During the Swing Era, every big band had its small “band-within-a-band”, bringing the delights of combo jazz to the jitterbugs. Geoffrey Smith surveys some of the best, including Artie Shaw, Bob Crosby, Woody Herman and Count Basie.
Catriona Young presents. Royal String Quartet and mezzo soprano Urszula Krieger in music by Barber, Debussy, Mahler and Gorecki
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
Urszula Kryger (Mezzo Soprano), Kwartesencja Ensemble, Monika Wolinska (director)
String Quartet No. 3 (Op. 67)
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) arranged for orchestra by Koechlin, Charles (1867-1950)
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Franz Paul Decker (conductor)
Violin Concerto in D (Op. 35)
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
Ann Monoyios (soprano); Colin Ainsworth (tenor); Tafelmusik Chamber Choir; Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra; Ivars Taurins (conductor).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring youth groups and music-making on the Musical Map of Britain. With recordings of Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet in A, William Todd's 'The Call of Wisdom' and Stravinsky's 'Tango'.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
The rhapsody has fascinated composers as varied as Liszt and Chabrier, and today Rob Cowan explores how different 19th and 20th century composers have tackled the form. Plus a Mozart symphony, his string quintet K 516 in a famous recording by an ensemble led by Jascha Heifetz, and the week's baroque choral work, Nun danket alle Gott, by J. C. Altnikol.
Private Passions makes its first visit to Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of ideas. Michael Berkeley talks to Chris Mullin, former MP, thriller writer and one of the sharpest political diarists of our age. He's certainly a free thinker: in three volumes of political diaries he's given us a devastating and very funny account of the workings of Westminster, from his vantage point as Labour MP for Sunderland South.
Chris Mullin retired in 2010 after 23 years in Parliament; Michael asks him whether he was too free-thinking to get to the top â€" or perhaps his sense of humour was the problem. But there's more to Chris Mullin than his political career, as this programme reveals. He looks back to perhaps the greatest achievement of his life, when he campaigned successfully for the release of the Birmingham Six in the 1980s - innocent men imprisoned as a result of a miscarriage of justice. He talks too about his friendship with the Dalai Lama and how his travels in the Far East have given him a different perspective, and about finding love and raising a family later in life.
Chris Mullin's musical choices include Handel's 'Messiah', sung by the Parliament Choir; a Chopin Nocturne; Tibetan, Vietnamese and African music and Mozart's C Minor Mass. He also includes music by Northumbrian musician Kathryn Tickell, celebrating his deep love of the North East and the rich life he has lived there.
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October.
Former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Elias Quartet perform Villa-Lobos and Mendelssohn in a concert recorded at the 2010 City of London Festival. The recital took place in the beautiful church of St Sepulchre-Without-Newgate in the heart of the City, a stone's throw from St Paul's.
Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was a prolific writer of quartets, while Felix Mendelssohn's last string quartet was written as a requiem for his dear sister Fanny.
Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No. 1
Lucie Skeaping explores the extensive journals of the English gentleman composer John Marsh, which represent one of the most important musical and social documents of the Eighteenth Century. With the journals' editor Brian Robins.
An archive broadcast from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, first transmitted on September 11th, 1981.
From Sage Gateshead, as part BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas, a line-up of choral groups from the North East recorded earlier today.
Greg Beardsell introduces live performances from local groups Quay Lasses, the Northern Spirit Singers and the North East Youth Chorale. Plus, folksongs from the region are given a choral makeover by the chamber choir of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain in collaboration with local folk musicians.
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October.
In this special edition of Words and Music, recorded in front of an audience at St Marys Heritage Centre, Gateshead as part of this year's Free Thinking Festival, readers Kevin Whately (Inspector Morse, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet) and Madelaine Newton (When the Boat Comes In), read a selection of poetry and prose on the theme of this year's festival: 'Who's In Control?'.
They appear alongside their daughter Kitty Whately, the mezzo-soprano and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the acclaimed Leonore Piano Trio and Kathryn Tickell, the Northumbrian piper and composer whose work is deeply rooted in the folk traditions of the North East.
Words come courtesy of Shakespeare, Dickens and Wordsworth, and musically we'll move from Beethoven to Sondheim, Arne to Mahler.
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October.
The industrial revolution has continuously redefined the relationship between man and machine. Never more so than in 1913, when Henry Ford introduced the first assembly line at his Michigan car plant. Now people had to work at the pace of the conveyor belt and for the rest of the twentieth century, until robots began to replace people, factory work entailed the repetition of a single task, producing boredom and anxiety in the workers, but alongside a huge surge in affordable manufactured goods. The writer and broadcaster AL Kennedy asks whether this moment, the introduction of the assembly line, is when we stopped being fully human? 'Production Line Living' is broadcast as a companion to Radio 3's 2013 Free Thinking festival at Sage Gateshead, which is asking "Who's in Control?".
From Charlie Chaplin's hapless, alienated factory worker in Modern Times to Pink Floyd's hammer-headed teacher in 'The Wall' smashing kids into their allotted moulds, AL Kennedy explores the impact and the idea of the production line. She argues that not only did it create the circumstances for mass consumption but it also enabled a 'unitised' redefinition of humanity, for example through the development of time and motion studies, which influenced everything from education and psychology to body size, living spaces, and even the way in which we express our thoughts and aspirations.
Speaking to factory workers, sociologists and psychologists, AL Kennedy teases out how the production line has impacted on our everyday lives, colouring the ways in which we understand ourselves.
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October.
Marin Alsop conducts the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra in a new work by Clarice Assad alongside Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Mahler's First Symphony.
The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra brings three exciting works to the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, with their chief conductor Marin Alsop. The concert begins with a new work by the Brazilian composer Clarice Assad - Terra Brasilis: a fantasia on the Brazilian national anthem, followed by the lively and emotional Symphonic Dances from Bernstein's "West Side Story". After the interval, Alsop guides the orchestra through Mahler's 1st Symphony the "Titan".
Dave has a pretty good life: his company is thriving, he's got a lovely wife, a big house, kids at private schools. But then he gets a bit careless and things start to go wrong.
Katie Hims is well-known to Radio Four listeners for her many original dramas and adaptations on that network. Most recently she dramatised some of the MARTIN BECK novels (with more to come); and she won an Audio Drama Award in 2012 for her play Lost Property - A Visit From The Queen, to name but two of her many successes. This is Katie's first Drama On 3.
David Matthews' Third and Fifth Symphonies performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
MONDAY 28 OCTOBER 2013
MON 00:30 Through the Night (b03f87mx)
Rising Stars of Classical Music
Episode 1
Catriona Young presents. Rising Stars of Classical Music -Spanish pianist Luis Grané (age 28) A week of programmes featuring young musicians making an impression.
