Jonathan Swain introduces Mahler's 3rd Symphony from 2010 BBC Proms with BBCSSO and Donal Runnicles
Symphony no. 3 in D minor
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Edinburgh Festival Chorus (women's voices), Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
Kaiser-Walzer (Op.437) (1888) arr. Schoenberg (1925) for chamber ensemble
Eespere, René (b. 1953)
David Tanenbaum (guitar), William Winant (tuned water bowls, finger cymbals and sistra), Scott Evans (tuned water bowls and drums), Joel Davel (drums)
10 Variations on 'Unser dummer Pobel meint' for piano (K.455) aus Gluck's 'Pilger von Mekka'
Suite for orchestra no.4 (BWV.1069) in D major vers. standard
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Verdi's overture to The Force of Destiny played by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, Stephen Layton directs Polyphony's performance of Bruckner's motet Locus iste, and music for violin and piano - Bazzini's Ronde des lutins performed by Maxim Vengerov and Alexander Markovich.
A selection of must-hear music including excerpts from Glazunov's Raymonda and The Seasons from the Essential CD of the Week: a recording by Les Siecles.
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the pianist Clifford Curzon: Schubert (Impromptu in A flat, D935 No.2); and Mozart (Piano Concerto No.27 in B flat, K.595).
The Essential Classics guest is the psychological illusionist Derren Brown. Today he includes the piece that first stimulated his interest in classical music.
Alessandro Scarlatti is considered to be the founder of Neapolitan Opera. In this 350th year since the composer's birth, Donald Macleod surveys his life and music. Although from humble beginnings, Scarlatti rose to claim the patronage of princes, queens and cardinals. Knighted by the Pope, he also joined the elite Arcadian Academy with prominence over other composers such as Corelli. Largely overshadowed in recent years by his son Domenico, Alessandro once held prominence on an international stage. Not only did he claim to have composed 114 operas, but it is believed he composed over 700 cantatas, nearly 40 oratorios, along with many instrumental works. Donald Macleod appraises the legacy of Alessandro Scarlatti, and questions whether we should re-evaluate his importance.
Donald Macleod surveys the life and music of Alessandro Scarlatti, with a look at the composer's early years. Little is known about Scarlatti's life in Palermo, but his family moved to Rome when he was about 12. Married at the age of 18, Alessandro started to make a name for himself early on. Initially employed by the church to conduct choirs, we'll hear an example of his choral writing, his Nisi Dominus.
Alessandro soon realised that it was the world of opera which he wished to pursue. This attracted powerful patrons, including a number of cardinals. He soon became the maestro di cappella to Queen Christina of Sweden, and we'll hear an aria from his early opera L'honesta negli amori, which he dedicated to her.
Live from Wigmore Hall in London. The Italian contralto, Sara Mingardo, the harpsichordist Benjamin Bayl and the theorbo player Richard Sweeney perform a selection of baroque arias.
The BBC Philharmonic plays the seldom heard first symphonies of Mozart and Haydn and an ever popular symphony by Prokofiev in which he pays homage to his classical forebears.
Sean Rafferty presents Radio 3's drivetime programme with guests, live performance, great music and the latest arts news. Today, the gifted Russian violinist Alina Pogostkina plays live in the studio on a violin by Antonio Stradivari made in Cremona in 1709, ahead of concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Dvorak's Violin Concerto.
Two-time British Composer Award winner Tarik O'Regan joins Sean in the studio prior to the world premiere of 'Heart of Darkness', his chamber opera based on Joseph Conrad's novel of the same name, at the Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre. Tarik has acquired an enviable reputation for his lyrical style, luminous textures and intense vocal expressiveness.
The BBC Concert Orchestra present a spine-chilling Halloween alternative. Poulenc's La Voix Humaine is a classic psychodrama based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau. Soprano Ilona Domnich performs the role of a fragile young woman, thrown into a nightmare as she makes an agonizing last attempt to establish contact with her ex-lover over the telephone.
Penderecki's Polymorphia for 48 string instruments is famed for its use in films 'The Exorcist' and 'The Shining' and evokes nameless terrors. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood presents a 21st-century spin on the work in the UK premiere of his 48 Responses to Polymorphia.
The edgy world of contemporary electronica comes into focus with Aphex Twin's Nannou, as orchestrated by Patrick Nunn, before the audience faces the extreme emotions of Berio's spine-tingling electro-acoustic fantasy Visage. This iconic recording features the disturbing and erotically charged vocal improvisations of Cathy Berberian and was originally banned from the airwaves in Italy.
Matthew Sweet discusses Ronan Bennett's new four part television drama 'Top Boy' with the writer, who explains how modern gangsters say hello to each other.
The award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman reflects on his directorial debut Jack Goes Boating, which is reviewed by Sarah Churchwell.
Marina Warner explains the connection between The Arabian Nights and the rug on Sigmund Freud's couch and what it all has to do with magical thinking.
Jenny Uglow, the biographer and historian whose book 'A Little History of British Gardening' beautifully epitomised the national love of gardens now turns history on its head to consider the less lovely aspects of the British character that blossom in the garden.
In her first essay she looks at our tendency to escape, to bury our heads in the soil, if not the sand, when perhaps we shouldn't. Through history the garden has been a retreat from the world - at no time more so than during the reign of Charles I who took sanctuary in his garden arcadia, blind to the struggles that would soon overwhelm him and plunge the country into civil war.
Jenny traces this tendency for escapism through the Victorian age and the hippies of the 1960s to the present day.
Jez Nelson presents composer Sid Peacock and his Surge big band in an exclusive session for Jazz on 3. Over the last eight years the Birmingham-based group has earned a reputation as one of the most exciting large ensembles in British jazz. Peacock's kaleidoscopic music combines an avant-garde edge with party-like energy and is performed by strings and African percussion alongside more traditional big-band instruments. The session features new material and also includes a set for saxophone quartet and drums.
TUESDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2011
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b016kdt3)
Jonathan Swain presents an all Haydn concert with the Symphony No.41, the 4th Keyboard Concerto and the "Theresienmesse", performed by the Romanian Radio Concert Orchestra and conductor Cristian Brancusi.
12:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Symphony No.21 in A major(Hob.
