SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 2022
SAT 01:00 Piano Flow (m000wm7l)
Vol 7: Purple is for Prince: an hour of stirring piano songs
A Prince-inspired mix with tracks from Alicia Keys, Max Richter and the legend himself.
01
00:01:04 Alicia Keys (artist)
How Come You Don't Call Me (Unplugged)
Performer: Alicia Keys
Duration 00:04:28
02
00:05:33 Ludovico Einaudi (artist)
Le Onde
Performer: Ludovico Einaudi
Duration 00:04:48
03
00:05:33 Bill Withers (artist)
Lean On Me
Performer: Bill Withers
Duration 00:04:48
04
00:13:28 Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959: II. Andantino (Reprise Section A)
Performer: Philippe Guilhon-Herbert
Duration 00:02:01
05
00:15:34 Max Richter (artist)
The Departure
Performer: Max Richter
Duration 00:02:20
06
00:19:15 Prince (artist)
Sometimes It Snows In April
Performer: Prince
Duration 00:06:49
07
00:26:00 Billy Frame (artist)
Northern Light
Performer: Billy Frame
Duration 00:03:05
08
00:29:57 Esperanza Spalding (artist)
Fall In
Performer: Esperanza Spalding
Duration 00:03:49
09
00:33:47 Fritz Kreisler
Liebesfreud
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin
Duration 00:03:52
10
00:37:40 Beegie Adair (artist)
Moonlight Serenade
Performer: Beegie Adair
Duration 00:03:33
11
00:41:12 Prince (artist)
The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
Performer: Prince
Duration 00:04:01
12
00:45:09 Peter Broderick (artist)
Eyes Closed And Traveling
Performer: Peter Broderick
Duration 00:03:36
13
00:45:11 Lianne La Havas (artist)
Wonderful
Performer: Lianne La Havas
Duration 00:05:05
14
00:53:48 We Are KING (artist)
The Story (Extended Mix)
Performer: We Are KING
Duration 00:05:11
SAT 02:00 Happy Harmonies with Laufey (m000yg3k)
Hopeful harmonies to brighten your day
Draw strength from singer-songwriter Laufey's mood-boosting mix of inspiring vocal harmonies. Featuring tracks from Lorde, Lianne La Havas, Michael Kiwanuka and more.
01 Michael Kiwanuka (artist)
Light
Performer: Michael Kiwanuka
Duration 00:05:33
02
00:05:33 Billie Marten (artist)
Lu Lune
Performer: Billie Marten
Duration 00:02:59
03
00:08:31 Eriks Esenvalds
Northern Lights
Choir: The Pacific Lutheran Choir Of The West
Conductor: Richard Nance
Duration 00:06:05
04
00:14:37 The Paper Kites (artist)
For All You Give
Performer: The Paper Kites
Performer: Lucy Rose
Duration 00:02:46
05
00:17:57 Lianne La Havas (artist)
What You Won't Do
Performer: Lianne La Havas
Duration 00:03:27
06
00:21:24 Trad.
Shen khar venakhi
Choir: The King’s Singers
Duration 00:03:15
07
00:24:39 Flyte (artist)
Everyone's A Winner
Performer: Flyte
Duration 00:03:25
08
00:28:04 Will Todd
In This Place
Ensemble: Tenebrae
Conductor: Nigel Short
Duration 00:03:59
09
00:32:30 Lorde (artist)
Solar Power
Performer: Lorde
Duration 00:03:07
10
00:35:37 Tommy Ashby (artist)
High Moon
Performer: Tommy Ashby
Featured Artist: Lydia Clowes
Duration 00:03:47
11
00:39:24 Gabriel Jackson
Creator of the Stars of Night
Performer: Martin Ford
Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse
Ensemble: Vasari Singers
Singer: Elizabeth Limb
Duration 00:04:30
12
00:43:54 Adam Melchor (artist)
Light Year
Performer: Adam Melchor
Featured Artist: Lennon Stella
Duration 00:02:27
13
00:47:10 Bedouine, Waxahatchee and Hurray for the Riff Raff (artist)
Thirteen
Performer: Bedouine, Waxahatchee and Hurray for the Riff Raff
Duration 00:02:46
14
00:49:56 Ella Fitzgerald (artist)
I'm Beginning To See The Light
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald
Performer: The Ink Spots
Duration 00:02:42
15
00:52:38 Florence Price
Moon Bridge
Performer: Paul Shaw
Conductor: Philip Brunelle
Ensemble: VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
Duration 00:02:06
16
00:55:22 Novo Amor (artist)
Lucky For You
Performer: Novo Amor
Performer: Gia Margaret
Duration 00:01:48
17
00:57:10 Jo Stafford (artist)
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Performer: Jo Stafford
Performer: Paul Weston and His Orchestra
Performer: Pied Pipers
Duration 00:02:49
SAT 03:00 Through the Night (m0019sfy)
Ravel, Shostakovich and Mozart at the 2020 BBC Proms
Paavo Järvi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra. With Jonathan Swain.
03:01 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
03:18 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings (Piano Concerto no 1), Op 35
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Jason Evans (trumpet), Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
03:41 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 41 in C major, K.551 'Jupiter'
Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
04:15 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Valse triste, from Kuolema, incidental music Op 44
Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi (conductor)
04:21 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata no 1 in G major, Op 78
Veronika Eberle (violin), Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
04:47 AM
Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991)
Tri Studije / Za B.J.M (3 Studies, dedicated to B.J.M)
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenič (harp)
05:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Adagio in E flat (WoO.43 No.2) for mandolin and piano
Lajos Mayer (mandolin), Imre Rohmann (piano)
05:07 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Romance, Op 85
Adrien Boisseau (viola), Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra, José Maria Florêncio (conductor)
05:17 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Four Mazurkas
Ashley Wass (piano)
05:27 AM
Filip Kutev (1903-1982)
Sakar Suite, for symphony orchestra
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)
05:48 AM
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Alexei Tolstoy (author)
4 songs to texts by Alexei Tolstoy (Op.38 Nos.1-3 & Op.47 No.5)
Mikael Axelsson (bass), Niklas Sivelöv (piano)
06:01 AM
Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832)
Grand Quartet for 4 flutes in E minor (Op.103)
Valentinas Kazlauskas (flute), Albertas Stupakas (flute), Lina Baublyté (flute), Giedrius Gelgotas (flute)
06:24 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Suite in G major, TWV.55:G2, 'La Bizarre'
B'Rock, Jurgen Gross (conductor)
06:41 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture from 'Fierrabras' (D.796)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Hans Zender (conductor)
06:51 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
2 Arias: 'Wie nahte mir der Schlummer' and 'Leise, Leise, fromme Weise'
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m0019xh7)
Saturday - Elizabeth Alker
Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.
SAT 09:00 Record Review (m0019xh9)
BBC Proms Composer - Handel with Hannah French and Andrew McGregor
9.00am
Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti* & Candide (“Chelsea Version”, 1973)
Nancy Williams (Dinah)*
Julian Patrick (Sam)*
Columbia Wind Ensemble*
Leonard Bernstein*
Lewis J Stadlen (Pangloss)
Mark Baker (Candide)
Maureen Brennan (Cunegonde)
June Gable (Old Lady)
John Mauceri (conductor)
Dutton 2CDLK4643 (2 Hybrid SACDs)
https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=2CDLK4643
Ensemble I Zefirelli - Mr. Händel im Pub – music by anon., Purcell, Handel, etc.
Ensemble I Zefirelli
Arcantus Musikproduktion arc21025
http://www.arcantus.de/en/arc-21025/
Tournament for Twenty Fingers – music by Berkeley, Dodgson, Lambert, etc.
Emma Abbate (piano)
Julian Perkins (piano)
BIS BIS2578 (Hybrid SACD)
https://bis.se/composer/dodgson-stephen/tournament-for-twenty-fingers-piano-duets
Bohuslav Martinů: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Sir Roger Norrington
SWR Records SWR19119CD
https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=SWR19119CD
9.30am Proms Composer: Hannah French on Handel
Hannah French chooses five essential recordings of this week's BBC Proms Composer, Handel, and explains why you need to hear them. Also, the best of recent classical releases.
Handel - Coronation Anthems
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
Coro COR16066
https://thesixteenshop.com/products/handel-coronation-anthems
Handel: Enchantresses
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Les Paladins
Jérôme Correas
Alpha ALPHA765
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/handel-enchantresses
Handel: Winged Hands - The Eight Great Suites & Overtures
Francesco Corti (harpsichord)
Arcana A499 (2 CDs)
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/handel-winged-hands-eight-great-suites-overtures
Handel: Brockes-Passion
Sandrine Piau (Tochter Zion; soprano)
Stuart Jackson (Evangelist; tenor)
Konstantin Krimmel (Jesus; baritone)
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen
Alpha ALPHA644 (2 CDs)
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/handel-brockes-passion
Handel: Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3, HWV348-350
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Georg Kallweit
Harmonia Mundi HMC902216
https://store.harmoniamundi.com/release/210941-akademie-fr-alte-musik-berlin-handel-water-music
10.15am New Releases
Schubert: The Symphonies
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard
BIS BIS2514 (4 Hybrid SACDs)
https://bis.se/conductors/dausgaard-thomas/schubert-the-symphonies
Frank Bridge & Benjamin Britten – Chamber Works
Hélène Clément (viola)
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Chandos CHAN 20247
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020247
Voyages - Orchestral Music By James Lee III
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop
Avie AV2507
https://www.avie-records.com/releases/voyages-orchestral-music-by-james-lee-iii/
York Bowen, Susan Spain-Dunk, Gordon Jacob, John Blackwood McEwen, Gustav Holst, Karl Jenkins – Wind Quintets
Camarilla Ensemble
Dutton CDLX7398 (Hybrid SACD)
https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDLX7398
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Allan Clayton (tenor)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)
BIS BIS2553 (Hybrid SACD)
https://bis.se/performers/sampson-carolyn/hugo-wolf-italienisches-liederbuch
Wolf: Orchesterlieder & Penthesilea
Benjamin Appl (baritone)
Jenaer Philharmonie
Simon Gaudenz
CPO 5553802
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/hugo-wolf-orchesterlieder/hnum/10781844
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concertos 0-7; Rondo in B Flat Woo 6
Michael Korstick (piano)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Constantin Trinks
CPO 555447-2 (4 CDs)
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/ludwig-van-beethoven-klavierkonzerte-nr-0-7/hnum/10890380
11.20am Record of the Week
Bernstein: West Side Story Suite
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Pentatone PTC5187014
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9362698--bernstein-west-side-story-suite
SAT 11:45 New Generation Artists (m0019xhc)
Summer Showcase (5/8)
New Generation Artists Summer Showcase: Kate Molleson continues her summer series celebrating the talents of the current members of Radio 3's prestigious young artists' programme. Today, Eric Lu is heard playing Schumann's wistful Arabesque at the Wigmore Hall last month and mezzo, Ema Nikolovska and collaborative pianist, Kunal Lahiry combine Haydn with Cecile Chaminade in a recital at Snape. And they also join recent members of the scheme, the Quatuor Van Kuijk for Chausson's Chanson perpétuelle. The composer's final work brought this March weekend residency at Snape to a memorable end.
Chaminade: La lune paresseuse
Haydn: The Wanderer
Chaminade: Ronde d’amour
Haydn: Mermaid Song
Chaminade: Espoir: ne dis pas que l’espoir
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano), Kunal Lahiry (piano)
R. Schumann: Arabesque in C major, Op.18
Eric Lu (piano)
Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle, Op. 37
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano), Quatuor Van Kuijk, Kunal Lahiry (piano)
Rob Luft: Endless summer
Rob Luft Quintet and the Amika String Quartet
Established over two decades ago, Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme is internationally acknowledged as the foremost scheme of its kind. It exists to offer a platform for artists at the beginning of their international careers. Each year six musicians join the scheme for two years, during which time they appear at the UK's major music festivals, enjoy dates with the BBC orchestras and have the opportunity to record in the BBC studios. The artists are also encouraged to form artistic partnerships with one another and to explore a wide range of repertoire, not least the work of contemporary and women composers. In recent years Radio 3's New Generation Artists have appeared at many of the UK's music festivals and concert halls. The BBC New Generation Artists scheme is not itself a prize, rather it offers a unique platform on which artists can develop their prodigious talents. Not surprisingly, the list of alumni reads like a Who’s Who of the most exciting musicians of the past two decades.
SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m0019xhf)
Jess Gillam with... Sam Amidon
Jess's guest this week is folk artist Sam Amidon. His songs reimagine and breathe new life into old songs and ballads, but his musical life also encompasses any number of collaborations with classical composers, experimental producers as well as the jazz world which he finds so inspiring.
Sam and Jess settle in for a listening party of the music they love, including Ornette Coleman and friends having a street party, Ennio Morricone in full blown cinematic mode, Sam shares a revelatory recording by the Georgian voices in The Rustavi Choir and Jess continues her bid to be reincarnated in the 1960s with a Dusty Springfield classic.
Playlist:
TRAD GEORGIAN: Shen Khar venakhi – Kartli Kakhetia (The Rustavi Choir)
MORRICONE: Cinema Paradiso – Theme
ORNETTE COLEMAN: Friends and Neighbours (Vocal version) [Live]
PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet – Dance of the Knights (Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel (conductor))
SAILEOG NÍ CHEANNABHÁIN: Bean a’ Leanna
EDMUND ANDERSON/TED GROUYA: Flamingo (Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (piano))
JANACEK: Kreutzer Sonata arr. for Strings – 1st mvt Adagio (Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin/director))
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: Anyone Who Had a Heart
SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m0019xhh)
Baritone Roderick Williams rifles through some favourite records
Baritone Roderick Williams takes inspiration both from his parents' record collection and from composers who absorbed and reworked music from other times.
Roderick’s playlist effortlessly moves from symphonies by Schubert and Mahler to vocal music by Francis Potts and a certain Roderick Williams, as well as revelling in the sounds of The Modern Jazz Quartet and music written by Michael Giacchino for the film Batman. There’s also storytelling by Prokofiev and Britten and a piece of musical defiance by Michael Tippett.
