Vol. 4: Uplifting piano pieces to brighten your day
Dolly pour piano à quatre mains, Op. 56: I. Berceuse (Allegro moderato)
Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959: II. Andantino (Reprise Section A)
Mood-boosting songs filled with inspiring vocal harmonies from classical to pop. Featuring Wolf Alice, Arlo Parks, Joesef and more.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is joined by Johan Dalene for Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto before Schubert's Ninth Symphony. And the concert begins with a Fanfare for tonight's conductor Herbert Blomstedt by Daniel Börtz. Presented by Catriona Young.
Johan Dalene (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
Ann Monoyios (soprano), Matthew White (counter tenor), Colin Ainsworth (tenor), Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
Classical music for breakfast time plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Liszt Piano Sonata in B Minor in Building a Library with Katy Hamilton and Andrew McGregor
Telemann: Wind Overtures, Vol. 2
Birdsong: Music by Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann & Sally Beamish
Handel: Organ Concertos Op. 4 & Op. 7
When Clara Schumann described Liszt's 1854 Piano Sonata in B minor as 'truly terrible' it reflected an influential school of 19th-century thought (Brahms fell asleep when he first heard it). But for Liszt himself it was his breakthrough piece which established him as a 'proper' composer, one for whom musically-driven formal organisation and inspired ingenuity were paramount, rather than a mere pianist whose music was generated by the need to demonstrate his transcendent technique.
Posterity has sided with Liszt, not Clara – and so have successive generations of performers, reflected in a recorded legacy that is a veritable Who's Who of the great pianists of the last century and our own.
J.S. Bach: Horn Concertos
Flora Willson shares her thoughts on Krystian Zimerman's new set of the Beethoven Piano Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle.
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
Kate Molleson talks to some of today's greatest writers about how music shapes their work and explores the ineffable intersection between words and music. Featuring Colm Tóibín, Elif Shafak, Ishmael Reed, Simon Armitage and Lavinia Greenlaw.
Best-selling Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s writing is infused with sound and music. His latest book is a fictional account of the life of Thomas Mann and is steeped in Mahler and Schoenberg. He discusses the powerful role music plays in his fiction and reads from his book ‘Nora Webster’, in which the main character finds resilience through music after the death of her husband. Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak talks about the sound of Istanbul, the social implications of sound and silence and how her books can give voice to those in society who are otherwise voiceless. She reads from her acclaimed book ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World’ and talks about the influence of heavy metal on her writing. US writer Ishmael Reed explores the role of improvisation and rhythm in his work, including his 1972 classic ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ and a new collection of poetry called ‘Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues’. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage discusses how music and words mix in the poetry he writes for his band YLR and the volatility of language when set to music. And poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw explores the fundamental way in which music has shaped her writing throughout her life, as well as the interconnectedness of music, memory and emotion.
Jess Gillam with... Toby Young
Jess Gillam chats to composer and producer Toby Young about the music they love. With sparkling chamber music by Paul Hindemith, a heartbreakling aria by Henry Purcell, plus we'll dip into Motown with the Four Tops and spend some time with glorious choral music from Carlo Gesualdo.
Carlo Gesualdo – Ecce vidimus eum, Responsories from 1st Nocturn (The King's Singers)
Paul Hindemith - Kammermusik Op.24 No.1 for 12 instruments (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly)
Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth, from Act III of Dido and Aeneas (Joyce DiDonato, Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev)
Giuseppe Verdi - Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore (Choir and Orchestra of la Scala, Milan, Riccardo Muti)
Louise Goodwin is Principal Timpani and percussionist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with ensembles ranging from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to Aurora Orchestra.
Today, Louise explains how Bach’s cello suites are so perfectly suited to the marimba, and why singing in a choir can set you up to tune a drum.
She also finds similarities between pieces by Philip Glass and Indian Classical music, and explains why using a smaller drum in a symphony by Mozart can be more satisfying than performing it on modern timpani.
Plus, a piece by American composer Johanna Beyer that Louise would love to play one day...
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
Matthew Sweet catches up with the prolific American film composer, artist and author Mark Mothersbaugh, founder of art-house band Devo and the composer of a new animated movie The Croods 2. Mothersbaugh talks about his extensive collaboration with the director Wes Anderson as well as why animation is, for him, the acme of artistic opportunities for film composers.
Kathryn Tickell with new releases from across the globe - plus, to mark the second of this year’s two Record Store Day events, Nick Luscombe goes crate-digging in Tokyo, exploring some of the latest roots-based music coming out of Japan. There's also a track from Senegal by Seckou Keita with Baaba Maal, traditional sounds from Portugal with Luis Peixoto, and a fresh take on English folk from the collective Folkatron Sessions. The Classic Artist is the Turkish singer Nesrin Sipahi.
Kevin Le Gendre puts the spotlight on emerging talent, with music from 2018 BBC Young Jazz Musician winner Xhosa Cole, session highlights from Scottish saxophonist Matt Carmichael and the best new jazz from the BBC Introducing uploader.
Premiered in 1911, Strauss's most-loved and enduring opera is set in 18th-century Vienna where the Field Marshall's wife, the Marschallin, finds solace from her unhappy marriage in love affairs with teenage boys. She persuades her current lover Octavian that he should replace her with someone younger. 16-year-old Sophie Faninal is engaged to the elderly, lecherous and impoverished Baron Ochs. The engagement suits both Sophie's father, Faninal, who sees Sophie as a ticket to a better social sphere, and Ochs who drools with anticipation, not just at the huge dowry Sophie will bring. Octavian dresses up as a woman to seduce Ochs and thus thwart the Baron's impending nuptials. At the end it’s mission accomplished as Octavian and Sophie become lovers and the Marschallin declares the opera's events as "a masquerade, as we in Vienna practice – nothing more." The whole is wrapped up in an irresistible combination of Strauss's sumptuous orchestration, wonderful melodies and his ravishing way with the female voice.
But beneath the surface froth, it's the serious and enduring themes which have made Der Rosenkavalier a classic, including ageing and loneliness, the relentless passage of time, hypocrisy, desire and love.
Tom Service introduces this new production recorded last month at Garsington Opera, which used Eberhard Kloke's 2019, widely praised transcription for middle-sized orchestra. Presented in conversation with Observer critic Fiona Maddocks and Swedish soprano Miah Persson who, famous in the part of Sophie, now takes the role of the Marschallin for the first time.
Marschallin ..... Miah Persson (soprano)
Octavian ..... Hanna Hipp (mezzo-soprano)
Sophie von Faninal ..... Madison Leonard (soprano)
Baron Ochs ..... Derrick Ballard (bass)
Faninal ..... Richard Burkhard (baritone)
Valzacchi ..... Colin Judson (tenor)
Annina ..... Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano)
Italian Tenor ..... Oliver Johnston (tenor)
Marschallin's Major Domo ..... Richard Pinkstone (tenor)
Faninal's Major Domo ..... Glen Cunningham (tenor)
Marianne ..... Rebecca von Lipinski (soprano)
Innkeeper ..... Alexander Aldren (tenor)
Police Commissar ..... Julian Close (bass)
Notary ..... Kieran Rayner (baritone)
Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including a concert featuring Heloise Werner (soprano), Kit Downes (church organ) and Colin Alexander (cello) playing solos and trios in the glowing acoustic of St John's Smith Square, in London (recorded on 3rd July). They include compositions by themselves, and new text pieces by Shiva Fesharecki, Errollyn Wallen, Jonathan Cole, Love Ssega and Jasmin Kent Rodgman.
Plus, new CD releases from Rolf Wallin, Pamela Z, Nick Storring, Jesse Marino and Anna Webber.
SUNDAY 18 JULY 2021
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000xzs3)
Vision Festival at 25
The best jazz and improvised music with an adventurous spirit.
Corey Mwamba previews this year’s Vision Festival - for 25 years the spiritual home of free music in New York City. He speaks to the American pianist, poet and vocalist Amina Claudine Myers who is receiving a lifetime achievement award at the event. Amina’s expansive career has covered blues, gospel, spirituals, jazz and improv as well as theatre and choral work, and she introduces a couple of tracks from her back catalogue.
Elsewhere on the show, there’s light and exploratory improvisation that floats through the air from an ensemble put together by Torgrim Sollid, a Norwegian folk and jazz musician. And pianist Lisa Cay Miller, guitarist Vicky Mettler and bassist Raphaël Foisy-Couture spontaneously create gritty, fine-grained and revelatory music.
Produced by Gabriel Francis & Jack Howson
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000xzs5)
APO Premier 2019: Nordic Landscapes
Grieg and Sibelius from New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Daniel Blendulf. Jonathan Swain presents.
01:01 AM
John Anthony Ritchie (1921-2014)
Suite no 1 for Strings
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Daniel Blendulf (conductor)
01:16 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16
Alessio Bax (piano), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Daniel Blendulf (conductor)
01:45 AM
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Prelude for the Left Hand, Op 9/1
Alessio Bax (piano)
01:48 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Symphony no 5 in E flat, Op 82
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Daniel Blendulf (conductor)
02:20 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D 810 'Death and the Maiden'
Sebastian String Quartet
03:01 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 44
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
03:37 AM
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Pictures from an Exhibition
Steven Osborne (piano)
04:13 AM
Pierre de Manchicourt (1510-1564)
Nunc enim si centum lingue sint (Antwerp 1547)
Corona Coloniensis, Peter Seymour (conductor)
04:21 AM
Alexander Albrecht (1885-1958)
Quintet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Bratislava Wind Quintet, Pavol Kovac (piano)
04:29 AM
Henry Eccles (c.1675-1745)
Sonata for double bass and piano
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)
04:38 AM
Anonymous
Salterello
Ensemble Micrologus
04:43 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Adagio for clarinet and piano (1905)
Kalman Berkes (clarinet), Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
04:51 AM
Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)
Fantasy on Two Ukrainian Themes for flute and orchestra
Yuri Shut'ko (flute), NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
05:01 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Septet for 3 oboes, 3 violins and continuo (TWV.
44:43) in B flat major
Il Gardellino
05:10 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Chaconne for piano (Op.32)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)
05:20 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (author)
Gesang der Geistern über den Wassern, Op 167
Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Juri Alperten (director)
05:30 AM
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Adagio for Strings, Op 11
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
05:39 AM
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824)
Duo concertante in G major
Alexandar Avramov (violin), Ivan Peev (violin)
05:47 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
4 Lieder from the Schemelli songbook (BWV.443, 468, 470 & 439)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
05:57 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Trio in B flat major, K 502
Amatis Piano Trio
06:20 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Hungarian dances for piano duet (Nos.1; 11; 13; 17; 8)
Noel Lee (piano), Christian Ivaldi (piano)
06:33 AM
Valborg Aulin (1860-1928)
Quartet for strings in F major (1884)
Tale String Quartet
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000xzmq)
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 (m000xzms)
Sarah Walker with an inviting musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
There are summer dances from around the world today: Sarah plays Manuel de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, finds a glorious waltz in Eric Coates’ At the Dance, and the Scottish band Dàimh will get you whirling wherever you are.
