The BBC has announced that it has a sustainable plan for the future of the BBC Singers, in association with The VOCES8 Foundation.
The threat to reduce the staff of the three English orchestras by 20% has not been lifted, but it is being reconsidered.
See the BBC press release here.
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Catriona Young introduces the European Soloists of Luxembourg and pianist Anna Vinnitskaya in a concert featuring works by Bach, Dutilleux and Dvorak.
1:01 AM
Warlock, Peter (1894-1930)
Capriol Suite
Solistes Européens, Luxembourg, Christoph König (conductor)
1:11 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano), Solistes Européens, Luxembourg, Christoph König (conductor)
1:20 AM
Dutilleux, Henri (1916-2013)
Mystère de l'instant
Solistes Européens, Luxembourg, Christoph König (conductor)
1:38 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano), Solistes Européens, Luxembourg, Christoph König (conductor)
1:58 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Serenade for Strings in E major, Op 22
Solistes Européens, Luxembourg, Christoph König (conductor)
2:28 AM
Dutilleux, Henri (1916-2013)
Sonatine for flute and piano
Duo Nanashi
2:37 AM
Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904)
Romance in F minor, Op 11
Mincho Minchev (violin), Violinia Stoyanova (piano)
2:49 AM
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
3:01 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder)
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
3:20 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet
3:45 AM
Ginastera, Alberto (1916-1983)
Estancia - dances from the ballet, Op 8a
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Florencio, Jose Maria (conductor)
4:06 AM
Johanson, Sven-Eric (1919-1997), Nordenflycht, Charlotta, Hedvig (lyricist), Wallenberg, Jacob (lyricist), Lenngren, Maria, Anna (lyricist), Dalin, Olof von (lyricist)
Fyra visor om arstiderna
Christina Billing (soprano), Carina Morling (soprano), Aslog Rosen (soprano), Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
4:13 AM
Jiranek, Frantisek (1698-1778)
Flute Concerto in G major
Jana Semeradova (flute), Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova (artistic director)
4:25 AM
Kuyper, Elisabeth (1877-1953)
Der Pfeil und das Lied; Marien Lied; Ich komme Heim (Op 17 Nos 1, 2 & 3)
Irene Maessen (soprano), Frans van Ruth (piano)
4:32 AM
Contant, Alexis (1858-1918)
L'Aurore - Symphonic Poem
Orchestre Metropolitaine, Gilles Auger (conductor)
4:45 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No 24 in F sharp major, Op 78
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
4:53 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Romanza for Violin and Orchestra (1928)
Guido De Neve (violin), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
5:01 AM
Chopin, Frederic (1810-1849)
Prelude in D flat major, Op28 No15, "Raindrop"
Zheeyoung Moon (piano)
5:06 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
2 Pieces (Prelude and scherzo) Op 11
Korean Chamber Orchestra
5:17 AM
Sibelius ,Jean (1865-1957)
Kuin virta vuolas (As a swift current), Op 26 No 8
Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Eric-Olof Soderstrom (conductor)
5:20 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No 22 (H.1.22) in E flat major, "The Philosopher"
Prima La Musica, Dirk Vermeulen (conductor)
5:36 AM
Storace, Bernardo (1637-1707)
Chaconne in C major
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
5:42 AM
Schoeck, Othmar (1886 - 1957)
Sommernacht (Summer Night) - pastoral intermezzo for string orchestra, Op 58
Camerata Bern
5:54 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Trio No 8 from Essercizii Musici, for recorder, harpsichord obligato and continuo
Camerata Köln, Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Yasunori Imamura (theorbo), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord), Harald Hoeren (organ)
6:02 AM
Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)
Kammermusik No 2, Op 36 No 1, for piano and 12 instruments
Ronald Brautigam (piano), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chailly, Riccardo (conductor)
6:21 AM
Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924), Charles Leconte de Lisle (author)
Les roses d'Ispahan (Op.39 No.4) (1884)
Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
6:25 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924), Verlaine, Paul (author)
En Sourdine, Op 58 No 2, (1891)
Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
6:28 AM
Faure, Gabriel (1845-1924), Charles Leconte de Lisle (author)
Nell, Op 18 No 1
Paula Hoffman (mezzo-soprano), Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)
6:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Violin Sonata No 18 in G major, K301
Reka Szilvay (violin), Naoko Ichihashi (piano)
6:45 AM
Carissimi, Giacomo (1605-1674)
Dixit Dominus for 5 voices and continuo
Capella Regia Musicalis), Robert Hugo (organ), Robert Hugo (director).
Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with another of J S Bach's preludes and fugues from Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier. Also featuring more listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Tom Service looks at issues around sexual harassment in classical music and the arts in light of recent scandals to hit the worlds of entertainment and politics. We hear from Deborah Annetts, Chief Executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians; Naomi Pohl, Assistant General Secretary at the Musician's Union; and Frances Richens, Editor of the magazine Arts Professional - as well as testimonies from victims of sexual harassment.
Also on the programme, an interview with academic Nancy November about her new book 'Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna', arguing for the need to readdress the context in which string quartets are to be understood at the beginning of the 19th-Century. Paul Cassidy, viola player from the Brodsky Quartet discusses the book with Tom and explains how it will inform his playing and enhance the understanding of this repertoire.
And Tom sits down at the piano with jazz pianist Brad Mehldau to discuss Bach and improvisation.
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Sakari Oramo, Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, introduces a selection of music from his home country of Finland. His choices include piano music by the great symphonist Sibelius, music for orchestra and birds by Rautavaara, early choral music, a fine symphony by the little-known composer Ernst Mielck, and Songs from the Sea by Sallinen.
Katie Derham considers the world of early jazz dance with Strictly Come Dancing choreographer Ryan Francois, from its roots in the notorious world of black slavery, to Harlem in the 1920s, and beyond.
A popular feature of BBC One's "Strictly Come Dancing" are the jazz routines - the Charleston and Jive, with their colour, excitement and joie de vivre. Katie Derham looks back on the journey that these dance styles undertook before arriving at their modern form and considers the stories, music and movement that shaped them. With Katie is one of Strictly's regular choreographers, Ryan Francois, a specialist in jazz dance, who helps to unpick the origins of one of dance's most vibrant forms.
Alyn Shipton with your requests in all styles and from all periods of jazz, including this week a track featuring the British trumpeter Bert Courtley.
Artist Mose AllisonKevin Le Gendre presents a performance by harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and her quartet, featuring Tony Kofi (saxophone), Larry Bartley (double bass) and Joel Prime (drums). The concert was recorded on the Jazz Line-Up stage at the Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, as part of the 2017 London Jazz Festival and features a tribute to fellow harpist, the late Alice Coltrane.
From this year's Salzburg Festival, Verdi's Aida with the soprano Anna Netrebko in the title role as the Ethiopian slave and the tenor Francesco Meli as her doomed lover Radames, the Egyptian officer forced to choose between her or his fatherland in this tragic tale set in a timeless Ancient Egypt. Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Chorus. Presented by James Naughtie, accompanied by opera expert Flora Willson.
King of Egypt ..... Roberto Tagliavini (bass)
Amneris, his daughter ..... Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano)
Aida, an Ethiopian slave ..... Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Radames, Captain of the Guards ..... Francesco Meli (tenor)
Ramfis, Chief Priest .... Dmitry Belosselskiy (bass)
Amonasro, King of Ethiopia, Aida's father ..... Luca Salsi (baritone)
High Priestess ..... Benedetta Torre (mezzo-soprano)
A Messenger ..... Bror Magnus Tødenes (tenor)
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present a programme of highlights from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2017, which were recorded in various locations around the city during November. Tonight's programme includes the UK premiere of Brian Ferneyhough's Umbrations, a large-scale work played by the joint forces of Ensemble Modern and the Arditti Quartet, which is based on the well-known In Nomine plainchant. Plus the UK premiere of two works by the young Swiss composer, Stephanie Haensler, performed by Red Note Ensemble. and a rare performance in the UK given by the Vienna-based group Polwechsel, which is reunited with saxophonist and former member John Butcher for the world premiere of Small Worlds by the Austrian composer Werner Dafeldecker.
