SATURDAY 04 MARCH 2023
SAT 01:00 Composed with Emeli Sandé (m0017v57)
Cinematic masterpieces to soundtrack your day
Emeli Sandé explores the music that brings her strength and inspiration, from classical, to pop, and beyond.
This week's episode is dedicated to the silver screen, with a selection from favourite film soundtracks, that includes Hildur Guðnadóttir, Philip Glass and Prince.
And in this, and every episode, Emeli invites listeners to join her in Composure Moment. This week, put everything on pause, for time with Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack for Inception.
01
00:01:01 Philip Glass
Choosing Life
Performer: Michael Riesman
Ensemble: The Lyric Quartet
Duration 00:03:59
02
00:05:01 Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Performer: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration 00:03:08
03
00:08:10 Louis Armstrong (artist)
We Have All The Time In The World
Performer: Louis Armstrong
Duration 00:03:11
04
00:12:14 Yann Tiersen (artist)
La Valse d'Amelie
Performer: Yann Tiersen
Duration 00:01:55
05
00:14:10 Miles Davis (artist)
Générique
Performer: Miles Davis
Duration 00:02:47
06
00:16:56 Hans Zimmer (artist)
Time
Performer: Hans Zimmer
Duration 00:04:35
07
00:21:31 Hildur Guðnadóttir (artist)
Bathroom Dance
Performer: Hildur Guðnadóttir
Duration 00:02:04
08
00:23:39 Lesley Barber (artist)
Manchester Minimalist Piano & Strings
Performer: Lesley Barber
Duration 00:02:16
09
00:25:55 Richard Wagner
Prelude To Tristan And Isolde
Performer: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration 00:04:48
10
00:30:46 Prince (artist)
Purple Rain
Performer: Prince
Performer: The Revolution
Duration 00:08:38
11
00:39:24 The Polyphonic Spree (artist)
Light & Day
Performer: The Polyphonic Spree
Duration 00:02:58
12
00:42:33 Clint Mansell
Lux Aeterna
Performer: Kronos Quartet
Duration 00:03:47
13
00:46:19 John Williams
Theme from Schindler's List
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Itzhak Perlman
Duration 00:04:10
14
00:50:46 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D Minor
Performer: Radiokören
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration 00:02:48
15
00:53:34 Alison Krauss (artist)
Down To The River To Pray
Performer: Alison Krauss
Duration 00:02:53
16
00:57:08 John Carpenter (artist)
Assault On Precinct 13
Performer: John Carpenter
Duration 00:02:52
SAT 02:00 Piano Flow (m0014y57)
Tokio Myers
Happy music to kick-start your day
Whether you're in a good mood and want to feel better or you feel down and need a pick-me-up, Tokio has you covered with an uplifting playlist to start your day just right! Featuring Portico Quartet, Tania Maria, Liszt and Mozart.
01
00:01:05 Ezra Collective (artist)
Footprints
Performer: Ezra Collective
Duration 00:06:14
02
00:04:48 Sam Smith (artist)
Latch (Acoustic)
Performer: Sam Smith
Duration 00:03:51
03
00:14:53 Franz Liszt
La Campanella in G-Sharp Minor
Performer: Lang Lang
Duration 00:05:10
04
00:20:06 Portico Quartet (artist)
Terrain II
Performer: Portico Quartet
Duration 00:08:03
05
00:28:14 Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No 1 in B flat major for keyboard, BWV 825 (Sarabande)
Performer: Piotr Anderszewski
Duration 00:06:08
06
00:32:03 Aveline Bisset (artist)
Durabilite
Performer: Aveline Bisset
Duration 00:02:28
07
00:34:33 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K.466
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic
Conductor: Tomáš Netopil
Duration 00:31:00
08
00:43:40 Hazel Scott
Peace of Mind
Performer: Lara Downes
Duration 00:03:45
09
00:47:27 John Lennon
Across the Universe
Performer: Jess Gillam
Performer: Rowena Calvert
Performer: Lysandre Ménard
Music Arranger: Lawson
Singer: Sam Becker
Duration 00:03:50
10
00:51:06 Poppy Ackroyd (artist)
Release
Performer: Poppy Ackroyd
Duration 00:03:55
11
00:55:39 Ludovico Einaudi (artist)
Luminous
Performer: Ludovico Einaudi
Duration 00:04:35
SAT 03:00 Through the Night (m001jcsh)
The Sultry South
The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra performs a programme including Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and is joined by Flamenco singer Marina Heredia for Falla's El amor brujo. Presented by Jonathan Swain
03:01 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Berceuse héroïque, L.132
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
03:07 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
03:17 AM
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) - ballet pantomime
Marina Heredia (singer), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
03:44 AM
Spain.Traditional
Prégones del Uvero
Marina Heredia (singer)
03:46 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor)
04:25 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Quintet for piano and strings (M.7) in F minor
Imre Rohmann (piano), Bartok String Quartet
05:01 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Mountain Dance (from the opera 'Halka')
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)
05:06 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Franz Hasenohrl (arranger)
Till Eulenspiegel - Einmal Anders!
Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (conductor)
05:15 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto no 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Camerata Variabile Basel, Helena Winkelman (conductor), Helena Winkelman (violin)
05:31 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
4 Songs: 1.Svarta rosor [Black Roses] (Op.36'1); 2.Säv, sav, susa [Sigh Sedges sigh] (Op.36'4); 3.Flickan kom ifran sin äls klings möte [The Maiden's tryst] (Op.37'5); 4.Varen flyktar hastigt [Spring is flying] (Op.13'4)
Jard van Nes (mezzo-soprano), Gerard van Blerk (piano)
05:41 AM
Nicolas Chedeville (1705-1782)
Les Saisons Amusantes Part IV (L'Hiver)
Ensemble 1700, Dorothee Oberlinger (director)
05:49 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Sonata in G minor (H.
16.44)
Petras Geniusas (piano)
06:00 AM
John Corigliano (b.1938)
Elegy for orchestra (1965)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
06:09 AM
Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630)
Selection from Diletti Pastorali, Hirten Lust: madrigals for 5 voices & continuo
Cantus Colln, Konrad Junghanel (lute), Konrad Junghanel (conductor)
06:31 AM
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940)
Piano Trio in A minor, Op Posth
Gould Piano Trio
SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m001jlb6)
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 (m001jlbc)
Walton's Viola Concerto in Building a Library with David Owen Norris and Andrew McGregor
9.00am
Leipzig 1723 - Telemann; Graupner; Bach
Ælbgut
Capella Jenensis
Accentus Music ACC30598
https://accentus.com/discs/598/
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst
Cleveland Orchestra TCO0006
https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/discover/recordings/prokofiev5/
Schubert: Piano Sonatas D537 & D959
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Hyperion CDA68398
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68398
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright
Peter Herresthal (violin)
Arctic Philharmonic
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Tim Weiss
James Gaffigan
BIS BIS2572 (Download; Hybrid SACD on 7th April)
https://bis.se/performers/herresthal-peter/missy-mazzoli-dark-with-excessive-bright
Poulenc: Sextuor, Trio, Abade, Suite Francaise
Quintette Moragues
Emmanuel Strosser (piano)
Indesens INDE167
https://indesenscalliope.com/boutique/poulenc/
09.30am Alison Balsom: New Releases
Leading trumpeter Alison Balsom shares some new releases which have caught her ear and shares her 'On Repeat' track – a recording which she is currently listening to again and again.
Mozart: Requiem - Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Chantal Santon Jeffery (soprano)
Éléonore Pancrazi (mezzo)
Mathias Vidal (tenor)
Thomas Dolié (baritone)
Le Concert de la Loge
Chœur de Chambre de Namur
Julien Chauvin
Alpha ALPHA919
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/mozart-requiem-paisiello-messe-pour-le-sacre-de-napoleon
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto & Chamber Works
Isabelle Faust (violin)
François-Xavier Roth
Les Siècles
Harmonia Mundi HMM902718
https://store.harmoniamundi.com/format/1223389-stravinsky-violin-concerto-chamber-works
Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica & Symphony No 9
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins
Hyperion CDA68405
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68405
Rafał Blechacz - Chopin
Rafał Blechacz (piano)
DG 4863438
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/chopin-rafa-blechacz-12893
Alison Balsom: On Repeat
The Image of Melancholy – music by Dowland, Byrd, Niel Gow, etc.
Jon Balke (organ / soundscapes)
Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano)
Milos Valent (viola)
Barokksolistene
Bjarte Eike (artistic director & violin)
BIS BIS2057 (Hybrid SACD)
https://bis.se/label/bis/the-image-of-melancholy
Listener On Repeat
10.10am New Releases
Metamorphosis – Ligeti
Quatuor Diotima
Pentatone PTC5187061
https://www.pentatonemusic.com/product/metamorphosis-ligeti/
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Rafael Payare
Pentatone PTC5187067
https://www.pentatonemusic.com/product/mahler-symphony-no-5-2/
10.30am Building a Library: David Owen Norris on Walton’s Viola Concerto
It was conductor Sir Thomas Beecham's suggestion that Walton should write a viola concerto for the virtuoso Lionel Tertis. But things did not go according to plan when Tertis sent back the music by return of post saying it was 'too modern'. So the 1929 premiere was given by Paul Hindemith (who had been sent the concerto by the BBC's Edward Clark) at the Queen's Hall, just around the corner from Broadcasting House. It was a success and Tertis, in the audience, relented. But although he subsequently played the concerto, Tertis continued to disparage it and was heard to say that Walton had 'murdered' the viola.
Despite its inauspicious beginning, Walton's Viola Concerto has long been recognised as one of his most important early works and is well established a cornerstone of an albeit limited repertoire. Perhaps the root of its appeal is to be found in its dedication 'to Christabel', the lyrical melancholy and poetic longing at the concerto's heart reflecting Walton's unrequited passion for Christabel, Lady Aberconway.
11.15am
Nino Rota: War and Peace; Castel Del Monte; Orchestra Rehearsal; Harp Concerto; Concerto For Strings
Esther Peristerakis (harp)
Marcel Sobol (horn)
WDR Funkhausorchester Köln
Felix Bender
Michael Seal
Capriccio C5494
http://capriccio.at/nino-rota
A Watchful Gaze – music by Byrd, Tabakova, Clemens, etc.
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
Coro COR16195
https://thesixteenshop.com/products/a-watchful-gaze
11.25am Record of the Week
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24
Robert Levin (fortepiano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr
AAM Records AAM041
https://aam.co.uk/product/mozart-piano-concertos-levin-vol-9/
Send us your On Repeat recommendations at recordreview@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @BBCRadio3
SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m001jlbl)
International Women's Day celebrations
Kate Molleson presents a live edition of Music Matters from London's Broadcasting House. She will be joined by a panel of guests, including writer and broadcaster Leah Broad and composer Anna Clyne. Throughout the programme, there will be contributions from ten inspirational women who have made a difference and done extraordinary things through music.
SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m001jlbr)
Pianist and composer Bill Laurance with inspiring improvisation and amazing arrangements
Bill Laurance is a pianist, composer and original member of the fusion band Snarky Puppy. His choices in this programme draw on his classical and jazz roots, including a Duke Ellington arrangement that Bill believes is an excellent blend of those two genres.
