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SATURDAY 11 JANUARY 2025
SAT 00:30 Through the Night (m0026l5d)
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos from the Ljubljana Festival
Mikhail Pletnev plays Rachmaninov's first and second Piano Concertos with the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andras Keller. They also perform Bartók's music from his pantomime ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz.73
Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Andras Keller (conductor)
12:50 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto no 1 in F sharp minor, Op 1
Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Andras Keller (conductor)
01:18 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto no 2 in C minor, Op 18
Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Andras Keller (conductor)
01:53 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op 19 no 4
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
01:58 AM
Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1924)
Etude in F major, Op 72 no 6
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
02:00 AM
Uros Krek (1922-2008)
Samotno Ugibanje
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
02:04 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Concerto in D minor for violin and string orchestra
Ols Cinxo (violin), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Gunter Pichler (conductor)
02:31 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Nonet for wind quintet, string trio and double bass in F major, Op 31
Budapest Chamber Ensemble, Andras Mihaly (conductor)
03:00 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Lute Partita in C minor, BWV.997
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
03:23 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Pohjola's daughter - symphonic fantasia, Op 49
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
03:37 AM
Claudin De Sermisy (c.1490-1562)
5 Chansons
Ensemble Clement Janequin
03:47 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Divertimento in B flat major for wind ensemble, K 186
Bratislavska Komorna Harmonia
04:00 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
La Valse - choreographic poem for orchestra
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Lorenzo Viotti (conductor)
04:13 AM
Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003)
Sonatina for cello and piano
Andrei Ionita (cello), Lilit Grigoryan (piano)
04:24 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
"Begl'occhi, bel seno" Costumo de grandi for soprano, 2 violins and continuo
Susanne Ryden (soprano), Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director)
04:31 AM
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Colas Breugnon (Overture)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
04:36 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Quatre pièces fugitives, Op 15
Diana Ketler (piano)
04:49 AM
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
Jane Grey Fantasy, Op 15
Scott Dickinson (viola), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Teresa Riveiro Bohm (conductor)
05:00 AM
Ned Rorem (b.1923)
Cries and whispers for trumpet and piano
Alison Balsom (trumpet), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
05:07 AM
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
O vis aeternitatis (Responsorium) for female voice
Sequentia, Elizabeth Gaver (fiddle), Elisabetta de Mircovich (fiddle)
05:16 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto in D minor, TWV 52:d1 for 2 chalumeaux and strings
Zug Chamber Soloists
05:27 AM
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Requiem
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
05:49 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Oboe Sonata
Eva Steinaa (oboe), Galya Kolarova (piano)
06:04 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op 32
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stankovsky (conductor)
SAT 06:30 Breakfast (m0026nry)
Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast
Join Emma Clarke to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast."
SAT 09:00 Saturday Morning (m0026ns0)
Tom Service talks to celebrated pianist Seong-Jin Cho
Since winning the 2015 Chopin International Piano Competition, Seong-Jin Cho has quickly established himself as one of the leading pianists of his generation. He talks to Tom Service about marking the 150th anniversary of Ravel's birth with the release of two new albums and recitals around the world. Plus Tom Service plays the best classical playlist, with familiar favourites, hidden gems and new discoveries.
SAT 12:00 Earlier... with Jools Holland (m0024fxc)
Music and gardens
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 Domenico Scarlatti, Alissa Firsova and Gerald Finzi, with performances from Anne Queffelec, Pablo Casals and Vikingur Olafsson. Jools's guest is the director of the Garden Museum in London, Christopher Woodward, who talks about the meaning of gardens, music at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in the 18th century, and his upcoming exhibition of lost gardens at the museum. He introduces garden-related music by Debussy, Prokofiev and Handel.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Earlier with Jools Holland".
SAT 13:00 Music Matters (m0026ns2)
Satire and the Stave
Satire and Society
In the third episode of this six part series, writer and satirist Chris Addison (The Thick Of It, Veep) explores how music has been used to satirise the societies in which they live - from gentle mocking to broad punches. 3/6
Chris's chosen tracks show how composers have long challenged inequalities of class throughout the ages. Featuring music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Erik Satie, John Gay, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and more.
In this series, Chris Addison - himself a classical music devotee, keen amateur choral singer and opera buff - takes listeners on a tour of how composers have used their music to question, parody, and challenge power and ideas over the years. Classical music can amplify power, but it can also undermine it - satirising and thumbing the nose of the status quo. Composers have used classical music to critique, undermine and even lampoon - often in cleverly nuanced, surprising ways that reconnect us to the flawed humans - and shared humanity - beneath the pomposity. Each episode in this series takes a big idea, and illustrates it with a playlist of entertaining and diverse music spanning the entire history of Western classical music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro K.492 - Act 1 Scene 1 Se vuol ballare
Concerto Koln
Rene Jacobs, conductor
Lorenzo Regazzo, bass
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme LWV.43 (extracts)
Le Poeme Harmonique
Vincent Dumestra, lute
Erik Satie: Sonatine Bureaucratique
Frank Glazer, piano
Igor Stravinsky: Soldier’s Tale - Great Choral & March of the Devil
Columbia Chamber Ensemble
Robert Craft, conductor
Gaetano Donizetti: L' Elisir d'amore Act 1. Cosi chiaro
Spiro Malas, bass-baritone
English Chamber Orchestra
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Richard Bonynge, conductor
Paul Hindemith: Neues Vom Tage overture
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Bert Appermont: Gulliver's Travels (selection)
Harmonie de Charlesbourg
Francois Dorion, conductor
John Gay: The Beggar's Opera Act 3. Thus I Stand Like the Turk
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Bonynge, conductor
James Morris, bass-baritone
Produced by James C Taylor
An Overcoat Media Production for BBC Radio 3
SAT 14:00 Record Review (m0026ns4)
Holst's The Planets in Building a Library with Nigel Simeone and Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.
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Elin Manahan Thomas explores an exciting selection of new releases
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Building a Library
Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite version of Holst's The Planets
The ever popular Planets is a seven-movement orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, written during the First World War. Each movement describes in music the character of a planet. After some initial hostility among a few critics the suite soon became widely performed. During a holiday in Spain with the composer Arnold Bax and others, a discussion about astrology got Holst interested in the subject. Apparently Holst became "a remarkably skilled interpreter of horoscopes". Shortly after the holiday Holst wrote : "I only study things that suggest music to me ... the character of each planet suggested lots to me, and I have been studying astrology fairly closely". The characteristics the composer gave to the planets may have been taken from a booklet by Alan Leo: "What Is a Horoscope?" The title of two movements – "Mercury, the Winged Messenger" and "Neptune, the Mystic" – came from this book. But although astrology was Holst's starting point, he arranged the planets to suit his own musical plan.
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Record of the Week: Andrew’s top pick.
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Record Review”
SAT 16:00 Sound of Cinema (m0026ns6)
Wolf Hall and Period Music in Film
Matthew Sweet talks to composer Debbie Wiseman about using period music in films. For the TV series Wolf Hall, Debbie wrote original music in a period style, films like Farinelli and Death In Venice use classical music and for the series Bridgerton Kris Bowers created a hybrid of period-sounding music with hip-hop beats.
Matthew asks how the search for authenticity enhances the viewer's experience, and when does it become a distraction?
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: "Ask BBC Sounds to play Sound of Cinema.”
SAT 17:00 This Classical Life (m0026ns8)
Jess Gillam with... Harry Christophers
Jess is joined by conductor Harry Christophers to swap the music they love the most. Harry is choral royalty and with his choir The Sixteen has released over 150 recordings of music old and new, he was appointed a CBE in 2012, is Grammy nominated and conducts some of the greatest orchestras around the world.
He joins Jess to chat about his love of 70s prog rockers Jethro Tull, why Gladiator is the greatest film ever made, the time he threw the first pitch at Red Sox game and the evergreen aching beauty of Mahler's 9th symphony. Meanwhile Jess ups the tempo with tracks by Abel Selaocoe and Beyonce and finds the one Handel opera Harry has yet to conduct....
SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (m0026nsb)
Verdi's Rigoletto
Verdi's Rigoletto, live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Verdi’s heart-breaking masterpiece returns to the Met featuring the Met debut of rising tenor Pene Pati, alongside soprano Erin Morley and baritone Luca Salsi.
A dramatic journey of almost Shakespearean force, Verdi's opera is based on a play by Victor Hugo and tells of an outsider—a hunchbacked jester—who struggles to balance the duelling elements of beauty and evil that exist in his life.
At a party the Duke of Mantua mentions having his eye on a mystery beauty. His jester Rigoletto – who is despised for being different – mocks all the guests, including a statesman, Monterone, who is furious that his daughter has been molested by the Duke. In retaliation, Monterone places a curse on Rigoletto.
