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SATURDAY 03 AUGUST 2024
SAT 00:30 Through the Night (m00219nm)
Argovia Philharmonic
Louis Schwizgebel joins the Argovia Philharmonic for a concert in Switzerland, including Mozart's Piano Concerto no 20 and Nielsen's 5th Symphony. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Wasps - overture
Argovia Philharmonic, Douglas Bostock (conductor)
12:42 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto no 20 in D minor, K.466
Louis Schwizgebel (piano), Argovia Philharmonic, Douglas Bostock (conductor)
01:12 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Allegretto in C minor, D.915
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
01:18 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Symphony no 5, Op.50
Argovia Philharmonic, Douglas Bostock (conductor)
01:53 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quartet in D minor, K.421
Young Danish String Quartet
02:20 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
3 Lyric Pieces (Op 43/5, Op 54/3, Op 54/4)
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
02:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata: 'Ich hatte viel Bekummernis' BWV.21
Antonella Balducci (soprano), Frieder Lang (tenor), Fulvio Bettini (baritone), Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Ensemble Vanitas Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
03:06 AM
Jordi Cervello (1935-2022)
To Bach
Atrium Quartet
03:17 AM
Jean Francaix (1912-1997)
Concerto (Divertissement) for bassoon and 11 String Instruments (1968)
Laurent Lefevre (bassoon), Swiss Romande Orchestra, Marc Kissoczy (conductor)
03:39 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
To a Nordic Princess (bridal song) vers. piano
Leslie Howard (piano)
03:47 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
An der schonen Blauen Donau (Blue Danube), Op.314
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
03:56 AM
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
3 Pieces for cello and piano
Zoltan Despond (cello), Vesselin Stanev (piano)
04:04 AM
Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799)
Concerto grosso for strings and continuo in E flat major Op 3 No 4
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
04:17 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)
04:26 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Venetian Boat Song from 'Songs Without Words', book II, Op 30'6
Jane Coop (piano)
04:31 AM
Bernardo Storace (1637-1707)
Ciaccona
United Continuo Ensemble
04:37 AM
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Sonata for harp
Godelieve Schrama (harp)
04:48 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Sonata no 1 in G major
Romanian National Chamber Orchestra, Ludovic Bacs (conductor)
05:01 AM
Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521)
Motet Inviolata, integra et casta es (5 part)
Montreal Early Music Studio, Christopher Jackson (director)
05:07 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Scherzo Capriccioso Op 66
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
05:20 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Polonaise in A flat, Op.53
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano)
05:26 AM
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Jauchzet Gott, alle Lande - motet for double chorus & bc
Cantus Colln, Konrad Junghanel (director)
05:33 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909), orch. Enrique Arbos
Iberia
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
06:04 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34
James Campbell (clarinet), Orford String Quartet
SAT 06:30 Breakfast (m0021jnp)
Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast
Join Elizabeth Alker to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.
SAT 09:00 Saturday Morning (m0021jnr)
Tom Service talks to Benjamin Grosvenor
Tom Service talks to star pianist Benjamin Grosvenor ahead of his appearance at the BBC Proms and plays the best classical music alongside discussing the latest stories in the arts world.
SAT 12:00 Earlier... with Jools Holland (m001y9qf)
Jools with some of his most-loved classical recordings
In a new show for Saturday lunchtimes, Jools shares his lifelong passion for classical music, and the beautiful connections with jazz and blues. With fascinating guests each week, who bring their own favourite music and occasionally perform live in Jools's studio.
Today, Jools's choices include music by Handel, Beethoven and Hélène de Montgeroult, with performances from James P. Johnson, the Busch Quartet and a young Charlie Parker. His guest is the singer Louise Marshall who performs with Jools at the piano and talks about growing up in a highly musical family with her brother the organist Wayne Marshall and sister the mezzo soprano Melanie Marshall. She introduces music she loves by John Stainer, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
SAT 13:00 Music Matters (m0021jnt)
Nicola Benedetti and the Edinburgh International Festival
Beginnings
‘Where do we go from here?’ was Nicola Benedetti’s eye-catching provocation in her first ever Festival as Director. In this first episode of a new series, Nicola reflects on the Festival’s beginnings. In the dark days of austerity after World War II, opera impresario Rudolf Bing set up the Edinburgh International Festival as a way to reunite people through great art. It was a vision that has enriched our cultural life ever since. Nicola looks at early challenges, the legacies left by some of the Directors, as well as asking whether its original remit is still relevant today.
With contributions from composers Thea Musgrave and James MacMillan, cellist Abel Selaocoe, previous festival directors Robert Ponsonby, Brian McMaster and Jonathan Mills and broadcaster James Naughtie.
SAT 14:00 Record Review (m0021jnx)
BBC Proms Composer: Purcell with Joseph McHardy and Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music
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BBC Proms Composer: Henry Purcell
Joseph McHardy joins Andrew to choose five indispensable recordings of composer Henry Purcell, who is featured in the 2024 BBC Proms, and explain why you need to hear them.
Purcell was master of operatic stage works such as Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen, sacred and secular cantatas, and intimate chamber consort works harking back to Dowland.
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Proms Recording
To round off each edition of Record Review, Andrew introduces the Building a Library recommendation of a major work featured in this year's BBC Proms.
Smetana: Ma Vlast
Jakub Hrusa (conductor)
Prague Philharmonia
Supraphon SU 4032-2
SAT 16:00 Sound of Gaming (m0021jnz)
The music of Star Wars: Outlaws
Elle Osili-Wood's guest is composer Wilbert Roget II to talk about his music for the brand new Star Wars game - Star Wars: Outlaws. Along the way we encounter all sorts of other rule-breakers, from the games that challenge our preconceptions about what they are (Dave The Diver, an action adventure which becomes a role-playing game and then a management simulator!) to games that ask the player what rules they are prepared to break (Papers. Please) and Metal Gear Solid, which challenges you to question its own rules.
Producer: Barnaby Gordon
SAT 17:00 This Classical Life (m001p7qr)
Jess Gillam with... Braimah Kanneh-Mason
Jess Gillam and violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason swap some of their favourite tracks and chat about their lives in music. Braimah comes armed with a classic Beethoven recording by violinist Itzhak Perlman, a feel good tune by The Melodians and a Haydn quartet. Meanwhile Jess spins Rachmaninov at his most romantic, Monteverdi by the ensemble l'Arpeggiata and a soaring performance by Etta James.
Playlist:
HAYDN – String Quartet, op.33 no 2 ‘The Joke’ 1st mvt Allegro Moderato [London Haydn Players]
ETTA JAMES – At Last
RACHMANINOV – Symphony no 2 – 3rd mvt ‘Adagio’ [London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (cond)]
JOSEPH ACHRON – Hebrew Melody, op.33 [Josef Hassid (violin), Gerald Moore (piano)]
MONTEVERDI, arr. Pluhar – Zefiro Torna, SV251 [Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Nuria Rial (soprano), l’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (director)]
THE MELODIANS: Rivers of Babylon
TRAD: Ku-Isa Tama Laug [David Darling (cello), The Wulu Bunun]
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D, op.61 – 3rd mvt [Itzhak Perlman (violin), Berlin Philharmonic/Daniel Barenboim (conductor)]
(revised repeat)
SAT 18:00 Music Planet (m0021jp2)
WOMAD 2024: Seckou Keita, Asmaa Hamzaoui, Faiz Ali Faiz
Lopa Kothari with recordings from last weekend's WOMAD Festival including sets by Seckou Keita and his Senegalese Homeland band, Morocco's Asmaa Hamzaoui with her all-female gnawa group Bnat Timbouktou, and from Pakistan, the powerful qawwali singing of Faiz Ali Faiz and his group. Plus interviews with highlife legend Pat Thomas, Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena and "digital voodoo" five-piece Nana Benz du Togo.
SAT 19:30 BBC Proms (m0021jp4)
2024
Prom 19: Elgar’s Cello Concerto
Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo perform Elgar, Jonathan Harvey, and Holst's the Cloud Messenger with the BBC Symphony Chorus and contralto Jess Dandy.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Martin Handley
Jonathan Harvey: Tranquil Abiding
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
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8.20pm
INTERVAL: Writer Kate Kennedy joins Martin to explore some of Holst's lesser-known works
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8.40pm
Gustav Holst: The Cloud Messenger
Jess Dandy (contralto)
Senja Rummukainen (cello)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Deeply in love and enlightened by Sanskrit literature, Gustav Holst embarked upon what many consider his true masterpiece. The Cloud Messenger recounts an ancient tale in which a man sends a message of love to his distant wife via a passing cloud. It drew from the composer a rich and passionate work charting love’s trials and rewards. This performance, marking 150 years since Holst’s birth, comes after Elgar’s ever-popular, bittersweet Cello Concerto - with soloist Senja Rummukainen making her Proms debut - and the gentle exhalations of Jonathan Harvey’s Tranquil Abiding, inspired by Buddhist meditation.