12:31 AM
Albeniz, Isaac [1860-1909]
Five Spanish Pieces
Luis Grané (piano)
1:04 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
En rêve, nocturne, S. 207; Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171
Luis Grané (piano)
1:22 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Three Nocturnes, op. posth;
Luis Grané (piano)
1:34 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Polonaise for piano (Op.53) in A flat major "Eroica"
Luis Grané (piano)
1:42 AM
Albeniz, Isaac [1860-1909]
Granada (Serenade), from 'Suite Española, op. 47'
Luis Grané (piano)
1:47 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Iberia: Images for Orchestra, No. 2
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Märkl (conductor)
2:10 AM
Rodrigo, Joaquín (1901-1999)
Three Spanish Compositions
Goran Listes (guitar)
2:24 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Cordoba ? from Cantos de Espana (Op.232 No.4)
Eolina Quartet
2:31 AM
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.14)
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
2:55 AM
Norman, Ludvig (1831-1885)
String Sextet in A major (Op.18) (1850)
Stockholm String Sextet
3:21 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Symphony in A major Op,10 No.6
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
3:34 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Selected Lyric Pieces
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
3:51 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Choral for organ no.3 in A minor (M.40)
Ljerka Ocic (organ of the Lisinski Concert Hall, Zagreb)
4:04 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Valse Triste ? from Kuolemo (Op.44 No.1)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:09 AM
Mauchaut, Guillaume de (c.1300-1377)
Ballade 32, 'Ploures, dames, ploures vostre servant' ? from Le Veoir Dit
Oxford Camerata , Jeremy Summerly (conductor)
4:18 AM
Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1924)
Guitarre
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)
4:23 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Festive Overture (Op.96)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
4:31 AM
Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835), arr. unknown
Concerto in E flat for oboe
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
4:39 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613)
Mercé, grido piangendo
Ensemble Daedalus , Roberto Festa (director)
4:44 AM
Diamond, David (1915-2005)
Rounds for string orchestra
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:59 AM
Rathaus, Karol (1895-1954)
Prelude and Gigue in A major for orchestra (Op.44)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Joel Stuben (conductor)
5:08 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Trio Sonata in C minor (Op. 2 no. 1)
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori (ensemble)
5:20 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No. 12 in D flat major (Op.72 No.4)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
5:26 AM
Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861)
Violin Concerto No.4 in A major (Op.32)
Albrecht Breuninger (violin), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
5:42 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Piano Trio No.2 in F major, Op.80
Christopher Krenyak (violin), Jan Insinger (cello), Dido Keuning (piano)
6:08 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Jesu, meine Freude ? motet (BWV.227)
Orchestra and Choir of Latvian Radio, Aivars Kalejas (organ), Sigvards Klava (conductor).
MON 06:30 Breakfast (b03f87mz)
Monday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating Lou Reed and featuring recording's of Copland's 'Hoe-down' from Rodeo - 4 Dance Episodes, a brass version of Wagner's Traume, no.5 of Wesendonck-Lieder and Rossini's Overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests or Musical Map suggestions.
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b03f87n1)
Monday - Rob Cowan
Rob's guest this week is the popular stage and screen actress, Penelope Wilton. Currently appearing on our screens as Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey, Penelope is also well known for her role opposite Richard Briers in the popular BBC sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, and her film appearances including Cry Freedom, where she played the South African anti-apartheid activist Wendy Woods, Iris, Calendar Girls, and The History Boys. She has had a prestigious stage career, twice winning the Critics Circle Theatre Award, in 2004 in she was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to drama in recognition for her long and celebrated career.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Paavo Berglund - The Bournemouth Years and at
9.30 our brainteaser: Who's Dancing?
10am
Artist of the Week: Brigitte Fassbaender
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the stage and screen actress, Penelope Wilton. Currently appearing on our screens as Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey, Penelope is also well known for her film appearances including Cry Freedom, where she played the South African anti-apartheid activist Wendy Woods, and The History Boys. In 2004 in she was made OBE for her services to drama.
11am
Beethoven
String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03f87n3)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Haydn in the Early 1760s
Affectionately nicknamed Papa, reverered as the 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet', this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Franz Joseph Haydn through another musical form that the composer made his own, his music for Trio.
Haydn composed music for various combinations of three instruments, including strings with piano, with flute and on their own. He also created over a hundred trios featuring an obscure cello-like intrument, known as the Baryton. Donald Macleod focuses on one trio in each programme, and explores the period in which they were written, journeying with the listener from Haydn's early career in Eisenstadt, onto his celebrated visits to London, and old age in Vienna.
In the first programme, Donald introduces Haydn's String Trio No.18 in E major, written shortly after the composer found work at the court of Esterhazy in Eisenstadt.
Haydn probably composed this trio simply for his own amusment. His new employer, however, had other ideas. Prince Paul Anton Esterhazy was more interested in building a repertoire for the impressive court orchestra. The Prince himself suggested Haydn should compose some symphonies, and the outcome was a set of three depicting the times of the day, including Le Matin, The Morning in D major.
Prince Paul Anton soon died, and in 1762, Haydn had a new employer. Prince Nicholaus, thankfully, was very fond of music and haydn composed his cantata "Destatevi o miei fidi" was composed for the new prince's name day.
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03f87n5)
Wigmore Hall: Alexandre Tharaud
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, French pianst Alexandre Tharaud performs one of Bach's youthful Concertos for solo keyboard, Schubert's intimate Moments Musicaux and Chopin's emotionally wide-ranging Fantaisie in F minor.
Bach: Concerto in D minor BWV 974
Schubert: 6 Moments Musicaux
Chopin: Fantaisie Op 49
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03f87n7)
BBC Philharmonic in Recent Concerts
Episode 1
The BBC Philharmonic plays Schubert, Brahms, Sibelius and HK Gruber's Northwind Pictures.
Based on his deliciously daft fairytale opera, Mr North Wind, HK Gruber's new work includes the stormy entrance of Mr North Wind, dance sequences, the preparation of the feast at the monastery and the battle of the baseball thugs.
Also this week a piece by Sibelius each day and some fascinating new scores from HK Gruber, Kurt Schwertsik, David Matthews and Anthony Payne. And as part of Verdi 200, Thurday's Opera matinée is I due Foscari starring José Carreras.
With Louise Fryer
Haydn Overture, Armida
BBC Philharmonic, Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)
Schubert arr. Detlev Glanert Einsamkeit
Lucy Hall (soprano), BBC Philharmonic, HK Gruber (conductor)
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2.30pm
HK Gruber Northwind Pictures
BBC Philharmonic, HK Gruber (conductor)
c
2.55pm
Brahms Violin Concerto
Baiba Skride (violin)
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor)
c
3.50pm
Sibelius Symphony No 1
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor).
MON 16:30 In Tune (b03f87n9)
Johannes Moser, Michael Collins
Sean Rafferty's guests include young German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser, performing live in the studio ahead of his appearance on Wednesday with the London Philharmonic.
There's more live music from one of Britain's best loved musicians, clarinettist Michael Collins, as he gears up for his lively and fascinating series with the City of London Sinfonia, 'Hot Tunes, Cold War' on the development of jazz and its effect on classical music against the backdrop of the turbulent political events of the mid-20th century.
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
MON 18:00 Opera on 3 (b03f87nc)
Wagner 200: Die Feen
As part of Wagner 200 celebrations, Martin Handley introduces Wagner's rarely heard Opera Die Feen in a recording conducted by Sir Edward Downes, featuring John Mitchinson and April Cantelo.
