SATURDAY 11 MARCH 2023

SAT 01:00 Composed (m00182d2)
Composed with Emeli Sandé

Feel the sunshine with midsummer music

Emeli Sandé explores the music that brings her strength and inspiration, from classical, to pop, and beyond.

This week's episode celebrates long summer days, with tunes to soundtrack sun salutations or other meditations, from Claude Debussy, Grace Jones and Barrington Levy.

And in this, and every episode, Emeli invites listeners to join her in Composure Moment. This week, put everything on pause, for Ólafur Arnalds, a composer who believes there’s a layer to music that we don’t hear, we just feel.

01 00:00:56 Austin Wintory
Innocence
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra
Performer: London Voices Choir
Duration 00:05:11

02 00:06:07 Emeli Sandé (artist)
Selah
Performer: Emeli Sandé
Duration 00:02:25

03 00:08:32 Beverly Glenn‐Copeland (artist)
River Dreams
Performer: Beverly Glenn‐Copeland
Duration 00:04:07

04 00:12:39 Ólafur Arnalds (artist)
Re:member
Performer: Ólafur Arnalds
Duration 00:06:03

05 00:18:42 Julianna Barwick (artist)
Healing Is A Miracle
Performer: Julianna Barwick
Duration 00:04:04

06 00:23:21 Alan Hovhaness
Mysterious Mountain
Performer: Seattle Symphony
Duration 00:05:57

07 00:29:19 Emeli Sandé (artist)
July 25th
Performer: Emeli Sandé
Duration 00:02:04

08 00:31:23 Françoise Hardy (artist)
Soleil
Performer: Françoise Hardy
Duration 00:03:39

09 00:35:05 Alexis Ffrench (artist)
Golden
Performer: Alexis Ffrench
Duration 00:03:44

10 00:38:49 Khruangbin (artist)
Summer Madness
Performer: Khruangbin
Duration 00:03:12

11 00:42:00 Barrington Levy (artist)
Skylarking Dub
Performer: Barrington Levy
Duration 00:02:43

12 00:44:48 Claude Debussy
Danse sacrée et danse profane
Performer: Suzanne Cotelle
Performer: Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
Duration 00:04:23

13 00:49:10 Grace Jones (artist)
La Vie En Rose
Performer: Grace Jones
Duration 00:07:25

14 00:57:01 Aretha Franklin (artist)
Hello Sunshine
Performer: Aretha Franklin
Duration 00:03:00


SAT 02:00 Piano Flow (m001553w)
Tokio Myers

Season-changing Piano pieces

Say goodbye to the long nights and cold mornings and drift into spring with a dose of the world's most soothing piano music. Tokio picks tracks from Sampha, Errollyn Wallen and David Bowie.

01 00:00:55 Radiohead (artist)
Glass Eyes
Performer: Radiohead
Duration 00:02:47

02 00:03:47 Christian Sinding
6 Pieces, Op. 32: No. 3, Rustle of Spring
Duration 00:02:56

03 00:06:34 Lubomyr Melnyk
Sunshimmers
Performer: Lubomyr Melnyk
Duration 00:05:37

04 00:12:02 David Bowie (artist)
Aladdin Sane (2013 Remaster)
Performer: David Bowie
Duration 00:05:10

05 00:17:04 Heitor Villa‐Lobos
Valsa Da Dor
Duration 00:05:21

06 00:20:51 Mammal Hands (artist)
Being Here
Performer: Mammal Hands
Duration 00:02:27

07 00:23:03 Joe Hisaishi
One Summer's Day
Duration 00:04:02

08 00:26:48 Alexandra Stréliski (artist)
Changing Winds
Performer: Alexandra Stréliski
Duration 00:02:53

09 00:29:57 Ludovico Einaudi
Two Trees
Lyricist: Ludovico Einaudi
Duration 00:06:26

10 00:36:01 Franz Schubert
8 Variations on an Original Theme for Piano Four-Hands, Op. 35, D. 813: Variatio
Duration 00:02:44

11 00:39:43 Clean Bandit (artist)
I Miss You ([Tokio Myers Remix)
Performer: Clean Bandit
Performer: Tokio Myers
Duration 00:04:38

12 00:44:28 Matthew Halsall
Cherry Blossom
Performer: Matthew Halsall
Orchestra: Studio Orchestra
Duration 00:04:39

13 00:49:15 Errollyn Wallen
Concerto Grosso: II
Performer: Tai Murray
Performer: Isata Kanneh-Mason
Performer: Chi-Chi Nwanoku
Performer: Anthony Parnther
Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra
Choir: Chineke! Chorus
Duration 00:06:12

14 00:55:13 Sampha (artist)
Treasure
Performer: Sampha
Duration 00:04:40


SAT 03:00 Through the Night (m001jlr7)
Mozart, Mendelssohn and Wagner

Nicolae Moldoveanu conducts the Romanian Radio National Orchestra and clarinettist Adrian Duminica. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

03:01 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture to 'The Magic Flute', K. 620
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor)

03:08 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622
Adrian Duminica (clarinet), Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor)

03:36 AM
Bela Kovacs (b.1937)
Hommage à Manuel de Falla
Adrian Duminica (clarinet)

03:40 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
The Fair Melusina - Overture, Op.32
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor)

03:53 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Siegfried Idyll
Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor)

04:17 AM
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Violin Sonata no 3 in A minor, Op 25 (dans le caractere populaire roumain)
Gabriel Croitoru (violin), Valentin Gheorgiu (piano)

04:43 AM
Maya Le Roux-Obradovic
Ballade de la vallee magique
Maya Le Roux-Obradovic (guitar), Sinfonietta Belgrade, Aleksandar Vujic (conductor)

05:01 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Concertino for clarinet and orchestra in E flat major, Op 26
Hannes Altrov (clarinet), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paul Magi (conductor)

05:11 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Suite for piano (Sz.62) (Op.14)
Eduard Kunz (piano)

05:20 AM
Sebastian Le Camus (c.1610-1677), Gaspard le Roux, Michel Lambert (1610-1696)
2 French airs and 1 piece for harpsichord
Ground Floor, Juliette Perret (soprano), Marc Mauillon (tenor)

05:29 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Cockaigne (In London Town) - overture, Op 40
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen (conductor)

05:44 AM
Niccolo Jommelli (1714-1774)
Sonata in D major
Camerata Tallinn

05:54 AM
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Sonata for harp
Godelieve Schrama (harp)

06:05 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
The Warriors (music to an imaginary ballet)
Glen Riddle (piano), Ben Martin (piano), Denise Harvey (piano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

06:23 AM
Srul Irving Glick (1934-2002)
Divertimento for string orchestra
13 Strings of Ottawa, Brian Law (conductor)

06:42 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Trio sonata in D Major, Wq 83, H505
Les Coucous Benevoles


SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m001jtbw)
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 (m001jtc0)
Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals in a Building a Library Repeat with Sarah Devonald and Andrew McGregor

9.00am

So Romantique! – music by Gounod, Bizet, Dubois, etc.
Cyrille Dubois (tenor)
Orchestre National de Lille
Pierre Dumoussaud
Alpha ALPHA924
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/so-romantique

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda
LSO Live LSO0363D (download only)
https://lsolive.lso.co.uk/collections/new-releases/products/prokofiev-symphony-no-1-download

Beethoven: The Late Quartets
Calidore String Quartet
Signum SIGCD733 (3 CDs)
https://signumrecords.com/product/beethoven-quartets-vol-1-late-string-quartets/SIGCD733/

Strauss: Four Last Songs
Rachel Willis-Sørensen (soprano)
Sebastian Pilgrim (baritone)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons
Sony G0100046038977
https://rachelwillissorensen.com/recordings/strauss-four-last-songs/

Saint-Saëns: Violin Works
Cecilia Zilliacus (violin)
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Stephen Fitzpatrick (harp)
BIS BIS2489 (Hybrid SACD)
https://bis.se/performers/zilliacus-cecilia/saint-saens-sonatas-for-violin-and-piano

09.30am William Mival: New Releases

Composer William Mival joins Andrew with the new releases which have grabbed his attention this week, and shares the track that is especially dear to him, that which he has "On Repeat". Send us your "On Repeat" recommendations at recordreview@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @BBCRadio3

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 5
Ensemble1800berlin
MDG MDG9272276 (Hybrid SACD)

Frederic Rzewski: Dreams; War Songs; Winter Nights; Saints and Sinners
Bobby Mitchell (piano)
Naxos 8.559928
https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.559928

Korngold: String Quartets Nos. 1-3
Tippett Quartet
Naxos 8.574428
https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.574428

György Ligeti: Complete Works For A Cappella Choir
SWR Vokalensemble
Tomoko Hemmi
Yuval Weinberg
SWR Music SWR19128CD (2 CDs)

William Mival: On Repeat

Locke: Consort of Fower Parts
Jordi Savall
Alia Vox ADE011

Listener On Repeat

10.10am New Releases

Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances and the Hungarian Tradition
Adrienn Miksch
János Bándi
Ferenc Szecsődi
Szilvia Elek
István Kassai
Naxos 8.574424-25 (2 CDs)
https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.574424-25

Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Quinto & Sesto
Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew
Harmonia Mundi HAF890531112 (2 CDs)
https://store.harmoniamundi.com/format/1223397-gesualdo-madrigali-libri-quinto-sesto

10.30am Building a Library: Sarah Devonald on Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals (REPEATED from 25TH SEPTEMBER 2021)

11.15am

Joseph Marchand: Suites
{oh!} Trio
Aparté AP301

Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Veronika Eberle (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
LSO LSO5094 (Hybrid SACD)
https://lsolive.lso.co.uk/collections/new-releases/products/beethoven-violin-concerto

11.25am Record of the Week

Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers – music by Chaminade, Strohl, Sohy, etc.
Roberto Prosseda and Alessandra Ammara (piano, four hands)
Ismaël Margain (piano)
Quatuor Hanson
Orchestre National de France
Débora Waldman
and others
Bru Zane BZ2006 (8 CDs)
https://bru-zane.com/en/pubblicazione/compositrices/


SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m001jtc4)
Thames Estuary, Silvestrov by Grimaud, Perfect Pitch and Inclusive Orchestras

Do you listen to the music of the environment that surrounds you? Tom Service takes you into a journey to the Thames Estuary, immersed in the sounds of the landscapes, in the company of musicians Matthew Herbert and Chris Wood, who use them in their musical experiments.

Music should be available to everyone: this goal motivated the recently released report on how we could make orchestras more inclusive, by the National Open Youth Orchestra, an orchestra launched in 2018 where young artists, disabled and non-disabled, perform together. To discuss diversity in classical music, Tom Service talks to Doug Bott, artistic director of the NOYO, and musicians Oliver Cross and Holli Pandit.

He is one of the most recognised Ukrainian composer. Valentin Silvestrov, 85 years old, wrote no less than nine symphonies, countless pieces for ensembles and solo instruments, and a large choral repertoire. In 2022, the discreet composer from Kyiv was forced to fled his home country after Russia's invasion, and now lives in Berlin. With pianist Hélène Grimaud, who champions Silvestrov's music, again with her latest album 'Silent Songs' (Deutsche Grammophon, 2023), we talk about a maestro of contemporary music.

A 440. This is the point of reference to musicians around the world today, the standard pitch. But did you know that the establishment of this norm did not only have an artistic origin, but also scientific and even political stakes in history? Historian Fanny Gribenski, professor of music at New York University, talks to Tom Service about this fascinating story, as she publishes her latest book: 'Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955' (University of Chicago Press, 2023).

