An inspired mix of Romanian and French music, performed on the famous Stradivarius 'Elder-Voicu' violin by Alexandre Tomescu with harpist Delphine Benhamou. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
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)
'Misera, dove son!' (scena) and 'Ah! non son'io che parlo' (aria). K369
Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Rene Jacobs (conductor)
Goitsemang Oniccah Lehobye (soprano), Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
Camerata Koln, Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba), Ghislaine Wauters (viola da gamba), Yasunori Imamura (theorbo), Sabine Bauer (organ)
Maria Joao Pires (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.
1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five pieces of music that celebrate the month of May.
Donald Macleod explores how Copland’s active interest with current affairs shaped his worldview.
This week of programmes explores Aaron Copland’s most productive decade, and features some of his best-loved works in full. During this time, Copland hit his prime. He became recognised as America’s leading composer, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Music and an Academy Award for his work in Hollywood.
He toured Europe and South America, absorbing diverse influences from each, and composed key works including his Third Symphony, Appalachian Spring, Lincoln Portrait, Fanfare for the Common Man and Rodeo.
We get a sense of how Copland’s personal and professional interests developed over the 1940s and learn about his friendships and challenges during and in the aftermath of World War II.
In this episode, Donald Macleod looks at Copland’s engagement with world events, and how it shaped his friendships and his worldview, from the Americana of Rodeo and the patriotism of Lincoln Portrait to the Hispaniana of Danzón Cubano.
I. New England Countryside
Another chance to hear Sarah Walker present a week of concerts at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire recorded in January 2020 featuring past and present members of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme to mark its 20th anniversary.
Today young British violist Timothy Ridout performs works by Enescu, Schumann, and Nino Rota. One of the most sought after violists of his generation he's been praised by Gramophone for his “gorgeous tone and infectious sense of impetuosity.”
Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world’s most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage. Membership of the scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work.
Afternoon Concert continues its focus on Parisian orchestras. Today's programme includes an all-Berlioz concert from the acclaimed period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles and conductor François-Xavier Roth, followed by the Orchestre de Paris with conductor Gianandrea Noseda in Mozart and Brahms.
Berlioz: Overture to 'Benvenuto Cellini'; Overture to 'Béatrice et Bénédict'; Overture: Carnaval Romain; Roméo et Juliette, Op.17 (highlights); Harold in Italy, Op.16
c.
Katie Derham introduces live music from guitarist Tom Gamble, and is joined by the American soprano Christine Goerke, ahead of her Met Opera stream, 'Wagnerians in Concert'.
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
Three composers reveal the power of Scotland's history, landscape and folklore over them. Sally Beamish's Viola Concerto No 3 'Under the Wing of the Rock', with BBC New Generation artist Timothy Ridout as soloist, tells in sound the story of an extraordinary act of human kindness at the time of the Glencoe Massacre. For Mendelssohn, a masterpiece of a symphony was seeded by a visit to Holyrood Palace Edinburgh where he witnessed light shining into the ruins of the chapel where Mary Queen of Scots was crowned. And to start this Caledonian immersion 'a picture postcard record of a wedding in Hoy' is Peter Maxwell Davies's description of an Orkney Wedding with Sunrise - an eventful evocation of Scottish sleet, of dancing, of fine weather on a hopeful new day.
'We suffer from Johnson' - those words come in a poem written by his friend, the diarist Hester Thrale Piozzi (who died May 2nd 1821). Patience Agbabi's new novel time travels back to eighteenth century London and takes its teenage heroes to a tea party at Samuel Johnson's house. Thomas Lawrence sketched his biographer Boswell. His Jamaican servant Francis Barber inherited his watch. So Laurence Scott convenes his own virtual tea party to look at Samuel Johnson's world.
New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau is co-organiser of the first international conference on Hester Thrale Piozzi and will share her findings from her research into Piozzi's life and works. As an exhibition of Lawrence's portraits prepares to open at the Holburne Museum in Bath, we hear from curator, Amina Wright, about the young artist. Patience Agbabi's novel is called The Time-Thief and she explains why she was drawn to depict Samuel Johnson. And, New Generation Thinker Jake Subryan Richards writes a postcard reflecting on ideas about slavery, abolition and the law in eighteenth century England.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to turn academic research into radio. You can find a playlist of discussions, features and Essays on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08zhs35
The Paris Commune lasted less than 100 days, yet this populist movement had extraordinary impact and offers a fascinating comparison to populist turbulence in 2021. Having survived the horrors of the Siege of Paris, winter of 1870-71, Parisians refused to accept the terms of French surrender after the Franco-Prussian war and declared independence. For ten weeks, the Communards experimented with alternative living: revolutionising education, political representation, the role of women, the upbringing of children, even parts of the landscape. The Commune was crushed brutally at the end of May, but it caught the attention of conservatives and radicals across the world. 150 years later, what does the Commune still have to say to us? Have we lost its legacy or, just maybe, are we all Communards now?
Dan Rebellato, writer and thinker, is inspired by personal observation of the modern legacy of the commune:
“In 2016, my wife and I moved to Paris and we had a baby. In London, walking along a narrow pavement with a buggy, people generally get out of your way. In Paris, there’s often a stand-off. In London, the public space is not really public at all; we carry with us a portable sphere of private space that should not be invaded. In Paris, if you’re on the street, you’re in the debate. Although French society is in many ways very deferential and hierarchical, this is not true on the streets. Anyone can speak to anyone - in Paris, every encounter is a debate. And so I found myself looking into the history of those Parisian streets; the way they’ve been remodelled and remade, the way the famous cobblestones have been torn up as weapons, the way the boulevards are ghosted by barricades and street battles. It’s a story that has markers in 1968 and 1961 and 1945 and 1940 but ultimately this contested Paris, where the very streets are sites of battle and debate, takes us back to 1871 and the Commune.”
These essays will bring the Commune to life with vivid description of key moments, entering into history, to explore how it shaped French society and beyond, through personal connection with the facts and the sense of a city Dan knows well.
8 April 1871: On 8 April 1871, the Commune declared that religion would be taken out of the schools: no religious iconography, no prayers, no hymns. Schools would be a place where the young openly come to learn without the shadow of prior beliefs to constrain their freedom. Although this principle was undone as soon as the Commune was destroyed, it returned only a decade later in the principle of laïcité, of secularism, enshrined in the Ferry Laws of 1882. The ethos of the Commune will be familiar to most children who’ve been educated in Britain since the 1960s: an emphasis on the creative expression more than rote-learning, the equal education of boys and girls and so on. There is a direct line from the Commune’s education policy to the drama club in my 1970s south London primary school.
