Say goodbye to the long nights and cold mornings and drift into spring with a dose of the world's most soothing piano music. Tokio picks tracks from Sampha, Errollyn Wallen and David Bowie.
Baby Queen presents a mix of music from her favourite survival video games, including Gareth Coker’s score for ARK Genesis, Justin E. Bell’s soundtrack to Grounded and music from Subnautica by Simon Chylinski.
Violinist Renaud Capuçon joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Fabien Gabel to play Yan Maresz's orchestration of Ravel's Second Violin Sonata. Jonathan Swain presents.
Violin Sonata No. 2 in G
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Fabien Gabel (conductor)
Bacchus et Ariane, op. 43, Suite No. 2
Concerto for Harp, Flute and Orchestra (K. 299) in C major
Suzana Klincharova (harp), Georgi Spasov (flute), Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Plamen Djurov (conductor)
Elegy (Op 23) arr. for piano trio
Clare Wilkinson (mezzo soprano), Musica Antiqua of London, Philip Thorby (director)
The Globetrotter suite (Op.358) (orig. for solo piano)
Elizabeth Alker's breakfast melange of classical music, folk, unclassified tracks, found sounds and the now 'world-famous' croissant corner.
J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, Vol. 1
A room of mirrors – music by Calestani, Turini, Frescobaldi, etc.
Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5
Dedicated to 'dem lieben Gott' (the beloved God), Bruckner's monumental Ninth Symphony in D minor was intended to be the culmination of his life's work. Bruckner began working on the Ninth Symphony in the summer of 1887, immediately after finishing his Eighth, but he died in 1896 before finishing the fourth and final movement. Nonetheless, Bruckner's Ninth Symphony is often performed as a mighty, visionary large-scale three-movement work. Shimmering strings and low brass start the opening movement, Feierlich, misterioso, followed by the Scherzo and an achingly expansive Adagio.
La Captive du Sérail – music by Gluck, Gretry, Mozart, etc.
Suzanne Aspden discusses new and recent recordings of Baroque music with Andrew McGregor, from music by Telemann to Abel and C. P. E. Bach to Heinichen.
J.S. Bach & C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat
Georg Philipp Telemann: Kantaten – Französischer Jahrgang, Vol. 1
Ahead of a new production of Britten's Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House, Sara Mohr-Pietsch hears from members of the creative team bringing this compelling tale of an outsider to life, in a post-pandemic, 21st-century context.
The composer Anna Clyne also talks to Sara about her latest work, including a Handel-inspired piece to be premiered later this month by the Academy of Ancient Music and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.
As the situation in Ukraine continues, Sara looks talks to Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, about the company's parting of ways with Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, and to conductor Thomas Sanderling about the decision to leave his post at the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, asking the question of how one effectively balances art and politics.
And the phenomenally successful Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi joins Sara from his home studio in the Italian Alps, where the pandemic allowed a break in his usual hectic schedule to reappraise his creative process.
Jess Gillam with... Esther Abrami
Jess Gillam and violinist Esther Abrami swap playlists, including a French-inspired movie score by Rachel Portman, Paris meets Beirut in jazz form by trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, a gorgeous Motown tribute to Otis Redding, and a classic French chanson reimagined by the one and only Jarvis Cocker.
Cathy Thompson is a versatile violinist and a composer - a leading session musician who has played with groups ranging from the Medici String Quartet to the New Blood Orchestra.
Today, Cathy shares her unique experience of recording music from a huge range of genres, including the rising and falling inner string parts that characterise Joni Mitchell’s latest recording of her song ‘Both Sides Now’, to the physically exhausting but exhilarating music of Michael Nyman.
She also reveals a piece that keeps her moving, and explains why sometimes you have to bring jazz techniques to a Debussy sonata.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
Matthew Sweet ponders the relationship between cinema and cats and features some of its best film feline scores including Roy Webb’s ‘Cat People’, Danny Elfman’s music for Catwoman in ‘Batman Returns’ and naturally enough ‘The Aristocats’. Also in the programme is Henry Jackman's "Puss Suite" from Puss In Boots, Bruce Broughton's 'Homeward Bound', Kira Fontana's 'Kedi', Yuji Nomi's 'The Cat Returns' for Studio Ghibli, Christoper Young's 'Pet Sematary', Hans Zimmer's 'The Dark Knight Rises', and some of Michael Giachino's Cat Woman score for the new 'Batman' film. Matthew also takes a look at the recently released 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy, with music by Arthur Sharpe. The story of an Edwardian cat-lover and artist, which has a digital and DVD release this month.
Kathryn Tickell presents a recorded session from Israeli-born singer Nani Noam Vazana and talks to her about singing in the rare Jewish Ladino language. Plus the classic artist of the week is the Finnish accordionist, Maria Kalaniemi.
Julian Joseph presents live music from Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson, and trumpeter Marquis Hill shares his jazz inspirations.
One of Handel’s most successful operas when first performed in 1725, and one of his most highly regarded in recent times, Rodelinda is an involving, taut, and remarkably modern drama. Much of its power lies in the appeal of its protagonist, a realistic portrait of a woman rather than an allegorical type, and every character is driven by dramatically credible motivations and the human emotions that accompany them, all masterfully captured in Handel’s music, by turns subtle and bold.
Bertarido has been driven from his kingdom by Grimoaldo and is presumed dead, leaving behind his grieving wife, Rodelinda. Grimoaldo will imprison Rodelinda unless she agrees to marry him, thereby allowing him to seize Bertarido's throne for himself. But then the exiled king returns in disguise.
Soprano Elza van den Heever takes the title role, with countertenor Iestyn Davies as her husband Bertarido whose throne has been seized by Grimoaldo (tenor Paul Appleby), now betrothed to Bertarido's sister Eduige (mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke). Harry Bicket, a champion of the composer’s operas, takes the podium to conduct the Met’s moving production.
Rodelinda ..... Elza van den Heever (soprano)
Bertarido ..... Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Grimoaldo ..... Paul Appleby (tenor)
Eduige ..... Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano)
Unulfo ..... Anthony Roth Costanzo (contertenor)
Garibaldo ..... Adam Plachetka (bass-baritone)
Tom Service hosts a concert event at the Fire Station in Sunderland, with sets by local artists Contrazontal, Alison Cotton, Graeme Hopper, David de la Haye (with improvising ensemble) and Me Lost Me.
SUNDAY 20 MARCH 2022
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m00120vc)
Alternate states
Corey Mwamba presents electronic and found sounds conjuring new worlds. Drummer and composer Tyshawn Sorey teams up with synthesist and producer King Britt for polyrhythmic time travelling; vintage East Coast club sounds collide with in-the-moment improvisation, dazzling drum and bass and sharp breaks on an electronic plane.
Also exploring alternate states are the duo of double bassist Una MacGlone and pianist Jim McEwan, who take inspiration from the remote environs of the Scottish Hoy coastal lines and North Sea that surrounds it. The pair fuse their playing with the sounds of objects including radios, tape recorders and crinkly bags, journeying inwards to explore the experience of different psychological states.
Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:00:06 Notes Inégales (artist)
Le Serpent II
Performer: Notes Inégales
Duration 00:04:54
02
00:06:32 Ka Baird (artist)
Syzygy (For Pekka)
Performer: Ka Baird
Performer: Pekka Airaksinen
Duration 00:03:19
03
00:09:50 Tyshawn Sorey (artist)
Untitled Four
Performer: Tyshawn Sorey
Performer: King Britt
Duration 00:07:09
04
00:18:33 Blackwood (artist)
Suddenly, SNOW!
Performer: Blackwood
Duration 00:01:46
05
00:20:19 Una MacGlone (artist)
wintermoon
Performer: Una MacGlone
Performer: Jim McEwan
Duration 00:04:05
06
00:24:24 FUJIIIIIIIIIIITA (artist)
awa
Performer: FUJIIIIIIIIIIITA
Duration 00:04:45
07
00:31:38 Ellen Arkbro (artist)
Untitled rain (for two organs and cymbals)
Performer: Ellen Arkbro
Duration 00:02:43
08
00:34:21 Luke Stewart (artist)
Works For Upright Bass and Amplifier Pt IV
Performer: Luke Stewart
Duration 00:06:28
09
00:42:02 Steve Swell (artist)
Resemblance Spilling Thick
Performer: Steve Swell
Performer: Perry Robinson
Duration 00:04:19
10
00:46:21 Prabumi (artist)
Ka Chey There (Prabumi Remix)
Performer: Prabumi
Duration 00:04:56
11
00:52:58 Milton Man Gogh (artist)
The Great Reset (Part 2)
Performer: Milton Man Gogh
Duration 00:06:59
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m0015ckp)
Daniel Harding conducts Stravinsky, Debussy and Ravel at the Berlin Music Festival
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs Stravinsky's Agon ballet music, Debussy's La Mer and Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte. John Shea presents.
01:01 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Agon, ballet music
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
01:26 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La Mer
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
01:52 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
01:59 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Trio for piano and strings in A minor
Altenberg Trio Vienna
02:24 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Octet for wind instruments
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
02:40 AM
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Kammermusik no. 2 Op.36`1 for piano and 12 instruments
Ronald Brautigam (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
03:01 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Missa sine nomine
Silvia Piccollo (soprano), Annemieke Cantor (alto), Marco Beasley (tenor), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
03:16 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for Viola da Gamba In D major, BWV.1016
Teodoro Bau (viola da gamba), Andrea Buccarella (harpsichord)
03:33 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No 92 (H.
1.92) in G major, "Oxford"
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
03:58 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Joseph Eichendorff (author)
Wehmut (No 9) & Im Walde (No 11) from Liederkreis, Op 39
Olle Persson (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
04:03 AM
John Field (1782-1837)
Aria; Nocturne & Chanson
Barry Douglas (piano), Camerata Ireland
04:11 AM
Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996)
Benedic Domino, anima mea Op 59a
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
04:24 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Franz Liszt (transcriber)
Standchen, D957
Simon Trpceski (piano)
04:31 AM
Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962)
Two Scottish Pieces for orchestra Op 54
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Bell (conductor)
04:38 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Concertstuck for viola and piano (1906)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Monique Savary (piano)
04:47 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in F major (RV.574) for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr (oboe), Markus Muller (oboe), Anneke Scott (horn), Joseph Walters (horn), moni Fischaleck (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
05:01 AM
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Spanish Dance No.1 (Molto Ritmico) from La Vida Breve
Eolina Quartet
05:05 AM
Imogen Holst (1907-1984)
Leiston Suite
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
05:11 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs: My dark-haired maiden; O Mistress Mine; Six dukes went afishin'; Mary Thomson
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
05:22 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Antonin Dvorak (arranger)
5 Hungarian dances (nos.17-21) orch. Dvorak (orig. pf duet)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)
05:34 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Variations on a theme by Beethoven (Op.35)
Dale Bartlett (piano), Jean Marchand (piano)
05:54 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (K.622) in A major, arr. viola
Ryszard Grobewski (viola), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
06:20 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Haugtussa - song cycle
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
06:48 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Liebesleid; Libesfreud; Schön Rosmarin; Syncopation
Barnabas Kelemen (violin), Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m0015clz)
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 (m0015cm1)
Clive Myrie with a refreshing musical mix
Journalist, news presenter and Mastermind host Clive Myrie sits in for Sarah Walker and chooses three hours of uplifting music to complement your morning.
