Camerata Ireland and Barry Douglas play Beethoven, Field and Mozart. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Concerto no. 2 in B flat major Op.19 for piano and orchestra;
1. Aria; 2. Nocturne & Chanson
Concerto no. 1 in C major Op.15 for piano and orchestra;
Symphony no. 41 in C major K.551 (Jupiter)
Henderson, Ruth Watson (b. 1932)
Radio France Chorus, Yves Castagnet (organ), Vladislav Chernuchenko (conductor)
String Quartet No. 4 in C, K. 157
Quatuor Ysaÿe: Guillaume Sutre & Luc-Marie Aguera (violins), Miguel da Silva (viola), Yovan Markovitch (cello)
Lieder: Das Rosenband (Op.36 No.1); Gluckes genug (Op.37 No.1); Ständchen (Op.17 No.2); Ein Obdach gegen Sturm und Regen (Op.46 No.1); Morgen (Op.27 No.4); In goldener Fulle (Op.49 No.2)
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book'. Throughout the week Rob and Sarah dip into this remarkable collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music, showcasing works by composers including Byrd, Bull and Gibbons.
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and director Declan Donnellan. Since co-founding his own theatre company in 1981, Declan has become well-known as a Shakespearean director as well as winning accolades for his interpretations of works ranging from plays by Chekhov and Pushkin to Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Declan will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at
Rob and Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor Stephen Cleobury. Director of the world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Cleobury has worked with leading orchestras and soloists including the Academy of Ancient Music and the Philharmonia. Sarah will be exploring his interpretations of works by composers including Brahms, Harvey, Mozart, Stanford and Tallis.
Judith Weir talks about the challenges of writing for the stage, including "A Night at the Chinese Opera", "Blond Eckbert" and her most recent opera "Miss Fortune".
One of our most distinguished composers, in July 2014 Judith Weir succeeded Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as Master of the Queen's Music. It's an honour that joins an already impressive collection of awards, which include a CBE and the Queen's Medal for Music. Born in 1954 into a musical Scottish family, Weir grew up near London. A member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Weir studied composition with John Tavener during her school holidays. More formal studies followed at Cambridge University, including composition with Robin Holloway, and at Tanglewood summer school, where she worked with Gunther Schuller. The possessor of a rich, fertile imagination, Weir draws on a wide variety of sources, notably dark fairytales, folk stories, Chinese philosophy, Indian music and culture, distilling their essence in music of luminous clarity. Her fundamental concern is to tell stories. An articulate communicator, Weir's writing about her music encapsulates the process brilliantly. In this series, Weir offers a personal insight into some of the musical projects which have occupied her since the beginning of the noughties.
Today Judith Weir joins Donald Macleod to discuss her fascination with storytelling, in particular for the theatre. After dipping her toe into operatic waters in her mid-twenties, with "King Harald's Saga", a small-scale treatment of an epic story, "A Night at the Chinese Opera" brought Weir to wider public attention in 1987. Since then she has produced a succession of operas, each of them exploring different musical and dramatic ideas.
Tenor John Mark Ainsley and pianist Joseph Middleton present the first of four concerts exploring the songs of Duparc.
The name Henri Duparc is admitted into the great roll-call of French song composers on account of only 16 solo songs and a duet. Born in 1848, by the time he was 35 he had written the songs that were to ensure his musical immortality and, due to an obscure nervous disease, he wrote no more until he died, aged 85, in 1933. Duparc's first song was written in 1868, a year before the death of Berlioz; his last in 1884, a year after the death of Wagner. He destroyed many compositions, such was his perfectionist nature. This series seeks to place Duparc's solo songs in the wider context of his friends, influences and contemporaries, thus highlighting his remarkable gift for setting poetry for voice and piano.
In this first concert from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen, they contrast his songs with those of his teacher César Franck and other contemporary composers Chaminade, D'Indy, Bordes and De Bréville.
Jonathan Swain presents performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra this week. Today includes Stenhammar's First symphony as part of our continuing Nordic and Baltic season, Beethoven's second piano concerto with Steven Osborne as soloist, and more highlights from the orchestra's recent tour in China with conductor Martyn Brabbins. Plus Jonathan Plowright champions the piano works of the Polish composer Ludomir Rozycki.
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major Op.19
STENHAMMAR Symphony No. 1 in F major
Sean Rafferty with arts news, chat, live music and the best CDs, with guests from the 2015 RPS Awards nomination list announced today.
The annual Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, presented in association with BBC Radio 3, are the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK. The awards honour musicians, composers, writers, broadcasters and inspirational arts organisations. The list of previous winners reads like a Who's Who of classical music.
Award-winning British pianist and stalwart of the concert platform Peter Donohoe performs music by three of the early 20th Century's greatest figures. He begins with one of Alexander Scriabin's latest masterpieces - his chromatic, and almost atonal Piano Sonata No.7 "White Mass" - composed as a sort of exorcism for the darkness of his previous sonata. Ravel's "Miroirs" was composed around 1905 and dedicated to his five fellow members of the Parisian group of "artistic outcasts" - Les Apaches.
Post-concert music: It's All About the Piano! - Hands of Tomorrow - a Franco-British soirée, recorded at the French Institute in London last Saturday. Over the course of this week, sample four top young pianists from the Paris Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in music including D. Scarlatti, Brahms, Debussy, Boulez, Messiaen and Liszt:
Matthew Sweet discusses Ridley Scott's science fiction extravaganza, Blade Runner. A film noir set in the future, critics have argued it's a movie that uses classic cinematic techniques to pose fundamental questions about what it means to be human.
As the film is re-released, Matthew is joined by the critics Roger Luckhurst and Sarah Churchwell, and by the philosopher Max de Gaynesford, to discuss its enduring significance.
