SATURDAY 30 MARCH 2024

SAT 01:00 Tearjerker (m001xfl9)
AURORA

Gentle music that makes the earth shake

Inspired by her song Gentle Earthquakes, AURORA curates a playlist of gentle music that really packs a punch. Featuring music from Nomad, Beethoven and Tori Amos. Plus the "Song That Saves Me" is a classic piece by Debussy.


SAT 02:00 The Music & Meditation Podcast (m001xflf)
Series 3

Embrace vulnerability with Megan Rose Lane

Izzy and Megan Rose Lane look at how to find strength in acknowledging vulnerability and talking to yourself in a kinder way. Spiritual mentor and masterclass leader Megan Rose Lane leads a guided meditation to soften into vulnerability, so you can strengthen relationships with friends, family, partners, work colleagues and yourself.

The music that soundtracks Megan's guided meditation was composed by Tom Thorp and recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra exclusively for this episode.

If you're new to meditation or you've tried it before, this series is the perfect place to pick it up from.

Music you'll hear in this episode includes:
Schubert: Sonata for arpeggione and piano in A minor D821, ii Adagio
Tom Thorp: Embracing Vulnerability
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8, iii Adagio
Mendelssohn: String Symphony No.9 in C Minor MWV N9, ii Poco adagio


SAT 02:30 The Music & Meditation Podcast (m001xflk)
Series 3

Focus on gratitude with Rob da Bank

Izzy and Rob da Bank chat about how focusing on gratitude can bring increased happiness and change your mindset for the better. DJ, music festival founder and meditation teacher Rob Da Bank talks about his own meditation journey and leads an uplifting guided meditation to highlight how gratitude can help your outlook on life.

The music that soundtracks Rob's guided meditation was composed by Ghislaine Reece-Trapp and recorded by the BBC Singers exclusively for this episode.

Whether you're just starting to meditate or you're a seasoned meditator, this is the perfect podcast for you.

Music you'll hear in this episode includes:
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major, iii Ruhevoll
Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: Gratitude
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, ii Adagio
Rachmaninov: Lilacs, Op 21 No 5, transc. for piano


SAT 03:00 Through the Night (m001xflp)
Caroline Shaw, Mendelssohn and Mahler at the 2022 BBC Proms

Soprano Miah Persson, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft perform Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Presented by Danielle Jalowiecka.

03:01 AM
Caroline Shaw (b.1982)
Entr’acte for strings
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

03:13 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
Clara-Jumi Kang (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

03:41 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 4 in G
Miah Persson (soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

04:39 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata no 15 in C major, D840
Alfred Brendel (piano)

05:01 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio No.8 from Essercizii Musici
Camerata Koln, Michael Schneider (recorder), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Yasunori Imamura (theorbo), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord), Harald Hoeren (organ)

05:09 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Edvard Grieg (arranger)
Sonata for piano in C major, K545 (arr. Grieg)
Julie Adam (piano), Daniel Herscovitch (piano)

05:18 AM
Ludvig Norman (1831-1885), Nicolaus Hermanni (author)
Rosa rorans bonitatem, Op 45
Eva Wedin (mezzo soprano), Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Sjokvist (conductor)

05:27 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestucke, Op 73
Aljaz Begus (clarinet), Svjatoslav Presnjakov (piano)

05:38 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Tango Suite for two guitars (Parts 2 and 3)
Tornado Guitar Duo (duo)

05:47 AM
Ture Rangstrom (1884-1947)
Suite for violin and piano No 1 'In modo antico'
Tale Olsson (violin), Mats Jansson (piano)

05:56 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Rossiniana - suite from Rossini's "Les riens"
West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor)

06:22 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Fantasy for piano (Op.49) in F minor
Szymon Nehring (piano)

06:36 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Wind Serenade in D minor, Op 44
I Solisti del Vento, Etienne Siebens (conductor)


SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m001xngr)
Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Elizabeth Alker to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.


SAT 09:00 Record Review (m001xnhd)
Britten's War Requiem in Building a Library with Elin Manahan Thomas and Andrew McGregor

Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas's recommendation for the ultimate recording of Britten's War Requiem, plus the best of the week's new classical releases.

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

9.30am
A round-up of new releases from the last week, the pick of writer Roger Parker.