SAT 22:00 The Lebrecht Interview (m0021jp6)
American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Norman Lebrecht interviews the American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas about life, death, music and his memories of Gershwin, Bernstein and Stravinsky.
SAT 22:45 New Music Show (m0021jp9)
Eavesdropping: Maria Portugal
Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music, including music by Brazilian musician Mariá Portugal (from this year's eavesdropping festival). Plus music for seven electric guitars by Christian Wolff, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
SUNDAY 04 AUGUST 2024
SUN 00:30 Through the Night (m0021jpc)
Gstaad Menuhin Festival
Katia and Marielle Labèque join Gstaad Festival Orchestra and conductor Jaap van Zweden in Mozart's Piano Concerto no 10 for Two Pianos plus works by Wagner and Shostakovich. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Prelude and Liebestod from 'Tristan und Isolde'
Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden (conductor)
12:47 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto no 10 in E flat for Two Pianos, K. 365
Katia Labeque (piano), Marielle Labeque (piano), Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden (conductor)
01:12 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Jardin féerique, from 'Ma mère l'oye'
Katia Labeque (piano), Marielle Labeque (piano)
01:15 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony no 9 in E flat, Op 70
Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden (conductor)
01:40 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance no 8 in G minor, Op 46
Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden (conductor)
01:44 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Hungarian Dance no 5
Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden (conductor)
01:47 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for violin and keyboard in B flat major, K.454
Johannes Leertouwer (violin), Derk Pik (piano)
02:10 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Eine Leichenfantasie D.7
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (piano)
02:31 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Stabat Mater (1723)
Valeria Popova (soprano), Penka Dilova (mezzo soprano), Tolbuhin Children's Chorus, Bulgarian National Radio Sinfonietta, Dragomir Nenov (conductor)
03:12 AM
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867-1942)
Frosoblomster for Piano, Book 2 (1900)
Johan Ullen (piano)
03:37 AM
Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909)
Noveletta for orchestra, Op 82 no 2
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
03:43 AM
Judith Weir (1954-)
The Bagpiper's String Trio
Nanos Trio
03:51 AM
Robert de Visee (c.1655-1733)
Suite no 9 in D minor
Komale Akakpo (cimbalom)
03:59 AM
Le Concert Brise
Improvisation on 'La Monica'
Le Concert Brise, William Dongois (director)
04:07 AM
Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884)
The Masque of Pandora (Two Intermezzi)
BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon (conductor)
04:16 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
O, I'm sick of life, Z.140
Samuel Boden (tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (director)
04:21 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 383a, Op 4'1
Fabio Biondi (violin), Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
04:31 AM
Vaino Haapalainen (1893-1945)
Lemminkainen Overture (1925)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atso Almila (conductor)
04:39 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade for piano no 1 in G minor, Op 23
Zbigniew Raubo (piano)
04:49 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata, 'O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht', BWV 118
Collegium Vocale Gent, Collegium Vocale Gent Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
04:58 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, Op 66
Miklos Perenyi (cello), Dezso Ranki (piano)
05:08 AM
William Walton (1902-1983)
Orb and sceptre - coronation march
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards (conductor)
05:16 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto in A minor for Two Recorders, TWV.52:a2
Lea Sobbe (recorder), Hojin Kwon (recorder), Jorg-Andreas Botticher (harpsichord), Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
05:26 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Suite no 2 for 2 pianos, Op 17
Ouellet-Murray Duo (piano duo)
05:50 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Festmusik der Stadt Wien AV.133 for brass and percussion
Tom Watson (trumpet), Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
06:01 AM
Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)
Oboe Quintet in F major, Op 107
Les Adieux
SUN 06:30 Breakfast (m0021jtl)
Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m0021jtn)
Your perfect Sunday soundtrack
Sarah Walker with two hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.
Today, lutenist Paul O’Dette ushers in the morning with a gently wistful melody from John Dowland, the Britten Sinfonia play one of Elgar's most charming works for orchestra and Madeleine Dring takes us on a trip to Southern Italy.
Sarah also chooses music from Polish composer Hania Rani, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra turn to one of Bach’s most comforting chorales.
Plus, Debussy explores the movement of the ocean…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 11:00 BBC Proms (m0021jtq)
2024
Prom 20: Songs and Dances with the Kanneh-Masons
Live at the BBC Proms: Songs and Dances with the Kanneh-Masons and the Fantasia Orchestra conducted by Tom Fetherstonhaugh for music including Brahms, Dvořák, and Stevie Wonder.
Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Trad. (Serbian arr. H. Baker, T. Fetherstonhaugh & S. Kanneh-Mason): Ajde Jano
Trad. (arr. H. Baker & S. Parkin) Scarborough Fair
Johannes Brahms (arr. H. Baker): Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
Hungarian Dance No. 2 in D minor
Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor
Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
Burt Bacharach (arr. H. Baker & S. Kanneh-Mason): I Say a Little Prayer
Bob Marley (arr. Kanneh-Masons & H. Baker): Redemption Song
Laura Mvula (arr. H. Baker): Sing to the Moon
Antonín Dvořák (arr. Harry Baker): Rusalka – ‘Song to the Moon’
Antônio Carlos Jobim (arr. S. Assad & H. Baker): The Girl From Ipanema
Astor Piazzolla (arr. H. Baker): Libertango
Stevie Wonder (arr. H. Baker): I Wish
Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards (arr. H. Baker & S. Kanneh-Mason) Good Times
Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin)
Sheku Kanneh‐Mason (cello)
Plínio Fernandes (guitar)
Fantasia Orchestra
Tom Fetherstonhaugh (conductor)
A concert of folk songs, dances, prayers and incantations, featuring brothers Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the captivating Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes. The dynamic Fantasia Orchestra makes its Proms debut under its founder, Tom Fetherstonhaugh.
SUN 13:00 Music Map (m0021jts)
A journey to Ravel's Bolero
Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps the musical terrain around Ravel’s Bolero, wandering down sonic avenues that link music across time and space. From Pachelbel's Canon to Mosolov's Iron Foundry, via Cuba, Madrid and Torvill and Dean, Sara charts a musical journey towards Ravel's iconic orchestral work.
SUN 14:30 New Generation Artists (m0021jtv)
Dvorak's Gypsy Melodies from Niamh O'Sullivan
Geneva Lewis joins Ryan Corbett at the BBC studios in an arrangement for violin and accordion of one of Ernest Bloch's haunting Pictures from Chassidic Life. That's followed by Dvorak's Gypsy Melodies, which pay homage to the sounds of his beloved Moravia. That set includes ‘Songs My Mother Taught Me’, which became one of his most widely arranged pieces. The charismatic mezzo, Niamh O'Sullivan sang them in Birmingham earlier this year at the Barber Lunchtime Series. And, to end, a melancholic tune which has become almost the unofficial anthem of Georgia.
Bloch: Nigun (Baal Shem - 3 Pictures From Chassidic Life, No 2)
Geneva Lewis (violin), Ryan Corbett (accordion)
Dvorak: 7 Gypsy Melodies Op. 55
My song sounds of love
Ah, how my triangle rings
The forest is quiet all around
Songs my mother taught me
The string is tuned
Wide sleeves
Give a hawk a cage
Niamh O'Sullivan (mezzo soprano), Gary Beecher (piano)
Giya Kancheli arr. Luka Okros: Herio Bichebo (Earth, This Is Your Son)
Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Luka Okros (piano)
SUN 15:00 BBC Proms (m0021jtx)
2024
Proms Newport: vision string quartet with Mahan Mirarab
Live at the BBC Proms: vision string quartet and Mahan Mirarab perform Dvořák's Quartet No 13 alongside an eclectic second-half fusing jazz, classical and Middle Eastern styles.
Presented by Verity Sharp, live from The Riverfront, Newport
Ernest Bloch: Prélude, B63
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No 13 in G major
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3.45pm
INTERVAL
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4.05pm
original works
Mahan Mirarab, guitar
vision string quartet
At Newport for the first time, the Proms hosts a string ensemble from Berlin that is half quartet, half band – and the programme it brings proves the point. The first half sees Bloch’s solemn Prelude and one of Dvořák’s most astonishing string quartets – a piece charged by Romantic emotions but imbued with Classical order. After the interval the rules go out of the window thanks to the boundless energy of the vision string quartet’s collaboration with Mahan Mirarab, the guitarist who combines the sounds of the Middle East with jazz. Expect grooving rhythms, tearaway improvisations and an irresistible fusion of musical worlds.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m0021jtz)
James Baldwin
Adrian Lester reads from the novels and essays of the Black American writer, James Baldwin; set alongside Music and Archive recordings of Baldwin. This programme contains some strong discriminatory language.
Writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York on August 2, 1924, the eldest of nine children.
To be a black person in America, Baldwin once said, was to be “in a state of rage almost all of the time.” The racial injustices he witnessed and endured were compounded by his experiences as a gay man, and his writing is deeply embedded in the nuances of racial and sexual identity.
