The BBC Philharmonic and Rumon Gamba perform film music by William Alwyn including Swiss Family Robinson, Rocking Horse Winner and Magic Box.
Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Monteverdi's Vespers (1610) from Poland.
Adriana Fernandez & Maria Skiba (sopranos), Piotr Olech & Radoslaw Pacholek (altos), Marcel Beekman & Robert Pozarski (tenors), Mitchell Sandler & Andrzej Zawisza (basses), Sonatore Pannoniae, Contrasto Armonico, Chorale Festival Chorus, Visegrad Baroque Orchestra, Marcel Pérès & Marco Vitale (directors)
Adriana Fernandez & Maria Skiba (sopranos), Piotr Olech & Radoslaw Pacholek (altos), Marcel Beekman & Robert Pozarski (tenors), Mitchell Sandler & Andrzej Zawisza (basses), Sonatore Pannoniae, Contrasto Armonico, Chorale Festival Chorus, Visegrad Baroque Orchestra, Marcel Pérès & Marco Vitale (directors)
Symphony No.3 in D minor rev. composer and Schalk, 1888-9
Capriccio for keyboard (BWV 993) in E major "In honorem Joh. Christoph. Bachii"
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) (arr. Kocsis)
Anita Szabó (flute), Béla Horváth (oboe), Zsolt Szatmári (clarinet), György Salamon (bass clarinet), Pál Bokor (bassoon), Tamás Zempléni (horn)
Eric Hoeprich and Lisa Klewitt (chalumeaux), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
Dance preludes (Preludia taneczne) vers. for clarinet and piano
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Also, as part of "Classical Voice", we are featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices. Each day, during the 20 days of the Classical Voice season, Dame Kiri, drawing on her own experience, selects a singer and illustrates in music - explaining in an entertaining and simple way - why she's selected this voice as one of her favourites.
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, Rob offers a selection of music that showcases the qualities of the baritone voice. The baritone is a particular favourite for Rob as it is the closest of the male voices to natural speech. He features performances by well-loved singers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerard Souzay and Jose van Dam, as well as Muslim Magomayev and Stafford Dean - baritones who Rob thinks should be better known today. The music ranges from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata to songs by Brahms and Ravel.
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
Rob's guest this week is David Puttnam. A renowned producer famed for films including Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone, The Mission and The Killing Fields, Lord Puttnam has worked in public policy since he retired from the film industry, and has a particular interest in improvements in education. He will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at
Rob features the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review
This week Rob features recordings by the award-winning Pavel Haas Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation. Rob explores works from the quartet's Czech musical heritage with music by Smetana, Dvorak and Janacek, as well as works by Pavel Haas himself, the Czech composer after whom the quartet was named, and who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, all this week Donald Macleod explores Bach's vocal music.
In April 1723, after a great deal of political wrangling between rival factions on the Leipzig town council, Bach was appointed Cantor of the celebrated Thomasschule. At last he had the opportunity to realize a vision he had had, 15 years and several jobs earlier, in his post as organist of St Blasius's Church in Mühlhausen. That vision - his "ultimate goal", he called it - was the creation of "a regulated church music". In practice, this simple-sounding aspiration entailed the Herculean labour of producing - not to mention preparing for performance - a cantata for every single Sunday and feast-day of the church year. Almost incredibly, he kept this up, with minimal reliance on previously composed material, for the first three years of his tenure at Leipzig - a period during which he was, in short, a one-man cantata factory. Today, Donald Macleod focuses on the first of those annual cantata cycles. The emotional range is huge, from the festive cheer of Cantata 40: 'Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes' to the thrilling, borderline-operatic drama of Cantata 81: 'Jesus schläft, was sol ich hoffen?'.
York Bowen's Rhapsody Trio op 80, a romantic work by one of the major figures on the British music scene in the first half of the twentieth century. He was nicknamed "The English Rachmaninov" and the Gould Trio are among those bringing his music back into the repertoire after decades of neglect.
Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat major is a large-scale work, but never loses a sense of intimacy. Although written in the final year of his life, Schubert writes lyrical music full of joy. According to Robert Schumann, "One glance at Schubert's Trio and the troubles of our human existence disappear and all the world is fresh and bright again."
The Gould Piano Trio are Lucy Gould (violin), Benjamin Frith (piano) and Alice Neary (cello).
Verity Sharp begins a week featuring performances by BBC National Orchestra of Wales, today focusing on British music including Finzi's Clarinet Concerto and Holst's The Planets.
As Cardiff Singer of the World gets under way, Afternoon on 3 celebrates one of the competition's house orchestras, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, in music from all corners of Britain and Ireland. Finzi's Clarinet Concerto, performed here by BBC NOW Principal Clarinet Robert Plane, is the English composer's most widely performed and recorded work. Elgar's Sea Pictures and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture evoke the waters around the British Isles, while Stanford's Rhapsody is inspired by Ireland. The programme ends with Holst's The Planets, now such a concert-hall fixture that it's easy to forget that its musical language once seemed startlingly modern.
Sean Rafferty is joined by tenor James Gilchrist ahead of a series of concerts celebrating the chamber music and song of Schumann and Mendelssohn at St John's, Smith Square in London. Tenor Charles Daniels performs live in the studio, and is joined by conductor Adrian Butterfield to discuss their performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion with just eight singers.
Plus, Singers on Singing: leading classical singers including Roderick Williams, Angel Blue and Iestyn Davies, talk candidly about their approach to the art of singing (part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season). All 15 episodes in the series will be available as podcasts.
Richard Ayres and Lavinia Greenlaw's new opera on JM Barrie's most famous creation, Peter Pan. Erik Nielsen conducts the British premiere at Wales Millennium Centre.
Faithful to JM Barrie's original tale, Welsh National Opera's new production by director Keith Warner is set in Edwardian London. The Darling family are struggling to make ends meet. When the mysterious figure of Peter Pan and his friend Tinkerbell appear at the Darlings' nursery window a fantasy adventure quickly unfolds. To the consternation of their faithful nursemaid, a Newfoundland dog, Nana, Peter Pan invites the children to fly to his home in Neverland where he lives with his cohorts the Lost Boys in a magical world of fairies, red Indians and swashbuckling pirates. After a battle, their leader, Captain Hook confronts his nemesis, a crocodile who's swallowed a clock.
Worn out with the demands of being surrogate mother to Peter and the Lost Boys, Wendy and her brothers return home. As the Darling family happily reunite, now considerably enlarged by the arrival of the Lost Boys, it is Peter Pan alone who remains "the Boy who would not grow up".
In the UK premiere broadcast, Peter Pan is Iestyn Morris, Marie Arnet takes the role of Wendy, Ashley Holland doubles as Mr. Darling and Captain Hook and Hilary Summers sings Mrs. Darling and Tiger-Lily, Aidan Smith is Nana. Presented by Christopher Cook, including interviews with the conductor, director, and principal singers.
