Tokio helps you drift away with a mix of calming piano sounds. Sit back, relax and be taken to somewhere else with music from FKJ, Ravel and St Vincent.
Baby Queen curates a music mix from the most iconic animé-style video games, featuring music from Ni No Kuni – Wrath of the White Witch, Dragon Ball Z and Astral Chain.
At a Flagey String Quartet Weekend in Brussels, the Casals Quartet and Van Kuijk Quartet perform Mozart's String Quartet No 15 and Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat. John Shea presents.
Charlotte Riedijk (soprano), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)
3 Lieder, arr. for cello and piano
Shai Kribus (oboe), Mirjam Huttner (oboe), Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Camerata Bern, Sergio Azzolini (director)
Elizabeth Alker's breakfast melange of classical music, folk, unclassified tracks, found sounds and the now 'world-famous' croissant corner. Start your Saturday right.
Nicholas Kenyon on The Marriage of Figaro, Kunal Lahiry on new keyboard releases
Mandolin on Stage – music by Haydn, Vivaldi, Galuppi, etc.
Mozart: Piano Concerto Nos. 22 & 23 – inc. Der Schauspieldirektor Overture
Metamorphosen - R. Strauss; Korngold; Schrecker
Inspired by the tumult of the impending French Revolution, Mozart's intricate and sublime opera Le nozze di Figaro proved explosive yet rapidly became one of the true masterpieces of the genre. Nicholas Kenyon discusses a wide range of interpretations with Andrew, before settling for what he believes to be the ultimate recording to buy, download or stream.
Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 4-6
Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday – music by Tallis, Gesualdo, Ward, etc.
Recently appointed to Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, pianist Kunal Lahiry brings along new releases from Stephen Hough, Simon Trpčeski, Mitsuko Uchida and others.
Brahms: Balladen Op. 10, Intermezzi Op. 117, Klavierstucke Opp. 118 & 119
Ruth Slenczynska - My Life In Music – music by Barber, Chopin, Grieg, etc.
Tom Service talks to virtuoso vocalist Bobby McFerrin about the latest chapter in his musical life and his ceaseless creativity. He’s been inspiring audiences to make music with him during concerts for decades, and now, following a Parkinson’s diagnosis, he is taking this further as he starts to perform live again. Bobby reflects on his early solo shows, the improvisation technique ‘circle singing’ which he developed in the 1980s and whether music can really bring peace to the world.
Folk musician Mari Kalkun comes to the studio with her kannel, a traditional Estonian plucked string instrument with a long history which plays a central role in much of her music. Mari talks to Tom about her personal and artistic response to the war in Ukraine and how musical activism is now an essential part of her role as an artist.
We visit English National Opera to find out more about a new production of Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid's Tale, based on Margaret Atwood’s seminal novel. Tom is joined by director Annilese Miskimmon, mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey who sings Offred and soprano Emma Bell who sings Aunt Lydia, to explore how the story is being brought to life on stage and why it is a shattering story of our times.
Plus conductor and harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini tells us about the irresistible theatrical energy of Vivaldi's 'L'estro armonico' concertos from 1711 and why placing them alongside reworkings by JS Bach on his new recording with his ensemble Concerto Italiano offers a new perspective and a thrilling ride.
Jess Gillam with... Ella Jarman-Pinto
Jess Gillam and composer Ella Jarman-Pinto share the music they love, with life-affirming tunes from Anna Meredith, Flora Purim and Jungle. Beauty in simplicity from Howard Skempton and Luke Howard, fire passion and grit from Elizabeth Maconchy and a little moment of comfort from Johann Christian Bach.
Johann Christian Bach – Sonata No.5 in A Major, Op. 17, No. 5: I. Allegro [Daniil Trifonov, piano]
Elizabeth Maconchy - Quartet for strings no. 1, 1st movement; Allegro feroce [Hanson String Quartet]
Nora Fischer returns to Inside Music with another eclectic selection, including a Radiohead track in the hands of a string quartet, Rameau’s bird calls brought to life on wind instruments, and the seductive jazz harmonies of a haunting song by Poulenc.
She also muses on the benefits of live versus studio performance before hearing Glenn Gould play Bach, and realises that singing Wagner isn’t necessarily all about power.
Plus she remembers how as a small girl she discovered that listening to a Mahler symphony could be fun…
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
Louise Blain ponders the notion of solitude in gaming. She wanders through the woods of Wyoming in Firewatch, saddles her horse in Red Dead Redemption 2 and explores the gargantuan architecture of Destiny 2: The Witch Queen. Our CutScene marks the tenth anniversary of Journey with its composer Austin Wintory. Louise talks to him about how his symphonic re-working of the soundtrack with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Louise also features the soundtracks of not one, but two of this year's BAFTA-nominated game scores - Returnal by Bobby Krlic and Psychonauts 2 by Peter McConnell.
Lopa Kothari presents a specially recorded session from Estonian musician and producer Maarja Nuut whose work encompasses folk and experimental electronics. Plus a round-up of the latest new releases from across the globe with tracks from Oumou Sangare, El Khat, Nils Okland and Jembaa Groove.
Julian Joseph presents an interview with Japanese piano star Hiromi who shares some of the music that inspires her, including the Oscar Peterson track that introduced her to the joy of swing and a musical “rollercoaster ride” by Frank Zappa that informed her own playful approach to the piano.
Also in the programme, Julian has concert highlights from bassist Henri Texier, a grandee of the French jazz scene, plus jazz classics and the best new releases.
From the New York Metropolitan Opera: James Gaffigan conducts Tchaikovsky's masterpiece, starring Igor Golovatenko in the title role with Ailyn Pérez and Piotr Beczała. At the heart of Pushkin's story is Tatiana, who as a teenager falls for the urbane but cynical nobleman Eugene Onegin. When he cruelly rejects her, Tatiana builds her own life and marries a Prince - and when Onegin meets her again as a strong, mature woman, and realises his mistake, it's too late for both of them.
Tatiana ..... Ailyn Pérez (soprano)
Eugene Onegin ..... Igor Golovatenko (baritone)
Olga, Tatiana's sister ..... Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo-soprano)
Lensky, her lover ..... Piotr Beczała (tenor)
Prince Gremin ..... Ain Anger (bass)
Larina, Tatiana's mother ..... Elena Zaremba (mezzo-soprano)
Filippyevna, nanny ..... Larissa Diadkova (mezzo-soprano)
Triquet ..... Tony Stevenson (tenor)
Zaretsky ..... Richard Bernstein (bass)
Offstage voice ..... Marco Antonio Jordão (tenor)
Captain ..... Vladyslav Buialskyi (bass-baritone)
Kate Molleson introduces some of the latest sounds in new music including Bára Gísladóttir's Animals of your pasture, a work described as 'elemental, eternal and indomitable. ' Also tonight, the sublime String Quartet No. 4 'House Burning Down II' from Helmut Oehring.
SUNDAY 03 APRIL 2022
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m0015tyv)
New Frontiers
Corey Mwamba presents improvised music exploring new frontiers in outer space, technology and language. UK trumpeter Nick Walters’s piercing horn meets inventive loops and NASA audio samples from space exploration missions. Here, he draws on unresolved mysteries of outer space, pulling listeners into the centre of black holes and an infant universe freshly reeling from the Big Bang.
British duo Moses Boyd and Binker Golding extend their collaborative partnership to include producer Max Luthert as they venture to more electronic planes for their new album, Feed The Machine. Their improvisational dialogue moves with heightened velocity through modular synth and ambient, minimalist touches.
Also in the programme, travel back in time to the 1970s in Ireland, via the archives of the former Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory, an experimental project founded in the mid-1960s by Jacinta Delaney and Eoghan Comerford bringing together cutting-edge technologies, sound studies, early years studies and linguistic research.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 -
Produced by Tej Adeleye
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m0015tyx)
Hilary Hahn performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto
Fabio Luisi conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. They are joined by Hilary Hahn for Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D minor. Catriona Young presents.
01:01 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
Hilary Hahn (violin), RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
01:34 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sarabande, from 'Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004'
Hilary Hahn (violin)
01:39 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Gigue, from 'Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006'
Hilary Hahn (violin)
01:42 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (conductor)
02:39 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
13 Pieces for piano, Op 76
Eero Heinonen (piano)
03:01 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Gloria in D major, RV.589
Ann Monoyios (soprano), Matthew White (counter tenor), Colin Ainsworth (tenor), Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
03:29 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
String Quartet no.14 (Op.131) in C sharp minor
Orlando Quartet, Istvan Parkanyí (violin), Heinz Oberdorfer (violin), Ferdinand Erblich (viola), Michael Muller (cello)
04:08 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Napoli, FP 40
Antonio Pompa-Baldi (piano)
04:18 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Prélude à l'unisson, from 'Orchestral Suite No.1 in C, op.9'
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
04:26 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Improvisation for violin, cello & piano (dedicated to Miron Soarec)
Stefan Gheorghiu (violin), Radu Aldulescu (cello), Miron Soarec (piano)
04:33 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Zoltan Kocsis (arranger)
Rondo (Concert rondo) for horn and orchestra in E flat major, K371
Laszlo Gal (horn), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis (conductor)
04:39 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Allegro moderato (Song without words), Op 8 No 1 (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:45 AM
Jacob Obrecht (1457-1505)
Omnis spiritus laudet - offertory motet for 5 voices
Ensemble Daedalus
04:51 AM
Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750)
Sinfonia in F major
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
05:01 AM
William Boyce (1711-1779),Maurice Greene (1696-1755)
Suite for two trumpets and organ
Ivan Hadliyski (trumpet), Roman Hajiyski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
05:11 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Pensieri notturni di Filli: Italian cantata No 17, HWV 134
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Musica Alta Ripa
05:18 AM
August de Boeck (1865-1937)
Nocturne (1931)
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Marc Soustrot (conductor)
05:27 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No 6
Jeno Jando (piano)
05:35 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Adagietto, from 'Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor'
Bern Chamber Orchestra, Philippe Bach (conductor)
05:45 AM
Veljo Tormis (1930-2017), V.Luik (author)
Sugismaastikud (Autumn landscapes)
Estonian Radio Choir, Toomas Kapten (conductor)
05:54 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt - Suite No 1 Op 46
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
06:19 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Marienlieder Op 22
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
06:36 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for orchestra No 1 in C major BWV.1066
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m0015tzl)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Breakfast including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m0015tzn)
Sarah Walker with a rousing musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Sarah starts the day with some chirpy piano music by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, perfect to accompany your morning coffee.
She also finds meditative sounds in the simple harmonic expression of Erik Satie’s ‘Prayer for the salvation of my soul’, and a reflection on the seasons by Richard Rodney Bennett, elegantly sung by the King’s Singers.
Plus, composer Elfrida Andrée takes us on a journey out to sea…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m0015tzq)
Francesco da Mosto
Michael Berkeley’s guest is the architect, author and broadcaster Francesco da Mosto.
With his shock of white hair, boundless energy and unmistakable accent, Francesco da Mosto is for many of us the quintessential Venetian.
His distant ancestors were some of the first settlers to colonise the swampy islands that were to become Venice, fleeing Attila the Hun in the 5th century, and since then the da Mosto family has been at the forefront of Venetian public life.
