RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 3
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SATURDAY 21 JANUARY 2023
SAT 01:00 Composed with Emeli Sandé (m0016k3m)
Get motivated with music to lift your mood
Emeli Sandé explores the music that brings her strength and inspiration, from classical to pop, rap, disco and beyond.
This week's selection is eclectic and designed to motivate, with music from Handel, Little Simz and Celeste.
Emeli plays Territory by The Blaze, a go-to tune when she needs determination and power.
And in this and every episode, Emeli invites listeners to join her in Composure Moment. This week, put everything on pause for a track from David Holmes that takes us back to the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games.
01
00:01:43 Penguin Cafe (artist)
Solaris
Performer: Penguin Cafe
Duration 00:03:19
02
00:05:03 Lisa Morgenstern (artist)
Glass
Performer: Lisa Morgenstern
Duration 00:05:59
03
00:11:26 George Frideric Handel
Zadok the Priest
Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Duration 00:05:12
04
00:16:37 Little Simz (artist)
Introvert
Performer: Little Simz
Duration 00:05:59
05
00:23:42 David Holmes (artist)
I Heard Wonders
Performer: David Holmes
Duration 00:05:29
06
00:29:11 Ceiri Torjussen
Final Run
Duration 00:02:44
07
00:31:55 Hannah Holland (artist)
Midnight Horizon
Performer: Hannah Holland
Duration 00:03:14
08
00:35:25 Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Strings in B-flat Major
Performer: Concerto Italiano
Duration 00:01:44
09
00:37:10 Walter Murphy
A Fifth Of Beethoven
Performer: The Walter Murphy Band
Duration 00:03:01
10
00:40:11 Celeste (artist)
Stop This Flame
Performer: Celeste
Duration 00:03:29
11
00:43:40 Ibibio Sound Machine (artist)
Color In Your Cheeks
Performer: Ibibio Sound Machine
Duration 00:03:18
12
00:50:45 Dag Wirén
Serenade for String Orchestra
Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Conductor: Richard Studt
Duration 00:04:48
13
00:50:45 Steve Reich
Duet
Performer: Daniel Hope
Performer: Simos Papanas
Performer: Kammerorchester Basel
Duration 00:04:49
14
00:55:33 The Blaze (artist)
Territory
Performer: The Blaze
Duration 00:04:26
SAT 02:00 Piano Flow (m000y7mk)
Tokio Myers
Soothing Sounds to Escape to
Tokio Myers brings you a curated hour of peaceful, atmospheric and relaxing piano music to help you escape and drift away. Featuring pieces from Rhye, Self Esteem, Liszt and Beethoven.
01
00:01:12 Joe Hisaishi (artist)
The Sixth Station
Performer: Joe Hisaishi
Duration 00:03:40
02
00:04:54 Self Esteem (artist)
John Elton
Performer: Self Esteem
Duration 00:02:31
03
00:07:27 MJ Cole (artist)
Far Closer
Performer: MJ Cole
Duration 00:03:01
04
00:10:35 Rhye (artist)
Green Eyes
Performer: Rhye
Duration 00:02:01
05
00:12:35 Maurice Ravel
Miroirs: III. Une barque sur l'ocean
Performer: André Laplante
Duration 00:07:02
06
00:19:28 Agnes Obel (artist)
Camera's Rolling
Performer: Agnes Obel
Duration 00:04:45
07
00:25:16 Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor" - 2. Adagio un poco mosso
Performer: Alfred Brendel
Performer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
Duration 00:08:18
08
00:33:45 Brambles (artist)
Mists Inhabit This Place
Performer: Brambles
Duration 00:03:26
09
00:37:12 Julien Baker (artist)
Song In E
Performer: Julien Baker
Duration 00:02:34
10
00:39:48 Lü Wencheng
Autumn moon over a calm lake
Performer: Lang Lang
Duration 00:03:55
11
00:43:51 Franz Liszt
3 Etudes de Concert, S. 144: No. 3 in D-Flat "Un Sospiro" (Allegro Affettuoso)
Performer: Van Cliburn
Duration 00:05:25
12
00:49:05 Nils Frahm (artist)
20:17
Performer: Nils Frahm
Performer: Ólafur Arnalds
Duration 00:05:32
13
00:54:44 Reuben James (artist)
Outro
Performer: Reuben James
Featured Artist: Michael Mwenso
Duration 00:04:43
SAT 03:00 Through the Night (m001gz2j)
Tchaikovsky, Glière and Glazunov from Shanghai
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Yi Zhang are joined by soloist Yun Zeng in Gliere's Horn Concerto. The orchestra also performs Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5 and Glazunov's Idylle from Two pieces for orchestra. Jonathan Swain presents.
03:01 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Idylle, from 'Two pieces for orchestra, op. 14'
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Yi Zhang (conductor)
03:11 AM
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
Horn Concerto in B, op. 91
Yun Zeng (french horn), Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Yi Zhang (conductor)
03:36 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Yi Zhang (conductor)
04:22 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quintet in G minor (K.516)
Pinchas Zuckerman (violin), Jessica Linnebach (violin), Jethro Marks (viola), Donnie Deacon (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
05:01 AM
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto Grosso in G minor
Andrew Manze (violin), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
05:09 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
05:18 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Litany to the Virgin Mary, op. 59
Iwona Hossa (soprano), Polish Radio Chorus, Camerata Silesia, Katowice, Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Michal Klauza (conductor)
05:28 AM
Luka Sorkocevic (1734-1789), Frano Matusic (arranger)
Symphony no 3 in D major
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio
05:35 AM
Romero Aldemaro (1928-2007)
Fuga con pajarillo
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Christian Vasquez (conductor)
05:44 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Tzigane
Razvan Stoica (violin), Andrea Stoica (piano)
05:53 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments, Op 4
Ottawa Winds, Michael Goodwin (conductor)
06:18 AM
John Marson (1932-2007)
Waltzes and Promenades for 2 harps
Julia Shaw (harp), Nora Bumanis (harp)
06:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Trio in G minor, Op 26
Esther Hoppe (violin), Christian Poltera (cello), Hiroko Sakagami (piano)
SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m001h563)
Saturday - Elizabeth Alker
Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.
SAT 09:00 Record Review (m001h567)
Shostakovich's String Quartet No 8 in Building a Library with Emily MacGregor and Andrew McGregor
9.00am
Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Volume 6
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Somm SOMMCD0660
https://somm-recordings.com/recording/mozart-piano-sonatas-volume-6/
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Lukasz Borowicz
CPO 555556-2
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/grazyna-bacewicz-symphonien-vol-1/hnum/11056850
Altissima: Works For High Baroque Trumpet – music by Graupner, Rittler, Telemann, etc.
Josh Cohen (baroque trumpet)
Ensemble Sprezzatura
Daniel Abraham
Chandos CHAN0828
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%200828
Reinecke: Piano Concertos
Simon Callaghan (piano)
Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Modestas Pitrėnas
Hyperion CDA68339
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68339
Amadè – music by Mozart
Julie Fuchs (soprano)
Balthasar-Neumann-Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock
Sony 19658758952
https://www.sonyclassical.com/releases/releases-details/julie-fuchs
9.30am Natalie Clein: New Releases
Cellist Natalie Clein's personal pick of four of the best new discs, plus the track she has "On Repeat".
Janáček - Brahms - Bartók
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Fazıl Say (piano)
Alpha ALPHA885
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/janacek-brahms-bartok
Bohemian String Trios – music by Vanhal, Leistner-Mayer, Pichl, etc.
Deutsches Streichtrio
TYXArt TXA22168
https://www.tyxart.de/en/txa22168_bohemian-string-trios.html
Mompou: Musica Callada
Stephen Hough (piano)
Hyperion CDA68362
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68362
TÁR – music by Mahler, Guðnadóttir, Elgar, etc.
Hildur Guðnadóttir (vocal / cello)
Cate Blanchett (piano / conductor / dialogue)
Sophie Kauer (cello)
Elisa Vargas Fernandez (vocals)
Al Kay (trombone)
New Trombone Collective & Friends
Dresden Philharmonie
London Contemporary Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Ames
Natalie Murray Beale
Martijn Sohier
DG 4863431
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/tar-hildur-gunadottir-12805
Natalie Clein: On Repeat (3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 1 in E-Flat Major)
Brahms: 3 Intermezzi Op. 117 / Klavierstücke Op. 118 & Op. 119
Lars Vogt (piano)
Warner Classics 5419749879
https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/brahms-intermezzi-klavierstucke-vogt
Listener On Repeat
10.10am New Releases
Shostakovich: Works Unveiled
Nicolas Stavy (piano)
Ekaterina Bakanova (soprano)
Alexandros Stavrakakis (bass)
Florent Jodelet (percussion)
Sueye Park (violin)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
BIS BIS2550 (Hybrid SACD)
https://bis.se/performers/stavy-nicolas/dmitri-shostakovich-works-unveiled
Lully: Psyché
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Château de Versailles Spectacles CVS086 (2 CDs)
https://tickets.chateauversailles-spectacles.fr/uk/merchandising/42823/cvs086-2cd-psyche
10.30am Building a Library: Emily MacGregor on Shostakovich’s String Quartet No 8
Written at white heat in just three days, Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet is also his most personal - indeed, it opens with a form of the composer's own initials. Emily has been listening to recordings from throughout the quartet's life - from its first performers to young ensembles of the present day.
11.15am
Joseph Jongen: 13 Preludes; 24 Petits Preludes Dans Tous Les Tons
Ivan Ilić (piano)
Chandos CHAN20264
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020264
11.20am Record of the Week
Legacy – music by Haydn, Mozart, Gluck, etc.
Christian-Pierre La Marca (cello)
Le Concert de La Loge
Julien Chauvin
Naive V7259
https://store.naiverecords.com/fr-fr/cd/legacy-cd-p-1790.htm?att_detailID=88
SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m001h56c)
Lise Davidsen
Ahead of her performance in the Royal Opera House’s production of Tannhäuser, Tom Service joins the Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen backstage at Covent Garden during rehearsals for Wagner’s story of love, redemption, and mythical depiction of the Wartburg Song Contest. She tells Tom about inhabiting the role of her character, Elisabeth, and how opera is a space in which we can connect with world events.
As Celtic Connections celebrates its 30th anniversary in Glasgow, Tom is joined by musician, producer, and festival director Donald Shaw; Chief Executive of Fèis Rois, Fiona Dalgety; singer-songwriter, Karine Polwart; and the piper, fiddler, composer and instrument-maker, Malin Lewis, to discuss the festival’s impact in the Celtic musical world and beyond.
Music Matters talks to the American harpsichordist and author Leslie Kwan about her new book for toddlers, A is for Aretha, which features 26 portraits of inspirational black women in music.
And, Tom visits violinist Daniel Pioro and organist James McVinnie as they prepare for a deep-dive into the soundworld of the 17th century Austrian composer, Heinrich Biber, and his virtuosic Rosary sonatas. He hears about the series of performances and talks, Daniel and James have curated, which stretch from sunrise to sunset this weekend at the Southbank Centre in London.
SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m0019kqq)
Jess Gillam with... Iyad Sughayer
Jess is joined this week by the Jordanian-Palestinian pianist Iyad Sughayer. They're in the studio to share some of their favourite tracks with each other, and some new musical discoveries - including a joyful piano concerto by Haydn, terrifying music by Bartok, a mesmerising song by Caroline Shaw and classic Bob Dylan.
Playlist:
Joseph Haydn - Piano Concerto in D major, Hob. XVIII:11 (Alexandre Tharaud, Violons du Roy)
David Bowie & Gail Ann Dorsey - Under Pressure (from the album A Reality Tour)
Ibrahim Maalouf - Will Soon be a Woman
Bela Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin: Introduction (Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen)
Caroline Shaw - And So (Caroline Shaw with the Attacca Quartet)
Jocelyn Pook - Oppenheimer (from the album Flood)
Johann Paul von Westhoff - Sonata No.3 in D minor (David Plantier violin, Les plaisirs du Parnasse)
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall
SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m001h56h)
Conductor Ryan Bancroft with music to surprise you
Conductor Ryan Bancroft finds that simplicity can be very powerful - from French Baroque composer Jacques Duphly’s music for harpsichord, to CPE Bach’s Magnificat.
He also plays tracks which are somewhat trickier including Aaron Cassidy’s ‘I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips’, a piece all about struggle, and the presto from Mozart’s ‘Prague’ Symphony which is almost unplayably fast…
Plus, a piece that for Ryan shows why music is all about having fun…
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
Photo credit: Benjamin Ealovega
SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m001h56m)
Decadence
With the current release of Justin Hurwitz's new score for 'Babylon' in cinemas, Matthew Sweet looks at the theme of decadence in the movies through examples of its music. The programme includes notes by Debbie Wiseman for 'Wilde', Jen Anderson for 'Pandora's Box'; 'Caligula' by Bruno Nicolai, Nino Rota's 'La Dolce Vita', Jonny Greenwood's 'Inherent Vice' and Dustin O'Halloran's 'Marie Antoinette'. Philippe Sarde scores with 'La Grande Bouffe' and Craig Armstrong with 'The Great Gatsby'. The programme also features music by John Barry and Georgio Moroder, and the Classic Score of the week is Jerry Goldsmith's 'LA Confidential'. To round things off, a decadent helping of 'Babylon'.
SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m001h56r)
Celtic Connections Live
Kathryn Tickell presents live music from artists featured at this year's Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, including Indian vocalists Vedanth and Gurupriya and American father/daughter duo Dirk and Amelia Powell. Plus an appearance from award-winning Scottish fiddle player Eryn Rae.
SAT 17:00 J to Z (m00194yg)
Immanuel Wilkins’s inspirations
Kevin Le Gendre hears from innovative American jazz saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins. Wilkins studied at Julliard school and has since performed with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Jason Moran, Gretchen Parlato and more. His new sophomore album ‘The 7th Hand’ has been internationally celebrated, and marks his second release for the legendary Blue Note. Here he shares some of the music that has influenced him, including a track that showcases John Coltrane’s later experimental and evermore transcendental years.
Also in the programme, we hear concert highlights from the New Regency Orchestra, recorded at last summer’s We Out Here festival. The brainchild of Total Refreshment Centre’s Lex Blondin, the New Regency Orchestra is a 20-piece big band that offers Afro-Cuban inspired music, with a London flavour. Their residency at EartH in Hackney brings fiery grooves and musical experimentation.
Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin’ Else
SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m001h56w)
Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
Romantic comedy from the New York Met, starring Golda Schultz and Javier Camarena. Donizetti's tune-packed classic is a love story between a rich landowner and a poor peasant - but this is Cinderella in reverse: it's the woman who's rich and the man who's poor. Nemorino has fallen for his boss, the beautiful Adina, and he's in despair when she agrees to marry the boastful but hunky man in uniform, Sergeant Belcore. His only hope for a happy ending is quack Dr Dulcamara's fake love potion.
Adina ..... Golda Schultz (soprano)
Nemorino ..... Javier Camarena (tenor)
Sergeant Belcore ..... Davide Luciano (baritone)
Dr Dulcamara ..... Ambrogio Maestri (baritone)
Giannetta, Adina's friend ..... Brittany Renee (soprano)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Michele Gamba
SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m001h570)
Raven Chacon, Hannah Kendall, Philip Venables
Kate Molleson introduces new pieces by Raven Chacon and Hannah Kendall, recorded at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Donaueschingen in Germany. In the latest in our series of in-depth composer interviews, Philip Venables discusses his work in conversation with Robert Worby. Plus new releases from American composer Christian Wolff and Indonesian electronic pioneer Otto Sidharta.
SUNDAY 22 JANUARY 2023
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m001h575)
Paul Dunmall
Corey Mwamba presents new free jazz and improvised music plus a unique conversation with heavy-hitting saxophonist Paul Dunmall, following the release of That’s My Life with Tony Orrell and Paul Rogers. The album, released at the beginning of January, comprises an explosive live performance recorded in Bristol in 1989, heard now for the first time.
Turning seventy this year, Dunmall has been a pivotal figure in the jazz and improvised music scene for the past fifty years, both in the United Kingdom and in the USA, where he counts amongst his musical collaborators legendary pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane. In this special chat with Freeness, the British reeds-player talks about what made Bristol such a bustling stage for free jazz in the ‘80s, and he shares some of the creative inspirations, both in jazz and other genres, that led to the development of his personal technique and approach as an improviser.
Elsewhere in the show, an unreleased track from the Freeness Inbox from Latvian/German pianist and singer Maria Kalnars and British bass-player Ian Robinson that celebrates collaborative improvisation. And a live piece from the first album by Earscratcher, a newly-formed quartet with Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik at the helm alongside Dave Rempis (alto saxophone), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello and electronics), and Tim Daisy (drums).
Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m001h579)
Britten, Pärt and Strauss from Paris
Kent Nagano conducts members of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of Britten, Pärt and Strauss. Jonathan Swain presents.
01:01 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
Gilles Mercier (trumpet), Jean-Pierre Odasso (trumpet), Javier Rossetto (trumpet)
01:05 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
01:12 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Sextet, from 'Capriccio, op. 85'
Cecile Agator (violin), Arno Madoni (violin), Aurelia Souvignet-Kowalski (viola), Jeremy Pasquier (viola), Eric Levionnois (cello), Clementine Meyer-Amet (cello)
01:22 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Spiegel im Spiegel
Ji Yoon Park (violin), Catherine Cournot (piano)
01:32 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Metamorphosen
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
01:59 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata no 15 in C major, D840
Alfred Brendel (piano)
02:20 AM
Nino Janjgava (b.1964)
Alleluias 1, 5 & 11
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor)
02:24 AM
John Tavener (1944-2013)
The Lamb
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor)
02:28 AM
Nino Janjgava (b.1964)
Alleluias 7 & 8
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor)
02:31 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Bogoróditse Dyévo Ráduisya
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier (conductor)
02:33 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Nocturne for tenor, 7 instruments and string orchestra, Op 60
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
03:01 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony no 1 in C minor Op 68
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)
03:43 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
In convertendo, grand motet
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble, Jorg-Andreas Botticher (conductor), Jorg-Andreas Botticher (harpsichord)
04:10 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Lose Himmel, meine seele (S.494)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:16 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Ballad (Karelia suite, Op 11)
Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Jarvi (conductor)
04:24 AM
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783)
Flute Sonata in G major
Konrad Hunteler (flute), Wouter Moller (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
04:34 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La plus que lente, L. 121
Teo Gheorghiu (piano)
04:39 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Fantasia, Theme and Variations on a theme of Danzi in B flat Op.81
Laszlo Horvath (clarinet), New Budapest Quartet
04:47 AM
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Firste Pavian and Galliarde
Andreas Borregaard (accordion)
04:53 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
05:01 AM
Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885)
Polonaise triomphale in A major, Op 11
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pawel Przytocki (conductor)
05:10 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Rondo in E flat major, Op 16
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
05:19 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
05:28 AM
Howard Cable (1920-2016)
The Banks of Newfoundland
Hannaford Street Silver Band, Stephen Chenette (conductor)
05:36 AM
Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Trio Sonata in E flat major
Atrium Musicium Chamber Ensemble
05:43 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Cinq melodies populaires grecques
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), Andre Laplante (piano)
05:52 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Quartet for strings (Op.95) in F minor
Helsinki Quartet
06:15 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata no 10 in C major, K.330
Geoffrey Lancaster (pianoforte)
06:39 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Les Biches, suite from the ballet (1939-1940)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m001h55y)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m001h560)
Sarah Walker with an energising musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, there are swinging sounds from the Glenn Miller Orchestra and a Beethoven string quartet that takes Sarah on a musical journey.
We also travel to the moon via a sensitive choral arrangement of Laura Mvula’s song Sing to the Moon, and a familiar piece by Debussy.
Plus, a symphony by Haydn that may have accompanied some very well-dressed puppets…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m001h564)
Hugh Brody
Brought up in a comfortable suburb of Sheffield, Hugh Brody has spent his life travelling to the most inhospitable corners of the world. For more than ten years he lived among the peoples of the Arctic and sub-Arctic, learning their languages, discovering their ways of being in the world, and helping map their territories so they could claim land rights. He has also worked in isolated villages in the west of Ireland, in the southern Kalahari, on Skid Row in Edmonton, Canada, and in tribal communities in western India.
He has explored these places over the last fifty-five years in a considerable body of work: more than a dozen films, dozens of essays, and ten books. The latest is a moving and beautifully written personal memoir, “Landscapes of Silence: from Childhood to the Arctic”. Married to the actress Juliet Stevenson, Hugh Brody now divides his time between Highgate, North London, and a house on the Suffolk coast, though he admits that he has never really “settled down”.
Hugh Brody’s music choices include Beethoven, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Clara Schumann, and the music he heard every day when living with an Inuit family: Johnny Cash.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001gy3n)
Shani Diluka at Wigmore Hall
Shani Diluka plays piano music by Beethoven, Grieg and Liszt, from the Wigmore Hall.
Presented by Hannah French.
Born in Monaco to Sri Lankan parents, Shani Diluka trained in Paris and enjoys an unusually broad repertoire: in addition to her album devoted to music beloved by Marcel Proust, other discs including works by Schubert, Grieg and Beethoven have been enthusiastically received.
