Tokio celebrates World Piano Day with his favourite piano pieces from global cinema. Alongside tracks from films such as Parasite, Up and Intersteller, Tokio has pieces from Jonny Greenwood, Eiko Ishibashi and Thomas Newman.
The Amar Quartet perform Beethoven's Second String Quartet in G and Saint-Saëns's First String Quartet in E minor at the 2020 Falera Summer Concerts Festival. John Shea presents.
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Brett Polegato (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
Peter Hannan (recorder), Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Christel Thielmann (viola da gamba)
Elizabeth Alker's breakfast melange of classical music, folk, unclassified tracks, found sounds and the now 'world-famous' croissant corner. Start your Saturday right.
Mozart: Piano Concerto Nos. 22 & 23, etc.
Bach Inspired – music by JS Bach, Harding, Higgins, etc.
Beethoven: Sonatas For Violin and Piano Op. 12 No.1, Op. 24 & Op. 96
Perhaps the deepest-felt of Beethoven's piano concertos, the G major poses both interpretative and technical challenges of the highest order. Joanna MacGregor has been listening to a wide range of different interpretations and discusses with Andrew her ultimate recommendation to buy, download or stream.
Concertos For Trumpet and Piano – music by Weinberg, Jolivet, Rachmaninoff, etc.
Flora Willson joins Andrew with five new recordings of German song, including Schubert from Benjamin Appl and James Rutherford, Clara Schumann from Adrianne Pieczonka and an imaginative mixed recital from baritone Hanno Müller-Brachmann.
To coincide with the release of his debut recording of all seven of Jean Sibelius’s symphonies, Tom Service talks to 26-year-old Finnish conductor, Klaus Mäkelä, about his meteoric rise as conductor of the Orchestre de Paris and the Oslo Philharmonic.
In response to the government’s levelling up agenda, Tom also talks to Professor Katy Shaw about her own report “The Case for Culture” – the role that culture can be playing. Plus, Tom hears from Angie Burnett of Grimsby Central Hall and Scott O’Hara, director of the Seed organisation in Somerset about their own experiences when it comes to funding and government support.
Author and violinist, Brendan Slocumb, also joins Tom from Washington DC to discuss the success and subject of his debut novel, The Violin Conspiracy, a thriller that draws heavily on Brendan’s own experiences of racial discrimination.
This weekend marks the culmination of Radio 3’s After Dark Festival broadcasts, with a unique 5 hour edition of Night Tracks that was recorded live last weekend from Sage Gateshead. Tom talks to presenter Hannah Peel about her own dream-like experience there and also hears from DJ and sound artist, Jason Singh and explores his concept of music-making for different times of the day.
Jess Gillam with... Edgar Moreau
Jess Gillam and cellist Edgar Moreau share some of the music they love, with shimmering piano pieces by Debussy and Rachmaninov, and epic emotion from Serge Reggiani and Dusty Springfield. Abdullah Ibrahim is playing the soprano saxophone and Edgar takes us back to his very first orchestral experience with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.
Offenbach - Harmonies des bois, Op. 76; No. 3 Les Larmes de Jacqueline
Abdullah Ibrahim (soprano saxophone), Cecil McBee (double bass), Roy Brooks (drums)
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64; II. Andante cantabile…
Composer, presenter and animateur Paul Rissmann is passionate about musical education and his enthusiasm for inspiring sounds finds him choosing melancholic yet hopeful music by Anna Clyne, an exhilaratingly powerful piano concerto by Prokofiev, and a sparkling piece for violin and piano by William Grant Still.
Paul also uncovers two famous pieces that have been radically re-imagined: Maurice Ravel’s string quartet arranged for saxophones and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition reworked for an urban dance group.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
Matthew Sweet talks to Germaine Franco, the first female composer to score a Disney animated feature, 'Encanto', which is nominated for best Original Score at this weekend’s Academy Awards. Matthew invites Germaine to discuss the path that has led her to tomorrow’s Oscar ceremony, about her career in film music and work on titles such as ‘Coco’, ‘How to Train Your Dragon', and ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’, about her collaborations with the likes of Michael Giacchino, John Debney and John Powell, and he unpicks some of her thoughts about composing a successful soundtrack for Disney.
(See also this week: Words and Music - Movies tomorrow on Radio 3 and Free Thinking on Tuesday evening on Bruce Lee)
Kathryn Tickell interviews Jonathan Ward - music historian, record collector and producer of Dust-to-Digital's latest release Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World's Music, a collection of rare 78s from around the world. Plus new releases from La Dame Blanche, Aster Aweke and Bush Gothic.
Jumoké Fashola presents concert highlights from Egyptian-Belgian singer Natacha Atlas, recorded live at Tampere Jazz Happening. Natacha blends Western and Arabic vocal traditions with jazz motifs, offering a unique sound born of her heritage. She began her career in the 90s as a vocalist with Transglobal Underground, before exploring other genres including jazz, playing with the likes of Nitin Sawhney and Omar Sosa. Here Natacha plays music from her eleventh release, ‘Strange Days’. Sung in both English and Arabic, it brings her jazz explorations to the forefront. She’s joined by Asaf Sirkis on drums, Andy Hamill on bass, Samy Bishai on violin, trumpeter Hayden Powell and pianist Alcyona Mick.
Inspired by Natacha’s approach, Jumoké shares some classic tracks and a selection of the best new releases by North African and Middle Eastern jazz artists.
From the New York Metropolitan Opera: the original 1867 five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a world-beating cast of opera’s leading lights, including tenor Matthew Polenzani in the title role, soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Élisabeth de Valois, and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as Eboli. Bass-baritones Eric Owens and John Relyea are the King of Spain Philippe II and the Grand Inquisitor, and baritone Etienne Dupuis rounds out the all-star principal cast as Rodrigue.
Verdi’s longest and most ambitious opera offers a profound look at the intersection of the personal and the political spheres. The opera features a number of complex one-on-one confrontations, and the chorus, when it appears, is imposing, most notably in the central auto-da-fé. The grandeur of the score telescopes in Acts 4 and 5 to the individuals, with magnificent and melodically rich solo scenes.
Élisabeth de Valois ..... Sonya Yoncheva (soprano)
Eboli ..... Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano)
Don Carlos ..... Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
Rodrigue ..... Etienne Dupuis (baritone)
Phillippe II ..... Eric Owens (bass-baritone)
Grand Inquisitor ..... John Relyea (bass-baritone)
Thibault ..... Meigui Zhang (soprano)
Count of Lerma ..... Joo Won Kang (baritone)
Monk ..... Matthew Rose (bass)
Royal Herald ..... Eric Ferring (tenor)
Flemish Deputies ..... Vladyslav Buialskyi, Jeongcheol Cha, Paul Corona, Christopher Job, Samson Setu (bass-baritones), Msimelelo Mbali (bass)
Voice from Heaven ..... Amanda Woodbury (soprano)
Tom Service presents specially recorded live sets from Radio 3’s After Dark Festival, in partnership with Sage Gateshead and TUSK Music. Rakhi Singh performs works for violin and electronics by Michael Gordon, Edmund Finnis and Julia Wolfe, from an event at Newcastle's Star and Shadow; we hear American composer Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright from a concert by the Royal Northern Sinfonia; and, edging us into the late night realm of improvised music we hear a set from vocalist Lauren Kinsella and pianist Dan Nicholls, with a special guest appearance from turntablist Mariam Rezai. Explore further by searching "After Dark Festival" in BBC Sounds.
SUNDAY 27 MARCH 2022
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m0015ly9)
After Dark Festival: Freeness
Corey Mwamba 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.
Corey opens the show with a selection from saxophonist Chelsea Carmichael and guitarist Niko Ziarkas’ atmospheric sunset set, recorded at dusk on the concourse of Sage Gateshead. He then presents highlights from a late night improv session, featuring a scorching set of high energy and heavy riffs from the sax-drums duo Run Logan Run. Plus freely improvised one-off collaborations between musicians at the festival including Andrew and Matt from Run Logan Run, the Newcastle-based turntablist Mariam Rezaei, vocalist Lauren Kinsella and Dan Nicholls on keys.
For all related content, search “After Dark Festival” in BBC Sounds.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 02:00 Night Tracks (m0015lyf)
After Dark Festival: Deep Night Tracks
Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Hannah Peel host an immersive overnight event recorded live at Radio 3's After Dark Festival at Sage Gateshead.
Live performances include a special collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Memotone and his father, the nature writer Chris Yates, who take us on a night walk through moonlit forests and nocturnal landscapes. Manchester Collective perform music spanning 900 years from Hildegard of Bingen to Edmund Finnis, including Arnold Schoenberg’s luminous ‘Transfigured Night’ and Newcastle-based electronic folk innovator Jayne Dent aka Me Lost Me captures the nocturnal atmosphere with original songs and reworkings of traditional ballads. Plus pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett and composer Ed Bennett invite us to get lost in meditative music by Egidija Medeksaite and Gayle Young, as well as original pieces and a radical reinterpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations for piano and live electronics.
As dawn approaches, the sound artist and beatboxer Jason Singh presents an evocative soundscape of real, manipulated and vocalised “dawn chorus” birdsong, followed by the Leeds-based sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun, who welcomes the new day with a traditional north Indian dawn raag.
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” on BBC Sounds.
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m0015l3m)
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 (m0015l3p)
Sarah Walker with an enchanting musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Sarah welcomes in the new season with a piece by Debussy which gives the impression of a flower blooming, and a light-filled bossa nova sung by Peggy Lee.
She also chooses two pieces that represent water - a tale of a Northern Irish loch by Charles Villiers Stanford, and a guitar suite by Tōru Takemitsu.
Plus, the William Tell Overture gets some added sparkle from the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m0015l3r)
Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh, talks to Michael Berkeley about faith, doubt, compassion and the powerful emotions stirred up by his favourite music.
In 1948, at the age of just 14, Richard Holloway left his home in a small town near Glasgow to train for the priesthood at an Anglican monastery in Nottinghamshire. Nearly four decades later, after working in some of Scotland’s most deprived inner-city parishes, he was appointed Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Church of Scotland. But in 2000 he resigned, unable any longer to reconcile his religious doubts, and his views, especially on gay rights, with church orthodoxy.
As he’s navigated his unusual spiritual journey he’s remained an honest, compassionate voice, cutting through dogma and unafraid to engage with uncertainty and celebrate our humanity.
Richard Holloway has presented many radio series and has written 33 books, the latest being Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe, an exploration of how we can try to make sense of our fleeting lives in a post-religious world.
For Richard Holloway, listening to music is a deeply emotional experience; he chooses pieces by Rachmaninov, Elgar and Brahms, and a psalm and a hymn that bring back powerful memories of life in the seminary as a teenager.
And Robert Burns’ Ca’ the Yowes reminds him of the joy of singing with his family around the kitchen table.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 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.
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)
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m0015l3t)
Thomas Tomkins
Lucie Skeaping celebrates the 450th anniversary of Thomas Tomkins's birth. He studied with William Byrd, was choirmaster at Worcester Cathedral and organist at the Chapel Royal. Born in 1572, his life spanned the end of the Tudor period, the beginning of the reign of the Stuarts and the execution of Charles I to whom he dedicated his Sad Pavan: for these distracted times. His music is still performed regularly in cathedrals, in particular his anthem When David Heard.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0015c3v)
Jesus College, Cambridge
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)
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m0015l3w)
Jazz for a Sunday afternoon
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.
