As part of Through the Night's focus on young performers, Nicola Christie presents a recital from the young American string quartet, the Escher Quartet, whose programme includes Dvorak's ever popular 'American' quartet.
Quartet no. 3 Sz.85 for strings
Quartet no. 12 in F major Op.96 ('American') for strings
Quartet for flute, violin, gamba and continuo No.12/6 in E minor, 'Paris Quartet'
Peter Thomas (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
Silvia Piccollo (soprano), Annemieke Cantor (alto), Marco Beasley (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass), Paolo Crivellaro (organ), Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Gershwin, George [1898-1937], arr. Lundin, Bengt-Åke [b.1963]
Rhapsody in Blue arr. for piano and string quintet
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano), New Stenhammar String Quartet, Staffan Sjöholm (double bass)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Michal Nesterowicz (conductor)
Judita Leitaite (mezzo-soprano), Arunas Statkus (viola), Andrius Vasiliauskas (piano)
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Suppe & Auber Overtures - Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434309
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Amadeus Quartet.
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the author, journalist and radio/television presenter Martin Sixsmith. From 1980 to 1997 Martin was a BBC correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. He then worked for the Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary first to Harriet Harman, then to Alistair Darling and finally to Stephen Byers.
He is the author of two novels: Spin, and I Heard Lenin Laugh. Martin's recent non-fiction books include The Lost Child of Philomena Lee (2009); Putin's Oil (2010); and Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East (2011). In February 2008 he worked on two BBC documentaries exploring the legacy of the KGB in today's Russia and also presented a BBC radio programme, The Snowy Streets of St. Petersburg, about artists and writers who fled the former Eastern bloc. Most recently, in 2011, he presented Russia: The Wild East, a 50-part history of Russia for BBC Radio 4. Martin works as an advisor to the BBC political sitcom The Thick of It.
Star Wars: the greatest movie score of all time (according to the American Film Institute) - exclusively introduced by the composer himself on BBC Radio 3.
John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about the most famous film score in history. He discusses the moment George Lucas proposed his "space opera", and explains why he chose the 'old-fashioned', lush Romantic style of Tchaikovsky and Korngold to accompany this futuristic tale of aliens and spaceships.
We'll hear some of the most memorable musical moments from the first three films to be made (Episodes IV-VI), including the iconic Main Title, the Imperial March, and Luke and Leia's Theme. Donald Macleod also introduces perhaps the finest extended musical sequence in the series: Williams's mesmerising score to the battle on the ice planet of Hoth.
The programme ends with a deeply personal work in Williams's career - his Violin Concerto, written by the grieving composer after the tragic death of his first wife, Barbara Ruick Williams; a tragedy that overshadowed the huge success his music enjoyed in the mid 1970s.
Today's concert was recorded in the Ulster Hall Belfast as part of the annual BBC Radio 3 Summer Invitation Concert series. Katherine Broderick, soprano, is joined by pianist, James Baillieu to perform songs by Debussy, Ravel and Barber. Debussy composed the songs from Proses lyrique in 1892-3. They are the only songs for which Debussy also wrote the words. Debussy's verse resembles the symbolist poetry of Baudelaire and Verlaine - the text does not match the quality of these great writers but the music is pure Debussy. Ravel's Histoires naturelles with texts by Jules Renard and premiered in 1907 present an almost surrealist world encompassed by some of Ravel's most beautiful music. Barber began writing the Hermitage Songs after his first trip to Ireland. They were premiered in 1953 and are settings of texts based on poems by Irish monks and scholars from the 8th to 13th centuries.
Louise Fryer continues this week's Best of British selection from the BBC's orchestras.
Elgar's Froissart overture was inspired by the French chronicler of the 100 years war - Jean Froissart, while Patrick Hadley fought in a more recent conflagration in northern France, the First World War. 'Kinder Scout', his first orchestral work, celebrates a landscape he loved: the Derbyshire Peaks, where his parents first met, and where he spent many holidays walking in the hills - despite having lost a leg during the War!
Gustav Holst, meanwhile, lived in Thaxted in Essex - where during the Great War he was allegedly denied planning permission to extend his house because of his odd, Germanic sounding surname. It was around the same time that he wrote his most enduring work, his Planets Suite, which had its first semi-public performance in the last days of the war in 1918.
France, or specifically Paris, was the inspiration for the hedonist Frederick Delius; and our final composer of the day Baron Frederic D'Erlanger was born in Paris - but opted to become a naturalised Englishman in the 1880s. Known as "Baron Fred", he was a keen supporter of the arts, and a composer who had two operas staged at Covent Garden.
And Ben Johnson and James Baillieu are joined by counter tenor Chris Ainslie for the second of Britten's 5 Canticles: Abraham and Isaac.
Elgar: Froissart - Concert Overture, Op. 19
Britten: Canticle II - Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51
Sean Rafferty's guests include one of the foremost pianists specialising in period-instrument fortepianos of Mozart's day, South African Kristian Bezuidenhout. As he releases another volume in his critically acclaimed recordings of Mozart's solo piano music, he performs live in the In Tune studio.
Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, accompanied by Julius Drake, contrasts some of Schubert's most dramatic settings with songs by Mahler.
Canadian baritone Gerald Finley contrasts some of Schubert's most dramatic songs with a selection of the folk poetry settings Mahler made, and which went on to inform much of his later work.
Perennial Schubert favourites Im Fruhling, Der Schiffer and Erlkonig join less wlll-known masterpieces such as his near-symphonic Goethe setting Grenzen der Menschheit. And Mahler was drawn to the collection of German folk poetry 'Youth's Magic Horn' for its naturalness and emotional range, from satirical to bitterly tragic; much of his musical responses to these texts resurfaces in his epic later symphonies.
On today's Nightwaves Matthew talks to the Artistic Director of the South Bank Centre, Jude Kelly, about The Rest is Noise, a year-long festival at the Southbank Centre which maps the history of the 20th century through its music. The festival is a partnership between London's south Bank Centre and the BBC, and BBC 4 TV together with Radio 3 will be broadcasting docs and live concerts throughout the year. Matthew will explore, with the cultural historian, Peter Conrad, what looking at the fractured and changing world of the last century through the prism of music can tell us.