Meanwhile, Rigoletto’s beloved daughter Gilda has fallen in love with a mystery man who turns out to be the Duke. Later that night, Gilda is abducted and delivered to the Duke’s bedroom. Rigoletto is distraught, and approaches the assassin Sparafucile to help him wreak his revenge. However, the plan goes terribly wrong, and we see Monterone’s curse come to pass in a devastating way… The opera features “La donna è mobile,” one of the most popular arias of all time.
Presented by Debra Lew Harder and Ira Siff.
Rigoletto, the Duke's jester.... Luca Salsi (baritone)
Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter.... Erin Morley (soprano)
Duke of Mantua.... Pene Pati (tenor)
Sparafucile, an assassin.... Soloman Howard (bass)
Maddalena, Sparafucile's sister.... Rihab Chaieb (contralto)
Count Monterone.... Blake Denson (baritone)
Marullo.... Jeongcheol Cha (baritone)
Borsa.... a courtier.... Scott Scully (tenor)
Count Ceprano.... Christopher Job (bass)
Countess Ceprano.... Tessa McQueen (mezzo)
Giovanna.... Guila's nurse.... Eve Gigliotti (mezzo)
Page.... Mikki Sodergren.... (mezzo)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Maurizio Benini (conductor)
To listen using most smart speakers, just say, "Ask BBC Sounds to play Opera on 3."
SAT 21:30 Music Planet (m001n8qh)
Zakir Hussain
Tabla player Zakir Hussain is in conversation with Lopa Kothari, sharing his favourite music, as well as discussing his career and musical influences.
SAT 22:30 New Music Show (m0026nsg)
Simon Steen-Andersen's grosso
Tom Service introduces Simon Steen-Andersen's new work grosso, for amplified quartet, Leslie loudspeakers and orchestra, in the sensational premiere performance at last October's Donaueschingen festival in Germany. Also from Donaueschingen, George Lewis's concerto for symphonic orchestra, improvising human soloist, and improvising AI-pianist: The Reincarnation of Blind Tom was inspired by the extraordinary life of the enslaved nineteenth century pianist and composer Thomas Wiggins, who is, as George Lewis says, "Metaphorically reincarnated as Tom using Artificial Intelligence and his own Voyager interactive "virtual improvisor".
Along with these blockbusters, there's a short work for Conch Shell by Wan Ying and the Colin Currie and his Percussion Quartet play David Horne's Pulse for solo marimba and Aileen Sweeney's Starburst, a work she says "inspired by the astrophysical process of a starburst in which stars are born at a particularly fast rate and also by a well-known brand of fruit-flavoured chewy sweets which I was often partial to on trips to the corner shop as a kid."
To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play New Music Show”
SUNDAY 12 JANUARY 2025
SUN 00:30 Through the Night (m0026nsj)
Elgar and Tchaikovsky from Transylvania
The Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by Octavian Lup for Elgar's magnificent Cello Concerto. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85
Octavian Lup (cello), Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca, Junping Qian (conductor)
01:00 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony no 4 in F minor, Op 36
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca, Junping Qian (conductor)
01:44 AM
Traditional
Steaua sus rasare (from Trei cantece de stea din Dobrogea)
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Romanian Madrigal Choir, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Tiberiu Soare (conductor)
01:47 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Violin Sonata torso, from incomplete Sonata
Clara Cernat (violin), Thierry Huillet (piano)
02:02 AM
Constantin Dimitrescu (1847-1928)
Cello Concerto in B minor
Marin Cazacu (cello), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
02:31 AM
Pierre de la Rue (1452-1518)
Missa Sancto Job
Orlando Consort
03:06 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Piano Trio in A minor
Grieg Trio
03:33 AM
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Sonata for harp
Godelieve Schrama (harp)
03:43 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Horn Concerto no 2 in E flat major
Markus Maskuniitty (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Junichi Hirokami (conductor)
04:04 AM
John Cage (1912-1992)
In a Landscape
Fabian Ziegler (percussion)
04:14 AM
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Nocturne for flute and piano
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Audrone Kisieliute (piano)
04:18 AM
Ester Magi (1922-2021)
Duo rahvatoonis for flute and violin
Jaan oun (flute), Ulrika Kristian (violin)
04:20 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Symphony in E flat major, Op 10 no 2
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
04:31 AM
Leslie Pearson (b.1931)
Dance Suite, after Arbeau
Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
04:40 AM
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Overture to 'Céphale et Procris'
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
04:44 AM
Mauricio Sotelo (b.1961)
Escultura de roja luz interna
Chen Halevi (clarinet), Daniel Borovitzky (piano), Gringolts Quartet, Agustin Diassera (percussion)
04:58 AM
Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750)
Recorder Concerto in F major
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori
05:11 AM
Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923)
Nocturne for orchestra
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor)
05:16 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Douzieme concert a deux violes (from 'Les Gouts reunis, Paris 1724)
Violes Esgales
05:25 AM
Ludwig Schuncke (1810-1834)
Grande Sonata for piano in G minor (dedicated to Robert Schumann), Op 3
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
05:48 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Come, ye sons of Art, away (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary [1694], Z323)
Anna Mikolajczyk (soprano), Henning Voss (contralto), Robert Lawaty (counter tenor), Miroslaw Borczynski (bass), Sine Nomine Chamber Choir, Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra, Marek Toporowski (director)
06:11 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Simple Symphony for String Orchestra, Op 4
St Gallen Symphony Orchestra, Modestas Pitrenas (conductor)
SUN 06:30 Breakfast (m0026nm1)
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
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast."
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m0026nm3)
Your perfect Sunday Soundtrack
Linton Stephens, sitting in for Sarah Walker, with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.
Today Linton’s choices include warming winter sounds from Vivaldi, Haydn and Dvorak, lyrical melodies from Clara Schubert, Mozart and Grieg, and a picture of the sea from Elgar.
There’s also music from the Danish String Quartet, a vibrant new release of music by Ruth Gipps, and choral music from Vicente Lusitano.
Plus, Gershwin inspires Hollywood…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m0026nm5)
Sir Paul Collier
The economist Sir Paul Collier has spent much of his career thinking about some of the biggest challenges we face around the world – and then trying to find solutions for them. He’s focused on low-income countries, particularly in Africa, looking at why they haven’t benefitted from the forces of globalisation. He’s examined the causes and the consequences of civil war, and the role of foreign aid. He received a knighthood in 2014 for his work on Africa.
His most recent book is called Left Behind and it offers a vision for how neglected places – from South Yorkshire to South America – can start to catch up.
His music choices include Bach, William Lawes, Schubert and medieval composer Martin Codax.
SUN 13:30 Music Map (m0026nm7)
A journey to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no.5
Sara Mohr Pietsch is your guide on this musical jaunt towards Bach's superb 5th Brandenburg Concerto, one of the greatest pieces of music produced in the baroque period. Prepare to stop off at Mozart's Queen of the Night aria, Handel's Zadok the Priest, Poulenc's Harpsichord Concerto and pieces by Telemann, Einaudi, Eartha Kitt and John Adams.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0026kjc)
Pembroke College, Cambridge
An Epiphany Carol Service from the Chapel of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Introit: Seeing the star (Ben Ponniah)
Bidding
Hymn: Of the Father’s heart begotten (Divinum mysterium)
Reading: John 1 vv1-14
Carol: Christ is the morning star (Cecilia McDowall)
Reading: Genesis 12 vv1-9
Carol: And the swallow (Caroline Shaw)
Reading: Psalm 72 vv10-15
Carol: There shall a star from Jacob come forth (Mendelssohn)
Hymn: As with gladness men of old (Dix)
Reading: Matthew 2 vv7-12
Carol: Mary, flower of all flowers (Kristina Arakelyan)
Reading: Matthew 3 vv13-17
Carol: Arise, Shine (Anna Lapwood) (world premiere)
Reading: John 2 vv1-11
Carol: Tribus miraculis (David Bednall)
Prayers
Hymn: Brightest and best of the sons of the morning (Epiphany)
Blessing
Voluntary: Epiphanie (Litaize)
Anna Lapwood (Director of Music)
Molly Hord, Sophia Membery (Organ Scholars)
Sophia Membery (Harp)
Recorded 5 November.
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Choral Evensong”.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m0026nm9)
Shakti - Buddy Rich - Norma Winstone - Sarah Vaughan
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, including music from Shakti, Norma Winstone, Buddy Rich, Sarah Vaughan, Neil Cowley and more. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Jazz Record Requests”
SUN 17:00 The Early Music Show (m0026nmc)
The Music of Wolf Hall
Hannah French visits Claire van Kampen - the Tudor music advisor & arranger for both Wolf Hall TV series - to explore the music associated with many of the main characters, including King Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Anne Boleyn and Lady Mary, as well as some of the musicians at court: Mark Smeaton, John Taverner and John Blanke.
SUN 18:00 Words and Music (m0026nmf)
In Conversation
From chamber music by Beethoven and Isabella Leonarda to the call and response of Jean Daetwlery’s dialogue between alphorn and piccolo, and the jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker: we are celebrating conversation this week, and not just in the way musicians are attuned to each other, listening and responding to every change of harmony and rhythm, but also through words exchanged and overheard.