DISC 1
Artist Kenny Drew
Title Be My Love
Composer Brodszky / Kahn
Album Four Classic Albums
Label AVID
Number CD 1 Track 4
Duration 2.46
Performers Kenny Drew, p; Curley Russell, b; Art Blakey, d. 1953
DISC 2
Artist Emma Rawicz
Title Voodoo
Composer Rawicz
Album Incantaion
Label Emma Rawicz
Number 3 663729 191496 Track 1
Duration 5.34
Performers Emma Rawicz, ts; Ant Law, g; Scottie Thompson, p; Hugo Piper, b; Finn Genockey, d. Rec. June 2021
DISC 3
Artist Dave Green
Title A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
Composer Strayhorn
Album Raise Four
Label Trio
Number TR605 Track 5
Duration 6.57
Performers Iain Dixon, cl; Evan Parker, ts; Dave Green, b; Gene Calderazzo, d. 5 Nov 2004.
DISC 4
Artist Dudley Moore
Title Exactly Like You
Composer Fields / McHugh
Album Jazz Blues and Moore
Label Martine Avenue
Number 3698 Track 2
Duration 4.36
Performers Dudley Moore, p; Pete McGurk, b; Chris Karan, d. 1966
DISC 5
Artist Zenith 6
Title Steamboat Stomp
Composer Jelly Roll Morton
Album At a Tangent Vol 4
Label Lake
Number 327 Track 14
Duration 2.47
Performers Tony Charlesworth, t; John Barnes, cl; Malcolm Gracie, tb; Derek Gracie, bj; Dick Lister, b; Ron Arnold, d. 9 Jan 1955.
DISC 6
Artist Tommy Dorsey
Title Song Of India
Composer Rimsky-Korsakov arr Dorsey
Album I’m getting Sentimental Over You
Label Acrobat
Number 169 Track10
Duration 3.08
Performers Bunny Berigan, Jimmy Welch, Joe Bauer, Bob Cusamano t; Tommy Dorsey, Les Jenkins, Red Bone, tb; Joe Dixon, Fred Stulce, Clyde Rounds, Bud Freeman reeds; Dock Jones, p; Carmen Mastren, g; Gene Trexler, b; Dave Tough, d. 29 Jan 1937
DISC 7
Artist Billie Holiday
Title What A Little Moonlight Can Do
Composer Woods
Album All Of Me
Label Marshall Cavendish
Number CD001 Track 8
Duration 3.01
Performers Roy Eldridge, t; Benny Goodman, cl; Ben Webster, ts; Teddy Wilson, p; John Truehart, g; John Kirby, b; Cozy Cole, d. 2 July 1935
DISC 8
Artist Geri Allen
Title The Gathering
Composer Allen
Album The Gathering
Label Verve
Number 314557614-2 Track 1
Duration 5.24
Performers Wallace Roney, t; Robin Eubanks, tb; Dwight Andrews, reeds; Geri Allen, p; Vernon Reid, g; Buster Williams, b; Ralph Armstrong, elb; Lenny White, d; Minu Cinelu, perc. 1998.
DISC 8
Artist Trish Clowes
Title A View with a Room
Composer Clowes
Album A View With A Room
Label Greenleaf Music
Number Track 1
Duration 4.57
Performers Trish Clowes ts; Ross Stanley, p; Chris Montague, g; James Maddren, d. 2022
DISC 9
Artist Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Joe Locke
Title Yes Or No
Composer Wayne Shorter
Album American Adventure
Label Spartacus
Number STS018 Track 3
Duration 5.43
Performers Cameron Jay, Ryan Quigley, James Marr, Tom McNiven, t; Chris Greive, Phil O’Mally, Michael Owers, tb; Tommy Smith, Konrad Wiszniewski, Martin Kershaw, Rauridh Pattison, Bill Fleming, reeds; Joe Locke vib; Brian Kellock, p; Conor Chaplin, b; Alyn Cosker, d. 2013
DISC 10
Artist Binker and Moses
Title Fete by The River
Composer Golding / Boyd
Album Journey to The Mountain of Forever
Label Gearbox
Number 1537 Track 3
Duration 5.23
Performers Binker Golding, ts; Moses Boyd, d. 2017
DISC 11
Artist Julie London
Title Fly Me To The Moon
Composer Howart / Roth
Album The Essential Julie London
Label Liberty
Number 07243 582196 2 3 Track 2
Duration 2.38
Performers Julie London, v; plus orchestra.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m00147jm)
How to listen to... Stephen Sondheim
Tom Service explores the lyrics and legacy of Stephen Sondheim who died last year, with musical director Jason Carr and through archive interviews with Sondheim himself.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m0015l3y)
Movies
Bogey, Marilyn, Laurel and Hardy, Judy Garland and Fred Astaire all make an appearance in today's programme celebrating the movies as the Academy Awards are handed out this weekend. The programme include poems by Anthony Brode, Sharon Olds, Jack Mitchell and Roger McGough and prose by Raymond Chandler, Katherine Mansfield and F Scott Fitzgerald. The music draws from Max Steiner's score for Casablanca, vintage Erich Korngold, Bernard Herrmann; songs by Elizabeth Lutyens and Francis Poulenc, and film inspired music for the concert hall by John Adams, Charles Koechlin and Arnold Schoenberg. The Kinks look back to their Celluloid Heroes and there's Hitchcock inspired music by Danny Elfman and from John Williams's Star Wars.
The readers are no strangers to the world of film - Robert Powell and Amanda Donohoe.
Producer Chris Wines
You can now find a playlist on the Free Thinking website Film on Radio 3: music, history, classics of world cinema
From Matthew Sweet on sound tracks to star performers through films which have created an impact to old favourites
including programmes on Marlene Dietrich, Asta Neilsen, Jacques Tati, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Satyajit Ray, The Tin Drum, Touki Bouki, Kurosawa, Dziga Vertov, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Penny Woolcock, Mike Leigh, Spike Lee. Plus Radio 3's regular exploration of the Sound of Cinema and classic cinema scores.
Readings:
I Lost My Girlish Laughter by Jane Allen
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Movie by Ken Shapiro
The Last Tycoon by F Scott Fitzgerald
Pictures by Katherine Mansfield
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Bogey by Lee L Berkson
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Death of Marilyn Monroe by Sharon Olds
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
Sunday Observance by Anthony Brode
Leytonstone by Stephen Volk
Cinema Exit by Richard Aldington
If Life’s A Lousy Picture Why Not Leave Before The End? by Roger McGough
01
00:01:04 Richard A. Whiting
Hooray For Hollywood
Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra
Conductor: John Williams
Duration 00:02:31
02
00:01:21
Jane Allen
I Lost My Girlish Laughter, read by Amanda Donohoe
Duration 00:00:51
03
00:03:35 Francis Poulenc
Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire - III. Avant le cinéma
Singer: Ivan Ludlow
Performer: Graham Johnson
Duration 00:01:00
04
00:04:33
Walker Percy
The Moviegoer, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:01:12
05
00:04:49 Annette Warren (artist)
Let's Go Out To The Movies
Performer: Annette Warren
Duration 00:02:51
06
00:07:40 Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Kings Row - Main Titles
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Charles Gerhardt
Duration 00:01:39
07
00:08:40
Ken Shapiro
The Movie, read by Amanda Donohoe
Duration 00:00:25
08
00:09:17 Jerome Kern
The Way You Look Tonight
Performer: Fred Astaire
Duration 00:02:08
09
00:09:21
F Scott Fitzgerald
The Last Tycoon, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:01:57
10
00:11:25 Charles Koechlin
The Seven Stars Symphony - III. Greta Garbo
Orchestra: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Conductor: James Judd
Duration 00:03:52
11
00:13:32
Katherine Mansfield
Pictures, read by Amanda Donohoe
Duration 00:01:43
12
00:15:17 Ray Davies
Celluloid Heroes
Performer: The Kinks
Duration 00:05:52
13
00:21:08
Paul Auster
The Book of Illusions read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:01:55
14
00:21:35 The Avalon Boys (artist)
At The Ball, That's All
Performer: The Avalon Boys
Duration 00:00:57
15
00:23:30 Judy Garland (artist)
You Made Me Love You (Dear Mr Gable)
Singer: Judy Garland
Ensemble: Victor Young and His Orchestra
Duration 00:03:10
16
00:26:40 Max Steiner
Casablanca Main Title
Performer: The Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra
Duration 00:01:03
17
00:26:50
Lee L Berkson
Bogey, read by Amanda Donohoe
Duration 00:00:51
18
00:27:40 Herman Hupfeld
As Time Goes By
Performer: Dooley Wilson
Duration 00:02:02
19
00:29:40 John Adams
City Noir - I. The City And Its Double
Performer: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson
Duration 00:07:49
20
00:37:18 The Dave Brubeck Quartet (artist)
Angel Eyes
Performer: The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Duration 00:01:53
21
00:37:20
Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:01:23
22
00:39:10 Marilyn Monroe (artist)
I Wanna Be Loved By You
Singer: Marilyn Monroe
Performer: Matty Malneck & his Orchestra
Duration 00:02:08
23
00:40:14
Sharon Olds
Death of Marilyn Monroe, read by Amanda Donohoe
Duration 00:01:09
24
00:41:16 Elton John
Candle In The Wind - Instrumental
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: James Morgan
Duration 00:02:53
25
00:44:08 Elisabeth Lutyens
Stevie Smith Songs - The Film Star
Singer: Meriel Dickinson
Performer: Peter Dickinson
Duration 00:01:18
26
00:45:22 Camille Saint‐Saëns
L'assassinat du duc de Guise - 1st tableau
Performer: Ensemble Musique Oblique
Duration 00:03:33
27
00:45:35
Terry Pratchett
Moving Pictures, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:02:00
28
00:48:54 Jerry Duplessis
Popcorn Sack
Performer: Spike Jones and His City Slickers
Duration 00:02:57
29
00:51:51 Arnold Schoenberg
Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene Op34 (Accompaniment to a Film Scene)
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle
Duration 00:02:28
30
00:52:14
Anthony Brode
Sunday Observance, read by Amanda Donohoe
Duration 00:01:40
31
00:54:18 John Williams
A New Hope: Princess Leia's Theme
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: John Williams
Duration 00:04:22
32
00:58:04
Jack Mitchell
The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:53
33
00:59:50 “Weird Al” Yankovic (artist)
Yoda
Performer: “Weird Al” Yankovic
Duration 00:03:55
34
01:02:42 Bernard Herrmann
Vertigo Prelude and Rooftop
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor: Joel McNeely
Duration 00:04:52
35
01:07:34 Danny Elfman
End Credit #1 (Hitchcock)
Performer: Anthony Pleeth
Performer: Nicholas Bucknall
Performer: Rick Wentworth
Performer: Skaila Kanga
Performer: Vicci Wardman
Duration 00:02:33
36
01:08:03
Stephen Volk
Leytonstone, read by Amanda Donohoe
Duration 00:02:00
37
01:10:08 Charles Gounod
Funeral March of a Marionette
Music Arranger: Danny Elfman
Performer: Anthony Pleeth
Performer: Nicholas Bucknall
Performer: Rick Wentworth
Performer: Hugh Webb
Performer: Everton Nelson
Performer: Skaila Kanga
Performer: Vicci Wardman
Duration 00:02:33
38
01:11:08
Richard Aldington
Cinema Exit, read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:38
39
01:11:23 Norman Smith
Theme from An Unmade Silent Movie
Performer: Amos Gherkin Quartet
Duration 00:02:21
40
01:12:54
Roger McGough
If Lifes A Lousy Picture Why Not Leave Before The End? read by Robert Powell
Duration 00:00:30
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m0015l40)
Krishnamurti in England
The artist Paul Purgas reassesses the legacy of spiritual teacher and writer Jiddu Krishnamurti.