She also discovers dark, introverted sonorites in the combination of viola and piano in an Elegie by Henri Vieuxtemps, and some bleak beauty in Vaughan Williams’ In the Fen Country.
Plus, the perfectly woven harmonies of Tomas Luis de Victoria’s Requiem Mass.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m000xzmv)
Carole Boyd
Carole Boyd is an accomplished theatre actress: she has recorded some three hundred audio books, and she does all the female voices in Postman Pat. But all this pales into insignificance compared with the role she has played on radio for thirty-five years, as Archer's character Lynda Snell.
More than five million Archers listeners have been listening to her as the snobbish but good-hearted Lynda since she first arrived in Ambridge, in 1986. Lynda is the Archers’ theatre director, putting on pantomimes and musicals; and Carole Boyd too is musical, creating words and music shows.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Carole Boyd tells the story of how she became an actress, despite the opposition of her family (she applied to drama school secretly) and how she was inspired to create the inimitable grating speech of Lynda Snell by the voice of her husband’s secretary. She concedes that her identity has become somewhat blurred with Lynda’s, and that channeling Lynda’s assertiveness is very useful when doing battle with utility companies on the phone. She admits, though, that she has never got close to a llama (unlike Lynda).
More seriously, Carole Boyd talks movingly about what it’s like to care for her husband, Patrick, who had a major stroke in 2003. She speaks very honestly about the daily reality of life as a carer: the loneliness, the frustration, the mourning for the person you used to know, and still love.
Carole Boyd’s playlist ranges from Schubert and Debussy to The Beatles, taking in Vaughan Williams, Canteloube, and Aaron Copland. We hear too Laurence Olivier with the St Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V.
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000xrk7)
The Elias String Quartet
From London's Wigmore Hall: the Elias String Quartet play Haydn and Mendelssohn.
Named after Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah, the Elias Quartet promises to give a deeply penetrating performance of Mendelssohn's hommage to Beethoven.
Although written when he was still a teenager, the A minor quartet is a work of astonishing maturity, revealing his fascination for the late quartets of Beethoven which so perplexed his contemporaries, not least Mendelssohn's own father.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat op. 64 no.6
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor Op.13
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000xzmx)
La Scintilla in Zurich
Music by 3 of JS Bach's sons: Wilhelm Friedemann, Johann Christoph Friedrich & Carl Philipp Emanuel from a concert given by ensemble La Scintilla and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in Zurich.
Presented by Lucie Skeaping.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000xr49)
Westminster Abbey
From Westminster Abbey to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Edmund Hooper.
Prelude: A Short Preludio of Four Parts (Gibbons)
Introit: Behold, it is Christ (Hooper)
Responses: Gibbons, Barnard
Psalms 32, 33 (Marlow – after Gibbons, Marlow – after Smith)
First Lesson: Isaiah 33 vv.2-10
Canticles: The Full Service (Hooper)
Second Lesson: Philippians 1 vv.1-11
Anthem: The Blessed Lamb (Hooper)
Hymn: Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round (Song 1)
Voluntary: A Fancy in Gamut flatt (Gibbons)
James O’Donnell (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Peter Holder (Sub-Organist)
Recorded 25 May 2021.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000xzmz)
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Alyn Shipton presents more of your favourite recordings in classic tracks from Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa, the Oscar Peterson Trio and contemporary sounds from UK band Nerija.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m000xzn1)
Themes and Variations
Tom Service explores the endless potential of musical variations on a theme. On the one hand it's the simplest of all musical ideas - take a basic tune and play around with it - and yet on the other, it's a deeply profound reflection of life, as small sequences of musical DNA provide the building blocks for structures of ever increasing complexity.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000xzn3)
The Tudors
From Shakespeare to Hilary Mantel - the Tudors is a period rich in literature, with a king who is said to have composed Greensleeves for his future Queen Anne Boleyn. Today's Words and Music is inspired by the Tudor dynasty who ruled England from Henry VII’s reign in 1485 until the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Theirs was an era of turbulence, from the Wars of the Roses, to the seismic break with Rome under Henry VIII, and the bloody era of protestant executions under Mary I. There is poetry by the key players in the Tudor drama: Thomas Wyatt (who was accused of adultery with Anne Boleyn), Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I herself. And we feature extracts from one of the most compelling modern-day takes on the Tudors: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. Musically, we’ll hear from the star of this week’s series of Essays, William Byrd; and Thomas Tallis, who walked a dangerous line as a Catholic composer in Elizabeth I's Protestant court, and we'll also hear Tudor inspired music by Donizetti and Benjamin Britten.
Producer: Georgia Mann
01 Henry VIII/Elgar Howarth
Pastime with good company
Performer: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Duration 00:02:24
02
00:00:45
Pasqualigo
Contemporary description of Henry VIII by Venetian diplomat Pasqualigo, written 1515, read by Josette Simon
Duration 00:01:08
03
00:02:20 John Dowland
Lachrimae pavan
Performer: Nigel North
Duration 00:02:32
04
00:02:34
Shakespeare
Extract from Richard II, read by Anton Lesser
Duration 00:01:10
05
00:04:54 Byrd arr. Howarth
The Battle arr. Howarth for brass ensemble [orig. for keyboard], 5 The Trumpets
Performer: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Duration 00:01:03
06
00:04:57
Miranda Kaufmann
Extract from John Blanke: the most famous African in Tudor England, published in BBC History Revealed, read by Josette Simon.
Duration 00:00:52
07
00:05:56 Georges Delerue
From the soundtrack of A Man for All Seasons
Performer: Studio Orchestra
Duration 00:00:19
08
00:06:10
Robert Bolt
Extract from A Man for all Seasons
Duration 00:00:46
09
00:06:56 Debbie Wiseman
Wolf Hall Main Theme
Performer: Debbie Wiseman
Duration 00:03:18
10
00:07:30
Shakespeare
Extract from Henry VIII, read by Josette Simon
Duration 00:01:18
11
00:10:10 Tielman Susato
Basse danse..; Branle..; Ronde no. 6 and salterello [Danserye, 1551]
Performer: Early Music Consort of London
Duration 00:01:19
12
00:10:25
Hilary Mantel
Extract from Wolf Hall, read by Anton Lesser
Duration 00:01:02
13
00:11:29 Anon.
Drink to me only with thine eyes (old English air)
Performer: Opus Anglicanum
Duration 00:02:38
14
00:13:21
Christopher Marlow
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, read by Josette Simon
Duration 00:01:35
15
00:14:55 John Dowland
Time stands still on gazing at your face
Performer: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute)
Duration 00:04:30
16
00:19:00 Gerald Finzi
Music for Love's Labour's Lost - 4. The Hunt
Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)
Duration 00:02:23
17
00:19:20
Thomas Wyatt
Whoso List to Hunt, I Know where is an Hind, read by Anton Lesser
Duration 00:01:05
18
00:21:05 Gaetano Donizetti
Anna Bolena, Act 2: "Piangete voi?...
Performer: Maria Callas, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
Duration 00:04:28
19
00:25:35 Thomas Tallis
Fantasia a 5
Performer: Fretwork
Duration 00:03:27
20
00:25:50
John Donne
The Good-morrow, read by Anton Lesser
Duration 00:01:47
21
00:28:50 Debbie Wiseman
Anna Regina
Performer: Debbie Wiseman
Duration 00:03:03
22
00:29:10
Hilary Mantel
Extract from Wolf Hall, read by Josette Simon
Duration 00:01:29
23
00:31:55
Sylvia Barbara Soberton
Extract from: Medical Downfall of the Tudors: Sex, Reproduction and Succession, read by Josette Simon
Duration 00:01:09
24
00:33:05 Anonymous/Henry VIII
Four consort pieces
Performer: Musica Antiqua of London
Duration 00:01:35
25
00:33:20
Thomas Nash
From In Time of Plague [Adieu, farewell, earths bliss] read by Anton Lesser
Duration 00:01:27
26
00:34:50 William Byrd
Come to me, grief, for ever
Performer: Consort of Musicke
Duration 00:05:01
27
00:39:45 Debbie Wiseman
Forgive me
Performer: Debbie Wiseman
Duration 00:02:09
28
00:40:06
Hilary Mantel
Extract from The Mirror and the Light, read by Anton Lesser
Duration 00:01:05
29
00:40:55 Benjamin Britten
Gloriana - symphonic suite (Op.53a) [with tenor solo ad lib], The Tournament
Performer: BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner (conductor)
Duration 00:02:25
30
00:44:05
Elizabeth I
Extract from Elizabeth Is Golden final speech to parliament, November 30th 1601, read by Josette Simon
Duration 00:01:40
31
00:45:45 Byrd
Oh lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
Performer: Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (director)
Duration 00:03:04
32
00:48:29 Max Richter
My Crown from Mary, Queen of Scots
Performer: Jane Marshall (cor anglais), Hugh Webb (harp), London Voices (chorus), Jean Kelly (celtic harp)
Duration 00:02:51
33
00:48:40
Elizabeth I
From The Doubt of Future Foes
Duration 00:01:01
34
00:51:15 Gaetano Donizetti
Quel sangue versato al cielo s'innalza from Roberto Devereux
Performer: Diana Damrau (soprano), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Duration 00:05:07
35
00:56:15 William Brade
Cornish dance; Irish dance; Scottish dance
Performer: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Duration 00:05:07
36
00:56:38
Kate Williams
Extract from Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots, read by Anton Lesser
Duration 00:01:30
37
00:58:11 John Barry
Marys Theme (from soundtrack to Mary, Queen of Scots 1971)
Duration 00:02:34
38
01:01:43 Träd
Hard Is My Fate
Performer: Jordi Savall (viol), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)
Duration 00:03:01
39
01:02:02
Mary, Queen of Scots
Sonnet written at Fotheringay Castle, read by Josette Simon
Duration 00:01:15
40
01:03:45 Anon. Arranged by Richard Einhorn
Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, On the Approach of Spring
Performer: Ryland Angel, Parthenia Consort of Viols
Duration 00:03:59
41
01:07:42 Byrd
Verse (Fantasia in C major no.4) for keyboard (MB.
27.28)
Performer: Simon Preston (organ)
Duration 00:01:04
42
01:08:02
Fr William Weston
Description by Jesuit Fr William Weston of a meeting and mass to celebrate the arrival in England of the Jesuit missionaries Henry Garnet and Robert Southwell, read by Josette Simon.