The poets George Herbert and Margaret Cavendish delight in the dialogue poetic form, pitting man against death; joy against discretion. And in Genesis Abraham doesn’t just commune with God, he challenges Him too.
There are conversations teasing, eavesdropped and ghostly from the pens of Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Toni Morrison. But it’s the missed intimacies of close friends that Hollie McNish regrets, and the ‘sweet nonsense talking’ that Caleb Femi brings alive. There are gossip mongers plotting in Britten’s Peter Grimes, and a grapevine for Marvin Gaye.
Writers and composers also communicate across the ages, Max Richter shares a tune with Vivaldi, Mozart is infused with Mambo, and the poet Jean Sprackland has the last word in her response to DH Lawrence.
The readers are Gemma Whelan and Clarke Peters.
Producer: Katy Hickman
READINGS:
The Art of Conversation, Catherine Blyth
To Women, As Far as I’m Concerned, DH Lawrence
Feelings, Jean Sprackland
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Genesis, King James Bible
A Dialogue-Anthem, George Herbert
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
On Talking, Kahlil Gibran
Nests in Elms, Michael Field
The Club of Queer Trades, GK Chesterton
Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
Dialogue between joy and discretion, Margaret Cavendish
Here Too Spring Comes to Us with Open Arms, Caleb Femi
my friends are scattered, Hollie McNish
A Time to Talk, Robert Frost
SUN 19:15 Between the Ears (m0026nmh)
Vincent van Gogh in Brixton
"Oh, how I'd like to have you here, old chap, to see my new lodgings, which you'll have heard about. I now have a room, as I've long been wishing, without sloping beams and without blue wallpaper with a green border. It's a very diverting household where I am now, in which they run a school for little boys."
[Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo van Gogh, 13 September 1873]
According to his letters, 20 year old Vincent spent a lot of his free time walking around London. He commuted to and from his office near Covent Garden, where he worked as a trainee art dealer for a Dutch firm Goupil & Cie. This was several years before he decided to become an artist in his own right.
With assistance from Oskar Cox Jensen - historian and writer at Newcastle University - we recreate the sounds of van Gogh's evening walk back to his lodgings on Hackford Road, in Stockwell close to Brixton.
The location of the South London house was completely lost to history until the early 1970s when postman and local resident Paul Chalcroft used census records to figure out the former address of Mrs Loyer, the landlady named in van Gogh's letters. Journalist Ken Wilkie was researching a story about Van Gogh at the same time for a Dutch magazine and joined Paul's investigation. From his home in Amsterdam Ken tells us the intriguing story.
Adjacent houses were destroyed during the blitz but the Van Gogh house survived and remained almost unaltered. The three story Georgian house came up for sale in 2012 and it is today a museum and art space open to the public.
Readings by Alexander Tol
Streets seller cries researched and performed by Vivien Ellis
Additional folk songs researched and performed by Amy Hollinrake
SUN 19:45 Sunday Feature (m0026nml)
New Generation Thinkers: At Home with Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas
Sophie Oliver takes us inside the remarkable home of the American novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice Toklas in Paris to look at the material objects they cherished - from an embroidered waistcoat that Alice made for Gertrude to a fabric sculpture of their pet poodle, Basket, that Picasso made for Gertrude by way of an apology.
Using the objects, she takes listeners inside Stein’s artistic and literary world; her queer life with Alice; and her object-obsessed poetry. She reflects on what these objects meant to Gertrude and Alice and how they built a life with them, and she considers if the home is always a place of refuge.
Contributors
Victoria Avery, Keeper of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Laynie Brown, poet, prose writer, artist, editor and teacher at University of Pennsylvania.
Liesl Olson, author of Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford, 2009) and Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Hannah Roche, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of York.
Music by Tom Parkinson
Objects courtesy of Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, and Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
Producer
Mohini Patel
SUN 20:00 Drama on 3 (m0026nmq)
Gatsby in Harlem (Part 1)
Ncuti Gatwa, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Malachi Kirby star in the award-winning playwright Roy Williams's ‘Gatsby in Harlem’. A re-imagination of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Harlem NYC, 1925. It is the time of one of the most creative cultural revolutions America has ever experienced. The Harlem Renaissance is up and running! Young Nick Carraway runs away from the racially segregated Jim Crow laws of the Deep South for a better life as an African American in New York City. He is reunited with his cousin Daisy and meets her domineering husband, uptight black businessman Tom Buchanan. Nick rents a ground-floor grubby apartment, right in the heart of Harlem. He resides next door next to the fanciest, as well as, largest Brownstone mansion on the block - owned by one Jay Gatsby, a mysterious black business magnate who often hosts extravagant all night jazz parties on every floor of his home.
Gatsby’s parties are the talk of Harlem! Set in an all-black neighbourhood with a heavy jazz score. This slightly reimagined take of the original classic, moves the location from Long Island, dominated by WASPS (White Anglo Saxon Protestants), to the pulsating, jazz-loving streets of African American Harlem. The Harlem Renaissance offered African Americans across the country a new spirit of self determination, pride and a belief in their own American Dream, that all Americans would one day be able live and be respected and accepted as one, living in a time when segregation becomes a thing of the past.
Harlem is the perfect setting for a re-imagined world of The Great Gatsby. The 1920s Jazz Age, during which Fitzgerald's novel is set, overlaps directly with The Harlem Renaissance, a vibrant cultural and artistic movement. Both movements emphasised the transformative power of creativity, music (especially Jazz), and breaking free from societal norms. Gatsby’s opulent parties, filled with Jazz and excess, align with the rise of Black culture and expression. Fitzgerald was also looking at reinvention, with Gatsby embodying the self-made man. Similarly Harlem represented a cultural reinvention for African Americans, a reclaiming of identity and a celebration of achievements in all areas of the arts and politics.
Warning: This programme contains some historical racial language.
The original theme music was composed and performed by Tomorrows Warriors, a Jazz company dedicated to inclusivity and diversity in Jazz, fostering a culture of mentorship to talented young jazz musicians.
This episode features an extract from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" by Langston Hughes.
Credit List
Nick Carraway - Malachi Kirby
Jay Gatsby - Ncuti Gatwa
Daisy Buchanan - Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Tom Buchanan Chiké Okonkwo
Jordon Baker - Michaella Moore
Myrtle Wilson - Harmony Rose Bremner
Wilson - Ako Mitchell
Stephanie St Claire - Moya Angela
Dan Cody - Sam dale
Klipspringer - Tom Glenister
Mr Greene - Joseph Mydell
Other parts played by
Tom Alexander, Sam Dale, Tayla Kovacevi-Ebong, Vigs Otite, Finlay Paul and Romario Splatt
Directed by Celia de Wolff
Produced by Nathan Freeman and Tom Billington
A Granny Eats Wolf production for BBC Radio 3
Executive Producers - Tom Billington and Nathan Freeman
Producer - Celia De Wolff
Assistant Producer - Eleanor Mein
Runner - Greg Birks
Sound Design - Andreina Gomez Casanova and Axel Kacoutié
Dialogue editor and engineer - Matt Bainbridge.
Additional editor - Lucinda Mason-Brown.
Original music and composition - Emily Tran
Music Supervisor - Ben Burrell
Musical Director - Gary Crosby.
Performers for Tomorrow Warriors:
Gary Crosby and Tom Sheen on Bass
Will Gibson on Sax and Clarinet
Mark Kavuma on Trumpet
Sarah Tandy on Piano
Rod Youngs on Drums
Arrangements by Mark Kavuma and Emily Tran
Producer for Tomorrow’s Warriors - Fish Krish
Music sound-engineered, mixed and mastered by Luc Saint Martin
All dialogue and music recorded at The Confetti Institute - London, part of Nottingham Trent University.
SUN 21:20 New Generation Artists (m0026nmv)
Late Beethoven from the Choas Quartet
Beethoven's String Quartet, Op 131 from the Chaos Quartet in a performance from St George's Bristol.
Current members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, the Vienna-based Chaos Quartet, explore one of the summits of the quartet repertoire. Written in 1826, this quartet is unique in having seven continuous movements. In 1828 it was played to Schubert on his death bed; one of those present observed that: "The King of Harmony has sent the King of Song a friendly bidding to the crossing."
Beethoven: String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131
Chaos Quartet
SUN 22:00 Ultimate Calm (m0024qz6)
Ólafur Arnalds: Series 3
Music in the mountains ft. Jordan Rakei
Escape into the embrace of the mountains, with Icelandic pianist and composer Ólafur Arnalds and a selection of music to bring you perspective and peace.
Ólafur reflects on the mountains near Reykjavik that he heads to when the noise of the world gets to be too much, and the feeling of calm that one can get from looking out at a horizon. Inspired by that feeling, he plays a selection of music including Rikuto Fujimoto, Chihei Hatakeyama and Ellen Reid.