Stephanie Haensler
Ganz nah (UK premiere)
Romaine Bolinger (violin)
Lora-Evelin Vakova-Tarara (piano)
Werner Dafeldecker
Small Worlds (world premiere)
Polwechsel
John Butcher (saxophone)
Klaus Lang (organ)
Brian Ferneyhough
Umbrations (UK premiere)
Ensemble Modern & Arditti Quartet
Brad Lubman (conductor)
Polwechsel
Improvisation
Polwechsel
John Butcher (saxophone)
Stephanie Haensler
Im Begriffe (UK premiere)
Red Note Ensemble
Geoffrey Paterson (conductor).
Approaching his sixty-fifth birthday, Joe Lovano is the saxophonist's saxophonist. A master of tenor, soprano and alto, he's renowned for authority and invention across a spectrum of styles from funk to free, combos to chamber groups. Geoffrey Smith salutes a true contemporary virtuoso.
Jonathan Swain presents a BBC Chamber Music Prom from 2016 featuring the Armida Quartet and friends
1:01 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Quartettsatz in C minor, D703
Armida Quartet
1:10 AM
Beamish, Sally (b.1956)
Merula perpetua for viola and piano
Lise Berthaud (viola) and David Saudubray (piano)
1:23 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
String Quintet in C major, K515
Armida Quartet, Lise Berthaud (viola)
1:58 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
Job - a masque for dancing
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
2:46 AM
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
St Paul's Suite (arr. Walsh for guitar quartet)
Guitar Trek: Timothy Kain, Fiona Walsh, (treble guitars), Richard Strasser (standard guitar), Peter Constant (baritone guitar)
3:01 AM
Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672]
4 sacred pieces - Eile mich, Gott, zu erretten SWV.282; Der Herr sprach zu meinem Herren (Psalm 110) SWV.22 for double chorus and continuo; O Jesu, nomen dulce SWV.308 for tenor and continuo; Die Himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes SWV.386
Kölner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann (conductor)
3:16 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Partita No.1 in B flat, BWV.825
Anton Dikov (piano)
3:35 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Clarinet Concerto No.1 in E flat
Kullervo Kojo (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Söderblom (conductor)
3:58 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Rakastava (The Lover), Op.14, arr. for soprano, baritone and chorus
Pirkko Törnqvist-Paakkanen (soprano), Jouni Kuorikoski (baritone), Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Eric-Olof Söderström (conductor)
4:05 AM
Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel [1801-1866]
Morceau de salon for oboe and piano, Op.228
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
4:15 AM
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)
Waltz from Sleeping Beauty, Op.66
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegard (Conductor)
4:20 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
4 songs - Du meines Herzens Krönelein, Op.21 No.2; Die Nacht, Op.10 No.3; Ruhe, meine Seele, Op.27 No.1; Allerseelen, Op.10 No.8
Jard van Nes (mezzo-soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano)
4:32 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in G minor for 2 cellos and orchestra, RV.531
Maris Villeruss and Leons Veldre (cellos), Peteris Plakidis (harpsichord), Latvian Philharmony Chamber Orchestra, Tovijs Lifsics (conductor)
4:45 AM
Grünfeld, Alfred [1852-1924]
Soirées de Vienne for piano, Op.56
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
4:51 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Overture in the Italian Style, D590
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (Conductor)
5:01 AM
Verdelot, Philippe (c.1485-c.1532)
Italia mia
Banchieri Singers, Denes Szabo (conductor)
5:06 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Secondo Trietto
La Coloquinte
5:13 AM
Röntgen, Julius (1855-1932)
Theme with Variations
Wyneke Jordans and Leo van Doeselaar (pianos)
5:25 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt Suite No.1
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
5:39 AM
Zeljenka, Ilja (1932-2007)
Concertino for Piano and String Orchestra (1997)
Marián Lapšanský (piano), The L'Vov Virtuosi; Volodymir Duda (artistic leader)
6:01 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Motet: Komm, Jesu, komm!, BWV.229
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
6:10 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) arr. Mottl
Fünf Lieder von Mathilde von Wesendonk
Linda Maguire (soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
6:32 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich [1865-1936]
Albumblatt in D flat major for trumpet and piano
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
6:37 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91)
Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat major, K.449
Maria João Pires (piano), Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor).
Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and today is No.3 in C sharp major, BWV.872. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
This week's Sunday Escape features music by Debussy, and Sarah Walker also features the less-often heard composer Jean Francaix. Plus pieces by Prokofiev, Sibelius, Bartok and Grieg.
Susan Richards, writer and commentator on contemporary Russia, talks to Michael Berkeley about her fascination with the country and her passion for 20th-century Russian music.
Susan's first book, Epics of Everyday Life, was about the euphoric period after the collapse of communism. She travelled all over Russia to try to find out how ordinary people were coping with the discovery that they'd been so comprehensively lied to for so long. Her second book, sixteen years in the writing, was Lost and Found in Russia, and it described the collective nervous breakdown that took place after that. Both books are a testimony to her fascination with the lives of ordinary Russians - and a celebration of friendship. They also include hair-raising encounters with the KGB and the Mafia.
A Founding Editor of OpenDemocracy, set up in 2001 to encourage democratic debate around the world, Susan is also the co-founder, with her husband the television producer Roger Graef, of Bookaid, which has sent more than a million books to Russian public libraries.
Susan's music takes us on a journey from pre-revolutionary Russia to the early 21st century, with pieces by Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the contemporary composer Sofia Gubaidulina. And we hear music inspired by a Siberian forest, and a singer Susan first met during a hair-raising encounter with the mafia.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
Wigmore Hall Mondays: The cellist, Andrei Ionita, a BBC New Generation Artist, makes his Wigmore Hall debut in Bach and Shostakovich with the pianist Itamar Golan. Hailed recently by The Times as 'one of the most exciting cellists to have emerged for a decade,' Romanian-born Andrei Ionita was already the recipient of many international prizes when, in 2015, he won International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow with his supremely musical, finely nuanced playing.
From Wigmore Hall, London, introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Bach: Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007
Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40
Andrei Ioniţă cello
Itamar Golan piano.
Fiona Talkington introduces the second of two concerts from the Brighton Early Music Festival, this one is given by the harpsichord and recorder duo Ensemble Hesperi, featuring Scottish Baroque music.
From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
Carol: A tender shoot (Goldschmidt)
Processional Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel! (Veni Emmanuel) (descant: David Hill)
Bidding Prayer
Carol: People, look east (Peter Tranchell, arr. P. Marchbank)
I The Message of Advent
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonai
First lesson: Isaiah 11 vv.1-5
Anthem: The truth from above (Trad, arr. Vaughan Williams)
Second lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv.1-11
Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Giles Swayne)
II The Word of God
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David
Motet: Laetentur coeli (Byrd)
Third lesson: Micah 4 vv.1-4
Carol: The Cherry Tree Carol (arr. Stephen Cleobury)
Fourth lesson: Luke 4 vv.14-21
Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) (descant: Christopher Robinson)
III The Prophetic Call
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium
Anthem: The Last and Greatest Herald (Benjamin Comeau)
Fifth lesson: Malachi 3 vv.1-7
Carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Trad, arr. Willcocks)
Sixth lesson: Matthew 3 vv.1-11
Hymn: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (Winchester New) (descant: Christopher Robinson)
IV The Christ-Bearer
Sentence and Collect
Antiphon: O Emmanuel
Carol: I know a flower (Francis Jackson)
Seventh lesson: Luke 1 vv.39-49
Carol: I sing of a maiden (Ian Shaw)
Magnificat: Stanford in A
Eighth lesson: John 3 vv.1-8
Sentence and Christmas Collect
Carol: A Gallery Carol (Gardner)
Hymn: Lo! he comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) (descant: Christopher Robinson)
College Prayer and Blessing
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland', BWV 661 (Bach)
Andrew Nethsingha (Director of Music)
Glen Dempsey (Herbert Howells Organ Scholar).