Peter Pan... Iestyn Morris (Counter-tenor)
Wendy..... Marie Arnet (Soprano)
Mr Darling / Captain Hook..... Ashley Holland (Baritone)
John.... Nicholas Sharratt (Tenor)
Tom Service talks to the conductor and composer Oliver Knussen at his home in Suffolk. First broadcast in January 2015.
Oliver Knussen (1952-2018) was one of the most widely respected figures in today's classical music world, As a composer, his finely crafted and powerful scores include the operas Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop!, symphonies, concertos for horn and violin, and vocal works including Songs for Sue, written as a requiem for his former wife. Knussen was also a masterful conductor and champion of new music, and an inspirational teacher to younger composers.
In this extended interview, recorded at his Suffolk home in 2015, Knussen talks frankly to Tom about the transformative experiences of his teenage years, when he wrote and conducted his since-withdrawn Symphony No.1 and received commendations from Bernstein, Copland and Britten among others. He discusses his subsequent struggles with self-criticism and his years studying at the Tanglewood Summer School. He also explains the influence of Leopold Stokowski on his conducting, Berg, Stravinsky and Ravel on his music and how he views the current and future health of new classical music..
Julia Blackburn tells an extraordinary tale of sleuthing for the ghost of Napoleon on St Helena, his last island and his final unsought home.
The first of five essays as part of BBC Radio 3's 2012 Napoleon Season, marking two hundred years since his historic retreat from Moscow.
Julia had long wanted to write about Napoleon's final days. She set off for St Helena and Longwood House - the Emperor's last home prison - and tried to enlist the support of two official parties. She contacted the British Governor of the island and the French Consul who took responsibility for what became a tiny piece of France after the Emperor's death. Neither bothered to reply so Julia was forced to seek answers by exploring other paths back into the life of Napoleon's last days on St Helena. A lonely giant tortoise came to her rescue along with some other human inhabitants of the island - or Saints as they call themselves.
Jez Nelson presents British pianist Alexander Hawkins in concert with his trio featuring bassist Neil Charles and drummer Tom Skinner.
Over the past few years Alexander Hawkins has built a reputation as one of the most diverse and in-demand musicians on the scene and is now regarded amongst Europe's finest improvisers and composers. On Jazz on 3, we've heard him playing everything from free jazz with drummer Louis Moholo to large-ensemble pieces inspired by the Baroque period - an eclectic outlook that he's maintained throughout his career so far, which also includes time with Ethiopian groove veteran Mulatu Astatke and a healthy affinity with the Hammond B3 organ in Decoy. It might come as a surprise that the piano trio format is something that Hawkins has only recently started to explore as a leader - and here in concert at London's Cafe OTO his trio perform new music from their debut album, released earlier this spring.
Also in the programme jazz critic and blogger Stephen Graham joins Jez for a roundup of the best new releases, and profiles Northern Irish drummer Steve Davis who recently joined forces with New Yorkers Kris Davis and Ralph Alessi for a new project.
TUESDAY 16 JUNE 2015
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b05ykxjh)
Bach Cantatas
Jonathan Swain presents Bach cantatas perfomed by Les Ambassadeurs directed by Alexis Kossenko.
12:31 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 209 'Non sa che sia dolore': Sinfonia
[with Alexis Kossenko (flute)]
12:37 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 74 'Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten': 'Kommt! eilet' (aria)
[with Anders Dahlin (tenor), Zefira Valova (violin)]
12:42 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 182 'Himmelskönig, sei willkommen': Sonata
[with Zefira Valova (violin), Alexis Kossenko (recorder)]
12:45 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 175 'Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen': Aria, 'Komm, leite mich'
[with Maria Sanner (contralto), Alexis Kossenko (recorder), Anne Freitag (recorder)]
12:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 81 'Jesus schlaft, was soll ich hoffen': 'Herr! Warum trittest du' (recitative), 'Die schaumenden Welle' (aria)
[with Anders Dahlin (tenor), Zefira Valova (violin)]
12:54 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 196 'Der Herr denket an uns': Sinfonia
12:56 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 33 'Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ': 'Wie furchtsam' (aria)
[with Maria Sanner (contralto)]
1:09 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV.97 'In allen meinen Taten': 'Ich traue seiner Gnaden' (aria)
[with Anders Dahlin (tenor), Zefira Valova (violin)]
1:15 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 164 'Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet': 'Nur durch Lieb' (aria)
[with Maria Sanner (contralto), Alexis Kossenko (flute), Anne Freitag (flute)]
1:19 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra BWV 1052R
[with Zefira Valova (violin)]
1:41 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 114 'Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost': 'Wo wird in diesem Jammertale' (aria)
[with Anders Dahlin (tenor), Alexis Kossenko (flute)]
1:52 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV.134 'Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß': 'Wir danken und preisen' (duet)
[with Anders Dahlin (tenor), Maria Sanner (contralto)]
Les Ambassadeurs directed by Alexis Kossenko
1:58 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
String Octet (Op 20) in E flat major
Yoshiko Arai & Ik-Hwan Bae (violins), Yuko Inoue (viola), Christoph Richter (cello), Vogler Quartet
2:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Op 61) - incidental music
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
2:55 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat major
Markus Maskuniitty (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Junichi Hirokami (conductor)
3:16 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
La Cathédrale engloutie - from Préludes Book 1
Philippe Cassard (piano)
3:22 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Symphony No.8 in F major (Op 93)
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Arvid Engegaard (conductor)
3:47 AM
Buck, Ole (b. 1945) [text by Keats]
Two Faery Songs (1997): 'O shed no tear'; 'Ah! Woe is me!'
Danish National Radio Choir, Kaare Hansen (conductor)
3:54 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757]
Sonata in D major (K96)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
3:59 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Barcarolle for piano (Op 60) in F sharp major
Ronald Brautigam (piano - Erard Grand of 1842)
4:08 AM
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676)
Sonata à 8
Concerto Palatino
4:13 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Elegie (Op 23) arr. for piano trio
Aronowitz Ensemble
4:20 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
(Großes) Te Deum in C major (Hob XXIIIc:2)
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
4:31 AM
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623) arr. Elgar Howarth
The Earle of Oxford's March (MB 28 no.93)
Tallinn Brass, Tarmo Leinatamm (conductor)
4:34 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Mazurka No.4 in B minor - from Mazurkas for piano (Op 33)
Ossip Gabrilowitsch (piano)
4:40 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Sinfonie in E flat
Concerto Koln
5:01 AM
Gabrieli, Andrea (1532/3-1585)
Sento un rumor (madrigal à 8)
Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Theatrum Instrumentorum, Stefano Innocenti (conductor)
5:06 AM
Dvorak, Antonin [1841-1904]
Piano Quintet No 2 in A, Op 81
Janine Jansen (violin), Anders Nilsson (violin), Julian Rachlin (viola), Torleif Theden (cello), Itamar Golan (piano)
5:45 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)
5:52 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Romance for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola), Bruce Vogt (piano)
5:59 AM
Tallis, Thomas (c.1505-1585)
Spem in alium, for 40 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
6:08 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Symphony No.7 (Op 105) in C major
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b05ykxt0)
Tuesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Also, as part of "Classical Voice", we are featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices. Each day, during the 20 days of the Classical Voice season, Dame Kiri, drawing on her own experience, selects a singer and illustrates in music - explaining in an entertaining and simple way - why she's selected this voice as one of her favourites.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b05ykxtz)
Tuesday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest this week is the film producer David Puttnam.