“One has to be light oneself. You cannot have light from another. God, or by saviours and Buddhas, it cannot be handed down to another.”
In over 60 years of public speaking and writing, Krishnamurti influenced the likes of Aldous Huxley, Bruce Lee and Jackson Pollock, recorded conversations with Iris Murdoch and David Bohm, was friends with Igor Stravinsky, and was described by the Dalai Lama as “one of the greatest philosophers of the age”. So why has he faded from view? And in a world that is gripped by division, crisis and confusion, what might we gain from paying more attention to his words?
“A mind that is self-concerned with its own ambitions, greed, fears, guilt, suffering, has no capacity to love.”
After becoming interested in esoteric writing as a teenager in Bristol, Paul Purgas was struck by the story of an apparently unremarkable young boy from Chennai who had been transformed into the World Teacher of Humankind by the Theosophical Society, sent to England to be groomed into his role, before renouncing the position and striking out on his own. Coming from a household with both Hindu and Sikh religions, Paul was interested in Krishnamurti’s perspective as a South Asian spiritual voice speaking outside of the constructs of organised religion.
Purgas is intrigued by Krishnamurti’s role in the Anglo-Indian cultural exchange that was a formative part of British Modernism in the early decades of the 20th century. And he reappraises the legacy of Krishnamurti’s message, expounded from his departure from theosophy in 1929, right up to his death in 1986. Purgas visits Brockwood Park in Hampshire, home to one of the schools that Krishnamurti founded in the 1960s to educate students in accordance with his outlook. What effect does this schooling have on young minds and their outlook on themselves and the world?
"Truth is a pathless land": Paul reflects on the apparent simplicity and tangled paradoxes of Krishnamurti’s words: the self-professed anti-guru who couldn’t help build a worldwide following; who renounced the idea of a path to truth but laid out his own method of enlightenment; who demanded radical change but eschewed collective activism; who addressed age-old human preoccupations of fear, sorrow and pleasure, while weaving in his interest in cybernetics, psychology and quantum physics.
There are questions, though: Can universalist ideas on freedom be taken seriously from the mouth of a man privileged through elite education, status and wealth? And how does his individualist message sit in a world beset by crises that seem to demand collective action?
Paul reflects on Krishnamurti’s work as a creative manifesto, not just for artists like himself, but for the world at large.
With contributions from pianist Maria João Pires, literature professor Elleke Boehmer, writer and musician T M Krishna, the staff and students from the school and foundation at Brockwood Park, and archive recordings of Krishnamurti’s public talks and interviews.
Produced by Chris Elcombe
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
Credits:
Archive courtesy of the Krishnamurti Foundation
Music by Paul Purgas, plus:
Judith Hamann - Hinterhof (Longform Editions)
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne No. 4 in F, performed by Maria João Pires
David Tudor - Neural Synthesis No. 6
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m0015l42)
Hall of Mirrors
Book by Robert Hudson and Music and Lyrics by Susannah Pearse
Arrangements and Musical Direction by Tim Sutton
Robert Hudson and Susannah Pearse bring us a musical about the great economist John Maynard Keynes and his journey through the great crises of the early 20th century. Dreams of freedom battle demands for vengeance as clashing cultures come alive in a kaleidoscope of songs, ranging from folk to power pop.
We begin in Paris in 1919. Keynes is convinced that the Peace Treaty of Versailles is going to be a disaster; inadvertently creating inequality, fear and populism. Insisting that he will remain a dispassionate observer of events, Keynes befriends the idealistic American delegate Honor Whary, who is determined to build a better world. As Keynes prophesises that Honor's dreams will turn to heartbreak, he is caught off guard when the story takes an altogether more hopeful course.
Jamie Parker, Patsy Ferran and members of the cast perform songs in this sweeping story about nationalism, populists, inequality and how global disasters need bridges not walls.
Cast:
John Maynard Keynes . . . . . Jamie Parker
Honor Page Whary . . . . . Patsy Ferran
Princess Marie & Lydia Lopokova . . . . . Jasmine Hyde
Agnes . . . . . Sabrina Sandhu
Ferenc . . . . . Matthew Durkan
Wilson . . . . . Neil McCaul
Clemenceau . . . . . Jason Barnett
Lloyd George . . . . . Michael Begley
Puffins . . . . . Christine Kavanagh
Flautist: Katie Sutton
Production co-ordinator: Luke MacGregor
Sound by Peter Ringrose
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko
SUN 20:55 Record Review Extra (m0015l44)
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4
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, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4.
SUN 23:30 Slow Radio (m0015l46)
Coventry's Riley Square
A sound portrait of Riley Square, Coventry
MONDAY 28 MARCH 2022
MON 00:00 Sounds Connected (m0015l48)
Keelan Carew
Keelan Carew finds the unlikely connections between five pieces throughout musical history. Tonight what links jazz from the roaring 20s, a fiendishly difficult Rachmaninov piano concerto and the score to the new Batman movie? Keelan has the answers!
A new voice for Radio 3 - Keelan is a pianist and works in musical education with young people:
"I think music is universal, but each of us discovers it through our own special circumstances, so Sounds Connected is a little insight into my path.
"I was the only musician in the house growing up, so ended up with pretty eclectic musical loves. Whether influenced by my passion for the piano and deep-dives into lost keyboard masterpieces – or my sister playing her latest finds on long car journeys, I love finding those unlikely musical connections from Bartok and Afro-beats, or Mongol voices to minimalists."
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m0015l4b)
Glagolitic Mass from the 2019 BBC Proms
Karina Canellakis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Dvorak and Janacek from the 2019 BBC Proms. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Zosha Di Castri (b.1985)
Long is the Journey - Short is the Memory
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Karina Canellakis (conductor)
12:48 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
The Golden Spinning Wheel
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Karina Canellakis (conductor)
01:16 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Glagolitic Mass
Asmik Grigorian (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo soprano), Ladislav Elgr (tenor), Jan Martinik (bass), Peter Holder (organ), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Karina Canellakis (conductor)
01:56 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Sonata in A major Op.30`1 for violin and piano
Ayana Tsuji (violin), Philip Chiu (piano)
02:17 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Symphony in A major, K 24 (Op 10 No 6)
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
02:31 AM
Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521)
Missa de Beata Virgine
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
03:06 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Quartet no 3 in C minor, Op 60, 'Werther'
Havard Gimse (piano), Stig Nilsson (violin), Anders Nilsson (viola), Romain Garioud (cello)
03:42 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Ballet music from Otello, Act III
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
03:48 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Alborada del gracioso - from the suite 'Miroirs' (1905)
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
03:55 AM
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824)
Duo concertante in G major
Alexandar Avramov (violin), Ivan Peev (violin)
04:04 AM
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet 'Spartacus' (Act 3)
NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
04:14 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Rondino in E flat, WoO 25
Festival Winds
04:21 AM
Henricus Albicastro (fl.1700-06)
Concerto a 4, Op 7 no 2
Chiara Banchini (violin), Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (director)
04:31 AM
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto No 2 in G minor
Concerto Koln
04:43 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1924)
Nocturne for piano no 6 in D flat major, Op 63
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
04:52 AM
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Michael Conway Baker (orchestrator)
Four Irish Songs
Linda Maguire (soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:02 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Hans Sitt (orchestrator)
2 Norwegian Dances, Op 35 nos 1 & 2
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Rouslan Raychev (conductor)
05:12 AM
Bernat Vivancos (b.1973)
Salve d'ecos
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
05:21 AM
Serge Koussevitsky (1874-1951)
Andante Cantabile & Valse Miniature (Op 1 Nos 1 & 2)
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)
05:30 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
String Quartet in G minor, Op 10
Yggdrasil String Quartet
05:54 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Three Mazurkas, Op 59
Kevin Kenner (piano)
06:05 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments, Op 4
Ottawa Winds, Michael Goodwin (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m0015l53)
Monday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015l55)
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 British tenor Ian Bostridge.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0003rq5)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Career Move
Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life, of Baroque master Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Today, Biber runs an errand for his boss, but absconds en route.
Biber was born in the small town of Wartenberg (present-day Stráž pod Ralskem) in Bohemia – now in the Czech Republic, then part of the Holy Roman Empire – where his father worked as gamekeeper for the local bigwig. Biber’s first appearance in the historical records is in his early 20s, when we find him in the service of Karl Liechtenstein, prince-bishop of Olomouc in central Moravia. Liechtenstein was a huge music fan who maintained a first-rate choral and instrumental ensemble at nearby Kroměříž Castle, where he also kept an impressive library of musical scores – to this day, the source of all Biber’s surviving autographs. We’ll probably never know the precise circumstances that drove the 26-year-old Biber to leave the Prince-Bishop’s service so abruptly, but when the opportunity presented itself, he seized it with both hands. Dispatched on a lengthy trek to the Austrian Tyrol to collect some instruments from a celebrated violin-maker there, he only made it around three-quarters of the way: as far as Salzburg, where he did a bunk, trading in his old employer for a new and even more illustrious one, Prince-Archbishop Maximilian Gandolph von Küenburg. In Salzburg, Biber put down roots, married the daughter of a wealthy local businessman, fathered eleven children and gradually rose through the court ranks to become Kapellmeister. His risky career-gamble had paid off.
Missa Alleluia (Kyrie)
Soloists of St Florianer Sängerknaben
Markus Forster, Alois Mühlbacher, alto
Markus Miesenberger, Bernd Lambauer, tenor
Gerhard Kenda, Ulfried Staber, bass
Ars Antiqua Austria
Gunar Letzbor, conductor
Sonata ‘La pastorella’
Reinhard Goebel, violin
Phoebe Carrai, cello
Thierry Maeder, organ
Battalia a 10 (Sonata di marche)
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall, conductor
Sonata violino solo representativa
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, baroque violin
Anthony Romaniuk, harpsichord
Partita VI in D (Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa)
The Purcell Quartet
Produced by Chris Barstow for BBC Wales
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015l57)
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Live from London's Wigmore Hall: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective perform music by Dvořák, Frank Bridge and the groundbreaking African American, William Grant Still.
