Catriona Young presents a concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner.
Luba Orgonasova (Soprano), Stuart Skelton (Tenor), Mikhail Petrenko (Baritone), Crouch End Festival Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner (Conductor)
Crouch End Festival Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner (Conductor)
Olga Pasiecznik (Soprano), Henning Voss (Counter Tenor), Wojciech Parchem (Tenor), Miroslaw Borzynski (Bass), Sine Nomine Chamber Choir, Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra, Marek Toporowski (Director)
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Michal Nesterowicz (Conductor)
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) orch. Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Tarantelle styrienne (Danse) orch. Ravel (orig. for piano solo)
Ballade No. 4 (Op.52) in F minor
Anton Grcar & Stanko Arnold (Trumpets), RTV Slovenian Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (Conductor)
Maarten Konigsberger (Baritone), Arjan Kappers (Clarinet), Frank Brakkee (Viola), Taco Kooistra (Cello)
Janina Fialkowska (Piano), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (Conductor)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... cello miniatures'. Rob chooses a selection of bite-sized treats for cello that showcase all that the instrument has to offer, from its singing voice and mellow quality to a sense of gutsy attack and varied range of colour and tone. Throughout the week Rob shares his favourite compact works for the cello, with gems by composers including Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn.
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
Rob's guest is author Deborah Moggach, who wrote the book behind the hit movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and whose novel Tulip Fever is currently being filmed. Her screenplays for TV include adaptations of Pride and Prejudice (starring Keira Knightley) and the Diary of Anne Frank, plus dramas Seesaw and Stolen. She talks about the challenges of adapting novels for the screen and how she constructs a story, and her music choices range from Mozart and Shostakovich to Gershwin and Verdi.
Rob's artist of the week is the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons. In anticipation of Nelsons' performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Proms this weekend, Rob shares some major recordings by this exciting young conductor, who is currently in his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week Rob guides you through Nelsons' interpretations of works by composers ranging from Shostakovich and Stravinsky to Strauss and Brahms.
Symphony No. 9 in E minor (From the New World)
Bruckner's radical and visionary approach to writing symphonies was not going down well in his home of Vienna. The deeply conservative audience found his music baffling and the critics were caustic. Bruckner took refuge at the monastery of St. Florian and the organ he'd played as a child. Presented by Donald Macleod.
The Brentano Quartet bring a programme of great contrast to the East Neuk Festival in Fife. Mendelssohn's youthful and sunny first quartet written when he was barely out of his teenage years is paired with Britten's third and final quartet, a work of incredible contrasts and colours considered to be one of his finest masterpieces. Its final movement entitled 'La Serenissima' quotes directly from his opera 'Death in Venice'. It was written while the composer was in Venice and is a meditation on mortality.
Penny Gore reaches the mid-way point of this week's Afternoon on 3 featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today features Tchaikovsky's tribute to his beloved Mozart, the Rococo Variations, with cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with Zhang Zuo.
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G minor Op. 7, No 3 (Dupré)
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. He is joined by Sakari Oramo who conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the First Night of the Proms on Friday, along with the orchestra's leader, Stephen Bryant. We also welcome in to the studio cast members of 'People Watch', a brand new opera from the Streetwise Opera charity which uses music to help people suffering from homelessness. They are joined by the opera's composer Stef Conner and librettist Bil Bankes-Jones.
Also this afternoon Sean talks to double-bassist Chi-Chi Nwanoku about her exciting new 'Chineke!' orchestra, and the Carducci Quartet perform more of their ambitious Shostakovich quartet cycle live in the studio.
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by John Storgards perform music by Sibelius and Grieg. They are joined by Narek Hakhnazaryan for Elgar's wistful Cello Concerto.
Grieg: Morning, Abduction of the Bride and Ingrid's Lament, Peer Gynt's Homeward Journey, Solveig's Song, In the Hall of the Mountain King (from "Peer Gynt")
The programme begins and ends with Nordic music; Grieg's entrancing miniatures from Peer Gynt combines character, melody and atmosphere. The concert closes with Sibelius's First Symphony, his powerfully individual voice clearly heard even whilst the great Russian composers cast their shadow. New Generation Artist Narek Hakhnazaryan joins the orchestra for Elgar's wistful Cello Concerto.
