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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Works by Beethoven from Germany's oldest chamber music festival, Hitzacker Summer Music Days. With John Shea.
01:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op 15
Alexander Lonquich (Piano), Münchener Kammerorchester, Alexander Lonquich (Conductor)
01:37 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata no 10 in G major, Op 96
Christian Tetzlaff (Violin), Lars Vogt (Piano)
02:02 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Beethoven String Quartet no 15 in A minor, Op 132
Kuss Quartet
02:43 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op 56a
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Marek Janowski (Conductor)
03:01 AM
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Flute Concertino, Op 107
Maria Filippova (Flute), Ekaterina Mirzaeva (Piano)
03:09 AM
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen (1894-1969)
Japanisher Fruhling
Ragnhild Heiland Sørensen (Soprano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Steven Sloane (Conductor)
03:33 AM
Piotr Moss (b.1949)
Wiosenno
Polish Radio Choir, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (Conductor)
03:42 AM
Aloÿs-Henri-Gérard Fornerod (1890-1965)
Concert for 2 violins and piano (Op.16)
Sibylle Tschopp (Violin), Mirjam Tschopp (Violin), Isabel Tschopp (Piano)
04:00 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1018-1849)
Andante spianato and grande polonaise brillante in E flat major Op.22
Lana Genc (Piano)
04:16 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 23 in D major, K181
Simfonični orkester RTV Slovenija, Marko Munih (Conductor)
04:27 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Fantasia in D minor (TWV.33 No.2)
Peter Westerbrink (Organ)
04:32 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Trumpet Suite
Blagoj Angelovski (Trumpet), Velin Iliev (Organ)
04:40 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Ballad (Karelia suite, Op 11)
Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi (Conductor)
04:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata in D major, BWV 912
Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano)
05:01 AM
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Prelude for guitar no.1 in E minor
Norbert Kraft (Guitar)
05:06 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Danzi (Arranger)
Duos from Don Giovanni
Duo Fouquet (Duo), Elizabeth Dolin (Cello), Guy Fouquet (Cello)
05:11 AM
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806-1826)
Stabat Mater
Grieg Academy Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (Conductor)
05:19 AM
Marjan Mozetich (b.1948)
Fantasia sul linguaggio perduto for string instruments
Amadeus Ensemble
05:35 AM
Francesco Provenzale (c.1624-1704)
2 arias: "Io pur vi miro" & "Me sento 'na cosa"
Roberta Invernizzi (Soprano), Rosario Totaro (Tenor), Cappella della Pietà dé Turchini, Antonio Florio (Director)
05:42 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Filippo's aria "Ella giammai m'amo!" from Don Carlo (Act 3)
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Bass), Orchestra of National Opera of Sofia, Assen Naidenov (Conductor)
05:52 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony no.4 (D.417) in C minor 'Tragic'
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenárd (Conductor)
06:21 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Pieces for four hands (Op.11)
Zbignevas Ibelhauptas (Piano), Ruta Ibelhauptiene (Piano)
06:35 AM
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Violin Concerto, Op 14
James Ehnes (Violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (Conductor)
Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
The Latvian violinist Baiba Skride talks to Tom about her career since winning the 2001 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, including her passion for Scandinavian repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb and Chief Executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians Deborah Annetts speak to Tom about the current state of music education in primary and secondary schools.
Tom also talks to François Dru, the editor of a new, unpublished score of Ravel's Bolero, taken from the 1928 ballet premiere in Paris, with the original instrumentation for the percussion section.
And in Hidden Voices: Guillermo Uribe Holguín, the Colombian composer and reluctant impressionist, inspired in the popular culture of his land, but also violinist, teacher and founder of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, in the early 20th-Century.
Violinist Francesca Dego admires the cool dexterity of her teacher Salvatore Accardo, can’t resist the combination of Brahms and the cello, and tries to work out how harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani gets around the fact he can’t play dynamics.
Francesca also treats us to her world premiere recording of a piece by a composer she loves, fellow Italian Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
At 2 o’clock Francesca’s Must Listen piece is a glorious operatic duet, where every phrase is given a special, emotion-wrenching musical treatment.
A series in which each week a musician reveals a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
Matthew Sweet takes the release of Peterloo as an excuse to examine film music and culture inspired by life and events in the North of England.
Alyn Shipton’s weekly dip into listeners’ letters and emails requesting favourite jazz tracks includes contemporary jazz from Hastings-based band Hexagon, the violins of Jean-Luc Ponty and Didier Lockwood, and classic tracks from Miles Davis and Charlie Byrd.
DISC 1Wagner's opera Die Walküre, the second opera in the The Ring of the Nibelung cycle, recorded last month at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Time has passed since the gods moved to the their new home Vallhalla, and their leader Wotan is still in search of the gold that will grant him unlimited power. He wants to use the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, born to him out of wedlock, to retrieve it. But Fricka, as guardian of marriage, insists that Siegmund pays for his husband transgressions and wants him killed. Wotan reluctantly agrees and forces the Valkyrie Brunnhilde, his warrior daughter, also raised out of wedlock, not to protect Siegmund in a fight. But the walkyrie falls in love with Siegmund and disobeys Wotan, and as a result she is stripped of her divinity and left on a fire-encircled rock. Brunnhilde’s efforts are useless as Siegmund pays with his life in this doomed saga that moves from the realm of the gods to the human sphere.
Sir Antonio Pappano conducts a cast with Stuart Skelton as Siegmund, Nina Stemme as Brünnhilde, John Lundgren as Wotan and Sarah Connolly as Fricka.
Tom Service presents.
Siegmund….. Stuart Skelton (tenor)
Sieglinde….. Emily Magee (soprano)
Hunding….. Ain Anger (bass)
Wotan….. John Lundgren (baritone)
Brünnhilde….. Nina Stemme (soprano)
Fricka….. Sarah Connolly (soprano)
Valkyries
Gerhilde….. Alwyn Mellor (soprano)
Ortlinde….. Lise Davidsen (soprano)
Waltraute….. Kai Rüütel (soprano)
Schwertleite….. Claudia Huckle (contralto)
Helmwige….. Maida Hundeling (soprano)
Siegrune….. Catherine Carby (mezzo-soprano)
Grimgerde….. Monika-Evelin Liiv (mezzo-soprano)
Rossweisse….. Emma Carrington (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Opera House Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)
SYNOPSIS
Wotan has been prey to anxiety ever since he stole the ring from Alberich and used it to pay the giants rather than returning it to the Rhinedaughters. Desperate to protect himself should Alberich regain the ring, he has sought out Erda, who bore him the warrior-maiden Brünnhilde. Wotan, in the meantime, has also fathered Siegmund and Sieglinde, the Wälsung twins, with a mortal woman. With Siegmund, Wotan hopes to create a free being who will recover the ring, for he fears the curse Alberich placed on him when he violated his own rule of law.
Act I
A storm is raging. A man takes shelter. Sieglinde offers him first water, then mead, which he asks her to share. Hunding returns and offers the stranger grudging hospitality. He notices a resemblance between his wife and the stranger. The stranger tells his tale. Plagued by misfortune, the fugitive recalls the sword his father once promised he would find in his hour of greatest need. Sieglinde returns, having drugged Hunding. She recounts how, at her enforced wedding to Hunding, a stranger appeared and thrust a sword into the tree trunk. No one has been able to pull it out. She is convinced he is her twin; she names him Siegmund and urges him to remove the sword from the tree. He draws it out and claims Sieglinde as both bride and sister.
Act II
Wotan instructs Brünnhilde, his favourite Valkyrie daughter, to ensure that Siegmund wins the fight with Hunding. Fricka demands to know how Wotan can both sanction incest and uphold the supremacy of the gods so Wotan tells Brünnhilde that she must not protect Siegmund and threatens the direst consequences if she disobeys.
Brünnhilde appears to Siegmund and announces that he will die in battle and join the other heroes in Valhalla. There he will meet his father. When Siegmund learns that he cannot take Sieglinde he refuses the afterlife. He threatens to kill both Sieglinde and their unborn child, announced by the Valkyrie, rather than be separated from her. Moved by compassion, Brünnhilde promises to safeguard Siegmund. Hunding’s horn is heard. Brünnhilde tries to protect Siegmund but Wotan shatters Siegmund’s sword with his spear. Siegmund is struck dead. Brünnhilde gathers the pieces of broken sword and flees with Sieglinde.
Act III
The Valkyries gather dead warriors for Valhalla. Brünnhilde arrives and the Valkyries are shocked to see that she is accompanied by a mortal woman. Sieglinde wants to die, but when Brünnhilde tells her that she is carrying Siegmund’s son, who will be the noblest hero in the world, she begs protection. Wotan arrives and the Valkyries try to hide Brünnhilde from his wrath, he denounces her disobedience and banishes her from Valhalla. She will be left to sleep until a mortal man wakes her and she will be turned into a ‘domestic’ wife. Wotan remains unforgiving, even when she tells him that a Wälsung hero will be born to Sieglinde. Finally, Brünnhilde asks to be surrounded by fire so that only an outstanding hero will find her. Wotan agrees to this solution and bids her farewell. He calls on Loge, the fire god, to encircle her with flames.