One of the team of architects who restored the opera house in Venice after a devastating fire in 1996, Francesco shot to fame with his BBC television series exploring Venice, Italy and the Mediterranean. And with his English wife Jane, he’s at the heart of the campaign to find a sustainable future for this most beautiful and vulnerable city.
Francesco tells Michael about the joys and travails of living in Venice, and about his life in a crumbling palazzo just off the Grand Canal, shared by his parents, his children and more than twenty other Venetian families. And he tells Michael how to cook his favourite Sunday lunch dish.
His music choices are a celebration of Italy, with arias from operas by Puccini and by Verdi; a much loved song by Mina Mazzini; music by Ennio Morricone, Alessandro Marcello, and the most famous Venetian composer of them all: Vivaldi.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3.
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015l57)
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
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
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m0015tzs)
Handel in Cambridge
Hannah French is in Cambridge exploring links between Handel and the city...which he never visited! She's joined by The Fitzwilliam Museum's Dr Suzanne Reynolds, Handel aficionado Dr Ruth Smith and Emeritus Professor Iain Fenlon to look at a number of treasured items of Handel memorabilia.
She'll also be chatting to Cambridge Handel Opera Company's Julian Perkins ahead of their forthcoming production of Tamerlano.
SUN 15:00 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)
Hymn: O Christ, who art the light and day (Christe qui lux)
Marian motet: Ave Regina caelorum (Philips)
Voluntary: Passacaglia in D minor (Buxtehude)
Rupert Gough (Director of Music)
George Nicholls (Senior Organ Scholar)
Recorded 25 January 2022.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m0015tzv)
Your Favourite Things
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with music this week from Esbjorn Svensson, Miles Davis and Cecile McLorin Salvant. Join our community of jazz lovers - email jazzrecordrequests@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
DISC 1
Artist Esbjorn Svensson
Title Goldwrap
Composer Svensson
Album EST Live in Hamburg
Label ACT
Number 6002-2 CD 2 Track 4
Duration 6.15
Performers Esbjorn Svensson, p, kb; Dan Berglund, b; Magnus Ostrom, d. 22 Nov 2006
DISC 2
Artist Elaine Delmar
Title Fascinatin’ Rhythm
Composer Gershwin
Album Strike up the band
Label Joy
Number EDCD003 Track 9
Duration 2.22
Performers Elaine Delmar, v; Brian Dee, p; Jim Mullen, g; Alec Dankworth, b; Allan Ganley, d. 2005.
DISC 3
Artist Doug Watkins
Title Phil T McNasty’s Blues
Composer Horace Silver
Album Watkins at Large
Label Blue Note
Number GXF3122 Track 1
Duration 4.54
Performers Donald Byrd, t; Hank Mobley, ts; Duke Jordan, p; Kenny Burrell, g Doug Watkins, b; Art Taylor, d. Nov 1955
DISC 4
Artist Miles Davies
Title Jo Jo
Composer Marcus Miller
Album Highlights from Complete Miles at Montreux
Label Warner Jazz
Number 8573 89895-2 Track 7
Duration 5.27
Performers Miles Davis, t; Rick Margitza, ts; Kei Akagi, Adam Holzman, kb; Foley, b; Benn Reitveld, b; Ricky Wellman, d; Munyungo Jackson, perc. 21 July 1989.
DISC 5
Artist Cecile McLorin Salvant
Title Thunderclouds
Composer Salvant
Album Ghost Song
Label Nonesuch
Number 0075597914665Track 11
Duration 3.37
Performers Cecile McLorin Salvant, v; Sullivan Fortner, p; Marvin Sewell, g; Paul Sikivie, b; Kyle Poole, d; Keita Ogawa, perc. 2022
DISC 6
Artist Kid Thomas Valentine
Title Panama
Composer Tyers
Album New Orleans Jazz
Label Arhoolie
Number CD 346 Track 1
Duration 3.28
Performers Kid Thomas., t; Manuel Paul, ts; Louis Nelson, tb; Joe James, p; George Guesnon, bj; Slow Drag Pavageau, b; Sammy Penn, d. 24 May 1959.
DISC 7
Artist Jimmy Yancey
Title How Long Blues
Composer Leroy Carr
Album Complete Recorded Works vol 1
Label Document
Number 5041 Track 16
Duration 3.01
Performers Jimmy Yancey, p; 4 May 1939
DISC 8
Artist Alexander Bryson
Title Mogie
Composer Lee Morgan
Album The Alexander Bryson Trio
Label Hard Bop
Number 33013 Track 1
Duration 5.55
Performers Alexander Bryson p; Jeremy Brown, b; Matt Fishwick, d. 2019 (released March 2022)
DISC 9
Artist Carmen McRae
Title When Sunny Gets Blue
Composer Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal
Album Bittersweet
Label Atlantic
Number SMJ 7182 Track 1
Duration 3.47
Performers Carmen, McRae, v; Norman Simmons, p; Mundell Lowe, g; Victor Sproles, b; Curtis Boyd, d.
DISC 10
Artist Joe Mooney
Title Perdido
Composer Ellington, Tizol
Album Do You Long For Oolong?
Label Hep
Number CD63 Track 12
Duration 2.26
Performers Joe Mooney, acc; Andy Fitzgerald, cl; Jack Hotop, g; Gaeten Frega, b. late 1940s.
DISC 11
Artist Stan Getz
Title Dynasty
Composer Eddie Louiss
Album Dynasty
Label Verve
Number V6 8802 Track 9
Duration 9.42
Performers Stan Getz, ts; Eddie Louiss, org; Rene Thomas, g; Bernard Lubat, d. 1971
DISC 12
Artist Benny Carter and Dianne Reeves
Title Only Trust Your Heart
Composer Sammy Kahn, Benny Carter
Album Songbook
Label Musicmasters
Number 01612 651342 Track 1
Duration 5.28
Performers Warren Vaché, c; Benny Carter, as; Chris Neville, p; Steve LaSpina, b; Sherman Ferguson, d; Dianne Reeves, v; 1995.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m000fft0)
More Than the Score
Are the 100s of recordings of each Beethoven symphony (and the thousands upon thousands of live performances over the years) really so very different from each other? Can one interpretation be better than another? What is interpretation and why is it apparently so central to western classical music? Why do we keep coming back for more? With the help of music critic Fiona Maddocks and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, Tom Service is on the case.
David Papp (producer)
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000pvbq)
The Body
From the tattoos on Queequeg in Moby Dick to the schoolboys in Nicholas Nickleby, the diaries of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison to the experience of excavating an Iron Age tomb, medieval manuscripts to studies of the gut - today's programme reflects research into different aspects of the body undertaken by New Generation Thinkers.
As Radio 3 marks the fact that 100 early career academics have now come through the scheme run in conjunction with the Arts and Humanities Research Council to turn research into radio - this episode features new non fiction writing by ten New Generation Thinkers read by the actors Deeivya Meir and Ewan Bailey with published authors Sarah Jackson, Sandeep Parmar, Preti Taneja and Peter Mackay reading their own poems and prose.
The musical pieces range from Mahler to the Delta Rhythm Boys via Scriabin and Missy Mazzoli.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
You can find a playlist of discussions, short documentaries and Essays featuring New Generation Thinkers on the Free Thinking programme website.
01
00:00:55 Steve Reich
Clapping Music
Performer: Steve Reich
Performer: Colin Currie
Duration 00:01:07
02
00:01:18
Tiffany Watt-Smith
Embodied Habits, Deeivya Meir
Duration 00:01:30
03
00:02:48 Dmitri Kabalevsky
30 Childrens Pieces, Op. 27: No. 5 Cradle Song
Performer: Carol Rosenberger
Duration 00:01:16
04
00:04:02
Peter Mackay
The Leak (An t-Aoidean), Peter Mackay
Duration 00:00:33
05
00:04:34 Orlando Jacinto Garcia
A Rising Tide
Orchestra: Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Jennifer Choi
Conductor: Orlando Jacinto Garcia
Duration 00:02:29
06
00:07:05
Diarmuid Hester
Tattoos and Literature, Deeivya Meir
Duration 00:01:54
07
00:07:23 Christopher Gordon
Queequeg
Performer: Christopher Gordon
Duration 00:01:37
08
00:09:00 Úlfur Hansson
Skin Continuum
Performer: Nordic Affect
Duration 00:02:50
09
00:09:41
Preti Taneja
from We That Are Young, Preti Taneja
Duration 00:02:02
10
00:11:49 The Delta Rhythm Boys (artist)
Dry Bones
Performer: The Delta Rhythm Boys
Duration 00:00:51
11
00:12:39
Alun Withey
The Quest for the Ideal Body, Ewan Bailey
Duration 00:01:29
12
00:14:06 The Delta Rhythm Boys (artist)
Dry Bones
Performer: The Delta Rhythm Boys
Duration 00:02:03
13
00:16:07
Lisa Mullen
The Feels, Deeivya Meir
Duration 00:01:12
14
00:16:54 Sergey Rachmaninov
Vocalise
Performer: Clara Rockmore
Performer: Nadia Reisenberg
Duration 00:02:52
15
00:19:43
Lisa Mullen
The Feels, Deeivya Meir
Duration 00:00:58
16
00:20:43 Dame Ethel Smyth
Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra (2nd mvt: Elegy)
Performer: Thomas Albertus Imberger
Performer: Milena Viotti
Ensemble: Wiener Concert-Verein
Conductor: Doron Salomon
Duration 00:05:49
17
00:26:29
Fern Riddell
Emily Wilding Davison, Deeivya Meir
Duration 00:02:06
18
00:28:35 Sir George Benjamin
Written on Skin
Singer: Barbara Hannigan
Singer: Christopher Purves
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor: Sir George Benjamin
Duration 00:02:28
19
00:30:56
Sarah Jackson
Bilateral, Sarah Jackson
Duration 00:01:43
20
00:32:44 Missy Mazzoli
A Thousand Tongues
Performer: Jennifer Koh
Performer: Missy Mazzoli
Duration 00:07:10
21
00:39:45 Rachel Portman
Nicholas Nickleby
Performer: Rachel Portman
Duration 00:01:32
22
00:39:58
Clare Walker Gore
Reading Disability, Ewan Bailey
Duration 00:01:09
23
00:41:14 Alexander Scriabin
Prelude & Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op. 9: No. 2, Nocturne
Performer: Nicholas McCarthy
Duration 00:06:28
24
00:47:34
Elsa Richardson
The Gut, Deeivya Meir
Duration 00:01:57
25
00:49:35 Frank Martin
Death and the Athlete
Orchestra: ARMAB Orchestra
Conductor: Bastian Blomhert
Duration 00:04:56
26
00:54:32
Sandeep Parmar
from Faust: xx, Sandeep Parmar
Duration 00:01:20
27
00:55:48 Gustav Mahler
Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz
Performer: Charles Reid
Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players
Conductor: JoAnn Falletta
Duration 00:01:20
28
01:01:09
Emily Cock
Historians and Bodies, Deeivya Meir
Duration 00:01:21
29
01:02:30 Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major II. Allegro molto
Performer: Konstantin Scherbakov
Duration 00:02:04
30
01:04:33
Hetta Howes
Bloody Manuscript, Ewan Bailey
Duration 00:01:17
31
01:04:40 Tomás Luis de Victoria
Good Friday Responsories: Tamquam ad latronem
Performer: Stile Antico
Duration 00:03:39
32
01:08:09
Seren Griffiths
Absent Bodies, Deeivya Meir
Duration 00:01:28
33
01:09:39 Lori Laitman
Living in the Body
Singer: Maureen McKay
Performer: Gary Louie
Duration 00:03:02
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m0015v00)
I Arrive without Leaving - The Story of Women Surrealist Poets
New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza tells the little-known story of the early women surrealist poets and writers and how they shaped the surrealist movement.