Dan Rebellato is a leading British radio dramatist, as well as a Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway London. He has written extensively for BBC Radio 3 and 4, most recently Killer for Radio 3, as well as theatres such as Plymouth Drum, Suspect Culture and Graeae, and Pitlochry Festival Theatre. He has won Sonys and BBC Audio Awards for his radio dramas. He was lead writer on the blockbuster BBC Radio 4 Series, Emile Zola; Blood Sex and Money, starring Glenda Jackson. He has published several books, most recently co editing Contemporary European Playwrights in 2020, and is currently writing a practical playwriting guide for the National Theatre, due out in 2021/22.
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Les Boreades (Entrance of the Muses, the Zephyrs, the Seasons, the Hours & the Arts)
WEDNESDAY 05 MAY 2021
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000vq42)
Rattle Conducts the LSO
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the 2020 BBC Proms in an eclectic programme with music by Elgar, Adès, Gabrieli and Kurtág, culminating in Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Sacrae symphoniae (1597) – Canzon septimi et octavi toni a 12
London Symphony Orchestra Brass, Simon Rattle (conductor)
12:33 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings
London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
12:48 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 14 in C# minor "Moonlight"
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
12:55 AM
Gyorgy Kurtag (b.1926)
Quasi una fantasia Op.27 for ensemble
Mitsuko Uchida (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
01:04 AM
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Canzon noni toni a 12
London Symphony Orchestra Brass, Simon Rattle (conductor)
01:08 AM
Thomas Ades (b.1971)
Dawn
London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
01:15 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Symphony no. 5 in D major
London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
01:56 AM
Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)
O Domina Nostra Op 55 (1982-85)
La Gioia, Diane Verdoodt (soprano), Ilse Schelfhout (soprano), Kristien Vercammen (soprano), Bernadette De Wilde (soprano), Lieve Mertens (mezzo soprano), Els Van Attenhoven (mezzo soprano), Lieve Vanden Berghe (alto), Ludwig Van Gijsegem (tenor), Peter Thomas (organ)
02:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Piano Trio in A minor Op.50
Grieg Trio
03:17 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Six German songs for soprano, clarinet and piano
Júlia Paszthy (soprano), Laszlo Horvath (clarinet), Laszlo Baranyay (piano)
03:40 AM
Robert de Visee (c.1655-1733)
Suite no. 9 in D minor
Komale Akakpo (cimbalom)
03:49 AM
Kiril Lambov (1955-)
Rozhen Symphony Fantasy
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kiril Lambov (conductor)
03:58 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Violin Sonata in F major
Mary Utiger (violin), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord), Camerata Koln
04:09 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor Op 66
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)
04:14 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in E minor, Kk81
Bolette Roed (recorder), Joanna Boślak-Górniok (harpsichord)
04:22 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Norwegian artists' carnival Op.14
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
04:31 AM
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Concerto per quartetto No 6 in A major for strings
Concerto Koln
04:41 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Rhapsody for piano in B minor, Op 79 No 1
Steven Osborne (piano)
04:50 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Kyrie eleison in G minor for double choir and orchestra (RV.587)
Choir of Latvian Radio, Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
05:01 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Elegie (Op.24) arr. for cello and orchestra
Shauna Rolston (cello), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
05:08 AM
Joan Baptista Pla i Agusti (1720-1773)
Sonata in D major, for flute, violin and basso continuo
La Guirlande
05:17 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Danse sacree et danse profane for harp and strings
Eva Maros (harp), Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bela Drahos (conductor)
05:27 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Humoreske for piano in B flat major Op 20
Ivetta Irkha (piano)
05:52 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
7 Dances of the Dolls Op 91b arr. for wind quintet
Academic Wind Quintet
06:03 AM
Ludvig Norman (1831-1885)
String Sextet in A major (Op.18) (1850)
Stockholm String Sextet (sextet)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000vr17)
Wednesday - Hannah's classical alternative
Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000vr19)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five pieces of music that celebrate the month of May.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000vr1c)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Personal Affairs, 1942-1944
Donald Macleod explores Copland’s personal life and its impact on his work.
This week of programmes explores Aaron Copland’s most productive decade, and features some of his best-loved works in full. During this time Copland hit his prime. He became recognised as America’s leading composer, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Music and an Academy Award for his work in Hollywood.
He toured Europe and South America, absorbing diverse influences from each, and composed key works including his Third Symphony, Appalachian Spring, Lincoln Portrait, Fanfare for the Common Man and Rodeo.
We get a sense of how Copland’s personal and professional interests developed over the 1940s and learn about his friendships and challenges during and in the aftermath of World War II.
In this episode, Donald Macleod examines Copland’s artistic and personal relationships, and their impact on his work. Victor Kraft was the most important romantic relationship of his life, but by the early 40s it had begun to unravel, with the composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein embroiled too.
Las Agachadas (The Shake-Down Song)
United States Army Field Band Soldiers' Chorus
Finley R. Hamilton, conductor
Sonata for violin and piano
Gil Shaham, violin
André Previn, piano
Fanfare for the Common Man
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Appalachian Spring Suite (version for 13 instruments)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Wales
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000ds43)
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (2/4)
Another chance to hear Sarah Walker present a week of concerts from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire recorded in January 2020, featuring past and present members of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme to mark its 20th anniversary. Today young German pianist Elisabeth Brauss performs works by Schubert and Beethoven. Born in Hannover in 1995 Elisabeth has won numerous awards and released her debut CD to critical acclaim in 2017.
Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world’s most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage. Membership of the scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work.
Schubert: 4 Impromptus D899 op. 90
Beethoven: Sonate f-Moll op. 57, Appassionata
Elisabeth Brauss (piano)
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000vr1h)
Paris in Springtime (3/5)
Afternoon Concert continues its focus on Parisian orchestras, featuring today the Paris Opera Chorus and Orchestra with conductor Philippe Jordan in last year’s 'Solidarity Concert' for Bastille Day, including music by Dukas, Richard Strauss, Fauré, Saint-Saëns and Mozart.
Presented by Tom McKinney.
Rouget de Lisle, arr. Ambroise Thomas: La Marseillaise
Dukas: Fanfare from 'La Péri'
Richard Strauss: Feierlicher Einzug der Ritter des Johanniter-ordens
Fauré: Madrigal, Op.35
Saint-Saëns: Calme des nuits, Op.68’1
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K.492 (highlights); Symphony No.41 in C, K.551 “Jupiter”
Julie Fuchs (soprano)
Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Paris Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Philippe Jordan (conductor)
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m000vr1k)
Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London
Live from the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, with the Trinity Laban Chapel Choir.
