The BBC has announced that it has a sustainable plan for the future of the BBC Singers, in association with The VOCES8 Foundation.
The threat to reduce the staff of the three English orchestras by 20% has not been lifted, but it is being reconsidered.
See the BBC press release here.

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SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2020

SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m000ms2y)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra at the Harstad Culture Centre

Soon to be chief conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka on tour of the northern regions of Norway with soloists soprano Birgitte Christensen and bass-baritone Aleksander Nohr. Catriona Young presents.

01:01 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Romeo and Juliet Fantasia, op. 18
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)

01:15 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Antonio Somma (librettist)
Morrò, ma prima in grazia, Amelia's aria from 'Un Ballo in maschera'
Birgitte Christensen (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)

01:20 AM
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Paul Schott (librettist)
Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen, from 'Die tote Stadt'
Aleksander Nohr (baritone), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)

01:25 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Overture to 'Les Vêpres siciliennes'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)

01:34 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Francesco Maria Plave (librettist)
Ah! Dite alla giovine
Birgitte Christensen (soprano), Aleksander Nohr (baritone), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)

01:39 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor, op. 46
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)

01:44 AM
Imre Kalman (1882-1953), Leo Stein (librettist), Bela Jenback (librettist)
Excerpts from 'Die Csárdásfürstin'
Aleksander Nohr (baritone), Birgitte Christensen (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)

01:57 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Dances from Galánta
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)

02:14 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (continuo)

02:18 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Quartet for piano and strings No.1 (Op.25) in G minor
Kungsbacka Trio, Lawrence Power (viola)

03:01 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56 'Scottish'
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)

03:39 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581
Andrzej Ciepliński (clarinet), Royal String Quartet

04:11 AM
John Sheppard (1515-1558),Jonathan Dove (1959 -)
In manus tuas (Sheppard)& Into Thy Hands (Dove)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)

04:23 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da chiesa in F major (Op.1 No.1)
London Baroque

04:29 AM
Jean Barriere (1705-1747)
Sonata No 10 in G major for 2 cellos
Duo Fouquet (duo)

04:38 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
The Last rose of summer (Groves of Blarney) from Folksong arrangements
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Paul Turner (piano)

04:43 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
El Corpus en Sevilla from 'Iberia' (Book 1)
Plamena Mangova (piano)

04:52 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in D (Op.3 No.9) (RV.230)
Fabio Biondi (violin), Europa Galante

05:01 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Prelude (Act 1 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg')
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

05:11 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Adagio and allegro in A flat major, Op 70
Lise Berthaud (viola), Adam Laloum (piano)

05:19 AM
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543)
Credo, Missa dominicalis (L'homme arme)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble

05:30 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Robert Levin (arranger)
Larghetto and Allegro in E flat, KV deest
Soós-Haag Piano Duo (piano duo)

05:42 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Morgen (Op.27 No.4)
Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Lazar Shuster (violin), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor)

05:46 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
4 Piano Pieces Op 1
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)

05:59 AM
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Rondo brillant for piano and orchestra in A major Op 56
Rudolf Macudzinski (piano), Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ludovit Rajter (conductor)

06:19 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Toccata per cembalo d'ottava siete in D minor (Napoli 1723)
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

06:39 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Les Biches, suite from the ballet (1939-1940)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)


SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m000n04q)
Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.


SAT 09:00 Record Review (m000n04s)
Mozart Mass in C minor in Building a Library with Simon Heighes and Andrew McGregor

9.00am

Peter Breiner: Slovak Dances, Naughty and Sad
Stanislav Palúch (violin)
Boris Lenko (accordion)
Slovak Philharmonic
Peter Breiner (conductor)
Naxos 8574184-85 (2 CDs)
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.574184-85

JS Bach: Motets and works by Praetorius, Bertolusi, Gallus & Gabrieli
Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon (director)
Harmonia Mundi HMM902657
http://www.harmoniamundi.com/#!/albums/2647

Robert Schumann: ‘Stille Liebe’, Lieder
Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone)
Joseph Middleton (piano)
Harmonia Mundi HMN916114
http://www.harmoniamundi.com/#!/albums/2651

Wind Quintets By Dubugnon, Taffanel, Holst & Françaix
Monet Quintett
Avi Music AVI8553008
https://avi-music.de/html/2020/3008.html

Bizet - Sans Paroles: piano works by Bizet & Saint-Saëns
Nathanaël Gouin (piano)
Mirare MIR452

9.30am Building a Library

Simon Heighes chooses his favourite recording of Mozart's Mass in C minor, K427, 'Great'.

Mozart never finished his C minor Mass: it might have been the turmoil surrounding his resignation from the service of the bane of his life, the Archbishop of Salzburg, or the business of his recent marriage to Constanze Weber in 1782 (his father was against it). But what there is of it is magnificent, including grand choruses harking back to the great choral works of Handel and Bach. And there is some ravishingly sensuous music for the two sopranos (and woodwind), the kind of thing that Stravinsky sniffily characterised as 'rococo-operatic sweets-of-sin'.

10.15am New Releases

Mozart, Hummel & Beethoven: Concerto, Sonate, Symphony
Anna Besson (flute)
Cecilia Bernardini (violin)
Marcus van den Munckhof (cello)
Aurélia Visovan (pianoforte)
Ricercar RIC417
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/mozart-hummel-beethoven-concerto-sonate-symphony-ric417

The Singing Guitar: Esmail, Muhly, Smith, Johnson
Estelí Gomez (soprano)
Conspirare
Douglas Harvey (cello)
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Texas Guitar Quartet
Austin Guitar Quartet
Craig Hella Johnson (director)
Delos DE 3595
https://delosmusic.com/recording/the-singing-guitar/

Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516
Adrien La Marca (viola)
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Alpha ALPHA587
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/string-quintets-k-515-516-alpha587

Jake Heggie: Unexpected Shadows
Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano)
Matt Haimovitz (cello)
Jake Heggie (piano)
Pentatone PTC5186836
http://www.pentatonemusic.com/jamie-barton-jake-heggie-unexpected-shadows-matt-haimovitz

10.45am New Releases

Kate Molleson has been listening to new orchestral albums including music by Mozart, Janáček, Kalevi Aho and Gloria Bruni.

Orchestral Suites by Sergei Prokofiev & Aram Khachaturian
Zagreb Philharmonic
Dmitri Kitayenko (conductor)
Oehms OC471 (2 CDs)
https://www.oehmsclassics.de/interpret/7227/Dmitrij_Kitajenko?erweitertesuche=true

Bruni: Symphony No. 1
Radio Symphony Choir & Orchestra Minsk
Wilhelm Kittel (conductor)
Rondeau ROP6177
https://www.rondeau.de/Neuerscheinungen/Sinfonia-N-I-Ringparabel::480.html

Kalevi Aho: Sieidi & Symphony No. 5
Colin Currie (percussion)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk and Jaan Ots (conductors)
BIS BIS2336 (Hybrid SACDs)
https://bis.se/performers/currie-colin/kalevi-aho-sieidi-symphony-no5

Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5
Baiba Skride (violin)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Eivind Aadland (conductor)
Orfeo C997201 (2 CDs)

Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta*
Lucy Crowe (soprano, Vixen)
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone, Forester)
Sophia Burgos (soprano, Fox)
Jan Martiník (bass, Badger/Parson)
Peter Hoare (tenor, Mosquito/Rooster/Schoolmaster)
Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass-baritone, Harašta)
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
LSO Live LSO0850 (2 Hybrid SACDs)
https://lsolive.lso.co.uk/collections/all-products/products/janacek-the-cunning-little-vixen-sinfonietta

*review of Sinfonietta only

11.15am Record of the Week

Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
B’Rock Orchestra
René Jacobs (conductor)
Pentatone PTC5186759 (Hybrid SACD)
http://www.pentatonemusic.com/rene-jacobs-b-rock-schubert-symphonies-2-3


SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m000n04v)
Changing perspectives

Kate Molleson speaks to the Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan about a new scheme to help support young artists share the stage with the world’s leading soloists, and grant young professional conductors opportunities to lead an orchestra during rehearsals. We also hear another instalment from our ‘Musicians in our time’ series, and are joined this week by guitarist Sean Shibe who shares his reflections about the impact of the pandemic on his life plans, the way he plays, and why he’s choosing alternative repertoire. The rock critic Paul Morley, who made his reputation in the 1970s and 1980s writing about Manchester punk, post-punk and New Pop, tells Kate what happened when he set out to rewrite the entire history of classical music. And Music Matters joins the sitar player Baluji Shrivastav and musicians from his Inner Vision Orchestra - the UK’s only professional ensemble of blind and visually impaired musicians – who describe how the mechanics of hearing and their experiences of making music have changed during lockdown.

SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m000n04x)
Jess Gillam with... Robert Reid Allan

Jess Gillam and composer Robert Reid Allan share Glenn Gould playing Brahms, film music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Sufjan Stevens, new music by composer Oliver Leith, and South African soprano Pumeza singing a Scottish song of diversity and inclusion.


SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m000n04z)
Composer Hannah Kendall explores the notes between the notes

Hannah Kendall has composed music for various orchestras, ensembles and choirs throughout the UK, and her new piece Tuxedo: Vasco 'de' Gama opened the 2020 live BBC Proms with its world premiere. In 2015 Hannah won the Women of the Future Award for Arts and Culture.

Today Hannah explains how Mahan Esfahani’s recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations transformed the way she heard them, and explores the fluttery flute writing in Tania León’s Alma.

She also talks about the effect a space can have on a sound and treats us to the virtuosic tuba playing that changed her whole view of the instrument.