Surrealism is often associated with visual arts – with melting clocks and headless torsos. But it was in the realm of writing and poetry that surrealist experiments first began. Some of the most radical work was produced by a group of women poets who embraced the movement as a vehicle for innovation and liberation.
“When one is overcome by demoralization and defeat, depressed or on the verge of suicide, that is the time to open one’s Surrealist Survival Kit and enjoy a breath of magical fresh air. To lay out its marvellous contents carefully before you and let them play …” wrote artist, novelist and poet, Leonora Carrington in 1936.
Leonora was one of a group of surrealist women poets who were key thinkers in the build up to and in the decades following the publication of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. And yet at the time they were often perceived to be muses more than artists in their own right by some of the men in the movement.
Drawing on rare recordings including an interview with Leonora Carrington as well as readings of poems by Méret Oppenheim, Joyce Mansour, Gisèle Prassinos, Claud Cahun and Suzanne Césaire, Alexandra examines how these women writers’ confronted issues of gender identity, the erotic, colonialism and power structures using the tools of surrealism to reimagine the world.
With contributions from contemporary surrealist poets and writers Penelope Rosemont, Beatriz Hausner, Rikki Ducornet, Selena Chambers, Aja Monet and Professor Robin DG Kelley.
Readings by Anne Gallien and Emily Bruni
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m000mrgn)
Beethoven Can Hear You
By Timothy X Atack
Peter Capaldi stars as Ludwig van Beethoven, in an immersive drama first broadcast in 2020 to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
Beethoven is visited by a deaf traveller from another time. The Visitor (Sophie Stone) is shocked to discover that Beethoven can hear; it seems that in this reality the composer never lost his hearing. Beethoven is haunted by the idea his ears could fail him. But the Visitor must make him understand his importance as history’s first deaf composer.
An immersive exploration of Beethoven and his music from writer Timothy X Atack (Forest 404) and with an original score from deaf composer Lloyd Coleman.
Beethoven .... Peter Capaldi
The Visitor .... Sophie Stone
Original Music .... Lloyd Coleman
Script Consultant .... Sophie Stone
Sound Design .... Catherine Robinson
Directed by James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production
SUN 21:00 Record Review Extra (m0015v02)
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including a couple of acts from the recommended version of our Building a Library work, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
SUN 23:00 The Art of Accompaniment (m0015v04)
Quarrelling, Making Up
How is performing music for voice or instrument and piano like a marriage - a relationship of mutual support, differing opinion, conflict, compromise and rapture?
Keval begins the series by exploring music that sets up the synergy of soloist and accompanist in a variety of fascinating and surprising ways: from songs by Schubert, Debussy and Saariaho to chamber music by JS Bach, Brahms and Dutilleux.
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Pianist Keval Shah explores some of the greatest chamber music and song repertoire - from a compelling and often overlooked viewpoint: that of the so-called 'accompanist'. He “flips” cherished vocal and chamber masterpieces by Brahms, Bach, Schubert, Britten and others - as we gain new insights into their musical genius.
In doing so, Keval explodes myths, challenges, cliches and reinvents the way we approach some of our most cherished masterpieces, whilst introducing listeners to new and exciting frontiers of music-making.
Above all, it’s personal: as listeners get “under the bonnet” of the music in a way that’s engaging, passionate and delivered by an acknowledged leader in their field: one of the world's leading collaborative pianists and Lecturer of Lieder at the Sibelius Academy in Finland.
Produced by Steven Rajam
An Overcoat Media production
MONDAY 04 APRIL 2022
MON 00:00 Sounds Connected (m0015v07)
Keelan Carew
Keelan Carew finds the unlikely connections between five pieces throughout musical history. Tonight Keelan plots a musical course through hypnotic music by Steve Reich, vibrant Prokofiev, a sad waltz by Sibelius and a stunning collaboration between a Bulgarian choir and Mongolian throat singers.
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 (m0015v09)
Stravinsky and Hindemith from the Berlin Music Festival
Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Stravinsky and Hindemith from the Berlin Music Festival. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
12:41 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Abraham and Isaac
Georg Nigl (baritone), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
12:54 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
01:15 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Variations for Orchestra (Aldous Huxley in memoriam)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
01:22 AM
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
01:51 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonata for piano No 3 in F minor, Op 5
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
02:31 AM
Maria Antonia Walpurgis (1724-1780)
Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni - excerpts
Christine Wolff (soprano), Johanna Stojkovic (soprano), Marilia Vargas (soprano), Ulrike Bartsch (soprano), Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord), Tobias Schade (director)
03:10 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Miroirs
Martina Filjak (piano)
03:42 AM
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
Scherzo for orchestra in E minor, Op 19
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)
03:49 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Two Waltzes, Op.54
Sebastian String Quartet
03:56 AM
Anonymous
The Uhrovec Collection (1730, selection)
Eniko Ginzery (cimbalom)
04:05 AM
Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Trio Sonata in E flat major
Atrium Musicium Chamber Ensemble
04:13 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Carl Tausig (arranger)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV.565) arr. Tausig
Dennis Hennig (piano)
04:21 AM
Dario Castello (fl.1621-1629)
Sonata no. 10, from 'Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book II'
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (director)
04:31 AM
Daniel Auber (1782-1871)
Overture to Fra Diavolo - opera
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
04:39 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Rondo in E flat major, Op 16
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
04:49 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
3 Chansons de Charles d'Orleans
BBC Singers
04:56 AM
Balthasar Fritsch (1570-1608)
Paduan and 2 Galliards (from Primitiae musicales, Frankfurt/Main 1606)
Hortus Musicus, Andres Mustonen (director)
05:04 AM
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)
Rapsodia sinfonica for piano and string orchestra (Op.66)
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
05:13 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture in C minor D.8 for strings
Korean Chamber Orchestra
05:23 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op 96, 'American'
Keller Quartet
05:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV 225)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, The Sixteen, Ton Koopman (conductor)
06:03 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Sonata for violin and piano (M.8) in A major
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Havard Gimse (piano)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m0015vrv)
Monday - Kate's classical picks
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015vrx)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney 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 – this week we focus on violinist Daniel Hope.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0015vrz)
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004)
Hollywood Beckons
Donald Macleod talks to composer Peter Bernstein about his father, the award-winning Hollywood film composer Elmer Bernstein, beginning today with his father's early years in Hollywood.
Born in 1922, Elmer Bernstein created the music for more than 150 films. His big break was one of Hollywood's biggest pictures, Cecil B DeMille's swan song, the 1955 biblical epic, "The Ten Commandments". At the same time as working on that enormous canvas for DeMille, Bernstein was composing the first in a series of groundbreaking jazz-infused scores, "The Man with the Golden Arm". He went on to write the music for the Hollywood adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", westerns that include The Magnificent Seven, surely one of the best-known title themes in the history of cinema, before he became the go to composer for John Wayne. His scores for action adventures include "The Great Escape" and a moving depiction of the inner life of a prisoner in "Birdman of Alcatraz". Nominated on numerous occasions, he won an Oscar for "Thoroughly Modern Millie". In the 1980s he delighted younger generations of cinema goers with scores such as "National Lampoon's Animal House", "Ghostbusters" and "Airplane!", before deciding to make a return to more serious drama. Projects with Martin Scorsese included the film of Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence", and he also created a remarkable portrait of the artist Christy Brown in "My Left Foot". His last score, for which he received a final Oscar nomination, was for Todd Haynes's "Far from Heaven" in 2002. He died just two years later in 2004.
Donald Macleod marks the centenary of this gifted and versatile film composer in conversation with Peter and Emilie Bernstein, two of Elmer Bernstein's children. They offer a fascinating insider's view to the film music industry alongside a personal portrait of their father.
Classically trained as a concert pianist, within five years of arriving in Hollywood Cecil B DeMille was to give Elmer Bernstein the chance to write the music for The Ten Commandments. The veteran director would also support the young composer when Bernstein found himself accused of having "left-wing sympathies".
The March from Stripes
The Hollywood Studio Symphony
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Prelude to The Ten Commandments
The Paramount Studio Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
The Ten Commandments (excerpts)
The Plagues
The Exodus
The Red Sea
The Paramount Studio Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus accepts the Case / Roll in the Tire
Royal National Scottish Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra for two Christophers
II: Reflections
Christopher Parkening, guitar
London Symphony Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
The Man with the Golden Arm
Frankie Machine
The Fix
Molly
Break up/Flight/ Louie’s/Burlesque
Shorty Rogers, flugelhorn
Milt Bernhart, trombone
Shelly Manne, drums
Elmer Bernstein
Producer: Johannah Smith
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015vs1)
Alexander Gadjiev plays Schumann and Prokofiev
Live from Wigmore Hall: Alexander Gadjiev plays Schumann and Prokofiev.
Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Alexander Gadjiev tackles two masterpieces of the piano repertoire, written a hundred years apart but both notable for their towering technical and musical challenges. Schumann's Fantasie was dedicated to Franz Liszt and began life as a memorial work for Beethoven, whilst the second of Prokofiev's so-called 'War Sonatas' probably reveals Prokofiev's innermost feelings amid the chaos of war and the Stalinist purges; something hinted at in his quotation of a song by Schumann: "I can sometimes sing as if I were glad, yet secretly tears well and so free my heart."
Presented by Martin Handley
R. Schumann: Fantasie in C Op. 17
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83
Already the winner of the Hamamatsu, Monte Carlo and Sydney Piano Competitions, and more recently joint second prizewinner at the 2021 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the Italian-Slovenian pianist (of Russian descent) also received the Krystian Zimerman Prize on the latter occasion for the best performance of a sonata.
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015vs3)
Monday - Mozart Concertos
This week Afternoon Concert celebrates French orchestras; today it's the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Chamber Orchestra in concertos by Mozart. Plus Tchaikovsky is inspired by the past, New Generation Artist Alessandro Fisher sings Britten, and a new recording of Doreen Carwithen's 4 Piano Preludes.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
2pm
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op.33
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra
Tiberiu Soare (conductor)
c.
2.25
Ravel La Valse
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ion Marin (conductor)
c.
2.40
Doreen Carwithen 4 Piano Preludes
Hiroaki Takamouchi (piano)
c.
3pm
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622
Raphaël Sévère (clarinet)
Nouvelle-Aquitaine Chamber Orchestra
Jean-François Helsser (conductor)
c.
3.30
Britten Les Illuminations
Alessandro Fisher (tenor)
Ulster Orchestra
Ilyich Rivas (conductor)
c.
