During his tragically short career, trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-89) won praise across the jazz spectrum, from Eric Dolphy and Miles Davis to Wynton Marsalis, for his brilliant technique and story-telling power. Geoffrey Smith celebrates a master who died all too young.
Ensemble Hexagon perform Holst, Prokofiev and a premiere of Edward Rushton's Comfort & Courage plus Holst's St Paul's Suite from Switzerland. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
Giedrius Gelgoras (flute), Albertas Stupakas (flute), Valentinas Kazlauskas (flute), Linas Gailiunas (flute)
Albrecht Rau (violin), Heinrich Rau (viola), Clemens Malich (cello), Wolfgang Hochstein (harpsichord)
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
Sovente, allor - from Le musiche ... da cantar solo (Milan 1609)
Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby (soprano), Tom Finucane (lute), Chris Wilson (lute), Frances Kelly (harp), Anthony Rooley (lute), Anthony Rooley (director)
Ex Tempore, Judith Steenbrink (violin), Sara Decorso (violin), David Van Bouwel (organ), Florian Heyerick (director)
Suite on Danish folk songs vers. orchestral
Claire Clements (piano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Sarah Walker’s Sunday morning selection includes Prokofiev's Symphony no. 1, as well as a piece composed by Pavel Haas and choral music from Samuel Barber. This week's Sunday Escape is Frank Bridge's tone poem, the simply named 'Summer'.
At the age of 27, Peter Piot’s life was changed by the arrival of a special package from Africa. He was working as a researcher in a microbiology lab in Antwerp, Belgium; and, in September 1976, the lab was alerted that a package was on its way from Zaire: samples of blood from an epidemic that was stirring along the river Congo. Several Belgian nuns had already died of a strange new disease. The disease – which Peter Piot and his team identified, and named – was Ebola, and he went on to play a leading role in helping to contain the epidemic. He then led research into the worldwide epidemic which followed, the new disease of AIDS, becoming President of the International Aids society. Peter Piot has held prominent positions in the United Nations and in the World Health Organisation and has been ennobled both in Belgium and in Britain, where in 2016 he was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
It’s a career which has taken him all over the world, and though Peter Piot is now the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, he still travels a great deal. His musical choices reflect that, with music from Africa, including a piece performed for him on his 60th birthday by the 'king of Rumba Rock', Papa Wemba. He includes, too, a rarely heard viol piece by the Flemish composer Leonora Duarte, which he discovered when he was studying in Antwerp.
With the horrifying return of Ebola, Peter Piot reflects on a career which has been spent very close to the dead and dying. And he chooses music which helps him make sense of the tragedies he has witnessed first-hand: Kathleen Ferrier singing Gluck’s heart-breaking aria “Che Faro”.
Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 1: VOCES8
Live at the BBC Proms: VOCES8 sing works from Hildegard of Bingen and Perotin to Jonathan Dove and a BBC commission from Alexia Sloane, via Josquin, Victoria and Gibbons.
From the supple plainchant melodies of Hildegard of Bingen to the sophisticated choral polyphony of Palestrina, Byrd and Lassus, Proms debut artists VOCES8 return to music’s origins to launch a sequence of lunchtime concerts spanning 800 years.
Highlights from the York Early Music Festival International Young Artists Competition, with performances and interviews from the ten competitors from across Europe and Canada.
The Festival welcomes ten emerging professional early music ensembles to York for the 2019 Competition from Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. At stake are a professional recording contract from Linn Records, a financial reward and opportunities to work with BBC Radio 3 and the National Centre for Early Music. There are also prizes from Cambridge Early Music, the EUBO Development Trust and the Friends of the York Early Music Festival.
Live at BBC Proms: The BBC SO conducted by Péter Eötvös in Stravinsky's Firebird, and works by Debussy and Bartók. Violinist Isabelle Faust joins for Eötvös's Alhambra Concerto.
INTERVAL: Proms Plus: Hannah Conway hosts a discussion about Bartók with musicologist and broadcaster Erik Levi and Nigel Simeone, recorded earlier this evening at Imperial College Union. Producer Helen Garrison.
Dance – whether in the exotic pulse of Bartók’s Dance Suite, the insistent Russian folk rhythms of Stravinsky’s The Firebird or the languorous ballet of Debussy’s faun – runs right through tonight’s Prom.
Peter Eötvös, celebrating his 75th birthday this year, conducts his new violin concerto Alhambra – performed here by the work’s original soloist, award-winning German violinist Isabelle Faust.
New Generation Artists: the dazzling trumpeter Simon Höfele is joined by percussionist Simone Rubino in André Jolivet's daunting seven-movement masterpiece for trumpet and percussion. Their performance formed part of an incredible concert the pair gave recently during the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. As the audience entered the Octagon Chapel in Norwich they were dumbfounded at the sight of an array of percussion instruments including cow bells, Chinese blocks, Woodblocks, Hi Hat, tambourine, whistle, bass drum, tam tam and snare drum. They departed smiling at the breathtaking virtuosity and refinement with which it was deployed.
In a live edition of The Listening Service, Tom Service hears and responds to composer Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Interstellar Call’, sent out in his epic "From the canyons to the stars..." The music is inspired by the wild beauty of Arizona, filled with birdsong and the sounds of nature, but also with a cosmic sense of awe - where does Messiaen's visionary work fit in the culture of the early 70s and in the present day?
Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Sakari Oramo, with Nicolas Hodges (piano) and Martin Owen (horn), in Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles...
The ‘wild and colourful beauty’ of Utah and Arizona was the inspiration for one of the 20th century’s most singular and extraordinary works, a musical act of ‘praise and contemplation’ painted in the brightest and most vivid of sounds.
Olivier Messiaen’s mighty Des canyons aux étoiles … (‘From the Canyons to the Stars …’) is a sonic meditation in which birdsong mingles with desert winds, and the rustling of sand.
Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO, with pianist Nicolas Hodges and horn player Martin Owen taking the demanding solo parts.
I Barocchisti and the Swiss Radio Choir perform four of JS Bach's choral cantatas, including surely one of his greatest, Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78 - Jesus, you who have my soul, based on Johann Rist's popular hymn. Director lutenist Luca Pianca opens the concert with Luther’s grand Advent hymn, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Come now, saviour of the heathen) BWV 62 with its ringing soprano lines, and the introspective Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende, BWV 27 (Who knows how near I am to my death). There's also Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV 26 (Ah, how fleeting, how empty) - all performed with soloists Bernhard Bechtold (tenor) and Florian Boesch (bass) at the Lugano festival earlier this year.
If there is one area of music that percussion was absolutely made for, its minimalism. In this episode Colin Currie strips percussion right back to the bare essentials as he chooses music that revels in its own sounds, patterns, loops and melodies.
The powerful ability of percussion instruments to weave together multiple layers of sound leads to a playlist with works by John Adams, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Lou Harrison and the ‘godfather’ of minimalist music for percussion, Steve Reich, who has described Colin as “one of the greatest musicians in the world today”.
Steve Reich’s style was partly shaped by music he heard on trips around the world, and time studying with a Ghanaian drumming master, and Colin also includes some mesmerising traditional sounds with roots in Ghana and Zimbabwe.
Colin himself is one of the world’s leading interpreters of the music of Steve Reich so he starts and ends with two of Reich’s most brilliant and celebrated pieces: Music for 18 Musicians and Drumming.
MONDAY 29 JULY 2019
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m00010lk)
Rohan Silva tries Clemmie's classical playlist
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.