Introit: My soul, there is a country (Parry)
Responses: Byrd
Psalms 27, 28, 29 (Ley, Allwood, Attwood)
First Lesson: Hosea 13 vv.4-14
Office hymn: Now the green blade riseth (Noel nouvelet)
Canticles: The Second Service (Byrd)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv.50-58
Anthem: Geistliches Lied (Brahms)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 (Bach)
Ralph Allwood (Director of Music)
Jonathan Eyre (Organist)
WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000vr1m)
A Celebration of Venice
Alessandro Fisher sings a delectable set of songs inspired by Reynaldo Hahn's love of Venice. Also today, Mahan Esfahani is heard in a recording he made in 2009 when he spent time at the Cobbe Keyboard Collection at Hatchlands Park in Surrey. Here he recorded some French music on a harpsichord, considered by many to be one of the finest harpsichords in the world. It was made in Antwerp in 1636 and enlarged in Paris in 1763.
Jacques Champion De Chambonnieres: Pavanne Entretien des Dieux
Mahan Esfahani (Ruckers-Hemsch harpsichord)
Reynaldo Hahn: Venezia
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Gary Matthewman (piano)
Allie Wrubel arr. Liam Dunachie: I’m Afraid The Masquerade Is Over
Misha Mullov-Abbado Group
Misha Mullov-Abbado (jazz bass)
David Ingamells (drums)
Liam Dunachie (piano)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m000vr1p)
Toby Hughes, Xenia Löffler
Katie Derham is joined by the double bassist Toby Hughes, performing live in the studio, and talking about his new recording of music for double bass and piano. Katie also talks to oboist Xenia Löffler of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin about a new recording of works by Mozart.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000vr1r)
Classical music for focus and inspiration
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000vr1t)
Mahan Esfahani plays Bach
A prelude and fugue in every major and minor key intended to demonstrate a method of tuning a keyboard instrument and to help improve keyboard playing might have ended up as a very dull collection, indeed. But Johann Sebastian Bach produced one of the most enduring works of western music, a two-hour compendium of his musical genius. These 24 mini-masterpieces, performed by acclaimed, multi-award-wining harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, encompass a vast emotional range and give a compelling insight into Bach's ideas about individual keys' characteristics and moods.
Recorded last month at Wigmore Hall.
Presented by Martin Handley
JS Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000vr1w)
Napoleon the Gardener and Art Thief
The day before Napoleon's death on May 5th 1821, the willow tree he liked to sit under on St Helena was felled by tempestuous winds. Ruth Scurr has written Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows. Natasha Pulley's novel The Kingdoms imagines a history with Napoleon victorious in England, and Emma Rothschild has traced a family in France over three centuries. Rana Mitter chairs a discussion about how looking at Napoleon as gardener, collector of art and founder of an institution dedicated to the arts and sciences in Egypt adds to our understanding of him as a military man and the panel consider alternative histories of France.
Ruth Scurr's book Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows is out now. You can hear her discussing her book about John Aubrey in this episode of Free Thinking
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rwvrf
Natasha Pulley's novel The Kingdoms is published May 25th 2021. You can hear her discussing the Japanese novel and film Rashomon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01vwk
and the writing of Angela Carter https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038jdb7
Emma Rothschild has published An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
Producer: Ruth Watts
You might be interested in another Free Thinking discussion about Napoleon in Fact and Fiction hearing from actor/director Kathryn Hunter, biographer Michael Broers, historians Oskar Cox Jensen and Laura O'Brien, aand journalist Nabila Ramdani https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09s2nml
and Radio 3's weekly curation of Words and Music features an episode focusing on authors and composers inspired by the life of Napoleon with readings from Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Anthony Burgess and Thackeray and music from Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000vr1y)
Paris 2021
Art
The Paris Commune lasted less than 100 days, yet this populist movement had extraordinary impact and offers a fascinating comparison to populist turbulence in 2021. Having survived the horrors of the Siege of Paris, winter of 1870-71, Parisians refused to accept the terms of French surrender after the Franco-Prussian war and declared independence. For ten weeks, the Communards experimented with alternative living: revolutionising education, political representation, the role of women, the upbringing of children, even parts of the landscape. The Commune was crushed brutally at the end of May, but it caught the attention of conservatives and radicals across the world. 150 years later, what does the Commune still have to say to us? Have we lost its legacy or, just maybe, are we all Communards now?
Dan Rebellato, writer and thinker, is inspired by personal observation of the modern legacy of the commune:
“In 2016, my wife and I moved to Paris and we had a baby. In London, walking along a narrow pavement with a buggy, people generally get out of your way. In Paris, there’s often a stand-off. In London, the public space is not really public at all; we carry with us a portable sphere of private space that should not be invaded. In Paris, if you’re on the street, you’re in the debate. Although French society is in many ways very deferential and hierarchical, this is not true on the streets. Anyone can speak to anyone - in Paris, every encounter is a debate. And so I found myself looking into the history of those Parisian streets; the way they’ve been remodelled and remade, the way the famous cobblestones have been torn up as weapons, the way the boulevards are ghosted by barricades and street battles. It’s a story that has markers in 1968 and 1961 and 1945 and 1940 but ultimately this contested Paris, where the very streets are sites of battle and debate, takes us back to 1871 and the Commune.”
These essays will bring the Commune to life with vivid description of key moments, entering into history, to explore how it shaped French society and beyond, through personal connection with the facts and the sense of a city Dan knows well.
Essay 3: Art
15: May 1871: On 15 May 1871, 16-year-old Arthur Rimbaud wrote to his friend, Paul Demeny, announcing his determination to make himself into a ‘voyant’, a seer, by a profound disordering of all the senses, seeking out extremes of all kinds in order to arrive at something unknown. He claimed to have fought to defend Paris, though this has been disputed. Many writers absented themselves from the capital during the Commune and not a great deal of art came directly out of it. Most of its most enduring representations were either made long after the fact or hostile caricatures by outsiders seeking to turn international sentiment against the uprising. Dan discusses contemporary art and subsequent artistic evocation eg Maximilien Luce’s painting A Street in Paris, May 1871. As a boy, Luce witnessed the brutal events of the ‘Bloody Week’, which he sought to capture in his painting; Brecht’s Days of the Commune, is a rich, nuanced and savagely satirical critique of the destruction of the Commune. Brecht questions how we can represent such an event, by trying to create collective heroes and so pushing against theatrical conventions.
Dan Rebellato is a leading British radio dramatist, as well as a Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway London. He has written extensively for BBC Radio 3 and 4, most recently Killer for Radio 3, as well as theatres such as Plymouth Drum, Suspect Culture and Graeae, and Pitlochry Festival Theatre. He has won Sonys and BBC Audio Awards for his radio dramas. He was a lead writer on the blockbuster BBC Radio 4 Series, Emile Zola; Blood Sex and Money, starring Glenda Jackson. He has published several books, most recently co editing Contemporary European Playwrights in 2020, and is currently writing a practical playwriting guide for the National Theatre, due out in 2021/22.
