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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The Oslo Philharmonic under conductor, Thomas Søndergård perform Tchaickovsky's Violin Concerto with soloist Janine Jansen as well as Dvorak's Seventh Symphony. Catriona Young presents.
1:01 am
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Jealousy -
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sondergard (Conductor)
1:07 am
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major Op.35
Janine Jansen (Violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sondergard (Soloist)
1:43 am
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir d'un lieu cher - Melodie
Janine Jansen (Violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sondergard (Conductor)
1:48 am
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony no. 7 in D minor Op.70
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sondergard (Conductor)
2:24 am
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor Op.35 for piano
Beatrice Rana (Piano)
2:51 am
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Toccata per cembalo (in G minor/major)
Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord)
3:01 am
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Quintet in E flat major Op.44
Ebene Quartet, Ingrid Fliter (Piano)
3:31 am
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Symphony No.6 (Op.104) in D minor
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernhard Klee (Conductor)
4:02 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV.230
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (Conductor)
4:08 am
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Le Corsaire - overture (Op.21)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (Conductor)
4:18 am
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Tzigane - rapsodie de concert arr. for violin & orchestra
Moshe Hammer (Violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (Conductor)
4:27 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Io ti lascio - aria for bass and strings (KA.245)
Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
4:32 am
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
Concerto for lute, strings and basso continuo in D minor
Konrad Junghanel (Lute), Music Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (Director)
4:47 am
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Introduction & variations on a theme from Herold's Ludovic (Op.12) in B flat maj
Ludmil Angelov (Piano)
4:54 am
Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682)
Fulmini quanto sa for voice and accompaniment
Emma Kirkby (Soprano), David Thomas (Bass), Alan Wilson (Harpsichord), Jakob Lindberg (Lute), Anthony Rooley (Lute)
5:01 am
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Overture - from Candide
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (Conductor)
5:06 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV.1056
Angela Hewitt (Piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
5:16 am
Marcel Tournier (1879-1951)
Images for harp and string quartet (Op.35)
Erica Goodman (Harp), Amadeus Ensemble
5:27 am
Jozef Swider (1930-2014)
Piesn & Moja piosnka from 10 Songs to Lyrics by Polish Poets
Polish Radio Choir
5:35 am
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Rosamunde (Ballet Music No 2 (D.797))
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (Conductor)
5:42 am
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Sonatina for cello & piano
Laszlo Mezo (Cello), Lorant Szucs (Piano)
5:52 am
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto da Camera in D major RV.95
Camerata Koln
6:00 am
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (Conductor)
6:29 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quartet in C major K.465 "Dissonance"
Ebene Quartet, Pierre Colombet (Violin), Gabriel Le Magadure (Violin), Mathieu Herzog (Viola), Raphael Merlin (Cello).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Presented by Tom Service
Tom talks to the French conductor Laurence Equilbey about her work with Insula Orchestra, a period instrument ensemble at the centre of a recent project, La Seine Musicale, involving the local community in south-west Paris. Also, Caroline Potter, biographer of Lili Boulanger, on the life and legacy of the French composer, in the first centenary of her death. With contributions by the conductors Yan Pascal Tortelier and James Gaffigan too. Tom discusses the new book 'What Opera Means', a selection of essays exploring the psychoanalytic thrust behind words and actions, with author Christopher Wintle as well as opera experts Barbara Eichner and Claire Seymour. And after Stephen Hawking's passing this week we look into the Music Matters archive in search of an interview he gave Tom in 2006 revealing his favourite compositions, and also comparing the nature of Music with the world of Physics.
Rosalind Plowright introduces the music that has been most influential on her life and operatic career. Including John Ogdon playing Beethoven, Maria Callas singing Puccini and Bernhard Klee conducting Mahler.
As Lara Croft leaps into cinemas in the latest Tomb Raider film, Matthew Sweet takes on her, pacman and the Super Mario Brothers as he explores the influence video games have had on film and filmmakers.
Among this week's requests from listeners for all styles of jazz, Alyn Shipton plays music by the great American pianist Ramsey Lewis.
Artist Stan SulzmannKevin Le Gendre presents a special edition celebrating the music of harpist, pianist and composer Alice Coltrane, in the company of trumpeter Matthew Halsall, reassessing her music in what would have been her 80th year. Also featuring music from other artists associated with the Spiritual Jazz movement including Pharaoh Sanders, Sun Ra, and Don Cherry.
Today's opera from the Met is Richard Strauss's mighty take on the Greek legend of Elektra. Daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Klytämnestra, Elektra is in mourning for her father, killed by her mother and her lover. Elektra is obsessed with the revenge she intends to take, enlisting her siblings for help. In this startlingly modern sounding work, Christine Goerke sings Elektra, driven mad by her desire for revenge, Michaela Schuster her fearsome mother, and Mikhail Petrenko and Elza van den Heever her brother and sister.
Elektra ..... Christine Goerke (soprano)
Chrysothemis ..... Elza van den Heever (soprano)
Klytämnestra ..... Michaela Schuster (mezzo-soprano)
Aegisth ..... Jay Hunter Morris (tenor)
Orest ..... Mikhail Petrenko (bass)
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Matt Haimovitz plays Philip Glass's 2010 Partita No 2 for Solo Cello.
Children listen to soundtracks from classic films they've never seen, and invent original stories. Each story features the enigmatic Jonny T. A man of many parts, Johnny pulls himself out of his own hat and finds himself in guise after spectacular guise, adopting any shape he wants.
Starring Ed Gaughan, and children from Bristol, London and Glasgow.
Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Produced and directed by Joby Waldman
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
With many thanks to Felix Road Adventure Playground and Linkes Community Project.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
It features original music from the following Motion Picture Soundtracks:
The Grifter (composer Elmer Bernstein)
Diamonds are Forever (composer John Barry)
The Godfather (composer Nino Rota)
Eight and a Half (composer Nino Rota)
Chinatown (composer Jerry Goldsmith)
Psycho (composer Bernard Herrmann)
Casenova, (composer Nino Rota)
The Road to Perdition (composer Thomas Newman)
The Omen (composer Jerry Goldsmith)
Blade Runner (composer Vangelis)
The Big Country (composer Jerome Moross).
Robert Worby uncovers the music of the American theorist and pioneering experimentalist, James Tenney (1934-2006). Also tonight, the UK premiere of a major work by José Maceda (1917-2004), a Manila-born ethnomusicologist and composer, whose music fuses Asian and Western styles. Plus a modern Italian classic by Salvatore Sciarrino inspired by Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. As the composer says: "Amid flashes of consciousness...other music issues forth, literally generated by the echo of a lyrical outburst...the two sound images...elementary opposites against a black sky."
James Tenney: Clang (1972)
James Tenney: Beast from Postal Pieces (1965-71) for solo double bass
James Tenney: Diapason (1996)
José Maceda: Distemperament (1992, UK Premiere)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Allegoria della note (1985)
James Tenney: Analog#1 (Noise Study)
Ilya Grigolts (violin)
Dominic Lash (double bass)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
Sound of the Week: Raven Chacon, the forty year old Native American composer, performer of experimental noise music and installation artist.
A vibraphone superstar for some six decades, Gary Burton has combined jazz, rock, Latin and classical in starry groups featuring the likes of Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny and Keith Jarrett. Geoffrey Smith surveys a great career.