Bryan Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative in USA. As he gives a talk at the British Library he discusses his role on a taskforce reporting to President Obama about the state of American law enforcement. Penny Woolcock has interviewed a range of Londoners for her latest project at the Roundhouse. The myth of King Arthur is given a contemporary reworking by Sheffield People's Theatre and the company Slung Low in Camelot: The Shining City. Philip Dodd discusses the production, which is being staged at 3 different locations and features over 100 local people, with writer James Phillips and Slung Low artistic director Alan Lane. Meg Rosoff reviews Go Set A Watchman, the new novel from Harper Lee - who made her name in 1960 with To Kill a Mockingbird.
Penny Woolcock's installation Utopia - with designs by Block9 - runs at the Roundhouse in London August 4th - 23rd. Her project for the BFI Out of the Rubble explores issues of housing, poverty and immigration. It will be released later this summer.
Image: Camelot in Sheffield. Photo Credit Mark Douet
A turtle in the elevator, a television on the cooker - there was plenty to disconcert the critic Martin Gayford when he paid a visit to the artist Robert Rauschenberg in his New York loft.
Rauschenberg was a 20th century master - an artist whose paintings, 'combines' and graphic work anticipated pop art and many other genres, years before they became universally fashionable.
Gayford discovers a man wedded to the idea of surprise and to trying to reflect the the deluge of imagery which characterises our world.
THURSDAY 16 JULY 2015
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b061frfv)
Bartok, Dohnanyi and Grieg
A concert of Grieg, Dohnanyi and Bartok from the Kerteminde Chamber Music Festival in Denmark. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Contrasts Sz.111 for violin, clarinet and piano
Soo-Jin Hong (violin), Jens Alvekjaer (piano), Olli Leppäniemi (clarinet)
12:48 AM
Dohnányi, Ernõ (1877-1960)
Serenade in C major Op.10 for string trio
Jon Gjesme (violin), Ettore Causa (viola), Andreas Brantelid (cello)
1:09 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Cello Sonata in A minor Op.36
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Håvard Gimse (piano)
1:35 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Triumphal March from 'Sigurd Jorsalfar'
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
1:46 AM
Lange-Müller, Peter Erasmus (1850-1926)
Tre Madonnasange (Op.65)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
1:52 AM
Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931)
Symphony No.4, Op.29 'The Inextinguishable'
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
2:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Clarinet Quintet in A major (K.581)
Kimball Sykes (clarinet), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Donnie Deacon (violin), Jane Logan (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
3:05 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Missa sancta No.2 in G major (Op.76) 'Jubelmesse'
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Laverne G'Froerer (mezzo), Keith Boldt (tenor), George Roberts (baritone), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn (conductor)
3:30 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Fanfarinette
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
3:34 AM
Kaski, Heino (1885-1957)
Prelude (1912)
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor)
3:38 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Romance for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola), Bruce Vogt (piano)
3:45 AM
Le Febure, Johannes (?-1609/12)
Motet: Isti sunt viri sancti
Currende, Herman Stinders (organ), Erik van Nevel (conductor)
3:49 AM
Handel, Georg Friedrich (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in A minor (Op.6 No.4)
The Sixth Floor Ensemble, Anssi Mattila (conductor)
4:00 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
(Schubert) Ave Maria (D.839) transcribed for piano
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
4:07 AM
Simpson, Christopher (c.1605-1669)
Prelude and Divisions upon a Ground
Vittorio Ghielmi (Viola da Gamba), Luca Pianca (Lute)
4:15 AM
Gabrieli, Andrea (1532/3-1585)
Sento un rumor (madrigal à 8)
Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Theatrum Instrumentorum, Stefano Innocenti (conductor)
4:20 AM
Rózycki, Ludomir (1884-1953)
Stanczyk - Symphonic Scherzo (Op.1) (1904)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janusz Przbylski (conductor)
4:31 AM
Boulogne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1748-1799)
Ouverture to the opera 'L'amant anonyme'
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
4:39 AM
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich [c.1620-1680]
Fechtschule (Fencing School)
Stockholm Antiqua
4:47 AM
Bárdos, Lajos [1899-1986]
