RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 3
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SATURDAY 22 APRIL 2023
SAT 01:00 Composed (m001kvtq)
Composed with Devonté Hynes
Electronic: Plugging in to celebrate musical innovators
Devonté Hynes explores the powerful, evolving sounds of classical music, with playlists from across the musical spectrum.
This episode celebrates innovative composers in the world of electronic music. Artists who’ve often retreated to the studio to experiment and push the boundaries of their sound.
The selection includes a favourite techno-classical collaboration from Carl Craig, as well as Mica Levi, Olivier Messiaen, the BBC’s own Daphne Oram and the late, great Ryuichi Sakamoto.
SAT 02:00 The Music & Meditation Podcast (p0f6ck1x)
Series 2
Reconnect with yourself with Danny Penman
Nao talks to Dr Danny Penman about a groundbreaking meditation technique that's designed to help you connect with your feeling tones, which are the ultimate driving forces behind everything we think, feel and do. Dr Danny Penman is a mindfulness meditation teacher, author and journalist, and works with research teams at the University of Oxford formulating programmes to improve mental health conditions through meditation and mindfulness.
The music that soundtracks Danny's guided meditation was composed by Oliver Vibrans and recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra exclusively for this episode.
If you’re brand new to meditation or you've tried it before, this series is the perfect place to pick it up from.
Music you'll hear in this episode includes:
Haydn: Adagio from String Quartet in F minor
Oliver Vibrans: Restless Muscle
Scarlatti: Sonata in B minor, K 87
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet, Op 115
SAT 02:30 The Music & Meditation Podcast (p0f6fd2v)
Series 2
Shape your inner voice with Giselle La Pompe-Moore
Nao and Giselle La Pompe-Moore explore the power of your inner voice and how to be kinder to yourself with the help of meditation. Giselle is a meditation teacher, speaker and author of Take It In, and in this episode she shares her top tips on how to become aware and influence the way you speak to yourself.
The music that soundtracks Giselle's guided meditation was composed by Will Everitt and recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra exclusively for this episode.
Whether you're just starting to meditate or you're a seasoned meditator, this is the perfect podcast for you.
Music you'll hear in this episode includes:
Grieg: Berceuse
Will Everitt: Be Kind To Yourself
Rheinberger: Abendlied
JS Bach: Largo from Concerto for two violins
SAT 03:00 Through the Night (m001kvtz)
In memoriam
Tributes to Nicholas Angelich, Radu Lupu and Harrison Birtwistle who all died in April 2022. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
03:01am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, op. 83
Nicholas Angelich (piano), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
03:52am
Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022)
Night’s Black Bird
NDR Symphony Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)
04:05am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Radu Lupu (piano), NDR Symphony Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)
04:36am
Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 89
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet
05:01am
Johannes Bernardus van Bree (1801-1857)
Le Bandit (Overture)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
05:08am
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in C
Eduardo Lopez Banzo (harpsichord)
05:16am
Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838)
The Little Slave Girl - concert suite for orchestra (1824)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
05:35am
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Recitativo accompagnato – Dall'ondoso periglio; Aria – Aure, deh, per pieta
Graham Pushee (counter tenor), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (artistic director)
05:42am
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Le Loriot (No.2 of Catalogue d'Oiseaux)
David Louie (piano)
05:51am
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Toccata XI for organ
Nikiforos Klironomos (organ)
05:58am
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Iberia: Images for Orchestra, No. 2 (1909)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Markl (conductor)
06:20am
Leonel Power (1370-1445)
Missa 'Alma redemptoris mater'
Hilliard Ensemble
06:41am
Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978)
Sonatina Concertante, Op 28
Ivan Eftimov (piano)
SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m001l4f0)
Saturday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley sets up your Saturday morning.
SAT 09:00 Record Review (m001l4f4)
Schubert's Symphony No 5 in Building a Library with Sarah Devonald and Andrew McGregor
9.00am
Spirits – violin encores by Brahms, Debussy, Elgar, Falla, Gluck, Kreisler.
Daniel Lozakovich (violin)
Stanislav Soloviev (piano)
Deutsche Grammophon 4862492 (EP, Digital Download)
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/spirits-daniel-lozakovich-12864
Teatro Sant'Angelo: Vivaldi, Chelleri, Ristori - – arias from 18th Century Venice
Adèle Charvet (mezzo-soprano)
Le Consort
Alpha ALPHA938
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/vivaldi-chelleri-ristori-teatro-santangelo
Sonate a Quattro: Goldberg, Fasch, Handel, Janitsch, Telemann
Ensemble Diderot
Johannes Pramsohler (violin)
Audax ADX11201
https://www.audax-records.fr/adx11201
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 12 and 15
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds
Chandos CHSA5334 (Hybrid SACD)
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%205334
Friendship – Brahms, Sahoc, Connesson
Simon Trpčeski (piano)
Gjorgi Dimchevski (violin)
Sorin Spasinovici (viola)
Alexander Somov (cello)
Hidan Mamudov (clarinet)
Vlatko Nushev (percussion)
Linn CKD726
https://www.linnrecords.com/recording-friendship
9.30am Katy Hamilton: New Releases
Katy Hamilton comes into the studio with a clutch of exciting new releases and shares her 'On Repeat' track – a recording which she is currently listening to again and again.
Richard Strauss: 4 Letzte Lieder
Kammerchor Saarbrücken
Helmut Winkel (violin)
Georg Grün (conductor)
Rondeau ROP6241
https://www.rondeau.de/New-Releases/Richard-Strauss-Letzte-Lieder::534.html
Steve Reich: Music For 18 Musicians
Colin Currie (percussion/director)
Colin Currie Group
Synergy Vocals
Colin Currie Records CCR0006 (Hybrid SACD)
https://shop.colincurrie.com/collections/catalogue/products/steve-reich-music-for-18-musicians
Sonatas for Cello and Duplex Piano - Moór, Dohnányi, Richard Strauss
David Stromberg (cello)
Florian Uhlig (piano)
Oehms OC497
https://www.oehmsclassics.de/artikel/27886/Stromberg_David___Uhlig_Florian_Sonatas_for_Cello_and_Duplex_Piano
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright
Peter Herresthal (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Arctic Philharmonic
James Gaffigan (Conductor)
Tim Weiss (Conductor)
BIS BIS2572 (Hybrid SACD)
https://bis.se/performers/herresthal-peter/missy-mazzoli-dark-with-excessive-bright
Katy Hamilton: On Repeat
Gottschalk - Piano Music Volume 3
Philip Martin (piano)
Hyperion CDA66915
Listener On Repeat
Václav Talich conducts Dvorak's Slavonic Dances
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Václav Talich (conductor)
Naxos 8111331
https://naxosdirect.co.uk/items/dvorak-slavonic-dances-143648
10.10am New Releases
Live at the Cutty Sark (Music X Museums) – Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Grace Williams
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Oliver Zeffman (conductor)
Platoon PLAT17563 (Digital Download)
Dowland: Lachrimæ
Musicall Humors
Alpha ALPHA944
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/john-dowland-complete-lachrimae
10.30am Building a Library: Sarah Devonald on Schubert’s Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, D. 485
When he wrote his fifth symphony at the age of 19, Schubert was working unhappily as an assistant teacher in his father's school. But he was nevertheless on a compositional roll with songs, chamber music and four other symphonies to his name, all of which were performed by amateur and professional musicians made up from family and friends.
This genial, small-scale group gave the 1816 premiere of the symphony in the home of Otto Hatwig, violinist in Vienna's Burgtheater orchestra. And the jolly music seems to echo that cheerful ensemble, Schubert picking up from the classical models of 25 years earlier, seemingly oblivious to Beethoven's decade-plus of ground-breaking musical developments that were soon to become so influential.
11.15am
Handel: Theodora
Lisette Oropesa (Theodora)
Joyce DiDonato (Irene)
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Didymus)
Michael Spyres (Septimius)
John Chest (Valens)
Il Pomo d'Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor)
Erato 5419717791 (3 CDs)
https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/handel-theodora
Felix Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Vol. 2
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Chandos CHAN20267
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020267
11.25am Record of the Week
Thomas Adès: Dante
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
Nonesuch 7559790616 (2 CDs)
https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/dante
Send us your On Repeat recommendations at recordreview@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @BBCRadio3
SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m001l4d8)
Javier Perianes, Music and Artificial Intelligence
Presenter Tom Service is joined by the Spanish pianist Javier Perianes, ahead of his concert at Wigmore Hall, to discuss the creative and musical connections between Enrique Granados and the trio of German composers – Robert and Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. Javier explains why you don’t necessarily need to be a native to play Spanish music, and how composers from both the Iberian Peninsula and across Europe draw inspiration from the folk music of their native land. Javier talks too about his plans to direct, from the keyboard, Mozart and Beethoven piano concerti with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.
As artificial intelligence hits the news this week with stories like the AI-crafted image that won the Sony World Photography Award, and the withdrawal by streaming platforms of an AI-generated song – purportedly by the artist Drake – due to possible infringement, Tom is joined by composers Robert Laidlow and Emily Howard, as well as music technology lecturer and journalist Karl Hodge, to explore both the creative possibilities and the challenges surrounding this evolving technology.
The singer and marketeer Ruth Hartt shares her perspectives on the shifting trends of concert hall audiences in America, and what organisations around the world can do to make their work more relevant to society – which she sees as crucial for the future of Classical Music – as well as to appeal to broader demographics.
And Music Matters speaks to the National Open Youth Orchestra's Doug Bott, plus two musicians from the ensemble – Oliver Cross and Holli Pandit – about their ethos and objectives, as well as a new report, launched in connection with Sound Connections, about the learnings from NOYO’s pioneering approach to working with young disabled people.
SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m001l4f8)
Jess Gillam with... Soweto Kinch
Jess Gillam is joined by a fellow saxophonist the Award-winning composer, poet, MC and producer Soweto Kinch to chat and share the music they love.
Playlist:
Debussy - Dances for Harp and Orchestra, L.103:2. Danse profane [Lavinia Meijer, Amsterdam Sinfonietta]
Ben Webster - When I Fall in Love
Steve Reich - Different Trains: America Before the War [Kronos Quartet]
Amy Beach - 4 Sketches - Dreaming [Ambache Chamber Ensemble]
Scott Joplin - Treemonisha: Act 3: A Real Slow Drag [Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and Singers]
Blanck Mass - Chernobyl
Abel Selaocoe - Qhawe/Hero
Beethoven - Symphony No 7 - 2nd movement [Berlin Philharmonic, Kirill Petrenko]
SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m001l4fd)
Violinist Rakhi Singh with strings bowed and brushed
Rakhi Singh is a violinist, composer and co-founder of Manchester Collective. Today her instrument features in a Vivaldi concerto that’s full of rhythmic groove, and in string quartets by Beethoven and Edmund Finnis.
Rakhi admires the luxurious voicing and use of vibrato in a recording of George Enescu’s Octet for strings, is drawn to the asymmetry in Olli Mustonen's Nonet No.2, and connects Stravinsky's angular melodic writing with the falling shapes in a game of Tetris.
Plus, she finds similarities between Indian singing and a traditional Hungarian song, and enjoys the vast sense of space that can be evoked by ethereal choral music.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m001l4fj)
The Earth
Matthew Sweet marks Earth Day with a look at screen music composed to celebrate the natural world. He is joined by composer Sarah Class, who has written many scores foregrounding environmental issues and for natural history documentaries, and is one of the chosen composers commissioned to write a new piece for the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla. Sarah talks about her approach to writing for wildlife films.
As well as music by Sarah the programme features scores from Hans Zimmer, George Fenton, Frank Churchill, Alex Wurman, Harry Gregson-Williams and Éric Serra.
SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m001l4fn)
Earth Day: Lucas Santtana
Kathryn Tickell with the latest new releases from across the globe and an interview with Brazilian musician and producer Lucas Santtana whose latest album O Paraíso is a hymn to nature and a celebration of earth as an ecosystem.
SAT 17:00 J to Z (m001l4fq)
Wayne Shorter
Julian Joseph pays tribute to one of the most influential musicians in jazz and beyond, master saxophonist and improviser Wayne Shorter, who has died at the age of 89.
Playing landmark recordings and rarities, Julian charts Wayne Shorter’s phenomenal career – from his days with Art Blakey and Miles Davis to his work with Weather Report and beyond. Elsewhere we hear moving tributes from saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and bassist John Patitucci, one of Wayne's closest friends and collaborators. We’ll also hear extracts from an interview Julian recorded with Wayne in 2004, which gives a window into the openness, warmth and playfulness of his character, something that always came through in his music.
Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin’ Else
SAT 18:30 22/04/2023 (m001l4fs)
Join world-renowned composer Max Richter, star violinist Elena Urioste and Chineke! Orchestra for a special performance marking Earth Day. Recorded live earlier today in East London’s Ecology Pavilion, nestled among the lakes and reed beds of Mile End Park, this event is a celebration of the natural world and a call to arms for listeners to protect our planet.