9am
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, Rob offers a selection of music that showcases the qualities of the baritone voice. The baritone is a particular favourite for Rob as it is the closest of the male voices to natural speech. He features performances by well-loved singers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerard Souzay and Jose van Dam, as well as Muslim Magomayev and Stafford Dean - baritones who Rob thinks should be better known today. The music ranges from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata to songs by Brahms and Ravel.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Rob's guest this week is David Puttnam. A renowned producer famed for films including Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone, The Mission and The Killing Fields, Lord Puttnam has worked in public policy since he retired from the film industry, and has a particular interest in improvements in education. He will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at
10am.
10.30am
Following on from Monday's Building a Library recommendation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Rob explores other works relating to figures from Greek mythology.
11am
This week Rob features recordings by the award-winning Pavel Haas Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation. Rob explores works from the quartet's Czech musical heritage with music by Smetana, Dvorak and Janacek, as well as works by Pavel Haas himself, the Czech composer after whom the quartet was named, and who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
Dvorak
String Quartet in G, Op.106
Pavel Haas Quartet.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05ykxxp)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
The Jewel in the Crown
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, all this week Donald Macleod explores Bach's vocal music. Today, he focuses on Bach's first known passion oratorio, the St John.
The passion oratorio came late to Leipzig, where Bach was Cantor at the famous Thomasschule and 'Director Musices Lipsiensis' - making him, effectively, top dog in the musical life of the city. Leipzig was a conservative place, and its city elders regarded with suspicion the elaborate new Passion settings that had recently become fashionable in such progressive centres of culture as Hamburg. It was not until 1721 that Bach's predecessor, Johann Kuhnau, was finally allowed by the church authorities to present in Leipzig a Passion "in concerted style" - that is, with a mixture of chorales, choruses, recitatives, instrumental pieces and 'madrigal-style' solo vocal numbers. Kuhnau's Passion was based on the story as related in St Mark's Gospel. Three years later, Bach followed suit with his passion setting based on the account of St John. Bach's St John Passion was the jewel in the crown of his first year at Leipzig, written with the experience of some 60 church cantatas immediately behind him. It was his largest-scale work to date, and of huge personal significance. Yet it was also clearly a problematic work for him; in the 25 years following its first performance in April 1724, Bach would revisit it four times, making substantial revisions along the way. It was, in a sense, left incomplete at his death.
TUE 13:00 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World (b05yky0g)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Part 1
Iain Burnside introduces highlights from the opening recital of the Song Prize competition, from his ringside seat at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. With guest expert, soprano Rebecca Evans.
Nadine Koutcher, soprano (Belarus); accompanist: Llyr Williams
Jaeyoon Jung, tenor (South Korea); accompanist: Simon Lepper
Céline Forrest, soprano (Wales); accompanist: Rebecca Taylor.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05yky2x)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 2
As Cardiff Singer of the World continues, Verity Sharp introduces performances by BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including symphonies by Haydn and Mozart conducted by Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard.
The early works of Haydn, known as the 'Father of the Symphony', are heard far less often than his mature masterpieces; the 28th Symphony already includes many of the composer's hallmarks, such as a Gypsy-inspired Menuet and a sombrely beautiful slow movement. Mozart's last symphony, 'Jupiter', is often thought of as the pinnacle of the composer's genius. In between, young pianist Benjamin Grosvenor returns to join BBC NOW in Beethoven's early Piano Concerto No 1. The music of Brahms and Richard Strauss shows the more Romantic side to the orchestra.
2pm
Haydn: Symphony No. 28 in A major
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard, conductor
2.20pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Thomas Sondergard, conductor
2.55pm
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 ('Jupiter')
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard, conductor
3.35pm
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
3.45pm
Brahms: Schicksalslied
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Grant Llewellyn, conductor
4pm
R Strauss: Tod und Verklarung
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard, conductor.
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b05yl1pv)
Tuesday - Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty is joined by the Escher Quartet who perform live in the studio ahead of their UK-wide tour. There's also news from this year's Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Plus, Singers on Singing: leading classical singers including Roderick Williams, Angel Blue and Iestyn Davies, talk candidly about their approach to the art of singing (part of Radio 3?s Classical Voice season). All 15 episodes in the series will be available as podcasts.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05ykxxp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05yl1px)
City of London Sinfonia - Haydn, Mozart, JC Bach, Handel
Music of Georgian London by Haydn, Mozart, JC Bach and Handel. In the closing concert of the Spitalfields Summer Festival, City of London Sinfonia with choir Polyphony perform four magnificent works from four composers who came to the city to find fame and fortune.
Georgian London draws many parallels to the contemporary city we know today, not least with its reputation as a hub of global commerce and culture.
Live from St. Leonard's, Shoreditch
Presented by Fiona Talkington
Haydn: Symphony No.101 in D, 'The Clock'
JC Bach: Sinfonia Concertante
at approx.
8.15 Interval Music:
Mozart's Piano Sonata in A minor K 310
Maria Joao Pires (piano)
8.35
Mozart: Symphony No.4 in D, K19
Handel: Dettingen Te Deum
Ashley Riches, baritone
Polyphony
City of London Sinfonia
Stephen Layton, conductor
The concert explores the music of Georgian London through works by Mozart and JC Bach alongside Haydn's famous 'Clock' Symphony, written on his second visit to the city, and Handel's Te Deum, commissioned when he was a composer of the Chapel Royal in celebration of the victory of the British army at the Battle of Dettingen.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b05yl1wb)
John Boorman
Director John Boorman talks to Matthew Sweet about his most recent film Queen and Country and its place in one of the most distinguished careers in British cinema history - a career that embraces Excalibur, Deliverance and Point Blank as well as Hope and Glory.
Producer: Zahid Warley
First broadcast last year.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b01p2sjn)
Napoleon and Me
Andrea Stuart
To mark the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, a series of essays about Napoleon Bonaparte. The writer Andrea Stuart was born and raised in the Caribbean. The subject of her second book Josephine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon, was born on Martinique to a wealthy white Creole family. In a narrative crossing back and forth between their shared Caribbean origins, Andrea Stuart explores Josephine's journey away from the tropics and the significance of her origins in her relationship with another exile from an island, the world-famous Corsican mountaineer.
First broadcast in December 2012.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b05yl2bs)
Tuesday - Fiona Talkington
Presented by Fiona Talkington and including recent releases from folk singers Emily Portman and Martin Simpson, oud player Anouar Brahem and Polish quartet Kwadrofonik in collaboration with singer Adam Strug. And featured throughout this week is the music of Estonian composer Arvo Part who turns 80 later this year.
WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE 2015
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b05ykxjk)
Hana Blazikova and Andreas Staier - Tomasek, Chopin, Schumann
John Shea presents a concert with soprano Hana Blazikova and pianist Andreas Staier in songs by Tomasek, Chopin and Schumann, recorded in Warsaw, Poland in August 2014.
12:31 AM
Tomásek, Václav Jan ((1774-1850))
Die Erwartung
Hana Blaziková (Soprano), Andreas Staier (Piano)
12:39 AM
Tomásek, Václav Jan ((1774-1850))
3 Songs
12:44 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Impromptu No.1 in C minor (D.899)
Andreas Staier (Piano)
12:55 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
8 songs from Op 74
Hana Blaziková (Soprano), Andreas Staier (Piano)
1:18 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Liederkreis (Op 39)
Hana Blaziková (Soprano), Andreas Staier (Piano)
1:43 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Sliczny chlopiec (Handsome Lad), (Op 74 no.8)
Hana Blaziková (Soprano), Andreas Staier (Piano)
1:45 AM
Dussek, Jan Ladislav (1760-1812)
Piano Sonata in G major (Op 35 no.2)
Andreas Staier (Fortepiano)
2:00 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony No.1 in C minor (Op.11)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (Conductor)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor (K491)
Alfred Brendel (Piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (Conductor)
3:02 AM
Leo, Leonardo (1694-1744)
Cello Concerto in D minor
Werner Matzke (Cello), Concerto Köln
3:16 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Jordens sang (Song of the Earth) - cantata for chorus and orchestra (Op 93)
Academic Choral Society, Helsinki Cathedral Chorus, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Soderblom (Conductor)
3:34 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture from "Der Schauspieldirektor" (K486)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Borge Wagner (Conductor)
3:39 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Nocturne in D flat major, from 2 Nocturnes Op 27 for piano
Zbigniew Raubo (Piano)
3:46 AM
Fritsch, Balthasar (1570/80-after 1608)
Paduan and 2 Galliards (from Primitiae musicales, Frankfurt/Main 1606)
Hortus Musicus, Andres Mustonen (Director)
3:55 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Concerto Grosso in D (Op 6 no.4)
Europa Galante (Group), Fabio Biondi (Director)
4:04 AM
Turina, Joaquin (1882-1949)
Homenaje a Navarra
Niklas Liepe (Violin), Niels Liepe (Piano)
4:11 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Courtly Dances from Gloriana Op 53
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (Conductor)
4:21 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Furchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir - motet (BWV 228)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir (Choir), Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (Conductor)
4:31 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
Mazurka from the idyll 'Jawnuta' (The Gypsies)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (Conductor)
4:36 AM
Solnitz, Anton Wilhelm (c.1708-c.1752-3)
Sinfonia in A major (Op 3 no.4) for strings and continuo
Musica ad Rhenum
4:49 AM
Sor, Fernando (1778-1839)
Introduction and variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' for guitar (Op 9)
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (Guitar)
4:58 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
Recitative and Leonora's aria from 'Fidelio
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Gomez Martinez (Conductor), Anja Kampe (Soprano)
5:06 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite (Op 40) vers. for string orchestra
The Slovenian Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra, Andrej Petrac (Artistic Leader)
5:26 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Trio for piano and strings No.2 in C minor (Op 66)
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin), Eckard Runge (Cello), Enrico Pace (Piano)
5:55 AM
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von (1644-1704)
Partita No.6 in D major, from 'Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa'
Il Giardino Armonico: Stefano Barneschi (violin), Marco Bianchi (violin), Paolo Beschi (cello), Riccardo Doni (harpsichord), Maria E. Mascardi (theorbo), Giovanni Antonini (director)
6:07 AM
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967)
Galantai tancok (Dances of Galanta)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Edo de Waart (Conductor)
6:24 AM
Kalman, Emmerich Imre (1882-1953)
Aria: Wenn es Abend wird - from Grafin Mariza
Fritz Wunderlich (Tenor), West Deutsches Rundfunkorchester Koln, Franz Marszalek (Conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b05ykxt2)
Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Also, as part of "Classical Voice", we are featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices. Each day, during the 20 days of the Classical Voice season, Dame Kiri, drawing on her own experience, selects a singer and illustrates in music - explaining in an entertaining and simple way - why she's selected this voice as one of her favourites.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b05ykxv1)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam
9am
As part of Radio 3's 'The Classical Voice', Rob offers a selection of music that showcases the qualities of the baritone voice. The baritone is a particular favourite for Rob as it is the closest of the male voices to natural speech. He features performances by well-loved singers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerard Souzay and Jose van Dam, as well as Muslim Magomayev and Stafford Dean - baritones who Rob thinks should be better known today. The music ranges from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata to songs by Brahms and Ravel.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: Two pieces of music have been altered. Can you identify them?
10am
Rob's guest this week is David Puttnam. A renowned producer famed for films including Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone, The Mission and The Killing Fields, Lord Puttnam has worked in public policy since he retired from the film industry, and has a particular interest in improvements in education. He will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at
10am.
10.30am
Following on from Monday's Building a Library recommendation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Rob explores other works relating to figures from Greek mythology.
11am
This week Rob features recordings by the award-winning Pavel Haas Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation. Rob explores works from the quartet's Czech musical heritage with music by Smetana, Dvorak and Janacek, as well as works by Pavel Haas himself, the Czech composer after whom the quartet was named, and who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
Haas
String Quartet No.2, Op.7 'From the Monkey Mountains'
Pavel Haas
Colin Currie (percussion).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05ykxxs)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
The Great Passion
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, all this week Donald Macleod explores Bach's vocal music. Today he focuses on what came - even within his own lifetime - to be known as his Great Passion: the St Matthew.
Bach may have started work on the St Matthew Passion as early as 1725, perhaps intending it for performance on Good Friday of that year, but it took him at least another two years to complete - hardly surprising, given its scale and the complexity of its organization. His librettist was Picander - literary alter ego of Christian Friedrich Henrici, a tax collector and, somewhat incongruously, erstwhile writer of bawdy verse. Between them, the two men created a work with an astonishingly contemporary feel, from the fragmentary nature of its design to its continual shifting of timeframe and perspective. Bach clearly regarded the St Matthew as one of his greatest achievements, as is attested by the beautiful fair copy - described by conductor John Eliot Gardiner as "a calligraphic miracle" - that he prepared for its third performance in 1736. After Bach's death the St Matthew Passion, like most of the composer's vocal music, fell into obscurity, but it was revived by the young Felix Mendelssohn in 1829 and has been continuously in the repertoire ever since. It's now regarded as one of the cornerstones of the Western musical tradition.
WED 13:00 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World (b05yky0v)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Part 2
Highlights from the second recital of the Song Prize competition, taking place this week at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. With Iain Burnside and guest expert, soprano Rosemary Joshua.