Duration 00:00:28
43
01:08:40 Byrd
Mass for 5 voices, Gloria
Performer: Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (director)
Duration 00:04:57
44
01:08:50
William Byrd
Extract from Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price, read by Anton Lesser
Duration 00:01:03
45
01:10:46 Debbie Wiseman
: Master or Phantoms
Performer: Debbie Wiseman
Duration 00:01:59
46
01:11:00
Robert Deveraux, Earl of Essex
Essexs Last Voyage to the Haven of Happiness, read by Anton Lesser
Duration 00:01:20
SUN 18:45 Between the Ears (m000xzn5)
The Virtual Symphony
The joys and horrors of the internet, evoked by stories, sounds and an exciting new electronic and vocal work composed by Kieran Brunt. Opens with an introduction by the composer.
30 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the very first website. This powerful edition of Between the Ears explores how the internet has dramatically reshaped our lives over the following three decades.
In 1990s Glasgow, a young woman in a physics computer lab glimpses a different future for the world - and herself. In Luton, the web awakens a young man’s Sikh identity - a few years on, it will bring him riches. In 2001, a young mother in France finds escape through Wikipedia. Ten years later, an Austrian law student is horrified when he requests his personal data from Facebook…
Over four movements of music and personal stories, the Virtual Symphony moves from sunny optimism to deep disquiet, as our relationship to the internet shifts. Around these stories, composer Kieran Brunt weaves electronic and vocal elements in an exhilarating new musical work commissioned by BBC Radio 3.
Kieran Brunt and documentary producer Laurence Grissell worked in close collaboration to produce a unique evocation of the way in which the internet has fundamentally changed how we experience and understand the world.
Composer: Kieran Brunt
Producer: Laurence Grissell
Interviewees:
Melissa Terras, Harjit Lakhan, Florence Devouard and Max Schrems
Electronics performed by Kieran Brunt
Vocals performed by Kieran Brunt, Lucy Cronin, Kate Huggett, Oliver Martin-Smith and Augustus Perkins Ray of the vocal ensemble Shards
Programme mixed by: Donald MacDonald
Additional music production: Paul Corley
Additional engineering: Ben Andrewes
SUN 19:15 Sunday Feature (m000xzn7)
Staycationing in the style of abroad
As tourist hotspots swing into action with the start of the school holidays, Dr Seán Williams takes a trip in a cable car on a sunny, clear day. It’s as if he’s in the Swiss Alps — except he is crossing the A6, to more of a small hill than an Alpine summit. Welcome to just one of the many Little Switzerlands across England, and around the world.
We have long staycationed in the style of abroad. Seán goes on the journey of Swissophilia since the start of the 19th century. It’s a story of strangeness, outlandish comparisons, kitsch — and cottage rentals.
Seán looks at picture postcard scenes, reads literature and art criticism, and is left speechless by Swiss-style follies in grand gardens. Professor Patrick Vincent from the University of Neuchâtel and travel writer Nick Hunt join him in conversation to reflect on the ways in which we view local scenes through the lens of abroad.
Together, they ask: how has the familiar been made to feel more foreign in the past? Why might this uncanniness be contemporary, amid Covid-19 and climate change? Who makes sometimes far-fetched and far-flung comparisons when describing a place? And what does it all matter… is there such a thing as an authentic vacation, anyway?
Producer: Mohini Patel
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (b09hrr7t)
Ninety Minutes with Stanislavski
Cressida Yorke is a young actress in trouble. She has 90 minutes before her next run-through of The Seagull. Previews are three days away. She takes refuge in an empty rehearsal room at the top of Her Majesty's Theatre, London - where she encounters five remarkable and legendary acting teachers. Can they rescue her in time? It's surprising what can happen in 90 minutes.
Marcy Kahan writes for stage and film: Antonia & Jane for BBC/Miramax and has written and dramatized over 40 original radio dramas for Radio 4, including the award-winning four series of Lunch.
Credits:
Bobby Lewis ..... Colin Stinton
Cressida Yorke ..... Norah Lopez Holden
Stella Adler ..... Maggie Steed
Harold Clurman ..... Matthew Marsh
Lee Strasberg ..... Nicholas Woodeson
Stanislavski ..... Bruce Alexander
Writer, Marcy Kahan
Director, Melanie Harris
Sound design, John Scott and Eloise Whitmore
A Sparklab Production for BBC Radio 3.
SUN 21:00 Record Review Extra (m000xzn9)
Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor
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, Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor.
SUN 23:00 Nick Luscombe's Sounds of Japan (m000lgwq)
In the Country
Tokyo-based DJ, producer and broadcast Nick Luscombe explores the music and sound of Japan past and present in a virtual journey from the country’s remote outposts to its vast metropolis. In this second of three programmes, we hear music from or inspired by the countryside in Japan, from ceremonial music from the mountains of Nagano prefecture to the more contemporary sounds of Oki Dub Ainu Band whose sound incorporates the traditional instruments of Hokkaido’s Ainu culture.
01
00:00:28 上妻宏光
Yasaburōbushi
Performer: 上妻宏光
Performer: Akiko Yano
Duration 00:03:20
02
00:04:30 Nick Luscombe
Insects Summer Daytime (Field Recording)
Performer: N/A
Duration 00:01:02
03
00:06:17 Traditional Japanese
Daitenryu
Performer: Suwa-Daiko Hozonkai
Duration 00:05:21
04
00:11:38 Nick Luscombe
Parade Yokote (Field Recording)
Performer: N/A
Duration 00:01:19
05
00:12:57 Ikue Mori
A Buddhist Monk Receives Cassia Seeds On A Moonlit Night
Performer: Ikue Mori
Duration 00:02:07
06
00:16:57 Oki Dub Ainu Band
Konkon
Performer: Oki Dub Ainu Band
Performer: OKI
Singer: MAREWREW
Duration 00:03:32
07
00:20:29 MAREWREW
Yaysama
Performer: MAREWREW
Duration 00:03:12
08
00:24:59 諸井誠
A weird Dialog with the Voice of Ancestors (Senzo no koe to no imawashiki taiwa)
Performer: 諸井誠
Duration 00:03:23
09
00:29:18 Nick Luscombe
Train in Countryside Small Station (Field Recording)
Performer: N/A
Duration 00:00:31
10
00:29:49 Ajate
Galar
Performer: Ajate
Duration 00:05:02
11
00:35:39 Yutaka Hirose
In the Afternoon
Performer: Yutaka Hirose
Duration 00:06:41
12
00:42:21 Kōhei Amada
Shinshunfu
Performer: Sugai Ken
Performer: Kōhei Amada
Duration 00:04:11
13
00:46:33 Kōhei Amada
Shinshunfu ( (SUGAI KEN Rework)
Performer: Sugai Ken
Duration 00:06:15
14
00:53:48 Suizan Lagrost
Esashi Oiwake
Performer: Mieko Miyazaki
Performer: Suizan Lagrost
Duration 00:04:29
15
00:58:18 Nick Luscombe
Insects At Night (field recording)
Performer: N/A
Duration 00:00:30
MONDAY 19 JULY 2021
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000xznc)
Emma Dabiri
Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week Linton is joined by author and broadcaster Emma Dabiri.
Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000xznf)
Grieg and Bruckner from Turin
RAI National Symphony Orchestra and conductor James Conlon are joined by pianist Jan Lisiecki in Grieg's Piano Concerto. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Jan Lisiecki (piano), RAI National Symphony Orchestra, James Conlon (conductor)
01:03 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 7 in E
RAI National Symphony Orchestra, James Conlon (conductor)
02:13 AM
Sigismondo d'India (c.1582-1629)
Se Tu Silvio crudel
Cantus Colln
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Septet in E flat major, Op 20
Michel Lethiec (clarinet), Andre Cazalet (horn), Giorgio Mandolesi (bassoon), Agata Szymczewska (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Rafal Kwiatkowski (cello), Jurek Dybal (double bass)
03:12 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata no.35 (BWV.35) "Geist und Seele wird verwirret"
Jadwiga Rappe (alto), Concerto Avenna, Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)
03:36 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano no. 2 (Op.31) in B flat minor
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
03:45 AM
Johan Wagenaar (1862-1941)
Concert Overture, Op 11 'Fruhlingsgewalt'
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
03:54 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Sonata for 2 flutes in G major
Jed Wentz (flute), Marion Moonen (flute)
04:02 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
The Fountain of Arethusa from Myths for violin and piano (Op.30)
Hyun-Mi Kim (violin), Seung-Hye Choi (piano)
04:08 AM
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675-1742)
Concerto a piu istrumenti in F major Op 6`3
Il Tempio Armonico
04:16 AM
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Aurora lucis rutilat - motet for 10 voices
Currende, Erik van Nevel (conductor)
04:20 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Leo Weiner (arranger)
Ten Excerpts from For Children, Sz 42
Camerata Zurich, Igor Karsko (conductor)
04:31 AM
Karol Jozef Lipinski (1790-1861)
Overture in D major (1814)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Krakow, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)
04:40 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Aufforderung zum Tanz
Niklas Sivelov (piano)
04:49 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
2 Elegiac melodies for string orchestra, Op 34
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
04:58 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809),Ignace Joseph Pleyel (1757-1831), Harold Perry (arranger)
Divertimento 'Feldpartita' in B flat major, Hob.
2.46
Academic Wind Quintet
05:07 AM
Johan Duijck (b.1954)
Cantiones Sacrae in honorem Thomas Tallis, Op 26, Book 1
Flemish Radio Choir, Johan Duijck (conductor)
05:17 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Sonata in A minor HWV 362
Bolette Roed (recorder), Allan Rasmussen (harpsichord)
05:28 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
String Quartet in G minor, Op 10
Tilev String Quartet
05:54 AM
Francesco Soriano (1548-1621)
Dixit Dominus
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor), Unknown (organ)
06:01 AM
Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)
Oboe Quintet in F major, Op 107
Les Adieux
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000xz8s)
Monday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and music celebrating this year’s WOMAD festival.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000xz8v)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today’s starter.
1100 Essential Five – this week we're highlighting the harpsichord.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0770mrz)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
The Bird of Loudest Lay
Donald Macleod explores some of the vast range of Byrd’s music including secret settings of the Latin Mass, instrumental dances and erotic songs.
Religious intolerance cast a long shadow over the life and music of William Byrd. As a Roman Catholic in Elizabethan England, he was persecuted by the state and often forced to tread a dangerous path between his personal convictions and his duty to the Queen.
His musical talent and his strength of character enabled him not just to survive, but thrive. Despite his trials he was, and continues to be, celebrated as the greatest British musician of his age.
There is frustratingly little evidence that William Byrd was personally acquainted with his fellow Elizabethan, William Shakespeare. Although, a tantalising reference to “the bird of loudest lay” in Shakespeare’s sonnet, The Phoenix and the Turtle hints that they may have been more than mere contemporaries. Byrd did move in celebrated circles, including his long service in the Queen’s Chapel Royal choir. In this first programme Donald Macleod explores how Byrd’s faith marked him out as an outsider, even as his talent led him to the very heart of the British musical establishment.