The setlist contains three of Richter’s most celebrated works. Elena Urioste is the soloist in Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Richter’s electro-acoustic reimagining of the famous Baroque violin concerti that depict the natural world. Meanwhile Infra and On the Nature of Daylight are both deeply moving and contemplative pieces of music.
Linton Stephens presents the concert on BBC Radio 3, which is also available on BBC Sounds globally and on radio around the world via more than 20 European Broadcasting Union radio stations.
Max Richter: Infra
Max Richter/Antonio Vivaldi: Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight
Elena Urioste (violin)
Chineke! Orchestra
Directed by Max Richter (keyboards, piano)
SAT 19:50 Mindful Mix (m001l4fv)
Max Richter's Earth Day Mindful Mix
Acclaimed composer Max Richter curates a unique Earth Day Mindful Mix for BBC Sounds and Radio 3 - helping you to find calm in the midst of our busy world.
Released weekly on BBC Sounds, The Mindful Mix weaves a selection of soothing and uplifting classical music - enabling listeners to relax, unwind and see things more clearly.
Curated specially to complement 2023’s global Earth Day celebrations, Max Richter’s mix features glowing instrumental textures from Anna Clyne and Henry Purcell, plus serene and warm harmonies by Rued Langgaard, Meredith Monk and Thomas Tallis.
An Overcoat Media Production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 3.
SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m001l4fx)
Silicon
Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including the world premiere of a large-scale work for orchestra using Artificial Intelligence: Silicon by Robert Laidlow, played by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. Also on the show, music by Anahita Abbasi and Jessie Cox, played by Ensemble Contrechamps at Borealis in Bergen; Joel Pike's Toghill’s Map, inspired by the Shropshire Hills; and Jennifer Walshe on her fascination with sounds from outer space.
SUNDAY 23 APRIL 2023
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m001l4fz)
Festivity!
Corey Mwamba celebrates new improvised music including selections from artists performing at the 2023 Cheltenham International Jazz Festival.
Founded in 1996, the festival is an annual event that invites all genres of jazz onto its stages, welcoming both up-and-coming artists as well as renowned musicians. Offering a foretaste of what we can expect at this year’s edition of the festival, we'll hear a piece from Deadeye, a group with a fresh perspective on the Hammond trio format, whose latest release is a live recording from their performance at the Cologne Jazzweek. And there'll be improvisations from the Norwegian septet led by drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, an ensemble which draw inspiration from Paal’s experiences in Ethiopia and Brazil and his fascination with Malian and Senegalese traditions. Plus music from Black Top (who will be joined on stage in Cheltenham by saxophonist Xhosa Cole) as well as the ethereal sound of the trio Skylla, helmed by Ruth Goller with Lauren Kinsella and Alice Grant.
Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m001l4g2)
2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition
The Isidore String Quartet play Brahms, Bartók and Beethoven. John Shea presents.
01:01 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quartet in A minor, op. 51/2
Isidore String Quartet
01:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Contrapunctus 1 from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Isidore String Quartet
01:35 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Sz. 40
Isidore String Quartet
02:04 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, op. 132
Isidore String Quartet
02:46 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Images - set 2 for piano
Roger Woodward (piano)
03:01 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony No.7 in D minor (Op.70)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Asbury (conductor)
03:42 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Vecne evangelium - cantata for soprano, tenor & chorus
Alzbeta Polackova (soprano), Pavel Cernoch (tenor), Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Lukas Vasilek (choirmaster), Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tomas Netopil (conductor)
04:01 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
3 keyboard sonatas: Sonata in D major Kk.443; Sonata in A major Kk.208; Sonata in D major Kk.29
Claire Huangci (piano)
04:13 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Fechtschule (Fencing School)
Stockholm Antiqua
04:20 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Velin Iliev (organ)
04:30 AM
Christoph Gluck (1714-1787)
Dance of the Blessed Spirits - dance music from 'Orphée et Euridice'
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
04:37 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Three Mazurkas, Op 59
Kevin Kenner (piano)
04:48 AM
Peder Holm (1926-2020)
Orken og hede (Desert and Heath)
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director)
04:53 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da Chiesa in B minor Op.1 No.6
London Baroque
05:01 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Overture - Nabucco
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Alun Francis (conductor)
05:09 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
05:18 AM
Bernat Vivancos (b.1973)
Nigra sum
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
05:27 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Concertstuck for viola and piano (1906)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Monique Savary (piano)
05:36 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Domingo Hindoyan (conductor)
05:46 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Harp Fantasia No 2 in C minor, Op 35
Mojca Zlobko Vaigl (harp)
05:55 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra, Op 31
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), James Sommerville (horn), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
06:20 AM
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Kyrie and Gloria from 'Missa Sao Sebastiao'
Danish National Girls Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
06:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Quartet in E flat major, K493
Paul Lewis (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Patrick Demanga (cello)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m001l4hm)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m001l4j1)
Sarah Walker with a lively musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, Sarah gets engrossed in the story of a magic doll in a piece by Elena Kats-Chernin for eight double basses and orchestra, celebrates the timelessness of the Sea Shanty through the voices of The Fisherman’s Friends, and blows off the cobwebs with the rolling rhythms of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 3.
She also luxuriates in guitarist Miloš's languorous version of Here Comes the Sun, and takes comfort in the familiar sound world of Schubert’s String Quintet.
Plus, choral music that will make you stop what you’re doing…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m001l4jf)
Ben Watt
Musician and writer Ben Watt released his first single when he was just 19. In 1981, on his first day as a student at Hull University, he met Tracey Thorn, and together they formed the duo Everything But the Girl – taking their name from the slogan of a local furniture shop. Over the next twenty years, they had 12 top 40 singles and 7 top 20 albums. Since then Ben has experimented in dance and electronic music, run his own record label and returned to songwriting with the release of two solo albums.
Ben has also written two acclaimed books. The first about his experience of a life-threatening autoimmune disease and the second, a poignant portrait of his parents. Most recently, he’s returned to making music with his wife Tracey Thorn in a new Everything But the Girl Album.
01 William Grant Still
Summerland – the second of Three Visions
Performer: Bruce Levingston
02 Wes Montgomery Trio (artist)
Mi Cosa
Performer: Wes Montgomery Trio
03 Quincy Jones (artist)
Brown Ballad
Performer: Quincy Jones
Performer: Ray Brown
04 Johannes Brahms
Sapphische Ode, No.4 of 5 leider, Op.94
Singer: Kathleen Ferrier
Performer: Phyllis Spurr
05 Gonzalo Rubalcaba (artist)
Silencio
Performer: Gonzalo Rubalcaba
06 Laurie Spiegel (artist)
The Unquestioned Answer
Performer: Laurie Spiegel
07 Dean McPhee (artist)
Sky Burial
Performer: Dean McPhee
08 Peteris Vasks
Songs of Love IV - Then Time Stopped
Performer: Signum Saxophone Quartet
09 Sam Gendel and Josiah Steinbrick (artist)
Mouthfeel 5
Performer: Sam Gendel and Josiah Steinbrick
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001kvs9)
Nash Ensemble
The celebrated ensemble plays Fauré's Piano Quartet No 1 and Mozart's Piano Concerto No 14, featuring pianist Alasdair Beatson.
From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat, K449
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15
Nash Ensemble
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m001l4jv)
London International Festival of Early Music 2022 (1/2)
Lucie Skeaping introduces the first of two editions of the Early Music Show to feature highlights from last year’s London International Festival of Early Music - LIFEM. The great programme which took place at St. Michael & All Angels, Blackheath included concerts by the Brook Street Band, award-winning Swiss recorder player Charlotte Schneider, the Spanish group Taracea, and Solomon’s Knot, who performed a concert of motets by Johann Sebastian Bach alongside motets by his father’s cousin Johann Christoph Bach.
Traditional - Quand nous partimes de France
Taracea
Tarquinio Merula - Ciaccona in C major, op. 12 no. 20
Brook Street Band
Heinrich Biber - Ciacona in C major [The Nightwatcher]
Brook Street Band
Georg Philipp Telemann - Paris Quartet No.12 in E minor, TWV:43e4 (Modéré)
Brook Street Band
Johann Sebastian Bach - Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Solomon’s Knot
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Pulchra es amica mea
Charlotte Schneider, recorder
Alice Letort, lute
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Queste saranno ben lagrime
Charlotte Schneider, recorder
Alice Letort, lute
Irene González Roldán, organ
Juan del Encina - ¡Ay triste que vengo!
Taracea
Plus, there'll be your weekly edition of Early Music News from Mark Seow.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001kvq5)
St John Baptist, Cirencester
From the Church of St John Baptist, Cirencester, with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Introit: My beloved spake (Hadley)
Responses: Geoffrey Webber
Psalms 98, 99, 100, 101 (Pott, Ives, Tranchell, Tranchell)
First Lesson: Hosea 5 v.15 – 6 v.6
Office hymn: Ad regias Agni dapes (Plainsong)
Canticles: Evening Service in E flat No 2 (Wood)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv.1-11
Anthem: Haec dies (Matthew Martin)
Hymn: Lord of life, a new dawn breaking (Wood Green)
Antiphon: Vidi aquam (Matthew Martin)
Voluntary: Toccata (Sanders)
Matthew Martin (Precentor)
Kyoko Canaway, Martin Baker (Organists)
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m001l4k8)
Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Alyn Shipton looks forward to next week's Cheltenham Jazz Festival, with tracks chosen by some of this year's featured artists. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m001l4kp)
Once upon a time... The Fairy-tale Operas of Judith Weir
Tom Service delves into the deep (and often dark) worlds of Judith Weir's fairy-tale and folk-inspired operas, including Blond Eckbert and The Vanishing Bridegroom.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m001l4l4)
The Georgians
From Jane Austen and Bridgerton to the music of Handel, the Georgian era is constantly on our screens and playlists. Today's programme celebrates the literature and music of the Georgian era – from the reign of George I in the early 18th Century to the death of George IV in 1830. We’ll hear an extract from Alan Bennett’s play The Madness of George III, and from Julia Quinn’s Regency-era Bridgerton romances, now a Netflix hit starring our readers today: Kathryn Drysdale (who plays Madame Delacroix in the series) and Luke Thompson (Benedict Bridgerton).
The Georgian public devoured Jane Austen novels and gothic horror like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The poets Wordsworth, Blake, Burns, Shelley and Byron made their names, and we’ll also hear celebrity actress and poet Mary Robinson’s description of a bustling London morning, and Felicia Hemens’s poem in praise of the Homes of England of her time. More recently, stately Georgian houses have inspired singer-songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy.
Georg Frideric Handel was top maestro in Georgian England for half a century - we'll hear from his Water Music and oratorio Messiah. We'll also hear from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, an operatic adaptation of one of Georgian author Walter Scott's popular romantic novels, Isobel Waller-Bridge's score to the 2020 film version of Austen's Emma, part of Iron Maiden’s epic heavy-metal take on Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale in Russian translation set by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov.
Producer: Graham Rogers
You can find episodes of Free Thinking exploring the Georgian period hearing about new research from academics, an exhibition opening at the Queen's Gallery in London called Style and Society: Dressing the Georgians, and the TV series Bridgerton and its spin off about Queen Charlotte.