Producer: Elizabeth Arno


SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m001jtc8)
Jess Gillam with... Peter Gregson

Cellist and composer Peter Gregson joins Jess from LA. They share some of their favourite tracks and new discoveries, including Steve Reich's Different Trains, a special recording of Schubert's String Quintet, Bach's Mass in B minor, and songs by Eva Cassidy and Bon Iver.


SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m001jtcd)
Conductor Naomi Woo sets off on a colourful musical journey

Canadian conductor and pianist Naomi Woo draws on a melting pot of musical inspirations that span over 400 years. At the early end of the spectrum, Naomi chooses music by Claudio Monteverdi, performed with a sense of freedom and adventure that brings it straight into the present day.

The present day itself features with pieces by Lisel (“an electro-pop alien taken by the wonders of auto-tune”), London-based Chinese composer Sun Keting and Jeremy Dutcher, a Canadian composer and vocalist whose music shape shifts between classical and traditional, operatic power and the tuneful melodies of his Wolastoq Nation.

There’s also orchestral and operatic gems by Ethel Smyth, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Florence Price and Richard Wagner as well as a piece performed by the American jazz singer and pianist Blossom Dearie that took her a mere 11 years to learn.

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

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3


SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m001jtcl)
1997

On Oscars weekend, Matthew looks back on the 70th Academy Award Ceremony, to date the most watched ever Oscars. What was it about the films of 1997 that really caught the public imagination? Featuring classic scores from James Horner (Titanic), Hans Zimmer (As Good As It Gets), Edward Shearmur (The Wings of the Dove), Jerry Goldsmith (Air Force One) and Michael Nyman (Gattaca).


SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m001jtcq)
Togo All Stars in session

Lopa Kothari presents a specially recorded studio session by the nine-piece Afrofunk collective Togo All Stars, whose music draws on the Afrobeat legacy of Fela Kuti and rhythms from Togolese voodoo. Plus a round-up of the latest new releases from across the globe.


SAT 17:00 J to Z (m001jtcv)
Dezron Douglas's Inspirations

Kevin Le Gendre hears from US bassist and educator Dezron Douglas. A protégé of the great Jackie McLean, Dezron has established himself as a highly creative composer and formidable bander, and has worked alongside the likes of Pharaoh Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Geri Allen and Louis Hayes, to name a few. A leading player in the jazz world, he has been recorded on more than 100 albums, and is also active educator on the Jazz Studies faculty at NYU Steinhardt. Here Dezron shares some of the music and artists that have inspired him, including a joy-raising track by UK acid-jazz band, The Brand New Heavies.

Also in the programme, concert highlights from London-based, Ukrainian/Polish jazz harpist Alina Bzhezhinska and her HipHarp Collective recorded live at the Barbican for J to Z, as they blend jazz, hip hop and the ever-ethereal sounds of the harp together to create new and innovative compositions.

Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin’ Else


SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m001jtcy)
Verdi’s La Traviata

From the Met in New York: Verdi's La Traviata.

Angel Blue sings the title role of the 'fallen woman', the tragic courtesan Violetta, who falls in love with Alfredo, sung by tenor Dmytro Popov. Baritone Artur Ruciński is Germont, Alfredo's father, who condemns Violetta's racy past and persuades her to leave Alfredo, unaware of the ultimate tragic sacrifice she will make for Alfredo.

The score contains some of Verdi's most intimate and heartfelt music, conducted tonight by Nicola Luisotti.

Presented by Deborah Lew Harder with commentator Ira Siff.

Violetta Valéry ..... Angel Blue, (soprano)
Alfredo Germont ..... Dmytro Popov, (tenor)
Giorgio Germont ..... Artur Ruciński, (baritone)
Flora Bervoix ..... Megan Marino, (mezzo)
Annina ..... Eve Gigliotti, (soprano)
Gastone ..... David Blalock, (tenor)
Marquis d'Obigny ..... Christopher Job, (bass)
Doctor Grenvil ...... Adam Lau, (bass)
Giuseppe ..... Patrick Miller, (bass)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Nicola Luisotti, conductor


SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m001jtd0)
Chornobyldorf - an archaeological opera from Opera Aperta, Ukraine

Chornobyldorf - an archaeological opera

Tom Service introduces a shatteringly powerful meditation on the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986.
Developed by Ukraine's Opera Aperta for performance at the Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv's flagship arts complex, the work was described by the Times critic, Richard Morrison, as: "A modern Ukrainian masterpiece everyone needs to see.... an extended scream of rage, an elegy for lost humanity, a warning about nuclear annihilation, a brilliant meshing of film, dance, folksong, avant-garde instruments and electronic sounds... It comprises two hours of the most original and astonishing music-theatre I have ever seen."

Presented as an introduction and seven novellas - Elektra, Dramma per Musica, The Little Accordion Girl, Rhea, Messe de Chornobyldorf, Orfeo ed Euridice and Saturnalia - the music quotes the Agnus Dei from Bach's B minor Mass, nursery rhymes and Ukrainian folksong and features dancers, singers and specially created instruments and electronics.

Chornobyldorf received its UK premiere at a single performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in October 2022 and the live recording has been specially re-mixed with introductions to the seven novellas by Marichka Shtyrbulova and readings from the archaeological expeditions from Illia Razumeiko.

Chornobyldorf - an archaelogical opera
Composers, librettists: Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko

Yevhen Bal – Orfeo / Dionysus
Anne Bennent – Eurydice
Marichka Shtyrbulova – The Little Accordeon girl
Diana Ziabchenko – Dafne
Susanna Karpenko – Susanna
Yuliia Alieksieieva – Venere
Anna Rudenko – Hannah
Ihor Boichuk – Heron
Nazgul Shukaiieva – Inanna
Mariia Potapenko – Urania, Young Eurydice
Khrystyna Slobodianiuk – Elektra
Georgii Potopalskyi – Pluto
Roman Grygoriv – Aristoxenos
IIlia Razumeiko – Pythagoras
Live-electronics: Georgiy Potopalskiy
Rhea-player creation - Winfried Ritch
The Orchestra of the Chornobyldorf: Roman Grygoriv – microtonal cymbals and guitar, Illia Razumeiko – microtonal bandura and guitar, Zoltan Almashi – cello, Ihor Boichuk – percussion
Roman Grygoriv - conductor

SUNDAY 12 MARCH 2023

SUN 00:00 Freeness (m001jtd2)
Deep Tuning

Ensemble Dedalus collaborate with composer and field-recordist Erik M to make inventive use of an acousmographe - a tool to analyse electronic music using graphic scores. Combining this with field recordings, they create a dense cacophony, blurring the lines between human and non-human worlds, where we hear the sonic language of whales, bats and amphibians recast through searching improvisations.

New York-based pianist Eva Novoa leads a paired back trio featuring Masa Kamaguchi on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. Aerial silences are animated by crashing keys and the constant flurry of subtle textures for this masterclass in spatial generosity and deep listening. Elsewhere, through a celestial blend of South Indian devotional music, psychedelic electronic and transcendent free playing, Berlin multi-instrumentalist Seljuk Rustum constructs an immersive world of catharsis and freedom.

Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m001jtd4)
Krek, Chopin and Tchaikovsky from Slovenia

Pianist Alexander Gadjiev and the SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gianna Fratta, perform Chopin's Second Piano Concerto. John Shea presents.

01:01 AM
Uros Krek (1922-2008)
Rhapsodic dance for orchestra
SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra, Gianna Fratta (conductor)

01:09 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, op. 21
Alexander Gadjiev (piano), SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra, Gianna Fratta (conductor)

01:41 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Prelude No. 4 in E minor, op. 28/4
Alexander Gadjiev (piano)

01:44 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64
SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra, Gianna Fratta (conductor)

02:32 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonata for cello and piano No.2 in F (Op.99)
Truls Mork (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano)

03:01 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 (cantata)
The Sixteen, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)

03:31 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Slatter Op 72
Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (piano)


04:15 AM
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Meditation and processional
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)

04:22 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op 3 no 1
Elar Kuiv (violin), Olev Ainomae (oboe), Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Magi (conductor)


04:40 AM
Luka Sorkocevic (1734-1789)
Overture in G major
Zagreb Soloists, Visnja Mazuran (harpsichord)

04:46 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Jardins sous la pluie (No.3 from Estampes)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

04:50 AM
Willem De Fesch (1687-1761)
Concerto for 2 flutes and orchestra in G minor (Op.5 No.2)
Jed Wentz (flute), Marion Moonen (flute), Musica ad Rhenum

05:01 AM
Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 - 1640), Elgar Howarth (arranger)
Fancies, Toyes and Dreams
Brass Consort Koln

05:09 AM
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
3 Czech dances for piano
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)

05:19 AM
Christoph Bernhard (1628-1692)
Missa 'Durch Adams Fall'
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Laverne G'Froerer (mezzo-soprano), Keith Boldt (tenor), George Roberts (baritone), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn (conductor)

05:28 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
Polish Radio Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)

05:36 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonata for flute and continuo in A minor (Wq.128)
Robert Aitken (flute), Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Margaret Gay (cello)

05:46 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
7 Variations on 'Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen' WoO 46
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

05:56 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quartet for strings (K.421) in D minor
Biava Quartet

06:24 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Arabeske in C major, Op 18
Angela Cheng (piano)

06:31 AM
Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838)
Sinfonia concertante in B flat major, Op 3
Reijo Koskinen (clarinet), Pekka Katajamaki (bassoon), Esa Tukia (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m001jtdc)
Sunday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Breakfast, including a special Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape blending music with nature sounds recorded especially for the Wild Isles TV series with David Attenborough, which starts on BBC One tonight.


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m001jtdg)
Sarah Walker with a fresh musical mix

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

Today, Sarah finds a psalm setting by Vaughan Williams which is rich in English history, and enjoys the stomping rhythms of a suite by 16th-century Flemish composer Tielman Susato, arranged for brass.

There’s also traditional Bulgarian music which effortlessly navigates changing time signatures, and a Schubert piano trio that you may mistake for an improvisation.

Plus, Sarah discovers a piece by Max Bruch for clarinet, viola and piano that’s full of energy, wit and personality…

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m001jtdj)
Peter J Conradi

Back when he was studying English at UEA, Peter J Conradi had a friend who ran the student literary society, organizing writers to come to Norwich and speak. He went along to a meeting and the speaker there changed the whole course of his life. The writer was Iris Murdoch. She became a friend, and he became – in his words – her “disciple”, and eventually her biographer. And then Peter and his partner, Jim O’Neill, spent eight months caring for Iris at the end of her life, as Alzheimer's took hold – they listened to a lot of music together. Peter has spent his career as an English Professor at the University of Kingston and his biography of Iris Murdoch is not his only book: he’s also written about Dostoevsky, John Fowles, and Angus Wilson; about grief, about becoming a Buddhist, and about dogs.

In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Peter discusses the extraordinary power Iris Murdoch exerted over all her friends and lovers, and her secretiveness, so that each would be kept in a separate compartment. He remembers how she kept singing and dancing right up to the end. And he reveals his own mental health struggles, and how Buddhism has helped him. Music choices include Strauss, Bartok, Bach, Britten’s War Requiem, and the Anthem by Leonard Cohen that contains the famous words “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

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


SUN 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)


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m001jtdl)
The Museum of Renaissance Music

Hannah French leafs through a new book of 100 exhibits exploring Renaissance music history, in conversation with its editors Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard.