4.00
Mozart Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K.488
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Nouvelle-Aquitaine Chamber Orchestra
Jean-François Helsser (conductor)
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m0015vs5)
Rob Luft's South Wind, Katharina Konradi
A brand new track from jazz guitarist Rob Luft and songs by Fanny Mendelssohn sung by Katharina Konradi.
Fanny Mendelsohn: 6 Lieder Op. 7
Katharina Konradi (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Rob Luft South Wind
Rob Luft (electric guitar) with Dave O'Higgins (sax), Misha Mullov-Abbado (jazz bass), Ross Ross Stanley (piano), Billy Podd (drums)
Trad. Italian arr R. Luft: Bella ci dormi
Elina Duni (vocals), Rob Luft (guitar), Fred Thomas (piano)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m0015vs7)
Joyce DiDonato, Paul McCreesh
Superstar mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joins presenter Sean Rafferty as a special guest and performs music from her new album Eden, live in the studio, with conductor Maxim Emelyanychev and musicians from Il Pomo d'Oro, ahead of her mini-residency. Plus conductor Paul McCreesh joins us ahead of his concert with the Royal Northern Sinfonia in music by written by Elgar, Parry and Vaughan Williams for English coronations.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0005nmp)
Classical music for the journey
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including music that featured in the film Tous les Matins du Monde and an alternative take on Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade.
Producer: Dean Craven
01
00:00:06 Jean‐Baptiste Lully
Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations
Director: Jordi Savall
Duration 00:02:12
02
00:02:16 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sheherazade, Op.35 (Festival at Baghdad)
Music Arranger: Aleksandar Sedlar
Performer: Nemanja Radulović
Performer: Stéphanie Fontanarosa
Ensemble: Double Sens
Duration 00:05:22
03
00:07:37 Peter Navarro-Alonso
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. P. Navarro-Alonso): Var. 1
Ensemble: Alpha
Duration 00:00:43
04
00:09:35 Camille Saint‐Saëns
Tarantelle for flute, clarinet and orchestra, Op 6
Performer: Clara Novakova
Performer: Richard Vieille
Orchestra: Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow
Duration 00:06:27
05
00:15:57 Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: Primo Vere - Veris Leta Facies
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra
Performer: London Symphony Chorus
Performer: St Clement Danes Grammar School Boys' Choir
Performer: André Previn
Duration 00:04:18
06
00:20:13 Traditional Irish
The Salley Gardens
Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten
Performer: Iain Burnside
Singer: Roderick Williams
Duration 00:02:28
07
00:22:34 Maurice Ravel
Une barque sur l'océan (Miroirs)
Performer: Vlado Perlemuter
Duration 00:06:28
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015vsc)
German Symphony Orchestra
From Berlin, Robin Ticciati conducts the German Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz's overture Les francs-juges, Schumann's Piano Concerto with soloist Leif Ove Andsnes and Beethoven's ‘Eroica’ Symphony.
During the interval, you can hear more from Leif Ove Andsnes as he plays piano alongside soprano Lise Davidsen in Grieg's song cycle Haugtussa.
Berlioz - Les Francs-Juges, Op.3
Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
German Symphony Orchestra
Robin Ticciati (conductor)
c.
8.20pm - INTERVAL
Grieg - Haugtussa, Op.67
Lise Davidsen (soprano)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
c.
8.45pm
Beethoven - Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.55 "Eroica"
German Symphony Orchestra
Robin Ticciati (conductor)
Presented by Fiona Talkington
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m0015tyc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m0015vsf)
EarthWorks
Wold
Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby explores traces of human history in different landscapes around the British Isles. In ‘Wold’, she discovers layers of human history in Yorkshire’s celebrated chalk hills and describes her involvement in a dig at Thwing on the high Wolds at a Romano-British farmstead, a site which interacts with much older patterns of habitation.
Rose uses the lens of archaeology to reveal our impacts on the world. In EarthWorks she helps us see ourselves within previous patterns of change. Archaeology, we hear, is about imagination, with layers of time revealing people and their stories folded into the earth. At a time of considerable uncertainty about our future, could understanding our past interactions with the environment help us respond and adapt to whatever comes next?
Produced by Mark Smalley
A Reduced Listening Production
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000y55q)
Music for midnight
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01
00:00:09 Corntuth
A-0003
Performer: Corntuth
Duration 00:01:04
02
00:01:51 Camille Saint‐Saëns
Violin Sonata no.1 in D minor Op.75 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Jascha Heifetz
Performer: Emanuel Bay
Duration 00:05:37
03
00:07:28 Luke Daniels
Revolve and Rotate (Pt.2)
Performer: Luke Daniels
Duration 00:03:08
04
00:11:19 Arnold Dreyblatt
Lucky Strike
Performer: Arnold Dreyblatt
Orchestra: Orchestra of Excited Strings
Duration 00:02:09
05
00:13:28 Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Piano Sonata no..3 in C Major Op.25 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Alasdair Beatson
Duration 00:06:47
06
00:20:22 Zoltán Kodály
Mountain Night
Choir: Mikrokosmos
Conductor: Loïc Pierre
Duration 00:04:27
07
00:25:42 J.R. Bohannon
Dusk
Performer: J.R. Bohannon
Duration 00:05:08
08
00:30:50 David Toop
Rain in the face, ghost flute and cymbal 1973
Performer: David Toop
Duration 00:02:19
09
00:33:58 Gustav Mahler
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Ruckert-Lieder)
Performer: Sonia Wieder‐Atherton
Music Arranger: Unknown
Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia
Conductor: Christophe Mangou
Duration 00:06:14
10
00:40:13 Susan Alcorn
Mercedes Sosa
Performer: Susan Alcorn
Music Arranger: Janel Leppin
Duration 00:04:32
11
00:45:39 George Frideric Handel
Scherza infida (Ariodante)
Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly
Orchestra: Symphony of Harmony and Invention
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Duration 00:11:37
12
00:57:16 Trad.
The Gypsy's Lullaby
Performer: Billy Pigg
Music Arranger: Billy Pigg
Duration 00:01:18
13
00:59:10 Minor Victories
Give up the Ghost
Ensemble: Minor Victories
Duration 00:04:49
14
01:03:59 Vardapet Komitas
Akh Maral Jan [Ah, Dear Maral]
Performer: Heather Tuach
Performer: Patil Harboyan
Duration 00:03:18
15
01:08:23 Christian Drew
See Slow Blue
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
Duration 00:05:56
16
01:14:19 Lyra Pramuk
Canter
Performer: Úna Monaghan
Performer: Lyra Pramuk
Duration 00:03:59
17
01:18:33 Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco
Guitar Quintet in F Op.143 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Leonard Becker
Performer: Louis Vandory
Performer: Valerie Steenken
Performer: Elisabeth Buchner
Performer: Marton Braun
Duration 00:07:18
18
01:26:27 This Is the Kit
Bashed Out
Performer: This Is the Kit
Duration 00:03:30
TUESDAY 05 APRIL 2022
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m0015vsk)
Richard Strauss and Brahms from La Scala Orchestra
Soprano Camilla Nylund sings Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, and La Scala Orchestra in Milan performs Brahms's Fourth Symphony. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Four Lieder, Op 27
Camilla Nylund (soprano), La Scala Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)
12:44 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Zueignung
Camilla Nylund (soprano), La Scala Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)
12:46 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony no 4 in E minor, Op 98
La Scala Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)
01:27 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
String Quartet in E minor
Artis Quartet
01:49 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E flat major (K.364)
Igor Oistrach (violin), Valery Oistrach (viola), Virtuosi of Santa Cecilia, Igor Oistrach (conductor)
02:22 AM
Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692)
Passa galli per la lettera E; Bergamasca per la lettera B
United Continuo Ensemble
02:31 AM
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
Suite No.3, 'Variations' (Op.33)
James Anagnoson (piano), Leslie Kinton (piano)
02:55 AM
Charles Mouton (1626-1710)
Pieces de Lute in C minor
Konrad Junghanel (11 string lute)
03:24 AM
Matias Juan de Veana (1656-1707)
Ay amor que dulce tirano
Olga Pitarch (soprano), Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
03:29 AM
Bo Holten (b. 1948)
Alt har sin tid (There's a time for everything)
Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor)
03:39 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849), Zoltan Kocsis (transcriber)
Nocturne in E flat (Op.55 No.2) arr. for flute, cor anglais and harp
Anita Szabo (flute), Bela Horvath (cor anglais), Julia Szlvasy (harp)
03:45 AM
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Recit and duet 'C'est une chanson d'amour' (Antonia and Hoffmann)
Lyne Fortin (soprano), Richard Margison (tenor), Orchestre Symphonique du Quebec, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
03:53 AM
Veljo Tormis (1930-2017)
Overture No 2
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
04:03 AM
Leopold Ebner (1769-1830)
Trio in B flat major
Zagreb Woodwind Trio
04:11 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 46 no 2
James Anagnoson (piano), Leslie Kinton (piano)
04:16 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto for harp and orchestra in B flat major (Op.4 No.6) (HWV.294)
Sofija Ristic (harp), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor)
04:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Agnus Dei from the Missa Brevis in B flat (K.275)
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Susan Atherton (alto), Edward Lyon (tenor), Christopher Adams (bass), Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir, Royal Academy of Music Becket Ensemble, Patrick Russill (conductor)
04:37 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da Chiesa in B minor Op.1 No.6
London Baroque
04:44 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Suite No 2 in F major HWV 427
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
04:53 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Cinderella's waltz from Zolushka suite no 1, Op 107
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
04:58 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet in C minor (D 703)
Tilev String Quartet
05:08 AM
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Timothy Lines (clarinet), Philippe Cassard (piano)
05:20 AM
Marianne Martinez (1744-1812)
Sinfonia in C major
BBC Concert Orchestra, Johannes Wildner (conductor)
05:31 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue (M.21)
Robert Silverman (piano)
05:52 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Nocturnes for orchestra
Women's Voices of the NFM Chorus, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Jose Maria Florencio (conductor)
06:18 AM
Antonio Bertali (1605-1669)
Ciacona in C
Daniel Sepec (violin), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Lee Santana (theorbo), Michael Behringer (harpsichord)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m0015v2v)
Tuesday - Kate's classical alternative
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015v2x)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney 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 violinist Daniel Hope is in the spotlight.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0015v2z)
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004)
Firing On All Cylinders
In the second of their conversations Donald Macleod talks to composer Peter Bernstein about his father film composer Elmer Bernstein's projects in the 1960s.
Born in 1922, Elmer Bernstein created the music for more than 150 films. His big break was one of Hollywood's biggest pictures, Cecil B DeMille's swan song, the 1955 biblical epic, "The Ten Commandments". At the same time as working on that enormous canvas for DeMille, Bernstein was composing the first in a series of groundbreaking jazz-infused scores, "The Man with the Golden Arm". He went on to write the music for the Hollywood adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", westerns that include The Magnificent Seven, surely one of the best-known title themes in the history of cinema, before he became the go to composer for John Wayne. His scores for action adventures include "The Great Escape" and a moving depiction of the inner life of a prisoner in "Birdman of Alcatraz". Nominated on numerous occasions, he won an Oscar for "Thoroughly Modern Millie". In the 1980s he delighted younger generations of cinema goers with scores such as "National Lampoon's Animal House", "Ghostbusters" and "Airplane!”, before deciding to make a return to more serious drama. Projects with Martin Scorsese included the film of Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence" and a remake of "Cape Fear". Among Bernstein's other projects was the music for "My Left Foot", the film about the artist Christy Brown. His last score, for which he received a final Oscar nomination, was for Todd Haynes's "Far from Heaven" in 2002. He died just two years later in 2004.