Kate Molleson presents a concert from the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2018:
Bara Gisladottir: VAPE
Sarah Nemtsov: dropped.drowned
Simon Steen-Anderson: Piano Concerto
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony conducted by Baldur Bronnimann
Sound of the Week: Thomas Larcher. The Austrian composer, pianist and keen mountaineer talks about a sound he encounters high in the Tyrol mountains.
Plus an appreciation of Naresh Sohal, who died earlier this year.
Naresh Sohal: Violin Concerto
Xue Wei (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
During the Swing Era, every big band had its small “band-within-a-band”, bringing the delights of combo jazz to the jitterbugs. Geoffrey Smith surveys some of the best, including Artie Shaw, Bob Crosby, Woody Herman and Count Basie.
01 00:01:50 Chick WebbSan Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas at the 2015 BBC Proms. Presented by John Shea.
01:01 AM
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Decoration Day (2nd movt from Symphony: New England Holidays)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (Conductor)
01:10 AM
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Piano Concerto No 2 (Sz 95)
Yuja Wang (Piano), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (Conductor)
01:39 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No 3 in E flat major Op.55 (Eroica)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (Conductor)
02:33 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Hungarian Dance No 10 in F major
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (Conductor)
02:35 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Piano Sonata in E major, Op 6
Sveinung Bjelland (Piano)
03:01 AM
Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885)
Piano Quintet in G minor (Op.34) (1885)
Pawel Kowalski (Piano), Silesian Quartet
03:36 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Magnificat in D major, BWV 243
Hana Blažiková (Soprano), Margot Oitzinger (Mezzo Soprano), Robin Blaze (Counter Tenor), Thomas Hobbs (Tenor), Peter Kooij (Bass), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Collegium Vocale Ghent Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (Conductor)
04:03 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Mellanspel ur Sången, Op 44
Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi (Conductor)
04:09 AM
Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994)
Ten Polish Dances
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz (Conductor)
04:23 AM
Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt (Transcriber)
Auf dem wasser zu singen, D744
Anastasia Vorotnaya (Piano)
04:27 AM
Tauno Pylkkanen (1918-1980)
Suite for oboe and strings (Op.32)
Aale Lindgren (Oboe), Finnish Radio Orchestra, Petri Sakari (Conductor)
04:36 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor (BuxWV.149)
Mario Penzar (Organ)
04:45 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Marcin Zdunik (Arranger), Mathilde Wesendonck (Author)
Im Treibhaus (Wesendonck-Lieder)
Agata Zubel (Soprano), Warsaw Cellonet Group, Andrzej Bauer (Director)
04:50 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Le Corsaire - overture (Op.21)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (Conductor)
05:01 AM
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909)
The Highlander's Fantasy, Op 17
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz (Conductor)
05:10 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Valse impromptu (S.213)
Louis Schwizgebel (Piano)
05:16 AM
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Polovtsian dances (Prince Igor)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (Conductor)
05:28 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Romance for violin & orchestra (Op.26) in G major arr. for violin & choir
Borisas Traubas (Violin), Polifonija (Lithuanian State Chamber Choir), Sigitas Vaiciulionis (Conductor)
05:37 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Reverie for cello and piano
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (Cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (Piano)
05:42 AM
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Symphonic metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (Conductor)
06:04 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Divertimento for 2 flutes and cello (H.4.1) in C major "London trio" no.1
Les Ambassadeurs
06:13 AM
Friedrich Kunzen (1761-1817)
Symphony in G minor
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (Conductor)
06:32 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No.2 in F major (Op.38)
Zbigniew Raubo (Piano)
06:40 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin - suite for orchestra
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà (Conductor)
Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
Sarah Walker’s Sunday morning selection includes early music from Byrd and Baltzar and more recent works by Poulenc and Sibelius. There’s also music from Handel (his Harp Concerto in B flat, op. 4 no. 6), and Beethoven (Piano sonata in G major op. 49 no. 2). This week’s Sunday Escape is Siegfried’s Rhine Journey by Wagner.
It’s the size and shape of a cauliflower, and weighs about 3 lbs. And yet the average human brain has so many intricate and complex connections that if you counted one connection every second it would take you more than three million years.
Professor Anil Seth has devoted his career to trying to understand the brain, puzzling over the mystery of consciousness itself. He’s Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the Sackler Centre at the University of Sussex, and the author of a popular book, “The 30-second Brain”. In Private Passions, he muses on how our consciousness of the world, and of ourselves, is “one of the big central mysteries of life”. And it’s a mystery we face every day – when we fall asleep and when we wake up. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Anil Seth explores the concept of free will (he doesn’t believe in it); why music evokes such strong memories; and how meditation changes the structure of the brain.
Music choices include Chopin, Bach, Nina Simone, and an ancient Hindi mantra.
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
From Wigmore Hall, London.
Thibaut Garcia plays guitar music by Barrios Mangoré, Bach, and Tansman.
Barrios Mangoré: La Catedral
Tansman : Inventions (Hommage à Bach)
Passacaille
Bach: Two-Part Inventions nos. 7, 8 ,9, & 10
Allemande from English Suite No.3 in G minor
Bach: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004
Thibaut Garcia guitar
Bach continues to be an inspiration to today’s musicians, including the Franco-Spanish BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, who plays the great Chaconne from the D minor Partita alongside a Bach tribute by Franco- Polish Alexandre Tansman.
On the day before Bonfire Night, Hannah French explores music for fireworks, with music by Corelli, Bach, Rameau and Gluck, and Handel's celebrated Music for the Royal Fireworks.
From the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge, during the 2018 Cambridge Choral Course (recorded 31 August).
Introit: Justorum animae (Stanford)
Responses: Radcliffe
Office Hymn: Christe Redemptor omnium (Christe Redemptor omnium)
Psalms 1, 5 (Elgar, Walford Davies)
First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 44 vv.1-15
Canticles: Murrill in E
Second Lesson: Revelation 19 vv.6-10
Anthem: Os justi (Bruckner)
Hymn: For all the Saints (Engelberg)
Voluntary: Fantasia (In festo omnium sanctorum), Op 121 (Stanford)
Ralph Allwood (Director of Music)
Tom Winpenny (Organist)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of irresistible music for organ...featuring a barrel organ monkey, an organ duet by Johann Christian Bach, and an annotated improvisation by Tournemire.
Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales
The Listening Service had a question from a listener :
"When I see the musicians playing, they seem to be looking at their sheet music, not the conductor. Can an orchestra not function perfectly well without a conductor? If I'm intensely moved by a piece of orchestral music, is it not the musicians which moved me? Why must I applaud some arbitrary conductor, who never touched a single instrument throughout the entire performance?"
Tom Service rises to the challenge and looks at the role of the conductor - is it all about their ego, their clothes, their ability to beat time or their emotional outpouring onstage - or it is something else entirely? Rethink music with The Listening Service.
It begins in mischief and ends in confusion. Monkeys are the lords of misrule. They're as entertaining as they are mischievous. In their needs and affections they can also seem almost human. Are we monkeys or are they men? In Monkey Business the actors Rosalie Craig and Philip Franks will be leaping about between the probable and the improbable. Searching for airborne fun rather than earthbound enlightenment. They'll be swinging from the cosmology of 16th-century China to the simian aspirations of The Jungle Book and will conjure mayhem from Satie, Beethoven, Britten and Ligeti to hasten them on the way. As Kipling put it - "here we go in a flung festoon, half-way up to the jealous moon."
Producer: Zahid Warley
01Sean Williams introduces tonight’s Sunday Feature that offers twin presentations by two of this year’s crop of Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers.
Is it wrong to have children?
I really love my children but are they the biggest moral mistake I ever made? This is the question posed by moral philosopher Dr Simon Beard. In this Sunday Feature, Simon sets out to explore the moral ramifications of his decision to have two children.
Meeting academics, campaigners and ordinary parents, Simon asks whether having a child is ever the right or wrong thing to do. And, in a world of overpopulation and climate change, do we need to change the way we think about family life?
Simon Beard is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Producer: Georgia Catt
Do terrorists have a problem with Shakespeare?
Terrorists across the globe have cited Shakespeare as a motivation for their actions, but why do some extremists hate the Bard – and why are others inspired by him?
From Osama bin Laden, whose diaries revealed he visited – and hated – Shakespeare’s birthplace, to Guy Fawkes who held links to Shakespeare and his family, the world’s most famous playwright has been a strange fascination for terrorists over the centuries.
What is it that draws audiences to Shakespeare’s bloodiest plays, in the same way that staged beheadings of Isis draw millions of views on YouTube? And what has led terrorists to attack theatres and actors, like the bombing of a 2005 Qatari performance of Twelfth Night?