Plus we’ll visit the musical safe haven of the singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Jordan Rakei. Jordan shares a track that brings him ultimate calm, giving him goosebumps every time he listens.
Produced by Kit Callin & Derick Armah
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 3 Unwind
SUN 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000kwq9)
Music for night owls
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
SUN 23:30 Unclassified (m0026nn1)
Winter Frequencies
Join Elizabeth Alker with a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists as we journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds. This week offers a truly international selection of music, featuring master of the Iranian violin and former student of experimental sound art at Cal Arts, Saba Alizadeh; the extraordinary voices of Ansis Bētiņš & Artūrs Čukurs singing a cappella on their album Slavic Folk songs, which features moving stories of peril, longing and hope; and a live, wonderfully-atmospheric recording of the legendary German composer Nils Frahm performing in Paris’ Philharmonie.
Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Unclassified”
MONDAY 13 JANUARY 2025
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m0026nn3)
Verdi Requiem
In his monumental Messa da requiem, Giuseppe Verdi channelled his grief over losing two great idols – the composer Gioachino Rossini and the writer Alessandro Manzoni. Han-Na Chang conducts the Oslo Philharmonic and its choir in this music full of great contrasts and powerful emotions. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Requiem
Miah Persson (soprano), Tone Kummervold (contralto), Bror Magnus Todenes (tenor), Mika Kares (bass), Oslo Philharmonic Chorus, Oslo Philharmonic, Han-Na Chang (conductor)
01:59 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
String Quartet in F major
New Helsinki Quartet
02:31 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphonische Etuden for piano, Op 13
Beatrice Rana (piano)
02:56 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 103 in E flat major, Hob.I:103 "Drumroll"
Swiss National Youth Orchestra, Kai Bumann (conductor)
03:27 AM
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
3 motets: Jubilate Deo; Lo ti voria; Tristis est anima mea
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
03:33 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Piano Quartet in A minor
Marianna Shirinyan (piano), Nevena Tochev (violin), Alessandro D'Amico (viola), Rafael Rosenfeld (cello)
03:45 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Lascia la spina, from 'Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno'
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
03:53 AM
Alberta Suriani (1920-1977)
Partita for harp
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
04:03 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Divertimento in B flat major, K.137
Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi Suzuki (conductor)
04:16 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Dario Castello (1602-1631)
2 Madrigals by Monteverdi and a Sonata a 3 by Dario Castello:
Io son pur vezzosetta pastorella (from Monteverdi's Libro VII de madrigali, SV143 - Venice 1619); Augellin in che la voce al canto spieghi (from Monteverdi's Libro VII de madrigali, SV143 - Venice 1619); Sonata Decima a 3 (Castello)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
04:31 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
La forza del destino (Overture)
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Chi-Yong Chung (conductor)
04:39 AM
Judith Weir (1954-)
String quartet
Silesian Quartet
04:51 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for flute in D major RV.428, 'Il Gardellino'
Karl Kaiser (flute), Camerata Koln
05:03 AM
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
Ave dulcissima Maria
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
05:10 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Prelude and Fugue for orchestra, Op 10
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pertti Pekkanen (conductor)
05:20 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Preludes, Op 28 nos 16-20
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
05:28 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 33 in B flat major, K.319
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
05:49 AM
Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
Suite in D minor
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
06:05 AM
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
Violin Concerto no 2 in D minor, Op 22
Bartek Niziol (violin), Sinfonia Varsovia, Grzegorz Nowak (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m0026nss)
Classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny 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.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast.”
MON 09:30 Essential Classics (m0026nsv)
A feast of great 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
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
MON 13:00 Classical Live (m0026nsx)
Live from London's Wigmore Hall
Linton Stephens with an afternoon of specially recorded music from across the UK and Europe. Includes viola player Tabea Zimmermann and pianist Andrei Banciu live from London's Wigmore Hall playing Clara Schumann and Enescu. Elsewhere, Linton begins a week-long celebration of Sir Simon Rattle, ahead of his upcoming 70th birthday, selecting a recent concert recording of Brahms' Piano Concerto No.2, performed by Seong-Jin Cho with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon.
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1pm
Live from Wigmore Hall, presented by Hannah French
Clara Schumann
3 Romances, Op.22
Johannes Brahms
Scherzo in C minor (from the ‘F.A.E.’ Sonata)
Joseph Joachim
Hebrew Melodies ‘Impressions of Byron’s Poems’, Op.9: I. Sostenuto
Robert Fuchs
6 Phantasiestücke, Op.117 (Nos 1, 2, 3 & 5)
Georges Enescu
Konzertstück
Stan Golestan
Arioso et Allegro de concert
Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Andrei Banciu (piano)
***
2pm
Franz Schubert
Mass No. 2 in G major, D.167
Siobhan Stagg (soprano)
Julian Prégardien (tenor)
Vito Priante (bass)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Mutti (conductor)
Richard Wagner
The Flying Dutchman: Overture
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Edvard Grieg, arr. Alan Civil
Suite for Brass Quintet
Cologne Brass Consort
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3pm
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op.83
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
MON 16:00 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 17:00 In Tune (m0026nt0)
Classical artists live in session
Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined by pianist Jonathan Ferrucci and conductor, pianist and organist Wayne Marshall who both perform live in the In Tune studio.
To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play In Tune".
MON 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0026nt2)
The eclectic classical mix
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. We start with a lively Slavonic dance by Dvorak, followed by William Byrd's 'Peccantem me quotidie for 5 voices '. Also in the mix is piano music by Cecile Chaminade, Gossec's Tambourin, John Barry's Dances with Wolves and we finish with the beautiful 2nd movement of Mozart's piano concerto no. 21.
Producer: Kevin Satizabal Carrascal
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0026nt4)
Bruckner's 9th Symphony from Birmingham
Martin Helmchen joins the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to play one of Mozart's most strenuous workouts for a solo pianist - his dazzling Piano Concerto No 26 - the "Coronation".
In the second half, conductor Kazuki Yamada leads the orchestra in Anton Bruckner’s stirring and emotional Symphony No.9 - three mighty movements that form the powerful final statement from this uniquely brilliant composer.
Recorded at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on 12th December 2024.
Presented by Mark Forrest.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 26 in D major, "Coronation"
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 9 in D minor
Martin Helmchen, piano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Kazuki Yamada, conductor
MON 21:45 The Essay (m001r951)
Five Cellos: Lost and Found
The Soul of Music
Writer, musician and broadcaster Kate Kennedy takes a personal look at five lost cellos, and what they can tell us of those who played and loved them and how our identities are shaped by the physical, social and psychological impacts of performance.
Can a cello hold its player's soul? Jewish-Hungarian Pal Hermann was hailed as 'the next Pablo Casals' in the 1930s. He is now completely forgotten. Kate Kennedy retraces his steps across Europe, with his unique Gagliano cello as he attempted to escape the Nazis, from Berlin to Paris, to Toulouse and finally to Lithuania. Hermann’s cello has been lost since 1952, but the key to finding it, she discovers, is an inscription burnt into the side of it. 'I am the soul of music'. She reflects on her quest to find Hermann's soul, his cello, and how near we can get to recovering a great and neglected musician himself.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
Technical production by Mike Sherwood
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
A TellTale Industries production for BBC Radio 3
MON 22:00 Night Tracks (m0026nt6)
A bewitching night time soundtrack
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 (m0026nt8)
Xhosa Cole’s Flowers
'Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible heritage acts.
Fellow Birmingham resident Xhosa Cole is Soweto's guest this week. Xhosa’s newly released album “A Modern Genius (Vol.1)” is devoted to the life and personality of Thelonious Monk and marks another explorative chapter in Xhosa’s musical journey. From Monday to Thursday, Xhosa is highlighting some of the fellow musicians that have influenced him, in a section of the show called Flowers.
Xhosa’s first bouquet goes to UK pianist, composer and educator Julian Joseph.