Donald Macleod marks the centenary of this gifted and versatile film composer in conversation with Peter and Emilie Bernstein, two of Elmer Bernstein's children. They offer a fascinating insider's view into the film music industry alongside a personal portrait of their father.
From the sleazy atmospheric jazz score for Walk on the Wild Side to the rolling vistas conjured up by The Magnificent Seven to a satirical show on Broadway, the 1960s were a period of creative success and diversification for Elmer Bernstein.
Walk on the Wild Side
Main title
Elmer Bernstein and his Orchestra
The Magnificent Seven
Ambush
Petra’s Declaration
Defeat
Crossroads
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tree Treasure
Lynch mob
Guilty Verdict
Ewell regret it
Royal National Scottish Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
True Grit
Where there is smoke / the Dying Moon
Preparation / Dugout Stakeout / Shots Galore!
Ruffled Rooster
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
James Fitzpatrick, conductor
How Now Dow Jones
A Little Investigation
Hiram Sherman
How Now Dow Jones Ensemble
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015v31)
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2022 (1/4)
John Toal presents the first in our series of recitals from the 2022 Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music, recorded at the Great Hall at Queen’s University. This year the festival welcomed the Trio Gaspard- who are violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha, viola player Vashti Hunter and pianist Nicholas Rimmer, along with Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko, and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the Belgian clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe who is joined by pianist Yannick Van de Velde.
Today’s programme features music by CPE Bach, Mozart and Mieczysław Weinberg.
CPE Bach- Piano Trio no.6 in D major Wq.89
Trio Gaspard
Mozart- Fantasia in C minor K 475
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Weinberg- Clarinet Sonata
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet) & Yannick Van de Velde (piano)
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015v33)
Tuesday - Saint-Saëns's Requiem
This week Afternoon Concert features performances from French Orchestras - today it's the Requiem by Saint-Saëns performed by the French National Orchestra and Radio France Chorus and a top line-up of soloists. Plus there's highlights from a Mozart and Chopin recital given by pianist Pavel Kolesnikov at La Roque d'Anthéron International Piano Festival.
Presented by Ian Skelly
2pm
Tchaikovsky Serenade in C, Op.48
East-West Chamber Orchestra
Rostislav Krimer (conductor)
c.
2.35
Mozart Piano Sonata no.8 in A minor, K.310
Chopin Nocturne in E major, Op.62’2
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
c.
3pm
Saint-Saëns Requiem, Op.54
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Allénor Feix (contralto)
Nicholas Phan (tenor)
Nicholas Testé (baritone)
Radio France Chorus
French National Orchestra
Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
c.
3.40
Mozart Piano Sonata no.11 in A major, K.331
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
3.55
Bruckner Symphony no.6 in A major – 2nd movt; Adagio, sehr feierlich
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Sergiu Celibidache (conductor)
4.22
Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat, Op.61
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m0015v35)
Leonore Piano Trio, Vasily Petrenko
The Leonore Piano Trio join presenter Sean Rafferty and perform live in the studio as their new album of music by Woldemar Bargiel is released. Plus the conductor Vasily Petrenko discusses his forthcoming performance of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a starry cast of soloists at the Royal Albert Hall, and there's the latest arts news from across the classical music world.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015v37)
Your daily classical soundtrack
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015v39)
Seven Last Words from the Cross
Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin, makes her debut at Kings Place, conducting a programme that also features works by two of North America’s most distinctive musical voices: Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw (best known for her work with a cappella group Roomful of Teeth) and Californian composer Reena Esmail, whose work combines Western and Indian classical influences. Timothy Burke’s intimate arrangement of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross completes what promises to be a highlight of Kings Place’s year-long Voices Unwrapped series.
Recorded live at Kings Place, London on Saturday 2 April.
Presented by Hannah French.
1930
Victoria: O Vos Omnes
Reena Esmail: When the Violin
Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
Vaughan Williams arr. Timothy Burke: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
2010 - Interval
Delius: Brigg Fair 'An English Rhapsody'
2030
James MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross
BBC Singers
Aurora Orchestra
Sofi Jeannin - conductor
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m0015v3c)
Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment
As the hit period drama Bridgerton returns to Netflix for a second series Shahidha Bari explores what kept the Georgians entertained, from a night at the opera to music lessons at home, strolls in the pleasure gardens, hot air balloons, chess playing Turks, and perhaps most of all - if Lady Whistledown is to be believed - gossip, intrigue, and scandal. And from the Regency romances of Georgette Heyer to contemporary bestselling fiction set in the period, on screen adaptations of Jane Austen, and binge-worthy boxsets like Poldark and Bridgerton, just what is it about the Georgians that we find so enduringly entertaining?
Shahidha’s guests are - musicologist Brianna Robertson-Kirkland who has written a new book about Venanzio Rauzzini, a scandal ridden Italian castrato revered by Mozart who fled the continent to become one of Georgian England’s most celebrated singing teachers and a musical figurehead in the city of Bath. Writer Sophie Coulombeau who has researched Georgian novelist Frances Burney and bluestocking socialite Mary Hamilton. Biographer, playwright and actor Ian Kelly who has played George III in his own play Mr Foote’s Other Leg. And History Film Club podcast presenter Hannah Greig whose credits as a historical consultant in TV and film include The Duchess, Sanditon, and Bridgerton.
Producer: Ruth Thomson
You might also be interested in previous conversations on Free Thinking exploring
Harlots and 18th-century working women https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rdfz
Samuel Johnson's Circle https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vq3w
The Value of Gossip https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwfb
18th century crime and punishment https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hysp
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m0015v3f)
EarthWorks
Fen
Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby explores traces of human history in different landscapes around the British Isles. In 'Fen' she is at Must Farm in, near Peterborough, where close attention to the changes in the peat shows how we responded to environmental change in the Bronze Age. It was a time when rising sea levels drove inhabitants to seek higher ground.
Rose uses the lens of archaeology to reveal our impacts on the world. In EarthWorks she helps us see ourselves within previous patterns of change. Archaeology, we hear, is about imagination, with layers of time revealing people and their stories folded into the earth. At a time of considerable uncertainty about our future, could understanding our past interactions with the environment help us respond and adapt to whatever comes next?
Produced by Mark Smalley
A Reduced Listening Production
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000y6wj)
The late zone
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01
00:00:10 Judith Berkson
Castle [after Schumann's Auf einer Burg Op.39 no.7]
Singer: Judith Berkson
Duration 00:03:30
02
00:04:44 Joseph Haydn
Baryton Trio in A minor H.
11.87 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Valencia Baryton Project
Duration 00:06:40
03
00:11:23 Innov Gnawa
El Ghaba
Ensemble: Innov Gnawa
Duration 00:07:41
04
00:19:48 Eric Whitacre
Lux Aurumque
Performer: Joby Burgess
Performer: Sam Wilson
Performer: Calum Huggan
Performer: Rob Farrer
Music Arranger: Joby Burgess
Duration 00:03:34
05
00:27:08 Einojuhani Rautavaara
Adagio Celeste
Orchestra: Belgium National Orchestra
Conductor: Mikko Franck
Duration 00:07:25
06
00:35:24 Anonymous
Mater ora filium
Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble
Conductor: Paul Van Nevel
Duration 00:06:06
07
00:41:29 Huerco S.
The Sacred Dance
Performer: Huerco S.
Duration 00:04:30
08
00:46:57 Barbara Monk Feldman
Verses
Ensemble: GBSR Duo
Duration 00:04:36
09
00:51:33 Eple Trio
River Song II
Ensemble: Eple Trio
Duration 00:08:23
10
01:00:59 Francisco Tárrega
Capricho arabe
Performer: Andrés Segovia
Duration 00:05:21
11
01:07:10 Jürg Frey
More or less normal
Performer: Jürg Frey
Duration 00:13:48
12
01:21:21 Maria Schneider
Walking by Flashlight
Orchestra: Maria Schneider Orchestra
Duration 00:04:43
13
01:27:07 Robert Schumann
Auf einer Burg (Liederkreis Op.39)
Performer: Gerold Huber
Singer: Christian Gerhaher
Duration 00:02:48
WEDNESDAY 06 APRIL 2022
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0015v3k)
Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony
Ottavio Dantone conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Pulcinella, ballet in one act after Pergolesi, for soprano, tenor, bass and orch
Paola Gardina (mezzo soprano), Alasdair Kent (tenor), Paolo Bordogna (baritone), RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Ottavio Dantone (conductor)
01:12 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551 ('Jupiter')
RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Ottavio Dantone (conductor)
01:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Partita No 1 in B flat major, BWV 825
Beatrice Rana (piano)
02:06 AM
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)
Quartet for strings No.2
Musicians from the Chamber Music Conference and Composer's Forum of the East
02:31 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11
Havard Gimse (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Foremny (conductor)
03:12 AM
Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)
Salve Sidus Polonorum - Cantata in honour of St Wojciech (Adalbertus) (Op.72)
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Henryk Wojnarowski (choirmaster), National Philharmonic Orchestra, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Michniewski (conductor)
03:37 AM
Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750-1817)
Duet No 3 for 2 violas
Milan Telecky (viola), Zuzana Jarabakova (viola)
03:45 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Overture to Egmont - incidental music, Op 84
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
03:54 AM
Dario Castello (fl.1621-1629)
Sonata IV, for 2 violins and continuo
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (director)
04:03 AM
Nicolaas Arie Bouwman (1854-1941)
Thalia - overture for wind orchestra (1888)
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra, Jan Cober (conductor)
04:12 AM
Petar Dinev (1889-1980)
Dostoyno est (It is Truly Meet), in the 5th mode after Joan Ohridski
Holy Trinity Choir, Plovdiv, Vessela Geleva (conductor)
04:16 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Prelude in C sharp minor
Sergei Terentjev (piano)
04:20 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto in D major TWV.43:D4 for strings
Aira Maria Lehtipuu (violin), Jesenka Balic Zunic (viola), Kore Ensemble
04:31 AM
Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777)
Concerto for trombone and orchestra in E flat major
Warwick Tyrrell (trombone), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)
04:41 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptu no 3 in B flat major (from 4 Impromptus D 935) (1828)
Ilze Graubina (piano)
04:50 AM
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Suscipe, quaeso Domine for 7 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
04:59 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), Unknown (arranger)
Concertino for oboe and wind ensemble in C major (arr. for trumpet)
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
05:07 AM
David Popper (1843-1913)
Hungarian rhapsody, Op 68
Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:15 AM
Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692)
Improvisations on Passacaglia, Toccata and Canario
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Thomas Boysen (theorbo), Alvaro Garrido (percussion)
05:25 AM
Louis-Nicolas Clerambault (1676-1749)
Suite du deuxieme ton for organ
Jan Bokszczanin (organ)
05:42 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Trio for piano and strings in C major (K.548)
Trio Orlando
06:05 AM
Johann Gottfried Muthel (1728-1788)
Concerto in D minor for harpsichord, 2 bassoons, strings and continuo
Rhoda Patrick (bassoon), David Mings (bassoon), Gregor Hollman (harpsichord), Musica Alta Ripa
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0015vn6)
Wednesday - Kate's classical rise and shine
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015vn8)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney 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 our featured artist is violinist Daniel Hope.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0015vnb)
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004)
Behind the Scenes
Today Donald Macleod talks to composer Peter Bernstein about his father film composer Elmer Bernstein's projects in the sixties and seventies and gets an insight into Bernstein's working methods.