Wigmore Hall's all-star Artists in Residence introduce a typically imaginative programme with Frank Bridge's early Phantasie Piano Quartet and a string quintet by Dvorak written whilst he was in America. Between those comes a movement from a suite written in 1943 by the African American William Grant Still, an important figure in US music who attained many ‘firsts’ for a black musician in his homeland.
Presented by Hannah French
Frank Bridge: Phantasie Piano Quartet in F sharp minor
William Grant Still: Suite for violin and piano Mother and Child
Dvořák: String Quintet in E flat Op. 97
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Elena Urioste violin
Tim Crawford violin
Rosalind Ventris viola
Juan-Miguel Hernandez viola
Laura van der Heijden cello
Tom Poster piano
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015l59)
Monday - Dvorak in Dresden
Fiona Talkington with concert performances from the BBC Performing Groups and from around Europe. This afternoon, Fiona begins a week of performances by the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra with Dvorak's Sixth Symphony, there's Chopin from pianist Alexander Tharaud recorded in the Warsaw where the composer grew up and early music with the Netherlands Bach Society and the star recorder player Lucie Horsch. Korean cellist Sang-Eun Lee performs Haydn's first cello concerto with the KBS Symphony Orchestra in a concert recorded in Soeul.
Ottorino Respighi - Il Tramonto
Sarah Richmond (mezzo-soprano)
Ulster Orchestra
David Brophy (conductor)
Nicola Fiorenza - Recorder Concerto in A minor
Lucie Horsch (recorder)
Lidewij van der Voort (violin)
Siebe Henstra (harpsichord)
Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato (conductor)
Eric Whitacre - Water Night
WDR Big Band Cologne
WDR Chorus
Stefan Parkman (conductor)
Fryderyk Chopin - Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor
Alexander Tharaud (piano)
3pm
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No.6 in D major, Op. 60
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Tomas Netopil (conductor)
c.
3.45pm
Antonio Cifra - Canon terza
Lucie Horsch (recorder)
Lidewij van der Voort (violin)
Siebe Henstra (harpsichord)
Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato (conductor)
John Ravenscroft - Trio Sonata in A op.2/6
Lucie Horsch recorder
Lidewij van der Voort (violin)
Siebe Henstra (harpsichord)
Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato (conductor)
Astor Piazzolla - Thriller
Astor Piazzolla Quintet
Julian Vat (conductor)
c.
4pm
Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto No.1 in C major
Sang-Eun Lee (cello)
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Tania Miller (conductor)
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m0015l5c)
Maria Dueñas plays Franck's Violin Sonata
Maria Dueñas plays Franck's Violin Sonata.
Recorded in the BBC studios a few days after her nineteenth birthday, the Spanish violinist's performance of Franck's evergreen sonata shows why she is making such an impression on the international music scene.
Franck: Violin Sonata in A major
Maria Dueñas (violin), Evgeny Sinaiski (piano)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m0015l5f)
Francesca Dego, Tobias Ringborg, Anthony Pike, John Lenehan
Violinist Francesca Dego performs live in the studio for presenter Katie Derham plus we hear from conductor, soloist and chamber musician Tobias Ringborg ahead of touring WNO's production of Don Giovanni to the Bristol Hippodrome. We're joined, too, by clarinettist Anthony Pike and pianist John Lenehan, who perform tracks of music associated with the city of Vienna from their new album.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015l5h)
Classical music for focus or relaxation
Tonight, we begin with Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum from Debussy’s Children Corner, Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No 2 raises the spirits as Karine Polwart bids farewell to winter and asks us to Follow the Heron. Beethoven’s heartfelt Cavatina from his Op 130 String Quartet offers a moment of reflection before spring lambs gambol with a movement from Schubert’s Octet. Papageno entertains with his magic bells as he pleads for a wife, before Shostakovich returns us to the piano and brings our journey for this evening to an end.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015l5k)
Bruckner's Eighth Symphony
In a concert recorded in November 2021 in Hanover, Andrew Manze conducts the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's mammoth Eighth Symphony in C minor.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.
MON 21:30 Northern Drift (m0015l5m)
Michael Symmons-Roberts and the Manchester Collective
Poet and librettist Michael Symmons-Roberts and musicians from the Manchester Collective join Elizabeth at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m0015l5p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m0015l5r)
Ways of Being
Kate Davis on Thomas Hardy
The poet Kate Davis explores the way Thomas Hardy's poem 'Afterwards' has influenced her way of being.
In this series, artists, writers and thinkers tell us about the ways they have been shaped by their ‘ways of being’, their individual bodies – what freedoms they allow, and their sensitivities or limits. They also explore how their work has been shaped and informed by the body, its freedoms and limits. And as many creative people have discovered - limits can lead to originality, and freedoms can offer ‘more of the same’.
Kate is the first of our essayists, who each let us into their particular 'way of being' via their relationship with a cultural touchstone (whether it’s a poem, a singer, a television series, or a story from the Bible). Each tells us about something that has enriched their own creativity, and brought them closer appreciating their own way of being. Kate contracted polio as a child and it has informed her relationship with the ground and with poetry.
Kate Davis
Kate's first poetry collection is 'The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk' - she has always lived in the Furness peninsula of south Cumbria.
Producer: Faith Lawrence
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m00131t1)
Adventures in sound
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late night listening. Tonight's voyage around the musical archipelago takes in familiar tunes reworked by Ornette Coleman and Knight & Spiers, a 17th-century depiction of bird song, songs by Philip Glass and Nico, and a duet for jazz piano and Colombian harp.
Producer: Sam Hickling
TUESDAY 29 MARCH 2022
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m0015l5v)
George Benjamin from Berlin
George Benjamin conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with pianist Tamara Stefanovich, featuring music by the conductor, Oliver Knussen and Stravinsky. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Oliver Knussen (1952-2018)
The Way to Castle Yonder
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin (conductor)
12:39 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695), George Benjamin (arranger)
Three Consorts from 'Consort Music for Strings', arr. for chamber orchestra
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin (conductor)
12:49 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin (conductor)
12:59 AM
Oliver Knussen (1952-2018)
Prayer Bell Sketch
Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
01:05 AM
George Benjamin (b.1960)
Concerto for Orchestra
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin (conductor)
01:22 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Pulcinella, ballet suite
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin (conductor)
01:44 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
Biava Quartet
02:15 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Folksongs for chorus, Op 49
Carmina Chamber Choir, Peter Hanke (conductor)
02:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Sextet for piano and strings in D major, Op 110
Wu Han (piano), Philip Setzer (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), Cynthia Phelps (viola), Carter Brey (cello), Michael Wais (bass)
02:54 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
03:15 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Fantasie in F minor, D940
Louis Schwizgebel (piano), Zhang Zuo (piano)
03:35 AM
Chan Ka Nin (b.1949)
Four seasons suite
Ottawa Winds, Michael Goodwin (conductor)
03:47 AM
Marcel Tournier (1879-1951)
Images for harp and string quartet, Op 35
Erica Goodman (harp), Amadeus Ensemble
03:58 AM
Howard Cable (1920-2016)
The Banks of Newfoundland
Hannaford Street Silver Band, Stephen Chenette (conductor)
04:06 AM
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
Polonaise in A major for violin & piano, Op 21
Piotr Plawner (violin), Andrzej Guz (piano)
04:15 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Les titans, Op 71 No 2
Lamentabile Consort, Jan Stromberg (tenor), Gunnar Andersson (tenor), Bertil Marcusson (baritone), Olle Skold (bass)
04:23 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Sonata in D major for 3 violins and continuo
Il Giardino Armonico
04:31 AM
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Overture to Prince Igor
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
04:41 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Concerto Grosso in D Op 6 No 4
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
04:51 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Magnificat
Kimberley Briggs (soprano), Elmer Iseler Singers, Matthew Larkin (organ), Lydia Adams (conductor)
04:58 AM
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
Barcarola e scherzo
Min Park (flute), Huw Watkins (piano)
05:07 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op 20
Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Plamen Djurov (conductor)
05:17 AM
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Introduction and variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' for guitar (Op 9)
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (guitar)
05:26 AM
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)
Largo for cello and orchestra
Claudio Bohorquez (cello), Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra, Maximiano Valdes (conductor)
05:50 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1924)
Trio for piano and strings (Op.120) in D minor (1923)
Grumiaux Trio, Luc Devos (piano), Philippe Koch (violin), Luc Dewez (cello)
06:11 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Arnold Schoenberg (arranger)
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano), Kwartesencja Ensemble, Marcin Kaminski (flute), Adrian Janda (clarinet), Bartosz Jakubczak (harmonium), Bartlomiej Zajkowski (piano), Tomasz Januchta (double bass), Hubert Zemler (percussion), Monika Wolinska (director)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m0015l7j)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015l7l)
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 – our featured artist this week is tenor Ian Bostridge.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0003rr1)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Mystery Man
Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life, of Baroque master Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Today, Biber’s best-known work – his Mystery, or Rosary, Sonatas.
Unpublished during his lifetime and unknown outside of a small circle at the Salzburg court, for more than two centuries Biber’s Rosary Sonatas existed in a single source – a mistake-peppered presentation copy which appears to have passed through the hands of a succession of private collectors before being deposited, eventually, in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The sonatas – there are 15 of them, organised in three groups of five – describe events in the lives of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, starting with The Annunciation and culminating in The Coronation of the Virgin. Heard as a complete cycle, they take the listener on an emotional journey of extraordinary range and intensity, whose rich and varied palette of colours Biber summons up by means of a technique called scordatura – literally, ‘mis-tuning’. From the second sonata on, Biber deliberately mis-tunes the violin in 14 different ways, resulting in subtly different tone-colours and allowing the performer to play combinations of notes that would be impossible on a normally-tuned instrument. The collection ends with a Passacaglia for unaccompanied violin that while returning to the standard tuning in which it opened, brings the cycle to a transcendent conclusion.
Sonata 1 in D minor: The Annunciation (The Rosary Sonatas: The Five Joyful Mysteries)
Riccardo Minasi, violin
Bizzarrie Armonichi
Sonata 2 in A major: The Visitation (The Rosary Sonatas: The Five Joyful Mysteries)
Rachel Podger, violin
Jonathan Manson, cello
Marcin Świątkiewicz, organ and harpsichord
David Miller, archlute
Sonata 6 in C minor: The Agony in the Garden (The Rosary Sonatas: The Five Sorrowful Mysteries)
Walter Reiter, violin
Timothy Roberts, chamber organ
Elizabeth Kenny, theorbo
Sonata 10 in G minor: The Crucifixion (The Rosary Sonatas: The Five Sorrowful Mysteries)
John Holloway, violin
Davitt Moroney, harpsichord
Tragicomedia
Sonata 14 in D major, The Assumption of the Virgin (The Rosary Sonatas: The Five Sorrowful Mysteries)
Riccardo Minasi, violin
Bizzarrie Armoniche
Passacaglia in G minor for unaccompanied violin
Andrew Manze, violin
Produced by Chris Barstow for BBC Wales
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015l7n)
Two groundbreaking string quartets
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents the first concert in a series given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists and recorded at St. George's Bristol earlier this month. The award-winning Van Kuijk Quartet pair two highly expressive works by Mozart and Mendelssohn. Dedicated to his friend Haydn, Mozart's quartet in D minor has an intriguing, rather restless quality. Separated by more than half a century, Mendelssohn's poignant final quartet reflects his deep sorrow at his sister Fanny's death in 1847.