Winter is gone (Elmúlt a tel)
Hungarian Radio Choir, Lajos Bárdos (conductor)
4:52 AM
Wiedermann, Bedrich Anton (1883-1951)
Notturno in C sharp (1942)
Pavel Cerny playing 1902 Heinrich Schiffner organ of the Jesus Church, Prague
5:01 AM
Novak, Vitezslav (1870-1949)
V Tatrach (In the Tatra mountains) - symphonic poem (Op.26)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
5:19 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Zasmuconej (To a sorrowful girl) (Op.1 No.1)
Jadwiga Rappé (alto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
5:21 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Smutna jest dusza moja (My Soul is Sad) (Op.1 No.6)
Jadwiga Rappé (alto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
5:23 AM
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909)
Na sniegu (In the snow) (Op.1 No.3) (Tempo mazurka)
Jadwiga Rappé (alto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
5:25 AM
Castro, Jan de (c.1540-c.1600)
Je suis tellement langoureus (Chansons, odes et sonnets.... By Pierre de Ronsard, Lovanio 1576)
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa (director)
5:31 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Symphonische Etuden Op.13 for piano
Beatrice Rana (piano)
5:57 AM
Forqueray, Antoine (1672-1745)
La Rameau & Jupiter (from Suite no. 5 in C minor for viola da gamba and continuo)
Teodoro Baù (viola da gamba), Deniel Perer (harpsichord)
6:07 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Trois Nocturnes: Nuages, Fêtes, Sirènes
National Radio of Ukraine National Chorus (director: Lesya Shavlovska), NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b061fs2r)
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 (b061ftqq)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Deborah Moggach
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... cello miniatures'. Rob chooses a selection of bite-sized treats for cello that showcase all that the instrument has to offer, from its singing voice and mellow quality to a sense of gutsy attack and varied range of colour and tone. Throughout the week Rob shares his favourite compact works for the cello, with gems by composers including Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.
10am
Rob's guest is author Deborah Moggach, who wrote the book behind the hit movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and whose novel Tulip Fever is currently being filmed. Her screenplays for TV include adaptations of Pride and Prejudice (starring Keira Knightley) and the Diary of Anne Frank, plus dramas Seesaw and Stolen. She talks about the challenges of adapting novels for the screen and how she constructs a story, and her music choices range from Mozart and Shostakovich to Gershwin and Verdi.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons. In anticipation of Nelsons' performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Proms this weekend, Rob shares some major recordings by this exciting young conductor, who is currently in his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week Rob guides you through Nelsons' interpretations of works by composers ranging from Shostakovich and Stravinsky to Strauss and Brahms.
Stravinsky
Firebird (complete)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01pz9ln)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Episode 4
Bruckner's elation following the success of his seventh symphony was short lived. His next symphony was rejected as bewildering by his conductor friend and 'artistic father', Hermann Levi, dealing a blow to the composer's confidence that had devastating consequences. Presented by Donald Macleod.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b061fvdc)
East Neuk Festival 2015
Alexander Sitkovetsky, Maxim Rysanov
Alexander Sitkovetsky and Maxim Rysanov perform a range of old and new repertoire for violin and viola duo including convivial duos by Mozart, the great folk-based duos of Bartok contrasted with arrangements of Bach's two-part inventions - originally for keyboard - and finishing with the virtuosic arrangement by Johan Halvorsen of Handel's Passacaglia from his Suite in G minor.
Mozart: Duo in G, K423
Bach/Bartok: Duos and inventions
Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia
Maxim Rysanov, viola
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b061ghby)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Nielsen 150: Saul and David
Nielsen 150.
Penny Gore presents an opera broadcast marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen - a performance from Danish Royal Opera of his first opera, Saul and David, telling the Biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, who has won the favour of the people by defeating the giant, Goliath. Celebrated Nielsen interpreter Michael Schønwandt conducts, with Johan Reuter in the dramatic title role as King Saul and Ann Petersen as David's beloved Michal.