1.21)
Orchestrei de Camera Radio, Romania (Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra), Cristian Brâncuşi (conductor)
12:47 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra (H.18.4) in G major
Cziky Boldizar (piano), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Brâncuşi (conductor)
1:11 AM
Arlen, Harold [1905-1986], arranged by Cziky Boldizar
Improvisation on "Somewhere over the rainbow"
Cziky Boldizar (piano)
1:14 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Mass (H.
22.12) in B flat major "Theresienmesse"
Marta Cristina Sandu (soprano), Mihaela Ispan (contralto), Cristian Mogsan (tenor), Dan Cristian Hodrea (bass), Romanian Radio Academic Chorus, Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Romania (Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra), Cristian Brâncuşi (conductor)
1:59 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953]
Violin Sonata No 2 in D, Op 94a
Jennifer Pike (violin), Tom Poster (piano)
2:23 AM
Lawes, Henry (1596-1662)
Suite à 4 in G minor
Concordia, Mark Levy (conductor)
2:31 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Davidsbündlertänze - 18 character-pieces for piano (Op.6)
András Schiff (piano)
3:00 AM
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)
Claudio: Lamento d'Arianna (Lasciatemi morire) for 5 voices and bc
I Fagiolini (ensemble), Robert Hollingsworth (director)
3:14 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Lachrymae (Reflections on 'If my complaints could passions move' by Dowland) for viola and piano (Op.48)
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Markus Hadulla (piano)
3:27 AM
Bax, Arnold (1883-1953)
The Garden of Fand - symphonic poem
BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel (conductor)
3:44 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Prelude for piano (Op.45) in C sharp minor
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
3:50 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph (1642-1703)
Der Gerechte
Cantus Cölln: Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Graham Pushee (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk & Wilfred Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Christoph Anselm Noll (organ), Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:55 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rachel Podger (violin/director); Gottfried von der Goltz (violin/director)
4:16 AM
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Minuet for Strings
Varazdin Chamber Orchestra, David Geringas (conductor)
4:20 AM
Sarasate, Pablo de [1844-1908]
Zigeunerweisen for violin and orchestra (Op.20)
Laurens Weinhold (m) (violin) Brussels Chamber Orchestra
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture - The Abduction from the Seraglio
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Milan Horvat (conductor)
4:37 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Trio Sonata in G major (Op.5 No.4)
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
4:51 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Ave Maria
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor)
4:57 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
5:12 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
L'Heure du berger
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)
5:20 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (S.244 No.2) in C-sharp minor (au Comte Ladislas Teleky)
Jenö Jandó (piano)
5:32 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Der Bürger als Edelmann (Le Bourgeois gentilhomme) - suite (Op.60)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)
6:09 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke, Op.73
Aljaz Begus (clarinet) ; Svjatoslav Presnjakov (piano)
6:20 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Erwartung - No.1 from 4 lieder (Op.2)
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
6:24 AM
Bolcom, William Elden [1938-]
The Graceful Ghost - from 3 Ghost Rags (1970)
Donna Coleman (piano).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b016kdt5)
Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Malcolm Arnold's Four Irish Dances performed by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Penny, Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor (BWV1041) is performed by Andrew Manze with the Academy of Ancient Music, and a look at this week's Specialist Classical Chart.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b016kdt7)
Tuesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of must-hear music including excerpts from Arensky's Nuits Egyptiennes from the Essential CD of the week: a recording by Les Siecles.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and a recording of our Artist of the Week, the pianist Clifford Curzon, performing Brahms and Beethoven (Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58) with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Rafael Kubelik.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the psychological illusionist Derren Brown. Today he introduces a favourite piece by a favourite composer.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Suk
The Ripening, Op.34
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Vaclav Neumann (conductor)
SUPRAPHON SU 38642.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00skbrg)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Episode 2
Continuing our series on Alessandro Scarlatti, Donald Macleod focuses on the composer's first period in Naples, where he influenced the course of Neapolitan Opera.
As opera became less popular in Rome due to Papal decree, Alessandro Scarlatti soon moved to Naples to pursue his career for the stage. Donald Macleod surveys this period in Naples, where Scarlatti composed around 70 operas. We'll hear Le violette from Pirro e Demetrio, which had an international success.
Although Scarlatti greatly influenced the course of opera in Naples, he still relied upon other work to survive, including his appointment as the Maestro of the Royal Chapel. He composed over sixty cantatas during this period, frequently for the entertainment of Cardinals Ottoboni and Pamphili in Rome. We'll hear the cantata Gia lusingato appieno, linked in narrative to James II of England.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b016kdym)
The Frick Collection
Nelson Goerner
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the magnificent Frick Collection gallery in New York, which hosts an annual season of chamber music recitals. In the first concert of the week, pianist Nelson Goerner plays music by Chopin & Schumann, including his exuberant Symphonic Etudes.
CHOPIN - Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op.44
CHOPIN - 2 Nocturnes, Op.62
SCHUMANN - Symphonic Études, Op.13.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b016kdyp)
Louise Fryer introduces a concert of Russian music from the BBC Philharmonic conducted by the orchestra's Conductor Emeritus
Rimsky-Korsakov Overture The Tsar's Bride
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
with Howard Shelley (piano)
Shostakovich Symphony no. 11 'The Year 1905'
Hamilton Harty Tone Poem With the Wild Geese
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
Haydn Symphony no 75 in D major (Hoboken 1/75)
Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)
It's the year 1905: the Russian Empire teeters on the brink of revolution. And as crowds of protestors fill St Petersburg's Palace Square, great and terrible events are about to unfold. With its angry trumpets, revolutionary chants and jangling bells, Shostakovich's 11th isn't just one of the mightiest of modern symphonies. It's practically a film score without the pictures, a sweeping panorama of political struggle and human tragedy that leaves the ears ringing and the heart pounding.
For the BBC Phil's Russian Conductor Emeritus Vassily Sinaisky, this music is in the blood: expect him to charge every note with a deeply personal significance. First, though, Sinaisky brings his trademark verve to two very different Russian showstoppers - Rimsky-Korsakov's melodramatic overture, and Rachmaninoff's hugely popular, unforgettably romantic Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Snow on the boots, fire in the soul!