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces half an hour of the very best organ music and performances, including Mozart in playful mood, Rachmaninov a la Bach, and a vivid and spectacular transcription of Saint-Saëns's orchestral showpiece, Danse Macabre.
Everyone loves good music, but when is music bad? Can we objectively define bad music - are there any rules to help - or is it a matter of taste and fashion? What music was once thought good but we now regard as bad? (And vice versa.)
Join arbiter of taste Tom Service as he dispenses judgment, both considered and otherwise.
Alison Steadman and Tim Dutton read from Aesop to Sarah Hall, Rudyard Kipling to Roald Dahl, with music from Janáček and Mozart to Sondheim and Jimi Hendrix in a programme exploring the wolves as both wild and nurturing, foxes as both cunning and prey.
Producer: Harry Parker.
Wolfgang MozartAlexander the Great's Tomb was famous and then it disappeared. Classical historian Edmund Richardson has spent the last few years following in the Macedonian's wake and admits to a growing obsession with the mystery of the missing corpse and its final resting place. Join him as he goes in search of those who claim to have found the conqueror's last remains, peers into a legend-filled sarcophagus standing shyly by the Rosetta stone in the British Museum and follows an imaginatively talented English gentleman to Alexandria during the Napoleonic Wars where rumours abound that the French have uncovered a great secret. The quest, not the bones, that's the thing.
Contributers: Professor Paul Cartledge; Dr Nora Goldschmidt; Dr Neal Spencer
Readers: Sudha Bhuchar; Rupert Holliday Evans
In the second half, Sarah Jackson, from Nottingham Trent University, investigates the human voice, its mechanical counterparts and the way the remote voice has affected the way we express ourselves. Framed by a 1960s GPO information film about the newly automated exchange featuring 'Mr Phone' and his friends, this documentary explores the relationship between the voice and the machine.
Ian Skelly presents a winter-themed programme. It begins with an unusual version of Schubert's Winterreise, for voice and wind sextet with accordion. This is followed by Ysaye's Chant d'hiver, performed by violinist Gábor Barta, and Dance of the Jugglers from Tchaikovsky's the Snow Maiden.
Schubert: Winterreise, D911 (arr Normand Forget)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Ma'alot Wind Quintet, Tino Plener (bass clarinet), Heidi Luosujärvi (accordion)
Ysaÿe: Chant d'hiver
Gábor Barta (violin), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Kevin Griffiths (conductor)
Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Jugglers, from the Snow Maiden
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor).
David Suchet stars as Satan - and a bible's-worth of other characters, human and animal - in this comic, gripping, poetic and pungent hell's-eye view of the Passion of Christ, written by renowned satirist, playwright and actor Justin Butcher.
33 AD. Jesus enters Jerusalem to fulfil his destiny. Satan ascends from Hell to stop him.
"Within the next hour, our operatives will isolate, engage and capture or kill the notorious leader of the most extreme, dangerous and contagious ideology to emerge in the modern era, whose terror activities represent the gravest threat to our interests across the region and the wider world.
I refer, of course, to the radical preacher and populist demagogue Y'shua Bar-Yessuf - the man known, by way of shorthand to our operatives, as 'Jesus'."
The Devil's Passion offers an outrageously entertaining fresh perspective - as the ancient story is played out once more, in our modern world of security, surveillance and ideological warfare.
Satan ..... David Suchet
Jesus ..... Amir El-Masry
Miriam ..... Lara Sawalha
Written by Justin Butcher
Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting
Sound Design by Jack C Arnold.
Elin Manahan Thomas presents a complete performance of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, performed by I Favoriti della Fenice and Ensemble La Fenice at this summer's Torroelle de Montgri Music Festival in Catalonia.
Monteverdi Vespers of the Blessed Virgin
I Favoriti della Fenice
Ensemble La Fenice
Jean Tubery (conductor).
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Beethoven, Debussy and Haydn. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martin (conductor)
12:59 AM
Debussy, Claude [1862-1918]
6 Epigraphes antiques, arr. for orchestra
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
1:15 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Mass in C major, H22.9 (Missa in tempore belli (Paukenmesse))
Hanna Husáhr (soprano), Stefanie Irányi (mezzo-soprano), Joachim Bäckström (tenor), Paul Armin Edelmann (baritone) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
1:55 AM
Regamey, Constantin (1907-1982)
Quintet for clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello and piano
Miroslaw Pokrzywinski (clarinet), Grzegorz Golab (bassoon), New Warsaw Trio
2:31 AM
Zarebski, Juliusz (1854-1885)
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 34 (1885)
Pawel Kowalski (piano), Silesian Quartet - Marek Mos & Arkadiusz Kubica (violins), Lukasz Syrnicki (viola), Piotr Janosik (cello)
3:06 AM
Bruch, Max (1838-1920)
Scottish Fantasy (Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra with Harp, freely using Scottish Folk Melodies), Op 46
James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
3:36 AM
Smetana, Bedrich [1824-1884]
2 dances from Czech Dances, Book 2
Karel Vrtiska (piano)
3:45 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Septet in B flat for 3 oboes, 3 violins and 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)
3:55 AM
Paganini, Nicolo (1782-1840)
Moses Fantasy for cello and piano (Bravura variations on one chord from a Rossini theme)
Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana Schwartz (piano)
4:03 AM
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594)
Magnificat 'Praeter rerum seriem'
The King's Singers (Jeremy Jackson & Alastair Hume (countertenors), Robert Chilcott (tenor), Colin Mason & Simon Carrington (baritones), Stephen Connolly (bass))
4:12 AM
Hüe, Georges (1858-1948)
Phantasy
Iveta Kundratová (flute) , Inna Aslamasova (piano)
4:20 AM
Mantzaros, Nicolaos [1795-1872]
Sinfonia di genere orientale in A minor
National Symphony Orchestra of Greek Radio, Andreas Pylarinos (conductor)
4:31 AM
Heinichen, Johann David [1683-1729]
Concerto for flute, bassoon, cello, double bass and harpsichord
Vladislav Brunner jr. (flute), Jozef Martinkovic (bassoon), Juraj Alexander (cello), Juraj Schoffer (double bass), Miloš Starosta (harpsichord)
4:41 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
4 Mazurkas for piano, Op 33
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
4:51 AM
Holten, Bo (b. 1948)
Alt har sin tid (There's a time for everything)
Hanne Howu, Laura Flendsted-Jensen, Brigitte Stougaard, Ellen Marie Brink Christensen (soloists), The Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor)
5:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
5 movements from "Les petits riens" ballet music, K299b
Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Adám Fischer (Conductor)
5:12 AM
Kodaly, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Adagio
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
5:22 AM
Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758)
Sonata in D minor
Amsterdam Bach Soloists, Wim ten Have (conductor)
5:32 AM
Röntgen, Julius (1855-1932)
Piano Trio in C minor, Op 50 No 4 (1904) for violin, cello and piano
Alexander Kerr (violin), Gregor Horsch (cello), Sepp Grotenhuis (piano)
5:53 AM
Cardon, Jean-Baptiste (1760-1803)
Harp Sonata in E flat, Op 7 No 4
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
6:05 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and orchestra in G major, Wq 169
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and today is No 4 in C sharp minor, BWV.873. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Rob Cowan presents the very best of classical music, including potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music. Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera House, lists his cultural influences and inspirations.
In conversation with novelist, critic and opera librettist Paul Griffiths, Donald Macleod gives opera a health-check, and finds it to be alive and well in the 21st century. Today they consider works by Philip Glass, Kaija Saariaho, Heiner Goebbels and George Benjamin that retain traditional elements.
Philip Glass
The Trial: Act 1 scene 2b
Johnny Herford, baritone (Josef K.)
