As the fireworks fizzle out and the strains of Auld Lang Syne waft away, join award-winning composer, producer and Night Tracks presenter Hannah Peel as she makes her own exclusive Night Tracks Archive Remix to usher in the New Year.
A chamber concert from Chiemgau Spring Festival in Bavaria. With Jonathan Swain.
Antonella Balducci (soprano), Ulrike Clausen (alto), Frieder Lang (tenor), Fulvio Bettini (baritone), Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Ensemble Vanitas Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
Eva Wedin (mezzo soprano), Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Sjokvist (conductor)
Georgia Mann presents a New Year's Day edition of Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listeners' requests.
Petroc Trelawny presents the annual New Year's Day Concert live from the Musikverein in Vienna. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted this year by Andris Nelsons in a time-honoured, celebratory programme of waltzes, polkas and marches in the Viennese tradition.
INTERVAL: Gavin Plumley explores what the peace Treaty of Trianon, signed 4th June 1920 and largely marking the end of World War 1, meant for Austria and Austrians.
Eduard Strauss arr. Wolfgang Dorner: Ice Flower Polka op.55
Hans Christian Lumbye arr. Wolfgang Dorner: Postillon Galop. op.16/2
You may have found a shiny new console in your Christmas stocking, or perhaps you're working out what to get in the sales - or going slow after another New Year’s Eve party...
Luckily Sound Of Gaming returns for a New Year’s Day special. Jessica Curry plays the best video game music to bring you back to life after the night before, picks some of her favourite games and soundtracks from the past year and looks into her 2020 crystal ball at what may be the biggest scores of the New Year.
Tom McKinney introduces more music from Vienna for the New Year with a concert from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
A Sequence of Music and Readings for the New Year from St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh with the Charles Wood Singers and Ulster Orchestra (recorded 22nd August).
New Generation Artists: Kate Molleson introduces five of the musicians who are joining Radio 3's prestigious young artist programme this year.
Eric Lu, the hugely popular winner of the Leeds International Competition plays Handel and Chopin, the nineteen year old violinist Johan Dalene plays two miniatures from Scandinavia and British viola player Timothy Ridout plays Glinka. Also today, Ema Nikolovska, who is still a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, sings a haunting melody from the land of her birth and the charismatic jazz guitarist Rob Luft reveals some of his latest tracks - all recorded at the BBC's studios.
Stenhammer Two Sentimental Romances, Op. 28
Glinka: Viola Sonata in d minor, G. iv3
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
with Joe Wright (tenor sax), Tom McCredie (bass guitar) Corrie Dick (drums), Joe Webb (keyboards)
Each year, Radio 3 selects six or seven remarkable musicians to join the scheme for two years each. During that time they record in the BBC’s studios, perform with the BBC's orchestras and take part in some of the UK's leading music festivals. Not surprisingly, the list of alumni reads like a Who's Who of the most exciting musicians of the past two decades. In this series, we can catch those artists near the beginnings of their journeys. Starting on New Year's Day, we hear for the first time from the exciting artists who have recently joined the scheme: the nineteen year old Swedish violinist Johan Dalene, the viola player Timothy Ridout, the Macedonian-born mezzo soprano Ema Nikolovska and the pianists Alexander Gadjiev and Eric Lu. The scheme also welcomes the jazz guitarist Rob Luft and the Consone Quartet, its first ever period instrument string quartet.
The scheme celebrates its twentieth next year with a special day of programming on Radio 3 on Saturday 01 February
One of the most fundamental questions we can ask is ‘where do I come from?’ And poets, philosophers, religions and scientists down the ages and across cultures have fashioned theories and stories to try and answer that question. We can hear their work in Norse mythology, Cherokee creation beliefs and Darwin’s theory of evolution. But what came before the beginning? One theory was chaos and Rebel offers us glimpses of that in musical form. There are also creative beginnings - a 14-year-old Aretha Franklin recorded in her father’s church and Prince rehearsing a new song (Purple Rain) alone at night in his studio. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein stands as an warning of the risks of scientific experimentation while the orphan Pip, from Dickens’ Great Expectations, is forced to create his own origin story from the tiniest of clues. Birth is the theme of Gerald Finzi’s cantata, Dies Natalis, which sets to music the poetry of Thomas Traherne - about being unborn, emerging into the world and what it is to be human.
Endings come in the shape of Haydn’s false endings, Caryl Churchill’s apocalyptic visions and the final words from Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” There are lost loves and lost countries - Amineh Abou Kerech – a 15-year-old Syrian migrant – writes a poetic lament for her homeland accompanied by 19-year-old Palestinian composer Nay Barghothi.
Cherokee Myth retold by Terry L. Norton: The Three Worlds
Les Eléments 1. Le Cahos
Cherokee Myth retold by Terry L. Norton
Performer: The English Chamber Orchestra, José-Luis Garcia (violin), Sir Yehudi Menuhin (Conductor)
La Creation du Monde, Op. 81a
Performer: Orchestra National de Lille-Région North/Pas de Calais, Jean-Claude Casadesus (Conductor)
Antony P. Hegarty
Dies Natalis Op 8 V. The Salutation (Aria)
Performer: John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Croydon Singers, Croydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (Conductor)
John C. Moore
Shirley J. Thompson
Performer: Shirley J. Thompson and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
From the Apocalypse, Op. 66
BBC Proms 2019: John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, the Monteverdi Choir and tenor Michael Spyres in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini.