Born in 1922, Elmer Bernstein created the music for more than 150 films. His big break was one of Hollywood's biggest pictures, Cecil B DeMille's swan song, the 1955 biblical epic, "The Ten Commandments". At the same time as working on that enormous canvas for DeMille, Bernstein was composing the first in a series of groundbreaking jazz-infused scores, "The Man with the Golden Arm". He went on to write the music for the Hollywood adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", westerns that include The Magnificent Seven, surely one of the best-known title themes in the history of cinema, before he became the go to composer for John Wayne. His scores for action adventures include "The Great Escape" and a moving depiction of the inner life of a prisoner in "Birdman of Alcatraz". Nominated on numerous occasions, he won an Oscar for "Thoroughly Modern Millie". In the 1980s he delighted younger generations of cinema goers with scores such as "National Lampoon's Animal House", "Ghostbusters" and "Airplane!”, before deciding to make a return to more serious drama. Projects with Martin Scorsese included the film of Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence" and a remake of "Cape Fear". Among Bernstein's other projects was the music for "My Left Foot", the film about the artist Christy Brown. His last score, for which he received a final Oscar nomination, was for Todd Haynes's "Far from Heaven" in 2002. He died just two years later in 2004.
Donald Macleod marks the centenary of this gifted and versatile film composer in conversation with Peter and Emilie Bernstein, two of Elmer Bernstein's children. They offer a fascinating insider's view into the film music industry alongside a personal portrait of their father.
As well as a hugely successful career as a film composer Elmer Bernstein assumed several leadership roles. He also financed a scheme to preserve Hollywood film scores. Among the music he preserved was Max Steiner's King Kong.
The Great Escape main title
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Overture to Hawaii
City of Prague Philharmonic
James Fitzpatrick, conductor
The Birdman of Alcatraz
New Friends
Cage building / The birth
United Artists Studio Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Summer and Smoke
Alma’s Dilemma
Rosa
A Stranger in the house
Elmer Bernstein and his Orchestra
Big Jake
Riders
Reunion
All Jake
Buzzards
Going Home – Finale
Utah Symphony Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Zulu Dawn, orchestration by Christopher Palmer
River Crossing
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015vnd)
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2022 (2/4)
John Toal presents the second in our series of recitals from the 2022 Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music, recorded at the Great Hall at Queen’s University. This year the festival welcomed the Trio Gaspard- who are violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha, viola player Vashti Hunter and pianist Nicholas Rimmer, along with Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko, and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the Belgian clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe who is joined by pianist Yannick Van de Velde.
Today’s programme features music by Mozart, Berg and the Russian-Swiss composer Paul Juon.
Mozart- Sonata in C minor K. 457
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Berg- 4 pieces for clarinet and piano
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet) & Yannick Van de Velde (piano)
Paul Juon- Piano Trio no.4 ‘Litaniae’, Op.70 (1918)
Trio Gaspard
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015vng)
Wednesday - Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony
This week Afternoon Concert features performance by French orchestras - today it's the turn of the French National Orchestra, joined by Olivier Latry for Saint-Saëns's mighty Organ Symphony. Plus Strauss's Metamorphosen, and the UK premiere broadcast of the 5 Klavierstucke by Johanna Muller-Hermann.
Presented by Ian Skelly
2pm
Strauss Metamorphosen
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Sascha Goetzel (conductor)
c.
2.40
Johanna Muller-Hermann 5 Klavierstucke
Hiroaki Takamouchi (piano)
c.
3pm
Saint-Saëns Symphony no.3 in C minor, Op.78 ‘Organ’
Olivier Latry (organ)
French National Orchestra
Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
c.
3.45
Nicola Fago Alla gente a dio Diletta (Il Faraone sommerso)
Jakub Jozef Orlinski (countertenor)
Il Pomo d'Oro
Zefira Valova (conductor)
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m0015vnj)
St Ann's Church, Manchester
Live from St Ann’s Church, Manchester with the HeartEdge Manchester Choral Scholars.
Introit: It is a thing most wonderful (Bob Chilcott)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalms 32, 33, 34 (Atkins, Pye, Lawes)
First Lesson: Job 36 vv.1-12
Office hymn: Father, hear the prayer we offer (Sussex)
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Second Lesson: John 14 vv.1-14
Anthem: Save us, O Lord (Bairstow)
Prayer anthem: We shall walk through the valley in peace (Trad., arr. Undine Smith Moore)
Hymn: Praise to the holiest in the height (Chorus Angelorum)
Andrew Earis (Director of Music)
Olivia Tait (Choral Conducting Fellow)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0015vnl)
Gil Shaham
The violinist Gil Shaham performs live in the studio for presenter Sean Rafferty ahead of his concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Plus there's the latest arts news from across the classical music world.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015vnn)
Classical music for your journey
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015vnq)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 and Tchaikovsky
Stephen Hough is the soloist in Brahms' Romantic Piano Concerto No 1 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and in the second half there's Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6, 'Pathetique' - the orchestral giant that Tchaikovsky felt was "the best thing I have composed". Domingo Hindoyan conducts in a recording made at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall last November.
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan (conductor)
Soloist: Stephen Hough
20.45
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B minor Op.74 (Pathetique)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m0015vns)
China: World Politics, Ink Art and Insomnia
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is a long time scholar of China. In his new book, The Avoidable War, he argues that it is cultural misunderstanding and historical grievance that make Chinese-US relations so volatile. Rana Mitter asks him how he sees China's current positioning of itself on the world stage. And, in the spirit of better understanding the rich artistic traditions and cultural history of China, we hear from three researchers about the latest thinking on Hong Kong ink art, representations of sleep, Chinese identity and contemporary classical music and insomnia from the cultural revolution to the present day.
Kevin Rudd is President and CEO of Asia Society and a former Prime Minister of Australia. He is a leading international authority on China and began his career as a China scholar, serving as an Australian diplomat in Beijing before entering Australian politics. His latest book is The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China.
Alexander Ho is a British-Chinese composer based at the Royal College of Music in London. His work has been commissioned or performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Opera House.
Ros Holmes is a lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on ideas about sleep and the art and visual culture of 20th-century and contemporary China.
Malcolm McNeill is Director of Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art at SOAS, University of London. He is a specialist in Chinese painting and he has worked for museums in the UK and Taiwan.
Producer: Ruth Watts
You can find other episodes exploring Chinese and South Asian history and culture including
China, Freud, War and Sci-Fi https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014grr
Bruce Lee's Film Enter the Dragon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015l7z
Africa, Babel, China https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002h89
The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v9gl
WED 22:45 The Essay (m0015vnv)
EarthWorks
Mountain
Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby explores traces of human history in different landscapes around the British Isles. In ‘Mountain’ she heads for the Lake District and a site of some startling discoveries. She recounts how during the Neolithic, 6000 years ago, skilled workers extracted the hard-wearing greenstone from the Langdales and fashioned axes that have been found throughout the British Isles.
Rose uses the lens of archaeology to reveal our impact on the world. In EarthWorks she helps us see ourselves within previous patterns of change. Archaeology, we hear, is about imagination, with layers of time revealing people and their stories folded into the earth. At a time of considerable uncertainty about our future, could understanding our past interactions with the environment help us respond and adapt to whatever comes next?
Produced by Mark Smalley
A Reduced Listening Production
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000y71g)
A little night music
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01
00:00:27 Oliver Coates
Blackfriars
Performer: Oliver Coates
Performer: Anna Meredith
Duration 00:02:58
02
00:04:09 Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in G minor after Vivaldi, BWV 975 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud
Duration 00:03:56
03
00:08:05 Bill Frisell
In Line
Performer: Bill Frisell
Duration 00:04:23
04
00:13:28 Tashi Wada
Litany
Performer: Tashi Wada
Performer: Corey Fogel
Duration 00:04:33
05
00:18:07 Georges Bizet
L'arlesienne, Suite No 1 (Adagietto)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Duration 00:03:34
06
00:22:52 Masayoshi Fujita
Morocco
Performer: Masayoshi Fujita
Duration 00:05:11
07
00:28:04 William Walton
String Quartet (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Doric String Quartet
Duration 00:08:20
08
00:37:32 Leo Brouwer
Temas populares Cubanos: no.1 Guajira Criolla
Performer: Philippe Lemaigre
Duration 00:01:24
09
00:38:57 Arnold Kasar
Wiese
Performer: Hans‐Joachim Roedelius
Performer: Arnold Kasar
Duration 00:06:18
10
00:46:02 Niel Gow
Niel Gow's lament for the death of his second wife
Performer: Bjarte Eike
Ensemble: Barokksolistene
Duration 00:05:29
11
00:51:34 James McMillan
Tremunt viderunt angeli
Choir: Elysian Singers
Conductor: Sam Laughton
Duration 00:08:28
12
01:01:02 amiina
Refraction
Performer: amiina
Duration 00:04:57
13
01:06:01 Jean Sibelius
Pelleas and Melisande Suite: The Death of Melisande
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration 00:05:25
14
01:12:25 Joby Talbot
The Cheshire Cat (Suite from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Christopher Austin
Duration 00:02:51
15
01:15:17 Sammy Fain
Alice in Wonderland
Music Arranger: Bill Evans
Ensemble: Bill Evans Trio
Duration 00:08:30
16
01:24:30 John Wilbye
Draw on, Sweet Night
Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble
Duration 00:05:30
THURSDAY 07 APRIL 2022
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0015vnz)
Tuneful Tchaikovsky
The Orchestra della Svizzera italiana perform music by Tchaikovsky, including his Rococo Variations and Fourth Symphony. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)
12:53 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Variations on a rococo theme, Op.33
Pablo Ferrandez (cello), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)
01:14 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony no. 4 in F minor, Op.36
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Krzysztof Urbanski (conductor)
02:02 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Romeo and Juliet - suites no. 1 & 2 Op.64 (excerpts)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)
02:18 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Rakastava (The lover) (Op.14) arr. for string orchestra, triangle & timpani
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
02:31 AM
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
7 Divertissements for Moliere's comedy 'Amphitryon' (VB.27)
L'Arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt (conductor)
02:58 AM
Dimitar Nenov (1901-1953)
Rhapsodic fantasy
Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Kazandjiev (conductor)
03:27 AM
Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1840)
Lied fur pianoforte
Frans van Ruth (piano)
03:32 AM
Giulio Schiavetto (fl.1562–5, Croatian), Dr Lovro Zupanovic (transcriber)
Canzon
Slovenian Chamber Choir, Vladimir Kranjcevic (director)
03:41 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
04:00 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata Polonaise in A minor for violin, viola and continuo TWV 42
La Stagione Frankfurt
04:07 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Overture to The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from incidental music)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
04:16 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Bassoon Sonata in G major, Op 168
Siu-tung Toby Chan (bassoon), Rachel Cheung Wai-Ching (piano)
04:31 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Spirit Music (Nos.1 to 4) - from "Alcina"
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (conductor)
04:37 AM
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Pictures from Norwegian Fairy-Tales (Op.37)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Vytautas Lukocius (conductor)
04:52 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Stabat Mater for 8 voices
Silvia Piccollo (soprano), Teresa Nesci (soprano), Marco Beasley (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass), Paolo Crivellaro (organ), Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Theatrum Instrumentorum, Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
04:58 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
4 Pieces fugitives for piano, Op 15
Angela Cheng (piano)
05:12 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op 20
Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Plamen Djurov (conductor)
05:22 AM
Mogens Pederson (1583-1623)
3 songs for 5 voices
Ars Nova, Bo Holten (director)
05:30 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Isis - Symphonic Poem
Romanian National Radio Choir, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Camil Marinescu (conductor)
05:49 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Mladi (Youth)
Anita Szabo (flute), Bela Horvath (oboe), Zsolt Szatmari (clarinet), Pal Bokor (bassoon), Gyorgy Salamon (bass clarinet), Tamas Zempleni (horn)
06:07 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Violin Sonata no 6 in A major, Op 30 no 1
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0015v1y)
Thursday - Kate's classical commute
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015v20)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1100 Essential Performers – another piece featuring this week's artist in focus, violinist Daniel Hope.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0015v22)
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004)
Breaking the Mould
Donald Macleod talks with composer Emilie Bernstein about the music her father Elmer wrote for films during the 1980s and 1990s.