Lauren Michelle, soprano (USA); accompanist: Aska Saita
Amartuvshin Enkhbat, baritone (Mongolia); accompanist: Llyr Williams
Anaïs Constans, soprano (France); accompanist: Marion Liotard
Ilker Arcayurek, tenor (Turkey); accompanist: Simon Lepper.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05yky2z)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 3
Verity Sharp introduces performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales of Italian music conductor Francesco Angelico with by Rossini, Respighi and Verdi recorded last autumn at Venue Cymru in Llandudno. Soprano Ruby Hughes sings Italian opera arias by Respighi and Mozart, and Richard Hickox conducts Elgar's affectionate orchestral landscape of Italy, 'Alassio'.
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor)
2.10
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - 'Deh vieni, non tardar'
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor)
2.15
Rossini: Otello - 'Assisa a pie d'un salice' (Willow Song)
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor)
2.25
Respighi: Gli Ucelli
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor)
2.45
Verdi: La forza del destino - overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor)
2.55
Mozart: Idomeneo - 'Non ho colpa'
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor)
3.0
Elgar: In the South (Alassio)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor).
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b05yl2rh)
King's College London
Live from the Chapel of King's College London
Introit: Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui (Palestrina)
Responses: Gareth Wilson
Psalm 89 (Wilson, Hogins, Wathorn)
First Lesson: Judges 6 vv 6-16
Canticles (Gareth Wilson)
Second Lesson: Matthew 5 vv 13-24
Anthem: Ego flos campi (Clemens non Papa)
Hymn: All my hope on God (Michael)
Organ Voluntary: Organ Sonata - Allegro giocoso - second movement (Bairstow)
Director of Music: Gareth Wilson
Senior Organ Scholar: Graham Thorpe.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b05yl1pz)
Ailish Tynan, Paul Curran, Swept Away Festival
Sean Rafferty is joined by director Paul Curran to discuss Garsington Opera's forthcoming production of Benjamin Britten's last opera, Death in Venice. Soprano Ailish Tynan sings live in the studio with pianist James Baillieu as they prepare for a recital at Wigmore Hall in London and there's more live music from performers involved in Swept Away Festival at Kings Place - three days of concerts and events exploring the lost music of composers active in 1920s Berlin and Vienna, then forced into exile by the Nazis. Cellist Joseph Spooner, pianist Douglas Finch, mezzo soprano Lucy Schaufer and pianist Philip Headlam are joined by Lawrence Weschler - writer and grandson of featured composer, Ernst Toch. There's also news from this year's Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Plus, Singers on Singing: leading classical singers including Roderick Williams, Angel Blue and Iestyn Davies, talk candidly about their approach to the art of singing (part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season). All 15 episodes in the series will be available as podcasts.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05ykxxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05yl1q1)
CBSO - Mahler, Esenvalds
Live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Presented by Tom Redmond
Andris Nelsons conducts the CBSO in Mahler's Third Symphony.
Ešenvalds: Lakes Awake at Dawn
Mahler: Symphony No.3
Michaela Schuster, mezzo-soprano
CBSO Chorus
CBSO Youth Chorus
CBSO Children's Chorus
CBSO
Andris Nelsons, conductor
All good things come to an end. And on what are sure to be emotional evenings, Andris Nelsons has chosen to say farewell to Birmingham with Mahler's huge, rapturous hymn to nature - both unchanging, and forever renewing. A beautiful new choral work by Andris's fellow-Latvian Eriks Ešenvalds - jointly commissioned with Andris's new orchestra in Boston - brings the orchestra, choruses, audience and conductor together to celebrate seven inspirational years.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b05yl1wd)
Jonathan Sacks, Milan Kundera Novel, Stephen Adly Guirgis Play
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks to Philip Dodd about confronting religious violence. Milan Kundera has written his first novel for 12 years. Geoff Dyer has been reading it. And critic Sarah Crompton reports on the first night at the National Theatre of the play from this year's Pulitzer prize-winning dramatist Stephen Adly Guirgis.
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Rabbi Sacks is out now.
The Mother---------- With The Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis gained 6 Tony nominations on Broadway. It runs in rep at the National Theatre until mid August.
Milan Kundera's novel is called The Festival of Insignificance.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b01p2sjq)
Napoleon and Me
Adam Nicolson
To mark the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, a series of essays about Napoleon Bonaparte. When the writer Adam Nicolson was a teenager he lived with his father who was writing about Napoleon and 1812. What was it like?
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b05yl2bv)
Wednesday - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington explores recent music from Finland including jazz trumpeter Verneri Pohjola and folk fiddlers JPP, plus all-male Corsican vocals from A Filetta and a recording of a guillemot in the German archipelago of Helgoland.
THURSDAY 18 JUNE 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b05ykxjm)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Mendelssohn, Chausson
Jonathan Swain presents a concert by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
12:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - overture Op 26
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
12:42 AM
Chausson, Ernest [1855-1899]
Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op 19 vers. for voice and orchestra
Iwona Socha (soprano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
1:09 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847]
Symphony No.3 in A minor Op 56 (Scottish)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
1:47 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Piano Quintet in F minor (Op 34)
Aleksandra Juozapenaite-Eesma (piano), M.K. Ciurlionis String Quartet - Jonas Tankevicius & Darius Diksaitis (violins), Aloyzas Grizas (viola), Saulius Lipcius (cello)
2:31 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Vespers (All-night vigil) for chorus (Op 37)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (director)
3:27 AM
Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918)
Nocturne for flute and piano
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Audrone Kisieliute (piano)
3:31 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Septet in B flat for 3 oboes, 3 violins & basso continuo (TWV
44:43)
Il Gardellino: Marcel Ponseele, Ann Vanlancker & Taka Kitazato (baroque oboes), Ryo Terakado, Blai Justo & Mika Akiha (baroque violins), René Schiffer (baroque cello), Frank Coppieters (violone), Robert Kohnen (harpsichord)
3:41 AM
Blockx, Jan (1851-1912)
Flemish Dances
BRT Philharmonic Orchestra Brussels, Alexander Rahbari (conductor)
3:55 AM
Franck, César Auguste (1822-1890)
Final in B flat major (Op 21)
Leo van Doeselaar (organ) Played on the 1891 Michel Maarschalkweerd organ, Amsterdam Concertgebouw
4:07 AM
Obrecht, Jakob (1450-1505)
Omnis spiritus laudet - offertory motet for 5 voices
Ensemble Daedalus
4:13 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Brewaeys, Luc (b.1959)
Danseuses de Delphes (Preludes book 1, no.1 )
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
4:17 AM
Marx, Joseph (1882-1964) (Text: EH Hess)
Nachtgebet (Evening Prayer)
Jean Stilwell (mezzo soprano), Robert Kortgaard (piano)
4:21 AM
Arban, Jean-Baptiste [1825-1889]
Le Carnaval de Venise - variations for cornet and piano
Vilém Hofbauer (trumpet), Miroslava Trnková (piano)
4:31 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Night and festal music - prelude to act II from the opera Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:38 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata quasi una fantasia for piano (Op 27 no.2) in C sharp minor, 'Moonlight' (Piano sonata No.14)
Håvard Gimse (piano)
4:53 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (Op 28)
Taik-Ju Lee (violin), Young-Lan Han (piano)
5:03 AM
Caldara, Antonio (1670-1736)
Medea in Corinto - solo cantata for voice, strings and continuo
Gérard Lèsne (countertenor), Il Seminario Musicale
5:18 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Prometheus - symphonic poem (S99)
The Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Volodymyr Sirenko (conductor)
5:32 AM
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857)
Etude in G flat
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
5:35 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Rondo in B minor (Op 109)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
5:44 AM
Carissimi, Giacomo (1605-1674)
Vanitas vanitatum
Olga Pasiecznik & Marta Boberska (sopranos), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble - Wim Maseele (guitar, theorbo), Lilianna Stawarz (chamber organ), Agata Sapiecha (violin & director)
5:55 AM
Cimarosa, Domenico (1749-1801), original oboe arrangement by Arthur Benjamin
Concerto for oboe and strings, arranged for trumpet
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
6:06 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Cello Sonata in G minor (Op 65)
Zara Nelsova (cello), Grant Johannesen (piano).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b05ykxt4)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Also, as part of "Classical Voice", we are featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices. Each day, during the 20 days of the Classical Voice season, Dame Kiri, drawing on her own experience, selects a singer and illustrates in music - explaining in an entertaining and simple way - why she's selected this voice as one of her favourites.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b05ykxv3)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest this week is the film producer David Puttnam.