: Andrew McgGegor talks to historian and broadcaster Sarah Lenton and music historian Flora Willson about Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings his five-year series of Berlioz performances to a triumphant close, and this year's 150th-anniversary celebrations to a spectacular climax, with the composer’s rarely performed opera Benvenuto Cellini, based on the life and loves of the Renaissance sculptor – culminating in the forging of a vast masterwork. With its sprawling storytelling and vastly demanding score, this is a piece built for the scope of the Royal Albert Hall. American tenor Michael Spyres sings the title-role.
An adventurous, immersive swirl of music capturing the essence of the sea at night. Music from John Luther Adams and Ravel to Philip Glass, Elvis Presley and everything in between.
Water Music Suite No.1 In F, HWV 348: 5. Air
Sea Pictures, Op. 37: IV. Where Corals Lie
Aguas da Amazonia: No. 4, Amazon Rive
Peter Grimes: 4 Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: I. Dawn
THURSDAY 02 JANUARY 2020
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000cq11)
Counter-tenor collection
Andreas Scholl recital of English songs of the Renaissance. With Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
John Dowland (1563-1626)
3 Works (Go crystal tears, Fantasia No 4, Now, o now I needs must part)
Andreas Scholl (counter tenor), Julien Behr (lute), Concerto Di Viole
12:44 AM
John Dowland (1563-1626),John Ward (c.1589-1638)
2 works by Dowland (Go nightly cares; Sorrow come), one by Ward (Fantasia No 3)
Andreas Scholl (counter tenor), Julien Behr (lute), Concerto Di Viole
12:55 AM
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Piece without title; Sir John Smith his Almain
Julien Behr (lute)
01:00 AM
Robert Johnson (1583-1633),William Byrd (1543-1623),John Bennett (c.1575 -1614)
3 Songs
Andreas Scholl (counter tenor), Julien Behr (lute), Concerto Di Viole
01:10 AM
Patrick Mando (fl.1600),John Dowland (1563-1626),Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c.1578-1628),Robert Johnson (1583-1633),Anon. English,Richard Mico (c.1590-1661)
10 pieces
Andreas Scholl (counter tenor), Julien Behr (lute), Concerto Di Viole
01:44 AM
Antonio Caldara (c.1671-1736)
Medea in Corinto - solo cantata
Gerard Lesne (counter tenor), Il Seminario Musicale
01:59 AM
Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)
Ich liege und schlaffe
James Bowman (counter tenor), Greta de Reyghere (soprano), Guy de Mey (tenor), Max van Egmond (bass), Ricercar Consort
02:13 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z 49 (Bell Anthem)
Alex Potter (counter tenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe (director)
02:21 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (Agnus Dei and Dona nobis pacem)
Robin Blaze (counter tenor), Collegium Vocale Gent, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
02:31 AM
Philip Glass (1937-)
Violin Concerto No 1
Piotr Plawner (violin), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Michal Klauza (conductor)
02:57 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphony No 2 in C major, Op 61
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
03:33 AM
Alfred Whitehead (1887-1974)
Psalm 23 (The Lord is my Shepherd)
Tudor Singers of Montreal, Patrick Wedd (director)
03:39 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata No 52 in E Flat, Hob XVI/52
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
03:59 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Allegro appassionato (4 Romantic pieces, Op 75)
Young-Zun Kim (violin), Joon-Cha Kim (piano)
04:02 AM
Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801)
Simphonie à grand orchestre de l'opéra 'Cora', Op 3 No 1
Concerto Koln
04:14 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Lascia la spina, from Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
Julia Lezhneva (soprano), Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
04:22 AM
Christoph Gluck (1714-1787), Fritz Kreisler (arranger)
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Gyozo Mate (viola), Balazs Szokolay (piano)
04:25 AM
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Arabesque
Shirley Brill (clarinet), Piotr Spoz (piano)
04:31 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
4 Dances from 'Abdelazer'
Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon (director)
04:35 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Aure, deh, per pieta (Giulio Cesare)
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
04:43 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K 191
Dag Jensen (bassoon), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
05:01 AM
John Browne (fl.1490)
O Maria salvatoris mater (a 8)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
05:15 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (arranger)
Tarantelle styrienne
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)
05:22 AM
Horatio Parker (1863-1919)
A Northern Ballad (1899)
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi (conductor)
05:36 AM
Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781), Unknown (arranger)
String Quintet No 2 in E flat major
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Werthen (conductor)
05:47 AM
Rudolf Escher (1912-1980), Paul Eluard (author)
Le vrai visage de la paix (1953 revised 1957)
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Ed Spanjaard (conductor)
05:59 AM
Jozef Wienawski (1837-1912)
Piano Concerto in G minor, Op 20
Beata Bilinska (piano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000cl8r)
Thursday - Georgia's classical mix
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listeners' requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000cl8t)
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Harriet Walter, Nijinsky's Deathbed
Suzy Klein 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 actress Dame Harriet Walter.
1110 Essential Classics pays tribute to some of the great musicians who died in 2019.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0000bp3)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Voluntary Exile
Donald Macleod traces Tchaikovsky’s long period of wandering, in which he spent years away from Russia, seemingly compelled by a disordered, unreconciled personal life.
Pimpinella (Romances, Op 38, No 6)
Anna Netrebko, soprano
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Valse Sentimentale
Ofra Harnoy, cello
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Mackerras, conductor
Violin Concerto
Ray Chen, violin
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor
Danse des polichinelles et des histrions (Maid of Orleans)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Sir Colin Davis, conductor
Souvenir de Florence (1st and 2nd movements)
Borodin Quartet
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0bb43fk)
Schumann's Kerner Lieder and David's Bruce's Gumboots at St George's Bristol
Georgia Mann introduces further highlights from a series of concerts given at St George's Bristol earlier this year. Today renowned tenor Mark Padmore returns with pianist Julius Drake to perform Schumann's Kerner Lieder, written when the composer was enjoying a particularly fruitful year of song-writing and the clarinettist Julian Bliss joins the award-winning Carducci quartet for the contemporary American composer David's Bruce's "Gumboots", a piece that was inspired by South African miners and dance rhythms.