A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3


SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m000n051)
History - according to the cinema

Matthew Sweet marks the release of the new Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter 'Bill and Ted' adventure - 'Bill and Ted Face The Music' - with a selection of scores for movies which tackle historical subjects, often with a rather imaginative take on the past. Travelling from the present day back through time he draws on music from 'The Crown', 'Darkest Hour', 'Battle of the Bulge', 'The Imitation Game', 'Downfall' 'Khartoum', 'Free State of Jones', 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', 'Jefferson in Paris', 'Elizabeth' , 'Braveheart', 'Cleopatra'. The Classic Score of the Week is Mario Nascimbene's music for 'One Million Years BC' . The programme also features music by David Mark Isham for the new Bill and Ted adventure.


SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m000n053)
With Lopa Kothari and a Road Trip to China

Lopa Kothari introduces new tracks from across the globe, kora player Seckou Keita recalls a song from 1980s Senegal for the BBC Music Memories project, and Mu Xian takes us on a Road Trip to Xinjiang. Plus a tribute to Angolan singer Waldemar Bastos.


SAT 17:00 J to Z (m000n055)
Verneri Pohjola in concert and Jaga Jazzist

Julian Joseph presents live music from one of the stars of the Finnish jazz scene, trumpeter Verneri Pohjola, who performs music from his atmospheric latest album, The Dead Don't Dream.

Also in the programme, Lars Horntveth of cult Norwegian band Jaga Jazzist shares some of the music that has shaped their genre-busting sound. And Julian plays a mix of classic tracks and the best new releases.

Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin’ Else.


SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m000n057)
Beethoven's Fidelio from Garsington Opera

A rare chance to hear this exclusive semi-staged performance of Beethoven's opera, Fidelio from Garsington. The perfect story for our times, this thrilling opera revolves around the triumph of love, courage and freedom over oppression and isolation.

The soprano Katherine Broderick takes on the role of Leonore, who bravely disguises herself as a young man Fidelio in order to rescue her unfairly jailed husband Florestan, sung by tenor Toby Spence. Douglas Boyd conducts members of the Philharmonia Orchestra in a specially arranged orchestration of Beethoven's masterpiece.

Presented by Kate Molleson
Recorded September 2020

Leonore.....Katherine Broderick (Soprano)
Florestan.....Toby Spence (Tenor)
Rocco.....Stephen Richardson (Bass)
Don Pizarro.....Andrew Foster-Williams (Bass)
Marzelline.....Galina Averina (Soprano)
Jaquino.....Trystan Llyr Griffiths (Tenor)
Don Fernando.....Richard Burkhard (Baritone)
First Prisoner.....Richard Pinkstone (Tenor)
Second Prisoner.....Thomas D Hopkinson (Bass)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Garsington Opera Chorus
Douglas Boyd (Conductor)

Leonore, disguised as a man named Fidelio, has secured a post
at the prison where she suspects her husband, Florestan, is being
illegally incarcerated. Marzelline, the daughter of chief gaoler,
Rocco, has fallen in love with Fidelio, much to the annoyance of
fellow employee Jaquino.

Fidelio persuades Rocco to share supervision of the inmates.
Upon overhearing plans to kill the prisoner in solitary confinement,
Fidelio secures permission to assist in preparing the grave.
Deprived of light, air, nourishment and liberty, Florestan considers
his hopeless situation, seeing a vision of Leonore leading him to
freedom. Upon hearing his voice, Fidelio recognises her husband,
reveals herself as Leonore and threatens the governor, Pizarro,
with a gun.

At that very moment, the Minister arrives and announces a pardon
for all prisoners, allowing Leonore finally to release her beloved
Florestan.


SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m000n059)
Klangor and songs of meat

Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, including a specially recorded studio session by Apartment House.

Julius Eastman: Joy Boy
Kory Reeder: Blue Colour Field Tryptic
Jurga Šarapova: Songs of Meat
Apartment House
Lidia Zielinska: Klangor
SWR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tito Ceccherini
Sean Clancy and Andy Ingamells: This Is About
Gloria Coates: Violin Sonata no.2
Carolin Widman (violin)
Olivia Block: Flue



SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2020

SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000n05c)
Remembering Gary Peacock

Corey Mwamba reflects on the exploratory bass playing of the late Gary Peacock. The anchor to many great ensembles including 30 years with Keith Jarrett’s standards trio, he was an incredibly versatile player, comfortable with every style of jazz. Corey selects a track from his 1981 album with saxophonist Jan Gabarek, drummer Jack DeJohnette and trumpeter Tomasz Stanko: Voice from the Past - Paradigm.

Plus, a selection from a suite of improvised viola duets by Mat Maneri and Tanya Kalmanovitch and a 1976 session from The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a black music ensemble founded in Los Angeles by Horace Tapscott in 1961 which is still going strong today.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000n05f)
Vive la musique!

An inspired mix of Romanian and French music performed on the famous Stradivarius Elder-Voicu violin by Alexandre Tomescu with harpist Delphine Benhamou. Jonathan Swain presents.

01:01 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955), Delphine Benhamou (arranger)
Ballade
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

01:05 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Delphine Benhamou (arranger)
Six Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

01:13 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Delphine Benhamou (arranger)
Le Cygne (The Swan), from 'The Carnival of the Animals'
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

01:17 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Fantasy for Violin and Harp, Op 124
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

01:32 AM
Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Delphine Benhamou (arranger)
Méditation, from 'Thaïs'
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

01:38 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Delphine Benhamou (arranger)
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor, Op 28
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

01:48 AM
Sabina Ulubeanu (b.1979)
Pas Encore, for violin and harp
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

01:55 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Delphine Benhamou (arranger)
Tzigane
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

02:06 AM
Ciprian Porumbescu (1853-1883), Delphine Benhamou (arranger)
Ballade
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

02:11 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Delphine Benhamou (arranger)
Clair de lune, from 'Suite bergamasque'
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Delphine Benhamou (harp)

02:17 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Satrarii, Suite for Orchestra, Op 2 (1934)
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)

02:42 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonata for violin and piano in G major
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

03:01 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Hail, Bright Cecilia: Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Z.328
Grace Davidson (soprano), Alex Potter (counter tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Damien Guillon (counter tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Samuel Boden (tenor), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe (director)

03:53 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Eduard Lassen (librettist)
Lose Himmel, meine seele (S.494)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

03:59 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in E minor
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)

04:10 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Overture (Egmont, Op 84)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Arthur Fagen (conductor)

04:20 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
'Misera, dove son!' (scena) and 'Ah! non son'io che parlo' (aria). K369
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rene Jacobs (conductor)

04:26 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849), Niccolo Paganini (arranger)
Nocturne in D major (original in E flat), Op 9 no 2
Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Marta Gulyas (piano)

04:31 AM
Vaino Raitio (1891-1945)
Joutsenet (Op.15) (1919)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor)

04:39 AM
John Thomas (1826-1913)
The minstrel's adieu to his native land for harp
Rita Costanzi (harp)

04:47 AM
Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739)
Cumbées, Gallardes
Simone Vallerotonda (guitar)

04:53 AM
Johann Rosenmuller (1619-1684)
Sonata Duodecima a 5 Stromenti da Arco & Altri
OH! Orkiestra Historyczna, Martyna Pastuszka (conductor)

05:01 AM
Lepo Sumera (1950-2000)
Pala aastast 1981 (A Piece from 1981)
Kadri-Ann Sumera (piano)

05:08 AM
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
To be sung of a summer night on the water for chorus (RT.4.5)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (conductor)

05:14 AM
Bongani Ndodana-Breen (b.1975)
Harmonia Ubuntu
Goitsemang Oniccah Lehobye (soprano), Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)

05:24 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Sonatina for cello & piano
Laszlo Mezo (cello), Lorant Szucs (piano)

05:33 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)

05:49 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 14 in C sharp minor 'Quasi una fantasia' (Moonlight) Op 27 no 2
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)

06:05 AM
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954)
The Glass Mountain - suite from the opera Op.39b
BBC Concert Orchestra, Johannes Wildner (conductor)

06:31 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio No 7 (Essercizii Musici)
Camerata Koln, Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba), Ghislaine Wauters (viola da gamba), Yasunori Imamura (theorbo), Sabine Bauer (organ)

06:38 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat (K449)
Maria Joao Pires (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000mxss)
Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m000mxsv)
Sarah Walker with an exhilarating musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Sarah begins with beguiling harmony from Rodrigo Martinez, continues with some curious chromaticism with Monteverdi and The Sixteen and ends with Leonard Bernstein’s life affirming operetta, Candide.

She also takes us to an idyllic spot in Suffolk before dancing in Italy with Francesca Caccini.

Plus, an unpredictable and little known piano sonata by Schubert.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m000mxsx)
Jack Klaff

Jack Klaff’s first movie was Star Wars: a two-day booking for which he was paid £250. Star Wars fans still write to ask him for his autograph. But to focus on that one film from 1976 is to miss the rich variety of an acting and directing career that has taken in Shakespeare, James Bond, Chekhov and Midsomer Murders, alongside writing more than a dozen one-man shows for television and the stage. He’s also been involved for thirty years in the public understanding of science, working both in a think-tank in Brussels and as a visiting professor in the US.

Brought up in South Africa and the son of a watch-maker, Jack now lives in South London, where he’s set up a home studio so he can do Zoom productions of Beckett. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, he looks back critically at the way he was brought up during Apartheid, and how he was affected when his uncle and aunt were imprisoned as political dissidents by the South African regime. And he talks about what it was like recording Star Wars – a franchise then so unknown that his agent put the booking in the diary as “Stan Wars”.

His playlist includes Schubert’s much-loved String Quintet, in a recording he loves from 1956; Yo-Yo Ma playing “Hoedown” with Bobby McFerrin; a late string quartet by Beethoven; Maria Callas in La Traviata; the African song Shosholoza; and Danny Kaye making fun of Russian composers.

Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0000xjc)
New Generation Artist Gallery

The second of four recitals from the archive, given at London's Wigmore Hall by former Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Today, Franco-Spanish guitarist Thibaut Garcia plays works by Barrios Mangoré, Bach and Tansman.

