SATURDAY 20 MAY 2023

SAT 01:00 Composed (m001lpdl)
Composed with Devonté Hynes

ESCAPE: Tunes to take you to another place

Devonté Hynes explores the powerful, evolving sounds of classical music, with playlists drawn from across the musical spectrum.

This episode features a selection of music that Dev loves and which helps him drift off into another world. It's designed to let your mind wander, or be still, whichever you prefer.

There are songs from Franz Schubert and Sun Ra, as well as the nature-focused music of Hiroshi Yoshimura, and some beautiful harp from Alice Coltrane.


SAT 02:00 Piano Flow (m001lpdn)
Gabriels

Peaceful piano pieces for your LA dreams

Sit back, relax and drift off to the City of Angels. Featuring a carefully selected playlist, Jacob has his favourite pieces that remind him of his home town, featuring Randy Newman, Franz Liszt and Son Lux.


SAT 03:00 Through the Night (m001lpdq)
Remembrance and Reflection

Shostakovich, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Mahler with Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä. Danielle Jalowiecka presents.

03:01 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Chamber Symphony in C minor, op. 110a
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

03:24 AM
Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
Violin Concerto in D, op. 3/1
Karen Gomyo (violin), Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

03:44 AM
Carlos Simon (b. 1986)
An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

03:50 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Adagietto, from 'Symphony No. 5'
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)

04:01 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Variations on a theme of Chopin, Op 22 for piano
Zbigniew Raubo (piano)

04:30 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
String Quartet in A major, Op 41 no 3
Vertavo Quartet

05:01 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Ballet Music for the Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)

05:10 AM
Federico Mompou (1893-1987)
Scenes d'enfants
Marianne Richter-Beijer (piano)

05:19 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Romance for violin & orchestra (Op.26) in G major arr. for violin & choir
Borisas Traubas (violin), Polifonija, Sigitas Vaiciulionis (conductor)

05:28 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Trio in F major for 2 flutes and continuo
Karl Kaiser (flute), Michael Schneider (flute), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)

05:37 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Divertimento in C major, aka London Trio No 1 (Hob.4 No 1)
Carol Wincenc (flute), Philip Setzer (violin), Carter Brey (cello)


05:56 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Vetrate di Chiesa (Church Windows)
Orchestra of London, Canada, Uri Mayer (conductor)

06:21 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Partita in F major, K.Anh.C 17.05
Festival Winds

06:46 AM
Frigyes Hidas (1928-2007)
Harpsichord Concerto
Barbala Dobozy (harpsichord), Concentus Hungaricus, Ildiko Hegyi (conductor)


SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m001lzdl)
Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley sets up your Saturday morning.


SAT 09:00 Record Review (m001lzdn)
Mahler's Rückert-Lieder in Building a Library with Flora Willson and Andrew McGregor

9.00am
Piers Lane Goes To Town Again. Loeillet, Szymanowski, Schubert, Mozart etc.
Piers Lane (piano)
Hyperion CDA68163
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68163

Mozart’s Mannheim. Mozart, Cannabich, Holzbauer, Vogler etc.
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz (leader and music director)
DG 486 3502
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/mozarts-mannheim-freiburger-barockorchester-12989

Beethoven and Beyond. Beethoven, Spohr, Ysaÿe, Saint-Saëns Wieniawski Kreisler
María Dueñas (violin)
Volker Kempf (harp)
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck (conductor)
DG 486 3512 (2CDs)
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/de/katalog/produkte/beethoven-and-beyond-dueas-12950

Georg Philipp Telemann: Schwanengesang - The Last Orchestral Works
La Stagione Frankfurt
Michael Schneider (conductor)
CPO 555 533-2
https://naxosdirect.co.uk/items/georg-philipp-telemann-schwanengesang-the-last-orchestral-works-603487

9.30am Sarah Willis: New Releases

Leading French horn player and member of the Berlin Philharmonic, Sarah Willis shares some new releases which have caught her ear and shares her 'On Repeat' track – a recording which she is currently listening to again and again.

Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite & Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
Álvaro Cassuto (conductor)
First Hand FHR146
https://firsthandrecords.com/products-page/album/prokofiev-romeo-and-juliet-op-64-excs-rimsky-korsakov-russian-easter-festival-overture-op-36/

Antonio Caldara: Arias for Bass
Alexandre Baldo, Ensemble Mozaique
Pan Classics PC10447

Janáček & Haas: String Quartets
Escher String Quartet
Colin Currie (percussion)
BIS BIS-2670 SACD (Hybrid SACD)
https://bis.se/orchestras-ensembles/escher-string-quartet/janacek-haas-string-quartets

Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No.4 “The In Inextinguishable”
James Ehnes (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
CHANDOS CHSA5311 (Hybrid SACD)
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHSA%205311

Sarah Willis: On Repeat

Prado Mania
Members of the Pérez Prado Orchestra
Crown Records CST 137 (Vinyl)

Listener On Repeat

Schubert: The Complete Impromptus. Moments Musicaux
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philips 4560612 (2CDs)
https://www.deccaclassics.com/en/catalogue/products/schubert-the-complete-impromptus-brendel-1959

10.10am New Releases

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Requiem
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano)
James Way (tenor)
Ross Ramgobin (baritone)
University of Birmingham Voices
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Hyperion CDA68418
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68418

Violin Concertos by Max Bruch and Florence Price
Randall Goosby (violin)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)
Decca 485 4234
https://www.deccaclassics.com/en/artists/randall-goosby

10.30am Building a Library: Flora Willson on Mahler’s Ruckert Lieder

Mahler orchestrated four of the songs he wrote to texts by the German poet Friedrich Ruckert, and a fifth was orchestrated after his death. The five songs conjure up a world of yearning, loss and melancholy. But these deep emotions are anything but depressing for the listener; Mahler's music is like a balm to the soul and full of comfort, quiet resignation and even hope.

11.15am New Releases

Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos
Kerson Leong (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Patrick Hahn (conductor)
Alpha ALPHA946
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/britten-bruch-violin-concertos

Portraits of a Mind. Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ian Venables
Alessandro Fisher (tenor)
The Navarra String Quartet
William Vann (piano)
Albion ALBCD057
https://rvwsociety.com/portraits-of-a-mind/

11.25am Record of the Week

The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
Reference Recordings FR-751 (3 Hybrid SACDs)
https://referencerecordings.com/recording/the-complete-beethoven-piano-concertos/

Send us your On Repeat recommendations at recordreview@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @BBCRadio3


SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m001lzdq)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks with poet laureate Simon Armitage about the art of lyric writing. She also hears from Leeds Lieder Festival about how poets and musicians have come together to write songs about the local community. And what is it that grabs our ears - are we listening to more or less music than we were in recent years?


SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m001lzds)
Jess Gillam with... Missy Mazzoli

Jess Gillam's guest is pianist and composer Missy Mazzoli. They share some of the music that they love, including Ellen Reid, JS Bach, Julian Lage and Sudanese singer Aamina Camaari.


SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m0013htn)
Violinist Tessa Lark with musical flow, groove and crunch

Violinist Tessa Lark grew up immersed in both classical music and the bluegrass traditions of her native Kentucky. Drawing on these musical roots, Tessa chooses a colourful playlist that includes what she calls 'neuron tickling’ piano music by György Ligeti, powerful melodies by Dvorák and the folksy grooves of Béla Bartók.

Tessa also celebrates music by musicians with an 'old-school' sound including pianist Artur Schnabel playing Schubert and a violinist who could really 'sing a phrase', Fritz Kreisler.

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

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

01 00:00:14 György Ligeti
Musica Ricercata (VII. Cantabile, molto legato)
Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard
Duration 00:04:00

02 00:05:26 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11 (II. Andante cantabile)
Performer: Fritz Kreisler
Performer: Franz Rupp
Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler
Duration 00:04:31

03 00:11:32 Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in C minor, R. 331 (II. Largo)
Performer: Giuliano Carmignola
Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Director: Andrea Marcon
Duration 00:04:33

04 00:17:53 Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World' (IV. Allegro con fuoco)
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Iván Fischer
Duration 00:10:55

05 00:30:35 Trad.
This Old Hammer
Performer: Tessa Lark
Music Arranger: David Chase
Choir: Essential Voices Usa
Conductor: Judith Clurman
Duration 00:05:31

06 00:37:30 Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat, D. 960 (I. Molto moderato)
Performer: Artur Schnabel
Duration 00:13:50

07 00:53:07 John Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Duration 00:04:56

08 00:59:37 Stephen Foster
Slumber My Darling
Performer: Mark O’Connor
Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma
Performer: Edgar Meyer
Singer: Alison Krauss
Duration 00:04:47

09 01:04:25 Robert Schumann
Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 (VII. Träumerei)
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz
Duration 00:02:55

10 01:09:26 Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012 (I. Prelude)
Performer: Paolo Pandolfo
Duration 00:04:03

11 01:15:04 Take 6 (artist)
Noah Reprise
Performer: Take 6
Duration 00:01:54

12 01:18:21 Béla Bartók
String Quartet No. 4 (V. Allegro molto)
Ensemble: Juilliard Quartet
Duration 00:05:28

13 01:25:45 Miles Davis Sextet (artist)
So What
Performer: Miles Davis Sextet
Duration 00:09:23

14 01:36:28 Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1, Op. 68 (I. Un poco sostenuto - allegro)
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Duration 00:13:54

15 01:52:10 Martin Hayes (artist)
The Morning Star / The Caoilte Mountains
Performer: Martin Hayes
Performer: Randal Bays
Duration 00:03:17


SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m001lzdv)
Hallyu - The South Korean Wave

There has been an explosion in the global popularity of contemporary South Korean culture, often referred to by the Chinese word Hallyu - meaning Korean Wave. - which is also being reflected in a current exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Matthew Sweet foregrounds music from highly praised films such as Parasite, Snowpiercer, The Handmaiden and Oldboy and also takes a look at the huge interest in Korean TV music for the streaming services, including cues from Jung Jae-il for Squid Game.


SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m001lzdx)
Brìghde Chaimbeul in session

Kathryn Tickell with a session from Scottish small pipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul. Plus new releases from Portugal, Bosnia, Zimbabwe, Iran and Mali.


SAT 17:00 J to Z (m001lzdz)
Jazz for Meditation

Jumoké Fashola presents a special edition of J to Z for Mental Health Awareness Week, full of meditative grooves, uplifting melodies and soothing sounds. She’s joined by UK vocal star NAO, host of Radio 3’s Music & Meditation podcast, who shares some restorative tracks of her own.

Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin' Else


SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m001lzf1)
Kaija Saariaho's Innocence

At a wedding party on a summer's evening in Helsinki the bride and groom seem blissfully happy. But a waitress is shocked to see that the bridegroom is the brother of a boy who, 10 years ago, was responsible for the murder of her daughter, nine other students and a teacher when he went on a shooting spree in the international school her daughter attended.

As Kaija Saariaho's Innocence proceeds, the devastating impact of the horrific act unfurls with a terrible resonance, backwards and forwards in time, pivoting around the wedding party of the present and the victims and witnesses of the past.