And that's followed by a haunting tone poem by an Irish-born pianist-conductor-composer who died seventy years ago this year.
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b016kdyr)
Tuesday - Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Tenor Alfie Boe has acheived recognition on the stage in both opera and musicals, currently appearing in Les Miserables in the West End. He sings live in the studio and talks about his new album.
Violinist Pavlo Beznosiuk holds a highly respected position in the period performance world as leader of the Academy of Ancient Music. He performs live and talks to Sean about directing the ensemble in a special Halloween programme at the Wigmore Hall.
Soprano Dame Kiri te Kanawa is one of the best known names in classical music. Ahead of a special recital programme at London's Cadogan Hall, she talks to Sean about her remarkable career.
TUE 18:00 Composer of the Week (b00skbrg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016pcrn)
OAE - Haydn, Weber, Schubert
Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
The OAE showcases works from the classical period that are heading towards the Romantic era. Opening with a symphony by the arch-classicist Haydn which began life as incidental music to a play, the concert moves on to the music of Weber and Schubert, which occupies an interesting turning point in music history.
Weber's Concertino is a great virtuoso showcase for the horn, making huge demands on the player, at one point even requiring the soloist to play two notes at once by humming while playing! His 2nd symphony follows a very classical path.
Schubert's Symphony 5, written when the composer was just 19, is a real product and expression of his youth, while still containing some incredibly affecting and moving music.
Haydn: Symphony no.60 in C, 'Il distratto'
Weber: Concertino for horn and orchestra in E minor, Op.45
8.15 Interval Music
Weber: Symphony No.2 in C, J.51
Schubert: Symphony No.5 in B flat, D.485
Roger Montgomery (horn)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
conductor Frans Bruggen.
TUE 22:00 Night Waves (b016kdyt)
Al Jazeera, Collaborators, Steven Pinker, Mark Doty
In this evening's Night Waves, we turn the spotlight on Al Jazeera on its 15th anniversary. The Arab Spring of this year was frequently trumpeted as being a social media and twitter revolution, but was this a misnomer - should we instead be talking about it as the Al Jazeera revolution? And, how much impact has the Arab Spring had upon Al Jazeera itself?
Roger Hardy, a visiting fellow at the LSE and the former Middle East analyst for the BBC World Service, joins Philip Dodd to discuss, along with Abdel Bari-Atwan, the editor of the independent pan-Arab newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi and Hugh Miles, author of Al Jazeera: How Arab TV News Changed the World.
And, Susannah Clapp will be arriving fresh from the opening night Collaborators at the National Theatre to give us her opinion. Written by John Hodge, the screen writer behind Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, it takes a surreal look at the relationship between the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov and Stalin.
Collaborators will continue in the National Theatre's Cottesloe repertoire until 31st March 2012 and will be broadcast to cinemas around the country on the 1st of December as part of National Theatre Live.
Philip will also be talking to the acclaimed Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker about his latest book "The Better Angels of our Nature", in which he argues that despite appearances, the human race is losing its appetite for violence.
The American poet Mark Doty, who was the first American ever to be awarded the British T. S. Eliot prize, will also be in the studio. A few years ago he walked into a shop in Salt Lake City in Utah to see a huge bag of imported goldfish being lowered into an acclimatisation tank before being sold into the cold winter. Thousands of goldfish looked out of the plastic sack at him. The result was his poem 'Fish R Us,' in which the sack of fish became 'a billion incipient citizens of a goldfish Beijing, a Sao Paulo, a Mexico City.'
And so as a newborn baby becomes the 7 billionth person on earth Mark Doty joins Night Waves to read his poem and talk about the tension between being an individual and at the same time part of the huge, usually numberless, community that is humankind.
That's in Night Waves tonight here on Radio 3 at ten o'clock.
Producer: Rosie Childs.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b016kdyw)
A Dark History of British Gardening
Snobbery
Garden snobbery has been with us since the medieval queens imported exotic herbs in the 14th century. Gardens have always been places for a show of wealth and power and, of course, demonstrations of one's good taste and superior class.
Jenny plots the wonderful history of upper-class gardeners trying hard to stay ahead of the lower orders, determined to ape them in the garden. From French parterres to greenhouses, lawnmowers and choice of rose varieties, she shows that every aspect of gardening was an opportunity for snobbery.
Produced by Susan Marling
This is a Just Radio Ltd production for Radio 3.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b016kdyy)
Fiona Talkington - 01/11/2011
Fiona Talkington looks ahead to the London Jazz Festival and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival throughout the week, and also tonight includes part of the late David Bedford's Rigel 9, setting words by Ursula Le Guin.
WEDNESDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2011
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b016kdzq)
Jonathan Swain presents The Swedish Radio Choir performing new settings of familiar liturgical texts
12:31 AM
Sandstrom, Sven-David [b.1942]
Lobet den Herrn, Psalm no. 117
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
12:39 AM
Sandstrom, Sven-David [b.1942]
A New Song of Love
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
12:43 AM
Sandstrom, Sven-David [b.1942]
Es ist genug
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
12:53 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
4 Impromptus (Op.142) (D.935)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
1:25 AM
Sandstrom, Sven-David [b.1942]
Agnus Dei
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
1:32 AM
Sandstrom, Sven-David [b.1942]
Ave Maris Stella
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
1:38 AM
Sandstrom, Sven-David [b.1942]
Hear my Prayer (Psalm 39)
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
1:44 AM
Califano, Arcangelo (1st half of c.18th)
Sonata a quattro in C major, for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo
Ensemble Zefiro
1:54 AM
Sandstrom, Sven-David [b.1942]
Ave Maria
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
2:03 AM
Sandstrom, Sven-David [b.1942]
Singet dem Herrn Psalm 89
Swedish Radio Chorus, Peter Dijkstra (director)
2:18 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolf (1699-1783)
Organ Concerto in D major
Wolfgang Brunner (organ & director), Salzburger Hofmusik
2:31 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
String Quartet No.2 in C major (Op.36)
Yggdrasil String Quartet
3:01 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Estampes for piano
Roger Woodward (piano)
3:16 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Symphony No.3 in F major (Op.90)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
3:51 AM
Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782)
Quintet in F major for flute, oboe, violin, viola and continuo (Op.11 No.3)
Les Adieux: Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Hans-Peter Westerman (oboe), Mary Utiger (violin), Hajo Bäss (viola), Christina Kyprianides (cello), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:01 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegy (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Trio Lorenz
4:08 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Pavane for orchestra (Op.50)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (Conductor)
4:16 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV.229)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
4:25 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), arr Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Widmung (Op.25 No.1)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
4:31 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Oft on a plat of rising ground - from the oratorio 'L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato'
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
4:34 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet No.1 in D major, K.285
Dae-Won Kim (male) (flute), Yong-Woo Chun (male) (violin), Myung-Hee Cho (female) (viola), Jink-Yung Chee (female) (cello)
4:49 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (Conductor)
5:00 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) transcr. Liszt
Isolde's Liebestod transc. Liszt for piano (S.447)
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
5:07 AM
Offenbach, Jacques [1819-1880] arr. Max Woltag
Belle Nuit (Barcarolle from Contes d'Hoffmann)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
5:11 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
The Three Wonders from The tale of Tsar Saltan - suite (Op.57)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
5:18 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Concerto Grosso in F major (Op.6 No.9)
The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
5:28 AM
Berwald, Franz (1796-1868)
Septet in B flat
Niklas Andersson (clarinet), Henrik Blixt (bassoon), Hans Larsson (horn), Jannica Gustafsson (violin), Håkan Olsson (viola), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Maria Johansson (double bass)
5:51 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.97 in C major (H.