All this week, to accompany Composer of the Week, Radio 3 is also exploring William Byrd’s life through a series of new dramas starring David Suchet. To Preserve the Health of Man is at
10.45 each night.
Fantasia a6 (II)
Phantasm
Mass for Four Voices (Extract)
The Cardinall’s Musick
O dear life, when may it be
Robin Blaze, countertenor
Concordia
Galiardo Mistris Marye Brownlow
Davitt Moroney (harpsichord)
Infelix ego
Stile Antico
Producer: Chris Taylor
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000xz8y)
Kathryn Stott plays Grieg's Holberg Suite at Wigmore Hall
Kathryn Stott plays Grieg, Fauré and Wagner
Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London in February. Kathryn Stott performs a programme of Bach, Fauré, Poulenc and Wagner, as well as one of Grieg's most popular and tuneful works: his Holberg Suite.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
J S Bach (arr. Wilhem Kempff): Siciliano, BWV 1031
Grieg: Holberg Suite
Fauré: Nocturne No 4
Poulenc: Mélancolie
J S Bach (trans. Siloti): Prelude in B minor
Wagner (trans. Liszt): Isolde’s Liebestod
Trad. Londonderry Air (trans. Stephen Hough)
Gershwin (trans. Earl WIld):
Kathryn Stott (piano)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000xz90)
The National Orchestra of Wales
Ian Skelly introduces a week of performances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today, a concert with the ensemble under the baton of Martyn Brabbins, recorded in May and featuring two Malcolm Arnold pieces as bookends, his Little suite No 1 and his Concerto for 28 players; also the world premiere of Matthew Taylor's Symphony No 6, as well as Cyril Scott's Early one morning. Also this afternoon, Shostakovich's Symphony No 14 with Mark Wigglesworth conducting the orchestras, part of a set of recordings of the Russian composer's symphonies which is re-released commercially this month.
2.00pm
Arnold: Little Suite No 1, Op 53
Cyril Scott: Early One Morning
Matthew Taylor: Symphony No 6 (World Premiere)
Arnold: Concerto for 28 players, Op 105
Tom Poster, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
c.
3.10pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 14
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mark Wigglesworth, conductor
MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000xz92)
The vocal quaret 'Cantoría' with Spanish Renaissance music
Ian Skelly introduces the vocal quartet 'Cantoría' performing music from the Spanish Renaissance, including pieces from the 'Cancionero musical de Palacio', songs compiled for the court in the 15th and 16th centuries. This recital was taken at the Barcelona Emergents Music Festival in 2020.
Franco Alonso: La Tricotea
Garcimuñós: Una montaña pasando, excerpt from 'Cancionero musical de Palacio'
Juan Vásquez: Con qué la lavaré, excerpt from 'Sonetos i Villancicos'
Matheo Flecha the Elder: La justa
Matheo Flecha the Elder: La bomba
Cantoría vocal quartet
Inés Alonso, soprano
Fran Braojos, countertenor
Jorge Losana, tenor and conductor
Valentín Miralles, bass
MON 17:00 In Tune (m000xz94)
Emma Johnson, Gavin Bryars, Rebecca McNaught and John Warner
Sean Rafferty is joined by clarinettist Emma Johnson who performs live in the studio. Ahead of their appearance at the Milton Keynes International Festival, Sean chats to cellist Rebecca McNaught and conductor John Warner. Double bassist Gavin Bryars is also on the line to talk about his appearance at Cambridge Summer Music Festival.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000xz96)
Switch up your listening with classical music
Tonight's Mixtape starts in 18th-century Vienna with a trio by Haydn, and moves to a symphony movement from Haydn's friend Paul Wranitzky by way of a string quartet version of Sam Smith's song Stay with Me. There's also a song by Robert Burns, a piece based on Gaelic Psalm singing, and Chinese traditional music played by the Shanghai Quartet.
Producer: Roger Short
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000xz98)
Visiting the UK: Barbara Hannigan conducts the LUDWIG Orchestra
Continuing the series of outstanding performances from visiting orchestras and ensembles drawn from the Radio 3 archive, Andrew McGregor introduces this concert recorded at Snape Maltings as part of 2019 Aldeburgh Festival. The versatile Barbara Hannigan took the roles of both conductor and soprano with the Dutch LUDWIG Orchestra in a programme spanning three centuries with music from Haydn to Gershwin, which was presented on the night by Martin Handley.
Stravinsky: Pulcinella (complete ballet)
8.15 pm
Martin Handley in conversation with Barbara Hannigan
8.30 pm
Haydn: Symphony No.49 ‘La Passione’
Gershwin: Suite from Girl Crazy
Kate Howden (mezzo-soprano)
James Way (tenor)
Antoin Herrera-Lopez Kessel (bass)
LUDWIG Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000xz9b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 To Preserve the Health of Man (m000xz9d)
Episode 1
David Suchet stars as the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, 'The Father of English Music'. In five imagined encounters, Byrd looks back at key influences in his life and work, as he composes his major liturgical work, the Gradualia, a collection of 109 pieces written for each of the feasts and events in the Church calendar.
Episode 1
Advent 1603. As a Catholic, Byrd enjoyed the patronage and protection of Elizabeth I but now, the early years of James I bring change and turbulence and a renewed threat to Catholics following the Reformation. Byrd's wife, Juliana, convinces him not to be afraid and to continue with his composition.
Written by D.J. Britton
William Byrd ..... David Suchet
Juliana Byrd ..... Sara Kestelman
Music performed by Odyssean Ensemble and recorded at the Chapel Royal, Tower of London
Music Director, Colm Carey
Sound, Nigel Lewis and Catherine Robinson
Directed by Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 3
The title is from a quote by William Byrd: 'The exercise of singing is delightful to nature, and good to preserve the health of man.'
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000xz9l)
Music for the evening
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 20 JULY 2021
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000xz9q)
Absolute Russia
Prize winning young pianist Evgeny Konnov in a recital from Girona. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
March: The Song of the Lark, from 'The Seasons, op. 37b'
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
12:33 AM
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Three Etudes for Piano, op. 65
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
12:42 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Tango
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
12:45 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Three Movements from 'Petrushka'
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
01:03 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Prelude in G sharp minor, op. 32/12
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
01:06 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Allegro, from 'Etudes-Tableaux, op. 39'
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
01:10 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Fugue in D minor
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
01:13 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
01:34 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Mazeppa, No. 4 of '12 Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139'
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
01:42 AM
Vladimir Horowitz (1904-1989)
Variations on a Theme from Bizet's 'Carmen'
Evgeny Konnov (piano)
01:46 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Carmen - suite no.1
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stankovsky (conductor)
01:59 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Symphony in C
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
02:31 AM
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)
Concerto grosso for 3 cellos and orchestra
Lukasz Frant (cello), Natalia Kurzac-Kotula (cello), Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Alexander Liebreich (conductor)
03:07 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Zais Prologue
Collegium Vocale, Ghent, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor), Philippe Herreweghe (director)
03:41 AM
Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1840)
Rondeau, Op 3
Frans van Ruth (piano)
03:48 AM
Vaino Haapalainen (1893-1945)
Lemminkainen Overture (1925)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atso Almila (conductor)
03:56 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Recorder Sonata in D minor
Camerata Koln
04:06 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
3 Pieces from Slatter (Norwegian Peasant Dances), Op 72
Havard Gimse (piano)
04:15 AM
Petar Dinev (1889-1980)
Milost mira No.5 (A Mercy of Peace No.5)
Holy Trinity Choir, Plovdiv, Vessela Geleva (conductor)
04:20 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto, Op 8 No 12, RV 178
Fabio Biondi (violin), Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
04:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Don Giovanni overture
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare (conductor)
04:38 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Hymn to St Cecilia for chorus Op 27
BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor)
04:48 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
8 Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano'
Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Ja-Eun Ku (piano)
04:58 AM
Henricus Albicastro (fl.1700-06)
Concerto a 4, Op 7 no 2
Chiara Banchini (violin), Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (director)
05:07 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade for piano no. 1 (Op.23) in G minor
Zbigniew Raubo (piano)
05:16 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Pan og Syrinx Op 49 FS.87
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
05:25 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Trio for clarinet or viola, cello and piano (Op.114) in A minor
Ellen Margrethe Flesjo (cello), Hans Christian Braein (clarinet), Havard Gimse (piano)
05:50 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Four Works
Enrico Baiano (harpsichord)
06:05 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Piano Concerto no 2 in D minor, Op 40
Victor Sangiorgio (piano), West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000y05t)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and music celebrating this year’s WOMAD festival.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000y05w)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today’s starter.
1100 Essential Five – the second in our selection of the best music for harpsichord this week.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0774050)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Lincoln
Donald Macleod looks at Byrd’s early life. The celebrated composer began his career as a boy chorister at the Chapel Royal, becoming apprentice to its organist, Thomas Tallis, before winning his first music director post at Lincoln Cathedral.
Religious intolerance cast a long shadow over the life and music of William Byrd. As a Roman Catholic in Elizabethan England, he was persecuted by the state and often forced to tread a dangerous path between his personal convictions and his duty to the Queen.
His musical talent and his strength of character enabled him not just to survive, but thrive. Despite his trials he was, and continues to be, celebrated as the greatest British musician of his age.
By the time he was twenty, Byrd had already served under four successive monarchs. He experienced first-hand how musicians were put at the front line in the battle of faiths, as Britain’s rulers see-sawed between new Anglican religion and Roman Catholicism.
Donald follows young William to his first proper job, at Lincoln Cathedral, where he composed for voices and instruments. At Lincoln he also converted to Catholicism, a decision that would profoundly affect the rest of his life.
All this week, to accompany Composer of the Week, Radio 3 is also exploring William Byrd’s life through a series of new dramas starring David Suchet. To Preserve the Health of Man is at
10.45 each night.
O lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
Tallis Scholars
Peter Philips, director
Great Service (Hodie, Psalm 47, Magnificat)
Musica Contexta
The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Steven Devine, organ
Simon Ravens, director
In Nomine, a5 (IV)
Rose Consort of Viols
Christe qui Lux es, a4 (III)
In Nomine, a 5 (V)
Phantasm
Second Service (Magnificat)
Choir of Magdalen college Oxford
Fretwork
Ryan Leonard, organ
Bill Ives, director
Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, :a
Davitt Moroney, organ
Libera me Domine et pone
Alamire
David Skinner, director
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000y05y)
Longing: Chamber Music at Lundsgaard Manor, 2020 (1/4)
The first in a series of concerts showcasing highlights from the 2020 festival in Denmark, which had a theme of 'longing'. Music performed by a line-up of Nordic Chamber music stars, including Brahms' String Sextet No. 2 in G, op. 36 as well as pieces by Kodaly and Bruch.
Presented by Sarah Walker.