Arindal ... John Mitchinson (Tenor)
Ada ... April Cantelo (Soprano)
Lora ... Lorna Haywood (Soprano)
Morald ... Tom McDonnell (Baritone)
Gunther ... Richard Greager (Tenor)
Gernot ... Paul Hudson (Bass)
Drolla ... Teresa Cahill (Soprano)
Zermina ... Elizabeth Gale (Soprano)
Farzana ... Della Jones (Mezzo-soprano)
Harald/ Groma/Fairy King ... Don Garrard (Bass)
Messenger ... Jolyon Dodgson (Baritone)
BBC Northern Singers
BBC Northern Orchestra
Edward Downes (Conductor)
Die Feen was Wagner's first completed opera, a 3-act Romantic opera written when Wagner was 20 to his own libretto. The work received its first performance five years after Wagner's death, and wasn't staged in Britain until 1969. The models for Wagner's work were Weber and Marschner with whose work he had become familiar working as chorus master at Wurzburg. The plot involves Ada, half fairy, half mortal, who has fallen in love with Arindal, King of Tramond, and she agrees to marry him on the one condition that he does not ask her identity. Their union is blissfully happy until of course curiosity gets the better of Arindal and he asks who she is, resulting of course in Ada's disappearance. Ada reappears in Act 2 and sets Arindal various tasks, all of which he fails, and he is driven insane. The fairy tale does have a happy ending though, as the Fairy King grants Arindal immortality so he and Ada can live together in fairyland. Martin Handley introduces a recording of the opera from 1974 starring John Mitchinson as Arindal and April Cantelo as Ada, conducted by Sir Edward Downes.
MON 22:00 Free Thinking (b03f87nf)
2013 Festival
Are We at a Tipping Point? Controlling Infection and Combatting Disease
Increasing resistance to antibiotics is a threat to Britain which could be as dangerous as terrorism. That's the argument put by Professor Dame Sally Davies in her Free Thinking lecture at Sage Gateshead. The first woman to hold the post of Chief Medical Officer for England, she also answers audience questions and talks about strategies for combatting infection and improving the nation's health. Joining her on stage for this discussion is Andrew Sails, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of Research and Development and Molecular Diagnostics at Newcastle's Public Health Laboratory, and Professor Hugh Pennnington, Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen.
The event is chaired by Night Waves presenter Anne McElvoy
Recorded at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead and first broadcast in October 2013.
MON 22:45 Free Thinking (b03f87nh)
Free Thinking Essay
Boneless, Bloodaxe and Hairy Breeches: What Did the Vikings Ever Do for Us?
When Lindisfarne monastery was attacked in 793AD the monk Alcuin described the church of St Cuthbert, "splattered with the blood of the priests." New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, from Durham University, takes this moment as the starting point for an exploration of the power battles between Vikings and Anglo Saxons which led to the symbolic battles of 1066.
New Generation Thinkers are the winners of a talent scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds with the potential to turn their ideas into radio broadcasts.
Producer: Philippa Ritchie
First broadcast in October 2013.
MON 23:00 Jazz on 3 (b03f87nk)
Peter Evans's Zebulon Trio
Jez Nelson presents trumpeter Peter Evans's Zebulon Trio, recorded live at Vortex.
The Zebulon trio is named for the Brooklyn venue of the same name, whose owner famously said he was forced to close because 'squares' had moved into the neighbourhood and ruined it for everyone. And there's nothing square about this grouping, that very rare jazz combination of trumpet, bass and drums, courtesy of John Hébert and Kassa Overall. Evans himself is known as an avant-garde player who is equally comfortable playing solo, in electro-acoustic settings, even with chamber orchestras. Watching this trio has been described like "three distinct species of the jazz genus came together to form some all-powerful mutant" (All About Jazz.com).
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producers: Peggy Sutton; Chris Elcombe.
TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2013
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b03f8805)
Rising Stars of Classical Music
Episode 2
Catriona Young presents. Rising Stars of Classical Music - Romanian cellists Laura Buriana and Stefan Cazacu and The Gerhard Quartet from Spain
12:31 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Concerto for cello and orchestra (Op.85) in E minor
Laura Buriana (cello), Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Viktor Ilieff (conductor)
1:00 AM
Popper, David [1843-1913]
Concert Polonaise, op. 14
Stefan Cazacu (cello), Raluca Cimpoi-Iordachi (piano)
1:07 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943]
Vocalise
Stefan Cazacu (cello), Raluca Cimpoi-Iordachi (piano)
1:12 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolay Andreyevich [1844-1908]
Flight of the Bumblebee
Stefan Cazacu (cello), Raluca Cimpoi-Iordachi (piano)
1:14 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Quartet for strings in F major
Gerhard Quartet
1:43 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings in D minor (Wq.22)
Martin Michael Koffer (flute), Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra, Uros Lajovic (conductor)
2:07 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.94 in G major, 'Surprise'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Entremont (conductor)
2:31 AM
Dutsch, Otto (c.1823-1863)
The Croatian Girl: overture
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
2:43 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Sonata no. 2 in G minor Op.117 for cello and piano
Torleif Thedén (cello), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
3:02 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg concerto No.5 (BWV.1050) in D major
Per Flemstrøm (flute), Andrew Manze (violin), Andreas Staier (harpsichord), Risør Festival Strings
3:23 AM
Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673)
Beatus vir (KBPJ.3)
Marta Boberska (soprano), Kai Wessel (countertenor), Grzegorz Zychowicz (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
3:32 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegie (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Aronowitz Ensemble
3:40 AM
Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings (1848-1918) orch. Gordon Jacob
I was glad (Psalm 122)
Vancouver Bach Choir, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Pullan (conductor)
3:45 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Etude in E major (Op.10 No.3)
Jane Coop (piano)
3:50 AM
Müthel, Johann Gottfried (1728-1788)
Polonaise for bassoon, strings and continuo in G major
Musica Alta Ripa
3:54 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme by Haydn (Op.56a)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)
4:14 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in E flat major, Hob.XVI/38
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
4:25 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Gypsy Dance ? from the idyll 'Jawnuta'
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)
4:31 AM
Cavalieri, Emilio de' (1550-1602)
O che nuovo miracolo
Tragicomedia
4:37 AM
Walton, William (1902-1983)
Johannesburg Festival Overture
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton (conductor)
4:45 AM
Gilse, Jan van (1881-1944)
String Quartet (Unfinished, 1922)
Ebony Quartet
4:55 AM
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)
Confitebor tibi Domine
Jill Feldman (soprano), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (harpsichord and director)
5:08 AM
Escosa, John B. (1928-1991)
Three Dances for 2 harps
Julia Shaw and Nora Bumanis (harps)
5:14 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Orpheus S.98
Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik (conductor)
5:26 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) transcr Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Die Forelle (S.564)
Simon Trpceski (piano)
5:30 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Clarinet Quintet in A major (K.581)
Kimball Sykes (clarinet), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Donnie Deacon (violin), Jane Logan (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
6:04 AM
Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921)
La Chanson de l'Hypertrophique
Roberta Alexander (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
6:08 AM
Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921)
Mandoline
Roberta Alexander (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
6:10 AM
Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921)
Clair de Lune
Roberta Alexander (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
6:13 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Concerto for horn and orchestra No.1 in E flat major, (Op.11)
Bostjan Lipovsek (french horn), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b03f884v)
Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Specialist Classical Chart, available to download as a podcast. Plus performances by Polyphony, Alexandre Tharaud, Susan Gritton and Ian Bostridge.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b03f8894)
Tuesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Paavo Berglund - The Bournemouth Years and at
9.30 our brainteaser: Who's Singing?