And if you’ve ever had reservations about classical crossover, Benjamin Luxon singing the music of Herman Hupfeld might very well convince you to think again…
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 (m0019xhk)
The Connoisseurs
With the release of a new film inspired by the art of wine tasting and the true story of a Zimbabwean team of professional sommeliers, 'Blind Ambition', Matthew considers film and film music under the wider context of the connoisseur. Who are the great on-screen arbiters of merit and taste? And he talks to the Australian composer Helena Czajka, about her score for 'Blind Ambition'.
The programme includes music from Sideways, Bottle Shock, The Monuments Men, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Best Offer, The Leopard, Goldfinger, Phantom Thread, La La Land, Like Water For Chocolate, and Blind Ambition.
SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m0019xhm)
Road Trip to Colombia
New music from across the globe with Kathryn Tickell, plus a Road Trip to Colombia: Betto Arcos reports from the Festival de Cuerdas Pulsadas in Bogota. Plus a vintage track from Orchestra Baobab, and a song from Classic Artist Memphis Minnie.
SAT 17:00 J to Z (m0010x1p)
Chelsea Carmichael in concert
Kevin Le Gendre presents concert highlights from saxophonist Chelsea Carmichael recorded on the J to Z Presents stage at the London Jazz Festival 2021.
Chelsea Carmichael has made a name as a key player in the UK jazz community, both as a member of the Mercury-nominated SEED Ensemble and now in her own right with the release of her debut album, The River Doesn’t Like Strangers, on Shabaka Hutchings’ new label, Native Rebel Recordings. Here Chelsea is joined by guitarist Nikos Ziarkas for the first ever live performance of the album.
Also in the programme, creative guitarist-vocalist Monnette Sudler shares some of the music that inspires her. In the 1970s Sudler was a member of the pioneering Philadelphia-based jazz collective Sounds of Liberation. She went on to work with Hugh Masekela, Grover Washington, Kenny Barron and many more. Her album In My Own Way was rescued from the vaults and released on SteepleChase Records last year.
Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin’ Else
01
00:00:29 Makaya McCraven (artist)
Black Rhythm Happening
Performer: Makaya McCraven
Duration 00:03:33
02
00:05:28 Kinetika Bloco (artist)
Caravan
Performer: Kinetika Bloco
Duration 00:08:14
03
00:14:42 Chelsea Carmichael (artist)
There Is A Place + Noor
Performer: Chelsea Carmichael
Performer: Nikos Ziarkas
Duration 00:15:02
04
00:30:38 James Mtume (artist)
Yebo
Performer: James Mtume
Duration 00:05:51
05
00:37:16 Adam Fairhall (artist)
Roll Out The Barrel (Beer Barrel Polka)
Performer: Adam Fairhall
Performer: Johnny Hunter
Duration 00:05:58
06
00:43:58 Chelsea Carmichael (artist)
The River Doesn't Like Strangers
Performer: Chelsea Carmichael
Duration 00:08:03
07
00:52:47 John Patton (artist)
Extensions
Performer: John Patton
Duration 00:06:47
08
01:00:55 Monnette Sudler (artist)
Fire and Air
Performer: Monnette Sudler
Duration 00:06:30
09
01:07:30 Smokey Robinson (artist)
Ooo Baby Baby
Performer: Smokey Robinson
Duration 00:02:51
10
01:10:22 John Coltrane (artist)
After The Rain
Performer: John Coltrane
Duration 00:03:11
11
01:13:35 Yusef Lateef (artist)
Feather Comfort
Performer: Yusef Lateef
Duration 00:03:13
12
01:16:49 John Handy (artist)
If Only We Knew
Performer: John Handy
Duration 00:05:50
13
01:23:41 Jeff Parker (artist)
Forfolks
Performer: Jeff Parker
Duration 00:05:32
SAT 18:30 Edinburgh International Festival (m0019xhq)
Nikolai Lugansky at Edinburgh
Nikolai Lugansky plays Janáček and Schubert in this recital from the 2013 festival.
Janáček: In the Mists, JW8/22
Schubert: Four Impromptus, D935
Nikolai Lugansky - piano
SAT 19:30 BBC Proms (m0019xhs)
2022
Prom 36: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Part 1)
Live at the BBC Proms: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Benjamin Grosvenor in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3 and Dvořák's Symphony No 7.
Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
PART 1
Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin – suite
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C major
c.
20:25 INTERVAL: Chain Reaction (3/6)
Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on another unpredictable musical journey as they explore Chain Reaction, connecting the last piece in the first half of this Prom to the first piece after the interval - it's quite a refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!
c.
20:45 PART 2
Hannah Eisendle: Heliosis (UK premiere)
Dvořák: Symphony No 7 in D minor
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)
Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adventurous) American Music Director Marin Alsop, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra takes that tradition as a starting point to look outwards – to explore. Bartók’s blood-curdling ballet suite prepares the way for Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto: energising, unsentimental brilliance, brought to life by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. And then, two very different facets of the Central European tradition: the windswept drama and dancing Bohemian melodies of Dvořák’s magnificent Seventh Symphony, and the UK premiere of Heliosis – written specially for Alsop and the Vienna RSO by a young Viennese composer with a flair for drama.
SAT 20:25 BBC Proms (m001bl5v)
2022
Degrees of Separation (3/6): Sergei Prokofiev to Hannah Eisendle
Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on the third of six unpredictable musical journeys which connect the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. Expect the unexpected in this refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!
SAT 20:45 BBC Proms (m001bl5x)
2022
Prom 36: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Part 2)
Live at the BBC Proms: In the second part of tonight's Prom, Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in Hannah Eisendle's Heliosis and Dvořák's Symphony No 7.
Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
PART 2
Hannah Eisendle: Heliosis (UK premiere)
Dvořák: Symphony No 7 in D minor
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)
Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adventurous) American Music Director Marin Alsop, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra takes that tradition as a starting point to look outwards – to explore. Bartók’s blood-curdling ballet suite prepares the way for Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto: energising, unsentimental brilliance, brought to life by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. And then, two very different facets of the Central European tradition: the windswept drama and dancing Bohemian melodies of Dvořák’s magnificent Seventh Symphony, and the UK premiere of Heliosis – written specially for Alsop and the Vienna RSO by a young Viennese composer with a flair for drama.
SAT 22:15 New Music Show (m0019xhv)
Catalonians
Tom Service presents more of the latest in new music performance, including two works by Catalonian composers, and a Turkish piece for ensemble and spoken voice.
Missy Mazzoli: Vespers for a New Dark Age: Postlude
Joan Magrané Figuera: Faula
London Sinfonietta conducted by Edmon Colomer
Yigit Ozatalay: Yok mu, var
Hezarfen Ensemble
Sarah Nemtsov: Starlings, sparrows
Trio Catch
Ibukun Sunday: Underground
Roberto Gerhard: Leo
London Sinfonietta conducted by Edmon Colomer
Betsy Jolas: Rounds to catch
Trio Catch
Peter Knight: The softened shore
Tonight's show features exclusive concert recordings as usual, with the London Sinfonietta recorded at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Trio Catch recorded at Witten New Music Days in Germany. We recorded the Hezarfen Ensemble (from Turkey) at Bristol New Music Festival.
Roberto Gerhard studied with Schoenberg, and fled Spain after the Civil War, to live in England, where he composed a substantial body of work, including symphonies, ballet and opera. Leo was one of his last works, written the year before he died in 1970, and it's a richly realised and colourful piece in the modernist style that he developed. He dedicated the piece to his wife, whose star sign was Leo.
SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2022
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m0019xhx)
Haunted Textures
Corey Mwamba presents the best in new improvised music.
Damon Smith and Sarah Ruth Alexandra pay homage to the late bassist Ben Patterson with a special duo set inspired by a 1961 performance. A celebrated experimentalist, Patterson was one of the founders of the radical Fluxus movement.
Mexican group Cataratas del Niágara - featuring double bassist and improviser, Adriana Camacho - create an evocative world of mysterious field recordings and distortion charged by electronics.
Elsewhere in the programme, a skronking, squalling collaboration from Dirk Serries, Cath Roberts and Tullis Rennie. Together they play with texture and space to beguiling effect.
Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m0019xhz)
Bach's Mass in B minor
Jordi Savall conducts La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations and a star line-up of soloists in Bach's magnificent B minor Mass. Presented by John Shea.
01:01 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Sophie Harmsen (soprano), Raffaele Pé (counter tenor), Martin Platz (tenor), Thomas Stimmel (bass), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)
02:44 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540
Kaare Nordstoga (organ)
03:01 AM
François Couperin (1668-1733)
Harpsichord Suite No 25, in E flat major/C minor
Stefan Trayanov (harpsichord)
03:20 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Mazeppa - Symphonic Poem
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Juozas Domarkas (conductor)
03:36 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937), Bengt-Åke Lundin (arranger)
Rhapsody in Blue arr. Lundin for piano and string quintet
Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano), New Stenhammar String Quartet, Staffan Sjöholm (double bass)
03:54 AM
Heinrich Albert (1604-1651)
Musikalische Kurbishutte - songcycle for 3 voices and continuo
Cantus Cölln, Musica Alta Ripa, Konrad Junghänel (lute), Konrad Junghänel (conductor)
04:06 AM
Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947)
Dance Vision (Tanssinaky), Op 11
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
04:15 AM
Carl Ludwig Lithander (1773-1843)
Piano Sonata in C major, Op 8 No 1 'Sonate facile'
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)
04:27 AM
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
In memoriam - overture in C major
BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)
04:38 AM
Jean Hotteterre (1677-1720)
La Noce Champetre ou l'Himen Pastoral - from Pieces pour la Muzette, Paris 1722
Ensemble 1700
04:51 AM
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920)
Three Tone Pictures, Op 5
David Allen Wehr (piano)
05:01 AM
Jacob Regnart (c.1540-1599)
Litania Deiparae Virginis Mariae
Currende, Erik van Nevel (conductor)
05:13 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Chorales: 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' (BuxWV.211)
Bernard Lagacé (organ)
05:23 AM
Franz Schreker (1878-1934)
Ekkehard (Op.12): Symphonic Overture
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
05:36 AM
Rudolf Escher (1912-1980), Pierre de Ronsard (author)
Ciel, air et vents for chorus (1957)
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Ed Spanjaard (conductor)
05:48 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Lamento sopra la Morte Ferdinandi III
Les Elements Amsterdam
05:55 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Carnival Overture, Op 92
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
06:05 AM
Dimitar Nenov (1901-1953)
Cinema Suite (1925)
Mario Angelov (piano)
06:23 AM
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
Sinfonie in D major (VB.143)
Concerto Köln
06:42 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in B minor (Op.33, No.1)
Quatuor Ysaÿe
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m0019xkv)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Breakfast including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m0019xkx)
Sarah Walker with an engrossing musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses two hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, Sarah gets lost in the magic of Palestrina’s flowing vocal lines, and readies herself for a relaxed summer afternoon with an arrangement of Gershwin’s Summertime for solo guitar.
She also finds refreshing coolness in a piano sonata by Clementi, and theatrical declamation in a motet by Rosa Giacinta Badalla.
Plus, we head to Germany for a holiday with the Elgars…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 11:00 BBC Proms (m0019xkz)
2022
Prom 37: Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Kaija Saariaho and Beethoven
Live at the BBC Proms: Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, featuring sunlit masterworks by Haydn, Saariaho and Beethoven.
Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Haydn: Symphony No. 6 in D major, ‘Le matin’
Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto
Kaija Saariaho: Vers toi qui es si loin (London premiere)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
Maria Włoszczowska, violin
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Dinis Sousa, conductor
From sunrise to high noon: this matinee concert from the Tyneside-based Royal Northern Sinfonia under its Principal Conductor Dinis Sousa begins with the sun rising over Haydn’s joyous early symphony. It ends with Beethoven cutting loose in sheer, unbuckled glee, in the rollercoaster finale of his brightest symphony. In between, the skies just gets brighter and more beautiful, as oboist Nicholas Daniel takes the solo spot in Vaughan Williams’s playful, pastoral Oboe Concerto – another anniversary salute to this great British master. Then violinist Maria Maria Włoszczowska is the soloist in Kaija Saariaho’s ravishing Vers toi qui es si loin – a wordless love song, adapted from the acclaimed opera L’amour de loin by one of today’s true sonic magicians.
SUN 13:00 BBC Proms (m0019sbh)
2022
Proms at Battersea: Leif Ove Andsnes – Mozart Momentum 3
From the BBC Proms: Leif Ove Andsnes and three Mahler Chamber Orchestra members play Mozart Piano Trio in B flat major and Piano Quartet in E flat major.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny, from Battersea Arts Centre, London.
Mozart:
Piano Trio in B flat major
Piano Quartet in E flat major
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Matthew Truscott (violin)
Joel Hunter (viola)
Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)
The music of friends: for pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, performing with the musicians of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra is first and foremost about ‘partnership, a companionship’. Together, they’ve explored the music of Beethoven; now they turn to Mozart and in this lunchtime recital at Battersea Arts Centre they pare it down to basics – Andsnes, three MCO players and some of the loveliest chamber music ever created: the Piano Trio, K502, and the warm-hearted Piano Quartet, K493. This is music that Mozart conceived to be played at home, intimate without being inhibited, and playful without being flashy. Just inspiration, wit and melodies that speak straight to the heart.
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000wkjg)
The City of Antwerp
Lucie Skeaping looks at the musical life of the Flemish city of Antwerp from the 15th-18th centuries, with music from composers who lived and worked there, including Jacobus Barbireau, Joachim van den Hove, Guilielmus Massaus and Leonora Duarte.