Dr Islam Issa begins by attempting to understand the mindset of a terrorist, talking to criminologist Imran Awan. They also explore the human attraction to violent displays in such productions as Titus Andronicus:
…..five times he hath return'd
Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons
In coffins from the field;
And now at last, laden with horror's spoils,
Returns the good Andronicus to Rome,
Renowned Titus, flourishing in arms.
The show also investigates why Nazi extremists were drawn to Shakespeare’s most iconic characters, as well as Shakespeare’s ominous presence in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.
Dr Issa also visits Stratford-Upon-Avon, meeting Paul Edmondson to discuss how Shakespeare lived through the threat of the UK’s biggest ever terror plot – The Gunpowder Plot.
Shakespeare would have been familiar with the conspirators, and had the plot been carried out, it would have been more devastating than even the 7/7 bombers intended: “Thirty-thousand persons would have perished at a stroke … a spectacle so terrible and terrifying”.
With insight from the critic Ewan Fernie, Dr Issa also investigates why Nazi extremists were drawn to Shakespeare’s most iconic characters, as well as Shakespeare’s ominous presence in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.
Producer: Sara Jane Hall
By Rex Obano
England is divided as never before. The country has turned its back on Europe. Not Britain today but the 16th Century. The story of Sir Robert Cecil and his black Muslim servant Fortunatus.
Fortunatus ..... Ray Fearon
Sir Robert Cecil ..... John Heffernan
Beaupere ..... Sope Dirisu
Casper Van Senden ..... Tristan Sturrock
Duque de Sessa ..... Youseff Kerkour
Queen Elizabeth ..... Elizabeth Counsell
Sir Edward Coke ..... Philip Bretherton
Sir Thomas Sherley ..... Sean Murray
Mae Mice ..... Lucy Doyle
Frances Cecil ..... Ella Glendinning
Lady Frances ..... Emma Handy
Watchman ..... Cameron Percival
Director: David Hunter
Concerts from across Europe. Kate Molleson introduces performances from the national broadcasters of France, Romania and Switzerland.
Bizet arr. David Walter: Carmen Suite
Ouranos Ensemble
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104
Valentin Radutiu (cello)
Romanian National Symphony Orchestra
Cristian Macelaru
Schumann: Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op 97 'Rhenish'
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Daniele Gatti (conductor)
Medieval hymns and sacred chant from southern Italy and Sardinia, given by the Tiburtina Ensemble and presented by Elin Manahan Thomas. The concert was recorded in the atmospheric Church of the Our Lady of the Slavs at the Emmaus monastery of Na Slovanech, Prague, and the venue reflects the special intimacy of these thirteenth century anonymous Laudas (or vernacular songs) from the famous manuscript collection ‘Laudario di Cortona.
Clemency Burton-Hill creates a bespoke classical playlist for her special guest, business and tech guru Rohan Silva. He chats to Clemmie about the emotional impact of his new musical discoveries.
Rohan's playlist:
Shostakovich - Adagio from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Steve Reich - Music for Pieces of Wood
Germaine Tailleferre - Valse lente
Carl Friedrich Abel - 27 Pieces for Viola da Gamba (Prelude)
Cristóbal de Morales - Officium defunctorum ('Parce mihi, Domine')
James P. Johnson - Harlem Symphony (3rd mvt 'Night Club')
Classical Fix is Radio 3's new programme and podcast, designed for music fans who are curious about classical music and want to give it a go, but don't know where to start. Each week Clemmie will curate a custom-made playlist of six tracks for her guest, who will then join her to discuss their impressions of their brand new classical music discoveries.
A concert from the 5th International Harald Andersén Chamber Choir Competition in Helsinki. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Vaclovas Augustinas
Anoj Pusej Dunojlio
Addictio, Elisa Huovinen (Director)
12:35 AM
Riikka Talvitie (b.1970)
Mais je suis mort (Même mort)
12:40 AM
Veljo Tormis (1930-2017)
Kas tunnete: väriseb maa
12:41 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Love Op.18 No.2
12:44 AM
Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962)
Kannel
12:48 AM
Urmas Sisask (b.1960)
Benedictio
New Dublin Voices, Bernie Sherlock (Director)
12:53 AM
Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630)
Unser Leben währet siebzig Jahr (Psalm 90:10)
12:56 AM
Riikka Talvitie (b.1970)
Mais je suis mort (Même mort)
01:01 AM
Adrian Peacock
Venite, gaudete!
01:04 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Cloud Capp’d Towers (Three Shakespeare Songs)
01:06 AM
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b.1963)
A Scurvy Tune
01:07 AM
Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
Nunc dimittis
Kamer Youth Chorus, Janis Liepins (Director)
01:13 AM
Riikka Talvitie (b.1970)
Mais je suis mort (Même mort)
01:18 AM
Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795-1856)
Lay a Garland
01:20 AM
Selga Mence
Kalejs kala debesis
01:22 AM
Gabriel Jackson
Neviens putnis ta neputa
01:26 AM
Michael Dellaira
The Campers at Kitty Hawk (U.S.A. Stories)
Kampin laulu, Kari Turunen (Director)
01:29 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Letztes Glück (5 Gesänge, Op.104 no.3)
01:32 AM
Riikka Talvitie (b.1970)
Mais je suis mort (Même mort)
01:37 AM
Sven-David Sandström (b.1942)
Let Him Kiss Me (Four Songs of Love)
01:39 AM
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b.1963)
Väinämöinen uneksii lentävästä veneestään
01:44 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Stabat mater Op.53 for soloists, chorus and orchestra
Ewa Vesin (Soprano), Edyta Kulczak (Mezzo Soprano), Jaroslaw Brek (Baritone), National Forum of Music Chorus, Polish National Youth Chorus, National Forum of Music Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Schwartz (Conductor)
02:07 AM
Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947)
Symphonic suite (Op.4)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (Conductor)
02:31 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasy in C major Op 17
Annika Treutler (Piano)
03:03 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Scottish fantasy for violin and orchestra (Op.46)
James Ehnes (Violin), Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)
03:33 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet No. 64 in D major (Op.76 No.5)
Engegård Quartet
03:51 AM
Ester Mägi (b.1922)
Ballad 'Tuule Tuba' (1981)
Academic Male Choir of Tallinn, Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (Conductor), Jüri Rent (Conductor)
04:00 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Arranger)
Adagio & Fugue in G minor after BWV 883
Leopold String Trio
04:06 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
The Duke of Gloucester's trumpet suite
Crispian Steele-Perkins (Trumpet), King's Consort, Robert King (Director)
04:17 AM
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Gnossienne no 1 for piano
Havard Gimse (Piano)
04:22 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody no.6 in D flat major
Rian de Waal (Piano)
04:31 AM
Benjamin Britten
Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury for 3 trumpets
Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble
04:34 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sea Songs – Quick March
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham (Conductor)
04:38 AM
Henri Messemaeckers Jr. (1824-1894)
Grande Marche funebre pour le piano
Arthur Schoonderwoerd (Fortepiano)
04:47 AM
Franz Schubert
Gute Nacht - No.1 from Winterreise (song-cycle) (D.911)
Michael Schopper (Bass), Andreas Staier (Pianoforte)
04:53 AM
Andrea Gabrieli (c.1532-1585)
Aria della battaglia à 8
Theatrum Instrumentorum, Stefano Innocenti (Conductor)
05:03 AM
Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921), Eduard Reeser (Arranger)
Lydische Nacht (1913) (version for orchestra only)
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Hans Vonk (Conductor)
05:22 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Lied (Lenau): Larghetto; Wanderlied: Presto (Op.8 Nos.3 & 4) (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (Piano)
05:28 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Klopstocks Morgengesang am Schopfungsfeste (Wq.239)
Barbara Schlick (Soprano), Johanna Koslowsky (Soprano), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Herman Max (Conductor)
05:41 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Serenade in G major, (K.525) 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Mark Taddei (Conductor)
05:58 AM
Benjamin Britten
Hymn to St Cecilia for chorus (Op.27)
BBC Singers, David Hill (Conductor)
06:09 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Preludes - books 1 & 2 (selection)
Francesco Piemontesi (Piano)
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 Suzy’s guest this week is Stephen Fry, who reveals some of the great music, film and literature that means the most to him.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
Donald Macleod surveys musical portraits of aristocracy and musicians by Francois Couperin
Donald Macleod marks 350 years since the birth of Francois Couperin, one of France’s most dazzling musical talents. His illustrious rise to fame began with his appointment as organist at St Gervais in Paris while he was still a teenager, and he went on to serve as a composer and harpsichordist at court of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Known to his contemporaries as ‘Couperin Le Grand’, he is recognised today as the most important French composer of his generation.
Francois Couperin composed a number of musical depictions of his contemporaries and aristocratic patrons. He taught keyboard at the Versailles palace to the Dauphin and six Princes of the Blood. Among his musical portraits of royalty and aristocracy include harpsichord works depicting Madame de Bourbon, and also the Spanish Princess who for a time was the fiancée of Louis XV.