Links to images of the exhibits they discuss:

Venus (Florence, c. 1464): www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1845-0825-467
Plato charming the wild animals by his music (Lahore, 1595): https://imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/1355
The Whole Booke of Psalmes (London, 1627): bit.ly/3ITG3Xi
Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria (?Mechelen, c. 1515/20): https://lib.is/IE7906245/representation?fl_pid=FL7906763
Valance (England, Scotland or France, c. 1570/1600): https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O15351/valance-unknown
Le Jardin de Plaisance et Fleur de Rhétorique ((The Garden of Delight and the Flower of Rhetoric, Paris, c. 1501/2): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1511444h
The Musicians of the Holy Church, Exempt from Tax (Peru, c. 1615): www5.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/680/en/text/?open=idm464
Sacred and Profane Love (Venice, 1514): www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/opere/amor-sacro-e-amor-profano


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001jlpg)
Guildford Cathedral

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)
Voluntary: Gloriana (Priaulx Rainier)

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


SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m001jtdn)
Celebrating Wes Montgomery

Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with music this week from Count Basie, vocalist Samara Joy and guitarist Wes Montgomery, who was born 100 years ago last week. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.

DISC 1
Artist Wes Montgomery
Title Four on Six
Composer Wes Montgomery
Album Smokin’ At The Half Note
Label Verve
Number V6 8633 Track 4
Duration 6.46
Performers Wes Montgomery, g; Wynton Kelly, p; Paul Chambers, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. 22 Sept 1965

DISC 2
Artist Gene Ammons
Title Jungle Strut
Composer Gene Ammons
Album The Prestige Records Story
Label Prestige
Number 4PRCD4426-2 CD 4 Track 8
Duration 5.12
Performers Gene Ammons, ts; Sonny Phillips, org; Billy Butler, g; Bob Bushnell, b; Bernard Purdie, d. 11 Nov 1969

DISC 3
Artist Count Basie
Title Li’l Darlin’
Composer Hefti
Album Basie on the Beatles / The Atomic Mr Basie
Label Groove Hut
Number 66711 Track 22
Duration 4.48
Performers: Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman, t; Al Grey, Henry Coker, Benny Powell, tb; Marshal Royal, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes, reeds; Count Basie, p; Freddie Green, g; Eddie Jones, b; Sonny Payne, d. 21/22 Oct 1957

DISC 4
Artist Samara Joy
Title Nostalgia (The Day I Knew)
Composer Fats Navarro
Album Linger Awhile
Label Verve
Number 00602448266491 Track 3
Duration 3.30
Performers Samara Joy, v; Pasquale Grasso, g; David Wong, b; Kenny Washington, d. 2022

DISC 5
Artist Stan Tracey
Title Newk’s Fluke
Composer Stan Tracey
Album Portraits +
Label Blue Note
Number B2 80696 Track 1
Duration 7.33
Performers Guy Barker, t; Malcolm Griffiths, tb; Pete King, Art Themen, Don Weller, reeds; Stan Tracey, p; Dave Green, b; Clark Tracey, d. 1992.

DISC 6
Artist Stan Getz
Title Girl From Ipanema
Composer Jobim / Moraes
Album Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1966
Label The Lost Recordings
Number TLR 2104038 CD 2 Track 7
Duration 3.45
Performers Astrud Gilberto, v; Stan Getz, ts; Gary Burton, vib, Chuck Israels, b; Roy Haynes, d. 1966

DISC 7
Artist Wes Montgomery
Title Mr Walker
Composer Wes Montgomery
Album The Incredible Jazz Guitar of…
Label Masterworks
Number 21340 Track 7
Duration 4.32
Performers Wes Montgomery, g; Tommy Flanagan, p; Percy Heath, b; Albert Tootie Heath, d. 28 Jan 1960.

DISC 8
Artist Wes Montgomery
Title Tear It Down
Composer Wes Montgomery
Album Bumpin’
Label Verve
Number V6 8625 Track 2
Duration 2.55
Performers Wes Montgomery, g; Roger Kellaway, p; Bob Cranshaw, b; Grady Tate, d. 1965.

DISC 9
Artist Maxine Sullivan with John Kirby’s Orchestra
Title When Your Lover Has Gone
Composer Einar Aaron Swan
Album Maxine Sullivan 1941-46
Label Classics
Number 1020 Track 7
Duration 3.53
Performers Maxine Sullivan, v; Charlie Shavers, t; Buster Bailey, cl; Russell Procope, as; Billy Kyle, p John Kirby, b; O’Neil Spencer, d. 1941

DISC 10
Artist Humphrey Lyttelton
Ttile In Swinger
Composer Lyttelton
Album George Mae
Label Past Perfect
Number 205720-203 Track 1
Duration 7.50
Performers Humphrey Lyttelton, t; Bruce Turner, as; Kathy Stobart, ts; Mick Pyne, p; Dave Green b; Tony Mann, d. 5 May 1974.

DISC 11
Artist Quincy Jones
Title The Midnight Sun Will Never Set
Composer Quincy Jones
Album Complete 1960 European Concerts
Label Domino
Number 891211 CD 4 Track 11
Duration EOM 422
Performers Roger Guerin, Benny Bailey, Clyde Reasinger, Floyd Standifer, t; Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson, Melba Liston, Ake Persson, tb; Phil Woods, Porter Kilbert, Harold McNair, Jerome Richardson, Sahib Shihab, reeds; Julius Watkins, frh; Les Spann, g; Patti Bown, p; Buddy Catlett, b; Joe Harris, d. Lausanne, 27 June 1960


SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m001jtdq)
Bluebeard's Castle: Enter at Your Peril

Tom Service intrepidly explores Bluebeard's Castle - the one-act Symbolist opera by Hungarian composer Bela Bartok first performed in 1918 which features just two characters: Duke Bluebeard and his fourth wife Judith. Newly married, he brings her home to his murky castle for the very first time, where she finds a torture chamber, armoury, treasury, garden, and lake of tears. And unfortunately for Judith, it's not long before she discovers just what happened to those first three wives...

With Harvard Professor of Folklore and Mythology Maria Tatar.

Producer: Ruth Thomson


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m001k277)
Wild Isles

Otters, wild swans, roe deer, starlings and hares in the mountains, valleys, rivers and fens of these, our Wild Isles. Today's programme takes us on safari all over the British Isles, celebrating its unique landscapes, flora and fauna.

The poet Elizabeth Sears Bates asks what we would see from an owl’s perspective; Robert Burns converses with a wee sleekit, cowerin’, timorous beastie as he accidentally disturbs it from it’s comfy nest, and we’ll hear an archive recording of Noel Coward’s masterful reading of Clemence Dane’s poem “The Welcoming Land”. There are also Wild Swans from poet WB Yeats and composer Elena Kats-Chernin and a glorious murmuration of starlings by Peter Tallis.

Our Wild Isles soundtrack also includes Schubert’s Trout Quintet, Janacek’s “Cunning Little Vixen”, Orcadian seabirds from Erland Cooper and a Bonny Moorhen from Steeleye Span. Two recent winners of the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Award also feature today: Jacob Fitzgerald’s 2021 piece “Murmuration” for the Palisander recorder ensemble, as well as a poem by the 2022 winner Christopher Churcher, who celebrates the strutting, boisterous capercaillie.

Oh, and Captain Beaky and his Band wander through the woodland singing songs and righting wrongs.

Part of Radio 3's programming to go alongside a BBC documentary series Wild Isles, presented by David Attenborough and filmed over the last 3 years, which is available on the iPlayer.

Producer: Les Pratt

Readings:
Melissa Harrison - Rain (excerpt)
William Cowper - The Squirrel
Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (excerpt)
Zaffar Kunial - The Hedge
Claire Ratinon - Unearthed (excerpt)
Clemence Dane - The Welcoming Land (read by Noel Coward)
Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter (excerpt)
William Shakespeare - Venus & Adonis (excerpt)
Elizabeth Sears Bates - What sees the Owl?
Jini Reddy - Wanderland (excerpt)
Jim Carruth - Roe
Robert Burns - To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785
W.B. Yeats - The Wild Swans at Coole
Christopher Churcher - Capercaillie
Katherine Rundell - The Hare (excerpt)


02
Melissa Harrison
excerpt from “Rain” PROSE read byEmma Cunniffe
Duration 00:00:02

03 John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Blackbird
Performer: The Beatles
Duration 00:02:18

04 Caroline Shaw
The Beech Tree [Plan & Elevation]
Performer: Attacca Quartet
Duration 00:02:36

05
William Cowper
The Squirrel POEM read by Gordon Kennedy
Duration 00:00:37

06
Thomas Hardy
Excerpt from “Woodlanders” PROSE read by Gordon Kennedy
Duration 00:01:51

07 Patrick Hadley
The Trees so High (3rd mvt: Vivace) (excerpt)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Matthias Bamert
Duration 00:01:45

08
Zaffar Kunial
The Hedge POEM read by Emma Cunniffe
Duration 00:01:08

09 George Butterworth
The loveliest of trees [6 Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"]
Singer: Roderick Williams
Performer: Iain Burnside
Duration 00:02:32

10
Claire Ratinon
Excerpt from “Unearthed” PROSE read by Emma Cunniffe
Duration 00:01:20

11 Hoagy Carmichael
Skylark
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald
Duration 00:03:12

12
The Welcoming Land read by Noel Coward
Duration 00:02:38

13 Franz Schubert
Quintet for piano & strings in A major, D.667 "Trout" (3rd mvt) (excerpt)
Performer: Emanuel Ax
Performer: Pamela Frank
Performer: Rebecca Young
Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma
Performer: Edgar Meyer
Performer: Edgar Meyer
Performer: Edgar Meyer
Duration 00:01:07

14
Henry Williamson
excerpt from “Tarka the Otter” PROSE read by Gordon Kennedy
Duration 00:02:00

15 Maggie Sansone
Otter's Holt
Performer: Maggie Sansone
Duration 00:01:46

16
William Shakespeare
excerpt from “Venus & Adonis” POEM read by Emma Cunniffe
Duration 00:00:22

17 Edward Elgar
Owls, an epitaph [4 Choral Songs, Op.53]
Choir: Rodolfus Choir
Conductor: Ralph Allwood
Duration 00:02:59

18
Elizabeth Sears Bates
What sees the owl? POEM read by Emma Cunniffe
Duration 00:01:22

19 The Unthanks
Magpie
Performer: The Unthanks
Duration 00:05:07

21
Jini Reddy
excerpt from “Wanderland” PROSE read by Emma Cunniffe
Duration 00:01:43

22 Jim Parker
Captain Beaky and his Band
Lyricist: Jeremy Lloyd
Performer: Keith Michell
Duration 00:04:24

23
Jim Carruth
Roe POEM read by Gordon Kennedy
Duration 00:01:15

24 Hamish MacCunn
Land of the Mountain and the Flood (excerpt)
Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Duration 00:03:45

25
Robert Burns
To a mouse, on turning her up in her nest with the plough, November, 1785 POEM read by Gordon Kennedy
Duration 00:01:54

27
Peter Tallis
Murmuration POEM read by Emma Cunniffe
Duration 00:01:30

28 Jacob Fitzgerald
Murmuration
Performer: Palisander Recorder Quartet
Duration 00:03:14

29
WB Yeats
Wild Swans at Coole POEM read by Gordon Kennedy
Duration 00:01:17

30 Elena Kats‐Chernin
Eliza's aria [Wild Swans]
Singer: Jane Sheldon
Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Ola Rudner
Duration 00:03:17

31
Christopher Churcher
Capercaillie POEM read byGordon Kennedy
Duration 00:01:01

32 Erland Cooper
Solan Goose
Performer: Erland Cooper
Duration 00:04:35

33
Katherine Rundell
Hares PROSE read by Emma Cunniffe (reader)
Duration 00:01:57

34 Angela Morley
Bright Eyes and Interlude
Performer: Art Garfunkel
Duration 00:03:07


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m001jtdt)
Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European

One day, three decades after the event, the German poet and man of letters, Heinrich Heine, stood on the site of the battle of Marengo, one of Napoleon's earliest and most important victories and had an epiphany - or he invented one for his readers: "Gradually, day by day, foolish national prejudices are disappearing; all harsh differentiations are lost in the generality of European civilization. There are no more nations in Europe, only parties; and it is marvellous to see how these parties, for all their varying colouration recognize one another and how they understand one another, despite many differences in language."