READINGS:
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Mary Robinson: London’s Summer Morning
Samuel Richardson: Clarissa
Sally Holloway: The Game of Love in Georgian England
Julia Quinn: An Offer from a Gentleman (Bridgerton book 3)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
William Hazlitt: My First Acquaintance with Poets
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
GK Chesterton: The novels of Jane Austen
Felicia Hemans: The Homes of England
Alan Bennett: The Madness of George III
Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man
Ana Letitia Barbauld: The Rights of Woman
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Percy Shelley: Ozymandias
01
00:01:28 George Frideric Handel
Water Music: Suite in D - Allegro, Alla hornpipe
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Duration 00:02:11
02
00:01:45
The Daily Courant, April 17, 1717
The King took Water at Whitehall, read by Luke Thompson
Duration 00:00:42
03
00:03:32 Carl Davis
Pride and Prejudice - Theme for the BBC TV series
Performer: Melvyn Tan
Conductor: Carl Davis
Conductor: Carl Davis
Duration 00:01:30
04
00:04:00
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, read by Kathryn Drysdale
Duration 00:01:01
05
00:05:02 John Field
Nocturne No.1 in E flat
Performer: Elizabeth Joy Roe
Duration 00:02:33
06
00:06:04
Mary Robinson
Londons Summer Morning, read by Luke Thompson
Duration 00:01:27
07
00:07:34 Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.104 in D 'London' - 4th mvt
Ensemble: London Classical Players
Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington
Duration 00:00:04
08
00:12:22 Valentin Silvestrov
Ode to the Nightingale
Singer: Ludmilla Vojnarovska
Orchestra: Kyivska Kamerata
Conductor: Virko Baley
Duration 00:01:35
09
00:13:46
Samuel Richardson
The History of Clarissa Harlowe, read by Kathryn Drysdale
Duration 00:01:20
10
00:14:53 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro - wedding march
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Duration 00:03:42
11
00:16:09
Sally Holloway
The Game of Love in Georgian England, read by Luke Thompson
Duration 00:01:56
12
00:18:35
Julia Quinn
An Offer from a Gentleman, read by Kathryn Drysdale and Luke Thompson
Duration 00:01:45
13
00:19:04 Robyn
Dancing on My Own
Performer: Vitamin String Quartet
Duration 00:04:39
14
00:23:40 William Bolcom
The Tyger (from Songs of Experience)
Choir: University of Michigan University Choir
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Duration 00:01:50
15
00:25:32
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, read by Ralph Richardson
Duration 00:00:37
16
00:26:08 Steve Harris
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Performer: Iron Maiden
Duration 00:01:26
17
00:27:34 Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F 'Pastoral' (1st mvt)
Music Arranger: Franz Liszt
Performer: Michel Dalberto
Duration 00:01:58
18
00:28:36
William Hazlitt
My First Acquaintance with Poets, read by Luke Thompson
Duration 00:01:30
19
00:30:07 Kristina Arakelyan
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Choir: National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Conductor: Ben Parry
Duration 00:06:07
20
00:36:14 Léon Boëllmann
Suite Gothique - Toccata
Performer: Kerry Beaumont
Duration 00:03:02
21
00:36:25
Ann Radcliffe
The Mysteries of Udolpho, read by Luke Thompson
Duration 00:01:59
22
00:39:04 Isobel Waller-Bridge
Emma Suite
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of London
Conductor: Alastair King
Duration 00:02:10
23
00:39:20
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey, read by Kathryn Drysdale
Duration 00:01:30
24
00:41:06
G K Chesterton
The novels of Jane Austen, read by Luke Thompson
Duration 00:00:07
25
00:41:13 Fanny Mendelssohn
There be none of beauty's daughters (3 Byron Songs)
Singer: Francine van der Heijden
Performer: Ursula Dütschler
Duration 00:01:43
26
00:42:53 George Frideric Handel
Largo
Ensemble: Desford Colliery Band
Conductor: Stephen Roberts
Duration 00:03:12
27
00:43:01
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
The Homes of England, read by Kathryn Drysdale
Duration 00:02:03
28
00:46:02 Neil Hannon
Assume the Perpendicular
Performer: The Divine Comedy
Duration 00:02:23
29
00:48:23
Charlotte Louisa Henrietta Papendiek
Court and private life in the time of Queen Charlotte, read by Kathryn Drysdale
Duration 00:00:53
30
00:48:23 Maddalena Laura Sirmen
String Quartet No.2 in B flat - 2nd mvt
Performer: Allegri String Quartet
Duration 00:00:55
31
00:49:16 Gaetano Donizetti
Spargi d'amaro pianto (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Singer: Natalie Dessay
Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra
Duration 00:04:14
32
00:53:30
Alan Bennett
The Madness of George III, read by Luke Thompson
Duration 00:01:12
33
00:54:51 Arthur Sullivan
When Britain really ruled the waves (Iolanthe)
Singer: Donald Adams
Choir: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus
Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London
Conductor: Isidore Godfrey
Duration 00:01:11
34
00:55:53 Howard Goodall
Blackadder the Third - Theme
Performer: [unknown]
Duration 00:00:35
35
00:56:28
Ben Elton, Richard Curtis
Blackadder the Third: Sense and Senility
Duration 00:00:41
36
00:57:08 Thomas Arne
Alfred Overture
Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90
Conductor: Simon Standage
Duration 00:01:04
37
00:57:22
Thomas Paine
The Rights of Man, read by Luke Thompson
Duration 00:00:49
38
00:58:12 Joan Tower
Fanfare No.2 for the Uncommon Woman
Performer: Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor)
Duration 00:02:11
39
00:58:30
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
The Rights of Women, ready by Kathryn Drysdale
Duration 00:01:22
40
01:00:21 Trad.
Afton Water (poem: Robert Burns)
Lyricist: Robert Burns
Music Arranger: John Rutter
Choir: The Cambridge Singers
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia
Conductor: John Rutter
Duration 00:03:34
41
01:03:48 Hector Berlioz
Harold in Italy (1st mvt)
Performer: Tabea Zimmermann
Ensemble: Les Siècles
Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth
Duration 00:02:30
42
01:04:03
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein, read by Kathryn Drysdale
Duration 00:01:36
43
01:06:11 Warren Ellis
Ozymandias
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Performer: Warren Ellis
Performer: Warren Ellis
Performer: Marianne Faithfull
Performer: Marianne Faithfull
Duration 00:02:43
44
01:08:49 George Frideric Handel
I know that my redeemer liveth (Messiah)
Singer: Susan Hamilton
Ensemble: Dunedin Consort
Conductor: John Butt
Duration 00:05:11
45
01:09:28
Public Advertiser, 22 March 1770
Letter from Oxford, read by Luke Thompson
Duration 00:00:52
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m001l4lh)
The Black Cantor
Known in Yiddish as Der Schvartze Khazn--the Black Cantor--Thomas LaRue Jones was an African American tenor who sang Jewish music in the early decades of the twentieth century. Famed for his soulful voice and perfect Yiddish pronunciation, he performed in synagogues and theatres across the Eastern United States and toured Germany, Poland and Palestine. But after his death in 1954, LaRue Jones disappeared from memory, leaving behind only one recording, made in 1923. Drawing on research by the veteran musician and producer Henry Sapoznik, Maria Margaronis unpacks the mystery of LaRue Jones' career. What drew him to this music? What does his life tell us about race, faith and identity in America a hundred years ago? And why was he so quickly and utterly forgotten?
LaRue Jones' story is entwined with the history of Newark, New Jersey, where he spent most of his life. Once known as the City of Opportunity, old Newark drew migrants from Europe and the American South in flight from persecution and searching for a new life. Blacks and Jews lived side by side in the city's poorer districts, absorbing each other's culture and musical traditions.
But by mid-century, Newark's Jews were moving out in search of the suburban dream. Black people, hemmed in by racism and housing segregation, were left behind in an increasingly impoverished city. Thirteen years after LaRue Jones' death, the Newark riots, or rebellion, sealed the division of the two communities. LaRue Jones, like the world that made him, was consigned to oblivion--until zealous research by Henry Sapoznik tracked down that one recording and LaRue Jones' unmarked grave, and raised the curtain on the Black Cantor once more.
Presenter: Maria Margaronis
Producer: David Goren
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m001l4lv)
Henry IV, Part 2
by William Shakespeare
Introduced by Toby Jones
KING HENRY IV ..... James Purefoy
PRINCE HARRY .....Luke Thompson
SIR JOHN FALSTAFF .....Toby Jones
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE .....Peter Sullivan
JUSTICE SHALLOW ..... James Fleet
ARCHBISHOP / FEEBLE / SILENCE ..... Dominic Coleman
NORTHUMBERLAND / FANG / WESTMORELAND ..... Gerard McDermott
DOLL TEARSHEET / LADY PERCY ..... Natalie Simpson
MISTRESS QUICKLY / LADY NORTHUMBERLAND ..... Georgie Glen
PISTOL / PETO / FIRST GROOM ..... Lloyd Hutchinson
BARDOLPH / BULLCALF / MOWBRAY ..... Ewan Bailey
COLEVILE / SHADOW ..... Tunji Kasim
HASTINGS / MOULDY ..... Samuel James
WARWICK ..... Dominic Mafham
LANCASTER / DAVY / MESSENGER / WART ..... Will Kirk
POINS/ SECOND GROOM / GOWER ..... Hasan Dixon
GLOUCESTER / PAGE ..... Billy Jenkins
CLARENCE / SERVANT ..... Connor Curren
Music composed by Jon Nicholls
Sound design by Keith Graham, Peter Ringrose and Ali Craig
Adapted and directed by Sally Avens
The king may have won the battle of Shrewsbury, but civil war still rages across a divided country and the royal family itself is at odds: Henry is ailing and remains uncertain of his son’s unruly ways; is Harry ready to take up the responsibilities of Kingship when the time comes? Or will Falstaff, that 'villainous abominable misleader of youth', persuade him to the bad once more?
Shakespeare’s play provides both hilarity and heartbreak as it reflects upon ageing, the legitimacy of leadership and the burden of power.
SUN 21:30 Record Review Extra (m001l4m6)
Schubert's Fifth Symphony
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, Schubert's Symphony No 5 in B flat major.
SUN 23:00 Viola: The Unsung Hero (m001l4mh)
The Rebel Viola
Violist Ruth Gibson explores her instrument's unique voice across three programmes full of intriguing musical choices. The viola may have less solo repertoire than its string siblings, the violin and the cello, and its awkward mid-range sound might be harder for listeners to hear, but Ruth believes it’s undoubtedly the unsung hero of orchestras and chamber ensembles. This butt of musical jokes has a long history of being overlooked, and Ruth will be encouraging it into the limelight at last.
Ruth believes that the viola is the rebel of the orchestra and in this third and final episode her musical choices have a revolutionary and subversive flavour. Ruth explores Mozart’s most forward-thinking viola writing, a sonata by Hindemith that encourages the viola to sound wild, and a piece by Berio where the viola’s role is to provoke and antagonise.
She admires the defiantly unique sounds and playing styles of violists including Kim Kashkashian, William Primrose and Tabea Zimmermann. She also shares music from Bach to Ligeti where the viola’s rebelliousness both defies expectations and breaks with tradition.
Plus, Stéphane Grappelli, the so-called grandfather of jazz violinists, displays his prowess on the violin’s slightly larger cousin…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
MONDAY 24 APRIL 2023
MON 00:00 Sounds Connected (m001l4mt)
Miriam Skinner
The cellist Miriam Skinner grew up in the north west, listening to Kajagoogoo. These days she plays with the BBC's oldest orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic. The Phil's just celebrated its 100th birthday, having started out all those years ago as 12 musicians playing out of Station 2ZY. Impressive. But then the story of Manchester is very much that humble beginnings can bring forth riches and that applies to its music as much as its industry. Having played music around Manchester for nearly 30 years the sounds of the city are Miriam Skinner's connective tissue. And so for this musician, the city itself connects the sounds in this programme. From the Bee Gees - listen to those bass lines - to the cellist John Foulds to the music of Peter Maxwell Davies, Miriam Skinner introduces the music of the City of Dreams.
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m001l4n4)
Coronation Anthems
From Berlin, Akademie für Alte Musik, conductor Justin Doyle and soprano Aoife Miskelly. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Overture from 'An Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62'
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle (conductor)
12:40 AM
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
O clap your hands
RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin, Justin Doyle (conductor)
12:45 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
I was glad
RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin, Justin Doyle (conductor)
12:50 AM
John Blow (1649-1708)
Chaconne in G
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle (conductor)
12:56 AM
William Croft (1678-1727)
The Lord Is A Sun And Shield, verse anthem
RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle (conductor)
01:05 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Laudate pueri Dominum in D, HWV 237
Aoife Miskelly (soprano), RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle (conductor)
01:25 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Coronation Anthems HWV 258-261
RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle (conductor)
02:03 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550
Israel Camerata Jerusalem, Avner Biron (conductor)
02:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Joan Enric Lluna (clarinet), Alexander String Quartet
03:10 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Dardanus (orchestral suites) - tragedie en Musique (1739)
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
03:28 AM
Zoltan Jeney (1943-)
Bird Tempting
Gyor Girls' Choir, Miklos Szabo (conductor)
03:35 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
03:41 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Trumpet Suite
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
03:49 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
An der schonen, blauen Donau - waltz for orchestra Op 314 'The Blue Danube'
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
03:59 AM
Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
Legend for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola), Bruce Vogt (piano)
04:10 AM
Joan Baptista Pla i Agusti (1720-1773)
Sonata in C major for flute, violin and basso continuo
La Guirlande
04:18 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No.5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Angela Hewitt (piano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
04:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Coriolan Overture, Op 62
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
04:38 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
3 Pieces from Slatter (Norwegian Peasant Dances), Op 72
Havard Gimse (piano)
04:47 AM
Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996)
Lauda Anima Mea from Liber Canticorum II (Op.59c)
Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt-Jensen (conductor)
04:55 AM
Anonymous
Middle Ages Suite
Bolette Roed (recorder), Alpha
05:05 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Cinq melodies populaires grecques
Catherine Robbin (mezzo soprano), Andre Laplante (piano)
05:13 AM
Mario Nardelli (1927-1993)
Three pieces for guitar: Prelude; Meditation; Dance
Mario Nardelli jr (guitar)
05:23 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
In the South (Alassio) - overture Op.50
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
05:46 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
10 Pensees lyriques for piano, Op 40
Eero Heinonen (piano)
06:05 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Gurer Aykal (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m001l4c3)
Monday - Kate's classical alternative
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m001l4c7)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with 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 (m001l4cc)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Disappointment and solace
Donald Macleod compares and contrasts two of Haydn's closest and longest personal relationships, with music including his early Salve Regina and his celebrated Horn Concerto in D.
The streets must have seemed like they were paved with gold when Haydn visited London in 1791. He was feted and applauded everywhere he went as one of Europe’s leading composers. He hobnobbed with royalty, the Prince of Wales commissioned a portrait of him from leading society portraitist John Hoppner. It’s still regarded as one of the best images we have today.
