Bulgarian Television & Radio Mixed Choir; Mihail Milkov (conductor); Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ivan Marinov (conductor); Nicola Ghiuselev (bass); Elena Stoyanova (soprano); Hristina Angelakova (mezzo-soprano); Rumen Doikov (tenor); Nikolai Stoilov (bass); Angel Petkov (tenor): Dimiter Stanchev (bass)
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
Jordi Savall (director), Luiz Alves da Silva (counter tenor), Paolo Costa (counter tenor), Lambert Climent (tenor), Jordi Ricart (baritone), Hesperion XX ensemble
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Dvorák's Slavonic Dances'. Dvorák's dances were an instant hit on their publication in 1878, propelling the Czech composer to international fame. A second set brought the total to sixteen dances. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for these miniature masterpieces, showcasing interpretations by conductors including Rafael Kubelik, Jean Martinon and Václav Talich.
Take part in our daily musical challenge: two pieces of music are played together. Can you work out what they are?
Rob's guest is the stand-up comedian and actor Omid Djalili. Omid has a varied career across stage and screen and is well known for his popular sketch shows and sell-out international tours. He will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at
Following on from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman on Monday, Rob explores other works with literary connections.
Rob's artist of the week is Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov, whose performances display virtuosity, poetry and insight in equal measure. Sokolov is regarded as one of the greatest living pianists in Europe, but his refusal to make studio recordings has meant a relative lack of recognition in the UK and USA. This is starting to change following his recent contract, for live recordings only, with Deutsche Grammophon. Throughout the week Rob explores Sokolov's penetrating interpretations of masterpieces from Bach to Prokofiev and Stravinsky, by way of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms and Scriabin.
Donald Macleod and his guest, the Polish music expert Adrian Thomas, explore the music of Grazyna Bacewicz in the years after World War II when, before Polish musicians and composers found themselves subject to the diktats of a new totalitarian regime under the Soviets, there was a brief, false dawn.
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a concert of music for the piano performed by Ivana Gavric, first broadcast live from St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, during the 2015 Hay Festival. Included in the concert is Janacek's In the Mists, a selection of works by Grieg including his Ballade Op 24, and also Two Lyric Pieces written for the pianist by Cheryl Frances-Hoad: In the Dew is a homage to Janacek, and Contemplation a homage to Grieg.
Penny Gore presents a series of orchestral and chamber music concerts from the 2014 Prague Spring Festival, an important annual event in the Czech musical calendar, which was founded in 1946. The pianist Roman Rabinovich plays Czech dances by Smetana, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra performs Mahler.
Live from St. Davids Cathedral during the cathedral's festival week
Sean Rafferty's guests include Yale Schola Cantorum - Yale University's chamber choir - with their principal conductor David Hill. They perform live in the studio as they tour England and France with fellow American ensemble, Juilliard415. Artistic Director and pianist Iain Burnside talks about the Ludlow English Song Weekend, and accompanies tenor Alex Sprague, mezzo Clare McCaldin and bass Marcus Farnsworth. Also, Sean talks to author Itay Talgam about his new book, 'The Ignorant Maestro - How Great Leaders Inspire Unpredictable Brilliance'.
Live from the Wycombe Swan.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the young Spanish conductor Eduardo Portal perform Czech and Russian orchestral masterpieces.
Smetana's vigorous overture to his opera The Bartered Bride opens the programme, followed by Dvorak's Cello concerto which calls for both lyrical and virtuosic playing from the soloist, Natalie Clein.
Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful epic tone poem, Scheherazade, inspired by The One Thousand and One Nights, conjurs up a magical world of Arabian mysticism with a haunting solo violin representing Scheherazade and menacing brass fanfares playing the part of the Sultan.
Was Ralph Waldo Emerson right to say that a great person is always willing to be little? Rana Mitter and guests New York Times journalist David Brooks, novelist Azar Nafisi and historian Tom Holland discuss the concept of humility. Vice or underrated virtue?