We hear an appraisal, by Diane Roberts, of the American poet chosen to read at Barack Obama's inauguration next week. Richard Blanco is a Cuban-American and openly gay: are we supposed to read as much meaning into that appointment as the poem he'll read on the day?
One of this year's New Generation Thinkers Adriana Sinclair discusses rape with the historian Joanna Bourke. According to one survey the poor conviction rates for rape in the UK put victims off reporting the crime. Adriana Sinclair suggests that a closer look at those statistics suggest a different picture and argues that the real problem with rape is society's ambiguity about what it is.
And Ian Christie discusses the life and legacy of the Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima who has died. His most famous films include the In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.
The Essay considers how five real-life scientists have been portrayed in culture, examining along the way ideas of genius, inspiration and authority.
Tonight, Orwell Prize winning writer Andrew Brown unpicks the narrative of Galileo's battle with the Inquisition. We think we know the story. Summoned to face the Inquisition, threatened with torture, Galileo, the greatest astronomer of his age, is forced to deny his revolutionary belief that the earth moves round the sun. Some writers have gone so far as to imagine the great man on his knees. It's an image with a nice clear message, after all - scientific truth cowed before religious ignorance and oppression. But - traditional accounts tell us - Galileo is not quite defeated. He has one pithy parting shot left in him. The earth doesn't move round the sun, he grudgingly admits, "but still, it moves." This phrase has made Galileo a hero, the icon of every outgunned and outnumbered crusader prepared to speak truth to power. But, Andrew Brown asks, what if he actually didn't say it?
Joby Burgess and Powerplant resurrect an early percussion experiment by Conlon Nancarrow, Alessio Bax plays Brahms and Ensemble Kapsberger play the 18th century dance music of Santiago de Murcia. Plus music by Dublin based composer and saxophonist Seán Mac Erlaine, and Giacinto Scelsi is remembered in Peter Michael Hamel's Of the Sound of Life, played by Roger Woodward. With Verity Sharp.
WEDNESDAY 16 JANUARY 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b01ppxcx)
John Shea presents an all-Schubert concert from the National Polish Radio SO, featuring a selection of lieder arranged for orchestra and his last completed symphony, the 'Great'.
12:31 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828], arr. Reger, Max [1873-1916]
An die Musik (D.547); Memnon (D.541); An den Mond (Fullest wieder Busch und Tal) D.296; Du bist die Ruh (D.776)
Dietrich Henschel (baritone), Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
12:47 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828], arr. Reger, Max [1873-1916]
Am Tage aller Seelen D.343; Prometheus D.674; Nacht und Traume D.827; Erlkonig D.328; Gretchen am Spinnrade D.118
Dietrich Henschel (baritone), Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
1:12 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Symphony no. 9 in C major D.944 (Great)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)
2:02 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Sextet for piano and strings in D major, Op.110
Wu Han (piano), Philip Setzer (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), Cynthia Phelps (viola), Carter Brey (cello), Michael Wais (bass)
2:25 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Ave Maria (D.839)
Il-Hwan Bai (cello), Dai-Hyun Kim (piano)
2:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (RV.234) in D major 'Inquietudine'
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
2:37 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures (Op.37)
Kristina Hammarström (mezzo-soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
3:01 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
String Quartet in C minor (Op.18 No.4)
Pavel Haas Quartet
3:26 AM
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c.1553-1612)
Exaudi me,
Danish National Radio Chorus, Copenhagen Cornetts & Sackbutts, Lars Baunkilde (violone), Soren Christian Vestergaard (organ), Bo Holten (conductor)
3:32 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto no.2 (BWV.1047) in F major
Alexis Kossenko (recorder), Erik Niord Larsen (oboe), Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Elise Båtnes (violin), Risör Festival Strings, Knut Johannessen (harpsichord)
3:44 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Wiegenlied (Chant du berceau) (1881)
Jos Van Immerseel (pianoforte)
3:48 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Berceuse (Op.57)
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
3:53 AM
Rózycki, Ludomir (1884-1953)
Symphonic Poem: Mona Lisa Gioconda (Op.31)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Czepiel (conductor)
4:04 AM
Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000)
5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet
Tae-Won Kim (flute), Hyong-Sup Kim & Pil-Kwan Sung (oboes), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon)
4:14 AM
Enescu, George (1881-1955)
Concert Piece for viola and piano
Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Monique Savary (piano)
4:23 AM
Selma y Salaverde, Bartolomé de (c.1585-c.1638)
Canzona terza
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
4:31 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Violin Concerto in D major (Op.10 No.3)
Simon Standage (violin), Il Tempo Ensemble
4:46 AM
Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961)
Tango - from 2 Dances for 2 Harps
Julia Shaw and Nora Bumanis (harps)
4:49 AM
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946)
Siete canciones populares españolas
Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano)
5:02 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in B minor (Kk.87)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
5:09 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Overture to "Des Teufels Lustschloss" (The Devil's Castle)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor)
5:19 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1751)
Concerto for 2 oboes, strings and basso continuo (Op.9/9)
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director)
5:30 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Dolly - Suite for piano duet (Op.56)
Erzsébet Tusa, Istvan Lantos (pianos)
5:44 AM
Klami, Uuno (1900-1961)
Symphonie enfantine (Op.17) (1928)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pertti Pekkanen (conductor)
6:00 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Trio for piano, clarinet and viola (K.498) in E flat major "Kegelstatt"
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
6:19 AM
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981)
Adagio for Strings (Op.11)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Richard Dufallo (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b01ppxgg)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b01ppxqg)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Suppe & Auber Overtures - Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434309
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Amadeus Quartet.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the author, journalist and radio/television presenter Martin Sixsmith. From 1980 to 1997 Martin was a BBC correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. He then worked for the Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary first to Harriet Harman, then to Alistair Darling and finally to Stephen Byers.