01
00:01:44 Leonora Duarte
Sinfonia a 5 No.1
Ensemble: Concordia
Duration 00:02:26
02
00:05:35 Jacobus Barbireau
Een Vroylic wesen (Ein frohlich Wesen)
Ensemble: Capilla Flamenca
Duration 00:01:12
03
00:07:39 Jacobus Barbireau
Missa Virgo parens Christi: Sanctus; Agnus Dei
Ensemble: The Clerks
Conductor: Edward Wickham
Duration 00:07:44
04
00:16:45 Guilielmus Messaus
Hoe light ghy hier so cout
Ensemble: Transports Publics
Duration 00:03:52
05
00:20:36 Guilielmus Messaus
O salich heylich Bethlehem
Ensemble: The Toronto Consort
Duration 00:03:40
06
00:25:13 Joachim Van Den Hove
Fantasia resonans
Performer: Paul O’Dette
Duration 00:03:51
07
00:30:30 Joachim Van Den Hove
Toccate 1614
Performer: Joachim Held
Duration 00:01:06
08
00:31:36 Joachim Van Den Hove
Chanson Englesae
Performer: Massimo Marchese
Duration 00:01:46
09
00:33:21 Joachim Van Den Hove
Allemande Englesae
Performer: Massimo Marchese
Duration 00:02:53
10
00:37:39 Leonora Duarte
Sinfonia a 5 No.2
Ensemble: Sonnambula
Duration 00:02:32
11
00:40:12 Leonora Duarte
Sinfonia a 5 No.3
Ensemble: Transports Publics
Duration 00:02:22
12
00:43:32 Constantijn Huygens
Air
Ensemble: Musica Amphion
Duration 00:02:03
13
00:46:26 Nicholas Lanier
No more shall meads be decked with flowers
Singer: Ed Lyon
Ensemble: Theatre of the Ayre
Director: Elizabeth Kenny
Duration 00:03:05
14
00:50:16 Leonora Duarte
Sinfonia a 5 Nos.5 & 6
Ensemble: Fretwork
Duration 00:04:00
15
00:54:17 Leonora Duarte
Sinfonia a 5 No.7
Ensemble: Sonnambula
Duration 00:02:53
16
00:57:37 Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Concerto for 2 oboes in C major, Op.7 No.2 (1st movement)
Performer: Anthony Robson
Performer: Catherine Latham
Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90
Director: Simon Standage
Duration 00:02:03
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0019sct)
Eton College
From the Chapel of Eton College with members of the Rodolfus Choral Course.
Introit: Today (Lucy Walker)
Responses: Kerensa Briggs
Office Hymn: Glorious things of thee are spoken (Abbots Leigh)
Psalms 53, 54, 55 (Goss, Lucy Walker, Howells)
First Lesson: Isaiah 55 vv.8-13
Canticles: King’s College Service (Joanna Forbes L’Estrange)
Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 2 vv.8-19
Anthem: O sing unto the Lord (Cecilia McDowall)
Hymn: How shall I sing that majesty (Coe Fen)
Voluntary: Star Fantasy (Kristina Arakelyan)
Anna Lapwood (Conductor)
William Fairbairn (Organist)
Recorded 29 July.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m0019xl1)
Jazz for a Sunday afternoon
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b08qtdts)
What's the Point of the Conductor?
The Listening Service had a question from a listener:
"When I see the musicians playing, they seem to be looking at their sheet music, not the conductor. Can an orchestra not function perfectly well without a conductor? If I'm intensely moved by a piece of orchestral music, is it not the musicians which moved me? Why must I applaud some arbitrary conductor, who never touched a single instrument throughout the entire performance?"
Tom Service rises to the challenge and looks at the role of the conductor - is it all about their ego, their clothes, their ability to beat time or their emotional outpouring onstage - or it is something else entirely? Rethink music with The Listening Service.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000v7yz)
Coming of Age
Josh O'Connor and Lydia Wilson with readings inspired by youthful experiences. Fresh from his role as Romeo for the National Theatre – a classic ‘coming of age’ story – The Crown’s Josh O'Connor reads Shakespeare, James Joyce and Harry Potter. Lydia Wilson, star of the thriller Requiem, offers contemporary fiction from Naoise Dolan and Emma Cline, along with Dickens’ bildungsroman David Copperfield, and a poem by Libby Russell, a past winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award run by the Poetry Society. Ted Hughes recites his own translation of Ovid in archive audio and Tez Ilyas reads from his Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 ¾.
The music includes Stravinsky's adolescent girls dancing the Rite of Spring, a Marian hymn from Palestrina, and Ravel's mythical young lovers, Daphnis et Chloé. Herbie Hancock, Rebecca Clarke and Felix Mendelssohn come of age as composers, while Patrick Doyle's film music shows Prince Hal turn into noble Henry V. The programme closes with Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier: the Marschallin bids farewell to her lost youth, and wishes her lover happiness with his new young bride.
Producer: Hannah Sander
Readings:
Charles Dickens – David Copperfield
Mishnah
5:21
Tez Ilyas – The Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 ¾
CS Lewis – Prince Caspian
James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Libby Russell – ‘gaff’
Françoise Sagan – Bonjour Tristesse
Socrates (Plato) – ‘The children now love luxury’
Margaret Mead – Coming of Age in Samoa
Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited
Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
Ted Hughes – ‘Echo and Narcissus’
Naoise Dolan – Exciting Times
Thomas Morris – ‘All the Boys’
JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Emma Cline – The Girls
Claude McKay – ‘Adolescence’
01
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, read by Lydia Wilson
Duration 00:00:20
02
00:00:20 Sergei Prokofiev
Cinderella Suite No 1, Op 107
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Duration 00:02:38
03
00:01:40 Sergei Prokofiev
Cinderella Suite No 1, Op 107
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Duration 00:02:40
04
00:02:58
Mishnah
5:21
Read by Josh O'Connor
Duration 00:00:43
05
00:03:42 Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Performer: Martha Argerich
Performer: Nelson Freire
Duration 00:03:00
06
00:05:02 Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Performer: Martha Argerich
Performer: Nelson Freire
Duration 00:03:02
07
00:06:43
Tez Ilyas
The Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 3/4, read by Tez Ilyas
Duration 00:00:34
08
00:07:18 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Ave regina coelorum - motet for 8 voices
Choir: The Sixteen
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Duration 00:02:24
09
00:08:29
CS Lewis
Prince Caspian, read by Lydia Wilson
Duration 00:00:53
10
00:08:37 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Ave regina caelorum
Choir: The Sixteen
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Duration 00:03:20
11
00:10:37
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, read by Josh O'Connor
Duration 00:00:57
12
00:11:34 David Bowie
Rebel Rebel
Performer: David Bowie
Duration 00:01:19
13
00:12:07
Libby Russell
gaff, ready by Lydia Wilson
Duration 00:01:26
14
00:12:56 David Bowie (artist)
Rebel Rebel
Performer: David Bowie
Duration 00:02:48
15
00:14:24 Herbie Hancock
Cantaloupe Island
Performer: Herbie Hancock (piano), Freddy Hubbard (trumpet), Ron Carter (double bass), Tony Williams (drums)
Duration 00:03:53
16
00:15:46 Herbie Hancock (artist)
Cantaloupe Island
Performer: Herbie Hancock
Duration 00:05:22
17
00:16:44
Francoise Sagan
Bonjour Tristesse, read by Lydia Wilson
Duration 00:01:23
18
00:19:42
Plato (Socrates)
The children now love luxury, read by Lydia Wilson
Duration 00:00:31
19
00:20:14
Margaret Mead
Coming of Age in Samoa, read by Josh O'Connor
Duration 00:00:15
20
00:20:29 Igor Stravinsky
Cercles mystérieux des adolescentes, from The Rite of Spring
Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Duration 00:02:41
21
00:21:50 Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Duration 00:02:39
22
00:23:11 Mike Shapiro
Spooky
Lyricist: Buddy Buie
Lyricist: J. R. Cobb
Performer: Dusty Springfield
Duration 00:02:39
23
00:24:32 Dusty Springfield (artist)
Spooky
Performer: Dusty Springfield
Duration 00:02:37
24
00:25:50
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited, read by Josh O'Connor
Duration 00:00:45
25
00:26:35 Maurice Ravel
Sunrise from Daphnis et Chloé
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Duration 00:04:17
26
00:27:54 Maurice Ravel
Lever du Jour (Daphnis et Chloe)
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Duration 00:04:59
27
00:29:43
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 sc. v, read by Josh O'Connor
Duration 00:00:39
28
00:31:32
Ovid, translated by Ted Hughes
Echo and Narcissus, read by Ted Hughes
Duration 00:02:15
29
00:33:48 Radiohead
Daydreaming
Performer: Radiohead
Duration 00:03:05
30
00:35:07 Radiohead (artist)
Daydreaming
Performer: Radiohead
Duration 00:05:41
31
00:35:10
Naoise Dolan
Exciting Times, read by Lydia Wilson
Duration 00:50:00
32
00:37:46 Rebecca Clarke
Lullaby on an Ancient Irish Tune
Performer: Philip Dukes
Performer: Sophia Rahman
Duration 00:02:32
33
00:39:09 Rebecca Clarke
Lullaby on an Ancient Irish Tune
Performer: Philip Dukes
Performer: Sophia Rahman
Duration 00:02:27
34
00:40:18 Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to A Midsummer Nights Dream
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Duration 00:11:15
35
00:41:43 Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to A Midsummer Nights Dream
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Duration 00:12:00
36
00:50:33
Thomas Morris
All the Boys, read by Josh O'Connor
Duration 00:00:53
37
00:52:28 George the Poet (artist)
Follow the Leader (acoustic version)
Performer: George the Poet
Performer: Maverick Sabre
Featured Artist: Jorja Smith
Duration 00:04:16
38
00:53:52 George the Poet (artist)
Follow the Leader
Performer: George the Poet
Duration 00:03:11
39
00:55:43
JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, read by Josh O'Connor
Duration 00:00:59
40
00:56:52 Patrick Doyle
St Crispins Day, from Henry V
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Duration 00:05:40
41
00:58:10 Patrick Doyle
St Crispins Day, from Henry V
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Duration 00:05:41
42
01:02:36
Emma Cline
The Girls, read by Lydia Wilson
Duration 00:00:59
43
01:03:36 Neil Young
Old Man
Performer: Neil Young
Duration 00:02:13
44
01:04:55 Neil Young (artist)
Old Man
Performer: Neil Young
Duration 00:02:14
45
01:05:50
Claude McKay
Adolescence, read by Josh O'Connor
Duration 00:00:48
46
01:06:38 Richard Strauss
Hab' mir's gelobt from Der Rosenkavalier
Performer: Diana Damrau
Performer: Adrianne Pieczonka
Performer: Elīna Garanča
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Duration 00:00:48
47
01:07:56 Richard Strauss
Hab' mir's gelobt (Der Rosenkavalier)
Singer: Diana Damrau
Singer: Adrianne Pieczonka
Singer: Elīna Garanča
Orchestra: Dresden State Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Duration 00:05:56
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m000pm8v)
The Myth and Mystery of Anja Thauer
Anja Thauer was a young German cellist on the brink of stardom in the 1960s. She won the Grand Prix at the Paris Conservatoire, signed with Deutsche Grammophon, released two critically acclaimed albums, and toured internationally. And then, a tragic end: she took her own life in 1973, aged 28, after starting an affair with a married doctor in Wiesbaden. Five days later, he took his own life.
Thauer remains a cult figure among collectors of rare records, who will sometimes pay four-figure sums for original copies of her LPs. But her story has never been properly told. Why not? In this Sunday Feature, music journalist Phil Hebblethwaite discovers that her position in music history may have been intentionally obscured by her mother – a former violin virtuoso – who exerted complete control over her daughter’s career, and subsequently her legacy.
And was Thauer’s career also overshadowed by the success of Jacqueline du Pré at a time when classical music perhaps wasn’t ready for two female star cellists? Their stories have uncanny similarities. They were the same age, studied together at the Paris Conservatoire, and their careers both ended in 1973 – when Thauer died and du Pré was diagnosed with MS.
The documentary starts in a charity shop in west London, with Hebblethwaite finding a copy of a Thauer’s recording of the Dvořák Cello Concerto. We meet critics who have spent years trying to find out more about Thauer and hear from those who knew and worked by her, including the conductors Zdeněk Mácal and Neville Dilkes, and the pianist Claude Françaix. And we head to Germany too, to research Thauer’s mother Ruth, and to try and understand the complicated relationship she had with her gifted daughter.
*Since making this programme, the cellist Anna Shuttleworth, who took Anja’s place in the 1973 English Sinfonia tour, died in March 2021 aged 93.
Written and presented by Phil Hebblethwaite
Produced by Alexandra Quinn
Extra research by Jeffrey Brown
Extracts read by Annette Kossow, Muriel Zsiga, Ryan Wichert and Oliver Soden
A Loftus Media production
SUN 19:30 BBC Proms (m0019xl4)
2022
Prom 38: Tchaikovsky, Missy Mazzoli and Prokofiev
Live at the BBC Proms: Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali with volinist Jennifer Koh perform Tchaikovsky, Missy Mazzoli and Prokofiev.
Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Albert Hall, London.
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (suite)
Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto (Procession)
8.15 pm
INTERVAL: Poet Hannah Lowe, whose collection of sonnets The Kids won the Costa Book Award for Poetry in 2021, joins Martin Handley before the performance of excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet to explore how poets from Shakespeare to the present day have written about love.
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Jennifer Koh (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)
Enchantment, potions, and deep emotions suddenly transforming into passionate music. And it’s not just the star-crossed lovers of Prokofiev’s great Shakespearean ballet score. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is a story of love blossoming under the shadow of a dark magic. Missy Mazzoli’s new Violin Concerto, ‘Procession’, meanwhile, casts the soloist (in the composer’s words) ‘as a soothsayer, sorcerer, healer and pied piper’, playing music that begins with medieval charms and ends by reaching for the sky. It’s played tonight by its dedicatee Jennifer Koh, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu Matias-Rouvali, at the end of his first (critically acclaimed) season as Music Director.
SUN 22:00 Record Review Extra (m0019xl6)
Hannah's Handel
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review. Tonight she presents a special all-Handel programme, featuring more from her favourite recordings of his music as revealed yesterday morning.