Plus, there's music from Jaimie Branch, Audrey Powne and Matt Carmichael.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
TUESDAY 14 JANUARY 2025
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m0026ntb)
Wagner, Brahms and Mozart from Warsaw
Mikhail Mering conducts the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw in Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn and Mozart's Symphony no 36 'Linz'. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Siegfried Idyll
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Mikhail Mering (conductor)
12:52 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Mikhail Mering (conductor)
01:11 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 36 in C major, K.425 'Linz'
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Mikhail Mering (conductor)
01:40 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34
Boris Berman (piano), Alexander String Quartet
02:24 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), arr. Marcin Zdunik
Im Treibhaus (Wesendonck-Lieder)
Agata Zubel (soprano), Warsaw Cellonet Group, Andrzej Bauer (director)
02:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
Kathy Kang (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaenko (conductor)
03:09 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Stabat mater for 10 voices, organ & basso continuo in C minor
Danish National Radio Chorus, Soren Christian Vestergaard (organ), Bo Holten (conductor)
03:32 AM
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Harp Sonata
Rita Costanzi (harp)
03:45 AM
John Field (1782-1837)
Rondo for piano and strings in A flat major, H.18A
Eckart Selheim (pianoforte), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Maier (director)
03:54 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), orch. Luc Brewaeys
Des pas sur la neige (Preludes Book 1, no 6)
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
03:59 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), arr. Stefan Bojsten
Hor' ich das Liedchen klingen - from Dichterliebe, Op 48 no 10
Olle Persson (baritone), Dan Almgren (violin), Torleif Thedeen (cello), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
04:03 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade no 4 in F minor, Op 52
Seung-Hee Hyun (piano)
04:15 AM
Johann Rosenmuller (1619-1684)
Sonata Duodecima a 5 Stromenti da Arco & Altri
OH! Orkiestra Historyczna, Martyna Pastuszka (conductor)
04:21 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
South Ostrobothnian Dances, Op 17 (excerpts)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kari Tikka (conductor)
04:31 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Excerpts from Songs Without Words, Op 6 (1846)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:41 AM
Franz Doppler (1821-1883)
Fantaisie pastorale hongroise, Op 26 (version for flute & piano)
Ian Mullin (flute), Richard Shaw (piano)
04:52 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Romanian folk dances Sz.68 orch. from Sz.56
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Clark (conductor)
04:59 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Shéhérazade - song cycle
Sophie Koch (soprano), Musikkollegium Winterthur Orchestra, Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas (conductor)
05:15 AM
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Four African Dances, Op 58
Samuel Nebyu (violin), Charles Abramovic (piano)
05:33 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata in C minor, D.958
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
06:04 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 64 in A major, Hob: I/64, 'Tempora mutantur'
Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Rolf Gupta (conductor)
06:24 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Fundamenta ejus - motet for 4 voices
Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m0026nx1)
Start the day with classical music
Petroc Trelawny 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.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast.”
TUE 09:30 Essential Classics (m0026nx3)
Your perfect classical playlist
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
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
TUE 13:00 Classical Live (m0026nx5)
Simon Rattle Conducts Symphonic Berlioz
Linton Stephens presents specially recorded music from across the UK and Europe. Includes a showcase of Radio 3 New Generation Artists in concert in Aberdeen. Elsewhere, Linton marks the upcoming 70th birthday of Sir Simon Rattle, selecting a recent concert recording of the Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale by Berlioz, conducted in Munich by Sir Simon.
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1pm
Radio 3 New Generation Artists in concert
Franz Schubert
4 Impromptus, D.935
Alim Beisembayev (piano)
Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
Valse-Scherzo in C major, Op. 34
Ryan Corbett (accordion)
Geneva Lewis (violin)
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in C major 'The Bird', Op.33 No.3
Chaos Quartet
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2pm
Grace Williams
Concert Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major K.191
Vera Dias (bassoon)
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Miguel Sepúlveda (conductor)
Igor Stravinsky
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)
***
3pm
Hector Berlioz
Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Op.15
Felix Eckert (trombone)
Ulrichsbläser Büchlberg (wind band)
Marktoberdorf Youth Wind Orchestra
Möckenlohe brass band
Unterallgäu brass band
Simon Rattle (conductor)
Traditional, arr. Tara Viscardi, Hugh Cutting
Siúil a Rún; The Lark in the Morning
Hugh Cutting (countertenor)
Tara Viscardi (harp)
Daniel Murphy (guitar)
Leo Appel (violin)
Carl Nielsen
Helios Overture, Op.17
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
TUE 16:00 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 17:00 In Tune (m0026nx8)
Music news and live classical music
Pianist Dame Imogen Cooper performs live in the In Tune studio, and Sara Mohr-Pietsch chats with conductor Ed Gardner.
To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play In Tune".
TUE 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0026nxb)
Power through with classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0026nxd)
The National Youth Orchestra performs Nielsen's 4th Symphony
The National Youth Orchestra shines a light on the brilliance, passion and musical potential of a new generation.
With conductor Jaime Martín at the helm, the NYO take to the stage at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall to perform three fantastically colouful orchestral pieces.
The orchestra begins with a masterpiece of orchestration and evolving textures - Ravel’s Boléro. They then invite us to immerse ourselves in Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s "Catamorphosis" - a sonic journey through nature, brought to life by the glimmering power of the orchestra.
In the second half, we discover the drama and grandeur of Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4 - a bold and imaginative work that radiates the passion of every performer on stage. As Nielsen once said: “Music is life”, and you’ll feel it in every note.
Recorded at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on 6th January 2025.
Presented by Mark Forrest.
Maurice Ravel: Boléro
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Catamorphosis
Carl Nielsen: Symphony no 4, "The Inextinguishable"
The National Youth Orchestra
Jaime Martín, conductor
TUE 21:45 The Essay (m001r89l)
Five Cellos: Lost and Found
The Bee Cello
Writer and musician Kate Kennedy takes a personal look at five lost cellos, and what they can tell us of those who played and loved them and how our identities are shaped by the physical, social and psychological impacts of performance.
An abandoned cello rescued from a skip stands alone under a pergola in an orchard of a stately home on the outskirts of Nottingham. In an eccentric experiment, created by one of the world experts in honeybees, apiarist and physicist Prof. Martin Benscik has donated the instrument to 400,000 bees who now live very happily inside the cello. Kate Kennedy reflects on how the colony has 'improved' the cello's design by gluing wax onto specific resonant parts whilst the intelligent bees’ buzzing, duets with the cello as the wind whistles through its strings in its exposed location. This is the story of sharing vibrations with them, sharing music, and learning what a cello means to a community of bees.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
Technical production by Mike Sherwood
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
A TellTale Industries production for BBC Radio 3
TUE 22:00 Night Tracks (m0026nxg)
Sublime sounds for nightfall
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 (m0026nxj)
Fresh Auntie Flo
'Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
Soweto's guest this week is saxophonist Xhosa Cole. Xhosa is celebrating the unsung heroes and living legends that have inspired him. Tonight he has chosen saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins.
Plus, we hear music from Josephine Davies and Tomeka Reid. There's also time for a piece from the soundtrack of Gatsby in Harlem - BBC Radio 3’s new drama, which re-imagines F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and has an original score composed by Tomorrow’s Warriors. Search on BBC Sounds to hear it.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY 2025
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0026nxl)
Viennese masterpieces: Beethoven and Schubert
Francesco Piemontesi plays Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and their music director Michael Sanderling, followed by Schubert's 'Great' 9th Symphony. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto no 5 in E flat, Op 73 'Emperor'
Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Sanderling (conductor)
01:08 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Wilhelm Kempff
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV.645
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
01:12 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony no 9 in C major, D.944 'Great'
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Sanderling (conductor)
02:07 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Erwartung, Op 2 no 1
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
02:11 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), arr. Zoltan Kocsis
Concert rondo for horn and orchestra in E flat major, K371
Laszlo Gal (horn), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis (conductor)
02:18 AM
Marianne Martinez (1744-1812)
Sinfonia in C major
BBC Concert Orchestra, Johannes Wildner (conductor)
02:31 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Dixit Dominus in D major, RV.595
Choir of Latvian Radio, Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
03:01 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Excerpts from Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano, Op 83
Paul Dean (clarinet), Brett Dean (viola), Stephen Emmerson (piano)
03:22 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Gammelnorsk Romance met Variasjoner, Op 51
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
03:47 AM
Jean Francaix (1912-1997)
Le Gai Paris for wind ensemble
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
03:57 AM
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris
Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor)
04:06 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Missa Brevis
Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler (conductor)
04:19 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Pelléas et Mélisande, Op 46
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kolbjorn Holthe (conductor)
04:31 AM
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1739-1799)
Overture to the opera "L'amant anonyme"
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
04:39 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), transc. Franz Liszt
Widmung S.566, transc. for piano
Ji-Yeong Mun (piano)
04:43 AM
Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952)
Verses from Maria Lecina
Rachel Ann Morgan (mezzo soprano), Frans van Ruth (piano)
04:56 AM
Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716)
Overture in D minor
Hildebrand'sche Hoboisten Compagnie
05:06 AM
Robert Kajanus (1856-1933)
Aino - symphonic poem for male chorus and orchestra
Helsinki University Male Voice Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
05:21 AM
Claude Le Jeune (c.1528-1600)
Dieu, nous te louons
Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius, Christina Pluhar (lute), Michel Laplenie (conductor)
05:30 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Nocturnal after John Dowland Op 70
Sean Shibe (guitar)
05:48 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695), arr. Fred Mills
Sonata for two trumpets and brass
Brass Consort Koln
05:53 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Piano Sonata in C minor
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
06:07 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
In the South 'Alassio' overture, Op 50
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0026p90)
Morning classical
Petroc Trelawny 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.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast.”
