000p08m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m000p1nt)
Composers and Their Dogs
Newfoundlands
Essay One: Newfoundlands
A new series of essays by the very popular Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, following her much praised series of essays The Meaning of Trees and The Meaning of Flowers, Fiona explores famous composers and their devotion to certain dog breeds.
Through surprising and insightful stories and discoveries about both the composers and their dogs, the essays provide new insights into the type of people the composers were, their lives and the features of their chosen dog breeds that brought such devotion.
Composer Richard Wagner loved this huge, gentle, shaggy Canadian dog breed, having many in his lifetime. The essay includes the rollercoaster tale of Wagner’s daring escape across international borders, dragging his massive Newfoundland, Robber, with him. On arrival in Paris, Robber became a bigger celebrity than Wagner before fame finally came to the composer. The journey inspired Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. Lord Byron was devoted to his Newfoundlands. His first, Boatswain, resulted in portraits, an elegy and a grand tomb and his last Newfoundland probably caused Byron’s death. Newfoundlands have webbed feet, are great swimmers and have rescued many people from drowning; still being used today by sea rescue services, these fearless dogs leap from helicopters into the water to rescue people.
Producer – Turan Ali
A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000p1nw)
The late zone
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2020
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000p1ny)
Music recorded in Shanghai after the Covid-19 outbreak
Members of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra play music by Barber, Bartok, Piazzolla and Haydn. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Adagio for Strings
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Zhang Jiemin (conductor)
12:39 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Zhang Jiemin (conductor)
01:12 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Li Pei (violin), Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Zhang Jiemin (conductor)
01:40 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Divertimento in C, Hob. IV:1 (attacca)
Su Ting (violin), Huang Beixing (cello), Hu Zhe (flute)
01:49 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Divertimento in G, Hob. IV:2
Su Ting (violin), Huang Beixing (cello), Hu Zhe (flute)
01:56 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Divertimento in G, Hob. IV:3
Su Ting (violin), Huang Beixing (cello), Hu Zhe (flute)
02:06 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Divertimento in G, Hob. IV:4
Su Ting (violin), Huang Beixing (cello), Hu Zhe (flute)
02:11 AM
Li Jinguang (1907-1993)
Tuberose
Su Ting (violin), Huang Beixing (cello), Hu Zhe (flute)
02:14 AM
Chen Gexin (1914-1961)
Bright Flower and Full Moon
Su Ting (violin), Huang Beixing (cello), Hu Zhe (flute)
02:16 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Trio Sonata {Trio Sonata [adapted from Trio Sonata No 3 in D minor for organ (BWV 527)]
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
02:31 AM
Uros Krek (1922-2008)
Sinfonietta
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor)
02:59 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Quintet in F minor Op.34 for piano and strings
Aleksandra Juozapenaite-Eesma (piano), Ciurlionis Quartet
03:41 AM
Gion Giusep Derungs (b.1932)
Epigrams for male voices and piano
Ligia Grischa, Rudolf Reinhardt (piano), Gion Giusep Derungs (director)
03:48 AM
Alfonso Ferrabosco (1543-1588)
Pavan and Fantasie for lute
Nigel North (lute)
03:55 AM
Ludomir Rozycki (1883-1953)
Stanczyk - Symphonic Scherzo Op 1
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janusz Przbylski (conductor)
04:05 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
El Corpus en Sevilla from 'Iberia' (Book 1)
Plamena Mangova (piano)
04:14 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
He shall feed his flock (Messiah)
Marita Kvarving Solberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)
04:20 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in G minor 'per l'Orchestra di Dresda'
Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
04:31 AM
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Sinfonia in D major 'Veneziana'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
04:41 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade for piano no 4 (Op 52) in F minor
Zbigniew Raubo (piano)
04:53 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)
05:03 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture in D major, D590, 'in the Italian style'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
05:11 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Duet for viola and cello in E flat major, WoO.32
Milan Telecky (viola), Juraj Alexander (cello)
05:21 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio No.8 from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Koln, Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Yasunori Imamura (theorbo), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord), Harald Hoeren (organ)
05:29 AM
Heino Kaski (1885-1957)
Symphony in B minor (Op.16) (1918/19)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)
05:55 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Violin Sonata in A minor (Op.1 No.4) (HWV.362)
Tomaz Lorenz (violin), Jerko Novak (guitar)
06:05 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quintet in E flat major for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (K.452)
Anton Kuerti (piano), James Mason (oboe), James Campbell (clarinet), James Sommerville (horn), James McKay (bassoon)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000p2b4)
Tuesday - Georgia’s classical alarm call
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000p2b6)
Ian Skelly
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Well-known musicians reveal their favourite performers.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of fireworks music.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000p2b8)
Beethoven Unleashed: Titan
The Chevalier
Donald Macleod looks at the period in which Beethoven and his brother Johann reconcile their differences, and Johann begins to help Beethoven in his negotiations with publishers, but not all goes to plan. Johann’s life isn’t running as smoothly as it seems, and Beethoven ends up with more problems as a result.
This week, Donald Macleod explores Ludwig van Beethoven’s life and work between 1822 and 1824 – a period during which the composer completed his greatest late masterpieces. It was also a time in which Beethoven became acutely aware of his own mortality, struggling with both his dwindling finances and his deteriorating health, and sought help from, among others, his brother Johann and a new secretary - Anton Schindler.
Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
Bundeslied, Op. 122 “In allen guten Stunden”
Ambrosian Singers
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.127 - I. Maestoso - Allegro
Danish String Quartet
Missa Solemnis, Op.123 – Credo: Credo - Et Incarnatus Est
Johanna Winkel (soprano)
Sophie Harmsen (mezzo soprano)
Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor)
Arttu Kataja (bass)
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Hofkapelle Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius (conductor)
Bagatelles, Op 119 nos. 1-6
Imogen Cooper (piano)
Missa Solemnis, Op.123 - Gloria
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo soprano)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Matthew Rose (bass)
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Producer: Sam Phillips
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000p8v3)
European Lockdown Lunchtimes (1/4)
Socially distanced chamber music: a string trio by Beethoven and Walter Rabl's clarinet quartet, recorded in May in the studios of Danish Radio
BBC Radio 3 has been broadcasting chamber and vocal recitals in the past few weeks from Wigmore Hall and Glasgow's City Halls - these are available on BBC Sounds. In the same way, this week we're travelling around Europe's broadcast studios sampling the music making that has been shining out in these difficult times
This afternoon, we're in Copenhagen and the Østerbro Chamber Music Festival. From the picturesque Chapel of The House of Unitarians, we've a delightful early piece by Beethoven for strings and a rarely heard quartet by turn-of-the-century Viennese composer Walter Rabl
Beethoven
String Trio in D, Op 9 No 2
Dahlia String Trio
Walter Rabl
Quartet, Op 1, for piano, clarinet, violin and cello
Messiaen Quartet Copenhagen
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000p2bd)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (2/4)
Tom McKinney introduces music making by the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande from its home in Geneva in music by Bruckner, Mozart, Shostakovich and Schumann.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595
(Paul Lewis -piano)
Bruckner: Symphony No 6 in A
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Andris Poga.
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb
(Gautier Capucon - cello)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott
Schumann: Symphony No 2 in C
.Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Marek Janowski
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000p2bg)
Dorothee Mields, Classico Latino
Katie Derham talks to soprano Dorothee Mields about her new recording of Handel and we have an In Tune Home Session by Classico Latino.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000p2bj)
Thirty minutes of classical Inspiration
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000p2bl)
Jess Gillam and BBC NOW
Principal conductor Ryan Bancroft directs the string section of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a programme which takes us gradually back in time; starting with a performance of a piece written by Peet Morrison this year in response to the pandemic we are living through, and ending 140 years ago with Tchaikovsky's supremely elegant Serenade for Strings. Along the way we sample Jessie Montgomery's Source Code, her 2013 work heavily influenced by spirituals and the American civil rights movement, and visit two of Glazunov's most loved works, his 1934 Saxophone Concerto and turn of the century Chant du Menestrel, reworked here for Saxophone rather than cello. Joining the orchestra as soloist is the award winning young saxophonist Jess Gillam.
Recorded last month in BBC Hoddinott Hall and presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas.
7.30pm
Peet Morrison: Sweet Final Breath, Dare Thou Linger Eternal
Jessie Montgomery: Source Code
Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto, Op 109
Glazunov: Chant du Menestrel, Op 71
8.10pm Interval music
8.30pm
Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C major, Op 48
Jess Gillam (saxophone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000p2bn)
War in fact and fiction
From East Africa to Arabia, the First World War to Mozambique, Rana Mitter discusses the impact of war on society and culture. Margaret MacMillan's most recent book is called War: How Conflict Shaped Us and takes a deep dive into the history of conflict. Rob Johnson considers what we gain by exploring the overlooked side of Lawrence of Arabia - his thoughts on warfare and military strategy. And, the end of the Gaza empire, and the clash in East Africa between Belgian, German, British and French forces are explored in novels by Mia Couto and Abdulrazak Gurnah. They compare notes about the way fiction can trace changes in relationships due to war.
Margaret MacMillan is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford, a former Reith lecturer for BBC Radio 4 and her latest book is War: How Conflict Shaped Us.
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian author of nine other novels which have been shortlisted for prizes including the Booker and the Whitbread. His new novel is called Afterlives.
Mia Couto is one of the most prominent writers in Portuguese speaking Africa and his writing has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International. His novel newly translated in to English by David Brookshaw is called The Sword and the Spear and is part of a trilogy, the first part of which is called Woman of the Ashes.
Rob Johnson has written Lawrence of Arabia on War: the campaign in the Desert 1916-18
You can find a collection of Free Thinking discussions exploring different aspects of war including debates organised with the Imperial War Museum, the view of former soldiers, literary works by Wilfred Owen, Louis Céline and David Jones https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kgbyb
Producer: Ruth Watts
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000p2bq)
Composers and Their Dogs
Old English Sheepdogs
Essay Two: Old English Sheepdogs
A new series of essays by the very popular Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, following her much praised series of essays The Meaning of Trees and The Meaning of Flowers, Fiona explores famous composers and their devotion to certain dog breeds.
Through surprising and insightful stories and discoveries about both the composers and their dogs, the essays provide new insights into the type of people the composers were, their lives and the features of their chosen dog breeds that brought such devotion.
Composer, eccentric and suffragette Dame Ethel Smyth, the first woman to have an Opera put on at the Met, had five Old English Sheepdogs in succession, all called 'Pan'. She was so obsessed with her dogs that she considered them almost like husbands and wrote a book about the depth of feeling and the need for composers to have canine companionship, called “Inordinate(?) Affection” with the question mark showing she knew others found her obsession odd. Her famous friends and lovers included Emmeline Pankhurst and Virginia Woolf, These sturdy dogs were used as herding dogs whose tails were docked for centuries to avoid taxes and only started being bred with long tails again from 2006. Other musical devotees include Paul McCartney whose first of many Old English sheepdogs inspired the Beatles song “Martha My Dear”.
