Including unique performances from the archives of Croatian Radio from the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in the 1960's - Sviatoslav Richter, Van Cliburn and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Lada, (Op. 8) quadrille for orchestra
Sebastian String Quartet: Andelko Krpan (violin), Saki Kodama (violin), Nebojša Floreani (viola), Zlatko Rucner (cello), plus Mihovil Karuza (cello)
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor) [
Variations for violin and piano in E minor (D.802) (on 'Trockne Blumen' from 'Die schöne Müllerin')
Three motets from 'Sacrae Cantiones' - Quam pulchra es; Quemadmodum desiderat; Panis angelicus
Andelko Krpan & Mislav Pavlin (violins), The Zagreb Soloists, Visnja Mazuran (harpsichord)
Franjo Petrušanec (bass), Orchestra of the Opera of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Nikša Bareza (conductor)
2 Dances from the cantata Zeleni Jura (Green George) (Dance of St.George's Male Companions; Dance of St.George's Female Companions)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear. Breakfast will be featuring Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain and talking to people involved in the BBC Music Ten Pieces project. Ten Pieces aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is singer, songwriter, author and broadcaster Cerys Matthews.
A selection of music including Rob's Essential CD of the Week: Vienna - a collection of waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Take part in our daily musical challenge: spot the theme linking three pieces of music and identify the missing fourth.
Rob is joined by Cerys Matthews, who shares a selection of her favourite classical music. A founder member of Welsh rock band Catatonia, Cerys has since enjoyed a successful solo career and is now a popular broadcaster and author. She talks to Rob about the influence that classical music has had on her life, and about her role as an ambassador for the BBC initiative Ten Pieces, which aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music.
Rob celebrates the performers who reveal the emotion in Brahms' great works, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience.
are inspired by the BBC's Ten Pieces season. He takes listeners on a musical journey, each day recommending a work that's connected to one of the Ten Pieces.
With the tragic death of Robert Schumann, Brahms reaches a critical moment in his relationship with Clara - should he offer to make her his wife? Or should he abandon the pursuit, and follow his own course in life? Donald Macleod continues his account of their lifelong (although volatile) friendship, and finds Brahms flirting with other female company, much to the annoyance of his first and only true love.
This week's programmes come from from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Today, violist Lawrence Power, with pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips, performs music by Brahms, Hindemith and Russian composers.
Penny Gore presents Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain, part of Ten Pieces, chosen to inspire and engage primary school children. The performance is taken from a concert given last month by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, our featured orchestra this week, with its Chief Conductor, Donald Runnicles.
It's followed by Scriabin's Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, with soloist Barry Douglas, taken from the same concert.
Also, Radio 3's Brahms Experience and his Symphony No. 3, with Matthias Pintscher conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance recorded in 2012. And closing the afternoon, William Walton's Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, conducted this time by Martyn Brabbins.
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op. 20
Brahms Experience: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Suzy Klein presents live music as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience. Guests include folk musician Eliza Carthy, mezzo soprano Katarina Karneus and pianist Joseph Middleton performing live and conductor Rafael Payare on his London Symphony Orchestra debut. Plus, Suzy presents Ten Facts: Ten Pieces linked to the BBC's Ten Pieces project that aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music. Each day she offers a downloadable feature with ten quirky, entertaining and illuminating facts; today's work is Mussorgsky's orchestral epic Night on a Bare Mountain.
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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka perform great orchestral works by Brahms, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience in Bristol.
The Academic Festival Overture is a musical thank-you to a university that gave Brahms an honorary degree, but the piece is far from dry academia: Brahms described it as a 'boisterous potpourri of student songs'. Violinist Veronika Eberle and cellist Andreas Brantelid join the orchestra in the Double Concerto, Brahms's last orchestral composition, written as a gesture of reconciliation to violinist Joseph Joachim, who had once been the composer's closest friend but who had shunned his acquaintance. The concert ends with Symphony No 1, the work that builds on the foundations of Beethoven while allowing Brahms' distinct symphonic voice to emerge.