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m00074y5)
Nelson Mandela Centenary Celebration
Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä in Soweto, South Africa. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
En Saga Op 9
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
12:49 AM
Bongani Ndodana-Breen (b.1975)
Harmonia Ubuntu
Goitsemang Oniccah Lehobye (soprano), Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
12:59 AM
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Overture to Candide
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
01:05 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No 9 in D minor: 4th mvmt
Goitsemang Oniccah Lehobye (soprano), Minette Du Toit-Pearce (mezzo soprano), Siyabonga Maqungo (tenor), Njabulo Madlala (bass baritone), Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
01:29 AM
Traditional Zulu, Andile Khumalo (arranger), Rudi van Dijk (orchestrator)
Akhala Amaqhude Amabili
Gauteng Choristers, Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
01:34 AM
Mxolisi Matyila (1938-1985), Andile Khumalo (arranger)
Bawo Thixo Somandla
Gauteng Choristers, Minnesota Chorale, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
01:37 AM
Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1909-1981), Johan de Cock (arranger)
Ruri
Gauteng Choristers, Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
01:43 AM
Stompie Mavi (1955-2008), Gobingca George Mxadana (arranger), Jaako Kuusisto (orchestrator)
Usilethela uxolo (Nelson Mandela)
Gauteng Choristers, Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
01:47 AM
Traditional, Jaako Kuusisto (arranger)
Shosholoza
Gauteng Choristers, Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
01:50 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op 56 "Scottish"
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
02:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Trio Sonata no 3 in D minor BWV 527
Juliusz Gembalski (organ)
02:46 AM
Eugen Suchon (1908-1993)
Nocturne
Jan Slavik (cello), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mario Kosik (conductor)
03:02 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in C major Op 76`3 (Emperor)
Armida Quartet (soloist)
03:30 AM
Veselin Stoyanov (1902-1969)
Rhapsody (1956)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
03:40 AM
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Sonatina for clarinet & piano (1956)
Valentin Uriupin (clarinet), Yelena Komissarova (piano)
03:52 AM
Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672)
Magnificat anima mea Dominum SWV.468
Schutz Akademie, Howard Arman (conductor)
04:03 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Franz Hasenohrl (arranger)
Till Eulenspiegel - Einmal Anders!
Esbjerg Ensemble, Jorgen Lauritsen (director)
04:12 AM
Joaquin Nin (1879-1949)
Seguida Espanola
Henry-David Varema (cello), Heiki Matlik (guitar)
04:21 AM
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Psalm 23 (5 Psalms of David (1604)) 'The Lord is my Shepherd'
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
04:31 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Hymne de l'enfant à son reveil, S19
Eva Andor (soprano), Hedi Lubik (harp), Gabor Lehotka (organ), Girls' Choir of Gyor, Miklos Szabo (conductor)
04:42 AM
Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Five Pieces
Ian Sadler (organ)
04:54 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695),John Playford (1623-1686)
Four Works
Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
05:05 AM
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Alma Redemptoris Mater & Ave Maria, O auctrix vite
Sequentia, Elizabeth Gaver (medieval fiddle), Elisabetta de Mircovich (medieval fiddle)
05:16 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Romanian folk dances Sz.68 orch. from Sz.56 (Orig. for piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Clark (conductor)
05:23 AM
Armas Jarnefelt (1869-1968)
Kanteletar
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)
05:29 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Violin Sonata no 2 in G major, Op 13
Alina Pogostkina (violin), Sveinung Bjelland (piano)
05:51 AM
John Carmichael (b.1930)
Trumpet Concerto (1972)
Kevin Johnston (trumpet), West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham (conductor)
06:16 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
La Valse - choreographic poem for orchestra
Orchestre National de France, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000754b)
Monday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000754d)
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Pekka Kuusisto, Mendelssohn's The Hebrides, Henry and the Ice Cream Van
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000754g)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
London
Today, Donald Macleod focuses on Elgar’s connection with London - the place he travelled to in his twenties for the occasional violin lesson, the place he married his wife Alice and where his only child Carice was born, and the place they returned to many years later to live in their grandest residence 'Severn House', the first house they actually owned and the home where Alice later died.
Worcester-born, with his roots in the beautiful English countryside around Hereford and the Malverns yet drawn to the bright lights of London, English composer Edward Elgar moved house a lot. He lived in over 25 residences in his lifetime, stayed with friends, travelled often for work and pleasure in the UK, Europe and further afield, and had a number of second homes he rented as retreats. This week we’re focusing on the locations that were important to Elgar, and the places that inspired his music.
Pomp and Circumstance March Op 39 No 1 in D major
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor
Cockaigne (In London Town)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Salut d'amour, Op 12
Sarah Chang, violin
Sandra Rivers, piano
O Happy Eyes, Op 18 No 1
Quink Vocal Ensemble
The Dream of Gerontius Op 38 (part two –from ‘The Angel and the Soul’ to the end)
Arthur Davies, tenor (Gerontius)
Gwynne Howell, bass (The Priest & The Angel of the Agony)
Felicity Palmer, mezzo soprano (The Angel)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Richard Hickox, conductor
Roderick Elms, organ
Produced by Amy Wheel for BBC Cymru Wales
MON 13:00 BBC Proms (m000754k)
2019
Proms at … Cadogan Hall 2: A Celebration of Barbara Strozzi
Live at BBC Proms: Mariana Flores, Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón celebrate the 400th anniversary of pioneering Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. A selection of love songs by Strozzi and her contemporaries includes the poignant ‘Lagrime mie’ and ‘Che si può fare’.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny from Cadogan Hall.
Barbara Strozzi: L'amante segreto
Antonia Bembo: Ercole amante – 'Mingannasti in verità'
Barbara Strozzi: Che si può fare
Antonia Bembo: Ercole amante – 'Volgete altrove il guardo'
Barbara Strozzi: Sino alla morte
Francesco Cavalli: Ercole amante – 'E vuol dunque Ciprigna'
Barbara Strozzi: Lagrime mie
Mariana Flores (soprano)
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón (harpsichord/organ/director)
Few composers paint human emotion as vividly or with greater insight, wit and poignancy than Barbara Strozzi whose songs and madrigals stand alongside Monteverdi’s as some of the greatest of the age.
Argentine soprano Mariana Flores and period-instrument ensemble Cappella Mediterranea celebrate Strozzi’s anniversary with a selection of love songs by the composer and her contemporaries, including the arresting ‘Lagrime mie’ and the touching ‘Che si puo fare’.
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000754m)
Prom 9 repeat: Strauss, Brahms and Broström
Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore
Another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Markus Stenz with Jeroen Berwaerts and Håkan Hardenberger in a new double trumpet concerto by Tobias Broström.
Presented by Nicola Heywood-Thomas at the Royal Albert Hall, London
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Tobias Broström: Nigredo: Dark Night of the Soul (concerto for two trumpets and orchestra)
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2.50pm Interval - Proms Plus Talk:
An introduction to the music in tonight’s Prom with researcher, writer and presenter Katy Hamilton. Presented by Flora Willson at the Imperial College Union.
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68
Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet)
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Markus Stenz (concductor)
The mischievous escapades of the irrepressible Till Eulenspiegel – Germany’s beloved folk-hero – introduce a concert that celebrates the dramatic power of the orchestra.
Markus Stenz conducts the BBC NOW in its first concert of the season, pairing Strauss’s lively tone-poem with Brahms’s turbulent Symphony No. 1 – the work that announced him as the ‘heir to Beethoven’.
Trumpeters Håkan Hardenberger and Jeroen Berwaerts are rival soloists in a rhythmically charged new double concerto by Swedish composer Tobias Broström.
Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.
MON 17:00 In Tune (m000754p)
National Youth String Orchestra, Angelique Kidjo
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performance in the studio from the National Youth String Orchestra ahead of their concert at Kings Place, and we hear from the singer Angelique Kidjo ahead of her Prom tomorrow.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000754r)
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
MON 19:30 BBC Proms (m000754x)
2019
Prom 14: The Creation
Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC Proms Youth Choir join the BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber for Haydn's Creation.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sarah Walker
Haydn: The Creation (sung in German): Part 1
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8.10pm:
Interval:
Proms Plus Talk: Rev. Lucy Winkett and Professor David Wyn Jones discuss Haydn's setting of the Bible in The Creation, with presenter Louise Fryer.
Haydn: The Creation: Parts 2 and 3
Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano)
Benjamin Hulett (tenor)
Christoph Pohl (baritone)
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber (conductor)
Haydn's colourful oratorio returns to the Proms for the first time in a decade. The BBC Philharmonic is joined by the BBC Proms Youth Choir to perform Haydn's late masterpiece. From its opening Representation of Chaos, through the creation of stars, seas and storms, a magnificent musical sunrise and of course every animal from whales to eagles and even a worm, the Creation is one of the great musical dramas, teeming with life and energy.
MON 22:15 Sunday Feature (b0948p5w)
The Battle for Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, whose 200th birthday is currently being celebrated, is one of America's most quoted writers. His famous self-sufficient 'exile' to the woods by Walden Pond in Massachusetts spawned the classic book 'Walden', which is taught in schools and read diligently by green-leaning people around the world.
The received wisdom gives him credit as the founding father of the environmental movement in America. Thoreau is the 'voice of the American wilderness', the 'national conscience urging people to live in harmony with nature'. His appeal to the baby boomer generation who loved his nonconformity, his exhortation to 'simplify!, simplify!' and his thoughts on civil disobedience, was immense. We talk to Don Henley, guitarist of The Eagles who has been an important patron, saving Thoreau's landscape around Walden Woods. Marling attends the bicentennial events and talks to biographers and natural scientists, political thinkers and literary historians who all claim interest in Thoreau.
On the other hand, libertarians, attracted to Thoreau's aphorism "That government is best, which governs least," take issue with the way current environmentalists seize on his work and reputation. And political activists believe his real legacy lies in his evocation of passive resistance in the influential essay Civil Disobedience. The battle for Thoreau's legacy extends to those who focus on his character, denigrating him as a hypocrite and a joyless prig, a moralist given to disdainfully finger wagging his countrymen. We weigh the arguments but also ask whether, even if the legitimacy of his legacy is in doubt, even if he was 'a jerk', the world needs Thoreau now ....more than ever..... in a new age of environmental hostility? Is the idea of him more important now than the reality?
Readings by Alexander Tol
Produced by Victoria Ferran
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3.
MON 23:00 Jazz Now (m0007553)
Wynton Marsalis
Soweto Kinch presents a UK exclusive appearance by the Wynton Marsalis Quartet at this month’s Cheltenham Music Festival. The band features Wynton himself on trumpet, with Dan Nimmer, piano; Mark Lewandowski, bass; and Francesco Ciniglio, drums. In the interval Al Ryan talks to Wynton about his current band, and also we hear about Brass For Africa, which brings a band of young Ugandan musicians on stage with Wynton, Guy Barker and Cheltenham Music Festival Artistic Director, trumpeter Alison Balsom. The programme also includes a tribute to drummer Paolo Vinaccia, who died earlier this month.
TUESDAY 30 JULY 2019
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m0007558)
Muses and Sirens
A concert from the 2018 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. With Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
La Muse et le poète, Op 132
Mi-Sa Yang (violin), David Cohen (cello), Nino Gvetadze (piano)
12:47 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Pierre Louys (author)
Chansons de Bilitis
Jeni Packalen (narrator), Niamh McKenna (flute), Kaisa Kortelainen (flute), Lior Ouziel (harp), Juhani Lagerspetz (celesta)
01:07 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Rêverie et caprice, Op 8
Jehye Lee (violin), Dasol Kim (piano)
01:16 AM
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), Charles Grandmougin (author)
Les Sirènes
Atta Ensemble, Sophie Klussmann (soprano), Victoire Bunel (mezzo soprano), Matilda Karkkainen (piano)
01:22 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890), Sicard (author), Louis de Fourcaud (author)
Psyche - symphonic poem for chorus and orchestra (M.47) vers. original (1887-88)
Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Fournet (conductor)
02:10 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 8 in C minor, Op 13 "Pathetique"
Mi-Joo Lee (piano)
02:31 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Symphony no 2 in D major, Op 43
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
03:17 AM
Alfred Desenclos (1912-1971)
Prelude, Cadence and Finale
Jan Gricar (saxophone), Tomaz Hostnik (piano)
03:29 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Pieces for viola da gamba
Rainier Zipperling (viola da gamba)
03:45 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for string orchestra in C major (RV.114)
King's Consort, Robert King (director)
03:51 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Lindoro's cavatina 'Languir per una bella' (from L' Italiana in Algeri)
Francisco Araiza (tenor), Capella Coloniensis, Gabriele Ferro (conductor)
03:58 AM
Allan Pettersson (1911-1980)
Two Elegies (1934) and Romanza (1942) for violin & piano
Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Enrico Pace (piano)
04:04 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
4 Mazurkas for piano, Op 33
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
04:15 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Trio for strings in B flat major, Op 53 no 2
Leopold String Trio
04:23 AM
John Foulds (1880-1939)
Sicilian Aubade
Cynthia Fleming (violin), BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
04:31 AM
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889), David Stanhope (arranger)
Fantasy and variations on a Cavatina from 'Beatrice di Tenda' by Bellini
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
04:38 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Von ewiger Liebe (Op 43 no 1)
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano), Katarzyna Jankowska (piano)
04:43 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonata in C major for flute and harpsichord (Wq.73)
Konrad Hunteler (flute), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
04:56 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Pavane for orchestra Op 50
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
05:04 AM
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
Polonaise in A major for violin & piano, Op 21
Piotr Plawner (violin), Andrzej Guz (piano)
05:14 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures, Op 37
Kristina Hammarstrom (mezzo soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
05:37 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op 42
Duncan Gifford (piano)
05:58 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Catalunya; Sevilla, Suite Espanola No1
Sean Shibe (guitar)
06:06 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Partita in E flat (K.Anh.C 17`3)
The Festival Winds
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m00075w7)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m00075w9)
Ian Skelly
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00075wc)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Hereford and the Malverns
Today Donald Macelod explores Elgar's homes in the Malverns and Herefordshire in the middle of his life, from his mid-thirties to his mid-fifties. We hear his Enigma Variations and movements from his Second Symphony and his String Quartet.
Worcester-born, with his roots in the beautiful English countryside around Hereford and the Malverns yet drawn to the bright lights of London, English composer Edward Elgar moved house a lot. He lived in over 25 residences in his lifetime, stayed with friends, travelled often for work and pleasure in the UK, Europe and further afield, and had a number of second homes he rented as retreats. This week we’re focusing on the locations that were important to Elgar, and the places that inspired his music.