Amanda Forbes, soprano (Fräulein Bürstner)
Music Theatre Wales Ensemble
Kaija Saariaho
Émilie Suite: Contre l'oubli (Against oblivion)
Karen Vourc'h, soprano
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestra National
Marko Letonja, conductor
Heiner Goebbels
Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten (Landscape with Distant Relatives):
- Part One no 9, 'Homme-bombe'
- Part One no 10, 'Schlachtenbeschreibung'
David Bennent, voice
Georg Nigl, baritone
Ensemble Modern
Deutscher Kammerchor
Franck Ollu, conductor
George Benjamin
Written on Skin: Part 1 scenes 4, 6 and 10
Barbara Hannigan, soprano (Agnès)
Bejun Mehta, countertenor (The Boy)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin, conductor.
Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Céline Moinet, oboe, and Florian Uhlig, piano, perform music from the Romantic era.
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Schumann: 3 Romances Op. 94
Nielsen: 2 Fantasy Pieces Op. 2
Clara Schumann: 3 Romances Op. 22
Robert Schumann: 12 vierhändige Clavierstücke für kleine und grosse Kinder Op. 85: No. 12 Abendlied
Pasculli: Concerto on 'La Favorita' by Donizetti
Céline Moinet, oboe
Florian Uhlig, piano
Advances in manufacturing technology and developments in musical taste brought change to the oboe in the first half of the 19th Century. The instrument gained additional keys and a new repertoire of chamber and solo pieces.
Céline Moinet, principal oboe of Dresden Staatskapelle since 2008, explores the Romantic era's oboe revolution from Pasculli's virtuosic Concerto to the lyrical Romances of Clara and Robert Schumann.
Tom Redmond presents a week of concerts from the BBC Philharmonic. Today Pietari Inkinen conducts symphonies by Beethoven and Sibelius, with Christian Ihle Hadland as the soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto. Elvind Holtsmark Ringstad is soloist in Britten's Lachrymae, and Martin Grubinger is the percussionist in Tan Dun's concerto "The Tears of Nature".
2pm:
Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16
Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major, Op 82
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)
c.3.30pm:
Roussel: Pour une fête de printemps
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
c.3.40pm:
James MacMillan: For Sonny
Britten: Lachrymae
Elvind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola)
BBC Philharmonic
Lee Reynolds (conductor)
c.4.15pm:
Tan Dun: The Tears of Nature
Martin Grubinger (percussion)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor).
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Sean's guests include early music group Joglaresa, who perform live in the studio ahead of their UK tour and talk about their new CD. Flautist Juliette Bausor performs with pianist Tim Horton before they give a recital together in Sheffield, and conductor Nicholas Collon chats to Sean about an upcoming performance with his Aurora Orchestra.
In Tune's specially curated playlist featuring music by Vivaldi, Sibelius and CPE Bach, as well as Gershwin in rhythmic mode.
Their 2017 Proms debut was a massive popular hit. Now Chineke! Orchestra, Europe's first majority BME orchestra continues its residency at St George's Bristol with two classics for string orchestra: an exuberant violin concerto by Joseph Bologne (aka Chevalier de Saint-Georges) and Errollyn Wallen's sparkling Concerto Grosso. Introduced by Georgia Mann.
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Bologne: Violin Concerto in G, Op 8 No 9
INTERVAL
Errollyn Wallen: Concerto Grosso
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op 48
Chineke! Orchestra
Shaun Matthew (conductor)
Tai Murray (violin)
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Chi-chi Nwanoku (double bass).
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature, on the theme of 'borderlands'.
In this first episode, Duncan Speakman and Tineke De Meyer circumnavigate Ghent in Belgium.
Series producer, Alan Hall.
Soweto Kinch presents trumpeter and vocalist Jay Phelps's Quartet in concert at Pizza Express, Soho. Emma Smith meets Proms piano star Hiromi, and Al Ryan has the latest jazz tracks uploaded to BBC Introducing.
Jonathan Swain presents a performance from Dublin of Peteris Vasks' Violin Concerto 'Distant Light' and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony.
12:31 AM
Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj (1933-2010)
3 Pieces in Old Style for string orchestra
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Michal Nesterowicz (conductor)
12:39 AM
Vasks, Peteris (b.1946)
Violin Concerto (Distant Light)
Elina Vähälä (violin), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Michal Nesterowicz (conductor)
1:12 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)
Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op.93
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Michal Nesterowicz (conductor)
2:07 AM
Berio, Luciano (1925-2003)
Folk Songs
Jard van Nes (mezzo-soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
2:31 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op.70, for guitar
Sean Shibe (guitar)
2:48 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24
Hinko Haas (piano)
3:19 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto a 5
Christian Schneider & Erik Niord Larsen (oboe d'amore), Kjell Arne Jørgensen & Miranda Playfair (violin), Dan Styffe (bass), Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord)
3:29 AM
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497)
De profundis clamavi for 5 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
3:36 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Capriccio in E minor, Op.81 No.3
Brussels Chamber Orchestra
3:43 AM
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy (1912-1990)
Three Gymnopedies
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman (conductor)
3:53 AM
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899)
Chanson perpétuelle
Lena Hoel (soprano), Bengt Åke-Lundin (piano), Yggdrasil String Quartet - Henrik Peterson & Per Öman (violin), Robert Westlund (viola), Per Nyström (cello)
4:01 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
Valerie Tryon (piano)
4:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat major, K.417
Jacob Slagter (horn), Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Lev Markiz (conductor)
4:24 AM
Thomas, Ambroise (1811-1896)
"Adieu! Mignon" (from 'Mignon', Act 2)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
4:31 AM
de Godzinsky, Franciszek (François) (1878-1954)
Valse orientale
Arto Satukangas (piano)
4:36 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Petites voix
Maîtrise de Radio France, Denis Dupays (director)
4:42 AM
Grandjany, Marcel (1891-1975)
Rhapsodie pour la harpe, Op.10 (1921)
Rita Costanzi (harp)
4:52 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
In Nature's Realm (V prirode), Op.91
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
5:07 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Trio Sonata in A major for flute, violin and continuo, Wq.146/H.570
Les Adieux
5:20 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.49 in F minor (Hob. 1.49), "La Passione"
Bucharest Virtuosi, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
5:42 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
From 24 Preludes for piano, Op.28: nos. 4-11, 19 and 17
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
5:58 AM
Fauré, Gabriel [1845-1924]
Cello Sonata No.2 in G minor, Op.117
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
6:18 AM
Liebermann, Rolf (1910-1999)
Suite on Six Swiss Folk Songs
Swiss Chamber Philharmonic, Patrice Ulrich (conductor).
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.5 in D major, BWV.874. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Essential Classics with Rob Cowan
Rob takes us through the morning with the best in classical music:
0930 Rob explores potential companion pieces for a well-known piece of music.
1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano talks about the ideas that have inspired and shaped him throughout his life.
In conversation with novelist, critic and opera librettist Paul Griffiths, Donald Macleod gives opera a health-check, and finds it to be alive and well in the 21st century. Today they consider works by Harrison Birtwistle, James Dillon, Louis Andriessen, Jonathan Harvey and Karlheinz Stockhausen that either draw on or create their own myth.
Harrison Birtwistle
The Minotaur: Scene 5, extract
John Tomlinson, bass (The Minotaur)
Rebecca Bottone, soprano (First Innocent / Young Woman #1)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Antonio Pappano, conductor
James Dillon
Philomela: Act 3 scene 3 - The Violation
Anu Komsi, soprano (Philomela)
Remix Ensemble
Jurjen Hempel, conductor
Louis Andriessen
La Commedia: Part IV - The Garden of Earthly Delights, excerpt
Marcel Beekman, tenor (Casella)
Cristina Zavalloni, voice (Dante)
Asko Ensemble
Schönberg Ensemble
Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor
Jonathan Harvey
Wagner Dream: Scene 8, excerpt
Claire Booth (Prakriti)
Rebecca de Pont Davies (Mother)
Richard Angas (Old Brahmin)
Gordon Gietz (Ananda)
Dale Duesing (Buddha)
Johann Leysen, speaker (Wagner)
Bracha van Doesburgh, speaker (Carrie Pringle)
Ictus Ensemble
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Düfte - Zeichen (Scents - Signs), for 7 vocalists, boy's voice and synthesizer, from Sonntag aus Licht; excerpt
Isolde Siebert, high soprano
Ksenija Lukič, soprano
Susanne Otto, alto
Hubert Mayer, high tenor
Bernhard Gärtner, tenor
Jonathan de la Paz Zaens, baritone
Nicholas Isherwood, bass
Antonio Pérez Abellán, synthesizer
Karlheinz Stockhausen, musical supervision and sound projection.