Clive selects music including the imposing overture to Tannhäuser by Wagner, the strikingly original Symphonies of Wind Instruments by Stravinsky and reflective film music by Belgian composer Wim Mertens.
Plus, Bobby McFerrin gives a unique performance of a classic song by Van Morrison.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m0015cm3)
Misan Harriman
Misan Harriman didn’t become a photographer till five years ago, when his wife gave him a camera for his fortieth birthday. Since then he’s become world-famous, photographing celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Cate Blanchett, and Meghan Markle – his was the romantic black-and-white photograph of Harry and Meghan announcing her pregnancy last year. Alongside these high-profile celebrity commissions, he’s also become a photographer known for documenting Extinction Rebellion, anti-Trump protests, and the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2020 he became the first black person in the 104-year history of British Vogue to shoot the cover of its prestigious September issue; last year he became the Chair of the Southbank Centre, the renowned arts complex in London.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Misan talks about his journey to become a photographer, from early childhood in Nigeria to his time at an English boarding school. He reveals his “superpower” of dyslexia, and how he’s found a new way of shooting portraits in lockdown: “remote photography”.
Misan Harriman is a passionate film buff, and all his music choices come from movies that have made a profound impression on him, from the soundtrack to “Ghost” which he saw as a boy, to William Walton’s score for “Henry V” and the moving Dunkirk scene in “Atonement”.
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015548)
Ingrid Fliter plays Haydn and Schumann
From Wigmore Hall: Ingrid Fliter plays Haydn, Scarlatti and Schumann.
The charismatic Argentinian pianist promises to bring her trademark flair and passion to music ranging from one of Scarlatti's characterful miniatures to Schumann's prodigiously virtuosic Études symphoniques, a work which he regarded as unsuitable for public performance.
Presented by Martin Handley
Haydn: Piano Sonata in E minor HXVI/34
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in C sharp minor Kk247
R. Schumann: Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with the posthumous études)
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000jt5r)
The Judgement of Paris
At the turn of the 18th century, a contest was announced in an attempt was made to kick-start the operatic scene in London. The brief was to set an all-sung English opera based on William Congreve's short libretto: The Judgement of Paris. An alluring 100 guineas was promised to the winner, and four contestants entered the competition: John Weldon, John Eccles, Daniel Purcell and Gottfried Finger.
Each entry was given an individual premiere before all four were staged on one night - a grand finale at Dorset Garden Theatre on 3 June 1701. The competition was judged by a public vote... what could possibly go wrong?
Hannah French explores the music and stories of the four entries.
01
00:02:41 John Eccles
The Judgement of Paris: Recitative - Air - Chorus (excerpt)
Performer: John Wallace
Orchestra: English Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: William Boughton
Duration 00:00:28
02
00:04:40 John Eccles
The Judgement of Paris (Symphony for Mercury)
Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins
Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments
Director: Peter Holman
Director: Roy Goodman
Duration 00:06:07
03
00:12:02 Daniel Purcell
Symphony for Juno [The Judgement of Paris]
Singer: Ciara Hendrick
Ensemble: Spiritato!
Director: Julian Perkins
Duration 00:02:13
04
00:15:28 John Eccles
Symphony for Venus / Hither turn thee Gentle Swain [The Judgement of Paris]
Singer: Claire Booth
Singer: Lucy Crowe
Singer: Susan Bickley
Ensemble: Early Opera Company
Director: Christian Curnyn
Duration 00:05:56
05
00:22:36 Gottfried Finger
Sonata in C major for trumpet, violin continuo
Performer: Robert Farley
Performer: Theresa Caudle
Ensemble: Orpheus Britannicus
Director: Andrew Arthur
Duration 00:08:12
06
00:31:49 Daniel Purcell
O what joys does conquest yield / O how glorious [The Judgement of Paris]
Singer: Amy Freston
Ensemble: Spiritato!
Director: Julian Perkins
Duration 00:03:22
07
00:36:34 John Weldon
Nature Framed Thee [The Judgement of Paris]
Performer: Anthony Rooley
Singer: Emma Kirkby
Duration 00:06:09
08
00:43:36 John Eccles
Nature fram'd thee sure for Lovin [The Judgement of Paris]
Singer: Lucy Crowe
Singer: Benjamin Hulett
Ensemble: Early Opera Company
Director: Christian Curnyn
Duration 00:03:12
09
00:47:23 John Eccles
I yield, I yield, O take the Prize [The Judgement of Paris]
Singer: Lucy Crowe
Singer: Benjamin Hulett
Ensemble: Early Opera Company
Director: Christian Curnyn
Duration 00:01:13
10
00:48:36 John Eccles
Hither all ye Graces, all ye Loves [The Judgement of Paris]
Singer: Lucy Crowe
Singer: Benjamin Hulett
Ensemble: Early Opera Company
Director: Christian Curnyn
Duration 00:01:37
11
00:51:22 John Eccles
Ah me! What Refuge now is left me? [Semele]
Singer: Anna Dennis
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music
Ensemble: Cambridge Handel Opera Company
Ensemble: Cambridge Early Music
Duration 00:02:33
12
00:54:35 Thomas Arne
Venus' Aria [The Judgement of Paris]
Ensemble: Brook Street Band
Duration 00:01:38
13
00:57:02 Thomas Arne
Hither all ye graces and Sing; Spread the joyful news [The Judgement of Paris]
Ensemble: Brook Street Band
Duration 00:03:11
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001556g)
Truro Cathedral
From Truro Cathedral.
Introit: O dulcis amor Jesu (Caterina Assandra)
Responses: Edbon
Office Hymn: Lord Jesus, think on me (Southwell)
Psalms 82, 84, 85 (Harrison, Parry, Hopkins)
First Lesson: Job 11 vv.1, 5-8, 13-20
Canticles: The Dorian Service (Tallis)
Second Lesson: Mark 5 vv.1-20
Anthem: Lugebat David Absalon (Gombert)
Hymn: Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (Eisenach)
Voluntary: Praeludium in E minor (Bruhns)
Christopher Gray (Director of Music)
Andrew Wyatt (Assistant Director of Music)
Recorded 23 November 2021.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m0015cm5)
New discoveries and evergreen classics
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you. Join our community of jazz lovers. Alyn Shipton is waiting for your requests: email jazzrecordrequests@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m0015cm7)
John Williams - the Force of Music!
Tom Service has a close encounter with the film music of John Williams.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m0015cm9)
Vikings
The Edda, Noggin, Wagner, Neil Gaiman - today's programme journeys into the realms of Norse gods and mythology, and the seafaring Scandinavian warrior people who conjured them - the Vikings. The name 'Viking' is an Old Norse term meaning a pirate raid, and their invasions sent terror into the hearts of many but new archaeological finds are changing our understanding of this civilisation. Our readers are Leo Suter, star of the new Netflix TV series Vikings: Valhalla, and Natalie Simpson, and our readings include extracts from novels by Neil Gaiman and Douglas Adams. In his poem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow conjures a Viking skeleton to life in full gothic horror, and P.G. Wodehouse muses on the Viking notion of going "Berserk". And in the beginning was the Edda - the ancient Scandinavian poetry that first recorded the myths of the gods such as Odin, Thor, Loki and Angrboda.
The music includes classics such as Grieg's Peer Gynt and Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries into Valhalla (the realm of the Viking gods), Jon Leif's choral epic inspired by the Edda, contemporary Scandinavian composers including Ola Gjeilo and Rebecca Karijord, and Moondog, the New York-based "Viking of 6th Avenue".
Producer: Graham Rogers
Readings:
Old Norse - The Poetic Edda (translated by Carolyne Larrington) (excerpt)
Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin - Noggin the Nog (excerpt)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Skeleton in Armor (excerpt)
Alcuin - Letter to the king of Northumbria (excerpt)
Cat Jarman - River Kings (excerpt)
Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (excerpt)
Old Norse - The Poetic Edda (translated by Carolyne Larrington) (excerpt)
Genevieve Gornichec - The Witch's Heart (excerpt)
Helen E. Wieand - The Viking-Maid
P.G. Wodehouse - Summer Lightning (excerpt)
Anon. 19th Century - God bless the Lifeboat and its crew
Neil Gaiman - American Gods (excerpt)
Neil Price - The Children of Ash and Elm (excerpt)
Neil Oliver - Wisdom of the Ancients (excerpt)
Old Norse - Havamal (translated by Carolyne Larrington) (excerpt)
01
00:01:19 Wardruna
Helvegen
Performer: Wardruna
Duration 00:02:49
02
00:02:20
Old Norse translated by Carolyne Larrington
The Poetic Edda (excerpt), read by Leo Suter and Natalie Simpson
Duration 00:01:24
03
00:04:07 Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt: Prelude Act 1
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Edward Gardner
Duration 00:01:56
04
00:04:37 Vernon Elliott
Noggin the Nog
Duration 00:00:21
05
00:04:58
Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin
Noggin the Nog (excerpt), read by Oliver Postgate
Duration 00:00:43
06
00:07:05 Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller
Vikingeblod - Overture
Orchestra: Aalborg Symfoniorkester
Conductor: Moshe Atzmon
Duration 00:01:59
07
00:07:14
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Skeleton in Armor (excerpt), read by Leo Suter
Duration 00:01:17
08
00:09:03 Perly i Lotry
Song of the Vikings (My Mother Told Me)
Performer: Perly i Lotry
Duration 00:02:07
09
00:11:08 Ola Gjeilo
Northern lights (Pulchra es, amica mea)
Performer: VOCES8
Duration 00:04:06
10
00:11:16
Alcuin
Letter to the king of Northumbria, read by Natalie Simpson
Duration 00:00:26
11
00:15:12 Moondog (artist)
Viking 1
Performer: Moondog
Duration 00:02:57
12
00:15:29
Cat Jarman
River Kings (excerpt), read by Leo Suter
Duration 00:01:10
13
00:26:50
Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (excerpt), read by Natalie Simpson
Duration 00:01:59
14
00:28:09 Mark Mothersbaugh
Thor: Ragnarok
Performer: Mark Mothersbaugh
Duration 00:01:09
15
00:29:12 Meredith Monk
Facing North: Northern Lights 1
Performer: Meredith Monk
Performer: Robert Een
Duration 00:01:56
16
00:29:58
Old Norse, translated by Carolyne Larrington
The Poetic Edda (excerpt), read by Leo Suter
Duration 00:01:15
17
00:31:09 Felix Mendelssohn
Hexenlied (from 12 Songs, Op.8)
Singer: Diana Damrau
Performer: Helmut Deutsch
Duration 00:02:15
18
00:33:35
Genevieve Gornichec
The Witch's Heart (excerpt), read by Natalie Simpson
Duration 00:01:29
19
00:34:55 Jean Sibelius
En Saga
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Thomas Søndergård
Duration 00:05:49
20
00:47:05
P. G. Wodehouse
Summer Lightning (excerpt), read by Leo Suter
Duration 00:01:28
21
00:48:31 Led Zeppelin (artist)
Immigrant Song
Performer: Led Zeppelin
Duration 00:01:53
22
00:50:22 Jón Leifs
Saer (from Edda, Part 1)
Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavík
Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Hermann Bäumer
Duration 00:02:15
23
00:50:35
Anon. (19th Century)
God bless the Lifeboat and its crew, read by Leo Suter
Duration 00:00:19
24
00:52:33 Natalie Holt
Loki (theme from the TV series)
Performer: Natalie Holt
Duration 00:00:59
25
00:53:21
Neil Gaiman
American Gods (excerpt), read by Natalie Simpson
Duration 00:01:09
26
00:54:30 Joshua Redman
Mischief
Performer: Joshua Redman Quartet
Duration 00:05:50
27
01:00:17 Nancy Dalberg
Jeg Ved En Småfugl
Performer: Lars Thodberg Bertelsen
Performer: Tove Lønskov
Duration 00:01:35
28
01:01:48 Anon.