Couperin also created musical portraits of another nature. Not only did he depict in music the composers Arcangelo Corelli, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and also one of himself, but also composed depictions of the Holy Queen, Mary, and the mythological characters of Ariadne and Bacchus.
Quatrieme livre de Pieces de clavecin, Vingt et unieme ordre (La Couperin)
Christophe Rousset, harpsichord
Salve Regina
Paul Agnew, tenor
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, director
L’Apotheose de Corelli
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, director
Second Livre de pieces de clavecin (La Charoloise)
Second Livre de pieces de clavecin (La Princesse de Sens)
Michael Borgstede, harpsichord
Arianne console par Bacchus
Stephane Degout, baritone
Christophe Coin, viol
Laura Monica Pustilnik, lute
Christophe Rousset, harpsichord & director
Producer Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales
Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Aleksey Semenenko plays violin sonatas by Grieg and Ysaÿe along with some miniatures by Tchaikovsky and Paganini. The Ukrainian violinist and current Radio 3 New Generation Artist brings his silvery tone and dazzling technique to London as he makes his Wigmore Hall debut.
Introduced by Fiona Talkington.
Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45
Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 'George Enescu'
Debussy La plus que lente
Tchaikovsky Valse-scherzo Op. 34
Paganini La Campanella
Aleksey Semenenko (violin)
Inna Firsova (piano)
Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas are among the summits of the repertoire, the third both rhapsodic and gripping. The Ukrainian violinist, who is a BBC New Generation Artist, follows with three lighter pieces, including the ‘even slower’ waltz by Ysaÿe’s friend and adherent Debussy.
A week of performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, beginning with a concert of American music by Copland, Augusta Read Thomas and Gershwin. Tom also highlights the symphonic works of Michael Tippett who died 20 years ago, starting today with his Symphony in B flat major, written in the mid-1930s when Tippett was still in his twenties. Presented by Tom Redmond.
2.00 pm
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Augusta Read Thomas: Brio
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein: Songfest
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Tracy Cantin, soprano
Michele Losier, mezzo soprano
Kelley O’Connor, alto
Paul Appleby, tenor
Nmon Ford, baritone
Musa Ngqungwana, bass
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
c. 3.25 pm
Copland: Billy the Kid Suite
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor
c. 3.45 pm
Tippett: Symphony in B flat major [1933-34]
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
c. 4.15 pm
Elgar: Enigma Variations
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Conductor John Wilson speaks to Sean Rafferty about the John Wilson Orchestra 'At the Movies' tour.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. Tonight we head out into the chilly November air in a musical celebration of Bonfire Night. Expect musical fireworks courtesy of Handel and Oliver Knussen, sparks flying from the fingers of pianist Stephen Hough, and Ēriks Ešenvalds spine-tingling evocation of the night sky.
From BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Adrian Partington and the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform a concert marking the centenary of WWI, concluding with the long awaited premiere of Stanford's Mass Via Victrix.
7.30
Farrar: Rhapsody No 1 - The Open Road, Op 9
Kelly: Elegy for strings, In Memoriam Rupert Brooke
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
8.20 Interval
Stanford: Mass Via Victrix (1914-1918)
Kiandra Howarth (soprano)
Jess Dandy (contralto)
Ruairi Bowen (tenor)
Gareth Brynmor John (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor)
To commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War, the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales present a concert of music for the fallen souls from the war, concluding with the premiere of Stanford's Mass Via Victrix (1914-1918), 99 years after its composition. The Orchestra begins by commemorating a little-known composer who fell in the war, Ernest Farrar, with his orchestral Rhapsody The Open Road, written in 1909 and loosely based on Walt Whitman's poem Song for the Open Road. Frederick Septimus Kelly’s Elegy for strings, in memoriam Rupert Brooke was written while the composer was recuperating from the Battle of Gallipoli and is dedicated to the poet Rupert Brooke, whose midnight burial on the Isle of Skyros is one of the more well-known episodes from the early part of the war. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin completes the concert's first part, a piece whose movements are each dedicated to a different friend who died fighting in the war.
Stanford's Mass Via Victrix (1914-1918) encapsulates both a sense of relief and celebration for the allied victory, but also a deep sense of mourning for the tragic loss of those who fell. Although it was completed in December 1919 the work has never been performed in full, and the full manuscript score has been painstakingly transcribed into performing parts by Stanford scholar Jeremy Dibble. During the interval Jeremy will talk about the challenges involved in that undertaking.
The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art.
1.Imaobong Umoren tells the story behind W.E.B. Dubois' seminal editorial, Returning Soldiers, which laid the early foundations of the Black Lives Matter campaign.
Born in 1868 in Massachusetts, Du Bois was raised by a single mother who descended from African, English and Dutch ancestors. Growing up in the racially mixed town of Great Barrington, Du Bois attended public school alongside both white and black pupils and, at an early age, was singled out for his intellect. He was to grow up to become one of the leading scholars and activists of the twentieth century on what was then termed the ‘Negro Problem’.
Published in The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Returning Soldiers’, was based on the experiences that Du Bois had during his three-month visit to France from December 1918 to March 1919. Imaobong tells the story behind its writing and uncovers its continuing importance in today's Black Lives Matter campaign.
Dr Imaobong D Umoren is Assistant Professor of International History of Gender at London School of Economics and Political Science.
Soweto Kinch presents a concert from the Herts Jazz Festival 2018 by bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado and his band. Misha is a Radio 3 New Generation artist and in this set he is joined by Matthew Herd, alto; James Davison, trumpet; Sam Rapley, tenor; Liam Dunachie, piano; and Scott Chapman, drums. Plus a feature on the music of Emma Jean Thackray.
The Mucha Quartet perform contemporary music in studio recordings from Radio and Television Slovakia. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Mirko Krajči (b.1968)
Pains and Hopes (Dolori e speranze)
Mucha Quartet
12:45 AM
Tommaso Manera (1970-)
Quintet for piano and strings
Mucha Quartet, Zuzana Biščáková (Piano)
01:01 AM
Ilja Zeljenka (b.1932-2007)
String quartet no.6 'Magic Formulas' for string quartet and alto
Mucha Quartet, Lucia Duchonova (Contralto)
01:21 AM
John Tavener (1944-2013)
The Hidden Treasure
Mucha Quartet
01:49 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Symphonic Dances (Op.64)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Ondrej Lenárd (Conductor)
02:15 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Five Choral Songs (Op.104)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (Conductor)
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Septet in E flat major Op.20
Michel Lethiec (Clarinet), Giorgio Mandolesi (Bassoon), Andre Cazalet (Horn), Jurek Dybal (Double Bass)
03:12 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Ancient airs and dances for lute – suite no. 3 for strings
I Cameristi Italiani
03:31 AM
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
4 Italian madrigals for female chorus
Southern Jutland Symphony Orchestra, Mogens Dahl (Director)
03:43 AM
Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870)
La Gaité - Rondo brillant pour le Piano Forte in A major
Tom Beghin (Fortepiano)
03:52 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Serenade No.1 in D major for violin & orchestra (Op.69a)
Judy Kang (Violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Jean-François Rivest (Conductor)
04:00 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto da Camera in G minor, RV 107
Camerata Köln
04:09 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Come Holy Spirit for SATB with organ accompaniment
Elmer Iseler Singers, Matthew Larkin (Organ), Lydia Adams (Conductor)
04:15 AM
Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Scherzo Capriccioso Op.66
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Raffi Armenian (Conductor)
04:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
L'Isle Joyeuse
Jurate Karosaite (Piano)
04:38 AM
Leonardo Leo
Cello Concerto in D minor (in three movements)
Werner Matzke (Cello), Concerto Koln
04:52 AM
Camilla de Rossi (fl.1707-1710)
Duol sofferto per Amore' – Alessio's aria from the oratorio Sant'Alessio
Martin Oro (Counter Tenor), Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (Director)
04:58 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet no.4 in A major (K.298)
Dae-Won Kim (Flute), Yong-Woo Chun (Violin), Myung-Hee Cho (Viola), Jink-Yung Chee (Cello)
05:11 AM
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990)
Three Gymnopedies
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman (Conductor)
05:20 AM
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)
Circulo (Op.91)
John Harding (Violin), Stefan Metz (Cello), Daniel Blumenthal (Piano)
05:32 AM
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Pictures from an Exhibition
Steven Osborne (Piano)
06:08 AM
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Pictures from Norwegian Fairy-Tales (Op.37)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Vytautas Lukocius (Conductor)
06:22 AM
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
'Agrippina'; overture
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenárd (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 Suzy’s guest this week is Stephen Fry, who reveals some of the great music, film and literature that means the most to him.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
Donald Macleod surveys Francois Couperin's musical family tree.