Owls, an Epitaph Op 53 No 4 (Four Choral Songs)
London Symphony Chorus
Stephen Westrop, chorus master
Vernon Handley, conductor
Enigma Variations Op 36
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Symphony No 2 (3rd movt - Presto)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
String Quartet (2nd movt - Piacevole (poco andante)
Goldner String Quartet
Produced by Amy Wheel for BBC Cymru Wales
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00075wf)
East Neuk Festival 1/4
Kate Molleson presents a selection of performances from the 15th East Neuk Festival, held in beautiful locations across the Kingdom of Fife. From Crail Parish Church, Benjamin Baker plays Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita in D minor for solo violin (BWV 1004), which was written between 1717 and 1720 and consists of five movements including a chaconne which Yehudi Menuhin described as "the greatest structure for solo violin that exists". Harpist, Catrin Finch, brings some Spanish charm to the festival with Torre Bermeja by Albeniz and the programme starts with the critically acclaimed Belcea String Quartet performing Haydn's String Quartet Op 33 No 5 in the relaxed surroundings of The Bowhouse in St. Monans.
Haydn: String Quartet Op 33, No. 5
Belcea String Quartet
Albeniz: Torre Bermeja
Catrin Finch, harp
J.S. Bach: Partita in D minor
Benjamin Baker, violin
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m00075wh)
Prom 11 repeat: 1969 - The Sound of a Summer
Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.
Another chance to hear the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell, with singers Vanessa Haynes and Tony Momrelle, and the Will Gregory Moog Ensemble.
Presented by Lemn Sissay at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Joni Mitchell: Woodstock
Walton: Battle of Britain Suite
Bacharach/David: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Fred Neil: Everybody’s Talkin’ At Me
John Barry: Midnight Cowboy
John Barry: Ski Chase from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Lennon/McCartney: Get Back
George Harrison: Something
George Harrison: Here Comes The Sun
Interval: Proms Plus
Poets Jacob Polley and Rachael Allen read their poetry and respond to themes in the music of tonight’s concert. If the summer of 1969 was a time of hedonism and optimistic exploration of space does that echo down the decades? Hosted by New Generation Thinker and author Preti Taneja. Produced by Zahid Warley.
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 (1st movt)
Legrand: What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life
Quincy Jones: On Days Like This
Will Gregory: Journey to the Sky
Whitfield/Strong: I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Bacharach/David: I Say A Little Prayer
Vanessa Haynes and Tony Momrelle (singers)
Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Bell (conductor)
Woodstock, the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, the ongoing Vietnam War, The Beatles’ final album (Abbey Road) – 1969 was a pivotal year.
This Prom explores the film and popular music of 1969 to revive the soundtrack of a special summer.
The BBC Concert Orchestra under Stephen Bell presents a typically wide-angled view, taking in music inspired by the era-defining Woodstock festival, excerpts from the films Battle of Britain, The Italian Job, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Midnight Cowboy, and ‘Here Comes the Sun’ from The Beatles’ final album Abbey Road.
As the USA’s victory in the space race inspired new music to match the emerging digital era, the Moog synthesizer broke into the mainstream with the album Switched-on Bach. A concert evoking the end of the Swinging Sixties, with a cross-generational appeal that offers both a sunburst of nostalgia and iconic revivals.
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m00075wk)
Jacob Collier, John Eliot Gardiner, Stuart Skelton
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performance in the studio from Jacob Collier. Stuart Skelton joins us ahead of his Prom with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde on Thursday. And we hear from John Eliot Gardiner who conducts West Side Story at the Edinburgh International Festival.
TUE 19:00 BBC Proms (m00075wm)
2019
Prom 15: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – 1
Live at BBC Proms: Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D major
c.
8.05pm
Interval: Musicologists Marina Frolova-Walker and Pauline Fairclough discuss Shostakovich and his Symphony No. 5 with presenter Flora Willson.
Dmitry Shostakovich: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
One of Europe’s greatest orchestras, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, returns to the Proms under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
In the first of two concerts (see also Prom 17) they pair two contrasting symphonies in a programme that moves from sunshine to bitterness. ‘This symphony is smiling throughout,’ wrote Berlioz of Beethoven’s Second Symphony – a work in which seemingly sunny moods conceal personal tragedy and loss.
Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony was written under the cloud of intense scrutiny and artistic repression following the public criticism of the composer at the hands of Stalin.
TUE 21:30 Sunday Feature (b095q2xf)
Nobody Knows My Name: Notes on James Baldwin
In this documentary we hear archive of the renowned American writer James Baldwin in conversation with contemporary writers and activists. Exploring the reasons behind the resonance and resurgence of his work and analysis thirty years after his death.
Baldwin was a gay African American writer whose novels including Go Tell it on the Mountain and Giovanni's Room made him a leading thinker on America, sexuality and race from the 1950s onwards.
With new documentaries, films, essays and activists explicitly using Baldwin as a touchstone - what is it about Baldwin's insight and art that has prompted such a resurgence of interest? And how might he help us understand the contemporary moment
Writers including The Good Immigrant's Musa Okwonga, Mitchell S Jackson and the New Yorker's Hilton Als, community organiser Imani Robinson, academic Robert Reid-Pharr and Baldwin biographer and academic Magdalena Zaborowska unpick his work and find moments of personal shared experience.
Produced by Shanida Scotland with Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 3.
TUE 22:15 BBC Proms (m00075wp)
2019
Prom 16: Late Night – Angélique Kidjo
Live at BBC Proms: Angélique Kidjo
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Lopa Kothari
Described as ‘the undisputed queen of African music’, three-time Grammy Award-winner Angélique Kidjo makes her Proms debut with her nine-piece band in late-night tribute to the celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz.
TUE 23:30 Late Junction (m00075wr)
Tape gonk and Scottish tales
Verity Sharp previews Supernormal, the experimental Oxfordshire festival that runs this coming weekend. Among the line-up of artists from the edgelands are Blood Stereo and their brand of ‘tape gonk’ and ‘epiglottal gymnastics’, and Sealionwoman, whose elemental vocals and electronics take us back to the Highland clearances.