SUN 23:00 Free the Music with Pekka Kuusisto (m0012qpg)
The Wood or the Trees?
Pekka Kuusisto is a solo violinist, conductor, composer and folk musician who can change the way people think about music.
In this three-part series he muses on how much creative freedom a musician really has, and the complex relationship between improvisation and ‘sticking to the plan’. How is a performance dictated by time, place, tradition, learned techniques and mindset? And how can we open the door to wider musical freedom in the future, for performers, composers and listeners?
Pekka illustrates his thoughts with a wide selection of music, ranging from Purcell and Paganini to Mahler, Miles Davis and the White Stripes, and he also gets his violin out to create some on the spot improvisations.
In this second episode Pekka explores and questions the significance of repetition in music. He applauds the violinist Thomas Zehetmair, who turns Paganini’s 24 Caprices from exercises into mini Italian operas. He also admires Björk’s ability to mask and magnify repetition by making it sophisticated enough to withstand hundreds of listens. And Pekka invites us to join him in a musical tasting party, sampling multiple recordings of Schubert’s Winterreise made by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:00:37 The Gloaming (artist)
The Lobster
Performer: The Gloaming
Duration 00:06:50
02
00:09:42 Steve Reich
It's gonna rain (excerpt)
Narrator: Brother Walter
Duration 00:02:42
03
00:13:46 Henry Purcell
Intermezzo (Act 5, The Fairy Queen)
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations
Director: Jordi Savall
Duration 00:01:20
04
00:16:58 Nicolò Paganini
Caprice No. 24 in A minor, Op. 1
Performer: Thomas Zehetmair
Duration 00:03:51
05
00:22:50 Björk (artist)
Human Behaviour
Performer: Björk
Duration 00:04:10
06
00:27:01 Jean Sibelius
Impromptu, Op. 78 No. 1
Performer: Pekka Kuusisto
Performer: Heini Kärkkäinen
Duration 00:01:54
07
00:31:27 Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 (II. Allegretto)
Orchestra: Musica Aeterna
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
Duration 00:08:11
08
00:41:14 SOPHIE (artist)
BIPP
Performer: SOPHIE
Duration 00:03:45
09
00:46:05 John Adams
Look down at the Earth (Act 2, Sc 1: Nixon in China [excerpt])
Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Duration 00:02:01
10
00:50:47 Franz Schubert
Winterreise (I. Gute Nacht, 1955 recording)
Performer: Gerald Moore
Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
Duration 00:01:12
11
00:51:59 Franz Schubert
Winterreise (I. Gute Nacht, 1972 recording)
Performer: Gerald Moore
Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
Duration 00:01:13
12
00:53:13 Franz Schubert
Winterreise (I. Gute Nacht, 1985 recording)
Performer: Alfred Brendel
Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
Duration 00:01:11
13
00:54:24 Franz Schubert
Winterreise (I. Gute Nacht, 1990 recording)
Performer: Murray Perahia
Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
Duration 00:01:28
14
00:57:26 Pekka Kuusisto
Improvisation
Duration 00:01:33
MONDAY 15 AUGUST 2022
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000dxz1)
Chris Hawkins
Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week Linton is joined by broadcaster and BBC Radio 6 Music DJ Chris Hawkins, host of weekday mornings and a brand new show on BBC Sounds called 'The Remix' which celebrates reimagined, re-versioned and remixed music..
Chris's playlist:
Clara Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor (1st movement)
Nico Muhly - Bright Mass with Canons (Kyrie)
JS Bach - Cello Suite no.6 in D major (Sarabande)
Amanda Feery - It's in the trees, it's coming
Helene de Montgeroult - Piano Sonata in A minor (2nd movement)
Maurice Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe Suite no.2
Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.
01
00:04:07 Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor Op.7 (1st mvt)
Performer: Isata Kanneh-Mason
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Holly Mathieson
Duration 00:06:10
02
00:07:45 Nico Muhly
Bright Mass with Canons: Kyrie
Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale
Conductor: Grant Gershon
Duration 00:04:34
03
00:12:18 Johann Sebastian Bach
Unaccompanied Cello Suite No.6 in D Major, BWV 1012: Sarabande
Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma
Duration 00:04:01
04
00:17:03 Amanda Feery
It's in the trees, it's coming
Ensemble: Crash Ensemble
Duration 00:04:03
05
00:21:06 Hélène de Montgeroult
Sonata in A minor, Op 2 No 3 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Nicolas Horvath
Duration 00:08:29
06
00:25:10 Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Duration 00:04:03
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m0019xlb)
Concerto Copenhagen and Andreas Brantelid
Featuring music from the transition between Baroque and Classical, Andreas Brantelid and Concerto Copenhagen perform works by Telemann, CPE Bach, WF Bach, and Haydn. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) in F major TWV.55:F3 - exceprts
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
12:45 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Cello Concerto in A major, Wq.172
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
01:05 AM
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
Sinfonia in F major, F-67 'Dissonant'
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
01:17 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Cello Concerto no.1 in C major, H.7b.1
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
01:41 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Symphony No. 1 in C major (Op.21)
Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (conductor)
02:07 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Clarinet Concerto no 2 in E flat major, Op 74
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
02:31 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Poeme de l'amour et de la mer (Op.19)
Lauris Elms (mezzo soprano), Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Robert Pikler (conductor)
02:56 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quintet for strings in G minor (K.516)
Oslo Chamber Soloists
03:32 AM
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Serenade for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
03:36 AM
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
2 Finnlandische Volksweisen (Finnish folksong arrangements) for 2 pianos, Op 27
Erik T. Tawaststjerna (piano), Hui-Ying Liu (piano)
03:48 AM
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
Sinfonia in G minor, Si7
Kore Orchestra, Andrea Buccarella (harpsichord)
03:54 AM
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Guitar Concerto
Lukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, José Maria Florêncio (conductor)
04:13 AM
Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
Vanitas vanitatum
Olga Pasiecznik (soprano), Marta Boberska (soprano), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble, Agata Sapiecha (director)
04:24 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Hill-Song No.2
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
04:31 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Sinfonia for orchestra (Op 36) "Jupiter"
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
04:37 AM
Artur Kapp (1878-1952)
Cantata 'Päikesele' (To the Sun)
Hendrik Krumm (tenor), Aime Tampere (organ), Estonian Radio Choir, Estonian Boys' Choir, Estonia Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi (conductor)
04:47 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
3 keyboard sonatas
Claire Huangci (piano)
04:58 AM
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Beni Mora - oriental suite (Op.29 No.1)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
05:14 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
05:23 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Ballade in G minor, Op 24
Eugen d'Albert (piano)
05:34 AM
Elżbieta Sikora (b.1943)
Rappel III for string orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Michniewski (conductor)
05:50 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet no 2 in A major, Op 81
Janine Jansen (violin), Anders Nilsson (violin), Julian Rachlin (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Itamar Golan (piano)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m0019xpq)
Monday - Breakfast from Cardiff
Join Petroc Trelawny, live from Cardiff, with sounds of the music and musicians associated with the city and surrounding area, ahead of the day’s Proms at Cardiff concert. Featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m0019xps)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
MON 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m0019xpv)
The Takács Quartet
The Takács Quartet returns to the Edinburgh International Festival to perform a live recital that begins with Haydn. The Opus 77 quartets were written in Haydn’s late sixties and sum up his particular style and mastery of a form that he'd shaped for decades. Two works by student composers follow; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lushly romantic character sketches written during his studies at the Royal College of Music in London and Ravel’s lyrical String Quartet dedicated to his teacher, Gabriel Faure.
Haydn: String Quartet in F major, Op 77 No 2
Coleridge-Taylor: 5 Fantasiestücke Op.5
11:55
Interval: Delibes - Coppelia Suite, in a recording by the Philadelphia Orchestra with conductor Eugene Ormandy
12:15
Ravel: String Quartet in F major
Takács Quartet
Presenter: Donald MacLeod
Producer: Laura Metcalfe
MON 13:00 BBC Proms (m0019xpx)
2022
Proms at Cardiff: Ligeti, Nielsen and Stravinsky
Live at the BBC Proms: Carion Wind Quintet play Nielsen's brilliant Quintet for Wind together with works by Ligeti and Stravinsky.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
György Ligeti: Bagatelles 12'
Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet 27'
Igor Stravinsky, arr. David M.A.P. Palmquist: Suite no 2 6'
Carion Wind Quintet
‘These young players are just the best there is,’ says Sir James Galway. No chairs, no music stands, playing from memory, and with every performance exuberantly choreographed, the five members of Carion Wind Quintet make all their performances fresh and unique. In this lunchtime concert at Cardiff's Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, their programme centres around Nielsen's Wind Quintet, a mesmerising kaleidoscope of colours that's deservedly become a cornerstone of wind repertory. There are some ingenious games courtesy of György Ligeti to begin with; an arrangement by their horn player David Palmquist of Stravinsky's Suite no 2 which exploits the contrasting characters of the wind instruments provides a sparkling finale.
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0019xpz)
Monday - Shostakovich's Symphony No 15
Presented by Penny Gore. Including another chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards in their recent Proms performance of music by Shostakovich, Kalevi Aho and Kaija Saariaho. Plus today's Proms Artists' Choice.
2pm
Kalevi Aho: Eight Seasons (Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra)
Interval
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2.55pm
Kaija Saariaho: Vista
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.15
Carolina Eyck (theremin)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m0019xq1)
Helen Charslton sings a recent setting of John Milton's On His Blindness
Helen Charlston sings a delectable selection of songs by 20th- and 21st-century British composers at the Elgar Hall, Birmingham. Included are songs written especially for the mezzo such as Stephen Bicks's moving setting of John Milton's On His Blindness. Also today, Peter Moore - who makes his debut as a soloist at the Proms tomorrow evening - is heard in a recording he made at the BBC studios during his time as a member of Radio 3's young artists' scheme.
Juliana Hall: To Mother, from ‘Letters from Edna’
Nathan James Dearden: the way we go
Stephen Bick: On His Blindness
Benjamin Britten: The Last Rose of Summer
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
Stjepan Sulek: Sonata (Vox Gabrieli)
Peter Moore (trombone), Jonathan Ware (piano)
Bach arr Misha Mullov-Abbado: Violin Sonata No. 1 in B minor Adagio
Viktoria Mullova (violin), Misha Mullov-Abbado (jazz bass)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m0019xq3)
Ailish Tynan, Ana Carla Maza, John Butt
Sean Rafferty is joined by soprano Ailish Tynan, singing live ahead of her appearance at the Clandeboye Festival in Belfast. Cuban cellist and vocalist Ana Carla Maza also plays live in the studio, ahead of her concerts in London and Suffolk, as part of her European tour. And conductor John Butt talks to Sean about his ensemble Dunedin Consort, and their upcoming performance at Edinburgh International Festival.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0019xq5)
Your daily classical soundtrack
The threatening majesty of Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C sharp minor leads to an epic struggle with fate for Beethoven. Stravinsky’s elephantine Circus Polka pushes the boundaries and Nina Simone joins the struggle to be free. Suddenly, love makes an entrance with Khachaturian, and we move from sensuous sublimity to the cheeky panache of Leroy Anderson, topped off with a whizzing Beethoven variation, which brings tonight’s cocktail of classics to a conclusion.
Produced by Richard Denison
MON 19:30 BBC Proms (m0019xq7)
2022
Prom 39: Mark-Anthony Turnage, Vaughan Williams and Elgar
Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Elgar's Symphony No.1, a Turnage premiere, and Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto with Constantin Hartwig.
Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Time Flies [BBC co-commission: UK premiere]
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto
8.10 pm
Interval
Nigel Simeone joins Andrew McGregor to look forward to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms.
8.30 pm
Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major
Constantin Hartwig (tuba)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
A muffled drum, a quiet march … and the melody for which a nation had been waiting. From first hesitant notes to heaven-storming conclusion, Elgar’s First Symphony is more than just a landmark in British music: it’s the autobiography of a creative spirit, passionate, troubled and profoundly moving. BBC Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo has loved the music of Elgar for decades, and it’s a thrilling contrast to the playfulness and poetry of Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto, played by rising international brass star Constantin Hartwig. Meanwhile, what’s a composer to do when he’s invited to the Tokyo Olympics during a global travel ban? Mark-Anthony Turnage lets his music do the globetrotting in his jazz-inspired Time Flies.
MON 22:00 Sunday Feature (m000mrgj)
Andy's Kitchen and On the Road in Africa
During the 1980s, 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 first of four features, Andy delves into his boxes of cassettes and brings us music from his journeys in Africa - including his encounters with the then-unknown Ali Farka Touré, and the vibrant music scene of the newly-independent Zimbabwe - plus Kitchen Sessions from Cajun musicians Eddie Lejeune and DL Menard, also American singing legends Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore (first broadcast in 2020).
01
00:00:35 Butch Hancock (artist)
One Road More (London, July 13 1988)
Performer: Butch Hancock
Performer: Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Duration 00:01:48
02
00:02:23 Butch Hancock (artist)
The Wind's Dominion (London, July 13 1988)
Performer: Butch Hancock
Performer: Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Duration 00:02:21
03
00:04:44 Ali Farka Touré (artist)
Kadi Kadi (London, October 1987)
Performer: Ali Farka Touré
Duration 00:03:43
04
00:08:32 Dembo Konte (artist)
kora duet (The Gambia, December 1986 )
Performer: Dembo Konte
Performer: Kausu Kuyateh
Duration 00:03:28
05
00:17:20 Desmali y su Grupo Bamba de La Costa (artist)
The Suffering of Antonio (Equatorial Guinea, December 1991)
Performer: Desmali y su Grupo Bamba de La Costa
Duration 00:05:50
06
00:23:50 DL Menard (artist)
J'etais au Bal (London, April 1990)
Performer: DL Menard
Performer: Eddie LeJeune
Performer: Ken Smith
Duration 00:03:23
07
00:27:38 The Christian Army Band (artist)
Commit your way to the Lord (Chinoye, Zimbabwe, January 1988)
Performer: The Christian Army Band
Duration 00:02:53
08
00:30:31 Madzia Matatu (artist)
Tariro (Harare, Zimbabwe, March 1989)
Performer: Madzia Matatu
Performer: Teresa Machingambe
Duration 00:02:02
09
00:33:36 Madzia Matatu (artist)
Gospel song (Harare, Zimbabwe, March 1989)
Performer: Madzia Matatu
Performer: Teresa Machingambe
Duration 00:01:49
10
00:35:26 Mali Keletigui Diabate (artist)
La Bamba (Bamako, Mali, November 1988)
Performer: Mali Keletigui Diabate
Duration 00:01:46
11
00:37:12 Super Rail Band in Bamako (artist)
unnamed piece (Bamako, Mali, November 1988)
Performer: Super Rail Band in Bamako
Duration 00:02:32
12
00:39:44 Ali Farka Touré (artist)
Patience (Timbuktu, Mali, December 1988)
Performer: Ali Farka Touré
Performer: Haira Arby
Duration 00:03:49
MON 22:45 The Essay (m000lndx)
Decameron Nights
I'm alright, Jack
I’m alright, Jack - a trio of folk tales about looking out for number one. Part of 1927’s Decameron Nights; lesser-known folk tales from innovative theatre company 1927.