He is the author of two novels: Spin, and I Heard Lenin Laugh. Martin's recent non-fiction books include The Lost Child of Philomena Lee (2009); Putin's Oil (2010); and Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East (2011). In February 2008 he worked on two BBC documentaries exploring the legacy of the KGB in today's Russia and also presented a BBC radio programme, The Snowy Streets of St. Petersburg, about artists and writers who fled the former Eastern bloc. Most recently, in 2011, he presented Russia: The Wild East, a 50-part history of Russia for BBC Radio 4. Martin works as an advisor to the BBC political sitcom The Thick of It.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 473 715-2.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz5)
John Williams (1932-)
America's Composer
John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about working with Steven Spielberg on the Holocaust drama, Schindler's List - and how he approached the enormous challenge of writing music to complement such a tragic and harrowing story. We'll hear excerpts from his Oscar-winning score, infused with the inflections of Jewish traditional music.
Before this, a very different - and much loved - Spielberg score: Williams's music to the "Indiana Jones" series of films, and the composer's Olympic Fanfare, written for the Los Angeles Summer Games of 1984, and reprised every games since.
We end with a real rarity, and probably a real surprise to many: John Williams's score to Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot. Williams is one of the very few people in history to have worked closely with both Hitchcock and Spielberg - and he tells us how these two directorial giants compare.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01ppxw4)
Chamber Music in Belfast
Tai Murray
Today's concert was record in the Ulster Hall, Belfast as part of the annual BBC Radio 3 Summer Invitation Concert series. Tai Murray and pianist, Ashley Wass perform two American Violin Sonatas and a short Rondo by Alfred Schnittke. Copland's Violin Sonata is dedicated to his close friend, Lieutenant Henry Dunham, who died in the South Pacific shortly after the work was completed in 1943. Virgil Thomposn described the sonata as, "one of its author's most sastisfying pieces." Schnittke composed his Rondo for the 50th birthday of Rotislav Dubinsky, the founding first violinist of the Borodin Quartet. It is one of Schnittke's neo-classical works and is a brilliant parody of classical style. John Corigliano composed his notoriously difficult Violin Sonata in 1962-3. The work was originally called "Duo" as it treats the violin and piano as equal partners - the interplay between the instruments is very intricate and it requires more an just a spark of virtuosity from the performers!
Tai Murray (violin)
Ashley Wass (piano)
Copland: Violin Sonata
Schnittke: Rondo
Corigliano: Violin Sonata.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01ppxwz)
Best of British with the BBC Orchestras
Episode 3
Best of British.
Music from the 1940s and 50s. Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings is the oldest work in today's programme. Written during the Second World War at the request of horn player Dennis Brain, it's steeped in the atmosphere of night and evokes both the calmness of sleep and the terror of the darkest hours.
As with so many other composers, Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony is his last. It was premiered in 1958, the same year he died, and although it confused audiences at the time, it has grown in reputation in the intervening years.
And today's programme starts with the third of Britten's Canticles - Still falls the rain, to a text by Edith Sitwell. Alongside tenor - and recent BBC New Generation Artist - Ben Johnson are pianist James Baillieu and horn player Martin Owen.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Britten: Canticle III - Still falls the rain Op.55
Ben Johnson (tenor),
Martin Owen (horn),
James Baillieu (piano).
2.10pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9
BBC Philharmonic,
John Wilson (conductor).
2.40pm
Mathias
Rex Gloriae 4 motets (Op.83)
BBC Singers
Stephen Disley (organ)
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
3pm
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra, Op. 31
Andrew Kennedy (tenor),
Tim Thorpe (horn),
BBC National Orchestra Of Wales,
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b01pqcy0)
Winchester Cathedral
From Winchester Cathedral
Introit: Benedicamus Domino (Warlock)
Responses: Philip Moore
Psalms: 82, 83, 84, 85 (Crotch, Clark, Bairstow, Lloyd)
First Lesson: Genesis 2 vv4-end
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Wood)
Second Lesson: Matthew 21 vv33-end
Anthem: When Jesus our Lord (Mendelssohn)
Hymn: Songs of thankfulness and praise (St Edmund)
Organ Voluntary: Flourish for an Occasion (Harris)
Andrew Lumsden (Director of Music)
George Castle (Assistant Director of Music).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b01ppxys)
Dawn Upshaw, Silent Opera, Saleem Abboud Ashkar
Sean Rafferty's guests include the Grammy Award winning soprano Dawn Upshaw, whose recording of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony famously sold a million records worldwide. She talks to Sean ahead of a concert with the LSO and John Adams.
Sean is also joined by the stars of 'Silent Opera'- a project which brings opera to new audiences with a modern twist by using cutting edge technology and interesting locations. They perform live in the studio.
The Palestinian-Israeli pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar also talks to us from Manchester ahead of his concert with the Halle.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: BBCInTune.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01pqcy2)
Live from the Barbican in London
Wagner, Beethoven
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
The pianist Angela Hewitt collaborates with the Britten Sinfonia, directing from the keyboard. In this concert she performs two of Beethoven's famed piano concertos: his youthful second, and intimate and serene fourth, a pillar of the piano concerto repertoire.
Alongside the two concertos, violinist Thomas Gould directs the orchestra in Wagner's birthday present to his wife Cosima, and Sibelius' ethereal Scene with Cranes, composed as incidental music to a play.
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Beethoven: Piano concerto no.2
Angela Hewitt (piano/director)
Thomas Gould (violin/director)
Britten Sinfonia.
WED 20:20 Discovering Music (b01pqcy6)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4.
WED 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01pqcy8)
Live from the Barbican in London
Sibelius, Beethoven
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
The pianist Angela Hewitt collaborates with the Britten Sinfonia, directing from the keyboard. In this concert she performs two of Beethoven's famed piano concertos: his youthful second, and intimate and serene fourth, a pillar of the piano concerto repertoire.
Alongside the two concertos, violinist Thomas Gould directs the orchestra in Wagner's birthday present to his wife Cosima, and Sibelius' ethereal Scene with Cranes, composed as incidental music to a play.
Sibelius: Scene with Cranes
Beethoven: Piano concerto no.4
Angela Hewitt (piano/director)
Thomas Gould (violin/director)
Britten Sinfonia.