John Toal presents a series of recitals from Northern Ireland Opera's Festival of Voice 2017, recorded at St Patrick's Church of Ireland in Glenarm, Co Antrim. Irish baritone Gavan Ring is joined by pianist Simon Lepper in a performance of Vaughan Williams' "Songs of Travel", based on the words of Robert Louis Stevenson. Pianist Joseph Middleton performs alongside tenor Toby Spence with Benjamin Britten's "On This Island", music set to the words of the poet, and one of the composer's collaborators, WH Auden. And rounding off today's recital, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston performs Vaughan Williams' "Four Last Songs", accompanied by pianist Joseph Middleton. This was some of the last music Vaughan Williams wrote, with texts by his wife Ursula, and was first performed in 1959.
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
Gavan Ring (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano)
Benjamin Britten: On This Island Op. 11
Toby Spence (tenor), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Vaughan-Williams: Four Last Songs
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano).
Tom Redmond presents a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic's home in Salford, MediaCityUK, featuring David Matthews' tone poem 'A Vision of the Sea' and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with soprano Ruby Hughes. Plus Juanjo Mena conducts the orchestra in Bruckner's Fourth Symphony.
2pm:
David Matthews: Sinfonia
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
David Matthews: A Vision of the Sea
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen (conductor)
c.3pm:
Cowell: Hymn, Chorale and Fuguing Tune No 8 (first UK performance)
BBC Philharmonic
Lee Reynolds (conductor)
Ginastera: Dances from 'Estancia'
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)
Copland: Statements
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)
c.3.30pm:
Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat major
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor).
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites together with lesser-known gems, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert from Middle Temple Hall, with star tenor Ian Bostridge, pianist Julius Drake and the Piatti Quartet. The programme features Britten's arrangements of works by Purcell, Pelham Humfrey and William Croft, and Britten's Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake are joined after the interval by the Piatti Quartet for a performance of Vaughan Williams's poignant song cycle On Wenlock Edge.
Purcell: Chacony in G minor for string quartet
Purcell: The Queen's Epicedium
William Croft: A Hymn On Divine Musick
Pelham Humfrey: Lord! I Have Sinned
Pelham Humfrey: Hymn to God the Father
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
Interval
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge for tenor, piano and string quartet.
Masha Gessen talks to Philip Dodd about tracing the lives of four Russians born as the Soviet Union crumbled.
Masha Gessen's book is called The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.
Producer: Robyn Read
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature, on the theme of 'borderlands'.
In this second episode, Stacia Brown crosses the borders between communities in her native Baltimore.
Series producer, Alan Hall.
Cairo-born musician, composer and curator Maurice Louca joins Max to chart the breadth of the region's burgeoning experimental music scene.
His latest project Lekhfa sees him partner with fellow Egyptian artists Tamer Abu Ghazaleh and Maryam Saleh and in the past he's collaborated with an array of local and international talent such as Alan Bishop, Khyam Allami and Sam Shalabi making him the perfect companion to walk us through the exploratory music movement that has blossomed in the area in recent years.
Elsewhere we play dark-hued soundscapes from Norwegian drummer Erland Dahlen, an ode to Chilean singer and folk hero Violeta Parra by Sofia Rei and eerie prepared piano made for the jukebox by Ferrante and Teacher.
Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.
Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Bruckner's 8th Symphony by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Donald Runnicles from the 2012 BBC Proms.
12:31 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Siegfried Idyll
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
12:50 AM
Bruckner, Anton [1824-1896]
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1884-87, rev 1889-90, ed. Nowak)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
2:07 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Lute Partita in C minor, BWV.997
Konrad Junghänel (lute)
2:31 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
Missa Dei filii (Missa ultimarum secundat), ZWV.20
Martina Janková (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak (tenor), Felix Rumpf (Bass), Dresden Chamber Choir, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Václav Luks (conductor)
3:13 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV.1007
Claudio Bohórquez (cello)
3:28 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Polonaise No. 7 in A flat, Op. 53
Zheeyoung Moon (Piano)
3:36 AM
Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713)
Sonate da Chiesa in G minor, Op. 1 No. 10
London Baroque
3:41 AM
Schreker, Franz [1878-1934]
Fantastic Overture, Op. 15
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
3:52 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Cantata No. 54, "Widerstehe doch der Sünde", BWV.54
Jadwiga Rappe (Alto), Concerto Avenna, Andrzej Mysinski (Conductor)
4:03 AM
Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921)
Morceau de concert in G major for harp and orchestra, Op.154
Suzanna Klintcharova (harp), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Dimitar Manolov (conductor)
4:18 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Der fliegende Holländer ('The Flying Dutchman') - overture
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
4:31 AM
Hasse, Johann Adolfe (1699-1783)
Overture to the opera Arminio
Ekkehard Hering & Wolfgang Kube (oboes), Andrew Joy & Rainier Jurkiewicz (horns), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Stephan Mai (director)
4:37 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Os iusti
Mnemosyne Choir, Caroline Westgeest (director)
4:42 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Trio in E flat major for piano, clarinet and viola, K.498, "Kegelstatt"
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
5:01 AM
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Le Festin de l'araignée - symphonic fragments, Op.17
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
5:19 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in D major, RV.234, 'L'inquietudine'
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
5:26 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No.18 in E flat major, Op.31 No.3
Shai Wosner (piano)
5:48 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony No.10 in B minor for string orchestra
Risör Festival Strings
5:59 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D.821, for cello and piano
Andreas Brantelid (cello) , Bengt Forsberg (piano)
6:22 AM
Martucci, Giuseppe (1856-1909)
Notturno, Op.70 No.1
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.6 in D minor, BWV.875. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Essential Classics with Rob Cowan
Rob takes us through the morning with the best in classical music:
0930 Rob explores potential companion pieces for a well-known piece of music. Today, one of the liveliest and ebullient tunes from the classical world - the Farandole dance from Bizet's L'Arlesienne.
1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano talks about the ideas that have inspired and shaped him throughout his life.
In conversation with novelist, critic and opera librettist Paul Griffiths, Donald Macleod gives opera a health-check, and finds it to be alive and well in the 21st century. Today they consider the enduring attraction of Shakespeare in two very different works by Thomas Adès and Salvatore Sciarrino.
Thomas Adès
The Tempest: Act 1 scene 5 - 'Five fathoms deep'
Cyndia Sieden, soprano (Ariel)
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Thomas Adès, conductor
Salvatore Sciarrino
Macbeth: Act 2 scene 2
Otto Katzameier, baritone (Macbeth)
Anna Radziejewski, mezzo-soprano (Lady Macbeth)
Volkalensemble NOVA
Klangforum Wein
Evan Christ, conductor
Thomas Adès
The Tempest: Act 2 scene 2
Graeme Danby, bass (Gonzalo)
Philip Langridge, tenor (King of Naples)
Simon Keenlyside, baritone (Prospero)
Stephen Richardson, bass baritone (Stefano)
David Cordier, countertenor (Trinculo)
Ian Bostridge, tenor (Caliban)
The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House
Thomas Adès, conductor
Salvatore Sciarrino
Macbeth: Act 3 scene 3, Congedo
Otto Katzameier, baritone (Macbeth)
Thomas Mehnert, bass (Macduff)
Volkalensemble NOVA
Klangforum Wein
Evan Christ, conductor
Thomas Adès
The Tempest: Act 2 scene 4
Toby Spence, tenor (Ferdinand)
Kate Royal, soprano (Miranda)
Simon Keenlyside, baritone (Prospero)
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Thomas Adès, conductor.