Baldwin’s first collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son, includes a haunting memoir of the life and death of his stepfather, an evangelical preacher, with whom he had a fraught relationship. During the summer of his fourteenth birthday, Baldwin underwent a dramatic religious conversion and served as a junior minister for three years in a small Pentecostal church, a period he wrote about in his semi-autobiographical first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain. His second collection of essays The Fire Next Time is told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', one of which is addressed to his 15-year-old nephew, James.
We’ll hear an extract from Giovanni’s Room – the novel he published in 1956 which follows a young American man in Paris and explores bi-sexuality, power balances and social isolation, and he became a public figure, taking part in debates and TV shows and publishing books which have been turned into Oscar nominated films, documentaries and have inspired many later activists and writers.
Although Baldwin would claim that he didn't ‘know anything about music’, the prose of his novel Another Country attempts to emulate the sound of jazz musicians, and his fiction and non-fiction is punctuated with references to the blues, gospel and jazz and today’s Words and Music includes performances by Bessie Smith, John Coltrane and Nina Simone. We also hear classical work by Florence Price, George Walker, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Margaret Bonds and an extract from an artwork by Tavares Strachan called There is a Light in Darkness Blue neon, yellow neon and synchronised audio art installation courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery and the Artist, 2024. This is currently on show in the Hayward Gallery exhibition of Tavares Strachan's work which runs until Sept 1st.
Producer: Cecile Wright
Readings:
archive of James Baldwin
excerpts from Giovanni’s Room
No Name in the Street
Another Country
Go Tell it On the Mountain
The Fire Next Time
Baldwin archive
Notes of a Native Son
Another Country
Sonny’s Blues
Letter to my nephew
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m001dpfl)
Chasing the Dream
New Generation Thinker Dr Hetta Howes investigates why artists from Chaucer to Taylor Swift have found creative inspiration in restless nights and interrupted dreams.
Taylor Swift's latest album Midnights promises 'a journey through terrors and sweet dreams', and she's by no means the first artist to find creative fuel in nocturnal visions. In the Middle Ages, ‘dream poetry’ like Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess, became a distinctive, and wildly popular, genre of writing. Dream poems are framed by a restless narrator falling asleep and learning of a story that somehow relates to problems they're trying to process in waking life. On waking the narrator writes down the dream and this becomes the poem.
Using the structure of a Medieval 'dream poem', this programme will take listeners on a journey through the twilight realm between sleeping and waking, exploring the relationship between sleeplessness and creativity. Hetta hears from Dr Lotte Reinbold, an expert on dream poetry at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She also speaks to Professor Mark Blagrove about why restless sleep can prompt us to remember our dreams more vividly, and to the award-winning poet David Harsent who keeps a pad and pen by the bed to record dream fragments on waking.
Producer: Ellie Bury
Reader: Hughie O'Donnell
SUN 19:00 BBC Proms (m0021jv1)
2024
Prom 21: The Sinfonia of London and John Wilson
Live at the BBC Proms: John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London with Steven Osborne, piano, with a programme including Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue and Adams Harmonielehre.
Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Wynton Marsalis: Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! (UK premiere)
Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid – suite
Samuel Barber: Adagio for strings
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grofé)
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8.05pm
INTERVAL: Composer, theatre director, lyricist and translator Jeremy Sams picks some plums from the week ahead at the Royal Albert Hall and shares his highlights with Ian Skelly.
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8.25pm
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
John Adams: Harmonielehre
Steven Osborne (piano)
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson (conductor)
John Adams once dreamt of an oil tanker rising out of San Francisco Bay, soaring into the sky like a rocket. That dream prompted Harmonielehre, a luscious, churning score that fuses Minimalism and Wagnerism. The work concludes a programme of scintillating American classics from John Wilson and his all-star orchestra – including Copland’s ballet on the folk hero Billy the Kid, haunting pieces by Barber and Ives, Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue (100 years old this year) and jazz living legend Wynton Marsalis’s brassy, swingy Herald, Holler and Hallelujah!
SUN 22:00 Night Tracks (m001y2j7)
Music after dark
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
SUN 23:30 Unclassified (m001vlmp)
New York States of Mind
Elizabeth Alker looks across the Atlantic for inspiration in this episode of Unclassified, presenting the latest experimental and ambient sounds to emerge from one of the world's great centres of adventurous music: New York City. Arto Lindsay, a longstanding figure in the city’s avant rock scene, releases a recording of an ambitious installation piece in which he recreates the atmosphere and sounds of a carnival parade inside a white cube. Post-metal Brooklyn outfit Guhts, meanwhile, blend synths and strings with the harsher, more abrasive sounds of the city. And, in a nod to New York’s pioneering past, Elizabeth plays a drone-infused slice from a fresh re-issue of the seminal recording Dreamhouse 78’ 17" by La Monte Young.
Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
MONDAY 05 AUGUST 2024
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m0021jv3)
Bach Cantatas from Switzerland
The Capricornus Consort Basel and countertenor Jan Börner perform a pair of cantatas by JS Bach. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata: Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170
Jan Borner (counter tenor), Capricornus Consort Basel, Peter Barczi (director)
12:54 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Pièce d'orgue in G major, BWV 572 arr. for strings and continuo
Capricornus Consort Basel, Peter Barczi (director)
01:03 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, cantata
Jan Borner (counter tenor), Capricornus Consort Basel, Peter Barczi (director)
01:30 AM
Josquin des Prez (c1440-1521)
Missa de Beata Virgine
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
02:05 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flute Concerto in G major (Wq 169)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
02:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony no 3 in F major, Op 90
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
03:06 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in G major, Op 18'2
Bartok String Quartet
03:30 AM
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), arr. Stanislaw Wiechowicz
6 Lieder, Op 18 (arranged for choir)
Polish Radio Chorus, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)
03:41 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Trio for 2 flutes and continuo in G major Op 16 No 4
La Stagione Frankfurt
03:51 AM
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Piano Sonata, Op 1
David Huang (piano)
04:04 AM
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Organ Concerto in D major
Wolfgang Brunner (organ), Salzburger Hofmusik, Wolfgang Brunner (director)
04:15 AM
Elisabeth Kuyper (1877-1953)
Der Pfeil und das Lied; Marien Lied; Ich komme Heim (Op 17 nos 1, 2 & 3)
Irene Maessen (soprano), Frans van Ruth (piano)
04:22 AM
Matthias Schmitt (b.1958)
Ghanaia
Colin Currie (percussion)
04:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
The Hebrides Overture, Op 26
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
04:42 AM
Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923)
Mädchengestalten, Op 42
Franziska Heinzen (soprano), Benjamin Mead (piano)
04:51 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in F for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello, RV569
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr (oboe), Markus Muller (oboe), Anneke Scott (horn), Joseph Walters (horn), moni Fischaleck (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
05:04 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Piano Medley
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
05:11 AM
Jacques Gallot (1625-1696)
Pieces de Lute in C minor
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
05:21 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), orch. Maurice Ravel
Tarantelle styrienne
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
05:27 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
05:43 AM
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960)
Konzertstuck for cello and orchestra in D major, Op 12
Dmitri Ferschtman (cello), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernhard Klee (conductor)
06:05 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata no 10 in C major, K.330
Geoffrey Lancaster (pianoforte)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m0021jyd)
Ease into the day with classical music
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.
Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:30 Essential Classics (m0021jyg)
Refresh your morning with classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
MON 13:00 Classical Live (m0021jyj)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom plus music from the Kurt Weill Festival
Today’s Classical Live includes another chance to hear last Saturday night’s Prom featuring contralto Jess Dandy, cellist Senja Rummukainen, the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo. The performance of Holst’s The Cloud Messenger marks 150 years since the composer's birth. Also in the programme, Elgar’s ever-popular, bittersweet Cello Concerto and the gentle exhalations of Jonathan Harvey’s Tranquil Abiding, inspired by Buddhist meditation.
To start today’s Classical Live, there will be exclusively recorded performances from the Berlin Chamber Orchestra. Part of a concert recorded at the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau earlier this year exploring music from across the centuries by women composers .
From the Kurt Weill Festival 2024:
Dame Ethel Smyth
Suite in E Op. 1a
Berlin Chamber Orchestra
Gabriel Adorjan (conductor)
Elena Kats-Chernin
From Anna Magdalena's Music Book
Berlin Chamber Orchestra
Gabriel Adorjan (conductor)
Maddalena Laura Lombardi Sirmen
Violin Concerto in A, Op. 3 No. 3
Liv Migdal (violin)
Berlin Chamber Orchestra
Gabriel Adorjan (conductor)
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From the BBC Proms:
Jonathan Harvey
Tranquil Abiding
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto
Senja Rummukainen (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Gustav Holst
The Cloud Messenger
Jess Dandy (contralto)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
MON 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0021jyl)
Musical Olympians - Joseph Bologne
Basse-Terre to Paris: 1745 - 1764
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of a musician also remarkable for his sporting prowess. Joseph Bologne’s story throws a light on the political turbulence affecting France in the 18th century, and on the legacy of colonialism and slavery.