Canadian filmmaker and originator of the body horror genre, David Cronenberg covers topics as wide ranging as consumption, cancer, and creativity as he talks to Matthew Sweet about his debut novel and new film. Shami Chakrabarti discusses her work as a human rights campaigner, and debates the idea of anger as a motivating force with Giles Fraser, who is a priest in the Church of England and forensic psychotherapist Cleo Van Velsen. Plus Tim Minchin on turning Storm, a poem he performed in a live set, into a graphic novel.
David Cronenberg's novel is called Consumed. His film Maps To The Stars certificate 18 is out now
Shami Chakrabarti has written an account of her time leading the campaigning organisation Liberty. The book is called On Liberty
The original animations for the Storm short movie were created by DC Turner and Tracy King co-produced the short film which Tim Minchin has now turned into a graphic novel.
Five Essays about the 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms. Part 3 of 5.
Recorded in front of an audience at St. Georges, Bristol, as part of BBC Radio 3's Brahms Experience - a week-long exploration of Brahms' life and music.
Brahms lived in a time of great political change. In his late thirties he saw the birth of a unified German nation under the 'Iron Chancellor' Otto von Bismarck. The question of what this Germany was to be became one of the great issues of the day.
Writer and pianist Natasha Loges explores the nationalist elements of Brahms' music. She examines his famous feud with the more openly patriotic Richard Wagner, and the ways in which Brahms' 'German' image was manipulated in the next century by the Nazis.
Max Reinhardt features Kar Kar by Malian blues musician Boubacar Traore, a new single from Aphex Twin, an equally radical electronic encounter with Brazil's Psilosamples, Icelandic melancholia from Hildur Guðnadóttir with Skúli Sverrisson and doowop jive from The Ravens.
THURSDAY 09 OCTOBER 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b04k8d8f)
Artis Quartet
John Shea presents the Artis Quartet playing Beethoven and Verdi.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Quartet in F major Op.18'1 for strings
Artis Quartet
12:58 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe [1813-1901]
Quartet in E minor for strings
Artis Quartet
1:20 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Quartet in E minor Op.59'2 (Rasumovsky) for strings
Artis Quartet
1:51 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Quartet in G minor Op.74'3 (Rider) for strings
Artis Quartet
1:57 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893]
Symphony no. 2 in C minor Op.17 (Little Russian)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
2:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Sextet no. 1 in B flat major Op.18 for strings
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Viktor Stenhjem (violin), Rachel Roberts (viola), Radim Sedmidubsky (viola), Alasdair Strange (cello), Henrik Brendstrup (cello)
3:11 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
In the south (Alassio) - overture (Op.50)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)
3:33 AM
Quantz, Johann Joachim [1697-1773]
Trio (QV 218) in E flat major
Nova Stravaganza
3:42 AM
Rosenmuller, Johann [c.1619-1684]
De profundis - Psalm 129 (130)
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), David Cordier (countertenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel (director and lute), Carsten Lohff (organ)
3:55 AM
Ysaÿe, Eugène (1858-1931)
Caprice d'après l'Etude en forme de Valse, op.52 no.6 by Saint-Saens
Karol Danis (violin), Iveta Sabová (piano)
4:04 AM
Gratton, Hector [1900-1970] arr. Passmore, David
Quatrieme danse canadienne arranged for piano trio
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
4:08 AM
Bersa, Blagoje (1873-1934)
Capriccio-Scherzo (Op.25c) (1902)
Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)
4:17 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Overture to Les Franc-juges (Op.3)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson (conductor)
4:31 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Ballet Music for the Merry wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
4:40 AM
Arban, Jean-Baptiste [1825-1889]
Variations on Casta diva from Bellini's 'Norma'
Alison Balsom (trumpet), John Reid (piano)
4:47 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Trio for keyboard and strings in C major (H.