David Bruce: Gumboots
Julian Bliss, clarinet
Carducci Quartet
Schumann: Kerner Lieder, Op 35
Mark Padmore, tenor
Julius Drake, piano.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000cl8w)
Viennese Connections - Opera Matinee
Continuing his celebration of music making from Vienna for the New Year, Tom McKinney introduces a recording made last year at the Vienna State Opera of Verdi's monumental late Shakespeare inspired tragedy, Otello.
Unlike other Verdi operas, Otello was incorporated into the repertoire of the Vienna Opera almost immediately after its world première in 1888. The Vienna State Opera has since put on nearly 500 performances of Verdi’s last opera, in seven different productions. This recent production was staged by Adrian Noble and conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.
Guiseppe Verdi: Otello, opera in four acts, based on William Shakespeare's play 'Othello, or The Moor of Venice'
Aleksandrs Antonenko - tenor - Otello
Olga Bezsmertna - soprano - Desdemona
Margarita Gritskova - mezzo-soprano - Emilia, wife of Iago and Desdemona's maid Vladislav Sulimsky - tenor - Iago
Jinxu Xiahou - tenor - Cassio, a captain
Leonardo Navarro - tenor - Roderigo, a gentleman of Venice
Jongmin Park - bass - Lodovico, ambassador of the Venetian Republic
Manuel Walser - bass - Montano, former governor of Cyprus
Children of the Vienna State Opera School
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Thomas Lang, chorus director
Stage Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
c.
4.25pm:
Pascal Dusapin: Morning in Long Island - Concerto no 1
ORF Radio Symphony, Vienna
Gábor Káli, conductor
THU 17:00 New Generation Artists (m000cl8y)
Alexander Gadjiev plays Scriabin and Liszt
New Generation Artists: following on from yesterday's programme, the remaining two artists to join Radio 3's prestigious young artist scheme are heard in their debut BBC studio recordings. There's also more today from the mezzo Ema Nikolovska and the remarkable touch of the pianist Alexander Gadjiev is heard in a sequence of miniatures by Scriabin and a fiendish study by Liszt; the period instruments of the Consone Quartet shed new light on Haydn and Simon Hoefele, who left the scheme at the end of last year, is heard in a sneak preview of his forthcoming recording of the ever-popular Trumpet Concerto by Haydn.
Presented by Kate Molleson.
Liszt: Transcendental Étude No. 4 in D minor, "Mazeppa" S.139
Scriabin: Feuillet d’album op.45 n.1, Poeme op.32 n.1, Etude op.8 n.8, op.42 n.5, Preludes op.16 nos.2,3 and 4
Alexander Gadjjev (piano)
Brahms: Der Gang zum Liebchen, Op.48 No.1; Lerchengesang, Op.70 No.2; Standchen, Op.106 No.1
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op.20 No.4
The Consone Quartet
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat
Simon Hoefele (trumpet),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Duncan Ward (conductor)
Each year, Radio 3 selects six or seven remarkable musicians to join the scheme for two years each. During that time they record in the BBC’s studios, perform with the BBC’s orchestras and take part in some of the UK’s leading music festivals. Not surprisingly, the list of alumni reads like a Who's Who of the most exciting musicians of the past two decades. In this series, we can catch those artists near the beginnings of their journeys. Starting on New Year’s Day, we hear for the first time from the exciting artists who have recently joined the scheme: the nineteen-year-old Swedish violinist Johan Dalene, the viola player Timothy Ridout, the Macedonian-born mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and the pianists Alexander Gadjiev and Eric Lu. The scheme also welcomes the jazz guitarist Rob Luft and the Consone Quartet, its first-ever period instrument string quartet.
THU 18:15 Words and Music (b08slgl0)
Clouds
Simon Russell Beale and Adjoa Andoh track clouds scudding across the sky, in poems from Yang Chi to Shakespeare and Rilke to Thoreau. With music by Westhoff, Ligeti and Debussy.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: The Cloud
EDWARD THOMAS: The clouds that are so light
EMILY DICKINSON: A Curious Cloud surprised the Sky
JONATHAN SWIFT: Gulliver’s Travels
WILLIAM SHARP: Clouds
YANG CHI, translated by JONATHAN CHAVES: Nesting among Clouds
WORDSWORTH: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
SHAKESPEARE: Sonnet 33
CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY: The Manifesto of the Cloud Appreciation Society
FROST: Lost in Heaven
RILKE, translated A. POULIN, JR.: These laborers of rain
ROBERT HERRICK: Her Bed
DEREK WALCOTT: A Long, white
SANDBURG: Fog
SHAKESPEARE: Sonnet 34
ALEXANDER POSEY: Two Clouds
YEATS: These are the Clouds
ARISTOPHANES, translated by PETER MEINECK: Chorus of the Clouds, from The Clouds
RUPERT BROOKE: Clouds
ELLEN PALMER ALLERTON: Trailing Clouds
HENRY THOREAU: Journal, 25th December 1851
RILKE, translated by A. POULIN, JR.: Evening Clouds
BRECHT, translated by DEREK MAHON: A Cloud
Elizabeth Arno (producer).