John Toal presents a series of recitals from Northern Ireland Opera's Festival of Voice 2017, recorded at St Patrick's Church of Ireland in Glenarm, Co Antrim. Today we have performances from tenor Tony Spence, accompanied by pianist Joseph Middleton with Finzi's "'Till Earth Outwears the Rain" - based on the words of Thomas Hardy and written over the course of three decades from the late 1920s to the mid 1950s, and Benjamin Britten's "Michelangelo Sonnets" - originally written for Britten's partner, the tenor Peter Pears, and described as "an open declaration of their love for each other." And mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston also joins Joseph Middleton to perform Britten's "A Charm of Lullabies", a song-cycle of 5 poems by various authors including William Blake and Robbie Burns. Completing today's recital, Toby Spence returns with music this time arranged by Britten, Purcell's "Music for a While".
Finzi: 'Till Earth Outwears the Rain, Op. 19
Toby Spence (tenor), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Britten: A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Britten: Michelangelo Sonnets, Op. 22
Toby Spence (tenor), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Purcell (arr. Britten): Music for a While
Toby Spence (tenor), Joseph Middleton (piano).
Tom Redmond presents a concert including Brahms's Fourth Symphony and a UK premiere performance of Caroline Shaw's 'Entr'acte'.
2pm:
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte
Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98
BBC Philharmonic
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)
c.3pm:
Webern: Five Pieces, Op 10
BBC Philharmonic
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)
c.3.15pm:
Jesus Guridi: An Adventure of Don Quixote
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor).
Live from the Chapel of Keble College, Oxford.
Introit: Nova, nova (Grayston Ives)
Responses: Gibbons and Barnard
Psalms 32, 33, 34 (Martin, Howells, Bairstow)
First Lesson: Isaiah 65 v.17 - 66 v.2
Canticles: Evening Service (Brian Chapple)
Second Lesson: Matthew 24 vv.1-14
Anthem: Give me the wings of faith (Leighton)
Hymn: God moves in a mysterious way (London New)
Marian Antiphon: Alma redemptoris Mater (Palestrina)
Organ Voluntary: Symphonie-Passion (Le monde dans l'attente du Sauveur) (Dupré)
Matthew Martin (Director of Music)
Jeremy Filsell (Organist)
Aine Kennedy (Organ Scholar).
Current New Generation Artists, The Calidore Quartet play Tchaikovsky at the Norwich Playhouse in a concert they gave last summer at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D major, Op 11
Calidore String Quartet
Each year the Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme offers six brilliant musicians, chosen from the brightest talent at home and abroad, a two-year opportunity to develop their talents in the concert hall, the recording studio and with the BBC Orchestras. The New Generation Artists scheme is recognized internationally as perhaps the leading opportunity of its kind and many of the artists who have taken part since its inception in 1999 are now pursuing glittering international careers.
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites together with lesser-known gems, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
Live from the Barbican. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo mark 100 years of Finnish Independence with music by the young Sibelius, including the First Symphony,
Presented by Martin Handley.
Sibelius: Press Celebrations Music (UK premiere)
8.05
Interval
8.25
Sibelius: 'Cantique' and 'Devotion' (Two Pieces, Op 77)
Sibelius: Symphony No 1
Guy Johnston (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
To celebrate the centenary of Finland's Independence - when Finland ended its autonomy as a Grand Duchy within Russia and became a republic on 6 December 1917 - the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Finnish Chief Conductor presents a programme by Finland's greatest composer. We open with the first UK performance of the complete Press Celebrations Music (including Finland Awakes, the original version of Finlandia). Guy Johnston plays two rarities for cello and orchestra and the BBC SO's Sibelius Symphony Cycle continues with the powerful First from 1899.
Jonathan Lerner on his time in the Weathermen, an organisation dedicated to the violent overthrowing of the United States government during the Vietnam era. He joins Matthew Sweet along with the winner of this year's Turner Prize, announced last night in Hull.
Jonathan Lerner's book on his early years is 'Swords in the Kingdom: Reflections of an American Revolutionary' is published now.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature, exploring the theme of 'borderlands'.
In this third episode, Vladimir Kryuchev investigates the spaces - literal and figurative - between stations on a radio dial.
Series producer, Alan Hall.
Max Reinhardt takes your ears on another adventure, from early '70s Kansai folk-rock by the 'Japanese Joni Mitchell' Sachiko Kanenobu, to heavy psychedelic Indo-jazz from award-winning clarinettist Arun Ghosh's new album.
We also explore the Janus face of the error with artists who have decided to go public with their musical mistakes and we play music for the elements by Swedish composer Camilla Söderberg with a piece that features earth, water, wind and fire.
Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.
Jonathan Swain presents a series of concerts including Schubert, Liszt, Stravinsky and more from Fishtail, Montana. Performers include Stephen Hough and the Ariel String Quartet.
12:31 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2, S244/2
George Li (piano)
12:42 AM
Horowitz,Vladimir (1904-1989)
Variations on a Theme from Bizet's 'Carmen'
George Li (piano)
12:46 AM
Kernis,Aaron Jay (1960-)
Musica celestis - Adagio, from String Quartet No 1
Ariel String Quartet
12:59 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
The Shrovetide Fair, from 'Petrushka'
Jenny Chen (piano)
1:08 AM
Abril, Anton Garcia (1933 -)
The Changing of the Leaves from Tippett Rise Songs
Emily Helenbrook (soprano), Christopher O'Riley (piano)
1:11 AM
Abril, Anton Garcia (1933 -)
Pero me quedé sin ti, from 'Siete canciones de amor'
Emily Helenbrook (soprano), Christopher O'Riley (piano)
1:15 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata No 14 in A minor, D784 (O. posth 143)
Stephen Hough (piano)
1:34 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875) (Suite 2 compiled by Ernest Guiraud)
Selection from L'Arlésienne Suites Nos 1 & 2: Prélude, Minuetto and Adagietto from Suite No.1; Menuet and Farandole from Suite No 2
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
1:56 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Suite in E minor
Douglas Mackie and Jane Dickie (flutes), Barbara Jane Gilby and Imogen Lidgett (solo violins), Sue-Ellen Paulsen (cello), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Lancaster (conductor/harpsichord)
2:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
Joshua Bell (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
3:06 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Stabat mater in C minor for 10 voices, organ and continuo
Danish National Radio Chorus, Søren Christian Vestergaard (organ), Bo Holten (conductor)
3:30 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in C major for strings, RV114
The King's Consort, Robert King (director)
3:36 AM
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896)
Scherzo in D minor for piano, Op 10 No 1
Angela Cheng (piano)
3:42 AM
Baermann, Heinrich Joseph (1784-1847)
Adagio in D major from Quintet No 3 in E flat major, Op 23 (previously attributed to Wagner)
Jože Kotar (clarinet), Borut Kantušer (double bass), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet
3:47 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), arr. Colm Carey
Allegro from Concerto in C major, BWV1055
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Colm Carey (organ of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London)
3:52 AM
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1789)
Air: 'Return, O God of hosts' from "Samson", Act 2
Maureen Forester (alto), I Solisti Zagreb, Antonio Janigro (conductor)
4:01 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Danse sacrée et danse profane for harp and strings
Eva Maros (harp), orchestra and conductor not credited
4:12 AM
Traditional, arranged by Petrinjak, Darko
6 Renaissance Dances
Zagreb Guitar Trio: Darko Petrinjak, Istvan Romer, Goran Listes (guitars)
4:22 AM
Gesualdo, Carlo (c1561-1613)
Ave dulcissima Maria for 5 voices
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
4:31 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Havanaise for violin and orchestra, Op 83
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnepeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
4:41 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Cloches à travers les feuilles; Et la lune déscend sur la temple qui fut; Poissons d'or (Images Bk 2)
Roger Woodward (piano)
4:54 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890), Louis de Fourcaud (1851-1914) (lyrics)
Nocturne (FWV85) (Ô fraîche nuit) for voice and piano
Klara Takacs (mezzo-soprano), Jenö Jandó (piano)
4:59 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909)
Sevilla (Sevillanas) and Cataluna (Corranda)
Sean Shibe (guitar)
5:07 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
Overture to William Tell - opera in 4 acts
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen (conductor)
5:19 AM
Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959)
Solo Cello Suite No 1
Esther Nyffenegger (cello)
5:30 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra (Op 31)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), James Sommerville (horn), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
5:54 AM
Reger, Max (1873-1916)
Motet: 'Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht' (Op 110 No 2)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
6:12 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
String Quartet in D major (Op 64, No 5) (Hob.III.63) "Lark"
Bartók String Quartet.