Rave reviews from stagings in Aix-en-Provence and Helsinki have preceded the eagerly awaited UK premiere production of Kaija Saariaho's latest opera. Tom Service presents this recording made at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Kaija Saariaho: Innocence

The Waitress (Tereza) ….. Jenny Carlstedt (mezzo-soprano)
The Mother-in-Law (Patricia) ….. Sandrine Piau (soprano)
The Father-in-Law (Henrik) .... Christopher Purves (baritone)
The Bride (Stela) ….. Lilian Farahani (soprano)
The Bridegroom (Tuomas) ….. Markus Nykänen (tenor)
The Priest ….. Timo Riihonen (bass)
The teacher (Cecilia) ….. Lucy Shelton (soprano)
Student One (Markéta) ….. Vilma Jää (folk singer)
Student Two (Lilly) ….. Beate Mordal (soprano)
Student Three (Iris) ….. Julie Héga (actor)
Student Four (Anton) ….. Simon Kluth (actor)
Student Five (Jerónimo) ….. Camilo Delgado Díaz (tenor)
Student Six (Alexia) ….. Marina Dumont (soprano)

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Susanna Malkki (conductor)

Read the full synopsis on the Royal Opera House website: https://bit.ly/3pHY9pf


SAT 20:25 Radio 3 in Concert (m001lzf3)
Total Immersion: Spotlight on Kaija Saariaho

The BBC Singers give the UK premiere of Reconnaissance conducted by Krista Audere, plus a chance to hear Saariaho's string quartet Terra Memoria performed by Guildhall Musicians.

Reconnaissance sets a text by Kaija Saariaho's son Aleksi Barrière and combines the BBC Singers with the quirky scoring of percussion and double bass. Barrière describes the piece as a 'Science Fiction Madrigal', a warning to us on planet Earth, and a work haunted and inspired by NASA images showing Mars, once criss-crossed with rivers and seas, now bone dry. Saariaho's fascination with the vocal writing of the Itkuvirsi tradition found in Karelia is on display in Nuits adieux, and combines voices with electronics in Tag des Jahrs. The Fibonacci Quartet from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama end the sequence with Terra memoria, a work that seems to communicate, often in the softest of whispers, with spirits and those who have left this world.

From two concerts recorded at Milton Court on Sunday 7th May 2023
Presented by Andrew McGregor


21.20
Performances by Guildhall Musicians at Milton Court Concert Hall in the Total Immersion day.

Kaija Saariaho: Terra Memoria
Fibonacci Quartet: Krystof Kohout & Luna De Mol (violins), Elliot Kempton (viola), Kosta Popovic (cello)

Kaija Saariaho: Miranda's Lament
Ana Balestra (soprano)
Jeff Yunzhe Wu (violin)
Beñat Erro Díez (clarinet)
Christopher Clark (harp)
Yat Hei Lee (double bass)


SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m001lzf5)
Helmut Lachenmann's String Quartet no. 2

New Music Show: Kate Molleson introduces the latest sounds in new music including the sound artist, Sara Pinheiro's live responses to the sound of a radio in her Reticencias, and the whisper-thin delicacies of German master, Helmut Lachenmann's String Quartet No. 2 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits.' Also tonight, in the Robert Worby Interview, Stephen Montague - who turned eighty earlier this year - talks to Robert about his work as a pianist, composer. As he says: "I write music to engage an audience, to seduce them sometimes by stealth...Variety is my oxygen." And, from Glasgow's Tectonics earlier in the month, Bunita Marcus's, '...but to fashion a lullaby for you...,' her elegiac love song for husband Morton Feldman.

SUNDAY 21 MAY 2023

SUN 00:00 Freeness (m001lzf7)
Voice as Source

Corey Mwamba shares improvised music and free jazz with the human voice at its centre, plus a specially-recorded conversation on the relationship between vocal sounds and instrumental improvisation with poet and cultural critic Fred Moten, bassist Brandon López and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Having recently released their self-titled debut album as a trio, the three artists discuss the dynamics and decisions at play when they come together in the moment to improvise, locating their work in the continuum of spoken word jazz records.

Alongside these reflections, there’s the chance to hear a kaleidoscopic collage from the newly-formed supergroup Adjunct Ensemble, led by composer Jamie Thompson and featuring the words of Nigerian-Irish poet Felicia Olusanya; and we go back to 1971 for a wild live session featuring free jazz vocalist Jeanne Lee, which will be released for the first time in June.

Elsewhere in the show, anarchic cut-up noise and vocal loops from Leeds-based artist Territorial Gobbing’s latest album How To Do Things With Words; plus a poem from Cecil Taylor’s record Chinampas, and sonic experiments with the breath courtesy of Italian sound artist Lorenzo Abattoir.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m001lzf9)
Kilar, Chopin and Beethoven from Lugano

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson joins Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and conductor Krzysztof Urbański in Chopin's Second Piano Concerto. Jonathan Swain presents.

01:01 AM
Wojciech Kilar (1931-2013)
Orawa, for string orchestra
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Krzysztof Urbański (conductor)

01:10 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, op. 21
Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Krzysztof Urbański (conductor)

01:45 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, op. 64/2
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

01:50 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 3 in E flat, op. 55 'Eroica'
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Krzysztof Urbański (conductor)

02:39 AM
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
Sinfonie in E flat, Vb.144
Concerto Koln

03:01 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Glagolitic mass
Andrea Dankova (soprano), Jana Sykorova (alto), Tomas Juhas (tenor), Jozef Benci (bass), Ales Barta (organ), Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tomas Netopil (conductor)

03:40 AM
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Pictures from an exhibition for piano
Fazil Say (piano)

04:13 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Ballad (Karelia suite, Op 11)
Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Jarvi (conductor)

04:21 AM
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Praeludium and allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani for violin and piano
Hyun-Mi Kim (violin), Seung-Hye Choi (piano)

04:26 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
'Va tacito e nascosto' (Giulio Cesare)
Graham Pushee (countertenor), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (artistic director)

04:33 AM
Ascanio Mayone (c. 1565 - 1627)
Partite sopra Fidele
Margret Koll (arpa doppia)

04:37 AM
Dario Castello (fl.1621-1629)
Sonata XVII in ecco
Musica Fiata Koln

04:44 AM
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
Trumpet Concerto in B flat, Op 7 no 3
Ivan Hadliyski (trumpet), Kamerorchester, Alipi Naydenov (conductor)

04:52 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Sonatina, Romance and Menuet from Six petites pieces faciles Op 3 Nos.1, 2 and 3
Antra Viksne (piano), Normunds Viksne (piano)

05:01 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Oboe Concerto in G minor
Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Camerata Koln

05:11 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Fantasia on an Irish song "The last rose of summer" for piano Op 15
Sylviane Deferne (piano)


05:28 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture in C minor D.8 for strings
Korean Chamber Orchestra

05:38 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Chanson perpetuelle (1898)
Lena Hoel (soprano), Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano), Yggdrasil String Quartet

05:47 AM
Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962)
Capriccio brillante for 3 flutes, Op 31
Vladislav Brunner Sr. (flute), Juraj Brunner (flute), Milan Brunner (flute)

05:56 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in G major, Op.18'2
Bartok String Quartet

06:20 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Chaconne for piano (Op.32)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)

06:30 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Concerto No 5 in A major, K 219 'Turkish'
James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m001lzfc)
Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m001lzff)
Sarah Walker with a fresh musical mix

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

Today, Sarah admires Paul Taffanel’s skilful writing for winds, and marvels at the intense sonorities of Natalya Tsupryk's choral music.

There’s also romantic drama in Ethel Smyth’s overture to the Boatswain’s Mate, and Dave Brubeck challenges us to keep up with his Unsquare Dance.

Plus, Antonín Dvořák whisks us off to a world of glittering chandeliers and twirling dresses with his Prague Waltzes...

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m001lzfh)
Norman Ackroyd

Artist and printmaker Norman Ackroyd was born in Leeds in 1938. He fell in love with the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, riding around on his bicycle as a young boy and studied art despite his father believing it was a waste of time. He is now one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary printmakers, with works in collections around the world including the Tate, Rijksmuseum and MoMA.

Norman has travelled all over the British Isles to visit what he calls "the farthest lands" which inspire his elemental etchings of rock formations in all weathers. His musical inspirations include Schubert, Beethoven, Bob Dylan and a BBC archive recording of Cwm Rhondda.


SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001lnzk)
Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien

The partnership between violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien (both former Radio 3 New Generation Artists) is a highly successful one. Here, they perform the first two of Schumann’s three violin sonatas, both composed towards the end of his life.

From London's Wigmore Hall
Presented by Hannah French

Robert Schumann: Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor, Op 105
Robert Schumann: Violin Sonata No 2 in D minor, Op 121

Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m001lzfk)
Handel & Hendrix in London

Lucie Skeaping visits Handel & Hendrix in London, which reopens this month after eighteen months of renovations that have created a new museum space that puts Handel's London home-life into gloriously colourful context.

Handel lived in the house in Brook Street for 35 years, where he not only entertained and rehearsed with a myriad of musicians and performers, but also just went about his daily life in what was then a relatively newly-built area of the capital. Lucie is joined by museum curator Simon Daniels, curator Claire Davies and research assistant Olwen Foulkes who will take her on a guided tour of the museum and some of its artefacts that help to shine a light on Handel's personal life as well as his musical achievements. She'll also dip into the world of Jimi Hendrix, who also lived in the house next door for a year in the late 1960s.

Plus, there'll be your weekly edition of Early Music News from Mark Seow.


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001lp3l)
St Martin-in-the-Fields

From St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on the Eve of the Ascension.

Introit: Let all the world (Greta Tomlins)
Responses: Matthew Wood
Psalm 89 (Woodward, Smart, Flintoft)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 23 vv.1-5
Office Hymn: Eternal monarch, King most high (Gonfalon Royal)
Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: Colossians 2 v.20 – 3 v.4
Anthem: God is gone up (Owain Park)
Prayer Anthem: Let my prayer come up into thy presence (Bairstow)
Hymn: Crown him with many crowns (Diademata)
Voluntary: Church bells beyond the stars (Cecilia McDowall)

Andrew Earis (Director of Music)
Polina Sosnina (Organist)


SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m001lzfm)
New discoveries and evergreen classics

Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with music from Trish Clowes, Oscar Peterson and Terence Blanchard.

Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.


SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m000v2js)
Tunes for 'Toons

Tom Service explores "tunes for 'toons" - the music that accompanies cartoons from the earliest Mickey Mouse to the sophisticated animations of today. Unlike conventional film soundtracks, cartoon music is often upfront and very much part of the manic action of cartoons. And that distinctive breakneck energy has inspired concert composers such as John Zorn. Tom talks to Daniel Goldmark, author of Tunes for 'Toons, about the music of Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s to the 1950s; and to Lolita Ritmanis, LA-based composer for many recent animations including Batman: The Animated Series.


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m001lzfp)
Long Life

Writings by Jan Morris, the world traveller who died in 2020 aged 94, begin and end this programme which explores the idea of longevity in humans and extraordinary lifespans in the natural world, such as whales, ocean quahogs and the redwood trees depicted in Richard Powers’ prize-winning novel 'The Overstory'. Timothy West and Eileen O’Brien also read extracts from Virginia Woolf, Tove Jansson and George Bernard Shaw’s play 'Back to Methuselah' – whom the Bible claims lived to 969, long beyond the “natural lifespan” of “threescore years and ten”.

Music ranges from Arvo Pärt’s 'Sarah Was Ninety Years Old' based on Abraham’s wife in the Book of Genesis, to an 'Elegy' by Elliott Carter who lived to be 103, and music performed by Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen who lived to 100, British harpist Sidonie Goossens who lived until she was 105, and the pianist Menahem Pressler who died at the age of 99 earlier this month.