Born in 1922, Elmer Bernstein created the music for more than 150 films. His big break was one of Hollywood's biggest pictures, Cecil B DeMille's swan song, the 1955 biblical epic, "The Ten Commandments". At the same time as working on that enormous canvas for DeMille, Bernstein was composing the first in a series of groundbreaking jazz-infused scores, "The Man with the Golden Arm". He went on to write the music for the Hollywood adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", westerns that include The Magnificent Seven, surely one of the best-known title themes in the history of cinema, before he became the go to composer for John Wayne. His scores for action adventures include "The Great Escape" and a moving depiction of the inner life of a prisoner in "Birdman of Alcatraz". Nominated on numerous occasions, he won an Oscar for "Thoroughly Modern Millie". In the 1980s he delighted younger generations of cinema goers with scores such as "National Lampoon's Animal House", "Ghostbusters" and "Airplane!", before deciding to make a return to more serious drama. Projects with Martin Scorsese included the film of Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence" and a remake of "Cape Fear". Projects with Martin Scorsese included the film of Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence" and a remake of "Cape Fear". He also created the musical soundscape for "My Left Foot", the film about the artist Christy Brown. His last score, for which he received a final Oscar nomination, was for Todd Haynes's "Far from Heaven" in 2002. He died just two years later in 2004.
Donald Macleod marks the centenary of this gifted and versatile film composer in conversation with Peter and Emilie Bernstein, two of Elmer Bernstein's children. They offer a fascinating insider's view into the film music industry alongside a personal portrait of their father.
An invitation from John Landis, an old school friend of his son Peter's, to write the music for a comedy film he had directed led Elmer Bernstein to write music for National Lampoon's Animal House. After a decade and producing music for a string of hit comedies, it was time to change course once again.
Ghostbusters theme
The Hollywood Studio Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Suite from Airplane!
The City of Prague Philharmonic
James Fitzpatrick conductor
Heavy Metal – Taarna’s Theme
The City of Prague Philharmonic
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Nic Raine, conductor
Ghostbusters
Dana’s theme
Fridge and sign
Attack
The Hollywood Studio Orchestra
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
My Left Foot
Mother
Church and Witches
Struggle and Frustration
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
The Grifters
The City
The Race Track
Roy in Trouble
School for Grifters
Cynthia Miller, ondes martenot
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015v25)
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2022 (3/4)
John Toal presents the third in our series of recitals from the 2022 Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music, recorded at the Great Hall at Queen’s University. Today’s recital features Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko, and former Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the Belgian clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe who is joined by pianist Yannick Van de Velde.
Liszt- Miserere du Trovatore
Liszt/Beethoven- An die ferne Geliebte
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Debussy- Rhapsodie
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet) & Yannick Van de Velde (piano)
Brahms- Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in Eb Major
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet) & Yannick Van de Velde (piano)
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015v27)
Thursday - Opera Gala
This week Afternoon Concert features French Orchestras - today it's the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus in an opera gala given at the Opera Garnier in Paris conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. A starry line-up of soloists sing excerpts from Carmen, Falstaff and Der Rosenkavalier. Plus highlights of a recital Yulianna Avdeeva gave at La Roque d'Anthéron International Piano Festival, with music by Bach and Shostakovich.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
2pm
Wagner Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin
Paris Opera Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
c.
2.10
Bach English Suite no.2 in A minor, BWV.807
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
c.
2.30
Elgar String Quartet Op.83
Escher Quartet
c.
3pm
Bizet Carmen - extracts (Habanera, Flower Song, Les voici! Voici la quadrille)
Clémentine Margaine (mezzo-soprano)
Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
Paris Opera Chorus
Paris Opera Children’s Chorus
Paris Opera Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
c.
3.40
Strauss Final Scene of Der Rosenkavalier, Op.59
Diana Damrau (soprano)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Paris Opera Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
c.
3.55
Verdi Alto là! Chi va là from Falstaff
Diana Damrau (soprano)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur (mezzo-soprano)
Clémentine Margaine (mezzo-soprano)
Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
Tobias Westman (tenor)
Kiup Lee (tenor)
Timothée Varon (baritone)
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
Aaron Pendleton (bass)
Paris Opera Chorus
Paris Opera Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
c.
4.15
Bach Toccata in D, BWV.912
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
c.
4.25
Chopin Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor, Op.11 – 1st movt
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen (conductor)
c.
4.50
Shostakovich arr Krzysztof Meyer Prelude and Fugue no.5 in D major, Op.87’5
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0015v29)
Lionel Bringuier
Conductor Lionel Bringuier speaks to presenter Sean Rafferty ahead of his concert with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice and violinist Renaud Capuçon this weekend at the Festival de Pâques d'Aix-en-Provence, which will be streamed live. Plus there's the latest arts news from across the classical music world.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015v2c)
Half an hour of the finest classical music
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015v2f)
Pictures at an Exhibition
Vivid colours and lyricism are the order of the day for this concert, given by the Philharmonia and Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen.
Gill Shaham is the acclaimed soloist in Prokofiev's 1935 Second Violin Concerto which outwardly seems to conform to the requirements of socialist realism, yet whose string of memorable melodies is somehow reserved and equivocal. Two orchestral showpieces bookend the programme. The first, by music's most famous chemist, comes at the rousing end of Act 2 of Borodin's opera Prince Igor, as the Polovtsians prepare to launch an invasion into Russia. Ravel's glittering, ever-popular orchestration of Mussorgsky's gallery stroll ends the concert in spectacular style.
Introduced live from the Royal Festival Hall by Martin Handley.
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2, in G minor, Op. 63
8.20 pm
Interval
8.40 pm
Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition
Gil Shaham (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m0015v2h)
Grief
Matthew Sweet discusses grief and the expression of mourning with guests
Lindsey Buster, an archaeologist whose work at Death Cafes, set up to help people talk about death, has led her to reinterpret the way people's relationship with 'stuff' shows up in the archaeological record
Emily MacGregor, a musicologist who is writing a memoir of the ways her relationship with music changed after the death of her father
Christina Faraday, an historian of art who has studied memento mori and vanitas, two popular genres of painting in the early modern period that suggest a different set of attitudes towards death
Sally Berkovic, who has written about Jewish rituals and traditions surrounding death and mourning
THU 22:45 The Essay (m0015v2k)
EarthWorks
Island
Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby explores traces of human history in different landscapes around the British Isles. In ‘Island’ Rose begins with the excavation of a Neolithic house on a remote causeway which leads her to explore the nature of islands, connectedness through sea travel, and margins.
Rose uses the lens of archaeology to reveal our impact on the world. In EarthWorks she helps us see ourselves within previous patterns of change. Archaeology, we hear, is about imagination, with layers of time revealing people and their stories folded into the earth. At a time of considerable uncertainty about our future, could understanding our past interactions with the environment help us respond and adapt to whatever comes next?
Produced by Mark Smalley
A Reduced Listening Production
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000y6xc)
Music for night owls
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.
01
00:00:54 Gabriela Montero
Prelude in C after Bach's Prelude No 1 in C Major, BWV 846
Performer: Gabriela Montero
Duration 00:04:05
02
00:05:00 Rokia Traoré
Mouneissa
Performer: Rokia Traoré
Duration 00:03:24
03
00:08:24 Colleen
Blue Sands
Performer: Colleen
Duration 00:05:21
04
00:13:46 Traditional Afghan
Kataghani
Performer: Homayun Sakhi
Performer: Taryalai Hashimi
Duration 00:03:13
05
00:17:00 Joseph Haydn
String Quartet Op 76 No 3 'Emperor' (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet
Duration 00:07:01
06
00:24:06 Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude No 1 in C Major, BWV 846
Music Arranger: Jacques Loussier
Ensemble: Jacques Loussier Trio
Duration 00:04:44
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m0015v2q)
Live Music from After Dark Festival
Elizabeth Alker presents live music from Radio 3’s After Dark Festival, a major new festival for 2022 in partnership with Sage Gateshead and TUSK Music, featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary, classical and experimental music. Tonight’s highlights include more from electronic duo Darkstar’s performance. Plus the usual bounty of new releases from artists working at the edges of ambient and electronic music, and exploring the spaces in between.