Haydn could hardly have imagined all this as a boy. His really is a rags-to-riches story. Born in 1732 in humble circumstances, Haydn's musical talent won him a position as a choir boy in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. However, he was forced to leave after his voice broke and, by the age of 17, he was on the streets, with only “three miserable shirts and a worn-out coat” to his name. Happily, his life did then take an upward turn. Haydn was employed by the Esterhàzys, one of the most powerful and influential families in the Hapsburg monarchy, for an astonishing 48 years.
But this week, Donald Macleod puts the public face of this celebrated figure to one side. He’s going to be looking at Haydn through a narrower lens, drawing a picture of the composer through the relationships he enjoyed with some of his closest family and friends.
If Haydn had applied hindsight to his decision to marry, it's highly probable he would have reconsidered his options. By contrast, his feelings for one of the court singers were considerably warmer, enduring long after their affair had petered out.
Piano Trio No. 4 in F major, Hob.XV:39
Scherzo
Beaux Arts Trio
Signor voi sapete, Hob.XXIVb:7
Written for insertion in Anfossi’s “Il matrimonio per inganno”
Chen Reiss, soprano, Rosina
l’Arte del mondo
Werner Ehrhardt, conductor
Symphony no 1 in D major, Hob 1/1
I: Presto
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Ádám Fischer, conductor
Salve Regina in E major, Hob. XXIIIb:1
I. Salve Regina
Nancy Argenta, soprano
Collegium Musicum 90 Choir
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox, director
Horn Concerto no 1 in D, Hob.VIId:3
I: Allegro
II: Adagio
III: Allegro
Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas McGeegan, conductor
Vada adagio, signorina, Hob.XXIVb:12
for P. Guglielmi: La Quakera spiritosa
Chen Reiss, soprano, Cardellina
l’Arte del mondo
Werner Ehrhardt, conductor
L'isola disabilitata, Act 2, sc 12
Quartet: Sono contenta appieno
Anett Fritsch, soprano, Costanza
Sunhae Im, soprano, Silvia
Krystian Adam, tenor Enrico
André Morsch, baritone, Gernando’s companion
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck, musical direction
Producer: Johannah Smith for BBC Audio
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001l4ck)
Lawrence Power and Sergio Bucheli
A wide-ranging programme for viola and lute that traverses geography and time, including works by Barbara Strozzi, Luciano Berio and Errollyn Wallen, as well as the first performance of a major work by the Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say, written for today’s soloist, Lawrence Power.
Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Hannah French
Dieterich Buxtehude: Trio Sonata in A, BuxWV 263 - Prelude and Chaconne
Nicola Matteis: Suite in G from Ayres for the Violin Book 2 - Grave; Sarabande
Nicola Matteis: Ground after the Scotch Humour
Fazıl Say: Sonata for solo viola (world première)
Johann Paul von Westhoff: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor - Imitazione delle Campane
Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth
Johann Paul von Westhoff: Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor - Imitatione del liuto
Cassandra Miller: Daylonging, Slacktide
Nicolò Paganini: Quartet No 15 in A minor - Recitativo; Adagio cantabile
Luciano Berio: Naturale for viola, percussion and tape - Abbagnata; Ninna nanna; Ladata
Marin Marais: Les Voix Humaines; Le Tourbillon
Lawrence Power (viola)
Sergio Bucheli (lute)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001l4cq)
Beethoven's Emperor at the Newbury Spring Festival
Ian Skelly with an imperial selection of music for the afternoon, including the Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko performing Beethoven's monumental Fifth Piano Concerto at the Newbury Spring Festival and traditional songs from the eastern Mediterranean as realised by Jordi Savall.
Isaac: Imperii proceres (Music for Maximilian)
Concentus Musicus Wien
Wiener Sängerknaben
Chorus Viennensis
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Dilermando Reis: Uma Valsa e Dois Amores
Anabel Montesunos (guitar)
Mompou: La fuente y la campana
Julien Brocal (piano)
3.00
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No5 in E flat, "Emperor"
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Trad: Six traditional songs from Greece, Israel, Syria, and Morocco
Trad: Two traditional songs from Israel and Greece
Lior Eimaleh (vocals)
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall
Faure: Pavane Op50
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
Mozart: Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K495
Ben Goldscheider (horn)
Ulster Orchestra
Leslie Suganandarjah (conductor)
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m001l4cv)
Tom Borrow plays Chopin
Chopin from pianist Tom Borrow, soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha sings Traume from Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, and cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia opens with Gershwin's Three Preludes.
Gershwin:
3 preludes for piano (transc. Heifitz / Yo-Yo Ma)
Santiago Cañón-Valencia (cello),
Naoko Sonoda (piano)
Wagner
Wesendonck Lieder: Träume
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, (soprano),
James Baillieu (piano)
Chopin
Fantasie in f minor Op. 49
Tom Borrow, (piano)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m001l4cz)
Gareth Malone
Choirmaster and broadcaster Gareth Malone talks to Sean Rafferty about leading the coronation choir, formed especially to perform in front of King Charles at the coronation concert on 7 May.
MON 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001l4d3)
Power through with classical music
Tonight's mix opens with a nocturne by the pioneer of the genre, Irish composer John Field, and ends with the master of the piano nocturne, Fryderyk Chopin. There's also a nocturne by Moroccan pianist Nabil Benabdeljalil, and we take in a Beethoven quartet, traditional singing from Italy, and a miniature by Isobel Waller-Bridge. Satchmo makes an appearance too.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001l4d6)
John Eliot Gardiner at 80: JS Bach Mass in B minor
Sir John Eliot Gardiner has spent a large part of his musical life immersed in Bach's liturgical music and is acknowledged as one of its foremost interpreters. So as part of his 80th birthday celebrations, it's no surprise that he has chosen to conduct his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in a performance of the Mass in B minor, widely regarded as the summit of Bach's religious music.
No one knows for sure why Bach, a lifelong Lutheran, chose to make a full Latin setting of the Catholic Mass. But written towards the end of his life, it seems to have been a way of summing up all he was musically and spiritually capable of – of leaving something for posterity – after a lifetime of professional underappreciation and what must have felt like ephemeral drudgery. For this major project, which he probably never heard performed, Bach reworked a lot of his older music, both sacred and profane. But the result, far from being an incoherent patchwork, has a compelling musical unity coupled to a profound spirituality: a European work of art at least the equal of anything from humankind anywhere at any time.
Broadcast live from St Martin-in-the-Fields and introduced by Martin Handley.
JS Bach: Mass in B minor
Hilary Cronin (soprano)
Sarah Denbee (mezzo-soprano)
Bethany Horak-Hallett (mezzo-soprano)
Reginald Mobley (countertenor)
Jonathan Hanley (tenor)
Nick Pritchard (tenor)
Alex Ashworth (bass-baritone)
Dingle Yandell (bass-baritone)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m001l4d8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m001l4db)
We Other Tudors
Lucy Baynham
Jerry Brotton listens for the voices and tells the stories of the ‘other Tudors’: ten men and women from across the world that lived, worked, worshipped and died in Tudor England.
The popular fascination with the Tudors tends to concentrate on the lives of white, elite, English-born men (and the occasional woman). But Tudor England also saw Muslims, Jews, Africans and Native Americans come and go from the Russia, Persia, Morocco, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Americas, making their homes and careers here, and in the process transforming the nature of early English culture and society. This series tells the stories of ten individuals that reveal a very different story of the Tudor period as a time of multicultural exchange, encounter and ordinary working people living alongside each other.
1. Lucy Baynham
Presenter Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Producer Mark Rickards
A Whistledown Scotland Production
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m001d68g)
Music for the evening
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01 DAVi Music (artist)
The Sky is a Soft Place to Land
Performer: DAVi Music
Duration 00:02:55
02
00:04:14 Todd Baker (artist)
Interwoven Stories (Monument Valley 2)
Performer: Todd Baker
Duration 00:02:45
03
00:06:58 Max Bruch
8 Pieces Op.83 (no.1 in A minor)
Ensemble: ensemble incanto
Duration 00:04:43
04
00:12:29 Chiara Dubey (artist)
Choral of Thoughts
Performer: Chiara Dubey
Duration 00:03:23
05
00:15:52 Jockstrap (artist)
Angst
Performer: Jockstrap
Featured Artist: Georgia Ellery
Duration 00:03:03
06
00:18:55 Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Ciaccona in E flat major
Performer: Nigel North
Duration 00:04:13
07
00:24:03 Arthur King (artist)
Gracias a San Lorenzo
Performer: Arthur King
Duration 00:02:53
08
00:26:56 Randal Despommier (artist)
Danny's Dream
Performer: Randal Despommier
Duration 00:02:53
09
00:29:49 Tofig Guliyev
Dreams
Performer: Nazrin Rashidova
Performer: Stanislav Hvartchilkov
Music Arranger: Nazrin Rashidova
Music Arranger: Stanislav Hvartchilkov
Duration 00:03:50
10
00:34:33 Kayla Painter (artist)
Infinite You
Performer: Kayla Painter
Duration 00:04:27
11
00:39:00 Hekla (artist)
Sólin Gekk
Performer: Hekla
Duration 00:07:06
12
00:47:06 Tess Tyler
Sell the Sky [Graphic Score Interpretation]
Ensemble: Spindle Ensemble
Duration 00:05:53
13
00:52:59 Francesca Heart (artist)
A'marina
Performer: Francesca Heart
Duration 00:03:59
14
00:56:58 Camille Saint‐Saëns
The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)
Performer: Konstantin Scherbakov
Music Arranger: Leopold Godowsky
Duration 00:02:40
15
01:00:51 Rocco DeLuca (artist)
Many Singing Softly
Performer: Rocco DeLuca
Duration 00:04:39
16
01:05:30 Derek Piotr (artist)
They'd Sing Old Songs, and They'd Sing New Ones
Performer: Derek Piotr
Duration 00:01:42
17
01:07:11 Franz Schubert
Quartet in G major D.96 [arr. from Matiegka's 'Nocturne'] (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Ensemble Illyrica
Duration 00:06:05
18
01:14:22 Felbm (artist)
Root
Performer: Felbm
Duration 00:03:56
19
01:18:18 Aki Yli-Salomäki
Tiedät kyllä miksi [You know why]
Orchestra: Lohjan kaupunginorkesteri
Conductor: Jukka Untamala
Duration 00:07:15
20
01:26:43 Trad.
Amazing Grace
Ensemble: Trills
Duration 00:03:02
TUESDAY 25 APRIL 2023
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m001l4dh)
Pascal Rogé
French pianist Pascal Rogé performs a recital titled 'Around Debussy'. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Pagodes, Jardins sous la pluie, from 'Estampes'
Pascal Rogé (piano)
12:40 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
The Snow is Dancing, from 'Children's Corner'
Pascal Rogé (piano)
12:42 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Excerpts from 'Préludes, Book 1'
Pascal Rogé (piano)
12:50 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La soirée dans Grenade, from 'Estampes'
Pascal Rogé (piano)
12:55 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La puerta del vino, from 'Préludes, Book 2'
Pascal Rogé (piano)
12:58 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Reflets dans l'eau, from 'Images, Set 1'
Pascal Rogé (piano)
01:03 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Impromptu No. 2 in F minor, op. 31
Pascal Rogé (piano)
01:07 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Nocturne in D flat, op. 84/8
Pascal Rogé (piano)
01:10 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Barcarolle No. 4 in A flat, op. 44
Pascal Rogé (piano)
01:13 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Prelude in E minor, op. 103/9
Pascal Rogé (piano)
01:17 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonatine
Pascal Rogé (piano)
01:28 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Forlane, from 'Le Tombeau de Couperin'
Pascal Rogé (piano)
01:34 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Une barque sur l'océan, from 'Miroirs'
Pascal Rogé (piano)
01:42 AM
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Piano Concerto no 5 in F major Op 103, "Egyptian"
Pascal Rogé (piano), UNAM Philharmonic Orchestra, Ronald Zollman (conductor)
02:10 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 35 in D major, K.385, "Haffner"
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor)
02:31 AM
Robert de Visee (c.1655-1733)
Suite No 12 in E minor
Yasunori Imamura (theorbo)
02:48 AM
Uuno Klami (1900-1961)
Revontulet - Fantasy for orchestra, Op 38
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
03:08 AM
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Little Suite in 15 pictures
Adam Fellegi (piano)
03:26 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Constanze's aria "Martern aller Arten" from 'Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Act 2
Cyndia Sieden (soprano), Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)
03:35 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Leonore Overture No 1, Op 138
Sinfonia Iuventus, Rafael Payare (conductor)
03:45 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
"Sabato" (TWV42:g3) from "Pyrmonter Kurwoche"
Albrecht Rau (violin), Heinrich Rau (viola), Clemens Malich (cello), Wolfgang Hochstein (harpsichord)
03:52 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Antiche Arie e Danze - Suite no 3 (1932)
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Igor Kuljeric (conductor)
04:12 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Transcendental study No 11 in D flat major
Jeno Jando (piano)
04:22 AM
Georges Auric (1899-1983), Philip Lane (arranger)
The Lavender Hill Mob (Suite)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
04:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates), Op 89
Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor)
04:40 AM
Manuel Infante (1883-1958)
Three Andalucian dances
Aglika Genova (piano duo), Liuben Dimitrov (piano duo)
04:54 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture in D major, D590, 'in the Italian style'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
05:03 AM
Pietro Andrea Ziani (c.1616-1684)
Sonata XI in G minor for 2 violins & 2 violas
Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
05:12 AM
Leonhardt Lechner (c.1553-1606)
Deutsche Spruche von Leben und Tod
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
05:23 AM
Eric Ewazen (b.1954)
Andante from Concerto for Marimba and Strings
Heigo Rosin (percussion), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Risto Joost (conductor)
05:34 AM
Francesco Corteccia (1502-1571)
Musica della commedia di Francesco Corteccia recitata al secondo convito
Ensemble Weser Renaissance, Manfred Cordes (conductor)
05:52 AM
Otto Olsson (1879-1964)
Gregorian melodies for organ (Op.30) (1910)
Anders Bondeman (organ)
06:10 AM
Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838)
Concertino for bassoon and orchestra in B flat major
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m001l4gd)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m001l4gn)
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.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001l4gx)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
A cloud and a silver lining
Donald Macleod explains how a lucky break saves Haydn from unemployment, with music from the opera Armida and his glorious Cello Sonata in C.