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b01ppxzy)
David Hare, The Sessions, The Last Days of Detroit, Marking Death
Philip Dodd is joined by the playwright David Hare whose play, The Judas Kiss, is about to open in the West End starring Rupert Everett as Oscar Wilde. The play opens in 1895 in the Cadogan Hotel in London as the playwright's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has collapsed. He faces the decision whether to flee to France to escape prosecution or to stay and face prison in a play exploring themes of love and power, betrayal and sacrificial love.
We review The Sessions, a new film based on the true story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined, at age 38, to lose his virginity. To discuss sex and disability we are joined by comedian Liz Carr and author Emily Dubberley.
The dead are with us - but how? Historian Carl Watkins has made a study of how the English have related to their dead, from the High Middle Ages to the Great War at the beginning of the 20th century. He joins Philip to discuss everything from memento mori to haunted moorland, along with philosopher and New Generation Thinker Timothy Secret.
And Mark Binelli guides us as we venture into the heart of Detroit, home to Henry Ford's automobiles and Berry Gordy's Motown; once the very engine of American capitalism, but now an urban wilderness.
Producer: Estelle Doyle.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01ppy0j)
Five Portraits of Science
Isaac Newton
The Essay considers how five real-life scientists have been portrayed in culture, examining along the way ideas of genius, inspiration and authority.
Tonight, historian of science Patricia Fara explores how Isaac Newton helped to define our modern sense of what a genius is - and a quintessentially English one, at that.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b01pqcyb)
Wednesday - Verity Sharp
Speedy reels from Irish fiddler Mick Conneely, the group Profeti Della Quinta play the music of Italian Jewish violinist Salomone Rossi, and Iain Morrison sings the Dream of the Bear. Plus the voice of Ethiopia's Zerfu Demissie and the Kuss Quartet play Stravinsky's Three Pieces. With Verity Sharp.
THURSDAY 17 JANUARY 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01ppxd1)
John Shea introduces the first of two concerts from the 2010 BBC Proms from the English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner celebrating the music of JS Bach.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Brandenburg concerto no. 1 (BWV.1046) in F major
English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
12:53 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Brandenburg concerto no. 6 (BWV.1051) in B flat major
English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
1:10 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Brandenburg concerto no. 4 (BWV.1049) in G major
English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
1:26 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), trans. Busoni
Adagio and Fugue from Toccata, Adagio and Fugue (BWV 564) in C major
Vladimir Horowitz (piano roll)
1:36 AM
Busoni, Ferrucio (1866-1924)
Suite No.2 for orchestra (Op.34a)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
2:05 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Agrippina condotta a morire: Dunque sarà pur vero (HWV.110)
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Musica Alta Ripa: Anne Röhrig & Ursula Bundies (violins), Guido Larisch (cello), Bernward Lohr (harpsichord)
2:31 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Te Deum for soloists, chorus and orchestra in C major
Giorgia Milanesi (soprano), Ulfried Haselsteiner (tenor), Anne Margrethe Punsvik Gluch (soprano), Thomas Mohr (baritone), Håvard Stendsvold (bass-baritone), Kristiansand Cathedral Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor)
2:57 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Quartet for piano and strings No.3 (Op.60) "Werther" in C minor
Håvard Gimse (piano), Stig Nilsson (violin), Anders Nilsson (viola), Romain Garioud (cello)
3:33 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto for strings no.6 in A major
Concerto Köln
3:43 AM
Trad, arr. Petrinjak, Darko
6 Renaissance Dances
Zagreb Guitar Trio
3:54 AM
Wirén, Dag (1905-1986)
Violin Sonatina (1939)
Arve Tellefsen (violin), Lucia Negro (piano)
4:05 AM
Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
Songs Without Words (Op.6) - selection
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
4:15 AM
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758)
Lute Concerto in D minor
Konrad Junghänel (lute), Music Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
4:31 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
May Night: overture
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:39 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Edvard Grieg
Sonata in G major (K.283)
Julie Adam and Daniel Herscovitch (pianos)
4:53 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
3 Songs for chorus (Op.42) (Abendständchen; Vineta; Darthulas Grabesgesang)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:03 AM
Tournier, Marcel (1879-1951)
Images for harp and string quartet (Op.35)
Erica Goodman (harp), Members of the Amadeus Ensemble
5:14 AM
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857)
Brilliant polonaise for piano six hands (Op.296)
Kestutis Grybauskas, Vilma Rindzeviciute, Irina Venkus (pianos)
5:28 AM
Bach, Johann Ernst (1722-1777)
Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn (motet)
Martina Lins (soprano), Silke Weisheit (alto), Martin Schmitz (tenor), Hans-Georg Wimmer (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
5:41 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
String Trio in G (Op.9 No.1)
Trio Aristos
6:06 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Le carnaval des animaux
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (director).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01ppxgj)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01ppxqj)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Suppe & Auber Overtures - Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434309
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Amadeus Quartet.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the author, journalist and radio/television presenter Martin Sixsmith. From 1980 to 1997 Martin was a BBC correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. He then worked for the Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary first to Harriet Harman, then to Alistair Darling and finally to Stephen Byers.
He is the author of two novels: Spin, and I Heard Lenin Laugh. Martin's recent non-fiction books include The Lost Child of Philomena Lee (2009); Putin's Oil (2010); and Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East (2011). In February 2008 he worked on two BBC documentaries exploring the legacy of the KGB in today's Russia and also presented a BBC radio programme, The Snowy Streets of St. Petersburg, about artists and writers who fled the former Eastern bloc. Most recently, in 2011, he presented Russia: The Wild East, a 50-part history of Russia for BBC Radio 4. Martin works as an advisor to the BBC political sitcom The Thick of It.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Wagner: Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music (Die Walküre)
Hans Hotter (Wotan)
Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Leopold Ludwig (conductor)
TESTAMENT SBT 1201.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz7)
John Williams (1932-)
Master of Fantasy
Music of the fantastical and the fabulous today, as John Williams explains to Donald Macleod how he created his scores for Jurassic Park and to the Harry Potter series - with musical highlights from the first three Williams-scored films, in which the composer's love of Viennese waltzes, big band jazz, and Victorian Gothic are given free rein...