Donald Macleod marks 350 years since the birth of Francois Couperin, one of France’s most dazzling musical talents. His illustrious rise to fame began with his appointment as organist at St Gervais in Paris while he was still a teenager, and he went on to serve as a composer and harpsichordist at court of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Known to his contemporaries as ‘Couperin Le Grand’, he is recognised today as the most important French composer of his generation.
In today's programme, Donald explores ‘Couperin Le Grand’ alongside his many musical relatives. The Couperin family tree was established in the vineyards around Chaumes and nurtured a long line of gifted musicians. Uncle Louis was the first of seven Couperins to serve as organist at St Gervais, including Francois himself and his cousin, Nicolas. Towards the end of his life, Francois’s daughter, Marguerite-Antoniette, took over some of her father’s harpsichord duties at the royal court. Another cousin, Armand-Louis, became a leading composer of the next generation and father to yet more musical Couperins who maintained the family trade right into the 19th century.
Francois Couperin
Regina coeli laetare, Alleluia
Jill Feldman, soprano
Isabelle Poulenard, soprano
Jaap Ter Linden, bass viol
Davitt Moroney, organ
Louis Couperin
Five Fantasies
Pange lingua en basse
Jan Willem Jansen, organ
François Couperin
Quatre versets du motet
Sophie Daneman, soprano
Patricia Petibon, soprano
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, director
Armand-Louis Couperin
Simphonie de clavecins, in D major
Ton Koopman, harpsichord
Tini Mathot, harpsichord
Francois Couperin
Premier Livre de pieces de clavecin, premier ordre (La Manon)
Premier Livre de pieces de clavecin, premier ordre (L’Enchanteresse)
Premier Livre de pieces de clavecin, premier ordre (La Fleurie ou la tendre Nanette)
Premier Livre de pieces de clavecin, premier ordre (Les plaisirs de Saint Germain en Laye)
Olivier Baumont, harpsichord
Producer Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales
Wales hosts an abundance of music Festivals in some of the UK's most breathtaking settings. This week Christopher Cook introduces highlights from three of its Summer Festivals, all situated in locations of outstanding natural beauty. Later in the week we'll visit the pretty border town of Presteigne, but the series begins at the North Wales International Music Festival in St. Asaph where pianist Freddy Kempf enchanted audiences in its ancient cathedral with Ravel's homage to his baroque antecedent. After that we head to the historic town of Machynlleth for an evocatively drawn performance of Debussy's Quartet, given by the Marmen Quartet.
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Freddy Kempf, piano
Debussy: String Quartet in G
Marmen Quartet
Johannes Marmen, violin
Ricky Gore, violin
Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola
Steffan Morris. cello
Live from Salford's MediaCityUK, conductor Douglas Boyd and the BBC Philharmonic perform Britten's thrilling setting of poems by Rimbaud, Les Illuminations with tenor Robin Tritschler. This is paired with Mozart's Serenade in B flat (K 361) often referred to as the Gran Partita. The live concert is presented by Tom Redmond.
After this, Tom continues his survey this week of Tippett's symphonic works with the composer's Symphony No. 3 for soprano and orchestra, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martin Brabbins and soloist Rachel Nicholls. This eclectic works is blues-influenced and includes quotations from Beethoven, suggesting that Tippett was challenging Beethoven's world-view.
2.00 pm
Britten: Les Illuminations
Mozart: Serenade in B flat (K 361)
Robin Tritschler, tenor
BBC Philharmonic
Douglas Boyd, conductor
c. 3.20 pm
Tippett: Symphony No. 3
Rachel Nicholls, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
c. 4.20 pm
Britten: Four Sea Interludes
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald, conductor
c. 4.40 pm
Helen Grime: Snow from 2 Eardley Pictures
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald, conductor
Folk musician John Kirkpatrick and The Auric String Quartet, who are performing at the inaugural Clun Valley Music Festival in Shropshire, play live in the studio.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
As part of their 20th anniversary European tour Voices New Zealand bring a themed programme of music to London, 'Voices of Aotearoa', reflecting both Pacific and western choral repertoire, combined with the ancient sounds of Māori music played on traditional instruments.
Recorded last week at Cadogan Hall and presented by Ian Skelly.
Voices of Saints and Angels
Hildegard von Bingen: O viridissima virga
Princess Te Ranji Pai: Hine e hine
David Childs: Salve Regina
Voices from the Earth
Mark Sirett: Ce beau Printemps
Jean Absil: Bestiaire
David Griffiths: Lie Deep my Love
Interval
Voices from the Deep
Helen Fisher: Pounamu
Jakko Mäntyjärvi: Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae
Samuel Barber: To be sung on the water
Voices of Stars and Light
Trad: Pokarekare ana
David Hamilton: Karakia of the Stars
David Hamilton: Ecce beatam Lucem
Voices New Zealand
Horomona Horo (Taongo Puoro, traditional Māori instruments)
Karen Grylls (director)
Gillian Clarke, Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet Wilfred Owen with their own new commissions from the Royal Society of Literature. Shahida Bari hosts a discussion recorded with an audience at the British Library on the 100th anniversary of Owen's death during the crossing of the Sambre–Oise Canal on 4 November 1918, exactly 7 days (almost to the hour) before the signing of the Armistice which ended World War I.
Born in Cardiff, Gillian Clarke’s work has been on the GCSE and A Level exam syllabus for the past thirty years. She was the first woman to win the Wilfred Owen Award – for a sustained body of work that includes memorable war poems – in 2012.
Sabrina Mahfouz was brought up in London and Cairo, and is a playwright, poet, novelist and editor. She was elected an RSL Fellow in 2018.
Poet and Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, Michael Symmons Roberts grew up less than a mile from Greenham Common and has often written about the Cold War ‘peace’.
Producer: Fiona McLean
The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art.
2.Janet Montefiore on Rudyard Kipling's 1922 collection, Epitaphs
On 27 September 1915, 8,000 out of the 10,000 British troops who took part in the disastrous Battle of Loos were killed or wounded. One of these, 2nd Lieutenant John Kipling, eighteen years old, the son of Rudyard Kipling, was reported ‘missing believed killed.’ His body was never found.
Four years later, Rudyard Kipling published his ‘Epitaphs of the War 1914-1918’: thirty-one brief poems giving voice to those who died in the Great War: soldiers, airmen, nurses, non-combatants, Canadians, Indians, sailors, politicians, cowards and heroes.
These days, Kipling is often criticised for his imperialist views on "the white man's burden", but in this Essay, Kipling scholar, Janet Montefiore uncovers a more sympathetic figure. She tells the story behind a poignant collection of poems which express Kipling's personal grief whilst giving voice to a wider sense of outrage about the victims of the war, including the famously succinct condemnation :
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
Producer: Beaty Rubens
Starting the week Greek: Verity Sharp is joined by producer, author and record collector Christopher King who shares tracks from ‘Europe’s oldest surviving folk music’ – the sounds of the Epirus region.
Among King’s selections is a mirologi, an ancient pentatonic tune performed in Greece since Homeric times; and a samantakas, a dance that as he can attest, can lead to out-of-body experiences.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
Hungarian soprano Polina Pasztircsák gives a recital of songs by Schumann, Strauss and Rachmaninov. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Nikolaus Lenau (Author)
Six Songs and Requiem, Op 90
Polina Pasztircsák (Soprano), Jan Philip Schulze (Piano)
12:48 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Four Songs
Polina Pasztircsák (Soprano), Jan Phillip Schulze (Piano)
01:00 AM
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Qual fiamma avea nel guardo, Nedda's aria from 'I Pagliacci'
Polina Pasztircsák (Soprano), Jan Philip Schulze (Piano)
01:05 AM
Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)
2 Songs
Polina Pasztircsák (Soprano), Jan Philip Schulze (Piano)
01:15 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
4 Songs
Polina Pasztircsák (Soprano), Jan Philip Schulze (Piano)
01:24 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Zdes' khorosho (How Nice it is here), from '12 Songs', Op 21
Polina Pasztircsák (Soprano), Jan Philip Schulze (Piano)
01:26 AM
Imre Kalman (1882-1953)
Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland, 'Die Csárdásfürstin'
Polina Pasztircsák (Soprano), Jan Philip Schulze (Piano)
01:30 AM
Franz Schubert
Octet in F (D.803)
Niklas Andersson (Clarinet), Henrik Blixt (Bassoon), Hans Larsson (Horn), Jannica Gustafsson (Violin), Martin Stensson (Violin), Håkan Olsson (Viola), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (Cello), Maria Johansson (Double Bass)
02:31 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Orpheus ballet in three scenes (1947)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (Conductor)
02:59 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphony No.1 in B flat major, Op 38, 'Spring'
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (Conductor)
03:34 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The Four Seasons - Spring
Davide Monti (Violin), Il Tempio Armonico
03:43 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut (between Acts II & III)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (Conductor)
03:50 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata: "Widerstehe doch der Sunde" (BWV.54)
Jadwiga Rappé (Alto), Concerto Avenna, Andrzej Mysinski (Conductor)
04:01 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Le Rappel des Oiseaux in E minor, from Pieces de clavecin (1724, revised.1731)
Ivetta Irkha (Piano)
04:04 AM
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
On hearing the first cuckoo in spring for orchestra (RT.6.19) (1911/12)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (Conductor)
04:12 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Symphony for strings in B flat. (Wq.182 No.2)
Barbara Jane Gilby (Violin), Barbara Jane Gilby (Director), Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Lancaster (Harpsichord)
04:22 AM
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Waltz of the Flowers (from The Nutcracker)
Simfonični orkester RTV Slovenija, Marko Munih (Conductor)
04:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Academic Festival Overture (Op.80)
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (Conductor)
04:41 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Vocalise
Polina Pasztircsák (Soprano), Zóltan Kocsis (Piano)
04:47 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore (BuxWV 113)
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)
05:00 AM
Paul Gilson (1865-1942)
Suite Nocturne, d'apres Aloysius Bertrand
Jozef De Beenhouwer (Piano)
05:16 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
L'Arlesienne, Suite No.1
Simfonični orkester RTV Slovenija, Marko Munih (Conductor)
05:34 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra in E flat major (K.365)
Tor Espen Aspaas (Piano), Sveinung Bjelland (Piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson (Conductor)
06:00 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite in G minor 'La Musette', TWV.55:g1
B'Rock, Jurgen Gross (Conductor)
06:14 AM
Robert Kajanus (1856-1933)
Finnish Rhapsody No 1
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (Conductor)
06:24 AM
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Die ihr aus dunkeln Gruften den eiteln Mammon grabt
Hélène Plouffe (Violin), Louise Pellerin (Oboe), Dom André Laberge (Organ)
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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 Suzy’s guest this week is Stephen Fry, who reveals some of the great music, film and literature that means the most to him.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
Donald Macleod explores Francois Couperin’s enduring loyalty to his family church.