10am
Artist of the Week: Brigitte Fassbaender
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the stage and screen actress, Penelope Wilton. Currently appearing on our screens as Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey, Penelope is also well known for her film appearances including Cry Freedom, where she played the South African anti-apartheid activist Wendy Woods, and The History Boys. In 2004 in she was made OBE for her services to drama.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Elgar
Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84
John Ogdon (piano)
Allegri Quartet.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03f88bh)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Haydn in the Early 1770s
Affectionately nicknamed Papa, reverered as the 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet', this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Franz Joseph Haydn through another musical form that the composer made his own, his music for Trio.
In the early 1770s, Haydn pushed himself hard, and produced a prodigious array of new music. One of his strangest tasks was to master the favourite instrument of his his employer, Prince Nicholaus, a weird and obscure relative of the cello, known as the Baryton - for which Haydn produced a seemly endless parade of Trio sonatas.
The work came at a price, though, and Haydn's health began to fail. Eventually, things looked so precarious that his brother was summoned from Salzburg. His eventual recovery must have seemed miraculous and, in an act of gratitude for his salvation, Haydn composed his Salve Regina in G minor.
During this period, Haydn increasingly earned his nickname of "Papa", often acting on behalf of the court musicians when disputes erupted. One particularly delicate negotiation with the Prince was eventually resolved by Haydn in a brilliant act of musical diplomacy. His actions ended the squabble and gave the world his Symphony No.45, "Farewell".
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03f89mr)
Welsh Festivals 2013
Beethoven, Shostakovich
Louise Fryer introduces the first of four daily visits to Welsh summer music festivals, beginning with performances from the Gower village of Ilston and Machynlleth's Tabernacle.
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 5 No2
Philip Higham (cello), Robert Thompson (piano)
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57
Carducci String Quartet, Julius Drake (piano).
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03f89ps)
BBC Philharmonic in Recent Concerts
Episode 2
The BBC Philharmonic plays Beethoven, Grieg and Sibelius in recent performances in Notthingham, Hanley and Carlisle and Rudolf Buchbinder joins then on tour in Essen for Brahms's Second Piano Concerto.
With Louise Fryer
at
2.05pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 7
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
at
2.40pm
Grieg: Lyric Suite
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor)
at
3.00pm
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
at
3.50pm
Sibelius: Symphony No 4
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor).
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b03f8b8s)
Cedric Tiberghien, Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, Anthony Biggs, Leonidas Kavakos
Sean Rafferty's guests include pianist Cedric Tiberghien, in London this week for a recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall - he'll perform live in the In Tune studio.
Plus, there's live music from the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet, and director Anthony Biggs drops in to talk about his new production at the Jermyn Street Theatre of David Pinner's play about the meeting of the 'Big Four' - Stalin, Truman, Churchill and Atlee, - at the end of the Second World War, The Potsdam Quartet.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03f88bh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03f8c6m)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - Brahms
The Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, play Brahms.
Live from the Barbican Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Brahms: Symphony No 3
8.00: Interval
8.20
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Long before he got into his symphonic stride, Brahms attempted to confront his Beethoven-shaped demons through the medium of the piano concerto - the first of which he conceived as the most monumental, original and hard-hitting orchestral achievement since Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It took Brahms a long time to get his concerto just right, but when he did, he delivered a piece of staggering emotional breadth and new-found virtuosity that still thrills and surprises a century and a half later - the perfect foil to the impulsive flow, profound darkness and compelling depth of his heart-on-sleeve Third Symphony.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b03f8bqz)
2013 Festival
Science Fiction and Surveillance: Zamyatin's We
Yevgeny Zamyatin's experiences in the Tyne shipyards fed into his dystopian fable "We", which was published in 1919. It depicts a city of glass where citizens are spied upon. Fans of the book have included George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Wolfe and it increasingly resonates with today's concerns about surveillance techniques. Matthew Sweet and an audience at The Free Thinking Festival from Sage Gateshead discuss the novel with poet Sean O'Brien, columnist David Aaronovitch and Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon.
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October
Producer: Zahid Warley.
TUE 22:45 Free Thinking (b03f8c54)
Free Thinking Essay
The Real Game of Thrones: Power in 15th-Century England
A 15th-century English monarch was appointed by God and had absolute supremacy but how was that belief shaken when medieval kings were unfit to rule or the throne was contested? New Generation Thinker Sarah Peverley, from Liverpool University, looks at the way the people viewed their rulers during the Wars of the Roses.
Producer: Fiona McLean
First broadcast in October 2013.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b03f8c56)
Tuesday - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington presents music of many styles and traditions, including British jazz octet Brass Mask, traditional Corsican polyphony, Susanna and Ensemble NeoN, and the Amstel Sax Quartet playing Peteris Vasks.
WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2013
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b03f8807)
Rising Stars of Classical Music
Episode 3
Catriona Young presents Rising Stars of Classical music - Austrian viola da gamba player Romina Lischka and Canadian recorder player Vincent Lauzer.
12:31 AM
Marais, Marin [1656-1728]
Suite in E minor from 'Pieces de viole'
Romina Lischka (viola da gamba), Sofie Vanden Eynde (theorbo)
12:53 AM
Castello, Dario [fl.1621-1629]
Sonata seconda
Vincent Lauzer (recorder), Mark Edwards (harpsichord)
12:59 AM
Sainte-Colombe, Monsieur de [(-1691/1701)] de Visee, Robert [c.1655 - c.1732/3]
Suite in D major
Romina Lischka (viola da gamba), Sofie Vanden Eynde (theorbo)
1:24 AM
Rore, Cipriano de [c.1515-1565]
Diminutions sur 'Anchor che col partire'
Vincent Lauzer (recorder), Mark Edwards (organ).
1:28 AM
Marais, Marin [1656-1728]
Les voix humaines
Romina Lischka (viola da gamba), Sofie Vanden Eynde (theorbo)
1:32 AM
Notari, Angelo [1566-1663]
Canzona Passeggiata
Vincent Lauzer (recorder), Mark Edwards (organ).
1:37 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Symphony no.4 (K.19) in D major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
1:51 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Bolero (Op.19) in A minor
Emil von Sauer (piano)
1:58 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
String Octet (Op.20) in E flat major
Yoshiko Arai and Ik-Hwan Bae (male) (violins), Yuko Inoue (viola), Christoph Richter (cello), Vogler Quartet
2:31 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Konzertstück for 4 horns and orchestra in F major (Op.86)
Kurt Kellan, John Ramsey, William Robson, Laurie Matiation (horns), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
2:50 AM
Cage, John (1912-1992)
Four2 for a cappella choir
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
2:57 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Sonata - 1683 no. 9 in C minor Z.798 for 2 violins and continuo
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
3:04 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
A London Symphony (Symphony no.2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
3:50 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Divertimento in C major (Hob.IV No.1) (London Trio No.1)
Carol Wincenc (flute), Philip Setzer (violin), Carter Brey (cello)
3:59 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849), arr. Paganini, Niccolò (1782-1840)
Nocturne in D major (Op.9 No.2)
Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Marta Gulyas (piano)
4:04 AM
Janácek, Leos (1854-1928)
Suite for Orchestra (Op.3)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
4:18 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
Magnificat in C, ZWV.107
Barbora Sojková (soprano), Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (director)
4:31 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795)
The American Girl
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
4:42 AM
Zemlinsky, Alexander von [1871-1942]
Introduzione - No.1 from 2 Movements for string quartet
Escher Quartet
4:49 AM
Gershwin, George (1898-1937)
An American in Paris
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
5:09 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Chants populaires
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), André Laplante (piano)
5:22 AM
Couperin, François (1668-1733)
La Françoise, Suite from 'Les Nations'
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
5:36 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.29 (K.201) in A major
The Amadeus Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan; Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor)
6:04 AM
Sor, Fernando (1778-1839)
Introduction and variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' for guitar (Op.9)
Ana Vidovic (guitar)
6:13 AM
Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949)
Danzas Fantasticas (Op.22)
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b03f884z)
Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, talking about listener's music teachers. Performances by Andreas Scholl, Piers Lane, Pavel Haas Quartet and Katia & Marielle Labeque. Also music by Piazzolla, Brahms, Dvorak and Handel.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b03f8896)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Paavo Berglund - The Bournemouth Years and at
9.30 our brainteaser: Back to the Beginning.