15.27)
Ondine Trio
5:04 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-1757)
Concerto in B flat major (Op.10 No.2)
Manfred Kraemer and Laura Johnson (violins), Musica ad Rhenum
5:14 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937] arranged by Zoltán Kocsis
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Zsolt Szatmári (clarinet), Zoltán Kocsis (piano)
5:21 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Pater noster for chorus
Radio France Chorus, Donald Palumbo (conductor)
5:30 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
5:59 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
3 Lieder: Die Forelle (Op.32); Nacht und Träume (Op.43 No.2); Der Musensohn (Op.92 No.1)
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
6:07 AM
Hammerschmidt, Andreas (1611/12-1675)
Suite in D minor for gambas - from the collection 'Erster Fleiß'
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
6:23 AM
Bernat Vivancos (b.1973)
El cant del ocells
Ieva Ezeriete (soprano), Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b04k8djh)
Ten Pieces: Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear. Breakfast will be featuring Anna Meredith's Connect It and talking to people involved in the BBC Music Ten Pieces project. Ten Pieces aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b04k8f2k)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Cerys Matthews
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is singer, songwriter, author and broadcaster Cerys Matthews.
9am
A selection of music including Rob's Essential CD of the Week: Vienna - a collection of waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
9.30am
Classical Consequences
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next.
10.00am
Rob is joined by Cerys Matthews, who shares a selection of her favourite classical music. A founder member of Welsh rock band Catatonia, Cerys has since enjoyed a successful solo career and is now a popular broadcaster and author. She talks to Rob about the influence that classical music has had on her life, and about her role as an ambassador for the BBC initiative Ten Pieces, which aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music.
10.30am
Rob celebrates the performers who reveal the emotion in Brahms' great works, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience.
Gesang der Parzen
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob's Essential Choices at
11am are inspired by the BBC's Ten Pieces season. He takes listeners on a musical journey, each day recommending a work that's connected to one of the Ten Pieces.
Prokofiev
Scythian Suite, Op.20
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04kf0ch)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Secret Passions
Johannes Brahms might have rejected the possibility of marrying Clara Schumann, but that was no reason not to pursue one of her daughters, or indeed to flirt with an entire women's choir! Donald Macleod continues the story of their complex relationship, as youthful passion evolves into mature friendship, and Brahms settles into life in Vienna - and sports a beard. Although frequently strained, their friendship would endure, and would help nurture some of Brahms' most loved masterpieces.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b04kf0dw)
Hoddinott Hall Series
Episode 3
This week's programmes come from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Tenor Ben Johnson, accompanied by Iain Burnside, presents a programme of Edwardian and Victorian songs.
Samuel Liddle: How Lovely are thy Dwellings
Arthur Sullivan: The Lost Chord
May Brahe: Bless This House
C.H.H. Parry: No Longer Mourn for Me
Charles Villiers Stanford: A Soft Day
Trad. Irish, arr. Herbert Hughes: The Stuttering Lovers
Elgar: Pleading; Is she not passing fair?
Amy Woodforde Finden: Kashmiri Song; When I am Dying
Liza Lehmann: Henry King; If I Built a World for You
Guy d'Hardelot: Because
Liza Lehmann: Ah, Moon of my Delight
Ben Johnson (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano).
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04kf0qy)
Ten Pieces to Inspire Children
Episode 9
Penny Gore with our Opera Matinee: Verdi's La Traviata from La Scala, Milan, with Diana Damrau as Violetta; and Ten Pieces, music to inspire and engage primary school children. Today: Anna Meredith's Connect It, performed by Drum Works.
For more about Ten pieces visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vs08w
Next, in our Opera Matinee, one of the most famous stories in all opera: Verdi's La Traviata, the tragic tale of love, betrayal and selfless sacrifice set in Paris and based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, La dame aux camelias. It features mega-star soprano Diana Damrau in the title role, as the courtesan Violetta, the Fallen Woman, who renounces love to save her beloved Alfredo, a well-to do gentleman, performed by tenor Piotr Beczala. Daniele Gatti conducts La Scala Chorus and Orchestra in this recording taken live in Milan in December last year.