Bill shares a song whose harmony prevents it from sounding too sweet, a piece by Ravel that elegantly captures the fluidity of water, and a choir who are rhythmically free yet perfectly together.
Plus, he goes back to his university days to revisit his experiences conducting Ernest Moeran’s Sinfonietta…
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 Gaming (m001jlby)
Time Travel
Louise Blain looks at what gaming music brings to the time travelling universe with games such as Chrono Trigger, Dishonored 2 and Braid. She is joined by Deathloop composer Tom Salta, who will be talking about his new game, The Outlast Trials.
SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m001jlc5)
With Lopa Kothari and a road trip to Bengal
Lopa Kothari with new tracks from across the globe, including releases from Cuba, Ghana and the UK. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Dipannita Acharya takes us on a road trip around the folk music of Bengal. And the Classic Artist is cajun music pioneer Cleoma Falcon.
SAT 17:00 J to Z (m001jlcc)
International Women’s Day Special
Jumoké Fashola is joined by drummer on the rise and Berklee College of Music alumna Jas Kayser for a special live session, in early celebration of International Women’s Day. A leading light in the UK jazz world and beyond, Jas has worked with the likes of Nubya Garcia, Ashley Henry and Alfa Mist, as well as showcasing her talents as a bandleader. For this J to Z session, Jas brings together an exciting band of friends who are also paving their way as formidable musicians. They will be sharing music by artists that have inspired Jas in her journey so far.
Also in the programme, we hear from internationally beloved bassist, rapper and singer-songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello. Her music is widely celebrated for its innovation, poetry and vulnerability as she blends jazz, R&B, hip-hop, rock and explores topics such as race, sexuality and her personal challenges. She has worked with the likes of Pat Metheny, Robert Glasper, Terri Lyne Carrington and Marcus Strickland. Here she shares some of the music that has inspired her and the artistry behind these tracks.
Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin’ Else
SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m001jlwr)
Wagner's Tannhäuser
Wagner's Tannhäuser, recorded at the Royal Opera House, London, starring tenor Norbert Ernst, soprano Lise Davidsen and baritone Gerald Finley, conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
A medieval minstrel, ensnared by the chains of concupiscence and lust, awakens from a miasmic trance of sensual pleasure and desire and yearns for salvation. He re-joins the chaste community of poet-musicians in which he had previously reigned supreme. In a song competition on the theme of love and its true essence, he reveals the unrestrained hedonism of his previous life. The outraged nobles expel him and he joins a pilgrimage to Rome to seek absolution from the Pope in atonement for his sins. A heady brew of sex and religion, lust and love, sensuality and spirituality which was to obsess Wagner throughout his life is treated with bold, garish colours in this grandest of grand operas. The thrilling score calls for a whole battery of off-stage brass and singers; and the opera is packed with thumping good tunes and moments of high dramatic tension and release.
Andrew McGregor presents in conversation with opera expert Nigel Simeone
Tannhäuser ..... Norbert Ernst (tenor)
Elizabeth ..... Lise Davidsen (soprano)
Wolfram ..... Gerald Finley (baritone)
Venus ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Hermann ..... Mika Kares (bass)
Biterolf ..... Michael Kraus (baritone)
Walther ..... Egor Zhuravskii (tenor)
Heinrich der Schreiber ..... Michael Gibson (tenor)
Reinmar ..... Jeremy White (bass)
A young shepherd ..... Sarah Dufresne (soprano)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Sebastian Weigle (conductor)
*1835 Act 1
*1955 Act 2
*2120 Act 3
Read the full synopsis on the Royal Opera House website: https://bit.ly/3IzZWSZ
SAT 22:30 New Music Show (m001jlcm)
Skein, Gondola, Elliptics
Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including Gerald Barry's String Quartet No 1 and Linda Catlin Smith's Gondola, played by the Bozzini Quartet; Electra Perivolaris's Skein played by Endangered Instruments Ensemble; and Emily Howard's Elliptics played by the BBC Philharmonic
SUNDAY 05 MARCH 2023
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m0019sb1)
Ricochets and Ripples
Corey Mwamba presents the best in new improvised music. Amongst the selections comes the Portuguese group Lantana, whose members call forth a range of elemental textures - cavernous voices and undulating drones which slip and slide over strings and a glitchy, electronic storm. Lucie Vítková and Leo Chang, meanwhile, soar high in their sonorous collaboration, Religion, with probing existential questions at its heart.
Elsewhere in the show, found objects offer textures that rise and fall ornamentally over long synth tones, whilst resonant accordion and harmonica riffs bellow outwards to create an immersive vortex of sound. Plus saxophonist Caroline Kraabel and cellist Khabat Abas tease all manner of noises and shapes from their instruments - sinewy runs and vocal exhalations bounce off grainy turbulence and bubbling discord.
Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m001jlcz)
Behzod Abduraimov plays Rachmaninov’s Paganini Variations
Russian showstoppers from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Aziz Shokhakimov. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
01:01 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43
Behzod Abduraimov (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor)
01:25 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Prelude No. 4 in E minor, op. 28/4
Behzod Abduraimov (piano)
01:28 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No. 7 in C sharp minor, op. 131
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Aziz Shokhakimov (conductor)
02:01 AM
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801-1878)
String Quartet no 3 in C major
Yggdrasil String Quartet
02:37 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Wesendonck-Lieder for voice and orchestra
Jane Eaglen (soprano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
03:01 AM
Johann Ernst Bach (1722-1777)
Ode on 77th Psalm 'Das Vertrauen der Christen auf Gott'
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
03:18 AM
Mikolaj Gorecki (b.1971)
Three Episodes for Orchestra
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura (conductor)
03:38 AM
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
Wind Sinfonietta, Op.73
BBC National Orchestra of Wales (conductor), Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)
03:56 AM
Maurice Dela (1919-1978)
Sonatine
Peter Oundjian (violin), William Tritt (piano)
04:08 AM
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Flute Concerto
Sharon Bezaly (flute), Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Jose Maria Florencio (conductor)
04:29 AM
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)
6 Variations for violin and guitar, Op 81
Laura Vadjon (violin), Romana Matanovac (guitar)
04:37 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Let mine eyes run down with tears, Z.24
Grace Davidson (soprano), Aleksandra Lewandowska (soprano), Damien Guillon (countertenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe (director)
04:46 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Rhapsody in G minor, Op 79 no 2
Robert Silverman (piano)
04:53 AM
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
Scherzo for orchestra in E minor, Op 19
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (conductor)
05:01 AM
Grace Williams (1906-1977)
Sea Sketches (1944)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
05:19 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Oboe Sonata in D major, Op 166
Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
05:31 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Friede auf Erden (Op.13)
Danish National Radio Choir
05:40 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Concerto Grosso No 1 in F minor
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
05:48 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Trio in E flat major, D897, 'Notturno'
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Vadim Repin (violin), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello)
05:57 AM
Knut Nystedt (1915-2014)
O Crux (Op.79)
Norwegian Soloists Choir, Grete Helgerod (conductor)
06:04 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Mladi (Youth)
Anita Szabo (flute), Bela Horvath (oboe), Zsolt Szatmari (clarinet), Pal Bokor (bassoon), Gyorgy Salamon (bass clarinet), Tamas Zempleni (horn)
06:22 AM
Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813)
Symphony in A minor
Capella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
06:40 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata for violin and piano (Op.23) in A minor
Dina Schneidermann (violin), Milena Mollova (piano)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m001jlm0)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m001jlm2)
Sarah Walker with a glorious musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, Sarah finds some much-needed summer warmth in the flowing strings of Frederick Delius’s Brigg Fair, and admires the fluid fiddle playing of John McCusker.
There’s also a frenetic scherzo for two pianos, a trumpet concerto played with glittering virtuosity by Tine Thing Helseth, and a song by Peggy Seeger that we will all one day relate to…
Plus, Sarah plays music which looks forward to International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, including a new discovery for Sarah by the composer Anna Bon.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m0016jvh)
Clare Marx
Looking ahead to International Women’s Day, this is a second chance to hear Michael Berkeley’s interview with the trailblazing surgeon Dame Clare Marx, who sadly died in November 2022; the programme is repeated by kind permission of her husband, Andrew.
Clare Marx was the first woman to become President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2014, and the first woman to become the Chair of the General Medical Council five years later. Clare Marx had to overcome significant prejudice to reach the top of her field but in 2007 she received a CBE and in 2018 a DBE for services to medicine. But then came the blow of a terminal diagnosis of incurable pancreatic cancer. With characteristic courage and grace, she announced her resignation from the General Medical Council.
When she came into the studio, Clare Marx had only eight months to live, but no one would have guessed she was ill. She was calm, elegant, composed. But she knew that this would be her last broadcast interview, a message to her colleagues, her family, indeed to everyone listening. Her music choices include Britten’s Sea Interludes, Verdi’s Requiem, and Mozart’s trio “Soave sia il vento”, a message to all who are about to sail away across the sea. “May the winds be gentle, may the waves be calm.”
Michael Berkeley began by asking Clare about that moving public letter of resignation, in which she said: “Since receiving this news, I've been reminded once again of the importance and power of kindness in everything we do as doctors.”
Pancreatic Cancer UK
www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk
Information and support: Cancer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1KkkxvD0G1w4l294QCrQZbh/information-and-support-cancer
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
01
00:04:57 Benjamin Britten
Dawn (Four Sea Interludes)
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Davis
Duration 00:03:12
02
00:11:25 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat major (1st mvt)
Performer: Kirill Gerstein
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Duration 00:05:37
03
00:19:14 Giuseppe Verdi
Libera Me (Requiem)
Singer: Angela Gheorghiu
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Duration 00:05:59
04
00:28:38 Giuseppe Verdi
Bella figlia dell'amore (Rigoletto)
Singer: June Anderson
Singer: Shirley Verrett
Singer: Luciano Pavarotti
Singer: Leo Nucci
Duration 00:03:55
05
00:35:53 Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.9 in D minor (4th mvt: Presto)
Singer: June Anderson
Singer: Sarah Walker
Singer: Klaus Konig
Singer: Jan‐Hendrik Rootering
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Duration 00:05:02
06
00:45:16 Johannes Brahms
Concerto in A minor for violin, cello and orchestra (3rd mvt: Vivace non troppo)
Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter
Performer: Antônio Meneses
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Duration 00:04:00
07
00:55:57 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte)
Singer: Montserrat Caballé
Singer: Janet Baker
Singer: Richard van Allan
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor: Colin Davis
Duration 00:03:02
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001jcq1)
Vision String Quartet
Founded in 2012 and based in Berlin, the Vision String Quartet has become regarded as one of the finest of its generation. Here, the ensemble perform Mendelssohn's String Quartet No 2 in A minor and Shostakovich's most popular string quartet, the angst-ridden No 8 in C minor. When the Borodin Quartet played this work to Shostakovich at his Moscow home, hoping for his criticisms, the composer, overwhelmed by this beautiful realisation of his most personal feelings, buried his head in his hands and wept. When they had finished playing, the four musicians quietly packed up their instruments and stole out of the room.
From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 8 in C minor, Op 110
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 13
Vision String Quartet
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m001jlyp)
Follow the Lieder
Lucie Skeaping charts the history of German art song from its beginnings with the 12th-century Minnesänger through to the Renaissance in the 1500s, with music by Tannhäuser, Walther von Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenstein and Heinrich Isaac.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001jcv7)
St Davids Cathedral
From St Davids Cathedral on St David’s Day.