And, we're used to hearing about social media in the context of political and social debate. But where do Twitter and its like sit in the longer history of reading and writing? Matthew talks to Eric Jarosinski, a writer who claims he found his creative voice on twitter under the name @NeinQuarterly, and to linguist and medievalist Kate Wiles, and book historian Sjoerd Levelt, about the parallels between the tweets of today and the marginalia of Medieval readers.
British Muslim Academic Mona Siddiqui explores the second section of the Lord's Prayer. She considers the lines "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven".
Five brilliant voices essay on different sections of the Lord's Prayer for our time. Author Ali Smith, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies Mona Siddiqui, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch and poet and author Andrew Motion examine each thought with a modern day searchlight, bringing theological knowledge, personal memory, poetic insight and imagination to an understanding of this prayer, murmured by millions every day.
In all it's not even sixty words long and, as it appears in the Gospel according to Matthew, it's introduced by Jesus as a 'how to pray' guide: 'This then, is how you should pray". Today it's bound with the need to express our longing for a better world and something we all share, but what do these short lines mean and how do they help?
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Unpopular music with Nick Luscombe and radio's most eclectic mix. Including the innovative Argentinean musician and producer Axel Krygier, Norwegian singer Ane Brun plus vintage tunes from Billy Fury and Les Baxter.
WEDNESDAY 01 APRIL 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b05nsf7w)
Emerson Quartet
Emerson Quartet performs Mendelssohn, Schubert and Beethoven. With Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Quartet no. 6 in F minor Op.80 for strings
Emerson Quartet
12:58 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quartet No.14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' (D.810)
Emerson Quartet
1:38 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Quartet for strings in F major 'Rasumovsky' (Op.59 No.1)
Emerson Quartet
2:17 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Poco adagio, Movt no. 3, from 'String Quartet in G minor, op. 20/3, Hob. III:33
Emerson String Quartet
2:25 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibit (D.478) from Three Songs of the Harpist (Op.12) No.1) (He who commits himself to loneliness)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
2:31 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
From 4 Psalms for baritone and mixed voices (Op.74)
Norwegian Soloists' Choir (Choir), Grete Helgerod (Conductor)
2:45 AM
Jarnefelt, Armas (1869-1958)
Korsholma - Symphonic Poem
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Soderblom (Conductor)
3:02 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata No.20 in A major (D.959)
Annie Fischer (piano)
3:35 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op. 72 no.2
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (Conductor)
3:42 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Pour le piano
Charles Richard-Hamelin (Piano)
3:55 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Feux d'artifice
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (Conductor)
3:59 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Overture in D major
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (Conductor)
4:06 AM
Anonymous ()
Gorzkie zale - Planctus de Passione for 2 sopranos, strings and continuo
Anna Mikolajczyk (Soprano), Olga Pasiecznik (Soprano), Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra, Arek Golinski (Violin), Dymitr Olszewski (Violin), Teresa Kaminska (Cello), Marek Toporowski (Organ), Marek Toporowski (Director)
4:13 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Abegg variations Op.1 for piano
Annika Treutler (Piano)
4:21 AM
Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06)
Concerto a 4 (Op.7 No.2)
Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (Violin), Chiara Banchini (Director)
4:31 AM
Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817)
Overture to the play 'Husitterne' (The Hussites)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (Conductor)
4:38 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
4 Romantic pieces Op.75 for violin and piano
Elena Urioste (Violin), Zhang Zuo (Piano)
4:52 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for Trumpet & Orchestra in D major
Friedemann Immer (Trumpet), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (Director)
5:00 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
7 chansons, for mixed choir a cappella (1936)
Swedish Radio Choir (Choir), Par Fridberg (Conductor)
5:13 AM
Scott, Cyril (1879-1970)
Lotus Land (Op.47 No.1)
Cristina Ortiz (Piano)
5:18 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Waltz No.11 in B minor & Waltz No.12 in E major (arranged for chamber orchestra) - from the Waltzes for two pianos (Op.39)
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (Conductor)
5:22 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.34 in C major (K.338)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert King (Conductor)
5:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Violin Concerto in A minor, (BWV.1041)
Midori Seiler (Violin), Akademie fur Alte Musik
6:03 AM
Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921)
Sonata for oboe and piano (Op.166) in D major
Roger Cole (Oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (Piano)
6:15 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Tragic overture (Op.81)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b05nsj0l)
Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b05nsn2c)
Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Declan Donnellan
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book'. Throughout the week Rob and Sarah dip into this remarkable collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music, showcasing works by composers including Byrd, Bull and Gibbons.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and director Declan Donnellan. Since co-founding his own theatre company in 1981, Declan has become well-known as a Shakespearean director as well as winning accolades for his interpretations of works ranging from plays by Chekhov and Pushkin to Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Declan will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at
10am.
10.30am
Rob and Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor Stephen Cleobury. Director of the world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Cleobury has worked with leading orchestras and soloists including the Academy of Ancient Music and the Philharmonia. Sarah will be exploring his interpretations of works by composers including Brahms, Harvey, Mozart, Stanford and Tallis.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier, Op 59: extract
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Marschallin)
Christa Ludwig (Octavian)
Teresa Stich-Randall (Sophie)
Otto Edelmann (Ochs)
Eberhard Wächter (Faninal)
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05nsrj6)
Judith Weir (1954-)
Perspectives
Judith Weir describes how the elements around her, from outer space to the roof of the Royal Albert Hall become are distilled in the form and language of her music.