2pm
Ten Pieces - Anna Meredith: Connect It
Drum Works
2.05pm
Verdi - La Traviata
Violetta Valery - Diana Damrau (soprano)
Alfredo Germont - Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Giorgio Germont - Zeljko Lucic (baritone)
Flora Bervoix - Giuseppina Piunti (mezzo-soprano)
Annina - Mara Zampieri (soprano)
Gastone - Antonio Cariano (tenor)
Barone Douphol - Roberto Accurso (baritone)
Marchese d'Obigny - Andrea Porta (bass)
Dottore Grenvil - Andrea Mastroni (bass)
Giuseppe - Nicola Pamio (tenor)
Flora's servant - Ernesto Petti (bass)
Commissioner - Ernesto Panariello (bass)
La Scala Chorus and Orchestra
Daniele Gatti (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b04kf1lp)
Salford - Ten Pieces Special with Blue Peter
From our Salford studios, Suzy Klein and In Tune come together with CBBC's Blue Peter and Barney Harwood for a first ever live simulcast to celebrate the BBC's Ten Pieces. Suzy is joined by the BBC Philharmonic and conductor John Storgards - and a hundred local children from the North West - for a performance of Handel's "Zadok the Priest". Also on the programme, violinist Jennifer Pike; plus music by Beethoven, Sibelius, Nielsen and Grieg......
Main headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04kf0ch)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04kf330)
Brahms Experience
BBC Singers
Live from St George's, Bristol
Presented by Tom Service
The BBC Singers, conducted by David Hill, perform Brahms' German Requiem and his beautiful
Geistliches Lied, with the famous set of Variations on a theme by Haydn completing the programme.
Johannes Brahms: Geistliches Lied (op 30)
Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by J. Haydn (op 56a)
7.55 Interval:
Brahms' "Requiem" examined: Tom Service and Canon Rosie Harper explore the theological, spiritual and musical landscape of the piece its composer wanted to call "A Human Requiem" and consider its meaning for listeners today.
8.15:
Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (op 45)
Helen Neeves (soprano)
Jamie W Hall (baritone)
Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva (pianos)
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor)
Johannes Brahms' German Requiem has often been described as a requiem for the living, rather than a liturgy for the dead. In tonight's concert for Radio 3's week of live Brahms performances from Bristol, the BBC Singers perform the work in the version accompanied by piano duet - a transcription which, through its gentle intimacy, sheds new light on a much-loved choral masterwork. Alongside it, a tiny sacred song which is an intricate gem of musical ingenuity, and the famous set of variations on a theme by Haydn - sometimes known as the 'St Anthony' variations - played in Brahms' adaptation of the work for two pianos.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b04kf1vq)
Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Polke, Henry IV, Patrick Modiano
An all new Henry IV runs at the Donmar Warehouse until 29th November and Anne McElvoy talks to Phyllida Lloyd about playing Shakespeare in a female prison and what this particular history play has to tell us about territory and britain's porous borders.
Two great german artists go head to head; Anselm Kiefer is at the Royal Academy until December 14th whilst the late Sigmar Polke has a huge retrospective called Alibis at Tate Modern. Tim Marlow, Head of the R.A. together with art historian, Karen Lang, and experienced Germany-watcher and Standpoint Editor, Daniel Johnson discuss reading history through the paintings of Kiefer and Polke ahead of next month's 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.
And the man often touted as France's greatest writer has just won this year's Nobel prize for Literature. Anne talks the contribution of Patrick Modiano to film as well as literature with Ian Christie and Akane Kawakami.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b04kf1vs)
Brahms Experience
Brahms and Freud
Five Essays about the 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms. Part 4 of 5.