Recorded earlier this week at the Hay Festival 2015 as part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes CD Review, Lunchtime Concert, In Tune, The Verb, The Essay and World on 3 all broadcasting from the festival.
In this series of The Essay, recorded in front of an audience at the Hay festival earlier this week, five writers take George Orwell's title Why I Write as a starting point for their own explorations. The writers include the screenwriter, novelist and author of the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, Frank Cottrell Boyce; the editor and translator Daniel Hahn; Horatio Clare, whose first book was set on the hillsides where he grew up around Hay itself; and the Welsh poet laureate, Gillian Clarke.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes CD Review, Lunchtime Concert, In Tune, Free Thinking, The Verb and World on 3 all broadcasting from the festival.
Max Reinhardt's preview of the Late Junction Stage at the Latitude Festival July 2015 continues, including live music and guests. Plus music from baroque rock band San Fermin, from Nina Simone and from little known 1930s Atlanta Blues guitarist Fred McMullen.
THURSDAY 28 MAY 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b05w7vxg)
Chamber Music by Mozart, Mahler and Strauss
BBC Proms 2014: the Royal String Quartet and pianist Louis Schwizgebel perform chamber music by Mozart, Mahler and Richard Strauss, presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata in D major K.311 for piano
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
12:47 AM
Mahler, Gustav [1860-1911]
Quartet movement in A minor for piano and strings
Louis Schwizgebel (piano), members of the Royal String Quartet (Izabella Szalaj-Zimak (violin), Marek Czech (viola), Michal Pepol (cello))
12:59 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Metamorphosen, arr. Rudolph Leopold for string septet
Royal String Quartet, Katarzyna Budnik-Galazka (viola), Marcin Zdunik (cello), Tomasz Januchta (double bass)
1:29 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata for piano (K.576) in D major
Jonathan Biss (piano)
1:45 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Quartet for strings (Op.77'1) in G major
Royal String Quartet
2:04 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments (Op.4)
Ottawa Winds, Michael Goodwin (conductor)
2:31 AM
Liehmann, Antonin (1808-1878)
Mass for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra no.1 in D minor
Lenka Skornickova (soprano), Olga Kodesova (alto), Damiano Binetti (tenor), Ilja Prokop (bass), Radek Rejsek (organ), Czech Radio Choir, Pilsen Radio Orchestra, Josef Hercl (conductor)
3:12 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Symphonic variations (Op.78)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (Conductor)
3:38 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata no. 74 BWV.74: 'Kommt! eilet' (aria)
Anders Dahlin (tenor), Zefira Valova (violin), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
3:44 AM
Macque, Giovanni de (c.1550-1614)
Bacciami vita mia for 6 voices ('Kiss me, life of mine; kiss me again, because love invites kisses)
Maite Arruabarrena (soprano), Mira Valenta (alto), Josep Benet and Marius Van Altena (tenors), Anneke Pols and Richte Van Der Meer (viols), Konrad Junghänel (lute and director)
3:45 AM
Gabrieli, Andrea [c.1532/3-1585]
Cinto m'avea tra belle e nude à 6
Maite Arruabarrena (soprano), Mira Valenta (alto), Marius Van Altena (tenor), Josep Cabre (bass), Titia de Zwart and Anneke Pols (viols), Konrad Junghänel (lute and director)
3:47 AM
Raffaelli, Josip (1767-1843)
Introduction and theme with variations in A major
Vladimir Krpan (piano)
3:57 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Serenade for small orchestra
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
4:07 AM
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643)
Canzon seconda à 4, due Canti e due Bassi for violin, cornett, sackbut, curtal, organ & chitarrone - from Canzoni da Sonare (Venice 1634)
Musica Fiata, Köln, Roland Wilson (director)
4:11 AM
Nin (y Castellanos), Joaquín (1879-1949)
Seguida Espanola (1930)
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
4:21 AM
Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949)
Rapsodia sinfonica for piano and string orchestra (Op.66)
Angela Cheng (piano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor)
4:31 AM
Valentini, Giovanni (1582/3-1649)
Tocchin le trombe, a 10
La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata Köln
4:39 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Sonata for transverse flute & basso continuo in G major - from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Köln - Karl Kaiser (transverse flute), Rainer Zipperling (cello); Sabine Bauer (harpsichord)