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.7 in E flat major, BWV.876. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Essential Classics with Rob Cowan
Rob takes us through the morning with the best in classical music:
0930 Rob explores potential companion pieces for O Radiant Dawn, the most popular of James MacMillan's Strathclyde motets.
1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano talks about the ideas that have inspired and shaped him throughout his life.
In conversation with novelist, critic and opera librettist Paul Griffiths, Donald Macleod gives opera a health-check, and finds it to be alive and well in the 21st century. Today they consider works by Philippe Boesmans, Brian Ferneyhough and Gerald Barry that in different ways and to varying degrees fall within the tradition of comic opera.
Gerald Barry
The Importance of Being Earnest:
Act 2, conclusion - 'And this is what you call Bunburying!?'
Peter Tantsits, tenor (Jack Worthing)
Joshua Bloom, baritone (Algernon Moncrieff)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Thomas Adès, conductor
Philippe Boesmans
Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne: Act 4 scene 2
Paul Gay, bass-baritone (Le Roi Ignace)
Victor von Halem, bass (Le Chambellan)
Mireille Delunsch, soprano (Le Reine Marguerite)
Klangforum Wien
Sylvain Cambreling, conductor
Brian Ferneyhough
Shadowtime: Scene 5 - Pools of Darkness (11 Interrogations)
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Nieuw Ensemble
Jurjen Hempel, conductor
Gerald Barry
The Importance of Being Earnest: Act 2, excerpt
Barbara Hannigan, soprano (Cecily Cardew)
Hilary Summers, contralto (Miss Prism)
Joshua Bloom, baritone (Algernon Moncrieff)
Joshua Hart, speaker (Dr Chasuble)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Thomas Adès, conductor.
John Toal presents a series of recitals from Northern Ireland Opera's Festival of Voice 2017, recorded at St Patrick's Church of Ireland in Glenarm, Co Antrim. In today's recital, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and pianist Joseph Middleton perform a selection of songs by Benjamin Britten, including Scottish folk songs with words by Robbie Burns and "Down by the Salley Gardens", set to words by the Irish poet WB Yeats. Baritone Gavan Ring is joined by pianist Simon Lepper to perform three songs by the Irish composer John Larchet, who died 50 years ago this year. Then Jennifer Johnston returns with Elgar's "Sea Pictures", originally written by the composer for orchestra and later arranged for piano, it's a song-cycle of poems by five different poets inspired by the sea. And completing the programme, an encore by Jennifer - Britten's "I Wonder as I Wander".
Britten: 5 songs
At the Mid Hour of Night
Ca' the Yowes
O Can Ye Sew Cushions
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Last Rose of Summer
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
John Larchet: 3 songs
Padraic the Fiddler
The Cormorant
The Philosophy of Love
Gavan Ring (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano)
Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Britten: I Wonder as I Wander
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano).
As as tribute to the great baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky who died last month at the age of 55, another chance to hear him in one of his signature roles, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. When Tatyana (Nicole Car) is introduced to the dashing young Onegin (Dmitri Hvorostovsky) from St Petersburg, she believes that he is the hero of her dreams, the man she has imagined through reading her beloved books. But Onegin coldly rejects her and leaves her devastated. Bored at Tatyana's name-day party, Onegin then flirts with her sister Olga (Oksana Volkova), outraging the poet Lensky (Michael Fabiano), Olga's fiancé and Onegin's only friend. Lensky challenges Onegin to a duel and is killed by Onegin, who then travels the world in an attempt to escape his guilt. Onegin eventually returns to Russia to discover that Tatyana has become the elegant wife of Prince Gremin (Ferruccio Furlanetto). Onegin is overcome, and begs her to return his love ...
First broadcast in 2016. Presented by Tom Redmond.
2pm
Eugene Onegin ..... Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Tatyana ..... Nicole Car (soprano)
Olga ..... Oksana Volkova (mezzo-soprano)
Lensky ..... Michael Fabiano (tenor)
Madame Larina ..... Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Filipyevna ..... Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
Monsieur Triquet ..... Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor)
Prince Gremin ..... Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Zaretsky ..... James Platt (bass)
A Captain ..... David Shipley (bass)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Semyon Bychkov (conductor).
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: a lavish quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto, transcendent swans from Tchaikovsky, and leaping Lohengrin, plus Bartok, Joplin, Dvorak, Boulanger and Monteverdi.
Producer: Sofie Vilcins.
Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, Steven Isserlis joins the BBC NOW in Elgar's Cello Concerto. Plus Tadaaki Otaka conducts Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony and Takemitsu.
Presented by Nicola Heywood-Thomas
Takemitsu: Twill by twilight
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85
c. 8.20pm Interval
c. 8.45pm Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op.27
Steven Isserlis (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
Steven Isserlis joins the BBC NOW for Elgar's Cello Concerto - a piece in which the composer laments a nation lost to the ravages of war. And celebrating his 30th year with the orchestra, Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka takes the helm for Rachmaninov's Second Symphony as it evolves from a small winding stream into a tidal surge. To begin with, Takemitsu's luminous poem weaves a small idea into a rich 'twill' of sound that borrows from the ethereal worlds of Debussy and Messiaen.
Catherine Fletcher talks to Professor Stephen Greenblatt about the Adam and Eve story, to Islam Issa, who studies the figure of Eve in the Arab-Muslim World, and Jennifer Evans, who looks at changing attititudes towards female sexuality and pregnancy.
Professor Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard and the author of The Rise and Fall of Adam & Eve
Jennifer Evans is a director of the Perceptions of Pregnancy research network, author of Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in early modern England and editor of Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century .
Islam Issa is a New Generation Thinker and author of Milton in the Arab-Muslim World.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature, exploring the theme of 'borderlands'.
In this fourth episode, Brit Plieštik Jensen and Martin Ožvold trace the borders crossed by a wooden toy bought in Hamleys, Prague.
Series producer, Alan Hall.
Max Reinhardt remembers Pierre Henry ahead of what would have been his 90th birthday with an exclusive piece by Langham Research Centre.
Like Henry, Langham Research Centre create music from recordings manipulated on reel-to-reel tape, alongside an array of vintage electronic instruments.
In this tribute to a key figure in electroacoustic music, LRC set up a dialogue between their own tape works and Henry's greatest works, including Symphonie pour un homme seul, and Messe de Liverpool.
We also have a guitar duet by Bill Mackay and Ryley Walker, two Chicago guitarists who share a love of British folk music and American primitive guitar and we dip our toe into the back catalogue of brilliant Polish label Instant Classic.
Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.