Recorded in front of an audience at St. Georges, Bristol, as part of BBC Radio 3's Brahms Experience - a week-long exploration of Brahms' life and music.
Brahms and and Freud co-existed in Vienna, as psychoanalysis was being born. But they belong to two vastly different epochs: what can we learn by setting them side by side?
Often at a loss for words, frequently gruff and spiky, Brahms was a man with complex personal traits. Devastated by his parents' disintegrating marriage, he found relationships exceptionally difficult.
A question Freud once asked of us all might help us understand the hidden personality of Johannes Brahms: what is the sublimation of sexual desire, and how much unfulfilled libido can we bear?
Writer Lesley Chamberlain takes us back to the Vienna of the 1890s, where Brahms was composing his late masterpieces and Freud was carrying out his groundbreaking early work.
Producer: Melvin Rickarby.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b04kf332)
Thursday - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt's selection includes an epic piece from the visionary Richard Dawson's new album 'Nothing Important', jazztronica from Brazilian luminaries Meta Meta, Theo Bleckmann covering Kate Bush's 'Army Dreamers', Errollyn Wallen in jazzy form with 'Hurricane of Love', an electrotechno miniature from Polish artist Kucharczyk and the new single from New York City's My Brightest Diamond.
FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b04k8d8h)
Operatic Music by Moniuszko
John Shea introduces a concert that commemorated the 140th anniversary of the death of Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko, featuring music from some of his operas.
12:31 AM
Nicolai, Otto (1810-1849)
Overture to The Merry wives of Windsor
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
12:40 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Ballet Music for the Merry wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai
Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
12:50 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909)
The Pearls of Moniuszko - 15 Songs for orchestra
Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:08 AM
Moniuszko
Ballet Music from Hrabina ('The Countess')
Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:23 AM
Moniuszko
Aria (The Countess): "To Wake up from bad dreams" from Hrabina ('The Countess')
Anna Lubanska (mezzo-soprano), Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:26 AM
Moniuszko
Aria (Miecznik): "Who of my Maidens" from The Haunted Manor (orig. version)
Stanislaw Kufluk (baritone), Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:31 AM
Moniuszko
Aria (Rokiczana): "When I will be the Queen" from Rokiczana
Anna Lubanska (mezzo-soprano), Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:34 AM
Moniuszko
Overture to Halka (Original version)
Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:43 AM
Moniuszko
Recitative & Romance (Janusz): "Where did she go..." from Halka, Act I
Stanislaw Kufluk (baritone), Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:46 AM
Moniuszko
Duet (Halka & Janusz): "Oh Janusz my darling" from Halka, Act I
Ewa Vesin (soprano), Stanislaw Kufluk (baritone), Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
1:55 AM
Moniuszko
Mazurka from Halka (orig. version)
Polish Radio SO, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
2:00 AM
Moniuszko
Recitative (Halka): "O How I would gladly kneel down" & Aria (Halka): "If by the morning sun" from Halka, Act II
Ewa Vesin (soprano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
2:08 AM
Moniuszko
Introduction to Act III & Dances of the Highlanders from Halka (original version)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
2:16 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Polonaise-fantasy for piano (Op.61) in A flat major
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
2:31 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.77) in D major
Sarah Chang (violin) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Juraj Valucha (conductor)
3:10 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Ballade for piano no. 4 (Op.52) in F minor
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
3:21 AM
Dufay, Guillaume (c.1400-1474)
Balsamus et munda cera
Orlando Consort
3:27 AM
Bridge, Frank (1879-1941)
The Sea
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
3:49 AM
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959)
Prelude for guitar no.2 in E major
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
3:52 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Adagio and fugue for strings (K.546) in C minor
Risor Festival Strings
3:59 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
O magnum mysterium (Moteto pro nativitate, ZWV.171)
Markéta Cukrová (contralto), Musica Florea, Marek Stryncl (director)
4:05 AM
Hannikainen, Ilmari (1892-1955)
Rural Dances (Op.39a)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