4:46 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Svarta rosor (Black Rose) (Op.36 No.1); Säv, sav, susa (Sigh Sedges sigh) (Op.36 No.4); Klickan kom ifran sin äls klings möte (The Maiden's tryst) (Op.37 No.5); Varen flyktar hastigt (Spring is flying) (Op.13 No.4)
Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano)
4:56 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Theme with variations from Sextet in B flat major (Op.18)
Wiener Streichsextet: Erich Hobarth, Peter Matzka (violins), Thomas Riebl, Siegfried Fuhrlinger (violas), Susanne Ehn, Rudolf Leopold (cellos)
5:06 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Fantasy in D minor (KV.397)
Bruno Lukk (piano)
5:12 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Sonata for recorder and continuo (HWV.367a)
Sharon Bezaly (flute), Terence Charlston (harpsichord) Charles Medlam (viola da gamba)
5:26 AM
Holmboe, Vagn (1909-1996)
Benedic Domino, anima mea - from Liber Canticorum II (Op.59a)
Danish National Radio Choir (soloists not named), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:40 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Little suite for string orchestra (Op.1) in A minor
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:57 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
En blanc et noir for 2 pianos
Lestari Scholtes (piano), Gwylim Janssens (piano)
6:14 AM
Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861)
Rondo alla Polacca in E major, (Op.13) (C.1820-24)
Albrecht Breuninger (violin), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b05w7vxj)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b05w7vxl)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Omid Djalili
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Dvorák's Slavonic Dances'. Dvorák's dances were an instant hit on their publication in 1878, propelling the Czech composer to international fame. A second set brought the total to sixteen dances. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for these miniature masterpieces, showcasing interpretations by conductors including Rafael Kubelik, Jean Martinon and Václav Talich.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next.
10am
Rob's guest is the stand-up comedian and actor Omid Djalili. Omid has a varied career across stage and screen and is well known for his popular sketch shows and sell-out international tours. He will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at
10am.
10.30am
Following on from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman on Monday, Rob explores other works with literary connections.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov, whose performances display virtuosity, poetry and insight in equal measure. Sokolov is regarded as one of the greatest living pianists in Europe, but his refusal to make studio recordings has meant a relative lack of recognition in the UK and USA. This is starting to change following his recent contract, for live recordings only, with Deutsche Grammophon. Throughout the week Rob explores Sokolov's penetrating interpretations of masterpieces from Bach to Prokofiev and Stravinsky, by way of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms and Scriabin.
Chopin
Preludes, Op 28.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05w7wkd)
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Opening the Modernist Floodgates
Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 had an almost immediate liberalising effect on Polish culture. The first Warsaw Autumn festival that followed opened the modernist floodgates, introducing to Polish audiences a raft of previously proscribed composers. Donald Macleod is joined by Polish music expert Adrian Thomas to explore this period in the life and music of Grazyna Bacewicz.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05w7xp4)
Hay Festival 2015
Guy Johnston, Tom Poster
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a concert of music for cello and piano performed by Guy Johnston and Tom Poster, first broadcast live from St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, during the 2015 Hay Festival. Included in the concert are Mendelssohn's Variations concertantes in D, Drei kleine Stücke by Webern, composed in 1914, and one of Rachmaninov's most famous pieces of chamber music, his Cello Sonata in G minor.
Guy Johnston (cello)
Tom Poster (piano)
Felix Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes in D, Op 17
Anton Webern: Drei kleine Stücke, Op 11
Serge Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19
Produced by Luke Whitlock.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05wn9q5)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Donizetti - Don Pasquale
Penny Gore presents a sparkling performance of Donizetti's witty comedy recorded in April this year at the Vienna State Opera, starring the tenor Juan Diego Florez in one of his signature roles as Ernesto, the buffo bass Michele Pertusi in the title role, and 2011 Cardiff Singer winner Valentina Nafornita as Norina.