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) - Intermezzo - Allegretto
Michael Germer, violin
Nicholas Swensen, viola
Jonathan Swensen, cello
Max Bruch (1838-1920) - Nachtgesang, from 'Eight Pieces, op. 83'
Jonas Frølund, clarinet
Jonathan Swensen, cello
Gustav Piekut, piano
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - String Sextet No. 2 in G, op. 36
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, violin
Michael Germer, violin
Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola
Nicholas Swensen, viola
Fredrik Schöyen Sjölin, cello
Jonathan Swensen, cello
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000y060)
The National Orchestra of Wales
Ian Skelly introduces a concert recorded last month by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Ryan Bancroft performing Takemitsu's Archipelago S. inspired in his native Japan; Mozart's last piano concerto, No. 27, with soloist Martin James Bartlett, closing with Debussy's evocative tone poem La Mer, The Sea, arranged by Joolz Gale. Then, the Welsh ensemble in Copland's Clarinet Concerto with soloist Robert Plane, under the baton of Eric Stern, before closing the afternoon with the powerful Symphony No 7, the 'Leningrad', by Dmitri Shostakovich, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, part of a set of recordings of the Russian composer's symphonies with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, commercially re-released this month.
2.00pm
Takemitsu: Archipelago S.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major, K 595
Debussy (arr. Joolz Gale): La Mer
Martin James Bartlett, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft, conductor
c.
3.10pm
Copland: Clarinet Concerto
Robert Plane, clarinet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern, conductor
c.
3.25pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad'
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mark Wigglesworth, conductor
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000y062)
VOCES8, Tim Mead, Samuele Telari
Sean Rafferty talks to countertenor Tim Mead ahead of his appearance at Shipwright Festival and to accordion player Samuele Telari about the release of his new album of Bach's Goldberg Variations. VOCES8 perform live in the studio.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000y064)
Classical music to inspire you
In Tune's Classical Music Mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000y066)
Visiting the UK: Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
From The Royal Festival Hall, London on 11 October 2011.
Claudio Abbado's last concert in London with his Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Mozart's 'Haffner' Symphony and Bruckner's Fifth Symphony.
On two nights in October 2011, the 78-year-old maestro brought his handpicked orchestra to The Royal Festival Hall to give legendary performances. As one reviewer wrote of the Bruckner: "Abbado gave a performance that – in terms of ensemble, expression and flexibility – was among the most astonishing any of us are likely to experience...... A vision of infinity, a collapsing of time and space into a single point of brilliance and intensity."
With original concert presentation by Louise Fryer.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Mozart: Symphony no.35 in D major 'Haffner'
7.50pm Interval: principal viola, Béatrice Muthelet talks about making music with Claudio Abbado.
8.05pm
Bruckner: Symphony no.5 in B flat
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Followed by performances of music by Schumann and Mozart from pianist, Mitsuko Uchida, who appeared with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hal the previous evening.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000y068)
Bette Davis
A spinster dominated by her mother in Now Voyager (1942), a strong-willed Southern belle in Jezebel (1938) which won her an Academy award for best actress, a Broadway star in All About Eve (1950): just some of the 100 film roles played Bette Davis during a career which ran from the 1930s to the late 1980s. As the British Film Institute puts on a season of films throughout August, including a re-mastered version of Now Voyager, Matthew Sweet is joined by Sarah Churchwell, Lucy Bolton and Anna Bogutskaya to talk about Bette Davis failing her first screen test because she didn't "look like an actress", her legal fight with the studios, working for the war effort and the appeal of Bette Davis eyes.
Sarah Churchwell is professorial fellow in American literature and chair of public understanding of the humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and the author of Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream, Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby, and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe.
Anna Bogutskaya is a film programmer, broadcaster, writer and creative producer. She is the co-founder of the horror film collective The Final Girls and Festival Director of Underwire Festival.
Lucy Bolton is Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch and co-editor of Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure.
Now Voyager, directed by Irving Rapper opens at the BFI and selected cinemas around the UK from August 6th 2021. You can find other discussions about "landmark" films and Hollywood stars in the Landmarks playlist on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44
Episode includes discussions about Marlene Dietrich, Glenda Jackson on Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday, Jacques Tati's Trafic, Jaws and Solaris.
Producer: Ruth Watts
TUE 22:45 To Preserve the Health of Man (m000y06b)
Episode 2
David Suchet stars as the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, 'The Father of English Music'. In five imagined encounters, Byrd looks back at key influences in his life and work, as he composes his major liturgical work, the Gradualia, a collection of 109 pieces written for each of the feasts and events in the Church calendar.
Episode 2
Easter 1604. Byrd reflects on the careful line he has walked between political pragmatism and adherence to his faith and his inspiration. Queen Elizabeth protected and rewarded him but not without some compromise on his part.
Written by D.J. Britton
William Byrd ..... David Suchet
Queen Elizabeth ..... Juliet Aubrey
Music performed by Odyssean Ensemble and recorded at the Chapel Royal, Tower of London
Music Director, Colm Carey
Sound, Nigel Lewis and Catherine Robinson
Directed by Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 3
The title is from a quote by William Byrd: 'The exercise of singing is delightful to nature, and good to preserve the health of man.'
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000y06d)
Dissolve into sound
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 21 JULY 2021
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000y06g)
Chamber Music from Bucharest
Works for violin, viola and piano by Bruch, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Boulanger and Shostakovich. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Eight Pieces, op. 83 (Excerpts)
Mihaela Martin (violin), Razvan Popovici (viola), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
12:48 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S. 274
Razvan Popovici (viola), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
12:55 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Souvenir d'un lieu cher, op. 42
Mihaela Martin (violin), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
12:59 AM
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Nocturne
Mihaela Martin (violin), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
01:03 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Valse sentimentale, op. 51/6
Razvan Popovici (viola), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
01:06 AM
Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Love Song, op. 7/1
Razvan Popovici (viola), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
01:13 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Intermezzo, from 'F-A-E Sonata'
Razvan Popovici (viola), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
01:15 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
La Gitana
Razvan Popovici (viola), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
01:18 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, op. 94
Mihaela Martin (violin), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
01:31 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975), Lev Atovmyan (arranger)
Five Pieces
Mihaela Martin (violin), Razvan Popovici (viola), Mara Dobrescu (piano)
01:41 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) in D major TWV.55:D18
Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (conductor)
02:04 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Concert champetre for harpsichord and orchestra
Jory Vinikour (harpsichord), Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
02:31 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Quintet in G minor, Op 39
Hexagon Ensemble
02:52 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Jesu, meine Freude - motet (BWV.227)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
03:13 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Sonata no. 18 in E flat major Op.31 no.3 for piano
Zhang Zuo (piano)
03:36 AM
Friedrich Kunzen (1761-1817)
Husitterne (The Hussites), (Overture)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (conductor)
03:44 AM
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (c.1580-1651)
Three works: Preludio, Toccata II; Sfessania; Passacaglia
Simone Vallerotonda (theorbo)
03:55 AM
Henri Duparc (1848-1933), Francois Coppee (author)
La Vague et la cloche for voice and piano
Gerald Finley (baritone), Stephen Ralls (piano)
04:01 AM
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (excerpts)
Winds of Flemish Radio Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)
04:10 AM
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
04:20 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Allegretto con variazioni in C major Wq.118/5
Geert Bierling (organ)
04:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750),Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Fuga ricercata No 2 (from 'Musikalischen Opfer', BWV.1079)
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Fortner (conductor)
04:41 AM
Gosta Nystroem (1890-1966), Elmer Diktonius (author), Ebba Lindqvist (author), Vilhelm Ekelund (author)
Tre havsvisioner (3 Visions about the sea)
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustav Sjokvist (conductor)
04:53 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in F minor, RV.297 'L'Inverno'
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
05:01 AM
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Overture to Prince Igor
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
05:12 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.3 in C sharp (Op.39)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
05:20 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
La Sultane
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (soloist)
05:30 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Quartet for strings (Op.42) in D minor
Pavel Haas Quartet
05:43 AM
Marcin Leopolita ((? - 1589))
Missa Paschalis
Michal Straszewski (bass), Il Canto, Barbara Janowska (soprano), Wanda Laddy (soprano), Robert Lawaty (counter tenor), Cezary Szyfman (baritone)
06:02 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No.38 in D major (K.504), "Prague"
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000y0h0)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and music celebrating this year’s WOMAD festival.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000y0h2)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today’s starter.
1100 Essential Five – another outstanding piece for harpsichord.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0774054)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Businessman
Byrd risks his livelihood and his reputation as he ventures into music publishing. With Donald Macleod.
Religious intolerance cast a long shadow over the life and music of William Byrd. As a Roman Catholic in Elizabethan England, he was persecuted by the state and often forced to tread a dangerous path between his personal convictions and his duty to the Queen.
His musical talent and his strength of character enabled him not just to survive, but thrive. Despite his trials he was, and continues to be, celebrated as the greatest British musician of his age.
The book business was booming in London, with a hundred and seventy-five booksellers thriving in the city. So, Byrd felt certain he would make his fortune when the Queen herself awarded him a monopoly on the printing and sale of music. Things didn’t turn out quite as he planned.
All this week, to accompany Composer of the Week, Radio 3 is also exploring William Byrd’s life through a series of new dramas starring David Suchet. To Preserve the Health of Man is at
10.45 each night.
Susanna fair
Geraldine McGreevy, soprano
Phantasm
Emendemus in melius; Peccantem me quotidie
The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood, director
Clarifica me, pater
Davitt, Morone, organ
Domine secundum actum meum
Alamire
David Skinner, director
O that most rare breast
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Fretwork
Galliards Gygge
Elizabeth Farr, Harpsichord
Lullaby
Geraldine McGreevy, soprano
Phantasm
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000y0h4)
Longing: Chamber Music at Lundsgaard Manor, 2020 (2/4)
The second in a series of concerts showcasing highlights from the 2020 festival in Denmark, which had a theme of 'longing'. Today the Danish String Quartet juxtapose Bach with Webern.
Presented by Sarah Walker.
Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Overture on Hebrew Themes, op. 34
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, violin
Michael Germer, violin
Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola
Soo-Kyung Hong, cello
Jonas Frølund, clarinet
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - La Valse
Gustav Piekut, piano
Jens Elvekjaer, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Contrapunctus 14, from 'The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080'
SEGUE
Anton Webern (1883-1945) - String Quartet (1905)
SEGUE
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Vor deinen Thron tret' ich hiermit, BWV 668
Danish String Quartet
Frederik Øland, violin
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin
Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola
Fredrik Schöyen Sjölin, cello
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000y0h6)
The National Orchestra of Wales
Ian Skelly introduces a concert recorded in April this year given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under the baton of Ryan Wigglesworth, who conducts the world premiere of his Five Waltzes for viola and piano arranged for orchestra, performed by soloist Lawrence Power; the afternoon starts with Stravinsky's Symphonies of wind instruments, though, and also includes Elizabeth Maconchy's Music for brass and woodwind, as well as Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher. The afternoon closes with another Elizabeth Maconchy piece, this time for chorus and orchestra, her And Death Shall Have No Dominion, with the BBC National Chorus of Wales joining the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, all under conductor Adrian Partington.