4:20 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen Oder Weibchen' for cello and piano (Op.66)
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello), José Gallardo (piano)
4:31 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Ihr lieben Christen, freut euch nun, BuxWV 51
Marieke Steenhoek (soprano), Miriam Meyer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz (contralto), Marco van de Klundert (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus, Ton Koopman (conductor)
4:42 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne in A flat major (Op.33 No.3)
Stéphane Lemelin (piano)
4:47 AM
Kôlar, Margo (b.1961) [words I. Hirv]
Öö (The Night)
Kaia Urb (soprano), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
4:51 AM
Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911)
Romance for violin and orchestra in G major (Op.26)
Julia Fischer (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
4:59 AM
Hotteterre, Jacques (1674-1763)
Les Délices ou Le Fargis
Ensemble 1700 , Dorothee Oberlinger (director)
5:05 AM
Poot, Marcel (1901-1988)
A Cheerful Overture for orchestra
Belgium Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari (conductor)
5:10 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quartet for strings in C minor (D.703) 'Satz'
Tilev String Quartet
5:20 AM
Kozeluch, Leopold (1747-1818)
Pastorale in G major
Pieter van Dijk (organ)
5:25 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959)
Symphony No.6 (H.343) "Fantasies symphoniques"
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Válek (conductor)
5:55 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
9 Variations on a minuet by Duport for piano (K.573)
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
6:07 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893) (arr. Ann Kuppens)
Variations on a rococo theme for cello and string orchestra (Op.33)
Gavriel Lipkind (cello) Brussels Chamber Orchestra.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b04k8djk)
Ten Pieces: Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear. Breakfast will be featuring the finale of Stravinsky's The Firebird - suite (1911) and talking to people involved in the BBC Music Ten Pieces project. Ten Pieces aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b04k8f2m)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Cerys Matthews
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is singer, songwriter, author and broadcaster Cerys Matthews.
9am
A selection of music including Rob's Essential CD of the Week: Vienna - a collection of waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
9.30am
Relative Values
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
10.00am
Rob is joined by Cerys Matthews, who shares a selection of her favourite classical music. A founder member of Welsh rock band Catatonia, Cerys has since enjoyed a successful solo career and is now a popular broadcaster and author. She talks to Rob about the influence that classical music has had on her life, and about her role as an ambassador for the BBC initiative Ten Pieces, which aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music.
10.30am
Rob celebrates the performers who reveal the emotion in Brahms' great works, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience.
Rhapsodies, Op.79
Van Cliburn (piano)
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob's Essential Choices at
11am are inspired by the BBC's Ten Pieces season. He takes listeners on a musical journey, each day recommending a work that's connected to one of the Ten Pieces.
Steve Reich
Clapping Music
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
11.05am
Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty (conclusion)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04kf0cq)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Rows and Reconciliation
The bearded and bloated Brahms of caricature continued to be inspired by Clara Schumann, despite a multitude of fleeting passions for other women. As Donald Macleod wraps up his account of their long and frequently troubled friendship, we find them at loggerheads in the late evening of their lives about something relatively trivial (an edition of Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony). Clara becomes jealous of the attentions of Frau Elizabeth von Herzogenberg, and feels snubbed. Nevertheless, through all her many personal tragedies, Johannes Brahms remains a constant support, whilst she remained for him an inspiration throughout his life. Right until the end of their lives, he refers his symphonies to her, and dedicates to her some of his most tender, valedictory piano compositions.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b04kf0dy)
Hoddinott Hall Series
Episode 4
Pianist, Llyr Williams presents a selection of bagatelles by Bartok and Daniel Jones alongside works by Beethoven and Albeniz, at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff.