For all related festival content, search “After Dark Festival” in BBC Sounds.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 08 APRIL 2022
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0015v2s)
Berlioz and Tchaikovsky
Petros Stylianou conducts the ERT National Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture and Tchaikovsky's First Symphony, 'Winter Daydreams'. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Le Carnaval romain, op. 9
ERT National Symphony Orchestra, Petros Stylianou (conductor)
12:40 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 1 in G minor, op.13 ('Winter Daydreams')
ERT National Symphony Orchestra, Petros Stylianou (conductor)
01:22 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Serenade in C major for strings (Op.48)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Rajter (conductor)
01:56 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante Op 32
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stankovsky (conductor)
02:22 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Prometheus (Finale from the ballet music)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ludovit Rajter (conductor)
02:31 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr, BuxWV 41
Ensemble Polyharmonique, Alexander Schneider (conductor), OH! Orkiestra Historyczna, Martyna Pastuszka (conductor)
02:49 AM
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Cello Sonata in B minor (Op.27)
Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Carmen Picard (piano)
03:11 AM
David Matthews (b.1943)
A Vision of the Sea
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
03:35 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Sonata No.9 for 2 violins and continuo in F major (Z.810)
Simon Standage (violin), Agata Sapiecha (violin), Marcin Zalewski (viola da gamba), Lilianna Stawarz (harpsichord)
03:42 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Die Eiserne Brigade (The Iron Brigade)
Esbjerg Ensemble, Jorgen Lauritsen (director)
03:49 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade for piano no 3 in A flat major, Op 47
Valerie Tryon (piano)
03:57 AM
Johan Wagenaar (1862-1941)
"Frithjof's Meerfahrt" - Concert piece for orchestra, Op 5
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
04:09 AM
Ignazio Spergher (1763-1808)
Sonata in B flat major (Allegro con brio; Andante grazioso; Allegro con brio)
Cor van Wageningen (organ)
04:21 AM
Frano Parac (b.1948)
Scherzo for Winds
Zagreb Wind Quintet
04:31 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio No.6 from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Koln, Sabine Bauer (organ)
04:39 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Overture (Manfred, Op 115)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
04:52 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Recit and aria 'Dove Sono' – from Act III of Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492
Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
04:58 AM
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
Elegie nocturnale (Tres modere) (Op.95, No.1) from 2 pieces for Piano Trio
Grumiaux Trio
05:10 AM
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Ick voer al over Rijn
Glen Wilson (harpsichord)
05:17 AM
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
Five Songs
Anna Radziejewska (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
05:28 AM
Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889)
Gran Duo Concertante for Violin and Double Bass and orchestra
Olena Pushkarska (violin), Dmytro Zyuzkin (double bass), NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
05:46 AM
Fredrik Wilhelm Klint (1811-1894)
Piano Sonata in D minor
Anders Wadenberg (piano)
06:04 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Serenade for wind instruments in D minor Op 44
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0015v4v)
Friday - Kate's classical mix
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m0015v4x)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney 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 – our final track this week from our artist in focus, violinist Tom McKinney.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0015v4z)
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004)
A Master of Style
Donald Macleod talks with composer Emilie Bernstein about her father: film composer, Elmer Bernstein. They discuss his projects with film director, Martin Scorsese, and his final picture "Far from Heaven".
Born in 1922, Elmer Bernstein created the music for more than 150 films. His big break was one of Hollywood's biggest pictures, Cecil B DeMille's swan song, the 1955 biblical epic, "The Ten Commandments". At the same time as working on that enormous canvas for DeMille, Bernstein was composing the first in a series of groundbreaking jazz-infused scores, "The Man with the Golden Arm". He went on to write the music for the Hollywood adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", westerns that include The Magnificent Seven, surely one of the best-known title themes in the history of cinema, before he became the go to composer for John Wayne. His scores for action adventures include "The Great Escape" and a moving depiction of the inner life of a prisoner in "Birdman of Alcatraz". Nominated on numerous occasions, he won an Oscar for "Thoroughly Modern Millie". In the 1980s he delighted younger generations of cinema goers with scores such as "National Lampoon's Animal House", "Ghostbusters" and "Airplane!", before deciding to make a return to more serious drama. Projects with Martin Scorsese included the film of Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence", and a remake of "Cape Fear". Bernstein also created a remarkable portrait of the artist Christy Brown in "My Left Foot". His last score, for which he received a final Oscar nomination, was for Todd Haynes's "Far from Heaven" in 2002. He died just two years later in 2004.
Donald Macleod marks the centenary of this gifted and versatile film composer in conversation with Peter and Emilie Bernstein, two of Elmer Bernstein's children. They offer a fascinating insider's view into the film music industry alongside a personal portrait of their father.
For more than fifty years Elmer Bernstein remained a consummate master craftsman among Hollywood film composers. His daughter Emilie explains something of his working methods.
Far from Heaven
Autumn in Connecticut
Hollywood Studio Symphony
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Far From Heaven
Hit
Crying
Turning Point
Cathy and Raymond Dance
Hollywood Studio Symphony
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Rambling Rose
Let that crazy creature out
Fever
Safe house
The Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra
Cynthia Millar, ondes martenot
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Devil in a Blue Dress
Main titles
Malibu Chase
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Bernard Herrmann, adapted, arranged by Elmer Bernstein
Cape Fear
Houseboat
The Fight
Destruction
The End
Orchestra conducted by Elmer Bernstein
The Age of Innocence
Main title
Elmer Bernstein, conductor
Producer Johannah Smith
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0015v51)
Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music 2022 (4/4)
John Toal presents the final programme in our series of recitals from the 2022 Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music, recorded at the Great Hall at Queen’s University. Today’s recital features Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko and the Trio Gaspard- who are violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha, viola player Vashti Hunter and pianist Nicholas Rimmer.
Mendelssohn - Piano Trio no.2 in c minor, Op.66
Trio Gaspard
Charlotte Bray - That Crazed Smile (2014)
Trio Gaspard
Liszt - Reminiscences de Don Juan
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0015v53)
Friday - Strauss, Strauss and Strauss
This week Afternoon Concert features performance by French orchestras - to round off the week it's the Radio France Philharmonic in a waltz-tastic concert of Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, and Richard Strauss. Plus highlights of a Beethoven recital pianist Boris Berezovsky gave at La Roque d'Anthéron International Piano Festival.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
2pm
Strauss II Overture to Die Fledermaus
Strauss I Seufzer-Galopp, Op.9
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Mikko Franck (conductor)
c.
2.10
Beethoven Piano Sonata no.2 in A major, Op.2’2
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
c
2.30
Liszt Venezia e Napoli, S.159
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
c.
2.45
Isabella Leonarda Sonata Duodecima
Ensemble Exclamatio
c.
3pm
Strauss II Loreley-Rhein-Klänge – saltz Op.154
Richard Strauss Burleske for piano and orchestra
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
Strauss II Roses from the South – waltz Op.388
Richard Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op.59
Strauss II Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op.214
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Mikko Franck (conductor)
c.
4.10
Beethoven Piano Sonata no.1 in F minor, Op.2’1
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000fft0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0015v55)
Mhairi Lawson, Marsyas Trio
Mhairi Lawson joins presenter Sean Rafferty from Cardiff ahead of her performance there with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales this weekend in Bach's St Matthew Passion, and the Marsyas Trio trio perform live in the studio, plus there's the latest arts news from across the classical music world.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0015v57)
Classical music to inspire you
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0015v59)
Romantics in Exile
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo, perform Korngold's Violin Concerto with violinist Nicola Benedetti, and Langgaard's extraordinary First Symphony.
Live from the Barbican Centre, London.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major
20.00
Interval
Rued Langgaard: Symphony No. 1 in B minor, BVN 32 "Klippepastoraler"
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Fate dealt a cruel hand to Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Rued Langgaard, two composers born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Korngold longed to write the sort of yearning, haunting melodic music that was out of fashion in early 20th-century Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power he faced more serious challenges. Exiled in Hollywood, Korngold scored success writing movie themes, plundering the most expressive and beautiful of them in 1945 for a captivating violin concerto.
Rued Langgaard was only 17 in 1911 when he finished his Symphony No. 1, a lush, romantic work in the tradition of Strauss and Bruckner that was soon taken up by the Berlin Philharmonic. Marginalised by his native Denmark, Langgaard’s highly personal, exceptionally crafted and utterly compelling music is at last getting the recognition it deserves.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m0015v5c)
Join Ian McMillan and guests, including Kate Fox, Malika Booker, Joelle Taylor, Toby Litt, Luke Wright and Ira Lightman for our twentieth anniversary Verb celebration.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m0015v5f)
EarthWorks
Moor
Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby explores traces of human history in different landscapes around the British Isles. In ‘Moor’ she explores environmental change on Exmoor’s peatlands. Here, ecologists and archaeologists must work together to restore the upland bogs. Understanding past environments provides insight into scales of change, and archaeology can be a valuable part of creating sustainable landscapes in the face of climate change.
Rose uses the lens of archaeology to reveal our impact on the world. In EarthWorks she helps us see ourselves within previous patterns of change. Archaeology, we hear, is about imagination, with layers of time revealing people and their stories folded into the earth. At a time of considerable uncertainty about our future, could understanding our past interactions with the environment help us respond and adapt to whatever comes next?
Produced by Mark Smalley
A Reduced Listening Production
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m0015v5h)
Sonic epiphany and After Dark highlights
Verity Sharp leads us on a tightrope across the outer edges of adventurous music. There’s newly reissued music from Gabonese harpist Papé Nziengui, traditional recordings from the Peruvian Amazon and an uncovered archival interview from the island of Tiree in Scotland. We’ll hear a piece for theremin and accordion by Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva and music from a compilation exploring the phenomenon of epiphany through sound.
Plus more highlights from Radio 3's After Dark Festival which took place over the weekend of the spring equinox in Newcastle, including Vashti Bunyan in conversation at Sage Gateshead and a live recording from the Late Junction stage at the Star and Shadow Cinema from Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters.
Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (m0015vs3)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m0015v33)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m0015vng)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m0015v27)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m0015v53)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m0015ty7)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m0015tzl)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m0015vrv)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m0015v2v)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m0015vn6)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m0015v1y)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m0015v4v)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m0015m5h)
Choral Evensong
16:00 WED (m0015vnj)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m0015vrz)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m0015v2z)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m0015vnb)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m0015v22)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m0015v4z)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (m000mrgn)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m0015vrx)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m0015v2x)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m0015vn8)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m0015v20)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m0015v4x)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m0015v3c)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m0015vns)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m0015v2h)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m0015tyv)
Gameplay with Baby Queen
02:00 SAT (m0015lhh)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m0005nmp)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m0015v37)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m0015vnn)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m0015v2c)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m0015v57)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m0015vs7)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m0015v35)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m0015vnl)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m0015v29)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m0015v55)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m0015tyh)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m0010759)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m0015tzv)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m0015v5h)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m0015tyc)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m0015tyc)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m0015tym)
New Generation Artists
16:30 MON (m0015vs5)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m0015tys)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m000y55q)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m000y6wj)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m000y71g)
Opera on 3
18:30 SAT (m0015tyq)
Piano Flow
01:00 SAT (m0015lhf)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m0015tzq)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m0015l57)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m0015vs1)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m0015v31)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m0015vnd)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m0015v25)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m0015v51)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m0015vsc)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m0015v39)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m0015vnq)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m0015v2f)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m0015v59)
Record Review Extra
21:00 SUN (m0015v02)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m0015ty9)
Sound of Gaming
15:00 SAT (m0015tyk)
Sounds Connected
00:00 MON (m0015v07)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m0015v00)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m0015tzn)
The Art of Accompaniment
23:00 SUN (m0015v04)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m0015tzs)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m0015vsf)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m0015v3f)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m0015vnv)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m0015v2k)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (m0015v5f)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m000fft0)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m000fft0)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m000y6xc)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m0015v5c)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m0015tyf)
Through the Night
03:00 SAT (m0015lhk)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m0015tyx)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m0015v09)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m0015vsk)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m0015v3k)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m0015vnz)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m0015v2s)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m0015v2q)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m000pvbq)