Director/Producer, Polly Thomas
Executive Producer, Eloise Whitmore
A Naked Production for BBC Radio 3
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000nmrq)
Music for the evening
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
01
00:00:09 Daft Punk
Tron OST: Solar Sailer
Ensemble: Daft Punk
Duration 00:02:38
02
00:04:02 Johann Sebastian Bach
St John Passion: Zerfliezze, mein Herze
Singer: Hana Blažíková
Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan
Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki
Duration 00:06:27
03
00:10:31 Sarah Davachi
Still Lives
Performer: Sarah Davachi
Duration 00:04:04
04
00:15:35 Narsinh Mehta
Bhajan: Vaishnav Jana To Tene Kamije
Duration 00:07:03
05
00:22:39 Faten Kanaan
Night Tide/Anteros
Performer: Faten Kanaan
Duration 00:04:02
06
00:26:41 Thomas Adès
Lieux retrouves: Les Champs
Performer: Steven Isserlis
Performer: Thomas Adès
Duration 00:04:14
07
00:31:45 Alex Somers
Happiness
Ensemble: Jónsi & Alex
Duration 00:08:33
08
00:40:21 Oscar Levant
Blame it on my youth
Performer: Brad Mehldau
Performer: Jorge Rossy
Singer: Larry Grenadier
Duration 00:06:31
09
00:47:36 Franz Schubert
Piano Trio No 1 in B flat major (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio
Duration 00:08:41
10
00:56:22 Harold Budd
Ice floes in Eden
Performer: Harold Budd
Duration 00:03:17
11
01:00:27 Bing & Ruth
I had no dream
Ensemble: Bing & Ruth
Duration 00:06:32
12
01:07:00 Felix Mendelssohn
2 musical sketches for piano, no.1; Andante cantabile in Bb major
Performer: Daniel Barenboim
Duration 00:03:00
13
01:10:01 Benjamin Wallfisch
Blade Runner 2049 OST: All the best memories are hers
Performer: Hans Zimmer
Performer: Benjamin Wallfisch
Duration 00:03:26
14
01:14:11 Anne Boyd
As I crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Ensemble: Ars Nova Copenhagen
Conductor: Paul Hillier
Duration 00:10:57
15
01:25:58 Paul McCartney
Ticket to Ride
Ensemble: Carpenters
Duration 00:04:02
THURSDAY 06 MAY 2021
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000vr22)
Rest! That's an order!
Rest! That's an order! The title of the opening concert of the 2018 Davos Festival. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
John Cage (1912-1992)
In a Landscape
Fabian Ziegler (percussion)
12:41 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Four Songs, Op 17
Davos Festival Women's Choir, Magdalena Hoffmann (harp), Nicolas Ramez (french horn), François Rieu (french horn)
12:56 AM
Dobrinka Tabakova (b.1980)
Such Different Paths
Hugo Ticciati (violin), Thomas Reif (violin), Hana Hobiger (viola), Gregor Hrabar (viola), Alessio Pianelli (cello), Ruiko Matsumoto (cello)
01:13 AM
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
L’Alouette calandrelle
Claire Huangci (piano)
01:18 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Upama Muckensturm (flute), Philibert Perrine (oboe), Amaury Viduvier (clarinet), Fabian Ziegler (percussion), Tsuyoshi Moriya (violin), Dimitri Pavlov (violin), Gregor Hrabar (viola), Ruiko Matsumoto (cello), Sophie Lücke (double bass), Esthea Kruger (piano), Stefanie Mirwald (accordion)
01:30 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No 4 in G major
Camilla Tilling (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
02:26 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Paul Verlaine (author)
En sourdine
Karina Gauvin (soprano), Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
02:31 AM
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Missa Salisburgensis
Collegium Vocale 1704, Collegium 1704, Vaclav Luks (conductor)
03:13 AM
Edgar Tinel (1854-1912)
Overture (Polyeucte)
Flemish Radio Orchestra, Lev Markiz (conductor)
03:31 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920), Unknown (arranger)
Allegro vivace ma non troppo in C major (Op 83, No 7)
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
03:35 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Adagietto (Excerpt L' Arlesienne Suite No 1)
Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra, Holger Schroter-Seebeck (conductor)
03:40 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
12 Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman', K265
Martin Helmchen (piano)
03:53 AM
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Waltz (Faust)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Borge Wagner (conductor)
03:58 AM
Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665)
Ciaccona for 2 Violins and basso continuo, Op 12
Il Giardino Armonico
04:03 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Scherzo Capriccioso Op 66
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
04:16 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Rondo à la Mazur in F major, Op 5
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
04:24 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Overture to Les Troyens a Carthage
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
04:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture from Die Zauberflote (K 620)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Christie (conductor)
04:38 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, Op 66
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello), Jose Gallardo (piano)
04:47 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for Strings Op 20
Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould (director)
04:59 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Fantasie in F minor, D940
Louis Schwizgebel (piano), Zhang Zuo (piano)
05:18 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Violin Concerto in A minor, B108, Op 53
Vilde Frang Bjaerke (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, William Eddins (conductor)
05:50 AM
Niels Gade (1817-1890)
Ved solnedgang (At sunset) for choir and orchestra Op 46
Danish National Radio Choir, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
05:58 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt - Overture, Op 27
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)
06:12 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in C minor, Op 17 no 4
Quatuor Mosaiques
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000vqn7)
Thursday - Hannah's classical alarm call
Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000vqn9)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five pieces of music that celebrate the month of May.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000vqnc)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Adventures in Hollywood,1943-1948
Donald Macleod explores Copland’s relationship with Hollywood and how writing for film changed his life and work.
This week of programmes explores Aaron Copland’s most productive decade, and features some of his best-loved works in full. During this time Copland hit his prime. He became recognised as America’s leading composer, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Music and an Academy Award for his work in Hollywood.
He toured Europe and South America, absorbing diverse influences from each, and composed key works including his Third Symphony, Appalachian Spring, Lincoln Portrait, Fanfare for the Common Man and Rodeo.
We get a sense of how Copland’s personal and professional interests developed over the 1940s and learn about his friendships and challenges during and in the aftermath of World War II.
By 1944 Copland found himself in demand by the film industry. He was the recipient of multiple Academy Award nominations and would go on to win with his music for The Heiress. In this episode, Donald Macleod examines how Copland’s Hollywood adventures influenced his circumstances and his music.