Barrios Mangoré: La Catedral
Tansman : Inventions (Hommage à Bach); Passacaille
Bach: Two-Part Inventions Nos 7, 8 ,9, & 10; Allemande from English Suite No.3 in G minor; Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor

Thibaut Garcia (guitar)

Bach continues to be an inspiration to today’s musicians, including the Franco-Spanish BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, who plays the great Chaconne from the D minor Partita alongside a Bach tribute by Franco- Polish Alexandre Tansman.

First broadcast on 29 October 2018.


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000mxsz)
Gesualdo in Rome

Highlights from a concert of madrigals by the notorious, murderous and revolutionary Carlo Gesualdo, performed in Rome last year by Les Arts Florissants.

Madrigals were by far the most important form of secular music in Gesualdo's time. The lyrics were passionate, sentimental and often highly erotic. Surrounded by some of Italy’s finest musicians, Gesualdo became enormously productive, publishing his first two madrigal books in 1594. His third book – written as his mental state began to seriously unravel – displays the intense contrasts and dark, unconventional dissonances that have made him almost into a cult figure these days.

Presented by Lucie Skeaping.

Gesualdo: Excerpts from 'Secondo Libro de' Madrigali a cinque voci'
2. Hai rotto e sciolto e spento
7a. O come è gran martire
7b. O mio soave ardore
14. Non mi toglia il ben mio

Gesualdo: Terzo libro de' Madrigali a cinque voci
1a. Voi volete ch’io mora - 1b. moro, o non moro?
2. Ahi, disperata vita
3. Languisco e moro
4. Del bel de’ bei vostr’occhi
5. Ahi, dispietata e cruda
6. Dolce spirto d’amore
7a. Sospirava il mio core
7b. O mal nati messagi e mal intesi
8. Veggio sì dal mio sole
9. «Non t’amo», o voce ingrata
10a. Meraviglia d’amore
10b. Ed ardo e vivo, dolce aura gradita
11. Crudelissima doglia
12. Se piange, ohimè, la donna del mio core
13. Ancidetemi pur, grievi martiri
14. Se vi miro pietosa
15. Deh, se già fu crudele al mio martire
16. Dolcissimo sospiro
17. Donna, se m’ancidete


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000mq67)
Portsmouth Cathedral

From Portsmouth Cathedral.

Introit: View me Lord (Lloyd)
Responses: Rose
Office hymn: Lord of beauty (St Audrey)
Psalms 114, 115 (Tonus Peregrinus, Camidge)
First Lesson: Proverbs 2 vv.1-15
Canticles: Hereford Service (Lloyd)
Second Lesson: Colossians 1 vv.9-20
Anthem: Like as the hart (Howells)
Hymn: When in our music God is glorified (Engelberg)
Voluntary: The Planets (Venus the Bringer of Peace) (Holst, arr. Wills)

David Price (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Sachin Gunga (Sub-Organist).


SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000mxt1)
27/09/20

Alyn Shipton plays your Jazz Record Requests.


SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m000ml8z)
Tom Service looks under the bonnet at musical climaxes and crescendos. How do composers negotiate the musical drama to often devastating beauty and power?


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000mxt3)
Wordsworth's World

Noma Dumezweni reads from the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, and Roger Ringrose reads a selection of her brother's poems in a programme marking the anniversary of the Lakeland poet (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850).

Dorothy's journals are a unique insight into everyday life for the Wordsworth siblings at Grasmere, and in this edition you can hear Dorothy's rich descriptions of locations and events, set against the poems they inspired in William, including Lines Written in Early Spring and Composed upon Westminster Bridge. The musical backdrop includes Wordsworth's contemporary Beethoven, but also features music by Fanny Mendelssohn (who, like Dorothy, knew about having a celebrated sibling), Benjamin Britten and Schubert.

Producer: Georgia Mann


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m000mxt5)
The Kershaw Tapes - Andy's Kitchen and On the Road in the Americas

During the 1980s and 1990s, DJ Andy Kershaw travelled around Africa and the Americas searching out great music and taping it on his Walkman Pro, a new broadcast-quality cassette recorder that was bringing about a revolution in mobile recording. He also used it to capture his celebrated Kitchen Sessions, held in his small flat in Crouch End. In the second of two features, Andy delves into his boxes of cassettes and brings us music from his journeys in the USA and the Caribbean, including his visit to Cajun country, a session with the Jolly Boys in Jamaica, his encounter with street singer Ted Hawkins in Los Angeles, and his interview with Trinidadian calypso legend The Roaring Lion. Plus Kitchen Sessions with Cuban singer Celina Gonzales and SE Rogie from Sierra Leone.


SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m000mxt7)
Christabel

Part of Contains Strong Language, the BBC's poetry and spoken word festival taking place in Cumbria and online this weekend.

In Coleridge's original poem Christabel started in 1797, a young girl meets a mysterious woman and invites her in to her castle, though all portents – dog, water, bell – strike against her. Inside, in bed, something mysterious and unmistakably sexual happens...

Siblings Sam and Bella, in lockdown in the Lake District in spring 2020 decide to make a podcast of a text being studied for exams, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's unfinished poem Christabel. Sam, a young performance poet, like Coleridge at the same age, has an interest in drugs and what they make you see. Bella - forthright, precious, anxious – like Christabel, has a dog, though rather a small one, and the ghost of a mother.

Sam and Bella take their podcast outside, into woods and a graveyard and encounter another mysterious, Romantic element – the lake and the landscape around it. In this play, the hills and waters have a voice, the Choir of St Leoline, there to tell Sam and Bella something about themselves – though also to have some fun on the way.

Both Sam and Bella are in thrall to a third, mysterious character, Taylor, a musician who Sam found beside a lake and brought home for lockdown. Who she might be, or what, is the recurrent question of the play, just as ‘who is Geraldine’ is the central question of Christabel.

CAST
Sam ..... Luke Wright
Bella ..... Phia Saban
Taylor ..... Krissi Bohn

With specially composed music by Katie Chatburn performed by Juice and Bellatrix.

Directed by Susan Roberts
A BBC Drama North production


SUN 20:50 Record Review Extra (m000mxt9)
Mozart's Mass in C minor

Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including the complete recommended version of the Building a Library work, Mozart's Mass in C minor,K427, 'Great'.


SUN 23:00 A History of Black Classical Music (m000j96f)
A Great and Noble Music

In this second programme of this series, in which British composer Eleanor Alberga charts the contribution that black composers have made to the story of western classical music, the focus is America, and how “black pride and identity” have helped to shape American classical music from the turn of the 20th century to the present day.

In the early 1890s, Antonin Dvorak was invited to the country to help establish an American national music. “With the negro melodies of America”, he said, “I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music”. There were several black classical composers who emerged at this time, and their music is often characterised by the use of spirituals; an example is the music of William Levi Dawson.

“The history of black people in America can never be divorced from the story of slavery”, and Eleanor continues her story with a look at the impact on American culture of the ‘Northern Migration’ of black people from the south and the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance. She features music by Lawrence Freeman, William Grant Still, Margaret Bonds, Julia Perry and Margaret Price.

There can be no denying that the ‘black experience’ has proved an important catalyst for expression amongst black American composers, but as Eleanor is at pains to point out, this is “a story of composers who, like myself, just happen to be black”. It is a not sub-genre of composition; the contribution that black classical composers make to the music of America is as broad as music itself. She foregrounds contrasting examples of American classical music from composers such as Adolphus Hailstork, Florence Price, George Walker, Julius Eastman, Jeffrey Mumford and Jonathan Bailey Holland.




MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2020

MON 00:00 Sounds Connected (m000mxtc)
Part 3: Linton Stephens

Linton Stephens presents a chain of unexpected musical connections.

A new voice to BBC Radio 3, Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra. He has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.


MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000mxtf)
Early Thanksgiving

The Minnesota Orchestra at the BBC Proms in 2018. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Candide overture
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

12:36 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Piano Concerto in F major
Inon Barnatan (piano), Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (soloist)

01:11 AM
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Symphony No 2
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

01:52 AM
Traditional African, Jaakko Kuusisto (arranger)
Shosholoza
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

01:55 AM
Thomas Wiggins (1849-1908)
Battle of Manassas (1861)
John Davis (piano)

02:03 AM
Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
Rothko Chapel (1971)
Karen Philips (viola), James Holland (percussion), Gregg Smith Singers (misc voice), Gregg Smith (conductor)

02:31 AM
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)
Quartet for strings No.2
Musicians from the Chamber Music Conference and Composer's Forum of the East

02:54 AM
Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
Harp Suite (1952-1977)
David Tannenbaum (guitar), William Winant (percussion), Scott Evans (percussion), Joel Davel (drums)

03:09 AM
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Violin Concerto, Op 14
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

03:33 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Kirchen-Sonate in B flat, K212
Royal Academy of Music Beckett Ensemble, Patrick Russill (conductor)

03:39 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings, D438
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman (director)

03:53 AM
Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758)
Symphonia No 20 in E minor
Stockholm Antiqua

04:02 AM
Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694)
Sei, lieber Tag, willkommen
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director)

04:08 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934), David Passmore (arranger)
Salut d'Amour
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)

04:11 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Overture (Agrippina); 'Son contenta di morire' (Radamisto)
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

04:20 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Leonore Overture No 1, Op 138
Sinfonia Iuventus, Rafael Payare (conductor)

04:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
St.Paul, Op 36, Overture
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (soloist), Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

04:38 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sept chansons
Swedish Radio Choir, Par Fridberg (conductor)

04:50 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Hob:15.29
Kungsbacka Trio

05:07 AM
Victor Herbert (1859-1924)
The Fortune Teller (Excerpts)
Eastman-Dryden Orchestra, Donald Hunsberger (conductor)

05:16 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No 23 in F Minor, Op 57, 'Appassionata'
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)

05:39 AM
Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Fantastic scherzo for orchestra, Op 25
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)

05:53 AM
Leander Schlegel (1844-1913)
Violin Sonata, Op 34 (1910)
Candida Thompson (violin), David Kuyken (piano)

06:16 AM
Horatio Parker (1863-1919)
A Northern Ballad (1899)
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi (conductor)


MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000n08b)
Monday - Petroc's classical alternative

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000n08d)
Ian Skelly

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music written for the flute.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.


MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006m0y)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

Lessons in Life

Donald Macleod explores Carl Nielsen’s world view through his music. Today - the Helios Overture and part of his Second Symphony.

You’ll find a clue as to Carl Nielsen’s character in any number of photographs that show him smiling; they include snaps of him taken as a young man in which he’s cheekily pulling funny faces for the camera. They’re far removed from the formal portraiture one might expect of Denmark’s foremost composer. As well as a good sense of humour, these unselfconscious poses reveal an open, inquisitive fascination with the world around him. Looking back at his life in 1925, at the age of 60, Nielsen recognised this trait in himself. “From my childhood”, he wrote, “I have been full of an oddly intense curiosity which has made me see something interesting in every human creature.” His talent for observation acted as a powerful stimulus to Nielsen’s musical mind.

Across the week Donald explores how the world around him fed into Nielsen’s music. Excerpts from five of his symphonies reveal some of his most profound thinking on life, while his major choral works Hymnus Amoris and Springtime in Funen - which directly relate to his rural childhood - show a more personal side of his character. Ever the keen observer, there’s comedy and drama and even a musical portrait of chickens to be found in his operas.

Life and motion stimulated Nielsen's musical imagination in a variety of contrasting ways. Today Donald explores some of those avenues and the music these experiences stimulated.

Maskarade: Overture
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Violin concerto, Op.33 (Rondo: Allegretto scherzando)
Dong-Suk Kang, violin
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

Frihed er det bedste guld
Ars Nova Copenhagen
Michael Bojesen, conductor

Helios Overture
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor

Afflictus Sum (3 Motets)
Canzone Choir
Frans Rasmussen, director


MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000n08g)
Haydn and Shostakovich

Live from the Wigmore Hall: the Carducci String Quartet plays works by Haydn and Shostakovich.

The nickname for Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 2 comes from the composer wrong-footing his audience, especially in its sequence of false endings. The Carducci String Quartet combine it here with Shostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet, influenced by the famous gallop from Rossini’s William Tell Overture.

Haydn: String Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2 'The Joke'

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 9 in E flat Op. 117


MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000n08j)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Penny Gore presents a week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme includes a chance to hear Schumann's theatrical oratorio, Scenes from Goethe's Faust, with a top line-up of soloists including Christian Gerhaher as Faust and Christiane Karg as Gretchen. Plus Haydn's Symphony No 102 conducted by Iván Fischer

2pm
Schumann Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
Faust… Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Gretchen… Christiane Karg (soprano)
Louise Alder (soprano)
Ann Hallenberg (contralto)
Ariel … Werner Güra (tenor)
Tareq Nazmi (bass)
Mephistopheles… Kurt Rydl (bass)
Netherlands Chamber Choir
National Children’s Choir
Laurens Collegium Rotterdam
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

c.3.50pm
Haydn Symphony No 102 in B flat, Hob.1:102
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Iván Fischer (conductor)


MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000n08l)
Historia di Jephte

Penny Gore continues the afternoon Royal Concertgebouw theme with another Dutch performance, from the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Christophe Rousset conducts Les Talens Lyriques in Carissimi's early baroque oratorio, Historia di Jephte, based on the story of Jephthah in the Old Testament Book of Judges.

Carissimi: Historia di Jephte
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset (conductor)


MON 17:00 In Tune (m000n08n)
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, Jacqui Dankworth & Charlie Wood

Katie Derham talks to Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason about her new book 'House of Music': an account of how she raised a family of internationally-renowned musicians. Today's Home Session is by the jazz vocalist Jacqui Dankworth with pianist Charlie Wood.


MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b0b98b4z)
Classical music for focus and inspiration

In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. Tonight's edition includes a lullaby by Arvo Pärt, the extraordinary sound of uilleann pipes, and John Philip Sousa having some fun with Gershwin.

Produced by David Fay.


MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000n08s)
Israel Philharmonic

Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic in works by Beethoven, Haydn and Tchaikovsky in a concert recorded in Vienna's gorgeous Musikverein concert hall in October 2018.

Beethoven's dramatic overture and Tchaikovsky's most searing symphonic work frame a delightful oddity by Joseph Haydn. Written in London in 1792, his quirkily tuneful Sinfonia Concertante features a unique line-up of soloists including both strings and woodwinds.

7.30pm
Beethoven
Coriolan Overture

Haydn
Sinfonia Concertante in B flat

8.00pm
Interval:
Poulenc
Sextet for piano and winds
Nash Ensemble

8.20pm
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 in B minor

David Radzynski, violin
Emanuele Silvestri, cello
Dudu Carmel, oboe
Daniel Mazaki, bassoon
Israel Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor

Presented by Fiona Talkington.


MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000n04v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 on Saturday]


MON 22:45 The Essay (m0001xjk)
An Ode to John Keats

Alice Oswald on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn

1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest and most frequently anthologised odes in the English language, fresh-minting phrases now in common use , such as "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....","Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." and "O, for a beaker full of the warm South....."

All this week, leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode, explaining what it means to them.

From her home in rural Devon, Alice Oswald brings together her unique blend of poetic sensibility, classical scholarship and personal impressions as she explores Keats' great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn.

Classically educated poet and former gardener Alice Oswald has won many awards and is commonly considered to be amongst the greatest poets writing in English today.

Producer: Beaty Rubens


MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000n08v)
Music for midnight

Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.



TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2020

TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000n08x)
Illness and hope

A special coronavirus concert from Denmark with music by composers influenced by illness in their lives. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47 (Sostenuto assai - Allegro Ma Non Troppo)
Ensemble Midtvest

12:40 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Dinu Lipatti (arranger)
Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K 377 (L. 263)
Ensemble Midtvest

12:44 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin (Forlane: Allegretto)
Martin Qvist-Hansen (piano)

12:51 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in D, K 285 (Rondo)
Ensemble Midtvest

12:56 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Fantasia No 1 in D minor, Z 732
Ensemble Midtvest

12:59 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Phantasy, Op 2
Ensemble Midtvest

01:13 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Der Leiermann (Winterreise, D 311) for bassoon and piano
Ensemble Midtvest

01:18 AM
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Louange à l’Eternité de Jésus (Quatuor pour la fin du Temps)
Ensemble Midtvest

01:25 AM
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Le Roi Danse - suite
Ars Barocca

01:45 AM
Antonio Rosetti (c.1750-1792)
Concerto for 2 horns and orchestra in E flat (K.3.53)
Jozef Illes (horn), Jan Budzak (horn), Chamber Association of Slovakian Radio, Vlastimil Horak (conductor)

02:04 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Tod und Verklärung , Op 24
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

02:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Octet in F (D.803)
Niklas Andersson (clarinet), Henrik Blixt (bassoon), Hans Larsson (horn), Jannica Gustafsson (violin), Martin Stensson (violin), Hakan Olsson (viola), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Maria Johansson (double bass)

03:30 AM
Ramona Luengen (b.1960)
O Lacrimosa (1993)
Phoenix Chamber Choir, Ramona Luengen (conductor)

03:44 AM
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Toccata Octava in G (Apparatus musico-organisticus, 1690)
Marcel Verheggen (organ)

03:52 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)

04:07 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Ricercar a 3 from the Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano)

04:13 AM
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto Grosso in G minor
Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director), Andrew Manze (violin)

04:21 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Prague Waltzes B.99
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)

04:31 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Bruit de Guerre
Hungarian Brass Ensemble

04:34 AM
Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Timothy Kain (arranger)
Hoe Down - from "Rodeo" arr. for 4 guitars
Guitar Trek

04:38 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture from La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

04:49 AM
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Moses fantaisie (after Rossini) arr. unknown for double bass and piano
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)

04:57 AM
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Parade
Pianoduo Kolacny (piano duo)

05:10 AM
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Michael Conway Baker (orchestrator)
Four Irish Songs
Linda Maguire (soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

05:20 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Serenata in vano, FS 68 (for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello & d.bass)
Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)

05:27 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Flute Concerto in G minor, RV 439 ('La notte')
Zug Chamber Soloists

05:38 AM
Miklos Kocsar (b.1933)
Scale, tear! (Halog, hasadj meg!) - folk prayers
Hungarian Radio Choir, Peter Erdei (conductor)

05:44 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in A major, Op 55 no 1
Meta4

06:01 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Variations on an original theme (Enigma) Op 36
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Neville Marriner (conductor)


TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000n0bd)
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 (m000n0bg)
Ian Skelly

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music written for the flute.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.


TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006mhv)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

The Sound of Life

Donald Macleod explores how Carl Nielsen’s childhood fired his musical imagination in his choral work, Springtime in Funen.

You’ll find a clue as to Carl Nielsen’s character in any number of photographs that show him smiling; they include snaps of him taken as a young man in which he’s cheekily pulling funny faces for the camera. They’re far removed from the formal portraiture one might expect of Denmark’s foremost composer. As well as a good sense of humour, these unselfconscious poses reveal an open, inquisitive fascination with the world around him. Looking back at his life in 1925, at the age of 60, Nielsen recognised this trait in himself. “From my childhood”, he wrote, “I have been full of an oddly intense curiosity which has made me see something interesting in every human creature.” His talent for observation acted as a powerful stimulus to Nielsen’s musical mind.