Grieg: Lyric Pieces Op. 12: Arietta
Lyric Pieces Op. 43: To the spring
Lyric Pieces Op. 54: Notturno, March of the Trolls
Liszt: 12 Lieder von Schubert S558: Ständchen, Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Années de pèlerinage, troisième année S163: Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 'Pathétique'
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m001h568)
Clare Salaman: A Tribute
On the first anniversary of the passing of Clare Salaman, Lucie Skeaping celebrates her life and work. Clare founded The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments, and championed rare and exotic instruments including the trumpet marine. With archive of Clare herself and contributions from fellow practitioners from the world of early music including Rachel Podger.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001gyw7)
Selwyn College, Cambridge
From the Chapel of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Introit: O gracious light (Austin Echols)
Responses: Sarah MacDonald
Psalms 93, 94 (Slater, MacPherson)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 19 vv.9b-18
Canticles: Evening Service in B flat (Howard Helvey)
Second Lesson: Lesson: Mark 9 vv.2-13
Anthem: Brightest and best (Sarah Rimkus)
Voluntary: Missa di Gloria (Gloria) (Leighton)
Sarah MacDonald (Director of Music)
Adam Field (Organ Scholar)
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m001h56d)
Your Sunday jazz soundtrack
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with music from guitarist Grant Green, vocal group Manhattan Transfer and drummer Chico Hamilton. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
DISC 1
Artist Stan Tracey Quartet and Kenny Wheeler
Title Cockle Roe
Composer Tracey
Album Under Milk Wood in Hamburg
Label ReSteamed
Number RSJ 116 Track 1
Duration 6.12
Performers Kenny Wheeler, t; Bobby Wellins, ts; Stan Tracey, p; Jeff Clyne, b; Jackie Dougan, d. March 1966
DISC 2
Artist Julie and Keith Tippett
Title New Inner City Blues
Composer Gary Boyle, Julie Tippett, Fulvio Sigurta, Riaan Vosloo
Album Nostalgia 77
Label Tru Thoughts
Number TRUCD 183 Track 14
Duration 4.16
Performers Julie Tippett v; Keith Tippett, p; Fulvio Sigurta, t; Mark Hanslip, ts; Gary Boyle, g; Riaan Vosloo, b; Adam Sorensen, d. 2008
DISC 3
Artist Grant Green
Title Jean de Fleur
Composer Grant Green
Album Idle Moments
Label Blue Note
Number 7243 499003 3 5 Track 2
Duration 6.46
Performers Grant Green, g; Joe Henderson, ts; Bobby Hutcherson, vib; Duke Pearson, p; Bob Cranshaw, b; Al Harewood, d. Nov 1963
DISC 4
Artist Milt Jackson
Title The Nearness of You
Composer Washington, Carmichael
Album Bags of Soul
Label Proper
Number Properbox 126 CD 2 (P1602) Track 6
Duration 4.05
Performers Milt Jackson, vib; Horace Silver, p; Percy Heath, b; Connie Kay, d. 20 May 1955.
DISC 5
Artist Della Reese
Title I’m Nobody’s Sweetheart Now
Composer Kahn, Erdman, Myers, Schoebel
Album Della At Basin Street East
Label RCA Victor
Number SF 7628 Track 6
Duration 4.19
Performers Della Reese with John Cotter Orchestra
DISC 6
Artist Stephane Grappelli / Oscar Peterson
Title Autumn Leaves
Composer Prevert / Kosma
Album Oscar Peterson – Stephane Grappelli Quartet Vol 2
Label EmArcy (France)
Number 013-029-2 Track 3
Duration 6.35
Performers Stephane Grappelli, vn; Oscar Peterson, p; Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, b; Kenny Clarke, d. Feb 1973
DISC 7
Artist Manhattan Transfer
Title Four Brothers
Composer Giuffre, Hendricks
Album Pastiche
Label Atlantic
Number K50444 Track 1
Duration 3.49
Performers Janis Siegel, Laurel Massé, Alan Paul, Tim Hauser, v; Alan Rubin, Marky Markowicz, Randy Brecker, Marvin Stamm, t; David Taylor, Urbie Green, Wayne Andre, tb; Jummy Giuffre, Al Cohn, Lee Konitz, Lew DelGatto, reeds; Jon Mayer, p, Ira Newborn, g; Andy Muson, b; Art Roriguez, d. Released Jan 1978.
DISC 8
Artist Louis Armstrong Hot 5
Title Come Back Sweet Papa
Composer P Barbarin / Luis Russell
Album The Okeh, Colubia and Victor Recordings
Label Columbia
Number 8869794652 CD 1 Track 3
Duration 2.32
Performers Louis Armstrong, c; Kid Ory, tb; Johnny Dodds, cl; Lil Hardin, p; Johnny St Cyr, bj. 26 Feb 1926
DISC 9
Artist Max Roach
Title C. M.
Composer Hank Mobley
Album Max
Label Argo
Number LP623 S 2 T 3
Duration 5.04
Performers Kenny Dorham, t; Hank Mobley, ts; Ramsey Lewis, p; George Morrow, b; Max Roach, d. 15 Jan 1958
DISC 10
Artist Chico Hamilton Quintet
Title Buddy Boo
Composer Magidson / Wrubel
Album Complete Studio Recordings
Label Phono
Number 870249 Track 20
Duration 5.12
Performers Chico Hamilton, d; Buddy Collette, as; Fred Katz, cello; Jim Hall, g; Carson Smith, b. Strollers, August 1955.
DISC 11
Artist Nina Simone
Title My Baby Just Cares For Me
Composer Kahn / Donaldson
Album My Baby Just Cares For Me
Label Phoenix
Number 131509 Track 6
Duration 3.38
Performers Nina Simone, v, p; Jimmie Bond, b; Tootie Heath, d. 1957
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m0015tzx)
On the March: Pomp, Circumstance and Dam Busters
The musical and military features of the march seem pretty unpromising terrain for composers - you’ve got to constrain your creativity to two-time, easy to remember tunes that keep pace in strict time.
And yet the form of the march allows for more creativity than those strictures might suggest. Tom falls in with composers including Elgar, Coates, Sousa, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven to discover how the march can beat the drum for many different ideas and emotions.
With historian, Prof Simon Heffer.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m001h56j)
Intoxication, addiction and ecstatic states
A snow leopard woman who retreats "into her mute zone" in Pascal Petit's poem, Hunter S Thompson's pharmaceutical excess, William Blake's "chapel all of gold" and Anna Kavan's alarming hallucinations. Today's programme explores altered states of being arising from depression, the influence of drugs and religious ecstasy. It has been put together by producer Torquil MacLeod working with Radio 3's researcher in residence Sally Marlow, Professor at King's College, London, who specialises in the relationships between mental health, addiction and the arts. Our readers are Tracy-Ann Oberman and Rupert Evans
You can hear Sally Marlow discussing the writing of Anna Kavan in a recent Free Thinking episode available on BBC Sounds. She suffered depression and became addicted to heroin before dying in 1968 aged 67. Her books are now being rediscovered.
Thanks also to Dr Joe Barnby for his suggestions.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
Readings & *Music
*Chris Heyne - Zweiter Streit Hildegard mit Abt Kuno & dritte Vision
William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience
Helen Dunmore - Counting Backwards
*Aaron Copland - Grohg: III. Dance of the Opium-Eater (Visions of Jazz)
*Carlos Collado Hernandez – Morpheus
Thomas De Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater
*Gil Scott-Heron - Me and the Devil
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan
*Per Nørgård - Symphony No. 8: III. Più mosso - Lento visionaro
William Blake - I Saw a Chapel
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41, TH 75 (Concert Version): No. 6, Cherubic Hymn
*John Tavener - The Veil of the Temple: Mother of God, Here I Stand (improvisation by S. Datta)
Edgar Allan Poe - Mesmeric Revelation
*Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience
*Akaie Sramana - Medicine in Shaman Trance
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception
*Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Hand of God
Elizabeth Jennings - A Depression
*Sergei Prokofiev - Visions fugitives, Op. 22: XX. Lento irrealmente
Pascale Petit - Snow Leopard Woman
*György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna
John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale
*Gaetano Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore, Act 2: Dell'elisir mirabile
*Laurie Spiegel - Kepler's Harmony Of The Worlds
Charlotte Bronte – Villette
*Modest Mussorgsky / Arr. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Night on Bald Mountain
*Shipibo Shamans - Icaro For Opening The Mind & Body
*Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band
Guillaume Apollinaire (trans. Anne Hyde Greet) - Clair de Lune
Anna Kavan - Sleep Has His House
*Hildegard of Bingen - In evangelium: III. Aer enim (antiphona)
Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
*Talking Heads - Drugs
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m001h56n)
Yiddish Glory
During World War II, approximately 1.6 million Soviet, Polish and Romanian Jews survived the Holocaust by escaping to Soviet Central Asia and Siberia, avoiding imminent death in ghettos, firing squads and killing centres. Many of them wrote music about these horrors as the Holocaust was unfolding before their eyes. A miraculous discovery in the Vernadsky National Library in Kyiv revealed a collection of Yiddish music created during the 1940s that documented their numerous traumas: dangerous train journeys, often in cattle cars; prison sentences, disease, and deep anxieties about family members left behind in Europe. During World War II, these songs were collected by amateur and professional poets, and then organised by the Ukrainian folklorist Moisei Beregovsky. However, the archive was confiscated by the KGB soon after the end of the war. The songs were never performed since, in public or in private.
Singer Alice Zawadzski, whose own family found themselves on a similar journey to Central Asia, and historian Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto), who led the project to bring these songs back to life, travel to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to retrace the journeys of those Jewish refugees who became music composers. From Tashkent and Samarkand to Bukhara and Almaty, they found abandoned factories where refugees worked, saw huts where they slept, met with the descendants of families who welcomed them and children of those survivors themselves who stayed in Central Asia. For the first time in 80 years, the songs created by Jewish refugees during the war were performed in these lands, by local musicians and composers, by children of refugees themselves, and by Alice Zawadzki.
Producer: Michael Rossi.
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m001h56s)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Standing over Hugo Baskerville, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.”
A desolate house on the moors, an escaped murderer, and a bloodthirsty supernatural beast – Conan Doyle’s best-selling mystery has all the ingredients of a classic thriller. Following the success of his adaptations of A Christmas Carol and The Wind in the Willows, the dramatist , composer and long-term collaborator with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Neil Brand has crafted a chilling, gripping and hair-raising version of this favourite tale.
Mark Gatiss stars as Sherlock Holmes with Sanjeev Bhaskar as Dr Watson.
Recorded at the Barbican Hall, London on December 20th 2022.
Neil Brand, orchestrated by Timothy Brock: The Hound of the Baskervilles (BBC co-commission and world premiere]
Mark Gatiss - Sherlock Holmes
Sanjeev Bhaskar - Dr Watson
Sam Dale - Dr Mortimer/Frankland/Narrator
Ewan Bailey - Barrymore/Mycroft/Narrator
Clare Corbett - Mrs Barrymore/Beryl Stapleton/Billy/Narrator
Carl Prekopp - Stapleton/Selden/Narrator
Ryan Early - Henry Baskerville/Narrator
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Timothy Brock (conductor)
Neil Brand (conductor)
David Hunter (director)
SUN 21:00 Record Review Extra (m001h56x)
Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Shostakovich's String Quartet No 8.