Letter From Home
London Symphony Orchestra
Aaron Copland, conductor
The Red Pony Suite
I. Morning on the Ranch
IIIa. Dream March
IV. Walk to the Bunkhouse
V. Grandfather's Story
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Third Symphony
II. Allegro molto
III. Andantino quasi allegretto
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
The Heiress Suite
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Wales
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000dr3k)
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (3/4)
Another chance to hear Sarah Walker present a week of concerts from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire recorded in January 2020, featuring past and present members of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme to mark its 20th anniversary. Today Belgian clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe, who graduated from the scheme in 2017, performs works by Debussy, Brahms, Pierné, and Widor. She has performed at the BBC Proms and extensively throughout Europe, and frequently teaches at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp.
Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world’s most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage. Membership of the scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work.
Claude Debussy: Première rhapsodie
Johannes Brahms: Sonate für Klavier und Klarinette Op. 120/1
Debussy: Estampes Nr. 1 Pagodes
Gabriel Pierné: Canzonetta Op. 19
Charles Marie Widor: Introduction et Rondo Op. 73
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet)
Evgenia Rubinova (piano)
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000vqnh)
Paris in Springtime (4/5)
Today's Thursday Opera Matinee is a performance of one of Massenet’s most popular opera, Manon, recorded last year at the Opéra Bastille in Paris.
Pretty Yende stars as Manon Lescaut in this five-act drama based on the 1731 novel by Abbé Prévost. Lescaut, a well-meaning young man, is led astray by his love for a young woman he finds irresistible. Many other men also fall for her – some willing to buy her off with a luxurious lifestyle. Manon is the original Material Girl, and cannot resist their offers...
Presented by Tom McKinney.
2pm
Manon Lescaut ….. Pretty Yende (soprano)
Le Chevalier des Grieux ….. Benjamin Bernheim (tenor)
Lescaut ….. Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Le Comte des Grieux ….. Roberto Tagliavini (bass)
Monsieur de Brétigny ….. Pierre Doyen (tenor)
Poussette ….. Cassandre Berthon (soprano)
Javotte ….. Alix Le Saux (mezzo-soprano)
Rosette ….. Jeanne Ireland (mezzo-soprano)
Innkeeper ….. Philippe Rouillon (baritone)
First Guard ….. Julien Joguet (bass)
Second Guard ….. Laurent Laberdesque (baritone)
Paris Opera Chorus
Paris Opera Orchestra
Dan Ettinger (conductor)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m000vqnk)
Esther Abrami and Iyad Sughayer, Channa Malkin
Katie Derham introduces live music from violinist Esther Abrami with pianist Iyad Sughayer, and talks to the Dutch soprano Channa Malkin about her new album, 'This is not a Lullaby', featuring songs on a theme of motherhood by Weinberg, Tavener and her own father Josef Malkin.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0001kp5)
Winter Walks
In Tune's specially curated playlist: a musical adventure for a cold winter's day to catch some Bonnetta, Bernstein and Borodin before witnessing the Moonlight in Vermont. Wrap up warm and get ready to take your first step on this winter walk.
01
00:00:31 Alexander Borodin
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major 1. Allegro
Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet
Duration 00:08:07
02
00:03:12 Leonard Bernstein
A Simple Song (Mass)
Singer: Alan Titus
Orchestra: The Cast Stage Band
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Duration 00:04:43
03
00:07:48 Hector Berlioz
Roman Carnival Overture
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden
Conductor: Colin Davis
Duration 00:09:24
04
00:08:31 Malcolm Arnold
Duo for flute and viola, Op 10
Performer: Judith Pearce
Performer: Roger Chase
Duration 00:09:48
05
00:09:43 Johann Sebastian Bach
Flute Sonata No 5 in E minor, BWV 1034 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Andrea Oliva
Performer: Angela Hewitt
Duration 00:03:58
06
00:11:00 Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations, BWV988: Variation 13
Performer: Glenn Gould
Duration 00:02:39
07
00:12:13 Agustín Barrios Mangoré
La catedral (3rd mvt)
Performer: Thibaut Garcia
Duration 00:03:01
08
00:15:09 Marc-André Hamelin
Little Nocturne
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin
Duration 00:02:15
09
00:16:49 Karl Suessdorf
Moonlight in Vermont
Lyricist: John Blackburn
Choir: The Demon Barbers
Duration 00:02:22
10
00:19:05 Antonín Dvořák
Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
Singer: Krassimira Stoyanova
Orchestra: Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Conductor: Pavel Baleff
Duration 00:05:36
11
00:21:54 Johann Sebastian Bach
Unaccompanied Cello Suite No.6 in D Major, BWV 1012: Gavottes I & II
Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma
Duration 00:03:38
12
00:25:29 Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in D major, Op 10 No 3 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Éric Heidsieck
Duration 00:02:41
13
00:26:25 Jorge Drexler (artist)
Movimiento
Performer: Jorge Drexler
Duration 00:03:51
14
00:26:56 Jonas Bonnetta (artist)
Interlude and Fogo
Performer: Jonas Bonnetta
Duration 00:03:44
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000vhb1)
Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
The London Philharmonic plays Beethoven and Sibelius in their home at London's Southbank Centre. Robin Ticciati conducts two cornerstones of the repertoire in performances recorded at the end of last month. Beethoven's towering 'Emperor' concerto is followed by Sibelius's life-affirming final symphony.
Recorded 23rd March 2021
Presented by Ian Skelly
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, Op 73 ('Emperor')
Sibelius: Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 105
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
Robin Ticciati (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000vqnp)
Alison Bechdel
The Bechdel test asks whether two women are having a conversation which doesn't relate to a man. Many films, books and plays fall foul of the measure which first appeared in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, created by Matthew Sweet's guest today Alison Bechdel. Her memoir Fun Home became a Tony Award-winning musical and she has now published The Secret to Superhuman Strength which considers her relationship with exercise so she and Matthew go on an imaginary walk discussing topics including mushrooms, drinking, the response of her mum to being depicted in fiction, the lingering impact of a Catholic childhood and going to confession, the writing of Adrienne Rich and Coleridge and Bechdel's exploration of ideas about transcendence.
Producer: Caitlin Benedict
You can find Matthew in conversation with other guests including Spike Lee, Sarah Perry, Jimmy Carter's former drugs tsar Peter Bourne and Michael Lewis in a playlist on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ly0c8
THU 22:45 The Essay (m000vqnr)
Paris 2021
Destruction
The Paris Commune lasted less than 100 days, yet this populist movement had extraordinary impact and offers a fascinating comparison to populist turbulence in 2021. Having survived the horrors of the Siege of Paris, winter of 1870-71, Parisians refused to accept the terms of French surrender after the Franco-Prussian war and declared independence. For ten weeks, the Communards experimented with alternative living: revolutionising education, political representation, the role of women, the upbringing of children, even parts of the landscape. The Commune was crushed brutally at the end of May, but it caught the attention of conservatives and radicals across the world. 150 years later, what does the Commune still have to say to us? Have we lost its legacy or, just maybe, are we all Communards now?