Scottish history of more recent times shapes songwriter Karine Polwart’s latest album - a collection of beloved songs from 50 years of Scottish pop including Deacon Blue and Ivor Cutler. And Chicagoan poet/singer Avery R Young charts a funk-rocky course through troubled times with an album named after abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Produced by Chris Elcombe.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2019
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m00075wt)
Weill and Korngold
WDR Radio Orchestra performs Weill's Seven Deadly Sins and Korngold's Symphony in F sharp. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Fanfare for a Hollywood Bowl Concert
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, John Mauceri (conductor)
12:32 AM
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, John Mauceri (conductor)
12:37 AM
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
The Seven Deadly Sins
Salome Kammer (soprano), Joachim Streckfuss (tenor), Christian Dietz (tenor), Alexander Schmidt (bass), Manfred Bittner (bass), WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, John Mauceri (conductor)
01:17 AM
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Symphony in F sharp, Op 40
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, John Mauceri (conductor)
02:12 AM
Thomas Wiggins (1849-1908)
Battle of Manassas (1861)
John Davis (piano)
02:20 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Friede auf Erden for chorus, Op 13
Erik Westbergs Vocal Ensemble
02:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quartet no 1 in C minor, Op 51 no 1
Karol Szymanowski Quartet
03:03 AM
Maria Antonia Walpurgis (1724-1780)
Talestri Regina delle Amazon - excerpts
Christine Wolff (soprano), Johanna Stojkovic (soprano), Marilia Vargas (soprano), Ulrike Bartsch (soprano), Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord), Tobias Schade (director)
03:42 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Till Eulenspiegels lustige streiche, Op 28
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
03:57 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Luc Brewaeys (arranger)
No.11 La danse de Puck - from Preludes Book One
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor)
04:00 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Eduard Lassen (librettist)
Lose Himmel, meine seele (S.494)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:06 AM
Veljo Tormis (1930-2017), V.Luik (author)
Sugismaastikud (Autumn landscapes)
Estonian Radio Choir, Toomas Kapten (conductor)
04:15 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Cello Concerto in D minor, RV 407
Charles Medlam (cello), London Baroque
04:25 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Unknown (arranger)
Prelude from Partita no 3 in E major (BWV 1006) arr. for 2 harps
Myong-ja Kwan (harp), Hyon-son La (harp)
04:31 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Festmusik der Stadt Wien AV.133 for brass and percussion
Tom Watson (trumpet), Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
04:41 AM
Hubert Parry (1848-1918), Gordon Jacob (orchestrator)
I was glad (Psalm 122)
Vancouver Bach Choir, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Pullan (conductor)
04:47 AM
Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991)
Lullaby, for 29 strings and two harps
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christoph Campestrini (conductor)
04:55 AM
Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981)
Qui habitat
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (director)
05:04 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Dumka, Op 59 'Russian rustic scene'
Duncan Gifford (piano)
05:14 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Trio Sonata 'La Françoise' - from Les Nations, ordre no 1
Nevermind
05:21 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Trio (Der Rosenkavalier Act II)
Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Tracy Dahl (soprano), Jean Stilwell (mezzo soprano), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:26 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 59 in A major "Fire"
Budapest Strings, Botvay Karoly (conductor)
05:45 AM
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000)
Excursion Ballet Suite
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
06:00 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Gloria for soprano, chorus and orchestra in G major
Annick Massis (soprano), Choir of Radio France, Orchestre National de France, George Pretre (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000767t)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000767w)
Ian Skelly
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000767y)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Retreats
Elgar composed best when he was close to nature, away from towns and cities. During his lifetime he often rented retreats or visited friends in idyllic locations to relax and write. In today's programme Donald Macleod introduces us to Elgar's two country cottages 'Birchwood', near Malvern, and 'Brinkwells', in the Sussex countryside, and one of his closest friend's riverside mansion 'The Hut' on the Thames at Bray, near Maidenhead. Music includes his Sea Pictures, and the first two movements of his Cello Concerto in the classic recording with Jacqueline du Pré.
Worcester-born, with his roots in the beautiful English countryside around Hereford and the Malverns yet drawn to the bright lights of London, English composer Edward Elgar moved house a lot. He lived in over 25 residences in his lifetime, stayed with friends, travelled often for work and pleasure in the UK, Europe and further afield, and had a number of second homes he rented as retreats. This week we’re focusing on the locations that were important to Elgar, and the places that inspired his music.
Introduction ‘The woodland interlude’ (Caractacus)
Orchestra of Opera North
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Sea Pictures Op 37
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Simon Wright, conductor
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Piano Quintet Op 84 (3rd movt - Andante – Allegro)
Piers Lane, piano
Goldner String Quartet
Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85 (1st movt - Adagio - Moderato & 2nd movt - Lento – Allegro molto)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli, conductor
Jacqueline du Pré, cello
Produced by Amy Wheel for BBC Cymru Wales
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0007680)
East Neuk Festival 2/4
Kate Molleson presents the second Lunchtime Concert from this year's East Neuk Festival. Today, Diyang Mei, viola, and Benjamin Baker, violin, perform Johan Halvorsen's virtuosic take on Handel in his Passacaglia for viola and violin. This is followed by a quintet fit for a Prussian princess. When it was published in 1865, Brahms dedicated his Piano Quintet in F minor to Her Royal Highness Princess Anna of Hesse. The Belcea String Quartet are joined in the quintet by "piano royalty", Elisabeth Leonskaja.
Halvorsen: Passacaglia for viola and violin (after Handel)
Diyang Mei, viola
Benjamin Baker, violin
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
Belcea String Quartet
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0007682)
Prom 12 repeat: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore.
Another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with Mark Wigglesworth and Nicola Benedetti in works by Auerbach, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Katie Derham
Lera Auerbach: Icarus (London premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major
c.
2.55pm
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - suite (excerpts)
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)
Explosive energy and enthusiasm are the hallmarks of every performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, made up of the UK’s most talented musicians aged from 13 to 18. The ensemble’s annual visit to the Proms is always a festival highlight.
This year Mark Wigglesworth conducts the orchestra in a suite from Prokofiev’s passionate ballet Romeo and Juliet and they are joined by violinist Nicola Benedetti for Tchaikovsky’s warmly lyrical Violin Concerto.
The concert opens with Lera Auerbach’s bracing symphonic poem Icarus, inspired by the myth of the heroic but ill-fated son of Daedalus who flew too close to the sun.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m0007684)
Gloucester Cathedral
Live from Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival.
Introit: The Strathclyde Motets (Benedicimus Deum Caeli) (James MacMillan)
Responses: Hunt
Psalms 149, 150 (Stanford, Sanders)
First Lesson: Isaiah 33 vv.2-10
Canticles: MacMillan
Second Lesson: Philippians 1 vv.1-11
Anthem: O give thanks unto the Lord (James MacMillan)
Hymn: King of Glory, King of Peace (Redland)
Voluntary: Meditation (James MacMillan)
Adrian Partington (Director of Music)
Jonathan Hope (Assistant Director of Music)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m0007686)
Mozart from the Arod Quartet
New Generation Artists: Mozart from the Arod Quartet and soprano Fatma Said, a recent member of Radio 3's prestigious young artist scheme.
Mozart String Quartet in D minor K.421
Arod Quartet
Mozart Als Luise die Briefe, K520
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
(photo credit: Marco Borggreve)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0007688)
Daniel Beckmann
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with organist Daniel Beckmann joining Sean at St Paul's Cathedral ahead of his concert there tomorrow.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000768b)
Beautiful Butterflies
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
WED 19:30 BBC Proms (m000768d)
2019
Prom 17: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – 2
Live at BBC Proms: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Yannick Nézet‐Séguin plays Sibelius and Richard Strauss and are joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili in Prokofiev
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Sibelius:
Symphony No 1 in E minor
c.
8.10pm
Interval: Proms Plus talk: Journalist and string-instrument expert Ariane Todes and Russian music expert and critic David Nice explore Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 and the Russian school of violin-playing.
c.
8.30pm
Prokofiev:
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Richard Strauss:
Der Rosenkavalier – suite
The second concert from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood.
A passionate champion of new music, Wood gave the UK premieres of many major works featured this season, including both Sibelius’s turbulent Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto – played here by Georgian soloist Lisa Batiashvili – whose initial simplicity and directness give way to spiky virtuosity in the finale.
The concert closes in Vienna, with the waltz-filled and lushly orchestrated suite from Richard Strauss’s popular opera Der Rosenkavalier.
WED 22:00 Sunday Feature (b09hrr7n)
Laura Ingalls' America
Children's writer Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie novels have been much loved since they first appeared in the Great Depression for celebrating the pioneer mythology of American identity: immigration, self-determination and family values. Some liberals claim her as a feminist before her time, while the conservative right see her as a symbol of traditional American ideals. Samira Ahmed wonders if she can be both and what the battle over her legacy reveals about modern America.