The Van Kuijk Quartet are former Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
MOZART
Quartet for strings in D minor, K421
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Quartet in F minor, Op 80
Van Kuijk Quartet
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015l7q)
Tuesday - John Wilson conducts Eric Coates
Tom Mckinney presents an afternoon of performances from around Europe and the UK, including music by Eric Coates with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Wilson, live from the orchestra's home in Salford Quays, plus further performances from a concert given by the Netherlands Bach Society with recorder player Lucie Horsch, and more from the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mikhail Glinka - Valse Fantaisie
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
Dario Castello - Sonata Concertante
Lucie Horsch (recorder)
Wouter Verschuren (bassoon)
Siebe Henstra (harpsichord)
Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato (conductor)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson - Louisiana Blues Street and Blue/s Forms for Solo violin
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
Adam Skoumal (piano)
2.30pm
LIVE from Salford
All works by Eric Coates:
Television March
The Three Men Suite
Cinderella
March 'The Dambusters'
Last Love
Sweet Seventeen
The Three Elizabeths
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)
c.
3.35pm
Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44
Claire Huangci (piano)
Minguet Quartet
Tarquino Merula - Ciaccona
Lucie Horsch (recorder)
Siebe Henstra (harpsichord)
Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato (conductor)
Francesco Provenzale - La Stellidaura vendicante: Sinfonia
Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato (conductor)
3.55pm
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Kenneth Hesketh - Danceries (Set 1) (Lull Me Beyond Thee; Catching of Quails; My Lady's Rest; Quodling's Delight)
Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band
Jose Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana (conductor)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m0015l7s)
James Runcie, Maya Youssef
Novelist, producer and playwright James Runcie joins presenter Katie Derham to discuss his new book - The Great Passion - which explores what it was like to sing Bach's St Matthew Passion at its premiere. And, we hear from Maya Youssef whose new album is out this week.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015l7v)
The perfect classical half hour
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015l7x)
Toward the Unknown Region - Vaughan Williams 150
From Bridgewater Hall in Manchester
Presented by Tom McKinney
In the second of six concerts presented in collaboration with the Halle Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic continue to explore the symphonies of Vaughan Williams. In this concert, the spotlight falls on his Fourth; in Vaughan Williams's words, "not ... a definite picture of anything external - e.g. the state of Europe - but simply because it occurred to me like that." Written between 1931 and 1934, what felt like unexpected dissonance to some listeners did, despite his assertion, reflect the discomfort many felt about the uncertainty of the political situation. Uncertainty frames the faith that is core to the Walt Whitman text Vaughan Williams sets in the music that opens the programme; the Halle choir joins the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis for Toward the Unknown Region, "Darest though now, O soul, walk out with me toward the unknown region, where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?", words which seem to permeate Vaughan Williams's spirituality for the rest of his life. Extra-musical influence from a different medium and century provide the inspiration for music which Vaughan Williams called a masque for dancing, "Job". William Blake's engravings for the biblical book form the basis of nine scenes and the metaphysical interpretation and freedom Blake displays in these unique works inspired Vaughan Williams to create a particularly powerful, intriguing and visionary score.
Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4
8.15 Interval
Vaughan Williams: Ten Blake songs
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
8.35
Vaughan Williams: Job
BBC Philharmonic
Halle Choir
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m0015l7z)
Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee
Jeet Kune Do, the martial arts philosophy founded by Bruce Lee has influenced the creation of modern mixed martial arts. He started as a child actor in the Hong Kong film industry and his five feature-length 1970s films helped change the way Asian performers were portrayed. Matthew Sweet and guests look at his career, focusing on the film Enter the Dragon, which is one of the most influential action films made.
With Lee's biographer Matthew Polly, film historian Luke White, philosopher William Sin, and New Generation Thinker Xine Yao.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
You can now find a playlist on the Free Thinking website, Film on Radio 3: music, history, classics of world cinema.
From Matthew Sweet on sound tracks to star performers through films which have created an impact to old favourites, including programmes on Marlene Dietrich, Asta Neilsen, Jacques Tati, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Satyajit Ray, The Tin Drum, Touki Bouki, Kurosawa, Dziga Vertov, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Penny Woolcock, Mike Leigh, Spike Lee. Plus Radio 3's regular exploration of The Sound of Cinema and classic soundtracks
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m0015l81)
Ways of Being
David Bower on Tom Waits
Actor David Bower explores his fascination with American singer-songwriter Tom Waits's music and tells us about the way it has influenced his ‘way of being’ as a deaf artist.
In this series, artists, writers and thinkers tell us about the ways they have been shaped by their ‘ways of being’, their individual bodies – what freedoms they allow, and their sensitivities or limits. They also explore how their work has been shaped and informed by the body, its freedoms and limits. And as many creative people have discovered - limits can lead to originality, and freedoms can offer ‘more of the same’.
David is the second of our essayists, who each let us into their particular 'way of being' via their relationship with a cultural touchstone (whether it’s a poem, a singer, a television series, or a story from the Bible). Each tells us about something that has enriched their own creativity, and brought them closer appreciating their own way of being.
David Bower
David is an award-winning actor and the co-founder of a groundbreaking international theatre company called 'The Signdance Collective'. His films have been screened across the globe, and he has been acclaimed for his radio drama performances. He also played Hugh Grant's brother in 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' directed by Mike Newell and written by Richard Curtis.
Producer: Faith Lawrence
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m0012rs3)
Night music
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening. Tonight's musical constellation includes traditional solo instruments from Armenia and Azerbaijan, a nature symphony from Bill Frisell, a dazzling blend of Persian tradition and New York avant-garde, and classical guitar alongside the gospel blues guitar of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Producer: Sam Hickling
WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH 2022
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0015l83)
Beethoven's Late Piano Sonatas
Swedish pianist Roland Pöntinen performs Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Nos 30, 31 and 32. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata No 30 in E major, Op 109
Roland Pontinen (piano)
12:50 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat, Op 110
Roland Pontinen (piano)
01:11 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata no 32 in C minor, Op 111
Roland Pontinen (piano)
01:37 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata no 14 in C sharp minor, Op 27/2 'Moonlight' (1st movement)
Roland Pontinen (piano)
01:44 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Mazurka no 13 in A minor, Op 17/4
Roland Pontinen (piano)
01:48 AM
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801-1878)
String Quartet no 3 in C major
Yggdrasil String Quartet
02:24 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Mellanspel ur Sången, Op 44
Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Jarvi (conductor)
02:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Violin Concerto in D, Op 35
Sergei Krylov (violin), Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Enrico Dindo (conductor)
03:06 AM
Felix Nowowiejski (1877-1946)
3 Songs (Op.56) from "The Bialowieza Forest folder"
Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (conductor)
03:28 AM
Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)
Sonata in D for Trumpet, Strings and Basso Continuo
Sebastian Philpott (trumpet), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
03:36 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Chant du menestrel, Op 71 (vers. for cello and orchestra)
Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
03:41 AM
Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921)
De klare dag - song
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
03:46 AM
Adolf Schulz-Evler (1852-1905),Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Concert arabesque on themes by Johann Strauss for piano
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
03:56 AM
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
El Salón México
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
04:08 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
"Mogst du, mein kind" (Daland's aria from Act II Die Fliegende Hollander)
Martti Talvela (bass), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jussi Jalas (conductor)
04:13 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Zoltan Kocsis (transcriber)
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Zsolt Szatmari (clarinet), Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
04:20 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Leonore Overture No 1, Op 138
Sinfonia Iuventus, Rafael Payare (conductor)
04:31 AM
John Dunstable (1390-1453)
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor)
04:37 AM
Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 - 1640), Elgar Howarth (arranger)
Fancies, toyes and dreames (A Giles Farnaby suite) arr. for brass quintet
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
04:43 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Rhapsody for piano in B minor, Op 79 No 1
Steven Osborne (piano)
04:53 AM
Frantisek Jiranek (1698-1778)
Flute Concerto in G major
Jana Semeradova (flute), Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova (artistic director)
05:04 AM
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Vltava (Moldau) - from 'Ma Vlast'
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
05:17 AM
Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op.12
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano), James Baillieu (piano)
05:32 AM
Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923)
Piano Quintet in B minor, Op 40 (1915-18)
Ida Gamulin (piano), Zagreb Quartet
05:59 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite no 1 in C major, BWV 1066
Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
06:25 AM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), Fritz Kreisler (arranger)
Arabian Song, from 'Scheherezade', Op 35
Andrea Kolle (flute), Sarah Verrue (harp)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0015m57)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015m59)
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 – another track from our artist in focus this week, tenor Ian Bostridge.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0003rsg)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
He Who Endures, Wins
Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life, of Baroque master Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Today, Biber’s music for church and stage.
Biber is known to posterity primarily as a composer for the violin, yet much of his time in Salzburg was spent in the production of ecclesiastical and theatrical music. Of his stage works, including at least three operas and fifteen ‘school dramas’, only one has survived, his opera Arminio, or Chi la dura la vince – ‘He who endures, wins’. Its score has certainly endured, but the opera, despite many fine moments, is rarely heard nowadays. Many of Biber’s masterly sacred works were composed with the cavernous spaces of Salzburg Cathedral in mind, and make full use of the spatial possibilities afforded by that monumental building.
Arminio, or Chi la dura la vince: Act I, Scene 1 (extract)
Salzburger Hofmusik
Wolfgang Brunner, conductor
Psalmi de B. M. Virgine, from Vesperae longiores ac breviores, 1693: Dixit dominus; Laudate pueri; Laetatus sum; Nisi Dominus; Lauda Jerusalem; Magnificat.
Cantus Cölln
Konrad Junghänel, conductor
Arminio, or Chi la dura la vince: Act I, Scene 7)
Gotthold Schwarz, baritone (Arminio)
Salzburger Hofmusik
Wolfgang Brunner, conductor
Arminio, or Chi la dura la vince: Act II, Scene 10 (extract)
Barbara Schlick, soprano (Giulia)
Salzburger Hofmusik
Wolfgang Brunner, conductor
Arminio, or Chi la dura la vince: Act III, Scene 9
Gerd Kenda, bass (Tiberio)
Hermann Oswald, tenor (Germanico)
Markus Forster, alto (Vitellio)
Florian Mehltretter, bass (Seiano)
Salzburger Hofmusik
Wolfgang Brunner, conductor
Litaniae Sancto Josepho
Cantus Cölln
Concerto Palatino
Konrad Junghänel, conductor
Producer: Chris Barstow for BBC Wales
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015m5c)
Virtuoso romantic piano music
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents the second concert in a series given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists earlier this month at St. George's Bristol. A noted interpreter of Liszt, award-winning pianist Mariam Batsashvili's programme celebrates Liszt's interest in literature, his spiritual convictions and his love for his homeland. Liszt prefaced Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude with a line taken from the poems of Alphonse de Lamartine, "Whence comes, oh my God, this peace that floods over me". The second of his Hungarian Rhapsodies pays tribute to the gypsy music of his birthland.