Dan Rebellato, writer and thinker, is inspired by personal observation of the modern legacy of the commune:
“In 2016, my wife and I moved to Paris and we had a baby. In London, walking along a narrow pavement with a buggy, people generally get out of your way. In Paris, there’s often a stand-off. In London, the public space is not really public at all; we carry with us a portable sphere of private space that should not be invaded. In Paris, if you’re on the street, you’re in the debate. Although French society is in many ways very deferential and hierarchical, this is not true on the streets. Anyone can speak to anyone - in Paris, every encounter is a debate. And so I found myself looking into the history of those Parisian streets; the way they’ve been remodelled and remade, the way the famous cobblestones have been torn up as weapons, the way the boulevards are ghosted by barricades and street battles. It’s a story that has markers in 1968 and 1961 and 1945 and 1940 but ultimately this contested Paris, where the very streets are sites of battle and debate, takes us back to 1871 and the Commune.”
These essays will bring the Commune to life with vivid description of key moments, entering into history, to explore how it shaped French society and beyond, through personal connection with the facts and the sense of a city Dan knows well.
Essay 4: Destruction
16 May 1871: On 16 May 1871, the Vendome Column, erected in honour of Napoleon’s Austerlitz victory, was smashed to the ground. In the Commune’s final days, many great buildings were set alight in what its enemies described as an orgy of destruction. But destruction is not always destructive. Some argue that Haussmann’s pre-Commune rebuilding, after the uprisings of 1830 and 1848, deliberately created streets too wide for revolutionaries to barricade, yet straight and long for swift deployment of the army to quell insurrection. The Commune showed the futility of that aim. In our era too, we have returned to destruction. The Rhodes Must Fall campaign argued that the statues to the architects of Imperialism should be taken down. There have been violent clashes over the bringing down of statues to Confederate generals in the USA. To some, pulling down a statue is to reject the values implicit in venerating such men; to others, it is to hide from history. Yet perhaps the only thing more destructive than destruction is restoration. Swiftly, a column identical to the former one rose again. Paradoxically, to prove the futility of trying to blot out history, the French government blotted out history – the new Vendome column is a kind of ruin of a ruin.
Dan Rebellato is a leading British radio dramatist, as well as a Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway London. He has written extensively for BBC Radio 3 and 4, most recently Killer for Radio 3, as well as theatres such as Plymouth Drum, Suspect Culture and Graeae, and Pitlochry Festival Theatre. He has won Sonys and BBC Audio Awards for his radio dramas. He was lead writer on the blockbuster BBC Radio 4 Series, Emile Zola; Blood Sex and Money, starring Glenda Jackson. He has published several books, most recently co editing Contemporary European Playwrights in 2020, and is currently writing a practical playwriting guide for the National Theatre, due out in 2021/22.
Director/Producer, Polly Thomas
Executive Producer, Eloise Whitmore
A Naked Production for BBC Radio 3
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m000nmxk)
Music for the night
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.
01
00:01:14 Frédéric Chopin
24 Preludes for piano (Op.28); no.15 in D flat major; 'Raindrop'
Performer: Martha Argerich
Duration 00:04:34
02
00:05:51 Bekizizwe Joseph Shabalala
Rain Rain Beautiful Rain
Ensemble: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Duration 00:02:17
03
00:08:35 David Bruce
The Consolation Of Rain: 5th mvt
Ensemble: Camerata Pacifica
Duration 00:03:34
04
00:12:13 Ayub Ogada
Kothbiro (It's going to rain)
Performer: Ayub Ogada
Duration 00:03:48
05
00:16:01 Terry Riley
A Rainbow in Curved Air
Performer: Terry Riley
Duration 00:08:58
06
00:25:12 Harold Arlen
Come Rain or Come Shine (from 'St Louis Woman')
Performer: André Previn
Singer: Sylvia McNair
Singer: David Finck
Duration 00:04:14
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000vqnw)
Jon Hopkins’s Listening Chair
Elizabeth invites the electronic artist and producer Jon Hopkins to settle into the Listening Chair, and select a piece of music that transports him far away. Jon Hopkins frequents the fertile ground that lies between dance music and contemporary composition – but his newest release, Piano Versions, finds him at his most meditative and stripped back, scratching away at the layers of formerly expansive electronic pieces until just the stark bones of a song remain. His choice for the Listening Chair is a drifting, contemplative moment from Dan Deacon, who is perhaps better known for his explosive electro-pop songs.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 07 MAY 2021
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000vqny)
WDR Radio Orchestra meets Signum Saxophone Quartet
The Signum Saxophone Quartet joins the WDR Radio Orchestra for music by Dohnányi, Philip Glass, Bob Mintzer and a classic arranged by Chick Corea. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Ernö Dohnányi (1877-1960)
Symphonic Minutes Op 36
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Boian Videnoff (conductor)
12:46 AM
Philip Glass (1937-)
Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
Signum Saxophone Quartet, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Boian Videnoff (conductor)
01:13 AM
Bob Mintzer (1953-)
Afro Caribbean
Signum Saxophone Quartet, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Boian Videnoff (conductor)
01:21 AM
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999), Chick Corea (arranger)
Aranjuez - Spain (for Saxophone Quartet)
Signum Saxophone Quartet
01:26 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Suite Italienne for violin and piano (1933)
Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), Oxana Shevchenko (piano)
01:44 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo (Hob XXII:7), "Kleine Orgelmesse" Phase Rever
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Jon Washburn (conductor)
02:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111
Kotaro Fukuma (piano)
02:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Concerto for cello and orchestra no.2 (Op.104) in B minor
Truls Mork (cello), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)
03:11 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Partita in E flat (K.Anh.C 17`3)
Festival Winds
03:35 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Roses from the South - waltz, Op.388
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor)
03:45 AM
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Dover beach for voice and string quartet (Op.3)
Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano), Royal String Quartet
03:53 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in B minor (Kk.87)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
04:00 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Rhapsodie espagnole (Folies d'Espagne et jota aragone) S.254
Zhang Zuo (piano)
04:12 AM
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Introduction and variations on a theme from Mozart's Magic Flute, Op 9
Ana Vidovic (guitar)
04:21 AM
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto No 1 in D major (after Corelli's Op 5)
Andrew Manze (violin), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
04:31 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
Polish Radio Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
04:38 AM
Rudolf Matz (1901-1988)
Ballade for violin, cello & piano
Zagreb Piano Trio
04:46 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Song and chorus 'Sound Fame' from Act IV of 'Dioclesian', Z 627
Paul Elliott (tenor), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), David Staff (trumpet), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
04:52 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Dolly - Suite for piano duet Op.56
Erzsebet Tusa (piano), Istvan Lantos (piano)
05:06 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Introduction and rondo capriccioso (Op.28), arr. for violin & piano
Taik-Ju Lee (violin), Young-Lan Han (piano)
05:16 AM
Jorgen Jersild (1913-2004)
3 Danish Romances for Choir
Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor)
05:28 AM
Jacques Boufil (1783-1868)
Grand duo (Op.2 No.1)
Alojz Zupan (clarinet), Andrej Zupan (clarinet)
05:42 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Quartet for flute, viola and continuo in D major
Les Adieux
05:58 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Symphony no.5 in E flat major, Op.82
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000vrf1)
Friday - Hannah's classical commute
Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000vrf3)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann playing the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises along the way.