Producer – Turan Ali
A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000p2bs)
A little night music
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2020
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000p2bv)
Twinkle, twinkle little star
Dohnanyi's Variations on a Nursery Tune and Dvorak's Seventh Symphony, performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960)
Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op 25
Martin Sturfalt (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Giedre Slekyte (conductor)
12:56 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony No 7 in D minor, op 70
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Giedre Slekyte (conductor)
01:35 AM
Einar Englund (1916-1999)
The White Reindeer (Valkoinen puura) - suite for orchestra (1952)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
01:49 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Don Quixote, Op.35
Pierre Fournier (cello), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)
02:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Quintet for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos (D.956) in C major
Royal String Quartet, Christian Poltera (cello)
03:24 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in F major, K 332 (2nd mvt Adagio)
Henri Sigfridsson (piano)
03:30 AM
Leonardo Leo (1694-1744)
Miserere Mei Deus - concertato a due chori
Ensemble William Byrd, Graham O'Reilly (conductor)
03:48 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Antonin Dvorak (arranger)
5 Hungarian dances (nos.17-21) orch. Dvorak (orig. pf duet)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)
04:00 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonata in D minor 'La Folia' Op 1 no 12
Musica Antiqua Koln
04:09 AM
Richard Wagner (1818-1883)
Tannhauser – Overture
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
04:24 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Quinto Maganini (arranger)
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
04:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Auf dem Wasser zu singen (D.774)
Edith Wiens (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
04:34 AM
Ester Magi (b.1922)
Murdunud aer (The broken oar)
Estonian National Male Choir, Ants Soots (director)
04:39 AM
Richard Wagner (1818-1883)
Prelude to Act 1 from Lohengrin
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Franz-Paul Decker (conductor)
04:48 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Serenade for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
04:53 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ferruccio Busoni (transcriber)
Adagio and Fugue from Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major BWV 564
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
05:04 AM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Overture to The Maid of Pskov
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
05:12 AM
Eugene Bozza (1905-1991)
New Orleans
Csaba Wagner (trombone), Yamamoto Maki (piano)
05:18 AM
Eugene Goossens (1893-1962)
Fantasy for nine wind instruments (Op 36)
Janet Webb (flute), Guy Henderson (oboe), Lawrence Dobell (clarinet), Christopher Tingay (clarinet), John Cran (bassoon), Robert Johnson (horn), Fiona McNamara (bassoon), Clarence Mellor (horn), Daniel Mendelow (trumpet)
05:28 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Ruy Blas (overture) Op 95
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
05:37 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
4 Choral Songs, Op 53
BBC Symphony Chorus, Stephen Jackson (conductor)
05:52 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Sonata for cello and piano in G minor (Op.19)
Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Francine Kay (piano)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000p016)
Wednesday - Georgia’s classical alternative
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000p018)
Ian Skelly
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Well-known musicians reveal their favourite performers.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of fireworks music.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000p01b)
Beethoven Unleashed: Titan
Monumental Art
Beethoven completes the Missa Solemnis and the Diabelli Variations – two of the great large-scale masterpieces of his new spiritual-poetic style. However, plans for more large-scale works – a tenth Symphony and a second Opera – flounder as the composer becomes increasingly aware of his own mortality.
This week, Donald Macleod explores Ludwig van Beethoven’s life and work between 1822 and 1824 – a period during which the composer completed his greatest late masterpieces. It was also a time in which Beethoven became acutely aware of his own mortality, struggling with both his dwindling finances and his deteriorating health, and sought help from, among others, his brother Johann and a new secretary - Anton Schindler.
Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
Gratulations Menuett, WoO 3
Philharmonia Hungarica
Hans-Ludwig Hirsch (conductor)
Missa Solemnis, Op.123 – Credo: Et ressurexit
Laura Aikin (soprano)
Bernarda Fink (alto)
Johannes Chum (tenor)
Ruben Drole (bass)
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Opferlied, Op.121b
Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano)
OSM Chorus & Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Kent Nagano (conductor)
Diabelli Variations, Op.120 – variations 30, 32 & 33
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
Symphony no. 9, Op.125 - I. Allegro ma non troppo
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
Producer: Sam Phillips
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000p8v5)
European Lockdown Lunchtimes (2/4)
Socially distanced Mozart: the 'Gran Partita' serenade for winds recorded in April in the studios of Norwegian Radio.
BBC Radio 3 has been broadcasting chamber and vocal recitals in the past few weeks from Wigmore Hall and Glasgow's City Halls - these are available on BBC Sounds. In the same way, this week we're travelling around Europe's broadcast studios sampling the music making that has been shining out in these difficult times
This afternoon, we're in Oslo, with a performance of Mozart's exquisite serenade for thirteen wind instruments, his so-called 'Gran Partita
Mozart
Serenade in B flat, K.361 'Gran Partita'
Soloists of Norwegian Radio Orchestra
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000p8v7)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (3/4)
Tom McKinney with a concert recorded at their home in Geneva in Switzerland last year by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under its principal conductor, Jonathan Nott.
Haydn: Overture to 'Il mondo della luna'
Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C
(Jean-Guihen Queyras - cello)
Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in Bb
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jonathan Nott
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m000p01h)
Durham Cathedral
Live from Durham Cathedral.
Introit: Justorum animae (Stanford)
Responses: Philip Moore
Psalms 22, 23 (Camidge, Walford Davies)
First Lesson: Isaiah 2 vv.1-11
Canticles: Stanford in C
Second Lesson: Matthew 2 vv.16-23
Anthem: For lo, I raise up (Stanford)
Voluntary: Organ Sonata No 1 (Allegro moderato) (Howells)
Daniel Cook (Master of the Choristers and Organist)
Joseph Beech (Sub-Organist)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000p01k)
Eivind Ringstad plays Hindemith
New Generation Artists: Ema Nikolovska sings Clara Schumann and Purcell.
Ema Nikolovska is heard in a recording made recently at the Welsh College of Music and Drama where she sings with an original Viennese piano. And there's also an imaginative re-working of a favourite song by Purcell.