Mariam Batsashvili is a former Radio 3 New Generation Artist
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
LISZT
Valse de bravoure S214/1
LISZT
Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (Harmonies poétiques et réligieuses)
LISZT
Tarantella (Venezia e Napoli) S162
SCHUBERT, arr LISZT
Aufenthalt
Ständchen
LISZT
Hungarian Rhapsody no 2 in C sharp minor S244/2
Mariam Batsashvili, piano
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015m5f)
Wednesday - Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Fiona Talkington with music from around Europe. Today's offerings include the Dresden Philharmonic performing Richard Strauss's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme under conductor Marke Janowski, there's more early music with the Darmstadt Baroque Soloists, and Nils Lindberg sets poems by Christina Rosetti and performed by the WDR Chorus.
Carl Maria von Weber - Overture to ‘Oberon’
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Fabio Luisi (conductor)
Antonio Vivaldi - ‘Sovente il sole’ (Perseo’s aria) from ‘Andromeda liberata’
Sonia Prina contralto
Darmstadt Baroque Soloists
Alessandro Quarta (conductor)
c.
2.20pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Flute Concerto No.1 in G major K. 313
Adam Walker (flute)
Ulster Orchestra
Nil Venditti (conductor)
Nils Lindberg
Rosetti Suite
(1.Fly Away; 2. Remember; 3.Echo)
WDR Chorus
Stefan Parkman (conductor)
Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt
Ernst (Seriously) – Bourree - Allegro
Darmstadt Baroque Soloists
Alessandro Quarta (conductor)
3pm
Richard Strauss
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Dresden Philharmonic
Marek Janowski (conductor)
c.
3.35pm
Aaron Jay Kernis
Musica Celestis
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Tania Miller (conductor)
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m0015m5h)
Royal Holloway, University of London
From the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London.
Introit: Turn unto the Lord (Tomkins)
Responses: Byrd
Psalm 119 vv.35-56 (Lawes, Tomkins, Luther)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 18 vv.13-23
Canticles: The Second Service (Gibbons)
Second Lesson: John 10 vv.11-21
Anthem: When David heard (Weelkes)
Voluntary: Passacaglia in D minor (Buxtehude)
Rupert Gough (Director of Music)
George Nicholls (Senior Organ Scholar)
Recorded 25 January 2022.
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0015m5k)
Ben Goldscheider
Ben Goldscheider joins presenter Katie Derham to discuss two new albums of horn music by composer Ruth Gipps, plus there’s the latest art news from across the classical music world.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015m5m)
Thirty minutes of classical inspiration
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 (m0015m5p)
The London Philharmonic perform Sibelius
The LPO's principal guest conductor, Karina Canellakis, conducts the orchestra in a programme of which Sibelius's radiant Fifth Symphony is the climax. Before that, the vibrant rhythms of John Adams's 1987 opera Nixon in China set the scene for Gershwin's jazz-infused Piano Concerto, a classic of its kind.
Adams The Chairman Dances (Nixon in China)
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F
INTERVAL
Sibelius The Oceanides, Op 73; Symphony No 5 in E flat, Op 82
Inon Barnatan (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Karina Canellakis
Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall on 27 November 2021.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m0015m5r)
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap
Born to a film-making family, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson was the first Argentine film director to be critically acclaimed outside the country. Before he died in 1978 from cancer, aged 54, Torre Nilsson worked alongside his wife Beatriz Guido, a published author, on many of the scripts he turned into successful films. One of them, Martín Fierro (1968), is about the main character of Argentina's national poem. In today's programme Rana Mitter and his guests discuss another - Hand in the Trap - a psychological coming of age story which won the FIPRESCI prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Elsa Daniel discovers the reasons for her aunt shutting herself away from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.
Producer: Ruth Watts
You can now find a playlist on the Free Thinking website, Film on Radio 3: music, history, classics of world cinema.
From Matthew Sweet on sound tracks to star performers through films which have created an impact to old favourites, including programmes on Marlene Dietrich, Asta Neilsen, Jacques Tati, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Satyajit Ray, The Tin Drum, Touki Bouki, Kurosawa, Dziga Vertov, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Penny Woolcock, Mike Leigh, Spike Lee. Plus Radio 3's regular exploration of The Sound of Cinema and classic soundtracks.
WED 22:45 The Essay (m0015m5t)
Ways of Being
Kate Fox on Doctor Who
Stand-up poet Kate Fox explores her fascination with Doctor Who and the Tardis, and tells us about the way it has influenced her way of being as a neurodiverse artist.
In this series, artists, writers and thinkers tell us about the ways they have been shaped by their ‘ways of being’, their individual bodies – what freedoms they allow, and their sensitivities or limits. They also explore how their work has been shaped and informed by the body, its freedoms and limits. And as many creative people have discovered - limits can lead to originality, and freedoms can offer ‘more of the same’.
Kate is the third of our essayists to let us into their particular 'way of being' via their relationship with a cultural touchstone (whether it’s a poem, a singer, a television series, or a story from the Bible). Each tells us about something that has enriched their own creativity, and brought them closer to appreciating their own way of being.
Kate Fox
Kate is a stand-up poet and broadcaster - a regular on Radio 3's The Verb. She’s also a 'gentle activist and campaigner for the voices of northerners, the working class, women and the [neurodivergent] to be heard'. Her latest book is 'Where There’s Muck There’s Bras: The Lost Stories of the Amazing Women of the North'.
Producer: Faith Lawrence
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m001323t)
Around midnight
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening. Tonight's music to cross the threshold of the new day includes a woodwind ensemble breathing new life into the work of Erik Satie, joyful piano from Abdullah Ibrahim, a choral depiction of the night from Gyorgy Ligeti, and quietly powerful jazz rock fusion from the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Producer: Sam Hickling
THURSDAY 31 MARCH 2022
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0015m5w)
Bach Cantatas from Switzerland
The Capricornus Consort Basel and countertenor Jan Börner perform a pair of cantatas by JS Bach. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170, cantata
Jan Börner (counter tenor), Capricornus Consort Basel, Peter Barczi (director)
12:54 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Pièce d'orgue in G, BWV 572 arr. for strings and continuo
Capricornus Consort Basel, Peter Barczi (director)
01:03 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, cantata
Jan Börner (counter tenor), Capricornus Consort Basel, Peter Barczi (director)
01:30 AM
Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521)
Missa de Beata Virgine
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
02:05 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flute Concerto in G major (Wq 169)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
02:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony No.3 in F major (Op.90)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
03:06 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
String Quartet in G major, Op.18'2
Bartok String Quartet
03:30 AM
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), Stanislaw Wiechowicz (arranger)
6 Lieder, Op 18 (arranged for choir)
Polish Radio Chorus, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)
03:41 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Trio for 2 flutes and continuo in G major Op 16 No 4
La Stagione Frankfurt
03:51 AM
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Piano Sonata, Op.1
David Huang (piano)
04:04 AM
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Organ Concerto in D major
Wolfgang Brunner (organ), Salzburger Hofmusik, Wolfgang Brunner (director)
04:15 AM
Elisabeth Kuyper (1877-1953)
Der Pfeil und das Lied; Marien Lied; Ich komme Heim (Op.17 Nos 1, 2 & 3)
Irene Maessen (soprano), Frans van Ruth (piano)
04:22 AM
Matthias Schmitt (b.1958)
Ghanaia for percussion
Colin Currie (percussion)
04:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
The Hebrides Overture, Op 26
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
04:42 AM
Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923), Rainer Maria Rilke (lyricist)
Mädchengestalten, Op 42
Franziska Heinzen (soprano), Benjamin Mead (piano)
04:51 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in F for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello, RV569
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr (oboe), Markus Müller (oboe), Anneke Scott (horn), Joseph Walters (horn), moni Fischaleck (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
05:04 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Piano medley
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
05:11 AM
Jacques Gallot (1625-1696)
Pieces de Lute in F minor
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
05:21 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (orchestrator)
Tarantelle styrienne
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
05:27 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
05:43 AM
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960)
Konzertstuck for cello and orchestra in D major (Op.12)
Dmitri Ferschtman (cello), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernhard Klee (conductor)
06:05 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata no 10 in C major, K.330
Geoffrey Lancaster (pianoforte)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0015m4l)
Thursday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015m4n)
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 spotlight the British tenor Ian Bostridge.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0003rtq)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Preserved in Print
Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life, of Baroque master Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Today, the five remarkable printed collections of instrumental music that spread Biber’s name across Europe.
That music in the western classical tradition has enjoyed, by and large, a relatively good survival rate, is down to the fact that unlike improvised music, it has a system of notation that allows it to be written down. Even so, much music from the past has been lost – a prime example being Bach’s cantatas, of which it’s been estimated that around 40 per cent have gone missing in action. That’s because they existed only in manuscript – often just in a single copy, which could easily be inadvertently mislaid, damaged or destroyed. The manuscript score of Biber’s great Missa Salisburgensis, which is the focus of tomorrow’s programme, nearly ended up as wrapping paper in a Salzburg grocer’s shop; if a local choirmaster hadn’t happened to be dropping by for some groceries at just the right moment, the huge – that’s to say, 82 by 57 cm! – folios of Biber’s magnum opus might very well have been split up and dispersed among dozens of peckish customers, bundled around their Bratwurst, Pumpernickel and Apfelkuchen. The odds of survival are immeasurably lengthened for music that gets into print, ensuring a wide distribution of multiple copies. Only six collections of Biber’s music appeared in print during his lifetime, five of them instrumental; so it was his instrumental music, and particularly his music for violin, that formed the basis of his reputation, both among his contemporaries and for many years after his death.
Sonata No 11 in A (Sonatae tam Aris, quam Aulis servientes)
Freiburger Barockorchester Consort
Partita No 3 in A minor (Mensa sonoris, seu Musica instrumentalis)
Purcell Quartet
Sonata No 3 in F (Sonatae violino solo)
Monica Huggett, violin
Sonnerie
Sonata No 12 in A major (Fidicinium sacro-profanum)
Ars Antiqua Austria
Gunar Letzbor, violin 1 and direction
Partita No 1 in D minor (Harmonia artificioso-ariosa)
Rebel
Producer: Chris Barstow for BBC Wales
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015m4q)
Romantic songs by Clara and Robert Schumann
Nicola Heywood Thomas introduces the third concert in a series celebrating Radio 3's New Generation Artists. Baritone James Newby and pianist James Baillieu perform a programme that explores love as expressed in 19th-century romantic poetry. Many of Clara Schumann's deeply touching songs were written as presents for her husband Robert. The six songs in her Op 13 collection are paired here with Robert Schumann's masterly song cycle "Dichterliebe", settings of texts by Heinrich Heine that tell the story of a young man's rejection in love. Schumann produced the sixteen songs in a mere ten days during 1840, the year in which the young couple would finally overcome Clara's family's opposition by gaining a court ruling allowing them to marry.
James Newby was a Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2018 to 2021.