The Italian writer Boccaccio wrote The Decameron in the aftermath of the 14th-century plague. He borrowed plots from existing folk tales, stories that had survived through plagues and wars, tales that have outlived the greatest storytellers, but that hailed from the imaginations of ordinary men and women. In The Decameron a group of people tell tales to pass the time, as they shelter outside Florence, to escape the bubonic plague that rages in the city. 1927’s latest theatre show also borrowed from this primordial soup of storytelling. When touring of their show stopped due to Covid-19, they turned the show into an aural experience. Three episodes of Telling tales to pass the time…
A 1927 Production for BBC Culture in Quarantine with the support of Arts Council England and BBC Arts
Fat Cat and Two Fish read by Suzanne Andrade
Roots read by Kazuko Hohki
The cat ..... Rose Robinson
The boy ….. Karl Mengs
Writer and Director - Suzanne Andrade
Composer and Music - Lillian Henley
Sound Design and Theremin featured in Roots - Laurence Owen
Illustration Artwork - Paul Barritt
Producer - Jo Crowley
A 1927 Production for BBC Culture in Quarantine with the support of Arts Council England and BBC Arts.
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m0019xq9)
Immerse yourself
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening. Music by Erland Cooper, Gustav Mahler, John Luther Adams, Radiohead and Caleb Burhans.
TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2022
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m0019xqc)
Orchestre National de France
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts a programme of Debussy, Stravinsky and Bartok and is joined by Sergey Khachatryan for Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Bernardino Molinari (orchestrator)
L'isle joyeuse, L.106
Orchestre National de France, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)
12:39 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor, Op.63
Sergey Khachatryan (violin), Orchestre National de France, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)
01:06 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
The Song of the Nightingale
Orchestre National de France, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)
01:29 AM
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Dance Suite, Sz.77
Orchestre National de France, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)
01:48 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
String Quartet in G minor, Op 10
Bartók String Quartet
02:13 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sonata for Two Violins in C, op. 56
Vadim Repin (violin), Baiba Skride (violin)
02:31 AM
André Grétry (1741-1813)
Selections from Le Jugement de Midas
John Elwes (tenor), Mieke van der Sluis (soprano), Françoise Vanheck (soprano), Suzanne Gari (soprano), Jules Bastin (bass), Michel Verschaeve (bass), La Petite Bande, Gustav Leonhardt (conductor)
03:07 AM
Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
Piano Quintet No 1 in C minor Op 5 (1853)
Lucia Negro (piano), Zetterqvist String Quartet
03:31 AM
Franz Schreker (1878-1934)
Valse Lente
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
03:36 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Trio sonata for 2 violins & continuo (RV.63) (Op.1 No.12) in D minor 'La Folia'
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (director)
03:46 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Scherzo and March, S.177
Jenõ Jandó (piano)
03:59 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No.22 (H.
1.22) in E flat major, "The Philosopher"
Amsterdam Bach Soloists
04:15 AM
Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962)
Capriccio brillante for 3 flutes, Op 31
Vladislav Brunner Sr. (flute), Juraj Brunner (flute), Milan Brunner (flute)
04:24 AM
Mathurin Forestier (fl.1500-1535)
Agnus Dei (Missa 'Baises moy')
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel (conductor)
04:31 AM
Wojciech Kilar (1931-2013)
Orawa for string orchestra (1988) (Vivo)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
04:39 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Sonata No 12, 'Sacroprofanus concentus musicus'
Gradus ad Parnassum, Concerto Palatino, Konrad Junghänel (director)
04:44 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Sonata in C minor (1824)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:59 AM
Selim Palmgren (1878-1951)
Exotic March
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, George de Godzinsky (conductor)
05:04 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Hymn to St Cecilia for chorus Op 27
BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor)
05:15 AM
Allan Pettersson (1911-1980)
Two Elegies (1934) and Romanza (1942) for violin & piano
Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Enrico Pace (piano)
05:21 AM
Károly Goldmark (1830-1915)
Im Fruhling (In the Spring): overture (Op.36)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Antal Jancsovics (conductor)
05:35 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Trio for piano and strings (Op.70 no.2) in E flat major
Altenberg Trio Vienna
06:07 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
The Golden spinning-wheel (Zlaty kolovrat) - symphonic poem, Op 109
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m0019xms)
Tuesday- Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m0019xmx)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
TUE 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m0019xn0)
2022 Queen's Hall Series
Dunedin Consort and tenor Nicholas Mulroy
Exploring the 17th-century world of song and instrumental music in Italy and in Germany in the century before JS Bach and featuring the radiant voice of tenor Nicholas Mulroy and one of the world's leading Baroque ensembles.
Kapsberger: Toccata I in D minor
Monteverdi: Salve Regina 327
Monteverdi: Più Lieto Il Guardo
Frescobaldi: Toccata per Spinettina e Violino
Schütz: O Jesu nomen dulce SWV308
Schütz: O misericordissime Jesu SWV309
Buxtehude: Sonata for Two Violins, Viola da Gamba and Continuo in C
Buxtehude: Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab BUXWV38
11.45 INTERVAL Donald Macleod reflects on Richard Strauss's chilling opera Salome performed at the Festival over the weekend and highlights the glorious voice of Swedish soprano Malin Byström in orchestral songs by Duparc: Au pays où se fait la Guerre, Chanson Triste.
Caccini: Maria, dolce Maria
Frescobaldi: Capriccio sopra l'aria 'Or che noi rimena'
Dalla Casa: Ancor che col partire
Grandi: O intemerata
Monteverdi: Et è pur dunque vero
Monteverdi: Nigra Sum
Strozzi: Lagrime mie
Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Lindsay Pell
TUE 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000sxzh)
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
A Sussex Childhood
Donald Macleod explores the life of English composer Ruth Gipps. A celebrated child pianist, her career as a composer began at age eight, when she won a prize for her piano piece The Fairy Shoemaker.
Ruth Gipps was born in Bexhill-on-Sea in 1921. Her Swiss-born mother was an accomplished pianist and, recognising her daughter’s aptitude, taught her piano from an early age. Gipps was four years old when she gave her first public performance, at Grotrian Hall in London. It was from that moment on, she said later, that she knew without a shadow of a doubt, that playing the piano was her job and that she wanted to be a composer.
A highly gifted and versatile musician, on 25th March 1945, Gipps took part in a public concert as the soloist in Glazunov’s Piano Concerto before rejoining the woodwind section of the City of Birmingham Orchestra as an oboist for the premiere of her first symphony. Four more symphonies were to follow. But a troublesome injury to her hand, which she had sustained in childhood, brought her career as a concert pianist to an end in the 1950s. By this stage she had achieved some notable successes as a composer. The recipient of several composition prizes, an early high point was the selection of her orchestral work “Knight in Armour” by Sir Henry Wood for the Last Night of the Proms broadcast in 1942.
Awarded a doctorate in music in 1947, Gipps held teaching posts at London’s Trinity College of Music, the Royal College of Music and Kingston Polytechnic and did terms as Chair of both the Composers’ Guild and the newly founded British Music Information Centre. There’s little doubt though that Gipps faced considerable gender discrimination in several of the fields in which she excelled. On discovering her enjoyment of conducting, she overcame this by founding two orchestras, the London Repertoire Orchestra in 1955, and then the Chanticleer Orchestra.
A composition pupil of Vaughan Williams, Gipps defined her music as, “a follow-on from her teacher, Bliss and Walton, the three giants of British music since the Second World War.” While all these composers can be heard in her music, her music has its own distinctive and original qualities.
Publicly outspoken, Gipps remained firmly anti-modernist. She regarded 12-tone music, serial music, electronic music and avant-garde music as utter rubbish. From the late 1950s the musical establishment felt her music was out of step with the times, and they bypassed her work. She did have some admirers, including Sir Arthur Bliss, whom she had first met in 1942, who continued to support and admire her music but in general it fell to her own resourcefulness to get her music heard, arranging performances, which she would then conduct with her own orchestras.
Across the week Donald Macleod is joined by Victoria Rowe, the keeper of Gipps’ archive and her daughter-in-law. Together they build a picture of Gipps as a child performer, a young student, an educator, a conductor and a composer. The series features specially recorded material from the BBC’s performing groups, including Gipps’ second, and fourth symphonies.
By the time she was ten, Ruth Gipps was a seasoned concert pianist, with six years' experience under her belt. Music includes her piano concerto, which she dedicated to her mother, and a complete performance of her quintet, written for the unusual combination of oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and cello.
The Fairy Shoemaker
Duncan Honeybourne (piano)
The Kelpie of Corrievreckan Op. 5b
Peter Cigleris, clarinet
Duncan Honeybourne, piano
Quintet Op. 16
Gareth Hulse, oboe
Peter Cigleris, clarinet
John Mills, violin
Lydia Lowndes-Northcott, viola
Bozidar Vukotic, cello
Members of the Tippett Quartet
Piano Concerto in G minor Op. 34
I. Allegro moderato
Murray MacLachlan, piano
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Peebles, conductor
Produced by Johannah Smith
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0019xn7)
Tuesday - Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances
Presented by Penny Gore. Including another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in the premiere of Julian Anderson's Symphony No 2 and Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Labequès. Plus today's Proms Artists' Choice.
c.
2.25pm
Julian Anderson: Symphony No. 2, ‘Prague Panoramas' [BBC co-commission: world premiere of complete symphony]
Bohuslav Martinů: Concerto for Two Pianos
Interval
c.
3.35
Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m0019xnb)
Jules Buckley, Behzod Abduraimov, Marcus Farnsworth
Sean Rafferty is joined by conductor Jules Buckley, ahead of his visit to the BBC Proms. This year, he's conducting a tribute to Aretha Franklin, and a collaboration with the group Public Service Broadcasting. Also at the Proms this week is the Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov, who joins Sean to play live in the studio. And baritone Marcus Farnsworth joins Sean with news of his Southwell Music Festival, which returns next week in Nottinghamshire.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0019xng)
Classical music for your journey
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
TUE 19:30 BBC Proms (m0019xnl)
2022
Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts the RPO
Live at the Proms: Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts Prokofiev's 5th Symphony, alongside works by Copland and George Walker.
Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Copland: Appalachian Spring – suite
George Walker: Trombone Concerto
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8.15
INTERVAL: In the BBC’s centenary year, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough takes a closer look at another cultural landmark from 1922 - Robert Flaherty’s ground-breaking documentary film Nanook of the North. Film historian Roswitha Skare and journalist Luke Dormehl explain why this study of life in the Arctic has proved to be both controversial and influential.
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8.35
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
Peter Moore, trombone
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Moscow, 1945: when Sergey Prokofiev stepped up to conduct the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, he was interrupted by the sound of an artillery barrage. Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that the symphony embodied ‘the greatness of the human spirit’, and for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music Director, Vasily Petrenko, it’s one of the supreme 20th-century masterpieces. Tonight, he sets it in a strikingly original context – alongside the primary colours and all-American optimism of Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and the bold, swinging postwar rhythms of George Walker’s Trombone Concerto. Peter Moore (‘magical’ – The Times) is the soloist in this striking contribution to our season-long focus on instruments that don’t always get their due.
TUE 22:00 Sunday Feature (m000mxt5)
Andy's Kitchen and On the Road in the Americas
During the 1980s and 90s, 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 four 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 (first broadcast in 2020)
01
00:00:02 Rebirth Brass Band (artist)
Do you Wanna (New Orleans, May 1989)
Performer: Rebirth Brass Band
Duration 00:04:03
02
00:04:05 Ted Hawkins (artist)
Home Daddy (Los Angeles, April 1986 )
Performer: Ted Hawkins
Duration 00:02:12
03
00:08:51 Ted Hawkins (artist)
Cold and Bitter Tears (Los Angeles, April 1986 )
Performer: Ted Hawkins
Duration 00:01:50
04
00:10:41 Celina González (artist)
El Carretero (London, September 1996 )
Performer: Celina González
Duration 00:02:59
05
00:13:40 Roaring Lion (artist)
Right here in Trinidad (Trinidad, June 1990)
Performer: Roaring Lion
Duration 00:03:21
06
00:21:36 Roaring Lion (artist)
Ha'penny Rice (Trinidad, June 1990)
Performer: Roaring Lion
Duration 00:02:44
07
00:24:19 Marc & Ann Savoy (artist)
The Pretty One (Louisiana, April 1988)
Performer: Marc & Ann Savoy
Duration 00:01:44
08
00:26:04 Marc & Ann Savoy (artist)
The Kaplan Waltz (Louisiana, April 1988)
Performer: Marc & Ann Savoy
Duration 00:02:38
09
00:31:48 Sooliman Ernest Rogie (artist)
Let's offer up our hearts to each other (London, March 1988)
Performer: Sooliman Ernest Rogie
Duration 00:04:02
10
00:36:07 The Jolly Boys (artist)
Water come down (Port Antonio, Jamaica, June 1990)
Performer: The Jolly Boys
Duration 00:01:58
11
00:41:09 The Jolly Boys (artist)
Tenement Yard (Port Antonio, Jamaica, June 1990)
Performer: The Jolly Boys
Duration 00:02:33
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000lmdv)
Decameron Nights
Heartstrings
Heartstrings - a threesome of folk tales about love. Part of Decameron Nights; lesser-known folk tales from innovative theatre company 1927.