Edda: Ragnaroek
Performer: Sequentia
Duration 00:00:47
29
01:01:59
Neil Price
The Children of Ash and Elm (excerpt), read by Leo Suter
Duration 00:00:38
30
01:02:35 Anon.
Edda: The Prophecy of the Seeress
Performer: Sequentia
Duration 00:02:15
31
01:04:51 Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D minor BWV974 2nd mvt: Adagio
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson
Duration 00:04:07
32
01:08:57
Neil Oliver
Wisdom of the Ancients (excerpt), read by Natalie Simpson
Duration 00:01:33
33
01:10:30 Rebekka Karijord
Mausoleum
Performer: Rebekka Karijord
Duration 00:03:04
34
01:11:02
Old Norse, translated by Carolyne Larrington
Havamal (excerpt), read by Leo Suter
Duration 00:00:23
SUN 18:45 Between the Ears (m0015ds7)
The Emperor and the Pianola
The Emperor and the Pianola
This Between the Ears odyssey weaves together the music - ragtime, classical and jazz - that Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia and his family and Royal Court used to play and listen to on their pianola when exiled at Fairfield House in Bath between 1936 and 1941, with the story of the Emperor himself, as told by those who knew him then, and the different communities - Rastafari, Bath Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens, visitors of the Ethiopian Coptic Church - that use the former home of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie today; a home he bequeathed to the citizens of Bath after he regained his country from Mussolini.
Professor Shawn Sobers of the University of the West of England, Director of the Freedom in the City Festival of Learning - a seven-month festival exploring Ethiopian and Rastafari cultures - and Trustee of Fairfield House CIC in Bath, is our guide for this fascinating story. And the Emperor's pianola, once lost without trace, is now found, restored and played for the first time since the late 1930s/early 1940s at a celebratory gathering at Fairfield House.
For the Emperor, the pianola and its music were his solace of the soul at a time of great uncertainty and turmoil as his country fought the fascist invaders, now reunited at last.
The pianola, like Haile Selassie's exile itself, served to build bridges between communities of different faiths, cultures and nationalities and all through the healing power of music. It continues to do so today.
His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, was a man described as the 'conscience of the world' and 'Father of Africa'.
The Emperor and the Pianola is a Reel Soul Movies production for BBC Radio 3.
SUN 19:15 Sunday Feature (m0015cmc)
Forbidden Fruit
New Generation Thinker Islam Issa explains why the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden is not actually an apple. And asks expert Professor Gordon Campbell what it might be. He also hears from marketing executive Sue Unerman about the use of the apple in advertising and branding.
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m0015jdf)
Middlemarch Monologues
Middlemarch is an extraordinary 19th century novel about provincial lives during significant social change, such as the building of new railways. It creates an engrossing web of individual experiences in an unidentified Midlands town, largely modelled on Coventry, where Warwickshire born George Eliot lived for a time.
These bold new Middlemarch Monologues weave together eight 21st-century voices. Covid 19, Brexit, HS2 and Black Lives Matter feature, mirroring the social upheavals of George Eliot’s day. The characters are updated versions of the originals. Dorothea Brooke becomes Thea, ardent climate change activist struggling with mental health; Dr Lydgate meets and falls heavily for Rosanna Vincy, beautiful South Asian social media influencer and thwarted pianist; Will Ladislaw is a Jamaican-Polish-heritage writer-cum-postman, hurt by the acts of racism filling up his social media and working out what to do about it. There are subtle references to the book and George Eliot lines to be found within the monologues.
Tracy Dagley ..... Julia Rounthwaite
Writer Amanda Dalton, director Polly Thomas
Dorothea Brooke ..... Ellie Turner
Writer Ellice Stevens, director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
Tertius Lydgate ..... Henry Lloyd Hughes
Writer Amanda Dalton, director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
Rosanna Vincy ..... Sharan Phull
Writer Sabiha Mank, director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
Mrs Cadwallader ..... Meera Syal
WriterTanika Gupta, directed by Polly Thomas
Mary Garth ..... Sinead Matthews
Writer Leanne Allen, director Polly Thomas
Will Ladislaw ..... Calvin Demba
Writer Liz Mytton, director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
John Raffles ..... Ashley Gerlach
Writer Debris Stevenson, director Polly Thomas
A co-commission by Warwick Arts Centre and BBC Radio 3, Middlemarch Monologues is part of Coventry UK City of Culture 2021, marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of George Eliot’s masterpiece.
Leanne Allen is a new writer from the Midlands. Work includes Connections drama series for community radio and BBC Radio 4, autumn 2020; Jazz and Dice, BBC Radio 4, June 2021; and Night of the Living Flatpacks, community radio drama, November 2021. She wrote a short film for Theatre of Debate for the 'COVID And Me' campaign, 2020.
Amanda Dalton is a poet and playwright. Recent pamphlets include Notes on Water (smith|doorstop 2022) and 30 Poems In Thirty Days (Arc Publications 2021). She has written many dramas for BBC Radio 4 and 3 and features in BBC Radio 3’s Northern Drift. A version of her Notes on Water will be a Radio 3’s Between The Ears March 2022. www.amandadalton.co.uk
Tanika Gupta is a playwright and screen writer. Recent work for stage: ‘A Doll’s House’, Lyric Hammersmith, ‘Lions and Tigers’ Globe Theatre and ‘Hobson’s Choice’, Manchester Royal Exchange. She is currently adapting Monica Ali’s ‘Brick Lane’ for BBC Radio 4.
Sabiha Mank is a playwright and screenwriter. She has had work shared by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Belgrade Theatre, Kali Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe and BBC Writersroom. Her most recent project is writing for Hear Me Now: Audition Monologues - Volume 2.
Liz Mytton is playwright and poet from Bradford, currently Artistic Lead at Theatre In Flow and Women’s Supper Club, a Theatre of the Oppressed project promoting systems change in Greater Manchester. Liz has worked extensively in the Midlands, most recently at Belgrade Theatre on a co-created play with young people, National Theatre Connections.
Ellice Stevens is a writer, performer and co-director of theatre company Breach. Normally writing with her partner, Billy Barrett, Ellice's writing credits for stage include Scotsman Fringe First winning shows It's True, It's True, It's True and Tank. She co-wrote a BBC short film, Gaia, which will be released later in 2022. She is currently developing with Breach a verbatim musical about Section 28 for 2023.
Debris Stevenson is a hybrid-playwright, dyslexic educator, Grime-poet, queer ex-Mormon and pro-raver. Debris' critically acclaimed debut play Poet in da Corner (Royal Court) was followed by the show's album release (Accidental Records) and UK tour 2020. Debris is currently developing several TV projects alongside her new show The Write to Rave, about her accidental career as an international raver.
Co Directors Polly Thomas and Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
Producer Polly Thomas
Original music Ellie Gowers
Sound design Eloise Whitmore
Executive Producer Eloise Whitmore
A Naked Production for BBC Radio 3. Middlemarch is a co-commission between BBC Radio 3 and Warwick Arts Centre supported by Coventry City of Culture Trust and Arts Council England. Warwick Arts Centre is one of the largest multi-artform venues in the UK, on the University of Warwick campus. Middlemarch Monologues will have staged readings at Warwick Arts Centre in May 2022.
SUN 21:30 Record Review Extra (m0015cmf)
Bruckner's Symphony No 9
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, Bruckner's Symphony No 9.
SUN 23:00 The Electronic Century with Gabriel Prokofiev (m000rmkx)
Blurring the Lines
In the 21st-century electronics have become part of the language of classical music in complex ways. Works for string ensemble are devised to emulate the dance floor while purely electronic sample libraries are being used for orchestral arrangements in the film world. Electronic sound is completely enmeshed in both our understanding of music and in contemporary methods of music making. What does this mean for composition?
We hear ‘Ecstasio’, the third movement from contemporary composer Thomas Adès’s piece Assyla, which references techno without using any electronics at all. And Gabriel demonstrates how his own classical works have been heavily influenced by electronic music, often using acoustic instruments to imitate the bass lines and melodic phrasing from dance music.
Electronic artists can struggle to translate their studio productions into live performance. We explore some of the current composers and artists using innovative performance ideas to get around the challenges of performing electronics live, including Mexican composer Javier Álvarez and Congolese group KOKOKO! Finally we look to the future with work that explores the boundaries between human and machine composition with artists Holly Herndon and Jennifer Walshe, who are using machine learning as a creative partner within their work.
Produced by Alannah Chance
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:01:02 Thomas Adès
Asyla, For Orchestra, Op. 17: III. Ecstasio
Conductor: Thomas Adès
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Duration 00:06:14
02
00:07:48 Conrad Schnitzler (artist)
9
Performer: Conrad Schnitzler
Duration 00:00:26
03
00:09:03 Gabriel Prokofiev
Jerk Driver
Performer: Peter Gregson
Duration 00:02:05
04
00:11:30 Mica Levi (artist)
Lonely Void
Performer: Mica Levi
Duration 00:03:35
05
00:17:06 Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kontakte
Performer: Jonny Axelsson
Performer: Fredrik Ullén
Duration 00:06:46
06
00:23:51 KOKOKO! (artist)
Azo Toke
Performer: KOKOKO!
Duration 00:03:57
07
00:29:41 Javier Álvarez
Temazcal
Performer: Powerplant
Duration 00:03:52
08
00:33:33 Kaija Saariaho
Lonh
Performer: Raphaële Kennedy
Duration 00:04:17
09
00:38:57 Lejaren Hiller (artist)
Excerpt From Illiac Suite For String Quartet
Performer: Lejaren Hiller
Performer: Leonard Isaacson
Duration 00:01:50
10
00:41:24 Aiva (artist)
Symphonic Fantasy in A minor, Op. 21, "Genesis"
Performer: Aiva
Duration 00:01:02
11
00:43:06 Holly Herndon (artist)
Evening Shades (Live Training)
Performer: Holly Herndon
Duration 00:00:36
12
00:43:42 Holly Herndon (artist)
Godmother
Performer: Holly Herndon
Featured Artist: Jlin
Duration 00:02:31
13
00:46:13 Jennifer Walshe (artist)
Robins M'Aime
Performer: Jennifer Walshe
Duration 00:01:51
14
00:49:16 Herbie Hancock (artist)
Rain Dance
Performer: Herbie Hancock
Duration 00:03:43
15
00:52:59 Classical Mechanics (artist)
Toise
Performer: Classical Mechanics
Duration 00:03:04
16
00:56:13 Colleen (artist)
One Warm Spark
Performer: Colleen
Duration 00:00:43
17
00:56:56 Klein (artist)
Claim It
Performer: Klein
Duration 00:01:00
18
00:57:56 Klein (artist)
Silent
Performer: Klein
Duration 00:03:05
MONDAY 21 MARCH 2022
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000b6ft)
Zoe Williams
Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week, Linton is joined by doctor and ex-Gladiator, Zoe Williams.