WED 09:30 Essential Classics (m0026p94)
Great classical music for your morning
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
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
WED 13:00 Classical Live (m0026p98)
Simon Rattle Conducts Dvořák's Slavonic Dances
Linton Stephens with specially recorded music from across the UK and Europe, including Dvořák's Slavonic Dances (Op.72) and Janáček's Sinfonietta. These have been specially recorded in Munich by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle—part of BBC Radio 3's celebration of Sir Simon's forthcoming 70th birthday. Elsewhere, Linton introduces a showcase of Radio 3's New Generation Artists in concert at Aberdeen's Cowdray Hall.
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1pm
Radio 3 New Generation Artists in concert
Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 458 'The Hunt'
Chaos Quartet
Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42
Ryan Corbett (accordion)
Geneva Lewis (violin)
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2pm
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dances, Op.72
Leoš Janáček
Sinfonietta, Op. 60
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
WED 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0026p9d)
Manchester Cathedral
Live from Manchester Cathedral.
Introit: The Three Kings (Jonathan Dove)
Responses: Geoffrey Woollatt
Psalm 78 vv1-12, 57-73 (Turle, Barnby, Goss, Ley)
First Lesson: Genesis 2 vv4-25
Canticles: Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton)
Second Lesson: Matthew 21 vv33-46
Anthem: Vast ocean of light (Jonathan Dove)
Voluntary: Paean (Leighton)
Christopher Stokes (Organist & Master of the Choristers)
Geoffrey Woollatt (Sub-Organist)
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Choral Evensong”.
WED 16:00 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 17:00 In Tune (m0026p9k)
Live classical music for your drive
Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined by Jess Dandy, who sings live in the In Tune studio.
To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play In Tune".
WED 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001mmnz)
The summery classical mix
Relax into a summery classical soundscape of uplifting music by composers from the Baroque to the present day. This mix opens with Gustav Holst's majestic Jupiter from The Planets before moving on to familiar favourites by Bach and Fauré. We discover the beautiful folk-inspired choral music of Veljo Tormis, gospel arranged by the legendary Moses Hogan and music for string quartet by American composer Caroline Shaw. The mix closes with moving music from the world of video games and TV, with tracks from Jessica Curry's Everybody's Gone To The Rapture and Geoffrey Burgon's classic score for Brideshead Revisited.
Producer: Christina Kenny for BBC Audio
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0026pkp)
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra - Mahler's Symphony No 3
The longest and perhaps most ambitious of Mahler’s symphonies, the premiere of the composer's third symphony received a 15-minute ovation during which Mahler was called to return to the conducting podium a dozen times, with a critic at the first performance describing the radiant love-infused finale as ‘perhaps the greatest adagio since Beethoven’. Indeed, Mahler told Sibelius that a symphony ‘must be like the world: it must embrace everything’ - and his 3rd Symphony certainly adheres to those principles with the ranks of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra swollen to house the complement of 8-horns that depict Pan's awakening. Marianne Crebassa joins the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and the massed Tiffin Choirs, with conductor Gustavo Dudamel in this performance of Mahler's exquisite Symphony No. 3
Presented live from the Barbican Hall in London by Ian Skelly.
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Tiffin Choirs
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel (condcutor)
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Radio 3 in Concert".
WED 21:45 The Essay (m001r9c8)
Five Cellos: Lost and Found
The Auschwitz Cello
Writer and musician Kate Kennedy takes a personal look at five lost cellos, and what they can tell us of those who played and loved them and how our identities are shaped by the physical, social and psychological impacts of performance.
What does it mean to be saved by an instrument? Anita Lasker-Wallfisch became known as the cellist of Auschwitz. Her beloved Ventepane cello disappeared at the same time as her parents were taken by the Nazis from her home in Breslau (now Wroclaw). When she was sent to Auschwitz, she narrowly avoided death by being recruited to the camp orchestra and filling the vacant role of cellist. Kate Kennedy working with archivists, finds the hut in which Anita practised with the other musicians, seeking answers as to why there was cello in Auschwitz, who had previously played it - whilst reflecting on how being saved by a cello, changes your relationship to the instrument.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
Technical production by Mike Sherwood
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
A TellTale Industries production for BBC Radio 3
WED 22:00 Night Tracks (m0026p9y)
Harmonious music for nighttime listening
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 (m0026pb2)
Music from poet Anthony Joseph
Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
Acclaimed saxophonist and flautist Xhosa Cole has been selecting a track to play each evening in Flowers - paying tribute to contemporaries, living legends and unsung heroes. Tonight he chooses 'Round Midnight’s very own Soweto!
Plus there are tracks from Henrik Jensen, Judi Jackson and Ian Cleaver.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
THURSDAY 16 JANUARY 2025
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0026pb6)
Pietro Nardini and his contemporaries
The Ad Astra Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis is made up of students from the Basel Training Institute for Early Music. They perform works by Nardini, Cambini, Tartini and Mozart. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Pietro Nardini (1722-1793)
Sinfonia in D major
Ad Astra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
12:37 AM
Pietro Nardini (1722-1793)
Violin Concerto in A major
Leila Schayegh (baroque violin), Ad Astra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Leila Schayegh (director)
12:53 AM
Giuseppe Maria Cambini (1746-1825)
Sinfonia Concertante in C minor
Leila Schayegh (baroque violin), Lena Ruisz (violin), Ad Astra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Leila Schayegh (director)
01:11 AM
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Concerto in D major
Leila Schayegh (baroque violin), Ad Astra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Leila Schayegh (director)
01:28 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 29 in A major, K.201
Ad Astra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
01:50 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 15 in G major, K.124
Ad Astra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
01:52 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Theme and variations on the Name "Abegg", Op 1
Seung-Hee Hyun (piano)
02:01 AM
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Sonata no 6, 'Senti lo Mare' (Listen to the Sea)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin)
02:07 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Serenade in C minor for Wind Octet, K.388
Wind Ensemble of Hungarian State Opera
02:31 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Der Herr lebet - cantata, Wq.251
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Hilke Helling (alto), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei, Hermann Max (conductor)
03:07 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
24 Preludes, Op 28
David Kadouch (piano)
03:44 AM
Dag Wiren (1905-1986)
Marcia from Serenade for Strings, Op 11 (1937)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
03:49 AM
Anonymous
Salterello
Ensemble Micrologus
03:55 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Trio sonata in C major, Op 3 no 8
Il Seminario Musicale, Gerard Lesne (director)
04:02 AM
Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
Marcia funebre sulla morte di Luigi van Beethoven, Op 146
Jose Gallardo (piano)
04:11 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Serenade Op 8
Trio AnPaPie
04:15 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Sonata no 2 in B flat major, Z.791
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
04:22 AM
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889), arr. David Stanhope
Fantasy and variations on a Cavatina from 'Beatrice di Tenda' by Bellini
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
04:31 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Overture to The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from incidental music)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
04:40 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1924)
Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op 74
Stephane Lemelin (piano)
04:49 AM
Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693)
Exulta satis - Offertorium for countertenor, tenor, two violins, viola and basso continuo
Hassler Consort
04:58 AM
Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750-1817)
Duet no 3 for 2 violas
Milan Telecky (viola), Zuzana Jarabakova (viola)
05:06 AM
Tauno Pylkkanen (1918-1980)
Suite for oboe and strings, Op 32
Aale Lindgren (oboe), Finnish Radio Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
05:15 AM
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), orch. Michael Conway Baker
Four Irish Songs
Linda Maguire (soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:24 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Sonata for two pianos and percussion, Sz.110
Yuka Oechslin (piano), Anton Kernjak (piano), Matthias Wursch (percussion), Michael Meinen (percussion)
05:53 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto in D major, Hob.7b:2
Heinrich Schiff (cello), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Heinrich Schiff (conductor)
06:18 AM
Theodor Rogalski (1901-1954)
3 Romanian Dances
Romanian Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0026qr0)
Ease into the day with classical music
Petroc Trelawny 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.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast.”
THU 09:30 Essential Classics (m0026qr2)
The best classical morning music
Ian Skelly 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
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
THU 13:00 Classical Live (m0026qr4)
Simon Rattle Conducts Mahler's 7th Symphony
Linton Stephens with unique concert recordings from across the UK and Europe. Includes a showcase of Radio 3 New Generation Artists performing at Aberdeen's Cowdray Hall and Mahler's monumental Symphony No.7 recorded specially by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. Linton marks the forthcoming 70th birthday of this great British conductor with a unique recording of a work of which Sir Simon has long been a champion: Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy.
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1pm
Radio 3 New Generation Artists in concert
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op 35. Book 1
Alim Beisembayev (piano)
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Bas Jongen
Estaciones Porteñas: III. ‘Spring'
Chaos Quartet
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du Tango
Ryan Corbett (accordion)
Geneva Lewis (violin)
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2pm
Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posy
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
Mel Bonis
Soir et Matin
ATOS Trio
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2.30pm
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.7 in E minor
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
THU 16:00 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 17:00 In Tune (m0026qr7)
Classical artists live in the studio
The Fitzwilliam Quartet perform live for Sara Mohr-Pietsch in the In Tune studio.