2.00pm
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Ryan Wigglesworth: Five Waltzes for viola and piano, arr. for orchestra (World Premiere)
Elizabeth Maconchy: Music for Brass and Woodwind
Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher
Lawrence Power, viola
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor
c.
3.10pm
Elizabeth Maconchy: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC National Chorus Of Wales
Adrian Partington, conductor
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m000y0h8)
Selwyn College, Cambridge
From the Chapel of Selwyn College, Cambridge on the Eve of the Feast of Mary Magdalene.
Introit: Miserere mei, Deus (Aleotti)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm 139 (Martin, MacDonald)
First Lesson: Isaiah 25 vv.1-9
Canticles: Caesar’s Service (Amner)
Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 1 vv.3-7
Anthem: When Jesus sat at meat (Nicolson)
Hymn: Give us the wings of faith (San Rocco)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in A major BWV 536 (Bach)
Sarah MacDonald (Director of Music)
Michael Stephens-Jones (Percy Young Senior Organ Scholar)
Yvette Murphy (Junior Organ Scholar)
Recorded 29 June 2021.
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000y0hb)
Scenes from Childhood
Elisabeth Brauss plays Schumann's exquisite 'Scenes from Childhood'.
Chausson: Serenade Italienne
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Ashok Gupta (piano)
Schumann: Kinderszenen Op. 15
Elisabeth Brauss (piano)
Elgar: Pleading Op.48
Annie Fortescue Harrison: In the Gloaming
James Newby (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000y0hd)
Susan Bullock & Richard Sisson and Gabriel Jackson
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio for a live performance by soprano Susan Bullock and pianist Richard Sisson, ahead of their performance at the Petworth Festival. Sean also chats to Gabriel Jackson about the world premiere of his new work which forms part of the Three Choirs Festival.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0002ncr)
What made Rachmaninov cry?
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.
01
00:00:13 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
Singer: Soloists
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Matthew Best
Duration 00:13:35
02
00:04:15 Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in G major, Op 32 No 5
Performer: John Ogdon
Duration 00:02:57
03
00:07:05 Edvard Grieg
Cow Call and Peasant Dance (Nordic Melodies, Op 63)
Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Koln
Conductor: Eivind Aadland
Duration 00:04:47
04
00:09:23 Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Pseudo-Yoik
Choir: Tapiolan Kamarikuoro
Conductor: Hannu Norjanen
Duration 00:02:18
05
00:11:35 Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55, 'Eroica' (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Charles Mackerras
Duration 00:05:21
06
00:15:52 Robert Schumann
Frühlingsnacht transc Liszt
Music Arranger: Franz Liszt
Performer: James Rhodes
Duration 00:03:04
07
00:18:45 Leó Weiner
Szekely Barndance ('Csurdongolo') - from Ket Tetel
Performer: Andreas Ottensamer
Performer: Leonidas Kavakos
Performer: Christoph Koncz
Performer: Antoine Tamestit
Performer: Stephan Koncz
Performer: Ödön Rácz
Performer: Oszkár Ökrös
Performer: Predrag Tomic
Duration 00:02:00
08
00:20:42 Philip Glass
String Quartet no.5 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
Duration 00:02:59
09
00:23:43 William Walton
Death of Falstaff; Touch her soft lips (Henry V)
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Duration 00:04:46
10
00:26:27 Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude No 3 in E major, BWV 1006 (Preludio)
Performer: Midori
Duration 00:03:38
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000y0hg)
Visiting the UK: Atonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia
Continuing our series of International Orchestras in Radio 3 in Concert, an archive recording taken at the opening of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival in a gala concert at the Usher Hall with Sir Antonio Pappano conducting one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Rome, performing works by Bellini, Verdi and also Rossini's operatic Stabat Mater.
Rossini: Sinfonia from Otello
Bellini: Sinfonia from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Verdi: Ballabile from Macbeth
INTERVAL at
8.00pm / Maritin Handley talks to music critic Keith Bruce, who was there on the night.
8.20pm
Rossini: Stabat Mater
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Carmen Giannattasio (soprano)
Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo)
Yijie Shi (tenor)
Roberto Tagliavini (bass)
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b0b01vwk)
Landmark: Rashomon
David Peace, Natasha Pulley, Yuna Tasaka and Jasper Sharp join Rana Mitter.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story 'In a Grove', published in 1922, became the basis for the 1950 film from Akira Kurosawa 'Rashōmon', one of the first Japanese films to gain worldwide critical acclaim. 'The Rashōmon Effect' has become a byword for the literary technique where the same event is presented via the different and incompatible testimonies from the characters involved. David Peace's new book 'Patient X' is a novelised response to Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's last years and his death by suicide at the age of 35. Natasha Pulley is a novelist and Japanophile with a particular interest in Japanese literature of the 1920s, and in the unreliable narrator implied by use of the Rashōmon Effect. And Jasper Sharp is a writer and curator, author of the Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema.
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
WED 22:45 To Preserve the Health of Man (m000y0hk)
Episode 3
David Suchet stars as the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, 'The Father of English Music'. In five imagined encounters, Byrd looks back at key influences in his life and work, as he composes his major liturgical work, the Gradualia, a collection of 109 pieces written for each of the feasts and events in the Church calendar.
Episode 3
Ascension Day, 1605. Byrd recalls his friend and mentor Thomas Tallis, from whom he learnt both about music and about political survival. Under Queen Elizabeth, they were granted the exclusive and lucrative licence to publish music in England and to sell staved paper.
Written by D.J. Britton
William Byrd ..... David Suchet
Thomas Tallis ..... Philip Jackson
Music performed by Odyssean Ensemble and recorded at the Chapel Royal, Tower of London
Music Director, Colm Carey
Sound, Nigel Lewis and Catherine Robinson
Directed by Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 3
The title is from a quote by William Byrd: 'The exercise of singing is delightful to nature, and good to preserve the health of man.'
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000y0hm)
The music garden
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 22 JULY 2021
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000y0hp)
Musical poetry from Russia
The WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne perform Russian music including Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, plus music from the stage and screen. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Isaak Dunayevsky (1900-1955)
Overture from 'The Children of Captain Grant'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
12:36 AM
Georgy Vasilevich Sviridov (1915-1988)
Small Triptych
WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
12:46 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
Claire Huangci (piano), WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
01:10 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Fazil Say (arranger)
Alla turca, from Piano Sonata no.11 in A major, K.331
Claire Huangci (piano)
01:12 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Étude Op.10 no.12 in C minor (Revolutionary)
Claire Huangci (piano)
01:15 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
01:21 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Kuda, kuda vi udalilis, from 'Eugene Onegin'
Oliver Wenhold (cello), WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
01:27 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Waltz Scene from 'Eugene Onegin'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
01:34 AM
Bronislaw Kaper (1902-1983)
Gypsy Waltz from 'The Brothers Karamazov'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
01:37 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Troika, from 'Lieutenant Kijé', Op.60
WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
01:41 AM
Maurice Jarre (1924-2009)
Lara's Theme from 'Dr. Zhivago'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
01:46 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Overture to 'Ruslan and Lyudmila'
WDR Radio Orchestra, Alexander Prior (conductor)
01:52 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Petrushka (1947)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
02:23 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op 25 no 2
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
02:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Thomas Friedli (clarinet), Quartet Sine Nomine
03:08 AM
Francesca Caccini (1587-1640)
Excerpts from Act One of La Liberazione di Ruggiero
Suzie Le Blanc (soprano), Barbara Borden (soprano), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Christian Hilz (baritone), Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (director)
03:28 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Chanson sans paroles for cello and orchestra (Op.22 No.1)
Arto Noras (cello), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
03:33 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Estampes
Hinko Haas (piano)
03:47 AM
Wawrzyniec Zulawski (1918-1957)
Suite in the Old Style
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
03:59 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonata a quattro in C major
Ensemble Zefiro
04:11 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Tapiola - symphonic poem, Op. 112 (1926)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
04:26 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Träumerei – from Kinderszenen for piano (Op.15)
Jane Coop (piano)
04:31 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Prelude to 'Tristan and Isolde'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Tabita Berglund (conductor)
04:41 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Allegro appassionato in C sharp minor Op 70
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
04:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV.1043
Nicolas Mazzoleni (violin), Lidewij van der Voort (violin), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director)
05:04 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Magnificat for chorus
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tonu Kaljuste (conductor)
05:11 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Folk sketches for small orchestral ensemble (1948)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
05:16 AM
Sergiu Natra (1924-2021)
Sonatina for Harp (1965)
Rita Costanzi (harp)
05:24 AM
Jan van Gilse (1881-1944)
Nonet (4 wind and 5 strings) (1916)
Viotta Ensemble
05:58 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto no 24 in C minor, K.491
Andre Previn (piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000y0x0)
Thursday - Petroc's classical alarm
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and music celebrating this year’s WOMAD festival.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000y0x2)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today’s starter.
1100 Essential Five – this week we're highlighting the harpsichord.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b0774058)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Friends and Patrons
Byrd’s Catholic faith forced him to choose his friends carefully, and he rewarded his allies with extraordinary music. With Donald Macleod.
Religious intolerance cast a long shadow over the life and music of William Byrd. As a Roman Catholic in Elizabethan England, he was persecuted by the state and often forced to tread a dangerous path between his personal convictions and his duty to the Queen.
His musical talent and his strength of character enabled him not just to survive, but thrive. Despite his trials he was, and continues to be, celebrated as the greatest British musician of his age.
Byrd cultivated friends in influential positions, including the family of Sir John Petre, who also shared Byrd’s Catholic faith. Donald Macleod follows Byrd to the Petre estate at Thorndon Hall in Essex where many of his works were performed, and to the nearby village of Stondon Massey where Byrd eventually set up his own country pad. Plus, we take a look along the shelves in Byrd’s personal library.
All this week, to accompany Composer of the Week, Radio 3 is also exploring William Byrd’s life through a series of new dramas starring David Suchet. To Preserve the Health of Man is at
10.45 each night.
The Barley Breake
Sophie Yates, virginals
Ne irascaris Domine
Stile Antico
The Passinge Mesures: The Nynthe Pavian and Galliarede
Kathryn Farr, harpsichord
Mass for 5 voices (Sanctus, Agnus Dei)
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks, director
O you that hear this voice
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Fretwork
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000y0x4)
Longing: Chamber Music at Lundsgaard Manor, 2020 (3/4)
The third in a series of concerts showcasing highlights from the 2020 festival in Denmark, which had a theme of 'longing'. Today the festival's founders Trio con Brio of Copenhagen perform Lili Boulanger's joyful D'un matin de printemps and Schubert's uplifting Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat, D. 898.