01 Eric Whitacre
Cloudburst
Performer: Polyphony, Stephen Layton (director)
Duration 00:00:08
02
00:00:02
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The Cloud, read by Adjoa Andoh
Duration 00:00:48
03
00:00:05
EDWARD THOMAS
The clouds that are so light, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:40
04
00:00:08 Tan Dun
Floating Clouds (Eight Memories in Watercolour, Op.1: No.7)
Performer: Lang Lang (piano)
Duration 00:00:01
05
00:00:09 BLISS
Elements (Metamorphic Variations, No.1)
Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd Jones (conductor)
Duration 00:00:03
06
00:00:10
EMILY DICKINSON
A Curious Cloud surprised the Sky, read by Adjoa Andoh
Duration 00:00:30
07
00:00:12
JONATHAN SWIFT
Gullivers Travels (extract)
Duration 00:00:45
08
00:00:13 Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Cloud Cappd Towers
Performer: Tenebrae, Nigel Short (director)
Duration 00:00:02
09
00:00:15 JAMES WOOD
Cloud-Polyphonies (extract from ii. Clouds)
Performer: Yale Percussion Group, Robert Van Sice (director)
Duration 00:00:07
10
00:00:15
WILLIAM SHARP
Clouds, read by Adjoa Andoh
Duration 00:00:01
11
00:00:21
YANG CHI, translated by JONATHAN CHAVES
Nesting among Clouds, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:01
12
00:00:22 SCHUBERT
Einsamkeit (Winterreise)
Performer: Mathias goerne (baritone), Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Duration 00:00:02
13
00:00:25 Claude Debussy
Nuages (Nocturnes for orchestra, No.1)
Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
Duration 00:00:07
14
00:00:25
WORDSWORTH
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:01
15
00:00:31
SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet 33, read by Adjoa Andoh
Duration 00:00:01
16
00:00:35
CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY
The Manifesto of the Cloud Appreciation Society, read by Adjoa Andoh and Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:01
17
00:00:36 WESTHOFF
, Imitazione del liuto - presto (Sonata for violin and continuo No.2)
Performer: Daniel Hope (violin), Stefan Maass and Stefan Rath (harpsichords)
Duration 00:00:02
18
00:00:38
FROST
Lost in Heaven, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:45
19
00:00:39 Meredith Monk
Fields Clouds
Performer: Johanna Arnold, Joan Barber, Andrea Goodman, Naaz Hosseini, Meredith Monk, Robert Een, John Eppler, Ching Gonzalez, Wayne Hankin, Nicky Paraiso, Timothy Sawher (vocalists), Nurit Tiles (keyboard)
Duration 00:00:02
20
00:00:40 SOUND RECORDING
The Power of Mother Earth (extract)
Performer: Recorded by Symbiosis
Duration 00:00:02
21
00:00:41
RILKE, translated A. POULIN, JR.
These laborers of rain, read by Adjoa Andoh
Duration 00:00:55
22
00:00:42 JARNAFELT
Berceuse
Performer: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
Duration 00:00:03
23
00:00:42
ROBERT HERRICK
Her Bed, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:12
24
00:00:45
DEREK WALCOTT
A Long, white, summer cloud, read by Adjoa Andoh
Duration 00:00:01
25
00:00:47 Zoltán Kodály
9 Epigrams, No.3
Performer: Natalie Clein (cello), Julius Drake (piano)
Duration 00:00:01
26
00:00:44
SANDBURG
Fog, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:12
27
00:00:44 Sylvain Chauveau
Nuage II (Nuage music for two films by Sebastien Betbeder)
Performer: Sylvain Chauveau
Duration 00:00:01
28
00:00:49 Franz Liszt
Nuages gris
Performer: Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Duration 00:00:03
29
00:00:50
SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet 34, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:01
30
00:00:50
ALEXANDER POSEY
Two Clouds, read by Adjoa Andoh and Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:45
31
00:00:53 BARTOK
Non troppo lento (Quartet for strings no. 4 (Sz. 91), 4th movement)
Performer: Emerson String Quartet
Duration 00:00:02
32
00:00:55
YEATS
These are the Clouds, read by Adjoa Andoh
Duration 00:00:55
33
00:00:56 György Ligeti
Clocks and Clouds (closing extract)
Performer: Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss (chorus master), Ask Ensemble, Schonberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw (director)
Duration 00:00:05
34
00:00:57
ARISTOPHANES, translated by PETER MEINECK
Chorus of the Clouds, from The Clouds (extract), read by Adjoa Andoh and Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:01
35
00:01:00
RUPERT BROOKE
Clouds, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:01
36
00:01:00 Ervin Drake
There’s a big blue cloud next to heaven
Singer: Perry Como
Orchestra: Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra
Duration 00:00:01
37
00:01:04
ELLEN PALMER ALLERTON
Trailing Clouds, read by Adjoa Andoh
Duration 00:00:02
38
00:01:06 Marc-André Hamelin
Music Box (Con intimissimo)
Performer: Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Duration 00:00:02
39
00:00:08
HENRY THOREAU
Journal, 25th December 1851, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:39
40
00:01:08 Edward Elgar
Sospiri, Op.70
Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
Duration 00:00:04
41
00:01:10
RILKE, translated by A. POULIN, JR.
Evening Clouds, read by Adjoa Andoh
Duration 00:00:29
42
00:01:12
BRECHT, translated by DEREK MAHON
A Cloud, read by Simon Russell Beale
Duration 00:00:01
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (m000cqbr)
2019 Repeats
Prom 68: Wagner Night
BBC Proms: Marc Albrecht conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with soloists Christine Goerke and Stephen Gould, in music by Wagner, Franck and Weber.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz – Overture
Richard Wagner: Siegfried – Forest Murmurs
César Franck: Le chasseur maudit
c.