Beethoven: Sonata No.25 in G major, Op.79
Britten: Night piece (Notturno)
Bartok: 14 Bagatelles, Nos. 1,2,3,4,5, 11 & 12
Daniel Jones: Bagatelles (Book 1, Nos. 2,3,4,6; Book 2, Nos. 4,6,7; Book 3, Nos. 1,2,7)
Bartok: Six Dances in Bulgarian rhythm (from Mikrokosmos,Vol.6)
Albeniz: Triana (from Iberia Book 2)
Llyr Williams (piano).
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04kf0r0)
Ten Pieces to Inspire Children
Episode 10
Penny Gore presents Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (1945 vers), part of our Ten Pieces, music to inspire and engage primary school children, performed by the National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Thierry Fischer.
For more about Ten pieces visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vs08w
Next, a return to our featured orchestra of the week, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and a concert given last year under conductor Ilan Volkov. First comes Schumann's Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52; followed by Mozart's Concerto for violin No. 4, with soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja; then, continuing with Radio 3's Brahms Experience, the composer's Symphony No. 4.
Also, Nicola Benedetti performing Bruch's Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Donald Runnicles, its Chief Conductor.
2pm
Ten Pieces - Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945 vers)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
2.30pm
Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K.218
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
3.55pm
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, Op. 46
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory McDonald (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b04kf1lt)
Mnozil, Lawrence Zazzo, Jennifer Stumm
Suzy Klein speaks to the American countertenor Lawrence Zazzo about his new CD, A Royal Trio, which cherry-picks the finest offerings commissioned by the first opera company in the English-speaking world, the Royal Academy of Music. Circa 1725, these included Handel's Giulio Cesare, and other finery from Ariosti and Bononcini.
Performing live in the studio this afternoon is the Austrian septet Mnozil, who bring their unique and humorous brand of brass playing to the UK for a tour throughout October.
Also performing live is viola player Jennifer Stumm, playing selections from her latest disc - a recording of Berlioz's 'Harold in Italy'. Today she is joined by Ana-Maria Vera on the piano.
And Suzy presents the final instalment of Ten Facts: Ten Pieces, linked to the BBC's ten-pieces project that aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music. Each day she offers a downloadable feature with ten quirky, entertaining and illuminating facts; today's work is Stravinsky's early orchestral masterpiece The Firebird.
Also today, more music by Brahms, towering genius of German Romantic music, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience.
Main news headlines are at
5pm and
6pm.
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04kf0cq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04kf33z)
Brahms Experience
Stephen Kovacevich
Stephen Kovacevich (piano) rounds off The Brahms Experience's week of concerts from St George's, Bristol. In the interval, presenter Tom Service will be debating YOUR thoughts, queries and ideas about Brahms and his music in: "The Trouble With Brahms?". Your can tweet your comments to @bbcradio3 - Tom and his panel of experts will be reading out and exploring the best of your comments live on air.
Bach: Partita No 4 in D, BWV.828
Brahms: Ballade No.1 in D minor, Op.10 No.1
Brahms: Intermezzo in A minor, Op.76 No.7
Brahms: Intermezzo in A flat, Op.76 No.3
Brahms: Capriccio in D minor, Op.116 No.7
8.10pm Interval: The Trouble With Brahms?
Tom Service is joined live by Caroline Rae and Katy Hamilton to examine why some people just don't get on with Brahms's music. They'll be discussing listener responses to Radio 3's Brahms Experience and suggesting ways for Brahms sceptics to discover his music afresh. Join the debate by emailing troublewithbrahms@bbc.co.uk and tell us whether you love Brahms or loathe him! Or tweet us @BBCRadio3 to share your #BrahmsExperience.
8.30pm Part 2
Brahms: Ballade No.4 in B major, Op.10 No.4
Brahms: Intermezzo in B minor, Op.119, No.1
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat, Op.110
Stephen Kovacevich (piano).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b04kf1vx)
Simon Armitage, Josienne Clarke with Ben Walker, Jane Haynes
Ian's guests include Simon Armitage on putting together 'Paper Aeroplane' his selected poems, folk-music's rising stars Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker with songs which delight in nostalgia, especially as experienced by the young, and pyschotherapist Jane Haynes on the mysteries of the anacoluthan sentence.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b04kf1vz)
Brahms Experience
Brahms and the Future
Five Essays about the 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms. Part 5 of 5.