The streets must have seemed like they were paved with gold when Haydn visited London in 1791. He was feted and applauded everywhere he went as one of Europe’s leading composers. He hobnobbed with royalty, the Prince of Wales commissioned a portrait of him from leading society portraitist John Hoppner. It’s still regarded as one of the best images we have today.
Haydn could hardly have imagined all this as a boy. His really is a rags to riches story. Born in 1732 in humble circumstances, Haydn's musical talent won him a position as a choir boy in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. However, he was forced to leave after his voice broke and, by the age of 17, he was on the streets, with only “three miserable shirts and a worn-out coat” to his name. Happily his life did then take an upward turn. Haydn was employed by the Esterhàzys, one of the most powerful and influential families in the Hapsburg monarchy for an astonishing 48 years.
But this week Donald Macleod puts the public face of this internationally celebrated figure to one side. He’s going to be looking at Haydn through a narrower lens, drawing a picture of the composer through the relationships he enjoyed with some of his closest family and friends.
Prince Nikolaus Esterhàzy became Haydn’s longest employer. The course of their association shows Haydn displaying a genuine talent for management and diplomacy.
Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, Hob.XVI:1
I. Allegro
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Symphony No. 6 in D major ‘Le Matin'
I. Adagio – Allegro
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, director
Sonata No 46 in A flat major Hob XVI/46 II (sometimes numbered as 31)
III: Finale Presto
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
L’infedeltà delusa
Act I Scene 1: Introduction: Bella sera (Filippo, Vespina, Nencio, Nanni, Sandrina)
Edith Mathis, soprano, Vespina
Barbara Hendricks, soprano, Sandrina
Aldo Baldin, tenor, Filippo
Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö, tenor, Nencio
Michael Devlin, bass, Nanni
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Antal Doráti, conductor
Cello concerto in C Hob. VIIb:1 (1761-65)
III: Allegro molto
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Steven Isserlis, director, cello
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
Sonata II. Fürwahr, ich sag' es dir. Grave e cantabile
Quarteto Casals
Armida (Act 1)
Parti Rinaldo - Se pietade avete
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano, Armida
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, director
Producer: Johannah Smith for BBC Audio
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001l4h4)
Highlights from the 2022 Schubertiade Schwarzenberg (1/4)
Sarah Walker begins a week of highlights from the internationally renowned celebration of Schubert, which takes place each year in the Austrian towns of Schwarzenberg and Hohenems. Today, highlights from the 2022 Festival include the German-Romanian baritone Konstantin Krimmel and Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught singing some of Schubert's most famous lieder, and French violinist Renaud Capuçon joining forces with David Fray to perform the Grand Duo in A major.
SCHUBERT
Der Wanderer, D.489
Am Bach im Fruhling, D.361
Der Schiffer, D.536
Konstantin Krimmel (baritone)
Wolfram Rieger (piano)
SCHUBERT
Violin Sonata in A, D.574 ‘Grand Duo’
Renaud Capucon (violin)
David Fray (piano)
SCHUBERT
Die Sterne, D.939
Viola, D.786
Tara Erraught (mezzo-soprano)
James Baillieu (piano)
SCHUBERT
Viel tausend Sterne prangen, D.642
Brenda Rae (soprano)
Sophie Rennert (mezzo-soprano)
Mauro Peter (tenor)
David Steffens (bass)
Helmut Deutsch (piano)
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001l4hd)
Virtuoso
Virtuosity is to the fore in Ian Skelly's selection of music for this afternoon, including items from Liszt, Handel, Mozart, Rachmaninov and Vladimir Horowitz, and by default, Paganini. The
3.00 spot features a performance from Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko playing the Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody.
Bizet/Horowitz: Carmen Variations
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Kodaly: Dances of Marosszek
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortellier (conductor)
Liszt: Symphonic Poem - Orpheus
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Handel: Organ Concerto in Bb Op7/1 HWV306
Magnus Kjellson (organ)
Göteborg Baroque
3.00
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodiouk (conductor)
Brahms: Ballade in B major Op10/4
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Florence Price: Concert Overture No 2
BBC Concert Orchestra
Jane Glover (conductor)
Beethoven: Sextet in E flat Op81b for two horns and string quartet
Freiburg Baroque
Grieg : Symphonic Dances
Ulster Orchestra
Pablo Urbina (conductor)
Trad: Two traditional songs from Italy and Syria
Lior Eimaleh (vocals)
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m001l4hq)
Klaus Mäkelä
Finnish conductor and cellist Klaus Mäkelä talks to Sean Rafferty ahead of his concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
TUE 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001l4j4)
Your daily classical soundtrack
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 (m001l4jj)
National Youth Orchestra
"NYO Ignite"
The National Youth Orchestra ignites a musical fire in its spring concert, recorded at Saffron Hall, Essex.
After pieces featuring the various sections of the orchestra, the whole band gathers together for Stravinsky’s Firebird. This music tells the story of the phoenix rising from the ashes. NYO’s teenage superstars bring their inimitable energy to this enormous score, as they do to everything they play.
Presented by Linton Stephens
Simon Dobson: Incandenza (brass ensemble)
Judith Weir: Fresh Air (wind ensemble)
Andy Akiho Karakurenai: (percussion ensemble)
Jessie Montgomery: Source Code (string orchestra)
Stravinsky: The Firebird
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Andrew Gourlay, conductor
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m001l4jz)
Queen Charlotte, fashion and music
Music making, fashion and behaviour at court in the Georgian period are the focus of new research by Sophie Coulombeau, Mary-Jannet Leith and Lizzy Buckle. As Bridgerton launches a spin-off series about Queen Charlotte and an exhibition opens at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace called Style and Society, Shahidha Bari hosts a discussion about soirées, soprano stardom and sexual scandals.
Producer: Julian Siddle
A Georgian inspired episode of Radio 3's weekly curation of Words and Music is available on BBC Sounds until May 25th 2023
You can find other conversations about Georgian history on BBC Sounds and Free Thinking and available as the Arts and Ideas podcast
Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment heard from Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Sophie Coulombeau, Ian Kelly and Hannah Greig https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015v3c
Harlots and 18th-century working women https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rdfz
Samuel Johnson's Circle https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vq3w
The Value of Gossip https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwfb
18th-century crime and punishment https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hysp
Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians runs at the Queen's Gallery until October 8th
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story launches on May 4th on Netflix
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m001l4kd)
We Other Tudors
John Blanke
Jerry Brotton listens for the voices and tells the stories of the ‘other Tudors’: ten men and women from across the world that lived, worked, worshipped and died in Tudor England.
The popular fascination with the Tudors tends to concentrate on the lives of white, elite, English-born men (and the occasional woman). But Tudor England also saw Muslims, Jews, Africans and Native Americans come and go from the Russia, Persia, Morocco, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Americas, making their homes and careers here, and in the process transforming the nature of early English culture and society. This series tells the stories of ten individuals that reveal a very different story of the Tudor period as a time of multicultural exchange, encounter and ordinary working people living alongside each other.
2. John Blanke
Presenter Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Producer Mark Rickards
A Whistledown Scotland production
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m001d695)
Dissolve into sound
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01 Holland Baroque Society
Te laudant
Ensemble: Bastarda
Ensemble: Holland Baroque Society
Duration 00:04:15
02
00:05:42 Valentina Magaletti (artist)
Rumours of Bread
Performer: Valentina Magaletti
Duration 00:00:46
03
00:06:29 Molly Lewis (artist)
Mirage
Performer: Molly Lewis
Duration 00:03:26
04
00:10:38 Lili Boulanger
2 Pièces
Performer: Isang Enders
Performer: Sunwook Kim
Duration 00:03:50
05
00:14:28 Tenka (artist)
How to Spend an Aromatic Night
Performer: Tenka
Duration 00:07:10
06
00:22:40 Julia Kent (artist)
Ailanthus
Performer: Julia Kent
Duration 00:04:59
07
00:27:39 Traditional French
Lo fiolaire (Folk Songs)
Music Arranger: Luciano Berio
Singer: Michelle O'Rourke
Ensemble: Ficino Ensemble
Duration 00:03:06
08
00:30:44 Wilhelm Stenhammar
Late summer nights Op.33 (no.1, Tranquillo e soave)
Performer: Lars Roos
Duration 00:05:06
09
00:37:07 Slow Attack Ensemble (artist)
November, 1st in Detroit
Performer: Slow Attack Ensemble
Duration 00:02:22
10
00:39:28 Roberto Musci (artist)
Lidia After the Snow
Performer: Roberto Musci
Duration 00:02:17
11
00:41:45 NikNak (artist)
Untitled Schedule
Performer: NikNak
Duration 00:05:28
12
00:48:07 Carl Reinecke
Harp Concerto in E minor Op.182 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Ernst Märzendorfer
Duration 00:05:13
13
00:53:20 Angelica Salvi
Cinzolino
Performer: Angelica Salvi
Duration 00:05:58
14
01:00:34 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Passacaglia
Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman
Duration 00:09:22
15
01:09:56 Rich Ruth (artist)
Angel Slide
Performer: Rich Ruth
Duration 00:04:18
16
01:15:10 Sarah Jeffery
Le Ray au Soleyl
Performer: Sarah Jeffery
Duration 00:05:46
17
01:20:55 Iceblink (artist)
Microsong
Performer: Iceblink
Duration 00:03:11
18
01:24:06 Elaine Howley (artist)
Person Count (extract)
Performer: Elaine Howley
Duration 00:01:19
19
01:26:20 Lizabett Russo (artist)
The Water is Wide
Performer: Lizabett Russo
Duration 00:03:29
WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL 2023
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m001l4l5)
Villa-Lobos, Ginastera, Copland and Grofé
French harpist Xavier de Maistre joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Ginastera's Harp Concerto. The orchestra also performs music by Villa-Lobos, Copland and Grofé. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Amazonas, symphonic poem
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
12:44 AM
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Harp Concerto, Op 25
Xavier de Maistre (harp), Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
01:07 AM
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Spanish Dance no 1, from 'La Vida breve'
Xavier de Maistre (harp)
01:11 AM
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Appalachian Spring Suite
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
01:39 AM
Ferde Grofe (1892-1972)
Mississippi Suite
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
01:53 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Rhapsody in Blue
Hinko Haas (piano)
02:10 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major
Francois-Xavier Poizat (soloist), Swiss National Youth Orchestra, Kai Bumann (conductor)
02:31 AM
Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Křečovice Mass for chorus, strings and organ in B flat major
Marie Matejkova (soprano), Ilona Satylova (alto), Jiri Vinklarek (tenor), Michael Mergl (bass), Miluska Kvechova (organ), Czech Radio Choir (classic performer), Pilzen Radio Orchestra, Stanislav Bogunia (conductor)
02:56 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Quartet for strings no. 1, Sz.40
Meta4
03:28 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ferruccio Busoni (arranger)
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
Igor Levit (piano)
03:33 AM
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Introduction and rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra, Op 28
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
03:42 AM
Enrique Granados (1867-1916), Fernando Periquet (lyricist)
4 Tonadillas from 'Colección de tonadillas escritas en estilo antiguo'
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), James Parker (piano)
03:51 AM
Unico Wilhelm Van Wassenaer (1692-1766)
Concerto armonico for 4 violins, viola and continuo No.5 in F minor
Andrew Manze (violin), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
04:02 AM
John Field (1782-1837)
Andante inédit in E flat major for piano
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
04:09 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke for clarinet (violin or cello) and piano, Op 73
Claudio Bohorquez (cello), Marcus Groh (piano)
04:20 AM
Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)
Overture, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:31 AM
Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921)
Maanlicht (song)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
04:34 AM
John Bull (c.1562-1628)
Why ask you? for keyboard
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
04:39 AM
Robert White (c.1538-1574),James MacMillan (b.1959)
Christe qui lux es et dies (White) & A Child's Prayer (MacMillan)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
04:48 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould (conductor)
05:01 AM
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Paul Heyse (lyricist)
Italienisches Liederbuch (excerpts)
Regula Muhlemann (soprano), Tatiana Korsunskaya (piano)
05:23 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Henri Busser (orchestrator)
Printemps - Symphonic Suite
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Markl (conductor)
05:41 AM
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (c.1670-1746)
Suite No 4 in D minor Op 1 no 4 from 'Le Journal du printemps'
Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Lancaster (conductor)
05:53 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata no. 15 in D major Op.28 'Pastoral' for piano
Ji-Yeong Mun (piano)
06:19 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
3 Songs for chorus, Op 42
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m001l4jw)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m001l4k9)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with 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.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001l4kq)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Sibling rivalries
Donald Macleod takes a closer look at Haydn's family ties, including his younger brother and fellow composer Michael, with music including Haydn's sparkling Keyboard Concerto in D.
