Ravel, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Schumann from Vienna's Altenberg Trio from Warsaw. Plus Sammartini's Sinfonia in F in Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante. Presented by John Shea.
Andantino from Six studies in canonic form (Six studies for pedal piano) arr. piano trio (Op.56, No.3)
Adagio from Six studies in canonic form (Six studies for pedal piano) arr. piano trio (Op.56 No.6)
St Paul's Suite (arr. Walsh for guitar quartet)
Guitar Trek: Timothy Kain, Fiona Walsh, (treble guitars), Richard Strasser (standard guitar), Peter Constant (baritone guitar)
Symphony No.4 (Op. 36) in F minor
Marita Kvarving Sølberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)
Judita Leitaite (mezzo-soprano), Arunas Statkus (viola), Andrius Vasiliauskas (piano)
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach - Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Book II, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), APARTÉ AP070. We also have our daily brainteaser at
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.
Symphony No. 6 ('Sinfonia semplice')
Donald Macleod traces the course of Mahler's career as he takes up the most prestigious post in music, Director of the Vienna Court Opera.
Gustav Mahler rose from humble beginnings on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to become one of the most powerful figures in the musical establishment. Nowadays his symphonies are almost guaranteed to fill concert halls, but during his lifetime Mahler made his name as a conductor.
Mahler had landed the most important job of his life, but his conducting duties in Vienna often prevented him from composing. Yet during the summer, in his woodland composing hut on the banks of Lake Attersee in Upper Austria, he would write some of his most enduring symphonies.
Penny Gore introduces a piano recital from the Guildhall in Bath given by Norwegian pianist, Christian Ihle Hadland, one of Radio 3's recent New Generations Artists.
His programme includes the extraordinary emotional intensity of Schubert's first set of impromptus, whose powerful impact belie their improvisatory styling, and pure Russian romance from Rachmaninov's younger contemporary, Medtner.
Penny Gore presents a week of highlights from recent performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The tragic death of two young women is the backdrop to two masterpieces of the twentieth century. Berg's lyrical concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel," is followed by Franz Schmidt's requiem for his own beloved daughter.
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Sean Rafferty presents live music, interviews and news from the arts world, including live performances from pianist Yuja Wang and from the Quartetto di Cremona.
Charles Dutoit conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Poulenc's Gloria and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé.
Charles Dutoit, Principal Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is renowned for his interpretations of 20th-century music. Tonight's concert offers an opportunity to hear him guide the RPO through Ravel's complete ballet Daphnis et Chloé -
an evocative, sensual masterpiece, full of precisely articulated colours and seductive sonorities.
Also performed is Poulenc's Gloria - one of his finest works, brimming with rich harmony, sinuous melodies and rhythmic verve.
Dutoit and the RPO are joined by the Philharmonia Chorus and soprano Nicole Cabell for this programme of glorious French music.
Two piano works inspired by Watteau's painting L'embarquement pour Cythère: amorous couples are beckoned toward the water by Cupid; boatmen wait there to take the couples to Cythère, the isle of Love.
Nietzsche declared that 'God is dead' in 1882, but he also argued that there would still be places where humankind would look for God's shadow for a long time to come.
Two books published this month include the idea of "the death of God" in their titles: Terry Eagleton's 'Culture And The Death Of God' and Peter Watson's 'The Age Of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God'.
Both authors join Philip Dodd to discuss what 'the death of God' could mean, along with theologian ELaine Storkey and Roger Scruton, whose forthcoming book 'The Soul Of The World' discusses how we can make sense of ideas of 'the sacred' in the modern world.
Radio 3's twenty-part essay series on the Islamic Golden Age continues its exploration through this five-hundred-year period of empire, innovation, religious turmoil, scientific discovery and major advances in philosophical thought. In this evening's essay, Dr. Amira Bennison examines the creation of two great cities of learning - Baghdad and Cairo.