To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play In Tune".
THU 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0026qr9)
Your daily classical soundtrack
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0026qrc)
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel
Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and music from Dudamel and his orchestra's native Venezuela - an off-road trip and an odyssey across the entire country. "On foot, bike, or on a 4x4 vehicle," says Ricardo Lorenz, "good parts of my childhood and adolescence were spent off-roading in the vast and wild countryside of Venezuela"- and that inspired his concert opener called "Todo Terreno" - "All Terrain". In his "Odyssey" concerto for the small Latin American guitar called the cuatro, Gonzalo Grau imagines his soloist Jorge Glem taking a musical journey from his birthplace, Cumaná on Venezuela's eastern coast, to Dudamel's home town of Barquisimeto in the west of the country.
Live from the Barbican Hall, London. Presented by Ian Skelly.
Ricardo Lorenz: Todo Terreno
Gonzalo Grau: Odisea
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36
Jorge Glem (Venezuelan cuatro)
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Radio 3 in Concert".
THU 21:45 The Essay (m001r98q)
Five Cellos: Lost and Found
The Shipwrecked Cello
Writer and musician Kate Kennedy takes a personal look at five lost cellos, and what they can tell us of those who played and loved them and how our identities are shaped by the physical, social and psychological impacts of performance.
Destroyed and resurrected, how does an instrument's identity change? The 'Mara' Stradivarius is one of the greatest cellos in the world, but in the 1960s it was completely destroyed when the Trieste Trio nearly drowned jumping with it from a burning boat in thick fog into the River Plate. In travelling to Trieste, Kate Kennedy discovers how the Trio’s mental escape into a world of music during the second world war, shutting out the massacres around them, helped them to survive the accident that killed 55 others. She reflects on the cello’s unlikely rescue and lengthy reconstruction and how in the aftermath of its turbulent history its sound is considered by many to be better than ever.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
Technical production by Mike Sherwood
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
A TellTale Industries production for BBC Radio 3
THU 22:00 Night Tracks (m0026qrf)
Blissful sounds for night owls
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 (m0026qrh)
A classic from Nancy Wilson
'Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
Xhosa Cole has been Soweto's Flowers guest this week selecting contemporaries to celebrate. He has one more bouquet in the basket and he gives it to British tenor and soprano saxophonist Paul Dunmall.
Xhosa's latest album A Modern Genius (Vol.1) is out now, and he will be performing at Brick Lane Jazz Festival in London on Saturday 26th April.
Plus, there's music from Somi, Nik Bärtsch, and Don Glori.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
FRIDAY 17 JANUARY 2025
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0026qrk)
Renaud Capuçon conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Celebrated violinist Renaud Capuçon is soloist and conductor in this popular programme of Mozart, Strauss and Beethoven from Geneva. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Concerto no 5 in A major, K.219 'Turkish'
Renaud Capucon (violin), Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
12:58 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Metamorphosen
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Renaud Capucon (conductor)
01:25 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony no 1 in C major, Op 21
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Renaud Capucon (conductor)
01:51 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Overture to Masques et bergamasques, Op 112
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Renaud Capucon (conductor)
01:55 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonate de Concert for trumpet in C and organ
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
02:05 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 100 in G major, Hob. I:100, 'Military'
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Jonathon Heyward (conductor)
02:31 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), arr. Felix Mottl
Funf Lieder von Mathilde von Wesendonck
Yvonne Minton (mezzo soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)
02:50 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 8 in C minor, Op 13 "Pathetique"
Mi-Joo Lee (piano)
03:09 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Violin Concerto in D major
Stefan Jackiw (violin), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor)
03:32 AM
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Toccata Octava in G major (Apparatus musico-organisticus, 1690)
Marcel Verheggen (organ)
03:40 AM
Ester Magi (1922-2021)
Bucolic
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
03:50 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Motets pour un temps de penitence: no 3, Tenebrae & no 4, Tristis est anima mea
Polyphonia, Ivelin Dimitrov (conductor)
03:59 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Jeux - poème dansé
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
04:15 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Theme and Variations arr for harp
Manja Smits (harp)
04:21 AM
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Moses fantaisie (after Rossini)
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)
04:31 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Tzigane - rapsodie de concert for violin and piano
Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Marta Gulyas (piano)
04:41 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture to La Gazza Ladra
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
04:51 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonata in C major RV 779 for oboe, violin and continuo
Camerata Koln
05:05 AM
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Walsingham (Have with you to Walsingham) - variations for keyboard (MB.7.8)
Aapo Hakkinen (harpsichord)
05:14 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Duo for Violin and Viola in G major, K.423
Kirill Troussov (violin), Markus Fleck (viola)
05:30 AM
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Fantasia in G major
Vincent van Laar (organ)
05:38 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Le Chasseur Maudit - symphonic poem (M.44)
National Orchestra of France, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
05:55 AM
Trond H.F.Kverno (b.1945)
Corpus Christi Carol; Missa Fidei Mysterii
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Helgerod (conductor)
06:12 AM
Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-c.1763)
Quartet in G minor ('O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden')
Cafebaum
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0026s7h)
Sunrise classical
Petroc Trelawny 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.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast.”
FRI 09:30 Essential Classics (m0026s7k)
The ideal mix of 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
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
FRI 13:00 Classical Live (m0026s7m)
Simon Rattle Conducts Brahms' Second Symphony
Linton Stephens with unique concert recordings from across the UK and Europe. Includes Brahms' sunny Second Symphony, specially recorded in Munich by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, who celebrates his 70th birthday tomorrow. Elsewhere, Linton introduces special performances by Radio 3 New Generation Artists: some of classical music's brightest stars.
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1pm
Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 1
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 3 in E major BWV 1016
Ryan Corbett (accordion)
Geneva Lewis (violin)
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor, D. 958
Alim Beisembayev (piano)
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from
2pm
Johannes Brahms
Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?
BBC Singers
Benjamin Goodson (conductor)
Grace Williams
Sea Sketches
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Claude Debussy
Images – Book 2
Alim Beisembayev (piano)
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3pm
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D, Op.73
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
Franz Schubert, arr. Chaos Quartet & Fergus McCreadie
Du bist die Ruh D.776 & Piano Improvisation
Chaos Quartet
Fergus McCreadie (piano)
FRI 16:00 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 17:00 In Tune (m0026s7q)
Live music and chat with classical artists
Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined in the In Tune studio by the Novo Quartet.
To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play In Tune".
FRI 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0026s7s)
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites.
FRI 19:30 Friday Night is Music Night (m0026s7v)
British Cinema
Richard Balcombe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in classic film scores from British cinema, live from Chichester Festival Theatre.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Walton Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Goodwin Those Magnificent Men
Vaughan Williams Prelude from Coastal Command
Vaughan Williams Prelude from 49th Parallel
Bliss March from Things to Come
Walton Charge and Battle from Henry V
Goodwin Belle’s Love Theme from Beauty & the Beast
Goodwin The Trap
Goodwin 633 Squadron
Coates The Dambusters
INTERVAL
Farnon Captain Horatio Hornblower RN
Patrick Doyle Main Title from Much Ado About Nothing
Nigel Hess Ladies in Lavender
John Ireland The Overlanders
Walton Battle in the Air from The Battle of Britain
FRI 21:45 The Essay (m001r975)
Five Cellos: Lost and Found
The Flat-Pack Cello
Writer and musician Kate Kennedy takes a personal look at five lost cellos, and what they can tell us of those who played and loved them and how our identities are shaped by the physical, social and psychological impacts of performance.
What happens when you re-imagine what a cello can be? From pieces of derelict instruments, and offcuts of wood, along with cutting edge technology, Kate Kennedy is making a prototype of a new, hybrid cello, that looks nothing like we might expect. This is a cello whose story is yet to begin.
Working amidst the wood shavings and priceless instruments in the historic workshop of Hill and Sons, the cello parts are destined for a youth orchestra in Argentina and designed to be easily reassembled by the young players. Every aspect of the instrument has been re-imagined. As Kate stumblingly creates the very first cello for them, getting to know a cello’s every contour, she reflects on perhaps the weirdest cello ever made, and its role as an instrument for the future, shaping young lives, and telling new stories.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
Technical production by Mike Sherwood
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
A TellTale Industries production for BBC Radio 3
FRI 22:00 Late Junction (m0026s7x)
Tectonic introspection and desert sounds
Verity Sharp unveils new musical landscapes, with geologically-inspired post-classical explorations from Portuguese duo Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes, a sonic assault from Indonesian harsh noise project Bergegas Mati's latest mini album, and a track from Malian desert blues luminary Samba Touré. His new album honours the essential workers of Bamako—street water vendors, itinerant tailors, and housekeepers.