Clara Schumann: Liebeszauber op.13,3
Katharina Konradi (soprano), Eric Schneider (piano)
Purcell: Sweeter than roses
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo soprano), Samuele Telari (accordion)
Clara Schumann: Liebst du um Schonheit Op 12 No 4
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo soprano), Paolo Zanzu (Streicher piano of 1832)
Hindemith: Viola Sonata in F op.11 no.4
Eivind Ringstad (viola), David Meier (piano)
R. Strauss: Mohnblumen Op.22 no 2
Katharina Konradi (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000p01s)
Simon Wallfisch and Tomo Keller
Katie Derham with live music from baritone Simon Wallfisch and violinist Tomo Keller and a BBC Instrumental Session from the BBC Tubas.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000p1np)
Classical music for your commute
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000p026)
Katharina Konradi - Songs of Childhood
Katharina Konradi sings Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn at Wigmore Hall.
The Kyrgyzstan-born, German soprano and current BBC New Generation Artist is rapidly making a name for herself as one the most distinctive talents in the vocal firmament. Tonight she is joined by pianist Joseph Middleton for a programme that promises Russian soulfulness and exquisite beauty in songs meditating on childhood. As well as songs by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky, the programme includes a a world premiere of a work written for Katharina Konradi by the American Lori Laitman.
Fanny Mendelssohn: 6 Lieder Op. 7
Tchaikovsky: At the ball Op. 38 No. 3, Do not believe, my friend Op. 6 No. 1, It was in the early spring Op. 38 No. 2
Lori Laitman (b.1955): Scenes from childhood (world première)
Tchaikovsky: Spring (The Snow is Already Melting) Op. 54 No. 9, Cradle song Op. 16 No. 1, Serenade (O child, beneath thy window) Op. 63 No. 6
Felix Mendelssohn: Die Liebende schreibt Op. 86 No. 3, Frage Op. 9 No. 1, Nachtlied Op. 71 No. 6, Frühlingslied Op. 47 No. 3
Tchaikovsky: 6 mélodies Op. 65
Followed by a recent recording of one of Brahms's last works, a swan song to his oeuvre, perhaps even to Romanticism itself from current New Generation Artists, the Aris Quartet.
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Thorsten Johanns (clarinet), Aris Quartett
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000p02b)
Depicting Disability
This November sees the 25th anniversary of the UK Disability Discrimination Act. As we consider what contemporary progress has been made we'll uncover the long history of disabled people’s political activism, look back at the treatment of disabled people in Royal Courts and at fictional portrayals of disability in 19th-century novels from Dickens and George Eliot to Charlotte M Yonge and Dinah Mulock Craik. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents.
Professor David Turner is the author of Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment which won the Disability History Association Outstanding Publication Award for the best book published worldwide in disability history. He teaches at Swansea University and was advisor on the BBC Radio 4 series Disability: A New History. His latest book is Disability in the Industrial Revolution: Physical Impairment in British coalmining 1780-1880 (co-authored with Daniel Blackie)
Dr Clare Walker Gore has just published Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. She teaches English at the University of Cambridge and is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.
Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart is at the University of St Andrews. They look at the disabled history of the royal court in Renaissance England and Scotland and the role of the Court Fool. They also make films and broadcasts for The Social on BBC Scotland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07l3ldn
Producer: Helen Fitzhenry
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000p02g)
Composers and Their Dogs
Poodles
Essay Three: Poodles
A new series of essays by the very popular Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, following her much praised series of essays The Meaning of Trees and The Meaning of Flowers, Fiona explores famous composers and their devotion to certain dog breeds.
Through surprising and insightful stories and discoveries about both the composers and their dogs, the essays provide new insights into the type of people the composers were, their lives and the features of their chosen dog breeds that brought such devotion.
As an older man, Joseph Haydn was very comfortably off, living in the Esterhazy court in eastern Austria. An unlikely flirtation developed between him and a young woman who inadvertently offended him, when an incredible tale about her lover’s poodle prompted her to beg Haydn to set the tale to music. The story uncovers the depth of his loneliness and the fragility of his ego. Frédéric Chopin is famously reported as having been besotted with his lover, Georges Sand's toy poodle, who was the inspiration for his Minute Waltz due to its pirouetting. However, our research shows this not to be the case – not only was the white fluffy dog in question probably not a toy poodle, but the name of the waltz has much less to do with sixty seconds and far more to do with dog sizes. Poodles in the 1960s were seen as glamour dogs, the choice of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Walt Disney and surprisingly also Elvis Presley who gave them as gifts to women he courted. There's been a resurgence in recent decades for cross-breeding poodles as their coats are non-allergic for humans. Plus, poodle tales involving Beethoven, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Producer – Turan Ali ; A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000p02n)
Music after dark
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. As the nights draw in, Sara invites us to explore with her the musical dimensions of a room. She starts with Alvin Lucier's ground-breaking recording, 'I'm sitting in a room', which reappears throughout the programme. She moves from the small, intimate rooms of Durante, in his Concerto in G minor for two violins and viola, and the close sound of Nakamura's piano recordings, through John Luther Adams' 'In a Room' to the large, cavernous sound of Terje Isungset's 'Essence of Stone 6', which was recorded in the amazing Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum-Oslo with its extreme 12-second-long reverb. As Joan Sutherland sings 'Dreamt I dwelt in the marble halls', Brian and Roger Eno play from Music for the Marble Palace, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. At midnight we enter the inner sanctum of Solesmes Abbey with its cathedral-like acoustic, the bells toll the hour and the monks sing Gregorian chant. After hearing the revenant climax of Alvin Lucier's 'I'm sitting in a Room', we return to the intimate quartet writing of Stenhammar and then end looking out of the room as Joan Baez sings Go 'way from my Window.
THURSDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2020
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000p02s)
Monteverdi, Bach, Copland, Hazell and Verdi
A concert given in Turin, Italy, by the brass and percussionist members of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Suite in B flat, Op 4
RAI National Symphony Orchestra (brass and percussionists)
12:56 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Toccata, from 'Orfeo'
RAI National Symphony Orchestra (brass and percussionists)
12:58 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Peter Reeve (arranger)
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, cantata
RAI National Symphony Orchestra (brass and percussionists)
01:03 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare
RAI National Symphony Orchestra (brass and percussionists)
01:05 AM
Christopher Hazell (b.1948)
Three Brass Cats
RAI National Symphony Orchestra (brass and percussionists)
01:14 AM
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Fanfare for the Common Man
RAI National Symphony Orchestra (brass and percussionists)
01:19 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Triumphal March, from 'Aida'
RAI National Symphony Orchestra (brass and percussionists)
01:24 AM
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Requiem Mass for chorus and orchestra no 1 in C minor
Slovenian Radio and Television Chamber Choir, Tomaz Faganel (choirmaster), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor)
02:09 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto for Flute, Violin and Cello, TWV 53:A2
Giovanni Antonini (recorder), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Jaroslaw Thiel (conductor)
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Cello Sonata in A major, Op 69
Jong-Young Lee (cello), Keum-Bong Kim (piano)
02:55 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony no 2, Op 17 (1879 version)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Ahronovich (conductor)
03:29 AM
Ludvig Norman (1831-1885)
2 Songs: Such' die Blumen dir im Thal (1850); Herbstlied (1850)
Olle Persson (baritone), Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
03:34 AM
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
Sonatine for flute and piano
Ivica Gabrisova -Encingerova (flute), Matej Vrabel (piano)
03:43 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonata in D minor 'La Folia' Op 1 no 12
Musica Antiqua Koln
03:52 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Ch'io mi scordi di te...? Non temer, amato bene (K.505) (concert aria)
Joan Carden (soprano), John Winter (piano), Orchestra of Sydney, John Harding (conductor)
04:03 AM
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
Le Chant du martyr - Grand caprice religieux (c.1854)
Lambert Orkis (piano)
04:10 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Serenade no 2 in G minor for violin & orchestra, Op 69b
Judy Kang (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval
04:19 AM
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)
Prelude - Caprice de chaconne
Simone Vallerotonda (guitar)
04:25 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
4 Dances from 'Abdelazer'
Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon (director)
04:31 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Evening in Transylvania and Swineherd's Dance, from 'Hungarian Pictures, Sz. 97'
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zsolt Hamar (conductor)
04:36 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Serenata in vano (FS.68)
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Jonathan Williams (horn), Per Hannisdahl (bassoon), oystein Sonstad (cello), Katrine oigaard (double bass)
04:44 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Impromptu in F sharp major, Op 36
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
04:49 AM
Jonas Tamulionis (1949-), Justinas Marcinkevicius (author)
Domestic Psalms
Polifonija, Unknown (soprano), Sigitas Vaiciulionis (conductor)
04:57 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Piano Concertino, 'en style ancien', Op 3
Horia Mihail (piano), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
05:14 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Quartet no.12 in E minor, TWV.43:e4 'Paris Quartet' (1738) no.6
Nevermind
05:33 AM
Juan Crisostomo Arriaga (1806-1826)
Erminia, scene lyrique-dramatique for soprano and orchestra
Rosamund Illing (soprano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Heribert Esser (conductor)
05:47 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite, Op 40
Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Willi Zimmermann (conductor)
06:08 AM
Anonymous
2 Songs: "Fortune, my foe" for solo voice & "Go and catch" for voice and lute
Paul Agnew (tenor), Christopher Wilson (lute)
06:13 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 31 in D major, 'Paris', K297
Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Adam Fischer (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000p1dd)
Thursday - Georgia’s classical picks
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000p1dg)
Ian Skelly
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Well-known musicians reveal their favourite performers.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of fireworks music.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000p1dj)
Beethoven Unleashed: Titan
We need to talk about Anton
Anton Schindler becomes Beethoven’s secretary, and despite the fact that everyone seems to dislike him, including Beethoven, he quickly becomes indispensable to the composer. However, there is a problem - Anton can’t be trusted.
This week, Donald Macleod explores Ludwig van Beethoven’s life and work between 1822 and 1824 – a period during which the composer completed his greatest late masterpieces. It was also a time in which Beethoven became acutely aware of his own mortality, struggling with both his dwindling finances and his deteriorating health, and sought help from, among others, his brother Johann and a new secretary - Anton Schindler.
Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
Ta ta ta, WoO162
Accentus
Consecration of House Overture, Op.124
Wiener Akademie
Martin Haselböck (conductor)
Missa Solemnis, Op.123 - Agnus Dei: Dona Nobis Pacem
Heather Harper (soprano)
Janet Baker (mezzo soprano)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Hans Sotin (bass)
New Philharmonia Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
Waltz in E-flat major, WoO 84
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Symphony no.9, Op.125 – III. Adagio molto e cantabile
London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest' - III. Allegretto
Glenn Gould (piano)
Producer: Sam Phillips
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000p5cr)
European Lockdown Lunchtimes (3/4)
Socially-distanced 'off the cuff' recitals: Beethoven, Bach and Brahms from the Berlin studios of German Radio.
BBC Radio 3 has been broadcasting chamber and vocal recitals in the past few weeks from Wigmore Hall and Glasgow's City Halls - these are available on BBC Sounds. In the same way, this week we're travelling around Europe's broadcast studios sampling the music making that has been shining out in these difficult times
This afternoon, we're in Berlin for a potpourri of music recorded in the spring. We've a much-loved Beethoven sonata, Bach from the famous Akademir fur Alte Musik and exquisite late Brahms.