The medieval Middle East is the stuff of fantasy, from the windswept deserts of Arabia to the bustling bazaars of cities like Baghdad and Cairo. But what were these cities actually like? And what part did they play in creating great men (and sometimes women) of letters, science and art? Cities figured in the Muslim imagination as hubs of religion, government, commerce and culture. Medieval Muslim geographers often conceptualised their world as one of routes linking an endless series of towns and cities like stars glittering in the firmament. Although some of these cities like Jerusalem or Damascus were already ancient when the Muslims arrived in the 7th century, others, Baghdad and Cairo included, were new Muslim creations - brash, vibrant and dense with talent, the New Yorks of their age.
Nick Luscombe's playlist features New Age sounds from Iasos, Techno from Jeff Mills's 2000 soundtrack to Metropolis, plus Psychedelia from Flash and the Dynamics and Kevin Coyne and Tenebrae singing Responsories by Tomas Luis de Victoria.
THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b03thdx1)
BBC Proms 2013: Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Jarvi. Britten's Violin Concerto with Janine Jansen and an epic Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony with Thierry Escaich. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Part, Arvo [1935-]
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
12:38 AM
Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976]
Violin Concerto (Op 15)
Janine Jansen (violin), Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
1:11 AM
Berlioz, Hector [1803-1869]
Le Corsaire - Overture (Op.21)
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
1:20 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille [1835-1921]
Symphony No.3 in C minor (Op.78) "Organ Symphony"
Thierry Escaich (organ), Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
1:57 AM
Bizet, Georges [1838-1875]
Le Bal (Galop) from Jeux d'enfants (Petite Suite)
Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
1:59 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869), text: Gautier, Théophile (1811-1872)
Les Nuits d'été (Op.7) (Six songs on poems by Théophile Gautier)
Randi Steene (mezzo), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Bernhard Gueller (conductor)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Piano Trio in B flat (Op.97) "Archduke"
Beaux Arts Trio
3:13 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), arr. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Wandererfantasie transcribed from the piano solo for piano and orchestra (S.366)
Anton Dikov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alipy Naidenov
3:36 AM
Sheppard, John [c.1515-1558], Dove, Jonathan [b.1959]
In manus tuas (Sheppard) & Into Thy Hands (Dove)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
3:47 AM
Mortelmans, Lodewijk (1868-1952)
Solemn Procession to Gethsemane (Part II of Evangelical Diptych (1893-97 orchestrated in 1933)
Vlaams Radio Orkest (Flemish Radio Orchestra), Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)
3:52 AM
Smetana, Bedrich [1824-1884]
Vltava from Ma Vlast
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Foremny (conductor)
4:04 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Waltz for piano (Op.18) in E flat major 'Grande valse brillante'
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
4:10 AM
Leclair, Jean-Marie (1697-1764)
Badinage & Chaconne from Deuxième Récréation de musique d'une exécution facile (for 2 flutes/violins and continuo, Op.8)
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:19 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Music to a Scene (1904)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
4:26 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
Waltz for piano (Op.42) in A flat major
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
4:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt - Overture (Op.27)
Orchestre National de France, Riccardo Muti (conductor)
4:44 AM
Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762)
Concerto grosso (Op.3'6) in E minor
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (conductor)
4:53 AM
Traditional (19th century) arr. Narciso Yepes (1927-1997
Romanza for guitar
Stepan Rak (guitar)
5:00 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No. 31 (K.297) in D major 'Paris'
Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Adám Fischer (conductor)
5:17 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Petites voix
Maîtrise de Radio France, Denis Dupays (director)
5:24 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 (Op.19) in B flat major
Maria João Pires (fortepiano - 1st movement), Martha Argerich (fortepiano 2nd & 3rd Movements), Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Brüggen (conductor)
5:54 AM
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787)
Ballet music: 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits' - from 'Orphée et Euridice'
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
6:01 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for 2 violins in D minor (BWV.1043)
Espen Lilleslatten & Renata Arado (violins), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor)
6:18 AM
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969)
Serenade for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
6:22 AM
Dohnányi, Ernõ (1877-1960)
Aria for flute and piano (Op 48 No 1) (1958)
Daniela Koch (flute), Oliver Triendl (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b03thdxv)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b03thdyw)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with James May
Sarah Walker's guest this week is writer and television presenter James May.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach - Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Book II, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), APARTÉ AP070. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Alfred Brendel.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Dvorák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95
Vienna Philharmonic
István Kertész (conductor)
DECCA.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03thfl4)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
The Arrival of Alma
Donald Macleod examines the influence on Mahler's music, for good and ill, of his wife Alma.