Prelude: Canzonetta (Mathias)
Introit: O Ddewi sanctaidd (Meirion Wynn Jones)
Responses: Alan Llewelyn Thomas
Office hymn: We praise thy name, all-holy Lord (Llangloffan)
Psalm 92 (Stanford)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 2 vv.1-7
Antiphon: A Responsory for St David (Plainsong, arr. Timothy Noon)
Canticles: Watson in E
Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 4 vv.1-8
Anthem: Give us the wings of faith (Oliver Tarney)
Hymn: Arglwydd, trefni mewn doethineb (Blaenwern)
Voluntary: Paean (Howells)
Simon Pearce (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Laurence John (Assistant Director of Music)
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m001jlm5)
Jazz for a Sunday afternoon
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with a focus today on female bands, soloists and composers in advance of International Women's Day on Wednesday. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
DISC 1
Artist International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Title Vi Vigor
Composer Maurice King
Album The Women
Label RCA/Bluebird
Number ND86755 Track 11
Duration 2.56
Performers Tex Stansbery, Tiny Davis, Nora Lee McGhee, Floye Dryer, t; Julia Travick, Helen Jones, Ima Belle Byrd, tb; Vi Burnside, Colleen Murray, Myrtle Young, Willie Mae Lee, Jacqueline Dexter, reeds; Jackie King, p; Carlene Ray, g; Edna Smith, b; Pauline Braddy, d. 14 Oct 1946
DISC 2
Artist Marian McPartland
Title I Hear Music
Composer Burton Lane / Frank Loesser
Album Hickory House Trio – Reprise
Label Concord
Number 4853-2 Track 1
Duration 6.04
Performers Marian McPartland, p; Bill Crow, b; Joe Morello, d. Birdland, NY, 16 Sept, 1998.
DISC 3
Artist Irene Kral
Title Lucky To Be Me / Some Other Time
Composer Bernstein/Comden/Green
Album Where Is Love?
Label Choice
Number CRS1012 Side 2 Track 2
Duration 6.41
Performers Irene Kral, v; Alan Broadbent, p. Dec 1974.
DISC 4
Artist Helena Kay
Title Da Dratsie
Composer Helena Kay
Album Golden Sands
Label Sulis
Number Track 5
Duration 5.52
Performers Helena Kay ts; Peter Johnstone, p; Calum Gourlay, b; David Ingamells, d. 2022
DISC 5
Artist Jessica Williams
Title Ain’t Misbehavin’
Composer Waller / Razaf / Brooks
Album Ain’t Misbehavin
Label Candid
Number CCD797763 Track 9
Duration 3.43
Performers Jessica Williams, p; Oxford, 10 March 1996.
DISC 6
Artist Sweet Emma Barrett
Title Chinatown My Chinatown
Composer Schwartz / Jerome
Album Sweet Emma the Bell Gal
Label Riverside
Number OJCCD 1832-2 Track 2
Duration 3.54
Performers Emma Barrett, p; Percy Humphrey, t; Willie Humphrey, cl; Jim Robinson, tb; Manny Sayles, bj; McNeal Breaux, b; Cie Frazier, d. 25 Jan 1961
DISC 7
Artist Marian Montgomery
Title Sweet Georgia Brown
Composer Bernie / Casey / Pinkard
Album That Lady From Natchez
Label Audiophile
Number ACD 296 Track 3
Duration 5.42
Performers Marian Montgomery, v; Tom Fischer, ts; Laurie Holloway, p; Bill Huntingdon, b; Gerald French, d. 1997.
DISC 8
Artist Shirley Scott
Title Hip Soul
Composer Stanley Turrentine
Album The Prestige Records Story
Label Prestige
Number 4PRCD 4426-2 CD 3 Track 9
Duration 6.29
Performers Shirley Scott, org; Stanley Turrentine, ts; Herb Lewis, b; Roy Brooks, d. 2 June 1961
DISC 9
Artist Carol Kidd
Title A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Composer Stanley Myers
Album Dreamsville
Label Linn
Number AKD 325 Track 2
Duration 2.41
Performers Carol Kidd, v; Paul Harrison, p; Nigel Clark, g; Mario Caribe, b; Alyn Cosker, d. Jan 2007
DISC 10
Artist Emily Remler
Title East To Wes
Composer Emily Remler
Album East To Wes
Label Concord
Number CCD 4356 Track 8
Duration 6.12
Performers Emily Remler, g; Hank Jones, p; Buster Williams, b; Marvin Smitty Smith, d. May 1988.
DISC 11
Artist Cecile McLorin Salvant
Title Melusine
Composer Ceclie McLorin Salvant
Album n/a (this is a single release preview)
Label Nonesuch
Number preview – single track
Duration 3.12
Performers Cecile McLorin Salvant, v, 2023.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m001jcld)
Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia
Tom Service explores Luciano Berio's Sinfonia - an iconic piece of the late 1960s modernism, scored for orchestra and eight amplified voices who speak, whisper and shout texts by Samuel Beckett and Claude Lévi-Strauss. This groundbreaking work also incorporates a mass of musical quotations, from Bach to Stockhausen and everything in between.
Tom's witness is the virtuoso sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun, who like Berio, took Monteverdi's opera Orfeo and reinvented it.
Produced by Dom Wells
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m001jlm7)
Women and Music
From Grace Jones to Ethel Smyth's March of the Women, Ivor Cutler's cry for liberation "Women of the world, take over!" to readings of Jane Austen and Dame Nelly Melba. Today's programme explores the deep relationship women have with music: not just as passive, unattainable muse but as composers, performers and instigators. The tender poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Jackie Kay sit alongside EM Forster's spirited Lucy, Shakespeare's longing, Delia Derbyshire's tape loops, William Blake's lullaby, the cold horror of a lost Stradivarius, and Hildegard of Bingen's divine inspiration. With music including Beethoven, Brahms, Nina Simone and punk pioneers The Slits. Shobna Gulati and Sue Johnston are the readers.
Producer: Ewa Norman
You can find a whole collection of discussions exploring Women in the World on the Free Thinking programme website - everything from discussions about sisters, Lady Macbeth, Audrey Hepburn, Arabian queens, Landladies, the Wife of Bath. And there's plenty more music by women for International Women's Day being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and available on BBC Sounds.
Readings:
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
EM Forster: A Room with a View
Warsan Shire: Bless Grace Jones (from Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head)
Sophocles: Music (from Antigone)
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 128: How Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st
Laurie Stras: What if the composer known as 'Anonymous' was really a woman?
Belden C. Lane: The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul
Esther Freud: Hideous Kinky
Dame Nellie Melba: Memories and Melodies
Gwyneth Lewis: Voice (from Sparrow Tree)
Sarah Jackson: Vocal Chords (from Pelt)
Min Kym: Gone
Nina Simone, interviewed by Brantley Bardin in Details magazine January 1997
Nandini Das: Courting India: England Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
William Blake: Cradle Song
Cosey Fanni Tutti: Re-Sisters
Jackie Kay: Piano
4pm (from Empty Nest: Poems for Families)
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Vita Sackville-West: To Ethel: 8th May 1944 (from Quartet: How Four women changed the musical world)
Anna Akhmatova: Music
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m001jlm9)
Government Song Woman
American musician Rhiannon Giddens investigates the fascinating life and recordings of the folk song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell. Travelling thousands of miles all over the US in the depression era, Cowell was willing to track down songs in unlikely places, once writing "I don't scare easily." She spent a night riding in a hearse in Wisconsin just to question the driver and hear his songs, walked up mountains to record lumberjacks and traditional Appalachian singers and poled three miles downriver after dark on a makeshift raft to find a famed fiddler in his goldmine in California.
Listening to her recordings is like travelling back in time; they capture the voices of so many different nationalities that emigrated to the US, but she also made recordings on the Aran Islands in Ireland. During her lifetime Cowell was marginalised like so many women collectors of that period, but in this celebration of her recordings and observations, Giddens finally gives her work the attention it deserves.
With indebted thanks to the American Folklife Center archive in the Library of Congress who hold the collection of Sidney Robertson Cowell's recordings and to the following contributors who have done so much to bring her work to light:
Cathy Hiebert Kerst, folklorist and archivist who catalogued Sidney's recordings of the WPA California Folk Project.
Sheryl Kaskowitz, scholar of American music and author of forthcoming book: The Music Unit: FDR's Hidden New Deal Program that Tried to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time.
Jim P Leary, a folklorist and scholar of Scandinavian studies, and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of Folksongs of Another America.
Dr. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile writer, researcher and musician (she plays fiddle with Rhiannon at the end of the programme) who has written about the collecting work of Sidney Robertson Cowell on the Aran Islands in the 1950s.
Robert Cochrane, Professor of English and folklore specialist at the University of Arkansas.
Peggy Seeger, folksinger.
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell: https://www.loc.gov/collections/sidney-robertson-cowell-northern-california-folk-music/about-this-collection/
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m001jlmc)
Reykjavik
By Juan Mayorga
An award-winning drama about chess, an art which, like life itself, is based on memory and imagination. A play about the Cold War. And the story of people who re-enact the lives of others.
Bailén and Waterloo are united and separated by a chessboard. But it isn't chess they're playing, it's Reykjavik. They're playing at being Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, the German arbiter, the Icelandic bodyguard, Bobby's mother, Boris's second wife, the girlfriends Bobby never had, a hundred children bidding Boris farewell with their fists raised at Moscow airport, Henry Kissinger, the ghost of Stalin, the Supreme Soviet, the black knight threatening the white bishop, the missing fathers, the dead champions. It's not the first time they've done this, but it is the first time they've done it in front of someone else: a stray boy. And they've never done it with so much passion. Because today they're not just trying to understand what really happened at Reykjavik, what was really at stake. Today, Waterloo and Bailén are looking for an heir.
Juan Mayorga is one of Spain's leading playwrights, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and winner of the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, the Spanish National Theatre Award and the European Prize for Theatre.
Waterloo ….. Robert Emms
Bailén ….. Gunnar Cauthery
Boy ….. Samantha Dakin
Russian voices ….. Oleg Tsiplakov and Ilia Golitsyn
Japanese voice ….. Nao Nakazawa
Other voices are played by the cast
Translated by Nicolas Jackson and Bill Murphy
Production by Sarah Tombling
Executive producer Sara Davies
Sound design by Jon Nicholls
Adapted for radio and directed by Nicolas Jackson
An Afonica production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 21:10 Record Review Extra (m001jlmf)
Walton's Viola Concerto
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, William Walton's Viola Concerto.
SUN 23:00 The Silent Musician (m001jlmh)
The Conductor’s Fingerprint
When conductor Ben Gernon tells people what he does, he’s almost always met with the same response “oh how fascinating… now tell me, what do you actually do?” It’s a universally unanswered question.
In The Silent Musician, Ben answers that question, charting a sonically rich and provocative ride through the conducting jungle, and opening our ears to the possibilities in performance that different conductors create. He unlocks the traditions and sound worlds of our best orchestras, and explores what happens to the music making when there is no conductor.
Beneath the surface lies a fascinating and unusual profession. The conductor’s job spec includes refining colour, manipulating sound and balance, interpretation and philosophy. They think deeply about music, culture, history and performance practice and they need to inspire 70 or so - sometimes rebellious - musicians. But how does that all come together to create a distinctive performance?