20:15 Interval
In the third of our series on Henry Wood, Hannah French explores the Proms founder-conductor’s relationship with Wagner’s music.
c.
20:40
Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung – Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey; Duet 'Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde'; Siegfried's Death and Funeral March; Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene
Christine Goerke (soprano)
Stephen Gould (tenor)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Marc Albrecht (conductor)
Composer-themed evenings were a distinctive and popular feature of Henry Wood’s early Proms seasons: if it was Monday, it was Wagner Night.
We revive this tradition with a concert whose first half explores the enchanted forest (both beguiling and darkly supernatural) – a key symbol of the German Romantic movement.
The second half presents pivotal scenes from Götterdämmerung, the climax of Wagner’s four-opera magnum opus The Ring of the Nibelung – including Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music and the vocal tour de force of Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene.
THU 21:35 BBC Proms (m000cqbt)
2019 Repeats
Prom 74: Beethoven Night
BBC Proms: the NDR Radio Philharmonic is conducted by Andrew Manze in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Beethoven: Aria 'Ah! perfido'
Bach (orch Elgar): Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537
Beethoven: Fidelio – overture
Beethoven: Fidelio – 'Abscheulicher! … Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern'
Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)
Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood’s tradition of composer-themed nights continues here with Beethoven.
The composer’s revolutionary Fifth Symphony provides the climax of a programme that also includes music from his dramatic ‘rescue’ opera Fidelio.
Bach’s music was a passion shared by Beethoven and Wood, and is represented here by Elgar’s orchestration of the Fantasia and Fugue in C minor for organ.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m0009t1h)
BBC Introducing Live with Portico Quartet and Flora Yin-Wong
Elizabeth Alker presents a special edition of Unclassified from BBC Introducing Live at Tobacco Dock. Portico Quartet are live in session performing tracks from their new album Memory Streams, and there's a special guest mix from DJ Flora Yin-Wong.
01
00:00:31 James McVinnie
Rev'D Mustard His Installation Prelude (Matt Huxley Remix)
Performer: James McVinnie
Music Arranger: Matt Huxley
Duration 00:04:55
02
00:07:12 Portico Quartet
Signals in the Dusk
Ensemble: Portico Quartet
Duration 00:05:36
03
00:14:15 Lady Vendredi
Don't Look Now
Performer: Lady Vendredi
Duration 00:04:41
04
00:18:59 Belle Chen
Moon-Spotting (live remake)
Performer: Belle Chen
Duration 00:03:20
05
00:24:28 Portico Quartet
Dissident Gardens
Ensemble: Portico Quartet
Duration 00:05:10
06
00:32:33 Portico Quartet
Offset
Ensemble: Portico Quartet
Duration 00:05:54
07
00:39:09 Colin Stetson
Spindrift
Performer: Colin Stetson
Duration 00:04:45
08
00:44:11 Steve Reich
Music for 18 Musicians [Ruoho Ruotsi Dub Remix]
Music Arranger: Ruoho Ruotsi
Ensemble: Steve Reich and Musicians
Duration 00:04:31
FRIDAY 03 JANUARY 2020
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000cl94)
Joseph to Leopold
Berlin Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's cantatas on the death and accession of emperors. With Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Severin Anton Averdonk (librettist)
Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, WoO 87
Bodil Arnesen (soprano), Alan Titus (bass), Berlin Radio Chorus, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Karl Anton Rickenbacher (conductor)
01:12 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Severin Anton Averdonk (librettist)
Cantata on the Accession of Emperor Leopold II, WoO 88
Bodil Arnesen (soprano), Alan Titus (bass), Berlin Radio Chorus, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Karl Anton Rickenbacher (conductor)
01:38 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata in A minor D.821 for arpeggione (or viola or cello) and piano
Lise Berthaud (viola), Francois Pinel (piano)
02:03 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 44 in E minor, 'Trauer'
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
02:31 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Piano Sonata in B minor S.178
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
03:02 AM
Erno Dohnanyi (1877-1960)
String Quartet no 2 in D flat major, Op 15
Kodaly Quartet
03:28 AM
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834)
Aria: Viens, gentille dame from 'La Dame blanche'
Mark Dubois (tenor), Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
03:35 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No.9 in B minor (Op.72 No.1) orch. composer
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
03:40 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto for flute in D major RV.428, 'Il Gardellino'
Karl Kaiser (flute), Camerata Koln
03:52 AM
Walter Gieseking (1895-1956)
Chaconne on a Theme by Scarlatti after Keyboard Sonata in D minor K 32
Joseph Moog (piano)
03:59 AM
Arthur Butterworth (1923-2014)
Romanza for horn and strings (1954)
Martin Hackleman (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
04:09 AM
Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
Lord, let me know mine end (no 6 from Songs of farewell for mixed voices)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
04:20 AM
Paul Gilson (1865-1942)
Andante and Scherzo for cello and orchestra
Timora Rosler (cello), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
04:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Le Nozze di Figaro, K492, Overture
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)
04:36 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden (HWV.210), arr oboe, violin and organ
Louise Pellerin (oboe), Helene Plouffe (violin), Dom Andre Laberge (organ)
04:41 AM
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812)
Piano Sonata in D major, Op 31 no 2 (C.133)
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
04:54 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Dalila's aria: 'Mon coeur s'ouvre' (from "Samson et Dalila", Act 2 Scene 3)
Helja Angervo (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Soderblom (conductor)
05:01 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Marchenbilder for viola and piano, Op 113
Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Marc Neikrug (piano)
05:17 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
En Saga
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
05:39 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 30 in E major, Op 109
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)
05:58 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings no 2 in B flat major, Wq.167
Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
06:21 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Toccata in F major (BuxWV 156)
Tong-Soon Kwak (organ)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000cl9q)
Friday - Georgia's classical commute
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listeners' requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000cl9s)
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Buxton Opera House, Harriet Walter
Suzy Klein 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 actress Dame Harriet Walter.