The Italian writer Boccaccio wrote The Decameron in the aftermath of the 14th-century plague. He borrowed plots from existing folk tales, stories that had survived through plagues and wars, tales that have outlived the greatest storytellers, but that hailed from the imaginations of ordinary men and women. In The Decameron a group of people tell tales to pass the time, as they shelter outside Florence, to escape the bubonic plague that rages in the city. 1927’s latest theatre show also borrowed from this primordial soup of storytelling. When touring of their show stopped due to Covid-19, they turned the show into an aural experience. Three episodes of unfamiliar and often bizarre tales. Telling tales to pass the time…
A 1927 Production for BBC Culture in Quarantine with the support of Arts Council England and BBC Arts.
Ant and Mouse, Fourteen Daughters, The Magic Bird read by Suzanne Andrade
Ant ..… Esme Appleton
Insects ..… Rose Robinson
Writer and Director - Suzanne Andrade
Composer and Music - Lillian Henley
Sound Design, Birds Heart Documentary Music and Drums featured in Ant and Mouse - Laurence Owen
Illustration Artwork - Paul Barritt
Producer - Jo Crowley
A 1927 Production for BBC Culture in Quarantine with the support of Arts Council England and BBC Arts.
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m0019xnq)
Soundtrack for night
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening. With music from Beethoven, Rhiannon Giddens, Balmorhea, Shin Sasakubo and Georgia Ruth.
WEDNESDAY 17 AUGUST 2022
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0019xnt)
Enduring Spirit
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in a programme of Kodaly, Shostakovich and Nielsen. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Dances from Galánta
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
12:47 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, op. 129
Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
01:19 AM
Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931)
Obsession, from 'Sonata for Solo Violin in A minor, op. 27/2'
Natalia Lomeiko (violin)
01:22 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Symphony No. 4, op. 29 ('Inextinguishable')
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
01:55 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Images - set 1 for piano
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
02:10 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings in A major (Wq.168)
Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
02:31 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Zais Prologue
Jane Marsh (soprano), Mieke van der Sluis (soprano), Max von Egmond (bass), Collegium Vocale, Ghent, La Petite Bande, Gustav Leonhardt (conductor)
03:05 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata No.17 in D major, D.850
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
03:43 AM
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Three Rag caprices, Op 78 (1922)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Daniel Swift (conductor)
03:51 AM
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
Allegro appassionato, Op 95, No 2
Grumiaux Trio
03:59 AM
John Tavener (1944-2013)
Funeral Ikos (The Greek funeral sentences) for chorus
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Helgerod (conductor)
04:05 AM
Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1696-1763)
Trio in C minor for oboe, bassoon and continuo
Ensemble Zefiro
04:14 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Barcarolle, Op 60
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
04:23 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata a quattro in G minor
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (director)
04:31 AM
Jean-Baptiste Quinault (1687-1745)
Overture and Dances - from the Comedy 'Le Nouveau Monde' (1723)
L'ensemble Arion
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
Nicolas Gombert (c.1495-c.1560)
Elegie sur la mort de Josquin Musae Jovis (6 part)
Montreal Early Music Studio, Christopher Jackson (director)
04:58 AM
Mihail Andricu (1894-1974)
Sinfonietta no 13, Op 123
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Emanuel Elenescu (conductor)
05:06 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in G minor (K 88) arranged for 2 harpsichords
Dagmara Kapczyńska (harpsichord), Gwennaelle Alibert (harpsichord)
05:14 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Vlci stopa (The wolf's trail) for soprano, female choir and piano
Susse Lillesoe (soprano), Danish National Radio Choir, Per Salo (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
05:22 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Violin Sonata No.3 in C (BWV.1005)
Vilde Frang Bjaerke (violin)
05:46 AM
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Trio for piano and strings (Op.12) in E flat major
Hertz Trio
06:03 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Quintet in D major for clarinet, horn, violin, cello and piano
Stephan Siegenthaler (clarinet), Thomas Muller (horn), Matthias Enderle (violin), Patrick Demenga (cello), Hiroko Sakagami (piano)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0019xld)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m0019xlg)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
WED 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m0019xlj)
Golda Schultz and Jonathan Ware
South African soprano Golda Schultz makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh International Festival, this time with her regular recital partner, Jonathan Ware.
Having performed lieder together that was written solely by men about women, they have set about skillfully crafting a recital that speaks of a woman's world and experience but from the perspective and pen of female composers. Schultz presents 'This Be Her Verse', as a thoughtful programme of songs that range from Clara Schumann, Emilie Mayer and Nadia Boulanger through to a specially commissioned song cycle by fellow South African, Kathleen Tagg, that lends its title to this concert.
Schumann (Clara): Liebst du um Schönheit Op12
Schumann (Clara): Warum willst du and're fragen? Op12
Schumann (Clara): Am Strande
Mayer: Wenn der Abendstern die Rosen
Mayer: Du bist wie eine Blume
Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens
Clarke: The Tiger
Clarke: Cradle Song
Clarke: The Seal Man
Schumann (Clara): Lorelei
Interval
Mayer: Erlkönig II
Boulanger: La mer
Boulanger: Prière
Boulanger: Elégie
Boulanger: Cantique
Tagg: This be her verse
Golda Schultz, soprano
Jonathan Ware, piano
Presenter: Donald Macleod
Producer: Gavin McCollum
WED 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000sxbk)
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
The Young Student
Donald Macleod follows Ruth Gipps' progress as she begins a period of study at the Royal College of Music in London, with music including her early orchestral works Knight in Armour and the fantasy for viola and string orchestra, Jane Grey.
Ruth Gipps was born in Bexhill-on-Sea in 1921. Her Swiss-born mother was an accomplished pianist and, recognising her daughter’s aptitude, taught her piano from an early age. Gipps was four years old when she gave her first public performance, at Grotrian Hall in London. It was from that moment on, she said later, that she knew without a shadow of a doubt, that playing the piano was her job and that she wanted to be a composer.
A highly gifted and versatile musician, on 25th March 1945, Gipps took part in a public concert as the soloist in Glazunov’s Piano Concerto before rejoining the woodwind section of the City of Birmingham Orchestra as an oboist for the premiere of her first symphony. Four more symphonies were to follow. But a troublesome injury to her hand, which she had sustained in childhood, brought her career as a concert pianist to an end in the 1950s. By this stage she had achieved some notable successes as a composer. The recipient of several composition prizes, an early high point was the selection of her orchestral work “Knight in Armour” by Sir Henry Wood for the Last Night of the Proms broadcast in 1942.
Awarded a doctorate in music in 1947, Gipps held teaching posts at London’s Trinity College of Music, the Royal College of Music and Kingston Polytechnic and did terms as Chair of both the Composers’ Guild and the newly founded British Music Information Centre. There’s little doubt though that Gipps faced considerable gender discrimination in several of the fields in which she excelled. On discovering her enjoyment of conducting, she overcame this by founding two orchestras, the London Repertoire Orchestra in 1955, and then the Chanticleer Orchestra.
A composition pupil of Vaughan Williams, Gipps defined her music as, “a follow-on from her teacher, Bliss and Walton, the three giants of British music since the Second World War.” While all these composers can be heard in her music, her music has its own distinctive and original qualities.
Publicly outspoken, Gipps remained firmly anti-modernist. She regarded 12-tone music, serial music, electronic music and avant-garde music as utter rubbish. From the late 1950s the musical establishment felt her music was out of step with the times, and they bypassed her work. She did have some admirers, including Sir Arthur Bliss, whom she had first met in 1942, who continued to support and admire her music but in general it fell to her own resourcefulness to get her music heard, arranging performances, which she would then conduct with her own orchestras.
Across the week Donald Macleod is joined by Victoria Rowe, the keeper of Gipps’ archive and her daughter-in-law. Together they build a picture of Gipps as a child performer, a young student, an educator, a conductor and a composer. The series features specially recorded material from the BBC’s performing groups, including Gipps’ second, and fourth symphonies.
"Consistent and cheerful overwork" was how Ruth Gipps summarised the five and a half years she spent at the Royal College. Despite a few bust-ups, including an especially fiery one with the principal, Gipps won her compositional wings, and made some close friends, among them her future husband, clarinettist Robert Baker.
Clarinet Concerto in G minor Op 9
III: Vivace
Robert Plane, Clarinet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Knight in Armour
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba, conductor
Jane Grey Fantasy Op 15
Scott Dickinson, viola
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Teresa Riveiro Böhm, conductor
Rhapsody in E flat Op 23
Peter Cigleris, clarinet
Tippett Quartet
Symphony No 2 (excerpt)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba, conductor
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0019xlm)
Wednesday - Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
Penny Gore presents another chance to hear the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft in their recent Prom performing Gavin Higgins's Concerto Grosso, with the Tredegar Band, and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Plus today's Proms Artists' Choice.
2pm
Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)
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2.35pm
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14
Tredegar Band
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m0019xlp)
St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh
Live from St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh International Festival.
Introit: O come ye servants of the Lord (Tye)
Responses: Smith
Psalm 89 (Walmisley, Howells, Surplice)
First Lesson: John 6 vv.1-15
Canticles: First Service (Parsons)
Second Lesson: Acts 8 vv.14-25
Anthem: Great Lord of Lords (Gibbons)
Prayer Anthem: Ave Maria (Parsons)
Hymn: Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round (Song 1)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 531 (Bach)
Duncan Ferguson (Master of the Music)
Imogen Morgan (Assistant Master of the Music)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0019xlr)
Natalya Romaniw and Julius Drake, Francesco Piemontesi
Sean Rafferty is joined by soprano Natalya Romaniw with pianist Julius Drake, ahead of their appearance at Machynlleth Festival in west Wales. Pianist Francesco Piemontesi also performs live in the studio. He is at the BBC Proms this week, playing Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0019xlt)
Switch up your listening with classical music
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises. Tonight's musical journey begins and ends with birds, with contrasting settings of a Thomas Hardy poem from Britten and Finzi. There's a pair of magic flutes from Mozart and Hubert Laws, and the Danish String Quartet lark around with Haydn.
Produced by David Fay.
WED 19:30 BBC Proms (m0019xlw)
2022
Prom 41: Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto with Behzod Abduraimov
Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard perform music by Nielsen; and Behzod Abduraimov joins for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1.
Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Ravel: La valse
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
8.20 Interval: Daniel Grimley talks to Martin Handley about the music of Nielsen.
8.40 Part 2
Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, ‘Sinfonia espansiva’
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Benjamin Appl (baritone)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
‘Sizzling’ was how The Guardian described the playing of pianist Behzod Abduraimov. For The Arts Desk, meanwhile, he’s a ‘rare and enchanting musician’: the ideal performer, in other words, for a masterwork as witty, as joyful and as impulsive as Beethoven’s sunlit First Piano Concerto. That’s the burst of light and joy at the heart of this concert from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard, but there’s no letting up after the interval, as Dausgaard conducts a symphony he’s made his own: Nielsen’s ebullient Sinfonia espansiva. Ravel’s La valse sets things spinning: a sumptuous, sinister evocation of an era – and a culture – waltzing ever closer to the abyss.
WED 22:00 Sunday Feature (m000vqjl)
The Kershaw Tapes
More Kershaw Tapes
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 this episode, Andy meets Kenyan harpist Ayub Ogada on a beach in Cornwall, the Antioch Gospel group in a car park in New Orleans, Cuarteto Iglesias on a roof top in Cuba and a young Ballake Sissoko next to the railway tracks in Bamako, Mali. On his very first day recording with his Walkman Pro, Andy visits the Edale Bluegrass Festival then travels to Leeds to record a rare performance from guitarist Mark Knopfler in a pub with his early group The Duolian String Pickers. Back in Andy’s kitchen Louisiana comes to Crouch End with sessions from blues man Lazy Lester and Cajun stars DL Menard, Eddie LeJeune and Ken Smith. Plus we pay another visit to Wilkinson's HiFi in Nelson to find out just why the compact cassette format is so enduring and well loved.
Producer: Martin Webb
01
00:00:43 Ayub Ogada (artist)
Ondiek (Hyena)
Performer: Ayub Ogada
Duration 00:04:04
02
00:05:38 Runaway String Band (artist)
Roustabout
Performer: Runaway String Band
Duration 00:02:41
03
00:09:13 The Duolian String Pickers (Steve Phillips, Mark Knopfler and Brendan Croker) (artist)
Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
Performer: The Duolian String Pickers (Steve Phillips, Mark Knopfler and Brendan Croker)
Duration 00:02:29
04
00:12:33 Cuarteto Iglesias (artist)
Yolanda
Performer: Cuarteto Iglesias
Duration 00:03:52
05
00:21:01 DL Menard, Eddie LeJeune & Ken Smith (artist)
Eunice Two-Step (Kitchen Session)
Performer: DL Menard, Eddie LeJeune & Ken Smith
Duration 00:03:15
06
00:25:02 DL Menard, Eddie LeJeune & Ken Smith (artist)
Love Bridge Waltz (Kitchen Session)
Performer: DL Menard, Eddie LeJeune & Ken Smith
Duration 00:02:46
07
00:28:31 Ballaké Sissoko (artist)
kora improvisation
Performer: Ballaké Sissoko
Duration 00:02:03
08
00:31:01 Antioch Gospel group (artist)
At Midnight
Performer: Antioch Gospel group
Duration 00:01:52
09
00:34:14 Lazy Lester (artist)
Same Thing Will Happen to you (Kitchen Session)
Performer: Lazy Lester
Duration 00:02:44
10
00:37:14 Lazy Lester (artist)
Tell Me Pretty Baby (Kitchen Session)
Performer: Lazy Lester
Duration 00:02:14
11
00:40:05 The Duolian String Pickers (Steve Phillips, Mark Knopfler and Brendan Croker) (artist)
Pine top boogie
Performer: The Duolian String Pickers (Steve Phillips, Mark Knopfler and Brendan Croker)
Duration 00:04:20
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000llpq)
Decameron Nights
Lady Luck
Lady Luck - a shamrock of forgotten tales about fortune and fate. Part of Decameron Nights; lesser-known folk tales from innovative theatre company 1927.