1.97)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)
6:17 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Romanian Rhapsody No.1 in A major (Op.11 no.1)
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (cond)
06:30
Radio 3 Breakfast.
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b016kdzs)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including music from Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under James Levine, Richard Strauss' song Allerseelen is sung by Kiri te Kanawa accompanied by Georg Solti on the piano, and Ravel's Bolero is played by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b016kdzv)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of must-hear music including Sinding's Danse Orientale, Op.32 No.5 (orch. Piper) from the Essential CD of the Week: a recording by Les Siecles.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the pianist Clifford Curzon: Liszt (Gnomenreigen; Berceuse) and Grieg (Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the psychological illusionist Derren Brown. Today he introduces a piece of music to which he likes to work and one which he would listen to on a journey.
11.00
Rob's Essential Choice
Fibich
Symphony No.2
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN9682.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00skbx9)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Episode 3
As part of our series on Alessandro Scarlatti, Donald Macleod focuses upon the composer's return to Rome, as necessitated by finances and politics.
With late payments from the Royal Chapel in Naples, Alessandro Scarlatti soon realised he'd need to relocate in order to survive. Donald Macleod follows Scarlatti's return to Rome via Florence, but not before King Philip V of Spain's visit to Naples. Scarlatti, along with other composers such as Corelli, was required to compose music for this important occasion. We'll hear the Sinfonia from Scarlatti's serenata Clori, Dorino e Amore, which captivated the Spanish King.
Once back in Rome, Scarlatti was soon tied down contractually to a number of churches. This was not the sort of work that he wanted to do, and he began to receive complaints for neglecting his duties. Opera however was banned during this period in Rome. Papal opposition to theatrical activity meant that the most important artistic event in the calendar was the oratorios for Lent. To end the programme we'll hear the second half of Scarlatti's Oratorio per la Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo. This oratorio is considered to be one of his best in this field, maybe even a rival to Handel's La Resurrezione.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b016kf23)
The Frick Collection
Thomas Zehetmair
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the magnificent Frick Collection gallery in New York, which hosts an annual season of chamber music recitals. In the second concert of the week, violinist Thomas Zehetmair plays solo pieces by J.S. Bach and Karl Amadeus Hartmann.
BACH - Violin Sonata in A minor, BWV.1003
HARTMANN - Violin Sonata No.2
BACH - Violin Partita in D minor, BWV.1004.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b016kf25)
Louise Fryer presents a performance of a mighty symphony, the slow movement of which was written in the shadow of the death of Richard Wagner and which includes four sonorous Wagner tubas.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b016kf27)
Westminster Cathedral
Solemn Requiem Mass for the Faithful Departed from Westminster Cathedral.
Introit: Requiem æternam (Victoria)
First Lesson: Isaiah 25vv6-9
Gradual: Requiem æternam (Victoria)
Second Lesson: Matthew
11:25-30
Homily: Fr Alexander Master
Offertory: Domine Iesu Christe (Victoria)
Sanctus (Victoria)
Agnus Dei (Victoria)
Communion: Lux aeterna (Victoria)
Martin Baker (Master of Music).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b016kf29)
Grammy-nominated jazz singer Stacey Kent performs live in the studio as she plays a week of sold out gigs at Ronnie Scotts. Joining her, Jim Tomlinson on sax, Graham Harvey on piano, Jeremy Brown on bass and Matt Skelton on drums.
Presenter Sean Rafferty also talks to Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson as he prepares for their performance of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony at the Barbican. And Suzy Klein will be reporting on a surprise performance at London's St. Pancras International as part of the month long celebration of Symphony on BBC4 and Radio 3.
This year's Parkhouse Award winners Notos Quartet play live in the studio ahead of their performance of piano quartets by Mozart, Schumann and Walton at St John Smith Square.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
17.00 and
18.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00skbx9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016kf2c)
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Brahms, Mozart
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Under their Music Director Andris Nelsons the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play popular works by Brahms, Mozart and Dvorak.
Modern research has cast doubt on whether the theme Brahms based his Haydn Variations on is actually by Haydn at all, but in the end that doesn't matter, the wonderful chorale theme gave Brahms the opportunity to work his magic and create a richly orchestrated masterpiece that's been a favourite in concert halls since it was first performed. Mozart is best known as a pianist but was also an accomplished violinist and it's believed he was the soloist when they were first performed, tonight young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride takes the solo part in his sunny 4th Concerto. Dvorak's 6th Symphony rounds off the concert, maybe not as well known as his famous 'New World' Symphony but equally full of lilting melody and stirring trumpets evoking Dvorak's Bohemian homeland.
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major
Baiba Skride (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor).