Producers: Jenny Pitt and Lorna Newman

READINGS:
Jan Morris: In My Mind's Eye (A Thought Diary)
John Agard: Twilight Manoeuvring
Ruth Fainlight: Ageing
Joseph Edwards Carpenter: The King of the Southern Sea
Jonas Jonasson: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Tove Jansson: The Summer Book
Lewis Carroll: You Are Old, Father William
Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon (Musings of a Geriatric Starlet)
Matt Haig: How to Stop Time
Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography
WB Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
Steven N Austad: Methuselah's Zoo
Roger McGough: The Oldest Tree on Earth: The Curse of Methuselah (poem six)
George Bernard Shaw: Back to Methuselah
Diana Athill: Alive, Alive Oh! (And Other Things That Matter)
Richard Powers: The Overstory
Elaine Feinstein: Long Life
James Hilton: Lost Horizon

01
Speech: Jan Morris: In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary, read by Eileen O'Brien

02 00:02:00 Gustav Holst
Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age (from The Planets - suite Op.32)
Performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Duration 00:04:37

03 00:02:00
Speech: John Agard: Twilight Manoeuvring, read by Timothy West
Duration 00:04:37

04 00:07:34 Giuseppe Verdi
"When you are old and full of tears" (from Macbeth - opera in 4 acts)
Performer: Thomas Allen
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: David Parry
Duration 00:03:24

05 00:07:34
Speech: Ruth Fainlight: Ageing, read by Eileen O'Brien
Duration 00:03:24

06 00:12:25 Gioachino Rossini
Enough of Memories, Let's Dance [Sins of Old Age, vol.6 no.4]
Performer: Frederic Chiu
Duration 00:03:40

07 00:12:25
Speech: Joseph Edwards Carpenter: The King of the Southern Sea, read by Eileen O'Brien
Duration 00:03:40

08 00:17:18 Alan Hovhaness
And God created great whales Op.229
Performer: Seattle Symphony
Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
Duration 00:01:55

09 00:17:18
Speech: Jonas Jonasson: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, read by Timothy West
Duration 00:01:55

10 00:20:06 Peter Warlock
"The Old Codger" (from 4 Codpieces, arr. clarinet, trombone & piano)
Performer: John Bradbury
Performer: Richard Brown
Performer: Aly Zuntz
Duration 00:01:54

11 00:20:06
Speech: Tove Jansson: The Summer Book, read by Eileen O'Brien
Duration 00:01:54

12 00:22:57 Bill Withers
Grandma's Hands
Music Arranger: Booker T. Jones
Performer: Bill Withers
Duration 00:01:58

13 00:22:57
Speech: Lewis Carroll: You Are Old, Father William, read by Timothy West
Duration 00:01:58

14 00:26:22 Antonín Dvořák
Twilight Way (from Poetic tone pictures Op.85 for piano)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes
Duration 00:01:55

15 00:26:22
Speech: Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon (musings of a geriatric starlet), read by Eileen O'Brien
Duration 00:01:55

16 00:29:30 Aldous Harding
Designer
Performer: Aldous Harding
Performer: Gwion Llewelyn
Performer: H. Hawkline
Performer: John Parish
Performer: Stephen Black
Duration 00:03:35

17 00:29:30
Speech: Matt Haig: How to Stop Time, read by Timothy West
Duration 00:03:35

18 00:33:57 Michael Nyman
No time in eternity for countertenor and viol consort
Performer: Iestyn Davies
Performer: Fretwork
Duration 00:02:20

19 00:33:57
Speech: Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography, read by Eileen O'Brien
Duration 00:02:20

20 00:37:56 David Motion
Orlando - music for the film
Performer: Studio Orchestra
Duration 00:02:36

21 00:37:56
Speech: William Butler Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium, read by Timothy West
Duration 00:02:36

22 00:42:09 Frank Bridge
When you are old for voice and piano
Lyricist: William Butler Yeats
Performer: Peter Pears
Performer: Benjamin Britten
Duration 00:03:31

23 00:45:40 Arvo Pärt
Sarah was ninety years old for 3 voices, percussion and organ
Performer: Sarah Leonard
Performer: Rogers Covey‐Crump
Performer: John Potter
Performer: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
Performer: Pierre Favre
Duration 00:01:45

24 00:45:40
Speech: Steven N Austad: Methuselah's Zoo (excerpt about 'Ming' the quahog), read by Timothy West
Duration 00:01:45

25 00:48:53 Arvo Pärt
Sarah was ninety years old for 3 voices, percussion and organ
Performer: Sarah Leonard
Performer: Rogers Covey‐Crump
Performer: John Potter
Performer: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
Performer: Pierre Favre
Duration 00:01:34

26 00:48:53
Speech: Roger McGough: The Oldest Tree on Earth: The Curse of Methuselah (poem six), read by Eileen O'Brien
Duration 00:01:34

27 00:51:13 Elliott Carter
Elegy for viola and piano
Performer: Richard O'Neill
Performer: Anna Polonsky
Duration 00:04:23

28 00:51:13
Speech: George Bernard Shaw: Back to Methuselah, read by Timothy West, Eileen O'Brien and Barnaby Gordon
Duration 00:04:23

29 00:57:24 John Lewis
If I Were Eve
Performer: Svend Asmussen
Performer: John Lewis
Performer: Jimmy Woode
Performer: Sture Kallin
Duration 00:03:02

30 00:57:24
Speech: Diana Athill: Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter, read by Eileen O'Brien
Duration 00:03:02

31 01:01:24 Claude Debussy
Reverie for piano
Performer: Menahem Pressler
Duration 00:02:26

32 01:01:24
Speech: Richard Powers: The Overstory, read by Timothy West
Duration 00:02:26

33 01:05:44 Bernard van Dieren
Estemporale No.2 for harp
Performer: Sidonie Goossens
Duration 00:02:07

34 01:05:44
Speech: Elaine Feinstein: Long Life, read by Eileen O'Brien
Duration 00:02:07

35 01:08:45 Richard Strauss
‘Im Abendrot’ (At sunset) from Four Last Songs
Performer: Jessye Norman
Performer: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Conductor: Kurt Masur
Duration 00:02:07

36 01:08:45
Speech: James Hilton: Lost Horizon, read by Timothy West
Duration 00:02:07

37 01:08:45
Speech: Jan Morris: In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary, read by Eileen O'Brien
Duration 00:02:07


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (b043wpvd)
Clocks and Clouds: An Adventure Around György Ligeti

Thanks in part to the use of his music in the films of Stanley Kubrick, the Romanian-born composer György Ligeti, who was born in May 2023, has emerged as the most widely loved of post-war modernist composers. Already an elegant musical craftsman when he fled his communist homeland in 1956, he flourished amid the brave new world of musical possibilities that had opened up after the trauma of the Second World War.

Ligeti's diminutive figure contained many contradictions - the intellectual and the sensual, the systematic and the anarchic - and in 'Clocks and Clouds' we explore the man, his personal history as a Jew in Nazi- and then Soviet-occupied Hungary, his music and his legacy.

A recording of Ligeti himself from 1997, much of which had never been broadcast, is interwoven with new interviews from Ligeti's son Lukas, a New York-based composer and percussionist; Louise Duchesneau, the composer's assistant for over twenty years; American musical analyst Amy Bauer; British composer Christopher Fox, the Dublin-based academic Wolfgang Marx and Ligeti's pianist, Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3

First broadcast 25/05/2014


SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m001lzfr)
The Women of Troy

Troy is lost. The great city is in ruins. All its men are dead, and its women await their fate at the hands of the Greek victors. Among them is Hecuba whose sons have all been killed in battle, and whose daughters are in present danger.

This powerful drama examines the aftermath of war and asks if hope can be found in the face of immense grief and cruelty.

In Linda Marshall Griffiths’s contemporary set re-imagining of Euripides's powerful anti-war drama the chorus of women are led by a female journalist Sappho and the other voices are those of the women all over the city who are recording and broadcasting their testimonies on social media so that the world can witness what is happening to them.

A reminder that war is a thing of the present. The suffering endured by the women of Troy is still being endured by female victims of military action today. It is also a reminder of the continued repression of women’s rights and threat to women’s liberties globally.

HECUBA.....Maxine Peake
SAPPHO.....Christine Bottomley
CASSANDRA.....Sade Malone
ANDROMACHE.....Anneika Rose
HELEN.....Ntombizodwa Ndlovu
MENELAUS.....Tachia Newall
TALTHYBIUS.....Rupert Hill
POSEIDON / JOURNALIST.....Andonis Anthony
ATHENA.....Jenny Platt
PROTESTER.....Sacha Parkinson
CHORUS OF WOMEN.....Jessica Bellamy, Helena Braithwaite, Phoebe Licorish, Sacha Parkinson, Jenny Platt, Anneika Rose and members of the Royal Exchange Young Company: Linnae Yllane Abraham, Ellie Banton, Alicia Deighton, Kiara Kiandra, Liliana Newsom-Smith, Obesi Osi-Iyere, Urmila Patel, Sharvi Rana, Jack So.
SOLDIERS.....Andonis Anthony, Rupert Hill, Tachia Newall, Harvey Weedon.

The Women of Troy by Euripides in a new version by Linda Marshall Griffiths
Sound Design by Sharon Hughes
Directed by Nadia Molinari

A BBC Audio Drama North Production


SUN 20:50 Record Review Extra (m001lzft)
Mahler's Rückert-Lieder

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, Mahler's Rückert-Lieder.


SUN 23:00 The Story of the Little Book (m001lzfw)
3. Opera and its text in our time

How should we define what an opera is? According to librettist and opera producer Emma Jenkins, it is nothing more nor nothing less than "a story told to music". In this final episode of Emma's reflections on the nature of the libretto and the history of librettists she brings things into the modern age where breaks in convention have provided exciting new possibiltites for today's creators of opera. In the age of cinema, rolling news, TV, and things digital, a whole new range of possibilties have been opened up regarding how a story might be told when drama and music come together. The programme features the work of librettists WH Auden and Chester Kallman, Meredith Oakes, Martin Crimp, April de Angelis, Alice Goodman, Stephen Sondheim, David Pountney and Randolph Stow ; with the music of Igor Stravinsky, Mark Anthony Turnage, Michael Tippett, Thomas Ades, George Benjamin, Jonathon Dove, John Adams, Stephen Sondheim, Peter Maxwell Davis, and Kamala Sankaram.

MONDAY 22 MAY 2023

MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m001lzfy)
Kate Silverton

For Mental Health Awareness Week, Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for former TV anchor turned child therapist Kate Silverton.

Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries.

Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.


MON 00:30 Through the Night (m001lzg0)
Proms Festival Orchestra at the 2021 Proms

The inaugural concert from the Proms Festival Orchestra, made up entirely of freelance musicians. Mark Wigglesworth conducts Shostakovich and Mahler. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Festive Overture in A major, Op.96
Proms Festival Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

12:37 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor
Proms Festival Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

01:46 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Quartet for strings in E flat major (Op.127)
Oslo Quartet

02:31 AM
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op 20
Anatol Ugorski (piano), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Gunther Schuller (conductor)

03:02 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in C major (KA.171)
Ulla Miilmann (flute), Kroger Quartet

03:21 AM
Wojciech Kilar (1931-2013)
Orawa for string orchestra (1988) (Vivo)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)

03:30 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Two Love Songs
Elmer Iseler Singers, Claire Preston (piano), Lydia Adams (director)

03:35 AM
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Symphony in A major
I Cameristi Italiani

03:45 AM
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
En habit de cheval
Pianoduo Kolacny (piano duo), Steven Kolacny (piano), Stijn Kolacny (piano)

03:51 AM
Vitezslav Novak (1870-1949)
V Tatrach (In the Tatra mountains) - symphonic poem (Op.26)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)

04:09 AM
Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-1784)
Ex Tractatu Sancti Augustini - Motet
Maria Sanner (contralto), Hager Hanana (cello), Komale Akakpo (psalter), Dagmara Kapczynska (harpsichord), Joanna Boslak-Gorniok (organ)

04:21 AM
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Variations on 'Mein junges Leben hat ein End'
Academic Wind Quintet

04:31 AM
Luka Sorkocevic (1734-1789)
Sinfonie in D major
Salzburger Hofmusik, Wolfgang Brunner (organ), Wolfgang Brunner (director)

04:38 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Introduction and rondo capriccioso (Op.28), arr. for violin & piano
Taik-Ju Lee (violin), Young-Lan Han (piano)

04:47 AM
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), Bible (author)
Magnificat
Cantus Colln, Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Graham Pushee (countertenor), Wilfred Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Christoph Anselm Noll (organ), Konrad Junghanel (director)

04:53 AM
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
Jane Grey Fantasy, Op 15
Scott Dickinson (viola), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Teresa Riveiro Bohm (conductor)

05:04 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op 35 No 1
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

05:14 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Leopold Stokowski (orchestrator)
Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV 565, orch. Stokowski
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Emil Tabakov (conductor)

05:25 AM
Peire D'Alvernhe (fl.1149-1170)
Dejosta'ls breus jorns e'ls loncs sers
Barbara Thornton (vocalist)

05:35 AM
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Le Temple de la Gloire, orchestral suites opera-ballet (1745)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)

06:05 AM
Ernst Mielck (1877-1899)
String Quintet in F major, Op 3
Erkki Palola (violin), Anne Paavilainen (violin), Matti Hirvikangas (viola), Teema Kupiainen (viola), Risto Poutanen (cello)


MON 06:30 Breakfast (m001lzg2)
Monday - Petroc's classical alternative

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m001lzg4)
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.


MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001lzg6)
György Ligeti (1923-2006)

Frontiers

Kate Molleson explores György Ligeti's formative years with guest contributor pianist Danny Driver. Music includes two early works, Musica ricercata for solo piano and the Romanian Concerto.

Known to millions through the film director Stanley Kubrick's use of his music in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ligeti's music reflects the seismic events taking place in central Europe in the mid-20th century - shifting borders, war, totalitarianism and for many, exile. These harrowing experiences all made a deep imprint on him and his music. He was born in 1923 into a Jewish Hungarian family in an area that had become part of Romanian Transylvania. After years of state repression, in 1956 at the onset of the Hungarian revolution, Ligeti made a dramatic escape on foot to the West. Freed from state intervention, he was to remain artistically and personally independent of any particular orthodoxies for the rest of his life. He died in 2006 at the age of 83.

Ligeti regarded the whole world as the material for his music. He was fascinated by anything and everything: philosophy, science, the arts, literature - Alice in Wonderland was one of his favourite books. His music can be playful, at times wickedly macabre. He loved patterns, he loved rhythm, he dived into mathematical concepts of immense complexity but was equally curious about history, folklore, the cosmos and the natural world. The week includes many of Ligeti's best loved works including the sonata for cello, Apparitions, Lontano, Clocks and Clouds and Melodien. From the piano, Danny Driver, a huge Ligeti enthusiast, opens up the magical universe Ligeti creates in his piano music, with a special focus on the three sets of piano studies.

While music, science, literature and folk music were all part of young György's childhood, when it came to choosing a career, his father believed a career in medicine or chemistry was the right route for his talented son.

Musica ricercata
IV. Tempo de Valse (poco vivace - à l'orgue de Barbarie)
Mei Yi Foo, piano

Lux aeterna
Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss, conductor

Three Wedding Dances for two pianos (Hàrom lakodalmi tánc)
No. 1, A kapuban a szekér
No. 2, Hopp ide tisztán
No. 3, Csángó forgós
Irina Kataeva, piano
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Romanian Concerto
I: Andantino
II: Allegro vivace
III: Adagio ma non troppo
IV: Molto vivace
Berlin Philharmonic

Piano Concerto
I: I. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso
II. Lento e deserto
III: Vivace cantabile
Joonas Ahonen, piano
BIT20 Ensemble
Baldur Brönnimann, conductor

Musica ricercata nos 3 to 8
III: Allegro con spirito
IV: Tempo de Valse (po
VI. Allegro molto capriccioso
VII. Cantabile, molto legato
VIII. Vivace. Energico
Mei Yi Foo, piano

Producer: Johannah Smith


MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001lzg8)
Sitkovetsky Trio

The ensemble won the chamber category of the 2022 BBC Music Magazine Awards with its recording of works by Ravel and Saint-Saëns. Together with music by Mendelssohn and a Beethoven rarity, the trio brings a work by the young Irish composer Sam Perkin, inspired by an internment camp in Wales that held Irish Republicans in 1916 .

Live from London's Wigmore Hall
Presented by Hannah French

Sam Perkin: Freakshow
Ludwig van Beethoven: Allegretto in B flat, WoO 39
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 2 in C minor, Op 66

Sitkovetsky Trio


MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001lzgb)
Rite of Spring from Denmark

Ian Skelly introduces an afternoon of recordings from around Europe.

Throughout this week, Ian is featuring ensembles and artists from Denmark and Sweden. The week begins with a performance of Stravinsky's ground-breaking ballet score The Rite of Spring, featuring the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of rising star Stanislav Kochanovsky. The same orchestra and conductor performs Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, composed almost twenty years before Stravinsky's ballet, and in its own way just as revolutionary. Ian also has music from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, including Beethoven's Eighth Symphony with Paavo Järvi conducting. And there's rare German choral music from the 1500s, courtesy of the vocal ensemble Singer Pur.

Including:

Mozart: Overture to 'Lucio Silla'
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi, director

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Stanislav Kochanovsky, conductor

Camille Pépin: Les Eaux célestes
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Ludwig Senfl: Spiritus Sanctus in te descendet; Santa Maria Virgo, intercede
Singer Pur

c.3pm
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Stanislav Kochanovsky, conductor

Ludwig Daser: Ecce quam bonum
Singer Pur
Ensemble Leones

c.4pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi, conductor


MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m001lzgd)
Cellist Anastasia Kobekina plays solo Bach

Chamber Music from Radio 3's New Generation Artists: Cellist Anastasia Kobekina plays Bach's Third Suite for solo cello. The formidable pianist Alexander Gadjiev has an international reputation for his magnificent playing and interpretation of the music of Chopin, and before the solo Bach we'll hear him in Chopin's Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38.

Chopin
Ballade No 2 in F, Op 38
Alexander Gadjiev, (piano)

JS Bach
Suite No. 3 in C for Cello Solo, BWV 1009
Anastasia Kobekina (cello)


MON 17:00 In Tune (m001lzgg)
Eímear Noone, The King's Singers

Video game music is performed more and more in the concert hall: a specialist of the genre, conductor Eímear Noone talks to Sean Rafferty ahead of her concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

In their new album 'When You Wish Upon a Star', The King's Singers explore iconic songs from Disney films; they join Sean Rafferty and perform some magical tunes in the studio.


MON 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m000gd6c)
Your daily classical soundtrack

Vivaldi's Concerto for two violins contrasts with Max Richter's contemplative Mercy. Plus, Romantic vocal music from Wagner and Verdi, and English music from Vaughan Williams and Arnold.

Producer: Nick Holmes

01 00:00:05 Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, RV 511 (1st mvt)
Performer: Viktoria Mullova
Performer: Giuliano Carmignola
Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Duration 00:04:33

02 00:04:38 Richard Wagner
Im Treibhaus (Wesendonck Lieder arr Mottl)
Singer: Jonas Kaufmann
Orchestra: Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Duration 00:06:04

03 00:10:42 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sea Songs
Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Conductor: George Hurst
Duration 00:03:46

04 00:14:29 Max Richter
Mercy
Performer: Hilary Hahn
Performer: Cory Smythe
Duration 00:05:25

05 00:19:49 Malcolm Arnold
Brass Quintet no.1, Op.73 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Duration 00:03:55

06 00:23:41 Giuseppe Verdi
Chorus of the Bohemians and Matadors (La traviata)
Conductor: Aldo Ceccato
Choir: The John Alldis Choir
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration 00:05:45


MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001lzgl)
Mozart's Great Mass from Berlin

Philippe Herreweghe conducts two Mozart masterpieces in Berlin.
The great Flemish period-instrument specialist brings his Collegium Vocale Ghent to the Berlin Philharmonie to perform Mozart's 'Great' Mass in C minor. The brilliant soprano, Katharina Konradi gets to sing the sublime 'Et incarnatus est,' written for Mozart's future wife, Constance and the choir shows off Mozart's new-found interest in the music of JS Bach in the fugues and other contrapuntal devices of the double choruses. Before this, the Berlin Symphony Radio Orchestra plays Mozart's stupendous final symphony, with its exhilarating fugal finale.

Presented by Fiona Talkington

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551 ('Jupiter')
Mozart Mass in C minor, K. 427 ('Great')

Katharina Konradi (soprano)
Eva Zaïcik (soprano)
Ilker Arcayürek (tenor)
Mikhail Timoshenko (bass)
Collegium Vocale Ghent
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

rec. Berlin Philhamonie on 12 March 2023


MON 21:00 Ultimate Calm (m001lzgn)
Ólafur Arnalds: Series 2

Music from the heart feat. JFDR

Join Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds for another unique musical adventure to seek out that all too elusive feeling of calm.

For this episode, Ólafur shares music from the heart with a selection of soothing songs related to love. Music is often the way that people express their love for others, whether romantic, platonic or familial, when we don’t have the words to describe it. Ólafur shares heart-shaped tracks from Sandrayati, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou and Kjartan Sveinsson, and reflects on his own relationship with music and the matters of the heart - “every song that I’ve ever made has been for love”.

Plus, the Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist JFDR selects her sonic safe haven - the piece of music that brings her ultimate calm. She chooses a track by a friend of hers that transports her to a certain time of her life, that is both meditative and meaningful for her.

Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds


MON 22:00 Music Matters (m001lzdq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 on Saturday]


MON 22:45 The Essay (m001lzgq)
Death in Trieste

1. The Strange Case of Signor Gioanni

Murder! In hotel room ten, with a rope and a knife. By a fellow guest. If this were Cluedo, we’d have given the game away. But it’s true crime, turned cultural history. And travelogue: Seán Williams follows in the footsteps of the most famous art historian of all time. The German Johann Winckelmann – killed in Italy, in June 1768.

In a series that takes us to Trieste, Venice, and Rome, Seán uncovers skeletons in the closet. One crime becomes a way of conceiving a certain sort of life, death, art. Winckelmann’s end has written the script for a classic gay tragedy that has been adapted over the centuries. It’s a dramatic story told by Goethe, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Mann, to name but a few.

But what are the facts of this fiction? Ranging from supposedly tolerant and intellectual Enlightenment Europe to the nonchalant nineties, and to Italy today – where the government are ramping up anti-LGBT rhetoric – Seán asks what it means that a historic murder has become cultural myth. To us. To him. Because it was also Winckelmann the historian who taught us a haunting truth. We always read art of the past personally, in the present.

The programme was made with the help of the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, Università Ca' Foscari; Marzia Vidulli, Museo Winckelmann, Trieste; Grand Hotel Duchi D'Aosta, Trieste; Villa Albani-Torlonia, Rome; the University of Sheffiel and Marcello Cattaneo.

In Part One, we learn about the incognito couple involved in the murder.


MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m001lzgs)
Night music

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

TUESDAY 23 MAY 2023

TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m001lzgv)
De Sabata, Rachmaninov and Chausson from Monte Carlo

Pianist Nicholas Angelich with conductor Kazuki Yamada and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Victor De Sabata (1892-1967)
Gethsemani
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)

12:55 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, op. 1
Nicholas Angelich (piano), Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)

01:28 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Symphony in B flat, op. 20
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)

02:04 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Trio for clarinet or viola, cello and piano (Op.114) in A minor
Svilen Simeonov (clarinet), Anatoli Krastev (cello), Mina Ivanova (piano)

02:31 AM
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)
Concerto for keyboard and strings in A major (1779)
Linda Nicholson (fortepiano), Florilegium Collinda

02:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Jesu, meine Freude - motet (BWV.227)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)

03:10 AM
Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Horn Sonata in E flat major, Op 178
Martin Van der Merwe (horn), Huib Christiaanse (piano)

03:31 AM
Anonymous
5 Cantos: Canto di lanzi venturieri; Canto ti lanzi sonatori di rubechine; Canto di lanzi venturieri; Canto dei capi tondi; Carro della morte
Ensemble Claude Gervaise, Gilles Plante (director)

03:39 AM
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Fantasia and Toccata in D minor
David Drury (organ)

03:52 AM
Bozidar Kunc (1903-1964)
Tryptich for cello and orchestra (Op.40) (1941)
Monica Leskhovar (cello), Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)

04:03 AM
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Automne, Op 35 No 2
Valerie Tryon (piano)

04:11 AM
Edward Pallasz (1936-2019)
Epitafium
Polish Radio Choir, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)

04:19 AM
Alberta Suriani (1920-1977)
Partita for harp
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)

04:31 AM
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Eccomi in lieta vesta ... Oh! Quante volte, from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Adriana Marfisi (soprano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)

04:41 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Ligita Sneibe (organ)

04:49 AM
Christoph Demantius (1567-1643)
Intraden und Tanze - from Conviviorum Deliciae, Nuremberg 1608
Hortus Musicus, Andres Mustonen (director)

04:59 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Concert waltz for orchestra No 1 Op 47 in D major
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)

05:08 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Jezus es a kufarok
Hungarian Radio Chorus, Janos Ferencsik (conductor)

05:15 AM
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Moses fantaisie (after Rossini) arr. unknown for double bass and piano
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)

05:23 AM
Augusta Holmes (1847-1903)
Roland Furieux, Symphony after Ariosto
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Valentina Peleggi (conductor)

05:50 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in C minor (Hob.XVI/20)
Andreas Staier (pianoforte)

06:08 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Deus, judicium tuum, TWV 7:7 - grand motet after Psalm 71
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble, Jorg Andreas Botticher (conductor), Jorg Andreas Botticher (harpsichord)


TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m001lzch)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical alarm call

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m001lzck)
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.


TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001lzcm)
György Ligeti (1923-2006)

Risk and Reward

Kate Molleson explores György Ligeti's arrival in the west, which brought the composer new opportunities. He set the musical world alight with Apparitions and went on to create the atmospheric soundscape of Lontano. With guest contributor, pianist Danny Driver.

Known to millions through the film director Stanley Kubrick's use of his music in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ligeti's music reflects the seismic events taking place in central Europe in the mid-20th century - shifting borders, war, totalitarianism and for many, exile. These harrowing experiences all made a deep imprint on him and his music. He was born in 1923 into a Jewish Hungarian family in an area that had become part of Romanian Transylvania. After years of state repression, in 1956 at the onset of the Hungarian revolution, Ligeti made a dramatic escape on foot to the West. Freed from state intervention, he was to remain artistically and personally independent of any particular orthodoxies for the rest of his life. He died in 2006 at the age of 83.

Ligeti regarded the whole world as the material for his music. He was fascinated by anything and everything: philosophy, science, the arts, literature - Alice in Wonderland was one of his favourite books. His music can be playful, at times wickedly macabre. He loved patterns, he loved rhythm, he dived into mathematical concepts of immense complexity but was equally curious about history, folklore, the cosmos and the natural world. The week includes many of Ligeti's best loved works including the sonata for cello, Apparitions, Lontano, Clocks and Clouds and Melodien. From the piano, Danny Driver, a huge Ligeti enthusiast, opens up the magical universe Ligeti creates in his piano music, with a special focus on the three sets of piano studies.

Social unrest in Hungary was growing, and by the autumn of 1956 it was clear that the occupying Russian forces' hold over the country was insecure. In the freezing cold early weeks of December, Ligeti and his wife Vera embarked on a perilous journey.

Musica ricercata (excerpt)
I: Sostenuto
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Cello Sonata
II: Capriccio. Presto con slancio
Natalie Clein, cello

Apparitions
II: Agitato
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Peter Eötvös, conductor

Musica ricercata nos 9 to 11
Pierre Laurent Aimard, piano
No. 9, Adagio – Mesto ded. To Bartok
No. 10, Vivace – Capriccioso
No. 11, Andante misurato e tranquillo, Omaggio a Frescobaldi
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Lontano
Berlin Philharmonic
Jonathan Nott, conductor

Three Pieces for Two Pianos
Monument
Selbstportrait
Bewegung
Alessio Bax, piano
Lucille Chung, piano

Producer: Johannah Smith


TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001lzcq)
World of Classical (1/4)

Violinist Jennifer Pike joins Indian maestros and sarod players Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash with tabla player Anubrata Chatterjii to perform folk music from Bengal and Assam, tributes to the poet and composer Rabindranath Tagore, Ragas composed by Sarod master Amjad Ali Khan as well as solo violin music by J.S. Bach. Recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and presented by Stephen Broad.

JS Bach: Preludio from Partita No. 3 in E for solo violin BWV1006
Folk music from Bengal and Assam: selection of Bhatiyali and Raga Kamage

Amjad Ali Khan: Sacred Evening (Raga Yaman)
Amjad Ali Khan: Romancing Earth (Raga Pilu)

Jennifer Pike – violin
Amaan Ali Bangash – sarod
Ayaan Ali Bangash – sarod
Anubrata Chatterjii – tabla

Stephen Broad - Presenter
Laura Metcalfe - Producer


TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001lzcs)
Haydn and Brahms with Leonidas Kavakos

Ian Skelly introduces more recordings from around Europe, with a focus this week on music making in Denmark and Sweden.

Today Ian has recordings from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in which the violinist Leonidas Kavakos steps up to the podium to conduct symphonies by Brahms and Haydn. Also on the bill, a chance to hear Jonas Frølund as soloist in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, one of the composer's last completed works before his untimely death, performed by an orchestra and conductor renowned for their recordings of Mozart's complete symphonies - the Danish Chamber Orchestra and Adám Fischer. There's more Mozart, as Ian introduces a recording from January's Mozart Week in Salzburg, and BBC New Generation Artists collaborate in music by Boccherini.

Including:

Mozart: Overture to 'Ascanio in Alba'
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi, director

Haydn: Symphony No 64 in A major
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Leonidas Kavakos, conductor

Monteverdi: La Sestina (extract)
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Grete Pedersen, conductor

Regis Campo: The Wonder of Life
RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Robert Trevino, conductor

c. 3pm
Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Leonidas Kavakos, conductor

Boccherini: Fandango from Quintet in D major
Danish String Quartet
Sean Shibe (guitar)

c. 4pm
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K 622
Jonas Frølund (clarinet)
Danish Chamber Orchestra
Adám Fischer, conductor


TUE 17:00 In Tune (m001lzcv)
Simon Halsey, Solem Quartet

Between London and Birmingham, conductor Simon Halsey joins Sean Rafferty ahead of his upcoming concerts conducting Mozart and Beethoven.

Ahead of their concerts at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, the Solem Quartet performs live in the studio.


TUE 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001lzcx)
The perfect classical half hour

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music. This edition of the Classical Mixtape opens with de Morales's iconic Parce Mihi Domine, performed by saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble, before moving onto another classical reimagining: a Recomposed Bach Prelude by cellist-composer Peter Gregson. There's orchestral music from Respighi and Copland and choral harmonies from chamber ensemble Voces8 and the huge choir of Brahms's A German Requiem. The mix closes with a filmic take on Elgar's Nimrod, from the soundtrack to Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.

Producer: Christina Kenny for BBC Audio




TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m001lzd1)
Linda Grant and Jewish history

A Baltic forest in 1913, Soho and the suburbs of Liverpool and the Jewish community that grows up there are the settings for Linda Grant's new novel The Story of the Forest. She joins presenter John Gallagher, Rachel Lichtenstein and Julia Pascal for a conversation about writing and Jewish identity in the north west as we also hear about Julia Pascal's play Manchester Girlhood and look at the re-opening of the Manchester Jewish Museum with curator Alex Cropper.

Producer in Salford: Nick Holmes

https://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/ has re-opened after a £6 million redevelopment

Dr Rachel Lichtenstein is a writer, curator who teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Jewish Studies
http://www.juliapascal.org/

You can find other Free Thinking discussions about Jewish history and identity, including:

Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, Howard Jacobson and Bari Weiss on Jewish Identity in 2020

Simon Schama and Devorah Baum on Jewish history and jokes
Howard Jacobson delivering a lecture on Why We Need The Novel and talking to Philip Dodd about his dystopian novel J

Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger and New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeevor from the Pears Institute discussing stereotypes and also anti-Semitism

Matthew Sweet in conversation with David Grossman

Jonathan Freedland exploring Jewish identity in fiction from Amos Oz, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen & Jonathan Safran Foer

Linda Grant alongside AD Miller, Boris Dralyuk, and Diana Vonnak discussing Odessa Stories and the writing of Isaac Babel.


TUE 22:45 The Essay (m001lzd3)
Death in Trieste

2. The Trial

Murder! In hotel room ten, with a rope and a knife. By a fellow guest. If this were Cluedo, we’d have given the game away. But it’s true crime, turned cultural history. And travelogue: Seán Williams follows in the footsteps of the most famous art historian of all time. The German Johann Winckelmann – killed in Italy, in June 1768.

In a series that takes us to Trieste, Venice, and Rome, Seán uncovers skeletons in the closet. One crime becomes a way of conceiving a certain sort of life, death, art. Winckelmann’s end has written the script for a classic gay tragedy that has been adapted over the centuries. It’s a dramatic story told by Goethe, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Mann, to name but a few.

But what are the facts of this fiction? Ranging from supposedly tolerant and intellectual Enlightenment Europe to the nonchalant nineties, and to Italy today – where the government are ramping up anti-LGBT rhetoric – Seán asks what it means that a historic murder has become cultural myth. To us. To him. Because it was also Winckelmann the historian who taught us a haunting truth. We always read art of the past personally, in the present.

Part 2: Sean explores the detail and the speed of the trial reported across Europe.


TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m001lzd6)
Around midnight

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

WEDNESDAY 24 MAY 2023

WED 00:30 Through the Night (m001lzd8)
Bulgarian National and Cyrillic Day

Memory Eternal - eastern Orthodox polyphony from Bulgaria. Jonathan Swain presents

12:31 AM
Alexander Dmitriyevich Kastalsky (1856-1926)
Excerpts from 'Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes'
Mihail Mihailov (tenor), Emil Dakov (bass), Svetoslav Obretenov National Philharmonic Choir, Miroslav Popsavov (conductor)

12:52 AM
Dmitry Bortniansky (1751-1825)
Lord, Make Me Know My End
Svetoslav Obretenov National Philharmonic Choir, Miroslav Popsavov (conductor)

01:02 AM
Alexander Arkhangelsky (1846-1924)
Blessed is he that considereth the poor
Mihail Mihailov (tenor), Svetoslav Obretenov National Philharmonic Choir, Miroslav Popsavov (conductor)

01:09 AM
Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944)
God is With Us, for tenor and chorus, op. 40/6
Mihail Mihailov (tenor), Svetoslav Obretenov National Philharmonic Choir, Miroslav Popsavov (conductor)

01:13 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
24 Preludes for piano, Op 28
Nikita Magaloff (piano)

01:50 AM
Tsvetan Tsvetanov (1931-1982)
Theme and Variations for string quartet (1959)
Avramov String Quartet, Vladimir Avramov (violin), Stoyan Sertev (violin), Stefan Magnev (viola), Konstantin Kugiyski (cello)

01:57 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Sonata for violin and piano (Op.134)
Vesko Eschkenazy (violin), Ludmil Angelov (piano)

02:31 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No.5 (Op.100)
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor)