Recorded in front of an audience at St. Georges, Bristol, as part of BBC Radio 3's Brahms Experience - a week-long exploration of Brahms' life and music.
Brahms lived in a time of tremendous change. The idea of the 'future' was never far from peoples' minds: new technology was emerging, the political map of Europe redrawn, and long-cherished ideas of art and culture overturned.
But how did Brahms, a composer who mined the music of the past for inspiration, fit in with a world where progress was king?
Pianist and writer Natasha Loges looks at Brahms' views on the future: recording technology, piano design - and his own place in the future of music.
Producer: Melvin Rickarby.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b04kf34f)
Lopa Kothari - Tashi Lhunpo Monks in Session
Lopa Kothari presents music from around the globe and a live session by the Tashi Lhunpo Monks.
Following the occupation of Tibet in 1959 twenty elderly Buddhist monks from Tashi Lhunpo Monastery fled into exile by trekking across the Himalayas to India. Custodians of religious traditions dating back over 500 years, the Monks subsequently rebuilt their Monastery in the Tibetan settlement of Bylakuppe in southern India. There are now over 300 monks living at the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery which is now an important centre for learning and for the preservation of the culture and traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Seven of these Monks take time out from their three-month concert tour of the UK to join us for an exclusive live session.
Playing music from their new album '17 Golden Greats' (a greatest hits collection compiled from the five albums the Monks have made over the last decade), they will be performing Tibetan chants and mantras, and showing us some of their Tantric Orchestra instruments.
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 (b04k8bg0)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b04kf0qt)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b04kf0qw)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b04kf0qy)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b04kf0r0)
BBC Performing Groups
23:15 SUN (b04k7zff)
Between the Ears
21:30 SAT (b04k7vqk)
Brahms Experience - NGA
22:00 MON (b04kf1yy)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b04k7t3q)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b04k7wxn)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b04k8bfq)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b04k8dj9)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b04k8djf)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b04k8djh)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b04k8djk)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b04k7t3s)
Choir and Organ
16:00 SUN (b04k7zf5)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b04jjpwf)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b04kf234)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b04k8bfw)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b04k8bfw)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b04kf0bz)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b04kf0bz)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b04kf0c3)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b04kf0c3)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b04kf0ch)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b04kf0ch)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b04kf0cq)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b04kf0cq)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b03k0lg5)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b04k8bfs)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b04k8f27)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b04k8f2c)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b04k8f2k)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b04k8f2m)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b01p2shp)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b04kf1vl)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b04kf1vq)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b04k7wxj)
Hear and Now
22:00 SAT (b04k7vqm)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b04k8bg4)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b04kf1lk)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b04kf1lm)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b04kf1lp)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b04kf1lt)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b04k7t45)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b043pn57)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b04kf227)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b04kf256)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b04kf332)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b04k7t3v)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (b04k7t47)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b03vd2vm)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SUN (b04k7zfc)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b04k8bg6)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b04kf225)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b04kf254)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b04kf330)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b04kf33z)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b04k7t3x)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b04jj9sk)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b04k8bfy)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b04kf0dr)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b04kf0dt)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b04kf0dw)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b04kf0dy)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b04m3gnb)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b04k7t41)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (b04k7zf9)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b04k7wxq)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b04k7zf3)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b04k8bgc)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b04kf1vj)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b04kf1vn)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b04kf1vs)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b04kf1vz)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b04kf1vx)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b04jjq83)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b04k7wxl)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b04k8bfl)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b04k8d85)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b04k8d89)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b04k8d8f)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b04k8d8h)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (b04k7zf7)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b04kf34f)