The streets must have seemed like they were paved with gold when Haydn visited London in 1791. He was feted and applauded everywhere he went as one of Europe’s leading composers. He hobnobbed with royalty, the Prince of Wales commissioned a portrait of him from leading society portraitist John Hoppner. It’s still regarded as one of the best images we have today.
Haydn could hardly have imagined all this as a boy. His really is a rags-to-riches story. Born in 1732 in humble circumstances, Haydn's musical talent won him a position as a choir boy in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. However, he was forced to leave after his voice broke and, by the age of 17, he was on the streets, with only “three miserable shirts and a worn-out coat” to his name. Happily, his life did then take an upward turn. Haydn was employed by the Esterhàzys, one of the most powerful and influential families in the Hapsburg monarchy, for an astonishing 48 years.
But this week, Donald Macleod puts the public face of this internationally celebrated figure to one side. He’s going to be looking at Haydn through a narrower lens, drawing a picture of the composer through the relationships he enjoyed with some of his closest family and friends.
In 1745 Michael joined Haydn as a chorister at St. Stephen's in Vienna. It wasn't long before the beauty of his voice put his elder brother's into the shade.
Piano Sonata No. 1 in G major, Hob.XVI:8
V. Allegro
Jean Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Mass in D minor, H.XXII:11 (Nelson Mass)
Gloria
Jonty Ward, treble
Hugh Cutting, alto
Nick Pritchard, tenor
Tom Edwards, bass
New College choir Oxford
New Century Baroque
Edward Higginbottom, director
Motetto "O ceolitum beati", Hob. XXIIIa:G9
Ann Monoyios soprano
Daniel Rüller, tenor
Soloists of Tölzer Knabenchor
Matthias Ritter, alto
Jonas Will, alto
Tafelmusik
Bruno Weil, conductor
Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob.XVIII:2
I: Vivace
II: Un poco adagio
III: Rondo all ungarese
Alexandre Tharaud, piano
Les Violons du Roy
Bernard Labadie, conductor
Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 33 No. 2 in E flat major 'The Joke'
II: Scherzo
Doric String Quartet
Michael Haydn: Requiem in C minor
'Pro defuncto archiepiscopo Sigismundo',
VIa. Agnus Dei et Communio. Agnus Dei – Lux aeterna
VIb. Agnus Dei et Communio. Cum sanctis tuis
VII. Requiem aeternam: Requiem aeternam – Cum sanctis tuis
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Hilary Summers, alto
James Gilchrist tenor
Peter Harvey, bass
Choir of The King’s Consort
The King’s Consort
Robert King, conductor
Producer: Johannah Smith
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001l4l3)
Highlights from the 2022 Schubertiade Schwarzenberg (2/4)
Sarah Walker continues a week of highlights from the internationally renowned celebration of Schubert, which takes place each year in the Austrian towns of Schwarzenberg and Hohenems. Today, highlights from the 2022 Festival include Gebet, a quartet for 4 voices, plus the Modigliani Quartet playing Schubert's Fourth String Quartet in C major. French virtuoso violinist Renaud Capuçon joins forces again with David Fray to perform Schumann's First Violin Sonata in A minor.
SCHUBERT
String Quartet No.4 in C, D.46
Modigliani Quartet
SCHUBERT
Gebet, D.815
Brenda Rae (soprano)
Sophie Rennert (mezzo-soprano)
Mauro Peter (tenor)
David Steffens (bass)
Helmut Deutsch (piano)
SCHUMANN
Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor, Op.105
Renaud Capucon (violin)
David Fray (piano)
SCHUBERT
Nacht und Traume, D.827
Tara Erraught (mezzo-soprano)
James Baillieu (piano)
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001l4lk)
Mendelssohn in Italy with the BBC Philharmonic
Ian Skelly introduces a selection of music evoking the Italy of antiquity, including the BBC Philharmonic performing Mendelssohn's sun kissed Italian Symphony. Plus more traditional Mediterranean music from Jordi Savall.
Bizet: Roma - II. Allegro Vivace
Orchestre de Paris
Paavo Jarvi (conductor)
Trad: Two traditional songs from Syria and Cyprus
Lior Eimaleh (vocals)
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall
Vivaldi: Cello Sonata in E minor RV40
Nicolas Alstaedt (cello)
Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord)
Berlioz: Le Carnaval Romain
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
Debussy: 6 Epigraphes Antiques
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
3.00
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4. "Italian"
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)
Barbara Strozzi: Godere e tacere
Claire Lefilliatre (soprano)
Dorotheo Mields (soprano)
Hathor Consort
Faure: Suite Masques et Bergamasques
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m001l4ly)
Merton College, Oxford
Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.
Introit: Sing my soul, his wondrous love (Rorem)
Responses: Byrd
Office hymn: The Lamb’s high banquet we await (Deus tuorum militum)
Psalms 67, 72 (Bairstow, Bairstow)
First Lesson: Genesis 3 vv.8-21
Canticles: Chichester Service (Walton)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv.12-28
Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father (Wesley)
Hymn: Walking in a garden (Dun Aluinn)
Voluntary: Symphonie-Passion (Résurrection) (Dupré)
Benjamin Nicholas (Director of Music)
Owen Chan, Francois Cloete (Organ Scholars)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m001l4m9)
Santtu Matias-Rouvali, Sally Matthews and Simon Lepper
Finnish conductor and percussionist Santtu-Matias Rouvali, principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra, talks to Sean Rafferty ahead of his concerts in London and Leicester.
And British soprano Sally Matthews performs live, accompanied by pianist Simon Lepper, ahead of their recital at the Wigmore Hall in London.
WED 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001l4mm)
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.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001l4my)
Bancroft conducts Ives
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their principal conductor, Ryan Bancroft, join forces once more for a programme that is heavily influenced both by Bancroft's native America, and also by rejections of traditional writing. The programme opens with two companion pieces by Charles Ives which he brought together as his contrasting ‘Two Contemplations’: Central Park in the Dark, or 'A Contemplation of Nothing Serious', and The Unanswered Question, an exploration of humanity's existence. In these pieces, Ives frequently writes in several keys at once, a style of writing for which he was a pioneer.
Closing the first half, Bomsori Kim joins the orchestra for Szymanowski's effervescent First Violin Concerto. The work is considered by many to be an impressionistic masterpiece, which pushed the boundaries of what a violin concerto could be, and acts as a perfect foil to the Ives pieces. The concert concludes with John Adams's Harmonielehre, a work which he intended as a treatise on harmony, in direct contrast to the atonal propensity of Arnold Schoenberg and his acolytes. Adams actively disliked the sound of "serial" music, and this incredible symphonic work is both a manifestation of his opposition to that system, and a love letter for post-romanticism, which also includes quotations from great symphonic works.
Recorded in St. David's Hall, Cardiff on the 20th of April, and presented by Verity Sharp.
7.30pm
Ives: Central Park in the Dark, S 34
Ives: The Unanswered Question, S 50
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1, Op 35
8.20pm
Interval Music - Ryan Bancroft contemplates Charles Ives
8.40pm
John Adams: Harmonielehre
Bomsori Kim (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m001l4n8)
Ireland's Hidden Histories and Secret Stories
Hidden histories and secret stories from Ireland today with John Gallagher and his guests: poet Majella Kelly whose debut collection reckons with the legacy of the mother and baby home mass grave scandal in her hometown of Tuam, writer Carmel McMahon who has recently returned to County Mayo from New York and whose work explores familial trauma and collective suffering, and historian Jackie Ui Chionna who has uncovered the secret life of the Galway born language professor and musicologist Emily Anderson – as one of the top codebreakers in the world playing a leading role in British Intelligence in both World Wars.
And New Generation Thinker Louise Brangan, who has researched the history of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, gives an insight into a surprisingly lenient time in Ireland’s prisons – the 1970s.
Producer in Salford: Ruth Thomson
The Speculations of Country People by Majella Kelly is a poetry collection inspired by the Tuam mother and baby home mass grave uncovered in 2017.
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker by Jackie Uí Chionna is out now.
In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History by Carmel McMahon is out now.
Dr Louise Brangan is Chancellor's Fellow in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow and a 2023 New Generation Thinker.
WED 22:45 The Essay (m001l4nh)
We Other Tudors
John Cabot
Jerry Brotton listens for the voices and tells the stories of the ‘other Tudors’: ten men and women from across the world that lived, worked, worshipped and died in Tudor England.
The popular fascination with the Tudors tends to concentrate on the lives of white, elite, English-born men (and the occasional woman). But Tudor England also saw Muslims, Jews, Africans and Native Americans come and go from the Russia, Persia, Morocco, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Americas, making their homes and careers here, and in the process transforming the nature of early English culture and society. This series tells the stories of ten individuals that reveal a very different story of the Tudor period as a time of multicultural exchange, encounter and ordinary working people living alongside each other.
3. John Cabot
Presenter Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Producer Mark Rickards
A Whistledown Scotland production
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m001d671)
The music garden
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01 Yann Tiersen (artist)
La vie revee
Performer: Yann Tiersen
Duration 00:02:01
02
00:02:00 Trans Voices UK (artist)
Allow
Performer: Trans Voices UK
Performer: Cherif Hashizume
Duration 00:06:55
03
00:08:50 Michal Jacaszek (artist)
What Wind-Walks Up Above!