Nielsen
Saul and David
Johan Reuter, bass-baritone, Saul
Michael Kristensen, tenor, Jonathan
Ann Petersen, soprano, Michal
Niels Jørgen Riis, tenor, David
Morten Staugaard, bass, Samuel
Leif Jone Ølberg, bass-baritone, Abner
Susanne Resmark, contralto, Witch of Eldor
Danish Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Michael Schønwandt, conductor Nielsen
2pm
Acts 1 and 2
3.10pm
Acts 3 and 4.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b061ghsw)
Jose Carreras, Genesis Sixteen, James O'Donnell
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Tenor Jose Carreras and mezzo soprano Carly Paoli chat about their concert at Termi di Caracalla in Rome, the venue at which the The Three Tenors first performed 25 years ago this year. Organist James O'Donnell pops in to talk about performing Poulenc's Organ Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the BBC Proms. And there's live music from Genesis Sixteen, which features some of the best choral singers in the UK.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01pz9ln)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (b061gq4t)
2015
Proms Preview
On the eve of the BBC Proms 2015 Petroc Trelawny previews the season live from the Royal Albert Hall in London - two months of many of the world's greatest artists, composers, orchestras and ensembles including Last Night celebrations around the UK.
2015 is packed to the brim and Petroc will guide you through a season which features piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Prokofiev and choral masterpieces by Verdi, Elgar and Walton, as well as Proms celebrating the music of Nielsen and Sibelius, Bach and Boulez, Sondheim and Bernstein.
Whether it be a Prom, Proms Matinee, Proms Chamber Music or Proms Extra, Petroc will be your on-air guide to the music of this year's season. And, as the excitement mounts on stage and back stage at the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc will talk to artists during their final rehearsals and will hunt out those who make the Proms the best music festival in the world - from lighting engineers, instrument tuners and movers to the person in charge of bringing the music to you, whether it be your seat in the Albert Hall or on the radio in the comfort of your own home.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b061glf7)
Chalke Valley History Festival: Heroism v Failure
Should we spend more time studying the failures of history, and less time on the heroes? David Starkey, Amanda Foreman and Saul David join Anne McElvoy for a debate recorded in front of an audience at the Chalke Valley History Festival.
Saul David is the author of Operation Thunderbolt. It looks at the Entebbe Raid which took place on 4th July 1976.
David Starkey has written Magna Carta: The True Story Behind the Charter - a book exploring the history and relevance of the document drafted 800 years ago.
Amanda Foreman is the author of A World on Fire: The Epic History of the British in the American Civil War and will be presenting a BBC TV series exploring women's history from the Paleolithic to modern Britain.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b03yqt2r)
Finish the Bottle
Patrick Heron
Martin Gayford spent a week watching the artist Patrick Heron preparing breakfast in the kitchen of his house - Eagle's Nest - overlooking the Cornish coast.
Heron was a celebrated member of the St Ives School and he relished living amid the boulder-strewn fields in the specially luminous light of Cornwall.
During a week of conversations Gayford begins to realise the depth of Heron's rootedness in the Cornish landscape and, for all the apparently militant modernism of the paintings - how the work was directly informed by the beauty of the place.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b061gm9j)
Thursday - Mara Carlyle
Mara Carlyle presents an eclectic choice of musical styles and traditions.