After a unique concerto for bassoon and orchestra, inspired by trees and the writings of Robert Graves, John Williams introduces a score unique in his output - his music to Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, in which he draws upon the minimalist style of Philip Glass and John Adams to create one of his finest futuristic scores.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01ppxw6)
Chamber Music in Belfast
Royal String Quartet
The Royal String Quartet has been announced recently as the Queen's University of Belfast's String Quartet in Residence. Today's concert was recorded in the Great Hall on the university's campus as part of the 50th anniversary programme of Northern Ireland's major arts festival, Belfast Festival at Queen's. Symanowski composed his first string quartet in 1927, when he was 34 - the music is blend of late Romanticism and impressionism. Schubert's Quartet no. 14, is one of the finest in the quartet literature. It received its title "Death and the Maiden", after Schubert's death and is named after his song of the same name which forms the works second movement. .
Royal Quartet
Izabella Szałaj-Zimak; Elwira Przybyłowska (violins); Marek Czech (viola), Michał Pepol (cello)
Symanowski: String Quartet No. 1 in C major Op. 37
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14, D.810 "Death and the Maiden".
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01ppxx1)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Verdi 200: Un Giorno di Regno
Verdi 200 on BBC Radio 3
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Verdi's birth, Radio 3 continues its year long survey of all Verdi's operas.
We continue the journey with Verdi's second opera, a comedy "Un Giorno di Regno" - King for a day.
27 years old, Verdi was commissioned at short notice by La Scala to provide a comic opera as a follow up to his successful first opera "Oberto". The first night at La Scala in September 1840 was also its last. The whole experience was a complete failure for Verdi, and he didn't try another comic opera till Falstaff in 1893, over half a century later.
In the run up to the one and only performance at La Scala, both his children had died, and just 3 months before the opera was due to be staged his wife died too. Added to that Verdi was given a cast poorly suited to Opera Buffa, who couldn't make the comedy work - and it seems that it was in the performance that the opera really failed, although Verdi's state of mind and haste of composition cannot have helped.
There are strong strains of Rossini throughout - the grand old man of Italian Opera, still alive but not composing anymore - and comic opera tastes had moved on and Donizetti was more the fashion - however Verdi sticks to the more old fashioned Opera Buffa style of a light male lead, Cavaliere di Belfiore, paired with a Soubrette , Marchesa del Poggio, adding the comic elements of the baritone pairing of the Barone di Kelbar and the state treasurer Il Signor la Rocca. However, there are moments of pure Verdi, and the promise of things to come (Nabucco was his next opera 18 months later.)
This performance comes from the archives of Italian Radio, and it took place in 2001 in La Scala, Milan and was only the second performance there of the opera since the disastrous first night in 1840. A student production is not a fair description - the As.Li.Co. organisation (Associazione Lirica e Concertistica Italiana) has been training and promoting the finest young singers in Italy for many yearsand this features a young Fabio Capitanucci, recently Belcore in Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" at the Royal Opera House, and in "The Trojans" during the 2012 Proms, and currently featuring in Verdi's Falstaff in La Scala. And in the role of Edoardo, tenor Massimo Giordano, who is currently performing the role of Cavaradossi in Tosca in a run from San Francisco, through Berlin and coming to the Royal Opera House in March 2013.
Throughout the year, as part of Verdi 200 there will be added features supporting the broadcasts, including podcasts and interviews, context and synopsis that will be available all year as part of Radio 3's unmissable guide to Verdi's operas.
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Louise Fryer presents.
Verdi: Un Giorno di Regno
Cavaliere di Belfiore ..... Fabio Capitanucci (baritone)
Barone di Kelbar ..... Alfonso Antoniozzi (baritone)
Marchesa del Poggio ..... Doina Dimitriu (soprano)
Giulietta di Kelbar ..... Natalia Gavrilan (soprano)
Edoardo di Sanval ..... Massimo Giordano (tenor)
Il Signor la Rocca ..... Piero Terranova (baritone)
Count Ivrea ..... Nicola Pamio (tenor)
Delmonte ..... Alfredo Nigro (tenor)
A Servant ..... Christian Senn Vasquez (baritone)
As.Li.Co Chorus, Milan
La Scala and Toscanini Foundation Academies
Corrado Rovaris (conductor)
Britten: Canticle IV - The journey of the Magi Op.86
Ben Johnson (tenor)
Benedict Nelson (baritone)
Chris Ainslie (counter-tenor)
James Baillieu (piano).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b01ppxyv)
Myrthen Ensemble, Karim Said, Karita Mattila, Jon Boden
Presenter Sean Rafferty talks to star soprano Karita Mattila ahead of her Strauss performance, opening the Southbank Centre's The Rest is Noise festival. Live music from recently formed Myrthen Ensemble as it prepares for its Wigmore Hall debut. Pianist Joseph Middleton, among 'the cream of the new generation' (The Times), formed the Myrthen Ensemble in 2012 with four exciting young singers including mezzo Clara Mouriz and baritone Marcus Farnsworth to perform songs and lieder. They will perform live in the studio. As will young pianist Karim Said as he prepares for a trilogy of recitals at The Rest is Noise festival. Plus composer and lead singer of Bellowhead, Jon Boden, visits the studio to discuss the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Winter's Tale, for which he composed the music.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01pskly)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Lutoslawski: Symphony No 4, Szymanowski: Songs of a Fairytale Princess
From City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Tom Redmond
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is conducted by their Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov in a concert of music by Polish visionaries. The Orchestra's Musika Polska Season -exploring the wealth of musical riches from Poland- continues tonight with works by two composers of subsequent generations, Szymanowksi and Lutoslawski, who created some of the most glittering, lyrical and surprising orchestral soundscapes of the 20th Century.
Szymanowski's sensual and romantic orchestral song cycles, performed by Polish soprano Olga Pasichnyk, are presented alongside works which demonstrate the range of Lutoslawski's unique musical response to European modernism, demonstrated in his Symphony No. 4, from the 1990s, and virtuosic symphonic study, the Concerto for Orchestra, from 1954.
Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 4
Szymanowski: Songs of a Fairytale Princess
Olga Pasichnyk (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor).