10am
Artist of the Week: Brigitte Fassbaender
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the stage and screen actress, Penelope Wilton. Currently appearing on our screens as Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey, Penelope is also well known for her film appearances including Cry Freedom, where she played the South African anti-apartheid activist Wendy Woods, and The History Boys. In 2004 in she was made OBE for her services to drama.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Debussy
Violin Sonata
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
István Hajdu (piano)
Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Rob dips into his CD collection and shares a piece - it could be a recent discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just has to be heard. Expect the unexpected!
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03f88bk)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Haydn in the Mid-1780s
Affectionately nicknamed Papa, reverered as the 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet', this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Franz Joseph Haydn through another musical form that the composer made his own, his music for Trio.
In the mid 1780s, Haydn was more and more occupied with music for the stage. His employer, Prince Nicholaus had a passion for opera, and his favourite, performed no less than 54 times at immense cost, was Haydn's Armida, complete with the themes of love, hate, jealousy, revenge, magic and monsters.
Haydn did however find time to compose other works during this productive period, including his Piano Trio in A, and to make the aquaintance of one Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
London audiences had been eager for Haydn to visit England for some time, but it was rumoured that his employer the Prince would not allow him. The London press were soon calling for Haydn to be kidnapped. Haydn's music was equally popular in France, and he received a commission for a set of symphonies, including La reine, The Queen, a work that became popular with Marie Antoinette.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03f89mt)
Welsh Festivals 2013
Britten, Beethoven, Mendelssohn
Louise Fryer introduces performances from this summer's Gower and Machynlleth Festivals, beginning with Benjamin Britten's personal reflections on the virtuosity of his friend and collaborator Mstislav Rostropovich and the Baroque artistry and genius of JS Bach.
Britten: Cello Suite No 2, Op 80
Philip Higham (cello)
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 2 in A major, Op 12 No 2
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata in B flat, Op 45
Philip Higham (cello), Robert Thompson (piano).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03f89pv)
BBC Philharmonic in Recent Concerts
Episode 3
The BBC Philharmonic is joined by Tasmin Little for EJ Moeran's rhapsodic Violin Concerto and HK Gruber conducts a tone poem by Anthony Payne, inspired by a visit to Reykjavik's Science Museum: the sound of grinding tectonic plates are picked up by a seismograph and, as the music spills over like lava, an ash cloud drifts over the world before sinking into silence.
With Louise Fryer
c.
2.10pm
Berlioz: Overture, Roman Carnival
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
Sibelius Incidental Music to Belshazzar
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards (conductor)
c.
2.30pm
Anthony Payne: The period of cosmographie
BBC Philharmonic, HK Gruber (conductor)
c.
2.50pm
Moeran: Violin Concerto
Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Philharmonic, Andrew Davis (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b03f8c81)
Paisley Abbey
From Paisley Abbey
Introit: Give us the wings of faith (Bullock)
Responses: George McPhee
Psalms: 147, 148, 149, 150 (Stanford, Stanford, Murrill, Stanford)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 3 vv6-15
Office Hymn : O Lord of heaven and earth and sea (Es ist kein Tag)
Canticles: Magdalen Service (Leighton)
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 2 vv13-end
Anthem: The Fair Chivalry (Ashfield)
Final Hymn: Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Lasst uns erfreuen)
Organ Voluntary: Improvisation sur le 'Te Deum' (Tournemire, reconstructed Duruflé)
George McPhee (Director of Music)
Joseph Cullen (Organist).
WED 16:30 In Tune (b03f8b8v)
Journeying Boys, Horomona Horo, Castiglione at the Queen's Gallery
Sean Rafferty with live music, guests and the latest arts news.
Maori musician Horomona Horo brings in a selection of Taonga puoro (traditional New Zealand instruments) of which he is master of and talks to Sean about his work preserving the traditional Maori sound.
Pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside drops in with students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to chat about, and perform songs from, his new play celebrating the centenary of composer Benjamin Britten - Journeying Boys.
Plus Sean takes a turn round the new Castiglione exhibition at the Royal Collection at the Queen's Gallery with curator Martin Clayton.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03f88bk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03f8c83)
LPO - Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Schnittke
The LPO and Michail Jurowski play Ligeti's Lontano, Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto and Schnittke's First Symphony. Part of The Rest is Noise - the Southbank's festival of 20th-century music.
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Ligeti: Lontano
Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto
8.15: Interval
8.35
Schnittke: Symphony No. 1
Johannes Moser, cello
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Michail Jurowski, conductor
For Alfred Schnittke, 'incidental' and 'serious' music were one and the same. When he began work on his First Symphony in 1969, he was also scoring the documentary film The World Today. As music for soundtrack and symphony drifted into one another, Schnittke emerged as a unique and vital symphonic voice for the coming multimedia age. Here was a composer who sampled before sampling was invented, and whose moving, emotion-filled and energy-charged symphonies reveal the paradoxes and parallels at the heart of modern life. The First Symphony remains a dramatic, almost supernatural live experience and is heard here alongside Witold Lutoslawski's celebrated Cello Concerto, written for Rostropovich. The concert opens with Ligeti's Lontano, which Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise, from which the Southbank festival takes its name, describes as "a musical shadow play, in which voluptuous acts seem to be taking place behind a heavy scrim".
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b03f8br4)
2013 Festival
Power to the People: What Choices Do We Have?
Social media allows us to make our views known quickly but where does this public pressure and the increasing emphasis on "choice" and "consultation" leave professional expertise and political instinct? Anne McElvoy chairs a panel at the Free Thinking Festival of Ideas, at Sage Gateshead, including the founder of the Renewal campaign David Skelton, the columnist David Aaronovitch and Dame Julie Moore, Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham who sits on the governments NHS Future Forum.
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October. The theme of this year's events is "Who's In Control?"
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
WED 22:45 Free Thinking (b03f8c58)
Free Thinking Essay
False Conception: Female Sexuality in Victorian England
Annie Besant promoted contraceptive advice to the Victorian working classes. In 1877 she was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell, from King's Collge London, outlines Besant's arguments and explores the ensuing debates about respectability and sexual behaviour in 19th-century England.
Producer: Philippa Ritchie
First broadcast in October 2013.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b03f8c5d)
Wednesday - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington explores many avenues through musical styles and traditions, including
Martin Denny, father of 60s Exotica; free improv saxophonists Evan Parker and Joe McPhee; and the sonorous male-voice Rustavi Choir of Georgia.
THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER 2013
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03f8809)
Rising Stars of Classical Music
Episode 4
A first chance to hear the young Swedish Quartet - the Dahlkvist Quartet.