Performer: Michal Jacaszek
Duration 00:04:52
04
00:13:42 Maurice Ravel
Trio in A minor for piano and strings: III. Passacaille
Ensemble: Trio Karénine
Duration 00:07:25
05
00:21:46 Anna Butterss (artist)
La Danza
Performer: Anna Butterss
Duration 00:02:04
06
00:23:46 Ernesto Halffter
Danza de la Pastora
Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta
Music Arranger: Nicanor Zabaleta
Duration 00:03:28
07
00:27:13 Colleen (artist)
Holding Horses
Performer: Colleen
Duration 00:04:59
08
00:33:19 Trio Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola (artist)
Unum
Performer: Trio Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola
Duration 00:03:58
09
00:37:08 Grand River (artist)
Coordinate Redirects Here
Performer: Grand River
Duration 00:05:23
10
00:42:29 Arnold Kasar
Rolling
Performer: Arnold Kasar
Performer: Hans‐Joachim Roedelius
Duration 00:03:47
11
00:47:04 Nordic Affect (artist)
Loom
Performer: Nordic Affect
Duration 00:08:15
12
00:55:18 Cosey Fanni Tutti (artist)
Tatum Ergo
Performer: Cosey Fanni Tutti
Duration 00:01:58
13
00:57:14 Franz Schubert
An die Nachtigall, Op. 98, D. 497
Ensemble: Duo Flauguissimo
Duration 00:01:53
14
01:00:02 picnic (artist)
Sequins
Performer: picnic
Duration 00:04:25
15
01:04:31 Mica Levi (artist)
Xhill Stepping
Performer: Mica Levi
Performer: Oliver Coates
Duration 00:03:33
16
01:07:58 Claude Debussy
Beau Soir
Performer: Janine Jansen
Performer: Itamar Golan
Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz
Duration 00:02:09
17
01:10:51 Snowdrops (artist)
Firebirds
Performer: Snowdrops
Duration 00:05:27
18
01:16:17 Time Wharp (artist)
Spiro World
Performer: Time Wharp
Duration 00:03:02
19
01:19:19 Ruth Gipps
Sinfonietta Op.73 for winds and percussion: I. Andante
Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Hannah von Wiehler
Duration 00:05:26
20
01:25:53 Clara Mann (artist)
Go Steady
Performer: Clara Mann
Duration 00:03:55
THURSDAY 27 APRIL 2023
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m001l4ny)
Romanian Reformation
The Romanian Radio National Orchestra perform Schumann, Brahms and Mendelssohn. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor)
12:50 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Friedrich Holderlin (author)
Schicksalslied for chorus and orchestra, Op 54
Romanian Radio Academic Chorus, Ciprian Tutu (choirmaster), Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor)
01:07 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No 5 in D major, Op 107, 'Reformation'
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor)
01:38 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata No 21 in B flat, D 960
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
02:18 AM
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Trumpet Concerto in D major
Stanko Arnold (trumpet), Slovenian Soloists, Marko Munih (conductor)
02:31 AM
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Concerto for violin and horn in A major
Agata Raatz (violin), Zora Slokar (horn), Bern Chamber Orchestra, Graziella Contratto (conductor)
02:59 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Trio in B flat major, Op 11, for clarinet, cello and piano
Martin Frost (clarinet), Torleif Thedeen (cello), Roland Pontinen (piano)
03:21 AM
Augusta Holmes (1847-1903)
La vision de la reine
BBC Singers Women's Voices, Morwenna Del Mar (cello), Alison Martin (harp), Annabel Thwaite (piano), Hilary Campbell (conductor)
03:39 AM
Jacob Wilhelm Lustig (1706-1796)
Overture in C minor for organ
Erwin Wiersinga (organ)
03:45 AM
Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812)
Duo concertante no.3 for flute and viola in F major
Joanna G'froerer (flute), Pinchas Zukerman (viola)
04:00 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Penthesilea, for soprano and orchestra
Elzbieta Szmytka (soprano), National Orchestra of France, Hans Graf (conductor)
04:06 AM
Giovanni Picchi (1572-1643)
Ballo alla polacha for harpsichord
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
04:09 AM
Vache Sharafyan (b.1966)
Waterfall Music
Hover State Chamber Chorus of Armenia, Sona Hovhannisyan (conductor)
04:14 AM
Hans Gal (1890-1987)
Serenade for string orchestra, Op 46
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
04:31 AM
Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630)
No.26 Canzon for 5 instruments in A minor "Corollarium"
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (descant viola da gamba), Jordi Savall (director)
04:35 AM
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Danse macabre - symphonic poem (Op.40)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjell Seim (conductor)
04:43 AM
Johanna Muller-Hermann (1868-1941)
Vier Lieder, Op 2
Soraya Mafi (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
04:52 AM
Karol Jozef Lipinski (1790-1861)
Overture in D major (1814)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Krakow, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)
05:01 AM
Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474)
Balsamus et munda cera
Orlando Consort
05:06 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Quintet for piano and strings (M.7) in F minor
Cristina Ortiz (piano), Fine Arts Quartet
05:43 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No 2
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
06:02 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), Arnold Schoenberg (arranger)
Kaiser-Walzer Op 437 (1888) arr. Schoenberg
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
06:14 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for viola da gamba and keyboard No.3 in G minor
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m001l4g3)
Thursday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m001l4g5)
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.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001l4g7)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Coffee and hot chocolates
Donald Macleod appraises Haydn's warm friendship with Mozart and his trickier dealings with his pupil Beethoven, with music from Haydn's celebrated Opus 33 and Opus 64 quartets.
The streets must have seemed like they were paved with gold when Haydn visited London in 1791. He was feted and applauded everywhere he went as one of Europe’s leading composers. He hobnobbed with royalty, the Prince of Wales commissioned a portrait of him from leading society portraitist John Hoppner. It’s still regarded as one of the best images we have today.
Haydn could hardly have imagined all this as a boy. His really is a rags-to-riches story. Born in 1732 in humble circumstances, Haydn's musical talent won him a position as a choir boy in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. However, he was forced to leave after his voice broke and, by the age of 17, he was on the streets, with only “three miserable shirts and a worn-out coat” to his name. Happily, his life did then take an upward turn. Haydn was employed by the Esterhàzys, one of the most powerful and influential families in the Hapsburg monarchy, for an astonishing 48 years.
But this week, Donald Macleod puts the public face of this internationally celebrated figure to one side. He’s going to be looking at Haydn through a narrower lens, drawing a picture of the composer through the relationships he enjoyed with some of his closest family and friends.
Still appreciated for its coffee houses, Vienna was where Haydn and Mozart socialised and where Beethoven took lessons with the eminent older composer. The cost of beverages proved to be a source of contention between a hard up pupil and his teacher.
Six Danses Allemandes Hob IX:12 (excerpts)
Vienna Bella Musica Ensemble
Michael Dittrich, conductor
String Quartet, Op. 33 No. 5 in G major
II. Largo e cantabile
IV: Finale: Allegretto
Goldmund Quartet
Symphony No. 82 in C major, 'The Bear'
I: Vivace
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Missa Cellensis in honorem Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ, Hob. XXII:5
Kyrie eleison I
Christe Eleison
Kyrie Eleison II
Benjamin Bruns, tenor
RIAS Chamber Choir
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin
Justin Doyle, conductor
String Quartet, Op. 64 No. 5 in D major 'The Lark'
I: Allegro moderato
Emerson Quartet
Der Sturm Hob.XXIVa:8
North German Radio Chorus
Göttingen Festival Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Producer: Johannah Smith
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001l4g9)
Highlights from the 2022 Schubertiade Schwarzenberg (3/4)
Sarah Walker presents highlights from the internationally renowned celebration of Schubert, which takes place each year in the Austrian towns of Schwarzenberg and Hohenems. Today, highlights from the 2022 Festival include the Modigliani Quartet playing Schubert's poignant and lyrical final string quartet, No.15 in G major. Plus the Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught singing Schubert's An den Mond, and Christian Zacharias performing a Chopin Waltz.
SCHUBERT
String Quartet No. 15 in G, D.887
Modigliani Quartet
SCHUBERT
An den Mond, D.259
Erkonig, D.328
Tara Erraught (mezzo-soprano)
James Baillieu (piano)
CHOPIN
Waltz in D, Op.70 No.3
Christian Zacharias (piano)
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001l4gf)
Pierre Sancan's Piano Concerto
Ian Skelly introduces music for a Thursday afternoon, including an opportunity to hear a selection of pieces by Frenchman Pierre Sancan, a contemporary of Messiaen and Dutilleux. The programme includes a performance of Sancan's Piano Concerto alongside music by Debussy, Offenbach, Penderecki, Schubert and Mozart.
Sancan: Commedia dell’arte Overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Nicolas Alstaedt (cello)
Igor Levit (piano)
Offenbach: Le Voyage dans la lune - Ballet des flacons de neige
Philharmonia Orchestra
Antonio De Almeida (conductor)
Trad: Five traditional songs from Spain, Israel, Syria and Cyprus
Lior Eimaleh (vocals)
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall
James Kaye: Queensbury March
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs (conductor)
3.00
Pierre Sancan: Piano Concerto
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G minor
Prague Philharmonic orchestra
Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)
Penderecki: Chaconne (in Memoria del Giovanni Paolo II)
Ulster Orchestra
Jacek Kaspceck (conductor)
Schubert: Mass No 6 in Eb D950 - Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei
Golda Schultz (soprano)
Camerata Salzburg
Franz Welser-Most (conductor)
Sancan: Overture Joyeuse
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m001l4gp)
Keelan Carew
With Sean Rafferty, pianist Keelan Carew shares his selection of cultural events for the upcoming weekend.
THU 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001l4gy)
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 (m001l4h6)
Lemminkäinen in Manchester
From the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester
Presented by Tom McKinney
The BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor John Storgards take us on a journey through the graphic ancient Finnish myths of the Kalevala. We travel with Lemminkäinen as he navigates the mystery and magic of these ancient stories; murder and redemption, seduction and escape, as well as the heart-breaking attempted slaughter of the dignified and beautiful Swan of Tuonela are portrayed in music which marries the portrayal of events with Sibelius's own sense of musical shaping. Here ancient tales share their searing relevance with audiences of today. Garrick Ohlssohn joins the orchestra for Rachmaninov's luscious Third Piano Concerto; sweeping melody and startling virtuosity in the hands of one of the world's greatest pianists.
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of Saari
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen in Tuonela
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen's return
8.25 Music Interval (CD)
8.45
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m001l4hh)
Lady Antonia Fraser
From Mary, Queen of Scots, whom her mother was going to write about until she intervened - to her most recent biography of Caroline Lamb, out in mid-May, Lady Antonia Fraser has had a career publishing prize winning books exploring historical figures. In this conversation, recorded at her London home with historian Rana Mitter, she reflects on what she calls "optical research", the crime fiction she has written, meeting figures from history including Clement Atlee dressed as Santa and the prize, established by her daughter Flora in memory of her mother, The Elizabeth Longford Prize for historical biography.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
The shortlist for the 2023 Elizabeth Longford Prize for historical biography is announced in May.
Lady Antonia Fraser's books which are discussed include Mary Queen of Scots, Cromwell our Chief of Men, The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century England, The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women, The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights.
In May 2023 Lady Antonia Fraser publishes Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit.
You can find other episodes hearing from historians who have been nominated for the Wolfson History Prize, the Cundill History Prize and the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding on the Free Thinking website and available on BBC Sounds.
THU 22:45 The Essay (m001l4ht)
We Other Tudors
Aura Soltana
Jerry Brotton listens for the voices and tells the stories of the ‘other Tudors’: ten men and women from across the world that lived, worked, worshipped and died in Tudor England.
The popular fascination with the Tudors tends to concentrate on the lives of white, elite, English-born men (and the occasional woman). But Tudor England also saw Muslims, Jews, Africans and Native Americans come and go from the Russia, Persia, Morocco, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Americas, making their homes and careers here, and in the process transforming the nature of early English culture and society. This series tells the stories of ten individuals that reveal a very different story of the Tudor period as a time of multicultural exchange, encounter and ordinary working people living alongside each other.
4. Aura Soltana
Presenter Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Producer Mark Rickards
A Whistledown Scotland production
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m001gtt3)
Music for night owls
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
01
00:00:59 Hildegard von Bingen
O Viridissima Virga
Music Arranger: Lilly Joel Plays The Organ
Ensemble: Lilly Joel Plays The Organ
Duration 00:05:30
02
00:05:28 Johann Sebastian Bach
Flute Sonata No. 5 in E Minor, BWV 1034: III. Andante
Performer: Andrea Oliva
Performer: Angela Hewitt
Duration 00:03:52
03
00:09:21 Arthur Stidfole (artist)
On the Other Ocean
Performer: Arthur Stidfole
Performer: Maggi Payne
Duration 00:06:42
04
00:16:03 Brother Tree Sound (artist)
Long Meadow
Performer: Brother Tree Sound
Performer: Rael Jones
Duration 00:03:10
05
00:19:13 Jack McNeill (artist)
Cello and Clarinet Theme (AI-generated arrangement)
Performer: Jack McNeill
Performer: Rebecca Knight
Duration 00:04:45
06
00:23:49 Hildegard von Bingen
Caritas abundat in omnia
Singer: Arianna Savall
Ensemble: Hirundo Maris
Duration 00:05:40
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m001hg7w)
Unclassified Live: Bell Orchestre
Elizabeth Alker presents the Montreal six-piece Bell Orchestre performing their album House Music in collaboration with the BBC Concert Orchestra for a special edition of Unclassified recorded in front of an audience at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
Alongside House Music, Bell Orchestre’s album-length suite sculpted from a 90-minute group improvisation, the ensembles also present material from violinist Sarah Neufeld's solo work Detritus in a new arrangement by Owen Pallett.
Bell Orchestre comprises Pietro Amato (French horn, keyboards, electronics), Michael Feuerstack (pedal steel guitar, keyboards, vocals) Kaveh Nabatian (trumpet, gongoma, keyboards, vocals), Sarah Neufeld (violin, vocals), Richard Reed Parry (bass, vocals), and Stefan Schneider (drums).
MUSIC PLAYED:
Sarah Neufeld - Stories (arr. Owen Pallett)
Bell Orchestre - House Music (arr. Owen Pallett)
PERFORMERS:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bell Orchestre
André de Ridder (conductor)
Sarah Neufeld (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra Senior Producer, Neil Varley
Sound Engineer, Joe Yon
Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 28 APRIL 2023
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m001l4k1)
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Hannover
Aleksey Semenenko joins Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and conductor Luigi Gaggero in a concert of works by Berezovsky, Chausson, Skoryk and Lyatoshynsky. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Maksym Berezovsky (1745-1777)
Symphony in C major
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Gaggero (conductor)
12:40 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Poème, op. 25
Aleksey Semenenko (violin), Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Gaggero (conductor)
12:57 AM
Myroslav Skoryk (1938-2020)
Melody
Aleksey Semenenko (violin), Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Gaggero (conductor)
01:01 AM
Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshynsky (1895-1968)
Symphony No. 3 in B minor, op.50 'Peace shall defeat War'
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Gaggero (conductor)
01:41 AM
Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)
Overture from the opera 'Taras Bulba'
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Gaggero (conductor)
01:46 AM
Mykhailo Verbytsky (1815-1870)
Ukraine National Anthem
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Gaggero (conductor)
01:49 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for solo Cello No.3 in C major (BWV.1009)
Guy Fouquet (cello)
02:14 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Divertimento in E flat major, Hob.