FRIDAY 17 JULY 2015
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b061frg9)
Gorecki: Canticum Graduum and Symphony No 3
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Henryk Gorecki's birth, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra play his Canticum Graduum and Third Symphony. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Gorecki, Henryk [1933-2010]
Canticum Graduum (Op 27)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tadeusz Strugala (conductor)
12:45 AM
Gorecki, Henryk [1933-2010]
Symphony No.3 Op.36 (Symphony of sorrowful songs) for soprano and orchestra
Ewa Vesin (soprano), Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tadeusz Strugala (conductor)
1:45 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel (Op.24)
Hinko Haas (piano)
2:16 AM
Rosenmüller, Johann (c.1619-1684)
Beatus vir qui timet Dominum
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), David Cordier (countertenor), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Carsten Lohff (organ), Cantus Köln, Konrad Junghänel (conductor and lute)
2:31 AM
Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir (b.1936)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra 'In Memory of Pancho Vladigerov'
Milena Mollova (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
3:06 AM
Frühling, Carl (1868-1937)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano (Op.40)
Amici Chamber Ensemble: Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), David Hetherington (cello), Patricia Parr (piano)
3:34 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
La Scala di seta (The silken ladder) - overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Clark (conductor)
3:40 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
O Padre Nostro
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraž Hauptman (conductor)
3:48 AM
Sorkocevic, Luka (1734-1789) arranged by Frano Matušic
Symphony No.3
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio
3:55 AM
Eccles, Henry [?1675-?1745]
double Bass Sonata
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)
4:04 AM
Hellendaal, Pieter (1721-1799)
Concerto grosso for strings and continuo (Op.3 no.1) in G minor
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
4:14 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Prelude in C sharp minor (Op.3 no.2)
Sergei Terentjev (piano)
4:18 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
3 Airs from Vauxhall Gardens, arranged by Steele-Perkins for trumpet and orchestra
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
4:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
4:38 AM
Schulz-Evler, Adolf (1852-1905)
Concert arabesque on themes by Johann Strauss for piano transcribed from "An der schönen, blauen Donau" (The Blue Danube)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
4:48 AM
Nystroem, Goesta (1890-1966)
Tre havsvisioner (3 Visions about the sea)
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustaf Sjökvist (conductor)
5:00 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Andante and Rondo Ungarese in C minor (Op.35)
Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
5:10 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in D major (RV.234) 'Inquietudine'
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
5:16 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Polonaise in A flat major (Op.53) "Polonaise héroïque"
Jacek Kortus (piano)
5:24 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Petites voix
Maîtrise de Radio France, Denis Dupays (director)
5:30 AM
Noskowski, Zygmunt (1846-1909)
The Pearls of Moniuszko - 15 Songs for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
5:49 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
String Quartet No.1 in D minor (1837-1840)
Camerata Quartet
6:05 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Wind Serenade in C minor, K388
Toronto Chamber Winds.
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b061fs2w)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b061ftqs)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Deborah Moggach
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... cello miniatures'. Rob chooses a selection of bite-sized treats for cello that showcase all that the instrument has to offer, from its singing voice and mellow quality to a sense of gutsy attack and varied range of colour and tone. Throughout the week Rob shares his favourite compact works for the cello, with gems by composers including Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the music and see if you can trace the classical inspiration.
10am
Rob's guest is author Deborah Moggach, who wrote the book behind the hit movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and whose novel Tulip Fever is currently being filmed. Her screenplays for TV include adaptations of Pride and Prejudice (starring Keira Knightly) and the Diary of Anne Frank, plus dramas Seesaw and Stolen. She talks about the challenges of adapting novels for the screen and how she constructs a story, and her music choices range from Mozart and Shostakovich to Gershwin and Verdi.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons. In anticipation of Nelsons' performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Proms this weekend, Rob shares some major recordings by this exciting young conductor, who is currently in his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week Rob guides you through Nelsons' interpretations of works by composers ranging from Shostakovich and Stravinsky to Strauss and Brahms.
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2
Hélène Grimaud (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01pz9lq)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Episode 5
Donald Macleod looks at how biographers have struggled to reconcile what we know of Bruckner the man with the spirit of his music, and the perplexing task of unpicking his ultimate musical intentions from the multiple versions and editions of his symphonies he left behind.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b061fvdf)
East Neuk Festival 2015
Calidore Quartet, Maximilian Martin, Mhairi Lawson
Festival favourite Maximilian Martin performs Mozart's glorious Clarinet Quintet with the exciting young Calidore Quartet at this year's East Neuk Festival. The programme also includes a meditative work by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov written for clarinet, quartet and voice. The composer describes the inspiration for Tenebrae:
I wrote Tenebrae as a consequence of witnessing two contrasting realities in a short period of time in September 2000. I was in Israel at the start of the new wave of violence that is still continuing today, and a week later I took my son to the new planetarium in New York, where we could see the Earth as a beautiful blue dot in space. I wanted to write a piece that could be listened to from different perspectives. That is, if one chooses to listen to it "from afar", the music would probably offer a "beautiful" surface but, from a metaphorically closer distance, one could hear that, beneath that surface, the music is full of pain."
Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D703
Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
Calidore Quartet
Maximilian Martin - clarinet
Mhairi Lawson - soprano.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b061ghc2)
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers
Episode 4
Penny Gore rounds off this week's Afternoon on 3 featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. Today features Barber's First Symphony and Mozart's Horn Concerto No 3. And includes choral works by Bob Chilcott, Ernst Toch and Stefan Wolpe.
2pm
Bob Chilcott
Five Days that Changed the World
BBC Singers
Finchley Children's Music Group
Gemma Beeson (piano)
Markus Gruett (timpani)
David Hill (conductor)
2.20pm
Kodaly
Dances of Marosszek
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)
2.30pm
Vintner
Hunter's Moon
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)
2.40pm
Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)
3.00pm
Toch
Gesprochene Musik
BBC Singers
Philip Headlam (conductor)
3.10pm
Stefan Wolpe
Zwei Chinesische Grabschriften
The Continuum Ensemble
BBC Singers
Philip Headlam (conductor)
3.15pm
Weber
Der Beherrscher der Geister
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate (conductor)
3.25pm
Schubert (arr.Rasmussen)
Der Taucher (UK Premiere)
Benjamin Appl (Baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate (conductor)
4.50pm
Barber
Symphony No. 1
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate (conductor)
4.10pm
Bob Chilcott
The Miracle of The Spring
Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Eleanor Minney (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Singers
Nigel Charman and Markus Gruett (percussion)
David Hill (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b061ghsy)
Proms Special at the Royal College of Music
Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein present the programme in front of an audience, live from the Royal College of Music in London on the first night of the BBC Proms. In this special edition they are joined by a selection of artists appearing at this year's festival, including violinist Jack Liebeck, a quartet of players from the National Youth Orchestra, jazz vocalist Clare Teal with trumpeter Guy Barker, and neuroscientist and musician, Daniel Levitin.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01pz9lq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (b061gnms)
Prom 01
Prom 01 (part 1): First Night of the Proms
The BBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sakari Oramo in Nielsen, Mozart, Sibelius and Walton launch this year's BBC Proms.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Nielsen: Overture to Maskarade
Gary Carpenter: Dadaville (BBC commission: world premiere)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466
8.30pm Interval
8.50pm
Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast suite
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
Lars Vogt (piano)
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Lars Vogt, Christopher Maltman, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo launch this year's BBC Proms.
Two Nordic anniversaries launch this year's BBC Proms: Denmark's Carl Nielsen and Finland's Jean Sibelius both celebrate their 150th-birthday years.
Two exotic musical retellings of the story of the Babylonian king Belshazzar include the first of this summer's feast of choral works.
Celebrated German pianist Lars Vogt is soloist in the first of six late great Mozart piano concertos, and British composer Gary Carpenter spearheads the 32 premieres this season - a musical taste of things to come.
FRI 20:30 BBC Proms (b0623b4c)
Proms Interval
The Writing on the Wall
How did the Babylonian empire really fall? Assuming it wasn't the wrath of God after Belshazzar's feast - as the Bible testifies - but a strategic succession of economic, political and military factors. Unpicking the book of Daniel alongside wider historical sources, this is the story of Babylon's legendary downfall.
And it is a story which continues to be retold. Whatever history holds true, Daniel's image of the writing on the wall echoes through Western culture in many guises, from the medieval Pearl Poet to Simon & Garfunkel. It seems, far from their biblical context, those ominous little words still haunt us.
This interval talk is to be followed by two musical retellings of the story of the Babylonian king Belshazzar, by Sibelius and Walton.
Produced by Becky Ripley.
FRI 20:50 BBC Proms (b0623b4f)
Prom 01
Prom 01 (part 2): First Night of the Proms
The BBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sakari Oramo in Nielsen, Mozart, Sibelius and Walton launch this year's BBC Proms.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Nielsen: Overture to Maskarade
Gary Carpenter: Dadaville (BBC commission: world premiere)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466
8.30pm Interval
8.50pm
Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast suite
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
Lars Vogt (piano)
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Lars Vogt, Christopher Maltman, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo launch this year's BBC Proms.