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 (m0015cmh)
Rediscovery of Composer Maria Herz
Maria Herz and Dvorak chamber works from Zurich. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Maria Herz (1878-1950)
Concerto for Harpsichord or Fortepiano, String Orchestra and Flute, op. 15
Nadja Saminskaja (piano), Ronny Spiegel (violin), Yuta Takase (violin), Daphne Unseld (viola), Fedor Saminski (cello), Nikola Major (double bass), Christian Madlener (flute)
12:59 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet in A, op. 81
Ronny Spiegel (violin), Yuta Takase (violin), Daphne Unseld (viola), Fedor Saminski (cello), Nadja Saminskaja (piano)
01:38 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Last Spring, Op 33, No 2
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (leader)
01:44 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Ein Heldenleben Op.40
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Quartet for strings in E minor "Rasumovsky" (Op.59 No.2)
Oslo Quartet, Geir Inge Lotsberg (violin), Per Kristian Skalstad (violin), Are Sandbakken (viola), Oystein Sonstad (cello)
03:09 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Wind Quintet (Op.43)
Ariart Woodwind Quintet
03:36 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Awake, and with attention hear for bass and continuo (Z.181)
Stephen Varcoe (bass), David Miller (theorbo), Peter Seymour (organ)
03:47 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Petite suite for piano (Sz.105) arr. from "44 Duos"
Jan Michiels (piano)
03:55 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Overture to Halka (Original version)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:03 AM
Claude Le Jeune (c.1528-1600)
Dieu, nous te louons
Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius, Christina Pluhar (lute), Michel Laplenie (conductor)
04:12 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Eugene Ysaye (arranger)
Caprice for violin and piano, arr. Ysaye after Saint-Saens
Minami Yoshida (violin), Jean Desmarais (piano)
04:21 AM
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 3 no 2
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
04:31 AM
Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716)
Overture in D minor
Hildebrand'sche Hoboisten Compagnie
04:40 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Rondo for piano in C minor, Op 1
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
04:49 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Friede auf Erden for chorus, Op 13
Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble
04:59 AM
Sergiu Natra (1924-2021)
Sonatina for Harp (1965)
Rita Costanzi (harp)
05:06 AM
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
Overture from Hansel and Gretel
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
05:15 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Prelude and Fugue in C, K. 394, for piano
Christoph Hammer (fortepiano)
05:24 AM
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Cello Concerto no 1 in E flat major, G.474
David Geringas (cello), Varazdin Chamber Orchestra, David Geringas (conductor)
05:42 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sonata for oboe and piano (1962)
Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
05:56 AM
Johann Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Symphony no.2 in D minor 'Fatum'
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m0015cx8)
Monday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015cxb)
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Performers – this week we focus on Hélène Grimaud.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000spmy)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
The Making of a Composer
Donald Macleod charts Richard Strauss’s precocious early years, with music including his First Symphony, which was written in his last year at school.
During Richard Strauss’s lifetime the sound and form of music altered radically. He was born at the tail end of the 19th century and saw the emergence of twelve-tone music and atonality from younger composers like Arnold Schoenberg and his pupil Alban Berg. Strauss belonged to a previous generation and his music came to be regarded as conservative in style, but at the start of his career, Strauss had been seen as something of a modernist, breaking the mould with his series of innovative orchestral tone poems, and with the dissonant sound world of operas such as Salome and Elektra.
This week Donald Macleod follows the young Strauss’s pathway leading up to and including the tone poems, seeing how an immersion in music across his formative years influenced his ideas about orchestral writing, as well as opening up opportunities that helped him to establish a professional career as a conductor.
Having written his first compositions aged five, Richard Strauss’s raw musical talent was discovered early on. His progress continued at such a rate that by 11 he was conducting an amateur orchestra, and by 18 he’d written something in the region of 150 works.
Oboe Concerto in D
3rd movt: Allegro (excerpt)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Festmarsch in E flat major, op 1
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Horn Concerto no 2 in E flat major AV 132
III: Rondo (Allegro molto)
David Pyatt, horn
Britten Sinfonia
Nicholas Cleobury, conductor
Symphony no 1 in D minor TrV 94
II: Andante
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor
Concerto for violin in D minor
I: Allegro
Thomas Albertus Irnberger
Israel Philharmonic
Martin Sieghart, conductor
Concert Overture in C minor op 80 TrV125
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
Hermann Bäumer, conductor
Producer: Johannah Smith for BBC Wales
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015cxd)
Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton
Winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, soprano Louise Alder and pianist Joseph Middleton perform a recital by women composers, culminating in Libby Larsen's song cycle 'Try Me, Good King': five songs drawn from the final letters and gallows speeches of the first five of Henry VIII's six wives (his sixth wife, Katherine Parr, outlived him), resulting in a monodrama of anguish and power.
Live from Wigmore Hall
Presented by Hannah French
Amy Beach: Three Browning Songs:
The years at the spring
Ah love but a day
I send my heart up to thee
Clara Schumann: Er ist gekommen; Warum willst du; Liebst du um Schönheit
Lili Boulanger: Vous m’avez regardé; Nous nous aimerons tant; Si tout ceci n’est qu’un pauvre reve
Alma Mahler: Laue Sommernacht; Ich wandle unter Blumen; Licht in der Nacht
Libby Larsen: Try Me, Good King:
Katherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
Katherine Howard
Louise Alder (soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015cxg)
Monday - Blomstedt conducts Beethoven
Veteran maestro Herbert Blomstedt conducts the legendary Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, plus there's Frank Bridge's celebration of spring and smaller-scale works by Chopin and Debussy.
Presented by Ian Skelly
2.00pm
Debussy
Premiere rhapsodie
Mark Simpson, clarinet
Richard Uttley, piano
Chopin
Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano
3.00pm
Beethoven
Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.55 ('Eroica')
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Bridge
Enter Spring
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m0015cxj)
Helen Charlston sings English song
Mezzo Helen Charlston in recital in Birmingham with an imaginative selection of songs in English. And exquisite miniatures by Frank Bridge from violist Timothy Ridout and the cellist Anastasia Kobekina.
Frank Bridge: Allegretto for viola
Rebecca Clarke: Lullaby from Shorter pieces for viola
Timothy Ridout (viola), James Baillieu (piano)
Benjamin Britten: How sweet the answer
Rebecca Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens
Andrew Brixey-Williams: Abat-jour
Gerald Finzi: As I lay in the early sun
Joshua Borin: Nature is Returning
Helen Charlston (mezzo), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
Frank Bridge: Spring Song
Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Luka Okros (piano)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m0015cxl)
Soraya Mafi, Simon Lepper, Grace-Evangeline Mason, David Hill and Fenella Humphreys
Soprano Soraya Mafi and pianist Simon Lepper perform live. Plus composer Grace-Evangeline Mason talks to Katie about her new organ piece, and Fenella Humphreys plays solo violin.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015cxn)
Half an hour of the finest classical music
Tonight, we begin with the weeping Lacrimosa of Mozart’s Requiem Mass. We journey across Hungary with Geza Allaga’s Study for Cimbalom, and Liszt’s effervescent Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in Leopold Stokowski's tour-de-force orchestration. A prelude from Bach’s 48 provides comfort and solace and leads to music by Joseph Haydn, who bids us farewell as we set off on a vintage car rally with the Genevieve waltz.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015cxq)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petr Popelka, chief conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, conducts the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra in this highlight from the European concert season.
The programme opens with the Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra that Bohuslav Martinů wrote in New York in 1953. The piece bears the typical features of its composer’s later work, combining restless expanses with simple intimate melodies.
After the interval, the concert continues with a contemporary composer's response to the work of one of the greats of musical history.
Wolfgang Rihm wrote Ernster Gesang (Serious Song) in the 1990s at the behest of conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, as a composition intended specifically to be played before the music of Johannes Brahms.
At the time, Rihm sought inspiration in Brahms's later songs and piano pieces, the harmonies of which enchanted him with their "sharpness and at the same time dark sweetness". He derived the title from the Four Serious Songs that Brahms wrote for bass and piano a year before his death in Vienna. Rihm's introverted, lyrical work prepares the atmosphere for one of Brahms's greatest works: the Symphony No. 3 in F major, written in the summer of 1883 in the spa town of Wiesbaden.
Josepf Spacek, violin
Miroslav Sekera, piano
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petr Popelka, conductor
Martinu: Concerto for violin & piano
Rihm: Ernster Gesang
Brahms: Symphony No.3 in F, Op90
Concert given in the Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague, on 09/10/2021
MON 21:30 Northern Drift (m0015cxs)
Jo Clement and the Manchester Collective
Elizabeth Alker talks to Northumbrian poet and writer Jo Clement, whose work explores her Gypsy Roma Traveller heritage, at The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge. With live music by Philip Glass, Nicola Matteis and Max Richter played by Rakhi Singh and Eliza McCarthy from the Manchester Collective. Jo reads her poems 'Knots', 'The Sly and Unseen Day', and 'Singing Lesson' from her forthcoming debut collection Outlandish.
Producer: Ruth Thomson
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m001323n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m0015hwr)
The Sounds of Tyne
In the Dark
An immersive audio experience from Radio 3's After Dark festival at Sage Gateshead.
Five different podcasts are being recorded by award-winning composer and sound artist Rob Mackay at five locations where remains of Hadrian’s Wall can be found in Newcastle. A rich audio landscape complemented by the words of writers and poets as they respond to the sounds of Tyne.
1/ In the Dark
Segedunum Fort at Wallsend marks the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall. Jacob Polley listens to the sounds of the lamp posts as they rattle through the night.
Producer Mark Rickards
A Bespoken Media production.
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m00131mn)
Moon River
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, tonight she takes inspiration from the moon and Henry Mancini's classic song Moon River - with versions by Audrey Hepburn and Frank Ocean and music by Michael Stearns, Gia Margaret, Tomita, Freya Arde, OKI and more.