Ben introduces key elements from the conductor’s toolkit: tempo, rhythm, dynamics, clarity, story, balance and emotion, revealing the personal tricks and techniques that conductors use to achieve them. Once a conductor’s fingerprint becomes recognisable, listeners begin to hear the music differently.
Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C minor op 67, 1st movement
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Part 1: Nocturne
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nezet Seguin (conductor)
Foulds: Le Cabaret op. 72a: Overture
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
Shostakovich: Symphony no 5 in D minor op. 47 4th movement
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Overture Op. 21
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Puccini: Madama Butterfly: Vogliatemi bene
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano (conductor)
Zappa: Night School
Ensemble Moderne, Jonathan Stockhammer (conductor)
Nielsen: Symphony no 1 in G minor op.7 2nd movement
London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)
Weinberg: Symphony no. 21 op 152, Presto,
CBSO, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor)
Produced by Freya Hellier
An Overcoat Media production
MONDAY 06 MARCH 2023
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m001jlml)
Siobhán McSweeney
Linton Stephens mixes a special International Women's Day classical playlist for Derry Girls star, actor and presenter Siobhán McSweeney.
Siobhán's playlist:
Sofia Gubaidulina - Piano Quintet: IV. Presto
Hildegard von Bingen (arr. Missy Mazzoli) - O frondens virga
Francesca Caccini - Ciaccona
Imogen Holst - String Quartet 'Phantasy'
Gabriela Montero - Piano Concerto No. 1 "Latin": II. Andante moderato
Meradith Monk - Water/Sky Rant
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.
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m001jlmn)
Prokofiev and Mahler from Bucharest
Violinist Alexandru Tomescu joins conductor Cristian Măcelaru and Romanian Radio National Orchestra in Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, and the orchestra plays Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 63
Alexandru Tomescu (violin), Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
12:57 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Moderato, from Sonata for Solo Violin in D, op. 115
Alexandru Tomescu (violin)
01:03 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude, from Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin in E, BWV 1006
Alexandru Tomescu (violin)
01:08 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)
02:18 AM
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
From 6 Duets for flutes: No 6 in G Major (F.59)
Vladislav Brunner Sr. (flute), Juraj Brunner (flute)
02:31 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Der Herr lebet - cantata (Wq.251)
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Hilke Helling (alto), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei, Hermann Max (conductor)
03:07 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Piano Sonata no 2 in A major, Op 21
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
03:36 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Overture to La Forza del destino
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
03:44 AM
John B. Escosa (1928-1991)
Three Dances for 2 harps
Julia Shaw (harp), Nora Bumanis (harp)
03:50 AM
Denes Agay (1911-2007)
5 Easy Dances for flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, horn
Tae-Won Kim (flute), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon), Kawng-Ku Lee (horn), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe)
03:58 AM
Bedrich Anton Wiedermann (1883-1951)
Pastorale dorico for organ
Hans Leenders (organ)
04:05 AM
Dario Castello (fl.1621-1629)
Sonata XII, a due soprani e trombone
Musica Fiata Koln
04:13 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
To a Nordic Princess (bridal song) vers. piano
Leslie Howard (piano)
04:20 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto in A minor for Two Recorders, TWV.52:a2
Lea Sobbe (recorder), Hojin Kwon (recorder), Jorg-Andreas Botticher (harpsichord), Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble
04:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Francesco Squarcia (arranger)
3 Hungarian Dances
I Cameristi Italiani
04:39 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Rondo in E flat major, Op 16
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
04:49 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Magnificat Primi Toni
Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler (conductor)
04:58 AM
Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Trio Sonata in E flat major
Atrium Musicium Chamber Ensemble
05:06 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
3 Lieder, arr. for cello and piano
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
05:14 AM
Robert de Visee (c.1655-1733)
Suite no. 9 in D minor
Komale Akakpo (cimbalom)
05:23 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Suite for chamber orchestra (1946)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
05:30 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures, Op 37
Margreta Elkins (mezzo-soprano), Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
05:53 AM
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
Jane Grey Fantasy, Op 15
Scott Dickinson (viola), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Teresa Riveiro Bohm (conductor)
06:05 AM
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Variaciones concertantes, Op 23
Bern Chamber Orchestra, Kaspar Zehnder (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m001jlg0)
Monday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m001jlg7)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001jlgh)
Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941)
A Musical Family
Donald Macleod delves into Müller-Hermann’s aristocratic background in Vienna.
Johanna Müller-Hermann once held a significant place as a composer and teacher in Vienna, yet has been largely forgotten over the decades since her death in 1941. Radio 3 has been working to unearth her music and story through its Forgotten Women Composers project, in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Dr Carola Darwin. This week, Dr Darwin and Professor Robert Evans join Donald Macleod to explore this fascinating composer and her times. Their series includes many specially recorded works by Müller-Hermann that have sat neglected in dusty archives for decades.
Müller-Hermann was greatly celebrated in her own lifetime and moved in eminent musical circles. She studied with Zemlinsky, befriended Alma Mahler, and also corresponded with Arnold Schoenberg. She went on to teach at Austria’s New Vienna Conservatory where students travelled from as far away as America and the UK to study with her. She became a pivotal figure in Vienna’s cultural scene and her music was regularly performed and published during her lifetime.
Johanna Müller-Hermann was born into a musical and well-to-do family in 1868. She and her siblings would learn quadrilles and round dances with their father, whilst their mother played the piano and sang. Johanna’s older brother Albert, at the age of twelve, set up the Hermann Music Society which put on events on Saturday evenings. The family home was turned into a salon for these concerts: programmes were printed, and friends invited to attend. This was the world in which Johanna first developed her passion for music.
String Quintet in A minor, Op 7 (excerpt)
Pawel Zalejski, violin
SongHa Choi, violin
Klaus Christa, viola
Danusha Waskiewicz, viola
Kajana Pačko, cello
Piano Sonata, Op 8 (Allegro enérgico)
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Herbst, Op 20 No 3 (Vier Lieder)
Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Wie eine Vollmondnacht, Op 20 No 4 (Vier Lieder)
Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Zwei dreistimmige Frauenchöre, Op 10
Maisie O’Shea, soprano
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Adrian Partington, conductor
Piano Sonata, Opus 8 (excerpt)
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Cello Sonata, Op 17 (Moderato)
Othar Müller, cello
Leonore Aumaier, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001jlgt)
Tine Thing Helseth and Kathryn Stott
Regarded as one of the foremost trumpeters of her generation, Tine Thing Helseth joins forces with pianist Kathryn Stott for an eclectic programme that includes music by Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim, as well as Martinu's Sonatina and toe-tapping numbers by Weill and Piazzolla.
From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Hannah French
Arne Nordheim: Den første sommerfugl
Bohuslav Martinů: Sonatina for trumpet and piano
Dmitry Shostakovich: 4 Romances on Poems by Alexander Pushkin, Op 46
Ástor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango - Café 1930
Edvard Grieg: 6 songs, Op 48
George Gershwin: Prelude No 2 in C sharp minor; By Strauss
Kurt Weill: Youkali
Fritz Kreisler: Toy Soldiers March
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
Kathryn Stott (paino)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jlh0)
Monday - Vikingur Olafsson plays Grieg
Fiona Talkington with an afternoon of music featuring exclusive recordings from across Europe and from BBC ensembles.
Today at
3pm, the Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson performs the Grieg Concerto with Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic, from a concert at the 2022 Rheingau Music Festival. Also, Collegium Marianum perform 18th-century chamber music from a Czech monastery, Aaron Copland finds inspiration from a remote religious community in the Pennsylvanian wilderness, and Jack Liebeck joins the BBC Philharmonic in the first of Vivaldi's Seasons.
Including:
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - "Spring"
BBC Philharmonic
Jack Liebeck (violin/director)
Nielsen: Springtime in Funen
Inga Nielsen (soprano)
Kim von Binzer (tenor)
Jorgen Klimt (bass)
University Choir of Lille Muko
St Klemens School Children’s Choir
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Tamas Veto (conductor)
Sunleif Rasmussen: Andalag No 1 for flute and clarinet
Members of Lapland Chamber Orchestra
Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture - “Fingal’s Cave”
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)
3.00
Grieg: Piano Concerto in a minor
Vikingur Olafsson (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Sigvald Kaldalons: Ave Maria (encore)
Vikingur Olafsson (piano)
Brentner: Concerto II in D minor Op4
Collegium Marianum
(rercorded in the Břevnov Monastery, Prague)
R. Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos - “Es gibt ein reich”
Rene Fleming (soprano)
Munich Philharmonic
Christian Thielemann (conductor)
Debussy: L’isle Joyeuse
Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (piano)
Copland: Appalachian Spring
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m001jlh7)
María Dueñas dazzles in Ravel
Chamber music from Radio 3's New Generation Artists: The programme begins with a look ahead to IWD on Wednesday, cellist Andrei Ioniță plays Doreen Carwithen's contemplative Sonatina with pianist Lilit Grigoryan.
The young accordionist Ryan Corbett plays Tchaikovsky's Romance, and we end with violinist María Dueñas dazzling in Ravel's Tzigane.
Carwithen:
Sonatina for cello and piano
Andrei Ioniță (cello),
Lilit Grigoryan (piano)
Tchaikovsky:
Romance
Ryan Corbett, (accordion)
Ravel:
Tzigane
María Dueñas, (violin),
Evgeny Sinaisky, (piano)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m001jlhf)
The Hermes Experiment, Simon Mayor
The Hermes Experiment join Sean Rafferty in the studio to perform live ahead of their International Women’s Day and London Handel Festival concerts. Plus Simon Mayor and his group play live and introduce us to their new album, 'Carolan'.
MON 19:00 Radio 3 in Concert (m001jlht)
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2023
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2023.
Andrew McGregor presents highlights from last week's event at Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank. Regarded by many as the BAFTAs for classical music, the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards are classical music’s annual good news story, shining much-needed light on inspirational individuals, groups and initiatives whose music has lifted hearts and minds across the nation. The twelve categories span classical music making in all its diversity.
Chamber-Scale Composition
Bára Gísladóttir Animals of your pasture
Ben Nobuto SERENITY 2.0
Thomas Adès Alchymia
Conductor
Karina Canellakis
Martyn Brabbins
Robert Ames
Ensemble
BBC Singers
Ensemble 360
Manchester Collective
Impact
Awards for Young Musicians
Opera-tic – Second Movement
The Endz – The Multi-Story Orchestra
Inspiration
Bradford Festival Choral Society
Côr CF1
Torbay Symphony Orchestra
Tredegar Town Band
Ula Weber
Instrumentalist
Abel Selaocoe - cello
Adam Walker - flute
Elena Urioste - violin
Large-Scale Composition
Gavin Higgins Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra
George Lewis Minds in Flux
Joe Cutler Concerto Grosso
Rebecca Saunders To an utterance
Opera and Music Theatre
Bluebeard’s Castle – Theatre of Sound and Opera Ventures
Orfeo – Garsington Opera
Scottish Opera
The Handmaid’s Tale – English National Opera
Series and Events
Leeds Piano Trail
Oxford Lieder Festival
Ryedale Festival
Sound Festival
Singer
Anna Dennis soprano
Lise Davidsen soprano
Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano
Storytelling
Sound Within Sound – Kate Molleson
The Great Passion – James Runcie
Untold: Keith – Manchester Camerata
Young Artist
Nardus Williams - soprano
Tangram
Timothy Ridout - viola
MON 21:30 Compline (m001jlj0)
Lent 2
A reflective service of night prayer for the second week of Lent from the Chapter House of York Minster, with words and music for the end of the day, including works by Kerry Andrew, sung by the Ebor Singers.