One of our most distinguished composers, in July 2014 Judith Weir succeeded Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as Master of the Queen's Music. It's an honour that joins an already impressive collection of awards, which include a CBE and the Queen's Medal for Music. Born in 1954 into a musical Scottish family, Weir grew up near London. A member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Weir studied composition with John Tavener during her school holidays. More formal studies followed at Cambridge University, including composition with Robin Holloway, and at Tanglewood summer school, where she worked with Gunther Schuller. The possessor of a rich, fertile imagination, Weir draws on a wide variety of sources, notably dark fairytales, folk stories, Chinese philosophy, Indian music and culture, distilling their essence in music of luminous clarity. Her fundamental concern is to tell stories. An articulate communicator, Weir's writing about her music encapsulates the process brilliantly. In this series, Weir offers a personal insight into some of the musical projects which have occupied her since the beginning of the noughties.
From the vernacular to the literary, Judith Weir takes inspiration from the world around her. Ancient forms, folk tales, the universe and Chinese philosophical literature are recurring sources of inspiration. Today, in conversation with Donald Macleod, Judith Weir traces the roots of their appeal and illustrates the variety in her treatment of these persistent themes.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05nsxcr)
The Songs of Duparc
Episode 2
Pianist Joseph Middleton and soprano Mary Bevan explore how poets inspired the songs of Duparc and his contemporaries. From the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
The name Henri Duparc is admitted into the great roll-call of French song composers on account of only 16 solo songs and a duet. Born in 1848, by the time he was 35 he had written the songs that were to ensure his musical immortality and, due to an obscure nervous disease, he wrote no more until he died, aged 85, in 1933. Duparc's first song was written in 1868, a year before the death of Berlioz; his last in 1884, a year after the death of Wagner. He destroyed many compositions, such was his perfectionist nature. This series seeks to place Duparc's solo songs in the wider context of his friends, influences and contemporaries, thus highlighting his remarkable gift for setting poetry for voice and piano.
Today's recital in this series looks to poets for inspiration. For Duparc, one poet marks a special relationship, the result of which are two masterpieces that distinguish a compositional style which seems entirely idiosyncratic. His songs L'invitation au voyage and La vie antérieure are both settings of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) and these two songs represent his greatest achievements as a song composer.
Other fine settings of Baudelaire in today's recital include Les hiboux by Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921) and Harmonie du soir by Pierre de Bréville. Both composers, like Duparc, were students of César Franck. Two songs from Debussy's Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire complete our mini-tour of settings of this poet. The middle of the recital is dedicated to Goethe and the plight of the young waif Mignon, a heroine who has bewitched composers ever since her tale was told in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795-1796). Duparc sets Wilder's translation of Goethe's Kennst du das Land? in a simple strophic form. Juxtaposed with this song are four settings Schubert made exploring the ever-deteriorating mental state of this vulnerable girl. Just as Baudelaire unlocked Duparc's profound ability for setting poetry to music, so the same could be said for Goethe's influence upon a young Schubert.
DUPARC L'invitation au voyage
CHABRIER: L'invitation au voyage
FAURE Chant d'automne; Hymne
DUPARC Romance de Mignon
SCHUBERT Nur wer die sehnsucht kennt; Heiss mich nicht reden; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land?
DE SEVERAC Les hiboux
DE BREVILLE Harmonie du soir
DEBUSSY Harmonie du soir
DUPARC La vie antérieure.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05nsxct)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 3
Jonathan Swain presents performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra this week. Today's programme includes Sibelius's tone poem Finlandia as part of our continuing Nordic and Baltic season, there's another Beethoven concerto, the violin concerto, with Alina Pogostkina as soloist, and Jonathan Plowright performs more from the Polish composer Ludomir Rozycki.
2pm
SIBELIUS Finlandia, Op.26
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
2.10pm
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61
Alina Pogostkina (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
2.50pm
ROZYCKI Piano Concerto No. 2
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b05nt0ts)
St Edmundsbury Cathedral
Live from St Edmundsbury Cathedral
Introit: When I survey the wondrous cross (Malcolm Archer)
Office Hymn: Nature with open volume stands (Nürnberg)
Responses: Tomkins
Psalm 88 (Howells)
First Lesson: Isaiah 63 vv 1-9
Canticles: Heathcote Statham in E minor
Second Lesson: Revelation 14 v 18 - 15 v 4
Anthems: The Lamentation (Bairstow)
Plangent eum (Judith Bingham)
Homily: The Very Revd Christopher Lewis
Final Hymn: At the Name of Jesus (King's Weston)
Organ Voluntary: Aus tiefer Not schrei' ich zu dir, BWV 686 (Bach)
Assistant Director of Music: Dan Soper
Director of Music: James Thomas.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b05nszl0)
James Taylor Quartet, Terry Wey, Max and Alexander Baillie
Sean Rafferty's guests include celebrated masters of funk, the James Taylor Quartet. They are branching out into the world of choral music - together with and a 10-strong choir, the quartet performs live in the studio from their brand new Rochester Mass, which receives its world premiere at the Royal Festival Hall on Monday as part of Southbank Centre's Chorus festival. More live music from father-son duo Alexander and Max Baillie as they prepare to play at a celebration of the cello at Club Inegales in London. Plus countertenor Terry Wey visits the studio to discuss his upcoming performance with The English Concert and Harry Bicket.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05nsrj6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05nszs1)
Easter at King's: Haydn, Brahms, Rossini
As part of the Easter at King's Festival, Stephen Cleobury conducts this concert of seasonal music, live from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge. Haydn's dramatic Symphony 49 is from his Sturm und Drang period. There's a rare performance of Schiller's funeral song, a lamentation on the inevitability of death, set by Brahms; and the concert ends with Rossini's Stabat Mater, a late work written after he'd retired from the operatic stage.