Producer: Hannah Thorne
TUESDAY 22 MARCH 2022
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m0015cxv)
Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Poulenc from Paris
Cristian Macelaru conducts the Orchestre National de France in a programme of Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Poulenc. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture to 'Don Giovanni, K. 527'
Orchestre National de France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
12:37 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Suite No. 4, op. 61 ('Mozartiana')
Orchestre National de France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
01:04 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sinfonietta, FP 141
Orchestre National de France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
01:33 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Trio (Op.11) in D minor
Trio Orlando
01:58 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K297b
Maja Kojc (oboe), Joze Kotar (clarinet), Mihajlo Bulajic (horn), Damir Huljev (bassoon), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor)
02:31 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
L'Apotheose de la Danse - orchestral suite of dance music by Rameau
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
03:09 AM
Johannes Ockeghem (1410-1497)
Missa prolationum
Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier (director)
03:43 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Variations in E major on a German National Air (op.posth)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
03:51 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Lullaby for string quartet
New Stenhammar String Quartet
04:00 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Cordoba; from Cantos de Espana for piano (Op.232 No.4)
Jin-Ho Kim (piano)
04:05 AM
Mirko Krajci (b.1968)
Four Dances from the ballet 'Don Juan' (2007): Jewish Dance; Polka; Tango; Jazz Dance
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mirko Krajci (conductor)
04:13 AM
Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1924)
Valse for piano in E major, Op 34 No 1
Dennis Hennig (piano)
04:21 AM
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Quintet for flute, oboe, violin, viola & basso continuo (Op.11 No.2) in G major
Les Adieux
04:31 AM
Sebastian Bodinus (c.1700-1759)
Trio for oboe and 2 bassoons in G major
Hildebrand'sche Hoboisten Compagnie
04:40 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
3 Pieces from Norwegian Peasant Dances, Op 72: The Goblins' Wedding Procession at Vossevangen; Wedding march after the Miller's boy; Jon Vestafe's springar
Havard Gimse (piano)
04:49 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Laudate Pueri (motet, Op 39 no 2)
Polyphonia, Ivelina Ivancheva (piano), Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor)
04:58 AM
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Pavana lachrimae (after John Dowland) for keyboard (MB.
28.54)
Aapo Hakkinen (harpsichord)
05:06 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Overture from 'Der Freischutz'
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:17 AM
Francois Devienne (1759-1803)
Trio No.2 in C major
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Vitalija Raskeviciute (viola), Gediminas Derus (cello)
05:27 AM
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801-1878)
String Quartet no 6 in E flat major
Orebro String Quartet
05:53 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Songs from Myrten (Op.25)
Olle Persson (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
06:05 AM
John Carmichael (b.1930)
Trumpet Concerto (1972)
Kevin Johnston (trumpet), West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m0015cwp)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015cwr)
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Performers – pianist Hélène Grimaud is our artist in focus this week.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000sqzd)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
A Public Debut
Donald Macleod charts Strauss’s early years, including his Second Symphony and Burleske, a work for piano that was initially described by its first performer as being unpianistic.
During Richard Strauss’s lifetime the sound and form of music altered radically. He was born at the tail end of the 19th century and saw the emergence of twelve-tone music and atonality from younger composers like Arnold Schoenberg and his pupil Alban Berg. Strauss belonged to a previous generation and his music came to be regarded as conservative in style, but at the start of his career, Strauss had been seen as something of a modernist, breaking the mould with his series of innovative orchestral tone poems, and with the dissonant sound world of operas such as Salome and Elektra.
This week Donald Macleod follows the young Strauss’s pathway leading up to and including the tone poems, seeing how an immersion in music across his formative years influenced his ideas about orchestral writing, as well as opening up opportunities that helped him to establish a professional career as a conductor.
In his early 20s, Strauss was appointed assistant conductor to Hans von Bülow, then the music director of the influential Meiningen Court Orchestra. It was to turn into one of the most inspirational periods of his life.
Suite in B flat major Op 4
III: Gavotte. Allegro
François Leleux, oboe
Ensemble Paris-Bastille
Symphony no 2 in F
I: Allegro ma non troppo
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Burleske in D minor for piano and orchestra
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Leipzig Gewandhaus
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
8 Gedichte aus "Letzte Blätter", Op. 10, TrV 141
No. 3, Die Nacht
Louise Alder, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Aus Italien op 16 (1887)
I: Auf der Campagna
Berlin Philharmonic
Riccardo Muti, conductor
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015cwt)
Chamber music by Brahms and Schumann from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (1/4)
Long-time recital partners, Canadian violinist James Ehnes and American pianist Andrew Armstrong, perform a selection of chamber music by two composers and friends, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann. They begin with an early sonata movement written by Brahms, his contribution to the F-A-E Sonata alongside movements by Schumann and Albert Dietrich and a gift to their good friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim. Schumann went on to rewrite the first and second movements by Brahms and Dietrich to create his own third violin sonata, his last major work. The concert closes with Brahms dramatic third and final violin sonata.
Recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
Brahms: Sonatensatz in C minor, WoO 2
Schumann: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor, WoO27
Brahms: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108
James Ehnes - violin
Andrew Armstrong - piano
Stephen Broad - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015cww)
Tuesday - Ivan Fischer conducts Beethoven (1/2)
Ivan Fischer conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's titanic Fifth Symphony, plus music by Arthur Bliss and a beautiful, little-heard cantata by Augusta Holmes
Presented by Ian Skelly
Bliss
Two Contrasts for string orchestra
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor
Schumann
Quintet in E flat, Op.44
Armida Quartet
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano
Bliss
Rout
Ilona Domnich, soprano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor
3.00pm
Beethoven
Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor
Arthur Bliss
The Lady of Shalott
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates, conductor
Augusta Holmes
La Visione de la reine - cantata for female voices, piano, cello and harp
Annabel Thwaite, piano
Morwenna Del Mar, cello
Alison Martin, harp
BBC Singers
Hilary Campbell, conductor
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m0015cwy)
Wihan Quartet, Danielle de Niese
Katie Derham is joined in the studio by the Wihan Quartet ahead of their concert at the Wigmore Hall, London. Plus Danielle de Niese pops into the studio to talk about her concert at this year's London Handel Festival.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015cx0)
Classical music to inspire you
In Tune's specially curated classical mixtape
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m00163dc)
Angela Hewitt at Wigmore Hall
Angela Hewitt plays Bach, Mozart and Ravel at Wigmore Hall.
The multi-award winning Canadian pianist makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall in a programme which ranges from her beloved JS Bach to Chabrier, a composer who she has championed in recent years.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Mozart: Piano Sonata in F K332
Bach: Well Tempered Klavier Book II: Prelude and Fugue No. 13 in F sharp BWV882, No. 14 in F sharp minor BWV883, No. 15 in G BWV884, No. 16 in G minor BWV885
Interval music: Bach's motet Singet dem Herr mein neues Lied, BWV.225 sung by Collegium Vocale Ghent.
Mozart: Piano Sonata in B flat K333
Ravel: Sonatine
Chabrier: Bourrée fantasque
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m0015cx4)
John Maynard Keynes
JM Keynes and his theory, Keynesianism, is central to the financial history of twentieth century. However, he is also central to its cultural history. Keynes was not only an economist, but a man equally concerned with aesthetics and ethics; as interested in the ballet as he was with the stock market crash. Anne McElvoy talks to Robert Hudson about the musical drama has written about the political trading behind the Treaty of Versailles from Keynes's perspective. How does looking again at Keynes life and work offer us a different view of the man and his times?
Zachary D. Carter is a Writer in Residence with the Omidyar Network's Reimagining Capitalism initiative and the author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.
Robert Hudson is the author of Hall of Mirrors a musical based on JM Keynes's experiences at the Paris Peace Conference. His other work includes Magnitsky the Musical https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d6yy
Adam Tooze is Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor History at Columbia University and he serves as Director of the European Institute. His books include: Shutdown: how COVID-19 shook the world's economy; Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World; and, The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931.
Emma West is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham and her current research project, Revolutionary Red Tape, examines how public servants and official committees helped to produce and popularise modern British culture.
Producer: Ruth Watts
Hall of Mirrors is the Drama on 3 Sunday 27th March 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnwj
You can find other episodes of Free Thinking exploring economic ideas
Economics: Liam Byrne, John Redwood, Luke Johnson, Juliet Michaelson and Matt Wolf https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qbv3q
Mandeville's View of 18th-Century Economics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hysk
Coins, going cashless and the magic money tree https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s2v5
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rd97
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m0015hwv)
The Sounds of Tyne
The Swing Bridge
An immersive audio experience from Radio 3's After Dark festival at Sage Gateshead.
Five different podcasts are being recorded by award-winning composer and sound artist Rob Mackay at five locations where remains of Hadrian’s Wall can be found in Newcastle. A rich audio landscape complemented by the words of writers and poets as they respond to the sounds of Tyne.
2/ The Swing Bridge
The first crossing point of the Tyne, the birthplace of the city, where once a Roman bridge stood. With writer Sinéad Morrissey
Producer Mark Rickards
A Bespoken Media production.
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m0012rnl)
The constant harmony machine
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH 2022
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0015cx6)
Music for trumpet and orchestra
Ole Edvard Antonsen and the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne perform Bach, Grieg and contemporary Scandinavian music. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Eivind Groven (1901-1977)
Hjalarljod Overture, op. 38
WDR Radio Orchestra, Rasmus Baumann (conductor)
12:37 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Finale. Allegro, from 'Trumpet Concerto in E flat, Hob. VIIe:1'
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), WDR Radio Orchestra, Rasmus Baumann (conductor)
12:43 AM
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
Allegro, from 'Trumpet Concerto in B flat, op. 7/3'
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), WDR Radio Orchestra, Rasmus Baumann (conductor)
12:46 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Badinerie, from 'Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067'
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), WDR Radio Orchestra, Rasmus Baumann (conductor)
12:47 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46
WDR Radio Orchestra, Rasmus Baumann (conductor)
01:02 AM
Ole Edvard Antonsen (1962-),Leif Strand (1942-),Frode Alnaes (1959-), Oivind Westby (arranger)
Landscapes / Men gar jag över engarna / Vitae Lux
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Ole Edvard Antonsen Band (soloist), WDR Radio Orchestra, Rasmus Baumann (conductor)
01:47 AM
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847)
Sonata for Piano (four hands) in F minor
Stefan Bojsten (piano duo), Anders Kilstrom (piano duo)
02:08 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for orchestra No.2 in B minor (BWV.1067)
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
02:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Concerto in D minor for violin, piano and string orchestra
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace (piano), Risor Festival Strings
03:09 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Serenata in vano, FS 68 (for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello & d.bass)
Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)
03:16 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Severn Suite for brass band, Op 87
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
03:33 AM
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783)
Cantata, 'An den Flussen Babylons'
Johannes Happel (bass), Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Detlef Bratschke (conductor)
03:45 AM
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Arabesque
Shirley Brill (clarinet), Piotr Spoz (piano)
03:49 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Nancy Allen (arranger)
Arabesque No.2
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
03:53 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto da Camera in D major (RV.94)
Camerata Koln, Michael Schneider (recorder), Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Michael McCraw (bassoon), Mary Utiger (violin), Hajo Bass (violin), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)
04:04 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in G major, 'Gypsy rondo' Hob.