03:12 AM
Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978)
Variations on the Bulgarian Folk Song "Gorda Stara Pianina", Op 3
Krassimir Gatev (piano)

03:37 AM
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824)
Duo concertante in C major
Alexandar Avramov (violin), Ivan Peev (violin)

03:46 AM
Johann Christoph Pezel (1639-1694)
Sonatina for 2 trumpets and organ in B major
Ivan Hadliyski (trumpet), Roman Hajiyski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)

03:50 AM
Petko Stainov (1896-1977)
The Secret of the Struma River - ballad for men's choir (1931)
Gusla Men's Choir, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)

03:57 AM
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Danzon Cubano vers. for 2 pianos
Aglika Genova (piano), Liuben Dimitrov (piano)

04:04 AM
Dobri Hristov (1875-1941)
Heruvimska pesen No 4 (Cherubic Song)
Polyphonia

04:11 AM
Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978)
Aquarelles, for clarinet and piano, Op 37 (1942)
Dancho Radevski (clarinet), Mario Angelov (piano)

04:19 AM
Boyan Ikonomov (1900-1973)
Days on the river Drava - Heroic Overture
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Kadin (conductor)

04:31 AM
Petronio Franceschini (1650-1680)
Sonata for 2 trumpets, strings & basso continuo in D major
Yordan Kojuharov (trumpet), Petar Ivanov (trumpet), Teodor Moussev (organ), Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Yordan Dafov (conductor)

04:39 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Prelude and Fugue No.1 in E minor (Op.35)
Shura Cherkassky (piano)

04:49 AM
Plamen Djourov (b.1949)
Two Ballades, Nos. I & IV
Eolina Quartet

04:58 AM
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
3 songs "Der du von dem Himmel", "Koeniglich Gebet" & "Dank des Paria"
Albena Kechlibareva Bernstein (mezzo soprano), Stefan Dalchev (organ)

05:06 AM
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Trois Pieces Breves
Academic Wind Quintet

05:14 AM
Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889)
Tarantella
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)

05:20 AM
Veselin Stoyanov (1902-1969)
Grotesque Suite from 'Bai Ganju' (1941)
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Dobrin Petkov (conductor)

05:46 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Piano Sonata in B minor (Op.5)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

06:10 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Holberg suite Op 40 vers. for string orchestra
Sofia Soloists, Plamen Djourov (conductor)


WED 06:30 Breakfast (m001lzgx)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m001lzgz)
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.


WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001lzh1)
György Ligeti (1923-2006)

Time Past and Present

György Ligeti's technical and aesthetic investigations find expression in the first set of piano études and Clocks and Clouds, the result of attending a philosophical lecture.

Known to millions through the film director Stanley Kubrick's use of his music in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ligeti's music reflects the seismic events taking place in central Europe in the mid-20th century - shifting borders, war, totalitarianism and for many, exile. These harrowing experiences all made a deep imprint on him and his music. He was born in 1923 into a Jewish Hungarian family in an area that had become part of Romanian Transylvania. After years of state repression, in 1956 at the onset of the Hungarian revolution, Ligeti made a dramatic escape on foot to the West. Freed from state intervention, he was to remain artistically and personally independent of any particular orthodoxies for the rest of his life. He died in 2006 at the age of 83.

Ligeti regarded the whole world as the material for his music. He was fascinated by anything and everything: philosophy, science, the arts, literature - Alice in Wonderland was one of his favourite books. His music can be playful, at times wickedly macabre. He loved patterns, he loved rhythm, he dived into mathematical concepts of immense complexity but was equally curious about history, folklore, the cosmos and the natural world. The week includes many of Ligeti's best loved works including the sonata for cello, Apparitions, Lontano, Clocks and Clouds and Melodien. From the piano, Danny Driver, a huge Ligeti enthusiast, opens up the magical universe Ligeti creates in his piano music, with a special focus on the three sets of piano studies.

During the 1980s, Ligeti was taking stock, hungry for new ideas. His research encompassed the player-piano wizardry of Conlon Nancarrow, the music of central Africa and the 14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut. The results of his enquiries set the musical world alight. With guest contributor pianist Danny Driver.

Études, Book 1
No 3, Touches bloquées (excerpt)
Danny Driver, piano

Ligeti: Chamber Concerto for 13 instruments
I. Corrente (Fliessend)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Pierre Boulez, director

Études for piano, book 1, nos 1 to 6
I. Désordres
II. Cordes à vides
III. Touches bloquées
IV. Fanfare
V. Arc-en-çiel
VI. Automne à Varsovie
Danny Driver, piano

Clocks and Clouds
Cappella Amsterdam
Asko / Schönberg Ensemble
Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor

Producer: Johannah Smith


WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001lzh3)
World of Classical (2/4)

The outstanding Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang (former winner of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World) joins pianist Simon Lepper to perform poetry from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), in settings by British, Czech, French, Swedish and Chinese composers.

Recorded in the Stevenson Hall of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and presented by Stephen Broad.

Einem: 5 songs from the Chinese Op.8 No.2 - In der Fremde
Webern: 4 Songs Op.12 No.2 - Die geheimnisvolle Flöte
Röntgen: Chinese Songs from Hans Bethge Op.66 No.3 - Der Pavillion aus Porzellan
Gál: 5 Songs for middle voice and piano Op.33 No.5 - Abend auf dem Fluß
Sjögren: Wenn nur ein Traum das Dasein ist, Op.54 No.1
Rangström: Afskedet
Warlock: Saudade No.1 - Along the Stream
Griffes: 5 Poems of Ancient China and Japan Op.10 No.5 - The Old Temple Among the Mountains
Carpenter: Four Chinese tone poems - No.1 The Odalisque
Lambert: Four Poems by Li-Po - No.1 A Summer Day
Scott: A Song of Wine, Op.46 No.3
Koch: Vårnattsregnet from ‘The Wild Swan’
Roussel: 2 Poèmes Chinois, Op.35 – No.1Des Fleur font une Broderie
Haas: 4 Songs on Old Chinese Poems – No.3 Daleko měsíc je od domova
Yinghai: A Night Mooring by Maple Bridge

Shenyang - bass baritone
Simon Lepper - piano

Stephen Broad - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer


WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001lzh5)
From Denmark to Sweden

Ian Skelly introduces recordings from around Europe.

Continuing his week of music from Denmark and Sweden, Ian crosses the Øresund Bridge from Copenhagen to Malmö, with a Danish composer and Swedish orchestra - Nielsen's Fourth Symphony, 'The Inextinguishable', his celebration of the will to live, played by the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Bancroft. Just a little way up the coast, the Helsingborg Guitar Festival takes place, and Ian has recordings from the 2023 edition, featuring Swedish guitar duo Mats Bergström and Göran Söllscher. And there are further recordings from the Mozart Week which took place this January in Salzburg.

Including:

Lennon & McCartney arr. Brouwer: Penny Lane; She's Leaving Home
Mats Bergström, guitar
Göran Söllscher, guitar

Bechara El-Khoury: Flute concerto No 2 (Nordic Dreams)
Ulla Miilmann, flute
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor

Mozart: Symphony No 11 in D major, K 84
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi, director

c. 3pm
Nielsen: Symphony No 4, Op 29 (The Inextinguishable)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Bancroft, conductor

Bo Nilsson arr. Mats Bergström: Arctic Romance
Leo Brouwer: Micropiezas
Mats Bergström, guitar
Göran Söllscher, guitar


WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m001lzh7)
St Paul's Cathedral

Live from St Paul’s Cathedral, London.

Introit: Out of the deep (Aldrich)
Responses: Ayleward
Office hymn: O thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Psalm 66 (Atkins)
First Lesson: Isaiah 51 vv,1-3, 7-11
Canticles: Wesley in E
Second Lesson: 2 Peter 1 vv.1-11
Anthems: The darkness is no darkness (Judith Bingham); Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (S.S. Wesley)
Hymn: Love Divine, all loves excelling (Love Divine)
Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671 (Bach)

Andrew Carwood (Director of Music)
William Fox (Organist)


WED 17:00 In Tune (m001lzh9)
Stephen Kovacevich, Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo

Ahead of his concert in London performing the music of Beethoven, Berg and Debussy, the celebrated American pianist Stephen Kovacevich talks to Sean Rafferty.

The Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo - aka David Zucchi (saxophonist) and Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade (accordionist) - perform live in the studio ahead of their London concert featuring reimagined traditional works, modern repertoire and improvisation.


WED 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001lzhc)
30 minutes of classical inspiration

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


WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001lzhf)
The Divine Poem

Is it a symphony, or is it a tone poem?

Scriabin's theosophical behemoth 'The Divine Poem' was written in a blaze of romantic passion. And with new philosophical ideas from the continent also occupying him, he described it as "the evolution of the human spirit from pantheism to unity with the universe." Before that, the UK premiere of Phantasma by Bernd Richard Deutsch. It's inspired by the three panels of Gustav Klimt's monumental Beethoven Frieze, the metallic tones of the orchestra evoking all that painterly gold leaf. And there's musical treasure too in the Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston.

Recorded at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on 4 May 2023. Presented by Miriam Skinner.

Bernd Richard Deutsch: Phantasma (UK premiere: co-commissioned with the Concertgebouw, Cleveland Orchestra and Bamberger Symphoniker)
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)

c.8.10pm
Interval music from CD:
Scriabin -
12 Etudes Op. 8: No. 12 in D sharp minor
2 Poemes Op. 32: No. 1 in F sharp major
2 Mazurkas Op. 40: No. 2 in F-Sharp Major: Piacevole
2 Morceaux Op. 57: Desir
Alexander Scriabin (piano), taken from the piano roll recordings for Welte-Mignon.

c.8.30pm
Scriabin: Symphony No.3, The Divine Poem
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor


WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m001lzhh)
Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright

Disney's The Little Mermaid and a musical adaptation of a Caribbean version of the story kick off our conversation as Shahidha Bari is joined by director Ola Ince, historian and Sarah Peverley, who is writing a cultural history of mermaids. "Mermaid hunter" Sacha Coward considers mermaids as queer icons, and Claudy Op den Kamp talks us through Disney copyright history.

Producer: Sofie Vilcins

Once On This Island directed by Ola Ince runs at the Regent's Park Theatre until June 10th. It's the story of peasant girl Ti Moune and a boy called Daniel, and it's based upon a novel by Rosa Guy called My Love, My Love or The Peasant Girl, which takes its inspiration from the Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid.

Disney's The Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey and directed by Rob Marshall is in cinemas from May 26th.


WED 22:45 The Essay (m001lzhk)
Death in Trieste

3. I, Wincklemann

Murder! In hotel room ten, with a rope and a knife. By a fellow guest. If this were Cluedo, we’d have given the game away. But it’s true crime, turned cultural history. And travelogue: Seán Williams follows in the footsteps of the most famous art historian of all time. The German Johann Winckelmann – killed in Italy, in June 1768.

In a series that takes us to Trieste, Venice, and Rome, Seán uncovers skeletons in the closet. One crime becomes a way of conceiving a certain sort of life, death, art. Winckelmann’s end has written the script for a classic gay tragedy that has been adapted over the centuries. It’s a dramatic story told by Goethe, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Mann, to name but a few.

But what are the facts of this fiction? Ranging from supposedly tolerant and intellectual Enlightenment Europe to the nonchalant nineties, and to Italy today – where the government are ramping up anti-LGBT rhetoric – Seán asks what it means that a historic murder has become cultural myth. To us. To him. Because it was also Winckelmann the historian who taught us a haunting truth. We always read art of the past personally, in the present.

Part Three: the life of Johann Wincklemann and the Roman freedom's that inspired his greatest work.


WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m001lzhm)
Music for the evening

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

THURSDAY 25 MAY 2023

THU 00:30 Through the Night (m001lzhp)
Dominican Culture Days

Vox Clamantis sing works by Arvo Pärt and Guillaume de Machaut. Jonathan Swain presents.