This move past national differences would be a force for unalloyed good because, if Europeans could see themselves as a unified "civilisation" then their example would be a force that "could" lead to the liberation of the world from prejudice.

Well, he was a child of the romantic age, you can forgive his enthusiastic language, but his vision anticipates the principles that created and still guide the EU.

The writer produced astounding amounts of work: poetry, verse dramas, and essays and letters while conducting love affairs and just generally being in the public eye.

His poetry became the lyrical basis for lieder by Schubert, Schumann and many others. He had huge appeal in the middle of the 19th century. George Eliot wrote four monographs about him, including one on his wit - bitterly ironic, very Jewish.

Today he is remembered in the English-speaking world for this quote, "Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too." When the Nazis held their book burnings outside the Berlin Opera House, Heine's were among those immolated. And when the Nazis initiated the war that would burn down a significant portion of the Europe Heine dreamed of, the connection to much of 19th-century German culture was cut, including the life and work of Heinrich Heine.

Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Heine's life and the Europe in which he lived through interviews and using the musical settings of his poetry in lieder, readings from his poetry and plays, and George Eliot's perceptive comments.

Heine's was a tremendous life - he endured censorship and was harassed by the police spies of the federated German-speaking nations. He lived as a celebrity - albeit an impecunious one - despite the fact his uncle was one of the German-speaking world's richest men. All the drama created a truly contemporary, 21st-century sensibility.

Producer: Julia Hayball
Readers: Jonathan Keeble, Robbie Stevens, Clare Corbett and Pavel Douglas
Sound design: Chris Maclean

A Certain Height production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m000r39f)
Peking Noir

Presented by Paul French
Drama written by Sarah Wooley

Whatever anyone declared categorically about Shura Giraldi, someone else insisted on the exact opposite. Shura was handsome and beautiful; Shura was kind and good, Shura was exploitative and evil. Shura was just another struggling White Russian refugee trying to get by in 1930s China; Shura was the heart and brains of a gang that ran clubs, sex workers, illicit booze and drugs, when not robbing banks and stealing gems to fence in Shanghai. Shura loved ballet and cabaret, creating the Shura Giraldi Dance Troupe that topped the bill at all the best Peking nightclubs.

Shura sometimes presented as male and sometimes as female. When passing as a man Shura bound his breasts tightly and wore a sharp tailored suit; when she was a woman she wore startlingly coloured robes, both Chinese-style cheongsam and Western dresses, letting her raven hair flow loose, said witnesses. Shura had added an incredibly massive layer of confusion and obfuscation to anyone looking by changing gender. Switching for anonymity, for commercial gain or criminal advantage, for love, for a whim.

Paul French is a historian and writer who focuses on China in the first half of the 20th century. He's been on Shura’s trail for 15 years, digging through the paper records and archives in half a dozen countries in an attempt to get to grips with the enigma that was Shura. This story, a product of that tireless research, is full of truths, but like an old jigsaw brought down from the attic after decades, there are many pieces missing. So we're using drama, written by Sarah Wooley, to conjure and join the dots of Shura’s story, and go in search of a lost life and a forgotten world.

The search will take us from a Russian far east in violent revolution, to the chaos of the mass emigration of the White Russians, to the crowded hutongs of Peking; from that city’s nightclubs and cabarets, to the casinos of Shanghai; from a China wracked by rampaging warlordism, invaded by Japan, and then fighting its own civil war that culminated in its own revolution.

Shura saw it all; Shura lived through it all; Shura, in part, explains it all.

Shura . . . . . Maggie Bain
Zaichek . . . . . Leo Wan
Roy . . . . . Daniel York Loh
Leopard . . . . . Chris Lew Kum Hoi
Tatiana . . . . . Charlotte East
Anton . . . . . Luke Nunn
Marie . . . . . Cecilia Appiah
Saxsen . . . . . Ian Dunnett Jnr
The MC . . . . . Roger Ringrose
Anna . . . . . Jane Whittenshaw

Editing and sound design by Peter Ringrose.

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.


SUN 21:30 Record Review Extra (m001jtdw)
Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals

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, Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals.


SUN 23:00 The Silent Musician (m001jtdy)
An Orchestra's True Colours

Conductor Ben Gernon knows that every orchestra is unique, and his playlist illustrates the different types of magic that each ensemble possesses. In The Silent Musician, Ben explores how conductors work with layers of tradition, teaching, and culture to create their own sounds.

Produced by Freya Hellier
An Overcoat Media production

Dvorak: Symphony no 5 F major, Op. 75 B54 IV
Czech Philharmonic, Libor Pešek (conductor)

Debussy: La Mer: III Dialogue du vent et de la mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)

Louise Farrenc: Symphony no 1 in C minor op 32: 3rd movement
Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey (conductor)

John Williams: Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter 
LA Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

Nina Simone / Arr. Jochen Neuffer: My baby just cares for me
Ledisi, Metropole Orkest, Jules Buckley (conductor)

Johann Strauss II: Tausend und eine Nacht, Op. 346  
Vienna Philharmonic, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)

Poulenc: Gloria 1st and 2nd movements
Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Maris Jansons (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Act 2- Divertissements: 12b Coffee, Arabian Dance / 12c Tea, Chinese Dance / 12f Mother Gigogne and the Clowns
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

Stravinsky: Firebird - Infernal Dance 
Les Siècles, François- Xavier Roth (conductor)

MONDAY 13 MARCH 2023



MON 00:30 Through the Night (m001jtf2)
Bach's Mass in B minor

Jordi Savall conducts La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations and a star line-up of soloists in Bach's magnificent Mass in B minor. Presented by John Shea.

12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Sophie Harmsen (soprano), Raffaele Pe (countertenor), Martin Platz (tenor), Thomas Stimmel (bass), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

02:14 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540
Kaare Nordstoga (organ)

02:31 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Harpsichord Suite No 25, in E flat major/C minor
Stefan Trayanov (harpsichord)

02:50 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Mazeppa - Symphonic Poem
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Juozas Domarkas (conductor)

03:06 AM
George Gershwin (1898-1937), Bengt-Ake Lundin (arranger)
Rhapsody in Blue arr. Lundin for piano and string quintet
Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano), New Stenhammar String Quartet, Staffan Sjoholm (double bass)

03:24 AM
Heinrich Albert (1604-1651)
Musikalische Kurbishutte - songcycle for 3 voices and continuo
Cantus Colln, Musica Alta Ripa, Konrad Junghanel (lute), Konrad Junghanel (conductor)

03:36 AM
Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947)
Dance Vision (Tanssinaky), Op 11
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)

03:45 AM
Carl Ludwig Lithander (1773-1843)
Piano Sonata in C major, Op 8 No 1 'Sonate facile'
Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)


04:08 AM
Jean Hotteterre (1677-1720)
La Noce Champetre ou l'Himen Pastoral - from Pieces pour la Muzette, Paris 1722
Ensemble 1700

04:21 AM
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920)
Three Tone Pictures, Op 5
David Allen Wehr (piano)

04:31 AM
Jacob Regnart (c.1540-1599)
Litania Deiparae Virginis Mariae
Currende, Erik van Nevel (conductor)

04:43 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Chorales: 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' (BuxWV.211)
Bernard Lagace (organ)


05:06 AM
Rudolf Escher (1912-1980), Pierre de Ronsard (author)
Ciel, air et vents for chorus (1957)
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Ed Spanjaard (conductor)

05:18 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Lamento sopra la Morte Ferdinandi III
Les Elements Amsterdam

05:25 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Carnival Overture, Op 92
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)

05:35 AM
Dimitar Nenov (1901-1953)
Cinema Suite (1925)
Mario Angelov (piano)

05:53 AM
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
Sinfonie in D major (VB.143)
Concerto Koln

06:12 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in B minor, Op.33'1
Ysaye Quartet


MON 06:30 Breakfast (m001jtsk)
Monday - Petroc's classical rise and shine

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m001jtsm)
Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann 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.


MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000x6m1)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Music Born of Turmoil

Donald Macleod explores Purcell’s turbulent early years amidst a plague that killed a quarter of London’s population, which was swiftly followed by the Great Fire of London.

This week of programmes sets Purcell’s work during his short life in the context of the turbulent times in which he lived.

Purcell was a chorister in a court that often couldn’t afford to clothe its choirboys, Charles II occasionally having to borrow the money from his own choirmaster. Purcell was taught by John Blow and Matthew Locke, replacing Locke when he died and becoming ‘composer in ordinary’ at the court.

The Restoration of the British monarchy triggered an explosion of culture, with music restored to the court after its banishment under Oliver Cromwell. Purcell was at the heart of royal life, and was swiftly appointed organist at Westminster Abbey, then of the Chapel Royal, and Keeper of the King’s Instruments.

Today, we hear the political intrigue surrounding Purcell, amidst his earliest music, including - in 1680 alone - his first stage work, Theodosius; his first royal ‘welcome’ ode; and his first dazzling collection of chamber music.

Blow up the trumpet in Sion, Z10
Laurence Cummings, organ
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly, conductor

Welcome, vicegerent of the mighty king, Z340
Barbara Borden, soprano
Belinda Sykes, soprano
Steve Dugardin, countertenor
Douglas Nasrawi, tenor
Harvey Brough, tenor
Harry van der Kamp, bass
Simon Grant, bass
Tragicomedia

Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Z135
Maldwyn Davies, tenor
John Tomlinson, bass
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Sonata a 4 No. 4 in D minor, Z805
London Baroque

Theodosius, or The Force of Love, Z606
The gate to bliss
Sad as death at dead of night
Hail to the Myrtle Shade
Dream No More of Pleasures Past
Ah! Cruel, Bloody Fate
Judith Nelson, soprano
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, conductor

Produced by Iain Chambers


MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001jtsp)
Concerto Italiano

Founded in 1984 and receiving accolade after accolade since then, the brilliant Baroque ensemble, Concerto Italiano, perform works by Alessandro Scarlatti and Handel, as well as the lesser-known Neapolitan composer Francesco Mancini, whose 'Dal fatale momento' was formerly attributed to Handel.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Alessandro Scarlatti: Clori, Dorino e Amore - Clori mia - Dorino caro
Alessandro Scarlatti: Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor
Alessandro Scarlatti: Per un momento solo
George Frideric Handel: Che vai pensando, HWV184
George Frideric Handel: Suite in E minor HWV438
Francesco Mancini: Dal fatale momento, HWV101b (attributed to Handel)
George Frideric Handel: Tacete, ohimè, tacete, HWV196

Concerto Italiano:
Sonia Tedla (soprano)
Gabriele Lombardi (bass)
Marco Frezzato (cello)
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord/director)


MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jtsr)
Monday - Nielsen in Belfast

Penny Gore presents an afternoon of live concert recordings from around Europe, with a focus this week on the Ulster Orchestra.

Today, Michael Seal conducts the orchestra in Nielsen's First Symphony, which the composer dedicated to his wife and imbued with Danish melodies. Jac van Steen leads the orchestra in music by the late-Romantic Dutch composer Alphonsus Diepenbrock. Also today, Debussy's depiction of the sea from Paris, the Black Dyke Band at the World Band Festival in Lucerne, and music from the Spanish early music ensemble Accademia del Piacere in Schwetzingen.