Across the week Donald explores how the world around him fed into Nielsen’s music. Excerpts from five of his symphonies reveal some of his most profound thinking on life, while his major choral works Hymnus Amoris and Springtime in Funen - which directly relate to his rural childhood - show a more personal side of his character. Ever the keen observer, there’s comedy and drama and even a musical portrait of chickens to be found in his operas.

In the second part of his survey Donald dips into Nielsen’s autobiography. While not shying away from the genuine hardship the family endured, it conjures up a warm-hearted, vivid evocation of his childhood years spent on the island of Funen, which in turn he was able to depict musically.

The Cockerel’s Dance (Maskarade)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor

Se dig ud en sommerdag
Ars Nova Copenhagen
Michael Bojesen, conductor

Chaconne, Op.32
Martin Roscoe, piano

Symphony no.3 (1: Allegro espansivo)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Paavo Järvi, conductor

String Quintet in G major (3: Allegretto scherzando)
The Young Danish String Quartet
Tim Frederiksen, viola

Springtime in Funen, Op.42
Asa Baverstam, soprano
Linnéa Ekdahl, soprano
Kjel Magnus Sandve, tenor
Per Hyoer, baritone
Andréas Thors, boy soprano
Stockholm Boys' Choir
Swedish Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor


TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000n0bj)
The Albion Quartet at Wigmore Hall

The Albion Quartet, live at Wigmore Hall.

The Albion Quartet, formed in 2016 and resident at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, present a programme spanning two centuries. The programme concludes with Beethoven's last major work, written just a few months before his death in 1827.

Introduced by Andrew McGregor.

Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet No. 3
Freya Waley-Cohen: Snap Dragon
Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op. 135

Albion Quartet


TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000n0bl)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Penny Gore continues a week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme comprises two full concerts from the orchestra, including two masterpieces of the piano repertoire by Beethoven and Ravel performed by Lang Lang and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

2pm
Wagner Overture to Tannhäuser
Beethoven Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat, Op.19
Lang Lang (piano)

c.2.50pm
Brahms Symphony no.4 in E minor, Op.98
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Paavo Järvi (conductor)

c.3.30pm
Rihm Sostenuto
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

c.4.05pm
Franck Symphony in D minor, Op.48
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Rossini Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Iván Fischer (conductor)


TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000n0bn)
Anna Lapwood, Rebecca Miller

Katie Derham talks to organist and conductor Anna Lapwood about a new recording with the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, featuring choral works by contemporary composers. She is also joined by the conductor Rebecca Miller, to hear about a new, curated series of digital music sessions and masterclasses called Beyond Borders.


TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000n0bq)
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.


TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000n0bs)
James Gilchrist sings Warlock's The Curlew

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales presents music that evokes and explores the modern fascination with renaissance song. Beginning with John Woolrich's reimagining of a Monteverdi aria, featuring viola soloist Becky Jones, we pass on to Judith Bingham's setting of poetry by Blake and dictionary entries by Samuel Johnson in her Strange Words with tenor James Gilchrist and cellist Alice Neary. James Gilchrist will then sing his own arrangements of three Dowland songs, before we revisit some of the same musical material, as presented by Britten in his Lachrymae. Also in the programme are two of Peter Warlock's best-known works: the Capriol Suite, based on melodies from a renaissance dance manual, and The Curlew, his celebrated setting of W B Yeats poems.

7.30pm
Woolrich: Ulysses Awakes
Warlock: The Curlew
Judith Bingham: Strange Words

8.20pm
Interval music

8.40pm
Warlock: Capriol Suite
Dowland, arr Gilchrist: In darkness let me dwell; Flow my tears; If my complaints could passions move
Britten: Lachrymae, Op 48a

Becky Jones (viola)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Alice Neary (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lesley Hatfield (director)


TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000n0bv)
Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020

The tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, having a Jamaican Welsh identity, the idea of freedom and anti-colonial resistance, the alarming rise of youth suicide among Indigenous people in Canada and how a group of pioneering cultural anthropologists – mostly women – shaped our interpretation of the modern world: these are the topics tackled in the shortlist for the 2020 prize for a book fostering global understanding. Rana Mitter talks to the authors.

Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V. Carby
Insurgent Empire – Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen
The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture by Charles King
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga

The international book prize, worth £25,000, and run by the British Academy, rewards and celebrates the best works of non-fiction that have contributed to global cultural understanding, throwing new light on the interconnections and divisions shaping cultural identity worldwide. Over 100 submissions were received and the winner is announced on Tuesday 27 October.

Producer: Karl Bos

The winner in 2019 was Toby Green for A Fistful of Shells – West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution and other previous winners include Kapka Kassabova, Neil MacGregor and Karen Armstrong. You can find interviews with the winenrs and the other shortlisted authors for the 2019 prize (Ed Morales, Julian Baggini, Julia Lovell, Aanchal Malhotra and Kwame Anthony Appiah in this Free Thinking collection https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh


TUE 22:45 The Essay (m0001xwj)
An Ode to John Keats

Sean O'Brien on Ode on Melancholy

In 1819, John Keats wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language. Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.

2. Sean O'Brien on Ode on Melancholy

1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language and actually introduced words and phrases never heard before - "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....", "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....."

The multiple award-winning poet Sean O'Brien explores the depth and meaning of Ode on Melancholy, both uncovering Keats' mastery of the language and sharing how important the poem has been to him personally since the loss of fellow-poet and friend Michael Donaghy, who used to recite the ode by heart.

Producer : Beaty Rubens


TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000n0bx)
The late zone

Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.



WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2020

WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000n0bz)
Beethoven from Vilnius

St Christopher Chamber Orchestra with Modestas Barkauskas and Jan Krzysztof Broja play Chopin and Beethoven. Jonathan Swain presents.

12:31 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, op. 11
Jan Krzysztof Broja (piano), St Christopher Chamber Orchestra, Modestas Barkauskas (conductor)

01:15 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 7 in A, op. 92
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra, Modestas Barkauskas (conductor)

01:58 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for Solo Cello No 6 in D major, BWV 1012
Guy Fouquet (cello)

02:31 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
The Firebird suite (vers. 1945)
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)

03:02 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
String Quartet no.11 in C major, Op.61
Apollon Musagete Quartet

03:40 AM
Clement Janequin (c.1485-1558)
Escoutez tous gentilz (La bataille de Marignon/La guerre)
King's Singers

03:48 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
2 Norwegian Dances, Op 35 nos 1 & 2
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Rouslan Raychev (conductor)

03:58 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Danse sacree et danse profane for harp and strings
Eva Maros (harp), Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bela Drahos (conductor)

04:08 AM
Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Trio Sonata in E flat major
Atrium Musicium Chamber Ensemble

04:16 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Chanson Louis XIII et Pavane in the Style of Couperin
Barnabas Kelemen (violin), Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

04:21 AM
John Ansell (1874-1948)
Nautical Overture
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham (conductor)

04:31 AM
Henricus Albicastro (fl.1700-06)
Concerto a 4, Op 7 no 2
Chiara Banchini (violin), Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (director)

04:39 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Edvard Grieg (arranger)
Sonata for piano in C major, K545 (arr. Grieg)
Julie Adam (piano), Daniel Herscovitch (piano)

04:49 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Prologue from Il Ritorno D'Ulisse in Patria
Dominique Visse (counter tenor), Michael Schopper (bass), Martina Bovet (soprano), Lorraine Hunt (soprano), Concerto Vocale, Rene Jacobs (director)

04:58 AM
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet 'Spartacus' (Act 3)
NRCU Symphony Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor)

05:08 AM
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Introduction and variations on a theme from Mozart's Magic Flute, Op 9
Ana Vidovic (guitar)

05:17 AM
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Lauda Jerusalem (psalm 147, 'How good it is to sing praises to our God')
Concerto Palatino

05:27 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Violin Sonata in A major, M.8
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

05:54 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)

06:05 AM
John Carmichael (b.1930)
Trumpet Concerto (1972)
Kevin Johnston (trumpet), West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham (conductor)


WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000n0fl)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000n0fn)
Ian Skelly

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music written for the flute.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.


WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006msw)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

Art Is Human

Donald Macleod measures the significance of Carl Nielsen’s partnership with his sculptor wife, Anne-Marie Brodersen.

You’ll find a clue as to Carl Nielsen’s character in any number of photographs that show him smiling; they include snaps of him taken as a young man in which he’s cheekily pulling funny faces for the camera. They’re far removed from the formal portraiture one might expect of Denmark’s foremost composer. As well as a good sense of humour, these unselfconscious poses reveal an open, inquisitive fascination with the world around him. Looking back at his life in 1925, at the age of 60, Nielsen recognised this trait in himself. “From my childhood”, he wrote, “I have been full of an oddly intense curiosity which has made me see something interesting in every human creature.” His talent for observation acted as a powerful stimulus to Nielsen’s musical mind.

Across the week Donald explores how the world around him fed into Nielsen’s music. Excerpts from five of his symphonies reveal some of his most profound thinking on life, while his major choral works Hymnus Amoris and Springtime in Funen - which directly relate to his rural childhood - show a more personal side of his character. Ever the keen observer, there’s comedy and drama and even a musical portrait of chickens to be found in his operas.

Nielsen’s family was central to his life as an artist. Meeting Anne-Marie Brodersen and marrying her soon afterwards began a remarkable and enduring association in which Nielsen would find support creatively and personally until his death in 1931.

Five Piano Pieces Op. 3 (Humoresque: Allegretto giocoso)
Martin Roscoe, piano

Little Suite for Strings (Intermezzo)
New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

6 Songs, Op 10
No.1 Aebleblomst
Inger Dam-Jensen, soprano
Ulrich Staerk, piano
No. 2 Erindringens
No. 4 Sang bag ploven
Morten Ernst Lassen, baritone
Ulrich Staerk, piano

Symphony No.1 (Allegro orgoglioso)
San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

Hymnus Amoris
Barbara Bonney, soprano
John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Lars Pedersen, tenor
Michael W. Hansen, baritone
Bo Anker Hansen, bass
The Danish National Radio Choir
Copenhagen Boys’ Choir
The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ulf Schirmer, conductor

Benedictus Dominus (3 Motets)
Canzone Choir
Frans Rasmussen, director


WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000n0fq)
Songs by Beethoven and Schumann

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Imogen Cooper perform Beethoven songs and Robert Schumann's great song cycle, Liederkreis, a product of the concentrated surge of creative energy seemingly unleashed by at last winning the legal case that allowed Robert to marry his beloved Clara Wieck.