Bologne is celebrated as the first composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in Europe.
Today, we look at Bologne’s early life growing up in Guadeloupe, the beautiful tropical island and French overseas department in the Caribbean, from where he moved with his family to Angoulême, before settling in Paris.
Donald is joined by Olivette Otele, distinguished Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
String Quartet in G minor, Op 1, No 3 (2nd mvt, Rondeau)
Jean-Nöel Molard String Quartet
Symphonie Concertante in A major, Op 10, No 2
Yury Revich and Libor Ježek, violins
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of Pardubice
Michael Halász, conductor
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 3, No 1
Zefira Valova, violin
Il Pomo d’Oro
Symphony in G major, Op 11, No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Paul Freeman, conductor
Produced by Iain Chamber for BBC Audio Wales & West
MON 17:00 In Tune (m0021jyp)
Wind down from work with classical music
Live music and conversation with Sean Rafferty, including a performance by vocal ensemble Apollo5.
MON 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m000zbyw)
Expand your horizons with classical music
Half an hour of back-to-back classical music to help you wind down at the end of a busy day. Today's mix includes music by Chopin, Corelli, Grieg and Mompou.
MON 19:30 BBC Proms (m0021jyt)
2024
Prom 23: Grosvenor plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto
Live at the BBC Proms: Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances and Busoni's Piano Concerto performed by the Rodolfus Choir and the London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and conductor Edward Gardner
Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
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8.05pm
INTERVAL: Pianist and Busoni expert Karl Lutchmayer paints a picture of who Busoni was and the influences that shaped his music. He also explores the story of the piano concerto, and Busoni's piano music, at the Proms, from John Ogdon to Peter Donohoe.
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8.25pm
Busoni: Piano Concerto
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
The Rodolfus Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Ready for something completely different? Marking the centenary of the composer’s death, Ferruccio Busoni’s gargantuan Piano Concerto is perhaps better described as a symphony in five movements, capped by a male chorus. Woven through Busoni’s bizarrely wonderful and utterly engrossing score is one of the most challenging piano parts ever committed to paper – tackled tonight by British star pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Before it, Edward Gardner and his London Philharmonic forces whet the appetite with the snap, crackle and pop of Rachmaninov’s riveting Symphonic Dances.
MON 22:15 Night Tracks (m0021jyw)
The constant harmony machine
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
MON 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0021jyy)
Kevin Le Gendre sits in
Journalist, author and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre sits in for Soweto all this week on 'Round Midnight.
From Monday to Thursday, British vocalist and actor Elaine Delmar is Kevin's guest.
Elaine has just released her new album, Speak Low, and has live dates planned for the next few months, including the Scarborough Jazz Festival in September. She'll be selecting a treasure each night from her personal record collection in a segment called 4/4. Her first choice is by Gil Evans.
Plus, there's music from Etienne Charles, Ant Law and Zanja All Stars.
TUESDAY 06 AUGUST 2024
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m0021jz0)
Haydn's The Creation
Giovanni Antonini conducts the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Basel Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Haydn's mighty Creation from the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
The Creation - oratorio, Hob XXI:2
Nikola Hillebrand (soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Florian Boesch (bass), Bavarian Radio Chorus, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
02:11 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Arietta and 12 variations, Hob.XVII/3
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
02:31 AM
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960)
Suite in F sharp minor, Op 19
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
03:00 AM
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op 2
Tale Olsson (violin), Johanna Sjunnesson (cello), Mats Jansson (piano)
03:29 AM
John Blow (1649-1708)
Venus and Adonis (dance extracts)
Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
03:36 AM
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Sonatina for clarinet & piano (1956)
Valentin Uriupin (clarinet), Yelena Komissarova (piano)
03:48 AM
Armas Jarnefelt (1869-1968)
Korsholma - Symphonic Poem
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Soderblom (conductor)
04:05 AM
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-c.1678)
Laudate pueri - psalm for 8 voices
Cappella Artemisia, Maria Christina Cleary (harp), Francesca Torelli (theorbo), Bettini Hoffmann (gamba), Miranda Aureli (organ), Candace Smith (director)
04:14 AM
Flor Alpaerts (1876-1954)
Capriccio - Luim (Merriment)
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
04:19 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), transc. Joseph Petric
Adagio and rondo for glass harmonica/accordion, flute, oboe, vla & vcl, K617
Joseph Petric (accordion), Moshe Hammer (violin), Marie Berard (violin), Douglas Perry (viola), David Hetherington (cello)
04:31 AM
Uuno Klami (1900-1961)
Serenades joyeuses
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jussi Jalas (conductor)
04:37 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
4 Schemelli Chorales (BWV.478, 484, 492 and 502)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Marco Fink (bass baritone), Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
04:47 AM
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Concert fantasy on Carmen for violin and orchestra, Op 25
Julia Fischer (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
05:01 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Allegro moderato (Song without words), Op 8 No 1 (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
05:07 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Lyric poem in D flat major, Op 12
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor)
05:18 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Sonatina for cello & piano
Laszlo Mezo (cello), Lorant Szucs (piano)
05:27 AM
Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962)
Kentonia
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Bell (conductor)
05:34 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Stabat Mater
Camerata Silesia - Katowice City Singers, Anna Szostak (director)
05:43 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Trittico botticelliano (Three Botticelli Pictures), P.151
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
06:04 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
String Quartet in G minor, Op 10
Tilev String Quartet
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m0021jz2)
Sunrise classical
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.
Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:30 Essential Classics (m0021jz4)
The best classical morning music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
TUE 13:00 Classical Live (m0021jz6)
Sinfonia of London Prom plus Schola Cantorum de Venezuela at the Edinburgh International Festival
Today’s Classical Live includes another chance to hear last Sunday night’s Prom featuring pianist Steven Osborne and Sinfonia of London conducted by John Wilson.
The programme includes scintillating American classics from John Wilson and his all-star orchestra – including Copland’s ballet on the folk hero Billy the Kid, haunting pieces by Barber and Ives, Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue (100 years old this year) and jazz living legend Wynton Marsalis’ brassy, swingy Herald, Holler and Hallelujah!.
To start today’s Classical Live, there will be exclusively recorded performances from the Edinburgh International Festival. Schola Cantorum de Venezuela perform Latin American choral works inspired by the Christian tradition, directed by Maria Guinand.
From the Edinburgh International Festival introduced by Stephen Broad:
Alberto Grau
Kasar mie la gaji
Calixto Alvarez
Lacrymosa from Requiem de Osun
Alberto Ginastera
The Lamentations of Jeremiah
- O vos omnes
- Recordare
James MacMillan
O Radiant Dawn
Alberto Grau
The Lamenttions of Jeremiah
- O vos omnes Grau
Beatriz Bilbao
La Fiesta de San Juan
R. Murray Schaefer
Magic Songs
Vasallos del Sol arr. Jesús Rondón
Cantos de mi tierra
Schola Cantorum de Venezuela
Maria Guinand (director)
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From the BBC Proms:
Wynton Marsalis
Herald, Holler and Hallelujah
Aaron Copland
Billy the Kid Suite
Samuel Barber
Adagio for strings
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson (conductor)
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Steven Osborne (piano)
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson (conductor)
Charles Ives
The Unanswered Question
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson (conductor)
John Adams
Harmonielehre
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson (conductor)
TUE 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0021jz8)
Musical Olympians - Joseph Bologne
Pushing the limits: 1764 - 1774
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of a musician also remarkable for his sporting prowess. Joseph Bologne’s story throws a light on the political turbulence affecting France in the 18th century, and on the legacy of colonialism and slavery.
Bologne is celebrated as the first composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in Europe.
Today, we look at how the newly knighted Chevalier de Saint-Georges became the darling of Parisian society, a famous fencing prodigy turned virtuoso violinist who - with his dashing good looks, athletic physique and glamorous uniform – was sought out by the foremost society hostesses.
Donald is joined by Olivette Otele, distinguished Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Quartetto concertans No 4 in F major (2nd mvt, Rondeau)
Arabella String Quartet
String Quartet in D major, Op 1, No 6
Jean-Nöel Molard String Quartet
Lolli: Violin Concerto No 2 in C major, Op 2 (1st & 3rd mvt)
Reale Concerto
Luca Fanfoni, director
Violin Concerto in A major, Op 5, No 2 (1st mvt, Allegro Moderato)
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Mutter's Virtuosi
Symphonie Concertante in C major, Op 9, No 1
Yury Revich and Libor Ježek, violins
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice
Michael Halász, conductor
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Audio Wales & West
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m0021jzb)
Classical artists live in session
Sean Rafferty is joined by Guy Verrall-Withers, artistic director of Waterperry Festival Opera.