World Orchestra for Peace and Valery Gergiev from the 2014 BBC Proms. With Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Roxanna Panufnik (b.1968)
Three Paths to Peace
World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
12:44 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Symphonic Fantasy
World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
1:04 AM
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Symphony No 6 in A minor
World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
2:22 AM
Enna, August (1859-1939)
Klaverstykker (piano pieces): No 2 Waltz, No 3 Intermezzo
Ida Cernecka (piano)
2:31 AM
Moeran, Ernest John (1894-1950)
Phyllida and Corydon - choral suite (1939)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
3:00 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
6 Metamorphoses after Ovid for oboe solo, Op 49 (Pan; Phaeton; Niobe; Bacchus; Narcissus; Arethusa)
Owen Dennis (oboe)
3:13 AM
Dittersdorf, Carl von (1739-1799)
Symphony No 3 in G major, 'Verwandlung Actaeons in einen Hirsch'
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (director)
3:31 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Les Indes galantes - Chaconne
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director)
3:38 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
(Großes) Te Deum in C major (Hob XXIIIc:2)
Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (conductor)
3:47 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen', WoO46, for cello and piano (from Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte")
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
3:57 AM
Orbán, György (b. 1947)
Cor mundum
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Evi Eespere (director)
4:04 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Valses nobles et sentimentales (1912)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
4:21 AM
Rubio, Jesus Gonzalez ((d.1874))
Jarabe tapatio (Mexican hat dance)
Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Roberto Arosio (piano)
4:26 AM
Fučík, Julius [1872-1916]
Entry of the Galdiators - March, Op 68
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor)
4:31 AM
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1789), orch. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Overture and Prelude to Act II of Acis and Galatea, K566
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
4:41 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
E voi siete d'altri, o labra soavi, ZWV176
Delphine Galou (Contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:51 AM
Strauss, Richard [1864-1949]
Don Juan(symphonic poem), Op 20
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
5:09 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo No 4 in E major, Op 54
Simon Trpceski (piano)
5:20 AM
Stradella, Alessandro (c.1642-c.1682)
Sinfonia in D minor
The Private Music - Mira Glodeanu and Karen Raby (violins), Abby Wall (bass violin), Silas Standage (organ)
5:28 AM
Rosenmuller, Johann (c.1619-1684)
De profundis - Psalm 129 (130)
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), David Cordier (countertenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel (director and lute), Carsten Lohff (organ)
5:40 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BuxWV149
Mario Penzar (on the organ from 1649, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Lepoglava)
5:49 AM
Berlioz, Hector [(803-1869)
Overture to Les francs-juges, Op 3
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)
6:01 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
String Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3, "Rider"
Ebene Quartet
6:22 AM
Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935)
Magnificat
Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor , Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.8 in D sharp minor, BWV.877. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Essential Classics with Rob Cowan
Rob takes us through the morning with the best in classical music:
0930 Rob explores potential companion pieces for a well-known piece of music.
1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano talks about the ideas that have inspired and shaped him throughout his life.
In conversation with novelist, critic and opera librettist Paul Griffiths, Donald Macleod gives opera a health-check, and finds it to be alive and well in the 21st century. Today they consider works by Detlev Glanert, Pascal Dusapin, Olga Neuwirth and Georg Friedrich Haas in which the element of time is fundamental.
Georg Friedrich Haas
Morgen und Abend: Act 1, excerpt
Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor (Olai)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Michael Boder, conductor
Detlev Glanert
Caligula: Act 2 scene 7, excerpt
Michaela Schuster, soprano (Caesonia)
Jurgita Adamonyte, mezzo (Scipio)
Hans-Jürgen Lazar, tenor (Mucius)
Gregory Frank, baritone (Cherea)
Ashley Holland, baritone (Caligula)
Dietrich Volle, baritone (Mereia)
Martin Wölfel, countertenor (Helicon)
Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
Markus Stenz, conductor
Pascal Dusapin
Perelà - uomo di fumo: Chapter 3
Isabelle Philippe, soprano (Queen)
Gilles Yanetti (Parrot)
John Graham-Hall, ténor aigu (high tenor) (Perelà)
Orchestre National de Montpellier
Alain Altinoglu, conductor
Olga Neuwirth
Lost Highway: Scenes 9 (conclusion) - 10
Vincent Crowly
Constance Hauman
David Moss
Georg Nigl
Andrew Watts
Jodi Melnick
Grayson Millwood
Lukas Rössner
Rodolfo Seas-Araya
Gavin Webber
Kai Wessel
Klangforum Wien
Johannes Kalitzke, conductor
Georg Friedrich Haas
Morgen und Abend: conclusion
Christoph Pohl, baritone (Johannes)
Helena Rasker, contralto (Erna)
Sarah Wegener, soprano (Signe)
Will Hartmann, tenor (Peter)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Michael Boder, conductor.
John Toal presents the last in our series of recitals from Northern Ireland Opera's Festival of Voice 2017, recorded at St. Patrick's Church of Ireland in Glenarm. In this final Lunchtime Concert from the series, tenor Tony Spence performs Poulenc's "Tel jour telle nuit" - one of the composer's most important song-cycles and written in 1937, performed with pianist Simon Lepper. Pianist Joseph Middleton returns with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston for a piece by Purcell, his "Evening Hymn", first published in 1688. And to complete this week's series, Irish baritone Gavan Ring sings Schumann's "Dichterliebe", a song-cycle around the theme of unrequited love.
Poulenc: Tel jour telle nuit
Toby Spence (tenor), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Purcell: An Evening Hymn
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Gavan Ring (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano).
Tom Redmond introduces today's concert from the BBC Philharmonic, featuring music by Stravinsky as well as a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Michael Seal conducts the orchestra in Bantock's tone poem 'Fifine at the Fair', and Mark Simpson performs Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto.
2pm:
Stravinsky: Apollo
Sibelius: Six Humoresques
Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67
James Ehnes (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon (conductor)
c.3.40pm:
Magnus Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
BBC Philharmonic
HK Gruber (conductor)
c.4.10pm:
Stravinsky: Concerto in D major for strings
BBC Philharmonic
Lee Reynolds (conductor)
c.4.25pm:
Bantock: Fifine at the Fair
BBC Philharmonic
Michael Seal (conductor).
Sean Rafferty with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Sean's guests include Temple Church Boys' Choir before their performance at the Temple Winter Festival, and Robert Lindsay before he becomes Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Lyceum Theatre.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: Fanny Mendelssohn's 'The Year' begins our journey, via Heaven (Vaughan Williams) and Earth (Mahler). Weber and Wallen keep us cheerful en route.
Producer: Sofie Vilcins.
A festive celebration of love, given by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Vedernikov and pianist Martin Helmchen, presented by Adam Tomlinson from Birmingham's Symphony Hall.
Two magical tales tonight, beginning with Brahms's Second Piano Concerto. Hardly the "tiny, tiny piano concerto with a tiny, tiny wisp of a scherzo" Brahms described, it travels from tenderness to ebulliance, via a heartfelt slow movement whose theme would later inform the poignant Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer of his Op 105 songs. Then a fairytale happy ending: Alexander Vedernikov's arrangement of Prokofiev's enchanting Cinderella. Pumpkins, dwarves and ugly sisters abound, but what Prokofiev "wished to express above all... was the poetic love of Cinderella and the Prince, the birth and flowering of that love, the obstacles in its path, and finally the dream fulfilled." All together now - aaaah!
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
INTERVAL
Prokofiev: Cinderella - highlights (arr. Vedernikov)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Martin Helmchen (piano)
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor).
How has the scrolling we do on social media changed writers and readers, and what does it have in common with ancient scrolls? Join Ian McMillan as he uses the power of poetry and performance to answer these questions - with the actor and writer David Schneider, poet Ira Lightman, artist Vicki Bennett, and scroll unrollers Roberta Mazza and Richard Gameson.
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature, exploring the theme of 'borderlands'.
In this final episode, Tadhg O'Sullivan captures the re-population by nature of the exclusion zone around Chernobyl.
Series producer, Alan Hall.
Lopa Kothari with the results of the 2017 fRoots Critics Poll, plus French band Lo'Jo live in session.
Lo'Jo this year celebrate 35 years of performing and recording, with their distinctive blend of gipsy, North African as well as French folk elements.