WED 20:15 Twenty Minutes (b016kf2f)
Tiny Tales
" When it seems we have finally decided to stay home of an evening, have slipped into our smoking jackets, are sitting at a lit table after supper, and have taken out some piece of work or game, we get up, change into a jacket, and straightaway look ready to go out... "
A reading of six pieces by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hoffman, that offer an exquisite study in restlessness and our need to walk everywhere...
Reader Carl Prekopp
Producer Duncan Minshull.
WED 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016kf2h)
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Dvorak
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Under their Music Director Andris Nelsons the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play popular works by Brahms, Mozart and Dvorak.
Modern research has cast doubt on whether the theme Brahms based his Haydn Variations on is actually by Haydn at all, but in the end that doesn't matter, the wonderful chorale theme gave Brahms the opportunity to work his magic and create a richly orchestrated masterpiece that's been a favourite in concert halls since it was first performed. Mozart is best known as a pianist but was also an accomplished violinist and it's believed he was the soloist when they were first performed, tonight young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride takes the solo part in his sunny 4th Concerto. Dvorak's 6th Symphony rounds off the concert, maybe not as well known as his famous 'New World' Symphony but equally full of lilting melody and stirring trumpets evoking Dvorak's Bohemian homeland.
Dvorak: Symphony no.6
Baiba Skride (violin)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor).
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b010749m)
Landmark - The Avengers
Matthew Sweet dons his kinky boots to investigate the phenomenon of The Avengers, 50 years after its first transmission. As well as its regular cavalcade of cyborgs, spies and megalomaniacs, The Avengers seemed to present the world of British television with a new action figure - the liberated single female who, week after week, proved to be deadlier than the male. But how progressive was its sexual politics ? Was Diana Rigg in her all leather cat suit a male fantasy or a feminist icon and did Honor Blackman always play second fiddle to Patrick Macnee ?
Matthew has assembled a crack team of thinkers to ponder these mind-bending questions - teenage fans Bea Campbell and Sarah Dunant, historian Dominic Sandbrook and one of the masterminds of The Avengers, the screenwriter Brian Clemens.
Producer: Stephen Hughes (Repeat).
WED 22:45 The Essay (b016kf2m)
A Dark History of British Gardening
Hubris
Jenny Uglow plots the history of hubris in the British garden. Gardens have always been places where human ambition has been writ large. The Tudors knew well how to make a spectacular garden that could win favour with the monarch and preferment at court. They made fountains that flowed with wine, mock castles lit with fireworks and grew wonderful plants from the New World.
Gardeners have wanted to tame nature - to sculpt the landscape in massive schemes like Capability Brown or to scorn Nature completely like the Modernists who thought the only way to live was is houses raised up from the earth.
Produced by Susan Marling
This is a Just Radio Ltd production for Radio 3.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b016kf2p)
Fiona Talkington - 02/11/2011
Steve Mackey's 'San Francisco Shuffle', Salvatore Sciarrino's 'Let me die before I wake' for solo clarinet, and a new duo album from Bugge Wesseltoft and Henrik Schwarz. With Fiona Talkington.
THURSDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2011
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b016kf4c)
Jonathan Swain presents a concert from Croatia including Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol & Falla's Ballet suites from the Three-Cornered Hat
12:31 AM
Papandopulo, Boris [1906-1991]
Marche arabe symphonique
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David Gimenez Carreras (conductor)
12:42 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay [1844-1908]
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David Gimenez Carreras (conductor)
12:59 AM
Falla, Manuel de [1876-1946]
El sombrero de tres picos - ballet suites 1 & 2
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David Gimenez Carreras (conductor)
1:22 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op.46 no.8
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David Gimenez Carreras (conductor)
1:27 AM
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
Sonata movement in E minor (B.70) - for 2 pianos
Else Krijgsman, Mariken Zandliver, David Kuijken, Carlos Moerdijk (pianos)
1:38 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Quartet for strings in F major
Biava Quartet (USA) - Austin Hartman (violin), Hyunsu Ko (violin), Mary Persin (viola), Jacob Braun (cello)
2:09 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
The Water Goblin (Op.107)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
2:31 AM
Wassenaer; Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766)
Concerto no.2 in B flat major (from 'Sei Concerti Armonici')
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor)
2:42 AM
Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935)
Magnificat
Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor , Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
2:50 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Concerto for violin and orchestra No.2 (Op.63) in G minor
Anatoli Bazhenov (violin), NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
3:17 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Piano Quartet No.1 (Op.1)
Harald Aadland (violin), Nora Taksdal (viola), Audun Sandvik (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
3:45 AM
Vladigerov, Pancho (1899-1978)
Divertimento for chamber orchestra
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
4:02 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Ungarischer Marsch zur Krönungsfeier in Ofen-Pest (S.523) (1870)
Zoltán Kocsis & György Oravecz (piano duet)
4:06 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Klid for cello and orchestra (B.182) arr. from no.5 of 'From the Bohemian forest'
Shauna Rolston (cello), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
4:13 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in G major (Wq.133/H.564), 'Hamburger Sonata'
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:21 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Toccata in F major (BuxWV 156)
Tong-Soon Kwak (female) (Rieger organ at the Torch Centre for World Missions in Seoul, Korea)
4:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture - from Der Schauspieldirektor, singspiel in 1 act (K.486)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor)
4:36 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Polonaise for violin and orchestra in B flat major (D.580)
Peter Zazofsky (violin), Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)
4:42 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Serenata in vano for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello and double bass (FS.68)
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)
4:50 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in Eb major (HV XV:10) (1785)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano), Bernt Lysell (violin), Mikael Sjögren (cello)
5:01 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Salve Regina in F minor
Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano) Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
5:16 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in C major (Cantabile) (Kk.132)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5:23 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Pelleas et Melisande - suite (Op.80)
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
5:40 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
4 Nachtstücke for piano (Op.23)
Shai Wosner (piano) (BBC New Generation Artist, 2007-2009)
5:57 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Sonata for cello and piano No.2 in F (Op.99)
Truls Mørk (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano)
6:24 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sonata for trumpet, two violins & continuo in D major
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
06:30
Radio 3 Breakfast.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b016kf4f)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including a Prelude by Rachmaninov performed by pianist Boris Berezovsky, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform the last movement of Schubert's 2nd Symphony under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Glinka's overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla is performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Zinman.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b016kf4h)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of must-hear music including an excerpt from Grieg's Le Djinn (orch. Mantovani) from the Essential CD of the Week: a recording by Les Siecles.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and the Artist of the Week, the pianist Clifford Curzon: Litolff (Concerto Symphonique No.4 - Scherzo); and Schubert (Piano Quintet in A, D.667, Trout).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the psychological illusionist Derren Brown. Today he introduces a piece played by a favourite performer and one that reminds him of a particular place.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Smetana
Richard III, Op.11
Haakon Jarl, Op.16
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 4594182.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00skc4l)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Episode 4
Donald Macleod continues our series, focusing upon Alessandro Scarlatti's disillusionment with Rome, and his opera failures for the Venetian Carnival season in 1707.