Presented by Catriona Young
12:31 AM
Schubert, Franz [1797-1828]
Quartet in C minor D.703 for strings "Quartettsatz"
12:40 AM
Sallinen, Aulis [b.1935]
Quartet no. 3 Op.19
12:53 AM
Rosenberg, Hilding [1892-1985]
Quartet no. 4 for strings
1:19 AM
Grieg, Edvard [1843-1907]
Quartet in G minor Op.27 for strings
1:54 AM
Szymanowski, Karol [1882-1937]
Quartet no. 2 Op.56 for strings: 2nd movement vivace-scherzando (encore)
Dahlkvist Quartet
1:59 AM
Nenov, Dimitar (1901-1953)
Ballade for Piano and Orchestra
Mario Angelov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
2:19 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Overture from The Wasps
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
2:31 AM
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan [1860-1941]
Concerto for piano and orchestra (Op.17) in A minor
Michal Szymanowski (piano), Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)
3:07 AM
Bernat Vivancos [b.1973]
Nigra sum
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
3:16 AM
atrrib Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Partita in E flat (K.Anh.C 17'1)
The Festival Winds
3:37 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
28 Variations on a theme by Paganini for piano (Op. 35) ]
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
3:51 AM
Jiránek, František [1698-1778]
Concerto for flute, strings and basso continuo in G major
Jana Semerádová (flute and director) Collegium Marianum
4:02 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Song without Words (Op. 109)
Miklós Perényi (cello), Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
4:07 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Cantata: 'Widerstehe doch der Sünde' (BWV.54)
Jadwiga Rappé (alto), Concerto Avenna, Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)
4:18 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Introduction et Air Suèdois (Op.12) for clarinet and Orchestra
Anne-Marja Korimaa (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
4:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Tragic Overture, Op.81
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)
4:45 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano No.4 (Op.54) in E major
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4:57 AM
Byrd, William [c.1540-1623]
Firste Pavian and Galliarde
Andreas Borregaard (accordion)
5:02 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Song 'See, see, even Night herself is here' (Z.62/11) - from The Fairy Queen, Act II Scene 3
Nancy Argenta (soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (guest conductor)
5:08 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Quintet for piano and strings (Op.44) in E flat major
Ingrid Fliter (piano); Ebène Quartet
5:39 AM
Kodály, Zoltán [1882-1967]
To Ferenc Liszt
Hungarian Radio & Television Choir, János Ferencsik (conductor)
5:47 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Orjan poika (The Son of the Slave) - symphonic legend (Op.14) (1910)
Suomen Laula Choir, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jussi Jalas (conductor)
6:13 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Ich ging mit lust durch einen grünen Wald (I walked with joy through a green forest) (no.7 from Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit)
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
6:17 AM
Castello, Dario (first half of c.17th)
Sonata IV, for 2 violins and continuo
Il Giardino Armonico
6:26 AM
Satie, Erik [1866-1925]
Gnossienne No.1
Andreas Borregaard (accordion).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03f8851)
Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring performances by the Belcea Quartet, Gabrieli Consort, Stephen Hough and Rosemary Joshua. Also works by Weber, Suppe, MacDowell and Mozart.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03f8898)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Paavo Berglund - The Bournemouth Years and at
9.30 our brainteaser: Who am I?
10am
Artist of the Week: Brigitte Fassbaender
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the stage and screen actress, Penelope Wilton. Currently appearing on our screens as Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey, Penelope is also well known for her film appearances including Cry Freedom, where she played the South African anti-apartheid activist Wendy Woods, and The History Boys. In 2004 in she was made OBE for her services to drama.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Schubert
String Quartet in G, D887
Belcea Quartet.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03f88bm)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Haydn in the Mid-1790s
Affectionately nicknamed Papa, reverered as the 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet', this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Franz Joseph Haydn through another musical form that the composer made his own, his music for Trio.
Haydn made two visits to England. By the time of his second visit, the public were clamouring to attend his concerts. During the 1794 Haydn conducted a work that proved to be his most popular composition of that season. Britain was at war with France, and his Military Symphony had the audience shouting "Encore! Encore!"
After the 1794 concert season, Haydn made some tours of England, including Bristol, Bath and Portsmouth. On one such trip away from London, Haydn accompanied the Earl of Abingdon to the estate of Baron Aston. Haydn dedicated to his hosts a set of Trios, including the Trio in C for two flutes and cello.
Haydn's 1795 concert season started with quite a surprise. A chandelier in the concert hall fell from the ceiling. Undeterred, Haydn went on to give the premiere of his Symphony No.104, called "The London", which earned Haydn the huge sum of 4,000 gulden. The composer noted, that "such a thing is only possible in England".
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03f89my)
Welsh Festivals 2013
Haydn, Beethoven
Louise Fryer introduces more performances from the Machynlleth festival, beginning with a Haydn quartet whose galloping finale gave the work its 'Rider' nickname.
Haydn: String Quartet in G minor 'The Rider', Op 74 No 3
Carducci String Quartet
Beethoven: 'Kreutzer' Sonata in A major, Op 47
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03f89px)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Verdi 200: I due Foscari
Verdi 200: I due Foscari
The year is 1457 and the setting Venice. The octogenarian Doge, Francesco Foscari and the senators of the Council of Ten are to pass judgement on the Doge's own son, Jacopo Foscari. He has been accused of the murder some years earlier of a member of a rival family. Jacopo Foscari's wife, Lucrezia begs the Doge to protect his son from the vindictiveness of his accuser, Jacopo Loredano, but the Doge is powerless: the will of the Republic must prevail. Jacopo Foscari dies as he is carried into exile, too soon to learn of a deathbed confession from the real murderer. Despite this confession, the aged Doge himself is deposed by the Council of Ten led by the treacherous Jacopo Loredano, who writes in his ledger: 'The Foscari have paid me.'
Verdi found inspiration in Byron's exploration of Venice's harsh, secretive underbelly in his play, The Two Foscari, which he described as: "A fine subject, delicate and full of pathos.' In place of the grand choruses of Nabucco and Ernani, which preceded it, Verdi's I due Foscari of 1844 takes on a much more intimate tone: rarely has the Venetian barcarolle been infused with such dark undercurrents.
Presented by Louise Fryer
Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice ..... Piero Cappuccilli (baritone),
Jacopo Foscari, his son ..... José Carreras (tenor),
Lucrezia Contarini, Jacopo Foscari's wife ..... Katia Ricciarelli (soprano),
Jacopo Loredano, Member of the Council of Ten ..... Samuel Ramey (bass),
Barbarigo, a Senator ..... Vincenzo Bello (tenor),
Pisana, Friend and confidant of Lucrezia ..... Elizabeth Connell (mezzo-soprano),
Fante, Officer of the Council of Ten ..... Mieczyslaw Antoniak (tenor),
Servo, Servant of the Doge ..... Franz Handlos (bass)
Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Austrian Radio Chorus,
Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
approx
3.55pm
That's followed by a recent performance of a twenty-minute BBC Commission written in 2009 in which Kurt Schwertsik pays hommage to the ghosts of Vienna. As one critic wrote after the first performance:"An accordion spices a bittersweet Viennese waltz, a toy march hovers between West and East Europe and the final fugue is touched by a frisson of Mahler's First Symphony."
Kurt Schwertsik: Nachtmusiken
BBC Philharmonic, HK Gruber (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03f8b8x)
Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita, Simon McBurney, London International Players, Richard Alston
Sean Rafferty's guests include harp-playing sensation Catrin Finch - she'll be playing live in the studio with kora player Seckou Keita.