HAYDN Symphony No 49 in F minor, La Passione
BRAHMS Nänie
INTERVAL
ROSSINI Stabat Mater
Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo)
Tom Raskin (tenor)
Henry Waddington (bass)
Philharmonia Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Cleobury
Post-Concert Music: It's All About the Piano! - Hands of Tomorrow - a Franco-British soirée, recorded at the French Institute in London last Saturday. Over the course of this week sample four top young pianists from the Paris Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in music including D. Scarlatti, Brahms, Debussy, Boulez, Messiaen and Liszt:
Marina Koka (piano) Guildhall School
Justine Leroux (piano) Paris Conservatoire
Sophia Dee (piano) Guildhall School
Tanguy de Williencourt (piano) Paris Conservatoire.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b05nt04h)
Public v Private Art
In this programme about public and private art, Philip Dodd talks to Nicholas Penny, the outgoing Director of the National Gallery. In the interview Penny explains why he thinks "it's really important to be unkind about contemporary art" and why if you do not like the National Gallery collection "you should perhaps try harder".
Philip also talks to the global art collector and private museum owner Budi Tek about why he thinks ticket prices are important to keep people from coming into his museums simply to take advantage of the air conditioning.
Producer: Natalie Steed
Photo: Dr Nicholas Penny in front of Diana and Actaeon
(c) The National Gallery, London.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b05nt04k)
On Earth, as It Is in Heaven
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Rabbi Julia Neuberger considers the middle section of the Lord's Prayer. She reflects on the line "Give us this day our daily bread".
Five brilliant voices essay on different sections of the Lord's Prayer for our time. Author Ali Smith, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies Mona Siddiqui, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch and poet and author Andrew Motion examine each thought with a modern day searchlight, bringing theological knowledge, personal memory, poetic insight and imagination to an understanding of this prayer, murmured by millions every day.
In all it's not even sixty words long and, as it appears in the Gospel according to Matthew, it's introduced by Jesus as a 'how to pray' guide: 'This then, is how you should pray". Today it's bound with the need to express our longing for a better world and something we all share, but what do these short lines mean and how do they help?
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Producer, Kate Bland.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b05nt0jm)
Wednesday - Nick Luscombe
Music for April Fools? No, it's Late Junction with Nick Luscombe and music from Brazil's Psilosamples, the latest release from London based musician Digitonal and a trip back in time with The New Jazz Orchestra.
THURSDAY 02 APRIL 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b05nsf7y)
Caldara's Morte e sepoltura di Cristo
Jonathan Swain presents Caldara's oratorio Morte e sepoltura di Cristo.
12:32 AM
Caldara, Antonio (c.1670-c.1736)
Laboravi in gemitu meo - motet
Martina Belli (contralto), Carlo Allemano (tenor), Ugo Guagliardo (bass), Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director/violin)
12:34 AM
Caldara, Antonio (c.1670-c.1736)
Morte e sepoltura di Cristo - Oratorio (Part 1)
Maria Maddalena ..... Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano), Maria di Giacobbe ..... Monica Piccinini (soprano),Giuseppe d'Arimatea ...... Martina Belli (contralto), Nicodemo ..... Carlo Allemano (tenor), Centurione ...... Ugo Guagliardo (bass), Europa Galante , Fabio Biondi (director/violin)
1:35 AM
Caldara, Antonio (c.1670-c.1736)
Transfige, dulcissime Jesu - motet
1:38 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Sonata Santo Sepolcro (Rv.130)
1:42 AM
Caldara, Antonio (c.1670-c.1736)
Morte e sepoltura di Cristo - Oratorio (Part 2)
Maria Maddalena ..... Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano), Maria di Giacobbe ..... Monica Piccinini (soprano),Giuseppe d'Arimatea ...... Martina Belli (contralto), Nicodemo ..... Carlo Allemano (tenor), Centurione ...... Ugo Guagliardo (bass), Europa Galante , Fabio Biondi (director/violin)
2:35 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Sonata for cello and piano No.1 in B flat major (Op.45) (Allegro vivace; Andante; Allegro assai)
Diana Ozolina (cello), Lelde Paula (piano)
2:58 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor (Op.posthumous)
Harald Aadland (violin), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)
3:30 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La plus que lente
Roger Woodward (piano)
3:35 AM
Bortnyansky, Dmitri [1751-1825]
Hymn of the Cherubim No.7 "The Lord is King"
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)
3:39 AM
Khachaturian, Aram Ilyich [1903-1978]
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet 'Spartacus' (Act 3)
NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)
3:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Fugue in G minor (BWV.1000)
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
3:55 AM
Merikanto, Oscar (1868-1924)
Improvisation (Op.76 No.3)
Eero Heinonen (piano)
4:02 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sabbato' (TWV42:g3) - from 'Pyrmonter Kurwoche'
Albrecht Rau (violin), Heinrich Rau (viola), Clemens Malich (cello), Wolfgang Hochstein (harpsichord)
4:10 AM
Frumerie, Gunnar de (1908-1987)
Pastoral Suite (Op.13b)
Kathleen Rudolph (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:23 AM
Wieniawski, Henryk (1835-1880)
Polonaise No.1 in D major (Op.4)
Reka Szilvay (violin), Naoko Ichihashi (piano)
4:31 AM
Vilec, Michal [1902-1979]
Na rozhl'adni (z cyklu 'Letné zápisky') (On the Watchtower (from the cycle 'Summer Pictures'))
Ivica Gabrisova -Encingerova (flute), (unnamed pianist)
4:35 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
BBC Philharmonic, Jan-Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
4:45 AM
Marini, Biagio [1594-1663]
Violin Sonata no 4 (Op. 8)
Davide Monti (violin), Maria Cleary (Arpa Doppia)
4:56 AM
Raff, Joachim (1822-1882)
La Fileuse (Op.157 No.2)
Dennis Hennig (piano)
5:00 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Tasso, S.96 (symphonic poem)
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Juozas Domarkas (conductor)
5:21 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in F major (Op.6 No.9)
Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
5:38 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Ständchen (Op.17 No.2)
Ailish Tynan (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
5:41 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
No.2 Cacilie from 4 Lieder (Op.27)
Christianne Stotijn (soprano), Joseph Breinl (piano)
5:43 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Fantasia for piano in C minor (K.475)
Juho Pohjonen (piano)
5:56 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Sorrow for cello and orchestra (Op.2 No.2)
Arto Noras (cello), The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
6:02 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Quartet in F major Op.135 for strings
Oslo Quartet.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b05nsj1k)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b05nsn6s)
Thursday - Sarah Walker with Declan Donnellan
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book'. Throughout the week Rob and Sarah dip into this remarkable collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music, showcasing works by composers including Byrd, Bull and Gibbons.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and director Declan Donnellan. Since co-founding his own theatre company in 1981, Declan has become well-known as a Shakespearean director as well as winning accolades for his interpretations of works ranging from plays by Chekhov and Pushkin to Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Declan will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at
10am.