SUN 23:00 The Art of Music with Anna Clyne (m001h571)
The Music behind Paintings, Posters and Album Covers
Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne is fascinated by the relationship between art and music. In this series she explores the stories, imagery, and colour of some of her favourite music and art and how one inspires the other.
In this final episode, Anna is our tour guide through an imaginary gallery, full of visual art and the music that inspired it.
We start with the strongest images evoked by music, those in our minds when we listen. In the mind of Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams, Shostakovich's music was 'humanity in sound'. He illustrated this in 30 oil paintings and as Anna describes one of these works titled 'Shostakovich 6th Quartet, Opus 101’, we hear the corresponding music. She continues with Boogie Woogie Blues and its influence on the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and discovers how traditional Jewish music from the childhood of artist Marc Chagall played a part in his art. We end our tour with musical merchandise and the provocative imagery in the posters and album covers advertising music by Richard Strauss and The Velvet Underground; images that tease the audience visually as the music does aurally.
Presented by Anna Clyne
Produced by Laura Metcalfe
MONDAY 23 JANUARY 2023
MON 00:00 Sounds Connected (m001h574)
Seonaid Aitken
Gypsy jazz violinist and singer Seonaid Aitken finds more playful connections in music from JS Bach, Hans Zimmer, Prokofiev, Nina Simone and Haydn.
Produced in Glasgow by Lindsay Pell
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m001h578)
Perilous waters and dark passions
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of Smyth and Gershwin, culminating in Walton's Symphony No 1. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Overture from 'The Wreckers'
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
12:40 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Piano Concerto in F
Louis Schwizgebel (piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
01:14 AM
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Chanson from 'Esquisses de jazz'
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
01:17 AM
William Walton (1902-1983)
Symphony no.1 in B flat minor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
02:04 AM
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op 3
Trio Luwigana
02:31 AM
Pierre de la Rue (1452-1518)
Missa Sancto Job
Orlando Consort
03:06 AM
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909)
The Steppes (Op.66) - symphonic poem
Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)
03:26 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Richard Epstein (transcriber)
Excerpts from "La Boheme"
Richard Epstein (piano)
03:35 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Ballet music from 'Terpsichore'
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
03:47 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sonata for oboe and piano (1962)
Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
04:01 AM
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
Seascape, Op 53
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)
04:07 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV 225
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Annemieke Cantor (alto), Gerhard Nennemann (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass), Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Ensemble Vanitas Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
04:21 AM
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Zigeunerweisen (Op.20) vers. for violin and orchestra
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
04:31 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Toccata per cembalo, in G minor/major
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
04:39 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No 2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
04:57 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Psalm 150 - for SATB choir, 2 trumpets and organ
Elmer Iseler Singers, Robert Venables (trumpet), Robert Devito (trumpet), Matthew Larkin (organ), Lydia Adams (conductor)
05:01 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
5 movements from "Les petits riens" ballet music (K.299b)
Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Adam Fischer (conductor)
05:11 AM
Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-1986)
Croquiser, Op 38
Marten Landstrom (piano)
05:24 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio No. 3 from Essercizii Musici, for Violin, Oboe, and continuo
Camerata Koln
05:35 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Wind Serenade in D minor, Op 44
I Solisti del Vento, Etienne Siebens (conductor)
05:59 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65
Claes Gunnarsson (cello), Roland Pontinen (piano)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m001h57c)
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 (m001h57f)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with new discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001h57h)
Mel Bonis (1858-1937)
The turning point
Donald Macleod surveys the life of nineteenth century French composer Mel Bonis, with a focus today on two dates, both of which would mark significant events, 1881 and 1883.
Mel Bonis's name may not be a familiar one these days, but she produced somewhere in the region of three hundred compositions. There's no doubt that she was sensitive to gender discrimination. It's why she chose to publish her music under the name of Mel rather than her birth name Mélanie.
She was born in 1858 to parents of modest means. Her father worked for the watch company Breguet, still in business today, and her mother worked in the haberdashery trade. Neither of them held any particular interest in music, so it was down to young Mélanie to teach herself the play the family's piano. Her talent was recognised by a visiting friend who facilitated a meeting with one of the leading lights of the day, César Franck, an esteemed professor of organ at Paris's prestigious Conservatoire. Mélanie enrolled and showed great promise as a student, winning several end of year prizes. Her studies came to an abrupt end when her parents refused to give their consent to her marriage to a fellow student there, a poet, critic and singer, Amédée Hettich. Her life took a sharp turn two years later when, at the instigation of her parents, she married a twice widowed man of comfortable means. Thereafter her life as a composer had to take a back seat to the demands of raising five step-children and three of her own children with her husband, Albert Domange. Even so, she managed to continue to compose, producing music for her own instrument, the piano, and in almost every other genre as well.
Today Donald Macleod considers the means Mel Bonis had at her disposal to further her musical ambitions.
Étiolles, Op 2
Mariam Barbaux-Cohen, piano
Ophélie, Op 165
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor
Piano Quartet No 1 in B flat major, Op 69 - II. Intermezzo. Allegretto tranquillo
Mozart Piano Quartet
Impromptu pour piano, Op 1
Laurent Martin, piano
5 pièces pour piano
No 1: Gai Printemps, Op 11
No 2: Romance sans paroles, Op 29
No 3: Menuet, Op 14
No 4: Églogue, Op 12
No 5: Papillons, Op 28
Diana Sahakyan, piano
Cello sonata in F major, Op 67 – III. Très lent
Thomas Blees, cello
Maria Bergmann, piano
Fantaisie, Op 72 "Septuor"
Tatjana Ruhland, flute
Florian Wiek, piano
Members of Stuttgart Royal Symphony Orchestra
Produced by Johanna Smith for BBC Audio Cardiff
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001h57l)
The Doric String Quartet in Haydn and Beethoven
Live from Wigmore Hall. The Doric String Quartet plays one of Haydn's Prussian quartets and an early quintet by Beethoven, for which they are joined by the viola player and composer Brett Dean.
Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, the UK-based Doric String Quartet enjoy a busy international career and they promise to bring their trademark sophistication to Haydn's Quartet 'Dream' quartet. Written in 1787, it owes its nickname to the gently moving chords of the slow movement. That is followed by the 'Storm' Quintet by Beethoven - his only original string quintet and a work unfairly overshadowed by the quintets of Mozart and Schubert.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Haydn: Quartet No. 40 in F major ('Dream'), Op. 50, No. 5, Hob. III/48
Beethoven: String Quintet in C Op. 29 ('Storm')
Doric String Quartet
with Brett Dean (viola)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001h57n)
Monday - Sibelius's Third Symphony from Switzerland
Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of performances from across Europe with a nod in the direction of monsters, myths and legends, including music by Grieg, Holst, Rehnqvist and Wagner and a performance at
3pm of Sibelius's Third Symphony from the Gion Antoni Derungs Festival in Switzerland.
Including:
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
Karin Rehnqvist: Jag lyfter Mina händer (I Raise My Hands)
Eero Palvainen, theorbo
Bjorn Gafert, organ
Daniel Holst, cello
Eric Ericsson Chamber Choir
Grete Pedersen (conductor)
Gustav Holst: The Perfect Fool -Ballet Music
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
James MacMillan: O chi mi na morbheanna (The Mist Covered Mountains of Home)
The King Singers
3.00
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 3 in C Op52
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana
Philippe Bach (conductor)
Alfonso Ferrabosco: Pavan On Four Notes
William Lawes: Almaine in D minor
Richard Dering: Fantasia in A minor
L’Acheron
George Enescu: 'Pavane' from Suite No 2 in D Op10
Daria Parkhomenko (piano)
William Alwyn: Lyra Angelica for harp and string orchestra
Osian Ellis (harp)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
William Alwyn (conductor)
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m001h57q)
María Dueñas shimmers in Chausson's Poème
This afternoon features some of the current stars of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, starting with the astounding pianist Tom Borrow in one of Chopin's most popular mazurkas in A minor. Konstantin Krimmel is already recognised as one of the great interpreters of Lied, and we'll hear his sonorous baritone voice in Schubert's Totengräbers Heimweh, D.842. The afternoon concludes with starry Spanish violinist María Dueñas in Chausson's Poème, in a setting for violin and piano.
Chopin
Mazurka Op 17/4
Tom Borrow, (piano)
Schubert
Totengräbers Heimweh, D.842
Konstantin Krimmel, (baritone)
Ammiel Bushakevitz, (piano)
Chausson
Poème Op 25
María Dueñas, (violin),
Evgeny Sinaisky, (piano)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m001h57s)
The King's Singers & Fretwork, Piatti Quartet
In 2023, we commemorate two major English composers, who both died 400 years ago: William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes. They are the protagonist of a new album by the King's Singers and the viol consort Fretwork, who will also join forces in a concert at Wigmore Hall (London) on January 24. The Piatti Quartet follows them in the In Tune studio, ahead of their series of concerts - 25 January at Keele University and 27 January at Leamington Pump Rooms to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day; and 26 January at the Forum Theatre (Malvern) - and the release of their new album 'Boyle, RVW, Ireland and Moeran' (Rubicon Classics, released on January 27).
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001h57v)
Classical music for your journey
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world. This edition of the mixtape includes big hitters by Mozart, Beethoven, Boulanger and Vivaldi alongside choral works by Poulenc and Eric Whitacre. There's film music from Michael Giacchino's nostalgic score for Pixar's Up, plus wistful folk from The Gloaming and a jazzy take on an operatic classic.
Producer: Christina Kenny for BBC Audio
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001h57x)
Mahler's Song of Lamentation and Songs on the Death of Children
The Vienna State Opera's Von der Liebe Tod - a moving, sad, and transcendental celebration of Gustav Mahler's gift for song combining his early Das Klagende Lied, or ‘The Song of Lamentation,' with his later Kindertotenlieder, or ‘Songs on the Death of Children.’
The Vienna State Opera fielded its own orchestra and chorus along with members of its training orchestra and children's chorus for this epic staged production which plays for an hour and a half without a pause.
Das Klagende Lied’, with words by Mahler himself, is based on the fairy-tale texts of Ludwig Bechstein and the Brothers Grimm about a treacherous knight who slays his brother to win a contest for a queen’s hand in marriage, but his crime catches up to him in a most unlikely way. Kindertotenlieder’, is based on the poems of Friedrich Rückert. The verses describe the writer’s personal tragedy of losing two of his offspring, something with which Mahler could identify. As the opera house said: "Fantastic verses and expressive music act as a common thread, uniting the two works into one transporting performance."
Presented by Fiona Talkington
Mahler: Das Klagende Lied
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Vera-Lotte Boecker (soprano)
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (contralto)
Daniel Jenz (tenor)
Florian Boesch (baritone)
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Vienna State Opera Training Orchestra and Children's Choir
Lorenzo Viotti (conductor)
MON 21:15 Northern Drift (m001h57z)
Kim Moore and Daniel Pioro
Recorded at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire, Elizabeth Alker is joined by the Cumbrian poet Kim Moore whose collection 'All The Men I Never Married', which explores everyday sexism and female desire, recently won the 2022 Forward Prize. With music from Edinburgh based violinist and composer Daniel Pioro, keyboard player Katherine Tinker and cellist Clare O'Connell. They play works by British composer Nick Martin, Scottish folk musician Aidan O'Rourke, and Daniel himself.