Feeling confined by Papal decree in Rome, Alessandro Scarlatti continued to seek commissions elsewhere. Donald Macleod follows Scarlatti's journey to Venice for the Carnival season in 1707. Scarlatti - in trying to impress the opera capital of the time - seems to have over-complicated his compositions, and the Venetian audience was not impressed.
Scarlatti eventually returned to Naples having been offered a post by the newly appointed Austrian Viceroy. He didn't sever links with Rome, for he was made a Knight of the Golden Spur by the Pope in 1716. It was during this latter part of his life that Scarlatti focused more on instrumental writing. We'll hear a set of 39 variations for harpsichord, on the theme La Folia, similar in form to Bach's Goldberg Variations. Scarlatti didn't stop writing for the Church, and the programme ends with the latter part of his Stabat Mater. This hymn to the virgin was very popular - until Pergolesi's version came along.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b016kgch)
The Frick Collection
Kandinsky Trio
The Kandinsky Trio plays music for string trio by Mozart, Beethoven and Dohnanyi. This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the magnificent Frick Collection gallery in New York, which hosts an annual season of chamber music recitals.
BEETHOVEN - Serenade in D, Op.8
MOZART - String Trio Movement in G, K.Anh.66
DOHNANYI - Serenade in C, Op.10.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b016kf6r)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Massenet - Werther
Opera matinee: Massenet Werther
Louise Fryer presents this Vienna State Opera performance of Massenet's four act opera with an all-star cast.
Loosely based on Goethe's 'The Sorrows of the Young Werther' the opera is unusual in that it is the man rather than the woman who dies of hopeless love.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b016kf6w)
03/11/11 Neville Marriner, Simon Keenlyside, Marcelo Bratke
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Simon Keenlyside is recognised as one of the finest baritones of his generation, and he is joined in the studio by his long-term collaborator pianist Malcolm Martineau to perform live and talk about their new CD, 'Songs of War'.
Legendary conductor Sir Neville Marriner talks to Sean about his long, successful career and his recent involvement with the I, Culture Orchestra, a new orchestra bringing together young musicians from across Eastern European states.
Brazilian pianist Marcelo Bratke is in London to give an eclectic concert entitled 'From New York to Rio' which explores influences of jazz and blues in the music of American composers. He performs live in the In Tune studio.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00skc4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016kf6y)
Philharmonia Orchestra - Debussy, Bartok
Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in their continuing exploration of the works of Bela Bartok titled 'Infernal Dance'.
Bartok's only opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is a dark and sinister tale of love and death. The Duke invites his new bride Judith back to his castle where she opens seven doors in turn. Each door reveals a new horror - one a bloody torture chamber, another a garden where blood stains the leaves till finally the seventh door reveals Bluebeard's three former wives, who step forward to receive Judith into their eternal imprisonment.
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
8.10 - Interval Music
Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle (semi-staged)
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Bluebeard - Sir John Tomlinson (bass)
Judith - Michelle DeYoung (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01207td)
George Soros
Another chance to hear Philip Dodd in conversation with financier and philanthropist, George Soros. Since his Open Society Foundations began in 1984 he has given them more than £7 billion. (An edition first broadcast earlier this year).
THU 22:45 The Essay (b016kf7j)
A Dark History of British Gardening
Dominance
Kill! Kill! isn't a cry you normally hear in the garden ... so begins historian and biographer Jenny Uglow's essay on another dark side of the gardeners' nature - the desire to dominate.
This weakness has led gardeners to turn their potting sheds into places stuffed with toxic mixes and poisons for the killing of weeds and bugs AND for the force feeding of the plants we DO want to keep.
So it has been through history - from the Romans to the present day. Gardeners, says Jenny, are too fond of keeping their heads down in their own plots to recognise the wider implications of their actions.