Including:

Marais: 13 Couplets from 'Les folies d'Espagne'
Accademia del Piacere

Shostakovich: Festival Overture Op. 96
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs, conductor

Debussy: La Mer
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Mikko Franck, conductor

J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor BWV903
Mariam Batsashvili, piano

3.00
Nielsen: Symphony No.1 in G minor, Op. 7
Ulster Orchestra
Michael Seal, conductor

Fredrick Schjelderup: A Fantasy Of Joy
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs, conductor

Diepenbrock: Music from Marsyas
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen, conductor

Couperin: Les Regrets / Lully: Rochers vous êtes sourds, from 'La naissance de Vénus, LWV 27'
Accademia del Piacere


MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m001jtst)
Helen Charlston sings Elgar's Sea Pictures

Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston gives a performance of Elgar's Sea Pictures, recorded in November 2022 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adam Hickox.

Before it, we'll hear pianist Tom Borrow in one of Rachmaninov's Preludes, Op. 2 No.12

Rachmaninov
Prelude Op.32 No.12
Tom Borrow, piano



MON 17:00 In Tune (m001jtsw)
Sean Rafferty is joined by Il Pomo d'Oro ahead of their performance at Wigmore Hall. Plus we hear about the Royal Opera House's upcoming performance to mark one year since the invasion of Ukraine.


MON 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001jtsy)
Classical music to inspire you

A specially curated mix of classical music, including works by Schubert, Bizet and Bruch, as well as Scott Joplin's Peacherine Rag and ending with Mozart's Concerto in E flat major for horn and orchestra.

Producer: Anna Heywood


MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001jtt0)
Early 20th-century masterpieces

Fiona Talkington presents one of the highlights of the European concert season.

Vasily Petrenko conducts the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart in early 20th-century masterpieces, including Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Berg’s Seven Early Songs, with soprano Chen Reiss.

The first years of the 20th century were an era of change. Musical revolutionaries like Arnold Schönberg or Igor Stravinsky appeared on the scene. Others stayed closer to tradition, like the fascinating sound magician Franz Schreker or the young Alban Berg. But they were all looking for new ways of expression. In the important musical centres of Europe - Vienna, Berlin and Paris - there was rumbling. There was a spirit of optimism in the air. Nobody knew where the journey was going, and this enormous range of music around 1910 still impresses today.

Schrecker: Prelude to a Drama
Berg: Seven Early Songs (version for soprano and orchestra):
Night (Carl Hauptmann)
Schilflied (Nikolaus Lenau)
Die Nachtigall (Theodor Storm)
Traumgekrönt (Rainer Maria Rilke)
In the room (Johannes Schlaf)
Liebesode (Otto Erich Hartleben)
Summer days (Paul Hohenberg)

Stravinsky: Petrushka

Chen Reiss, soprano
SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Concert given in the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, on 18/11/2022.


MON 21:30 Compline (m001jtt2)
Lent 3

A reflective service of night prayer for the third week of Lent from the Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell, London. With words and music for the end of the day, including works by Tallis, Tye, Byrd and Eleanor Daley, sung by The Gesualdo Six.

Introit: Te lucis ante terminum (Tallis)
Preces (Plainsong)
Hymn: Lord, in this thy mercy’s day (St Philip)
Psalm 102 vv.1-11 (Plainsong)
Reading: Matthew 4 vv.1-4
Responsory: Into thy hands, O Lord (Plainsong)
Anthem: Ad te clamamus (Tye)
Nunc dimittis: Fauxbourdons (Byrd)
Anthem: Grandmother moon (Eleanor Daley)

Owain Park (Director)


MON 22:00 Music Matters (m001jtc4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 on Saturday]


MON 22:45 The Essay (m001jtt4)
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Out to Open Water

In this series of Essays writer Jon Gower explores the patches of sea water around Wales, sailing past Viking slave traders, soft crumbling coastlines, industrial scale smuggling, marathon chess matches between lighthouse keepers, ghost ships, whales and walruses along the way. For the country of Wales, surrounded on three sides by the sea, that sea has always been important – a trade route, a means to export ideas such as Christianity, or as a source of fish - especially herring, so many herring.

Out to Open Water - To the west of the Welsh landmass laps the Irish Sea, shaping its shores and connecting us with that place called elsewhere. It's been both a barrier and a conduit, at times separating and at other times connecting. The Irish Sea is nowadays synonymous with a hard border, but for centuries this Celtic lake has been its porous opposite. It's been a channel for the exchange of ideas, and a saintly superhighway: a place where history's tides so often change direction.

Produced by Megan Jones and Philippa Swallow.


MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m001jtt6)
Adventures in sound

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

TUESDAY 14 MARCH 2023

TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m001jtt8)
Three Haydn Symphonies

Concerto Copenhagen and conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen perform Haydn Symphonies Nos 47, 43 and 44. John Shea presents.

12:31 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 47 in G, Hob. I:47
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)

12:55 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hob. I:44 ('Mourning')
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)

01:19 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 43 in E flat, Hob. I:43 ('Mercury')
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)

01:46 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet in G major, D.887
Alban Berg Quartet, Gunter Pichler (violin), Gerhard Schultz (violin), Thomas Kakuska (viola), Valentin Erben (cello)

02:31 AM
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Missa Salisburgensis
Collegium Vocale 1704, Collegium 1704, Vaclav Luks (conductor)

03:13 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata no. 15 in D major Op.28 (Pastoral) for piano
Ji-Yeong Mun (piano)

03:39 AM
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (orchestrator)
Khovanschina (overture)
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)

03:45 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Spiegel im Spiegel
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)

03:52 AM
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Three Shanties for wind quintet, Op 4
Ariart Woodwind Quintet

04:00 AM
Vaino Raitio (1891-1945)
Joutsenet , Op 15 (1919)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor)

04:09 AM
Henry Eccles (c.1675-1745)
Sonata for double bass and piano
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)

04:17 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Friedrich Ruckert (author), Max Reger (arranger)
Du bist die Ruh (D.776), arr. Reger for voice and orchestra
Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor)

04:22 AM
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Trio sonata in C major, Op 3 no 8
Il Seminario Musicale, Gerard Lesne (director)

04:31 AM
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
Overture from Hansel and Gretel
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)

04:39 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo no.1 in B minor (Op.20)
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)

04:48 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Friede auf Erden for chorus, Op 13
Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

04:58 AM
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Introduction and variations on a theme from Mozart's Magic Flute, Op 9
Ana Vidovic (guitar)

05:07 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in G minor 'per l'Orchestra di Dresda'
Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)

05:16 AM
Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799)
Sonata Prima in G major (Op.5)
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello)

05:25 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Gammelnorsk Romance met Variasjoner Op.51
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)

05:50 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Chapel Royal Anthem ('Let God arise'), HWV 256/b
Dmitry Sinkovsky (countertenor), Pal Szerdahelyl (baritone), Hungarian Radio Children's Chorus, Budapest, Hungarian Radio Chorus, Budapest, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest, Soma Dinyes (conductor)

06:02 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Piano Trio in A minor (1914)
Bernt Lysell (violin), Mats Rondin (cello), Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano)


TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m001jtm6)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical alternative

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m001jtmd)
Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann 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.


TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000x6k0)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Sacred Journey

Donald Macleod explores Purcell’s sacred writing amidst the ongoing political tension surrounding Charles II's illegitimate son the Duke of Monmouth, who had designs on the throne, backed by Parliament’s Whigs.

This week of programmes sets Purcell’s work during his short life in the context of the turbulent times in which he lived. This was a period of intense political and social change, encompassing three different monarchies, the plague, the great fire of London, and the arrival of another deadly pandemic.

From his entry into Charles II’s court in 1679, Purcell wrote no stage work for six years. His primary job was to write welcome odes for the King’s return visits to London. And yet his own personal life was also at its most tumultuous. Married in 1680, Purcell lost his first newborn child the following year, along with his uncle Thomas Purcell in 1681, himself a composer at the court.

Charles II’s death in 1685, and his successor James II’s overhaul of the Chapel Royal with foreign musicians, led to a musical gear shift for Purcell, who decided to write devotional songs instead of religious anthems.

Morning Service in D, Z232: Te Deum
Trinity Hall Chapel Choir, Cambridge
Andrew Arthur, director

Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z49 “Bell Anthem”
Daniel Collins, tenor
George Pooley, tenor
Ben Davies, bass
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor

Lord, What is Man? Z192, "A Divine Hymn"
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Paul McCreesh, conductor

Thou wakeful shepherd, Z98 "A Morning Hymn"
Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano
David Miller, lute

Now that the sun hath veiled his light, Z193, "An Evening Hymn on a Ground"
Michael Chance, countertenor
Fretwork

Morning Service in D, Z232: Jubilate Deo
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
Francis Grier, organ
English Concert
Simon Preston, conductor

Produced by Iain Chambers


TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000413b)
Sounds of France

Marais, Couperin and Jacquet de la Guerre

In the first of four concerts, Ensemble Nevermind perform elegant chamber music from the French Baroque by Marin Marais, François Couperin and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.

Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Marais: Suite No 4 in B flat
Couperin: Suite No 4 ‘La Piémontoise’ (from Les Nations)
Jacquet de la Guerre: Trio Sonata No 4a in G minor

Ensemble Nevermind


TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jtmk)
Tuesday - Alpesh Chauhan conducts Dvorak

Penny Gore introduces an afternoon of concert performances from around Europe, continuing this week's focus on new recordings from the Ulster Orchestra.

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the orchestra in Dvorak's Seventh Symphony, and Adam Hickox leads them in Vaughan Williams's famous tribute to one of his musical inspirations, Thomas Tallis. We also feature pieces from a concert by the Prague Philharmonia, with soprano Ailyn Perez joining them for Ravel's great orchestral song cycle sung. Plus more from the Black Dyke Band at the World Band Festival in Lucerne last September, including Edward Gregson’s variations on the German chorale Nun danket alle Gott. Their music director Nicholas Childs also makes today's artist choice with another of the band's recordings - music by Peter Graham inspired by the 1927 German science-fiction film Metropolis.

Including:

Mozart: Overture to 'The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384' (1782)
Prague Philharmonia
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor

J.S. Bach: Cantata, Nun danket alle Gott, BWV192
Joanne Lunn, soprano
Peter Harvey (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Saint-Saens: Bacchanale, from 'Samson et Dalila'
Prague Philharmonia
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor


Ravel: Shéhérazade, song cycle
Ailyn Perez, soprano
Prague Philharmonia
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor

Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs, conductor

3.00
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Ulster Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Massenet: Dis-moi que je suis belle, from 'Thaïs'
Ailyn Perez, soprano
Prague Philharmonia
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor

Edward Gregson: The World Rejoicing (variations on the German chorale "Nun danket alle Gott")
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs, conductor

Handel: Süsse Stille, sanfte Quelle / Das zitternde Glänzen der spielenden Well
Lydia Teuscher, soprano
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen, director

Artist choice - Nicholas Childs (Black Dyke Band)

Peter Graham: Metropolis 1927 (conclusion)
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs, conductor

c.4.35
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ulster Orchestra
Adam Hickox, conductor


TUE 17:00 In Tune (m001jtmp)
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.


TUE 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001jtms)
Expand your horizons with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.




TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m001jtmx)
Debt

Debt is central to the modern economy and it has long been so. The idea of debt has long been loaded with as much morality as financial meaning. Anne McElvoy explores our ideas about debt, what it is and how it works. Professor Kenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University, a former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund and the author of This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. New Generation Thinker Philip Roscoe is a Reader in the School of Management at the University of St Andrews and the author of How to Build a Stock Exchange: On the past, present and future of finance. And, New Generation Thinker Dafydd Mills Daniel is a lecturer in Divinity at the University of St Andrews who looks at the history of philosophy and religious thought.