Introduced by Georgia Mann.

Beethoven: Resignation WoO 149
Beethoven: Sehnsucht WoO 146
Beethoven: Ich liebe dich WoO 123
Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op 98
Schumann: Liederkreis, Op 39

Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Imogen Cooper (piano)


WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000n0fs)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Penny Gore continues a week of concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme features a concert the orchestra gave back in January; a premiere from Martijn Padding, Simone Lamsma is soloist in Britten's Violin Concerto, and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

2pm
Martijn Padding Softly Bouncing

Britten Violin Concerto, Op.15
Simone Lamsma (violin)

c.2.50pm
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden (conductor)


WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m000n0fv)
Guildford Cathedral

Live from Guildford Cathedral.

Introit: How lovely is your dwelling place (Aston)
Responses: Cecilia McDowall
Psalms 147, 148, 149, 150 (Stanford, Stanford, Lemon, Talbot)
First Lesson: 2 Kings 4 vv.1-7
Canticles: St Paul’s Service (Howells)
Second Lesson: John 2 vv.1-11
Anthem: Christus vincit (James Macmillan)
Hymn: How shall I sing that majesty (Coe Fen)
Voluntary: Symphony I ‘Stella Maris’ (Weitz)

Katherine Dienes-Williams (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Richard Moore (Sub-Organist).


WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000n0fx)
Mariam Batsashvili

Showcasing the BBC New Generation Artists, Mariam Batsashvili plays a Haydn piano sonata, and Anastasia Kobekina plays a short work by the Greek composer Konstantia Gourzi.

Haydn: Piano Sonata in D, HobXVI:37
Mariam Batsashvili (piano)

Konstantia Gourzi: Call of the Bees
Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Lilit Grigoryan (piano)

Brahms: Der Gang zum Liebchen, Op.48 No.1
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano)


WED 17:00 In Tune (m000n0fz)
Sir James MacMillan, Harry Bicket

Katie Derham talks to composer Sir James MacMillan about his Cumnock Tryst Festival, which this year centres around a community project with input from naturalist Chris Packham and writer Alexander McCall Smith among others. Artistic director of The English Concert Harry Bicket also joins Katie, and there's a specially recorded instrumental session from the viola players of the BBC orchestras.


WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000n0g1)
Thirty minutes of classical inspiration

In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.


WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000n0g4)
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Live from Wigmore Hall: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, the hall's new Associate Artists, present a programme that surveys differing aspects of love from the dark hues of Borodin to Barber's young lovers at the start of Dover Beach.

Schubert: Adagio and Rondo concertante in F major D487
Glinka: Doubt
Borodin: The Pretty Girl no longer Loves me
Kate Whitley: This is My Love Poem for You
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Barber: Dover Beach
Korngold: Piano Quintet in E Op. 15

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Matthew Rose (bass)
Elena Urioste (violin)
Savitri Grier (violin)
Rosalind Ventris (viola)
Laura van der Heijden (cello)
Tom Poster (piano)


WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000n0g8)
Cows, farming and our view of nature

From Cuyp's paintings, to Wordsworth's wanderings to modern dairy management and soil fertility - Cumbrian farmer James Rebanks joins Matthew Sweet in a programme marking the anniversary of the poet Wordsworth, who helped shaped attitudes to landscape. Other guests include New Generation Thinker Seán Williams from the University of Sheffield and Professor Karen Sayer from Leeds Trinity University who is writing Farm Animals in Britain, 1850-2001 and is part of a team of academics working on the project https://field-wt.co.uk/

James Rebanks is the author of English Pastoral: An Inheritance; The Shepherd's Life and The Illustrated Herdwick Shepherd.
An exhibition of paintings by Cuyp (1620–1691) at the Dordrechts Museum in Holland will now run from 3 October 2021– 6 March 2022

Producer: Alex Mansfield

You might also be interested in the Free Thinking Collection of episodes Green Thinking which includes discussions about soil, Rachel Carson's influential book Silent Spring, a Free Thinking festival discussion with James Rebanks and anthropologist Veronica Strang, Peter Wohlleben on trees, George Monbiot on the Green Man myth, Chris Packham on music https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zg0r2

You can find a discussion about Wordsworth with the directors of Lancaster University's Wordsworth Centre for the Study of Poetry https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p087kr4n

Radio 3 is broadcasting new writing from the 2020 Contains Strong Language Festival in Cumbria on The Verb and a series of Essays.


WED 22:45 The Essay (m0001yks)
An Ode to John Keats

Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn

1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language and actually introduced words and phrases never heard before - "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....", "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." . Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.

3. Frances Leviston celebrates perhaps Keats' best-loved and most frequently anthologised poem, Ode to Autumn, exploring both its depiction of the bounty of autumn and its forebodings of death.

Producer : Beaty Rubens


WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000n0gd)
A little night music

Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.



THURSDAY 01 OCTOBER 2020

THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000n0gj)
Britten and Shostakovich from Geneva

Violinist Karen Gomyo in Britten's violin concerto with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Jonathan Nott and Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents.

12:31 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Violin Concerto, op. 15
Karen Gomyo (violin), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)

01:04 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Tango Etude No. 4, for violin
Karen Gomyo (violin)

01:09 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975)
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, op. 43
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)

02:14 AM
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960)
Im alten Stil, Op 24 (Suite)
Ilona Prunyi (piano)

02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Trio for piano and strings (Op.97) in B flat major "Archduke"
Macquarie Trio, Charmian Gadd (violin), Michael Goldschlager (cello), Kathryn Selby (piano)

03:11 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Zais Prologue
Collegium Vocale, Ghent, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor), Philippe Herreweghe (director)

03:45 AM
Giovanni Picchi (1572-1643)
3 Ballos - Ballo alla Polacca; Ballo Ongaro; Ballo ditto il Pichi
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

03:52 AM
Karol Rathaus (1895-1954)
Prelude and Gigue in A major for orchestra (Op.44)
Polish National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Joel Suben (conductor)

04:00 AM
Matthias Schmitt (b.1958)
Ghanaia for percussion
Colin Currie (percussion)

04:07 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi (conductor)

04:16 AM
Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694)
Halt was du hast
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier (director)

04:22 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Norwegian artists' carnival Op.14
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)

04:31 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Overture (Sicilian Vespers)
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Raffi Armenian (conductor)

04:40 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
12 Variations for piano in B flat major K.500
Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

04:49 AM
Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)
Excerpt from Pathodia sacra et profana
Anne Grimm (soprano), Peter Kooij (bass), Leo van Doeselaar (organ), Mike Fentross (theorbo), Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba)

04:58 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Trio in B flat D.471
Trio AnPaPie

05:06 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in G minor (K 88) for 2 harpsichords
Dagmara Kapczyńska (harpsichord), Gwennaelle Alibert (harpsichord)

05:15 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975)
7 Dances of the Dolls Op 91b arr. for wind quintet
Academic Wind Quintet

05:26 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Trio no 2 in F major, Op 80
Christopher Krenyak (violin), Jan Insinger (cello), Dido Keuning (piano)

05:52 AM
Giuseppe Maria Cambini (1746-1825)
Trio for flute, oboe and bassoon, Op 45 no 1
Vladislav Brunner jr. (flute), Josef Hanusovsky (oboe), Jozef Martinkovic (bassoon)

06:05 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata no.35 (BWV.35) "Geist und Seele wird verwirret"
Jadwiga Rappe (alto), Concerto Avenna, Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)


THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000mzd1)
Thursday - Petroc's classical mix

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000mzd3)
Ian Skelly

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music written for the flute.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.


THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006m4z)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

Confrontation and Crisis

Donald Macleod considers how Nielsen’s years of crisis led him to create his Fifth Symphony.

You’ll find a clue as to Carl Nielsen’s character in any number of photographs that show him smiling; they include snaps of him taken as a young man in which he’s cheekily pulling funny faces for the camera. They’re far removed from the formal portraiture one might expect of Denmark’s foremost composer. As well as a good sense of humour, these unselfconscious poses reveal an open, inquisitive fascination with the world around him. Looking back at his life in 1925, at the age of 60, Nielsen recognised this trait in himself. “From my childhood”, he wrote, “I have been full of an oddly intense curiosity which has made me see something interesting in every human creature.” His talent for observation acted as a powerful stimulus to Nielsen’s musical mind.

Across the week Donald explores how the world around him fed into Nielsen’s music. Excerpts from five of his symphonies reveal some of his most profound thinking on life, while his major choral works Hymnus Amoris and Springtime in Funen - which directly relate to his rural childhood - show a more personal side of his character. Ever the keen observer, there’s comedy and drama and even a musical portrait of chickens to be found in his operas.

The years surrounding the First World War were difficult personally and creatively for Nielsen. Coming out of this troubling period, deeply affected by the conflict, his Fifth Symphony depicts a struggle between good and evil.