TUE 19:00 BBC Proms (m0021jzd)
2024
Prom 24: Purcell’s The Fairy Queen
Live at the BBC Proms: Paul Agnew conducts Les Arts Florissants in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Purcell: The Fairy Queen
Paulina Francisco (soprano)
Georgia Burashko (mezzo-soprano)
Rebecca Leggett (mezzo-soprano)
Juliette Mey (mezzo-soprano)
Rodrigo Carreto (tenor)
Ilja Aksionov (tenor)
Hugo Herman-Wilson (baritone)
Benjamin Schilperoort (bass-baritone)
Samuel Florimond, Anahi Passi, Alary-Youra Ravin, Timothée Zig, Baptiste Coppin, Daniel Saad (dancers)
Compagnie KÄFIG
Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew (conductor)
Mourad Merzouki (choreographer/stage director)
After critically acclaimed runs in New York, Paris and around the world, Mourad Merzouki’s staging of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen comes to the Proms. Expression and spontaneity characterise both Merzouki’s hip hop-derived dance, Paul Agnew’s musical direction and Purcell’s 1692 composition, a series of allegorical celebrations of young love based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (For two other major musical responses to the play, see Proms 36 & 68.) Goblins and elves meet street dance as Paul Agnew makes his Proms conducting debut and soloists from Le Jardin des Voix (the vocal academy run by Les Arts Florissants) and dancers from Merzouki’s troupe combine in this moving and imaginative meeting of genres.
There will be one interval: Professor Nandini Das won the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her study of the Indian Mughal Court. She’s also an expert in Early Modern England and joins Tom Service to discuss Shakespeare, and the tradition of masque dramas which Purcell’s Fairy Queen draws upon.
TUE 22:00 Night Tracks (m0021jzg)
Evening soundscape
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUE 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0021jzj)
Elaine Delmar picks her 4/4
Kevin Le Gendre, sitting in all week for Soweto Kinch, presents 'Round Midnight - a weeknightly celebration of jazz from across the spectrum, with a particular focus on new UK music.
Singer and actor Elaine Delmar returns to pick another meaningful piece from her record collection in 4/4. Tonight she has chosen a song by Ella Fitzgerald.
Plus, there's music from Art Tatum, John Escreet, Tomos Williams, Nubya Garcia and several others.
WEDNESDAY 07 AUGUST 2024
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0021jzl)
Il Giuramento by Saverio Mercadante
WDR Radio Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Carlo Montanaro and soloists in a concert performance of Mercadante's Il Giuramento. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870)
Il Giuramento - Act 1
Roberta Mantegna (soprano), Jean-Francois Borras (tenor), German E. Alcantara (baritone), Teresa Iervolino (mezzo soprano), Ivana Rusko (soprano), John Heuzenroeder (tenor), WDR Chorus, Tilman Michael (director), WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Carlo Montanaro (conductor)
01:25 AM
Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870)
Il Giuramento - Act 2
Roberta Mantegna (soprano), Jean-Francois Borras (tenor), German E. Alcantara (baritone), Teresa Iervolino (mezzo soprano), Ivana Rusko (soprano), John Heuzenroeder (tenor), WDR Chorus, Tilman Michael (director), WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Carlo Montanaro (conductor)
02:00 AM
Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870)
Il Giuramento Act 3
Roberta Mantegna (soprano), Jean-Francois Borras (tenor), German E. Alcantara (baritone), Teresa Iervolino (mezzo soprano), Ivana Rusko (soprano), John Heuzenroeder (tenor), WDR Chorus, Tilman Michael (director), WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Carlo Montanaro (conductor)
02:19 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI/37
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in B flat major, Op 130
Vertavo String Quartet
03:13 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestucke, Op 12
Kevin Kenner (piano)
03:38 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
03:46 AM
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Kyrie from Missa Sancti Henrici (1701)
James Griffett (tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Regensburger Domspatzen, Collegium Aureum, Herbert Metzger (organ), Georg Ratzinger (conductor)
03:54 AM
Jacques Buus (c.1500-1565)
Ricercare
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
04:01 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Introduction to Act III & Dances of the Highlanders from 'Halka'
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:09 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Danse macabre, Op 40
Ouellet-Murray Duo
04:16 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Abendempfindung K523
Elly Ameling (soprano), Jorg Demus (piano)
04:21 AM
Petronio Franceschini (1650-1680)
Sonata for 2 trumpets, strings & basso continuo in D major
Yordan Kojuharov (trumpet), Petar Ivanov (trumpet), Teodor Moussev (organ), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Yordan Dafov (conductor)
04:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Prague Waltzes B.99
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)
04:39 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
04:48 AM
Henk Badings (1907-1987)
Canamus, amici, canamus; Finnigan's wake
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (conductor)
04:56 AM
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
Badinage & Chaconne from Deuxieme Recreation de musique d'une execution facile
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
05:05 AM
Ion Dumitrescu (1913-1996)
Symphonic Prelude
Romanian Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal (conductor)
05:15 AM
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)
6 Variations for violin and guitar, Op 81
Laura Vadjon (violin), Romana Matanovac (guitar)
05:23 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Magnificat in D major BWV.243
Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Maria Espada (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo soprano), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Bavarian Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra (director), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
05:51 AM
Anton Wilhelm Solnitz (c.1708-1753)
Sinfonia in A major, Op 3 no 4
Musica ad Rhenum
06:03 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Symphonic Suite from Porgy and Bess
William Tritt (piano), Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Boris Brott (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0021k1m)
Boost your morning with classical
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.
Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:30 Essential Classics (m0021k1q)
Celebrating classical greats
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
WED 13:00 Classical Live (m0021k1s)
The Kanneh-Masons at the Proms plus piano duos from Schwarzenberg
Today’s Classical Live includes another chance to hear last Sunday afternoon’s Prom. The programme includes folk songs, dances, prayers and incantations, featuring brothers Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the captivating Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes. The dynamic Fantasia Orchestra makes its Proms debut under its founder, Tom Fetherstonhaugh.
From Schwarzenberg:
Franz Schubert
Rondo in A D. 951
Gyorgy Kurtag
Excerpts from 'Jatekok'
Studie zu Holderlin
Kyrie
Hommage a Soproni
Franz Schubert
Fantasie in F minor for Piano Four-Hands D. 940
Leif Ove Andsnes & Bertrand Chamayou (piano duo)
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from the BBC Proms:
"Songs and Dances with the Kanneh-Mason"
Trad. Serbian arr. Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Tom Fetherstonhaugh & Harry Baker
Adje Jano
Trad. arr. Simon Parkin & Harry Baker
Scarborough Fair
Johannes Brahms arr. Harry Baker
Hungarian Dances
Bela Bartok
Romanian Folk Dances
Burt Bacharach/Hal David, arr. Harry Baker & Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Say a Little Prayer
Bob Marley arr. Kanneh-Masons & Harry Baker
Redemption Song
Laura Mvula, arr. Harry Baker
Sing to the Moon
Antonin Dvorak arr. Harry Baker
Song to the Moon
Antonio Jobim, arr. Sergio Assad & Harry Baker
The Girl from Ipanema
Antonio Jobim, arr. Sergio Assad & Harry Baker
Libertango
Stevie Wonder, arr. Harry Baker
I wish
Bernard Edwards/Nile Rodgers, arr. Harry Baker & Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Good Times
Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Plínio Fernandes (guitar)
Fantasia Orchestra
Tom Fetherstonhaugh (conductor)
WED 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0021k1v)
Winchester Cathedral
From Winchester Cathedral during the Southern Cathedrals Festival.
Introit: Jesu, the very thought of thee (Bairstow)
Responses: Rose
Psalm 37 (Flintoft, Wesley)
First Lesson: Isaiah 45 vv1-7
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Wood)
Second Lesson: Ephesians 4 vv1-16
Anthem: Cantique de Jean Racine (Fauré)
Voluntary: Chorale Fantasia on ‘The Old Hundredth’ (Parry)
Andrew Lumsden (Director of Music)
Claudia Grinnell (Sub-Organist)
Recorded 12 July.
WED 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0021k1x)
Musical Olympians - Joseph Bologne
Intrigue at the opera: 1775 - 1780
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of a musician also remarkable for his sporting prowess. Joseph Bologne’s story throws a light on the political turbulence affecting France in the 18th century, and on the legacy of colonialism and slavery.
Bologne is celebrated as the first composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in Europe.
Today, we’ll hear Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges make his first forays into opera, a passion of his which endured throughout his life. He joins the social circle of Marie Antoinette, and shares a roof with a twenty-something called Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Donald is joined by Olivette Otele, distinguished Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Violin Concerto in G major, Op 8, No 2 (3rd mvt, Rondeau)
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin
Bernard Thomas Chamber Orchestra
Bernard Thomas, conductor
Keyboard Sonata No 2 in A major with obbligato violin (1st mvt, Allegro moderato)
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin
Brigitte Haudebourg, harpsichord
Ernestine: Scena
Faye Robinson, soprano
London Symphony Orchestra
Paul Freeman, conductor
Symphonie Concertante in E flat, Op 13, No 1
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra,
Zoe Beyers, Lisa Obert, violins
Ben Gernon, conductor
L’Amant anonyme
Act I: Quinqué (Léontine, Valcour, Ophémon, Jeannette, Colin)
Act II: Récitative: Enfin une foule importune… Amour deviens-moi propice (Léontine)
Geoffrey Agpalo, tenor (Valcour)
Nicole Cabell, soprano (Léontine)
David Govertsen, bass-baritone (Ophémon)
Erica Schuller, soprano (Jeanette)
Michael St. Peter, tenor (Colin)
Haymarket Opera Orchestra
Craig Trompeter, conductor
LeDuc: Symphony No 3 in E-flat major (1st mvt, Allegro vivace)
Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
Reinhard Goebel, director
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0021k1z)
Music news and live classical music
Sean Rafferty in conversation with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, plus live performance from baritone James Atkinson and pianist Michael Pandya.