Plus, Sean talks to choreographer Richard Alston about his new dance productions with the Britten Sinfonia to the music of Benjamin Britten at the Barbican.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03f88bm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03f8cf7)
Philharmonia - Prokofiev, Rachmaninov
Yuri Temirkanov conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, in a concert to mark the conductor's 75th birthday.
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London. Introduced by Ian Skelly.
Prokofiev: Symphony no.1, 'Classical'
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no.2
8.15: INTERVAL
8.35: part 2
Rachmaninov: Symphony no.2
Vilde Frang (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
Yuri Temirkanov celebrates his 75th birthday slightly early (the date is in December) with this programme of two Russians who have always been close to his musical soul. This year he also celebrates 25 years as Chief Conductor of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, a post he accepted in 1988, when tonight's soloist was only two years old. Vilde Frang was born in Norway, and she has already established a strong reputation for an approach described as 'unique, effortless and natural'.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b03f8brn)
2013 Festival
How on Earth Can We Cope with Less?
In a world of diminishing natural resources, global economic crisis and constant pressure on time, how does not having enough shape the way we think and act? Professors Sendhil Mullainathan from Harvard, Simin Davoudi from Newcastle and Jeremy Till from Central St Martins discuss scarcity and sustainability with Philip Dodd and an audience at Sage Gateshead.
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October
Producer: Zahid Warley.
THU 22:45 Free Thinking (b03f8c5t)
Free Thinking Essay
Breeding the Mongrel: Language Wars in Early Modern England
Defenders of traditional English language and grammar often present themselves as purists but New Generation Thinker John Gallagher, from Cambridge University, argues that we have always borrowed words and adapted phrases. His essay outlines the impact C16th and C17th global exploration and trade had on our native tongue.
Producer: Neil Trevithick
First broadcast in October 2013.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03f8c5w)
Thursday - Fiona Talkington
Listen, if you dare, to Fiona Talkington's Hallowe'en selection, including spooky sounds from Tom Waits, Jocelyn Pook and Hal Willner.
FRIDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2013
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03f880c)
Rising Stars of Classical Music
Episode 5
Czech pianists Jan Simandl and Marie-Anna Bukacová perform Janácek, Prokofiev and Grieg's iconic Piano Concerto as part of the Rising Star season. Presented by Catriona Young
12:31 AM
Janacek, Leos [1854-1928]
In the mists - 4 pieces for piano
Jan Simandl (piano)
12:45 AM
Prokofiev, Sergei [1891-1953]
Sonata no. 7 in B flat major Op.83 for piano
Jan Simandl (piano)
1:04 AM
Liszt, Franz [1811-1886]
Fantasia and fugue on the theme BACH S.529 for piano
Jan Simandl (piano)
1:17 AM
Grieg, Edvard [1843-1907]
Concerto in A minor Op.16 for piano and orchestra
Marie-Anna Bukacová (piano) North Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Olivieri-Munroe (conductor)
1:46 AM
Reger, Max (1873-1916)
Motet: 'Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht' (Op.110 No.2)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
2:04 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
String Quintet No.2 in G major (Op.111)
Bartók Quartet with László Barsony (viola)
2:31 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Le Carnaval Romain, op 9
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
2:40 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Suite italienne for violin and piano
Alena Baeva (violin), Giuzai Karieva (piano)
2:58 AM
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762)
Concerto Grosso No.12 in D minor, 'La folia' (after Corelli's Sonata Op.5 No.12)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
3:09 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli (Op.42)
Duncan Gifford (piano)
3:29 AM
Vedel, Artemy (1767-1808)
Oh God, my hope is only in you
Dumka Academic Cappella, Evgeny Savchuk (director)
3:39 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No. 31 (K.297) in D major 'Paris'
Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Adám Fischer (conductor)
3:56 AM
Marais, Marin (1656-1728)
La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris
Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor)
4:05 AM
Duparc, Henri (1848-1933)
La Vague et la cloche
Gerald Finley (baritone), Stephen Ralls (piano)
4:11 AM
Williams, Grace (1906-1977)
Sea Sketches
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
4:31 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
V prirode (Op.91)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
4:46 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
5 Flower Songs
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
4:57 AM
Guastavino, Carlos (1912-2000)
The Rose and the Willow
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), James Parker (piano), Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cellos)
5:00 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Rosenkavalier - Grand Suite
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Franz-Paul Decker (conductor)
5:23 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
3 Airs from Vauxhall Gardens, arranged by Steele-Perkins for trumpet and orchestra
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
5:34 AM
Frumerie, Gunnar de (1908-1987)
Pastoral Suite (Op.13b)
Kathleen Rudolph (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:48 AM
Gossec, François-Joseph (1734-1829)
Symphony in D major (Op.5 No.3) 'Pastorella'
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
6:04 AM
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960)
A boat with flowers (Op.44)
Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
6:14 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for violin and orchestra in E major (RV.269) (Op.8 No.1), ' Primavera'
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
6:24 AM
Medins, Janis (1890-1966)
Flower Waltz - from the ballet 'Victory of Love'
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03f8853)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with Alban Gerhardt, Arthur Butterworth, the Kungsbacka Trio and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Including works by Halvorsen, Farkas, Bernstein and Strauss.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests and Musical Map suggestions.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03f889b)
Friday - Rob Cowan
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Paavo Berglund - The Bournemouth Years and at
9.30 our brainteaser: Only Connect.
10am
Artist of the Week: Brigitte Fassbaender
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the stage and screen actress, Penelope Wilton. Currently appearing on our screens as Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey, Penelope is also well known for her film appearances including Cry Freedom, where she played the South African anti-apartheid activist Wendy Woods, and The History Boys. In 2004 in she was made OBE for her services to drama.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Brahms
String Quintet No.2 in G, Op.111
Hagen Quartet
with Gérard Caussé (viola).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03f88bp)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Haydn in the Late 1790s
Affectionately nicknamed Papa, reverered as the 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet', this week Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Franz Joseph Haydn through another musical form that the composer made his own, his music for Trio.
Haydn continued to produce trios into his old age, including his Piano Trio No.29 in E flat, which seems in the fast-paced finale, to perhaps anticipate the music of Beethoven.
The mid to late 1790s saw Haydn return from London to his new employer, Prince Nicholaus II, who was distinctly unmusical. Princess Marie Hermengild was often required to smooth over disagreements between the Prince and the aging composer. Haydn was still required to provide works on a regular basis for the Prince. One was his 'Mass for times of distress', later known as the Nelson Mass, although Haydn only met Lord Nelson some time after this work was composed.
Haydn also found himself collaborating with a member of the Vienna Court Orchestra, Anton Weidinger, writing music for a newly developed kind of orchestral instrument. The outcome was a work that has become one of the composer's most popular concertos, the Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E flat.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03f89n4)
Welsh Festivals 2013
Haydn, Beethoven
Louise Fryer with more from this year's festival and two performances from Machynlleth's Tabernacle, ending with the deep-rooted passions of Mendelssohn's last major work, saturated with the composer's anguish after the loss of his cherished sister.
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 6 in A, Op 30 No 1
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor, Op 80
Carducci String Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03f89pz)
BBC Philharmonic in Recent Concerts
Episode 4
The BBC Philharmonic in an afternoon which includes John Foulds's Keltic Suite of 1914, with its once-popular middle movement 'Lament,' and Nielsen's final symphony. There's also the chance to hear a performance of a the symphony that David Matthews wrote to a BBC commission for the BBC Philharmonic's 2010-11 Mahler Festival.