15.25
Kungsbacka Trio
04:20 AM
Ester Magi (1922-2021)
Bucolic
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
04:31 AM
Uuno Klami (1900-1961)
Intermezzo for cor anglais and orchestra
Paivi Kaerkaes (cor anglais), Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
04:35 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Giulio Caccini (lyricist), Anonymous (lyricist)
Chiome d'oro, bel thesoro (from Libro VII de madrigali (SV143 - Venice 1619); Vaga su spina ascosa (from Libro VII de madrigali (SV143 - Venice 1619))
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
Marco Uccellini (c.1603-1680)
Sonata sopra la Bergamasca
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
04:47 AM
Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)
String Quartet No 1 Op 62 'Already It Is Dusk'
Royal String Quartet
05:02 AM
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
O clarissima Mater (respond)
Rondellus
05:11 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, K384)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Milan Horvat (conductor)
05:17 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Muhseligen, Op 74 no 1
Hover State Chamber Chorus of Armenia, Sona Hovhannisyan (conductor)
05:28 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fantasie in G major for organ, BWV 572
Scott Ross (organ)
05:38 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Symphony no 3
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
06:09 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1924)
Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0015c3l)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015c3n)
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Performers – another track from our artist in focus this week, pianist Hélène Grimaud.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000srhq)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Practical Improvements
Donald Macleod explores Richard Strauss’s rather fraught early years as third conductor at the Munich Opera, with music including his orchestral tone poem Tod und Verklärung.
During Richard Strauss’s lifetime the sound and form of music altered radically. He was born at the tail end of the 19th century and saw the emergence of twelve-tone music and atonality from younger composers like Arnold Schoenberg and his pupil Alban Berg. Strauss belonged to a previous generation and his music came to be regarded as conservative in style, but at the start of his career, Strauss had been seen as something of a modernist, breaking the mould with his series of innovative orchestral tone poems, and with the dissonant sound world of operas such as Salome and Elektra.
This week Donald Macleod follows the young Strauss’s pathway leading up to and including the tone poems, seeing how an immersion in music across his formative years influenced his ideas about orchestral writing, as well as opening up opportunities that helped him to establish a professional career as a conductor.
Following a hasty departure by his boss, Hans von Bülow, in 1886 Strauss left his position at Meiningen to join Munich Court Opera. The experience proved to be a steep learning curve.
5 piano pieces op 3
IV: Allegro
Glenn Gould, piano
Serenade in E flat op 7 for 13 wind instruments
Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble
Piano Quartet in C minor op 13 TrV 137
IV: Finale Vivace
Michael Stepniak, viola
Mendelssohn Piano Trio
Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24 TrV 158
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Maris Janssons, director
Morgen! op 27
Jessye Norman, soprano
Leipzig Gewandhaus
Kurt Masur, conductor
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015c3q)
Chamber music by Brahms and Schumann from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2/4)
From Glasgow's Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Canadian violinist James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong perform Schumann’s Märchenbilder, music inspired by the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. The Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio follow with Brahms’s much revised and revisited Piano Trio. His final amendments were made 34 years after he first composed the piece and he wrote to Clara Schumann at the time, ‘I have rewritten my B major Trio and can now call it Op 108 instead of Op 8. It will not be so dreary as before—but will it be better?’
Schumann: Märchenbilder Op. 113
Brahms: Piano Trio No 1. in B major Op. 8
James Ehnes (viola)
Andrew Armstrong (piano)
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
Stephen Broad - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015c3s)
Wednesday - Thielemann conducts Schumann and Strauss
Christian Thielemann conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in works by Schumann and Strauss; there's also early music from the Freiberg Baroque and a recent work by Victoria Borisova-Ollas
Presented by Ian Skelly
2.00pm
Jean de Cambefort
Excerpts from 'Ballet royal de la nuit'
Nicolaus Adam Strungk
Sonata à 6 in A minor
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Amandine Beyer, violin / conductor
Strauss
Don Juan
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor
Victoria Borisova-Ollas
The Kingdom of Silence
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor
3.00pm
Strauss
Sonatina for 16 Winds No.1 in F ('From the Workshop of an Invalid')
Schumann
Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op.52
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Christian Thielemann, conductor
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m0015c3v)
Jesus College, Cambridge
Live from the Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Introit: O Lord Support Us (Sarah Cattley)
Responses: Janet Wheeler
Office hymn: O thou who dost accord us (Innsbruck)
Psalms 114, 115 (Garrett, South)
First Lesson: Genesis 9 vv.8-17
Canticles: Gloucester Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: 1 Peter 3 vv.18-22
Anthem: The Pilgrimes Travels (Judith Bingham)
Hymn: Jesu, lover of my soul (Aberystwyth)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G minor (Brahms)
Richard Pinel (Director of Music)
Drew Sellis (Organ Scholar)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0015c3x)
Rachel Podger, 12 Ensemble
Special guest baroque violinist Rachel Podger peforms live in the studio. Plus Max Ruisi and Eloisa-Fleur Thom from 12 Ensemble join Katie Derham.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015c3z)
Expand your horizons with 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.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015c41)
Haydn's The Creation
Haydn's The Creation conducted by Harry Christophers with the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra and an all-star team of soloists in a performance sung in English to mark the 40th anniversary of the Barbican Centre.
Out of chaos comes wonder; from darkness, light. Haydn’s oratorio The Creation is more than just a gloriously tuneful retelling of the Book of Genesis. Inspired by Haydn’s visits to London and the optimism of the Enlightenment, it’s a celebration of the act of creativity itself, overflowing with majesty, humour and the joy of life.
With its famous depictions of Chaos through the dawning of light to a tawny lion, a flexible tiger and a nimble stag and the great chorus, ‘The Heavens are telling', the work has been a favourite since its first performance some 224 years ago.
Presented by Martin Handley
Haydn: The Creation
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Andrew Staples (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus, Simon Halsey (chorus director)
London Symphony Orchestra
Harry Christophers (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m0015c43)
After Dark Festival: Equinox
Matthew Sweet and his guests launch the After Dark Festival - an overnight extravaganza recorded at Sage Gateshead for the equinox weekend. What meanings and interpretations has humanity given to the moment when the length of day and night is equal and to other key points of the solar year? Cosmologist Carlos Frenk from Durham University, archaeologist Penny Bickle from the University of York, Kevin Lapping from the Pagan Federation and his daughter Bex discuss the significance of the changing seasons, what we learn from the solar alignment of Neolithic monuments and the vaster galactic and cosmic cycles that are we are also a part of.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Part of Radio 3’s After Dark Festival, a major new live music festival for 2022 in partnership with Sage Gateshead and TUSK Music, featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary, classical and experimental music. For all related content, search “After Dark Festival” in BBC Sounds.
WED 22:45 The Essay (m0015hwx)
The Sounds of Tyne
Benwell Temple
An immersive audio experience from Radio 3's After Dark festival at Sage Gateshead
Five different podcasts are being recorded by award-winning composer and sound artist Rob Mackay at five locations where remains of Hadrian’s Wall can be found in Newcastle. A rich audio landscape complemented by the words of writers and poets as they respond to the sounds of Tyne.
3/ Benwell Temple
The remains of Benwell Temple can be found in a modern housing estate in Newcastle. Noreen Masud considers communities old and new.
Producer Mark Rickards
A Bespoken Media production.
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m0012rxl)
Evening soundscape
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 24 MARCH 2022
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0015c45)
Carl Friedrich Abel
Krzysztof and Anna Firlus perform viola da gamba sonatas by Abel at the Actus Humanus Festival in Gdansk. Presented by John Shea
12:31 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in D major, A
2:75
Krzysztof Firlus (viola da gamba), Anna Firlus (harpsichord)
12:43 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in G major, A
2:68a
Krzysztof Firlus (viola da gamba), Anna Firlus (harpsichord)
12:53 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in G minor, A
2:56a
Krzysztof Firlus (viola da gamba), Anna Firlus (harpsichord)
01:04 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in A minor, A
2:57a
Krzysztof Firlus (viola da gamba), Anna Firlus (harpsichord)
01:15 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in D major, A
2:50
Krzysztof Firlus (viola da gamba), Anna Firlus (harpsichord)
01:25 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Allegro from Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord in A minor, A
2:57a
Krzysztof Firlus (viola da gamba), Anna Firlus (harpsichord)
01:28 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Mass in C major, Missa in tempore belli 'Paukenmesse' H.22.9
Hilde Haraldsen Sveen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo soprano), Jonas Degerfeldt (tenor), Gabriel Suovanen (baritone), Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
02:09 AM
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Quintet in F major for flute, oboe, violin, viola and continuo (Op.11 No.3)
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Les Adieux
02:18 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ferruccio Busoni (arranger)
Prelude & Fugue in D major (BWV.532) transcribed Busoni
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
02:31 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Concerto in modo misolidio for piano and orchestra
Olli Mustonen (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Markus Lehtinen (conductor)
03:07 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Agnus Dei - super ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la (for 6 and 7 voices)
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel (director)
03:14 AM
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Beni Mora - oriental suite (Op.29 No.1)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
03:30 AM
Jan van Gilse (1881-1944)
String Quartet (Unfinished, 1922)
Ebony Quartet
03:40 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Bruit de Guerre
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
03:44 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
5 Deutsche with 7 trios and coda (D.90)
Zagreb Soloists
03:59 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Ah! che troppo inequali Italian cantata HWV 230
Maria Keohane (soprano), European Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
04:09 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Sonata for piano in E minor, Op 7
Ilkka Paananen (piano)
04:31 AM
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909)
Overture to Sir Zolzikiewicz
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Zygmunt Rychert (conductor)
04:38 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Cantata "Es wird ein unbarmherzig Gericht" for 4 voices
Veronika Winter (soprano), Patrick Van Goethem (alto), Markus Schafer (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
04:49 AM
Marcel Tournier (1879-1951)
Au Matin - etude de concert
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
04:54 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Pohjola's daughter - symphonic fantasia, Op 49
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)
05:08 AM
William Byrd (1543-1623)
The Bells for keyboard (MB.
27.38)
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
05:16 AM
Bernat Vivancos (b.1973)
Messe aux sons des cloches
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
05:30 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Ondine - from Preludes Book 2 (1912)
Philippe Cassard (piano)
05:34 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quintet in E flat major K.452 for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Per Hannisdahl (bassoon), Jonathan Williams (horn)
05:57 AM
Florence Price (1887-1953)
Symphony No 3 in C minor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Valentina Peleggi (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0015c89)
Thursday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015c8c)
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Performers – this week we focus on pianist Hélène Grimaud.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000srbb)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
The Wagner Disciple
Donald Macleod considers Richard Strauss’s move to the Weimar Court Opera, and the ideas and philosophical discussions that led to Also sprach Zarathustra.
During Richard Strauss’s lifetime the sound and form of music altered radically. He was born at the tail end of the 19th century and saw the emergence of twelve-tone music and atonality from younger composers like Arnold Schoenberg and his pupil Alban Berg. Strauss belonged to a previous generation and his music came to be regarded as conservative in style, but at the start of his career, Strauss had been seen as something of a modernist, breaking the mould with his series of innovative orchestral tone poems, and with the dissonant sound world of operas such as Salome and Elektra.