John Shea presents a chamber concert from members of Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota, playing Beethoven & Brahms
1:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven [1770-1827]
Piano Quintet in E flat op16
Members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Jeremy Denk (piano)
1:24 AM
Johannes Brahms [1833-1897]
Horn Trio in E flat op 40
René Pagen (horn), Steven Copes (violinv), Jeremy Denk (piano)
1:52 AM
Fodor, Carolus Antonius (1768-1846)
Symphony No.3 in C minor (Op.19)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Halstead (conductor)
2:21 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)
The Bells
Roumiana Bareva (soprano), Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor), Stoyan Popov (baritone), 'Sons de la mer' Mixed Choir Varna, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
3:01 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Cello Concerto No.2 in B minor, Op 104
Truls Mørk (cello), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
3:41 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in B flat major D.960
Naum Grubert (piano)
4:23 AM
Dufay, Guillaume (c.1400-1474)
Balsamus et munda cera
Orlando Consort
4:29 AM
Arban, Jean-Baptiste [1825-1889]
Variations on "Casta diva... Ah! Bello" from Bellini's 'Norma'
Alison Balsom (trumpet), John Reid (piano)
4:35 AM
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881), orch. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Dance of the Persian Slaves - from the Opera Khovanshchina (Act IV, Scene 1)
Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (Conductor)
4:42 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Rondo capriccioso in E major/minor, Op 14
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
4:49 AM
Jiranek, Frantisek (1698-1778)
Bassoon Concerto in F major
Sergio Azzolini (Bassoon), Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova (Director)
5:01 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907]
2 Norwegian Dances (Op.35, nos. 1 & 2)
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Rouslan Raychev (conductor)
5:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Sonata for piano in C major (K.545) (arr. for two pianos)
Julie Adam and Daniel Herscovitch (pianos)
5:20 AM
Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914)
Third Song-Wreath (From my homeland)
Karolj Kolar (Tenor), Nikola Mitic (Baritone), Belgrade Radio and Television Chorus (Choir), Mladen Jagust (Conductor)
5:29 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827)
7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen' WoO.46 for cello and piano (from Mozart's "Die Zauberflote")
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
5:39 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)
5:49 AM
Morawetz, Oskar (1917-2007)
Clarinet sonata
Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), Patricia Parr (piano)
5:59 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Symphony No. 88 (H.1.88) in G major
Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor)
6:20 AM
Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967), Unknown (Arranger)
Dances of Galanta (Galántai táncok)
Adam Fellegi (Piano)
6:36 AM
Schobert, Johann (c.1735-1767)
Keyboard Concerto in G major
Eckart Sellheim (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Meier (conductor).
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Sarah Walker's selection of music for a Sunday Morning ranges from sacred to secular, with Purcell's anthem "Rejoice in the Lord Alway" on the one hand and part of J S Bach's "Coffee Cantata" on the other. Her Sunday Escape is by Tchaikovsky and there's also music by Bernstein, Borodin and Thomas Arne.
The poet and singer-songwriter Gwyneth Glyn talks to Michael Berkeley about the music she loves from Wales and around the world.
Gwyneth has been described as a poet among singers and a singer among poets. She's also a television script writer, a playwright and a children's author, having won the Crown at the Urdd Eisteddfod aged 18, and going on to be appointed Wales' National Poet Laureate for Children in 2006, the year she also won Best Female Artist in the Radio Cymru Rock and Pop Awards. Brought up in a Welsh speaking household, she's a passionate advocate of the language both within Wales and internationally.
Gwyneth talks to Michael about writing a libretto for the first ever Welsh language opera, growing up in a rural Welsh-speaking community, and the pleasures and challenges of passing the language on to the next generation.
She chooses music from her collaboration with Indian ghazal singer Tauseef Akhtar, as well as music by Tippett, Welsh folk hero Meredydd Evans, Rimsky Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
Live from Wigmore Hall, London.
The Calidore String Quartet is a member of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, and today they perform an early Divertimento by Mozart followed by Caroline Shaw's First Essay, 'Nimrod'. The concert concludes with Shostakovich's contemplative Ninth String Quartet.
Presented by Andrew MacGregor.
Mozart: Divertimento in F, K138
Caroline Shaw: First Essay: Nimrod
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 9 in E flat, Op 117.
As part of the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Debussy's death, Hannah French asks what it was about Rameau that inspired the composer's "Hommage a Rameau".
Recorded in the Chapel of Eton College during the 2017 Eton Choral Course.
Introit: Adoro te devote (Cecilia McDowall)
Responses: Ralph Allwood
Psalms 73, 74 (Lang, Brooksbank, Parratt)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 13 vv.20-27
Office Hymn: O kind creator bow thine ear (plainsong)
Canticles: Service for Trebles (Weelkes)
Second Lesson: 1 Peter 1 v.17 - 2 v.3
Anthem: Media Vita (Sheppard)
Hymn: Ah, holy Jesus (Herzliebster Jesu)
Organ Voluntary: Voluntary in A minor (Benjamin Cosyn)
Ralph Allwood (Director of Music)
Robert Scamardella (Organist).
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of beautiful music for many voices. Today, she presents Dvořák in jubilant mood in his setting of Psalm 149 for full chorus and orchestra. The Netherlands-based Egidius Kwartet offer Schubert at his most charming and flirtatious, plus a gently uplifting hymn to Motherhood from British composer Cecilia McDowall.
The Listening Service investigates music's divine journeys as part of the BBC's Civilisations season.
Humanity has used music to commune with the sacred for as long as we have been human: from the caves of Chauvet, tens of thousands of years ago, to the churches, temples, and synagogues of today, we have sung and hymned and played our connection with our God(s).
Something else has happened in modern Western society: as organised religion has waned, a cult of music has developed, in which we don't just use music to worship, but worship music and musicians as carriers of a divine spark. With the help of Keith Howard, Emeritus Professor of Music at SOAS and The Reverend Lucy Winkett, Tom explores how music has sounded the sacred and itself become sacred.
A celebration mankind's greatest ally in the animal kingdom - dogs. Actors Robert Lindsay and Claire Benedict read some of the canine literature of writers including Dodie Smith, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickinson. With music by Gershwin, Elgar, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan.
01There were many real blind, black bluesman, scraping a living in the Deep South a hundred years ago. From Blind Willie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson on opposite street corners in Dallas to Blind Blake and Blind Boy Fuller in Georgia and the Carolinas, the early 20th century saw blind bluesmen playing everything from the lewd, raw blues of the juke joint to the God-fearing spirituals beloved of the new wave of Southern churches and with a musical legacy that's lasted through the decades.
How did this group of blind musicians, faced with all the disadvantages of race, segregation, disability and poverty, manage to achieve celebrity in their own day and leave such a lasting mark on the history of American music?
Gary O'Donoghue, who is blind himself, explores the elements of race and culture that made this phenomenon possible.
Presenter, Gary O'Donoghue
Producer, Lee Kumutat
Sound Engineer, Peter Bosher
Every member of the production team who made this programme is blind.
Editor, Andrew Smith.
Radio 3's weekly look at some of the best concerts from around Europe.
Tonight, a visit to the Oslo Concerto Hall, where Arvid Engegård conducts the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Schumann.
Schumann:Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op.52
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129
Symphony No.1 in B flat, Op.38 'Spring'
Daniel Müller-Schott, cello
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Arvid Engegård, conductor.
Harriet Walter introduces an acclaimed theatre production from the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town and later seen in London and New York. Based on Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela's book, Nicholas Wright's play explores the relationship between the psychologist and Eugene de Kock, the apartheid regime's most notorious assassin.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela ..... Noma Dumezweni
Eugene de Kock ..... Matthew Marsh
Sound design by Christopher Shutt
Directed by Jonathan Munby
Produced for the Fugard Theatre by Eric Abraham
Produced for radio by Toby Swift
1997. Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa. Psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela prepares to sit opposite the notorious Eugene de Kock, nicknamed 'Prime Evil', the head of the apartheid regime's death squads. A member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Madizikela questions de Kock who is serving a 212 year sentence for crimes against humanity, murder, conspiracy to murder, attempted murder, assault, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms, and fraud. She is determined to try to understand what motivated de Kock's actions. One is reminded of European writer and philosopher Hannah Arendt's endeavour to understand the nature of evil when she wrote about the Nazi holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann's trial in Israel in 1961.