Produced by Susan Marling
This is a Just Radio Ltd production for Radio 3.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b016kf7l)
Fiona Talkington - 03/11/2011
Jonathan Harvey's 'Sufi Dance', the Ahmad Sham Sufi Qawwali Group from Kabul, a solo project from Sami musician Georg Buljo, and a song from Rapunzel and Sedayne. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
FRIDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2011
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b016kf8c)
Jonathan Swain presents symphonies by Mozart, Brahms and Dvorák performed by the Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony no. 36 (K.425) in C major "Linz"
Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Cristian Brâncuşi (conductor)
12:57 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Symphony no. 1 (Op.68) in C minor
Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Walter Hilgers (conductor)
1:42 AM
Dvorák, Antonin (1841-1904)
Symphony no. 9 (Op.95) in E minor "From the New World"
Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Gerd Schaller (conductor)
2:23 AM
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497)
De Profundis clamavi for 5 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
2:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Dixit Dominus for SSATB soloists and double choir and orchestra in D major (RV.595)
Unidentified soloists, Choir of Latvian Radio and the Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
3:01 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry [1906-1975]
Quintet for piano and strings (Op.57) in G minor
Aronowitz Ensemble
3:33 AM
Obradors, Fernando (1897-1945)
From Canciones Clásicas españolas
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), James Parker (piano)
3:48 AM
Bridge, Frank (1879-1941)
Miniatures - No.8 Valse Russe for violin, cello and piano
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
Bocherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Concerto for harpsichord and orchestra in E flat major (G.487)
Eckart Sellheim (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Meier (conductor)
4:09 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
Irmelin: prelude
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
4:14 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Alborada del gracioso - from the suite 'Miroirs' (1905)
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
4:21 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Overture - Nabucco
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Alun Francis (conductor)
4:31 AM
Boeck, August de (1865-1937)
Fantasy on two Flemish Folk Songs (1923)
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Marc Soustrot (conductor)
4:38 AM
Scriabin, Alexander (1872-1915)
Fantasy in A minor for two pianos
Aglika Genova & Liuben Dimitrov (pianos)
4:44 AM
Solnitz, Anton Wilhelm (c.1708-c.1752-3)
Sinfonia (Op.3 No.4) in A major for strings and continuo
Musica ad Rhenum
4:56 AM
Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)
Trauermusik for viola and string orchestra
Rivka Golani (viola), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
5:05 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
6 Impromptus (Op.5)
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
5:21 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), orchestrated by Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
5:27 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt - suite no. 1 (Op. 46)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
5:52 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Sonata in D major (Wq.83/H.505)
Les Coucous Bénévoles
6:09 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Sonata in B flat minor (Op.35)
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)
06:30
Radio 3 Breakfast.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b016kf8f)
Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Handel's The King shall Rejoice sung by The Choir of Kings College, Cambridge with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sir David Willcocks, and Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream is performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Claudio Abbado.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b016kf8h)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of must-hear music including excerpts from Stravinsky's The Firebird from the Essential CD of the Week: a recording by Les Siecles.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and a recording of the Artist of the Week, the pianist Clifford Curzon, performing Schubert (Moments Musicaux, D780 - selection) and Mozart (Piano Concerto No.24, K491).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the psychological illusionist Derren Brown. Today he introduces a piece he would like to conduct and Rob Cowan acts as a personal shopper, playing a piece he hopes Derren will enjoy.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Dvorak
Symphony No.3
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Vaclav Smetacek (conductor)
SUPRAPHON SU 39682.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00skc82)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Episode 5
In our final programme on Alessandro Scarlatti, Donald Macleod surveys the composer's decline into poverty, and evaluates his reputation as the founder of Neapolitan Opera.
Donald Macleod surveys Alessandro Scarlatti's final years and his reputation as the founder of Neapolitan Opera. During this time a new movement was beginning in the world of opera: opera buffa. We'll hear Scarlatti's own attempt at the new style, with an aria from Il Trionfo dell'Onore.
Towards the end of his life, Scarlatti also taught more pupils out of financial necessity. During one of these lessons he stated that he'd never liked wind instruments, because they never stay in tune. Despite that, Alessandro did compose a number of works for wind instruments, and we'll hear his Concerto in F major for 3 Flutes.
Scarlatti's greatest love may have been opera, but he was mainly employed as the maestro di cappella to a number of royal courts and churches and made a significant impact upon the world of oratorio, cantatas, and sacred music. To end this final episode we'll hear the latter part of his Mass for St Cecilia's Day, composed five years before his death for one of his Roman patrons.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b016kf6p)
The Frick Collection
Diotima Quartet
The Diotima String Quartet plays music by Janacek and Ravel
This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the magnificent Frick Collection gallery in New York, which hosts an annual season of chamber music recitals.
JANACEK - String Quartet No.2, "Intimate Letters"
RAVEL - String Quartet in F.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b016kgck)
Symphony
BBC Philharmonic - Sibelius, Haydn, Mozart
Louise Fryer launches a month of programmes on Radio 3, Essential Symphony. Complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" which was started yesterday evening - and including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series.
Between today and Friday 2 December, Afternoon on 3 will broadcast the BBC's orchestras playing more than sixty Symphonies - running through the history of the form from the early eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Early highlights of the series will be Haydn and Mozart - you can hear at least one Symphony by each of them every weekday until 10 November, including Mozart's last four great Symphonies - and a complete cycle of Beethoven Symphonies (9 to 18 November), including on Tuesday 15 November a recreation of the notorious concert in Vienna in 1808 at which Beethoven premiered his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, his Fourth Piano Concerto... and a few other things besides. That programme will feature both the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies performed live by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Philharmonic, who'll each be contributing three live concerts to the Afternoon on 3 series in November; the Ulster Orchestra too will be performing live.
Guests in the Afternoon on 3 studio during the series will include conductors Mark Elder and Edward Gardner, and actor Simon Russell Beale (presenter of "Symphony" for BBC4). Players from the BBC orchestras will reveal the secrets of the "Symphony from where I sit", and you can also hear about the orchestras' learning and outreach projects focussing on favourite Symphonies - starting today with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Beethoven.
The BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards - soon to become their Principal Guest Conductor - start the Afternoon on 3 series in style, live in concert at MediaCity, Salford, with three great Symphonies from the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. And during the interval there's a chance to hear from two of the very earliest of all symphony composers - one Italian, one German.
Other Symphony programmes on Radio 3 include CD Review's Building a Library survey starting on 5th November with John Deathridge on Beethoven Symphony no 6, Saturday Classics with Simon Russell Beale starting on 5th November, Radio 3's Symphony Guide with Suzy Klein and Tom Service in Essential Classics starting on 7th November and available as a podcast. Symphony Question Time with Sue Perkins and Tom Service starting on 9th November.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b016kgcm)
Eve Loiseau sings the songs of Edith Piaf live in the studio with violinist Fiona Barrow and accordionist Edward Jay, as they continue their UK tour, 'Piaf - The Songs'.
Star violinist Nicola Benedetti performs live in the In Tune Studio and talks to presenter Sean Rafferty about music, life and her recent album release. Nicola performs works by Strauss and Beethoven with pianist Alexei Grynyuk.
As Symphony launches across Radio 3 and BBC4, we hear 'My Essential Symphony' with Rufus Wainwright. Plus, we find out what's happening at the Sage in Gateshead on the opening night of Free Thinking.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
17.00 and
18.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00skc82)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016kgcp)
Live from the Music Hall, Aberdeen
Wagner, Berlioz
Live from the Music Hall, Aberdeen.
Presented by Jamie MacDougall.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor, Ilan Volkov, in a thought-provoking programme of contrasts. Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde opens the concert. Then the the young Romanian mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose joins them for a performance of Berlioz's La Mort de Cleopatre. After the interval, Julian Anderson's short piece Eden looks back hauntingly to an earlier time, with its evocative memories of 16th century viol music; and the concert ends with Sibelius's stirring Second Symphony.