Heading for Wilder's Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield, Missouri, where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her novels in her 60s, Samira explores the strange mixture of fact and fiction in the stories. In an America battling over Civil War memorials, the stone house has become a landmark of survival and etched into the tapestry of America. Here Samira meets fans and critics in an attempt to understand why Wilder, a survivor of hard winters, drought and two of the greatest financial crashes in US history, has inspired such love in generations of readers. But also to confront the challenges to the idea of her as a great American heroine because of the genocide of Native Americans that her books obliquely describe and whose land her family's pioneer generation built their lives on.
Samira speaks to biographers Pamela Smith Hill, John E Miller and William Anderson, academics Clive Webb and Frances W Kaye, the Director and President of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum, Jean Cody, and actor Dean Butler from the television series Little House on the Prairie.
Produced by Anishka Sharma
Assistant Producers: Simon Jarvis and James Clarke
A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 3.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b06v2gxz)
Secret Admirers (Series 2)
Clemency Burton-Hill on George Enescu
Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the Romanian composer George Enescu, whose philosophy of the profound importance of music in all areas of life has been a particular inspiration to her.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (m000768g)
Other Night
Music of dreams and nocturnal restlessness with Verity Sharp.
Iranian composer/producer Siavash Amini explores the meaning of night in his new album, inspired by his own troubled experiences and by French writer Maurice Blanchot’s concept of ‘other night’ - the night of dreaming that delivers not rest but restlessness.
Keeping the synapses firing into the small hours there’s also hyperactive jazz from Philipp Gropper, and a meld of cartoonish metal and tropical rhythms from Chúpame el Dedo.
Plus a look ahead to this weekend’s Sidmouth Folk Festival, featuring an array of homegrown and international artists including Ireland’s Lisa O’Neill and Turkish singer Çiğdem Aslan.
Produced by Chris Elcombe.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
THURSDAY 01 AUGUST 2019
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000768j)
Strauss, Bruch and Beethoven
Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra in concert at the fifth Vadim Repin Trans-Siberian Art Festival. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30
Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
01:04 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, Op.26
Vadim Repin (violin), Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
01:28 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Fantasia in C minor Op.80 for piano, chorus and orchestra
Novosibirsk Choir Chapel, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Konstantin Lifschitz (piano), Kent Nagano (conductor)
01:48 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Quartet for strings in F major 'Rasumovsky' (Op.59 No.1)
Tankstream Quartet, Sophie Rowell (violin), Anne Horton (violin), Sally Boud (viola), Patrick Murphy (cello)
02:31 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Lemminkainen Suite: 4 Legends from the Kalevala for orchestra (Op 22)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
03:17 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Exsultate, jubilate - motet for soprano and orchestra (K 165)
Ragnhild Heiland Sorensen (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
03:32 AM
Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1840)
Rondeau, Op 3
Frans van Ruth (piano)
03:39 AM
Henricus Albicastro (fl.1700-06)
Concerto a 4, Op 7 no 2
Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (violin), Chiara Banchini (director)
03:48 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
An der schonen, blauen Donau - waltz for orchestra (Op.314) 'The Blue Danube'
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
03:58 AM
Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Elegy (Op.23) arr. for piano trio
Trio Lorenz
04:06 AM
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
La revue de cuisine – suite from the ballet
Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound
04:21 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
2 pieces for cello & piano, Op.2
Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana svarc-Grenda (piano)
04:31 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Overture, L' Isola disabitata
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor)
04:39 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
La Campanella
Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:44 AM
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Concerto for flute and orchestra
Petri Alanko (flute), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
05:04 AM
Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594)
Pelli meae consumptis carnibus
King's Singers
05:12 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Triumphal March from "Sigurd Jorsalfar"
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
05:22 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and fugue No.5 in D major (BWV.874) from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier
Kamiel D'Hooghe (organ)
05:30 AM
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Symphony in E major 'Irish'
BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)
06:06 AM
Marjan Mozetich (b.1948)
Affairs of the Heart: a Concerto for Violin & String Orchestra (1997)
Juliette Kang (violin), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m00076m0)
Thursday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m00076m2)
Ian Skelly
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00076m4)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Abroad
Elgar’s well known for his association with English landscapes, but he also travelled abroad often, and was inspired by his visits to many locations whilst holidaying, or conducting. In today's programme Donald Macleod explores Elgar's travels abroad, and we hear music inspired by a wild trip to Paris, his love of the Bavarian Highlands and a villa stay in Italy. We also learn of his mysterious cruise up the Amazon.
Worcester-born, with his roots in the beautiful English countryside around Hereford and the Malverns yet drawn to the bright lights of London, English composer Edward Elgar moved house a lot. He lived in over 25 residences in his lifetime, stayed with friends, travelled often for work and pleasure in the UK, Europe and further afield, and had a number of second homes he rented as retreats. This week we’re focusing on the locations that were important to Elgar, and the places that inspired his music.
In Smyrna
Stephen Hough, piano
Paris – Five Quadrilles
Innovation Chamber Ensemble
Barry Collett, conductor
From the Bavarian Highlands Op 27 -
No. 3. Lullaby [In Hammersbach]
No. 4. Aspiration [Bei Sankt Anton]
No. 5. On the Alm [Hoch Alp]
No. 6. The Marksmen [Bei Murnau]
Worcester Cathedral Choir
Christopher Robinson, conductor
Frank Wibaut, piano
In the South (Alassio)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Produced by Amy Wheel for BBC Cymru Wales
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00076m6)
East Neuk Festival 3/4
Kate Molleson presents the third Lunchtime concert from this year's East Neuk Festival, which is held in venues up and down the beautiful coastline of the Kingdom of Fife. The Pavel Haas Quartet play two contrasting works in The Bowhouse, just outside the picturesque harbour town of St. Monans.
Dmitri Shostakovich dedicated his String Quartet No. 8 to "the victims of fascism and the war" when he wrote it in 1960. It is a powerful work that was written in just three days at a time of deteriorating health for the composer and it reduced Shostakovich to tears upon hearing it played in a private recital. The concert starts with the joyful String Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97, which was composed by Antonín Dvořák during the summer he spent in Spillville, Iowa in 1893. The Pavel Haas Quartet are joined by Krzysztof Chorzelski from the Belcea Quartet in this Viola Quintet.
Dvořák: String Quintet in E-flat ‘American’, Op 97
Pavel Hass Quartet & Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola
Shostakovich: Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110
Pavel Hass Quartet
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m00076m8)
Prom 13 repeat: 'From the Canyons to the Stars…'
Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore
Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo, with Nicolas Hodges (piano) and Martin Owen (horn), in Messiaen's Des Canyons aux étoiles ...
Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Penny Gore
Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles …
Martin Owen (horn)
David Hockings (percussion)
Alex Neal (percussion)
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
The ‘wild and colourful beauty’ of Utah and Arizona was the inspiration for one of the 20th century’s most singular and extraordinary works, a musical act of ‘praise and contemplation’ painted in the brightest and most vivid of sounds.
Olivier Messiaen’s mighty Des canyons aux étoiles … (‘From the Canyons to the Stars …’) is a sonic meditation in which birdsong mingles with desert winds, and the rustling of sand.
Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO, with pianist Nicolas Hodges and horn player Martin Owen taking the demanding solo parts.
THU 17:00 In Tune (m00076mb)
Steven Devine; Ensemble of the Central Band of the Royal Air Force
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performance in the studio from the harpsichordist Steven Devine who appears at the Dartington International Summer School on Monday. And ahead of their concert at Charlton House, we're joined by the Ensemble of the Central Band of the Royal Air Force.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m00076md)
Happy Holiday
The In Tune Mixtape rolls up its trouser legs, dons a knotted handkerchief and has a paddle. Come on in, the water's fine. But watch out for crabs, oh, and Soviet propaganda.