10.30am
Rob and Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor Stephen Cleobury. Director of the world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Cleobury has worked with leading orchestras and soloists including the Academy of Ancient Music and the Philharmonia. Sarah will be exploring his interpretations of works by composers including Brahms, Harvey, Mozart, Stanford and Tallis.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
SCHOENBERG 6 Little Piano Pieces, Op 19
Maurizio Pollini.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05nsrls)
Judith Weir (1954-)
Storytelling in Sound
Judith Weir's distinctive soundworld uses a variety of narrative devices, ranging from texts through to the colourful palette of instrumental ensembles.
One of our most distinguished composers, in July 2014 Judith Weir succeeded Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as Master of the Queen's Music. It's an honour that joins an already impressive collection of awards, which include a CBE and the Queen's Medal for Music. Born in 1954 into a musical Scottish family, Weir grew up near London. A member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Weir studied composition with John Tavener during her school holidays. More formal studies followed at Cambridge University, including composition with Robin Holloway, and at Tanglewood summer school, where she worked with Gunther Schuller. The possessor of a rich, fertile imagination, Weir draws on a wide variety of sources, notably dark fairytales, folk stories, Chinese philosophy, Indian music and culture, distilling their essence in music of luminous clarity. Her fundamental concern is to tell stories. An articulate communicator, Weir's writing about her music encapsulates the process brilliantly. In this series, Weir offers a personal insight into some of the musical projects which have occupied her since the beginning of the noughties.
Today, Judith Weir discusses her composing method and her approach to the delicate balance between text and instrumental forces, with excerpts from her song cycle woman.life.song, a modern interpretation of a woman's life and "Missa del Cid", a work for choir with narrator, using her own adaptation of medieval texts. With Donald Macleod.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05nsxcw)
The Songs of Duparc
Episode 3
Joseph Middleton is joined by soprano Jane Irwin for a further exploration of the songs of Duparc and his influences - France goes to Bayreuth: l'esprit de Wagner.
The name Henri Duparc is admitted into the great roll-call of French song composers on account of only 16 solo songs and a duet. Born in 1848, by the time he was 35 he had written the songs that were to ensure his immortality and, due to an obscure nervous disease, he wrote no more until he died aged 85, in 1933. Duparc's first song was written in 1868, a year before the death of Berlioz; his last in 1884, a year after the death of Wagner. He destroyed many compositions, such was his perfectionist nature. This series seeks to place Duparc's songs in the wider context of works by his friends, influences and contemporaries, thus highlighting his remarkable gift for setting poetry for voice and piano.
In this concert from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen, his songs are contrasted with those of his teacher César Franck and other contemporary composers Chaminade, D'Indy, Bordes and De Bréville.
DUPARC Au pays où se fait la guerre; La vague et la cloche; Elégie
WOLF Anakreons Grab
LISZT Der du von dem Himmel bist
CHAUSSON Serre chaude; Oraison
WAGNER Wesendonck Lieder
DUPARC Sérénade; Extase; Phidylé.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05nsxcy)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Janacek - The Cunning Little Vixen
In telling the story of the Vixen and her forest companions and that of the Forester's life in the village, Janacek evokes two worlds that intersect, musing through this enchanting fable on man and nature, the passing of time, and the natural life-cycle.
Recorded at the Vienna Staatsoper last June. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
2pm:
JANACEK The Cunning Little Vixen
Forester ..... Gerald Finley (baritone)
Vixen (Sharp-Ears) ..... Chen Reiss, (soprano)
Harašta ..... Wolfgang Bankl (bass)
Schoolmaster/Mosquito ..... James Kryshak (tenor)
Forester's Wife/Owl ..... Donna Ellen (contralto)
Priest/Badger ..... Andreas Hörl (bass)
Pásek ..... Wolfram Igor Derntl (tenor)
Fox ..... Hyuna Ko (soprano)
Young Vixen ..... Isolde Zerweck (child soprano)
Frantík ..... Bernhard Sengstschmid (treble)
Pepík ..... Jan Sebastian Höhener (treble)
Pásek's Wife ..... Sabine Kogler (soprano)
Chocholka ..... Lydia Rathkolb (soprano)
Rooster ..... Heinz Zednik (tenor)
Woodpecker/Lapak the Dog ..... Ilseyar Khayrullova (contralto)
Cricket ..... Johanna Laslop, (child soprano)
Frog ..... Mina Todorowski, (child soprano)
Grasshopper ..... Isabella Orasch (child soprano)
Jay ..... Maria Gusenleitner (soprano)
Midge ..... Lea Dluhos (child soprano)
Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)
3:30pm:
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony no. 10 in E minor, Op.93
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b05nszl2)
Noriko Ogawa, Red Priest, Jonathan Dove, James MacMillan
Sean Rafferty presents a lively drivetime mix of chat, arts news, live music and the best recordings.
Guests include acclaimed Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa. On World Autism Awareness Day, she will be performing live in the studio ahead of a series of concerts she will be giving in London specifically designed for the parents of children with autism.
There's live music too from early music ensemble Red Priest, bringing their distinctive, irreverent and lively take on Baroque music to the In Tune studio.