Producer: Ruth Thomson.
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m001h56c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m000s1lc)
Science Notes
Enlighten
Legendary broadcaster James Burke reveals unexpected connections between his twin passions of science and classical music. In this first exploration he brings together such arcane stuff as organisms that might not exist, Newton and colour, French encyclopedias and a freemason’s opera.
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m001h581)
Yellow
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a late-night mix of music exploring the colour yellow, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 24 JANUARY 2023
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m001h583)
Three Bach Cantatas from Copenhagen
Concerto Copenhagen, conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, perform cantatas by JS Bach at the 2022 Copenhagen Baroque Festival. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sinfonia from 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV.21'
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
12:34 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata: 'Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden', BWV.6
Chisa Tanigaki (soprano), James Hall (counter tenor), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Tomas Kral (bass), Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
12:52 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata: 'Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe', BWV.108
James Hall (counter tenor), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Tomas Kral (bass), Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
01:07 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata: 'Wer da gläubet und getauft wirt', BWV.37
Chisa Tanigaki (soprano), James Hall (counter tenor), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Tomas Kral (bass), Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
01:23 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Musical Offering in C minor, BWV.1079
Nova Stravaganza, Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Lisa Marie Landgraf (violin), Dimitri Dichtiar (cello), Siegbert Rampe (harpsichord)
02:12 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No 39 in G minor
Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Adam Fischer (conductor)
02:31 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
02:57 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Violin Concerto in A minor, B108, Op 53
Vilde Frang Bjaerke (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, William Eddins (conductor)
03:28 AM
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz (1876-1909)
4 Songs - Z nowa wiosna (When spring arrives)
Jadwiga Rappe (contralto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
03:36 AM
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
Concerto a 5 for 2 oboes and strings in C major Op 9 No 9
Molly Marsh (oboe), Pedro Lopes e Castro (oboe), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
03:47 AM
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935), George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Passacaglia after Handel
Byungchan Lee (violin), Cameron Crozman (cello)
03:54 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Andante Festivo for strings and timpani
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
03:59 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Gesang der Geistern über den Wassern, Op 167
Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Juri Alperten (director)
04:09 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne no 2 in D flat major, Op 27
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
04:16 AM
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Quel guardo il cavaliere, Norina's Cavatina from Act 1, scene 2 of Don Pasquale
Adriana Marfisi (soprano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
04:22 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Polonaise de concert in A major (1867)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zygmunt Rychert (conductor)
04:31 AM
Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)
Sonata in D for Trumpet, Strings and Basso Continuo
Sebastian Philpott (trumpet), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
04:38 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Trio for strings in B flat major, Op 53 no 2
Leopold String Trio
04:46 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Nanie Op 82
Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
04:59 AM
Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870)
Characteristic Tribute to the Memory of Malibran
Tom Beghin (fortepiano)
05:10 AM
Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937)
Konzertstuck for harp & orchestra, Op 39 (1903)
Suzanna Klintcharova (harp), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
05:26 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in C major (KA.171)
Ulla Miilmann (flute), Kroger Quartet
05:45 AM
Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Raduz and Mahulena, Op 16 'A fairy tale suite'
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Smetacek (conductor)
06:14 AM
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Valse Poetico
Enrique Granados (piano)
06:25 AM
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Ritual Fire Dance
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Christian Vasquez
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m001h5c7)
Tuesday - Kate's classical commute
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m001h5c9)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001h5cc)
Mel Bonis (1858-1937)
The learning years
Donald Macleod explores Mel Bonis's years of training at the Paris Conservatoire, where she rubbed shoulders with the likes of Debussy, and attended César Franck's organ classes.
Mel Bonis's name may not be a familiar one these days, but she produced somewhere in the region of three hundred compositions. There's no doubt that she was sensitive to gender discrimination. It's why she chose to publish her music under the name of Mel rather than her birth name Mélanie.
She was born in 1858 to parents of modest means. Her father worked for the watch company Breguet, still in business today, and her mother worked in the haberdashery trade. Neither of them held any particular interest in music, so it was down to young Mélanie to teach herself the play the family's piano. Her talent was recognised by a visiting friend who facilitated a meeting with one of the leading lights of the day, César Franck, an esteemed professor of organ at Paris's prestigious Conservatoire. Mélanie enrolled and showed great promise as a student, winning several end of year prizes. Her studies came to an abrupt end when her parents refused to give their consent to her marriage to a fellow student there, a poet, critic and singer, Amédée Hettich. Her life took a sharp turn two years later when, at the instigation of her parents, she married a twice widowed man of comfortable means. Thereafter her life as a composer had to take a back seat to the demands of raising five step-children and three of her own children with her husband, Albert Domange. Even so, she managed to continue to compose, producing music for her own instrument, the piano, and in almost every other genre as well.
Mel Bonis was just nineteen when she entered Paris's famous musical establishment. Her years of study there gave her access to a superior level of training in piano, harmony and accompaniment.
Près de ruisseau, Op 9
Myriam Barbaux-Cohen, piano
Pensées d’automne
Myriam Barbaux-Cohen, piano
Piano Quartet No 1, Op 69 – I. Moderato and IV. Final. Allegro ma non troppo
Mozart Piano Quartet
Villanelle, Op 4
Dès l’aube, Op 18
Valérie Gabail, soprano
Eric Cerantola, piano
Marionnettes, Op 42
Maria Stembolskaya, piano
Sonata for Flute and Piano
Maria Cecilia Muñez, flute
Tiffany Butt, piano
Suite Orientale, Op 48 No 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor
Produced by Johannah Smith for BBC Audio Cardiff
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001h5cf)
The George Enescu International Festival
The 2022 George Enescu International Festival.
The George Enescu International Festival has been held in Bucharest, Romania since 1958 to honour and celebrate the memory, the music and the personality of Romanian composer, pianist, violinist and conductor George Enescu, considered “the greatest musical phenomenon since Mozart.” This week there are chamber music performances from some of the many leading musicians who came to Bucharest last September to take part in what is now one of the world's leading music festivals. Today's programme starts with a student work by Ravel whose better-known second violin sonata was premiered by Enescu who, like Ravel, was a former pupil of Gabriel Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire. Also today, Chopin from the Argentine-born pianist Nelson Goerner described as: 'A master goldsmith of the piano.'
Presented by Sarah Walker
Ravel: Sonata in G major for violin and piano
David Grimal (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)
Chopin: Ballade no. 1 in G minor Op.23
Chopin: Ballade no. 2 in F major Op.38
Chopin: Ballade no. 3 in A flat major Op.47
Chopin: Ballade no. 4 in F minor Op.52
Brahms: Intermezzo in A, op. 118/2
Nelson Goerner (piano)
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001h5ch)
Tuesday - Schubert's Symphony No 9 in C, 'Great'
Ian Skelly introduces a selection of great concert performances from around Europe with a focus on Romania, including a performance of Schubert's last symphony from the 2022 George Enescu Festival, and the BBC Concert Orchestra playing Enescu's first Romanian Rhapsody.
Including:
Bela Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56
Pétri Kumela (guitar)
Cecilia Zilliacus (violin)
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in G major - "Gypsy Rondo" H
15:25
ATOS Trio
Giuseppe Verdi: Overture - La Forza del Destino
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor)
Robert Schumann: Fantiesestucke Op12 (extract)
Daria Parkhomenko (piano)
3.00
Franz Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C major “Great”
George Enescu Philharmonic
Ainars Rubikis (conductor)
Gyorgy Ligeti: Lontano
Moravian Philharmonia
Zsolt Hamar (conductor)
Georg Philipp Telemann: Ich fahre auf zu Eminem Vater TWV
1:825
Vox Luminis
Petra Mullejans (violin)
Freinburg Baroque Orchestra
Lionel Meunier (conductor)
George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No 1
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m001h5ck)
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001h5cm)
Expand your horizons with classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001h5cp)
Saffron Hall New Year Celebration
Chloe Rooke conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra at Saffron Hall in a concert of festive Viennese New Year music. Emma Johnson is the soloist in Mozart's popular Clarinet Concerto and in the second half they are joined by soprano Sarah Redgwick in more music by Mozart, alongside Lehar and Strauss.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Mozart: Overture, The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
INTERVAL
8.15pm
Nico Dostal: Frohliches Spiel
Franz Grothe: Illusion
Lehar: Fata Morgana
Ethel Smyth: Overture, ‘The Boatswain’s Mate’
Mozart: Deh vieni non tardar (from Marriage of Figaro)
Anna Clyne: Restless Oceans
Lehar: Vilja’s Song (from The Merry Widow)
J Strauss II: Mein Herr Marquis Adele’s Laughing Song (from Die Fledermaus)
J Strauss II: Unter Donner und Blitz 3’
J Strauss II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz
Emma Johnson (basset clarinet)
Sarah Redgwick (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Chloe Rooke
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m001h5cr)
Aztecs and Otherness
Henry VIII's encounter with Brazilian royalty, Inuit hunting in the Somerset countryside, Aztecs at the court of Charles V: Caroline Dodds Pennock's research flips history to focus on the impact of indigenous Americans on early modern Europe. And how is this kind of approach influencing museum displays? Anthropologist Adam Kuper has written a history of The Museum of Other People, charting the changing ethnological approaches to colonialism, cultural appropriation, and scientific authority. Plus musicologist Rupert Till has co-created a virtual sound map of the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacán. John Gallagher hosts.
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock is out now and can also be found serialised on BBC Sounds.
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions by Adam Kuper is published next week.
You might also be interested in conversations available as Arts & Ideas downloads asking What language did Columbus speak ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d0tk22
What kind of history should we write ? with Peter Frankopan and Maya Jasanoff https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06sfl58
The Mayflower and Native American history with Sarah Churchwell, Kathryn Napier Gray & Lauren Working https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08r76kl
First Encounters: Nandini Das and Claudia Rogers share their research https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kpgp
Producer in Salford: Ruth Thomson
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000s2c0)
Science Notes
Romance
Legendary broadcaster James Burke reveals unexpected connections between his twin passions of science and classical music. In this essay he links planetary orbits, new kinds of arithmetic, the teeny-weeny, and of course fake Scottish literature arriving naturally enough at the Romantic movement.