0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Song of the Day – focusing on the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five pieces of music that celebrate the month of May.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000vrf5)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Private Matters, 1948-1949
Copland's music becomes introspective as he ponders the postwar future of America and the world. Presented by Donald Macleod.
This week of programmes explores Aaron Copland’s most productive decade, and features some of his best-loved works in full. During this time, Copland hit his prime. He became recognised as America’s leading composer, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Music and an Academy Award for his work in Hollywood.
He toured Europe and South America, absorbing diverse influences from each, and composed key works including his Third Symphony, Appalachian Spring, Lincoln Portrait, Fanfare for the Common Man and Rodeo.
We get a sense of how Copland’s personal and professional interests developed over the 1940s and learn about his friendships and challenges during and in the aftermath of World War II.
In Copland’s music of this period, there is a move towards personal statements relating to issues of nature, death, love and self-realisation. In this programme, Donald Macleod contrasts developments in Copland’s personal life with wider issues that he was pondering: the spectre of nuclear war, disillusionment with the Soviet Union and the flight to suburbia.
Preamble for a Solemn Occasion
London Symphony Orchestra
Aaron Copland, conductor
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
No. 4 – The World feels dusty
No. 5 – Heart, we will forget him
No. 12 – The Chariot
Lydia Easley, soprano
Enrico Maria Polimanti, piano
An Outdoor Overture (version for wind ensemble)
United States Army Field Band
Finley R. Hamilton, conductor
Four Piano Blues
Leo Smit, piano
Clarinet Concerto
David Singer, clarinet
A Far Cry Orchestra
Produced by Iain Chambers for BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000ds5v)
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (4/4)
Another chance to hear Sarah Walker present a week of concerts from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire recorded in January 2020, featuring past and present members of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme to mark its 20th anniversary. Today the Consone Quartet play works by Mendelssohn and Schumann. Formed at the Royal College of Music in London, the Quartet aims to explore Classical and early Romantic repertoire on period instruments. They perform frequently at Early Music festivals across Europe.
Founded in 1999 with the aim of supporting and nurturing some of the world’s most exciting young musicians at the start of their international careers, the NGA scheme now boasts well over a hundred distinguished alumni, many of whom are major players on the world stage. Membership of the scheme is for a period of just over two years, during which time artists can expect to appear at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues and festivals, perform with the BBC orchestras, make studio recordings, and commission new work.
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in Eb Major
Schumann: String Quartet No.2 in F major, Op.41
Consone Quartet
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000vrf9)
Paris in Springtime (5/5)
Afternoon Concert concludes its week of performances by Parisian orchestras. Today's programme includes two concerts from the Orchestre National de France.
The first is their debut under their new music director Cristian Măcelaru, featuring music by Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with soloist Benjamin Grosvenor.
The orchestra then picks up its jazz hat for two concertos by jazz pianist Martial Solal.
Presented by Tom McKinney.
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, op.18
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.2 in A minor, op.55
with Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Orchestre National de France
Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
c.
3.20pm
Martial Solal: Concerto for trombone, piano, double bass & orchestra
with Denis Leloup (trombone)
Hervé Cellin (piano)
Jean-Paul Celea (double bass)
Martial Solal: Piano Concerto 'Coexistance'
with Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua (piano)
Orchestre National de France
Jesko Sirvend (conductor)
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000v2js)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000vrfc)
Julian Bliss and James Baillieu, Geoffrey Littlefield
Katie Derham welcomes clarinettist Julian Bliss and pianist James Baillieu to the studio for a live performance. Their new recording of Brahms sonatas is released today. Writer Geoffrey Littlefield also joins Katie to discuss his new biography of arranger Nelson Riddle.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000vrff)
Classical music for your commute
In Tune's classical music mixtape, including a polonaise for piano duet by Wagner, Invocatio for string quartet by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Bartok's Hungarian Peasant Dances for orchestra. Interwoven with these is music by Johann Stamitz, JS Bach and Offenbach.
Producer: Ian Wallington
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000vrfk)
Peter Phillips Conducts South American Renaissance Polyphony
Peter Phillips, the founder and director of The Tallis Scholars, returns to conduct the BBC Singers in a programme of polyphony focusing on South American composers. Within the programme is a newly discovered piece Peter Phillips brought back from Puebla Cathedral Library in the autumn of 2020.
Music for the Consecration of Puebla Cathedral in 1649
Padilla: Deus in adiutorium meum intende (3)
Padilla: Mirabilia testimonia tua (10)
Franco: Lumen ad revelationem (2)
Padilla: Salve regina (7)
Music by the Spanish/Mexican composer Hernando Franco, which survives in Puebla Cathedral library:
Franco: Salve regina (11)
Interval
A Litany, with three attendant motets, recently discovered in Puebla Cathedral Library - world premiere:
Anon: Litany (7)
Anon: Sub tuum praesidium (4)
Victoria: Nigra sum (4)
Victoria: Vidi speciosam (8)
Music by Francisco López Capillas, born in Mexico City and employed at Puebla Cathedral:
Francisco López Capillas: In horrore visionis nocturnae (5)
Francisco López Capillas: Alleluia! Dic nobis Maria (5)
BBC Singers
Sarah Baldock - organ
Peter Phillips - conductor
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000vrfp)
Collaborations - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan is joined by guests Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write best-selling thrillers under the pseudonym Nicci French, and Britain's finest, if only, comedy-jazz-rap duo 'Harry and Chris', to talk - and sing - about the ups and downs of creative collaboration.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000vrft)
Paris 2021
Women
The Paris Commune lasted less than 100 days, yet this populist movement had extraordinary impact and offers a fascinating comparison to populist turbulence in 2021. Having survived the horrors of the Siege of Paris, winter of 1870-71, Parisians refused to accept the terms of French surrender after the Franco-Prussian war and declared independence. For ten weeks, the Communards experimented with alternative living: revolutionising education, political representation, the role of women, the upbringing of children, even parts of the landscape. The Commune was crushed brutally at the end of May, but it caught the attention of conservatives and radicals across the world. 150 years later, what does the Commune still have to say to us? Have we lost its legacy or, just maybe, are we all Communards now?