Introit: O nata lux (Kerry Andrew)
Blessing of Light: O gladsome light (Bourgeois)
Preces (Plainsong)
Lent Prose (Plainsong)
Psalm 91 (Plainsong)
Reading: Matthew 11 vv.28-30
Responsory: Into thy hands, O Lord (Kerry Andrew)
Anthem: Criosda liom a cadal (Kerry Andrew)
Nunc dimittis (Plainsong)
Anthem: We will lay us down in peace (Kerry Andrew)
Paul Gameson (Director)
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m001jlbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m000sxzx)
Shakespeare's Sisters
Maria Anna Mozart
Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell tells the story of five brilliant women, all the siblings of renowned achievers in the arts and science, whose own success was overlooked – either by their own epoque, or by the annals of history ever since. Virginia Woolf famously reflected on the neglect of brilliant women with her fiction of "Shakespeare’s Sister".
In this first episode, Lucy considers the life of Mozart’s older sister Maria - nicknamed Nannerl - a gifted musician whose playing inspired a young Wolfgang Amadeus to study music. Nannerl was once celebrated throughout Europe as a child prodigy, but when she turned 18 she was left at home while her brother blazed his way onto the world stage.
Produced by Debbie Kilbride
A Tempo & Talker production
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m001g9pm)
Evening soundscape
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 07 MARCH 2023
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m001jlj6)
Christian Tetzlaff plays Sibelius's Violin Concerto
John Storgårds conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert including the Norwegian premiere of Per Nørgård's Eighth Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Per Nørgård (b.1932)
Lysning for strings
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds (conductor)
12:36 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds (conductor)
01:08 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sarabande from Partita no 2 in D minor BWV.1004
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
01:12 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Rakastava, Op 14
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds (conductor)
01:24 AM
Per Nørgård (b.1932)
Symphony no 8
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds (conductor)
01:49 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131
Danish String Quartet
02:31 AM
Marcin Mielczewski (c.1600-1651)
Missa Super O Gloriosa Domina
Il Canto
02:48 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in A minor, Op 42 (D.845)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
03:24 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata da chiesa in C major (Op.1 No.7)
London Baroque
03:29 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
An der schonen, blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) - waltz, Op 314
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
03:40 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Nocturne (FWV. 85) (O fraiche Nuit) for voice and piano
Klara Takacs (mezzo soprano), Jeno Jando (piano)
03:45 AM
Ivo Parac (1890-1954)
Andante amoroso
Zagreb Quartet
03:51 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Waverley - overture Op 1
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
04:03 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo in A minor K.511 for piano
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
04:13 AM
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Eternal Father (3 Motets, Op 135 No 2)
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
04:20 AM
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760)
Flute Concerto in F, GWV 323
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori
04:31 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Overture to Maskarade
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
04:36 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425
Avi Avital (mandolin), Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Willi Zimmermann (conductor)
04:43 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
6 Songs Op 107
Jan Van Elsacker (tenor), Claire Chevallier (fortepiano)
04:54 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Cinderella Fantasy Suite
Aglika Genova (piano), Liuben Dimitrov (piano)
05:07 AM
Leo Weiner (1885-1960)
Serenade for small orchestra in F minor (Op.3) (1906)
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Miklos Erdelyi (conductor)
05:29 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Trio Sonata no 3 in D minor BWV 527
Julian Gembalski (organ)
05:44 AM
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Requiem
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
06:06 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Trio in B flat major, K 502
Amatis Piano Trio
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m001jlwt)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m001jlww)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001jlwy)
Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941)
Studying with Zemlinsky
Donald Macleod delves into Johanna Müller-Hermann’s friendship with Alma Mahler and Zemlinsky.
Johanna Müller-Hermann once held a significant place as a composer and teacher in Vienna, yet has been largely forgotten over the decades since her death in 1941. Radio 3 has been working to unearth her music and story through its Forgotten Women Composers project, in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Dr Carola Darwin. This week, Dr Darwin and Professor Robert Evans join Donald Macleod to explore this fascinating composer and her times. Their series includes many specially recorded works by Müller-Hermann that have sat neglected in dusty archives for decades.
Müller-Hermann was greatly celebrated in her own lifetime and moved in eminent musical circles. She studied with Zemlinsky, befriended Alma Mahler, and also corresponded with Arnold Schoenberg. She went on to teach at Austria’s New Vienna Conservatory where students travelled from as far away as America and the UK to study with her. She became a pivotal figure in Vienna’s cultural scene and her music was regularly performed and published during her lifetime.
Johanna Müller-Hermann became engaged to Dr Otto Müller in 1893, marrying him the following year. As was expected at the time, she gave up her career as a primary school teacher. However, now that she was no longer working, Müller-Hermann was able to pursue her passion for music and started learning from a number of eminent musicians including Karel Navrátil and Josef Labor. Around this same period, she also became friends with Alma Mahler and they often corresponded. It was through Alma Mahler that Müller-Hermann became acquainted with the famed composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. She began lessons with Zemlinsky, and dedicated her String Quartet to him.
String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (Moderato)
Artis Quartet
Peter Schuhmayer, violin
Johannes Meissl, violin
Herbert Kefer, viola
Othmar Müller, cello
Intermezzo in D, Op 3 No 4 (Fünf Klavierstücke)
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Vier Lieder, Op 2
Soraya Mafi, soprano
Simon Lepper, piano
Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 (Moderato serioso) UK Broadcast Premiere
Jennifer Pike, violin
James Baillieu, piano
String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (excerpt)
Artis Quartet
Peter Schuhmayer, violin
Johannes Meissl, violin
Herbert Kefer, viola
Othmar Müller, cello
Die stille Stadt, Op 4 No 1
Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001jlx0)
Danish Chamber Music Festivals 2022 (1/3)
Chamber music from some of Denmark's chamber music festivals.
Sarah Walker this week introduces performances by the soprano Ruby Hughes, the cellist Natalie Clein, the Quatuor Diotima and other top artists given at the waterside Black Diamond in Copenhagen and in the tranquility of the manor at Frederiksvaerk and the country estate at Lundsgaard.
Schubert: Night song meditations
Nachtstück, D. 672
Ruby Hughes, soprano
Marianna Shirinyan, piano
Britten: Phantasy, op. 2 for oboe and string trio
Soo-Eun Hong, oboe
Andrej Bielow, violin
Nils Mönkemeyer, viola
Natalie Clein, cello
Zemlinsky: String Quartet in A, op. 4/1
Quatuor Diotima
Trad Irish arr Britten: At the mid hour of Night
Ruby Hughes, soprano
Marianna Shirinyan, piano
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jlx2)
Tuesday - Karamanov's Third Piano Concerto
Fiona Talkington with more intriguing music and exclusive recordings from around Europe and from BBC ensembles.
Today features music from Ukraine by Gliere, Silvestrov and Karamanov, his Third Piano Concerto played by pianist Tamara Stefanovich at the Berlin Music Festival.
Violinist Jack Liebeck continues his seasonal journey courtesy of Antonio Vivaldi, and the BBC Concert Orchestra play Ruth Gipps.
Including:
Valentin Silvestrov: Bagatelle No 3
Composer (piano)
Gipps: Chanticleer Overture
BBC Concert Orchestra
Branwell Tovey (conductor)
Gliere: Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra Op82
Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Michael Schønwandt (conductor)
Berg: Piano Sonata (orch: Andrew Davis)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
Nancarrow: Toccata for Violin and Player Piano
Arditti String Quartet
Conlin Nancarrow (player piano)
3.00
Karamanov: Piano Concerto No 3
Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra
Hobart Earle (conductor)
Artist choice - Tamara Stefanovich
Scriabin: Prelude Op11/8 in F# minor
Vladimir Sofronitsky (piano)
Telemann: Quartet in E minor TWV 43:e2
Collegium Marianum
David Matthews: Symphony 8
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - "Summer"
BBC Philharmonic
Jack Liebeck (violin/director)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m001jlx4)
Tim Mead and Jonathan Cohen
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio by Tim Mead and Jonathan Cohen, who introduce us to their recent release Sacroprofano.
TUE 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001jlx6)
Power through with classical music
Classical greats including Haydn, Schumann and Brahms mix with Radiohead (as interpreted by Voces8) and Russian violinist extraordinaire Aleksey Igudesman, plus a song from sixteenth-century France by Pierre Guedron and a sublime Quintet by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001jlx8)
Musical fairy tales
Clemens Schuldt conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Borisova-Ollas's A Portrait of a Lady by Swan Lake, with violinist Tessa Lark, and Zemlinsky's The Mermaid.
Fairytales both light and hauntingly dark. A misty lake, a doomed love, a swan princess… Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is one of those stories that lingers in the imagination. Guest conductor Clemens Schuldt follows it with two more fairytales: Zemlinsky’s sumptuous re-telling of The Little Mermaid, and the UK premiere of a reinterpretation of Swan Lake by Victoria Borisova-Ollas.
Swan Lake, says Borisova-Ollas, is “a story that has it all”. The central role in her new concerto is taken by Tessa Lark; come and surrender to its spell. And then dive into the lush, passionately romantic world of Alexander von Zemlinsky: if you love Mahler or Richard Strauss, he’ll sweep you off your feet.
Recorded at the Barbican on Friday 3rd March
Presented by Hannah French
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite (selected by Macelaru)
Victoria Borisova-Ollas: A Portrait of a Lady by Swan Lake (BBC co-commission - UK premiere)
20.10
Interval
20.30
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid)
Tessa Lark (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Clemens Schuldt (conductor)
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m001jlxb)
Anarchism and David Graeber
Bullshit jobs, Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value, Debt: The First 5000 Years: the titles of some of David Graeber's books give a sense of his take on the world and his concerns. Matthew Sweet talks with archaeologist David Wengrow - co-author with Graeber of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity and looks at Graeber's involvement with the Occupy movement and the influence of anarchist ideas. They are joined by Dr Sophie Scott-Brown, a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and by Kirsten Stevens-Wood, a lecturer for the School of Education and Social Policy at Cardiff Metropolitan University who studies communal living and intentional communities.
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber has been published posthumously in 2023.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
You can find discussions exploring The Way We Live Now on the Free Thinking programme website - all available on BBC Sounds and as the Arts & Ideas podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p072637b There are conversations about existential risk, mind altered states, the glitch, breathe, perfecting the body to John Rawl's Theory of Justice
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000sxbz)
Shakespeare's Sisters
Sarah Fielding
Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell tells the story of five brilliant women, all the siblings of renowned achievers in the arts and science, whose own success was overlooked – either by their own epoch, or by the annals of history ever since. Virginia Woolf famously reflected on the neglect of brilliant women with her fiction of "Shakespeare’s Sister”.
Sarah Fielding was a best-selling novelist. She was also the younger sister of Henry Fielding, credited as being one of the ‘fathers’ of the novel. Sarah was also a skilled literary critic and wrote the first novel in English aimed at teenagers. So why has history forgotten her achievements? Lucy investigates.