The old, wealthy, but miserly bachelor Don Pasquale wants to marry off his nephew Ernesto to a wealthy woman, but Ernesto prefers a love match with the young, penniless widow Norina. Pasquale disinherits him and decides to take a young wife of his own, to the advice of his friend and doctor, Malatesta. But the young couple run rings around him, and the moral of the story is: don't marry in old age.
2pm:
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale ..... Michele Pertusi (bass)
Ernesto ..... Juan Diego Florez (tenor)
Norina ..... Valentina Nafornita (soprano)
Dr Malatesta ..... Alessio Arduini (baritone)
Carlino ..... Wolfram Igor Derntl (bass)
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Jesús López-Cobos
Plus more from the 2014 Prague Spring Festival.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b05w80jb)
Will Gregory, Matthew Long, David Pountney
Sean Rafferty's guests include tenor Matthew Long singing live and talking about his new recording with Rufus Miller, Malcolm Martineau and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; plus Welsh National Opera director David Pountney joins us from Cardiff to discuss his new production of Debussy's opera Pelleas and Melisande.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05w7wkd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05w80vk)
Philharmonia Orchestra - Debussy, Messiaen
The Philharmonia Orchestra continues its Paris The City of Light Season with masterpieces by Debussy and Messiaen. The programme begins with an atmospheric three-minute work for solo flute before solo singers, a female chorus and orchestra perform Debussy's setting of the Pre-Raphaelite, poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Blessèd Damozel. This ravishing early work by Debussy was written when, like most of his contemporaries, Debussy had fallen under the spell of Wagner as the blessed damozel yearns for fulfilment of love in death. And the spirit of Wagner also lies at the heart of the intoxicating world of Messiaen's gargantuan Turangalîla, "A love song and hymn of joy, time, movement, rhythm, life, and death".
Presented by Martin Handley
Debussy Syrinx
Samuel Coles (flute)
Debussy La damoiselle élue
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
INTERVAL
Messiaen Turangalîla Sympony
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Valérie Hartmann-Claverie (ondes Martenot)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b05w8135)
New Generation Thinkers 2015 Launch at the Hay Festival
Recorded earlier this week at the Hay Festival 2015, Rana Mitter introduces some of the young academics who have just been announced as this year's New Generation Thinkers in the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. They discuss their areas of research which range from Victorian widowhood to the secret discovered hidden in a chair in Prague, Cardinal Wolsey's relationship with Rome and a 17th century faith-healer called Greatrakes the Stroker.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes CD Review, Lunchtime Concert, In Tune,The Verb, The Essay and World on 3 all broadcasting from the festival.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b05w81f9)
Why I Write
Hay Festival: Frank Cottrell Boyce
In this series of The Essay, recorded in front of an audience at the Hay Festival earlier this week, five writers take George Orwell's title Why I Write as a starting point for their own explorations. The writers include the screenwriter, novelist and author of the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, Frank Cottrell Boyce; the editor and translator Daniel Hahn; Horatio Clare, whose first book was set on the hillsides where he grew up around Hay itself; and the Welsh poet laureate, Gillian Clarke.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes CD Review, Lunchtime Concert, In Tune, Free Thinking, The Verb and World on 3 all broadcasting from the festival.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b05w82wm)
Latitude Line-Up Launch
Max Reinhardt launches this year's Late Junction line-up at Latitude, including special guests and live performances. Plus meditative electronica from John Metcalfe, a 1917 classic from Tango legend Carlos Gardel, wistful psychedelic from visual artist Daryl Waller, a Bert Jansch acoustic guitar miracle and a piece from Radioland feat. keyboard wizard Matthew Bourne.
FRIDAY 29 MAY 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b05w7vxx)
Haydn from Sweden
Haydn from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. With Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Haydn, Joseph
Symphony no. 94 in G major H.