THU 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b01pskvb)
Wajda: Voice of a Generation
Ian Christie explores the career and influence of the legendary Polish film director, Andrzej Wajda,
Andrzej Wajda is one of the twentieth century's greatest filmmakers. He burst into prominence in the early 1950s with his harrowing depictions of the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi occupation, such as A Generation and Kanal. When revolution swept through the shipyards of Gdansk, Wajda charted both the pre-revolutionary Soviet era through his tale of a stakhanovite worker, Man of Marble, pursuing the story through the revolution in Man of Iron. Today, with Poland a thriving democracy within the EU, and with a generation of younger filmmakers behind him, Wajda, at the age of 86 is still at work, making final adjustments to his latest film, Walesa, chronicling the hero of Gdansk.
Ian Christie, with the help of archive recordings, charts Wajda's career, and explores the influence he has exercised on European film for sixty years.
Producer: Simon Elmes.
THU 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01pskvd)
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Szymanowski: Songs of an Infatuated Muezzin, Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
From City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Tom Redmond
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is conducted by their Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov in a concert of music by Polish visionaries. The Orchestra's Musika Polska Season -exploring the wealth of musical riches from Poland- continues tonight with works by two composers of subsequent generations, Szymanowksi and Lutoslawski, who created some of the most glittering, lyrical and surprising orchestral soundscapes of the 20th Century.
Szymanowski's sensual and romantic orchestral song cycles, performed by Polish soprano Olga Pasichnyk, are presented alongside works which demonstrate the range of Lutoslawski's unique musical response to European modernism, demonstrated in his Symphony No. 4, from the 1990s, and virtuosic symphonic study, the Concerto for Orchestra, from 1954.
Szymanowski: Songs of an Infatuated Muezzin
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
Olga Pasichnyk (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor).
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01ppy00)
Landmarks - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Anne McElvoy settles decorously into Regency England to celebrate the bicentenary of Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen's enduringly popular novel, of a single man in possession of a good fortune, was an immediate success - but it hasn't always inspired slavish admiration: critics have objected to the apparently narrow focus on affairs of the hearth and heart, while the Napoleonic wars raged and the industrial revolution brewed.
During the 20th century however the novel's popularity rocketed, to find its way onto every best-seller list, and inspire countless television and film adaptations.
In this Landmark edition of Night Waves, Anne is joined by leading Austen-ologists Professors John Mullan and Janet Todd, novelist and screenwriter Natasha Solomons and the actress Susannah Harker who played Jane Bennett in the BBC's 1995 television adaptation. They'll be exploring why Austen's work - of three or four families in a country village - and especially its central characters Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett - is so endlessly engaging.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01ppy0n)
Five Portraits of Science
Marie Curie
The Essay considers how five real-life scientists have been portrayed in culture, examining along the way ideas of genius, inspiration and authority.
Tonight scientist and novelist Sunetra Gupta considers Marie Curie's reputation as self-sacrificing scientific saint.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01pqd4s)
Thursday - Verity Sharp
Flautist Kevin Crawford plays one of Phil Cunningham's glorious tunes, Diabolus in Musica intone plainchant from medieval France, the Leon Hunt n'Tet pay tribute to Earl Scruggs and Mira Glodeanu plays Bibers Passacaglia for solo violin recorded in the beautiful acoustics of the French church of Pommiers. With Verity Sharp.
FRIDAY 18 JANUARY 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01ppxd5)
John Shea introduces a concert of Wagner, Szymanowski and Bruckner with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simone Young.
12:31 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883]
Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)
12:35 AM
Szymanowski, Karol [1882-1937]
Concerto for violin and orchestra no. 1 (Op.35)
Baiba Skride (violin), Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)
1:00 AM
Bruckner, Anton [1824-1896]
Symphony no. 7 in E major
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)
2:05 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and orchestra in G major (Wq.169)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
2:31 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Clarinet Quartet in E flat major (1808)
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Tobias Ringborg (violin), Ingegerd Kierkegaard (viola), John Ehde (cello)
2:59 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Serenade for string orchestra in E flat major (Op.6)
Budapest Strings, Béla Banfalvi (leader)
3:28 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Gai Paris for wind ensemble
The Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra
3:38 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs - Mo Nighean Dhu (My dark-haired maiden); O Mistress Mine ; Six Dukes went a-fishin' ; Mary Thomson
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
3:50 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Sonatina for cello & piano
László Mezõ (cello), Lóránt Szücs (piano)
3:59 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Fantasia for organ in G major (BWV.572)
Theo Teunissen (organ of Jacobikerk, Utrecht. Built by Gerrit Petersz in 1509)
4:08 AM
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676)
Lauda Jerusalem (Psalm 147) - for 2 choirs (concert & ripieno) & instruments
Concerto Palatino
4:18 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
The Duke of Gloucester's trumpet suite
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
4:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Egmont, incidental music - Overture (Op.84)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ji?í B?lohlávek (conductor)
4:39 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm (BWV.229)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
4:49 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Sonata for Piano in G major (H.
16.27)
Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
5:00 AM
Veracini, Francesco (1690-1768)
Overture VI for 2 oboes, bassoon & strings
Michael Niesemann & Alison Gangler (oboes), Adrian Rovatkay (bassoon), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
5:11 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Francine Kay (piano)
5:23 AM
Jenner, Gustav Uwe (1865-1920)
Trio in E flat for Clarinet, Horn and Piano (1900)
James Campbell (clarinet), Martin Hackleman (horn), Jane Coop (piano)
5:50 AM
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935)
Norwegian Rhapsody No.1 in A minor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
6:02 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Piano Quartet in E flat major (Op.47)
Alexander Melnikov (piano), Leopold String Trio.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01ppxgl)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01ppxql)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Suppe & Auber Overtures - Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434309
9.30-
10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Amadeus Quartet.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the author, journalist and radio/television presenter Martin Sixsmith. From 1980 to 1997 Martin was a BBC correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. He then worked for the Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary first to Harriet Harman, then to Alistair Darling and finally to Stephen Byers.