Gustav Mahler rose from humble beginnings on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to become one of the most powerful figures in the musical establishment. Nowadays his symphonies are almost guaranteed to fill concert halls, but during his lifetime Mahler made his name as a conductor.
Alma Schindler, known at the time as "the most beautiful woman in Austria", entered Mahler's life around the turn of the 20th century. She initially found the composer abrupt and dogmatic, but their relationship sparked into life very quickly and they were engaged within three weeks, despite Mahler's reluctance about the age difference between them. Their relationship would determine the course of the rest of Mahler's life.
Symphony No 6 in A minor (2nd mvt) (Scherzo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra conduc ted by Klaus Tennstedt
Der Einsame im Herbst; Von der Jugend; Von der Schönheit (Das Lied von der Erde)
Violeta Urmana, mezzo-soprano
Michael Schade, tenor
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez
Symphony No 7 (5th mvt)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly
Producer: Callum Thomson.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03thg5z)
Bath International Music Festival 2014
Episode 3
Enchanting folk tunes from Scandinavia partner Debussy's ravishing String Quartet and the taut psychological drama of Janácek in his reinterpretation of a Tolstoy novella, performed by Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Danish String Quartet. Recorded at Bath's Guildhall and introduced by Penny Gore.
Trad Folk Music:
I Aerlige Brudefolk (trad. Faroe Islands)
Første Brudestykke (trad. Fanø - Denmark)
Andet Brudestykke (trad. Fanø - Denmark)
Ploska (Mikael Marin - Sweden)
Janácek: String Quartet No.1, "Kreutzer Sonata"
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op.10
The Danish String Quartet.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03thg61)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Arthur Sullivan - The Beauty Stone
Sullivan: The Beauty stone - operetta
The Beauty Stone, an "original romantic musical drama in three acts", was premiered at the Savoy theatre in 1898 but has waited until now for its first professional recording. Set in the fifteenth century, the mixture of magic and medieval chivalry, Sullivan's hoped to create a work halfway between the romantic flights of his grand opera Ivanhoe and the wit of his earlier Savoy operas. Sullivan's lengthy grand-operatic musical numbers and his serious exploration proved too much for his Savoy audiences used to the ready wit of the Gibert and Sullivan operas and the work closed after just fifty performances. But the Beauty Stone contains some of Arthur Sullivan's finest music as his characters react to the beauty stone with a mixture of yearning, despair and love.
The opera is set in the Flemish town of Mirlemont at the beginning of the 15th century and the plot is one part Faustian saga, one part Brothers Grimm fairy tale. A young girl, Liane, has a beautiful soul, but is not pretty, and dreams of marrying a Prince. The Devil gives her the Beauty Stone, which is passed around the whole cast, with many confusions resulting. There is a beauty contest, and the prince realises the beauty of Liane's soul and marries her.
Presented by Penny Gore.
Philip, Lord of Mirlemont ..... Toby Spence (tenor)
Guntran of Beaugrant ..... David Stout (bass)
Simon Limal ..... Stephen Gadd (baritone)
Nicholas Dircks ..... Richard Suart (baritone)
The Devil ..... Alan Opie (baritone)
Laine ..... Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Joan ..... Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
Jacqueline ..... Madeleine Shaw (mezzo-soprano)
Saida ..... Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Loyse ..... Olivia Gomez (soprano)
Isabeau ..... Sarah Maxted (mezzo-soprano)
Barbe ..... Llio Evans (soprano)
also featuring Peppin, a dwarf, Baldwyn of Ath
The Lords of Serault, Velaines, and St Sauveur, a Seneschal, a Lad of the Town, a Shrewish Girl, a Matron, Knights, Dames, Pages, Aldermen, Soldiers, Townsfolk, Country-folk, Dancers, Lute-players, Serving-men, and the rest
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rory Macdonald (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b03thgg1)
Jose Serebrier, Leon McCawley, The Cardinall's Musick, Howard Goodall
Today's guests include the celebrated conductor Jose Serebrier, plus vocal ensemble the Cardinall's Musick and pianist Leon McCawley playing live in the studio.