Jens Vejmand (excerpt)
Grammophon Orchestere Copenhagen
Carl Nielsen Jazz Trio
Zenobia
Halfdanskerne
Copenhagen University Choir Lille Muko
Jesper Grove Jørgensen, conductor

Suite, Op 45 for piano (Allegretto un pochettino)
Martin Roscoe, piano

Saga-Dream
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor

Saul and David (excerpt Act 4)
Jørgen Klint, bass, Abner
Aage Haughland, bass, Saul
Kurt Westi, tenor, Jonathan
The Danish National Radio Choir & Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor

String Quartet in F major, Op.44 (1: Allegro non tanto e comodo)
The Young Danish String Quartet

Symphony no 5 (Allegro – Presto – Andante poco tranquillo – Allegro (tempo 1))
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis, conductor


THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000mzd5)
Danny Driver at Wigmore Hall

Live from Wigmore Hall: Danny Driver plays CPE Bach, Schumann and Ligeti.
British pianist Danny Driver presents a typically diverse programme which starts in the rococo and culminates in Schumann's demanding 'symphonic études', a set of variations exploring the timbres and colours of the piano.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

CPE Bach: Sonata in F sharp minor Wq 52 No 4
György Ligeti: Études: Entrelacs; Fanfares
Robert Schumann: Études symphoniques Op 13

Danny Driver (piano)


THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000mzd7)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra LIVE

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs live from City Halls in Glasgow. Britten's Simple Symphony is followed by Shostakovich's more complicated one. Plus a return to this week's Royal Concertgebouw theme, with performances of Mozart, Lutoslawski and Beethoven.

2pm
BBC SSO LIVE, presented by Kate Molleson.

Britten Simple Symphony
Shostakovich Symphony No 14
Elizabeth Atherton (soprano)
Joshua Bloom (bass)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

c.3.25pm
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K. 364
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Iván Fischer (conductor)

c.3.55pm
Lutoslawski Cello Concerto
Gregor Horsch (cello)
Beethoven Symphony no.5 in C minor, Op.67
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)


THU 17:00 In Tune (m000mzd9)
Diana Damrau

Katie Derham talks to German soprano Diana Damrau about her new recording of Donizetti arias with the National Academy of St Cecilia and Sir Antonio Pappano.


THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000n08q)
The perfect classical half hour

In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. Today's sequence includes Ravel's La vallée des cloches in a haunting arrangement by Grainger, and music from Tabakova's Suite in Old Style. Produced by Ellie Mant.


THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000mzdc)
Oxford Lieder Festival 2020: Connections across Time

Like so many festivals, Oxford Lieder has had to reinvent itself for 2020, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. A rich season of live-streamed concerts and events begins on 10 October, but as a curtain-raiser to the main festival, Artistic Director Sholto Kynoch and friends perform live at BBC Maida Vale studios, including Ashley Riches in Schumann's great song cycle Dichterliebe and newly written songs from leading contemporary ensemble The Hermes Experiment.

Introduced by Ian Skelly.

Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48
Ashley Riches (baritone)
Sholto Kynoch (piano)

New works
The Hermes Experiment:
Héloïse Werner (soprano)
Oliver Pashley (clarinet)
Anne Denholm (harp)
Marianne Schofield (double bass)


THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000mzdf)
Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

New critical biographies of Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney and a reissue of Anne Sexton's poems prompt a conversation for National Poetry Day about our image of a poet. Shahidha Bari is joined by New Generation Thinkers Sophie Oliver and Peter Mackay and biographer Heather Clark. And she talks to Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi about her new novel, which mixes modern feminism and Ugandan folk beliefs in the story of Kirabo becoming a woman and moving from village life to the city during the period when Idi Amin expelled the Ugandan Asian minority from the country.

The First Woman is out now. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and her other books are Kintu and the short story collection Manchester Happened.

Mercies: Selected Poems by Anne Sexton is being issued in the Penguin Modern Classics series in November 2020
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster is published by Princeton University Press
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark is out October 2020 from Vintage.

Sophie Oliver teaches at the University of Liverpool researching women and modernist writers including Jean Rhys. She also writes for TLS, Burlington Magazine and The White Review.
Peter Mackay teaches at the University of St Andrews and has published on Sorley MacLean, an anthology An Leabhar Liath: 500 years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse and his own collection of poems Gu Leòr / Galore.

Free Thinking has a playlist of conversations about prose and poetry on the website all available to download as Arts & Ideas podcasts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh

Producer: Emma Wallace


THU 22:45 The Essay (m0001yjy)
An Ode to John Keats

Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language and actually introduced words and phrases never heard before - "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....", "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." "O for a beaker full of the warm South....."

Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.

4. Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

Producer; Beaty Rubens


THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000mzdh)
Music for late-night listening

Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.


THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000mzdk)
Elizabeth Alker with music that defies classification. As part of the spoken word festival, 'Contains Strong Language', Elizabeth talks to writer Helen Mort about her musical collaborations, and composer Sophie Cooper reveals a new piece she's written in response to one of Helen's poems.



FRIDAY 02 OCTOBER 2020

FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000mzdm)
Ernen - Village of Music

A chamber music concert from the festival held in a Swiss mountain village. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936),Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914),Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Fugue in D minor; Sarabande in D minor; Polka in D; Excerpts from 'The Seasons'
Maria Wloszczowska (violin), Joseph Puglia (violin), Timothy Ridout (viola), Xenia Jankovic (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano)

12:56 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Divertimento
Esther Hoppe (violin), Alasdair Beatson (piano)

01:18 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Contrapunctus 8 and 13 from 'The Art of the Fugue', BWV.1080
Maria Wloszczowska (violin), Sally Beamish (viola), Alice Gott (cello)

01:30 AM
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Piano Quintet in E major, Op 15
Daniel Bard (violin), Tim Crawford (violin), Mark Holloway (viola), Chiara Enderle (cello), Paolo Giacometti (piano)

02:01 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

02:31 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Gloria in excelsis Deo, SV 258
Collegium Vocale 1704, Collegium 1704, Vaclav Luks (conductor)

02:43 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Le Temple de la Gloire, orchestral suites opera-ballet (1745)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

03:13 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Suite for keyboard in G minor - 1733 no 6 (HWV.439)
Jautrite Putnina (piano)

03:29 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Agathe's aria 'Und ob die Wolke sie verhulle' from Act III of Der Freischutz
Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

03:35 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) – overture, Op 26
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)

03:46 AM
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Nigun (no 2 from "Baal-shem" 3 pictures from Chassidic life)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)

03:53 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Divertimento in B flat major, K 137
Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi Suzuki (conductor)

04:06 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (arranger)
Meine Freuden
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

04:10 AM
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Introduction, Theme and Variations on Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre, Op 28
Xavier Diaz-Latorre (guitar)

04:21 AM
Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Trio in E flat major (QV 218)
Nova Stravaganza

04:31 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Early one morning for voice and piano
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Paul Turner (piano)

04:35 AM
Juan Crisostomo Arriaga (1806-1826)
Los Esclavos Felices - overture
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

04:42 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Variations on "Deandl is arb auf mi'" for string trio
Leopold String Trio

04:49 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Double Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Mary Utiger (violin), Camerata Koln

05:03 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue (BWV.542) 'Great' (orig. for organ)
Guitar Trek

05:10 AM
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Suite espanola , Op 47
Ilze Graubina (piano)

05:32 AM
Eugen Suchon (1908-1993)
The Night of the Witches, symphonic poem
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mario Kosik (conductor)

05:52 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op 167
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet), Simon Lepper (piano)

06:09 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Nisi Dominus (Psalm 127) for voice and orchestra (RV.608)
Matthew White (counter tenor), Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez Banzo (conductor)


FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000myyr)
Friday - Petroc's classical alarm call

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000myyt)
Ian Skelly

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music written for the flute.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.


FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0006myv)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

Music Is Life

Donald Macleod surveys Nielsen’s postwar years including his Wind Quintet and Fourth Symphony.

You’ll find a clue as to Carl Nielsen’s character in any number of photographs that show him smiling; they include snaps of him taken as a young man in which he’s cheekily pulling funny faces for the camera. They’re far removed from the formal portraiture one might expect of Denmark’s foremost composer. As well as a good sense of humour, these unselfconscious poses reveal an open, inquisitive fascination with the world around him. Looking back at his life in 1925, at the age of 60, Nielsen recognised this trait in himself. “From my childhood”, he wrote, “I have been full of an oddly intense curiosity which has made me see something interesting in every human creature.” His talent for observation acted as a powerful stimulus to Nielsen’s musical mind.

Across the week Donald explores how the world around him fed into Nielsen’s music. Excerpts from five of his symphonies reveal some of his most profound thinking on life, while his major choral works Hymnus Amoris and Springtime in Funen - which directly relate to his rural childhood - show a more personal side of his character. Ever the keen observer, there’s comedy and drama and even a musical portrait of chickens to be found in his operas.

From 1920 onwards the growing popularity of Nielsen’s music abroad presented him with opportunities to travel, including a rather eventful trip to London.

Graeshoppen
Canzone Choir
Frans Rasmussen, director

Wind Quintet: (1: Allegro ben moderato)
Wind Quintet of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Pan og Syrinx, Op.49
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Sonata for violin and piano no 2, Op.35 (2: molto adagio)
Jon Gjesme, violin
Jens Elvekjaer, piano

Maskarade (excerpt from Act 2)
Henriette Bonde-Hansen, soprano, Leonora
Gert-Henning Jensen, tenor, Leander
Marianne Rørholm, mezzo soprano, Pernille
Bo Skovhus, baritone, Henrik
The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ulf Schirmer, conductor

Symphony No.4 (1: Allegro)
San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor


FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000myyw)
Elena Urioste and Tom Poster at Wigmore Hall

Live from Wigmore Hall: Elena Urioste and Tom Poster play Messiaen, Grieg, Clara Schumann, Mark Simpson and Donald Grant.