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
CLARA SCHUMANN
Sechs lieder, Op 13
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Dichterliebe Op 48
James Newby, baritone
James Baillieu, piano
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015m4s)
Thursday - Schubert's 'Great' Symphony
Fiona Talkington presents unique musical performances from across Europe and from BBC orchestras. On today's programme the Dresden Philharmonic perform Schubert's 'Great' Ninth Symphony, the Artis Guitar Duo present JS Bach's Capriccio in B-flat and the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul perform Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony under conductor Tania Miller. And there are further early music performances from the Darmstadt Baroque Soloists.
Johann Samuel Endler - Sinfonia in C minor
Darmstadt Baroque Soloists
Alessandro Quarta (conductor)
Franz Liszt - Funerailles (No.7 of Harmonies poetique et religieuses)
Alexander Tharaud (piano)
Bela Bartok - Divertimento for Strings
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Patterson (conductor)
James Edward Davis/Roger Ramirez/Michael Abene
Lover Man
3pm
Franz Schubert - Symphony No.9, ‘Great’
Dresden Philharmonic
Marek Janowski (conductor)
c.
4pm
JS Bach - Capriccio in B-flat, BWV 992
ARTIS Guitar Duo
Dmitri Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Tania Miller (conductor)
Sergei Rachmaninov - Suite No.2 Op.17 for 2 pianos
Mariam Batsashvili (piano)
Nino Gvetadze (piano)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0015m4v)
Stephen Hough
We’re joined by musicians from Chineke! Ahead of their forthcoming concert of chamber music at Wigmore Hall, and the pianist Stephen Hough performs live in the studio ahead of the release of his new album of Schubert Sonatas. Plus there's the latest arts news from across the classical music world.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015m4x)
Switch up your listening 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.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015m4z)
La mer
The BBC SSO and Martyn Brabbins perform works by Debussy, plus a new clarinet concerto by Wim Henderickx and Poeme de l'amour et de la mer with mezzo Sarah Connolly.
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Debussy: Marche ecossaise
Henderickx: Clarinet Concerto 'Sutra' (World Premiere)
8.10 Interval
8.30 Part 2
Chausson: Poeme de l'amour et de la mer
Debussy: La Mer
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Sound Intermedia (electronics)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m00154m6)
New Generation Thinkers 2022
From Shakespearian writing and Tudor sound to the power of song, ideas about stupidity to sea monsters and the soil - the ten academics working at UK universities who have been chosen to share their research on radio give us insights into a range of subjects. Laurence Scott - one of the first New Generation Thinkers back in 2010 is the host.
Producer: Ruth Watts
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to turn research into radio. There's a playlist featuring insights from the 120 academics over the 12 years the scheme has been running: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08zhs35
THU 22:45 The Essay (m0015m51)
Ways of Being
Rachael Boast on The Book of Job
Poet Rachael Boast explains why the ‘Book of Job’ from the Bible has been so important to her; how it has informed her experience of writing poetry, and her experience a rare genetic condition called ichthyosis.
In this series, artists, writers and thinkers tell us about the ways they have been shaped by their ‘ways of being’, their individual bodies – what freedoms they allow, and their sensitivities or limits. They also explore how their work has been shaped and informed by the body, its freedoms and limits. And as many creative people have discovered - limits can lead to originality, and freedoms can offer ‘more of the same’.
Rachael is the fourth essayist to let us into their particular 'way of being' and into their relationship with a cultural touchstone - whether it’s a poem, a singer, a television series, or a story from the Bible – each tells us about something that has enriched their own creativity, and brought them closer to understanding their own way of being.
Rachael Boast
Poet Rachael Boast's Sidereal won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection - she's a poet whose work gives us ‘the kind of layered time-travel only the best lyric poems allow’ as one reviewer put it. Her fourth poetry collection ‘Hotel Raphael’ is named after the patron saint of healing and pilgrims, and lets us brush against the worlds of artists, writers and filmmakers – as well as the biblical figure of Job. Rachael talks about how Job has informed her experience of ichthyosis - a rare genetic condition that puts her skin under great pressure. She has also come to see the poem itself as language placed under pressure.
Producer: Faith Lawrence
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m0015m53)
Music for the night
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Tonight's mix includes sacred steel guitar, traditional Irish concertina, and hypnotic music for saxophone quartet.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m0013t5h)
Animal Collective in the Listening Chair
Elizabeth Alker surveys the landscape of contemporary ambient recordings, with songs that soothe, spiral, and soar.
In a programme first broadcast in January, she invites Geologist from the long-running psychedelic group Animal Collective into the Listening Chair, where he selects a piece of music that transports him to another realm. We also hear a piece from Animal Collective’s new album, Time Skiffs, with which the group once again smudge the lines between ambience and all-out bombast.
Produced by Frank Palmer
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:00:10 Ben Lukas Boysen (artist)
Clarion (Kiasmos Remix)
Performer: Ben Lukas Boysen
Performer: Kiasmos
Duration 00:05:54
02
00:06:12 Animal Collective (artist)
Strung with Everything
Performer: Animal Collective
Duration 00:06:05
03
00:12:16 Tstewart (artist)
isle of the blest
Performer: Tstewart
Duration 00:02:50
04
00:16:03 Kinbrae (artist)
Carbide Fizz
Performer: Kinbrae
Performer: Clare Archibald
Duration 00:02:17
05
00:18:20 Kinbrae (artist)
Excavate Of Other (The Unknowing)
Performer: Kinbrae
Performer: Clare Archibald
Duration 00:05:23
06
00:23:43 caroline (artist)
Good morning (red)
Performer: caroline
Duration 00:05:45
07
00:30:21 Fadi Tabbal (artist)
Snow Scene
Performer: Fadi Tabbal
Duration 00:02:49
08
00:33:10 Jacques Greene (artist)
Leave Here
Performer: Jacques Greene
Duration 00:04:53
09
00:38:53 The KLF (artist)
Madrugada Eterna
Performer: The KLF
Duration 00:07:35
10
00:47:33 Roger Eno (artist)
The Turning Year
Performer: Roger Eno
Duration 00:02:32
11
00:50:05 Modern Nature (artist)
Performance
Performer: Modern Nature
Duration 00:05:05
12
00:56:02 Eve Adams (artist)
Butterflies
Performer: Eve Adams
Duration 00:03:57
FRIDAY 01 APRIL 2022
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0015m55)
Prokofiev and Shostakovich from Berlin
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra with pianist Anna Vinnitskaya in a programme of Prokofiev & Shostakovich. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No. 1 in D, op. 25 ('Classical')
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michail Jurowski (conductor)
12:47 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, op. 35
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano), Florian Dorpholz (trumpet), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michail Jurowski (conductor)
01:09 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, op. 102
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michail Jurowski (conductor)
01:28 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Vesperae sollennes
Gradus ad Parnassum, Concerto Palatino, Choral scholars from Wiener Hofburgkapelle, Konrad Junghanel (director)
01:51 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Cello Concerto in B minor (Op.104)
Karmen Pecar (cello), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
02:31 AM
Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
Concerto for organ and orchestra (Op.52)
Peter Pieters (organ), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Yoel Levi (conductor)
03:14 AM
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme suite
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tonnesen (conductor)
03:33 AM
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Le Poeme de l'extase for orchestra (Op. 54)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)
03:52 AM
Willem De Fesch (1687-1761)
Concerto in D major (Op.5 No.1)
Musica ad Rhenum
04:00 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D flat major
Rian de Waal (piano)
04:08 AM
Selim Palmgren (1878-1951)
Cinderella (Overture)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor)
04:12 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Friedrich Schiller (author)
Sehnsucht ('Longing') (D.636) - 2nd setting
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
04:17 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Overture to "Giulio Cesare in Egitto"
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (artistic director)
04:20 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Hora est
Radio France Chorus, Denis Comtet (organ), Donald Palumbo (conductor)
04:31 AM
August Enna (1859-1939)
The Match Girl: overture
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
04:37 AM
Antonio Cesti (1623-1669)
Alidoro's aria: 'Qual profondo letargo' - from Orontea Act 2 Scene 18
Rene Jacobs (counter tenor), Concerto Vocale, Rene Jacobs (director)
04:45 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano no. 2 (Op.31) in B flat minor
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
04:54 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
From "Legends" Op 59 No 4 (Molto maestoso) in C major
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
05:00 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Toccata in F major
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
05:07 AM
Anonymous
Jesu Cristes milde moder
Sequentia
05:13 AM
William Walton (1902-1983)
Concerto in B minor for violin and orchestra
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
05:44 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata no 15 in C major, D840
Alfred Brendel (piano)
06:04 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Taras Bulba - rhapsody for orchestra
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Angel Gomez Martinez (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0015lgw)
Friday - Petroc's classical alarm call
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 (m0015lgy)
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 – the last of our tracks this week featuring tenor Ian Bostridge.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0003rs3)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
A Grand Day Out
Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life, of Baroque master Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Today, the focus is on Biber’s magnificent Salzburg Mass.
For many years after its score turned up in a Salzburg grocer’s, the Missa Salisburgensis wasn’t regarded as a work by Biber. The scholars of the Salzburg Mozarteum, to whom the choirmaster who made the momentous discovery took the score for identification, attributed it to one Orazio Benevoli and dated it to 1628, when, it was supposed, the mass was performed at a service for the consecration of the new Salzburg Cathedral. It was not until the 1970s that the attribution to Benevoli was contested, when it was spotted that the watermarks on the score’s paper placed it much later in the century. Further musicological detective-work followed, and nowadays most scholars concur that the Missa Salisburgensis is without doubt the work of Biber, and that it was composed for the service that marked the high-point of a grand eight-day festival not in 1628 but in 1682, when the city celebrated the 1100th anniversary of the founding of the diocese of Salzburg. Our performance was recorded in the monumental space where it was first heard – that of Salzburg Cathedral, rebuilt to its original design after a single Allied bomb destroyed its colossal dome in 1944.
Balletti a 6 (1. Sonata)
Clemencic Consort
René Clemencic, director
Missa Salisburgensis (Kyrie, Gloria)
The Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra
Ton Koopman, conductor
Sonata a 7
Jaap ter Linden, cello
Albert Rasi, Michele Zeoli, violone
Stephen Keavy, Jonathan Impett, Michael Harrison, Robert Vanryne, David Hendry, Mark Bennet, trumpet
Martin Ansink, timpani
Ton Koopman, conductor
Missa Salisburgensis (Credo)
The Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra
Ton Koopman, conductor
Sonata Sancti Polycarpi
Jaap ter Linden, cello
Albert Rasi, Michele Zeoli, violone
Stephen Keavy, Jonathan Impett, Michael Harrison, William O’Sullivan, Robert Vanryne, David Hendry, Simon Gabriel, Mark Bennet, trumpet
Martin Ansink, timpani
Ton Koopman, conductor
Missa Salisburgensis (Sanctus, Agnus Dei)
The Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra
Ton Koopman, conductor
Producer: Chris Barstow for BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015lh0)
Masterworks for cello and piano
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents the last concert in a series given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists at St. George's Bristol. Recorded last month, cellist Anastasia Kobekina and pianist Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula play the third of Beethoven's cello sonatas and an arrangement of Fauré's Violin Sonata in A. Full of melody and Beethoven's characteristic wit, the third of his five sonatas shows Beethoven writing for cello and piano as equal partners. The appeal of its sunny, lyrical grace made Faure's Violin Sonata in A a natural candidate for a cello arrangement, with the first published version appearing in 1899.