Tweet us @BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03thfl4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03thgls)
BBC SSO - Stravinsky, Schubert, Berlioz
The BBC SSO and Artist in Association, Matthias Pintscher, perform Stravinsky, Schubert and Berlioz.
Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol
Schubert: Symphony No.8 'Unfinished'
20.25
Music Interval
20.45
Berlioz: Harold In Italy
Antoine Tamestit, viola
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with their Artist in Association, Matthias Pintscher, perform the music of dreamers and wanderers. In the first half: Stravinsky's "Chant Du Rossignol" or "Song of the Nightingale", in which the bird flies and dances high, but is then replaced by a mechanical bird which brings illness. However, the real nightingale then returns and brings salvation from death before finally returning to nature.
Schubert's 8th Symphony - one of the first romantic symphonies, wanders off with Schubert's imagination and remains an unfinished work to this day.
In the second half, the BBC SSO is joined by the great French viola virtuoso Antoine Tamestit, to perform Berlioz's masterpiece "Harold in Italy". Commissioned as a piece to show off Paganini's new Stradivarius viola, it is inspired by Lord Byron's poem, 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' describing the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who looks for distraction in foreign lands. The piece perhaps mirrors Berlioz's own wanderings in Italy which he clearly loved.
Live from the City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b03thgr4)
Jane Eyre versus Anne of Green Gables, Parent Power, Georg Baselitz, Flooding in Literature
Ed Miliband's speech earlier this week said parents should have more power to oust head teachers. The outgoing Ofsted chair Baroness Sally Morgan and Tim Montgomerie, Editor of the Times comment section debate parent power with Anne McElvoy.
Jane Eyre has been adapted for a stage production at Bristol Old Vic. Which literary heroines provide good role models? We hear from writers Bidisha and Rebecca Mead, whose new book is called The Road to Middlemarch.
German artist Georg Baselitz discusses his artistic career as his work goes on show in two London Galleries.
And literary depictions of flooding. What books you might want to avoid reading if you are faced with rising water levels.
Producer: Natalie Steed.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03tj110)
The Islamic Golden Age
Salah al-Din
'Men grieved for him as they grieve for prophets. I have seen no other ruler for whose death the people mourned, for he was loved by good and bad, Muslim and unbeliever alike.'
'Abd al-Latif, 1193
Historian Jonathan Phillips reassesses the influence of 12th-century hero Saladin - a man whose legacy has been admired and appropriated by an extraordinary range of people through the ages. In the past few years he's been the subject of a ballet in Damascus, a musical in Lebanon and he's seen in a children's cartoon (on al-Jazeera TV) where his morality and good character are used as an exemplar for young people to emulate.
Given his role in defeating and removing Western invaders, his legacy has immense symbolism in the Middle East. Arab Nationalist leaders such as Nasser of Egypt, Saddam Hussein, and the Assad dynasty in Syria have all embraced his achievement. Yet he appeals to Islamists too: Osama bin Laden praised Saladin's wisdom and his use of the jihad to succeed in defeating the West; to the head of the CIA unit hunting bin Laden, his opponent's personal piety, generosity and sharing of hardships with his men meant 'he is an Islamic hero, as the faith's ideal type, and almost as a modern-day Saladin'.
Jonathan questions why Saladin has maintained such an incredibly broad appeal down the centuries.
Producer: Mohini Patel.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b03tj131)
Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe presents brand new music from Brooklyn's Walrus Ghost, a newly re-issued ECM piece from Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie, a new recording from The Brodsky Quartet plus some recent field recordings from Tokyo.
Producer Georgia MannSmith.
FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b03thdx3)
BBC Proms 2012: The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and Vasily Petrenko in Nico Muhly's upbeat new work, Gait, and Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony. Presented by John Shea
12:31 AM
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)
Turangalîla-symphonie
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Joanna MacGregor (piano), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
1:47 AM
Muhly, Nico (1981-)
Gait
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
2:10 AM
Niewiadomski, Stanislaw (1859-1936) (lyrics: Adam Asnyk)
Siwy koniu (Grey Horse)
Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (director)
2:14 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Perpetuum mobile (from Sonata No.1 in C, J138)
Konstantin Masliouk (piano)
2:18 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), arranged by Zoltán Kocsis
Concert Prelude to Tristan und Isolde for piano
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
2:31 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk([1810-1849)
Waltz for piano (Op.34 No.1) in A flat major
Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
2:36 AM
Pierne, Gabriel [1863-1937]
Konzertstuck for harp & orchestra (Op.39) (1903)
Suzanna Klintcharova (harp), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
2:52 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Septet for trumpet, piano and strings (Op.65) in E flat major
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Elise Baatnes (violin), Karolina Radziej (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Hjalmer Kvam (cello), Marius Faltby (double bass), Enrico Pace (piano)
3:09 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Psalm 137 for choir
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
3:12 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Cantate Domino Canticum Novum
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Bernard Winsemius (organ), Peter Phillips (conductor)
3:15 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major for 3 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos & continuo, BWV.1048
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
3:29 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Jeux d'eau for piano
Paloma Kouider (piano)
3:34 AM
Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich (1837-1910)
Overture on Russian Themes
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
3:43 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)
Gornimi tikho letela dusha nebesami (Softly the spirit flew)
Petteri Salomaa (baritone), Ilmo Ranta (piano)
3:46 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)
The Seminarist for voice and piano
Petteri Salomaa (baritone), Ilmo Ranta (piano)
3:50 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.73 in D major 'La Chasse' (H.
1.73)
Romanian National Chamber Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
4:11 AM
Piris, Bernard (1951-)
Deux Préludes for guitar
Heiki Matlik (guitar)
4:15 AM
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960)
Midsummer Vigil - Swedish Rhapsody no.1 (Op.19)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
4:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture from Tafelmusik
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Frank de Bruine (oboe),
The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
4:38 AM
Couperin, François (1668-1733)
Rondeau: Les Barricades Mysterieuses
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
4:41 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) [text: Paul Verlaine]
Clair de lune
4:44 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) [text: Paul Verlaine]
En sourdine
Karina Gauvin (soprano), Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
4:48 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Le Chasseur Maudit, symphonic poem (M.44)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)
5:02 AM
Vallet, Nicolas (c.1583-c.1645)
Carillon de village
Toyohiko Satoh (lute)
5:05 AM
Baermann, Heinrich Joseph (1784-1847)
Adagio in D major from Quintet No.3 (Op.23) in E flat major (previously attributed to Wagner)
Jože Kotar (clarinet), Borut Kantušer (double bass), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet
5:10 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Toccata for piano (Op.7) in C major
Francesco Piemontesi (Piano)
5:16 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Serenade No.2 in A major (Op.16)
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5:49 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Locus iste (motets)
The Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt Jensen (conductor)
6:02 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata in A major K.526 for violin and keyboard
Geir Inge Lotsberg (violin), Einar Steen-Nøkleberg (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b03thdxx)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b03thdyy)
Friday - Sarah Walker with James May
Sarah Walker's guest this week is writer and television presenter James May.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach - Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Book II, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), APARTÉ AP070. We also have our daily brainteaser at
9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Alfred Brendel.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Luba Orgonasova (soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Gilles Cachemaille (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ARCHIV.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b03thfl8)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
New York
Donald Macleod explores Mahler's final years at the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic.
Gustav Mahler rose from humble beginnings on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to become one of the most powerful figures in the musical establishment. Nowadays his symphonies are almost guaranteed to fill concert halls, but during his lifetime Mahler made his name as a conductor.
Mahler left the Vienna Court Opera to take up a lucrative position at the Metropolitan Opera, and later another at the New York Philharmonic. He would spend his final years travelling back and forth across the Atlantic and working on his most ambitious symphonies. A moment of personal crisis would colour the composition of his last work.