'A Human Being Died That Night' is based on Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madizikela's best-selling book of the same name and explores, through her extraordinary prison interviews with de Kock, how a fundamentally moral person could become a mass murderer.
South African born Nicholas Wright is one of Britain's foremost playwrights and has written regularly for the National Theatre. His plays include 'Vincent in Brixton' (Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play 2003), 'The Last of the Duchess' (2011), 'Travelling Light' (2012) and recently a dramatisation of Pat Barker's 'Regeneration' (2014).
Elin Manahan Thomas introduces highlights from a concert recorded in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg last year, given by Les Talens Lyriques directed by Christophe Rousset, featuring music by Telemann and Rameau.
The instrumental and vocal ensemble Les Talens Lyriques was founded twenty-five years ago by the harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset. It owes its name to an opera by Rameau, and it's the music of Rameau which features in this performance, along with two colourful overtures by Telemann.
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) - Overture in G, TWV 55:G1 ('La musette')
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) - Le berger fidèle, cantata
Georg Philipp Telemann - Overture in B flat, TWV 55:B5 ('Les Nations')
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset, director
Producer Helen Garrison.
Two works spanning Charles Villiers Stanford's composing career - his early Cello Concerto in D minor from 1880, performed by Alexander Baillie with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Braithwaite, and his final Symphony, No 7 in D minor, Op 124 from 1911, performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Lloyd-Jones.
Catriona Young presents a concert of Russian music by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, conducted by Vasily Petrenko.
12:31 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
The Firebird, suite (1919)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (Conductor)
12:52 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor Op 40
Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (Conductor)
1:19 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Romance in D flat major Op. 24, No. 9 (encore) (10 Pieces Op.24 for piano, No. 9)
Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano)
1:24 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 12 in D minor Op.112 (The Year 1917)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (Conductor)
2:17 AM
Pierre Agricola Genin (1832-1903)
Fantasie sur Rigoletto (Op.19)
Zhenia Dukova (Flute), Andrey Angelov (Piano)
2:31 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No.2 in C minor
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshi Wakasugi (Conductor)
3:32 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Adagio in E flat (WoO.43 No.2)
Lajos Mayer (Mandolin), Imre Rohmann (Piano)
3:37 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Waltz in E flat, Op.18 'Grande valse brillante'
Zoltan Kocsis (Piano)
3:42 AM
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
3 motets: Jubilate Deo; Io ti voria; Tristis est anima mea
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (Conductor)
3:48 AM
Antonio Soler (1729-1783)
Fandango
Fredrik From (Violin), Benjamin Scherer Questa (Violin), Teodoro Baù (Viola D'Arco), Hager Hanana (Cello), Joanna Boślak-Górniok (Harpsichord), Dagmara Kapczyńska (Harpsichord), Gwennaëlle Alibert (Harpsichord), Bolette Roed (Flute), Komalé Akakpo (Dulcimer)
3:55 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
L'Arlesienne - suite no.1
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (Conductor)
4:13 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Duet: Tardo per gli anni, e tremulo (Attila & Ezio) from the prologue to Attila
Nicola Ghiuselev (Bass), Vladimir Stoyanov (Baritone), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Boris Hinchev (Conductor)
4:20 AM
Roger Matton (1929-2004)
Danse bresilienne for 2 pianos (1946)
Ouellet-Murray Duo (Piano Duo)
4:25 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Chinese Tambourine Op 3
Barnabas Kelemen (Violin), Zoltan Kocsis (Piano)
4:31 AM
Georg Muffat (1653-1704),Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Georg Muffat (Arranger)
Suite for Orchestra
Armonico Tributo Austria, Lorenz Duftschmid (Director)
4:43 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Duet: Bei Mannern, from Die Zauberflote
Isabel Bayrakdarian (Soprano), Russell Braun (Baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (Conductor)
4:46 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Anton Webern (Orchestrator)
6 Deutsche Tanze for piano (D.820)
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (Conductor)
4:56 AM
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Gnossienne No.1
Andreas Borregaard (Accordion)
4:59 AM
Traditional
Hei, Buzau, Buzau
Sandu Sura (Cimbalom), Dan Bobeica (Violin), Sergiu Pavlov (Violin), Veaceslav Stefanet (Violin), Vlad Tocan (Violin), Anatol Vitu (Viola), Dorin Buldumea (Saxophone), Stefan Negura (Pipe), Andrei Vladimir (Clarinet), Ion Croitoru (Double Bass), Veaceslav Palca (Accordion), Andrei Prohnitschi (Guitar)
5:03 AM
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Praludium in D minor, op.65/6
Cor Ardesch (Organ)
5:11 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Frohlocket mit Handen, BuxWV 29
Marieke Steenhoek (Soprano), Miriam Meyer (Soprano), Bogna Bartosz (Contralto), Marco van de Klundert (Tenor), Klaus Mertens (Bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Chorus, Ton Koopman (Conductor)
5:19 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Phantasy for string quintet in F minor
Lawrence Power (Viola), RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet
5:31 AM
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)
3 Piezas espanolas for guitar
Goran Listes (Guitar)
5:44 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Ein Heldenleben Op.40
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (Conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this week the bestselling author and playwright Kate Mosse reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
Donald Macleod looks at the beginnings of Debussy's career as a composer and the early love interests of his life
In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing his longing for home.
In Monday's programme, Donald Macleod explores Debussy's life and loves from the end of his student days up to his early thirties and his first masterpiece: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. His chief romantic interest during this period was Gaby Dupont, with whom the composer lived for several years in a dank attic with a borrowed piano, a bed, three chairs and a rickety table. They mingled with the who's who of the Parisian artistic and intellectual circles of the late 19th century, but with very little money coming in, their meals often consisted of bread and chocolate...
Debussy: Printemps (Suite Symphonique mvt 2)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus; Vasily Petrenko, conductor
La Damoiselle Elue
Maria Ewing, soprano; Brigitte Balleys, mezzo-soprano; London Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
Fêtes galantes
Véronique Gens, soprano; Roger Vignoles, piano
String Quartet (mvt 3)
Takacs Quartet
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestre National de France, Daniele Gatti, conductor.
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, vocal ensemble Stile Antico perform works associated with Queen Elizabeth I by Byrd, Tallis, Lassus, Dowland, Wilbye, Weelkes and others.
Introduced by Fiona Talkington.
Byrd: O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen; Attollite portas
Tallis: Absterge Domine
Lassus: Madonna, mia pietà
Willaert: Vecchie letrose
Sandrin: Doulce memoire
Ferrabosco: Exaudi Domine orationem meam; Ad Dominum cum tribularer
Dowland: Now, o now I needs must part; Can she excuse my wrongs
Wilbye: The Lady Oriana
Weelkes; As Vesta was from Latmos hills descending
Stile Antico
The long reign of Elizabeth I saw an unparalleled flourishing of musical composition. Elizabeth's personal patronage of William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, her attempts at religious tolerance, and her own love of music created an environment for a 'golden age' of music. Stile Antico explores the events of Elizabeth's life and reign; from antiphons recalling the glories of Henry VIII's Catholic court, to virtuosic madrigals using the latest continental innovations to praise the 'Virgin Queen', the programme celebrates the rich musical legacy of Elizabeth I.
Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes descriptive works by Grieg, Nielsen and Debussy and as part of Afternoon Concert's tone poem theme.
2pm
Grieg - Suite: Peer Gynt
Selections from Suite No. 1, Op.46, and Suite No. 2, Op.55.
Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op 43
Nielsen - Symphony No 5 Op 50
Simon Trpčeski (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor)
3.35pm
Carl Nielsen - En Saga Drøm Op 39
Ulster Orchestra
Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
3.45pm
Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Pacho Flores (trumpet)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor)
4pm
Debussy - Printemps
Ulster Orchestra
Baldur Brönnimann (conductor)
4.15pm
Hindemith - Symphony "Mathis der Maler"
Ulster Orchestra
Baldur Brönnimann (conductor).
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Her guests include soprano Mary Bevan, who sings live for us before performing the title role in Mark-Anthony Turnage's new opera Coraline. Guitar duo the Katona Twins also perform live for us before a recital in Reading, and young New Zealand-born conductor Holly Mathieson chats to us from Glasgow, where she is conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring arrangements of Gesualdo and Wagner, plus Mussorgsky, Mendelssohn and Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo.
Daniil Trifonov plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 with the LPO.
Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall on 17th March
Presented by Ian Skelly
Tchaikovsky (arr. Stravinsky): Sleeping Beauty (excerpts)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1
Interval
Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
'My heartfelt homage to Tchaikovsky's wonderful talent': audiences in the 1920s were astonished when the modernist firebrand Stravinsky started adapting Tchaikovsky (tonight we hear his arrangements of 'Variation d'Aurore' and 'Bluebird pas-de-deux' from Sleeping Beauty). In fact, Stravinsky adored him, and his ballet The Fairy's Kiss transforms Tchaikovsky's music into something that magically fuses the spirit of both composers. And what better homage to the composer that Stravinsky revered so much than a performance of Tchaikovsky's sweeping First Piano Concerto, performed tonight by the incomparable Daniil Trifo.
Author of A Book of Silence Sarah Maitland, medievalist John-Henry Clay, writer Lionel Shriver and Professor Barbara Taylor face the crowd to contemplate the many sides to solitude. Chaired by Rana Mitter with an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.
"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company". Was Jean Paul Sartre right or are we just hot-wired to prefer the company of others? Is it even possible - as the famous hermit St Cuthbert once did - to experience true seclusion in our age of hyperconnectivity? And as we flock to cities in increasing numbers why do so many of us feel so isolated and alone?
Sarah Maitland has lived by herself for the last twenty years on an isolated moor in northern Galloway, taking pleasure in silence and solitude. She is the author of numerous short stories, novels and non-fiction books including A Book of Silence.
Lionel Shriver's novels include The Standing Chandelier, The Mandibles, and We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her forthcoming collection of stories Property, explores how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves.
Barbara Taylor is a Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London. Her current research includes attitudes to solitude in Enlightenment Britain and her books include On Kindness, written with Adam Phillips; and The Last Asylum.
John-Henry Clay is associate Professor in the Department of History at Durham University whose main research interests are in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon history and archaeology, and the themes of conversion and religious identity. John is also the author of historical fiction including The Lion and the Lamb and At the Ruin of the World.
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
A fashion show in Buenos Aires was put on for propaganda but football fixtures were deemed too risky. New Generation Thinker Dr Christopher Bannister, from the University of Manchester, looks at attempts to influence opinion about World War II in Latin America.
Although relatively untouched by violence, support in such a strategically important region was vital to the British war effort. Bombs and bullets were no use here, so fashion shows, book launches, soap operas and films became the British Ministry of Information's weapons of war as New Generation Thinker Dr Christopher Bannister, from the University of Manchester, explains.
Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
Soweto Kinch with the second of two visits to Austria's INNTöne Jazz Festival, and a concert by the trio co-led by American pianist Kirk Lightsey, (a veteran of bands with Dexter Gordon, Yusef Lateef, Betty Carter and Chet Baker) and the Art Ensemble of Chicago drummer Famadou Don Moye, also featuring bassist Darryl Hall. Plus a second set featuring the Zhenya Strigalev Never Band, with UK pianist Ivo Neame, bassist Linley Marthe and drummer Stéphane Galland.
John Shea presents a BBC Prom from 2015 featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Rachmaninov's second piano concerto with Nikolai Lugansky and the St Petersburg Philharmonic.
12:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich (1840-1893)
Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op 32
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
12:55 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18
Nikolai Lugansky (piano), St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
1:30 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Etude-tableau in G minor (Op.33 No.8)
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
1:35 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolay Andreyevich (1844-1908)
Scheherazade - symphonic suite, Op.35
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
2:20 AM
Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909), arr. Shchedrin, Rodion Konstantinovich (b.1932)
Tango No.2
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
2:24 AM
Caplet, André (1878-1925)
Divertissement No.1 - A la française
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
2:31 AM
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
8 songs from Morike lieder for voice and piano
Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano)
2:57 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
String Quartet in G major (Op.18'2)
Kroger Quartet
3:23 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr.Weigelt, Gunther
Adagio in B flat major (K.411)
Galliard Ensemble
3:29 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in G major, RV.315 'L'Estate' )]
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
3:38 AM
Moscheles, Ignaz (1794-1870)
La Gaité - Rondo brillant pour le Piano Forte in A major (Op.85)
Tom Beghin (fortepiano - built by John Broadwood & Sons, London, 1827)
3:47 AM
Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861)
Overture in D major (1814)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cracow, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)
3:56 AM
Paganini, Nicolò (1782-1840)
Sonata for violin and guitar No.3 in C major
Andrea Sestakova (violin), Alois Mensik (guitar)
4:01 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) [text Friedrich Schiller]
Hektors Abschied D312b
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after Johann Fritz, Vienna c.1815)
4:06 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo for piano No.4 in E major, Op 54
Simon Trpceski (piano)
4:18 AM
Platti, Giovanni Benedetto (1696-1763)
Oboe Concerto in G minor
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, Mary Utiger (director)
4:31 AM
Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914)
Seventh Song-Wreath (Songs from old Serbia and Macedonia)
Karolj Kolar (tenor), Belgrade Radio & Television Choir, Mladen Jagust (conductor)
4:36 AM
Dvorák, Antonín [1841-1904]
4 Romantic pieces Op.75
Elena Urioste (violin), Zhang Zuo (piano)
4:50 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
May Night - overture
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)
4:59 AM
Nicolai, Otto (1810-1849)
Fenton's aria 'Horch, die Lerch singt in Hain' - from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Act 2
Roberto Sacca (tenor, Italy), Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, Armin Jordan (conductor)
5:05 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Trio in G major
Viktor Šimcisko (violin), Alzbeta Plazkurova (viola), Jozef Sikora (cello)
5:20 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Piano Sonata in D major (H.XVI.33)
Bart van Oort (fortepiano)
5:34 AM
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838)
Clarinet Concerto No.1 in E flat
Kullervo Kojo (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Söderblom (conductor)
5:57 AM
Bacheler, Daniel (c.1574-c.1610)
Mounsiers almain for lute
Nigel North (lute)
6:03 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
4 Klavierstücke (Op.119)
Robert Silverman (piano)
6:21 AM
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)
Danse macabre (Op.40)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjell Seim (conductor).
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Donald Macleod explores a period of Debussy's life spent languishing in fin de siècle Paris clutching several masterpieces but no money
In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing his longing for home.
In the second programme this week Donald Macleod looks at the kind of man Debussy was in his thirties, as he faced the 20th century. During the years of writing his opera Pelléas et Mélisande he was earning very little, while being supported and looked after by his partner Gaby Dupont. But that didn't stop him from abruptly proposing to another woman, Therese Roger, while still living with Gaby. Abandoned by several of his friends at this point, one recalled that he was typically 'lost in thought in the company of his genius', while Gaby pawned their belongings so they had enough money to live on.
Et la lune descend sur la temple qui fut (Images)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Concert Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande (Act III-IV-V)
Berliner Philharmoniker; Claudio Abbado, conductor
Chansons de Bilitis
Nathalie Stutzmann, alto; Catherine Collard, piano
Nocturnes
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor.