Beethoven
Violin Sonata in F, Op 24 'Spring'
Antje Weithaas, violin
Thomas Hoppe, piano
Bach
The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (excs)
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin
Brahms
Fantasies, Op 116 nos 5-7
Eldar Nebolsin, piano
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000p1dn)
Opera Matinee - Halka
A chance to hear one of the great Polish national operas, Halka, by 19th-century composer Stanislaw Moniuszko, recorded at the Theater an der Wien in Austria, last year. Halka is a deeply lyrical work, packed with good tunes and full of Polish character telling the story of a mountain-girl Halka, spurned by her lover Janusz, and of the tragic consequences that follow. The libretto is by the radical Warsaw poet Wlodzimierz Wolski and the opera is sung in Polish. It's introduced by Tom McKinney.
With:
Corinne Winters (sop) Halka - a mountain girl
Tomasz Konieczny (bar) Janusz - a squire
Piotr Beczala (ten) Jontek - a young man of the mountains
Alexey Tikhoirov (bass) Stolnik - master of the pantry
Lukas Jakobski (bass) Dziemba - major-domo
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus
ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna conducted by Lukasz Borowicz
A co-production by Theatre an der Wien and Teatr Wielki Warsaw
Directed by Mariusz Trelinski
Recorded in December 2019
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000p1dq)
Miriam Margolyes and Simon Callaghan, Jeremy Backhouse
Katie Derham chats to Miriam Margolyes and pianist Simon Callaghan about their new album The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant plus Jeremy Backhouse of the Vasari Singers on their 40th anniversary release Heaven Full of Stars.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000p1ds)
Your daily classical soundtrack
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000p1dv)
Leicester in London
Leicester International Music Festival live from the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
With Leicester as the only city in the UK to have been in continuous lockdown since March, festival artistic director, Nicolas Daniel bravely decided to take his festival online. After presenting a series of hugely successful concerts - which reached audiences around the world - Nicolas Daniel and some of his regular collaborators bring their adventurous brand of music making into the BBC's studios and talk about the challenges and opportunities that this new way of working present .
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Schubert: Nocturne op posth D 897 for piano trio
Britten: Lachrymae
Eleanor Alberga: Tiger dream in forest green for flute, oboe, cello and piano
David Matthews: Two movements for oboe and piano
Schumann Piano Quartet
Daniel Shao (flute)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Jack Liebeck (violin)
Hélène Clément (viola)
Laura van der Heijden (cello)
Katya Apekisheva (piano)
Anna Tilbrook (piano)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000p1dx)
Billy Wilder
Mr Wilder & Me is the title of the new novel from Jonathan Coe, who won the Costa Prize for his book Middle England. He is one of Matthew Sweet's guests in a programme exploring the life and work of the Austrian born director behind Hollywood hits including Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity and Some Like it Hot. They are joined by film critics Phuong Le and Melanie Williams and Paul Diamond, the son of Billy Wilder's long time writing partner IAL Diamond who worked on scripts for Some Like It Hot; The Apartment (which won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay); Irma la Douce; and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
Jonathan Coe's Mr Wilder & Me is out now.
In the Free Thinking archives and availble to download as Arts & Ideas podcasts you can find Matthew Sweet discussing films including Tarkovksy's Stalker https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0775023
the career of Cary Grant https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hn1z
Silent Film Star Betty Balfour https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04007l1
Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001xwd
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
THU 22:45 The Essay (m000p1dz)
Composers and Their Dogs
Dachshunds
Essay Four: Dachshunds
A new series of essays by the very popular Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, following her much praised series of essays The Meaning of Trees and The Meaning of Flowers, Fiona explores famous composers and their devotion to certain dog breeds.
Through surprising and insightful stories and discoveries about both the composers and their dogs, the essays provide new insights into the type of people the composers were, their lives and the features of their chosen dog breeds that brought such devotion.
Composers Benjamin Britten and Leonard Bernstein were both dachshund aficionados, with stories galore about both. Benjamin Britten was almost inseparable from his dachshunds, taking them to rehearsals and concerts. He was often to be seen walking along the Suffolk coast with his dachshunds and the famous Red House in Aldeburgh has signs in many languages (many from other famous composers and musicians) warning people to beware of the fierce dogs. This was not as fanciful as it might appear. These ‘sausage dogs’ are figures of fun but they were bred and trained to flush out rabbits or badgers, often known as badger hounds and are fearless fighters. Research marks dachshunds out as amongst the most aggressive breeds, fiercely defending their owners. Leonard Bernstein had a succession of very badly behaved dachshunds, all named Henry. When he was abroad on tour, if he had not taken one of his dachshunds with him, he would often commandeer other peoples’ dachshunds and got a reputation for being a serial dog kidnapper ; but who was going to say “No” to the famous composer? Artists also devoted to dachshunds included Picasso.
Producer – Turan Ali
A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000p1f1)
Music for late night listening
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000p1f3)
Hayden Thorpe in session
Elizabeth Alker with a specially recorded studio session from former Wild Beasts singer Hayden Thorpe at the piano. Plus the latest releases and exclusive previews.
Unclassified is a late-night listening party, a place for curious ears to congregate, disconnect from all other devices and get lost in some soothing, serene and strange new sounds. It's a home for composers whose work cannot easily be categorised, artists who are as comfortable in a grimy basement venue as they are in a prestigious concert hall.
FRIDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2020
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000p1f5)
Beethoven from Hanover
Lars Vogt and the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra perform music by Beethoven and Brahms. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto no 2 in B flat op 19
Lars Vogt (piano), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
12:59 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Intermezzo in A , Op 118/2
Lars Vogt (piano)
01:05 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony no 6 in F op 68 ('Pastoral')
NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
01:51 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chaconne in D minor, from 'Partita No. 2, BVW 1004'
Hiro Kurosaki (violin)
02:03 AM
Valborg Aulin (1860-1928)
Quartet for strings in F major (1884)
Tale String Quartet
02:31 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
L'Apotheose de la Danse - orchestral suite of dance music by Rameau
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
03:09 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Magnificat in D major (Wq 215)
Linda ovrebo (soprano), Anna Einarsson (alto), Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Johannes Mannov (bass), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Chamber Choir, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
03:45 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
L' Isle joyeuse
Philippe Cassard (piano)
03:51 AM
Daniel Auber (1782-1871)
Bolero - Ballet music No 2 from La Muette de Portici (Masaniello)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
03:59 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, Op 66
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello), Jose Gallardo (piano)
04:08 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Suite no 2 in D major
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Rosanne Hunt (cello), Linda Kent (harpsichord)
04:15 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Prelude for piano in C sharp minor, Op 45
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
04:20 AM
Willem De Fesch (1687-1761)
Concerto for 2 flutes and orchestra in G minor (Op.5 No.2)
Jed Wentz (flute), Marion Moonen (flute), Musica ad Rhenum
04:31 AM
Hector Gratton (1900-1970)
Legende - symphonic poem
Orchestre Metropolitain, Gilles Auger (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
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Lauda Jerusalem (psalm 147, 'How good it is to sing praises to our God')
Concerto Palatino
04:59 AM
Pietro Andrea Ziani (c.1616-1684)
Sonata XI in G minor for 2 violins & 2 violas
Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
05:08 AM
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Sinfonia in D major 'Veneziana'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
05:19 AM
Franz Doppler (1821-1883)
Fantaisie pastorale hongroise, Op 26
Ivica Gabrisova-Encingerova (flute), Matej Vrabel (piano)
05:29 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano trio op.11 in B flat major, 'Gassenhauer-Trio'
Arcadia Trio
05:52 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
3 Motets: Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Locus iste
Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt-Jensen (conductor)
06:05 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Quintet in B flat major Op.34 for clarinet and strings (J.182)
Lena Jonhall (clarinet), Zetterqvist String Quartet
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000p0ht)
Friday - Georgia’s classical commute
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000p0hw)
Ian Skelly
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Well-known musicians reveal their favourite performers.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of fireworks music.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000p0hy)
Beethoven Unleashed: Titan
'...the starry sky above me'
Donald Macleod explores the extraordinary premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which proved both a tremendous success and a financial disaster for the composer.
This week, Donald Macleod explores Ludwig van Beethoven’s life and work between 1822 and 1824 – a period during which the composer completed his greatest late masterpieces. It was also a time in which Beethoven became acutely aware of his own mortality, struggling with both his dwindling finances and his deteriorating health, and sought help from, among others, his brother Johann and a new secretary - Anton Schindler.
Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.
Missa Solemnis, Op.123 – Kyrie: Kyrie Eleison (II)
Genia Kühmeier (soprano)
Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass-baritone)
Anton Barachovsky (solo violin)
Chor and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Der Kuss, Op.128
Werner Gura (tenor)
Christoph Berner (fortepiano)
Symphony no. 9, Op.125 - IV. Presto – Allegro ma non troppo
Katerina Beranova (soprano)
Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo soprano)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass)
Robert Dean Smith (tenor)
MDR Rundfunkchor
GewandhausKinderchor
Gewandhauschor Leipzig
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Bagatelles for piano, op.126
Andras Schiff (recorded in 2012 at the Beethovenhaus, Bonn)
Producer: Sam Phillips
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000p8vb)
European Lockdown Lunchtimes (4/4)
Socially distanced chamber music: Gershwin, Bach, Satie and Ika Peyron, recorded earlier this year in the studios of Swedish Radio.
BBC Radio 3 has been broadcasting chamber and vocal recitals in the past few weeks from Wigmore Hall and Glasgow's City Halls - these are available on BBC Sounds. In the same way, this week we're travelling around Europe's broadcast studios sampling the music making that has been shining out in these difficult times
This afternoon, we're in Stockholm: solo Bach and reflective Satie alongside Gershwin and home-grown, turn-of-the-century composer Albertina Fredrika Peyron, known to all Swedes as "Ika".
Gershwin
Three Preludes
Filip Draglund, trumpet
David Huang, piano
Bach
Suite in D minor, BWV.1008
Mime Brinkmann, cello
Satie
Gymnopedies
David Huang, piano
Ika Peyron (1845-1922)
Two Character Pieces (Romance & Humoresque)
Cecilia Zilliacus, violin
Bengt Forsberg, piano
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000p0j2)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (4/4)
Tom McKinney introduces his final offerings from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for this week, which include music by Swiss-born Frank Martin and an ascent into the Alps with Richard Strauss.
Schumann: Symphony No 3 in E flat, 'The Rhenish'
Orchestre de la Swiss Romande conducted by Marek Janowski
Frank Martin: Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments, Timpani, Percussion and Strings
Richard Dubugnon - Helvetia II. Via Lemanica Op61/2 (first performance)
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Orchestre de la Swiss Romande conducted by Bertrand de Billy
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000p0j4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000p0j6)
Abel Selaocoe, Andrew Litton
Katie Derham is joined for a live performance in the studio by cellist Abel Selaocoe and talks to conductor Andrew Litton talks about his new album of Prokofiev symphonies.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000p0j8)
A blissful 30-minute classical mix
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000p0jb)
Richard Strauss and Beethoven
The BBC Philharmonic begin their live concert with music from the rich harvest of Richard Strauss's Indian Summer, his Duet-Concertino, in a performance featuring soloists John Bradbury (clarinet) and Roberto Giaccaglia (bassoon). The rest of the programme is given over to Beethoven. Benjamin Grosvenor joins them for his effervescent First Piano Concerto, a work penned when Beethoven was about the same age as tonight's soloist. After the interval Nicholas Collon conducts what is perhaps the most extrovert of Beethoven's symphonies, his Eighth.