Producer: Ruth Watts

You can find other Free Thinking conversations about money available to download as the Arts & Ideas podcast or on BBC Sounds
Writing about Money https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018qph
Coins, going cashless and the magic money tree https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s2v5
Mandeville's View of 18th-Century Economics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hysk
Britain's Economy: Will Hutton, Luke Johnson, Wendy Carlin, Richard Davies and how we teach the subject https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051cpxb
Economics: Liam Byrne, John Redwood, Luke Johnson, Juliet Michaelson and Matt Wolf https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qbv3q
Does Growth Matter? demographer Danny Dorling and economists Richard Davies and Petr Barton https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gbtl


TUE 22:45 The Essay (m001jtmz)
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Whipping Up a Storm

In this series of Essays writer Jon Gower explores the patches of sea water around Wales, sailing past Viking slave traders, soft crumbling coastlines, industrial scale smuggling, marathon chess matches between lighthouse keepers, ghost ships, whales and walruses along the way. For the country of Wales, surrounded on three sides by the sea, that sea has always been important – a trade route, a means to export ideas such as Christianity, or as a source of fish - especially herring, so many herring.

Whipping Up a Storm - Jon charts the way the water out west is a bringer of bounteous gifts but a shipwrecker too, a creature of wild mood swings where a calm surface can summarily change as the wind gets up and erupts into a wild and avenging anger. The waves and the wind are able to lick the very land into shape, and occasionally reveal the ancient landscapes embodied in Welsh myths.

Produced by Megan Jones and Philippa Swallow.


TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m001jtn1)
Night music

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

WEDNESDAY 15 MARCH 2023

WED 00:30 Through the Night (m001jtn3)
Debussy Impressions

Xu Zhong conducts the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-Debussy concert, including La Mer and Nocturnes. Presented by John Shea.

12:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Xu Zhong (conductor)

12:41 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La Mer
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Xu Zhong (conductor)

01:07 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire, L.77
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Xu Zhong (conductor)

01:15 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Nocturnes, L.91
Shanghai Opera House Chorus, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Xu Zhong (conductor)

01:42 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Treizieme concert a deux violes
Violes Esgales (duo)

01:52 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Dardanus (suites)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

02:31 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
String Quartet No 4 in A minor, Op.25
Yggdrasil String Quartet

03:06 AM
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
The tale of Tsar Saltan - suite Op 57
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky (conductor)

03:28 AM
Elisabeth Kuyper (1877-1953)
Der Pfeil und das Lied; Marien Lied; Ich komme Heim (Op.17 Nos 1, 2 & 3)
Irene Maessen (soprano), Frans van Ruth (piano)

03:35 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
In Autumn - concert overture, Op 11
National Orchestra of France, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

03:48 AM
Nikita Koshkin (b.1956)
The Fall of Birds
Goran Listes (guitar)

03:57 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italien, Op 45
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko (conductor)

04:13 AM
Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764)
Sonata for violin and continuo in D major, Op 8 no 2
Gottfried von der Goltz (violin), Lee Santana (theorbo), Torsten Johann (harpsichord)

04:23 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (librettist)
Das war sehr gut .../Dann aber, wie ich Sie gespurt hab' (from Arabella)
Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

04:31 AM
Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960)
Overture to an Italian Comedy
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Post (conductor)

04:37 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Danzi (arranger)
Duos from Cosí fan Tutte
Duo Fouquet (duo), Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Guy Fouquet (cello)

04:46 AM
Henricus Albicastro (fl.1700-06)
Coelestes angelici chori - cantata
Guy de Mey (tenor), Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (conductor)

05:00 AM
Ture Rangstrom (1884-1947)
Suite for violin and piano No.2 (in Modo barocco) (1921-2)
Tale Olsson (violin), Mats Jansson (piano)

05:11 AM
Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962)
Two Scottish Pieces for orchestra Op 54
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Bell (conductor)

05:18 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Serenade in A major for piano (1925)
Boris Berman (piano)

05:32 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Dixit Dominus for SATB soloists and double choir and orchestra in D major
Choir of Latvian Radio, Riga Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)

06:02 AM
Carl Fruhling (1868-1937)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Op 40
Amici Chamber Ensemble


WED 06:30 Breakfast (m001jth9)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical picks

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m001jthf)
Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann 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 (m000x6zv)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Music on Demand

Donald Macleod explores the music Purcell wrote to mark specific occasions, and reveals the impact that changes in monarch had on his work.

This week of programmes sets Purcell’s work during his short life in the context of the turbulent times in which he lived. This was a period of intense political and social change, encompassing three different monarchies, the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the arrival of another deadly pandemic.

By 1687 London’s royal musicians were in rebellious mood, letting their performances at chapel slip. This disobedience was being mirrored by the public at large. Bungling James II had alienated large swathes of the country, as well as influential groups like the bishops, who had wide popular respect. When the King’s court case against the bishops failed humiliatingly, Londoners celebrated wildly. It was the beginning of the end for this unpopular ruler.

As a twenty-something court composer, Purcell wrote his first ode to celebrate Charles II’s return from summering in Windsor. When William and Mary took the throne in 1689, Purcell wrote odes for special occasions such as the return of the monarchy to court. And for the coronation itself he turned from composer into ticket tout – selling viewing tickets for Westminster Abbey’s organ loft, which was under his control.

Some of Purcell’s most celebrated work was written as birthday odes for Queen Mary, but by far his most famous and enduring music was that written for her funeral in 1695.

I was glad when they said unto me, Z19
Westminster Abbey Choir
Harry Bicket, organ
Simon Preston, director

Now does the glorious day appear Z332 (opening chorus)
Julia Gooding, soprano
James Bowman, countertenor
Howard Crook, tenor
Michael George, bass-baritone
Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Gustav Leonhardt, conductor

Love’s goddess sure was blind, Z331 (excerpts)
Julia Gooding, soprano
James Bowman, countertenor
Christopher Robson, countertenor
David Wilson-Johnson, baritone
Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Gustav Leonhardt, conductor

From hardy Climes and dangerous Toils of War Z325 (excerpts)
Katy Hill, soprano
Kirsty Hopkins, soprano
Jeremy Budd, tenor
Mark Dobell, tenor
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor

March and Canzona in C minor, Z860
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Philip Ledger, conductor

Produced by Iain Chambers


WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0003znm)
Sounds of France

Songs by Debussy, Faure, Hahn and more

Sounds of France: soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Joseph Middleton celebrate the headily evocative poetry of Paul Verlaine in songs by Debussy, Ravel and Hahn among others, and Fauré's cycle La bonne chanson.

Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Debussy: Fêtes galantes (Set 1)
Ravel: Sur l'herbe
Fauré: Clair de lune
De Severac: Le ciel est pas-dessus le toit
Hahn: Tous deux; L'heure exquise
Bordes: Colloque sentimental
Saint-Saens: Le vent dans la plaine
De Severac: Paysages tristes
Fauré: La bonne chanson

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)


WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jthl)
Wednesday - Mathis der Maler

Presented by Fiona Talkington, with more new recordings from the Ulster Orchestra.

Today, Angus Webster conducts the orchestra in Hindemith's symphonic prequel to his opera Mathis der Maler, and Manoj Kamps joins them for Prokofiev's popular "Classical" symphony. Plus music by Handel and Vivaldi from countertenor Daniel Carlsson and Göteborg Baroque at the Valle Baroque Festival, and the BBC Concert Orchestra plays the second of Florence Price's orchestral overtures.

Including:

Handel: Spero per voi, from 'Ariodante, HWV 33'
Daniel Carlsson, countertenor
Göteborg Baroque
Magnus Kjellson, director

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 "Classical"
Ulster Orchestra
Manoj Kamps, conductor

Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684, cantata
Daniel Carlsson, countertenor
Göteborg Baroque
Magnus Kjellson, director


3.00
Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Maler
Ulster Orchestra
Angus Webster, conductor

Handel: Cara sposa (Rinaldo's aria), from 'Rinaldo, HWV 7'
Daniel Carlsson, countertenor
Göteborg Baroque
Magnus Kjellson, director

Cecilia McDowell: Rain, steam and speed for orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
George Vass, conductor


WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m001jths)
St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico, London

From St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico, London, with the Rodolfus Choir.

Introit: My soul, there is a country (Parry)
Responses: Byrd
Office hymn: Now is the healing time decreed (Vulpius)
Psalms 36, 39 (Atkins, Walmisley, Atkins)
First Lesson: Genesis 9 vv.8-17
Canticles: The Great Service (Parry)
Second Lesson: 1 Peter 3 vv.18-22
Anthem: Emendemus in Melius (Byrd)
Hymn: Ye that know the Lord is gracious (Rustington)
Voluntary: Paean (Leighton)

Ralph Allwood (Director)
Elinor Cooper (Assistant Director)
Richard Gowers (Organist)

Recorded 17 February.


WED 17:00 In Tune (m001jtj0)
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.


WED 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001jtj5)
Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix

Radio 3's specially curated 30-minute musical mix to usher in your evening. Tonight, violinist Randall Goosby and bassist Xavier Dubois Foley take us to Shelter Island, there's a flurry of jazzy-sounding snowflakes, and we go waltzing in Scotland with Malcolm Arnold. Plus music by Bach, Mozart and Schubert.

Producer: David Fay


WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001jtjc)
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the CBSO, live

Tom McKinney introduces a programme of live music from Symphony Hall Birmingham from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra marking one of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s final appearances as the orchestra’s chief conductor. Pianist Kirill Gerstein joins the CBSO for one the best loved of all romantic concertos, and Mirga also conducts music by the Polish born Mieczysław Weinberg for whom she has been a great advocate and champion. The concert ends with highlights from one of the 20th century’s greatest ballets.

PROGRAMME
Weinberg - Sinfonietta No. 1
Schumann - Piano Concerto
(Kirill Gerstein – Piano)

INTERVAL

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet (highlights)

CBSO
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – Conductor


WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m001jtjj)
Decadent Art

A Persian epic depicted in The Yellow Book, which Aubrey Beardsley was art editor for, Iranian figures on the French operatic stage and Rudyard Kipling as a decadent figure. Shahidha Bari is joined by Julia Hartley, Dr Alexander Bubb and Professor Jennifer Yee to discuss new research into the late nineteenth century Decadent art movement.

Producer: Robyn Read

Dr Alexander Bubb teaches at the University of Roehampton, London and is the author of Flights of Translation: Popular Circulation and Reception of Asian Literature in the Victorian World.

Professor Jennifer Yee teaches Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and has edited a book French Decadence in a Global Context.

Julia Hartley is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who teaches at Glasgow University. Later this year she will be publishing Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France

You might be interested in a Radio 3 Sunday Feature asking Should Feminists Read Baudelaire?

And the Free Thinking programme website has a collection of discussions exploring Prose, Poetry and Drama


WED 22:45 The Essay (m001jtjp)
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Putting the Whales in Wales

In this series of Essays writer Jon Gower explores the patches of sea water around Wales, sailing past Viking slave traders, soft crumbling coastlines, industrial scale smuggling, marathon chess matches between lighthouse keepers, ghost ships, whales and walruses along the way. For the country of Wales, surrounded on three sides by the sea, that sea has always been important – a trade route, a means to export ideas such as Christianity, or as a source of fish - especially herring, so many herring.