WED 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0021k21)
The eclectic classical mix
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites - Percy Grainger's Handel in the Strand, Clara Schumann's song Parting, Albinoni's Adagio for organ and strings, Ravel's Jeux d'eau and Khachaturian's Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia.
Producer: Ian Wallington
WED 19:30 BBC Proms (m0021k23)
2024
Prom 25: Storgårds conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth
Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor John Storgårds in Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. They are joined by Stefan Dohr for Hans Abrahamsen's glowing Horn Concerto.
Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Schumann: Genoveva - overture
Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter
Hans Abrahamsen: Horn Concerto
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8.15pm
INTERVAL - The Listening Service: Following tonight’s performance of the new Hans Abrahamsen Horn Concerto, Tom Service looks back on the role of the French horn in classical music. The instrument has long held a special place in composers' affections and has played an important role in establishing a sound world for 19th-century Romantic sensibilities. Just think of Schumann's supercharged Konzertstuck for four horns, or the central role the horn plays in Wagner's epic Ring - and in the orchestra of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Mahler. Tom Service unwinds this 12-foot metal tube to learn more about its distinctive qualities with the help of natural horn virtuoso Anneke Scott.
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8.35pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor
Stefan Dohr (horn)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds
Few composers captured life’s struggles as vividly as Tchaikovsky. ‘This is Fate,’ wrote the composer in 1877 as he grappled with the opening notes of his Symphony No. 4. ‘It hangs above your head like the sword of Damocles.’ By the symphony’s final pages, Tchaikovsky had wrested hope from despair. John Storgårds conducts his BBC Philharmonic in this full-blooded symphony, after the delicate, white luminosity of Hans Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto and the brusque drama of Sibelius’s symphonic fantasia Pohjola’s Daughter, based on a tale from Finnish folk epic the Kalevala, in which the ancient bard Väinämöinen attempts to woo the beautiful Daughter of the North. The Prom opens with Schumann’s much-overlooked dramatic overture for his opera on the medieval legend of St Genevieve of Brabant, Genoveva.
WED 22:00 Night Tracks (m0021k25)
Soundtrack for night
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WED 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0021k27)
New music from Kathrine Windfeld
Kevin Le Gendre continues his week sitting in for Soweto Kinch on 'Round Midnight.
Vocalist Elaine Delmar returns with another selection from her record collection in 4/4. Tonight she has gone for a piece by pianist Bill Evans.
Plus, there's music from Anthony Branker, KOKOROKO, Christie Dashiell, Amy Laurenson and others.
THURSDAY 08 AUGUST 2024
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0021k29)
Dvorák's New World
The Croation Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Dvorák's beloved Ninth Symphony. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Egmont Overture, Op 84
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Enrico Dindo (conductor)
12:40 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony no 9 in E minor, Op 95, 'From the New World'
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Enrico Dindo (conductor)
01:25 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in A minor, Op 132
Danish String Quartet
02:12 AM
Dobrinka Tabakova (b.1980)
Such Different Paths
Hugo Ticciati (violin), Thomas Reif (violin), Hana Hobiger (viola), Gregor Hrabar (viola), Alessio Pianelli (cello), Ruiko Matsumoto (cello)
02:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Mass in C major, K.317 'Coronation'
Arianna Venditelli (soprano), Emilie Renard (mezzo soprano), Rupert Charlesworth (tenor), Marcell Bakonyi (bass), Coro Maghini, Claudio Chiavazza (director), Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
02:58 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in C minor, D958
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
03:29 AM
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
Metaboles for orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
03:46 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Silence and music - madrigal for chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)
03:51 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Recitativo and scherzo-caprice for violin solo, Op 6
Minami Yoshida (violin)
03:56 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Concerto for oboe d'amore and string orchestra no 4 in A major, BWV.1055
Kalin Panayotov (oboe d'amore), Ars Barocca
04:11 AM
Johannes Verhulst (1816-1891)
Minneliedje, Op 27 no 9
Nico van der Meel (tenor), Leo van Doeselaar (fortepiano)
04:13 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Cordoba (Nocturne) from Cantos de Espana, Op 232 no 4
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Matlik (guitar)
04:20 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann for piano in F sharp minor, Op 20
Angela Cheng (piano)
04:31 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for 2 trumpets and orchestra in C major, RV.537
Anton Grcar (trumpet), Stanko Arnold (trumpet), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
04:38 AM
Wojciech Kilar (1931-2013)
Chorale Prelude (1988)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
04:56 AM
Johann Ludwig Bach (1677-1731)
Das ist meine Freude
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director)
05:01 AM
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888)
Le Festin d'Esope in E minor, from '12 studies', Op 39 no 12
Johan Ullen (piano)
05:11 AM
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Overture (La Fille du regiment)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
05:20 AM
Per Norgard (b.1932)
Pastorale for String Trio
Trio Aristos
05:26 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Piano Concerto no 1 in B flat minor, Op 23
Stephen Hough (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)
05:59 AM
Stevan Mokranjac (1856-1914)
Twelfth Song-Wreath (Songs from Kosovo)
Belgrade Radio and Television Chorus, Mladen Jagust (conductor)
06:08 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Violin Sonata no 1 in F major, Op 8
Vilde Frang Bjaerke (violin), Jens Elvekjaer (piano)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0021k2c)
Get going with classical
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.
Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:30 Essential Classics (m0021k2f)
A feast of great music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
THU 13:00 Classical Live (m0021k2h)
Busoni’s Piano Concerto at the Proms plus a chamber concert from the Edinburgh International Festival
Today’s Classical Live includes another chance to hear Monday night’s Prom featuring pianist Benjamin Grosvenor with the Rodolfus Choir, London Philharmonic Choir and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner.
The programme begins with Rachmaninov’s riveting Symphonic Dances followed by Busoni’s gargantuan Piano Concerto – possibly one of the most challenging piano parts ever committed to page.
To start today’s Classical Live, there will be exclusively recorded chamber music from this year’s Edinburgh International Festival as The Leonore Piano Trio perform Dvorak’s darkly defiant Piano Trio in F minor from the Queen’s Hall. Plus Schola Cantorum de Venezuela sing music from South America.
From the Edinburgh International Festival:
Antonin Dvorak
Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor Op. 65
Leonore Piano Trio
Jake Runestad
Alleluia
Carlos Guastavino
Se equivoco la paloma
Rafael Antonio Castellanos
Al Mar anochecido
Schola Cantorum de Venezuela
Maria Guinand (director)
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From the BBC Proms:
Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Ferruccio Busoni
Piano Concerto
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Rodolfus Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
THU 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0021k2k)
Musical Olympians - Joseph Bologne
Instability: 1780 - 1788
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of a musician also remarkable for his sporting prowess. Joseph Bologne’s story throws a light on the political turbulence affecting France in the 18th century, and on the legacy of colonialism and slavery.
Bologne is celebrated as the first composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in Europe.
Today, we follow Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges on the cusp of the French Revolution as he loses his biggest supporter, and is sent to London to exert his soft power over the Prince of Wales.
Donald is joined by Olivette Otele, distinguished Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Quartetto concertans No 3 in C major (2nd mvt, Rondeau: Moderato)
Arabella String Quartet
Symphonie Concertante, Op 6 No 2 in B-flat major, G 038
I. Allegro poco moderato
II. Andante amoroso
Midori Sugiyama, Lisa Obert, violins
BBC Philharmonic
Jack Sheen, conductor
Violin Concerto in C major, Op 5 No 1 (2nd & 3rd mvts)
Takako Nishizaki, violin
Cologne Chamber Orchestra
Helmut Müller-Brühl, conductor
Haydn: Symphony No 85 in B-flat major, Hob I:85, "La reine" (The Queen): (1st mvt, Adagio - Vivace)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, director
String Quartet in G minor, Op 14 No 6 (1st & 2nd mvts)
Quatuor les Adieux
Produce by Iain Chambers for BBC Audio Wales & West
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0021k2m)
Live classical music for your drive
Sean Rafferty in conversation with Broadway star Bernadette Peters, plus live performance from pianist Alexandra Dariescu.
THU 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0021k2p)
Power through with classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (m0021k2r)
2024
Prom 26: Beethoven, Brahms and Sarah Gibson
Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic and Anja Bihlmaier in music by Brahms and Sarah Gibson. They are joined by Tobias Feldmann for Beethoven's Violin Concerto.
Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
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INTERVAL: Before Sarah Gibson’s ‘warp & weft’, and after her untimely death last month at the age of 38, Georgia Mann talks to Leah Broad about Sarah’s work and the legacy of women composers over the last two hundred years.
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8.40pm
Sarah Gibson: warp and weft
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Tobias Feldmann (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)
For Brahms, composing music was a quest to balance head and heart. The composer’s final symphony is the most exquisite example of that mission, a piece as radiant as poetry and as perfect as a mathematical equation. In tonight’s Prom, Brahms’s work of Apollonian perfection is balanced by the outpouring of joy that is Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, plus Sarah Gibson’s warp & weft, inspired by the work of Canadian artist Miriam Schapiro. Tobias Feldmann makes his Proms debut for this concert with the BBC Philharmonic under Anja Bihlmaier.
THU 22:15 Night Tracks (m0021k2t)
Adventures in sound
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THU 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0021k2w)
Fresh Eliane Elias
'Round Midnight celebrates jazz old and new, from across the spectrum, each weeknight on BBC Radio 3 - but with a special focus on contemporary UK artists. Kevin Le Gendre is sitting in for Soweto Kinch all this week.
Elaine Delmar concludes her run on 4/4 - picking records that are dear to her each night on the programme. Her final choice is by Shirley Horn.
Plus, there's music from Mark Cherrie, Roxanna Ahemd, Tara Clerkin and Alvin Queen amongst others.
FRIDAY 09 AUGUST 2024
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0021k2y)
Messiaen, Saint-Saëns, Dutilleux and Ravel from Paris
Orchestre National de France and conductor Cristian Măcelaru are joined by violinist Daniel Lozakovich in Saint-Saëns' 3rd Violin Concerto. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Les Offrandes oubliées, méditation symphonique
National Orchestra of France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
12:42 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Violin Concerto no 3 in B minor, Op 61
Daniel Lozakovich (violin), National Orchestra of France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
01:12 AM
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
Mystère de l'instant
National Orchestra of France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
01:28 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite no 2
National Orchestra of France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
01:45 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Bacchanale, from 'Samson et Dalila'
National Orchestra of France, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
01:53 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Miroirs
Pedja Muzijevic (piano)
02:23 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Mon coeur s'ouvre from 'Samson et Dalila' (arr for trumpet & orchestra)
Jouko Harjanne (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
02:31 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
The Bells (Kolokola) for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Op 35
Roumiana Bareva (soprano), Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor), Stoyan Popov (baritone), Sons de la mer Mixed Choir, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
03:09 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Cello Sonata in A major
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
03:39 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da chiesa in F major, Op 1 no 1
London Baroque
03:45 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Two Waltzes, Op 54
Sebastian String Quartet
03:52 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Rhapsody for piano in B minor, Op 79 no 1
Steven Osborne (piano)
04:02 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Hora est
Radio France Chorus, Denis Comtet (organ), Donald Palumbo (conductor)
04:11 AM
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Ritual Fire Dance
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Christian Vasquez (conductor)
04:16 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Andante in A major for violin and piano (1902)
Tamas Major (violin), Gyorgy Oravecz (piano)
04:20 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Recorder Sonata in D minor
Camerata Koln
04:31 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The Four Seasons - Spring
Davide Monti (violin), Il Tempio Armonico
04:41 AM
Piotr Moss (b.1949)
Wiosenno
Polish Radio Choir, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)
04:49 AM
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Pastorale d'été
Argovia Philharmonic, Rune Bergmann (conductor)
04:58 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Sonetto 123 di Petrarca (S.158 No.3): Io vidi in terra angelici costumi
Richard Raymond (piano)
05:06 AM
Wouter Hutschenruyter (1796-1878)
Ouverture voor Groot Orkest
Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra, Jan Cober (conductor)
05:15 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade for piano no 1 in G minor, Op 23
Zbigniew Raubo (piano)
05:25 AM
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
Overture à due chori in B flat
Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
05:49 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Trio pathetique
Trio Luwigana
06:05 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Vetrate di Chiesa (Church Windows)
Orchestra of London, Canada, Uri Mayer (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0021k0h)
Classical music to set you up for the day
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning.
Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:30 Essential Classics (m0021k0k)
Celebrating classical greats
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
FRI 13:00 Classical Live (m0021k0m)
Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony at the Proms and soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn from the Edinburgh International Festival
Today’s Classical Live includes another chance to hear Wednesday night’s Prom featuring horn player Stefan Dohr and the BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Storgårds.
The programme begins with Schumann’s much-overlooked dramatic overture for his opera on the medieval legend of St Genevieve of Brabant, Genoveva. Following this, Hans Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto and the brusque drama of Sibelius’ symphonic fantasia Pohjola’s Daughter. The Prom ends with Tchaikovsky’s epic Symphony No. 4.
To start today’s Classical Live, soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn makes her Edinburgh International Festival debut at the Queen’s Hall, joined by recital partner, pianist Simon Lepper. Together they present a treasury of late Romantic song.
From the Edinburgh International Festival, introduced by Stephen Broad:
Gerald Finzi
Til Earth Outwears Op.19
Ernest Chausson
from 7 Melodies Op. 2
Serenade Italienne
La derniere Feuille
Le colibri
Les papillons
Richard Strauss
5 Kleine Lieder Op. 69
Einerlei
3 Lieder Op. 29
Nachtgang
Schlichte Weisen Op. 27
Du meines Herzens Kronelein
Ach lieb, ich muss nunscheiden
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Six Sorrow Songs Op. 57
Oh, what comes over the sea
When I am dead my dearest
Oh, roses for the flush of youth
Unmindful of the roses
Giacomo Puccini
Terra e mare
Sole e amore
Casa mia
La primavera
Sogno d’or
Morire?
Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano)
Simon Lepper (piano)
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From the BBC Proms:
Robert Schumann
Genoveva Overture
Jean Sibelius
Pohjola's Daughter
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)
Hans Abrahamsen
Horn Concerto
Stefan Dohr (horn)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)
FRI 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0021k0p)
Musical Olympians - Joseph Bologne
Revolution: 1789 - 1799
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of a musician also remarkable for his sporting prowess. Joseph Bologne’s story throws a light on the political turbulence affecting France in the 18th century, and on the legacy of colonialism and slavery.
Bologne is celebrated as the first composer of African descent to attain widespread acclaim in Europe.
Today, we follow Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges as France breaks into revolution, fuelled by the failure of the harvest, and a grain shortage leading to a steep rise in the price of bread. Saint-Georges joins up as a revolutionary soldier, but finds music-making impossible to give up.
Donald is joined by Olivette Otele, distinguished Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
String Quartet in C minor, Op 1 No 4 (2nd mvt, Rondeau)
Jean-Nöel Molard String Quartet
Concertante Quartet in G minor, Op 15 No 2
Elmore Quartet
Violin Concerto in A major, Op 7 No 1
Fumika Mohri, violin
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice
Michael Halász, conductor
Symphonie Concertante in F major, Op 10 No 1
Yury Revich and Libor Ježek, violins
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice
Michael Halász, conductor
String Quartet in C Major, Op 1 No 1 (2nd mvt, Rondeau: Tempo di minuetto; Grazioso)
The Juilliard Quartet
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Audio Wales & West
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0021k0r)
Classical artists live in the studio
Sean Rafferty with live performance from Cuban violinist Omar Puente and his Charanga Jazz Sextet.
FRI 18:00 BBC Proms (m0021k0t)
2024
Prom 27: Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony
Live at the Proms the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Saariaho's Mirage, and Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto with soloist Seong-Jin Cho.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Andrew McGregor.
Kaija Saariaho: Mirage (12 mins)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major ‘Jeunehomme’ K271
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INTERVAL: To discuss Alpine tourism, Andrew McGregor is joined by Dr Seán Williams, a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who has made programmes for BBC Radio 3 about a murder in Trieste in the 1760s, the idea of luxury, the rise and fall of the hairdresser. Seán is a Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield.
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Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Silja Aalto (soprano)
Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
When the 14-year-old Richard Strauss got caught in a storm, lost in the mist, soaked by the rain or blistered by the sun while out mountaineering, his response was to sit at the piano and improvise a musical description of the experience. That sowed the seeds for a work born 35 years later: An Alpine Symphony. This spectacular symphony, which calls for an orchestra of 130 musicians – including wind machine, thunder machine, cowbells, organ and offstage brass – will surely raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall. But only after Mozart – at his most charming in the Piano Concerto No. 9 – and the late Kaija Saariaho’s Mirage, a hypnotic snapshot of womanhood for soprano, cello and orchestra.
FRI 20:30 BBC Proms (m0021rj7)
2024
Remembering Sir Andrew Davis at the Proms
With a career which spanned 132 appearances at the Royal Albert Hall, including playing the chamber organ for a performance of Monteverdi's vespers, Sir Andrew Davis clocked-up more First and Last Nights of the Prom that any other conductor in modern times.