Two Nordic anniversaries launch this year's BBC Proms: Denmark's Carl Nielsen and Finland's Jean Sibelius both celebrate their 150th-birthday years.
Two exotic musical retellings of the story of the Babylonian king Belshazzar include the first of this summer's feast of choral works.
Celebrated German pianist Lars Vogt is soloist in the first of six late great Mozart piano concertos, and British composer Gary Carpenter spearheads the 32 premieres this season - a musical taste of things to come.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b061glf9)
Sea Special
This week on the 'Cabaret of the word' we're celebrating the summer with music from shanty band the The Ballina Whalers.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b03yqt36)
Finish the Bottle
Euan Uglow
What did the critic Martin Gayford make of an artist who confessed not to be able to finish a picture? One whose sitters were obliged to commit to several years of posing? Of a painter struggling to bend the naked body of a girl into the shape of the pyramids of Giza?
Euan Uglow was an uncompromising and difficult artist.
Martin recalls touring the painter's rambling London House-cum-studio on a boozy evening and learning more about the artist for whom precision and perfection were the driving forces.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b061gm9l)
Mary Ann Kennedy - MaLituanie in Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus a live session with MaLituanie, a mix of musicians from Mali and Lithuania.
MaLituanie brings together folk musicians from Lithuania with visiting and expat musicians from Mali. Malian ngoni player Baba Sissoko and rock musician Viktoras Diawara join Baltic psaltery player Indre Jurgeleviciute, duduk player Saulius Petreikis and Laurita Peleniute who plays ocarina and 'water percussion'. What unites them is of course the universal themes of songs - love, protection for the environment and the eternal cycle of life.
Plus the latest from BBC Introducing, and another dip into the Radio 3 World Music Archive.
World on 3 sessions are available for download as a podcast via the home page.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (b061fr01)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b061ghbt)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b061ghbw)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b061ghby)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b061ghc2)
BBC Proms
19:30 THU (b061gq4t)
BBC Proms
19:30 FRI (b061gnms)
BBC Proms
20:30 FRI (b0623b4c)
BBC Proms
20:50 FRI (b0623b4f)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b061fk1t)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b061fmc9)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (b061fn5y)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (b061fs2h)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (b061fs2p)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (b061fs2r)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (b061fs2w)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b061fk1w)
Choir and Organ
16:00 SUN (b061fmcn)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (b061224r)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (b061gq5q)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b01pz9ft)
Composer of the Week
18:15 MON (b01pz9ft)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b01pz9lj)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b01pz9ll)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b01pz9ll)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b01pz9ln)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b01pz9ln)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b01pz9lq)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b01pz9lq)
Drama on 3
22:00 SUN (b061fmty)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (b061fpp5)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (b061ftqj)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (b061ftqn)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (b061ftqq)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (b061ftqs)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (b061glf4)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (b061glf7)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (b02yjj8d)
Hear and Now
22:00 SAT (b061fk2h)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b061fr03)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b061ghsr)
In Tune
16:30 WED (b061ghst)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b061ghsw)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b061ghsy)
Jazz Line-Up
18:00 SAT (b061fk2c)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b061fk27)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b061fr3k)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b061gm9d)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b061gm9g)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b061gm9j)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b061fk1y)
Opera on 3
19:15 MON (b061fr05)
Opera on 3
17:50 TUE (b061v2zz)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b061fmcf)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 SUN (b061fmtw)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b061gk3p)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SAT (b061fk20)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (b060zmjg)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b061fqzz)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b061fvd7)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b061fvd9)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b061fvdc)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b061fvdf)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 SAT (b062nhkr)
Saturday Classics
14:00 SAT (b061fk22)
Sound of Cinema
16:00 SAT (b061fk25)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (b061fmtt)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (b061fmcc)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b061fmch)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b03yqkvq)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b03yqt2m)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b03yqt2p)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b03yqt2r)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b03yqt36)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b061glf9)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b0612237)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b061fmc7)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (b061fn5w)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (b061frfq)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (b061frfs)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (b061frfv)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (b061frg9)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (b03bfjqs)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b061gm9l)