1110 Essential Classics pays tribute to some of the great musicians who died in 2019.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0000c4d)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
A Mystery to the End
Donald Macleod tells the story of Tchaikovsky's final months, including the puzzle of his death, just days after the premiere of his Symphony No 6, considered by many to be his finest work.
We Sat Together
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone)
Mikhail Arkadiev, piano)
Act 1, March (The Nutcracker)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor
Piano Concerto No 3
Stephen Hough
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä
Adagio & Waltz (The Sleeping Beauty - Suite)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Symphony No 6
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b0bb7tzh)
Brahms's Clarinet Quintet and Heine Lieder at St George's Bristol
Georgia Mann introduces an all-Brahms programme to conclude this series recorded at St George's Bristol. Today the clarinettist Julian Bliss joins the Carducci Quartet in a performance of Brahms's late masterpiece, his Clarinet Quintet, and tenor Mark Padmore with pianist Julius Drake provide a rare opportunity to hear Brahms's six settings of poetry by Heinrich Heine, presented as a sequence.
Brahms: 6 Heine Lieder
Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze, Op 71 no 2
Sommerabend, Op 85 no 1
Mondenschein, Op 85 no 2
Es schauen die Blumen, Op 96 no 3
Meerfahrt, Op 96 no 4
Der Tod, der ist die kühle Nacht, Op 96 no 1
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Julian Bliss, clarinet
Carducci Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000cl9v)
Viennese Connections - Ligeti, Wagner, Berg and Schubert
Tom McKinney rounds up his New Year week of music making from Vienna with a concert recorded late last year by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra of Ligeti, Wagner and Berg and with a masterpiece by the Viennese Franz Schubert.
From the Grand Hall, Musikverein, Vienna
Ligeti: Atmospheres
Wagner: Lohengrin - Act 1 Prelude
Berg: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No 3
Rainer Honeck (violin)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi
From the 2019 Salzburg Festival:
Schubert: Mass No 6 in E flat, D950
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano)
Alisa Kolosova (contralto)
Michael Spyres (tenor)
Maciej Kwasnikowski (tenor)
Gianluca Buratto (bass)
Vienna State Opera Chorus,
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (b09k68mg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 New Generation Artists (m000cl9x)
Haydn's Rider Quartet on the period instruments of the Consone Quartet
New Generation Artists: more from some of the artists joining Radio 3's young artist programme this year.
The 19-year-old Swedish violinist Johan Dalene plays Grieg, Ema Nikolovska sings Debussy and the period instruments of the UK-based Consone Quartet shed new light on Haydn in their first recordings at the BBC's studios.
Presented by Kate Molleson.
Sibelius: Souvenir, Tanz-Idylle and Berceuse from Six pieces for violin and piano, Op.79
Grieg: Violin Sonata No.2 in G major, Op.13
Johan Dalene (violin), Nicola Eimer (piano)
Debussy: Trois Chansons de Bilitis
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op.74 No.3 'Rider'
The Consone Quartet
Rob Luft: Slow Potion and Calabash
Rob Luft (electric and acoustic guitar)
Joe Wright (tenor sax)
Tom McCredie (bass guitar)
Corrie Dick (drums)
Joe Webb (keyboards) (piano)
The last of ten early evening Christmas and New Year programmes celebrating Radio 3’s current New Generation Artists.
Each year, Radio 3 selects six or seven remarkable musicians to join the scheme for two years each. During that time they record in the BBC’s studios, perform with the BBC’s orchestras and take part in some of the UK’s leading music festivals. Not surprisingly, the list of alumni reads like a Who's Who of the most exciting musicians of the past two decades. In this series, we can catch those artists near the beginnings of their journeys.
FRI 18:15 Words and Music (b095q2xc)
Mindfulness and 'I': the sense of self
Poetry, prose and music reflecting on the meaning of our existence. This edition takes you through an imagined mindfulness session, opening up a path of self-awareness. The programme flows as a carefully driven stream of consciousness, but also aims to place the listener in a pre-meditative state. it's a personal journey into your inner-self so the texts mostly an explore the first person, mirroring ordinary human interaction, through feelings like love and anguish, whilst also revealing deeply felt responses to our everyday contact with the outer world, with nature and our environment.
Prose and verse, read by Aiysha Hart and Jonathan Aris, come from writers and thinkers from both East and West, ancient and new, such as Hermann Hesse, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, George Eliot, Octavio Paz, W.B. Yeats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Stuart Mill, Jorge Luis Borges, T.S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore, Carl Jung, as well as traditional Chinese poets, among them Du Fu and Li Po.
Readings:
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass
Lao Tzu: There is no need to run outside
Kabir: Don’t go outside
Carl Jung: The attainment of wholeness
W.B. Yeats: Still Water
John Stuart Mill: The Art of Living
Oliver Wendell Holmes: What lies behind us
Hermann Hesse: Sometimes
Nisargadatta Maharaj: I Am That
Walt Whitman: Me Imperturbe
Walt Whitman: Facing West from California’s Shores
Li Po: The birds have banished into the sky
Li Po: The Sun
Lao Tzu: We Are a River
Octavio Paz: Between Going and Staying
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
TS Eliot: Four Quartets, No. 1 - Burnt Norton
Jorge Luis Borges: Elegy for a Park
Anonymous (ancient): Self is everywhere
Scarlett Thomas: The End of Mr. Y
Lao Tzu: We Are a River
Emily Dickinson: The Consciousness that is aware
Christina Rossetti: The Thread of Life
Fernando Pessoa: Whether we write or speak or do but look
Nisargadatta Maharaj: I Am That
Octavio Paz: Wind, Water, Stone
George Eliot: I grant you ample leave
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance
Walt Whitman: One-self I sing
Traditional Chinese proverb: Renew thyself completely each day
Producer Juan Carlos Jaramillo.