12:31 AM
Anonymous
Dominican hymn 'Hymnum novæ lætitiæ'
Vox Clamantis

12:33 AM
Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377)
Kyrie, from 'La Messe de Nostre Dame'
Vox Clamantis

12:35 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Kyrie, from 'Missa syllabica'
Vox Clamantis

12:43 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Gloria, from 'Missa syllabica'
Vox Clamantis

12:46 AM
Anonymous
Gregorian gradual 'Audi filia'
Vox Clamantis

12:52 AM
Helena Tulve (b.1972)
Hail Mary
Vox Clamantis

12:53 AM
Tonis Kaumann (b.1971)
Ave Maria
Vox Clamantis

01:00 AM
Anonymous
Gregorian chant 'Præfatio'
Vox Clamantis

01:03 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Sanctus, from 'Missa syllabica'
Vox Clamantis

01:04 AM
Anonymous
Pater noster
Vox Clamantis

01:07 AM
Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377)
Agnus Dei, from 'Messe de Nostre Dame'
Vox Clamantis

01:10 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Agnus Dei, from 'Missa syllabica'
Vox Clamantis

01:12 AM
Anonymous
Gregorian gradual 'Audi filia'
Vox Clamantis

01:16 AM
Anonymous
Litany of all saints
Vox Clamantis

01:22 AM
Part Uusberg (b.1986)
Mon âme a soif
Soo-Young Lee (clarinet), Taavi Orro (clarinet), Marten Altrov (clarinet), Vambola Krigul (percussion), Eda Peaske (harp), Johanna Vahermagi (viola), Indrek Leivategija (cello), Kadri Kukk (double bass), Vox Clamantis

01:39 AM
Anonymous
Dominican antifon 'Salve Regina'
Vox Clamantis

01:43 AM
Traditional Estonian
Jewish tune
Vox Clamantis

01:49 AM
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909)
Symphony no 3 in F major, 'From Spring to Spring'
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Szymon Kawalla (conductor)

02:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Arnold Schoenberg (orchestrator)
Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)

03:13 AM
Maria Herz (1878-1950)
Concerto for Harpsichord or Fortepiano, String Orchestra and Flute, op. 15
Nadja Saminskaja (piano), Ronny Spiegel (violin), Yuta Takase (violin), Daphne Unseld (viola), Fedor Saminski (cello), Nikola Major (double bass), Christian Madlener (flute)

03:41 AM
Janez Gregorc (1934-2012)
Sans respirer, sans soupir
Slovene Brass Quintet

03:48 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade no 2 in F major, Op 38
Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano)

03:55 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Last Spring, Op 33 no 2
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (leader)

04:02 AM
Joey Roukens (b.1982)
Un Cuadro de Yucatan - a violin caprice
Janine Jansen (violin)

04:07 AM
Henri Duparc (1848-1933), Francois Coppee (author)
La Vague et la cloche for voice and piano
Gerald Finley (baritone), Stephen Ralls (piano)

04:13 AM
Dag Wiren (1905-1986)
Sonatina for piano (Op.25)
Niklas Sivelov (piano)

04:20 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in C major, RV.444 for recorder, strings & continuo
Giovanni Antonini (recorder), Il Giardino Armonico

04:31 AM
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
Trumpet Concerto in B flat, Op 7 no 3
Ivan Hadliyski (trumpet), Kamerorchester, Alipi Naydenov (conductor)

04:39 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Fantasia on an Irish song "The last rose of summer" for piano Op 15
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

04:49 AM
Bernhard Lewkovitch (b.1927)
Tre madrigal di Torquato Tasso Op 13
Jutland Chamber Choir, Johanne Bock (soloist), Camilla Toldi Bugge (soloist), Mogens Dahl (conductor)

04:57 AM
Georges Hue (1858-1948)
Phantasy vers. flute and piano
Iveta Kundratova (flute), Inna Aslamasova (piano)

05:05 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Rosen aus dem Suden, waltz Op 388
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

05:15 AM
Ture Rangstrom (1884-1947)
Suite for violin and piano No 1 'In modo antico'
Tale Olsson (violin), Mats Jansson (piano)

05:23 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op 20
Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Willi Zimmermann (conductor)

05:35 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor (Op.111)
Tatjana Ognjanovic (piano)

06:04 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Violin Concerto No 4
Janusz Skramlik (violin), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Tomasz Bugaj (conductor)


THU 06:30 Breakfast (m001lzhr)
Thursday - Petroc's classical mix

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m001lzht)
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.


THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001lzhw)
György Ligeti (1923-2006)

Renewal and Regeneration

Kate Molleson explores György Ligeti's process for writing music, and a performer's view of the second set of piano études from guest Danny Driver.

Known to millions through the film director Stanley Kubrick's use of his music in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ligeti's music reflects the seismic events taking place in central Europe in the mid-20th century - shifting borders, war, totalitarianism and for many, exile. These harrowing experiences all made a deep imprint on him and his music. He was born in 1923 into a Jewish Hungarian family in an area that had become part of Romanian Transylvania. After years of state repression, in 1956 at the onset of the Hungarian revolution, Ligeti made a dramatic escape on foot to the West. Freed from state intervention, he was to remain artistically and personally independent of any particular orthodoxies for the rest of his life. He died in 2006 at the age of 83.

Ligeti regarded the whole world as the material for his music. He was fascinated by anything and everything: philosophy, science, the arts, literature - Alice in Wonderland was one of his favourite books. His music can be playful, at times wickedly macabre. He loved patterns, he loved rhythm, he dived into mathematical concepts of immense complexity but was equally curious about history, folklore, the cosmos and the natural world. The week includes many of Ligeti's best loved works including the sonata for cello, Apparitions, Lontano, Clocks and Clouds and Melodien. From the piano, Danny Driver, a huge Ligeti enthusiast, opens up the magical universe Ligeti creates in his piano music, with a special focus on the three sets of piano studies.

Puzzles, paradoxes and illusions provided Ligeti with the inspiration for his piano studies. He was always on the hunt for the new, but this didn't prevent him from returning to the music of his Hungarian roots.

Études: no 8 -Fem (excerpt)
Danny Driver, piano

Three Fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin
Hälfte des Lebens
SWR Vokalensemble,
Tomoko Hemmi,
Yuval Weinberg, conductor

Capriccio 1
Invention
Capriccio 2
Fredrik Ullén, piano

Études, Book 2
Galamb borong
Fem
Vertige
Der Zauberlehrling
En suspens
Entrelacs
L'escalier du diable
Coloana infinita
Danny Driver, piano

Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano
I: Andantino con tenerezza
Marie-Luise Neunecker, horn
Saschko Gawriloff, violin
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Producer: Johannah Smith


THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001lzhy)
World of Classical (3/4)

Acclaimed British pianist Clare Hammond performs music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Isaac Albeniz, two composers inspired by traditional music; Coleridge-Taylor by African American spirituals in his intensely moving arrangement of Deep River and Albeniz by Spanish folk music in his evocative suite for piano titled Iberia. Hammond's recital opens with Beethoven's popular 'Pathetique' Sonata alongside a selection of etudes by French composer pianist Helene de Montgeroult. Recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and presented by Stephen Broad.

Hélène de Montgeroult: Etudes Nos. 62, 66, 101, 107
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 ‘Pathetique’
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River from 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59 No. 10
Isaac Albeniz: Cadiz, Evocacion and Triana from Iberia Suite 1908

Clare Hammond - piano

Stephen Broad - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer


THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001lzj0)
The Mountain King (1/2)

Ian Skelly introduces more recordings from around Europe.

This week's focus on Sweden continues with the first act of Hugo Alfvén's 'ballet-pantomime' The Mountain King, which requires huge orchestral forces to tell the story, and is performed here by the Malmö Symphony Orchestra with conductor Patrik Ringborg. There is also more music from guitarists Mats Bergström and Göran Söllscher, recorded in March at the Helsingborg Guitar Festival, and a selection from the vocal ensemble Voces8, recorded at the Rheingau Festival in Germany. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Swedish organist and composer Elfrida Andrée, while harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani switches to organ for Handel's Organ Concerto Op 4 No 4.

Including:

Felix Mendelssohn: Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir
Voces8

JS Bach arr. Schininà: English Suite No 3 in G minor, BWV 808
Mats Bergström, guitar
Göran Söllscher, guitar

Mozart: Ballet Music from Idomeneo
Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg
Gemma New, conductor

c. 3pm
Hugo Alfvén: The Mountain King, Act 1
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Patrik Ringborg, conductor

Thorkell Sigurbjornsson: Hear Heaven's Maker
Taylor Scott Davis: Stardust
Voces8

c. 4pm
Handel: Organ Concerto in F major, Op 4 No 4
Mahan Esfahani, organ
La Scintilla Orchestra
Riccardo Minasi, conductor

Torroba: Preludio - Capricho - Aire - Vasco
Mats Bergström, guitar
Göran Söllscher, guitar

Andrée: Concert Overture in D major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Chloe van Soeterstede, conductor


THU 17:00 In Tune (m001lzj2)
Davina Clarke, Mary Bevan, Tom Foster, Alexander Rolton and Sergio Bucheli, Keelan Carew

Violinist Davina Clarke, soprano Mary Bevan, harpsichordist Tom Foster, cellist Alexander Rolton, and theorbo player Sergio Bucheli join Sean Rafferty and perform live, ahead of their concert in London and after the release of their recent album dedicated to the music of Handel.

And pianist Keelan Carew joins Sean Rafferty and shares his highlights of cultural events for the upcoming weekend.


THU 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001lzj4)
Switch up your listening with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.


THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001lzj6)
Earth, Sea, Air

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Till Eulenspiegel by Strauss, Elgar's Second Symphony and a brand new concerto with cellist Laura van der Heijden as the soloist.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow on 18 May, 2023

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Cello Concerto (Earth, Sea, Air)

8.10 Interval: Kate Molleson plays music from recent recordings
8.30 Part Two

Elgar: Symphony No 2

Laura van der Heijden (cello)
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra


THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m001lzj8)
Sneezing, smells and noses

Barry Smith and Gemma Tidman are amongst the guests joining Rana Mitter for a conversation which looks at how our understanding of smell and of sneezing have changed: from Montaigne and La Condamine's writings on sex, ageing and sneezing to our post covid approach to colds, to the many senses involved in wine tasting and whether e-noses are the future.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod


THU 22:45 The Essay (m001lzjb)
Death in Trieste

4. From the Depths

Murder! In hotel room ten, with a rope and a knife. By a fellow guest. If this were Cluedo, we’d have given the game away. But it’s true crime, turned cultural history. And travelogue: Seán Williams follows in the footsteps of the most famous art historian of all time. The German Johann Winckelmann – killed in Italy, in June 1768.

In a series that takes us to Trieste, Venice, and Rome, Seán uncovers skeletons in the closet. One crime becomes a way of conceiving a certain sort of life, death, art. Winckelmann’s end has written the script for a classic gay tragedy that has been adapted over the centuries. It’s a dramatic story told by Goethe, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Mann, to name but a few.

But what are the facts of this fiction? Ranging from supposedly tolerant and intellectual Enlightenment Europe to the nonchalant nineties, and to Italy today – where the government are ramping up anti-LGBT rhetoric – Seán asks what it means that a historic murder has become cultural myth. To us. To him. Because it was also Winckelmann the historian who taught us a haunting truth. We always read art of the past personally, in the present.

Part Four: Venice and the echoes of Wincklemann's demise.


THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m001lzjd)
Music for late-night listening

Hannah Peel 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

01 00:00:09 Gazelle Twin (artist)
Deep England
Performer: Gazelle Twin
Performer: NYX
Duration 00:03:10

02 00:03:18 Burial (artist)
Etched Headplate
Performer: Burial
Duration 00:05:50

03 00:10:26 Benge (artist)
1968 Moog Modular
Performer: Benge
Duration 00:03:23

04 00:13:49 Boards of Canada (artist)
Twoism
Performer: Boards of Canada
Duration 00:05:26

05 00:19:45 Alison Cooper (artist)
The Queen of the Well
Performer: Alison Cooper
Duration 00:03:10

06 00:22:56 Pram (artist)
Track of the Cat
Performer: Pram
Duration 00:04:12

07 00:28:10 Concretism (artist)
The Figure
Performer: Concretism
Duration 00:04:40

08 00:32:50 Laura Cannell (artist)
INHABITED: THE LAST WILD WOLF IN IRELAND
Performer: Laura Cannell
Performer: Stewart Lee and Friends
Duration 00:08:24

09 00:43:09 The Dufay Collective (artist)
Miri It Is While Summer Lasts
Performer: The Dufay Collective
Performer: John Potter
Duration 00:05:01

10 00:48:58 Alexander Tucker (artist)
The Patron Saint Of Troubled Men
Performer: Alexander Tucker
Duration 00:04:45

11 00:53:43 The Advisory Circle (artist)
Winter Hours
Performer: The Advisory Circle
Duration 00:04:26

12 00:59:00 Magnet (artist)
Lullaby
Performer: Magnet
Duration 00:00:58

FRIDAY 26 MAY 2023

FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m001lzjj)
Casals Quartet in Catalonia

Pianist Christian Blackshaw joins the Casals Quartet for Dvorak's Piano Quintet No 2. Jonathan Swain presents.

12:31 AM
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
String Quartet No 1 in C major, Op 49
Casals Quartet

12:46 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet No 2 in A major, Op 81
Christian Blackshaw (piano), Casals Quartet

01:27 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Piano Quintet in F minor, FWV7 (2nd mvt, Lento con molto sentimento)
Christian Blackshaw (piano), Casals Quartet

01:39 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Symphony in D minor (M.48)
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)

02:19 AM
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Flute Cantata
Maurice Steger (recorder), La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basle, Maurice Steger (conductor)

02:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64
Hilary Hahn (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Hugh Wolff (conductor)

02:58 AM
Johan Duijck (b.1954)
Cantiones Sacrae in honorem Thomas Tallis, op.26, Book 2
Flemish Radio Choir, Johan Duijck (conductor)

03:18 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Cello Sonata no.3 in A major, Op.69
Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Jean-Selim Abdelmoula (piano)

03:43 AM
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
5 Pieces for string quartet
Signum Quartet

03:56 AM
Catharina van Rennes (1858-1940)
3 Quartets for women's voices and piano (Op.24)
Irene Maessen (soprano), Rachel Ann Morgan (mezzo soprano), Christa Pfeiler (mezzo soprano), Corrie Pronk (alto), Franz van Ruth (piano)

04:01 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Rustic Dance
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)

04:05 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sarabande for guitar
Heiki Matlik (guitar)

04:08 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) in G minor for oboe & basso continuo, TWV.41:g4
Ensemble of the Eighteenth Century, Susanne Regel (conductor)

04:19 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
5 Flower Songs for chorus (Op.47)
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)

04:31 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata (Kk.133) in C major
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

04:35 AM
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948)
Two orchestral intermezzi from I Gioielli della Madonna, Op 4
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Othmar Maga (conductor)

04:44 AM
Johannes Ockeghem (1410-1497)
Intemerata Dei mater
Hilliard Ensemble

04:53 AM
Joseph Touchemoulin (1727-1801)
Sinfonia in C major
Neue Dusseldorfer Hofmusik

05:13 AM
Vittorio Monti (1868-1922)
Csardas (orig. for violin and piano) arr. unknown for brass ensemble
Hungarian Brass Ensemble

05:17 AM
Thea Musgrave (b.1928)
Loch Ness - a postcard from Scotland for orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)

05:28 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet

05:53 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Overture in G minor (BWV 1070)
Berlin Academy for Early Music

06:09 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata in B flat major (K.570) (1789)
Vikingur Olafsson (piano)


FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m001lzjl)
Friday - Petroc's classical picks

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 (m001lzjn)
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.


FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001lzjq)
György Ligeti (1923-2006)

Building Blocks

Kate Molleson explores György Ligeti's cultural past, and the third set of piano studies is unpacked by guest Danny Driver.

Known to millions through the film director Stanley Kubrick's use of his music in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ligeti's music reflects the seismic events taking place in central Europe in the mid-20th century - shifting borders, war, totalitarianism and for many, exile. These harrowing experiences all made a deep imprint on him and his music. He was born in 1923 into a Jewish Hungarian family in an area that had become part of Romanian Transylvania. After years of state repression, in 1956 at the onset of the Hungarian revolution, Ligeti made a dramatic escape on foot to the West. Freed from state intervention, he was to remain artistically and personally independent of any particular orthodoxies for the rest of his life. He died in 2006 at the age of 83.

Ligeti regarded the whole world as the material for his music. He was fascinated by anything and everything: philosophy, science, the arts, literature - Alice in Wonderland was one of his favourite books. His music can be playful, at times wickedly macabre. He loved patterns, he loved rhythm, he dived into mathematical concepts of immense complexity but was equally curious about history, folklore, the cosmos and the natural world. The week includes many of Ligeti's best loved works including the sonata for cello, Apparitions, Lontano, Clocks and Clouds and Melodien. From the piano, Danny Driver, a huge Ligeti enthusiast, opens up the magical universe Ligeti creates in his piano music, with a special focus on the three sets of piano studies.

While he was battling to complete his piano concerto, Ligeti wrote his Trio for violin, horn and piano. Some critics accused him of trading in his modernist credentials.

Études (Book 2)
Entrelacs
Danny Driver, piano

Sonata for solo viola
I: Hora lungă
Tabea Zimmermann, viola

Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano
II. Vivacissimo molto rítmico
Marie Luise Neunecker, French horn
Saschko Gawriloff , violin
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Piano Concerto
IV: Allegro risoluto - molto rítmico
Joonas Ahonen, piano
BIT20 Ensemble
Baldur Brönnimann, conductor

Études Book 3
White on white
Pour Irina
A bout de souffle
Canon
Danny Driver, piano

Melodien
Schönberg Ensemble
Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor

Producer: Johannah Smith


FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001lzjs)
World of Classical (4/4)

A spirited and varied concert by the Chineke! Wind Quintet, recorded at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Five principal players from the Chineke! Orchestra perform character pieces by Ligeti, musical sketches by Indian composer John Mayer and William Grant Still's quietly spiritual depiction of the afterlife, written for his wife Verna Arvey. The concert closes with Valerie Coleman's work that 'merges classical technique and orchestration with the blues dialect and charm of the south'.

György Ligeti: Six Bagatelles
William Grant Still: Summerland
John Mayer: Excerpts from 'Raga Music'
Paul Hindemith: Klein Kammermusik
Gilles Silvestrini: Six Etudes, No.6 Le Ballet Espagnol.
Arturo Marquez: Danza de Mediodia
Valerie Coleman: Red Clay Mississippi Delta

Chineke! Wind Quintet members:
Meera Maharaj - Flute
Myfanwy Price - Oboe
Benjamin Pinto - Clarinet
Daria Phillips - Bassoon
Francisco Gomez - French horn

Stephen Broad - presenter
Laura Metcalfe - producer


FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001lzjv)
The Mountain King (2/2)

Ian Skelly introduces the best of recordings from around Europe.

Concluding his week of music from Denmark and Sweden, Ian introduces Acts 2 and 3 of Hugo Alfvén's epic 'ballet-pantomime' The Mountain King, performed by Malmö Symphony Orchestra with conductor Patrik Ringborg. There's more music for 2 guitars, recorded at Helsingborg Guitar Festival with the Swedish duo of Mats Bergström and Göran Söllscher. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Alain Altinoglu perform Dvorak's symphonic poem The Golden Spinning Wheel, based on the macabre folk tale from Erben's 'Kytice', and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra is joined by cellist Jakob Koranyi in Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi's cello concerto 'Highlands', inspired by the Scottish countryside.

Including:

Mozart: Adagio in E flat major, K 261
Clarissa Bevilacqua, violin
Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg
Ivor Bolton, conductor

Lille Bror Söderlundh: Little Waltz
Debussy arr. Krause: Cakewalk from Children's Corner
Mats Bergström, guitar
Göran Söllscher, guitar

Dvorak: The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op 109
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu, conductor

c. 3pm
Alfvén: The Mountain King, Acts 2 & 3
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Patrik Ringborg, conductor

Sor: Souvenir de Russie
Mats Bergström, guitar
Göran Söllscher, guitar

Andrea Tarrodi: Cello Concerto, 'Highlands'
Jakob Koranyi (cello)
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
David Niemann, conductor


FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m000v2js)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday]


FRI 17:00 In Tune (m001lzjx)
Danielle de Niese, Isata Kanneh-Mason

She stars in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Aspects of Love': soprano Danielle de Niese joins Sean Rafferty and offers us some theatrical tunes live in the studio, accompanied by pianist Gamal Khamis.

As she releases a new album filled with musical tales and enchanted stories, accompanied by the music of Mozart, Dohnányi, Schumann and Debussy, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason also performs live on 'In Tune'.


FRI 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001lzjz)
The eclectic classical mix

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 (m001lzk3)
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word


FRI 22:45 The Essay (m001lzk5)
Death in Trieste

5. The Meaning of Nowhere

Murder! In hotel room ten, with a rope and a knife. By a fellow guest. If this were Cluedo, we’d have given the game away. But it’s true crime, turned cultural history. And travelogue: Seán Williams follows in the footsteps of the most famous art historian of all time. The German Johann Winckelmann – killed in Italy, in June 1768.

In a series that takes us to Trieste, Venice, and Rome, Seán uncovers skeletons in the closet. One crime becomes a way of conceiving a certain sort of life, death, art. Winckelmann’s end has written the script for a classic gay tragedy that has been adapted over the centuries. It’s a dramatic story told by Goethe, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Mann, to name but a few.

But what are the facts of this fiction? Ranging from supposedly tolerant and intellectual Enlightenment Europe to the nonchalant nineties, and to Italy today – where the government are ramping up anti-LGBT rhetoric – Seán asks what it means that a historic murder has become cultural myth. To us. To him. Because it was also Winckelmann the historian who taught us a haunting truth. We always read art of the past personally, in the present.

Part Five: Seán reflects on the myriad conclusions about Wincklemann, his art, his sexuality, his legacy, and offers his own conclusions.


FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m001lzk7)
Campaign songs, spontaneous exchanges

Verity Sharp presents fresh takes on old songs, improvised rhythms and surprising sound-worlds.

A newly-released collaboration between Kronos Quartet and Michael Gordon re-interprets the canon of American patriotic, political and folk music, from This Land is Your Land to When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Recorded in isolation by each member of the quartet, the eight short pieces that comprise Campaign Songs were arranged by Michael Gordon.

Elsewhere, improvised and traditional rhythms from two classic albums of South African jazz, reissued internationally for the first time. The pioneering Malombo Jazz Makers were renowned for being one of the first South African bands to fully connect jazz with African traditions, with their classics Malompo Jazz (1966) and Malombo Jazz Makers Vol. 2 (1967) set for release via Strut.

Also in the programme: an entirely new range of sound worlds emerge from the forthcoming album by David Toop and Lawrence English. The Shell That Speaks The Sea is the product of a spontaneous burst of exchanges using field recordings including the sound of the elusive Tawny Frogmouth bird, bass drum, ghost flute, bamboo, stones and more.

Produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3