Symphony No 8 (Symphony of a Thousand) (Part I)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, soloists and choruses, conducted by Georg Solti
Mahler, completed Deryck Cooke: Symphony No 10 (1st mvt) (excerpt)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle
Symphony No 9 (4th mvt)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Producer: Callum Thomson.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b03thg63)
Bath International Music Festival 2014
Danish and Sacconi Quartets, Christian Ihle Hadland
Mendelssohn's towering contribution to the chamber repertoire, his Octet, performed at Bath's Assembly Rooms by the Danish and Sacconi String Quartets. Introduced by Penny Gore.
Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85
Beethoven: Piano Sonata, Op 78
Mendelssohn: Octet
Danish String Quartet
Sacconi String Quartet
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b03thg65)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 4
Penny Gore presents the BBC NOW in recent performances including a favourite concerto by Mozart and a rarely heard concerto by Erwin Schulhoff written of 1930. There's a maritime flavour in the two works by Ibert and Debussy and, in this week's concluding programme, there's a chance to catch up with Toshio Hosokawa's Woven Dreams, the winner of the international category of the 2013 British Composer Awards. Hosokawa writes about the piece: "I once had a dream that I was in my mother's womb. In the dream, I experienced these things: the joy of being in the warm womb, pressure and obsession that I must be born before long, and the joy of coming into the world through the suffering and pain of the process of birth. These are deep experiences that will stay in my mind for all time and which I have tried to recreate in music.
In this work there are many influences from the musical language of Gagaku, the ancient Japanese court music that is the womb of my music."
Toshio Hosokawa: Woven Dreams for orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Märkl (conductor)
Mozart Concerto No.26 in D major K.537 (Coronation)
Llyr Williams (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Märkl (conductor)
Schulhoff: Concerto for string quartet and winds
Signum Quartet (BBC NGA Artists)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph König (conductor)
Takemitsu: To the Edge of Dream for guitar and orchestra
Sean Shibe (guitar) (BBC NGA Artist)
Elena Urioste (violin)
Signum Quartet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph König (conductor)
Chausson: Poème Op.25 for violin and orchestra
Elena Urioste (violin) (BBC NGA Artist)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph König (conductor)
Ibert Escales [Ports of call]
Debussy: La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Märkl (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b03thggk)
Matthew Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra, Christopher Purves, Simon Lepper, Sarah Dacey
Guests include Manchester-based trumpeter, composer, arranger and band-leader Matthew Halsall performing with The Gondwana Orchestra. Matthew's unique sound has been described as 'rain-streaked spiritual jazz from Manchester' and The Gondwana Orchestra play deep, soulful modal and spiritual jazz drawing on the legacy of Alice Coltrane and influenced by Halsall's love of Eastern music and the more contemporary sounds of Cinematic Orchestra. The group includes a Japanese koto alongside bass and piano.
Baritone Christopher Purves sings music by Handel, Duparc and Mussorgsky live in the studio with pianist Simon Lepper ahead of their Wigmore recital, plus Sarah Dacey of Juice Vocal Ensemble discusses their upcoming album of ten specially commissioned love songs, including a Valentine's single composed by Anna Meredith.
Presented by Sean Rafferty
News headlines at
5pm and
6pm
Email: In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
Twitter: @BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b03thfl8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b03thglv)
Viennese Classics from Bangor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Viennese Classics from Bangor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales: music by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert.
Live from Prichard-Jones Hall, Bangor
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.1
Mozart: Violin Concerto No.5
8.10: Interval
8.30
Schubert: Symphony No.9
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Callum Smart, violin
Nicholas Collon, conductor
It's easy to hear why Schubert's Ninth Symphony is known as the "Great" with its noble themes, inexhaustible energy and romantic warmth. Tonight it will be heard alongside the drama of Beethoven's Leonore Overture No.1 and Mozart's Turkish-inspired Fifth Violin Concerto.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b03thgr6)
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word. Guests include US novelist Armistead Maupin, Steven Camden with his first novel, and dramatist Andrew Muir.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03tj112)
The Islamic Golden Age
Episode 19
Radio 3 continues its twenty-part series looking at the five-hundred-year period, the Islamic Golden Age. We've heard about some of the great architects, philosophers, scientists and leaders of the period. In this evening's essay, Narguess Farzad explores the life and work of the Persian poet, Al-Rumi.