Plus, two of Britain's most distinguished composers drop by: James MacMillan talks about his St Luke's Passion, which will be performed in Cambridge and London this week with him at the helm.
Plus Jonathan Dove talks about the upcoming tour of his family opera Swanhunter - complete with puppets and striking visuals.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05nsrls)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05nszs3)
BBC SSO - Simpson, MacMillan, Rachmaninov
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Andrew Litton, the charismatic American conductor, brings his musical passion to Rachmaninov's Second Symphony. This hour-long symphony, written while Rachmaninov was living in Dresden, away from his homeland, is full of the lyricism and melodic turns of phrase familiar from the piano concertos.
The first half of the concert showcases two British composers of different generations. A former BBC Young Musician of the Year, Mark Simpson is the Liverpool-born clarinettist and composer whose new BBC commission takes its title from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. And James MacMillan is the preeminent Scottish composer whose cycle of three piano concertos is being explored by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Peter Donohoe. Tonight's concert features his ballet-inspired Second Piano Concerto which melds traditional Scottish folk-music with dazzling piano virtuosity.
Mark SIMPSON Israfel (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
James MacMILLAN Piano Concerto No 2
8.20 Interval Music
8.40
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 in E minor
Peter Donohoe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton (conductor)
Post-concert music: It's All About the Piano! -Hands of Tomorrow - a Franco-British soirée, recorded at the French Institute in London last Saturday. Over the course of this week sample four top young pianists from the Paris Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in music including D. Scarlatti, Brahms, Debussy, Boulez, Messiaen and Liszt:
Marina Koka (piano) Guildhall School
Justine Leroux (piano) Paris Conservatoire
Sophia Dee (piano) Guildhall School
Tanguy de Williencourt (piano) Paris Conservatoire.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b05nt04m)
Patricia Duncker, Adrienne Mayor on the Amazons, Harriet Walter and Guy Paul
With Anne McElvoy.
Patricia Duncker talks about her new novel which imagines George Eliot's relationship with her German publishers, Max and Wolfgang Duncker; Adrienne Mayor discusses the strength of women with Professor Melvin Konner, by looking at her history of the Amazons and his work on the end of male supremacy; as an exhibition featuring empty Sansovino frames opens at The National Gallery in London, Anne speaks to Head of Frames Peter Schade about their history; and Dame Harriet Walter and Guy Paul discuss collaborating on stage as a real life couple ahead of appearing in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Having taught the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Patricia Duncker is now Professor of Contemporary Literature at Manchester University. Her previous fiction includes James Miranda Barry, and The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge.
Her novel Sophie and the Sibyl is published on 9 April.
Adrienne Mayor is a historian of science at Stanford University whose latest book looks at the historical and archaeological evidence which underpin myths and tales of war-like women.
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World is available in hardback and e-book.
Melvin Konner is Professor of Anthropology and the Programme in Neuroscience and Behavioural Biology at Emory University in Atlanta.
Women After All: Sex, Evolution and the End of Male Supremacy is available in hardback and e-book.
Frames In Focus: Sansovino Frames runs from 1 April to 13 September at The National Gallery in London.
Death of a Salesman runs at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon until 2 May.
Produced by Ella-mai Robey
Image: Patricia Duncker
Photo Credit: Keith Morris.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b05nt04p)
On Earth, as It Is in Heaven
Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Michigan-based poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch considers the lines of the Lord's Prayer "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us".
Five brilliant voices essay on different sections of the Lord's Prayer for our time. Author Ali Smith, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies Mona Siddiqui, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch and poet and author Andrew Motion examine each thought with a modern day searchlight, bringing theological knowledge, personal memory, poetic insight and imagination to an understanding of this prayer, murmured by millions every day.
In all it's not even sixty words long and, as it appears in the Gospel according to Matthew, it's introduced by Jesus as a 'how to pray' guide: 'This then, is how you should pray". Today it's bound with the need to express our longing for a better world and something we all share, but what do these short lines mean and how do they help?
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Producer, Kate Bland.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b05nt0jp)
Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Expect the unexpected: Nick Luscombe with with an eclectic mix of anything and everything. Including Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed, Psychedelic Sanza from Francis Bebey and experimental singer-songwriter DM Stith.