He is the author of two novels: Spin, and I Heard Lenin Laugh. Martin's recent non-fiction books include The Lost Child of Philomena Lee (2009); Putin's Oil (2010); and Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East (2011). In February 2008 he worked on two BBC documentaries exploring the legacy of the KGB in today's Russia and also presented a BBC radio programme, The Snowy Streets of St. Petersburg, about artists and writers who fled the former Eastern bloc. Most recently, in 2011, he presented Russia: The Wild East, a 50-part history of Russia for BBC Radio 4. Martin works as an advisor to the BBC political sitcom The Thick of It.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Part 1)
Gerontius ..... Richard Lewis (tenor)
The Priest ..... Kim Borg (bass)
Hallé Choir
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
Ambrosian Singers
Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz9)
John Williams (1932-)
Star Wars Revisited
John Williams talks exclusively to Donald Macleod for the final time this week, with Star Wars once more taking centre stage.
Williams discusses the challenges of returning to the Star Wars series, nearly two decades on, and the hidden plot clues buried deep in his music. We'll hear highlights from Williams's brand-new music for the three 'prequels' (Eps I-III), including Duel Of The Fates and the climactic Battle Of The Heroes.
The programme opens with two recent works that throw back to his background in big bands and concert halls - the effervescent, jazz-infused Main Title from Tintin - and a spiky, Stravinskyan Horn Concerto. We also showcase one of Williams's most haunting scores of the previous decade - his music to Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha.
Donald Macleod ends the week with thoughts on John Williams's career and position as "America's composer", a unique musical voice transcending popular and classical music, and arguably the inheritor of a mantle once held by Gershwin, Copland and Bernstein. The week plays out with Williams's music for the inauguration of Barack Obama as US President in 2008 - his Air and Simple Gifts.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01ppxw8)
Chamber Music in Belfast
Maxim Rysanov
Today's concert was recorded at the 50th Belfast Festival at Queen's in St George's Church, High Street, Belfast.
Maxim Rysanov begins today's recital with music for solo viola - Simon Rowland-Jones transcription of the third of Bach's Suites for Solo Cello. Martinu's Sonata for viola and piano was written in 1955, towards the end of the composer's life. The two movements are dedicated and edited by Lillian Fuchs, the American violist known particularly for her etudes. The brief Scherzo in C Minor was Brahms' contribution to the F-A-E Sonata (a collaborative work by Brahms, Schumann and Schumann's pupil Albert Dietrich). The violinist, Joseph Joachim had liked Brahms' scherzo movement so much that he had it published separately in 1906, nine years after the composer's death. Brahms marked the music, allegro. The final work, Incantatio, by the Swiss composer Richard Dubgnon was written specifically for Maxim Rysnaov - he met Dubugnon at a festival in Holland where he had played his quintet and asked him to write a work for viola which he says he loves but describes as very challenging.
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
AshleyWass (piano)
Bach: Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 (arranged for solo viola)
Martinu: Sonata for viola and piano
Brahms: Scherzo in C minor from FAE Sonata
Dubugnon: Incantatio for viola and piano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01ppxx3)
Best of British with the BBC Orchestras
Episode 4
Best of British - Ancient and Modern.
Today's programme features three Classically inspired pieces: Vaughan Williams's evergreen overture to a play originally by Aristophanes, an orchestral fantasy by Arnold Bax inspired by the nymphs of Classical legend, and Britten's last Canticle - indeed his last work (from 1974): The Death of St. Narcissus, with a text by T.S.Eliot, inspired in turn by Ovid's Metamorphoses.
There are also two well-loved concertos: Finzi's for clarinet, and Elgar's for cello - a composer in his senior years, out of fashion and looking back to a lost world. Plus Walton's First Symphony - young man's music, full of vigour and passion.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Vaughan Williams: Overture 'The Wasps'
BBC Philharmonic,
John Wilson (conductor).
2.10pm
Finzi: Clarinet Concerto
Michael Collins (clarinet),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Garry Walker.
2.35pm
Bax: Nympholept
BBC Philharmonic,
Vernon Handley (conductor).
2.55pm
Britten: Canticle V - The Death of St Narcissus, Op. 89
Ben Johnson (tenor),
Lucy Wakeford (harp).
3.00pm
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Johannes Moser (cello),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Litton (conductor).
3.30pm
Walton: Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01ppxyx)
Quatuor Zaide, Trish Clowes, Edmund de Waal
Sean Rafferty's guests include young jazz saxophonist Trish Clowes, one of the new crop of Radio 3's New Generation Artists, ahead of her gig at London's Pizza Express. She plays live in the studio.
Plus, there's live performance from Quatuor Zaide - a young all-female prize-winning string quartet from France, in the UK for a recital at Wigmore Hall.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01pmfz9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01pqdf5)
Live from the Barbican in London
Elgar, Qigang Chen
Presented by Martin Handley
Live from the Barbican Centre, London
Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne' (In London Town)
Qigang Chen: Reflet d'un temps disparu (London premiere)
Li-Wei Qin (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Long Yu (conductor)
London is the theme for this lively evening, beginning with Elgar's scintillating overture and ending with Haydn's final symphony, written during his last stay in our capital city. Blazing with wit, craft and earthiness, it captures the essence of the composer. The city is conjured up again by Hong-Kong born Raymond Yiu, already acclaimed for his intricate blend of Western and Eastern sonorities. He describes his piece 'The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured', which takes its title from an 18th century pamphlet about madhouses, as a 'symphonic game' which takes its musical cues from Elgar's Cockaigne Overture and the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons'. Cellist Li-Wei Qin joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra to perform a new work by Chinese-French composer Qigang Chen. To conduct the concert is Long Yu, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, making his debut with the orchestra.
FRI 20:20 Discovering Music (b01pqdgz)
Haydn: Symphony No. 104
Stephen Johnson explores Haydn's Symphony No. 104.
FRI 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01pqdh1)
Live from the Barbican in London
Raymond Yiu, Haydn
Presented by Martin Handley
Live from the Barbican Centre, London
Raymond Yiu: The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured (World premiere)
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D, 'London'
Li-Wei Qin (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Long Yu (conductor)
London is the theme for this lively evening, beginning with Elgar's scintillating overture and ending with Haydn's final symphony, written during his last stay in our capital city. Blazing with wit, craft and earthiness, it captures the essence of the composer. The city is conjured up again by Hong-Kong born Raymond Yiu, already acclaimed for his intricate blend of Western and Eastern sonorities. He describes his piece 'The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured', which takes its title from an 18th century pamphlet about madhouses, as a 'symphonic game' which takes its musical cues from Elgar's Cockaigne Overture and the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons'. Cellist Li-Wei Qin joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra to perform a new work by Chinese-French composer Qigang Chen. To conduct the concert is Long Yu, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, making his debut with the orchestra.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01ppy02)
The Snow Verb
Ian McMillan presents The Verb - and this week it's a 'Cabaret of Snow' with guests John Burnside, Gillian Clarke and Gavin Francis.