10.30am
Building a Library
Written to consecrate the newly-rebuilt Coventry Cathedral in 1962, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem was an immediate hit with both critics and audiences. His master stroke was to interpolate settings of Wilfred Owen's searing First World War poems with the traditional Latin mass for the dead. Elin Manahan Thomas shares with Andrew her ultimate recording to buy, download or stream.

11.15am
Record of the Week
Andrew's pick of the best of the best from the last seven days.


SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m001tqwf)
Claire M Singer, Harry Christophers

Tom Service meets composer and experimental organist Claire M Singer at the London venue Union Chapel where she has been Music Director of the organ since 2012. Claire demonstrates how she uses chopsticks, straws and the stops of the organ to create her slowly-evolving and hypnotic pieces, and she talks about how she finds inspiration in the mountains and landscapes of her native Scotland.

Conductor and founder of The Sixteen Harry Christophers joins Tom as he prepares to take the choir on the road once again for this year’s choral pilgrimage, featuring music by Lassus, Josquin and Casulana. He reflects on 45 years of The Sixteen and discusses the current appetite for choral music and his role in connecting music, musicians and audiences.

Archaeologist and musician Graeme Lawson visits the studio with replica instruments in hand to discuss his new book “Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past” in which he examines musical instruments from around the world dating back thousands of years in order to tell the history of our relationship with music.

And Tom talks to Suhail Khoury, Honorary President of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music which has centres in Gaza, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nablus. They discuss the current situation for the teachers and students of the conservatory in Gaza, the damage to the building itself and the workshops being provided for children in refugee camps as a way of offering respite and hope.


SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m001xnj0)
Jess Gillam with... Francesca Dego

Jess Gillam is joined by Italian-American violinist Francesca Dego to swap some of their favourite music. Francesca has played everywhere from Wigmore Hall to Lincoln Centre New York, and her latest recording of Brahms and Busoni violin concertos with BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dalia Stasevska is out now via Chandos.
Today Francesca has brought along music from neglected Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä and a fiendish 12-tone work from Schoenberg, while I’ve chosen David Bowie’s swansong.

PLAYLIST:

GIOACHINO ROSSINI – ‘Una voce poco fa’ (Il barbiere di Siviglia: Act 1) [Teresa Berganza (mezzo soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gibson (conductor)]
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES – Farewell to Stromness [Richard Casey (piano)]
HELVI LEIVISKA – Orchestral Suite No 2, Op 11 (2nd mvt, Humoresque) [Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor)]
DAVID BOWIE - Lazarus
JOHANNES BRAHMS – Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op 102 (2nd mvt, Andante) [Salvatore Accardo (violinist), Heinrich Schiff (cello), Kurt Masur (conductor), Gewandhausorchester]
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG – Phantasy for violin and piano [Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Joonas Ahonen (piano)]
LANKUM – Wild Rover

Produced by Rachel Gill.


SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m001hp64)
Pianist Stephen Hough with a playlist of fireworks and finesse

Pianist Stephen Hough introduces some of the piano music and the pianists who have been a source of inspiration to him over the years. Artur Schnabel plays Beethoven, Alfred Cortot performs Chopin and Josef Lhévinne offers what Stephen calls “one of the greatest tracks of piano music ever recorded”, with a remarkable 1928 recording of Josef Strauss II’s Blue Danube Waltz.

Stephen also selects a movement from Michael Tippett’s Piano Concerto, and a couple of his own recordings of music by Cécile Chaminade and John Corigliano. There’s choral music from Thomas Tallis, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar, as well as fiery intensity from the cellist Daniil Shafran and a turbocharged excerpt from Richard Strauss’s opera Salome.

Plus, a celebration of the joint creative talents of Shirley Bassey and Nelson Riddle in the music of Irving Berlin.

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

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

01 00:03:50 Cécile Chaminade
Scarf Dance
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough
Duration 00:04:52

02 00:10:29 Frédéric Chopin
Étude Op. 25 No. 1
Performer: Alfred Cortot
Duration 00:02:10

03 00:13:55 Thomas Tallis
Spem in Alium
Ensemble: ORA Singers
Conductor: Suzi Digby
Duration 00:09:09

04 00:24:59 Franz Schubert
Sonata in A minor for arpeggione & piano, D. 821 (I. Allegro moderato)
Performer: Daniil Borisovich Shafran
Performer: Lydia Percheskaya
Duration 00:07:27

05 00:34:35 Richard Strauss
Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
Conductor: Georg Solti
Duration 00:08:53