FRIDAY 03 APRIL 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b05nsf80)
Bach's St Matthew Passion
Celebrating Simon Rattle. Bach's St Matthew Passion from the 2014 BBC Proms. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Matthauspassion BWV.244 (The St Matthew Passion)
Mark Padmore (Evangelist, tenor), Christian Gerhaher (Christus, baritone), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Eric Owens (bass), Berlin Radio Chorus with choristers from Wells and Winchester Cathedrals, respective chorus masters Simon Halsey, Matthew Owens and Andrew Lumsden, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
3:19 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856), arr Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Widmung (Op.25 No.1)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
3:24 AM
Palmgren, Selim (1878-1951)
Exotic March
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor)
3:30 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Spring Song (Op.16)
Kaija Saarikettu (violin), Raija Kerppo (piano)
3:38 AM
Parac, Frano (b. 1948)
Scherzo for Winds
Zagreb Wind Quintet - Dani Bosnjak (flute), Branko Mihanoviae (oboe), Danijel Martinoviae (clarinet), Bank Harkay (horn), Ricardo Luque (bassoon)
3:47 AM
Foulds, John [1880-1939]
Keltic Overture (Op.28)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
3:54 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
The Secret of the Struma River
Gusla Men's Choir, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
4:02 AM
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)
Sonata in G major for violin and piano
Peter Michalica (violin), Elena Michalicova (piano)
4:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) arr. Danzi, Franz (1763-1826)
Extracts from 'Die Zauberflöte' arranged for 2 cellos
Duo Fouquet
4:21 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sonata (Op.1 No.5) in F major (HWV.363a) vers. oboe & bc
Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Québec, Canada)
4:31 AM
Walton, William [1902-1983]
Orb and sceptre - coronation march
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor)
4:39 AM
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857)
Fantasie in F minor for piano four hands (Op. 226)
Stefan Lindgren and Daniel Propper (piano)
4:49 AM
Wert, Giacches de (1535-1596)
Qual musico gentil - from 'L'ottavo libre de madrigali a cinque voci' (Venice, 1586)
5 à Cappella Singers at the Sonesta Koepelzaa, Amsterdam
4:59 AM
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859)
Fantasia, Theme and Variations on a theme of Danzi in B flat (Op.81)
László Horvath (clarinet), New Budapest String Quartet
5:07 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Violin Sonata in A minor (Op.1 No.4) (HWV.362)
Tomaz Lorenz (violin), Jerko Novak (guitar)
5:18 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Sonata quasi una fantasia for piano (Op.27 No.2) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight'
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
5:32 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings in D minor (H.426)
Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:54 AM
Alfvén, Hugo (1872-1960)
Midsummer Vigil - Swedish Rhapsody no.1 (Op.19)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
6:09 AM
Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788-1831)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Amici Chamber Ensemble: Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), David Hetherington (cello), Patricia Parr (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b05nsj3q)
Friday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b05nsn82)
Friday - Sarah Walker with Declan Donnellan
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book'. Throughout the week Rob and Sarah dip into this remarkable collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music, showcasing works by composers including Byrd, Bull and Gibbons.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you tell which piece of music is being played backwards?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and director Declan Donnellan. Since co-founding his own theatre company in 1981, Declan has become well-known as a Shakespearean director as well as winning accolades for his interpretations of works ranging from plays by Chekhov and Pushkin to Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Declan will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at
10am.
10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor Stephen Cleobury. Director of the world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Cleobury has worked with leading orchestras and soloists including the Academy of Ancient Music and the Philharmonia. Sarah will be exploring his interpretations of works by composers including Brahms, Harvey, Mozart, Stanford and Tallis.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde
Violeta Urmana (mezzo-soprano)
Michael Schade (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic
Pierre Boulez (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05nsrmj)
Judith Weir (1954-)
The Composer in Society
Judith Weir discusses the role of a composer in society and her enjoyment of working with performers, students and her new role as Master of the Queen's Music.
One of our most distinguished composers, in July 2014 Judith Weir succeeded Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as Master of the Queen's Music. It's an honour that joins an already impressive collection of awards, which include a CBE and the Queen's Medal for Music. Born in 1954 into a musical Scottish family, Weir grew up near London. A member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Weir studied composition with John Tavener during her school holidays. More formal studies followed at Cambridge University, including composition with Robin Holloway, and at Tanglewood summer school, where she worked with Gunther Schuller. The possessor of a rich, fertile imagination, Weir draws on a wide variety of sources, notably dark fairytales, folk stories, Chinese philosophy, Indian music and culture, distilling their essence in music of luminous clarity. Her fundamental concern is to tell stories. An articulate communicator, Weir's writing about her music encapsulates the process brilliantly. In this series, Weir offers a personal insight into some of the musical projects which have occupied her since the beginning of the noughties.
In the final chapter of this week's survey, Judith Weir talks to Donald Macleod about her role as Master of the Queen's Music and looks back at the relationships she's forged over the years, with her recording company, performers and arts and academic organisations, plus a look ahead to some of her future projects.
To Judith, from Judith (No 5 of Variations for Judith: 11 Short Reflections on Bist du bei mir (G H Stölzel arr. JS Bach))
Melvyn Tan, piano.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05nsxd0)
The Songs of Duparc
Episode 4
Mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers joins pianist Joseph Middleton in this exploration of songs by Duparc and his contemporaries.
The name Henri Duparc is admitted into the great roll-call of French song composers on account of only 16 solo songs and a duet. Born in 1848, by the time he was 35 he had written the songs that were to ensure his immortality and, due to an obscure nervous disease, he wrote no more until he died age85, in 1933. Duparc's first song was written in 1868, a year before the death of Berlioz; his last in 1884, a year after the death of Wagner. He destroyed many compositions, such was his perfectionist nature This series seeks to place Duparc's songs in the wider context of works by his friends, influences and contemporaries, thus highlighting his remarkable gift for setting poetry for voice and piano.
This concert is themed 'Constraint au silence'. The singer is mute - madness and the sacred in music.
DUPARC Le manoir de Rosemonde; Testament
WOLF Nun bin ich dein; Nun wandre, Marie; Die ihr schwebet; Ach, das Knaben Augen; Herr, was trägt der Boden hier
SCHUMANN Gedichte der Königen Maria Stuart
FAURE Au cimetière; Das les ruines d'une Abbaye; Mélisande's Song
DUPARC Lamento; La vie antérieure.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05nsxd2)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
Jonathan Swain presents performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Sibelius's Humoresques and Stenhammar's Second Symphony complete this week's Nordic and Baltic selection, and there's more from more from the orchestra's recent tour in China with conductor Martyn Brabbins.