This week Donald Macleod follows the young Strauss’s pathway leading up to and including the tone poems, seeing how an immersion in music across his formative years influenced his ideas about orchestral writing, as well as opening up opportunities that helped him to establish a professional career as a conductor.
After the disappointment of a lukewarm response to his first opera, Strauss was to discover that a promotion to the top position of music director would not be supported by the officials in Weimar.
Overture to Act 2, Guntram (excerpt)
Hungarian State Opera
Eve Queler, conductor
Prelude to Act 1, Guntram
Orchestra of Deutche Oper, Berlin
Christian Thielemann, conductor
Also sprach Zarathustra, op 30 , TrV 136
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
George Solti, conductor
Gesang der Apollopriesterin op 33
Karita Mattila, soprano
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado, conductor
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015c8f)
Chamber music by Brahms and Schumann from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (3/4)
Violinist James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong open this lunchtime concert with Brahms’s lyrical Second Violin Sonata written the summer of 1886 in Thun, Switzerland, a place he described as “so full of melodies that one has to be careful not to step on them.” The Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio follow with Schumann’s First Piano Trio written in a ‘time of gloomy moods’ with a restless counterpoint between the instruments.
Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A major op. 100
Schumann: Piano Trio No 1. in D minor Op. 63
James Ehnes - violin
Andrew Armstrong - piano
Nicola Benedetti - violin
Leonard Elschenbroich - cello
Alexei Grynyuk - piano
Stephen Broad - presenter
Laura Metcalfe – producer
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015c8h)
Thursday - Ivan Fischer conducts Beethoven (2/2)
Ivan Fischer conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, there's more early music from the Freiberg Baroque Orchestra, and Leonard Elschenbroich is the soloist in Dvorak's Cello Concerto.
Presented by Ian Skelly
2.00pm
Jean-François Dandrieu
Trio Sonata in G minor, op. 1/3
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Amandine Beyer, violin / conductor
Dvorak
Quintet in E flat, Op.97
Armida Quartet
Lise Bertaud, viola
3.00pm
Beethoven
Symphony No.8 in F, Op.93
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Lully
Excerpts from 'Psyché
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Amandine Beyer, violin / conductor
Mozart
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Dvorak
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104
Leonard Elschenbroich, cello
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0015c8k)
Kristjan Randalu
Katie Derham is joined by Estonian jazz pianist Kristjan Randalu, who performs live in the studio.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m00057hm)
The eclectic classical mix
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Cabaret singer? A familiar tune in an unfamiliar disguise in tonight's In Tune Mixtape. An eclectic sequence of music including a frog with a violin concerto and a legendary harp made by Vainamoinen, a god in the Finnish epic the 'Kalevala', from the jawbone of a giant pike, supposedly strung with the hair of a fair maiden.
01
00:00:11 Gustav Holst
Dance of the Marionette (Japanese Suite, Op 33)
Choir: Manchester Chamber Choir
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
Duration 00:01:47
02
00:01:45 Jorunn Vidar
Variations on five old Icelandic ballads; no. 2 Cantabile
Performer: Valgerour Andresdottir
Duration 00:02:06
03
00:03:47 Trad.
Je elsker dae
Singer: Sinikka Langeland
Duration 00:01:44
04
00:05:24 Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for violia and orchestra in G major, TWV 51:G9
Performer: Rainer Kussmaul
Ensemble: Berlin Baroque Soloists
Duration 00:11:21
05
00:10:23 Elena Kats‐Chernin
Green Leaf Prelude
Performer: Nicola Sweeney
Performer: Sarah Nicolls
Duration 00:02:21
06
00:12:40 Alexander Vertinsky
Along a winding road (Those were the days)
Singer: Alexander Vertinsky
Orchestra: Unknown
Duration 00:02:45
07
00:15:19 Michel Legrand
The Windmills of Your Mind
Music Arranger: Michail Tsygutkin
Ensemble: Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker
Duration 00:02:58
08
00:22:26 Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra in D minor - Finale
Performer: Min-Jung Kym
Performer: Zsolt‐Tihamér Visontay
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Clemens Schuldt
Duration 00:09:34
09
00:24:23 Nicola Matteis
Passaggio rotto
Performer: Rachel Podger
Duration 00:02:34
10
00:27:02 Edward Elgar
The Wand of Youth Suite No 1
Conductor: Neville Marriner
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Duration 00:20:37
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015c8m)
John Storgards conducts
The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Dmitry Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, plus Modest Mussorgsky’s seminal Songs and Dances of Death, sung by the Lithuanian baritone Kostas Smorginas. This visionary and dramatic song cycle charts a journey from youth to death, itself given a whole new dimension by Shostakovich’s evocative orchestration. To start, we hear a fantastical work from a visionary composer, Sofia Gubaidulina.
Live from the Barbican, London
Presented by Hannah French
Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem
Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death (orch. Dmitry Shostakovich)
20:05
Interval
20.25
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in D minor
Kostas Smoriginas (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m0015c8p)
After Dark Festival: Dark Places
Crime writer Ann Cleeves, theologian Mona Siddiqui, deep sea fish expert and podcast host Thomas Linley and poet Jake Morris-Campbell join Matthew Sweet to explore areas beyond the reach of light, both literally and metaphorically, as part of Radio 3's overnight festival at Sage Gateshead.
What darkness makes someone commit a murder? Shetland and Vera are two TV series developed from the crime novels of Ann Cleeves. Her most recent book is The Heron's Cry featuring detective Matthew Venn and his colleague Jen Rafferty, played on TV in an adaptation of The Long Call by Ben Aldridge and Pearl Mackie.
Poet and New Generation Thinker Jake Morris-Campbell writes about the mining communities of Northumberland and Durham and the experience of working in darkness.
Professor Mona Siddiqui joined the University of Edinburgh’s Divinity school in December 2011 as the first Muslim to hold a Chair in Islamic and Interreligious Studies
Dr Thomas Linley hosts The Deep-Sea podcast and researches the behaviour of deep sea fish. He's based at Newcastle University.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Part of Radio 3’s After Dark Festival, a major new live music festival for 2022 in partnership with Sage Gateshead and TUSK Music, featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary, classical and experimental music. For all related content, search “After Dark Festival” in BBC Sounds.
THU 22:45 The Essay (m0015hx1)
The Sounds of Tyne
The Castle Keep
An immersive audio experience from Radio 3's After Dark festival at Sage Gateshead.
Five different podcasts are being recorded by award-winning composer and sound artist Rob Mackay at five locations where remains of Hadrian’s Wall can be found in Newcastle. A rich audio landscape complemented by the words of writers and poets as they respond to the sounds of Tyne.
4/ The Castle Keep
The Castle Keep sits upon ground previously occupied by the Roman fort Pons Aelius. Tara Bergin discovers two altar stones which were dredged up from the Tyne
Producer Mark Rickards
A Bespoken Media production.
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m0015c8r)
After Dark Festival: Night Tracks Mix
As Radio 3 begins its coverage of performances from the After Dark Festival at Sage, Gateshead, Hannah Peel introduces a special Night Tracks Mix featuring artists appearing at the festival. The centrepiece is a performance by the Royal Northern Sinfonia of John Luther Adams's Dream in White on White, depicting the endless, windswept landscapes of western Alaska, recorded live at the festival.
Radio 3’s After Dark Festival is a major new live music festival for 2022 in partnership with Sage Gateshead and TUSK Music, featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary, classical and experimental music. For all related content, search “After Dark Festival” in BBC Sounds.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m0015c8t)
After Dark Festival: Unclassified
Elizabeth Alker presents live music highlights from Radio 3’s After Dark Festival, a major new live music festival for 2022 in partnership with Sage Gateshead and TUSK Music, featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary, classical and experimental music.
Held over the weekend of the Spring Equinox the festival culminates in a ‘dusk till dawn’ all night event. It features the Scottish duo Kinbrae whose expansive soundscapes are created with a mixture of brass, synths, percussion and field recordings. Electronic duo Darkstar bring their melodic sensibilities and emotional punch to the concourse stage at Sage. And the German artist Christian Löffler revisits 100-year-old material from the archives of his record label Deutsche Grammophon. Performing music from his Parallels album, Löffler expands on the shellac recordings of Beethoven and Bach with electronics and string quartet, creating a unique spin on these classic works and continuing the lineage of German music.
For all related content, search “After Dark Festival” in BBC Sounds.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell and Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 25 MARCH 2022
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0015c8w)
Pianist Marianna Shirinyan from Oslo
Pianist Marianna Shirinyan performs Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, op. 102
Marianna Shirinyan (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)
12:51 AM
Anatol Lyadov (1855-1914)
The Enchanted Lake, op. 62
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)
12:59 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, op. 26
Marianna Shirinyan (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)
01:29 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Gavotte from Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006
Piotr Plawner (violin)
01:33 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Vespers (All-night vigil) for chorus (Op.37)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (director)
02:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
String Quartet No 13 in G, op 106
Sebastian String Quartet
03:12 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn in E flat major, K452
Douglas Boyd (oboe), Hans Christian Braein (clarinet), Kjell Erik Arnesen (french horn), Per Hannisdal (bassoon), Andreas Staier (piano)
03:37 AM
Frano Matusic (b.1961)
Two Croatian Folksongs
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio
03:43 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Alborada del gracioso 'Miroirs' (1905)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
03:51 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Chaconne for piano (Op.32)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)
04:01 AM
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Lauda Jerusalem (psalm 147, 'How good it is to sing praises to our God')
Concerto Palatino
04:10 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonata in E minor (Wq.59,1))
Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
04:19 AM
Jan van Gilse (1881-1944)
Concert Overture in C minor
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
04:31 AM
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto grosso in E minor, Op 3 no 6
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (conductor)
04:40 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo in A minor K.511 for piano
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
04:50 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Litanies à la Vierge Noire version for women's voices and organ (1936)
Maitrise de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, George Pretre (conductor)
05:00 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Adagio for clarinet and piano (1905)
Kalman Berkes (clarinet), Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
05:08 AM
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613), Peter Maxwell Davies (arranger)
2 Motets arr. Maxwell Davies for brass quintet: Peccantem me quotidiae (The fear of death terrifies me); O vos omnes
Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
05:17 AM
Arthur Butterworth (1923-2014)
Romanza for horn and strings (1954)
Martin Hackleman (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:27 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Fantasien (Op.116)
Yevgeny Kissin (piano)
05:51 AM
Johann Ernst Bach (1722-1777)
Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn (motet)
Martina Lins (soprano), Silke Weisheit (alto), Martin Schmitz (tenor), Hans-Georg Wimmer (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
06:05 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Vetrate di Chiesa (Church Windows)
Orchestra of London, Canada, Uri Mayer (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0015cyr)
Friday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015cyt)
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 our starter today.
1100 Essential Performers – a final piece performed by our artist in focus this week, pianist Hélène Grimaud.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000ss0l)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Overwork in a Difficult Business
Donald Macleod assesses the enormous demands of Richard Strauss’s appointment to the Berlin Court Opera, with music including the vast canvas of his tone poem Ein Heldenleben.