Fiona Talkington presents a series of concerts from LSO St Luke's in London featuring the music of two anniversary composers - Claude Debussy, the centenary of whose death falls at the end of this week, and the younger Italian Ildebrando Pizzetti, who died 50 years ago and greatly admired the music of his French colleague.
French pianist Cédric Tiberghien features in three of the concerts, and to launch the series he's joined today by Belgian violinist Lorenzo Gatto.
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Debussy: Étude No 9, pour les notes répétées
Debussy: Des pas sur la neige; Ce qu'a vu le Vent d'Ouest (from Preludes, Book 1)
Pizzetti: Violin Sonata
Lorenzo Gatto (violin)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Here's a little quiz for you:
1. Which composer was described by a top Italian critic in 1921 (three years before Puccini's death) as 'without doubt the greatest musician in Italy today'?
2. Which composer's 'sensibility for the chorus' was rated 'comparable to that of Chopin for the piano or Ravel for the orchestra' by an Italian critic in 1942?
3. Which Italian composer apart from Puccini wrote one of the top five operas of the twentieth century, according to a poll of Italian critics in 1956?
The answer to all three questions is: Ildebrando Pizzetti.
This series offers a chance to discover some of Pizzetti's beautiful chamber and choral music alongside that of one of the composers he most admired: Claude Debussy.
Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes the World Premiere of a trumpet concerto by the Venezuelan-Spanish composer Giancarlo Castro and concludes with Bartók's colourful 5-movement Concerto for Orchestra.
2pm
Elgar - Introduction and Allegro Op. 47
Dvořák - Cello Concerto Op. 104
Sibelius - Symphony No. 4 Op.63
Johannes Moser (cello)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
3.35pm
Giancarlo Castro -Trumpet Concerto (World Première)
Pacho Flores (trumpet)
Piazzolla - Winter in Buenos Aires
Pacho Flores (flugelhorn)
Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor).
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Her guests include conductor Robin Ticciati, who chats down the line from Edinburgh, where he is appearing for one of his last concerts at the helm of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Tenor Christoph Prégardien and soprano Julia Kleiter sing live for us before giving a joint recital in Middle Temple Hall in London. Plus violinist Joo Yeon Sir and pianist Irina Andrievsky play live for us before heading to Cheltenham for a recital.
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.
Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and a host of music theatre stars in the European premiere of a brand new review of the work of Stephen Sondheim, featuring some of his best-known songs such as 'Send in the Clowns' and 'Losing my Mind', from some of his greatest shows including Company, Follies, Gypsy and A Little Night Music. The concert includes specially recorded introductions to some of the songs by Stephen Sondheim himself.
Singers: Liz Callaway, Claire Moore, Julian Ovenden; Rebecca Trehearn, Tyrone Huntley, Damian Humbley
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart
Director: Bill Deamer.
Anne McElvoy hosts Rod Liddle, associate editor of The Spectator; David Runciman, author of How Democracy Ends; Caroline MacFarland, the head of a think tank promoting the interests of 'millennials' and geographer Danny Dorling in an assessment of the influence of people power. Democracy was the most successful political idea of the last century but can it survive the digital age? Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead.
David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University currently working on a project about the pervasiveness of conspiracy theories in the twenty-first century. David's books include Politics: Ideas in Profile, The Confidence Trap, and the forthcoming, How Democracy Ends.
Caroline MacFarland is the founder and director of Common Vision (CoVi), an independent think tank with a mission to 'inspire civic engagement and policy understanding amongst the millennial generation'. Previously, she was managing director at the think tank ResPublica, one of the founding team members of the foundation Power to Change, and a special advisor to the Big Lottery Fund.
Rod Liddle is an associate editor of The Spectator and a columnist for The Sunday Times and The Sun. The author of Selfish Whining Monkeys: How we Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy, Liddle is a former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Danny Dorling is Professor of Geography at Oxford University and the author of Population 10 Billion. His research focuses on housing, health, employment, education and poverty. His recent books include Do We Need Economic Inequality?, The Equality Effect and he co -wrote Why Demography Matters.
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
April 1916. By the Nile, the foremost poets of the Middle East are arguing about Shakespeare. In 2004, Egyptian singer Essam Karika released his urban song Oh Romeo.
Reflecting on his travels and encounters around the Arab world, Islam Issa, from Birmingham City University, discusses how canonical English writers (Shakespeare and Milton) creep into the popular culture of the region today. Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.
Islam's Issa's book, Milton in the Arab-Muslim World, won the Milton Society of America's 'Outstanding First Book' award. His exhibition Stories of Sacrifice won the Muslim News Awards 'Excellence in Community Relations' prize.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio
Producer: Fiona McLean.
Conductor, improviser and champion of many musics: Ilan Volkov returns to the Late Junction studio with some new discoveries.
Volkov has been Principal Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The annual Tectonics Festival he founded in Reykjavik and which continues in Glasgow reflects his devotion to contemporary music, including improvisation, electronics and hip-hop alongside classical works.
His selections tonight include something new from Australian saxophonist Rosalind Hall, whose explorations of her instrument challenge its every aspect: making reeds from different materials, attaching found objects to the bell, and using multiple microphones to capture unusual acoustic resonances.
Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening.
John Shea presents a 1973 performance of Salieri's one-act opera 'Prima la Musica, Poi le Parole' from the archives of Croatian Radio.
12:32 AM
Salieri, Antonio (1750-1852) [Libretto Giovanni Battista Casti]
Prima la Musica, Poì le Parole - Divertimento teatrale in one act
Maestro ..... Enrico Fissore (bass
Poet ..... Vladimir Ruzdak (baritone:
Donna Eleonora ..... Durdevka Cakarevic (mezzo-soprano
Tonina ..... Nada Sirišcevic (soprano)
Festival Opera Ensemble, City of Dubrovník Symphony Orchestra,
Nikša Bareza (conductor)
1:38 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture - from Der Schauspieldirektor, singspiel in 1 act (K.486)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor)
1:44 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58
Van Cliburn (piano)
2:10 AM
Haydn, (Franz) Jozef (1732-1809)
Symphony no.95 (H.1.95) in C minor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Marek Janowski (conductor)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827]
Cello Sonata in D major (Op.102'2)
Arto Noras (cello), Yeol Eum Son (piano)
2:52 AM
Converse, Frederick [1871-1940]
Festival of Pan, Op.9
BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart (conductor)
3:10 AM
Quantz, Johann Joachim [1697-1773]
Concerto in G minor, for 2 flutes, 2 oboes & bassoon
Alexis Kossenko & Anne Freitag (flutes), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Jane Gower (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs
3:28 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich [1865-1936]
Albumblatt for trumpet and piano in D flat major
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
3:33 AM
Wagner, Richard [1813-1883]
Prelude to Act 1 - from 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)
3:43 AM
Wolf, Hugo [1860-1903]
3 Songs (Morgentau; Das Vöglein; Mausfallen-Sprüchlein)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Felix de Nobel (piano)
3:48 AM
Francaix, Jean [1912-1997]
L'Heure du berger (excerpts)
The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound; James Campbell (conductor)
3:57 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
Ces oiseaux from Le Temple de la gloire - opera-ballet (Trajan's aria)
Anders J Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:02 AM
Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894)
España - rhapsody for orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor)
4:09 AM
Lassus, Orlande de [1532-1594]
Magnificat 'Praeter rerum seriem'
King's Singers
4:18 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Symphony (Op.10 No.2)
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
4:31 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Three Characteristic Pieces: 1. Troika (November from The Seasons, Op.37); 2. Chant sans paroles (Op.2 no.3); 3. Humoresque (Op.10 no.2)
Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Vassil Kazandijiev (conductor)
4:41 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor (Op.31)
Alex Slobodyanik (piano)
4:52 AM
Duijck, Johan [b.1954]
Cantiones Sacrae in honorem Thomas Tallis, op.26, Book 1
Flemish Radio Choir, Johan Duijck (conductor)
5:02 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Concerto for 3 oboes and orchestra in B flat major
Peter Westermann, Michael Niesemann, Piet Dhont (oboes), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
5:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Violin Sonata in C major (K.303)
Tai Murray (violin), Shai Wosner (piano)
5:22 AM
Kajanus, Robert (1856-1933)
Finnish Rhapsody No.1
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)
5:32 AM
Peskin, Vladimir [1906-1988]
Trumpet Concerto no.1 in C minor
Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Roberto Arosio (piano)
5:51 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Variations on a theme of Corelli for piano (Op.42)
Natalya Pasichnyk (piano)
6:08 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Brandenburg concerto No.5 in D major, BWV 1050
Per Flemstrøm (flute), Andrew Manze (violin), Andreas Staier (harpsichord), Risør Festival Strings.