Donald Macleod marks 350 years since the birth of Francois Couperin, one of France’s most dazzling musical talents. His illustrious rise to fame began with his appointment as organist at St Gervais in Paris while he was still a teenager, and he went on to serve as a composer and harpsichordist at court of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Known to his contemporaries as ‘Couperin Le Grand’, he is recognised today as the most important French composer of his generation.
The Couperin family were intimately connected to the Church of St Gervais in Paris. When Francois was made organist there, he succeeded his father, Charles, who in turn had inherited the post from his elder brother, Louis. Charles had died when Francois was aged only ten. He and his mother were allowed to stay on in the organist’s house rent free, while he trained to take over his father's position.
Couperin maintained his connection with St Gervais throughout his glittering career at court. He provided a number of works for liturgical use, including organ Masses which were his first works to be published during his lifetime. Donald also features excerpts from Couperin's Tenebrae Lessons, considered pinnacle of his sacred writing. These solemn choral pieces would be performed in services on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Holy Week, while candles lighting the church were gradually extinguished.
Domine salvum fac regem
Jill Feldman, soprano
Gregory Reinhart, baritone
Jaap Ter Linden, bass viol
Davitt Moroney, organ
Messe pour les couvents (Gloria)
Marie-Claire Alain, organ
Troisieme Lecon
Judith Nelson, soprano
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Jane Ryan, viola da gamba
Christopher Hogwood, chamber organ
Les Nations (La Francois)
The Purcell Quartet
Producer Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales
Christopher Cook introduces highlights from last Summer's Welsh Festivals. A great favourite with both audiences and performers alike, in the ancient setting of St. Asaph Cathedral at the North Wales International Music Festival, pianist Freddy Kempf put the piano through its paces in Chopin's Second Piano Sonata, which includes that rather famous funeral march. Then it's off to Presteigne Festival and St. Andrew's Church for a contrasting display of virtuosity from the Navarra String Quartet in Britten's profound and final contribution to string quartet literature.
Chopin: 2nd Piano Sonata, B flat minor
Freddy Kempf, piano
Britten: Third String Quartet
Navarra Quartet
Magnus Johnston, violin
Marijie Johnston, violin
Simone van der Giessen, viola
Brian O'Kane, cello
Today's concert by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra features Sibelius's patriotic tone poem Finlandia, and his Violin Concerto of which Donald Tovey wrote 'I have not met a more original, a more masterly, and a more exhilarating work'. The soloist is Viktoria Mullova, with conductor Thomas Dausgaard. The concert ends with Nielsen's Second Symphony, The Four Temperaments, describing four personality types: choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic, and sanguine. The concert is presented by Tom Redmond.
2.00 pm
Sibelius: Finlandia
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Nielsen: Symphony No.2 (The Four Temperaments)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Live from St Paul’s Cathedral, London, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.
Introit: When you see the millions of the mouthless dead (Macmillan)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalms 84, 85 (Parry, Hemmings)
First Lesson: Isaiah 57 vv.15-19
Office hymn: Crossing the bar (Parry)
Canticles: William Denis Browne in A
Second Lesson: John 15 vv.9-17
Anthems: Lord, let me know mine end (Parry); For the fallen (Blatchly)
Hymn: O God our help in ages past (St Anne)
Voluntary: Chorale Fantasia on ‘O God our Help' (Parry)
Andrew Carwood (Director of Music)
Simon Johnson (Organist)
New Generation Artists: Quatuor Arod play Mendelssohn at the Ryedale Spring Festival.
The young French quartet and current NGAs warmed the hearts of the audience as the snow fell outside Pickering Parish Church, famous for its medieval wall paintings.
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No.4 in E minor, op.44 no.2
Quatuor Arod
The Engegard Quartet perform live in the studio ahead of their concerts in Morpeth, Clitheroe and Richmond. Plus the Ferio Saxophone Quartet, whose new album 'Flux' is out on Chandos Records, also play live.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
A passionate advocate of Mozart, Kristian Bezuidenhout directs the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a concert from the City Halls in Glasgow in homage to Mozart. The uplifting and joyous Symphony No 29 is paired with the later, more complex Piano Concerto No 24, one of the few works that Mozart wrote in the minor key. South African pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout directs from the podium and the piano.
CPE BACH Symphony No 2 in E-flat, Wq 183
MOZART Symphony No 29 in A, K201
Interval at around 8.10pm. Kate Molleson introduces one of only two surviving works Mozart wrote for the bassoon: the Sonata for bassoon and cello K292 (realised here on the fortepiano by Kristian Bezuidenhout) and Beethoven's Adelaide performed by Bezuidenhout in collaboration with Mark Padmore.
MOZART Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491
MOZART Rondo in A major, K386
Kristian Bezuidenhout, conductor
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Presented by Kate Molleson
Produced by Lindsay Pell
Better than Proust -- the man who made literature out of colloquial French -- the arch chronicler of human depravity --- some of the things that are said about Louis Ferdinand Céline, author of Journey to the End of the Night - one of the masterpieces of 20th century literature.
His semi- autobiographical novel, first published in 1932, is a ferocious assault on the hypocrisy and idiocy of his time. It follows its anti hero Ferdinand Bardamu from the battlefields of the First World War to Africa and America before returning to Paris and a chilling confrontation with his demons. The book established Céline as a an original and dangerous voice amongst the generation of writers who emerged from the carnage of the Great War. The fluency of his prose, its tone and bristling attitude has won him many admirers among them Philip Roth and Joseph Heller. He's entered popular culture too -- being quoted by Jim Morrison in the Doors' song End of the Night. But as well as the praise there's been criticism - not least for the vicious anti-Semitism that surfaces in some of his later work.
To explore the novel and the man Rana Mitter is joined by the writers, Marie Darrieussecq and Tibor Fischer, the literary historian, Andrew Hussey, and Céline's latest biographer, Damian Catani.
Marie Darrieussecq is the author of novels including Pig Tales, Tom is Dead and her latest Our Life in the Forest
Andrew Hussey is the author of The French Intifada : The Long War Between France and its Arabs
Tibor Fischer is the author of the novels, How to Rule the World, Under the Frog and The Thought Gang.
Damian Catani teaches at Birkbeck College in London and is writing a biography of Céline that will be published in 2020 by Reaktion Books.
Producer: Zahid Warley
The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art.
3.Jane Potter on The Forbidden Zone, a depiction of nursing life at the Front by Mary Borden.
Mary Borden was an Anglo-American novelist who served for four years as a nurse in a military hospital at the Front.
Jane Potter celebrates a work which, like those of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, vividly depicts the horror of the Trenches and yet is far less well known.
Producer; Beaty Rubens.
Verity Sharp takes a musical journey along the East Coast of the USA tonight.
Beginning in New York, there’s multi-media punk Keijaun Thomas with an audio monument to the 1969 Stonewall riots.
Heading south, acapella trio Mountain Man take us on a contemporary turn through Appalachian folk traditions.