Produced by Debbie Kilbride
A Tempo & Talker production
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m001g9s5)
Immerse yourself
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 08 MARCH 2023
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m001jlxd)
International Women's Day
A Swedish chamber concert performed by musicians including violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and pianist Bengt Forsberg with a programme of female composers old and new, culminating in Clarke's mighty Piano Trio. Presented by Danielle Jalowiecka.
12:31 AM
Amanda Maier-Rontgen (1853-1894)
Violin Sonata in B minor
Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
12:53 AM
Emmy Lindstrom (1984-)
And in sad cypress let me be laid
Cecilie Loken (flute and reciter)
01:01 AM
Ika Peyron (1845-1922)
2 Character Pieces, Op.19
Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
01:11 AM
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Piano Trio
Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Kati Raitinen (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
01:37 AM
Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923)
Symphony no.1 in F sharp minor, Op.41
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)
02:23 AM
Imogen Holst (1907-1984)
Leiston Suite for brass quartet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
02:31 AM
Florence Price (1887-1953)
Concert Overture no.2
BBC Concert Orchestra, Jane Glover (conductor)
02:46 AM
Maria Antonia Walpurgis (1724-1780)
Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni - excerpts
Christine Wolff (soprano), Johanna Stojkovic (soprano), Marilia Vargas (soprano), Ulrike Bartsch (soprano), Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord), Tobias Schade (director)
03:25 AM
Ester Magi (1922-2021)
Bucolic
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
03:35 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Sonata in C minor (1824)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
03:49 AM
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-c.1678)
O quam bonus es - motet for 2 voices
Cappella Artemisia
03:59 AM
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Flute Concertino, Op 107
Maria Filippova (flute), Ekaterina Mirzaeva (piano)
04:08 AM
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000)
Excursion Ballet Suite
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
04:23 AM
Camilla de Rossi (fl.1707-1710)
Duol sofferto per Amore' (excerpt from Sant'Alessio)
Martin Oro (countertenor), Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director)
04:31 AM
Mel Bonis (1858-1937)
Salome, Op 100
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
04:36 AM
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
6 Chansons Françaises
Jenny Hogstrom (soprano), Amadeus Wiesensee (piano)
04:44 AM
Ana Milosavljevic (b.1982)
Red
Ensemble Metamorphosis
04:50 AM
Corona Schroter (1751-1802)
Overture to Die Fischerin
Michael Freimuth (guitar), Gerald Hambitzer (pianoforte)
04:54 AM
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
O clarissima Mater (respond)
Rondellus
05:03 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Partita for orchestra
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
05:17 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
4 Pieces fugitives for piano, Op 15
Angela Cheng (piano)
05:31 AM
Francesca Caccini (1587-1640)
Excerpts from Act One of La Liberazione di Ruggiero
Suzie Le Blanc (soprano), Barbara Borden (soprano), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Christian Hilz (baritone), Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (director)
05:51 AM
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940)
Symphony in B minor, Op 4
BBC Concert Orchestra, Jane Glover (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m001jlnp)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m001jlnv)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001jlnz)
Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941)
Vienna and the Great War
Donald Macleod explores Johanna Müller-Hermann’s musical ascent during World War I.
Johanna Müller-Hermann once held a significant place as a composer and teacher in Vienna, yet has been largely forgotten over the decades since her death in 1941. Radio 3 has been working to unearth her music and story through its Forgotten Women Composers project, in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Dr Carola Darwin. This week, Dr Darwin and Professor Robert Evans join Donald Macleod to explore this fascinating composer and her times. Their series includes many specially recorded works by Müller-Hermann that have sat neglected in dusty archives for decades.
Müller-Hermann was greatly celebrated in her own lifetime and moved in eminent musical circles. She studied with Zemlinsky, befriended Alma Mahler, and also corresponded with Arnold Schoenberg. She went on to teach at Austria’s New Vienna Conservatory where students travelled from as far away as America and the UK to study with her. She became a pivotal figure in Vienna’s cultural scene and her music was regularly performed and published during her lifetime.
In the build up to World War One, life in Vienna was growing increasingly difficult with rioting and political instability. Nevertheless, this was a period of significant growth for Müller-Hermann, thanks to her studies with the Czech composer Josef Foerster. He encouraged Müller-Hermann to start composing orchestral music, which she did to great acclaim. Soon, Müller-Hermann found her music being regularly performed in Vienna. In 1918 Foerster returned to Prague, leaving his teaching post at the New Vienna Conservatory. Müller-Hermann was appointed to replace him.
Heroic Overture, Op 21 (excerpt)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor
Alle die wachsenden Schatten, Op 9 No 3 (Drei Chöre)
BBC Singers
Benjamin Nicholas, conductor
Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 (excerpt) UK Broadcast Premiere
Jennifer Pike, violin
James Baillieu, piano
Heroic Overture, Op 21
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor
String Quintet in A minor, Op 7 (Adagio con expressione)
Pawel Zalejski, violin
SongHa Choi, violin
Klaus Christa, viola
Danusha Waskiewicz, viola
Kajana Pačko, cello
Produced by Luke Whitlock
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001jlp3)
Femmes d’excellence
Ensemble Moliere - Radio 3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble are joined by soprano Ruby Hughes to perform 18th-century French music by women composers including Mademoiselle Laurent, Mademoiselle Duval and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Plus there's the world premiere of a brand new piece by Sarah Cattley.
Mademoiselle Laurent - Ouverture from Le Concert (1690)
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre - Trio Sonata No. 1 in G minor
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre - L'Ile de Delos [Cantates Françoises Livre 3]
Sarah Cattley - Rossignolet (World Premiere - BBC Radio 3 Commission for International Women's Day)
Mademoiselle Duval - Suite from "Les Génies"
Ensemble Moliere
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Presented by Hannah French
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jlp8)
Wednesday - Beatrice Rana plays Clara Schumann
On International Women's Day, Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of music by women composers, featuring concert recordings from around Europe and BBC ensembles. In the
3pm spotlight, Florence Price's First Symphony is played by the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Berlin Music Festival, and pianist Beatrcie Rana joins the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra for Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto - both performances conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Also in the programme, members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales play Ruth Gipps, and a celebration of contemporary British artsong with music by Judith Bingham, Rachel Leach and Emily Hall.
Including:
Judith Bingham: She Walks In Beauty
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Lucy Wakeford (harp)
Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)
Rachel Leach: Out Of Town
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano)
3.00
Price: Symphony No 1
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)
Birgitta von Schweden: O Virgo, antiphon
Les Flamboyans
Hildegard von Bingen: (arr. Missy Mazzoli) O Fromdens Virga
Emily D'Angelo (mezzo-soprano)
Das Freie Orchester Berlin
Jarkko Riihimäki (conductor)
Emily Hall: “Simple Neo-Georgian Summer”
Stephan Loges (soprano)
Iain Burnside (piano)
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m001jlpg)
Guildford Cathedral
Live from Guildford Cathedral on International Women’s Day.
Introit: Prayer of St Francis of Assisi (Kamala Sankaram)
Responses: Cecilia McDowall
Psalms 41, 42, 43 (Katherine Dienes-Williams)
First Lesson: Job 1 vv.1-22
Canticles: The Short Service (Judith Weir)
Second Lesson: Luke 21 v.34 – 22 v.6
Anthem: Emendemus in Melius (Brooke Shelley)
Hymn: I hunger and I thirst (Ibstone)
Voluntary: Gloriana (Priaulx Rainier)
Katherine Dienes-Williams (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Richard Moore (Sub-Organist)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m001jlpn)
Cristian de Sa and John Lenehan, Her Ensemble
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio for live music by Cristian de Sa and John Lenehan, who are looking forward to their International Women's Day concert at Champs Hill. Plus, Her Ensemble - the string group seeking to address the gender gap and gender stereotypes in the music industry - also perform live in the studio.
WED 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001jlpt)
Classical music for International Women's Day
Celebrate International Women's Day with a half hour, uninterrupted sequence of classical music by women composers from across the centuries. Electronic music from Delia Derbyshire sits alongside Nina Simone, and ethereal chant from the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen, buoyant light orchestral music from Angela Morley, and passionately written chamber music by Amy Beach. Other works include Jessica Curry's seminal score for the video game "Everybody's gone to the rapture", Lili Boulanger's powerful setting of Psalm 129, 17th and 18th century music by Barbara Strozzi and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, and a playful, bluesy piano piece by Madeleine Dring, whose centenary it is this year.
Producer: Helen Garrison
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001jlq1)
BBC Singers on International Women's Day
The BBC Singers perform more music by women composers than any other group in the world, and this International Women's Day the group presents a programme of works by contemporary composers. At the heart of the programme are two world premieres; the BBC commission by the young British composer Lucy Walker who is rapidly gaining a vibrant reputation within the world of choral music, alongside a setting by Helen Neeves which explores the poetry of the Brontë sisters.
Presented by Sarah Walker. Recorded in St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London on 19 January 2023.
Diana Soh: Vak
Gabriela Lena Frank: Jalapeño Blues
Lucy Walker: There Will Be Stars (BBC Commission, world premiere)
Tania León: Rezos
INTERVAL
Helen Neeves: Speak of the North! (world premiere)
Nana Forte: Four Sacred Pieces
Roxanna Panufnik: Douai Missa Brevis
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m001jlq5)
Making your voice heard
Iranian women using song to protest and whose voices do we pay attention to ? On International Women's Day, Shahidha Bari hosts a conversation with the authors of books called On Being Unreasonable and Who Gets Believed, an artist and a researcher looking at Iranian women using song. Michelle Assay is an academic specialising in music who was born in Iran and had to leave the country. Dina Nayeri is an Iranian American writer now based in Scotland and Kirsty Sedgman studies the behaviour of audiences. Alberta Whittle represented Scotland in the Venice Biennale and has exhibitions on at Bath's Holburne Museum and in Scotland.
Alberta Whittle: Dipping below a waxing moon, the dance claims us for release is at the Holburne Museum until May 8th.
Alberta Whittle | create dangerously runs at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art from Sat 1 Apr 2023 - Sun 7 Jan 2024
Kirsty Sedgman's On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better is out now https://kirstysedgman.com/
Dina Nayeri's latest book is called “Who Gets Believed? https://www.dinanayeri.com/ You can hear more from her in a previous episode of Free Thinking called Language and Belonging https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006fh9
Free Thinking has a whole collection of programmes Women in the World with conversations ranging from fictional characters including The Wife of Bath and Lady Macbeth to Arabian queens, landladies, women warriors and goddesses ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p084ttwp
Producer: Jayne Egerton
WED 22:45 The Essay (m000sz6f)
Shakespeare's Sisters
Fanny Dickens
Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell tells the story of five brilliant women, all the siblings of renowned achievers in the arts and science, whose own success was overlooked – either by their own epoch, or by the annals of history ever since. Virginia Woolf famously reflected on the neglect of brilliant women with her fiction of "Shakespeare’s Sister".
The parents of Charles Dickens were so convinced that his sister Fanny would bring greatness to the family name that, unusually for the time, her education was privileged above her brother’s. Fanny was a gifted musician and one of the first women to win a place at the Royal Academy of Music. So, Lucy asks: why are Charles and Fanny not both remembered?