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m001h5ct)
Green
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with late-night mix of music exploring the colour green, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY 2023
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m001h5cw)
Britten, Strauss and Copland from Helsinki
François Leleux plays Richard Strauss's Oboe Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Collon. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Four Sea Interludes, from 'Peter Grimes, op. 33a'
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
12:47 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Oboe Concerto in D, AV 144
Francois Leleux (soloist), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
01:11 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Arethusa, No. 6 from 'Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, op. 49'
Francois Leleux (oboe)
01:14 AM
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Appalachian Spring Suite
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
01:39 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Symphony in Three Movements
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
02:01 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42 - cantata
Voces Suaves, Cafebaum
02:31 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Hungarian Coronation Mass for SATB, chorus & orchestra
Etelka Csavlek (soprano), Marta Lukin (alto), Boldizsar Keonch (tenor), Bela Laborfalvy Soos (bass), Choir of the Matyas Church, Budapest Choir, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Lantos (conductor)
03:20 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Kinderszenen for piano (Op.15)
Eun-Soo Son (piano)
03:39 AM
Alexander Albrecht (1885-1958)
Quintet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Bratislava Wind Quintet, Pavol Kovac (piano)
03:47 AM
Anton Milling (18th century)
Concerto for Viola da Gamba and Strings in D minor
Aira Maria Lehtipuu (violin), Teodoro Bau (viola da gamba), Kore Orchestra
03:57 AM
Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921)
Puisque l'aube grandit (song)
Christa Pfeiler (mezzo soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
04:04 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Impromptu, op. 5/5, for strings
Camerata Zurich, Igor Karsko (conductor)
04:12 AM
John Wilbye (1574-1638)
Weepe, mine eyes for 5 voices (1609)
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
04:15 AM
Jazeps Vitols (1863-1948)
Romance for violin and piano
Valdis Zarins (violin), Ieva Zarina (piano)
04:22 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Concerto no 13, from 'Les goûts-réunis (Nouveaux Concerts)'
Zug Chamber Soloists
04:31 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto in A minor for Two Recorders, TWV.52:a2
Lea Sobbe (recorder), Hojin Kwon (recorder), Jorg-Andreas Botticher (harpsichord), Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
04:40 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ferruccio Busoni (arranger)
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV.565)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:49 AM
Lorenzo Allegri (1567-1648)
Primo Ballo della notte d'amore & Sinfonica (Spirito del ciel)
Suzie Le Blanc (soprano), Barbara Borden (soprano), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (director)
04:59 AM
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
Night and festal music - prelude to act II from the opera Die Konigin von Saba
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:07 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano (Op.66)
Miklos Perenyi (cello), Dezso Ranki (piano)
05:16 AM
Bernat Vivancos (b.1973)
Nigra sum
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
05:25 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Las cuatro estaciones portenas
Musica Camerata Montreal
05:48 AM
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), Francesco Squarcia (arranger)
String Quintet No. 60 (G.324) (Op.30 No.6) in C major
I Cameristi Italiani
06:03 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto no.12 in A major, K.414
Marianna Shirinyan (piano), Ernest Quartet
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m001h5sp)
Wednesday - Kate's classical alternative
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m001h5sr)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001h5st)
Mel Bonis (1858-1937)
An Affair of the Heart
Donald Macleod recounts how and why Mel Bonis came to find her musical training at an abrupt end. It was a circumstance that irrevocably changed the course of her life.
Mel Bonis's name may not be a familiar one these days, but she produced somewhere in the region of three hundred compositions. There's no doubt that she was sensitive to gender discrimination. It's why she chose to publish her music under the name of Mel rather than her birth name Mélanie.
She was born in 1858 to parents of modest means. Her father worked for the watch company Breguet, still in business today, and her mother worked in the haberdashery trade. Neither of them held any particular interest in music, so it was down to young Mélanie to teach herself the play the family's piano. Her talent was recognised by a visiting friend who facilitated a meeting with one of the leading lights of the day, César Franck, an esteemed professor of organ at Paris's prestigious Conservatoire. Mélanie enrolled and showed great promise as a student, winning several end of year prizes. Her studies came to an abrupt end when her parents refused to give their consent to her marriage to a fellow student there, a poet, critic and singer, Amédée Hettich. Her life took a sharp turn two years later when, at the instigation of her parents, she married a twice widowed man of comfortable means. Thereafter her life as a composer had to take a back seat to the demands of raising five step-children and three of her own children with her husband, Albert Domange. Even so, she managed to continue to compose, producing music for her own instrument, the piano, and in almost every other genre as well.
One of the most important relationships of Mel Bonis's life was with Amédée Hettich. Originally a fellow student, the pair of them collaborated on song writing projects.
Valses-caprice, Op 87
Laurent Martin and Claudine Simon, piano four hands
Elève toi mon âme
Laetitia Grimaldi, soprano
Ammiel Bushakevitz, piano
L’Oiseau Bleu, Op 74
BBC Singers
Elizabeth Burgess, piano
Grace Rossiter, conductor
Cello sonata in F major, Op 67 – I. Moderato quasi andante
Thomas Blees, cello
Maria Bergmann, piano
Suite en forme de valses, Op 35 to 39
The Bucharest Symphony Orchestra
Benôit Fromanger, conductor
La chanson de Rouet, Op 24
Carillon mystique, Op 31
Maria Stembolskaya, piano
Les Gitanos, Op 15 No 2
Laurent Martin, piano
Suite en Trio, Op 59
Trio Empreinte
Clara Abou, violin
Émilie Heurtevent, soprano saxophone
Anne de Fornel, piano
Salomé, Op 100
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor
Produced by Johannah Smith for BBC Audio Cardiff
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001h5sw)
The George Enescu International Festival - Albéniz and Beethoven
Sarah Walker introduces more performances from the 2022 George Enescu International Festival.
The George Enescu International Festival has been held in Bucharest, Romania since 1958 to honour the composer, pianist, violinist and conductor George Enescu, a man who played for Brahms, studied composition with Fauré and Massenet and was a friend of some of the greatest composers of the twentieth century, amongst them, Isaac Albéniz. Enescu's pupil, Yehudi Menuhin described him as "The Absolute, by whom I judge all others." It is to honour his memory that many leading musicians come to Bucharest to take part in what is now one of the world's leading music festivals. Today, Nelson Goerner brings his exquisite touch to Albéniz's impressionistic masterpiece and the Sitkovetsky Trio rejoice in one of Beethoven's most cheerful works.
Albéniz: Iberia - book 4
Nelson Goerner (piano)
Beethoven: Serenade in D major Op.8 for string trio
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin), Alexander Gordon (viola), David Geringas (cello)
Moritz Moszkowski: Guitarre Op.45 No.2
David Grimal (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001h5sy)
Wednesday - Beethoven at the Enescu Festival
There's a Scottish flavour to Ian Skelly's programme today marking Burns Night plus Beethoven and Franck from the 2022 Enescu Festival in Romania.
Including:
Beethoven: The Lovely Lass of Inverness Op108/8
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Vilde Frang (violin)
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Antonio Pappano (piano)
Schubert: Trio (Allegro and Andante fragment) in B flat, D471
Members of the Escher String Quartet
JS Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068
Dunedin Consort
John Butt (director)
Franck: Prelude, Fugue & Variation
Daria Parkhomenko (piano)
3.00
Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C for violin, cello and piano Op 56
Valentin Serban (violin)
Jaemin Han (cello)
Yeon-min Park (piano)
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
Ainars Rubikis (condcutor)
Thea Musgrave: Loch Ness - A Postcard from Scotland
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m001h5t0)
The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
From The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul.
Introit: O for a closer walk with God (Stanford)
Responses: Shephard
Office hymn: A heavenly splendour from on high (Splendor coelestis)
Psalm 119 vv.41-56 (Clucas, Woodward)
First Lesson: Isaiah 56 vv.1-8
Canticles: Gloucester Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: Colossians 1 v.24 – 2 v.7
Anthem: Vast ocean of light (Jonathan Dove)
Hymn: We sing the glorious conquest (King’s Lynn)
Voluntary: Four Extemporisations (Whitlock)
Oliver Hancock (Director of Music)
Mark Swinton (Assistant Director of Music)
Recorded 23 January.
WED 17:00 In Tune (m001h5t2)
Wayne Marshall
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001h5t4)
Half an hour of the finest classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world. Today's mixtape includes music by J S Bach, Janacek, Richard Strauss, Haydn, Bernstein, Rameau and Rachmaninov.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001h5t6)
Edward Gardner conducts Elgar, Tippett and Coleridge-Taylor
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, Edward Gardner leads the London Philharmonic in a concert of English music.
By the end of the 19th Century, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast had gained him an international reputation. In 1899 Coleridge-Taylor was commissioned to write for the Three Choirs Festival and he produced the well-received Solemn Prelude. Well-received but lost until the current Three Choirs chief executive rediscovered it in the British Library after some musical sleuthing, just in time for last year's Festival, when once again it was heard in Worcester Cathedral. Tonight, the LPO present the London (and broadcast) premiere of Coleridge-Taylor's music. And, just as it did in 1899, this evening the Solemn Prelude shares the bill with the music of Edward Elgar.
Elgar, forever beset by crippling self-doubt, scored a resounding success with his 1908 Symphony No. 1, which was swiftly taken up and lauded throughout Europe. Its potent combination of surging nobilmente themes and dazzling orchestration, offset by introspection and intimacy, still strike a resonant chord today.
Michael Tippett's magical, shimmering Piano Concerto is a wonderful example of his unique, mid-century take on the English pastoral tradition. It's played by Steven Osborne, a pianist widely acknowledged to be the composer's foremost interpreter.
Introduced by Martin Handley.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Solemn Prelude (London premiere)
Tippett Piano: Concerto
8.15 pm
Interval
Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major Op.55
Steven Osborne (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m001h5t8)
William Stukeley
Stone circles, Roman Britain, a fossil crocodile and the flood described in the book of Genesis, the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, a fake monk's manuscript: these were all studied by William Stukeley, English antiquarian, physician and clergyman (1687-1765) who pioneered research into Stonehenge and Avebury. Rana Mitter brings together a panel of archaeologists, historians and writers to look at the works of the first secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His guests are New Generation Thinker and English Heritage Senior Properties Historian Susan Greaney; Rosemary Hill, whose book Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism is a study of 18th century antiquarianism; Ronald Hutton, historian of religion who has written about Stukeley and the Druids; and Robert Iliffe, Professor of the History of Science at Oxford.
You can hear Susan Greaney discussing Stonehenge in a previous Free Thinking episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014g7y and changing archaeological digs also heard from Alexandra Sofroniew, Damian Robinson and Raimund Karl https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03xpn5p
Ronald Hutton has taken part in discussions about witchcraft and Margaret Murray https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001271f and goddesses https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014g7y
Producer: Luke Mulhall
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000s321)
Science Notes
Impression
Legendary broadcaster James Burke reveals unexpected connections between his twin passions of science and classical music. Today’s essay includes Italian electricity, a German baron and his séances, French carpet-making and your fridge. All on the way to the compositions of Claude Debussy.