1.94 (Surprise)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Philipp von Steinaecker
12:56 AM
Haydn, Joseph
The Seasons: Spring; Summer
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Joachim Bäckström (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker (conductor)
2:06 AM
Wikander, David [1884-1955] [text by Jandel, Ragnar]
Forvarskvall (An evening early in spring)
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
2:11 AM
Wikander, David (1884-1955) [lyrics Bengt E. Nyström]
Varen är ung och mild
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustav Sjökvist (conductor)
2:14 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Op.28)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Gomez Martinez (conductor)
2:31 AM
Halevy, Jacques-Francois [1799-1862]
Aria: "Quand de la nuit l'epais nuage" (from "L'eclair", Act 3)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor); Canadian Opera Company Orchestra; Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
2:37 AM
Bizet, Georges [1838-1875]
L'Arlesienne - suite no.1 ]
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra; Marko Munih (conductor)
2:55 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich [1637-1707]
Prelude in G minor (BuxWV.149)
Lorenzo Ghielmi (harpsichord)
3:02 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata in C major Op.102'1 for cello and piano
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
3:18 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Cockaigne (In London Town)- overture Op. 40
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen (conductor)
3:33 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Le Gai Paris for wind ensemble
Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra
3:44 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Prague Waltzes (Prazske valciky) (B.99)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Stefan Róbl (conductor)
3:52 AM
Couperin, Francois (1668-1733) arranged by Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Les Barricades mysterieuses
Jan Michiels (piano)
3:55 AM
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643); text: Ottavio Rinuccini (1562-1621)
Lamento della ninfa (from libro VIII de madrigali - Venice 1638)
Concerto Italiano; Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord & director)
4:01 AM
Salieri, Antonio (1750-1825)
Overture La grotta di Trofonio
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
4:07 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Barcarolle for piano (Op.60) in F sharp major
Ronald Brautigam (piano - Erard Grand of 1842)
4:16 AM
Boccherini, Luigi [1743-1805]
La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid Quintet No 6, Op 30 (G.324)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
4:31 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Cinderella's waltz from Zolushka - suite no.1 (Op.107)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
4:36 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera for soprano and orchestra (RV.630)
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director) (Encore)
4:43 AM
Jeanjean, Paul (1874 - 1928)
Prelude and Scherzo for bassoon and piano
Bálint Mohai (bassoon), Monika Michel (piano)
4:52 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Polonaise for orchestra in E flat major
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Ludovít Rajter (conductor)
4:59 AM
Kapsberger, Giovanni Girolamo [c.1580-1651]
Toccata arpeggiata, Toccata seconda, and Colascione for chittarone
Lee Santana (theorbo)
5:07 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Sonata for violin and piano in G minor
Janine Jansen (violin), David Kuyken (piano)
5:22 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), orch. Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Chorale Prelude (BWV.654)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)
5:30 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897), orch. Arnold Schoenberg in 1937
Piano Quartet in G minor, Op.25
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)
6:12 AM
Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000)
5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet
Galliard Ensemble
6:22 AM
Piazzolla, Ástor Pantaleón (1921-1992)
Adiós Nonino
Ingrid Fliter (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b05w7vxz)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b05w7vy1)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Omid Djalili
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Dvorák's Slavonic Dances'. Dvorák's dances were an instant hit on their publication in 1878, propelling the Czech composer to international fame. A second set brought the total to sixteen dances. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for these miniature masterpieces, showcasing interpretations by conductors including Rafael Kubelik, Jean Martinon and Václav Talich.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Rob's guest is the stand-up comedian and actor Omid Djalili. Omid has a varied career across stage and screen and is well known for his popular sketch shows and sell-out international tours. He will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at
10am.
10.30am
Following on from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman on Monday, Rob explores other works with literary connections.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov, whose performances display virtuosity, poetry and insight in equal measure. Sokolov is regarded as one of the greatest living pianists in Europe, but his refusal to make studio recordings has meant a relative lack of recognition in the UK and USA. This is starting to change following his recent contract, for live recordings only, with Deutsche Grammophon. Throughout the week Rob explores Sokolov's penetrating interpretations of masterpieces from Bach to Prokofiev and Stravinsky, by way of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms and Scriabin.
Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No 8 in B flat, Op 84.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05w7wkg)
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Woodworm Don't Like Your Music
Donald Macleod and Polish music expert Adrian Thomas discuss the final years in the life and music of composer Grazyna Bacewicz, including the shifting textures and colours of Pensieri Notturni, and the ballet Desire, which was unfinished at the time of her death, based on a play by Pablo Picasso.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b05w7xp6)
Hay Festival 2015
Elias Quartet
Clemency Burton-Hill presents a concert of music for strings performed by the Elias Quartet, first broadcast live from St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, during the 2015 Hay Festival. Included in the concert are Haydn's String Quartet in C major Op 33, nicknamed 'The Bird' due to the twittering themes within the music, and Britten's String Quartet No 3, which the composer worked on whilst recovering from heart surgery.
Elias Quartet
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C major Op 33 No 3 Hob III/39 'The Bird'
Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No 3 Op 94
Produced by Luke Whitlock.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05w80bq)
Prague Spring Festival 2014
Episode 4
Penny Gore presents a series of orchestral and chamber music concerts from the 2014 Prague Spring Festival, an important annual event in the Czech musical calendar, which was founded in 1946. The programmes include Brahms' colossal violin concerto, performed by Hilary Hahn with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Czech choral works from Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and soloists.
2pm:
Janacek: Lord's Prayer
Jaroslav Brezina (tenor)
Ales Barta (organ)
Lydie Hartelova (harp)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Petr Altrichter
2.15pm:
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Hilary Hahn (violin)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Paavo Jarvi
3pm:
Dvorak: Symphony no.8
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Paavo Jarvi
3.40pm:
Janacek: The Eternal Gospel
Alzbeta Polackova (soprano)
Pavel Cernoch (tenor)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Tomas Netopil
4pm:
Dvorak: Te Deum
Maria Kobielska (soprano)
Svatopluk Sem (baritone)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Petr Altrichter.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b05w80jd)
Craig Leon, Llyr Williams, Opera Holland Park, Sophie Rosa
Sean Rafferty's guests include pianist Llyr Williams playing live in the studio as he continues his Beethoven cycle at the Wigmore Hall in London; composer, arranger, producer and Moog player Craig Leon performs music from his 'Bach to Moog' project; violinist Sophie Rosa and pianist Benjamin Powell play live ahead of their concert at Chester Music Festival; and we hear from soprano Anne Sophie Duprels, baritone Richard Burkhard, conductor Stuart Stratford and director Oliver Platt about Opera Holland Park's upcoming production of Puccini's Il trittico.
FRI 19:00 Composer of the Week (b05w7wkg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 20:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05w80vm)
Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside - 2015 Ludlow English Song Weekend
Live from St Laurence's Church, Ludlow
Roderick Williams, baritone, and Iain Burnside, piano, with the opening concert of the 2015 Ludlow English Song Weekend.
R Vaughan Williams: The Splendour Falls
How Can the Tree But Wither?
To Daffodils
The Winter's Willow
Blackmwore by the Stour
Robert Saxton: Time and the Seasons
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Four Last Songs
8.45: Interval
Gerald Finzi: Before and After Summer
Roderick Williams - Baritone
Iain Burnside - Piano
The 2015 Ludlow English Song Weekend opens with a concert by one of Britain's most brilliant baritones, after his triumphant Last Night of the Proms last year.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b05w8137)
Hay Festival
The Verb is at the Hay Festival.
Ian McMillan's guests in Hay-on-Wye include Stephen Fry, who is the president of the festival. Stephen recently published the third volume of his autobiography 'More Fool Me' (Penguin). For The Verb, he will be talking about his love of U.A.Fanthorpe.
The novelist Irvine Welsh's latest book is 'A Decent Ride' (Vintage), which brings back the character of 'Juice' Terry Lawson from his 2002 novel 'Glue'. 'A Decent Ride' has been shortlisted for the 2015 Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.