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Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
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0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this week the bestselling author and playwright Kate Mosse reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
Donald Macleod explores a Donald Macleod explores a short period in Debussy's life which scandalised Paris and turned most of his friends against him
In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing his longing for home.
Donald Macleod explores a traumatic period in Debussy's life when Parisian society, and many of his close friends, turned against the composer for abandoning his wife in virtual poverty to run off with a woman of the world, the rich wife of a banker, Emma Bardac. The works he wrote during these first few years of the 20th century reflect both his state of mind and his environment.
Masques
Steven Osborne, piano
Estampes
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Trois Chansons de France
Sarah Walker, mezzo soprano; Roger Vignoles, piano
L'Isle Joyeuse
Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Reflets dans l'eau (Mvt 1 Images)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Dialogue du vent et de la mer (La Mer)
New Philharmonia Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor.
Fiona Talkington presents a series of concerts from LSO St Luke's in London featuring the music of two anniversary composers - Claude Debussy and his younger Italian colleague Ildebrando Pizzetti.
French pianist Cédric Tiberghien features in three of the concerts, and today he's joined by his compatriot, the young cellist Camille Thomas.
Debussy: Étude No 8, pour les agréments
Pizzetti: Cello Sonata
Debussy: La sérénade interrompue (from Preludes, Book 1)
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Camille Thomas (cello)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano).
Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Today's programme includes descriptive works by Dukas and Debussy and concludes with Ravel's dazzling evocation of gliding dancers, warped and transmuted into something rather more sinister in his La valse.
2pm
Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Dutilleux - Tout un monde lointain
Debussy - La mer
Ravel - La valse
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor).
An archive service from the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool (first broadcast 3 April 1974).
Introit: The Lamentation of a Sinner (Dowland)
Responses: Philip Duffy
Psalm 50 (Plainsong)
The Lamentation (Bairstow)
First Lesson: Isaiah 52 vv.13-53
Office hymn: The royal banners forward go (Angel's Song)
Canticles: Faux bourdon Service (Tallis)
Second Lesson: Mark 10 vv.32-45
Anthem: Cast me not away (Wesley)
Hymn: When I survey the wondrous Cross (Rockingham)
Philip Duffy (Master of the Music)
Terence Duffy (Organist).
New Generation Artists.
Romanian-born Andrei Ionita plays Bach's Cello Suite no 3 in C major in a recording made a few weeks ago at the BBC's studios.
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Her guests include jazz singer Jacqui Dankworth and Butterfly's Wing, who perform tracks from their new album live for us.
In Tune's specially curated mixtape: a concerto for not one guitar but four by Rodrigo, a Spanish count's moonlight serenade, a Polish nocturnal song by Chopin arranged for piano by his friend and rival Liszt, Telemann in tender mood, romantic Rachmaninov and the stirring Easter Hymn from Mascagni's opera Cavalleria Rusticana.
Producer: Ian Wallington.
Live from Barbican Hall, Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Anna Clyne, Britten's Violin Concerto with soloist Vilde Frang, & Beethoven's 6th Symphony, 'Pastoral'.
Presented by Martin Handley
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour (2015)
Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15
8.15pm
Interval
8.35pm
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' in F Op.68
Vilde Frang (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
British composer Anna Clyne's 2015 orchestral work This Midnight Hour draws inspiration from the waltz and two poems, one by Juan Ramón Jiménez, where music is described as 'a naked woman running mad through the pure night'; the other by lover of the decadent Charles Baudelaire from his Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) . Expect a magic-lantern show in music, a panorama of vivid, intoxicating nocturnal sounds.
Then Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang plays Britten's Violin Concerto, one of the profoundest of twentieth century concertos for the instrument, a work that has finally emerged from the shadows and one that Frang has made her own.
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No.6 concludes tonight's excursions in sound; but here it is a composer's infatuation with nature, sparked on his walks in the countryside around Vienna, that lights the score. A concert certain to display Sakari Oramo's range and superb rapport with his orchestra.
From Brighton Rock and Goodfellas to the streets of Glasgow, London's East End and Chicago, what's it really like to be part of a gang and do gangs lead to organised crime? Matthew Sweet calls a meeting with Criminologist Alistair Fraser, journalist Symeon Brown and James Docherty of Scotland's Violent Reduction Unit
Symeon Brown describes himself as an 'activist/writer on youth, justice and urbanism' and is a journalist for Channel 4 News. He was senior researcher for The Guardian's investigation team on their in-house study, Reading the Riots about the English riots of 2011.
Alistair Fraser researches gang culture with a particular focus on youth 'gangs', street-based teenagers involved in criminal activity in Glasgow, Chicago and Hong Kong. His book Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City, was awarded the British Society of Criminology Book Prize.
James Docherty has worked with a leading children's charity helping young people on the cusp of organised crime and with the 'Violence Reduction Unit' in Glasgow. He advocates for change in the way we address the hidden cost of untreated trauma in our communities.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
From Monarchs to Presidents. Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and the relevance of strategies for telling truth to those who hold power over us now.
Five hundred years ago a miscalculation on this front could leave you without a head. Today, the personal stakes may not be as high, but globally, we've never had so much to lose. Renaissance historian and New Generation Thinker Dr Joanne Paul, from the University of Sussex, takes us back to the 16th and 17th century techniques for challenging the establishment and the writings of Gegorge Puttenham, Thomas More and Sir Thomas Elyot and debates over the merits of flattery versus honesty, and whether it was better to lead or to compel.
Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select 10 academics each year who can turn their research into radio
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
We've landed in a world inhabited by bird-like creatures with both beaks and teeth, where experimental electro-acoustic music plays. It must be Les Shadoks, the cult French cartoon whose complete soundtrack by Robert Cohen-Solal has just been released in its entirety for the first time.
Cut to the inside of the Taj Mahal, where flautist and one-time jazzman Paul Horn recorded one of the first new-age records 50 years ago. Then to 15th-century France, and the music of Johannes Ockeghem; but wait - composer Michael Winter has reframed it algorithmically!
Through the wonders and mysteries, Nick Luscombe is your guide.
Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening.