Produced by Debbie Kilbride
A Tempo & Talker production
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m001g9rf)
Night music for International Women's Day
For International Women's Day, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, featuring some of today's most exciting female composers and artists, including Cassandra Miller, Anna Meredith, Thea Musgrave, Faten Kanaan, Tuulikki Bartosik, Nala Sinephro and My Brightest Diamond.
THURSDAY 09 MARCH 2023
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m001jlq9)
Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann joins the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra as conductor and soloist in a programme including works by Mendelssohn, Weber and himself. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Valentin Silvestrov (b.1937)
Lacrimosa, for solo cello
Tuomas Lehto (cello)
12:37 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor, Op.73
Jorg Widmann (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
12:59 AM
Jorg Widmann ([b.1973])
Con brio
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorg Widmann (conductor)
01:11 AM
Jorg Widmann ([b.1973])
Fantasie for solo clarinet
Jorg Widmann (clarinet)
01:18 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony no.5 in D minor, Op.107 'Reformation'
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorg Widmann (conductor)
01:47 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Prelude to Parsifal
Felix Mottl (piano)
02:00 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Anbetung dem Erbarmer - Easter Cantata Wq. 243 (before 1784)
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Hilke Helling (alto), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei, Hermann Max (conductor)
02:21 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor (BuxWV.149)
Mario Penzar (organ)
02:31 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Symphony no 2 in B flat major, Op 15
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Malkki (conductor)
03:05 AM
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Psalm 116, from 'Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen'
Cardinal Complex, Jonas Gassmann (conductor)
03:29 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Scherzo for piano in D minor, Op 10 no 1
Angela Cheng (piano)
03:34 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Lennox Berkeley (orchestrator)
Flute Sonata
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Swiss Romande Orchestra, Enrique Garcia-Asensio (conductor)
03:48 AM
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
String Quartet no 2 in B flat major
Lysell String Quartet
04:03 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Kamarinskaya (fantasy for orchestra)
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
04:10 AM
Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
3 Romanian Dances for 2 pianos
Dana Protopopescu (piano), Viniciu Moroianu (piano)
04:26 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Canzona decimanova, "detta la Capriola", canto e basso
Musica Fiata Koln, Roland Wilson (director)
04:31 AM
Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962)
Kentonia
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Bell (conductor)
04:38 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in E major, Kk.380
Ivetta Irkha (piano)
04:42 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Suite for Orchestra (Op.3)
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
04:57 AM
Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)
Wohl dem, der den Herren furchtet (cantata)
Greta de Reyghere (soprano), Jill Feldman (soprano), Max van Egmond (bass), Ricercar Consort
05:05 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Zara Nelsova (cello), Grant Johannesen (piano)
05:15 AM
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Sonata a 8
Concerto Palatino
05:20 AM
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960)
Ruralia Hungarica, Op 32b
Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Andras Korodi (conductor)
05:43 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Piano Trio in A minor Op.50
Grieg Trio
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m001jlmq)
Thursday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m001jlms)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001jlmv)
Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941)
International Teacher
Donald Macleod delves into Müller-Hermann’s life during the privations after World War I.
Johanna Müller-Hermann once held a significant place as a composer and teacher in Vienna, yet has been largely forgotten over the decades since her death in 1941. Radio 3 has been working to unearth her music and story through its Forgotten Women Composers project, in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Dr Carola Darwin. This week, Dr Darwin and Professor Robert Evans join Donald Macleod to explore this fascinating composer and her times. Their series includes many specially recorded works by Müller-Hermann that have sat neglected in dusty archives for decades.
Müller-Hermann was greatly celebrated in her own lifetime and moved in eminent musical circles. She studied with Zemlinsky, befriended Alma Mahler, and also corresponded with Arnold Schoenberg. She went on to teach at Austria’s New Vienna Conservatory where students travelled from as far away as America and the UK to study with her. She became a pivotal figure in Vienna’s cultural scene and her music was regularly performed and published during her lifetime.
After World War One, life in Vienna was exceptionally hard with food shortages, and shortages of other things too such as clothes. Johanna Müller-Hermann was beginning her teaching career at the New Vienna Conservatory and she built up an impressive list of national and international students over the next few years. Müller-Hermann also saw performances of many of her works, including her Cello Sonata in 1923, although reaction to her music often elicited dismissive and chauvinistic reviews. A decade later, with the approach of World War Two and changing times in Austria, Müller-Hermann resigned from her post at the Conservatory
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 31 (excerpt)
Louise Farrenc Ensemble
Zwei Lieder, Op 11
Robyn Allegra Parton, soprano
Simon Lepper, piano
Cello Sonata, Op 17 (excerpt)
Othmar Müller, cello
Leonore Aumaier, piano
Epilog zur einer Tragodie ’Brand‘ – symphonic fantasy, Op 25
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor
Intermezzo in D minor, Op 3 No 3 (Fünf Klavierstücke)
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Impromptu in D minor, Op 3 No 5 (Fünf Klavierstücke)
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001jlmx)
Danish Chamber Music Festivals 2022 (2/3)
Chamber music from some of Denmark's chamber music festivals.
Sarah Walker introduces performances of Schubert and Britten given at the waterside Black Diamond in Copenhagen and in the tranquillity of the manor at Frederiksvaerk. Today the Quatuor Diotima plays one of Schubert's very early quartets and Ruby Hughes is joined by pianist Marianna Shirinyan and Natalie Clein in a performance of a version for cello of his dramatic 'On the River'.
Schubert: Auf dem Strom, D943
Ruby Hughes, soprano
Natalie Clein, cello
Marianna Shirinyan, piano
Britten: Cello Sonata in C, Op 65
Natalie Clein, cello
Marianna Shirinyan, piano
Schubert: String Quartet in D, D74
Quatuor Diotima
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jlmz)
Thursday - David Matthews at 80
Penny Gore hosts an afternoon of live music making celebrating David Matthews's 80th birthday. Live in Salford, John Storgards conducts the BBC Philharmonic and baritone Marcus Farnsworth in a selection of works written and chosen by David Matthews, including his Concerto for orchestra and arrangements of Schubert songs.
Also today, the BBC Philharmonic in recordings of music by Stravinsky and Vivaldi, plus more 18th-century chamber music from Collegium Marianum.
Including:
Stravinsky: Greeting Prelude
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)
J.S. Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat, BWV998
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
2.30
BBC Philharmonic LIVE - David Matthews at 80
David Matthews: Concerto for orchestra
Schubert (orch. Max Reger): Prometheus
Schubert (arr. Johannes Brahms) An Schwager Kronos
Schubert (orch. Max Reger): Erlkonig
David Matthews: Nachtgesang Op 133
Schubert (arr. Max Reger): Gesange des Harfnes I-III
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)
Blockwitz/Quantz: Suite Imaginaire in E minor
Johann Friedrich Fasch: Quartet in D FaWV N:d1
Collegium Marianum
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - "Autumn"
BBC Phiharmonic
Jack Liebeck (violin/director)
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m001jln1)
Consone Quartet, Margaret Fingerhut and Noriko Ogawa, George Fenton
Sean Rafferty is joined for live music by the Consone Quartet, who release their debut album this month, and are looking forward to their Wigmore Hall concert. Plus, pianists Margaret Fingerhut and Noriko Ogawa come in to perform piano duets ahead of their Nadsa Piano Festival concerts. And we get a sneak peek of the soundtrack to BBC One's upcoming Wild Isles series with composer George Fenton.
THU 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m000ffwy)
Thirty minutes of classical inspiration
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
Produced by Laura Yogasundram.
01
00:00:01 Franz Schubert
Quintet in C major D. 956 - iii. Scherzo: Presto;Trio;Andante sostenuto
Performer: Pamela Frank
Performer: Felix Galimir
Performer: Steven Tenenbom
Performer: Peter Wiley
Performer: Julia Lichten
Duration 00:04:09
02
00:04:14 Charles Villiers Stanford
On Time, Op.142
Ensemble: Tenebrae
Conductor: Nigel Short
Duration 00:05:11
03
00:09:21 Igor Stravinsky
Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra: 3rd movement; Aria 2
Performer: Baiba Skride
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Thierry Fischer
Duration 00:05:50
04
00:15:12 Dory Previn
Second Chance
Featured Artist: Carmen McRae
Duration 00:03:33
05
00:18:46 Johann Sebastian Bach
Sontata no. 3 for violin and harpsichord BWV 1016 - iii Adagio ma non tanto
Performer: Glenn Gould
Performer: Jaime Laredo
Duration 00:05:15
06
00:23:59 Franz Schubert
Quintet in C major D. 956 - iii. Scherzo: Presto;Trio;Andante sostenuto
Performer: Pamela Frank
Performer: Felix Galimir
Performer: Steven Tenenbom
Performer: Peter Wiley
Performer: Julia Lichten
Duration 00:09:36
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001jln5)
Shostakovich and Strauss
Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in dramatic works by Shostakovich and Richard Strauss, with guest cellist Pablo Ferrandez.
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Stephen Broad
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote
8.15 Interval, Recent recordings of music to complement this evening's concert.
8.35 Part Two
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)
Scott Dickinson (viola)
Pablo Ferrandez (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m001jln7)
Emigration
"Home Children" were sent from the UK to Canada. Poet Liz Berry's great aunt was taken from the Black Country to Novia Scotia after she became an orphan. Once in Canada, she worked as an indentured servant. Liz Berry's new novel in verse tells this story. Laurence Scott talks to her and to academic researchers exploring stories of emigration from the UK to Canada and Australia. More than 100,000 children were sent from the United Kingdom to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa as part of the child migration scheme which operated between 1869 and the 1970s.
Liz Berry's The Home Child is out now. You can hear her discussing Black Country history and speech patterns with Matthew Sweet in a previous episode of Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bzm5
Producer in Salford: Ruth Thomson
THU 22:45 The Essay (m000syty)
Shakespeare's Sisters
Katharine Wright
Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell tells the story of five brilliant women, all the siblings of renowned achievers in the arts and science, whose own success was overlooked – either by their own epoch, or by the annals of history ever since. Virginia Woolf famously reflected on the neglect of brilliant women with her fiction of “Shakespeare’s Sister”.
The Wright brothers are two of the most famous siblings in history. But they also had a younger sister who, when their mother died, took on the responsibility of running the household at age 14. When they successfully flew to Europe, it was Katharine, as the only French speaker among them, who communicated their scientific achievements, helping them find fame. Lucy explores the story of one of very few American women to receive the Légion d’honneur, who also played a crucial role in the women’s suffrage movement.
Produced by Debbie Kilbride
A Tempo & Talker production
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m001jln9)
Music for the night
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m001f5x6)
Ambient excursions
Elizabeth Alker takes us on an eclectic sonic excursion, this week focusing on the creative work of women and gender minority artists at the centre and the peripherals of today’s experimental and ambient music worlds. Along the way we encounter the eerie and dissonant storytelling of Brussels-based composer Christina Vantzou, densely hypnotic sounds from Circassian-Turkish producer Sinemis, and the frenetic energy of Venezuelan sound artist Arca.
Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 10 MARCH 2023
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m001jlnc)
Bacewicz and Mozart from Berlin
The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Manze and soprano Elsa Dreisig in a programme of Mozart and Bacewicz. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Concerto for String Orchestra
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
12:46 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Bella mia fiamma … Resta, o cara, K. 528
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
12:57 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Ah, lo previdi, K. 272
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
01:12 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No. 39 in E flat, K. 543
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
01:44 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Sonata in B flat major, K.454
Veronika Eberle (violin), Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
02:05 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Piano Quintet no 1
Piotr Salajczyk (piano), Silesian String Quartet
02:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Mass in D major (Op.86)
Ludmila Vernerova (soprano), Olga Kodesova (alto), Vladimir Okenko (tenor), Ilja Prokop (bass), Miluska Kvechova (organ), Czech Radio Choir, Pilzen Radio Orchestra, Lubomir Matl (conductor)
03:11 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
15 Variations and a fugue on a theme from Prometheus in E flat major, Op 35
Boris Berman (piano)
03:37 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Norsk kunstnerkarneval (Norwegian artists' carnival), Op 14
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor)
03:45 AM
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880)
Legende, Op 17
Slawomir Tomasik (violin), Izabela Tomasik (piano)
03:53 AM
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
3 Psaumes de David for chorus, Op 339
Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler (conductor)
04:02 AM
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Oboe Concerto in E flat (arr for trumpet)
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz (conductor)
04:10 AM
Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)
It was a lover and his lasse
Paul Agnew (tenor), Christopher Wilson (lute)
04:14 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Polonaise for piano in A flat major, Op 53 'Polonaise heroique'
Jacek Kortus (piano)
04:22 AM
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675-1742)
Concerto a piu istrumenti in F major Op 6`3
Il Tempio Armonico
04:31 AM
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Zigeunerweisen Op 20
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Guido Ajmone Marsan (conductor)
04:40 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Dumka, Op 59 'Russian rustic scene'
Duncan Gifford (piano)
04:50 AM
Johan Duijck (b.1954)
Cantiones Sacrae in honorem Thomas Tallis, Op 26, Book 1
Flemish Radio Choir, Johan Duijck (conductor)
05:01 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Le Carnaval Romain - overture (Op.9)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
05:09 AM
Daniel Purcell (c.1663-1717)
Sonata in F for recorder and harpsichord
Antoni Sawicz (recorder), Robert Grac (harpsichord)
05:18 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
2 Elegiac melodies for string orchestra, Op 34
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:27 AM
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
String Sextet in C, Op 140
Wiener Streichsextett (sextet)
05:52 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in E minor
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
06:03 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Symphonic Suite from Porgy and Bess
William Tritt (piano), Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Boris Brott (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m001jlqq)
Friday - Petroc's classical alternative
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 (m001jlqs)
Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0930 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.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001jlqv)
Johanna Müller-Hermann (1868-1941)
Life during World War II
Donald Macleod explores Johanna Müller-Hermann’s final years under the Nazis, and her musical legacy.
Johanna Müller-Hermann once held a significant place as a composer and teacher in Vienna, yet has been largely forgotten over the decades since her death in 1941. Radio 3 has been working to unearth her music and story through its Forgotten Women Composers project, in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Dr Carola Darwin. This week, Dr Darwin and Professor Robert Evans join Donald Macleod to explore this fascinating composer and her times. Their series includes many specially recorded works by Müller-Hermann that have sat neglected in dusty archives for decades.
Müller-Hermann was greatly celebrated in her own lifetime and moved in eminent musical circles. She studied with Zemlinsky, befriended Alma Mahler, and also corresponded with Arnold Schoenberg. She went on to teach at Austria’s New Vienna Conservatory where students travelled from as far away as America and the UK to study with her. She became a pivotal figure in Vienna’s cultural scene and her music was regularly performed and published during her lifetime.
During the build-up to World War Two, the social and political scene in Austria was rapidly changing. It was a period of great unrest leading up to the annexation of Austria by Hitler, and the Nazis' subsequent persecution of the Jewish population there. Johanna Müller-Hermann would have witnessed these changes in Vienna and had to face the dilemma of whether to sign up as a member of the Reich Chamber of Culture in order to have her music still performed in the city, or to see it totally banned. She died in 1941, just as the tide of the war was about to turn against Hitler, and Donald explores her musical legacy with Dr Carola Darwin.
In Memoriam, Op 28 No 5 (Herbstlieder)
Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Novelette in A flat, Op 3 No 2 (Fünf Klavierstücke)
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 5 (Allegretto amabile) UK Broadcast Premiere
Jennifer Pike, violin
James Baillieu, piano
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 31 (Adagio sostenuto)
Louise Farrenc Ensemble
Mayumi Kanagawa, violin
Jevgênijs Čepoveckis, violin
Klaus Christa, viola
Mathias Johansen, cello
Katya Apekisheva, piano
Drei Gesange, Op 33
Ilona Domnich, soprano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Jane Glover, conductor
String Quartet in E flat, Op 6 (Allegro con spirito)
Artis Quartet
Peter Schuhmayer, violin
Johannes Meissl, violin
Herbert Kefer, viola
Othmar Müller, cello
Produced by Luke Whitlock
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001jlqx)
Danish Chamber Music Festivals 2022 (3/3)
Chamber Music from Denmark's leading festivals: Schubert and Shostakovich.
Sarah Walker introduces more performances of Schubert from soprano Ruby Hughes recorded at Gjethuset, Frederiksværk including his ever green Shepherd on the Rock. And also today, Daniil Trifonov joins the Danish Quartet at for Shostakovich in a performance at Bramstrup Manor, Årslev given as part of the Carl Nielsen Festival.
Schubert: Night song meditations
Im Abendrot, D. 799
Romance from Rosamunde, D. 797.
Ruby Hughes, soprano
Marianna Shirinyan, piano
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57
Daniil Trifonov, piano
Danish String Quartet
Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965
Ruby Hughes, soprano
Natalie Clein, cello
Marianna Shirinyan, piano
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jlqz)
Friday - Rachmaninov and Stravinsky
Presented by Penny Gore, an afternoon of live concert recordings from around Europe and from BBC orchestras.
Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in symphonic music by Stravinsky, and in the
3pm spotlight, Edward Gardner conducts the Bergen Philharmonic in the Symphonic Dances by Rachmaninov. Also in today's programme, Brahms is at his most sober, and violinist Jack Liebeck comes to rest in a frozen Venetian winter.
Including:
Stravinsky: Circus Polka
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - "Winte"r
BBC Philharmonic
Jack Liebeck (violin/director)
Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes
Annelein van Wauve (clarinet)
Martin Klett (piano)
Brahms: Variations on a theme of Schumann Op. 9 (arr. Robin Holloway)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mann (conductor)
Yan Tiersen: Medley from Amélie
Martynas Levickis (accordian)
Vadamas Vystavkinas (harpsichord)
Mikroorkestra
3.00
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Brahms: Nänie Op82
WDR Chorus
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andres Orazco-Estrada (conductor)
Quantz: Trio Sonata in G minor QV
2:34
Collegium Marianum
Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 movements
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m001jcld)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m001jlr1)
Jean Rondeau, Chrystal E Williams, Iago Banet
Sean Rafferty is joined by harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, who plays live in the studio ahead of his Wigmore Hall concert and brand new disc, ‘Gradus ad Parnassum’. Mezzo-soprano Chrystal E Williams joins the day before the return of Akhnaten to English National Opera at the Coliseum, in which she sings the role of Nefertiti. Plus, Spanish guitarist Iago Banet joins us to perform music from his new disc ‘Tres’.
FRI 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001jlr3)
Half an hour of the finest classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001jlr5)
BBC NOW perform Bruckner's Die Nullte Symphony
Ryan Bancroft takes the BBC National Orchestra of Wales from the depths of a Spanish prison, through an American spiritual seen through German eyes, to end in the bustling capital of the newly formed Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Beethoven's opera Fidelio began life called Leonore, just as the main character of that opera did before she donned her disguise to free her wrongfully imprisoned husband. Beethoven struggled with the overture for that work, writing four different versions, but felt that the overture we'll hear tonight worked perfectly as a stand alone piece. Bernd Alois Zimmermann made a name for himself as a composer in post war Germany by drawing musical inspiration from a wide range of styles and genres, and he was known for using quotations frequently in his music. His Trumpet Concerto takes it's title from the spiritual which is quoted within, which Zimmermann used in protest to the racial hatred that he saw developing in the society around him. After an interval looking at similarly neglected post war composers, the concert concludes with Bruckner's Symphony No 0 or the Nullte, the title taken from the ∅ or null symbol which Bruckner despondently wrote over the manuscript. The work was written in Vienna between his first and second symphony, but after the criticism of a single conductor it was withdrawn, and only rightfully included in his main body of symphonies after his death.
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents live from Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff.
7.30pm
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 3 in C major, Op 72b
Zimmermann: Trumpet Concerto in C (Nobody knows de trouble I see)
8.10pm
Interval Music
8.30pm
Bruckner: Symphony in D minor, WAB 100 (No. 0, Nullte)
Simon Höfele (trumpet)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m0016rt9)
The Secret Lives of Women
What's stopping us telling the stories of women's inner lives, or listening to them, especially once they become mothers, or are over forty? Actresses discover there are far fewer roles once they're no longer seen as young; whilst middle-aged and older women's lives are conflated, as if they are having exactly the same experiences.
Ian McMillan is joined by Victoria Smith, author of 'Hags: the demonisation of middle-aged women', by poet Patrick McGuinness (sharing poems from his forthcoming collection 'Blood Feather') by Jenny Lewis, author of 'Gilgamesh Retold' (her retellings of Mesopotamian myth reveal a female inn-keeper at the edge of the world), and by folk legends Marry Waterson and Lisa Knapp (performing as 'Hack Poets Guild) who share haunting songs of silenced and traduced women.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000szyl)
Shakespeare's Sisters
Madame E Toussaint Welcome
Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell tells the story of five brilliant women, all the siblings of renowned achievers in the arts and science, whose own success was overlooked – either by their own epoch, or by the annals of history ever since. Virginia Woolf famously reflected on the neglect of brilliant women with her fiction of "Shakespeare’s Sister”.
Lucy considers how the life of Madame E Toussaint Welcome, sister to Harlem renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee. ‘Madame’ - or Jenny Louise - once described herself as ‘the foremost female artist of the race’. She was one of the first African American film directors, and one of the very few women directing films in the silent era. She established an art school, a photographic studio, a film studio, and a documentary that advanced the civil rights movement. And yet, as Lucy discovers, despite her extraordinary achievements, she and her work lie largely forgotten.
Produced by Debbie Kilbride
A Tempo & Talker production
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m00182d0)
Earthly fractures, cosmic healing
Verity Sharp shares two hours of music for adventurous ears, including a reflection on what composer and scholar Luca Forcucci characterises as the chaos of our fragmented earth. For LA-based producer Lionmilk, meanwhile, the music-making process is a form of self-care: his latest record offers up an opportunity for cosmic healing, or as he describes it: “music to feel less whack to.” Estonian-born sound artist and pianist Hanakiv’s debut album also provides a therapeutic space: drawing on her love of nature and the feelings that accompanied her move to the bustle of London, the album is an invitation to say “goodbye” to the things that no longer serve you well. Elsewhere in the show, we hear an illusory simulation of eternity from drummer and composer Andrea Belfi inspired by the image of the Deprong Mori, a mythological bat supposedly frozen in a solid wall of lead over 70 years ago.
Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3