Dan Rebellato, writer and thinker, is inspired by personal observation of the modern legacy of the commune:
“In 2016, my wife and I moved to Paris and we had a baby. In London, walking along a narrow pavement with a buggy, people generally get out of your way. In Paris, there’s often a stand-off. In London, the public space is not really public at all; we carry with us a portable sphere of private space that should not be invaded. In Paris, if you’re on the street, you’re in the debate. Although French society is in many ways very deferential and hierarchical, this is not true on the streets. Anyone can speak to anyone - in Paris, every encounter is a debate. And so I found myself looking into the history of those Parisian streets; the way they’ve been remodelled and remade, the way the famous cobblestones have been torn up as weapons, the way the boulevards are ghosted by barricades and street battles. It’s a story that has markers in 1968 and 1961 and 1945 and 1940 but ultimately this contested Paris, where the very streets are sites of battle and debate, takes us back to 1871 and the Commune.”
These essays will bring the Commune to life with vivid description of key moments, entering into history, to explore how it shaped French society and beyond, through personal connection with the facts and the sense of a city Dan knows well.
Essay 5: Women
23 May 1871: As the French army poured into Paris to end the Commune, Parisians set light to some major buildings in a vain effort to stop their advance. On 23 May 1871, the Tuileries Palace was ignited. Amid the smoke and fire a new figure was born: the ‘petroleuse’, the woman communard with a bottle of petrol, glorying in the destruction she wreaked. In fact, there is very little evidence that such determined incendiarists existed, yet reports spread, ironically, like wildfire. The destructive woman became a cautionary tale and an icon of the Commune, haunting generations to come. The complexity and contradiction of women gaining independence is still resonant – the demonisation and vilification of over strident women is ubiquitous. The Commune genuinely offered women new ways of being, new models and roles. Yet this new woman is ghosted in the figure of the petroleuse, a horrified and horrifying response to repudiating a conventional domesticity.
Dan Rebellato is a leading British radio dramatist, as well as a Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway London. He has written extensively for BBC Radio 3 and 4, most recently Killer for Radio 3, as well as theatres such as Plymouth Drum, Suspect Culture and Graeae, and Pitlochry Festival Theatre. He has won Sonys and BBC Audio Awards for his radio dramas. He was lead writer on the blockbuster BBC Radio 4 Series, Emile Zola; Blood Sex and Money, starring Glenda Jackson. He has published several books, most recently co editing Contemporary European Playwrights in 2020, and is currently writing a practical playwriting guide for the National Theatre, due out in 2021/22.
Director/Producer, Polly Thomas
Executive Producer, Eloise Whitmore
A Naked Production for BBC Radio 3
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000vrfx)
Equiknoxx’s Mixtape
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape curated by Time Cow, one member of the forward-thinking Jamaican collective Equiknoxx. Based in Kingston, Equiknoxx are a group of producers and vocalists who blend dancehall with eclectic samples, glitchy rhythms and other experiments in sound. The collective has been around for over a decade and is currently a five-piece, with founding members Gavin ‘Gavsborg’ Blair and Bobby Blackbird, vocalists Shanique Marie and Kemikal Splash, and long-time producer Jordan Chung aka Time Cow. Time Cow compiles the mixtape on behalf of the group, reflecting their varied influences and tastes, from Ennio Morricone to the dancehall vibes of Buccaneer, taking in Japanese psych, library music, French pop along the way.
Elsewhere in the show, there’ll be cosmic country guitar from Bobby Lee, experimental Tuareg folk from Sahel trio Les Filles de Illighadad, and some loose crooning dubs from Keith Hudson. Plus an unearthed live recording of Japanese underground musician Phew performing with sound artists John Duncan and Tatsuo Kondo in 1982 at Tokyo’s Hosei University.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (m000vplm)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m000vq3m)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m000vr1h)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m000vqnh)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m000vrf9)
BBC Young Musician
20:00 SUN (m000vqjn)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m000vq1f)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m000vqj6)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m000vpl1)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m000vq3c)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m000vr17)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m000vqn7)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m000vrf1)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m000vhgc)
Choral Evensong
15:30 WED (m000vr1k)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m000qb4j)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m000vpl9)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m000vq3h)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m000vr1c)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m000vqnc)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m000vrf5)
Early Music Now
16:30 MON (m000vplq)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m000vpl6)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m000vq3f)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m000vr19)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m000vqn9)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m000vrf3)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m000vq3w)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m000vr1w)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m000vqnp)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m000vq20)
Happy Harmonies with Laufey
06:00 SAT (m000vq1c)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m000vplv)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m000vq3r)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m000vr1r)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m0001kp5)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m000vrff)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m000vpls)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m000vq3p)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m000vr1p)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m000vqnk)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m000vrfc)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m000vq1m)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m000vq1t)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m000vqjg)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m000vrfx)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m000vplz)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m000vplz)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m000vq1r)
New Generation Artists
19:30 SUN (m000vs89)
New Generation Artists
16:30 WED (m000vr1m)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m000vq1y)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m000nmpz)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m000nlxc)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m000nmrq)
Opera on 3
18:30 SAT (m000vq1w)
Piano Flow with Lianne La Havas
05:00 SAT (m000vjm7)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m000vqjb)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m000vgty)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m000vplh)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m000dpzp)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m000ds43)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m000dr3k)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m000ds5v)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m000vplx)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m000vq3t)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m000vr1t)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m000vhb1)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m000vrfk)
Record Review Extra
22:00 SUN (m000vs8c)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m000vq1h)
Slow Radio
23:30 SUN (m000vqjq)
Sound of Gaming
15:00 SAT (m000vq1p)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m000vqjl)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m000vqj8)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m000vqjd)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m000vpm1)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m000vq3y)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m000vr1y)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m000vqnr)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (m000vrft)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m000v2js)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (m000v2js)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m000nmxk)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m000vrfp)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m000vfrp)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (m000vjm5)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m000vq22)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m000vqjs)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m000vpm6)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m000vq42)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m000vr22)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m000vqny)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m000vqnw)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m000vqjj)