Presented by Sarah Walker.
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) - D'un matin de printemps
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Soo-Jin Hong, violin
Soo-Kyung Hong, cello
Jens Elvekjaer, piano
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) - In the Mists
Gustav Piekut, piano
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat, D. 898
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Soo-Jin Hong, violin
Soo-Kyung Hong, cello
Jens Elvekjaer, piano
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000y0x6)
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ian Skelly introduces music from a concert recorded earlier this month featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Martyn Brabbins performing Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Malcolm Arnold's Concerto for two violins and string orchestra, with soloists Lesley Hatfield and Nick Whiting, followed by John Pickard's Concertante variations (Presteigne concerto), then Walton's Siesta, finishing the concerto with Elgar's Serenade in E minor. After that we hear Daniel Jones's Symphony No. 5 with the Welsh ensemble under the baton of Bryden Thomson.
Next comes Copland's clarinet concert with soloist Robert Plane, with Thomas Sondergard conducting.
The afternoon closes with Hindemith's Symphony (Mathis der Maler) performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Tadaaki Osaka.
2.00pm
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Arnold: Concerto for two violins and string orchestra, Op 77
John Pickard: Concertante variations (Presteigne concerto)
Walton: Siesta
Elgar: Serenade in E minor, Op 20
Lesley Hatfield & Nick Whiting, violins
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
c.
2.50pm
Daniel Jones: Symphony No. 5
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Bryden Thomson, conductor
c.
3.35pm
Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto
Robert Plane, clarinet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard, conductor
c.
4.00pm
Hindemith: Symphony (Mathis der Maler)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000y0x8)
Leslie Howard
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Leslie Howard for a live performance in the studio.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000y0xb)
A 30-minute mix of delightful classical music
In Tune's Classical Music Mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000y0xd)
Visiting the UK: Yuri Temirkanov conducts the St Petersburg Philharmonic
Continuing the series of memorable concerts given by visiting orchestras from the last decade of the Radio 3 archive, Yuri Temirkanov conducts the legendary St. Petersburg Philharmonic in a programme of Russian music recorded at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester in 2014. The repertoire has a link to the city as Liadov, who composed the first piece, the tone poem Kikimora, was born in St Petersburg as was Shostakovich. The orchestra premiered no fewer than seven of Shostakovich's symphonies, including the final piece in the concert, his 10th Symphony. Sandwiched between these two pieces is Tchaikovsky’s great Romantic Violin Concerto, performed by the Spanish violinist Leticia Moreno.
Liadov: Kikimora
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
8.20pm Interval - Martin Handley talks to Prof. Pauline Fairclough, expert in Soviet music, about the history of this orchestra and the role it played in the geo-politics of the Cold War with the West.
c.
8.30pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
Leticia Moreno (violin)
St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b0b01xk3)
Tokyo Idols and Urban life
Tokyo used to be presented as the ultimate hyper-modern city. But after years of economic recession the Tokyo of today has another side. A site of alienation and loneliness, anxiety about conformity and identity, it is a place where self-professed 'geeks' (or 'otaku'), mostly single middle-aged men, congregate in districts like Akibahara to pursue fanatical interests outside mainstream society, including cult-like followings of teenage girl singers known as Tokyo Idols.
Novelist Tomouki Hoshino, photographer Suzanne Mooney, writer/photographer Mariko Nagai and film-maker Kyoko Miyake look at life in the city for the Heisei generation. Presented by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.
Director Kyoko Miyake has made a film called Tokyo Idols which looks at the obsession of middle aged men with superstar teenage girls who make a living online
Suzanne Mooney's photographs depict the urban landscapes of Tokyo.
Novelist Tomouki Hoshino's latest book to be translated into English is called ME. It's about rootless millennials and suicide.
Mariko Nagai is an author and photographer who has written for children and adults. Her books include Instructions for the Living and Irradiated Cities.
The translator was Bethan Jones and the speakers were all in the UK to take part in events as part of Japan Now - a festival at the British Library in London, and in Manchester, Sheffield, Norwich. Programmed by Modern Culture in partnership with the Japan Foundation and Sheffield University.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
THU 22:45 To Preserve the Health of Man (m000y0xh)
Episode 4
David Suchet stars as the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, 'The Father of English Music'. In five imagined encounters, Byrd looks back at key influences in his life and work, as he composes his major liturgical work, the Gradualia, a collection of 109 pieces written for each of the feasts and events in the Church calendar.
Episode 4
Pentecost, 1606. James I is wreaking revenge on Catholics following the Gunpowder Plot and times have become dangerous for Byrd and his wife. The first part of the Gradualia has been published and the manuscripts pose a threat for anyone who possesses a copy, especially as they are written in Latin.
Written by D.J. Britton
William Byrd ..... David Suchet
Juliana ..... Sara Kestelman
Music performed by Odyssean Ensemble and recorded at the Chapel Royal, Tower of London
Music Director, Colm Carey
Sound, Nigel Lewis and Catherine Robinson
Directed by Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 3
The title is from a quote by William Byrd: 'The exercise of singing is delightful to nature, and good to preserve the health of man.'
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000y0xk)
Music for the evening
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000xthn)
Peaceful summer sun
Elizabeth Alker presents eclectic ambient music by a new generation of composers. This week features laid-back warmth and cloud-like synths on a track by Hollie Kenniff which was inspired by a quote - “I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream” - from the director David Lynch. The artist known as Tiny Leaves expresses his gratitude for the natural world on a track with a delicate cinematic quality that brings about a quiet hope. Plus music from the Canadian composer Sarah Davachi who sonically haunted a decommissioned coal fired power station at the Abandon Normal Devices festival recently. Working with the visual artist Aura Satz, Sarah weaves eerie mournful sounds into a live online broadcast called The Grief Interval.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 23 JULY 2021
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000y0xn)
Mozart, Elgar and Bruch from Bucharest
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra and conductor Cristian Mandeal play Mozart, Elgar and Bruch. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Serenade No. 12 in C minor, K. 388
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal (conductor)
12:54 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for Strings in E minor, op. 20
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal (conductor)
01:06 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Serenade on Swedish Folk Melodies, op. posth.
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal (conductor)
01:23 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No 9 in A major 'Kreutzer'
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
01:57 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339
Arianna Venditelli (soprano), Emilie Renard (mezzo soprano), Rupert Charlesworth (tenor), Marcell Bakonyi (bass), Coro Maghini, Claudio Chiavazza (director), Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
02:31 AM
Fritz Brun (1878-1959)
Symphony No.2 in B flat
Berne Symphony Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaenjko (conductor)
03:11 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Piano Sonata no 2 in A major, Op 21
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
03:39 AM
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
Sonata in D minor
Amsterdam Bach Soloists, Wim ten Have (conductor)
03:49 AM
Fredrik Pacius (1809-1891)
Overture from the Hunt of King Charles (1852)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
03:57 AM
Howard Cable (1920-2016)
The Banks of Newfoundland
Hannaford Street Silver Band, Stephen Chenette (conductor)
04:05 AM
Rudolf Matz (1901-1988)
Ballade for violin, cello & piano
Zagreb Piano Trio
04:13 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872), Stanislaw Wiechowicz (arranger), Piotr Mazynski (arranger)
4 Choral Songs (excerpts)
Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (director)
04:21 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in G minor (K 88) for 2 harpsichords
Dagmara Kapczyńska (harpsichord), Gwennaelle Alibert (harpsichord)
04:31 AM
Anton Milling (18th century)
Concerto for Viola da Gamba and Strings in D minor
Aira Maria Lehtipuu (violin), Teodoro Bau (viola da gamba), Kore Orchestra
04:41 AM
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Introduction and variations on a theme from Mozart's Magic Flute, Op 9
Ana Vidovic (guitar)
04:49 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Stabat Mater
Camerata Silesia - Katowice City Singers, Anna Szostak (director)
04:59 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Largo from Funf Klavierstucke Op 3 No 3
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
05:08 AM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Overture to The Maid of Pskov
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
05:15 AM
Maxim Berezovsky (1745-1777)
Ne otverzhy mene vo vremia starosti
Dumka Academic Cappella, Evgeny Savchuk (director)
05:26 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Gurer Aykal (conductor)
05:51 AM
Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-1986)
Croquiser, Op 38
Marten Landstrom (piano)
06:03 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Quintet in D major for clarinet, horn, violin, cello and piano
Stephan Siegenthaler (clarinet), Thomas Müller (horn), Matthias Enderle (violin), Patrick Demenga (cello), Hiroko Sakagami (piano)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000y1c4)
Friday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests, the Friday poem and music celebrating this year’s WOMAD festival.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000y1c6)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today’s starter.
1100 Essential Five – our final pick of the best pieces for harpsichord.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b077405d)
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Retirement
Byrd attends Elizabeth I’s funeral and looks to his own legacy. With Donald Macleod.
Religious intolerance cast a long shadow over the life and music of William Byrd. As a Roman Catholic in Elizabethan England, he was persecuted by the state and often forced to tread a dangerous path between his personal convictions and his duty to the Queen.
His musical talent and his strength of character enabled him not just to survive, but thrive. Despite his trials he was, and continues to be, celebrated as the greatest British musician of his age.
Byrd’s reputation remained undimmed in his old age and, as the Tudors gave way to the Stewarts, things began to look rosier for musicians like Byrd. However, the activities of a certain Guy Fawkes meant that his plans to publish a set of ‘Propers’ for the Catholic Mass had to be put on hold.
All this week, to accompany Composer of the Week, Radio 3 is also exploring William Byrd’s life through a series of new dramas starring David Suchet. To Preserve the Health of Man is at
10.45 each night.
In fields abroad
Ian Partridge, tenor
Phantasm
Propers for the Feast of All Saints
The Cardinall’s Musick
Andrew Carwood, director
Ave Verum
Tallis Scholars
Fantasia a6 (III) ‘to the vyolls’
Phantasm
Fair Britain Isle
James Bowman, counter-tenor
Ricercar Consort
Pavane & Galliard ‘The Earle of Salisbury’
Catalina Vicens, Harpsichord
Sing joyfully unto God our strength
Musica Contexta
Steven Devine, organ
The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble
Simon Ravens, director
Producer: Chris Taylor
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000y1c8)
Longing: Chamber Music at Lundsgaard Manor, 2020 (4/4)
The final instalment in a series of concerts showcasing highlights from the 2020 festival in Denmark, which had a theme of 'longing'. Today the festival's founders Trio con Brio perform Charles Ives' Piano Trio, and are joined by violist Nicholas Swensen to play Schumann's Piano Quartet in E flat, op. 47.
Presented by Sarah Walker.