In 'Putting the Whales in Wales', Jon tells the story of the arrival of American Quaker émigrés at Milford Haven to help the port with its burgeoning position in the whaling industry. He tries to reconcile a peaceable people with the brutal slaughter of these giants of the ocean. The trade carried on into the 20th century, with some boats in the channel processing whales like floating factories. We hear the unfortunate back story of Hope, the whale that hangs in the Natural History Museum. And the epic adventure of a rogue dummy whale that defied capture during the 1954 filming of Moby Dick with Gregory Peck.

Produced by Megan Jones and Philippa Swallow.


WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m001jtk0)
Around midnight

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

THURSDAY 16 MARCH 2023

THU 00:30 Through the Night (m001jtk9)
Stravinsky, Messaien and Berg from Paris

Daniel Harding conducts the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and clarinettist Jérôme Voisin. John Shea presents.

12:31 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Apollon musagète, ballet in two scenes for strings (1947)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)

01:02 AM
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Abîme des oiseaux, from 'Quatuor pour la fin du Temps'
Jerome Voisin (clarinet)

01:11 AM
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Lyric Suite (string orchestra version)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)

01:29 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor (Op.111)
Tatjana Ognjanovic (piano)

01:57 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Serenade for string orchestra in C major Op.48
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)

02:31 AM
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Stabat Mater (1723)
Valeria Popova (soprano), Penka Dilova (mezzo soprano), Tolbuhin Children's Chorus, Bulgarian National Radio Sinfonietta, Dragomir Nenov (conductor)

03:12 AM
Tor Aulin (1866 - 1914)
Violin Concerto no 3 in C minor Op 14
Stig Nilsson (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson (conductor)

03:45 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Prelude in C sharp minor
Sergei Terentjev (piano)

03:49 AM
Janez Gregorc (1934-2012)
Sans respirer, sans soupir
Slovene Brass Quintet

03:55 AM
Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745)
La Rameau & Jupiter
Teodoro Bau (viola da gamba), Deniel Perer (harpsichord)

04:04 AM
Mihail Andricu (1894-1974)
Sinfonietta no 13, Op 123
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Emanuel Elenescu (conductor)

04:12 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Sonata for 2 flutes in G major
Jed Wentz (flute), Marion Moonen (flute)

04:20 AM
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909)
The Highlander's Fantasy, Op 17
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)

04:31 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Symphony in D major, Op 10 No 5
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)

04:40 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo in A minor K.511 for piano
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

04:50 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
3 Songs for chorus, Op 42
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)

05:00 AM
Dario Castello (fl.1621-1629)
Sonata IV, for 2 violins and continuo
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (director)

05:09 AM
Eugen Suchon (1908-1993)
Ballade for Horn and Orchestra
Peter Sivanic (horn), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mario Kosik (conductor)

05:18 AM
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Moses Fantaisie (after Rossini) for cello and piano
Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana Schwartz (piano)

05:27 AM
Armas Jarnefelt (1869-1968)
Music to 'The Promised Land'
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus (conductor)

05:41 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Humoreske for piano in B flat major Op 20
Ivetta Irkha (piano)

06:05 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet No.62 in C Major, Op.76'3 'Emperor'
Sebastian String Quartet


THU 06:30 Breakfast (m001jtn5)
Thursday - Petroc's classical alarm call

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m001jtn7)
Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann 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.


THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000x78v)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Backstage, Onstage

Donald Macleod takes us backstage in London’s new Restoration era theatres to hear the stage music Purcell wrote set against the changing political environment in which those plays were conceived.

This week of programmes sets Purcell’s work during his short life in the context of the turbulent times in which he lived. This was a period of intense political and social change, encompassing three different monarchies, the plague, the great fire of London, and the arrival of another deadly pandemic.

A homesick William III hated London, and was not a big patron of the arts as his predecessor, Charles II, had been. The court lost its importance as the centre of London’s musical life and Purcell increasingly turned his attention towards theatre and public concerts. Many set the words of John Dryden, including the comedy Amphitryon, The Indian Queen and King Arthur. In 1689, the year William and Mary were crowned, Purcell wrote his only full opera, Dido and Aeneas.

Dido and Aeneas, Z626 (excerpts)
Emily Van Evera, soprano (Dido)
Janet Lax, mezzo-soprano (Belinda)
Taverner Players
Andrew Parrott, conductor

The Fairy Queen, Z629 (excerpts)
Scholars Baroque Ensemble

The Indian Queen, Z630 (excerpts)
Emma Kirkby, soprano
John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Julian Podger, tenor
Helen Parker, soprano
Libby Crabtree, soprano
David Thomas, bass
Academy of Ancient Music Choir
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, conductor

King Arthur, Z628, "The British Worthy" (excerpts)
Gillian Ross, soprano
Paul Elliott, tenor
Stephen Varcoe, bass-baritone
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Produced by Iain Chambers


THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0003zgb)
Sounds of France

Flute music by Widor, Milhaud, Messiaen and Boulez

In the third of this week's concerts, flautist Adam Walker and pianist Alasdair Beatson explore the French love-affair with the flute, from the salon elegance of Widor, through jazz-inspired Milhaud and Messiaen's sensuous soundscapes to the iconoclastic power of Boulez.

Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Widor: Suite Op 34
Milhaud: Sonatine
Messiaen: Vocalise; Le merle noir
Boulez: Sonatine

Adam Walker (flute)
Alasdair Beatson (piano)


THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jtn9)
Thursday - David Danzmayr conducts Beethoven

Presented by Fiona Talkington, with concert performances from around Europe.

This week's focus on the Ulster Orchestra continues with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, in a new recording with the young Austrian conductor David Danzmayr, who also makes today's artist choice - music inspired by Beethoven from composer Carlos Simon. We also hear the orchestra in sea-inspired music by Arnold Bax, and Stravinsky's ballet score, Orpheus. Plus more from Göteborg Baroque's concert at Sweden's Valle Baroque Festival, Lionel Meunier directs Vox Luminis, and Gershwin and Weill from the duo of trumpeter Simon Höfele and pianist Frank Dupree.

Including:

Handel: Trio Sonata in G, HWV 399
Göteborg Baroque
Magnus Kjellson, director

Bax: On the sea-shore - tone poem (completed by Graham Parlett)
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor

Schütz: Die Sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz, SWV 478
Vox Luminis
L'Achéron
Lionel Meunier, conductor

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Simon Höfele, trumpet
Frank Dupree, piano

3.00
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major Op. 92
Ulster Orchestra
David Danzmayr, conductor

Weill: Berlin im Licht
Simon Höfele, trumpet
Frank Dupree, piano

Kuhnau: Uns ist ein Kind geboren
Vox Luminis
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Lionel Meunier, conductor

Artist choice – David Danzmayr


c.4.00
Stravinsky: Orpheus
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen, conductor

Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 31
Elisabeth Brauss, piano


THU 17:00 In Tune (m001jtnc)
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.


THU 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001jtnf)
Classical music for focus or relaxation

The specially curated Classical Mixtape – 30 minutes of musical delight and discovery. Tonight’s mix stretches its legs with Gershwin’s ‘Promenade’ or “Walking the Dog” before stepping back in time with Saint-Saens' ‘Fossils’ from his Carnival of the Animals. On the way, the moving melodies of Thomas Tallis’ ‘O nata lux de lumine’ before some movie magic for the sweet-toothed – Rachel Portman’s ‘Main Title’ from ‘Chocolat’.

Producer: Meg Iliff-Rolfe




THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m001jtnk)
The wicked? stepmother

Cinderella is opening in a new ballet production at the Royal Opera House and Mothering Sunday is coming up, so Matthew Sweet is joined by New Generation Thinkers Sabina Dosani and Emma Whipday and Marina Warner for a conversation about good and bad mothering and how images are changing.

Marina Warner's many books include From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Frederick Ashton's ballet Cinderella has been re-imagined using video design for a new production running at the Royal Opera House, 27th March - 3rd May

Producer: Eliane Glaser

You can find a collection of programmes discussing Women in the World on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p084ttwp


THU 22:45 The Essay (m001jtnm)
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

Shearwater Nights

In this series of Essays writer Jon Gower explores the patches of sea water around Wales, sailing past Viking slave traders, soft crumbling coastlines, industrial scale smuggling, marathon chess matches between lighthouse keepers, ghost ships, whales and walruses along the way. For the country of Wales, surrounded on three sides by the sea, that sea has always been important – a trade route, a means to export ideas such as Christianity, or as a source of fish - especially herring, so many herring.

Shearwater Nights - Jon introduces us to the rare seabird particular to the Welsh coastal islands: the Manx Shearwater. From the island of Skokholm, he describes the thrill of seeing one in flight, their long distance travels, their predators, their dinner time calls and their endearing awkwardness on land. We hear about the perilous waters surrounding Ynys Enlli, Bardsey Island, and the island’s holy, and kingly, connections. Jon also reminisces about his smelly summer of ’76 on account of the Manx’s self-defence method; shooting fish oil out of its bill at potential predators.

Produced by Megan Jones and Philippa Swallow.


THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m001jtnp)
Music for late night listening

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 (m001j4pc)
Benjamin Myers’s Listening Chair

Benjamin Myers is a writer attracted to the stories and descriptions of, as he puts it, “this strange, eccentric isle of ours.” Hailing from Durham, his work is shot through with the voices and landscapes of the North of England, and often includes dark and comedic accounts of ordinary and extraordinary people in history. Ahead of his latest book, Cuddy - a retelling of the life of hermit Saint Cuthbert of Northumbria - he selects a track that transports him to the shores of Holy Island and the vast acoustics of his home city’s Norman cathedral, a piece of choral music that has enthralled him ever since he first encountered it in the soundtrack to The Wicker Man.

Elsewhere in the show, Elizabeth Alker goes on a sonic wander through mysterious landscapes, serving up ambient sounds from the folk horror genre including new releases from composer and violinist Laura Cannell and electronic artist Alexander Tucker.

Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

FRIDAY 17 MARCH 2023

FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m001jtnr)
Cindy McTee, Prokofiev and Brahms from Monte Carlo

Pianist Seong-Jin Cho joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and their conductor, Leonard Slatkin, in Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto. John Shea presents.

12:31 AM
Cindy McTee (b.1953)
Till a Silence Fell, from 'Symphony No. 1'
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

12:43 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 16
Seong-Jin Cho (piano), Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

01:17 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
'Six Moments musicaux, D. 780' no 3 in F minor
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

01:20 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, op. 98
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

02:05 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn in E flat major, K452
Douglas Boyd (oboe), Hans Christian Braein (clarinet), Kjell Erik Arnesen (french horn), Per Hannisdal (bassoon), Andreas Staier (piano)

02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Quartet for strings (Op.130) in B flat major vers. standard
Vertavo String Quartet

03:13 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Kreisleriana (Op.16)
Vesselin Stanev (piano)

03:42 AM
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Colas Breugnon (Overture)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)

03:48 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Romance for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola), Bruce Vogt (piano)

03:54 AM
Edward Pallasz (1936-2019)
Epitafium
Polish Radio Choir, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)

04:03 AM
Ivan Jarnovic (1747-1804)
Fantasia and Rondo in G major
Vladimir Krpan (piano)

04:08 AM
Emils Darzins (1875-1910)
Melanholiskais valsis (Melancholy waltz) for orchestra
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Leonids Vigners (conductor)

04:16 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849), Niccolo Paganini (arranger)
Nocturne in D major (original in E flat), Op 9 no 2
Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Marta Gulyas (piano)

04:20 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Symphony in D major, Op 10 No 5
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)

04:31 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Schatz-Walzer ('Treasure Waltz') from Der Zigeunerbaron (Op.418)
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Raffi Armenian (conductor)

04:40 AM
Hugo Alfven (1872-1960)
Pictures from the Archipelago, Three Piano Pieces, op 17
Valma Rydstrom (piano)

04:49 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Dante (author)
Pater noster for chorus
Radio France Chorus, Donald Palumbo (conductor)

04:58 AM
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (1626-c1677)
5 pieces: Achas; Bacas; Ruggiero; Xacaras; Espanoletas
Margret Koll (arpa doppia)

05:07 AM
Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)
Harpsichord Concerto, op 40
Helga Varadi (harpsichord), Camerata Zurich, Igor Karsko (conductor)

05:16 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Premiere rapsodie arr. for clarinet and orchestra (orig. clarinet and piano)
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

05:25 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42 - cantata
Voces Suaves, Cafebaum

05:53 AM
Bernhard Molique (1802-1869), Giulio Regondi (transcriber), Joseph Petric (arranger), Erica Goodman (arranger)
6 Songs without words
Joseph Petric (accordion), Erica Goodman (harp)

06:06 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Le Carnaval des animaux
Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Campbell (director)


FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m001jtkb)
Friday - Petroc's classical mix

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 (m001jtkl)
Georgia Mann

Georgia Mann 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.


FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000x7wm)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

An Incomplete Life

Donald Macleod explores what we know of Purcell’s own private life alongside some of the last music he wrote.

This week of programmes sets Purcell’s work during his short life in the context of the turbulent times in which he lived. This was a period of intense political and social change, encompassing three different monarchies, the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the arrival of another deadly pandemic.

In the final six years of his life, Purcell wrote music for forty-two plays, whilst keeping up a regular output of odes and intimate music for domestic settings. Some of Purcell’s most affecting songs were published in his 1693 collection of divine hymns. We also hear the composer with a point to prove on behalf of English musicians in Thomas Betterton’s semi-opera The Prophetess. Tragedy struck London once again in 1694 when smallpox swept the capital, killing Queen Mary. A few months after, Purcell himself died, tragically young, aged thirty-six.

The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, Z629 (excerpt)
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox, conductor

Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z. 860i
Tessa Bonner, soprano
William Kendall, tenor
Kai Wessel, countertenor
Paul Agnew, tenor
Patrizia Kwella, soprano
Collegium Vocale Gent
Collegium Vocale Gent Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas, Z83
Carys Lane, soprano
Laurence Cummings, organ

Play Music for Abdelazer (excerpts)
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, conductor

From Rosy Bowers
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, mezzo-soprano
Amarillis
Heloise Gaillard, director

Produced by Iain Chambers


FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00041gc)
Sounds of France

Music for string quartet by Debussy, Poulenc and Laurent Durupt

In this week's final concert, Quatuor Van Kuijk perform Debussy's ever-popular String Quartet, an arrangement of three songs by Poulenc, and Laurent Durupt's Grids for Greed, a piece written for them and premiered at the 2017 Proms.

Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Poulenc arr. Jean-Christophe Masson: 3 Mélodies
Laurent Durupt: Grids for Greed
Debussy: String Quartet

Quatuor Van Kuijk


FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001jtkv)
Friday - Farrenc's Third Symphony

Fiona Talkington rounds off this week's focus on new recordings form the Ulster Orchestra, plus chamber and orchestral concert performances from around Europe.

Today, Manoj Kamps conducts the Ulster Orchestra in the third of Louise Farrenc's symphonies and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, with soloist Steven Osborne. Also this afternoon, violinist Leonidas Kavakos plays Stravinsky in Berlin, and the trumpet-piano duo of Simon Höfele and Frank Dupree present music by Enescu, Weill and Elvis Costello.

Including:

Handel: Concerto grosso in D, op. 6/5, HWV 323
Göteborg Baroque
Magnus Kjellson, director

Enescu: Légende
Simon Höfele, trumpet
Frank Dupree, piano

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
German Symphony Orchestra
Robin Ticciati, conductor

Weill: Slow Fox and Algi-Song
Simon Höfele, trumpet
Frank Dupree, piano

3.00
Farrenc: Symphony No.3 in G Minor, Op.36
Ulster Orchestra
Manoj Kamps, conductor

Schütz Singet dem Herr ein neues Lied a 8 SWV 35 (Psalm 98)
RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin
Ensemble Promena
Justin Doyle, conductor

Moeran: Rhapsody No.2 in E major
Ulster Orchestra
Bryden Thomson, conductor

Elvis Costello: Almost Blue
Simon Höfele, trumpet
Frank Dupree, piano

4.00
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Steven Osborne, piano
Ulster Orchestra
Manoj Kamps, conductor


FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m001jtdq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday]


FRI 17:00 In Tune (m001jtl3)
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.


FRI 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001jtl9)
The perfect classical half hour

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.




FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000tgb7)
Spring Poetry: ambivalence and beauty

As a new season arrives, Ian McMillan and guests consider ambivalence and beauty in writing about spring.

This week Ian peers into the yellow heart of the daffodil to find out what makes a great spring poem, and shares poetry by some of the most remarkable poets of our moment, as well as those inspired by the colours of crocuses past. Spring is always beautiful, but there is earthiness and grief in the language of the season too. His guests will include writers and those who work with and study the earth itself.

Ian is joined by Booker Prize-winning novelist and keen gardener Penelope Lively who has contributed an essay to the new anthology 'In The Garden' (Daunt) on 'the Gardening Eye', passing the passion for growing on to her daughters, and gardening later in life.

In his poem 'Here Too Spring Comes to Us with Open Arms', Caleb Femi takes us to spring on a South London Estate.

In books such as the T.S Eliot prize shortlisted collection 'The Mizzy' (Picador), Paul Farley turns our attention to the overlooked and unloved places, finding spring thrives here just as in the meadow.

We also hear a selection of poems read by Colin Tierney and Indira Varma:

Crocuses - Richard Meier
Lines Written in early Spring - William Wordsworth
April - Mona Arshi
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now - AE Housman
March - Patrick Kavanagh
I So Liked Spring - Charlotte Mew

Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen


FRI 22:45 The Essay (m001jtls)
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters

What Has the Sea Become

In this series of Essays writer Jon Gower explores the patches of sea water around Wales, sailing past Viking slave traders, soft crumbling coastlines, industrial scale smuggling, marathon chess matches between lighthouse keepers, ghost ships, whales and walruses along the way. For the country of Wales, surrounded on three sides by the sea, that sea has always been important – a trade route, a means to export ideas such as Christianity, or as a source of fish - especially herring, so many herring.

What Has the Sea Become - tells of the great fortune the herring trade brought Wales over the years, from coastal towns whose very names boast of the fish in their waters, to the priests squabbling over beaches to ensure they got their tithe of herrings. Jon describes the remarkable wealth fishing for this silver scaly coinage has brought the country. We move along the coastline and the other natural commodities the sea offers up but also mark the dwindling fish stocks of recent years because of overfishing and the unfortunate presence of microplastics, clogging up the digestive systems of sea mammals and fish in these same waters. Jon tells of how the sea has become a dumping ground for leftovers from war but sees hope in the reassuring ebb and flow, that harmony will be restored.

Produced by Megan Jones and Philippa Swallow.


FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m001dg1y)
Shackleton and MC Yallah in session

Verity Sharp shares the results of our latest long-distance collaboration session, between enigmatic English producer Shackleton and Kenyan rapper MC Yallah.

Growing up amongst what he has described as the rugged and merciless landscapes of northern England, Shackleton is a producer in his own lane, a purveyor of stark and uncompromising electronic rhythms and textures. Founder of record labels Skull Disco and Woe To The Septic Heart!, his music defies categorisation, drawing elements from the worlds of dubstep, techno and ambient, as well as musique concrète, Indonesian gamelan and Moroccan gnawa. Now based in Berlin, his latest EP, The Majestic Yes, builds on the rhythms of Senegalese sabar drum rhythms to craft a web of intricately layered musical explorations.

Kenyan rapper MC Yallah has been a formidable figure in the Ugandan hip hop scene since the 90s. An affiliate of the Nyege Nyege crew since its inception in 2013, her fierce and intense lyrics are drawn from real-life experiences and often address women’s issues. Delivering her words in a range of languages including Kiswahili, Luganda, English and Luo, MC Yallah’s artistry is shot through with integrity and self-determination.

Elsewhere in the show, music from Baltimore-based ambient musician and sitar player Ami Dang and cosmic jazz excursions from Edrix Puzzle.

Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

01 00:00:03 MC Yallah (artist)
Dunia
Performer: MC Yallah
Performer: Debmaster
Duration 00:02:25

02 00:03:15 Shackleton (artist)
Shimmer, Then Fade
Performer: Shackleton
Duration 00:04:59

03 00:09:21 Alice Gerrard (artist)
Lee Highway Blues
Performer: Alice Gerrard
Performer: Hazel Dickens
Duration 00:01:36

04 00:10:57 Edrix Puzzle (artist)
Unhuman Hyperion
Performer: Edrix Puzzle
Duration 00:04:24

05 00:15:22 Plaid (artist)
C.A.
Performer: Plaid
Duration 00:03:05

06 00:19:49 Ben LaMar Gay (artist)
Salt Air
Performer: Ben LaMar Gay
Duration 00:04:40

07 00:26:12 Baba Commandant (artist)
Sonbonbela
Performer: Baba Commandant
Performer: The Mandingo Band
Duration 00:03:09

08 00:30:36 Panayiotis Kokoras (artist)
Viper Snake
Performer: Panayiotis Kokoras
Duration 00:07:50

09 00:38:26 Ripatti Deluxe (artist)
Radio King
Performer: Ripatti Deluxe
Duration 00:04:25

10 00:42:52 Penny (artist)
Crucial
Performer: Penny
Duration 00:01:35

11 00:45:39 Voice Actor (artist)
Moving Sins
Performer: Voice Actor
Duration 00:01:41

12 00:47:22 Andrew Balfour (artist)
Omaa Biinding
Performer: Andrew Balfour
Performer: musica intima
Duration 00:03:28

13 00:50:48 Photay (artist)
E X I S T
Performer: Photay
Performer: Carlos Niño
Duration 00:04:07

14 00:56:27 MC Yallah (artist)
Pakasa (Demolition)
Performer: MC Yallah
Performer: Shackleton
Duration 00:04:17

15 01:04:58 MC Yallah (artist)
Back in the Yard
Performer: MC Yallah
Performer: Shackleton
Duration 00:04:17

16 01:14:43 MC Yallah (artist)
Tongues
Performer: MC Yallah
Performer: Shackleton
Duration 00:05:56

17 01:21:32 Street Musicians of Yogyakarta (artist)
Kathik Nganggo Nglirik
Performer: Street Musicians of Yogyakarta
Duration 00:02:50

18 01:24:22 Christine Abdelnour (artist)
Unprotected Sleep
Performer: Christine Abdelnour
Performer: Andy Moor
Duration 00:04:47

19 01:29:09 Jairus Shariff (artist)
Surfacing
Performer: Jairus Shariff
Duration 00:04:27

20 01:34:35 Ephat Mujuru (artist)
Kuende Mbire
Performer: Ephat Mujuru
Performer: Ephat Mujuru and The Spirit of the People
Duration 00:05:40

21 01:41:12 OKI (artist)
Oroho Raha (Stick in the Wheel remix)
Performer: OKI
Performer: Kila
Duration 00:04:03

22 01:45:14 Colin Stetson (artist)
Orthrus (reduction)
Performer: Colin Stetson
Duration 00:05:42

23 01:50:54 Stephen Scott (artist)
IJ2
Performer: Stephen Scott
Duration 00:01:24

24 01:53:34 Ami Dang (artist)
Become
Performer: Ami Dang
Duration 00:06:26