Following his death earlier this year, Radio 3 reflects on Sir Andrew's presence at the festival, and celebrates his artistry, his relationship with the BBC's orchestras, his place in the musical firmament of the Proms, and among other things his famously good-humoured speeches.
FRI 22:30 BBC Proms (m0021k0w)
2024
Prom 28: Songs of Wars I Have Seen
Live at the BBC Proms: The London Sinfonietta & the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment revive the extraordinary work written for them seventeen years ago.
Presented by Andrew McGregor live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Heiner Goebbels: Songs of Wars I Have Seen
London Sinfonietta
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Chloe Rooke (conductor)
In 2007 new-music ensemble the London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment together gave the first performance of Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen, commissioned by the Southbank Centre to mark the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall. Seventeen years later, the two orchestras are reunited under fast-rising conductor Chloe Rooke for a London revival of this landmark setting of wartime diary entries by Gertrude Stein, a work that manages to prove harrowing, poignant and consoling all at once, and whose visions of war have scarcely been more relevant.
FRI 23:45 'Round Midnight (m0021k0y)
Theon Cross in concert
Journalist, author and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre, sits in for Soweto Kinch on 'Round Midnight - Radio 3's nightly look at jazz from all styles and eras, with a particular focus on new UK artists.
He presents highlights from tuba player and composer Theon Cross' recent BBC Prom, recorded at The Glasshouse in Gateshead.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
'Round Midnight
23:30 MON (m0021jyy)
'Round Midnight
23:30 TUE (m0021jzj)
'Round Midnight
23:30 WED (m0021k27)
'Round Midnight
23:30 THU (m0021k2w)
'Round Midnight
23:45 FRI (m0021k0y)
BBC Proms
19:30 SAT (m0021jp4)
BBC Proms
11:00 SUN (m0021jtq)
BBC Proms
15:00 SUN (m0021jtx)
BBC Proms
19:00 SUN (m0021jv1)
BBC Proms
19:30 MON (m0021jyt)
BBC Proms
19:00 TUE (m0021jzd)
BBC Proms
19:30 WED (m0021k23)
BBC Proms
19:30 THU (m0021k2r)
BBC Proms
18:00 FRI (m0021k0t)
BBC Proms
20:30 FRI (m0021rj7)
BBC Proms
22:30 FRI (m0021k0w)
Breakfast
06:30 SAT (m0021jnp)
Breakfast
06:30 SUN (m0021jtl)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m0021jyd)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m0021jz2)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m0021k1m)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m0021k2c)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m0021k0h)
Choral Evensong
15:00 WED (m0021k1v)
Classical Live
13:00 MON (m0021jyj)
Classical Live
13:00 TUE (m0021jz6)
Classical Live
13:00 WED (m0021k1s)
Classical Live
13:00 THU (m0021k2h)
Classical Live
13:00 FRI (m0021k0m)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 MON (m000zbyw)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 WED (m0021k21)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 THU (m0021k2p)
Composer of the Week
16:00 MON (m0021jyl)
Composer of the Week
16:00 TUE (m0021jz8)
Composer of the Week
16:00 WED (m0021k1x)
Composer of the Week
16:00 THU (m0021k2k)
Composer of the Week
16:00 FRI (m0021k0p)
Earlier... with Jools Holland
12:00 SAT (m001y9qf)
Essential Classics
09:30 MON (m0021jyg)
Essential Classics
09:30 TUE (m0021jz4)
Essential Classics
09:30 WED (m0021k1q)
Essential Classics
09:30 THU (m0021k2f)
Essential Classics
09:30 FRI (m0021k0k)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m0021jyp)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m0021jzb)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m0021k1z)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m0021k2m)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m0021k0r)
Music Map
13:00 SUN (m0021jts)
Music Matters
13:00 SAT (m0021jnt)
Music Planet
18:00 SAT (m0021jp2)
New Generation Artists
14:30 SUN (m0021jtv)
New Music Show
22:45 SAT (m0021jp9)
Night Tracks
22:00 SUN (m001y2j7)
Night Tracks
22:15 MON (m0021jyw)
Night Tracks
22:00 TUE (m0021jzg)
Night Tracks
22:00 WED (m0021k25)
Night Tracks
22:15 THU (m0021k2t)
Record Review
14:00 SAT (m0021jnx)
Saturday Morning
09:00 SAT (m0021jnr)
Sound of Gaming
16:00 SAT (m0021jnz)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m001dpfl)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m0021jtn)
The Lebrecht Interview
22:00 SAT (m0021jp6)
This Classical Life
17:00 SAT (m001p7qr)
Through the Night
00:30 SAT (m00219nm)
Through the Night
00:30 SUN (m0021jpc)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m0021jv3)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m0021jz0)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m0021jzl)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m0021k29)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m0021k2y)
Unclassified
23:30 SUN (m001vlmp)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m0021jtz)
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES ORDERED BY GENRE
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Drama
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m0021jtz)
Factual
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m001dpfl)
Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media
Music Matters
13:00 SAT (m0021jnt)
Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts
The Lebrecht Interview
22:00 SAT (m0021jp6)
Music: Classical
BBC Proms
19:30 SAT (m0021jp4)
BBC Proms
11:00 SUN (m0021jtq)
BBC Proms
15:00 SUN (m0021jtx)
BBC Proms
19:00 SUN (m0021jv1)
BBC Proms
19:30 MON (m0021jyt)
BBC Proms
19:00 TUE (m0021jzd)
BBC Proms
19:30 WED (m0021k23)
BBC Proms
19:30 THU (m0021k2r)
BBC Proms
18:00 FRI (m0021k0t)
BBC Proms
20:30 FRI (m0021rj7)
BBC Proms
22:30 FRI (m0021k0w)
Breakfast
06:30 SAT (m0021jnp)
Breakfast
06:30 SUN (m0021jtl)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m0021jyd)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m0021jz2)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m0021k1m)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m0021k2c)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m0021k0h)
Classical Live
13:00 MON (m0021jyj)
Classical Live
13:00 TUE (m0021jz6)
Classical Live
13:00 WED (m0021k1s)
Classical Live
13:00 THU (m0021k2h)
Classical Live
13:00 FRI (m0021k0m)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 MON (m000zbyw)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 WED (m0021k21)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 THU (m0021k2p)
Composer of the Week
16:00 MON (m0021jyl)
Composer of the Week
16:00 TUE (m0021jz8)
Composer of the Week
16:00 WED (m0021k1x)
Composer of the Week
16:00 THU (m0021k2k)
Composer of the Week
16:00 FRI (m0021k0p)
Earlier... with Jools Holland
12:00 SAT (m001y9qf)
Essential Classics
09:30 MON (m0021jyg)
Essential Classics
09:30 TUE (m0021jz4)
Essential Classics
09:30 WED (m0021k1q)
Essential Classics
09:30 THU (m0021k2f)
Essential Classics
09:30 FRI (m0021k0k)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m0021jyp)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m0021jzb)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m0021k1z)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m0021k2m)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m0021k0r)
Music Map
13:00 SUN (m0021jts)
Night Tracks
22:00 SUN (m001y2j7)
Night Tracks
22:15 MON (m0021jyw)
Night Tracks
22:00 TUE (m0021jzg)
Night Tracks
22:00 WED (m0021k25)
Night Tracks
22:15 THU (m0021k2t)
Record Review
14:00 SAT (m0021jnx)
Saturday Morning
09:00 SAT (m0021jnr)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m0021jtn)
This Classical Life
17:00 SAT (m001p7qr)
Through the Night
00:30 SAT (m00219nm)
Through the Night
00:30 SUN (m0021jpc)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m0021jv3)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m0021jz0)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m0021jzl)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m0021k29)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m0021k2y)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m0021jtz)
Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital
New Generation Artists
14:30 SUN (m0021jtv)
Music: Classical: Choral
Choral Evensong
15:00 WED (m0021k1v)
Music: Classical: Experimental & New
New Music Show
22:45 SAT (m0021jp9)
Unclassified
23:30 SUN (m001vlmp)
Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals
Sound of Gaming
16:00 SAT (m0021jnz)
Music: Jazz & Blues: Jazz
'Round Midnight
23:30 MON (m0021jyy)
'Round Midnight
23:30 TUE (m0021jzj)
'Round Midnight
23:30 WED (m0021k27)
'Round Midnight
23:30 THU (m0021k2w)
'Round Midnight
23:45 FRI (m0021k0y)
Music: World
Music Planet
18:00 SAT (m0021jp2)
Night Tracks
22:00 SUN (m001y2j7)
Night Tracks
22:15 MON (m0021jyw)
Night Tracks
22:00 TUE (m0021jzg)
Night Tracks
22:00 WED (m0021k25)
Night Tracks
22:15 THU (m0021k2t)
Religion & Ethics
Choral Evensong
15:00 WED (m0021k1v)