9am
As part of Radio 3's 'The Classical Voice', Rob offers a selection of music that showcases the qualities of the baritone voice. The baritone is a particular favourite for Rob as it is the closest of the male voices to natural speech. He features performances by well-loved singers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerard Souzay and Jose van Dam, as well as Muslim Magomayev and Stafford Dean - baritones who Rob thinks should be better known today. The music ranges from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata to songs by Brahms and Ravel.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.
10am
Rob's guest this week is David Puttnam. A renowned producer famed for films including Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone, The Mission and The Killing Fields, Lord Puttnam has worked in public policy since he retired from the film industry, and has a particular interest in improvements in education. He will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at
10am.
10.30am
Following on from Monday's Building a Library recommendation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Rob explores other works relating to figures from Greek mythology.
11am
This week Rob features recordings by the award-winning Pavel Haas Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation. Rob explores works from the quartet's Czech musical heritage with music by Smetana, Dvorak and Janacek, as well as works by Pavel Haas himself, the Czech composer after whom the quartet was named, and who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
Janacek
String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters'
Pavel Haas Quartet.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05ykxxv)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Bach the Recycler
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, all this week Donald Macleod explores Bach's vocal music. Today, his trinity of oratorios, for Christmas, Easter and Ascension.
By the mid 1730s, Bach's production of new vocal music had begun to dip. So when in 1734 he came to assemble his Christmas Oratorio - a cycle of six cantatas designed to be performed across six different church feast-days - he drew heavily on music he had composed earlier, for use in other, largely secular, contexts. Why he chose to do this, rather than create new works from scratch, is a matter of speculation. By this time he had been in his job as Cantor of the Thomasschule in Leipzig for more than a decade, a period during which his relations with his employers had turned from mildly tart to distinctly sour, and it may simply be that he had lost interest in providing them with new music. For some years he had also had a fresh focus for his energies, in the form of Leipzig's vibrant Collegium Musicum, a largely student concert society of which he became director in 1729. None of this, though, is to denigrate the Christmas Oratorio, a magnificent work that far from betraying signs of its patchwork origins seems cut from a single cloth. The same goes for the Easter and Ascension Oratorios, which both have their roots in earlier work. In Bach's day, there was no shame in recycling old material - what mattered was the skill with which it was adapted to the new context.
THU 13:00 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World (b05yky0x)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Part 3
Highlights from the third recital of the Song Prize competition, from the Dora Stoutzker Hall at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. With Iain Burnside and guest expert, tenor John Mark Ainsley.
Aviva Fortunata, soprano (Canada); accompanist: Llyr Williams
Nico Darmanin, tenor (Malta); accompanist: Simon Lepper
J'nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano (USA); accompanist: Llyr Williams
Insu Hwang, bass-baritone (South Korea); accompanist: Eunmyung Baek.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05yky33)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Rufus Wainwright - Prima Donna
For the Classical Voice season on Radio 3, today's Thursday Opera Matinee is Prima Donna by the singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, who first developed an interest in opera as a teenager. It centres on a day in the life of an ageing opera singer who is anxiously preparing for her comeback in 1970s Paris. Once a soprano with a powerhouse voice and a reputation to match, she's been discarded - disdained by critics and forgotten by audiences. But the diva is determined to prove her doubters wrong: all she asks is a chance to reprise the role that made her reputation all those years ago. Presented by Verity Sharp.
Composer: Rufus Wainwright
Libretto: Rufus Wainwright and Bernadette Columine
2pm:
Rufus Wainwright: Prima Donna
Régine St Laurent ..... Janis Kelly (soprano)
Marie ..... Kathryn Guthrie (soprano)
Philippe ..... Richard Morrison (baritone)
André Le Tourner ..... Antonio Figueroa (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jayce Ogren (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b05yl1q3)
Freddy Kempf, Fantasticus, Josephine Barstow, Tim Kirby
Sean Rafferty is joined by viol trio Fantasticus and pianist Freddy Kempf who perform live. Plus, the next in our Singers on Singing series.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05ykxxv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b05yl1q5)
BBC Philharmonic - Nielsen, Mahler
Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 'Sinfonia semplice'
Mahler: 4 songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rheinlegendchen; Das irdische Leben; Revelge; Lob des hohen Verstandes.
8.25 Music Interval
8.45
Nielsen: Symphony No.3 'Sinfonia espansiva'
Gillian Keith (soprano)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass-baritone)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)
Live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester
Presented by Martin Handley
In the final concert of a series of three celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nielsen, the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards open the evening with the most paradoxical of his symphonies. Although he said he intended the work to be "idyllic" this extraordinary symphony contains tragedy, satire and anxiety with a series of heart attacks he'd recently suffered seeming to punctuate the climax of the first movement and, in his words, "death knocking at the door" in the Finale. In an interview at the time of the first performance he told an interviewer that, "it's natural for us to long for what we don't have"; perhaps the symphony's title is more a wish than description. Before the interval Hanno Müller-Brachmann joins the orchestra for four songs from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the concert ends with Nielsen's Third Symphony, his sunniest, with its gripping exuberant opening and hypnotic pastoral in which the orchestra are joined by Gillian Keith and Hanno Müller-Brachmann. (The first two concerts in this series were broadcast live on 9 and 13 June and are available on BBC iPlayer.).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b05yl1wg)
Muriel Spark, Digital Life, Diversity in British Poetry
Rana Mitter talks to Laurence Scott about living in a digital world Channel 4's Humans and explores the writing of Muriel Spark with Dr Sarah Dillon as Spark's novel The Driver's Seat is adapted by Laurie Sansom for The National Theatre of Scotland. 2015 New Generation Thinker Sandeep Parmar discusses diversity in contemporary British poetry and the shortlists for this year's Forward Prizes. Painter Chris Gollon is touring British cathedrals with an exhibition of religious art.