01 Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, 1st movement (excerpt)
Performer: Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
02
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself (excerpt), from Leaves of Grass, read by Jonathan Aris
03
00:00:01
Lao Tzu
There is no need to run outside (AKA 47), read by Aiysha Hart
04
00:00:01 Traditional
Offering Chant (unplugged version)
Performer: Lama Gyurme (voice), Jean-Philippe Rykiel (piano)
Duration 00:00:04
05
00:00:05
Kabir
Dont go outside (excerpt), read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:04
06
00:00:06
Carl Jung
The attainment of wholeness (excerpt), read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:04
07
00:00:07
W.B. Yeats
Still Water, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:04
08
00:00:07
John Stuart Mill
The Art of Living (excerpt), read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:04
09
00:00:08 Richard Strauss
An Alpine Symphony
Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
Duration 00:00:01
10
00:00:09
Anonymous (Native North American)
My medicine, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:01
11
00:00:09 Tang Jianping
Fei Ge (Flying Song) - (excerpt)
Performer: Michala Petri, recorder
Duration 00:00:01
12
00:00:10
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What lies behind us, read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:01
13
00:00:10 Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G major, 3rd movement Ruhevoll (excerpt)
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
Duration 00:00:03
14
00:00:14
Hermann Hesse
Sometimes, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:03
15
00:00:14 Henry Purcell
The Plaint
Performer: Susanna Wallumrod, (voice), Giovanna Pessi, (baroque harp), Jane Achtman (viola da gamba), Marco Ambrosini (nyckleharpa)
Duration 00:00:04
16
00:00:19
Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That (excerpt), read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:04
17
00:00:19 Johann Sebastian Bach
Ciaccona from Partita in D minor for solo violin (BWV 1004) and four voices (excerpt)
Performer: Christoph Poppen
Performer: Monika Mauch
Performer: David James
Performer: John Potter
Performer: Gordon Jones
Duration 00:00:04
18
00:00:24
Walt Whitman
Me Imperturbe (excerpt), from Leaves of Grass, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:01
19
00:00:25 Tanya Tagaq
Ajaaja
Performer: Tanya Tagaq, Native American singer (voice)
Duration 00:00:01
20
00:00:25
Walt Whitman
Facing West from Californias Shores (excerpt), from Leaves of Grass, read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:01
21
00:00:25 Ravi Shankar
Swara-Kakali, In memoriam Yehudi Menuhin – Aochar (introduction), Gat In Teentla (Rhythmic cycle of 16 beats) – (excerpt)
Performer: Daniel Hope
Performer: Gaurav Mazumdar
Performer: Asok Chakraborty
Performer: Gilda Sebastian
Performer: Sebastian Knauer
Duration 00:00:01
22
00:00:29
Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali (excerpt) , read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:01
23
00:00:30 Max Richter
On the Nature of Daylight
Performer: Louisa Fuller (violin), Natalia Bonner (violin), John Metcalf (viola), Philip Shephard (cello), Chris Worsey (cello)
Duration 00:00:01
24
00:00:32
Li Po
The birds have banished into the sky, read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:01
25
00:00:36
Li Po
The Sun, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:01
26
00:00:37
Lao Tzu
We Are a River, read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:01
27
00:00:37 Philip Glass
Satyagraha (Act III Conclusion transcription for piano - part of "Trilogy Sonata")
Performer: Paul Barnes (piano)
Duration 00:00:06
28
00:00:41
Octavio Paz
Between Going and Staying, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:06
29
00:00:44
Henry David Thoreau
Walden (excerpt), read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:06
30
00:00:45 Gustav Holst
The Planets Neptune, The Mystic (excerpt)
Performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra, The Ambrosian Singers, Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
Duration 00:00:01
31
00:00:47
TS Eliot
Four Quartets, No. 1 Burnt Norton (excerpt), read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:01
32
00:00:48 Igor Stravinksy
Tango (Tempo di tango)
Performer: James Crabb & Geir Draugsvoll (accordions)
Duration 00:00:02
33
00:00:49
Jorge Luis Borges
Elegy for a Park, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:02
34
00:00:51
Anonymous (ancient)
Self is everywhere, read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:02
35
00:00:52
Scarlett Thomas
The End of Mr. Y (excerpt), read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:02
36
00:00:52 Franz Liszt
Années de pelerinage, 3me annee No. 4 Les Jeux deaux a la Villa dEste - (excerpt)
Performer: Helene Grimaud (piano)
Duration 00:00:02
37
00:00:53
Lao Tzu
We Are a River, read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:02
38
00:00:55
Emily Dickinson
The Consciousness that is aware, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:02
39
00:00:55 Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
Chant from a Holy Book
Performer: Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano)
Duration 00:00:04
40
00:00:57
Christina Rossetti
The Thread of Life (excerpt), read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:04
41
00:01:00
Fernando Pessoa
Whether we write or speak or do but look, read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:04
42
00:01:01 Eric Whitacre
Lux Aurumque (Light of Gold)- (excerpt)
Performer: Whitacre Singers, Eric Whitacre (director)
Duration 00:00:02
43
00:01:04
Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That (excerpt), read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:02
44
00:01:04 John Cage Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano
Suite for Toy Piano (excerpt)
Performer: Margaret Leng Tan (toy piano)
Duration 00:00:02
45
00:01:04
Octavio Paz
Wind, Water, Stone, read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:02
46
00:01:05
George Eliot
I grant you ample leave, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:01
47
00:01:07 Erkki-Sven Tüür
Lombra della croce - (excerpt)
Performer: Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tony Kaljuste, (conductor)
Duration 00:00:01
48
00:01:08
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance (excerpt), read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:01
49
00:01:08 Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, 4th movement (excerpt)
Performer: Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
Duration 00:00:03
50
00:01:09
Walt Whitman
One-self I sing (excerpt), from Leaves of Grass, read by Aiysha Hart
Duration 00:00:03
51
00:01:12
Traditional Chinese proverb
Renew thyself completely each day, read by Jonathan Aris
Duration 00:00:03
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (m000cpz3)
2019 Repeats
Prom 55: Handel's Jephtha
BBC Proms: Richard Egarr conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in Handel's oratorio Jephtha, with tenor Allan Clayton in the title role.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (Act I)
c.