06 00:45:20 Irving Berlin
Let's Face the Music and Dance
Performer: Shirley Bassey
Duration 00:03:07

07 00:50:36 Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in A major, Op. 2 No. 2 (IV. Rondo)
Performer: Artur Schnabel
Duration 00:05:42

08 00:58:11 Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 (I. Allegro non troppo)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
Conductor: Carlos Kleiber
Duration 00:12:46

09 01:12:49 John Corigliano
Étude Fantasy (III. Fifths to thirds; IV. Ornaments)
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough
Duration 00:06:17

10 01:20:42 Benjamin Britten
Missa Brevis, Op. 63 (II. Gloria)
Performer: James O’Donnell
Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir
Conductor: David Hill
Duration 00:02:50

11 01:25:23 Edward Elgar
Sanctus Fortis, Sanctus Deus (The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38)
Singer: Richard Lewis
Orchestra: Hallé
Conductor: John Barbirolli
Duration 00:05:31

12 01:33:09 Michael Tippett
Piano Concerto (I. Allegro non troppo)
Performer: Steven Osborne
Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
Duration 00:16:42

13 01:51:46 Johann Strauss II
The Blue Danube
Performer: Josef Lhévinne
Duration 00:06:58


SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m001m569)
David Lynch

In a rare interview, the iconic film director David Lynch talks to Matthew Sweet about one of the most celebrated collaborations in cinema history: between Lynch and the film composer Angelo Badalamenti who died at the end of last year.

01 00:00:00 Angelo Badalamenti
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Main theme)
Performer: Angelo Badalamenti
Performer: David Jaurequi
Performer: Steven Hodges
Singer: Don Falzone
Duration 00:01:54

02 00:02:57 Angelo Badalamenti
Cousins "Overture"
Performer: Angelo Badalamenti
Duration 00:03:29

03 00:06:51 John Clifford
I Hold No Grudge
Singer: Nina Simone
Duration 00:00:34

04 00:07:57 Angelo Badalamenti
Gordon's War "Just Plain Luther"
Performer: Badder Than Evil
Duration 00:03:53

05 00:15:12 Angelo Badalamenti
Blue Velvet "Mysteries of Love"
Performer: Angelo Badalamenti
Singer: Julee Cruise
Duration 00:02:20

06 00:17:44 Angelo Badalamenti
Blue Velvet "Main Title"
Orchestra: Studio Orchestra
Conductor: Angelo Badalamenti
Duration 00:01:20

07 00:20:00 Angelo Badalamenti
Twin Peaks "Theme"
Performer: Angelo Badalamenti
Duration 00:04:52

08 00:22:19 Angelo Badalamenti
Twin Peaks "Laura Palmer's Theme"
Performer: Angelo Badalamenti
Duration 00:04:15

09 00:27:00 Angelo Badalamenti
Wild At Heart "Dark Spanish Symphony"
Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic
Conductor: Dirk Brossé
Duration 00:03:51

10 00:31:19 Angelo Badalamenti
Lost Highway "Red Bats With Teeth"
Performer: Bob Sheppard
Performer: Ralph Penland
Singer: Ernest Hamilton
Duration 00:01:25

11 00:32:49 Angelo Badalamenti
Lost Highway "Haunting & Heartbreaking"
Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration 00:02:10

12 00:37:03 Angelo Badalamenti
Mulholland Drive "Mulholland Drive"
Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Angelo Badalamenti
Duration 00:04:08

13 00:41:11 Angelo Badalamenti
Mulholland Drive "Jitterbug"
Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Angelo Badalamenti
Duration 00:01:25

14 00:45:17 David Lynch
Inland Empire "Ghost of Love"
Performer: David Lynch
Duration 00:00:39

15 00:45:56 Angelo Badalamenti
Blue Velvet "Night Streets / Sandy & Jeffrey"
Orchestra: Studio Orchestra
Conductor: Angelo Badalamenti
Duration 00:03:24

16 00:52:34 Angelo Badalamenti
Mulholland Drive "Love Theme"
Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Angelo Badalamenti
Duration 00:05:36


SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m001n8qh)
Zakir Hussain

Tabla player Zakir Hussain is in conversation with Lopa Kothari, sharing his favourite music, as well as discussing his career and musical influences.