2.00pm
MacCUNN Overture: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Op.3
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
2.10pm
STENHAMMAR Symphony No. 2 in G minor, Op.34
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu (conductor)
2.55pm
ROZYCKI Ballade, Op 18
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
3.05pm
BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
3.15pm
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
3.45pm
ELGAR Enigma Variations
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b05nszl4)
Alison Balsom, John Butt, Bob Chilcott
Sean's Good Friday guests include the Scottish early music ensemble Dunedin Consort's director John Butt, as he prepares for a performance of Bach's St John Passion at Wigmore Hall. Top trumpeter Alison Balsom visits the studio to discuss her upcoming tour with London Philharmonic Orchestra, plus choral conductor and composer Bob Chilcott on his concert with the BBC Singers.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05nsrmj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05nszs5)
Easter at King's: James MacMillan's St Luke Passion
James MacMillan conducts his St Luke Passion at King's College, Cambridge
James MacMILLAN: St Luke Passion
Britten Sinfonia
Britten Sinfonia Voices
Trinity Boys Choir, London
Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, London
James MacMillan, conductor
Britten Sinfonia continues its close relationship with Scottish composer James MacMillan with this performance of his St Luke Passion, which takes as its starting point the passage in the Gospel of Luke describing the suffering and death of Jesus. James's musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music. In writing his Passion, MacMillan said, "Bach's music proves that the Passion of Christ has deep beginnings and profound resonance, even for modern man: he opened up a window on the divine love affair with humanity. The greatest calling for an artist, in any age, is to do the same."
Post-concert music: It's All About the Piano! - Hands of Tomorrow - a Franco-British soirée, recorded at the French Institute in London, last Saturday. Over the course of this week sample four top young pianists from the Paris Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in music including D. Scarlatti, Brahms, Debussy, Boulez, Messiaen and Liszt:
Marina Koka (piano) Guildhall School
Justine Leroux (piano) Paris Conservatoire
Sophia Dee (piano) Guildhall School
Tanguy de Williencourt (piano) Paris Conservatoire.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b05nt04r)
The Language of Bureaucracy
Ian McMilllan explores the language of bureaucracy with writer and academic Paul Taylor, and the poet and artist Heather Phillipson. Heather was chosen as one of the Next Generation Poets 2014, and she has written a new piece especially for The Verb.
The academic and writer Julie Schumacher has examined the culture of bureaucracy within academia in her novel 'Dear Committee Members', an epistolary novel using Letters of Recommendation.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b05nt04t)
On Earth, as It Is in Heaven
Lead Us Not into Temptation
Poet and author Andrew Motion considers the penultimate lines of the Lord's Prayer, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil".
Five brilliant voices essay on different sections of the Lord's Prayer for our time. Author Ali Smith, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies Mona Siddiqui, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, poet and undertaker Thomas Lynch and poet and author Andrew Motion examine each thought with a modern day searchlight, bringing theological knowledge, personal memory, poetic insight and imagination to an understanding of this prayer, murmured by millions every day.
In all it's not even sixty words long and, as it appears in the Gospel according to Matthew, it's introduced by Jesus as a 'how to pray' guide: 'This then, is how you should pray". Today it's bound with the need to express our longing for a better world and something we all share, but what do these short lines mean and how do they help?
Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Producer, Kate Bland.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b05nt0jr)
Mary Ann Kennedy - Nazim Ziryab in Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus a session with BBC Introducing artist Nazim Ziryab, a singer and guitarist originally from Algeria.
World on 3 joined BBC Introducing in January, with the aim of uncovering new talent in world, roots and folk music. Tracks from unsigned artists are now regularly featured in the programme, and this is our first BBC Introducing session. Singer and guitarist Nazim Ziryab uploaded his tracks onto BBC Introducing in January - he had performed in Mali and Morocco as well as his native Algeria before moving to the UK as a student three years ago. Nazim and his band were invited to record this session at the BBC's Maida Vale studios in March. Nazim describes his music as "traditional Berber music fused with Afro-Blues, reggae, Jazz and raw psychedelic sounds that will transport you into the heart of the Sahara." The session will be available as a video on the BBC Introducing website.
Nazim will also introduce a Heritage Track that has influenced him as a musician, and there will be another dip into Radio 3's World Music Archive. Plus, World on 3's Album of the Month.
World on 3 sessions are available for download as a podcast via the home page.
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 (b05nsbm9)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b05nsxcp)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b05nsxct)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b05nsxcy)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b05nsxd2)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b05ns69x)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b05ns855)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b05nsbm1)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b05nshwd)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b05nsj0l)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b05nsj1k)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b05nsj3q)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b05ns69z)
Choral Evensong
16:00 SUN (b05mrs0t)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b05nt0ts)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b05nsbm5)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b05nsbm5)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b05nsrhq)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b05nsrhq)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b05nsrj6)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b05nsrj6)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b05nsrls)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b05nsrls)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b05nsrmj)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b05nsrmj)
Drama on 3
21:45 SUN (b05ns9lx)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b05nsbm3)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b05nsn09)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b05nsn2c)
Essential Classics
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Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b05nsn82)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b05nt04c)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b05nt04h)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b05nt04m)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b05ns853)
Hear and Now
22:00 SAT (b05ns6bc)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b05nsbmc)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b05nszkw)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b05nszl0)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b05nszl2)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b05nszl4)
Jazz Line-Up
18:00 SAT (b05ns6gk)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b05nxmgn)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b05nsdwf)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b05nt0jk)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b05nt0jm)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b05nt0jp)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b05ns6b1)
Music for Holy Week
13:00 SUN (b05ns85c)
Music for Holy Week
17:00 SUN (b05ns97y)
Music for Holy Week
23:00 SUN (b05nyb0t)
Opera on 3
19:30 MON (b05p22d4)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b05ns859)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SAT (b05ns6b9)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b05nszrx)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b05nszs1)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b05nszs3)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b05nszs5)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b05ns6b3)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b05nsbm7)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b05nsxcm)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b05nsxcr)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b05nsxcw)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b05nsxd0)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b05nxkz1)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b05ns6b7)
Sunday Feature
21:00 SUN (b05ns9lv)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b05ns857)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b05nscjh)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b05nt04f)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b05nt04k)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b05nt04p)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b05nt04t)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b05nt04r)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b05n1ldj)
Through the Night
02:00 SUN (b05nxx80)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b05nsblz)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b05nsf7r)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b05nsf7w)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b05nsf7y)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b05nsf80)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b05nt0jr)