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m001h5tb)
White
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with late-night mix of music exploring the colour white, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 26 JANUARY 2023
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m001h5td)
Carl Nielsen, Kristine Tjøgersen and John Adams from Bergen
Violinist Johan Dalene joins the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner in Nielsen's Violin Concerto. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Kristine Tjogersen (b. 1982)
Bioluminescence
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor)
12:41 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Violin Concerto, op. 33
Johan Dalene (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor)
01:17 AM
John Adams (1947-)
Harmonium
Edvard Grieg Kor, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor)
01:53 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet no.14 in D minor, D.810, 'Death and the Maiden'
Eos Quartet
02:31 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
L'Apotheose de la Danse - orchestral suite of dance music by Rameau
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
03:09 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Sonata for cello and piano (Op.65) in G minor
Antonio Meneses (cello), Menahem Pressler (piano)
03:35 AM
John Foulds (1880-1939)
Keltic Overture, Op 28
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
03:43 AM
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Ave Maria
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
03:49 AM
Marc-Andre Hamelin (b.1961)
Variations on a Theme by Paganini for piano
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
04:00 AM
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
On hearing the first cuckoo in spring for orchestra (RT.
6.19) (1911/12)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
04:08 AM
Jacques Buus (c.1500-1565)
Ricercare
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
04:15 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Cordoba - from Cantos de Espana (Op.232 No.4)
Eolina Quartet
04:21 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Sonata for cello and continuo in A major
La Stagione Frankfurt
04:31 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Roses from the South - waltz, Op.388
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor)
04:41 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Polish Dances
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
04:49 AM
Ester Magi (1922-2021)
Ballad 'Tuule Tuba' (1981)
Academic Male Choir of Tallinn Technical University, Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
04:58 AM
Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799)
Sonata for cello and continuo in G major, Op 5 no 8
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello)
05:08 AM
Georges Hue (1858-1948)
Phantasy vers. flute and piano
Iveta Kundratova (flute), Inna Aslamasova (piano)
05:15 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture to 'L'Italiana in Algeri' (The Italian Girl in Algiers)
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Enrico Dindo (conductor)
05:24 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Piano Trio no 2 in E minor Op 67
Altenberg Trio Vienna
05:51 AM
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)
3 Piezas espanolas for guitar
Goran Listes (guitar)
06:05 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Quintet in B flat major Op.34 for clarinet and strings (J.182)
Lena Jonhall (clarinet), Zetterqvist String Quartet
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m001h68z)
Thursday - Kate's classical alarm call
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m001h691)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with new discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001h693)
Mel Bonis (1858-1937)
Heartache in war-time
Donald Macleod considers why the Great War was especially difficult for Mel Bonis and how she expressed her emotional state through her music.
Mel Bonis's name may not be a familiar one these days, but she produced somewhere in the region of three hundred compositions. There's no doubt that she was sensitive to gender discrimination. It's why she chose to publish her music under the name of Mel rather than her birth name Mélanie.
She was born in 1858 to parents of modest means. Her father worked for the watch company Breguet, still in business today, and her mother worked in the haberdashery trade. Neither of them held any particular interest in music, so it was down to young Mélanie to teach herself the play the family's piano. Her talent was recognised by a visiting friend who facilitated a meeting with one of the leading lights of the day, César Franck, an esteemed professor of organ at Paris's prestigious Conservatoire. Mélanie enrolled and showed great promise as a student, winning several end of year prizes. Her studies came to an abrupt end when her parents refused to give their consent to her marriage to a fellow student there, a poet, critic and singer, Amédée Hettich. Her life took a sharp turn two years later when, at the instigation of her parents, she married a twice widowed man of comfortable means. Thereafter her life as a composer had to take a back seat to the demands of raising five step-children and three of her own children with her husband, Albert Domange. Even so, she managed to continue to compose, producing music for her own instrument, the piano, and in almost every other genre as well.
During the war Mel Bonis was profoundly affected by news from the frontline. Two of her sons were in the army, and then the bombing of Paris cast a light on the circumstances surrounding Mel Bonis's illegitimate daughter.
Mazurka-ballet, Op 181
Laurent Martin, piano
Trois melodies, Op 91
Hélène Guilmette, soprano
Martin Dubé, piano
Soir et Matin, Op 76
Mozart Piano Quartet
Scènes de la Forêt
Diana Ambache, piano
Richard Dilley, horn
Anthony Robb, flute
La Cathédrale Blessée, Op 107
Myriam Barbaux-Cohen, piano
Sonate pour violon et piano, Opus 112 – IV. Finale
Francine Trachier, violin
Françoise Tillard, piano
Produced by Johanna Smith for BBC Audio Cardiff
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001h695)
The George Enescu International Festival: Bach's Golberg Variations
Sarah Walker introduces a performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations given at the 2022 George Enescu International Festival.
The Sitkovetsky Trio plays Dmitry Sitkovetsky's own arrangement of Bach's masterful set of variations.
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (arranger and violin), Alexander Gordon (viola), David Geringas (cello)
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001h697)
Thursday - Scheherazade from the Enescu Festival 2022
Ian Skelly with recordings from Romania. The Romanian National Radio Orchestra are conducted by Nicolae Moldoveanu in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade, and there's more from pianist Daria Parkhomenko. Ian also offers a touch of summer warmth with a range of performances of music from Spain.
Including:
Albeniz: Asturias (Leyenda) - Suite Espanola No 1 (arr. Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Bacewicz: Overture for Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Rachmaninov: Corelli Variations
Daria Parkhomenko (piano)
3.00
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Adrian Florescu (violin)
Romanian Radio National Orchestra
Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor)
Trad: Saltarello
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall (conductor)
Trad: Ave Donna Santissima
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall (conductor)
Enescu: Piano Sonata No 1 in F sharp
Daria Parkhomenko, (piano)
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m001h699)
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001h69c)
Classical music to inspire you
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001hbn2)
Bach and Stravinsky
Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers in a carefully curated concert of music by Stravinsky and Bach.
Live from City Halls Glasgow.
Presented by Kate Molleson
Bach/Stravinsky: Chorale Variations 'Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her'
Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
8.30 Interval, Kate introduces recent recordings which tease out the themes of this evening's concert.
8.40 Part Two
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Bach: Magnificat, D major, BWV 243
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
BBC Singers
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m001h69f)
Holocaust Memorial 2023
Romani history and how mass murder is intertwined with a modern day pilgrimage site and the experiences of Portuguese Jewish communities are discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests. Richard Zimler's talks about his latest book, The Incandescent Threads; Stuart Taberner reflects on the ways modern writers connect to the Holocaust; Victoria Biggs has been researching a pilgrimage site close to the a place of mass murder and Daniel Lee looks at the drawings left behind by the children of the Maison d'Izieu.
Richard Zimler has written twelve novels that have been translated into twenty-three languages. The Incandescent Threads is the latest in his Sephardic Cycle, a group of works that explore the lives of different branches and generations of a Portuguese-Jewish family, the Zarcos.
Stuart Taberner is Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds. He works on literary responses to the Holocaust and German Jewish identities.
Daniel Lee is a senior lecturer in modern French history at Queen Mary, University of London, and the author of The SS Officer's Armchair. He is a BBC Radio 3 Arts and Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinker. You can hear him on previous episodes discussing Writing a life and biography with Hermione Lee and Rachel Holmes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n6vj and looking at WWII radio propaganda and French relations https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hwz9
Victoria Biggs is La Retraite Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. She researches memory, pilgrimage and the genocide of Romani people during the Holocaust.
Producer: Ruth Watts
Available as the Arts & Ideas podcast and on BBC Sounds are previous Free Thinking discussions about
Jewish Identity in 2020: Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman and Jonathan Freedland https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwqd
Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity: Simon Schama and Devorah Baum https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098hz1m
Links between Judaism and Christianity: Giles Fraser talks to Matthew Sweet, Miri Rubin and David Feldman https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vhgz
Nazis, Holocaust, Time and Memory: Richard J Evans, Jane Caplan and David Cesarani. Andre Singer and Eva Hoffman https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0506lp0
Remembering Auschwitz: Anne Michaels, Gerald Jacobs, Laurence Rees, Roland Clark, Anna Prazmowska, Stephen Smith
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dq00
Yishai Sarid, Marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022: Roland Clark, Joseph Cronin, Allis Moss and novelist Yishai Sarid https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013sp7
Yiddish and Rotwelsch Languages, Nazi France : Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner, Ludivine Broch and Stephanie Hesz-Wood https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rlv7
THU 22:45 The Essay (m000s2v7)
Science Notes
Ivories
Legendary broadcaster James Burke reveals unexpected connections between his twin passions of science and classical music. Today's essay ranges from Carolina pine trees, chintz, bowler hats and skyscrapers - and ends on the ivories.
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m001h69h)
Music for the night
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m001dydt)
KMRU's Listening Chair
Berlin-based Kenyan sound artist KMRU, known for his visceral ambient sound-worlds that are both soothing and arresting, sits in the Listening Chair to select a track that transports him to another place. Elsewhere, in a show first broadcast in November 2022, Elizabeth Alker shares live recordings from the enigmatic Sarah Davachi who teases out new textures from a church organ; plus the playful and subversive music of Pierre Henry, and the time-shifting sound-layers of electronic producer Stefan Betke.
Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:00:09 Pierre Henry (artist)
Final / Utopia Hip-Hop
Performer: Pierre Henry
Duration 00:04:55
02
00:06:34 KMRU (artist)
Jinja Encounters
Performer: KMRU
Duration 00:03:49
03
00:10:23 Pie Eye Collective (artist)
Tangential City
Performer: Pie Eye Collective
Duration 00:04:20
04
00:15:15 Haiku Salut (artist)
Carousel
Performer: Haiku Salut
Performer: Meg Morley
Duration 00:04:14
05
00:20:34 Colin Stetson (artist)
All Abord
Performer: Colin Stetson
Duration 00:09:12
06
00:29:44 Sara Davachi (artist)
Stile Vuoto
Performer: Sara Davachi
Duration 00:05:30
07
00:37:29 Klara Lewis (artist)
Ingrid
Performer: Klara Lewis
Duration 00:09:53
08
00:48:11 Rani Jambak (artist)
Suara Minangkabau
Performer: Rani Jambak
Duration 00:03:13
09
00:51:24 Silberman Quartet (artist)
Asanisimasa
Performer: Silberman Quartet
Duration 00:04:53
10
00:56:58 Nosaj Thing (artist)
All Over
Performer: Nosaj Thing
Featured Artist: Panda Bear
Duration 00:03:00
FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 2023
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m001h69k)
Respighi and Puccini from Budapest
Jose Cura conducts the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Respighi and Puccini. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Concerto gregoriano
Adam Banda (violin), Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest, Jose Cura (conductor)
01:05 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Messa di Gloria
Attila Fekete (tenor), Miklos Sebestyen (baritone), Hungarian Radio Chorus, Budapest, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest, Jose Cura (conductor)
01:51 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
6 Impromptus, Op 5
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
02:08 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Violin Sonata no 1 Op 8 in F major
Vilde Frang Bjaerke (violin), Jens Elvekjaer (piano)
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony no. 7 in A major Op.92
Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
03:13 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings in G major, Wq.169
Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
03:38 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
3 Shakespeare songs for chorus
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
03:45 AM
August Enna (1859-1939)
2 Klaverstykker (2 piano pieces)
Ida Cernecka (piano)
03:52 AM
Howard Cable (1920-2016)
The Banks of Newfoundland
Hannaford Street Silver Band, Stephen Chenette (conductor)
04:00 AM
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814-1865)
Variations on The Last Rose of Summer
Ju-young Baek (violin)
04:06 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da chiesa in E minor, Op 3 no 5
Camerata Tallinn
04:14 AM
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Prelude for guitar no 3 in A minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
04:21 AM
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
Trumpet Concerto in B flat, Op 7 no 3
Ivan Hadliyski (trumpet), Kamerorchester, Alipi Naydenov (conductor)
04:31 AM
Francesco Manfredini (1684-1762)
Symphony No 10 in E minor
Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Bohdan Warchal (leader)
04:40 AM
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
Three Polonaises (from 12 Polonaises F.12 for keyboard)
Dirk Borner (harpsichord)
04:50 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Pensieri notturni di Filli: Italian cantata No 17, HWV 134
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Musica Alta Ripa
04:57 AM
Cesar Guerra-Peixe (1914-1993)
O Gato malhado
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jose Maria Florencio (conductor)
05:07 AM
Johann Christoph Pezel (1639-1694), Ronald Romm (arranger)
Suite of German dances, arr for brass ensemble
Canadian Brass
05:15 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Romance Op 11 in F minor vers. for violin and piano
Mincho Minchev (violin), Violinia Stoyanova (piano)
05:26 AM
Maria Herz (1878-1950)
Concerto for Harpsichord or Fortepiano, String Orchestra and Flute, op. 15
Nadja Saminskaja (piano), Ronny Spiegel (violin), Yuta Takase (violin), Daphne Unseld (viola), Fedor Saminski (cello), Nikola Major (double bass), Christian Madlener (flute)
05:55 AM
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Noches en los jardines de Espana
Eduardo del Pueyo (piano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Fournet (conductor)
06:18 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
6 Quartets for soprano, alto, tenor, bass and piano, Op 112
Danish National Radio Choir, Bengt Forsberg (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m001h6k7)
Friday - Kate's classical rise and shine
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 (m001h6kc)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001h6kh)
Mel Bonis (1858-1937)
Reflections on a life
Donald Macloed explores Mel Bonis's preoccupations, musical and otherwise, in later life. After the Great War Bonis turned to writing music for her own pleasure, for her friends and family and for God.
Mel Bonis's name may not be a familiar one these days, but she produced somewhere in the region of three hundred compositions. There's no doubt that she was sensitive to gender discrimination. It's why she chose to publish her music under the name of Mel rather than her birth name Mélanie.
She was born in 1858 to parents of modest means. Her father worked for the watch company Breguet, still in business today, and her mother worked in the haberdashery trade. Neither of them held any particular interest in music, so it was down to young Mélanie to teach herself the play the family's piano. Her talent was recognised by a visiting friend who facilitated a meeting with one of the leading lights of the day, César Franck, an esteemed professor of organ at Paris's prestigious Conservatoire. Mélanie enrolled and showed great promise as a student, winning several end of year prizes. Her studies came to an abrupt end when her parents refused to give their consent to her marriage to a fellow student there, a poet, critic and singer, Amédée Hettich. Her life took a sharp turn two years later when, at the instigation of her parents, she married a twice widowed man of comfortable means. Thereafter her life as a composer had to take a back seat to the demands of raising five step-children and three of her own children with her husband, Albert Domange. Even so, she managed to continue to compose, producing music for her own instrument, the piano, and in almost every other genre as well.
The arrival of her illegitimate daughter Madeleine had already brought much anxiety and guilt to the religiously minded Bonis. She kept the child a secret from her family. Then one of her sons expressed his wish to marry Madeleine, completely unaware that they were related.
Finale, Op 187
Tatjana Ruhland, flute
Florian Wieck, piano
Miocheries, Op 126, No 13, La toute petite s’endort
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Regina coeli, Op 45
Calliope Women’s Chorus
Régine Theodoresco, director
Piano quartet No 2 in D major, Op 124
Mozart Piano Quartet
Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 144
Gérard Chave, tenor
Schola Saint-Saveur, vocal ensemble
Claire Le Fur, harp
Chantal de Zeeuw, organ
Jean-François Sénart, conductor
Le songe de Cléopatre, Op 180
Bucharest Symphony Orchestra
Bênoit Fromanger, conductor
Produced by Johannah Smith for BBC Audio Cardiff
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001h6km)
The George Enescu International Festival - Debussy and Stravinsky
Sarah Walker introduces more performances from the 2022 George Enescu International Festival.
The George Enescu International Festival has been held in Bucharest, Romania since 1958 to honour the composer, pianist, violinist and conductor and philanthropist George Enescu, a man who knew all the composers in today's programme.
Poulenc: Violin Sonata
David Grimal (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)
Debussy: Estampes for piano
Nelson Goerner (piano)
Stravinsky arr. Stravinsky & Dushkin: Divertimento (after The Fairy's Kiss)
David Grimal (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)
Manuel Ponce arr. Heifetz: Estrellita [Little star]
David Grimal (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001h6kr)
Friday - Jan Lisiecki plays Prokofiev
Ian Skelly rounds up his week of concert performances from around Europe with music by Honegger, Wagner, Faure, Prokofiev. Plus a wintery symphony by German-Swiss composer Joachim Raff, and the Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki playing Prokofiev in Switzerland.
Including:
Chopin: Etude No 1 in C “Waterfall” Op10/1
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Honegger: Pacific 231 - Mouvement symphonique No 1
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
Wagner: Overture Rienzi
Orchestre Nationale de France
Andris Poga (conductor)
Faure: Caligula Op52
Radio France Children’s Choir
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Mikko Frank (conductor)
3.00
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor op16
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Markus Poschner (conductor)
Raff: Symphony No 11 “Winter”
Bamberger Symphoniker
Hans Stadlmair (conductor)
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m0015tzx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m001h6kw)
Rosalind Ventris, Shenyang & Simon Lepper
In her new album SOLA (Delphian, released 27 January), violist Rosalind Ventris explores music for viola by women composers. She talks about her debut solo album and performs some pieces live, accompanied by pianist Tom Poster. Bass-baritone Shenyang and pianist Simon Lepper also join Sean Rafferty, ahead of their concerts in which they marry music and Chinese poetry from the era of the Tang dynasty (618-907AD) on 28 January at Wigmore Hall (London) and 3 February at Stevenson Hall (Glasgow).
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001h6l0)
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001h6l4)
Marzena Diakun conducts BBC NOW
Conductor Marzena Diakun joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to perform three works drawing inspiration from very different places. Debussy evokes a fanciful realm in his Prélude à 'l'après-midi d'un faune', a masterful impressionist interpretation of the world through the eyes of the titular faun from Mallarmé's extraordinary poem. In a new BBC Radio 3 Commission, Thierry Pecou expresses his love of gamelan music and evokes Indonesia in Cara Bali, his new Piano Concerto. The title means "way back" in Malay, and the soloist here is long-time collaborator Alexandre Tharaud. Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů may not have written his Third Symphony with America specifically in mind, but it is nevertheless highly evocative of the period in his life that he spent in the USA. He had not written any symphonies before emigrating there, and saw the mastery of that form as crucial to his fortunes in the New World.
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff.
7.30pm
Debussy: Prélude à 'L'après-midi d'un faune'
Thierry Pécou: Cara Bali Concerto
8.15pm
Interval Music
8.35pm
Martinů: Symphony No 3, H 299
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Marzena Diakun (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m001h6l8)
Ian McMillan and guests on writing the city - how can city architecture inspire writing and language, and can writing help us get close to cities?
With skater and poet Olly Todd, architect and novelist Reinier de Graaf, and novelist Jenny Colgan.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000s3zt)
Science Notes
Wind
Legendary broadcaster James Burke reveals unexpected connections between his twin passions of science and classical music. In this final essay he leads us, via steam engines, precision instruments, waterworks and iron coffins, to the modern orchestra.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m001hbpb)
Kate NV’s mixtape
Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from Kate NV, the solo persona of Moscow-based singer, songwriter, producer and designer Ekaterina Shilonosova. There’s a childlike curiosity that runs through Kate’s work, whether it be magnifying the sounds of seemingly mundane objects such as wind-up teeth or bubble wrap to comic proportions, improvising live with bells and glasses of water, or crafting a patchwork of synthesizers and sampled acoustic instruments. Her forthcoming album WOW abandons conventional song formats in favour of playfully ecstatic musical fragments, full of colour and texture.
Elsewhere in the show, self-taught artist and producer Ruhail Qaisar expresses the trauma and decay of life in his hometown of Leh, the joint capital and largest city of the disputed Ladakh region, and we’ll hear from a new project by Cuban jazz drummer Francisco Mela which poses the question: can music liberate us?
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 (m001h57n)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m001h5ch)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m001h5sy)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m001h697)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m001h6kr)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m001h563)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m001h55y)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m001h57c)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m001h5c7)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m001h5sp)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m001h68z)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m001h6k7)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m001gyw7)
Choral Evensong
16:00 WED (m001h5t0)
Composed with Emeli Sandé
01:00 SAT (m0016k3m)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m001h57h)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m001h5cc)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m001h5st)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m001h693)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m001h6kh)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (m001h56s)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m001h57f)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m001h5c9)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m001h5sr)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m001h691)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m001h6kc)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m001h5cr)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m001h5t8)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m001h69f)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m001h575)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m001h57v)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m001h5cm)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m001h5t4)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m001h69c)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m001h6l0)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m001h57s)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m001h5ck)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m001h5t2)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m001h699)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m001h6kw)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m001h56h)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m00194yg)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m001h56d)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m001hbpb)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m001h56c)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m001h56c)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m001h56r)
New Generation Artists
16:30 MON (m001h57q)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m001h570)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m001h581)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m001h5ct)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m001h5tb)
Northern Drift
21:15 MON (m001h57z)
Opera on 3
18:30 SAT (m001h56w)
Piano Flow
02:00 SAT (m000y7mk)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m001h564)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m001gy3n)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m001h57l)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m001h5cf)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m001h5sw)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m001h695)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m001h6km)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m001h57x)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m001h5cp)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m001h5t6)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m001hbn2)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m001h6l4)
Record Review Extra
21:00 SUN (m001h56x)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m001h567)
Sound of Cinema
15:00 SAT (m001h56m)
Sounds Connected
00:00 MON (m001h574)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m001h56n)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m001h560)
The Art of Music with Anna Clyne
23:00 SUN (m001h571)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m001h568)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m000s1lc)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m000s2c0)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m000s321)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m000s2v7)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (m000s3zt)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m0015tzx)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m0015tzx)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m001h69h)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m001h6l8)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m0019kqq)
Through the Night
03:00 SAT (m001gz2j)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m001h579)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m001h578)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m001h583)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m001h5cw)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m001h5td)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m001h69k)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m001dydt)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m001h56j)