Plus an exclusive extract from The Drum and the Bird, a live performance by Forensis (Forensic Architecture) in collaboration with Bill Kouligas and PAN recorded at last August’s Atonal Openless festival. The work explores overlooked histories of German colonialism in Namibia through the conjuring of landscapes of sound.
Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Late Junction”
FRI 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0026s7z)
Lau Noah live in session
Soweto presents live music by Spanish vocalist and guitarist Lau Noah, recorded live onstage in the Barbican Foyer. Her set was part of 'Round Midnight's curated concert for last year's London Jazz Festival.
During a captivating solo performance, Lau played a set of original compositions, with some from her latest album A Dos.
This is the second in a trio of Friday night programmes spotlighting live performances from that concert. Last Friday’s ‘Round Midnight featured harpist Marysia Osu and bassist Daniel Casimir's Quintet follows next Friday.
You can listen back to all of these programmes after broadcast on BBC Sounds.
There's also time for music by GoGo Penguin, Phil Ranelin and Andy Hay.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
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 (m0026nt8)
'Round Midnight
23:30 TUE (m0026nxj)
'Round Midnight
23:30 WED (m0026pb2)
'Round Midnight
23:30 THU (m0026qrh)
'Round Midnight
23:30 FRI (m0026s7z)
Between the Ears
19:15 SUN (m0026nmh)
Breakfast
06:30 SAT (m0026nry)
Breakfast
06:30 SUN (m0026nm1)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m0026nss)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m0026nx1)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m0026p90)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m0026qr0)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m0026s7h)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m0026kjc)
Choral Evensong
15:00 WED (m0026p9d)
Classical Live
13:00 MON (m0026nsx)
Classical Live
13:00 TUE (m0026nx5)
Classical Live
13:00 WED (m0026p98)
Classical Live
13:00 THU (m0026qr4)
Classical Live
13:00 FRI (m0026s7m)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 MON (m0026nt2)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m0026nxb)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 WED (m001mmnz)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 THU (m0026qr9)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m0026s7s)
Composer of the Week
16:00 MON (m001l4cc)
Composer of the Week
16:00 TUE (m001l4gx)
Composer of the Week
16:00 WED (m001l4kq)
Composer of the Week
16:00 THU (m001l4g7)
Composer of the Week
16:00 FRI (m001l4lp)
Drama on 3
20:00 SUN (m0026nmq)
Earlier... with Jools Holland
12:00 SAT (m0024fxc)
Essential Classics
09:30 MON (m0026nsv)
Essential Classics
09:30 TUE (m0026nx3)
Essential Classics
09:30 WED (m0026p94)
Essential Classics
09:30 THU (m0026qr2)
Essential Classics
09:30 FRI (m0026s7k)
Friday Night is Music Night
19:30 FRI (m0026s7v)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m0026nt0)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m0026nx8)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m0026p9k)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m0026qr7)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m0026s7q)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m0026nm9)
Late Junction
22:00 FRI (m0026s7x)
Music Map
13:30 SUN (m0026nm7)
Music Matters
13:00 SAT (m0026ns2)
Music Planet
21:30 SAT (m001n8qh)
New Generation Artists
21:20 SUN (m0026nmv)
New Music Show
22:30 SAT (m0026nsg)
Night Tracks
22:00 MON (m0026nt6)
Night Tracks
22:00 TUE (m0026nxg)
Night Tracks
22:00 WED (m0026p9y)
Night Tracks
22:00 THU (m0026qrf)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (m0026nsb)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m0026nm5)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m0026nt4)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m0026nxd)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m0026pkp)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m0026qrc)
Record Review
14:00 SAT (m0026ns4)
Saturday Morning
09:00 SAT (m0026ns0)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (m0026ns6)
Sunday Feature
19:45 SUN (m0026nml)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m0026nm3)
The Early Music Show
17:00 SUN (m0026nmc)
The Essay
21:45 MON (m001r951)
The Essay
21:45 TUE (m001r89l)
The Essay
21:45 WED (m001r9c8)
The Essay
21:45 THU (m001r98q)
The Essay
21:45 FRI (m001r975)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 SUN (m000kwq9)
This Classical Life
17:00 SAT (m0026ns8)
Through the Night
00:30 SAT (m0026l5d)
Through the Night
00:30 SUN (m0026nsj)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m0026nn3)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m0026ntb)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m0026nxl)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m0026pb6)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m0026qrk)
Ultimate Calm
22:00 SUN (m0024qz6)
Unclassified
23:30 SUN (m0026nn1)
Words and Music
18:00 SUN (m0026nmf)
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
Drama on 3
20:00 SUN (m0026nmq)
Words and Music
18:00 SUN (m0026nmf)
Factual
Sunday Feature
19:45 SUN (m0026nml)
Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media
Between the Ears
19:15 SUN (m0026nmh)
Music Matters
13:00 SAT (m0026ns2)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (m0026ns6)
The Essay
21:45 MON (m001r951)
The Essay
21:45 TUE (m001r89l)
The Essay
21:45 WED (m001r9c8)
The Essay
21:45 THU (m001r98q)
The Essay
21:45 FRI (m001r975)
Music
Late Junction
22:00 FRI (m0026s7x)
Ultimate Calm
22:00 SUN (m0024qz6)
Music: Classical
Breakfast
06:30 SAT (m0026nry)
Breakfast
06:30 SUN (m0026nm1)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m0026nss)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m0026nx1)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m0026p90)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m0026qr0)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m0026s7h)
Classical Live
13:00 MON (m0026nsx)
Classical Live
13:00 TUE (m0026nx5)
Classical Live
13:00 WED (m0026p98)
Classical Live
13:00 THU (m0026qr4)
Classical Live
13:00 FRI (m0026s7m)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 MON (m0026nt2)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m0026nxb)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 WED (m001mmnz)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 THU (m0026qr9)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m0026s7s)
Composer of the Week
16:00 MON (m001l4cc)
Composer of the Week
16:00 TUE (m001l4gx)
Composer of the Week
16:00 WED (m001l4kq)
Composer of the Week
16:00 THU (m001l4g7)
Composer of the Week
16:00 FRI (m001l4lp)
Earlier... with Jools Holland
12:00 SAT (m0024fxc)
Essential Classics
09:30 MON (m0026nsv)
Essential Classics
09:30 TUE (m0026nx3)
Essential Classics
09:30 WED (m0026p94)
Essential Classics
09:30 THU (m0026qr2)
Essential Classics
09:30 FRI (m0026s7k)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m0026nt0)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m0026nx8)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m0026p9k)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m0026qr7)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m0026s7q)
Music Map
13:30 SUN (m0026nm7)
Night Tracks
22:00 MON (m0026nt6)
Night Tracks
22:00 TUE (m0026nxg)
Night Tracks
22:00 WED (m0026p9y)
Night Tracks
22:00 THU (m0026qrf)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m0026nm5)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m0026nt4)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m0026nxd)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m0026pkp)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m0026qrc)
Record Review
14:00 SAT (m0026ns4)
Saturday Morning
09:00 SAT (m0026ns0)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m0026nm3)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 SUN (m000kwq9)
This Classical Life
17:00 SAT (m0026ns8)
Through the Night
00:30 SAT (m0026l5d)
Through the Night
00:30 SUN (m0026nsj)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m0026nn3)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m0026ntb)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m0026nxl)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m0026pb6)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m0026qrk)
Ultimate Calm
22:00 SUN (m0024qz6)
Words and Music
18:00 SUN (m0026nmf)
Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital
New Generation Artists
21:20 SUN (m0026nmv)
Music: Classical: Choral
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m0026kjc)
Choral Evensong
15:00 WED (m0026p9d)
Music: Classical: Early Music
The Early Music Show
17:00 SUN (m0026nmc)
Music: Classical: Experimental & New
New Music Show
22:30 SAT (m0026nsg)
Unclassified
23:30 SUN (m0026nn1)
Music: Classical: Opera
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (m0026nsb)
Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals
Friday Night is Music Night
19:30 FRI (m0026s7v)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (m0026ns6)
Ultimate Calm
22:00 SUN (m0024qz6)
Music: Jazz & Blues
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m0026nm9)
Music: Jazz & Blues: Jazz
'Round Midnight
23:30 MON (m0026nt8)
'Round Midnight
23:30 TUE (m0026nxj)
'Round Midnight
23:30 WED (m0026pb2)
'Round Midnight
23:30 THU (m0026qrh)
'Round Midnight
23:30 FRI (m0026s7z)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m0026nm9)
Music: World
Late Junction
22:00 FRI (m0026s7x)
Music Planet
21:30 SAT (m001n8qh)
Night Tracks
22:00 MON (m0026nt6)
Night Tracks
22:00 TUE (m0026nxg)
Night Tracks
22:00 WED (m0026p9y)
Night Tracks
22:00 THU (m0026qrf)
Religion & Ethics
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m0026kjc)
Choral Evensong
15:00 WED (m0026p9d)