John Shea presents a performance from the 2015 BBC Proms of Schubert's 9th Symphony and Mozart's Piano Concerto No.23 with Maria João Pires as pianist and Bernard Haitink conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
12:31 am
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture in C major, 'In the Italian style'
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
12:39 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K.488
Maria João Pires (Piano), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
1:06 am
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No.9 in C major, D.944, 'Great'
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
2:02 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata in G major, Op.78, arr for viola
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Katya Apekisheva (piano)
2:31 am
Toivo Kuula
3 Satukuvaa (Fairy-tale pictures) for piano, Op.19
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
2:47 am
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Cinderella - Suite No 1, Op 107
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
3:14 am
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
6 Little Sonatas for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and bassoon, Wq.184
Bratislava Chamber Harmony
3:34 am
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), orch. Washburn, Jon
Messe basse - for solo soprano, choir and orchestra
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Jon Washburn (conductor)
3:43 am
Benjamin Godard (1849-1895)
Berceuse de Jocelyn
Henry-David Varema (cello), Cornelia Lootsmann (harp)
3:50 am
Janis Medins (1890-1966)
Flower Waltz - from the ballet 'Victory of Love'
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor)
3:55 am
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Lascia la spina - from Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Anna Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:01 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in G major, K.283 (1774)
Marie Rorbech (piano)
4:14 am
Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)
Sinfonia con tromba in D major (G.8)
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
4:20 am
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Two orchestral intermezzi from "I gioielli della Madonna", Op.4
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Othmar Maga (conductor)
4:31 am
Giovanni Ambrosio (fl. after 1450)
Rostiboli Gioioso
Ensemble Claude Gervais, Gilles Plante (director)
4:36 am
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (1550-1622)
Cieco amor non ti cred'io
Cantus Cölln
4:40 am
Antonio Sacchini (1735-1786)
Trio Sonata in G major
Violetas Visinskas (flute), Algirdas Simenas (violin), Gediminas Derus (cello), Daumantas Slipkus (piano)
4:51 am
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Liszt (Transcriber)
Adelaide, Op.46
Ferruccio Busoni (piano)
5:01 am
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Ulrich, Titus (author), Mörike, Eduard (author), Heyse, Paul (author), Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter (author), Johann Gottfried Kinkel (author)
6 Songs, Op.107
Jan Van Elsacker (tenor), Claire Chevallier (fortepiano)
5:12 am
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), orch. Henri Busser
Printemps - Symphonic Suite
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Markl (conductor)
5:30 am
Maurice Ravel
Trio for piano and strings in A minor
Altenberg Trio Vienna
5:55 am
John Marson (1932-2007)
Waltzes and Promenades for 2 harps
Julia Shaw (harp), Nora Bumanis (harp)
6:08 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Ferruccio Busoni
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV.565
Valerie Tryon (piano)
6:17 am
Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741)
Turcaria - Eine musikalische Beschreibung
Armonico Tributo Austria, Lorenz Duftschmid (director).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this week the bestselling author and playwright Kate Mosse reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
Donald Macleod explores Debussy's contented domestic life in the years leading up to the First World War
In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing his longing for home.
"Several days ago I became the father of a little girl. The joy of it has overwhelmed me a bit and still frightens me" wrote Debussy to a friend in 1905. Donald Macleod looks at the only period of Debussy's life when he was happily settled into domesticity, but, accepting invitations to conduct abroad to earn a better income, was taken away from his family more than he wanted.
Serenade for the Doll
Noriko Ogawa, piano
Poissons d'or (Images for piano Set 2)
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Rondes de Printemps (Images)
London Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Monteux, conductor
La plus que lente
San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Trois Poemes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Lorna Anderson, soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano
Jeux
Hallé Orchestra; Mark Elder (cond).
Fiona Talkington presents a series of concerts from LSO St Luke's in London featuring the music of two anniversary composers - Claude Debussy and his younger Italian colleague Ildebrando Pizzetti.
Pizzetti's 'sensibility for the chorus' was rated 'comparable to that of Chopin for the piano or Ravel for the orchestra' by Italian critics, and in today's concert the BBC Singers perform some of his beautiful choral music, including his remarkable Requiem and the Shelley setting A Lament.
Debussy: Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans
Pizzetti: A Lament
Pizzetti: Requiem
Pizzetti: 2 Canzoni corali
Debussy, arr Clytus Gottwald: Des pas sur la neige (from Preludes, Book 1)
Pizzetti: De Profundis
BBC Singers
Conductor Owain Park.
Penny Gore introduces Engelbert Humperdinck's setting of Hansel and Gretel: the classic story from the Brothers Grimm, where two children get lost in a forest after dark and are charmed by a witch to enter her magical gingerbread house. The children are ensnared but manage to defeat the witch, and in a rousing happy ending they are returned home and reunited with their parents.
In a performance from the Royal Opera House, Sir Colin Davis conducts Humperdinck's fairytale opera with a cast that includes mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirschlager as Hansel and soprano Diana Damrau as Gretel.
Hansel ...... Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano)
Gretel ...... Diana Damrau (soprano)
Gertrud ...... Elizabeth Connell (soprano)
Peter ...... Thomas Allen (baritone)
Witch ...... Anja Silja (soprano)
Sandman and ...... Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Dew Fairy and Echo ...... Anita Watson (soprano)
Echo ...... Eri Nakamura, Simona Mihai (sopranos)
Tiffin Boys' Choir
Tiffin Children's Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Colin Davis (conductor)
And at 3.45pm
Penny Gore continues this week's focus on recent Ulster Orchestra recordings, with works by Piers Hellawell and Prokofiev.
Piers Hellawell - Wild Flow
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op 100
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor).
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Her guests include the Carducci Quartet, who perform live in the studio ahead of their recital at St John's Smith Square.
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.
Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC SSO in Nielsen's Symphony No 5, and they are joined by Martin Frost to perform Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Kate Molleson
Nielsen: Pan and Syrinx
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
8.25 Interval
8.45
Nielsen: Symphony No 5
Martin Fröst, clarinet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Danish-born chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard explore a composer with whom they both have great affinity: Carl Nielsen. The concert opens with Nielsen's Pan and Syrinx -an atmospheric evocation of the titular instrument- and concludes with his deeply expressive 5th Symphony.
Sandwiched between these comes music by a composer revered by Nielsen: Mozart. His popular Clarinet Concerto is performed tonight by Martin Fröst.
As the BBC screens its new arts series, Civilisations, one of the presenters, David Olusoga, joins presenter Philip Dodd, anthropologist Kit Davis and the historian Kenan Malik to consider our different notions of world history from the dawn of human civilisation to the present day.
David Olusoga is a historian, writer and broadcaster who has presented several TV documentaries including A House Through Time; The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire and the BAFTA award-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners. His most recent book is Black and British: A Forgotten History.
Dr Kit Davis is a lecturer in social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies who has written about travels across Europe and about Rwanda. She is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review.
Kenan Malik's books include From Fatwa to Jihad and The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics. Kenan is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster who presented Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3 and has written and presented radio and TV documentaries including Disunited Kingdom, Are Muslims Hated?, Islam, and Mullahs and the Media.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
New Generation Thinker Emma Butcher looks at what we learn about war from the writing of child soldiers in The Battle of Trafalgar and the childhood writings of the Bronte family who were avid readers of newspaper accounts of battles and memoirs of soldiers. Does their fantasy fiction show an understanding of PTSD and the impact of battle on fighters before such conditions were diagnosed?
Dr Emma Butcher, literature historian at the University of Leicester, uncovers the history of Robert Sands, a powder monkey in the Battle of Trafalgar,. Does his experience muddy our sense of what childhood is ?
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
Rare, rejoicing and radical sounds.
Rare: a new reissue of soul record Two Sisters from Bagdad, designed to be sold as an accompaniment to a musical theatre production in a Detroit church. It ended up running for just two weeks, while a basement flood later destroyed most of the unsold copies.
Radical: composer Henry Threadgill, whose jazz-ish aesthetic and complex musical systems have continued to break ground, has a new album out.
Rejoicing: wedding music from the borderlands of Azerbaijan and Iran, where women-only groups perform with voices and hand-drums - a 1500-year-old tradition captured for Late Junction earlier this year.
Plus, Riley: Nick selects a new recording by pianist Bruce Brubaker of Terry Riley's Keyboard Study No. 2 interspersed with music from the Codex Faenza, a 15th-century manuscript thought to be one of the earliest collections of keyboard music.
Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening.
Catriona Young presents a performance of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin from the National Opera of Ukraine, recorded in Kiev.