Humans screens on Channel 4 on Sunday nights at
9pm.
Laurence Scott's book is called The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World.
The National Theatre of Scotland's production of The Driver's Seat is at the Edinburgh Lyceum from June 13th - 27th and then at Glasgow Tramway from July 2nd to July 4th.
You can hear Dr Sarah Dillon - one of the 2013 Radio 3 and AHRC New Generation Thinkers - analysing the work of various writers including Muriel Spark on BBC Radio 4's Open Book.
The 2015 Forward Poetry Prizes are announced on September 28th when the 24th annual Forward Book of Poetry, containing the judges' choice of the year's poems will be launched.
'Incarnation, Mary & Women from the Bible' by Chris Gollon is on display at Chichester Cathedral from 16th June - 16th August 2015. Open: daily
07.15am -
7pm
It then moves to Durham Cathedral 30th Sept - 2nd Nov 2015. Open: Mon - Sat
07.30 -
6pm, Sun
07.45 -
5.30pm.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b01p2sjs)
Napoleon and Me
Kirsteen McCue
To mark the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, a series of essays about Napoleon Bonaparte and his relationship with a a group of writers. In this edition, Kirsteen McCue on singing and interpreting the history behind the 'Ettrick Shepherd' James Hogg's Scottish Napoleonic songs.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b05yl2bx)
Thursday - Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington's selection tonight includes Austrian electronic artist Christian Fennesz, the American-Scandinavian trio of Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan and Jon Christensen, and choral music by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo.
FRIDAY 19 JUNE 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b05ykxjp)
Veronique Gens and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra - Ravel and Canteloube
John Shea presents a programme of Canteloube and Ravel with soprano Véronique Gens and the Danish NSO conducted by Matthias Pintscher.
12:31 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Rapsodie espagnole
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher (conductor)
12:48 AM
Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937]
Shéhérazade - 3 poems for soprano and orchestra
Véronique Gens (soprano), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher (conductor)
1:07 AM
Canteloube, Joseph [1879-1957]
5 Songs from the Auvergne
Véronique Gens (soprano), Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher (conductor)
1:27 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor Op 38
Antonio Meneses (cello), Maria Joâo Pires (piano)
1:54 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Ballade in G minor (Op 24)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
2:15 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Double Concerto in C minor (BWV 1060)
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Mary Utiger (violin), Camerata Köln
2:31 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Symphony No.1 in B flat major (Op 38) 'Spring'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Steven Sloane (conductor)
3:02 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Cantata BWV 21 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis'
Hana Blažiková (soprano), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass) Concerto Vocale Ghent (Orchestra and Choir), Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
3:40 AM
Pylkkänen, Tauno [1918-1980]
Suite for oboe and strings (Op 32)
Aale Lindgren (oboe), Finnish Radio Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
3:48 AM
Albeniz, Isaac [1860-1909]
El Corpus en Sevilla from 'Iberia' (Book 1)
Plamena Mangova (piano)
3:57 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Concerto Polonaise TWV 43:G4
Arte dei Suonatori (ensemble)
4:07 AM
Coulthard, Jean (1908-2000)
Four Irish Songs orch. Michael Conway Baker
Linda Maguire (mezzo-soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:17 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Toccata in C major for piano (Op 7)
Francesco Piemontesi (Piano)
4:23 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sonata da chiesa in C minor (Op 1 no.8)
London Baroque
4:31 AM
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935)
Norwegian Rhapsody No.1 in A
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
4:43 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in C major (K545)
Young-Lan Han (piano)
4:54 AM
Söderman, August (1832-1876), lyrics by Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Three songs from 'Idyll and Epigram'
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
5:00 AM
Förster, Kaspar Jr (1616-1673)
Sonata 'La Sidon'
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
5:07 AM
Charlton, Richard (b. 1955)
Dances of the Rainbow Serpent
Guitar Trek: Timothy Kain, Carolyn Kidd, Mark Norton, Peter Constant (guitars)
5:18 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Sonata for oboe and continuo (Op 1 no.8) in C minor (HWV.366)
Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Québec, Canada)
5:24 AM
Stainov, Petko (1896-1977)
The Secret of the Struma River
Gusla Men's Choir, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
5:32 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Fantasia on Polish airs in A major for piano and orchestra (Op 13)
Nelson Goerner (1849 Erard Piano), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen (conductor)
5:48 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809]
String Quartet in D major (Op 64, no.5) (Hob.III.63) "Lark"
Bartók Quartet
6:06 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata in F major (Op 24) 'Spring'
Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b05ykxt6)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Also, as part of "Classical Voice", we are featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices. Each day, during the 20 days of the Classical Voice season, Dame Kiri, drawing on her own experience, selects a singer and illustrates in music - explaining in an entertaining and simple way - why she's selected this voice as one of her favourites.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b05ykxv5)
Friday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest this week is the film producer David Puttnam.
9am
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, Rob offers a selection of music that showcases the qualities of the baritone voice. The baritone is a particular favourite for Rob as it is the closest of the male voices to natural speech. He features performances by well-loved singers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerard Souzay and Jose van Dam, as well as Muslim Magomayev and Stafford Dean - baritones who Rob thinks should be better known today. The music ranges from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata to songs by Brahms and Ravel.
9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.
10am
Rob's guest this week is David Puttnam. A renowned producer famed for films including Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone, The Mission and The Killing Fields, Lord Puttnam has worked in public policy since he retired from the film industry, and has a particular interest in improvements in education. He will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at
10am.
10.30am
Following on from Monday's Building a Library recommendation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Rob explores other works relating to figures from Greek mythology.
11am
This week Rob features recordings by the award-winning Pavel Haas Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation. Rob explores works from the quartet's Czech musical heritage with music by Smetana, Dvorak and Janacek, as well as works by Pavel Haas himself, the Czech composer after whom the quartet was named, and who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
Schubert
String Quartet in D minor, D.810 'Death and the Maiden'
Pavel Haas Quartet.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b05ykxxz)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
The Art of Self-Borrowing
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, all this week Donald Macleod explores Bach's vocal music. Today, Donald decompiles what could be described as the greatest musical compilation ever: Bach's B Minor Mass.