01 00:01:01 Trad.
Tabla Solo - Teen Taal
Performer: Zakir Hussain
Duration 00:04:56

02 00:08:18 ‘Abd al-hayy Hilmi (artist)
Taqsim Layali - Mawwal
Performer: ‘Abd al-hayy Hilmi
Duration 00:03:11

03 00:15:02 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra (artist)
Take The "A" Train
Performer: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Duration 00:02:56

04 00:21:35 Mahavishnu Orchestra (artist)
Birds Of Fire
Performer: Mahavishnu Orchestra
Duration 00:05:37

05 00:27:22 Miles Davis (artist)
So What
Performer: Miles Davis
Duration 00:09:25

06 00:32:39 Vula Viel (artist)
Fire
Performer: Vula Viel
Duration 00:04:12

07 00:39:24 Babatunde Olatunji (artist)
Akiwowo (Chant to the Trainman)
Performer: Babatunde Olatunji
Duration 00:04:41

08 00:46:50 Diga Rhythm Band (artist)
Sweet Sixteen
Performer: Diga Rhythm Band
Duration 00:05:29

09 00:54:40 Shakti & John McLaughlin (artist)
Face To Face
Performer: Shakti & John McLaughlin
Duration 00:05:52


SAT 17:00 J to Z (m001slyx)
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s inspirations

Julian Joseph presents an interview with LA composer and string player Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, known for his brilliant orchestral reimagining of the music of hip-hop producer J Dilla (in Suite For Ma Dukes) and his work with everyone from Kamasi Washington and Flying Lotus to Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Wayne Shorter and Henry Mancini. Here, Miguel shares some of the inspirations behind his long-awaited debut album, Les Jardins Mystiques Vol​.​1, including a John Coltrane live track that Miguel describes as 'a love letter'.

Also in the programme, Julian plays concert highlights from talented Korean drummer Sun-Mi Hong, plus more of the best jazz – past, present and future.

Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin’ Else.

01 00:00:23 Jesse Ryan (artist)
The Night Before She Passed
Performer: Jesse Ryan
Duration 00:06:33

02 00:08:28 Mama Terra (artist)
A Mind Supreme
Performer: Mama Terra
Duration 00:04:43

03 00:14:19 Sun-Mi Hong (artist)
Screams Like Vapours (Live at Rolf Liebermann Studio, Hamburg 2023)
Performer: Sun-Mi Hong
Duration 00:07:58

04 00:23:18 Jasper Hoiby (artist)
Earthness
Performer: Jasper Hoiby
Duration 00:06:14

05 00:29:59 Shirley Horn (artist)
Wouldn't It Be Loverly
Performer: Shirley Horn
Duration 00:06:17

06 00:37:32 Benet McLean (artist)
Fuller Love
Performer: Benet McLean
Duration 00:04:24

07 00:42:36 Sun-Mi Hong (artist)
Interlude 2 (Live at Rolf Liebermann Studio, Hamburg 2023)
Performer: Sun-Mi Hong
Duration 00:07:29

08 00:51:20 Duke Ellington (artist)
Star Crossed Lovers
Performer: Duke Ellington
Duration 00:03:49

09 00:56:42 Miguel Atwood‐Ferguson (artist)
Kairos (Kefi)
Performer: Miguel Atwood‐Ferguson
Duration 00:05:01

10 01:01:55 Maurice Ravel (artist)
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra In G, 2nd Movement
Performer: Maurice Ravel
Featured Artist: Herbie Hancock
Duration 00:07:31

11 01:09:28 Slum Village (artist)
Jealousy
Performer: Slum Village
Duration 00:05:09

12 01:10:08 Bill Evans (artist)
Are You All The Things
Performer: Bill Evans
Performer: Eddie Gomez
Duration 00:00:33

13 01:10:08 Miguel Atwood‐Ferguson (artist)
Jealousy (Live)
Performer: Miguel Atwood‐Ferguson
Duration 00:00:33

14 01:15:52 John Coltrane (artist)
Naïma (Live in Antibes Jazz Festival 1965)
Performer: John Coltrane
Duration 00:07:05

15 01:24:15 Neal Caine Trio (artist)
Skull Duggery
Performer: Neal Caine Trio
Duration 00:04:42


SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m001xnkq)
Wagner's The Flying Dutchman

Bryn Terfel takes the title role of the Dutchman cursed to roam the seas for all eternity in this Royal Opera production, with Elisabet Strid as Senta, the woman who might save him. Presented by Donald Macleod.