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (m00076mg)
2019
Prom 18: Britten and Mahler
Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. Britten's Piano Concerto and Mahler's powerful orchestral song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13
(revised version, 1945)
08.05
INTERVAL - Proms Plus Talk: Hannah French and former Proms Controller Sir Nicholas Kenyon discuss Henry Wood’s relationship with 20th-century music in the second of three events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Proms founder-conductor's birth.
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Claudia Mahnke (mezzo-soprano)
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Claudia Mahnke and Stuart Skelton are the soloists in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde - a powerful, personal statement of loss, orchestrated with infinite variety and skill.
It’s paired with another mould-breaking work Britten’s Piano Concerto. Premiered at the Proms in 1938 with the 24-year-old composer as soloist, the work is as much a celebration of orchestral texture as pianistic bravura, bursting with youthful energy and invention. Norwegian pianist and Proms regular Leif Ove Andsnes is the soloist.
THU 22:00 Sunday Feature (b09qcyy0)
Alex La Guma - The Black Dickens
Lindsay Johns argues that the South African novelist Alex La Guma is an overlooked literary colossus who should be restored to his rightful place - at the centre of the literary canon.
Travelling to Cape Town, Lindsay visits some of the places and people that inspired La Guma's writing. And as he does, from the bustle of Athlone township to the dispiriting wasteland of District Six, he finds that La Guma's novels - written in apartheid South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s - still have much to say about the country today.
Lindsay speaks to Alex La Guma's biographer, to his contemporary the great Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and to novelists and poets who found inspiration in La Guma's writing. Visiting his widow, Blanche, Lindsay hears how the South African security forces tried, and failed, to silence his voice. And in the wasteland of District Six, razed to make way for new homes for white South Africans, he hears about tragic and fascinating undercurrents in the racial politics of contemporary South Africa.
But for all his dazzling literary brilliance, today Alex La Guma is overlooked - often out of print, not taught in schools, no memorial to him even in the city where he was born and set his books - and so Lindsay will try to find out why, and what might be done about it.
Producer: Giles Edwards.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b06v2gy5)
Secret Admirers (Series 2)
John Toal on Maurice Ravel
Radio 3 presenter John Toal the French composer Maurice Ravel, whose music had a special place in his life long before he discovered an unexpected connection.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (m00076mj)
Andrew Logan’s mixtape
Verity Sharp presents a Late Junction mixtape from sculptor, performance artist and jewellery-maker Andrew Logan.
Originally trained as an architect, Logan has been one of Britain’s leading sculptural artists for over five decades. He is best known for his inventive use of found materials, primarily glass and mirrors - he has been described as the ‘Fabergé of the eighties’ and ‘The Wizard of Odd’.
In 1972, Logan began the Alternative Miss World contest, an extravagant artistic event and fancy dress pageant inspired by Crufts. Just like the dog show, contestants are judged on poise, personality and originality rather than beauty, with past participants including Derek Jarman, David Hockney and Grayson Perry.
Logan is the only living artist in Britain with a museum dedicated to him, having opened the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture in Wales in 1991.
In his mixtape, Andrew shares music from his friends, collaborators and inspirations over his long career, from Divine to Brian Eno and Fenella Fielding.
Produced by Katie Callin.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
FRIDAY 02 AUGUST 2019
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m00076ml)
A Finnish Transfigured Night
Chamber music by Wagner, Richard Strauss and Schoenberg recorded at the 2018 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival. With Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Mathilde Wesendonck (author)
Wesendonck Lieder
Victoire Bunel (mezzo soprano), Claudio Trovajoli (piano)
12:52 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Ständchen (Serenade)
Hugo Ticciati (violin), Gareth Lubbe (viola), Julian Arp (cello), Diana Ketler (piano)
12:56 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Arabischer Tanz
Hugo Ticciati (violin), Gareth Lubbe (viola), Julian Arp (cello), Diana Ketler (piano)
12:58 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Liebesliedchen
Hugo Ticciati (violin), Gareth Lubbe (viola), Julian Arp (cello), Diana Ketler (piano)
01:04 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op 4
Ilya Gringolts (violin), Karolina Weltrowska (violin), Yuval Gotlibovich (viola), Vlad Bogdanas (viola), Joona Pulkkinen (cello), David Cohen (cello)
01:33 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Symphonie Fantastique (Op.14)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Eggen (conductor)
02:26 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Syrinx for solo flute
Ivica Gabrisova-Encingerova (flute)
02:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in B flat major (K.570) (1789)
Vikingur Olafsson (piano)
02:51 AM
Bartlomiej Pekiel (?-c.1670)
Missa Pulcherrima
Camerata Silesia, Julian Gembalski (positive organ), Anna Szostak (conductor)
03:21 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), Unknown (arranger)
Concertino for oboe and wind ensemble in C major (arr. for trumpet)
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
03:29 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Alan Arnold (arranger)
Vocalise, Op 34 No 14 arr. Arnold for viola and piano
Gyozo Mate (viola), Balazs Szokolay (piano)
03:35 AM
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990)
Three Gymnopedies
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman (conductor)
03:44 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in G major
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
03:57 AM
Paulo Bellinati (b.1950)
Jongo
Tornado Guitar Duo (duo)
04:02 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Aria O wie angstlich, o wie feurig - from Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
Michael Schade (tenor)
04:08 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Sonata in G minor (H.
16.44)
Petras Geniusas (piano)
04:19 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Danse sacree et danse profane for harp and strings
Eva Maros (harp), Unknown, Unknown (conductor)
04:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue for lute in G minor, BWV.1000
Konrad Junghanel (lute)
04:37 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Ave Maria
Eolina Quartet
04:42 AM
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Sinfonia in D major 'Veneziana'
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
04:52 AM
Rudolf Tobias (1873-1918)
Ascendit in coelum (motet)
Eesti Projekt Chamber Choir
04:55 AM
Rudolf Tobias (1873-1918)
Liberi (motet)
Eesti Projekt Chamber Choir
04:59 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Kol Nidrei Op 47
Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
05:12 AM
Philip Glass (1937-)
Music in similar motion for ensemble
Ricercata Ensemble, Ivan Siller (director)
05:25 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Suite bergamasque
Roger Woodward (piano)
05:43 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Concerto for violin, piano and string orchestra in D minor
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace (piano), Risor Festival Strings
06:21 AM
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Malcolm Sargent (arranger)
Notturno (Andante) - 3rd movement from Quartet for strings no.2 in D major
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m00076wk)
Friday - Georgia's classical alarm call
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m00076wm)
Ian Skelly
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00076wp)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Worcester
Today Donald Macleod focusses on Worcester, where Elgar was born, and where he lived for the final five years of his life. We hear his last completed work in a recording his daughter played to him just a week before he died, and The Wand of Youth - music based on a play he put on at the age of eleven.
Worcester-born, with his roots in the beautiful English countryside around Hereford and the Malverns yet drawn to the bright lights of London, English composer Edward Elgar moved house a lot. He lived in over 25 residences in his lifetime, stayed with friends, travelled often for work and pleasure in the UK, Europe and further afield, and had a number of second homes he rented as retreats. This week we’re focusing on the locations that were important to Elgar, and the places that inspired his music.