John Burnside has written eleven collections of poetry - the last of which, 'Black Cat Bone' won the 2011 T.S.Eliot Prize. He's also the author of five works of fiction, and acclaimed memoirs. John reads from his new collection of short stories 'Something Like Happy' (Jonathan Cape), which all meditate, in different ways, on cold weather. He explains why he finds snow and ice so appealing, both in fiction and in life.
Gillian Clarke has been the National Poet for Wales, was recently awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry; her last poetry collection 'Ice' was nominated for the 2012 T.S.Eliot Prize. Gillian reads poems about the sound of ice-scapes, snow memories and the pleasures and difficulties of being snowed in.
Gavin Francis is the author of 'True North - Travels of Arctic Europe' and a new memoir 'Empire Antarctica - Ice, Silence and Emperor Penguins' (Chatto and Windus). He recalls the sound of his breath freezing when he spent a winter at the South Pole, the comforting presence of penguins, and the influence of 'endurance narratives' on our perception of Antarctica.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b01ppy0q)
Five Portraits of Science
Albert Einstein
The Essay considers how five real-life scientists have been portrayed in culture, examining along the way ideas of genius, inspiration and authority.
When people stopped him in the street in later life - as they constantly did - Albert Einstein would tell them 'I'm sorry, you've mistaken me for Albert Einstein.' This wasn't only a canny ploy to get him from a to b without interruption. It was also, arguably, a statement of fact. Because the Einstein we think we know - the genius who didn't wear socks, who was dyslexic and left handed - is not the real Einstein. He was unquestionably a genius - perhaps the quintessential twentieth century genius - but was neither dyslexic nor left handed. So why are so many of the things we think we know about him nothing more than myths? And how did the man who invented modern physics cope with unprecedented fame? The writer Richard Hamblyn considers the cultural afterlife of the quintessential twentieth century scientist.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01pqdh3)
Celtic Connections 2013
Mary Ann Kennedy live from Glasgow at one of the world's biggest winter music festivals, with special late-night performances from the Green Room of Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall.
Celtic Connections is held in 20 venues over 18 days with 300 events taking place throughout the whole festival, involving over 2100 musicians from 26 countries. Scots and Irish Celtic music is at the centre of the festival, but it has always embraced the music of the Celtic cultures of the USA, Canada, France and Spain, together with the closely connected cultures of Scandinavia and eastern Europe. In recent years the Festival has also connected with traditions across Africa and Asia. The concerts range from the most traditional to the most experimental, all brought together in the context of one of the world's liveliest folk cultures, with a never-ending stream of young Scottish musicians who are reinventing their own traditions for their own time.
For the past four years, World on 3 has hosted live late-night sesssions from the Festival at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall. These start late, and finish early, with bands often coming straight from a concert in a main venue to play for World on 3. The line-up is always kept secret until the day of the event.
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 (b01ppwwl)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b01ppxwv)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b01ppxwz)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b01ppxx1)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b01ppxx3)
Between the Ears
21:15 SAT (b01ptw12)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b01ppvzh)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b01ppwkv)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b01ppwv3)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b01ppxff)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b01ppxgg)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b01ppxgj)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b01ppxgl)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b01ppvzk)
Choir and Organ
17:00 SUN (b01ppwlp)
Choral Evensong
16:00 SUN (b01pmh2y)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b01pqcy0)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b01pmfg2)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b01pmfg2)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b01pmfz3)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b01pmfz3)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b01pmfz5)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b01pmfz5)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b01pmfz7)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b01pmfz7)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b01pmfz9)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b01pmfz9)
Discovering Music
20:20 WED (b01pqcy6)
Discovering Music
20:20 FRI (b01pqdgz)
Drama on 3
20:30 SUN (b01ppwn6)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b01ppwv5)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b01ppxqd)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b01ppxqg)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b01ppxqj)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b01ppxql)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b01ppwkq)
Hear and Now
22:00 SAT (b01ppw1t)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b01ppwwn)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b01ppxyq)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b01ppxys)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b01ppxyv)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b01ppxyx)
Jazz Line-Up
23:15 SUN (b01ppwnb)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b01ppvzt)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b01ppwxk)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b01pqcm6)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b01pqcyb)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b01pqd4s)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b01ppvzm)
Night Waves
22:00 MON (b01ppwxf)
Night Waves
22:00 TUE (b01ppxzw)
Night Waves
22:00 WED (b01ppxzy)
Night Waves
22:00 THU (b01ppy00)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (b01ppvzw)
Pre-Hear
21:45 SAT (b01ppw1r)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b01pyfvg)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b01ppwwv)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b01pslbw)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b01pqcy2)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:40 WED (b01pqcy8)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b01pskly)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:40 THU (b01pskvd)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b01pqdf5)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:40 FRI (b01pqdh1)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
14:00 SAT (b01pmfg4)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b01ppwwj)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b01ppxw2)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b01ppxw4)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b01ppxw6)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b01ppxw8)
Saturday Classics
15:00 SAT (b01ppvzr)
Sunday Concert
14:00 SUN (b01ptdxq)
Sunday Feature
19:45 SUN (b01ppwn4)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b01ppwkx)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SAT (b01ppvzp)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SUN (b01ppwlk)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b01ppwxh)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b01ppy0g)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b01ppy0j)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b01ppy0n)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b01ppy0q)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b01ppy02)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b01pmhpz)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b01ppwks)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b01ppwv1)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b01ppxcv)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b01ppxcx)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b01ppxd1)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b01ppxd5)
Twenty Minutes
20:20 THU (b01pskvb)
Words and Music
18:30 SUN (b01ppwlr)
World Routes
22:30 SUN (b01px60k)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b01pqdh3)