Producer: Mohini Patel.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b03tj133)
Angelique Kidjo
With Lopa Kothari. The third part of our 'Commonwealth Connections' series, and a session with African mega-star Angelique Kidjo.
Angelique Kidjo is a Grammy award-winning music recording artist deemed "Africa's premier diva". Born in Benin, West Africa, Kidjo's dynamic and infectious music has transcended art and now reaches philanthropy through her work with organizations and charities across Third-World countries. Angelique talks about all that in this exclusive session in our studio and shows all her inspiring magic and power, including a musical Valentine-Day present for all!
We continue Commonwealth Connections, a landmark 26-part weekly series leading up to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July. Featuring musicians and musical events from each and every of the 53 member states from Antigua to Zambia, the series reflects the Commonwealth's vibrant sounds, as the countries come together for their festival of sport. In this programme, music from South Africa and the Bahamas.
Music Feature: Every Sunday morning, townships across South Africa vibrate to the sound and colour of traditional gospel services. The Holy Ethiopian Catholic Church of Zion gather in Soweto to sing songs which blend ancient Zulu melodies and free-flowing phrases with missionary-style harmonies which they say bring them closer to God. A very different kind of township style is found in the music of Madosini, a mouth-bow player and singer living in Cape Town. Now 92 years old, and still performing professionally, she sings stories of life in pre-apartheid rural South Africa, with dramatic overtone-singing and expressive mouth-bow effects.
Plus a heritage track from the Bahamas:
Bahamian 400m sprinter and Olympic medallist, Chris Brown talks about junkanoo, the music of the annual street parades that resonates with all Bahamians. This music, deeply rooted in the islands' historic ties to Africa, brings back memories for Chris of winning a drumming competition as a child and becoming the lead drummer on his island; of crowds dancing in the streets underneath giant figures of people and animals; and of fires springing up across the islands, lit to warm the drums so that they make the perfect sound. Chris explains how the rhythms of junkanoo are still with him today at international competitions inspiring him to achieve the very best.
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 (b03th94p)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b03thg5s)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b03thg5x)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b03thg61)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b03thg65)
BBC Performing Groups
23:30 SUN (b03th7fm)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b03th2jt)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b03th72k)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b03th920)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b03thdxq)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b03thdxs)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b03thdxv)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b03thdxx)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b03th2jw)
Choir and Organ
16:00 SUN (b03th7f9)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b03t0dpj)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b03tj156)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b03th924)
Composer of the Week
18:00 MON (b03th924)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b03thfl0)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b03thfl0)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b03thfl2)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b03thfl2)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b03thfl4)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b03thfl4)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b03thfl8)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b03thfl8)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b03th7fk)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b03th922)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b03thdyr)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b03thdyt)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b03thdyw)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b03thdyy)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b03thgqy)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b03thgr2)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b03thgr4)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b03th72f)
Hear and Now
22:30 SAT (b03th3dx)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b03th94r)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b03thgfl)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b03thgft)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b03thgg1)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b03thggk)
Jazz Line-Up
18:00 SAT (b03th3ds)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b03th3dq)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b03thc4p)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b03tj12x)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b03tj12z)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b03tj131)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b03th2jy)
Opera on 3
19:00 MON (b03th94t)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b03th72p)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SAT (b03th3rt)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SUN (b03th7fh)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b03thgln)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b03thglq)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b03thgls)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b03thglv)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b03t0b9s)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b03th72r)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b03th94m)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b03thg5q)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b03thg5v)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b03thg5z)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b03thg63)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b03th3dl)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b03th3dn)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (b03th7ff)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b03th72m)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b00cly7x)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b03thc4m)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b03tj10w)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b03tj10y)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b03tj110)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b03tj112)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b03thgr6)
The Wire
21:45 SAT (b03th3dv)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b03t0dr8)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b03th72h)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b03th91y)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b03thdwx)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b03thdwz)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b03thdx1)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b03thdx3)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (b03th7fc)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b03tj133)