With Louise Fryer
Sibelius: The Bard
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor)
Casella: Le couvent sur l'eau, symphonic fragments
Gillian Keith (soprano), BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
c
2.30pm
David Matthews: Symphony No 7
BBC Philharmonic, HK Gruber (conductor)
c.
2.55pm
Foulds: Keltic Suite
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor)
c.
3.10pm
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
Guy Braunstein (violin),
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor)
c.
3.50pm
Nielsen: Symphony No 6 "Sinfonia semplice"
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03f8b8z)
Xuefei Yang, Olli Mustonen, Elena Riu
Performing live in the studio, Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen ahead of his Barbican concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo. Acclaimed guitarist Xuefei Yang plays music by Schubert and Malats, marking the release of her new recording and recital at Wigmore Hall. Plus we have more live music from Venezuelan born pianist Elena Riu as she looks ahead to the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival.
Presented by Sean Rafferty
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03f88bp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03f8ck2)
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
BBC Philharmonic - Howard, Grieg, Mendelssohn (part 1)
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Juanjo Mena, performs Emily Howard's 'Axon' (world premiere), Grieg's Piano Concerto with Nobuyuki Tsujii and Mendelssohn's Symphony No 3.
Live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Martin Handley
Emily Howard: 'Axon' (BBC Radio 3 commission, world première)
Grieg: Piano Concerto
8.25 Interval: 'Discovering Music' on Mendelssohn's Symphony No 3
8.45
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)
Nobuyuki Tsujii was touring Japan with the BBC Philharmonic in 2011 when the earthquake struck, and he has formed a special bond with the orchestra since then, with sold-out performances in a return tour to Japan, and at this year's Proms. Tonight he plays Grieg's ever-popular Piano Concerto before Juanjo Mena and the orchestra summon the mists and myths of Mendelssohn's atmospheric 'Scottish' Symphony. And we journey down the 'Mancunian Way', the theme of the BBC Philharmonic's season at The Bridgewater Hall, with a world premiere by RNCM and Manchester University graduate Emily Howard.
FRI 20:10 Discovering Music (b03f8ck4)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 'Scottish'
It was during a walking tour of Scotland in 1829 that the 20 year old Felix Mendelssohn visited the Palace of Holyrood. There, while walking among the ruins of Queen Mary's home, he began to form the first ideas for his Third Symphony. However, the gestation period turned out to be lengthy. By the time Mendelssohn completed the work in 1842, his holiday 13 years earlier was a distant memory. Stephen Johnson examines the symphony's relationship to its nickname, the "Scottish".
FRI 20:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03f8ck6)
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
BBC Philharmonic - Howard, Grieg, Mendelssohn (part 2)
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Juanjo Mena, performs Emily Howard's 'Axon' (world premiere), Grieg's Piano Concerto with Nobuyuki Tsujii and Mendelssohn's Symphony No 3.
Live from The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Martin Handley
Emily Howard: 'Axon' (BBC Radio 3 commission, world première)
Grieg: Piano Concerto
8.25 Interval: 'Discovering Music' on Mendelssohn's Symphony No 3
8.45
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)
Nobuyuki Tsujii was touring Japan with the BBC Philharmonic in 2011 when the earthquake struck, and he has formed a special bond with the orchestra since then, with sold-out performances in a return tour to Japan, and at this year's Proms. Tonight he plays Grieg's ever-popular Piano Concerto before Juanjo Mena and the orchestra summon the mists and myths of Mendelssohn's atmospheric 'Scottish' Symphony. And we journey down the 'Mancunian Way', the theme of the BBC Philharmonic's season at The Bridgewater Hall, with a world premiere by RNCM and Manchester University graduate Emily Howard.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03f8bsh)
Letting Go Is Good for You
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the word' from the Free Thinking Festival. The theme is 'Letting go is good for you!'. His guests include Daljit Nagra, Kate Fox, Nadine Shah, Michael Smith and Maxy Neil Bianco.
BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival takes place at Sage Gateshead 25-27 October and is broadcast for three weeks on Radio 3 from Friday 25 October.
FRI 22:45 Free Thinking (b03f8c5y)
Free Thinking Essay
In Search of Ecstasy
The audience at a rock concert adoring the star; a Pentecostalist congregation praising God; an athlete reaching the pitch of performance known as "the zone" - these can all be described as feelings of "ecstasy". Jules Evans, from Queen Mary, University of London, examines rationalist arguments about elation being a form of madness and asks whether it is beneficial or dangerous to feel ecstatic.
Producer: Zahid Warley
First broadcast in November 2013.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03f8c60)
Capercaillie in Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus a studio session with Scottish folk pioneers Capercaille.
Capercaillie celebrate their 30th anniversary this year, releasing their first album for five years. As much as any other band, they revitalised Scottish music, presenting traditional songs and tunes in a way that is thoroughly up to date, yet still respecting the original spirit, and also writing new songs in a contemporary Scottish folk style. In their new album they return to the ancient repertoire of Hebridean songs.
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 (b03f87n7)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b03f89ps)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b03f89pv)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b03f89px)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b03f89pz)
BBC Performing Groups
23:30 SUN (b03f86kb)
Between the Ears
22:00 SAT (b03f5zyq)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b03f5z6c)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b03f6156)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b03f87mz)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b03f884v)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b03f884z)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b03f8851)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b03f8853)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b03f5z6f)
Choir and Organ
16:00 SUN (b03f86k2)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b03d81fn)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b03f8c81)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b03f87n3)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b03f88bh)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b03f88bh)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b03f88bk)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b03f88bk)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b03f88bm)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b03f88bm)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b03f88bp)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b03f88bp)
Discovering Music
20:10 FRI (b03f8ck4)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b01qwgvq)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b03f87n1)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b03f8894)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b03f8896)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b03f8898)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b03f889b)
Free Thinking
22:00 MON (b03f87nf)
Free Thinking
22:45 MON (b03f87nh)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b03f8bqz)
Free Thinking
22:45 TUE (b03f8c54)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b03f8br4)
Free Thinking
22:45 WED (b03f8c58)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b03f8brn)
Free Thinking
22:45 THU (b03f8c5t)
Free Thinking
22:45 FRI (b03f8c5y)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b03f60zs)
Hear and Now
22:30 SAT (b03f5zys)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b03f87n9)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b03f8b8s)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b03f8b8v)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b03f8b8x)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b03f8b8z)
Jazz Line-Up
18:00 SAT (b03f5zyl)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b03f5zyj)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b03f87nk)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b03f8c56)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b03f8c5d)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b03f8c5w)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b03f5z6h)
Opera on 3
18:00 MON (b03f87nc)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b03f668x)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SAT (b03f5zyn)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SUN (b03f86k8)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b03f8c6m)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b03f8c83)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b03f8cf7)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b03f8ck2)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:30 FRI (b03f8ck6)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b03d7w4v)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b00swk34)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b03f87n5)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b03f89mr)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b03f89mt)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b03f89my)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b03f89n4)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b03f5z6k)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b03f5zyg)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (b03f86k6)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b03f65l1)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b03f861w)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b03f8bsh)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b03d840y)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b03f60zv)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b03f87mx)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b03f8805)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b03f8807)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b03f8809)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b03f880c)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (b03f86k4)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b03f8c60)