2.21
St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, Vilnius, Donatas Katkus (conductor)
02:31 AM
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Requiem Mass for chorus and orchestra No.1 in C minor
Radio Belgrad Choir, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
03:15 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata no 6 in A major, Op 30 no 1
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)
03:37 AM
Georges Auric (1899-1983), Philip Lane (arranger)
Suite from 'Passport to Pimlico'
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
03:44 AM
Anonymous
Folias de Espana
Komale Akakpo (cimbalom)
03:52 AM
David Popper (1843-1913)
Concert Polonaise, Op.14
Tomasz Daroch (cello), Maria Daroch (piano)
03:58 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Florez and Blanzeflor, Op 3
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
04:07 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Gloria for SSAA, brass quintet, timpani & percussion
Elmer Iseler Singers, Robert Venables (trumpet), Robert Devito (trumpet), Linda Broncesky (horn), Ian Cowie (trombone), Marc Bonang (tuba), Graham Hargrove (percussion), Nicolas Coulter (percussion), Lydia Adams (conductor)
04:13 AM
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
En habit de cheval
Pianoduo Kolacny (piano duo), Steven Kolacny (piano), Stijn Kolacny (piano)
04:20 AM
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
Concerto in C minor for 2 oboes, bassoon and strings, FaWV L:c2
Shai Kribus (oboe), Mirjam Huttner (oboe), Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Camerata Bern, Sergio Azzolini (director)
04:31 AM
Tauno Pylkkanen (1918-1980)
Suite for oboe and strings, Op 32
Aale Lindgren (oboe), Finnish Radio Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
04:39 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano no. 1 (Op.20) in B minor
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
04:50 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Varnatt (Spring Night)
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Skold (conductor)
04:58 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in G major, Wq.133/H.564 'Hamburger Sonata'
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
05:06 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Roses from the South - waltz, Op.388
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor)
05:16 AM
Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870)
La Gaité - Rondo brillant pour le Piano Forte in A major
Tom Beghin (fortepiano)
05:25 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quintet no 1 in F, Op 88
Sebastian String Quartet, Marco Genero (viola)
05:53 AM
Giaches de Wert (1535-1596), Torquato Tasso (author)
Qual musico gentil (As cunning singers)
Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
06:03 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K 622
Gabor Varga (clarinet), Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Montanaro (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m001l4kw)
Friday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m001l4l8)
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.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001l4lp)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Heart and soul
Donald Macleod assesses the different values Haydn placed on his friendships with a Viennese society woman of unimpeachable reputation and a vivacious London based widow, with music from Symphony no. 91 and The Creation.
The streets must have seemed like they were paved with gold when Haydn visited London in 1791. He was feted and applauded everywhere he went as one of Europe’s leading composers. He hobnobbed with royalty, the Prince of Wales commissioned a portrait of him from leading society portraitist John Hoppner. It’s still regarded as one of the best images we have today.
Haydn could hardly have imagined all this as a boy. His really is a rags-to-riches story. Born in 1732 in humble circumstances, Haydn's musical talent won him a position as a choir boy in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. However, he was forced to leave after his voice broke and, by the age of 17, he was on the streets, with only “three miserable shirts and a worn-out coat” to his name. Happily, his life did then take an upward turn. Haydn was employed by the Esterhàzys, one of the most powerful and influential families in the Hapsburg monarchy, for an astonishing 48 years.
But this week, Donald Macleod puts the public face of this internationally celebrated figure to one side. He’s going to be looking at Haydn through a narrower lens, drawing a picture of the composer through the relationships he enjoyed with some of his closest family and friends.
The part Frau Marianne Genzinger played in Haydn's life compares with none other. She was his most trusted confidante. Mrs. Schroeter was stylish and wealthy. Little wonder when their paths crossed, Haydn quickly succumbed to her charms.
Piano Trio No. 39 in G major, Hob.XV:25 'Gypsy'
III: Rondo all’ungarese
Beaux Arts Trio
Symphony no 91 in E flat major
II Andante
Berlin Philharmonic
Simon Rattle
Arianna a Naxos cantata, Hob.XXVIb / 2
Recit: "Teseo moi ben, ove sei?"
II. Aria "Dove sei, moi bel tesoro"
Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen
Piano sonata no 59, HobXVI:49 in E flat major
I: Allegro
Paul Lewis, piano
Piano Trio in F sharp minor, no 40, Hob: XV:26
II: Adagio
Altenburg Trio Wien
Die Schöpfung, excerpt from Part 3, nos 29 and 30
Aus Rosenwolken bricht
Von deiner Güt’, o Herr und Gott.
Christina Landshamer, soprano, Eva
Maximilian Schmitt, tenor, Uriel
Rudolf Rosen, bass, Adam
Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Philippe Herreweghe, director
Producer: Johannah Smith
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001l4m2)
Highlights from the 2022 Schubertiade Schwarzenberg (4/4)
Sarah Walker ends a wee of highlights from the internationally renowned celebration of Schubert, which takes place each year in the Austrian towns of Schwarzenberg and Hohenems. Today, highlights from the 2022 Festival include the Modigliani Quartet playing Schubert's String Quartet No.1 in G minor / B-flat major, Christian Zacharias performs the Piano Sonata No.18 in G major, plus another vocal quartet, the Hymn to the eternal.
SCHUBERT
Piano Sonata No.18 in G, D.894
Christian Zacharias (piano)
SCHUBERT
Hymne an den Unendlichen, D.232
Brenda Rae (soprano)
Sophie Rennert (mezzo-soprano)
Mauro Peter (tenor)
David Steffens (bass)
Helmut Deutsch (piano)
SCHUBERT
String Quartet No.1 G minor / B flat, D.18
Modigliani Quartet
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001l4md)
BBC Philharmonic and Tom Coult live
Live from its studios in Salford, the BBC Philharmonic performs a concert of music curated by its composer in association, Tom Coult. Introduced by Ian Skelly. The concert features music by Schumann and Lassus arranged by Coult, alongside items by Britten and by Coult himself.
Also this afternoon, Ian wraps up his week of afternoons with a concerto for harpsichord and piano by CPE Bach and recent recording of music by David Matthews.
Schumann: Bilder Aus Osten (Pictures of the East) No 1 - Lebhaft
Emanuela Friscioni & Antonio Pompa-Baldi (piano)
Trad: Two traditional songs from Israel and Romania
Lior Eimaleh (vocals)
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall
2.30 Live
Tom Coult Curates:
Coult: Beautiful Caged Thing
Schumann/Coult: Canonic Studies, Nos 1 and 2
Britten: Two portraits for String Orchestra
Schumann/Coult: Canonic Studies, Nos 3 and 4
Lassus/Coult: Pieces from Novae Aliquot (world premiere)
(soloist Anna Dennis)
Schumann/Coult: Canonic Studies, Nos 5 and 6
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Gourlay (conductor)
CPE Bach: Concerto for harpsichord and piano in E flat, H479 Wq47
Christine Schornsheim (piano)
Michael Behringer (harpsichord)
Freiburger Barockorchesterflat,
Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor)
David Matthews: Chaconne
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m001l4kp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m001l4mq)
The Swingles, Matilda Lloyd and Martin Cousin
The vocal group The Swingles join Sean Rafferty and perform live, ahead of their 'Vocal Weekender' in Wilton.
Also performing live is trumpeter Matilda Lloyd, as she is releasing her new album 'Casta Diva: operatic arias transcribed for trumpet'; she is accompanied by pianist Martin Cousin.
FRI 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001l4n0)
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world. On this mixtape Edward Elgar takes us on a stroll down the promenade and American jazz virtuoso Cecile McLorin Savant takes us to the cabaret halls of 1920s France. Along the way there are concertos for mandolin, a stirring version of Bach's Goldberg variations and a beautifully reflective bit of Melancholia from Duke Ellington via guitarist Zoran Dukic.
Producer: Nick Taylor
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001l4nb)
Baroque flights of fancy from the Academy of Ancient Music
’Tis Nature’s Voice: the Academy of Ancient Music present a sonic extravaganza from six masters of the Baroque.
Expect the unexpected at this concert from Milton Court in London as Bojan Čičić and the Academy of Ancient Music open the baroque era’s musical joke book for an evening of novelties, parodies and flights of fancy. Biber, Schmelzer, Farina and Scheidt transform the world around them into music with the sounds of a fencing school, a busy street, a city bell-tower and the chaos and clamour of battle. Expect bagpipes and bullets, pealing bells and rollicking dance tunes – plus a bunch of violins that think they’re harps. This is the baroque era with a smile on its face.
Presented by Ian Skelly
Farina: Capriccio stravagante
Westhoff: Violin Spnata 'Imitazione delle campane'
Walther: Hortulus Chelicus, No. 28: Serenata a un coro di violini
Scheidt: Ludi musici - Galliard battaglia à 5
Interval music: Francesco Piemontesi plays Liszt's Legende S.175 No. 1, St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds
Schmelzer: Balletto à 4 ‘Fechtschule’
Biber: Mensa sonora, Pars VI
Schmelzer: Polnische Sackpfeiffen
Biber: Battaglia à 10
Academy of Ancient Music
Bojan Čičić director and violin
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m001l4nl)
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m001l4ns)
We Other Tudors
Manteo
Jerry Brotton listens for the voices and tells the stories of the ‘other Tudors’: ten men and women from across the world that lived, worked, worshipped and died in Tudor England.
The popular fascination with the Tudors tends to concentrate on the lives of white, elite, English-born men (and the occasional woman). But Tudor England also saw Muslims, Jews, Africans and Native Americans come and go from the Russia, Persia, Morocco, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Americas, making their homes and careers here, and in the process transforming the nature of early English culture and society. This series tells the stories of ten individuals that reveal a very different story of the Tudor period as a time of multicultural exchange, encounter and ordinary working people living alongside each other.
5. Manteo
Presenter Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London
Producer Mark Rickards
A Whistledown Scotland production
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m001l4nz)
Lonnie Holley’s mixtape
Verity Sharp shares the latest Late Junction mixtape from Atlanta-based artist, educator and cosmic ponderer Lonnie Holley. Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity, first as a visual artist and later developing his musical practice. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, during the Jim Crow era, Holley’s early life was nothing short of chaotic, moving between foster homes (infamously traded at one point for a bottle of whiskey), working various jobs, from picking up litter to digging graves, and losing his home to an expansion of the local airport. He also did time at a notorious juvenile facility, the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, in Mount Meigs, which he documents on his latest album Oh Me Oh My. With this latest record, Holley’s stream-of-consciousness lyrics are distilled to their core, offering a profound exploration of our place in the cosmos, how we relate to one another, overcome adversity and care for our planet. Or, as Holley would say: “Thumbs up for Mother Universe”.
Elsewhere in the show, New York rock band SQÜRL tread the line between delicacy and devastation with their music for big drums and distorted guitars and we delve into a new collection of South Sea Island spirituals.
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)
22/04/2023
18:30 SAT (m001l4fs)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (m001l4cq)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m001l4hd)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m001l4lk)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m001l4gf)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m001l4md)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m001l4f0)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m001l4hm)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m001l4c3)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m001l4gd)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m001l4jw)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m001l4g3)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m001l4kw)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m001kvq5)
Choral Evensong
16:00 WED (m001l4ly)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 MON (m001l4d3)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m001l4j4)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 WED (m001l4mm)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 THU (m001l4gy)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m001l4n0)
Composed
01:00 SAT (m001kvtq)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m001l4cc)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m001l4gx)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m001l4kq)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m001l4g7)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m001l4lp)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (m001l4lv)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m001l4c7)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m001l4gn)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m001l4k9)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m001l4g5)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m001l4l8)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m001l4jz)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m001l4n8)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m001l4hh)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m001l4fz)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m001l4cz)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m001l4hq)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m001l4m9)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m001l4gp)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m001l4mq)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m001l4fd)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m001l4fq)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m001l4k8)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m001l4nz)
Mindful Mix
19:50 SAT (m001l4fv)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m001l4d8)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m001l4d8)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m001l4fn)
New Generation Artists
16:30 MON (m001l4cv)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m001l4fx)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m001d68g)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m001d695)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m001d671)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m001l4jf)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m001kvs9)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m001l4ck)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m001l4h4)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m001l4l3)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m001l4g9)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m001l4m2)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m001l4d6)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m001l4jj)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m001l4my)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m001l4h6)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m001l4nb)
Record Review Extra
21:30 SUN (m001l4m6)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m001l4f4)
Sound of Cinema
15:00 SAT (m001l4fj)
Sounds Connected
00:00 MON (m001l4mt)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m001l4lh)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m001l4j1)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m001l4jv)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m001l4db)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m001l4kd)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m001l4nh)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m001l4ht)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (m001l4ns)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m001l4kp)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m001l4kp)
The Music & Meditation Podcast
02:00 SAT (p0f6ck1x)
The Music & Meditation Podcast
02:30 SAT (p0f6fd2v)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m001gtt3)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m001l4nl)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m001l4f8)
Through the Night
03:00 SAT (m001kvtz)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m001l4g2)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m001l4n4)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m001l4dh)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m001l4l5)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m001l4ny)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m001l4k1)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m001hg7w)
Viola: The Unsung Hero
23:00 SUN (m001l4mh)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m001l4l4)