During Richard Strauss’s lifetime the sound and form of music altered radically. He was born at the tail end of the 19th century and saw the emergence of twelve-tone music and atonality from younger composers like Arnold Schoenberg and his pupil Alban Berg. Strauss belonged to a previous generation and his music came to be regarded as conservative in style, but at the start of his career, Strauss had been seen as something of a modernist, breaking the mould with his series of innovative orchestral tone poems, and with the dissonant sound world of operas such as Salome and Elektra.
This week Donald Macleod follows the young Strauss’s pathway leading up to and including the tone poems, seeing how an immersion in music across his formative years influenced his ideas about orchestral writing, as well as opening up opportunities that helped him to establish a professional career as a conductor.
Strauss conducted some 25 operas a season at Berlin, but these pressures did not diminish the scale and vision of his compositional projects.
Ein Heldenleben, op 40
Ein Held
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rainer Küchl, violin
George Solti, conductor
Freundliche Vision op 48 no 1
Karita Mattila, soprano
Berlin Philharmonic
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Violin Sonata in E flat op 18
II: Improvisation – Andante cantabile
James Ehnes, violin
Andrew Armstrong, piano
Ein Heldenleben op 40 (excerpt)
Des Helden Walstatt
Des Helden Friedenswerke
Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
George Solti, conductor
Der Abend, op 34
Danish National Radio Choir & Chamber Choir
Copenhagen Boys’ Choir
Stefan Parkman, director
Producer: Johannah Smith for BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015cyw)
Chamber music by Brahms and Schumann from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (4/4)
Long-time recital partners, Canadian violinist James Ehnes and American pianist Andrew Armstrong perform music by two composer friends, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann. They begin with Schumann’s Second Violin Sonata, premiered by Clara Schumann at the piano and Joseph Joachim on the violin, who called it ‘one of the finest compositions of our times’ and that the last movement reminded him of the sea. James Ehnes then moves to viola to perform Brahms’s intimate Second Sonata for viola.
Recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op.121
Brahms: Viola Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2
James Ehnes – violin / viola
Andrew Armstrong – piano
Stephen Broad – presenter
Laura Metcalfe – producer
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015cyy)
Friday - Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich
Violinist Baiba Skride joins Andris Nelsons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's searing Second Violin Concerto; the composer's deceptively light Ninth Symphony is also on the bill of fayre, along with performances by the Freiberg Baroque Orchestra and a rarely heard chamber work by Respighi.
Presented by Ian Skelly
2.00pm
Shostakovich
Symphony No.9 in E flat, Op.70
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Lully
Extracts from 'Alceste'
Delalande
Troisième Caprice, from 'Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy'
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Amandine Beyer, violin / conductor
3.00pm
Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No.2 in C sharp minor, Op.129
Baiba Skride, violin
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Mozart
Rondo in A minor, K.511
Mariam Batsashvili, piano
Respighi
Quartet in D
Escher String Quartet
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m0015cm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0015cz0)
Katie Derham presents the latest arts news from across the classical music world.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015cz2)
Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
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 (m0015cz4)
Total Immersion: Frank Zappa
Few have influenced music like Frank Zappa. Now the 20th-century titan becomes the focus of a BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion Day, recorded last Saturday at the Barbican Centre. Ever the experimentalist, Zappa’s music explores influences as diverse as classical modernism, free improvisation, rock and roll virtuosity and cultural satire. Expect the unexpected in an evening of performances where Brad Lubman conducts the BBC SO and the Guildhall's Ubu Ensemble, led by Simon Wills, explores the ensemble music.
Following a diagnosis of terminal cancer, in 1991 Zappa agreed to appear as a featured composer at the Frankfurt Festival the next year. What started as a cautious collaboration turned into an inspired one when Zappa started working with the German contemporary music orchestra, Ensemble Modern. The concerts that followed have gone down in history, thanks in part to The Yellow Shark. The Ubu Ensemble performs works that rhapsodize on Zappa’s intense, disciplined interest in classical counterpoint, and by the composer’s beloved Edgard Varèse and Igor Stravinsky.
For Frank Zappa, the symphony orchestra was the consummate vehicle for musical storytelling. Brad Lubman leads this live-streamed evening culminating in Zappa’s acknowledged orchestral masterpieces. In 1983, Zappa hired the London Symphony Orchestra and recorded 90 minutes of his freest, most imaginative and most wickedly entertaining music with the ensemble. Included on the album was the tear-away invention of Pedro’s Dowry, a frantic piece that obsesses over repeated fragments with all the primary-coloured brilliance of a cartoon soundtrack. This rampant hyperactivity finds the perfect counterbalance in Sad Jane, which is presented alongside its companion piece Bob in Dacron.
Mo ‘n Herb’s Vacation is one of Zappa’s most accomplished large-scale orchestral works. Within its three-movement, theme and variations structure, beauty and aggression mingle, paradoxically embodying the sort of ‘sophisticated’ musical archetype Zappa loved to mock. The concert opens with music by Igor Stravinsky, one of Zappa’s principal musical inspirations.
Presented by Andrew McGregor with guests including Zappa expert Ben Watson.
Recorded at the Barbican on 19th March
Igor Stravinsky: Variations 'Aldous Huxley in memoriam'
Frank Zappa: Pedro’s Dowry
Frank Zappa: Bob in Dacron / Sad Jane
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Brad Lubman (conductor)
Igor Stravinsky: Pribaoutki
Edgard Varèse: Intégrales
Frank Zappa: The Perfect Stranger
Ubu Ensemble
Simon Wills (conductor)
Frank Zappa: Strictly Genteel
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Brad Lubman (conductor)
Frank Zappa from The Yellow Shark
Ubu Ensemble
Simon Wills (conductor)
Frank Zappa: Mo 'N Herb's Variations
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Brad Lubman (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000twx6)
After Dark Festival: The Chance to Change
The Equinox is a time of change, and at a special recording for Radio 3's After Dark Festival, The Verb's master of metamorphosis Ian McMillan presents a plethora of poets from Sage Gateshead. It's our contribution to this major new live music festival. It's a feast of contemporary, classical and experimental music too and you can find out more searching "After Dark Festival" in BBC Sounds.
We'll have live performances from UK and World Poetry Slam Champion Kat François. Mike Garry will bring a flavour of Manchester to the North East and we'll also be joined by local lad Rowan McCabe - who described his "door-to-door" poetry service as "like the Avon lady but with rhymes." And we'll have a performance from the ever eclectic Kate Fox.
If you like your poetry live and loud The Verb at the After Dark Festival has got you covered.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m0015hwz)
The Sounds of Tyne
The Spirit of Antenociticus
An immersive audio experience from Radio 3's After Dark festival at Sage Gateshead.
Five different podcasts are being recorded by award-winning composer and sound artist Rob Mackay at five locations where remains of Hadrian’s Wall can be found in Newcastle. A rich audio landscape complemented by the words of writers and poets as they respond to the sounds of Tyne.
5/ A stretch of Hadrian’s Wall was discovered in 2017 outside the Mining Institute in Newcastle. Poet Jake Morris-Campbell evokes the spirit of local god Antenociticus.
Producer: Mark Rickards
A Bespoken Media production
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m0015cz6)
After Dark Festival: Late Junction
Join the Late Junction team in Newcastle at the After Dark Festival, as Verity Sharp and Jennifer Lucy Allan bring you a selection of highlights from our stage at the Star & Shadow in collaboration with Tusk.
The After Dark festival, from BBC Radio 3 and Sage Gateshead, is a celebration of alternative music taking place over the weekend of the Spring Equinox and shining a light on creativity in the North East. We bring you highlights from Friday night at the Star & Shadow, a special line-up curated by Late Junction and Tusk Music featuring Iceboy Violet, Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters and Yeah You. Plus from Saturday night, Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to the legendary folk singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan about her new memoir.
Iceboy Violet is a Manchester-based producer, vocalist and DJ. A key player in the experimental scene in Manchester, their sound combines dark brooding electronics with a powerfully raw vocal delivery. Inspired by the energy and resistance of Grime music, their lyrics are honest and vulnerable, warping the genre in a way that aims to challenge toxic masculinity and heteronormativity.
Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters is the project of Belgo-Congolese multi-instrumentalist and singer Nyati Mayi, and Brussels DJ, producer and musician soFa elsewhere. Rooted in improvisation and free music, their sound is heavily percussive and vocal led, with influences including ‘90s hip hop, folk, Congolese rhythms and dub.
Yeah You are Newcastle father-daughter duo of Elvin Brandhi and Gustav Thomas. Inspired by everything from noise pop to black metal, the pair have been improvising and recording together since Brandhi was a teenager. Their work is almost entirely improvised and spontaneous, with Brandhi letting loose stream-of-consciousness vocals over distorted rhythms and warped electronics.
For all related festival content, search “After Dark Festival” in BBC Sounds.
Produced by Katie Callin and Rebecca Gaskell.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (m0015cxg)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m0015cww)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m0015c3s)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m0015c8h)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m0015cyy)
Between the Ears
18:45 SUN (m0015ds7)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m0015ck3)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m0015clz)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m0015cx8)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m0015cwp)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m0015c3l)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m0015c89)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m0015cyr)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m001556g)
Choral Evensong
16:00 WED (m0015c3v)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m000b6ft)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m000spmy)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m000sqzd)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m000srhq)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m000srbb)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m000ss0l)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (m0015jdf)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m0015cxb)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m0015cwr)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m0015c3n)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m0015c8c)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m0015cyt)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m0015cx4)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m0015c43)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m0015c8p)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m00120vc)
Gameplay with Baby Queen
02:00 SAT (m001553y)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m0015cxn)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m0015cx0)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m0015c3z)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m00057hm)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m0015cz2)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m0015cxl)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m0015cwy)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m0015c3x)
In Tune
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In Tune
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Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m0015ck7)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m0015ckf)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m0015cm5)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m0015cz6)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m001323n)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m001323n)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m0015ckc)
New Generation Artists
16:30 MON (m0015cxj)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m0015ckk)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m00131mn)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m0012rnl)
Night Tracks
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Northern Drift
21:30 MON (m0015cxs)
Opera on 3
18:30 SAT (m0015ckh)
Piano Flow
01:00 SAT (m001553w)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m0015cm3)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m0015548)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m0015cxd)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m0015cwt)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m0015c3q)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m0015c8f)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m0015cyw)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m0015cxq)
Radio 3 in Concert
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Radio 3 in Concert
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Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m0015c8m)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m0015cz4)
Record Review Extra
21:30 SUN (m0015cmf)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m0015ck5)
Sound of Cinema
15:00 SAT (m0015ck9)
Sunday Feature
19:15 SUN (m0015cmc)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m0015cm1)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m000jt5r)
The Electronic Century with Gabriel Prokofiev
23:00 SUN (m000rmkx)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m0015hwr)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m0015hwv)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m0015hwx)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m0015hx1)
The Essay
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The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m0015cm7)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m0015cm7)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m0015c8r)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m000twx6)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m0010x1f)
Through the Night
03:00 SAT (m0015540)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m0015ckp)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m0015cmh)
Through the Night
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Through the Night
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Through the Night
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Through the Night
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Unclassified
23:30 THU (m0015c8t)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m0015cm9)