20:35 Interval Proms Plus
The concept of sacrifice in the Old Testament is discussed by the Reverend Richard Coles and Dr Deborah Rooke hosted by New Generation Thinker John Gallagher. Produced by Torquil MacLeod.
c.
20:55
George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (Acts II & III)
Allan Clayton (Jephtha)
Jeanine De Bique (Iphis)
Hilary Summers (Storgè)
Tim Mead (Hamor)
Cody Quattlebaum (Zebul)
Rowan Pierce (Angel)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Richard Egarr (conductor)
Following on from the success of last year’s Theodora, the multi-year Proms Handel cycle continues with the composer’s last, and perhaps greatest, oratorio – Jephtha.
Period-performance specialist Richard Egarr conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and SCO Chorus in the devastating story of the warrior Jephtha commanded by God to sacrifice his daughter Iphis.
Tenor Allan Clayton is the conflicted Jephtha, with Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique as Iphis.
FRI 22:15 The Verb (b09hvt1w)
Lorna Goodison and Jorie Graham
The idea of ghosts, as literary influences, our former selves, or in the form of the ghostfishing nets that sit abandoned on the deep sea floor haunt the interviews in this Verb - as Ian McMillan spends some extra time with two world-class poets: Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison and the American Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jorie Graham.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000clb0)
Start 2020 sounding right
Brand new experimental music for the new year, brought to you by the venerable Verity Sharp.
Notes of optimism abound. There’s music for dancing, music for getting active and embracing the outdoors, and music for making fresh starts, from artists including Julianna Barwick, Edourd Benoit, Keeley Forsyth, Frankie Gavin and Junius Paul.
Also, nods to traditional midwinter festivities, as Lisa O’Neill and Lankum go ‘hunting the wren’.
Produced by Jack Howson.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
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 (m000cn36)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m000cm7v)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m000cq0p)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m000cl8w)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m000cl9v)
BBC Proms
19:30 SUN (m00083qr)
BBC Proms
21:45 SUN (m000cq4l)
BBC Proms
19:30 MON (m000cq66)
BBC Proms
22:00 MON (m000cq69)
BBC Proms
19:00 TUE (m000cq2q)
BBC Proms
21:00 TUE (m000cq2s)
BBC Proms
19:30 WED (m000cq0x)
BBC Proms
19:30 THU (m000cqbr)
BBC Proms
21:35 THU (m000cqbt)
BBC Proms
19:30 FRI (m000cpz3)
Between the Ears
21:50 SAT (m000cy4j)
Between the Ears
18:45 SUN (m000cp1f)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m000cl21)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m000cp0z)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m000cn32)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m000cm7p)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m000cq0f)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m000cl8r)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m000cl9q)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m000cp17)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (m000cq0r)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m0006swq)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m0000b3z)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m0000b69)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m0000bp3)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m0000c4d)
Early Music Now
16:30 MON (m000cn38)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m000cn34)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m000cm7r)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m000cq0h)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m000cl8t)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m000cl9s)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m000cl2m)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m000cl27)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m000cl2f)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m000cp19)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m000clb0)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m00066lv)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m000cl2c)
New Generation Artists
17:00 MON (m000cn3b)
New Generation Artists
17:00 TUE (m000cm7x)
New Generation Artists
16:30 WED (m000cq0t)
New Generation Artists
17:00 THU (m000cl8y)
New Generation Artists
17:00 FRI (m000cl9x)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m000cl2k)
New Year's Day Concert
10:15 WED (m000cq0k)
Night Tracks
00:00 WED (m000cm82)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m000bfnr)
Opera on 3
18:30 SAT (m000cl2h)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m000cp13)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m0002hf5)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b0b9zgj1)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b0bb3wxx)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b0bb43fk)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b0bb7tzh)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m000cl23)
Sound of Cinema
15:00 SAT (m000cl29)
Sound of Gaming
13:00 WED (m000cq0m)
Sunday Feature
19:15 SUN (m000cp1h)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m000cp11)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (b086t9jq)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (b09k68mg)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (b09k68mg)
The Verb
22:15 FRI (b09hvt1w)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m000cl25)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (m000cpsr)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m000cl2p)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m000cp1m)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m000cn3f)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m000cm84)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m000cq11)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m000cl94)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m0009t1h)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m000cp1c)
Words and Music
18:15 MON (b07tz130)
Words and Music
17:45 TUE (m0003sg9)
Words and Music
18:15 WED (m00016sr)
Words and Music
18:15 THU (b08slgl0)
Words and Music
18:15 FRI (b095q2xc)