The Italian writer Boccaccio wrote The Decameron in the aftermath of the 14th-century plague. He borrowed plots from existing folk tales, stories that had survived through plagues and wars, tales that have outlived the greatest storytellers, but that hailed from the imaginations of ordinary men and women. In The Decameron a group of people tell tales to pass the time, as they shelter outside Florence, to escape the bubonic plague that rages in the city. 1927’s latest theatre show also borrowed from this primordial soup of storytelling. When touring of their show stopped due to Covid-19, they turned the show into an aural experience. Three episodes of unfamiliar and often bizarre tales. Telling tales to pass the time…
A 1927 Production for BBC Culture in Quarantine with the support of Arts Council England and BBC Arts
Three Wishes read by Phil Shaw
Luckless Man read by Nigel Hunt
An Unfortunate Animal and Larder read by Suzanne Andrade
Unremarkable Woman ..… Rose Robinson
Writer and Director Suzanne Andrade
Composer and Music Lillian Henley
Sound Design Laurence Owen
Illustration Artwork Paul Barritt
Producer Jo Crowley
A 1927 Production for BBC Culture in Quarantine with the support of Arts Council England and BBC Arts.
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m0019xly)
Adventures in sound
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening. With music by Rameau, Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir, Dylan Henner and Kate Bush.
THURSDAY 18 AUGUST 2022
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0019xm0)
Happy Birthday Håkan
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir are joined by trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger as he celebrates his 60th birthday with a concert of Brett Dean's Dramatis personae, and romantic choral works. Presented by John Shea.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich, from Cantata BWV 126
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
12:34 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Friedrich Hebbel (author)
Nachtlied, Op.108
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
12:45 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Friedrich Holderlin (author)
Schicksalslied, Op.54
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
01:03 AM
Brett Dean (b.1961)
Dramatis personae for trumpet and orchestra
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
01:35 AM
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Day Signal - Signals from Heaven I
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
01:38 AM
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Night Signal - Signals from Heaven II
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
01:41 AM
John Williams (b.1932)
Superman March, from Superman
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
01:46 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
String Quartet No.2 in C minor, Op 14
Yggdrasil String Quartet
02:17 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Lyric Pieces, Book 3 (Op.43)
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
02:31 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Satrarii, Suite for Orchestra, Op 2 (1934)
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
02:56 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581
Kimball Sykes (clarinet), Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Donnie Deacon (violin), Jane Logan (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello)
03:29 AM
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Vltava (Ma Vlast)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Foremny (conductor)
03:42 AM
Imogen Holst (1907-1984)
Leiston Suite for brass quartet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
03:49 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in G major, K.105 (Allegro)
Virginia Black (harpsichord)
03:54 AM
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 in A
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green (conductor)
04:06 AM
Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1924)
Cello Sonata no 2 in G minor, Op 117
Torleif Thedeen (cello), Roland Pontinen (piano)
04:25 AM
Cornelis Schuyt (1557-1616)
Voi bramate, ben mio
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
04:31 AM
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1739-1799)
Ballet music (L'amant anonyme)
Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
04:38 AM
Gunnar de Frumerie (1908-1987), Par Lagerkvist (author)
Hjärtats sånger (Songs of the Heart), Op.27
Claes-Hakon Ahnsjo (tenor), Thomas Schuback (piano)
04:52 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo no.1 in B minor (Op.20)
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
05:01 AM
Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884)
The Masque of Pandora (Overture)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
05:12 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Unknown (arranger)
Sarabande from Suite for solo cello no.6 (BWV.1012) in D major arr. for 4 cellos
David Geringas (cello), Tatjana Vassilieva (cello), Boris Andrianov (cello), Monika Leskovar (cello)
05:16 AM
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
Sonatine for flute and piano
Ivica Gabrisova -Encingerova (flute), Matej Vrabel (piano)
05:25 AM
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Variaciones concertantes, op. 23
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Christian Vasquez (conductor)
05:51 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in A major, Hob
15.18
William Preucil (violin), David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (piano)
06:08 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
L'Arlesienne Suites Nos 1 & 2
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0019ymd)
Thursday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m0019ymg)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
THU 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m0019ymk)
2022 Queen's Hall Series
Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI
Live from the Queen’s Hall, international viol player and master of historical performance Jordi Savall takes us to 18th-century Istanbul and the height of the Ottoman Empire. Joining his early music ensemble Hesperion XXI are musicians from Greece, Morocco, Armenia, Turkey and Israel. Together they will bring to life the Sephardic, Armenian and Islamic music traditions of the time, when Istanbul stood at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.
Hespèrion XXI
Jordi Savall - Director, Rebec, Rebab, Treble Viol
THU 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000sytk)
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
The Conductor
Donald Macleod considers the types of obstacles Ruth Gipps encountered in her professional capacities as an educator and as a conductor, with music from her Fourth Symphony and her Horn Concerto.
Ruth Gipps was born in Bexhill-on-Sea in 1921. Her Swiss-born mother was an accomplished pianist and, recognising her daughter’s aptitude, taught her piano from an early age. Gipps was four years old when she gave her first public performance, at Grotrian Hall in London. It was from that moment on, she said later, that she knew without a shadow of a doubt, that playing the piano was her job and that she wanted to be a composer.
A highly gifted and versatile musician, on 25th March 1945, Gipps took part in a public concert as the soloist in Glazunov’s Piano Concerto before rejoining the woodwind section of the City of Birmingham Orchestra as an oboist for the premiere of her first symphony. Four more symphonies were to follow. But a troublesome injury to her hand, which she had sustained in childhood, brought her career as a concert pianist to an end in the 1950s. By this stage she had achieved some notable successes as a composer. The recipient of several composition prizes, an early high point was the selection of her orchestral work “Knight in Armour” by Sir Henry Wood for the Last Night of the Proms broadcast in 1942.
Awarded a doctorate in music in 1947, Gipps held teaching posts at London’s Trinity College of Music, the Royal College of Music and Kingston Polytechnic and did terms as Chair of both the Composers’ Guild and the newly founded British Music Information Centre. There’s little doubt though that Gipps faced considerable gender discrimination in several of the fields in which she excelled. On discovering her enjoyment of conducting, she overcame this by founding two orchestras, the London Repertoire Orchestra in 1955, and then the Chanticleer Orchestra.
A composition pupil of Vaughan Williams, Gipps defined her music as, “a follow-on from her teacher, Bliss and Walton, the three giants of British music since the Second World War.” While all these composers can be heard in her music, her music has its own distinctive and original qualities.
Publicly outspoken, Gipps remained firmly anti-modernist. She regarded 12-tone music, serial music, electronic music and avant-garde music as utter rubbish. From the late 1950s the musical establishment felt her music was out of step with the times, and they bypassed her work. She did have some admirers, including Sir Arthur Bliss, whom she had first met in 1942, who continued to support and admire her music but in general it fell to her own resourcefulness to get her music heard, arranging performances, which she would then conduct with her own orchestras.
Across the week Donald Macleod is joined by Victoria Rowe, the keeper of Gipps’ archive and her daughter-in-law. Together they build a picture of Gipps as a child performer, a young student, an educator, a conductor and a composer. The series features specially recorded material from the BBC’s performing groups, including Gipps’ second, and fourth symphonies.
In 1957 Ruth Gipps made her professional debut as a conductor at the Royal Festival Hall in London. As her profile developed, she became more involved in the organisation of British orchestras. Her views ruffled quite a few feathers, but Gipps stood her ground.
Cringlemire Garden – Impressions for String Orchestra
Southwest German Chamber Orchestra
Douglas Bostock, conductor
Seascape for 10 wind instruments
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jonathan Bloxham, conductor
Sonata for cello and piano, op 63 (excerpt)
Joseph Spooner, cello
Duncan Honeybourne, piano
Symphony no 4 op 61
I: Moderato – Allegro molto – poco meno mosso -
Tempo I (Allegro molto) – Moderato -
Allegro molto – Poco meno mosso -
Allegro molto – Moderato
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba, conductor
Horn Concerto, op 58
David Pyatt, horn
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0019yms)
Thursday - Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe
Penny Gore presents, including another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Conductor Andrew Gourlay conducts Ravel's complete ballet Daphnis and Chloe and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Kicking off the concert, a special commission from Hollywood legend, Danny Elfman. Plus today's Proms Artists' Choice and music by child prodigies.
2.15pm
Danny Elfman: Wunderkammer
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grofé)
Interval
Proms Artists' Choice
c.
3.00pm
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Simone Dinnerstein (piano)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Andrew Gourlay (conductor)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0019ymx)
Amjad Ali Khan, Wallis Giunta
Sean Rafferty is joined by Indian classical sarod player Amjad Ali Khan, with his sons Amaan and Ayaan, who also play sarod. They appear at the BBC Proms on Sunday, at the Royal Albert Hall. Also appearing at the BBC Proms, as the Queen of Sheba in Handel's Solomon, is Canadian mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta, who joins Sean straight from rehearsals.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0019yn1)
Classical music for focus or relaxation
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
THU 19:30 BBC Proms (m0019yn5)
2022
Prom 42: Sibelius, Beethoven and Nielsen
Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard perform symphonies by Sibelius and Nielsen.
Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
c.
8.30 Interval
Chain Reaction: Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on the fourth of six unpredictable musical journeys which connect the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. Expect the unexpected in this refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!
8.50 Part 2
Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)
‘Music is life – and like it, inextinguishable.’ Two giants of the symphony take the 20th century head-on, with shattering results. Sibelius seems to concentrate all the forces of air, earth and water in a Seventh Symphony that feels like it could have been wrought from the elements themselves. Nielsen confronted the brutality of the First World War in music that absolutely refuses to lie down and die – crowned by a life-or-death duel for two sets of drums. An epic evening from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its Danish-born Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard: Beethoven’s lyrical Fourth Piano Concerto will form the eye of the storm, with Francesco Piemontesi (‘tremendous’: The Times) as soloist.
THU 22:15 Sunday Feature (m000vwq0)
Even more Kershaw Tapes
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 this episode, Andy meets Malian blues man Ali Farka Touré on a boat on the Niger and wins a bottle of BBQ sauce at Fred’s Lounge in Louisiana whilst enjoying some live cajun music from the Mamou Cajun Band. We witness the breakneck speed of Scottish accordionist Phil Cunningham and banjo player Gary Petersen in an impromptu session in a pub in Shetland and we take a look at the iconic Cuban song Guantanamera, with versions by Cuarteto Iglesias on a roof top in Cuba and Celina Gonzales in Andy’s Crouch End kitchen. Also from the kitchen we have vintage sessions from Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore and English psychedelics, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians. Plus Andy dusts off the Walkman Pro to records a brand new session with folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Steve Tilston.
Producer: Martin Webb
01
00:02:44 Ali Farka Touré (artist)
Hey gena
Performer: Ali Farka Touré
Duration 00:02:35
02
00:05:24 Ali Farka Touré (artist)
Kadi Kadi
Performer: Ali Farka Touré
Duration 00:02:05
03
00:08:29 Phil Cunningham and Gary Petersen (artist)
Jeans Reel and the Moving Cloud
Performer: Phil Cunningham and Gary Petersen
Duration 00:03:27
04
00:12:56 Butch Hancock (artist)
You've Never Seen Me Cry (Andy Kershaw Kitchen Session)
Performer: Butch Hancock
Performer: Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Duration 00:02:29
05
00:15:36 Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore (artist)
Leo and Lorna (Kitchen Session)
Performer: Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Duration 00:03:47
06
00:20:38 Robyn Hitchcock (artist)
Oceanside (Kitchen Session)
Performer: Robyn Hitchcock
Duration 00:03:30
07
00:26:50 Cuarteto Iglesias (artist)
Guantanamera
Performer: Cuarteto Iglesias
Duration 00:02:11
08
00:29:06 Celina González (artist)
Guantanamera (Kitchen Session)
Performer: Celina González
Duration 00:02:34
09
00:32:10 The Mamou Cajun Band (artist)
Grand Mamou 2 Step
Performer: The Mamou Cajun Band
Duration 00:02:37
10
00:35:52 The Mamou Cajun Band (artist)
La Valse de Minuit
Performer: The Mamou Cajun Band
Duration 00:03:00
11
00:40:34 Steve Tilston (artist)
My Mystery Train (Kitchen Session)
Performer: Steve Tilston
Duration 00:03:35
THU 23:00 Edinburgh International Festival (b090vsw2)
Great String Quartets at Edinburgh
Chiaroscuro Quartet
The Chiaroscuro Quartet, led by international soloist Alina Ibragimova, bring period-instrument performances of core classical repertoire to the Edinburgh International Festival. They perform extracts from Bach's enigmatic Art of Fugue, written without specification of instrument or ensemble by the composer. Haydn's Op 76 quartets demonstrate an ambitious and future-looking Haydn at work, while Schubert's late quartet 'Death and the Maiden', based on one of his songs, is one of the masterworks of the genre.
Presented by Donald Macleod
Bach: Art of Fugue (1, 4 and 9)
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op.76 No.6
Schubert: String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D810, 'Death and the Maiden'
Chiaroscuro Quartet
FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2022
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0019ync)
A concert celebrating the 140th anniversary of George Enescu's birth
Cristian Măcelaru conducts the Romanian Chamber Orchestra in music by Bartok, Enescu, Mozart, Vardianu and Chelărescu. With John Shea.