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde.
Berlioz: La Mort de Cleopatre.
Ruxandra Donose (mezzo-soprano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Ilan Volkov, conductor.
FRI 20:15 Discovering Music (b016kgcr)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Sibelius's popular second symphony, with its grandiose finale, was connected by some with the struggle for Finnish independence, even being dubbed the "Symphony of Independence," as it was written at a time of Russian sanctions on Finnish language and culture. Sibelius's reaction to this has been widely debated; some claim that he had not intended any patriotic message and was purely identified as a nationalist composer, while others believe that he wrote the piece with an independent Finland in mind. Stephen Johnson explores Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 in D ahead of a live performance by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
FRI 20:35 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b016kgct)
Live from the Music Hall, Aberdeen
Julian Anderson, Sibelius
Live from the Music Hall, Aberdeen.
Presented by Jamie MacDougall.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor, Ilan Volkov, in a thought-provoking programme of contrasts. Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde opens the concert. Then the the young Romanian mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose joins them for a performance of Berlioz's La Mort de Cleopatre. After the interval, Julian Anderson's short piece Eden looks back hauntingly to an earlier time, with its evocative memories of 16th century viol music; and the concert ends with Sibelius's stirring Second Symphony.
Julian Anderson: Eden.
Sibelius: Symphony No.2.
Ruxandra Donose (mezzo-soprano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Ilan Volkov, conductor.
FRI 22:00 Free Thinking (b016kgfd)
2011
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking festival of ideas with a lecture on how the internet will continue to radically change our world
American internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales has created the most referenced source of knowledge on the planet. His ever-expanding invention Wikipedia has over 19 million free articles, is one of the internet's top five websites, and has revolutionised our access to information. Time magazine named him one of the world's most influential people.
Jimmy Wales' talk about the internet marks the start of three weeks of Free Thinking broadcasts on Radio 3. It was recorded earlier tonight in front of an audience at The Sage Gateshead and presented by Philip Dodd.
This year's festival theme is Change: exploring the mania for change sweeping the globe. Speakers include the Foreign Secretary William Hague, Germaine Greer, Giles Fraser, Susie Orbach, Linda Colley, Charles Jencks, Kevin Fong and Margaret Drabble. Plus original live drama by Skins writer Jack Thorne, and music from the Mercury nominated band Maximo Park.
Now in its sixth year, the Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November and is produced and broadcast by BBC Radio 3. It's a platform for today's innovative thinkers, who debate the ideas shaping our world.
Go to www.bbc.co.uk/freethinking for more details.
FRI 23:00 The Essay (b016kgfg)
A Dark History of British Gardening
Xenophobia
The writer and historian Jenny Uglow looks at the ways we have mapped 'Britishness' into garden design - even seeing political freedom expressed in the landscape gardens of the 18th century.
Perhaps none of our national characteristics are played out more obviously in the garden than xenophobia - our mixed and troubled responses to all things foreign. But excessive romantic nationalism associated with the land can take people in the wrong direction, underpinning intolerance and even fascism.
And gardeners' attitudes to 'invasive' foreign plants can be curiously representative of their views of society more generally!
We are not, says Jenny, in a separate moral universe when we are in the garden, it's as well to remember that!
Produced by Susan Marling
This is a Just Radio Ltd production for Radio 3.
FRI 23:15 World on 3 (b016kgfj)
Catriona McKay and Chris Stout Session
Mary Ann Kennedy introduces a specially recorded studio session by the Scottish harp and fiddle duo of Catriona McKay and Chris Stout, plus the latest world music releases from around the globe.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (b016kdk2)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b016kdyp)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b016kf25)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b016kf6r)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b016kgck)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b016kd36)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b016kd83)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b016kdgn)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b016kdt5)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b016kdzs)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b016kf4f)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b016kf8f)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b016kd38)
Choir and Organ
17:00 SUN (b016kdc8)
Choral Evensong
16:00 SUN (b0167v06)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b016kf27)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b00skbk6)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b00skbk6)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b00skbrg)
Composer of the Week
18:00 TUE (b00skbrg)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b00skbx9)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b00skbx9)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b00skc4l)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b00skc4l)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b00skc82)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b00skc82)
Discovering Music
20:15 FRI (b016kgcr)
Drama on 3
20:30 SUN (b016kdcg)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b016kdgq)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b016kdt7)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b016kdzv)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b016kf4h)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b016kf8h)
Free Thinking
22:00 FRI (b016kgfd)
Hear and Now
22:30 SAT (b016kd3q)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b016kdk4)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b016kdyr)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b016kf29)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b016kf6w)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b016kgcm)
Jazz Library
00:00 SUN (b016kd4f)
Jazz Line-Up
23:00 SUN (b016kdcl)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b016kd3j)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b016kdrv)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b016kdyy)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b016kf2p)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b016kf7l)
Music Feature
12:15 SAT (b016kd3b)
Night Waves
22:00 MON (b016kdk8)
Night Waves
22:00 TUE (b016kdyt)
Night Waves
22:00 WED (b010749m)
Night Waves
22:00 THU (b01207td)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (b016kd3l)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b016kd87)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b016kdk6)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:00 TUE (b016pcrn)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b016kf2c)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:35 WED (b016kf2h)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b016kf6y)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b016kgcp)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:35 FRI (b016kgct)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
14:00 SAT (b0167sg7)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b016kdk0)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b016kdym)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b016kf23)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b016kgch)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b016kf6p)
Saturday Classics
15:00 SAT (b016kd3g)
Sunday Concert
14:00 SUN (b016kd8c)
Sunday Feature
19:45 SUN (b016kdcd)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b016kd85)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SAT (b016kd3d)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SUN (b016kd89)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b016kdrs)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b016kdyw)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b016kf2m)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b016kf7j)
The Essay
23:00 FRI (b016kgfg)
The Wire
21:30 SAT (b016kd3n)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b0167vdr)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b016kd81)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b016kdgl)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b016kdt3)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b016kdzq)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b016kf4c)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b016kf8c)
Twenty Minutes
20:15 WED (b016kf2f)
Words and Music
18:30 SUN (b016kdcb)
World Routes
22:00 SUN (b016kdcj)
World on 3
23:15 FRI (b016kgfj)