And then to Miami, where POORGRRRL and Otto Van Schirach hone their unique brand of Southern Hip Hop.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
Mahler Symphony No.2 from 2014 BBC Proms. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'
Kate Royal (Soprano), Christianne Stotijn (Mezzo Soprano), Swedish Radio Choir, Philharmonia Chorus, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (Conductor)
01:58 AM
Franz Schubert
An den Mond (Fullest wieder Busch und Tal), D259, (To the Moon)
Christoph Prégardien (Tenor), Andreas Staier (Pianoforte)
02:02 AM
Franz Schubert
Symphony no. 8 in B minor D.759 (Unfinished)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (Conductor)
02:31 AM
Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Quartet No 13 in G major Op 106
Pavel Haas Quartet
03:10 AM
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)
Sonatina for clarinet & piano (1956)
Jozef Luptacik (Clarinet), Pavol Kovac (Piano)
03:21 AM
Frantisek Xaver Pokorný (1729-1794)
Concerto for Horn, Timpani and Strings in D major
Radek Baborák (Horn), Prague Chamber Orchestra, Antonín Hradil (Conductor)
03:37 AM
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
E voi siete d'altri, o labra soavi, ZWV 176
Delphine Galou (Contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (Director)
03:48 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo in C major (K.373)
James Ehnes (Violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
03:54 AM
Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-1986)
Pastoral Suite (Op.19) (1938)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor)
04:08 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Wenzel Sedlak (Arranger)
Overture from "Fidelio" (Op.72b)
Octophoros
04:14 AM
Alfred Kalnins (1879-1951)
Ballad for cello and piano
Marcis Kuplais (Cello), Ventis Zilberts (Piano)
04:22 AM
Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817-1890)
Ved solnedgang (At sunset) for choir and orchestra (Op.46)
Danish National Radio Choir, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (Conductor)
04:31 AM
Johan Wagenaar (1862-1941)
"Frithjof's Meerfahrt" - Concert piece for orchestra (Op.5)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (Conductor)
04:43 AM
Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
L'invitation au voyage
Gerald Finley (Baritone), Stephen Ralls (Piano)
04:48 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Polonaise in F sharp minor (Op.44)
Erik Suler (Piano)
04:59 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No.35 in D major (K.385), "Haffner"
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (Conductor)
05:19 AM
Alfred Grünfeld (1852-1924)
Soirees de Vienne for piano, Op 56
Benjamin Grosvenor (Piano)
05:25 AM
François Couperin (1668-1733)
La Francoise, Suite from 'Les Nations'
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (Director)
05:38 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Symphony for strings in B flat. (Wq.182 No.2)
Barbara Jane Gilby (Violin), Barbara Jane Gilby (Director), Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Lancaster (Harpsichord)
05:48 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Arnold Schoenberg (Arranger)
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Urszula Kryger (Mezzo Soprano), Kwartesencja Ensemble, Marcin Kaminski (Flute), Adrian Janda (Clarinet), Bartosz Jakubczak (Harmonium), Bartlomiej Zajkowski (Piano), Tomasz Januchta (Double Bass), Hubert Zemler (Percussion), Monika Wolinska (Director)
06:06 AM
Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt (Arranger)
Wandererfantasie transcribed from the piano solo for piano and orchestra (S.366)
Anton Dikov (Piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alipy Naidenov (Conductor)
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Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today's piece is Britten's Young Apollo, so you might choose something else in worship of the god Apollo, or something else for piano quintet.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history.
1050 Suzy’s guest this week is Stephen Fry, who reveals some of the great music, film and literature that means the most to him.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
Francois Couperin’s time at the court of Louis XIV.
Donald Macleod marks 350 years since the birth of Francois Couperin, one of France’s most dazzling musical talents. His illustrious rise to fame began with his appointment as organist at St Gervais in Paris while he was still a teenager, and he went on to serve as a composer and harpsichordist at court of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Known to his contemporaries as ‘Couperin Le Grand’, he is recognised today as the most important French composer of his generation.
Francois Couperin was auditioned for the job of organist to France's Chapel Royal by Louise XIV himself. The Sun King had a keen passion for music and took a great interest in his court musician. After a matter of months Couperin was also appointed as harpsichord instructor to Les Enfants de France, the sons of the King. Teaching was an integral part of Francois Couperin’s career and in 1713 he published a set of harpsichord pieces called L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin, works specifically composed for use in teaching.
King Louis would attend Mass every day, and Couperin was also responsible for composing new works to be performed in the Versailles Chapel, such as his motet Respice in me. Couperin also composed chamber music for the entertainment of the Cour, and among his work to be performed towards the end of Louis’ life, were his Concert Royaux.
Messe pour les paroisses (Agnus Dei)
Marie-Claire Alain, organ
L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin
Christopher Rousset, harpsichord
Respice in me
Paul Agnew, tenor
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, director
Concert Royaux (Premier Concert)
Robert Claire, flute
Janet See, flute
Davitt Moroney, harpsichord
Jaap ter Linden, bass viol
Pieces de violes avec la basse chifree (Deuxieme Suite)
Musica ad Rhenum
Producer Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales
In today's roundup from three of Wales' summer music festivals Christopher Cook returns to the historic market town of Machynlleth, where a packed audience in the Tabernacle was treated to the Marmen Quartet and Beethoven's nod to Haydn in the third of the Opus 18 series of quartets. After that it's a final visit to the North Wales International Music Festival and St. Asaph Cathedral, where some figurative fireworks were lit, as Freddy Kempf put his stamp on Rachmaninov's virtuosic second set of Etudes Tableaux.
Beethoven: String Quartet in D, Op.18, no.3
Marmen Quartet
Johannes Marmen, violin
Ricky Gore, violin
Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola
Steffan Morris. cello
Rachmaninov: Etudes Tableaux, Op.39
Freddy Kempf, piano
Giordano's Andrea Chénier recorded at La Scala, Milan, starring Yusif Eyvazov and Anna Netrebko. Riccardo Chailly conducts. Presented by Tom Redmond
Andrea Chénier was premiered at La Scala in 1896 and this special performance was recorded in December last year to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the legendary conductor Victor de Sabata.
The opera describes the life and untimely death of the French poet André Marie Chénier who was guillotined in 1794 just before the end of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution. He falls in love with Maddalena , daughter of the Countess of Coigny, who had initially treated him with disdain but changes her view of him when her mother is murdered by the revolutionaries. Chénier is sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal, and Maddalena visits him in prison. She bravely bribes the jailer to let her take the place of another condemned prisoner, and the couple express their love for each other as they go to meet their death.
2.00 pm
Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier....Yusif Eyvazov
Maddalena di Coigny.....Anna Netrebko
Carlo Gérard....Luca Salsi
La mulatta Bersi....Annalisa Stroppa
La Contessa di Coigny....Mariana Pentcheva
Madelon....Judit Kutasi
Roucher....Gabriele Sagona
Pietro Fléville....Costantino Finucci
Fouquier Tinville....Gianluca Breda
Mathieu....Francesco Verna
Un incredibile....Carlo Bosi
L'Abate....Manuel Pierattelli
Schmidt....Romano Dal Zovo
Il maestro di casa/Dumas....Riccardo Fassi
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
c. 4.00 pm
Sibelius: The Bard
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald, conductor
c. 4.05 pm
Anton Urspruch: Piano Concerto
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Despax, piano
Eugene Tzigane, conductor
A lively mix of music, conversation and arts news.
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. The perfect way to usher in your evening.
The London Symphony Orchestra marks the First World War Centenary with a commission from James MacMillan. Setting words by Charles Sorley, a poet killed in action in 1915, it addresses rows of soldiers on their way to the front. This is paired with Shostakovich's epic Symphony no.4, banned by Stalin and not performed until the 1960s. For this concert as part of the 'For the Fallen' season, the Orchestra is joined by the London Symphony Chorus, the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain, and tenor Ian Bostridge.
Presented from the Barbican in London by Martin Handley.
7.30pm
James MacMillan All the Hills and Vales Along
c.8.00pm
Interval music:
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Yvonne Lefebure (piano)
c.8.20pm
Shostakovich Symphony No 4
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
London Symphony Chorus
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
Journalist Peter Hitchens; the Rector of St James’s Church Piccadilly Lucy Winkett; performer and director Neil Bartlett and Professor Steve Brown from the Open University join Anne McElvoy at the Imperial War Museum for their 2018 Remembrance Lecture.
In 1919, the first national silence was observed to commemorate the end of the First World War. Organised silences were designed to remember the human impact of conflict, but do twentieth century collective silences fulfil that purpose? This debate brings together a panel of speakers to discuss the role of organised silences and what it means to be silent about conflict in 2018.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art.
4.Alex Walton recalls the Australian artist, Isobel - "Iso" - Rae, who spent the war in the Etaples art colony in the South of France, but whose work, as a female artist, has long been overlooked.