In a sense, Bach didn't write a Mass in B Minor. Firstly, that's not a title he ever gave it; it was attached in 1845 by a publisher called Hermann Nägeli, probably in an attempt to hike up sales by evoking an association with Beethoven's - similarly epically-proportioned - Missa Solemnis. Secondly, there's no real evidence that Bach regarded it as a single work - or at least, not as a work to be performed at a single sitting. And thirdly, its central key is D major rather than B minor. There's not much clarity as to why he wrote it, either. Theories range from artistic 'summa' - a drawing-together, as he neared the end of life, of everything he had achieved in the field of vocal and instrumental composition - to job-pitch; he had long been frustrated with his position as Cantor as Leipzig's Thomasschule and may now, in 1748, have had his eyes on a court position at Dresden. Bach scholars have been able to throw a great deal more light on how the work was put together - 'put together' being the operative term. The story really begins in 1733, when Bach wrote a Kyrie-Gloria mass - just the first two sections of the so-called 'ordinary' of the mass - for the Elector of Saxony, Augustus the Strong. A decade and a half further on, he decided, for reasons unknown, to expand that abbreviated setting into a missa tota - a setting of the complete ordinary of the mass, pieced together from a variety of sources dating as far back as 1714. The astonishing thing is that this musical collage not only hangs together but delivers one of the most powerful experiences in Western classical music. The key is in the way Bach selects music appropriate to its new context, then adapts it to make a perfect fit for the words. As Bach scholar and performer John Butt observes, "perhaps part of the enduring quality of the B Minor Mass lies in the fact that so much of its music was essentially composed twice".
FRI 13:00 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World (b05yky11)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Part 4
Highlights from the fourth recital of the Song Prize competition, plus the Jury finally reveal which five singers have made it through to the Song Prize final. Iain Burnside is joined by guest expert, Rebecca Evans.
Sebastian Pilgrim, bass (Germany); accompanist: Llyr Williams
Marina Pinchuk, mezzo-soprano (Belarus); accompanist: Simon Lepper
Jongmin Park, bass (South Korea); accompanist: Simon Lepper
Regula Mühlemann, soprano (Switzerland); accompanist: Llyr Williams.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b05yky35)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Episode 4
Verity Sharp concludes her week of afternoons in the company of the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales performing French music from composers associated with organ lofts across Paris by Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Widor and Duruflé. Chloe Hanslip is the violinist in Lalo's Symphonie which delights in the rhythms of Spanish dances, and Chinese conductor Xian Zhang makes her recent debut with BBC NOW in Ravel's most famous ballet, a splendid crescendo of orchestral colour.
Ravel: Bolero
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor)
2.15
Lalo: Symphonie espagnol
Chloe Hanslip (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor)
2.50
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3, 'Organ'
Thomas Trotter (organ)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang (conductor)
3.30
Widor: Toccata from Organ Symphony No.5, orch. & arr. Sidney Torch
Thomas Trotter (organ)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eugene Monteith (conductor)
3.40
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
BBC National Chorus of Wales
National Youth Choir of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
3.45
Duruflé: Requiem
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Gerald Finley (baritone)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
National Youth Choir of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b05yl1q7)
Classical Voice Season: BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
Sean Rafferty presents live music and guests from the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World.
Live from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Sean's guests include Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Soile Isokoski, Adrian Thomson, Rosemary Joshua and the choir, Cantemus.
Plus, Singers on Singing: leading classical singers including Roderick Williams, Angel Blue and Iestyn Davies, talk candidly about their approach to the art of singing (part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season). All 15 episodes in the series will be available as podcasts.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b05ykxxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World (b05z5vsm)
Finals on Radio 3
Classical Voice Season: Song Prize Final
Classical Voice season - celebrating the art of singing
Five competitors remain to stake their claims to one of the world's most coveted recital prizes. Iain Burnside is joined by soprano, Susan Bullock for live coverage of all the performances, before an international jury including Artistic Director of Wigmore Hall, John Gilhooly; accompanist, Julius Drake; and soprano, Claron McFadden.
Live from St. David's Hall, Cardiff
Presented by Iain Burnside.
FRI 22:15 The Verb (b05yl1wj)
Classical Voice Season: The Voice
The Cabaret of the word is in Cardiff as part of the BBC's Classical Voice season. Ian McMillan's guests include the composer Gerry Diver and poet Rachael Boast
Producer: Faith Lawrence.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b05yl2bz)
Lopa Kothari - Ngawang Lodup in Session
Lopa Kothari with the latest releases from across the globe, and a BBC Introducing session from Tibetan singer and ex-monk Ngawang Lodup.
Lodup comes from a long line of Nomadic singers in the Amdo region of Tibet. His songs, which have been passed down from generation to generation, tell of noble Tibetan warriors, warlords and the snow mountains of Tibetan legend. Lodup is accompanied on the Dramnyen six-string lute by Jamyang Dorjee.
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 (b05y61yc)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b05yky2x)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b05yky2z)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b05yky33)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b05yky35)
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
13:00 TUE (b05yky0g)
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
13:00 WED (b05yky0v)
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
13:00 THU (b05yky0x)
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
13:00 FRI (b05yky11)
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
19:30 FRI (b05z5vsm)
BBC Performing Groups
00:00 MON (b05yxb20)
Between the Ears
21:45 SAT (b05y5yks)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b05y5y3t)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b05y5ysw)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b05y61y3)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b05ykxt0)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b05ykxt2)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b05ykxt4)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b05ykxt6)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b05y5y3w)
Choir and Organ
16:00 SUN (b05y5z86)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b05xqgzs)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b05yl2rh)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b05y61y7)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b05y61y7)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b05ykxxp)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b05ykxxp)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b05ykxxs)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b05ykxxs)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b05ykxxv)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b05ykxxv)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b05ykxxz)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b05ykxxz)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b01p2q2c)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b05y61y5)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b05ykxtz)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b05ykxv1)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b05ykxv3)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b05ykxv5)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (b05yl1wb)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b05yl1wd)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b05yl1wg)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b04y9p55)
Hear and Now
22:15 SAT (b05y5ykv)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b05y61yf)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b05yl1pv)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b05yl1pz)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b05yl1q3)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b05yl1q7)
Jazz Line-Up
18:00 SAT (b05y5ykn)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b05y5ykl)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b05ykwdf)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b05yl2bs)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b05yl2bv)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b05yl2bx)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b05y5y3y)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (b04y9nmt)
Opera on 3
19:30 MON (b05ykwc4)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b05y5yt0)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SAT (b05y5ykq)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SUN (b05y5zmq)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b05yl1px)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b05yl1q1)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b05yl1q5)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b05y5y40)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b05xq5w0)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b05y61y9)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b05y5y42)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b05y5y44)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (b043wpvd)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b05y5ysy)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b017cfh0)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b01p2qpb)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b01p2sjn)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b01p2sjq)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b01p2sjs)
The Verb
22:15 FRI (b05yl1wj)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b05xqh4m)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b05y5yst)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b05y61y1)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b05ykxjh)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b05ykxjk)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b05ykxjm)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b05ykxjp)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (b00swh1j)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b05yl2bz)