Live from MediaCity, Salford
Presented by Tom McKinney
Richard Strauss: Duet-Concertino
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1 in C
8.30
Music interval (CD)
8.50
Beethoven: Symphony No 8 (Recorded on 5 November)
John Bradbury (clarinet)
Roberto Giaccaglia (bassoon)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000p0jd)
The Changing Language of Veganism: Experiments in Living
Are you what you eat? The way we talk and think about food has changed a lot in recent years, particularly when it comes to the idea of eating ethically and the concept of veganism. Once a punchline, it's now a multi-million pound industry. What do the words we use to talk about food tell us about the underlying moral issues? Why is food so tied up with shame? Can we find the language to become 'good enough' eaters?
Joining Ian to talk about the language of food from 'clean' to 'dirty' are Benjamin Zephaniah, who became a vegan instinctively before he even knew the word for it, and who is perhaps best loved for his plea to be kinder to animals at Christmas; 'Talking Turkey'. The novelist Jonathan Safran Foer first examined morality and food in his 2009 non-fiction book 'Eating Animals', and it's a subject he has returned to in his latest book 'We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast'. Argentinian novelist Agustina Bazterrica explains the challenges of not eating meat in a country where it is central to the culture, and discusses her dystopian novel 'Tender is the Flesh'. And meat runs throughout the poetry of Rachael Allen, who is in fact a vegan.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000p0jg)
Composers and Their Dogs
Cocker Spaniels
Essay Five: Cocker Spaniels
A new series of essays by the very popular Fiona Stafford, Professor of Literature at Somerville College Oxford, following her much praised series of essays The Meaning of Trees and The Meaning of Flowers, Fiona explores famous composers and their devotion to certain dog breeds.
Through surprising and insightful stories and discoveries about both the composers and their dogs, the essays provide new insights into the type of people the composers were, their lives and the features of their chosen dog breeds that brought such devotion.
Elton John was so devoted to his cocker spaniel, Arthur, that not only did the dog get given Elton’s original surname, Dwight, but he was also the best man at his owner’s wedding to David Furnish. Sir Edward Elgar was not allowed dogs by his wife during their decades-long marriage. When she died he had dogs for the rest of his life, his favourite being his spaniel Marco. He would address Marco from live radio broadcasts and the dog would react on hearing his master’s voice say his name. Poet Elizabeth Barrett idolised her cocker spaniel, Flush, who bit husband-to-be Robert Browning, was stolen, recovered, eloped with them and was the subject of a biography by Virginia Woolf. Other surprises include cocker spaniels being the first dog breed to detect cancer by smell.
Producer – Turan Ali
A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 3.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000p0jj)
GAIKA on sampling
Artist and composer GAIKA joins Jen ahead of his event at the EFG London Jazz Festival. For this year’s edition he’s collaborating with musicians Azekel and Miink at London’s Cafe Oto venue, sampling his dad’s vinyl collection to explore themes of turmoil and the revolutionary body. GAIKA is a Brixton-born musician, writer and activist who once stated his aim was to make ‘anti-commercial music’.
For Late Junction, he traces the sonic lineages of jazz in his own music, particularly focused on themes of preservation and legacy in sampling. He selects some special records from his dad’s record collection, sharing the personal stories behind them and the influence jazz has had on his own musical growth.
Elsewhere on the show: wistful ambient experiments from Croatian Amor; dark-electro percussion from Uganda’s Nihiloxica; and a powerful call for transformation, freedom and decolonisation from Melbourne experimental doom duo Divide and Dissolve.
Produced by Katie Callin.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (m000p1nc)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m000p2bd)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m000p8v7)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m000p1dn)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m000p0j2)
Between the Ears
21:25 SAT (m000p08z)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m000p08h)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m000p2c5)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m000p1mv)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m000p2b4)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m000p016)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m000p1dd)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m000p0ht)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m000nvz9)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (m000p01h)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m000p2cp)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m000p1n3)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m000p2b8)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m000p01b)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m000p1dj)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m000p0hy)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (b09qcyy4)
Early Music Now
16:30 MON (m000p1nh)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m000p1mz)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m000p2b6)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m000p018)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m000p1dg)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m000p0hw)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m000p2bn)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m000p02b)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m000p1dx)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m000p093)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (b0bb68k9)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m000p2bj)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m000p1np)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m000p1ds)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m000p0j8)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m000p1nm)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m000p2bg)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m000p01s)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m000p1dq)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m000p0j6)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m000p08r)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m000p08w)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m000p2cc)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m000p0jj)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m000p08m)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m000p08m)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m000p08t)
New Generation Artists
16:30 WED (m000p01k)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m000p091)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m000p1nw)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m000p2bs)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m000p02n)
Opera on 3
18:30 SAT (b0159f6x)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m000p2c9)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m000nvd6)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m000p1n7)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m000p8v3)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m000p8v5)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m000p5cr)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m000p8vb)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m000p1nr)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m000p2bl)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m000p026)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m000p1dv)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m000p0jb)
Record Review Extra
21:00 SUN (m000p2ck)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m000p08k)
Slow Radio
23:30 SUN (m000p2cm)
Sound of Cinema
15:00 SAT (m000mc9t)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m000p2ch)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m000p2c7)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m0000nkd)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m000p1nt)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m000p2bq)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m000p02g)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m000p1dz)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (m000p0jg)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m000p0j4)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m000p0j4)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m000p1f1)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m000p0jd)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m000p08p)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (m000nvc3)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m000p095)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m000p2cr)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m000p1ny)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m000p2bv)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m000p02s)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m000p1f5)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m000p1f3)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m000p2cf)