Charles Ives (1874-1954) - Piano Trio
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Soo-Jin Hong, violin
Soo-Kyung Hong, cello
Jens Elvekjaer, piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) - Piano Quartet in E flat, op. 47
Soo-Jin Hong, violin
Nicholas Swensen, viola
Soo-Kyung Hong, cello
Jens Elvekjaer, piano
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000y1cb)
The National Orchestra of Wales
Ian Skelly closes this week with more performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Today starts with the brass section of the ensemble playing Sibelius's Overture in F minor. Then, a concert given by the ensemble with conductor B. Tommy Anderson featuring Bartok's Hungarian Sketches for orchestra, from his own piano works; followed by Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with virtuoso soloist Beatrice Rana. The concert finishes with Korngold's Symphony in F sharp.
Then, Robert Plane performs Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie, accompanied by the ensemble, under the baton of Tadaaki Osaka.
The afternoon closes with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6, under conductor Mark Wigglesworth, part of a cycle of recordings of the Russian's composer symphonies by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, commercially re-released this month.
2.00pm
Sibelius: Overture in F minor
Brass section, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
c.
2.10pm
Bartok: Hungarian sketches Sz.97 for orchestra [from own piano works]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op.26
Korngold: Symphony in F sharp Op.40
Beatrice Rana, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
B. Tommy Andersson, conductor
c.
3.45pm
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie
Robert Plane, clarinet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
c.
3.55pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 6
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mark Wigglesworth, conductor
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000xzn1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000y1cd)
Justin Adams and Mohamed Errebbaa, Erika Mädi Jones and Panaretos Kyriatzidis
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by soprano Erika Mädi Jones and pianist Panaretos Kyriatzidis ahead of their performance at the Three Choirs Festival. There's also live music from Justin Adams (guitar) and Mohamed Errebbaa (gimbri) as a preview of their performance at the Snape Maltings Dome Stage.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000y1cg)
Classical music to fill half an hour
In Tune's Classical Music Mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000y1cj)
Visiting the UK: Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Bach Collegium Japan
Bach Collegium Japan: Bach B Minor Mass.
Under the direction of founder Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan has built a worldwide reputation in Baroque sacred music. Bach's B minor Mass was a suitably inspired opening to the first major UK residency by the Collegium at the Barbican Hall in 2016.
Original concert presented by Martin Handley.
Presenter Hannah French.
Bach Mass in B minor (part 1)
8.30 pm
Interval
Robin Blaze talks to Hannah French about working with Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan.
8.40 pm
Bach Mass in B minor (part 2)
Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
Joanne Lunn (soprano)
Robin Blaze (alto)
Colin Balzer (tenor)
Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000y1cl)
How to Write a Manifesto - Experiments in Living
What makes a good manifesto? Are they better if they are sloganeering or questioning? Radio 1's Greg James and co-writer Chris Smith's new book is like a manifesto for the imagination, Malika Booker co-founded a poetry workshop that has transformed the literary landscape, and Kathryn Williams' songs always chart new and remarkable territory - they all join Ian McMillan to hell him come up with ideas for shape of The Verb Manifesto which will be launched in the autumn.
FRI 22:45 To Preserve the Health of Man (m000y1cn)
Episode 5
David Suchet stars as the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, 'The Father of English Music'. In five imagined encounters, Byrd looks back at key influences in his life and work, as he composes his major liturgical work, the Gradualia, a collection of 109 pieces written for each of the feasts and events in the Church calendar.
Episode 4
Feast of St Peter & St Paul, 1607. Byrd is keeping a low profile and continuing with his composition. He must finally confront his memories of Edmund Campion, the Catholic martyr under Elizabeth and his close friend, whose staunch faith led to torture and the scaffold.
Written by D.J. Britton
William Byrd ..... David Suchet
Edmund Campion ..... Gunnar Cauthery
Music performed by Odyssean Ensemble and recorded at the Chapel Royal, Tower of London
Music Director, Colm Carey
Sound, Nigel Lewis and Catherine Robinson
Directed by Alison Hindell
BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 3
The title is from a quote by William Byrd: 'The exercise of singing is delightful to nature, and good to preserve the health of man.'
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000rwn3)
Sounds of the Universe
Throughout human history, drone music has been associated with the divine. The ancient Greeks thought the music of the planets, or the ‘universal music’, was one extended tone. In Hinduism Om is the primordial sound from which all existence springs and it’s the first thing we hear in the womb. But what role does it play in the radical music of the 20th Century? Ahead of his book on the subject, writer Harry Sword joins Verity to explore the heavier manifestations of drone. He shares pieces which challenge the idea that drone is always meditative, taking a look instead at the artists who are marrying metal and drone while still attempting to transcend the self.
We tune into the universal hum with pieces from current minimalist composer Sarah Davachi, heavy drone overlords Sunn O))) and ancient instrument player Barnaby Brown who uses vulture bones and prehistoric pipes to play Celtic drone. Verity also reflects on the recurring presence of the note C within drone. Engines often idle at C. Her coffee machine drones a C, as do bees in a hive, and Terry Riley famously focused on the note for his ‘In C’.
Elsewhere Verity picks out some anti-establishment electronics from Swiss Togo duo Yao Bobby and Simon Grab and we play new music from Mica Levi, which snuck out late last year.
Produced by Alannah Chance and Zakia Sewell
A Reduced Listening production from BBC Radio 3
01
00:00:05 The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir (artist)
Initiation Ceremony Of Guhysamaja Tantra
Performer: The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir
Duration 00:02:58
02
00:05:06 Sissy Fuss (artist)
Pale Moon Melts
Performer: Sissy Fuss
Duration 00:03:53
03
00:08:59 Keiji Haino (artist)
Become The Discovered, Not The Discoverer (Part I)
Performer: Keiji Haino
Performer: Merzbow
Performer: Balázs Pándi
Duration 00:02:54
04
00:12:48 John G. Cramer (artist)
The Sound of the Big Bang
Performer: John G. Cramer
Duration 00:01:23
05
00:14:11 Yabass Yaba Radics (artist)
The End Is Nigh
Performer: Yabass Yaba Radics
Duration 00:04:19
06
00:18:30 Barnaby Brown (artist)
The Desperate Battle Of The Birds
Performer: Barnaby Brown
Duration 00:04:24
07
00:24:36 Tanya Tagaq (artist)
Aorta
Performer: Tanya Tagaq
Duration 00:03:32
08
00:28:08 Rian Treanor (artist)
Obstacle 1
Performer: Rian Treanor
Duration 00:03:36
09
00:32:50 Éliane Radigue (artist)
Kyema, Intermediate States
Performer: Éliane Radigue
Duration 00:10:39
10
00:46:35 Master Musicians of Joujouka (artist)
Untitled
Performer: Master Musicians of Joujouka
Duration 00:05:05
11
00:56:07 Sunn O))) (artist)
My Wall
Performer: Sunn O)))
Duration 00:06:59
12
01:03:44 CV Vision (artist)
Ritual (No.4)
Performer: CV Vision
Duration 00:02:26
13
01:07:15 Hamid Drake (artist)
Some Good News
Performer: Hamid Drake
Performer: Elaine Mitchener
Performer: William Parker
Performer: Orphy Robinson
Performer: Pat Thomas
Duration 00:14:47
14
01:21:22 Pierre Mariétan (artist)
Rose Des Vents
Performer: Pierre Mariétan
Duration 00:06:16
15
01:27:49 Mica Levi (artist)
Waves
Performer: Mica Levi
Duration 00:01:59
16
01:29:48 Magurn (artist)
Brolga Bird Clan Song
Performer: Magurn
Performer: Dabulu
Duration 00:04:03
17
01:33:51 Yao Bobby (artist)
Black Revolution
Performer: Yao Bobby
Performer: Simon Grab
Duration 00:02:46
18
01:37:38 Sarah Davachi (artist)
Herber Well
Performer: Sarah Davachi
Duration 00:06:09
19
01:43:46 Widow's Weeds (artist)
Twilight Voices
Performer: Widow's Weeds
Duration 00:04:04
20
01:48:53 SOPHIE (artist)
Lemonade
Performer: SOPHIE
Duration 00:01:58
21
01:50:51 Stella Chiweshe (artist)
Njuzu
Performer: Stella Chiweshe
Duration 00:03:34
22
01:55:12 Lea Bertucci (artist)
Wind Piece
Performer: Lea Bertucci
Duration 00:04:49
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 (m000xz90)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m000y060)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m000y0h6)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m000y0x6)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m000y1cb)
Between the Ears
18:45 SUN (m000xzn5)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m000xzrj)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m000xzmq)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m000xz8s)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m000y05t)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m000y0h0)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m000y0x0)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m000y1c4)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m000xr49)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (m000y0h8)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m000xznc)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b0770mrz)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b0774050)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b0774054)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b0774058)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b077405d)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (b09hrr7t)
Early Music Now
16:30 MON (m000xz92)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m000xz8v)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m000y05w)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m000y0h2)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m000y0x2)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m000y1c6)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m000y068)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b0b01vwk)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b0b01xk3)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m000xzs3)
Happy Harmonies with Laufey
02:00 SAT (m000y2jn)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m000xz96)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m000y064)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m0002ncr)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m000y0xb)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m000y1cg)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m000xz94)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m000y062)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m000y0hd)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m000y0x8)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m000y1cd)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m000xzrq)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m000xzrx)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m000xzmz)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m000rwn3)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m000xz9b)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m000xz9b)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m000xzrv)
New Generation Artists
16:30 WED (m000y0hb)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m000xzs1)
Nick Luscombe's Sounds of Japan
23:00 SUN (m000lgwq)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m000xz9l)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m000y06d)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m000y0hm)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (m000xzrz)
Piano Flow with Lianne La Havas
01:00 SAT (m000vzby)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m000xzmv)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m000xrk7)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m000xz8y)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m000y05y)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m000y0h4)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m000y0x4)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m000y1c8)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m000xz98)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m000y066)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m000y0hg)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m000y0xd)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m000y1cj)
Record Review Extra
21:00 SUN (m000xzn9)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m000xzrl)
Sound of Cinema
15:00 SAT (m000xzrs)
Sunday Feature
19:15 SUN (m000xzn7)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m000xzms)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m000xzmx)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m000xzn1)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m000xzn1)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m000y0xk)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m000y1cl)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m000xzrn)
Through the Night
03:00 SAT (m000xv3l)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m000xzs5)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m000xznf)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m000xz9q)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m000y06g)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m000y0hp)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m000y0xn)
To Preserve the Health of Man
22:45 MON (m000xz9d)
To Preserve the Health of Man
22:45 TUE (m000y06b)
To Preserve the Health of Man
22:45 WED (m000y0hk)
To Preserve the Health of Man
22:45 THU (m000y0xh)
To Preserve the Health of Man
22:45 FRI (m000y1cn)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m000xthn)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m000xzn3)