Mina
New Light Symphony Orchestra
J. Ainslie Murray, conductor
The Wand of Youth Suite No 1, Op 1a
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor
Organ Sonata No 1 in G major Op 28 (2nd movt - Allegretto)
Christopher Herrick, organ
Severn Suite Op 87
John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band
Lux Aeterna (choral arrangement of Enigma Variations Op 36 Nimrod by John Cameron)
The Choir of New College Oxford
Edward Higginbottom, director
Produced by Amy Wheel for BBC Cymru Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00076wr)
East Neuk Festival 4/4
Kate Molleson presents the final Lunchtime Concert from this year's East Neuk Festival which is held in stunning venues along the east coast of Scotland.
We start at St Ayle Parish Church, where harpist Catrin Finch takes us on the winding journey of the river Moldau. In Crail Parish Church, Diyang Mei plays part of Benjamin Britten's Cello Suite No. 2, arranged for viola; and we finish at The Bowhouse in St Monans with the first ever collaboration between two great string quartets as the Pavel Haas and Belcea Quartets team up in Mendelssohn's Octet. Written when he was just 16, it is filled with youthful verve and brilliance.
Smetana: The Moldau (arr. Hans Treneck)
Catrin Finch, Harp
Britten: Ciaccona: Allegro, from Cello Suite No 2 in D, Op 80 (arr for viola)
Diyang Mei
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, Op 20
Pavel Haas Quartet and Belcea Quartet
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m00076wt)
Prom 14 repeat: The Creation
Afternoon Concert with Penny Gore
Another chance to hear Haydn's Creation with the BBC Proms Youth Choir, BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber.
Presented by Sarah Walker at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Haydn: The Creation (sung in German): Part 1
c.
2.40pm
Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Rev. Lucy Winkett discusses Haydn's setting of the Bible in The Creation
Haydn: The Creation: Parts 2 and 3
Sarah-Jane Brandon, soprano
Benjamin Hulett, tenor
Christoph Pohl, baritone
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor
The BBC Philharmonic is joined by the BBC Proms Youth Choir to perform Haydn's late masterpiece. From its opening Representation of Chaos, through the creation of stars, seas and storms, a magnificent musical sunrise and of course every animal from whales to eagles and even a worm, the Creation is one of the great musical dramas, teeming with life and energy.
Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m0001gzp)
Concertos: All for one and one for all?
With the help of violinist Pekka Kuusisto Tom Service explores the concerto from Vivaldi in the early 18th century to today's composers. How has the idea of the concerto evolved over three centuries and what are the challenges for the soloist, walking the tightrope of virtuosity, sandwiched between orchestral colleagues and expectant audience?
David Papp (producer)
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m00076ww)
Ben Gernon
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news and is joined in the studio by the conductor Ben Gernon who speaks to us ahead of his Proms with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m00076wy)
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (m00076x0)
2019
Prom 19: Strauss, Schumann and MacMillan
Live at BBC Proms: BBC SSO & Thomas Dausgaard with pianist Alexander Melnikov. Schumann's Piano Concerto and James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Kate Molleson
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
8.05 Interval; Proms Plus: Composer Sir James MacMillan, 60 this year, discusses The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and talks about his inspiration and ideas. Recorded earlier at Imperial College Union. Producer Helen Garrison.
8.30 Part 2
Schumann: Piano Concerto
James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
‘I always wanted a great bravura piece by him,’ wrote Clara Schumann of her husband. Her hope was answered in Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto a work whose broad, symphonic scope explores and tests the relationship between soloist and orchestra.
Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov joins the BBC Scottish SO and its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard for a programme that also includes the sweeping drama of Strauss’s tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra, with its memorable opening sunrise (heard on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey) and the violence and compassion of Sir James MacMillan’s early masterpiece The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, inspired by the execution of a 17th-century ‘witch’ and premiered at the Proms in 1990.
FRI 22:00 Sunday Feature (b09sqrs3)
Literary Pursuits
Literary Pursuits - RL Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde
Sarah Dillon discovers the story behind the writing of R.L. Stevenson's horror classic 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.' Written at speed in Bournemouth while Stevenson was recuperating from a serious illness, this is the book that finally made his name and fortune. He later said it was inspired by a dream, and his wife, Fanny claims that it was her influence that caused him to burn the first draft and re-write it in three days. But interviews with author and broadcaster Sir Christopher Frayling, biographer Claire Harman, author and journalist Jeremy Hodges and Professor Richard Dury reveal that the myth of the books composition can be challenged. Sarah Dillon discovers there are many other possible influences on the novel, including the death of a friend by alcoholic poisoning; a contemporary investigative journalist report who exposed child prostitution; a real life murderer who Stevenson knew in Edinburgh and a wardrobe with a disturbing history from his childhood bedroom.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b06v2gy8)
Secret Admirers (Series 2)
Petroc Trelawny on Lennox Berkeley
Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny celebrates a composer whose fascinating life story and music are particularly special to him: the Englishman Lennox Berkeley.
FRI 23:00 Music Planet (m00076x2)
WOMAD Highlights
0Lopa Kothari presents some of the best music from this year's WOMAD Festival at Charlton Park in Wiltshire, including a set from Malian legend Salif Keita.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (m000754m)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m00075wh)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m0007682)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m00076m8)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m00076wt)
BBC Proms
15:00 SAT (m00075dt)
BBC Proms
19:30 SAT (m00075f0)
BBC Proms
13:00 SUN (m0006zh4)
BBC Proms
16:00 SUN (m0007h8y)
BBC Proms
19:30 SUN (m00074y1)
BBC Proms
13:00 MON (m000754k)
BBC Proms
19:30 MON (m000754x)
BBC Proms
19:00 TUE (m00075wm)
BBC Proms
22:15 TUE (m00075wp)
BBC Proms
19:30 WED (m000768d)
BBC Proms
19:30 THU (m00076mg)
BBC Proms
19:30 FRI (m00076x0)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m00075dk)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m00074xn)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m000754b)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m00075w7)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m000767t)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m00076m0)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m00076wk)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m000709h)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (m0007684)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m00010lk)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m000754g)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m00075wc)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m000767y)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m00076m4)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m00076wp)
Early Music Late
21:30 SUN (m00074y3)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m000754d)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m00075w9)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m000767w)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m00076m2)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m00076wm)
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
00:00 SUN (m00075f4)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m000754r)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m000768b)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m00076md)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m00076wy)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m000754p)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m00075wk)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m0007688)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m00076mb)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m00076ww)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m00075dr)
J to Z
18:00 SAT (m00075dy)
Jazz Now
23:00 MON (m0007553)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (m00075dw)
Late Junction
23:30 TUE (m00075wr)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (m000768g)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (m00076mj)
Music Planet World Mix
00:30 SAT (m00070rn)
Music Planet
23:00 FRI (m00076x2)
New Generation Artists
11:45 SAT (m00075dp)
New Generation Artists
18:15 SUN (m00074xx)
New Generation Artists
16:30 WED (m0007686)
New Music Show
22:15 SAT (m00075f2)
Percussion Century
23:00 SUN (m00027s6)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m00074xs)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m00075wf)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m0007680)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m00076m6)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m00076wr)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m00075dm)
Sunday Feature
22:15 MON (b0948p5w)
Sunday Feature
21:30 TUE (b095q2xf)
Sunday Feature
22:00 WED (b09hrr7n)
Sunday Feature
22:00 THU (b09qcyy0)
Sunday Feature
22:00 FRI (b09sqrs3)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m00074xq)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m00074xv)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b06v2gxz)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b06v2gy5)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b06v2gy8)
The Listening Service
19:00 SUN (m00074xz)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m0001gzp)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m00040cg)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (m00070rq)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m00075f6)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m00074y5)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m0007558)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m00075wt)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m000768j)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m00076ml)