Born in Australia in 1860 and trained at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Rae travelled to France in 1887 and spent most of the rest of her life there. A longstanding member of the Étaples art colony, Rae lived in the area from the 1890s until the 1930s, painting the world she witnessed at Etaples Army Base Camp and exhibiting her work in London and Paris.
She was one of only two female Australian artists to live and paint in France during the war, but neither were included in their country's first group of official war artists.
Alex Walton, a curator at the Imperial War Museum, revisits her life and re-evaluates her largely forgotten work for a contemporary audience.
Producer: Beaty Rubens
Composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Thom Yorke compiles a mixtape.
Yorke made his name in alternative-rock band Radiohead in the 1990s. Their electronic forays became increasingly experimental in the early 2000s, and Yorke has continued to work with electronic textures as a solo artist and collaborator with the likes of Four Tet and Flying Lotus. He composes for film and theatre, and his first feature-film soundtrack is released this autumn.
Yorke’s mixtape reflects his immersion in electronic music across the generations, from Pierre Henry through Aphex Twin to Mars89, as well as his love of experimental vocal techniques, mixing in a classic work by Stockhausen, and krautrockers Faust.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
Elgar and Beethoven performed by Romanian Radio National Orchestra. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Theodor Rogalski (1901-1954)
3 Romanian Dances
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Cristian Orosanu (Conductor)
12:43 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Cello concerto in E minor
Alexander Buzlov (Cello), Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Cristian Orosanu (Conductor)
01:11 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No 3 in E flat 'Eroica'
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Cristian Orosanu (Conductor)
02:01 AM
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Zoltán Székely (Arranger)
Romanian Folk dances (Sz.56) arr. Szekely for violin & piano
Vineta Sareika (Violin), Ventis Zilberts (Piano)
02:07 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No.26 in E flat major (K.184)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Franz-Paul Decker (Conductor)
02:17 AM
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
The Balkan Song and Dance (Op.16)
HRT Symphony Orchestra, Josef Daniel (Conductor)
02:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Credo from Mass in B minor (BWV 232)
Norwegian Soloists Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen (Conductor)
03:03 AM
Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933)
Credo
Iwona Hossa (Soprano), Ewa Vesin (Soprano), Agnieszka Rehlis (Mezzo Soprano), Rafał Bartmiński (Tenor), Nikolay Didenko (Bass), Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus, Grand Theatre National Opera Chorus, Warsaw Boys' Chorus, Sinfonia Varsovia, Valery Gergiev (Conductor)
03:48 AM
Oskar Merikanto (1868-1924)
Summer night waltz (Op.1) & Summer night idyll (Op.16 No.2)
Eero Heinonen (Piano)
03:55 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann
Trio No. 1 for recorder, oboe & basso continuo - from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Köln
04:07 AM
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Tango Suite for two guitars (Parts 2 and 3)
Tornado Guitar Duo (Duo)
04:16 AM
Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002), Nicolas Guillen (Lyricist)
Canto Negro
Victoria de los Angeles (Soprano), Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (Conductor)
04:18 AM
Renaat Veremans (1894-1969)
Nacht en Morgendontwaken aan de Nete
Vlaams Radio Orkest [Flemish Radio Orchestra], Bjarte Engeset (Conductor)
04:31 AM
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
On hearing the first cuckoo in spring for orchestra (RT.6.19) (1911/12)
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (Conductor)
04:39 AM
Samo Vremšak (1930-2003)
Three Poems by Tone Kuntner
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraž Hauptman (Conductor)
04:44 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
12 Variations on "La Folia" (Wq.118/9) (H.263)
Andreas Staier (Harpsichord)
04:53 AM
John Tavener (1944-2013)
Funeral Ikos (The Greek funeral sentences) for chorus
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Helgerød (Conductor)
04:59 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Lied (Lenau): Larghetto; Wanderlied: Presto (Op.8 Nos.3 & 4) (1840)
Sylviane Deferne (Piano)
05:06 AM
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto Grosso No.12 in D minor, "Folia" (after Corelli's Sonata Op.5 No.12)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (Conductor)
05:17 AM
Brian Eno, Julia Wolfe (Arranger)
Music for Airports 1/2 (1978)
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Wayne du Maine (Trumpet), Tommy Hoyt (Trumpet), Julie Josephson (Trombone), Christopher Washburne (Trombone), Wu Man (Lute), Katie Geissinger (Alto), Phyllis Jo Kubey (Alto), Alexandra Montano (Alto)
05:29 AM
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Ave Generosa
Orpheus Women's Choir, Albert Wissink (Director)
05:35 AM
Diego Ortiz (c.1510-1570)
Fantasia I-II "Salve Regina"
Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (Director)
05:38 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Symphony in C minor. EG 119
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (Conductor)
06:12 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for cello solo, No.1 in G major, (BWV.1007) arranged for viola
Maxim Rysanov (Viola)
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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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 Suzy’s guest this week is Stephen Fry, who reveals some of the great music, film and literature that means the most to him.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
Donald Macleod examines how Couperin introduced Italian flavours to his native French style.
Donald Macleod marks 350 years since the birth of Francois Couperin, one of France’s most dazzling musical talents. His illustrious rise to fame began with his appointment as organist at St Gervais in Paris while he was still a teenager, and he went on to serve as a composer and harpsichordist at court of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Known to his contemporaries as ‘Couperin Le Grand’, he is recognised today as the most important French composer of his generation.
Many of Couperin's contemporaries looked down on the fashionable new musical styles emerging from other countries but Couperin embraced them. The Court of James II was in exile in France and brought with them music from Italy. As early as the 1690s, Francois was exploring Italian possibilities in music and he greatly admired the Trios of Arcangelo Couperin.
In the last decade of his career, Couperin published a collection of works called Les Gouts-Reunis, to bridge the musical divide between the Italian and French styles. He said in the preface that he himself had always admired works of merit without prejudice to the author or their nationality.
Premier livre de Pieces de clavecin, Premier ordre (La Milordine)
Christophe Rousset, harpsichord
Les Nations, Quatrieme Ordre (La Piemontoise)
The Purcell Quartet
Les Gouts-reunis ou Nouveux Concerts (Cinquieme Concert)
Musica Ad Rhenum
Quatrieme livre de Pieces de clavecin, Vingt-troisieme ordre
Christophe Rousset, harpsichord
Producer Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales
Christopher Cook's final roundup from three of the summer's music festivals in Wales, takes us back to the pretty border town of Presteigne, where the Navarra Quartet began their programme in St. Andrew's Church with Schubert's string quartet fragment, the Quartettsatz and then we head over the Cambrian mountains to Machynlleth where the Marmen Quartet was joined by Rosalind Ventris and Marcin Sieniawski for one of Brahms's most glorious contributions to chamber music, his second string sextet.
Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703
Navarra Quartet
Magnus Johnston, violin
Marije Johnston, violin
Simone van der Giessen, viola
Brian O'Kane, cello
Brahms: String Quartet in G, Op.36
Marmen Quartet
Johannes Marmen, violin
Ricky Gore, violin
Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola
Steffan Morris. cello
Rosalind Ventris, viola
Marcin Sieniawski, cello
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra end a week of concerts with Dohnanyi's First Violin Concerto with soloist Barnabás Kelemen, Kodály's Dances of Galánta and Borodin's Second Symphony. The concert is conducted by Gergely Madaras and presented by Tom Redmond.
Tom also features another symphonic work by Michael Tippett, ending his brief survey this week of the composer's works with the Fourth Symphony. It begins and ends with the sound of a single breath, fittingly as Tippett described the work as a 'birth to death piece.'
2.00 pm
Erno Dohnanyi: Violin Concerto No 1 in D minor
Zoltán Kodály: Dances of Galánta
Alexander Borodin: Symphony No 2 in B minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Barnabás Kelemen, violin
Gergely Madaras, conductor
c. 3.25 pm
Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald, conductor
c. 4.00 pm
Michael Tippett: Symphony No 4
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
c. 4.30 pm
Bridge orch P Hindmarsh: 3 Idylls for string quartet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Laura Samuel, director/violin
Katie Derham presents a BBC Music Introducing Live special from Tobacco Dock London.
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Live from Wigmore Hall - The Takacs Quartet play Haydn, Bartok and Brahms, Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists begin their programme with the fourth of Haydn's 'Sun Quartets.' It was this collection that defined the nature of the string quartet for over a hundred years. One of Brahms's first published quartets sees him striving to model each movement on a tiny motif and Bartók’s first quartet mourns an unhappy love affair.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4
Bartók String Quartet No. 1 Sz.40
Interval
Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Takács Quartet
'Unwritten: Caribbean Poems after the First World War'. The Verb explores the experiences of those who fought in the British West Indian regiment, through a series of new poems.
Presented by Lopa Kothari. For this week's Road Trip, Betto Arcos reports on the current scene in Peru, and our Classic Artist is the great Miriam Makeba, who died ten years ago today. Our Music Planet Mixtape comes from Finnish string band Frigg.
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