The award-winning biographer Daisy Hay describes the relationship between Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli in her new book 'Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance' (Chatto)
There's music from home-grown country talent Sasha McVeigh, who returns to her home town fresh from Nashville where she recorded her debut album 'I Stand Alone'.
Producer: Faith Lawrence
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes CD Review, Lunchtime Concert, In Tune, Free Thinking, The Essay and World on 3 all broadcasting from the festival.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b05w81fd)
Why I Write
Hay Festival: Gillian Clarke
In this series of The Essay, recorded in front of an audience at the Hay festival earlier this week, five writers take George Orwell's essay title Why I Write as a starting point for their own explorations. The writers include the screenwriter, novelist and author of the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, Frank Cottrell Boyce; the editor and translator Daniel Hahn; Horatio Clare, whose first book was set on the hillsides where he grew up around Hay itself; and the Welsh poet laureate, Gillian Clarke.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes CD Review, Lunchtime Concert, In Tune, Free Thinking, The Verb and World on 3 all broadcasting from the festival.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b05w82wp)
Lopa Kothari - Tinariwen in Session at the Hay Festival
Lopa Kothari presents a special edition from the Hay Festival in Powys featuring a live set from Malian desert blues band Tinariwen and support from BBC Introducing talent Maelog.
Tinariwen have for a decade been one of Mali's leading bands, their songs telling the stories of nomadic life in the Sahara, as well as highlighting current political concerns. This concert celebrates Hay's links with Timbuktu, once Tinariwen's home city, but since the violence of 2012-13 they have not been able to return there. Support band Maelog are a Welsh-Galician roots collective whose uplifting songs feature traditional pipes from both shores with an array of strings and percussion.
Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes CD Review, Lunchtime Concert, In Tune, Free Thinking, The Verb, and The Essay all broadcasting from the festival.
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 (b05w7tdz)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b05w80bg)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b05w80bl)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b05wn9q5)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b05w80bq)
BBC Performing Groups
23:30 SUN (b05w7r9p)
Between the Ears
22:00 SAT (b046cpvb)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b05w7lw7)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b05w7q6z)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b05w7tdq)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b05w7vwk)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b05w7vxb)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b05w7vxj)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b05w7vxz)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b05w7lw9)
Choir and Organ
16:00 SUN (b04wmhb7)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b05vh9ps)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b05w83tp)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b05w7tdv)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b05w7tdv)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b05w7wk4)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b05w7wk4)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b05w7wk6)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b05w7wk6)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b05w7wkd)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b05w7wkd)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b05w7wkg)
Composer of the Week
19:00 FRI (b05w7wkg)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b01rftt4)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b05w7tds)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b05w7vwm)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b05w7vxd)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b05w7vxl)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b05w7vy1)
Free Thinking
22:00 MON (b047bs5z)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b05wjc9j)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b05w8131)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b05w8135)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b05w7q6v)
Hear and Now
22:30 SAT (b05w7m6c)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b05w7tf1)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b05w80j6)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b05w80j8)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b05w80jb)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b05w80jd)
Jazz Line-Up
18:00 SAT (b05w7m5s)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b05w7m4r)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b05w7tf7)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b05w82wf)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b05w82wk)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b05w82wm)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b05w7lwc)
Opera on 3
19:30 MON (b05w7tf3)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b04mb3k5)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SAT (b05w84fh)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SUN (b05w7r5m)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b05w80vf)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b05w80vh)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b05w80vk)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:00 FRI (b05w80vm)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b05w7lwf)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b05vh3rl)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b05w7tdx)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b05w7xp0)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b05w7xp2)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b05w7xp4)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b05w7xp6)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b04dqbf8)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b05w7m4p)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (b05w7r5k)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b05w7q71)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b05w7r5f)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b05w7tf5)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b05xcbqm)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b05w81f5)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b05w81f9)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b05w81fd)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b05w8137)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b05vh9t3)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b05w7q6x)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b05w7tdn)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b05w7vwh)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b05w7vx8)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b05w7vxg)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b05w7vxx)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (b04d1kf1)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b05w82wp)