Anastasia Kobekina is a former Radio 3 New Generation Artist
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Beethoven Cello Sonata in A No 3 Op 69
Fauré Violin Sonata in A No 1 Op 13 (arr. cello)
Anastasia Kobekina, cello
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula, piano
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015lh2)
Friday - Gran Partita
Tom McKinney rounds off the week of Afternoon Concerts with more from this week's featured BBC performing groups, the Ulster Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, playing music today by the Welsh composer Grace Williams. There are more performances from the Darmstadt Baroque Soloists and the Dresden Philharmonic perform Mozart's great Serenade No 10 known as the Gran Partita. There's also a final performance from pianist Alexander Tharaud given in Warsaw.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Divertimento for strings K. 136
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Laura Samuel (leader/director)
Astor Piazzolla
Tango para una ciudad
Astor Piazzolla Quintet
Julian Vat (conductor)
2.20pm
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.2 in D major
Ulster Orchestra
Ilyich Rivas (conductor)
Christoph Graupner - Chaconne
Darmstadt Baroque Soloists
Alessandro Quarta (conductor)
Antonio Vivaldi - Grida quell sangue vendetta (Vitellia’s aria from ‘Tito Manlio’)
Sonia Prina soprano
Darmstadt Baroque Soloists
Alessandro Quarta (conductor)
3pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenade No. 10 for winds in B-flat major, K. 361 ('Gran Partita')
Marek Janowski (conductor)
c.
3.50pm
Grace Williams - Penillion
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jamie Philips (conductor)
c.
4.10pm
Franz Schubert - Overture to ‘Rosamunde’
Alexander Tharaud (piano)
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m00147jm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0015lh4)
Richard Shelton, Martin Green
Singer Richard Shelton performs live in the studio for presenter Katie Derham ahead of the release of his new album 'An Englishman in Love in LA', plus accordionist and composer Martin Green joins us to discuss the premiere of his new commission, Split the Air, by the Whitburn Brass Band at the Edinburgh Lyceum this weekend.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015lh6)
The eclectic classical mix
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015n6j)
Symphonie Fantastique
When Hector Berlioz saw a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet featuring an Irish actress named Harriet Smithson as Ophelia, he fell head over heels in love and found his calling in life. In his Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz set out to prove that love while writing a manifesto for French music based on passion, humour, spirit and pride. But Berlioz’s captivating symphonic story would be remembered just as much for its compelling debauchery and torment.
Jordan de Souza brings with him a premonition of Berlioz’s own Witches' Sabbath in the form of Édith Canat de Chizy’s new work Omen, and has both Noriko Ogawa and Kathryn Stott for company in Vaughan Williams’s rarely heard and consistently surprising Concerto for Two Pianos.
Live from the Barbican Hall, London.
Édith Canat de Chizy: Omen (UK premiere)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Two Pianos in C major
19.40 Interval
20.10
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Kathryn Stott (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jordan de Souza (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m0015lh8)
Taking Risks
The Verb, Ian McMillan's weekly foray into writing and language, examines the appeal of risk and chance. Risk is inherent to writing every time you put words on paper; whether its risk in the use of form, or language, or subject matter. It's the risk a writer takes when they expose their own lives or the lives of others in their writing. Booker Prize-winning author DBC Pierre talks about his latest book 'Big Snake, Little Snake: An Inquiry into Gambling and Life'; and poet and novelist Helen Mort, who's always been drawn to the thrill and risk of rock climbing, examines how the world views women who aren't afraid to take risks in her new book 'A Line Above the Sky'.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m0015lhb)
Ways of Being
Tom Shakespeare on JRR Tolkien
In this series, artists, writers and thinkers tell us about the ways they have been shaped by their ‘ways of being’, their individual bodies – what freedoms they allow, and their sensitivities or limits. They also explore how their work has been shaped and informed by the body, its freedoms and limits. As many creative people have discovered - limits can lead to originality, and freedoms can offer ‘more of the same’.
Tom is the fifth essayist to let us into their particular 'way of being' and into their relationship with a cultural touchstone - whether it’s a poem, a singer, a television series, or a story from the Bible – each tells us about something that has enriched their own creativity, and brought them closer to understanding their own way of being.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000zbz1)
Natalia Beylis and Anna Homler in session
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares the fruits of our latest Late Junction long distance collaboration session, created across the Atlantic Ocean by two sonic storytellers: Natalia Beylis in County Leitrim and Anna Homler in Los Angeles.
Natalia Beylis is an experimental composer and multi-instrumentalist interested in sounds that appear unexpectedly, often layering and manipulating acoustic instruments with field recordings to create strange juxtapositions. Born in Kiev and raised in the States she moved to Ireland two decades ago, and has been a key figure in the experimental scene there since, with a regular show on Dublin Digital Radio playing ‘experimental bric-a-brac’. Her latest release Invaded by Fireflies is a collage of voices describing memories of a beautiful place.
Anna Homler is an improvising vocalist and avant-garde performance artist from Los Angeles, and has been experimenting with language and sound since the 1980s. Using words as music and everyday objects as instruments, her work explores alternative forms of communication and the poetry of ordinary things. She often performs as her character Breadwoman, a creature she describes as “so very old she has turned into bread” and has her own invented language.
Elsewhere there’ll be previously unreleased woozy, bubbling dancehall from Jamaica, as well as a new compilation of instrumental modal pop from 1970s Egypt. Plus some synth bangers inspired by the anthropological roots of cat's cradles by the artist Kristen Gallerneaux.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:00:03 Maurice Louca (artist)
Bidayat (Holocene)
Performer: Maurice Louca
Duration 00:04:23
02
00:05:39 Phew (artist)
Doing Nothing
Performer: Phew
Duration 00:06:25
03
00:12:04 Ndenga Andre Destin Et Les Golden Sounds (artist)
Ngamba
Performer: Ndenga Andre Destin Et Les Golden Sounds
Duration 00:04:35
04
00:17:44 Ippei Matsui (artist)
Pigeon's Job
Performer: Ippei Matsui
Performer: Aki Tsuyuko
Duration 00:03:24
05
00:21:08 Ippei Matsui (artist)
My Mom and Wasps
Performer: Ippei Matsui
Performer: Aki Tsuyuko
Duration 00:02:17
06
00:23:25 Natalia Beylis (artist)
Pink Sky Dawn
Performer: Natalia Beylis
Duration 00:08:07
07
00:32:30 I Jahbar (artist)
Snapbacks [prod. Big Flyte & Velkro]
Performer: I Jahbar
Duration 00:04:02
08
00:36:32 Anna Homler (artist)
Bread Dance
Performer: Anna Homler
Performer: Alessio Capovilla
Duration 00:04:02
09
00:40:34 Molly Herron (artist)
Hammer and Pull
Performer: Molly Herron
Performer: Science Ficta
Duration 00:03:49
10
00:45:10 New Age Doom (artist)
Life is an Experiment
Performer: New Age Doom
Performer: Lee “Scratch” Perry
Duration 00:04:59
11
00:50:40 Jon Collin (artist)
The Big Mosses
Performer: Jon Collin
Duration 00:04:15
12
00:54:54 بليغ حمدي (artist)
Zamane
Performer: بليغ حمدي
Duration 00:03:05
13
00:59:16 Natalia Beylis (artist)
Trio
Performer: Natalia Beylis
Performer: Anna Homler
Duration 00:04:48
14
01:07:50 Natalia Beylis (artist)
Rain
Performer: Natalia Beylis
Performer: Anna Homler
Duration 00:05:08
15
01:17:04 Natalia Beylis (artist)
I yee ka no
Performer: Natalia Beylis
Performer: Anna Homler
Duration 00:07:05
16
01:24:58 Peter Brötzmann (artist)
Low Life
Performer: Peter Brötzmann
Performer: Bill Laswell
Duration 00:03:32
17
01:29:31 Akira Rabelais (artist)
I Can Noght Thanne Unethes Spelle That I Wende Altherbest Have Rad.
Performer: Akira Rabelais
Duration 00:07:24
18
01:37:47 Kristen Gallerneaux (artist)
Invented Figures
Performer: Kristen Gallerneaux
Duration 00:03:59
19
01:41:46 Nubya Garcia (artist)
Boundless Beings
Performer: Nubya Garcia
Featured Artist: Akenya
Duration 00:02:47
20
01:45:19 Powell (artist)
Piano Music #1
Performer: Powell
Duration 00:08:07
21
01:53:25 Grauzone (artist)
Traüme Mit Mir
Performer: Grauzone
Duration 00:03:58
22
01:58:03 Michele Dejean Group (artist)
Bonsoir Dames (Good Night Ladies)
Performer: Michele Dejean Group
Duration 00:01:57
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 (m0015l59)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m0015l7q)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m0015m5f)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m0015m4s)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m0015lh2)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m0015lxg)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m0015l3m)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m0015l53)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m0015l7j)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m0015m57)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m0015m4l)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m0015lgw)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m0015c3v)
Choral Evensong
16:00 WED (m0015m5h)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m0003rq5)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m0003rr1)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m0003rsg)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m0003rtq)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m0003rs3)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (m0015l42)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m0015l55)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m0015l7l)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m0015m59)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m0015m4n)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m0015lgy)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m0015l7z)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m0015m5r)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m00154m6)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m0015ly9)
Gameplay with Baby Queen
02:00 SAT (m0015czb)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m0015l5h)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m0015l7v)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m0015m5m)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m0015m4x)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m0015lh6)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m0015l5f)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m0015l7s)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m0015m5k)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m0015m4v)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m0015lh4)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m0015lxv)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m000wbgy)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m0015l3w)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m000zbz1)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m0015l5p)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m0015l5p)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m000s8ds)
New Generation Artists
16:30 MON (m0015l5c)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m000v230)
Night Tracks
02:00 SUN (m0015lyf)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m00131t1)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m0012rs3)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m001323t)
Northern Drift
21:30 MON (m0015l5m)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (m0015ly5)
Piano Flow
01:00 SAT (m0015cz8)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m0015l3r)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m0015cxd)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m0015l57)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m0015l7n)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m0015m5c)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m0015m4q)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m0015lh0)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m0015l5k)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m0015l7x)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m0015m5p)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m0015m4z)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m0015n6j)
Record Review Extra
20:55 SUN (m0015l44)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m0015lxl)
Slow Radio
23:30 SUN (m0015l46)
Sound of Cinema
15:00 SAT (m0015lxz)
Sounds Connected
00:00 MON (m0015l48)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m0015l40)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m0015l3p)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m0015l3t)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m0015l5r)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m0015l81)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m0015m5t)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m0015m51)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (m0015lhb)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m00147jm)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m00147jm)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m0015m53)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m0015lh8)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m0015lxq)
Through the Night
03:00 SAT (m0015czd)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m0015l4b)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m0015l5v)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m0015l83)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m0015m5w)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m0015m55)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m0013t5h)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m0015l3y)