12:31 AM
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Six Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56
Romanian Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
12:37 AM
Oana Vardianu (2002-)
Genesis
Romanian Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
12:47 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Intermezzi, Op 12
Romanian Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
12:57 AM
Alin Constantin Chelărescu (1996-)
Panicandemica
Romanian Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
01:07 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550
Romanian Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
01:37 AM
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Aprózó (Fast Dance), from 'Six Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56'
Romanian Chamber Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru (conductor)
01:38 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
Fantasie for piano, Op 8
Viniciu Moroianu (piano)
02:07 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Violin Sonata torso, from incomplete Sonata
Clara Cernat (violin), Thierry Huillet (piano)
02:22 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sarabande, Gigue & Badinerie
Ion Voicu (violin), Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, Madalin Voicu (conductor)
02:31 AM
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Quatuor pour la fin du temps for clarinet, piano, violin and cello
Kaja Danczowska (violin), Edgar Moreau (cello), Michel Lethiec (clarinet), Yeol Eum Son (piano)
03:20 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
4 Lieder from the Schemelli songbook (BWV.443, 468, 470 & 439)
Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ)
03:29 AM
Anonymous
Bassa danza (from Faenza Codex)
Millenarium
03:35 AM
August Söderman (1832-1876), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (lyricist)
Three songs from 'Idyll and Epigram'
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor)
03:41 AM
Armas Jarnefelt (1869-1968)
The Sound of Home
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)
03:52 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Albumblatt for trumpet and piano in D flat major
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
03:57 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in A minor, RV 357, Op.4'4
Fabio Biondi (violin), Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
04:05 AM
Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870)
Characteristic Tribute to the Memory of Malibran
Tom Beghin (fortepiano)
04:16 AM
Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909)
Notturno Op 70 no 1
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
04:24 AM
Andrew York (b.1958)
Sanzen-in
Tornado Guitar Duo (duo)
04:31 AM
Károly Goldmark (1830-1915)
Scherzo for orchestra in E minor, Op 19
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)
04:37 AM
Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941)
Selig sind, die Verfolgung leiden, from Act 2 of 'Der Evangelimann'
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Peter Neelands (treble), Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
04:44 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Harp Fantasia No 2 in C minor, Op 35
Mojca Zlobko Vaigl (harp)
04:53 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata no 24 in F sharp major, Op 78
Heinrich Neuhaus (piano)
05:03 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Magnificat II
Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
05:14 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no. 26 (H.
1.26) in D minor "Lamentatione"
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Stefan Solyom (conductor)
05:30 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for cello solo no 4 in E flat major, BWV1010
Guy Fouquet (cello)
05:55 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures, Op 37
Kristina Hammarström (mezzo soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
06:19 AM
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768)
Overture No. 6 in G minor, 'Dresden'
La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basle, Maurice Steger (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0019ynm)
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 (m0019ynp)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
FRI 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m0019ynr)
2022 Queen's Hall Series
Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau
Schubert's lonely tale of lost love against the backdrop of a winter walk is without doubt one of his finest works. A critic of the time wrote 'none can sing or hear without being deeply moved.' The song cycle of 24 songs traces the journey by a broken-hearted young man whose love has deserted him, the wintry scenes of nature around him reflecting his sadness, defiance and resignation as he reaches a cemetery and finally encounters a hurdy-gurdy player in the street playing whose enigmatic drone paints a picture of complete desolation.
Schubert: Die Winterreise
Florian Boesch, baritone
Malcolm Martineau, piano
Presented by Donald Macleod
Produced by Lindsay Pell
FRI 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000szy4)
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
A Voice for British Music
Donald Macleod considers Ruth Gipps' contribution to education and to British music in general, with music from her Fourth Symphony and Wind Sinfonietta.
Ruth Gipps was born in Bexhill-on-Sea in 1921. Her Swiss-born mother was an accomplished pianist and, recognising her daughter’s aptitude, taught her piano from an early age. Gipps was four years old when she gave her first public performance, at Grotrian Hall in London. It was from that moment on, she said later, that she knew without a shadow of a doubt, that playing the piano was her job and that she wanted to be a composer.
A highly gifted and versatile musician, on 25th March 1945, Gipps took part in a public concert as the soloist in Glazunov’s Piano Concerto before rejoining the woodwind section of the City of Birmingham Orchestra as an oboist for the premiere of her first symphony. Four more symphonies were to follow. But a troublesome injury to her hand, which she had sustained in childhood, brought her career as a concert pianist to an end in the 1950s. By this stage she had achieved some notable successes as a composer. The recipient of several composition prizes, an early high point was the selection of her orchestral work “Knight in Armour” by Sir Henry Wood for the Last Night of the Proms broadcast in 1942.
Awarded a doctorate in music in 1947, Gipps held teaching posts at London’s Trinity College of Music, the Royal College of Music and Kingston Polytechnic and did terms as Chair of both the Composers’ Guild and the newly founded British Music Information Centre. There’s little doubt though that Gipps faced considerable gender discrimination in several of the fields in which she excelled. On discovering her enjoyment of conducting, she overcame this by founding two orchestras, the London Repertoire Orchestra in 1955, and then the Chanticleer Orchestra.
A composition pupil of Vaughan Williams, Gipps defined her music as, “a follow-on from her teacher, Bliss and Walton, the three giants of British music since the Second World War.” While all these composers can be heard in her music, her music has its own distinctive and original qualities.
Publicly outspoken, Gipps remained firmly anti-modernist. She regarded 12-tone music, serial music, electronic music and avant-garde music as utter rubbish. From the late 1950s the musical establishment felt her music was out of step with the times, and they bypassed her work. She did have some admirers, including Sir Arthur Bliss, whom she had first met in 1942, who continued to support and admire her music but in general it fell to her own resourcefulness to get her music heard, arranging performances, which she would then conduct with her own orchestras.
Across the week Donald Macleod is joined by Victoria Rowe, the keeper of Gipps’ archive and her daughter-in-law. Together they build a picture of Gipps as a child performer, a young student, an educator, a conductor and a composer. The series features specially recorded material from the BBC’s performing groups, including Gipps’ second, and fourth symphonies.
While she wanted to be regarded as a "composer" irrespective of gender, Ruth Gipps became an influential voice in promoting women musicians, creating opportunities for them and supporting their activities within the music profession.
Octet for Wind, Op 65
2nd movt: Waltz
Members of BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jonathan Bloxham, conductor
Opalescence, Op 72
Duncan Honeybourne, piano
Pan and Apollo, Op 78
Members of BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Wind Sinfonietta, Op 73
Members of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Teresa Riveiro Böhm, conductor
Symphony No 4, Op 61
IV: Finale
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba, conductor
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0019ynv)
Friday - Mozart
Penny Gore presents, including another chance to hear Leif Ove Andsnes with the soprano Christiane Karg join the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the second of three all-Mozart Proms. Plus today's Proms Artists' Choice.
2pm
Mozart:
Symphony No. 38 in D major, ‘Prague’
Die Zufriedenheit
Der Zauberer
Das Veilchen
Concert Aria ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te?’
Interval
c.
2.55pm
Mozart:
Masonic Funeral Music
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor
Christiane Karg, soprano
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano / director
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (b08qtdts)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0019ynx)
Sean Rafferty live from Edinburgh Festival
Sean Rafferty presents a special edition, live from Edinburgh International Festival, with music from Soweto Gospel Choir, Rachel Newton and Lauren MacColl, The Queen's Cartoonists, and members of The Australian World Orchestra.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0019ynz)
Expand your horizons with classical music
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (m0019yp1)
2022
Prom 43: Handel’s Solomon
Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Singers and The English Concert with conductor Sofi Jeannin perform Handel's Solomon with a stunning cast of soloists including Iestyn Davies as Solomon.
Presented by Hannah French live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Handel: Solomon
19.00 Act I
20:00 Interval: Suzanne Aspden talks to Hannah French about Handel's Solomon.
20:20 Act II & III
Iestyn Davies - Solomon
Anna Dennis - Solomon’s Queen/First Harlot
Benjamin Hulett - Zadok
Ashley Riches - A Levite
Wallis Giunta - Queen of Sheba/Second Harlot
BBC Singers
The English Concert
Sofi Jeannin - conductor
‘Thy harmony's divine, great king
All, all obey the artist's string.
And now, illustrious prince, receive
Such tribute as my realm can give.’
A musician as monarch: what could be more perfect? Handel’s Solomon (1749) is a celebration of a nation (and a genius) at the height of its confidence, and with its libretto by Moses Mendes, this lavish oratorio is the gloriously tuneful product of a diverse and fast-changing society. Iestyn Davies – arguably Britain’s finest living counter-tenor – lavishes all his eloquence and dramatic power on the title-role, as the period instruments of The English Concert, and the BBC Singers under their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin, bring Handel’s vision to majestic life.
FRI 22:30 Between the Ears (m000kh8m)
The Vet at the End of the World
Angry bulls, furious penguins, enraged seals! In the shadow of the volcano 'Between the Ears' gets a microphone close up to enjoy the action, as veterinarian Jonathan Hollins, gives us a taste of life with the remote animals and sea life of Tristan Da Cunha.
On an island of a population of around 250 people, a thousand sheep and many more penguins, Joe also gets a flavour of what happened to the islanders when the volcano last erupted and they were forced to leave their homes, sixty years ago. Cracks in the ground were opening and closing - one sheep fell in! Boats took them to a nearby penguin colony where they sheltered until rescued. Sent to live in the UK, all chose to return to Tristan as soon as it was declared safe by an expeditionary force sent out by The Royal Society.
The island was just as they had left it, the settlement miraculously spared, though all the sheep mysteriously disappeared... there are theories as to why!
Memories of the volcano are mixed with Joe's daily life - the domestic close up sounds of cows birthing, bulls hoisted onto land from bucking fishing vessels and gong clanging to bring the islanders together.
The atmosphere is punctuated by updated versions of traditional sea shanties - performed by the likes of Lou Reed, Anthony, Beth Orton, Rufus Wainwright, Richard Thomson and Tim Robbins.
This rocky outcrop was claimed by the Dutch, the British, the Portuguese, and even an American Privateer, geographically useful to all in its splendid isolation, (even in the 20th century the islanders only heard about the ‘result’ of the First World War a year after it finished). Today, we might envy their close community and isolation in a world endangered by today’s globalisation.
Joe was lucky to get permission to record during his time there, by the island council, scarred by their previous experiences with the ‘press’, most particularly during that 18 months living as refugees in the UK.
From the most remote community in the world – Tristan Da Cunha - the sounds, songs and tales of a whole island committed to socially isolating – together.
With grateful thanks to the people of Tristan Da Cunha.
Producer: Sara Jane Hall
Archive: The Royal Society Volcanic Eruption on Tristan da Cunha, 1961
Music: as sourced by Danny Webb from 'Rogue’s Gallery' - a series of sea shanties and pirate songs.
And 'Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha' by Deathprod.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m0015cz6)
After Dark Festival
Join the Late Junction team in Newcastle at the After Dark Festival, as Verity Sharp and Jennifer Lucy Allan bring you a selection of highlights from our stage at the Star & Shadow in collaboration with Tusk.
The After Dark festival, from BBC Radio 3 and Sage Gateshead, is a celebration of alternative music taking place over the weekend of the Spring Equinox and shining a light on creativity in the North East. We bring you highlights from Friday night at the Star & Shadow, a special line-up curated by Late Junction and Tusk Music featuring Iceboy Violet, Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters and Yeah You. Plus from Saturday night, Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to the legendary folk singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan about her new memoir.
Iceboy Violet is a Manchester-based producer, vocalist and DJ. A key player in the experimental scene in Manchester, their sound combines dark brooding electronics with a powerfully raw vocal delivery. Inspired by the energy and resistance of Grime music, their lyrics are honest and vulnerable, warping the genre in a way that aims to challenge toxic masculinity and heteronormativity.
Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters is the project of Belgo-Congolese multi-instrumentalist and singer Nyati Mayi, and Brussels DJ, producer and musician soFa elsewhere. Rooted in improvisation and free music, their sound is heavily percussive and vocal led, with influences including 90s hip-hop, folk, Congolese rhythms and dub.
Yeah You are Newcastle father-daughter duo of Elvin Brandhi and Gustav Thomas. Inspired by everything from noise pop to black metal, the pair have been improvising and recording together since Brandhi was a teenager. Their work is almost entirely improvised and spontaneous, with Brandhi letting loose stream-of-consciousness vocals over distorted rhythms and warped electronics.
Produced by Katie Callin and Rebecca Gaskell.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
01
00:00:15 Yeah You (artist)
Live at the After Dark Festival
Performer: Yeah You
Duration 00:06:24
02
00:08:08 Nyati Mayi (artist)
Live at the After Dark Festival
Performer: Nyati Mayi
Duration 00:01:49
03
00:14:18 Iceboy Violet (artist)
Live at the After Dark Festival
Performer: Iceboy Violet
Duration 00:16:04
04
00:31:23 Rakhi Singh (artist)
Khuda'i (Excavation)
Performer: Rakhi Singh
Duration 00:03:33
05
00:34:58 Run Logan Run (artist)
It's About Ice Cream
Performer: Run Logan Run
Duration 00:04:03
06
00:42:48 Yeah You (artist)
Live at the After Dark Festival
Performer: Yeah You
Performer: Iceboy Violet
Duration 00:10:12
07
00:54:24 Vashti Bunyan (artist)
Swallow Song
Performer: Vashti Bunyan
Duration 00:02:10
08
01:01:48 Nick Drake (artist)
Place To Be
Performer: Nick Drake
Duration 00:02:37
09
01:07:42 Devendra Banhart (artist)
Will I See You Tonight?
Performer: Devendra Banhart
Featured Artist: Vashti Bunyan
Duration 00:03:17
10
01:14:16 Vashti Bunyan (artist)
Wayward
Performer: Vashti Bunyan
Duration 00:03:01
11
01:20:15 Yeah You (artist)
Live at the After Dark Festival
Performer: Yeah You
Duration 00:16:41
12
01:41:18 Nyati Mayi (artist)
Live at the After Dark Festival
Performer: Nyati Mayi
Duration 00:17:40