Husband and wife team the violinist Elena Urioste and the pianist Tom Poster present a concert with a wedding theme including the piece Messiaen wrote as a wedding present for his first wife and the violin sonata Grieg wrote on his honeymoon. Plus the Three Romances of Clara Schumann, half of the most celebrated of musical couples with her husband Robert. Plus works by Mark Simpson and Donald Grant which were written especially for Elena and Tom during their alternative lock-down honeymoon.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Mark Simpson: An Essay of Love (live performance première)
Clara Schumann: 3 Romances Op. 22
Olivier Messiaen: Theme and Variations
Donald Grant: Bha là eile ann (There was a different day)
Edvard Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Op. 13

Elena Urioste (violin)
Tom Poster (piano)


FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000myyy)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Penny Gore concludes her week of performances from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Today's programme features a concert that includes Brett Dean's Trumpet Concerto with soloist Håkan Hardenberger, and a rare chance to hear Scriabin's large-scale symphonic poem Prometheus, scored for piano, chorus and orchestra. Plus a performance of Beethoven's ‘Choral’ Symphony from the Royal Concertgebouw's traditional Christmas Matinee concert last year.

2pm
Beethoven Excerpts from Creatures of Prometheus, Op.43

Brett Dean Dramatis personae for trumpet and orchestra
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)

c.2.55pm
Scriabin Prometheus – The Poem of Fire, Op.60
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor)

c.3.15pm
Beethoven Symphony no.9 in D minor, Op.125 ‘Choral’
Tamara Wilson (soprano)
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
Norbert Ernst (tenor)
Franz-Josef Selig (bass)
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Royal Concergebouw Orchestra
Franz Welser- Möst (conductor)


FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000ml8z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday]


FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000myz0)
Sabine Devieilhe

Katie Derham is joined by soprano Sabine Devieilhe to talk about her new album of French song with pianist Alexandre Tharaud.


FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000myz2)
Classical music to uplift and inspire you

Take time out to refresh and renew your senses with 30 minutes of quietly uplifting classical music, folk and jazz.


FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000myz4)
Sir András Schiff plays Janáček and Schumann

Sir András Schiff, one of the world's most distinguished pianists, plays an intriguing programme of Schumann and Janáček beginning with two major sets of miniatures and ending with two sonatas.

Introduced by Martin Handley, live from Wigmore Hall.

Janáček: On an Overgrown Path
Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6

8.45pm
Interval

Leoš Janáček: Sonata I.X.1905 'From the Street'
Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor Op. 11


FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000myz6)
Language, Landscape and Memory

To mark the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth, Ian McMillan goes to Barrow-in-Furness to explore the language of landscape, land and belonging at the Contains Strong Language Festival, with writers Karen Lloyd, Zosia Wand, Zaffar Kunial and Clare Shaw.

Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen


FRI 22:45 The Essay (m0001yj9)
An Ode to John Keats

Paul Batchelor on Ode to Psyche

1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language and actually introduced words and phrases never heard before - "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....", "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." . "O for a beaker full of the warm South....."

Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.

5. Paul Batchelor on Ode to Psyche

Keats wrote "Ode to Psyche" in spring of 1819 and it was the first of his great odes in that year, , which include "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale".

Poet Paul Batchelor explores what is perhaps the least familiar of the great 1819 odes for contemporary readers.

Producer: Beaty Rubens


FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000myz8)
Lateness at TUSK Virtual Festival

Late Junction has teamed up with Freeness, fellow explorers of all things experimental and improvised on Radio 3, to curate an online stage at this year’s TUSK Virtual Festival.

TUSK is an annual adventurous music festival held in Newcastle, renowned for working with credible artists at an international and local level. Normally held at Sage Gateshead, this year they are curating a digital-only programme, with artists recording from their homes across the world. For our stage, in partnership with TUSK, we’ve handpicked three innovative ensembles from the north east to record at a local studio under socially distanced measures. In the first of two programmes featuring highlights from our ‘Lateness’ stage, we’ll share performances from some of these titans of Tyneside.

Mariam Rezaei is a composer and electronic artist who draws on noise, hip hop and experimental turntablism, as well as being artistic director at local arts venue The Old Police House. For Lateness she’s joining forces with Stephen Bishop, founder of the renowned Opal Tapes label, who releases skewed electronics under the aliases Basic House and Lacrima. This will be the first time the duo have collaborated.

Stalwarts of the left-field folk scene, Anglo-American duo Cath and Phil Tyler will be performing their style of grainy traditional song as part of the Lateness sessions. Drawing on their experiences in a plethora of bands and traditions, they blend guitar, banjo, voice and fiddle with their passion for oral histories and authentic storytelling. We feature highlights from their set.

Also on the programme will be highlights from a performance by the jazz quartet Caröm, led by powerhouse double bassist Andy Champion, as championed by Freeness presenter Corey Mwamba. Andy has been a central figure in the North East jazz scene for the last decade, and for this occasion he’s enlisted a stellar lineup of local players to join him, including tenor saxophonist Graeme Wilson, percussionist Christian Alderson and vocalist Zoë Gilby.

Elsewhere, expect highlights from the rest of TUSK’s diverse line-up, two weeks of expansive music from the international left field.

Produced by Katie Callin and Alannah Chance
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)

A History of Black Classical Music 23:00 SUN (m000j96f)

Afternoon Concert 14:00 MON (m000n08j)

Afternoon Concert 14:00 TUE (m000n0bl)

Afternoon Concert 14:00 WED (m000n0fs)

Afternoon Concert 14:00 THU (m000mzd7)

Afternoon Concert 14:00 FRI (m000myyy)

Breakfast 07:00 SAT (m000n04q)

Breakfast 07:00 SUN (m000mxss)

Breakfast 06:30 MON (m000n08b)

Breakfast 06:30 TUE (m000n0bd)

Breakfast 06:30 WED (m000n0fl)

Breakfast 06:30 THU (m000mzd1)

Breakfast 06:30 FRI (m000myyr)

Choral Evensong 15:00 SUN (m000mq67)

Choral Evensong 15:30 WED (m000n0fv)

Composer of the Week 12:00 MON (m0006m0y)

Composer of the Week 12:00 TUE (m0006mhv)

Composer of the Week 12:00 WED (m0006msw)

Composer of the Week 12:00 THU (m0006m4z)

Composer of the Week 12:00 FRI (m0006myv)

Drama on 3 19:30 SUN (m000mxt7)

Early Music Now 16:30 MON (m000n08l)

Essential Classics 09:00 MON (m000n08d)

Essential Classics 09:00 TUE (m000n0bg)

Essential Classics 09:00 WED (m000n0fn)

Essential Classics 09:00 THU (m000mzd3)

Essential Classics 09:00 FRI (m000myyt)

Free Thinking 22:00 TUE (m000n0bv)

Free Thinking 22:00 WED (m000n0g8)

Free Thinking 22:00 THU (m000mzdf)

Freeness 00:00 SUN (m000n05c)

In Tune Mixtape 19:00 MON (b0b98b4z)

In Tune Mixtape 19:00 TUE (m000n0bq)

In Tune Mixtape 19:00 WED (m000n0g1)

In Tune Mixtape 19:00 THU (m000n08q)

In Tune Mixtape 19:00 FRI (m000myz2)

In Tune 17:00 MON (m000n08n)

In Tune 17:00 TUE (m000n0bn)

In Tune 17:00 WED (m000n0fz)

In Tune 17:00 THU (m000mzd9)

In Tune 17:00 FRI (m000myz0)

Inside Music 13:00 SAT (m000n04z)

J to Z 17:00 SAT (m000n055)

Jazz Record Requests 16:00 SUN (m000mxt1)

Late Junction 23:00 FRI (m000myz8)

Music Matters 11:45 SAT (m000n04v)

Music Matters 22:00 MON (m000n04v)

Music Planet 16:00 SAT (m000n053)

New Generation Artists 16:30 WED (m000n0fx)

New Music Show 22:00 SAT (m000n059)

Night Tracks 23:00 MON (m000n08v)

Night Tracks 23:00 TUE (m000n0bx)

Night Tracks 23:00 WED (m000n0gd)

Opera on 3 18:30 SAT (m000n057)

Private Passions 12:00 SUN (m000mxsx)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 13:00 SUN (m0000xjc)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 13:00 MON (m000n08g)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 13:00 TUE (m000n0bj)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 13:00 WED (m000n0fq)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 13:00 THU (m000mzd5)

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 13:00 FRI (m000myyw)

Radio 3 in Concert 19:30 MON (m000n08s)

Radio 3 in Concert 19:30 TUE (m000n0bs)

Radio 3 in Concert 19:30 WED (m000n0g4)

Radio 3 in Concert 19:30 THU (m000mzdc)

Radio 3 in Concert 19:30 FRI (m000myz4)

Record Review Extra 20:50 SUN (m000mxt9)

Record Review 09:00 SAT (m000n04s)

Sound of Cinema 15:00 SAT (m000n051)

Sounds Connected 00:00 MON (m000mxtc)

Sunday Feature 18:45 SUN (m000mxt5)

Sunday Morning 09:00 SUN (m000mxsv)

The Early Music Show 14:00 SUN (m000mxsz)

The Essay 22:45 MON (m0001xjk)

The Essay 22:45 TUE (m0001xwj)

The Essay 22:45 WED (m0001yks)

The Essay 22:45 THU (m0001yjy)

The Essay 22:45 FRI (m0001yj9)

The Listening Service 17:00 SUN (m000ml8z)

The Listening Service 16:30 FRI (m000ml8z)

The Night Tracks Mix 23:00 THU (m000mzdh)

The Verb 22:00 FRI (m000myz6)

This Classical Life 12:30 SAT (m000n04x)

Through the Night 01:00 SAT (m000ms2y)

Through the Night 01:00 SUN (m000n05f)

Through the Night 00:30 MON (m000mxtf)

Through the Night 00:30 TUE (m000n08x)

Through the Night 00:30 WED (m000n0bz)

Through the Night 00:30 THU (m000n0gj)

Through the Night 00:30 FRI (m000mzdm)

Unclassified 23:30 THU (m000mzdk)

Words and Music 17:30 SUN (m000mxt3)