12:32 AM
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Eugene Onegin - opera in three acts, Act I
Eugene Onegin ..... Andrei Bondarenko (baritone),
Tatyana ..... Olga Mykytenko (Soprano)
Olga ..... Iryna Petrova (Mezzo Soprano)
Lensky ..... Valentin Dytyuk (tenor)
Larina ..... Tetyana Kharauzova (Mezzo Soprano)
Filippyevna ..... Maria Berezovska (Mezzo Soprano)
Ptince Gremin ..... Taras Shtonda (Bass)
Triquet ..... Oleksandr Gurets (tenor)
Zaretsky ..... Serhiy Skubak (Bass)
National Opera of Ukraine Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
Alla Kulbaba (Conductor)
1:41 AM
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Eugene Onegin - opera in three acts, Act II
2:20 AM
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Eugene Onegin - opera in three acts, Act III
2:55 AM
Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897]
Piano Trio in E flat major (Op.40)
Baiba Skride (violin), Linda Skride (viola), Lauma Skride (piano)
3:26 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne in B major (Op.33 No.2)
Stéphane Lemelin (piano)
3:32 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for oboe and strings in G minor (reconstructed from BWV.1056)
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Camerata Köln
3:42 AM
Cabezon, Antonio de [1510-1566]
3 works for Double Harp
Margret Köll (arpa doppia)
3:51 AM
Piston, Walter (1894-1976)
Prelude and Allegro
David Schrader (organ), Grant Park Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar (conductor)
4:02 AM
Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943)
Vocalise (Op.34 No.14)
Toronto Symphony, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:08 AM
Finzi, Gerald (1901-1956)
White-flowering days for chorus (Op.37) (no.8 in 'A Garland for the Queen', 1953)
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
4:13 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Adagio and allegro in A flat major, Op 70
Lise Berthaud (viola), Adam Laloum (piano)
4:21 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Valse-fantasie in B minor for orchestra
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)
4:31 AM
Herbert, Victor (1859-1924)
Moonbeams - a serenade from the 1906 operetta 'The Red Mill'
Symphony Nova Scotia, Boris Brott (conductor)
4:35 AM
Lanner, Joseph (1801-1843)
Old Viennese Waltzes
Arthur Schnabel (1882-1951) (piano)
4:41 AM
Frederick the Great (1712-1786)
Sonata in C minor for flute & basso continuo
Konrad Hünteler (flute), Wouter Möller (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
4:50 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Trio in G major, K564
Ondine Trio
5:06 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Overture to Lo Speziale (H.28.3)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba (Conductor)
5:13 AM
Traditional Catalan, arr. Montsalvatge, Xavier [1912-2002]
El cant dels ocells
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Luis Claret (cello), Orquesta Ciudad de Barcelona, Luis Garcia Navarro (conductor)
5:19 AM
Sanz, Gaspar [1640-1710]
4 pieces from "Instrucción de música sobre la guitara española"
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (performing on the Guitarra dels Lleons - The Lion Guitar c.1700)
5:36 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV 497
Ivan Pristas (bassoon), Camerata Slovacca, Viktor Malek (conductor)
5:49 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op 109
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
6:08 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Symphony no.7 in C major, Op.105
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor).
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this week the bestselling author and playwright Kate Mosse reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
Donald Macleod looks at Debussy's final years, and a late burst of creativity in 1915 before a steep decline in his health
In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing his longing for home.
Donald Macleod looks at a remarkable three months towards the end of Debussy's life, spent at a villa on the Channel coast which was painted several times by Monet. He went there to escape wartime Paris in 1915 with his wife Emma and daughter Chouchou, and from his letters of the time we can tell that he fell in love with the place, enjoying its garden and expansive view of the sea. He felt so at home there that despite already being seriously ill and increasingly anxious about the war, his new environment encouraged a final burst of creativity.
Berceuse Héroïque
Orchestre National de L'O.R.T.F; Jean Martinon, conductor
En Blanc et Noir
Katia Labèque, piano; Marielle Labèque, piano
Cello Sonata
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Benjamin Britten, piano
Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Philippe Bernold, flute; Gerard Causse, viola; Isabelle Moretti, harp.
Fiona Talkington presents a series of concerts from LSO St Luke's in London featuring the music of two anniversary composers - Claude Debussy and his younger Italian colleague Ildebrando Pizzetti.
Pianist Cédric Tiberghien features in three of the concerts, and today he's joined by violinist Lorenzo Gatto and cellist Camille Thomas in Pizzetti's Piano Trio.
Debussy: Étude No 10, pour les sonorités opposées
Debussy: Images (Book 2)
Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie (from Preludes, Book 1)
Pizzetti: Piano Trio
Lorenzo Gatto (violin)
Camille Thomas (cello)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano).
Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings. Symphonies by Brahms and Sibelius bookend today's programme. which also includes a performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto - a work which is now cherished, but was largely ignored during the composer's lifetime.
2pm
Brahms - Symphony No.3 Op.90
Beethoven - Violin Concerto Op.61
Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor)
3.25pm
Mendelssohn - Calm Sea and Prosperous Op.27
Ulster Orchestra
Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
3.35pm
Neruda: Concerto for Trumpet and Strings
Pacho Flores (trumpet)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor)
4.15pm
Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 Op.39
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor).
Katie Derham with In Tune from Birmingham marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Debussy with music and chat inspired by the sounds of the Belle Epoque and Debussy's Paris.
Guests include Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and members of the CBSO, BCMG and soprano Ruby Hughes, Franco-Nigerian soprano Omo Bello and pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
18.30 "Debussy's Paris" - 1. The Watteau Revival.
Georgia Mann Smith in Paris looking at some of the key artistic and cultural events from Debussy's city from the years 1860 and 1918.
Classical music feature.
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.
Pianist Steven Osborne joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Mozart's Piano Concerto No.27. Plus Jac van Steen conducts Debussy's La Mer.
Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff. Nicola Heywood Thomas presents.
Debussy: Nocturnes
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.27 in E flat major K595
c. 8.35pm Interval: The Debussy Meme
Debussy in Paris: A survey of the influence of Debussy on popular culture, from the music box to Tomita's recreation of his music using the analogue synthesiser, via Art of Noise. With contributions from Anne Dudley from Art of Noise, film music composer Craig Armstrong, and composer and musician Hannah Peel.
c. 8.55pm
Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliées
Debussy: La Mer
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Debussy's music of water, wind and light surrounds colourful works by composers at different ends of their lives. Mozart's 27th piano concerto was to be his last, yet despite its subdued qualities, the finale is based on a song welcoming the summer. Messiaen's meditation for orchestra dates back to his early years after leaving conservatoire. It's a stunningly beautiful work that foreshadows a lifelong devotion to the mystical connection between music and faith.
In the second of two programmes recorded at the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead, The Verb turns its attention to 'The One'.
Joining Ian are Tom Jackson, the curator of the hugely popular Twitter feed and now book 'Postcard from the Past', in which Tom finds poetry in our old holiday postcards. The poet Sinéad Morrissey has written a new poem especially for The Verb using language from Tom's extensive archive of postcards.
We feature new drama from Verb New Voice Sarah Saayed, whose work 'My Heroes are Behind Me' celebrates extraordinary women, there's new poetry from the Newcastle-based poet Rowan McCabe who asks what destiny means in 2018 and there's also music from Richard Dawson, who plays from his critically acclaimed album 'Peasant' .
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Cecile Wright.
New Generation Thinker Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, looks at AI and what the writing of Douglas Adams tells us about questions of morality and who should be in control. This year is the 40th anniversary of BBC Radio 4's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
Lopa Kothari presents a BBC Music Introducing session with London based Sudanese band The Scorpios.
Based in London after fleeing the fundamentalist takeover in Central Sudan, The Scorpios mix hypnotic Arabic rhythms with desert guitar riffs and synth lines to create a sound that is both modern and traditional.