Forced by a terrible storm to anchor his ship in an unfamiliar bay, Captain Daland instructs his Steersman to keep watch, but he falls asleep at his post. A strange ship moors alongside, and its captain, the Flying Dutchman of seafaring legend, comes ashore. He is a cursed man, doomed to sail the seas forever, unless he finds a woman who will be ‘faithful unto death’. Longing for salvation, every seven years he comes to port in search of such a woman. Daland returns and hails the Dutchman, who asks Daland’s hospitality in return for generous payment.

When the Dutchman discovers that Daland has a daughter, he asks if he can marry her, in exchange for all his wealth. Daland, though suspicious, is delighted at the prospect of becoming rich. A southerly wind springs up and Daland’s crew prepare to depart for home, followed by the Dutchman’s ship. In a clothing factory, the women are sewing and singing. Mary reproaches Senta for daydreaming instead of working. The other women tease her for her obsession with the Flying Dutchman, particularly when Erik is already in love with her. Senta sings the song of the Dutchman and declares that she will be the woman to save the doomed voyager. Everyone is horrified, especially Erik, who has overheard, and announces that Daland’s ship is returning to port. Erik tells Senta of a strange dream he has had, in which he saw Senta sailing away on a mysterious ship with a stranger.

Daland arrives with the Dutchman and introduces him to Senta. She is transfixed by the visitor, and Daland urges her to accept his offer of marriage. Senta and the Dutchman are left alone, both contemplating the fulfilment of their dreams. Senta accepts the Dutchman’s offer of marriage. He warns her of the sacrifices she will make by marrying him, but she swears she will be true until death. Daland returns, overjoyed at their engagement, and the sailors and women celebrate. They call out to the Dutchman’s ship, but no one responds. Unnerved by the ghostly stillness, the women leave. Erik arrives, distraught at Senta’s betrayal. Overhearing the end of their conversation, the Dutchman is convinced that Senta is unfaithful. Senta begs him to trust her, but he is determined to return to sea. He tells her of the women who have broken their vows to him in the past: they have been eternally damned. He will save Senta, by leaving now before she can break her vows. He reveals his identity as the legendary Flying Dutchman, boards his ship, and leaves. Senta remains behind, alone.

Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman

The Dutchman ..... Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Senta ..... Elisabet Strid (soprano)
Daland ..... Stephen Milling (bass)
Erik ..... Toby Spence (tenor)
Steersman ..... Miles Mykkanen (tenor)
Mary ..... Kseniia Nikolaieva (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Henrik Nánási (conductor)


SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m001xnl9)
B Tommy Andersson

Kate Molleson presents the world premiere of Swedish composer B Tommy Andersson's Passio secundum Matthaeum, a modern oratorio inspired by the churches of Rome and with a text based on the Gospel of Matthew in the Latin Vulgate. The work is commissioned by the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble together with nine parishes from around Sweden.

Pia-Karin Helsing, soprano
Katarina Karnéus, mezzo
Anders Eriksson, barytone
Aaron Sunstein, organ

Erik Westberg’s Vocal Ensemble
Strings from the Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Erik Westberg

SUNDAY 31 MARCH 2024

SUN 00:00 Freeness (m001qfq1)
Alchemy of sounds

Corey Mwamba presents free jazz and improvised music inspired by ancient alchemy, including mystic interactions from Krakow and deep sonic wonder from Stockholm.

The trio of José Lencastre (alto sax), Zbigniew Kozera (double bass) and Vasco Trilla (drums) engage in turning the raw elements of sound into something greater than the sum of its parts with their new album Chymeia. In Stockholm, Lisa Ullén (piano), Elsa Bergman (double bass) and Anna Lund (drums) form another trio, Space - in their improvisations, they evoke wonder and mystery.

Elsewhere in the show, Corey picks a track from the most recent album he recorded with a stellar line-up of Paul Dunmall (tenor and c soprano saxophones), Soweto Kinch (alto and tenor saxophones), Xhosa Cole (tenor saxophone), Dave Kane (double bass) and Hamid Drake (drums). Plus transcendental excursions on the vibraphone by Khan Jamal.

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


SUN 02:00 Through the Night (m001xnlx)
2023 Brunegg Pentecost Festival

Works by both Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Bottesini and Racine from Brunegg Castle. Jonathan Swain presents.

02:01 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Piano Trio in C minor, MWV Q3
Irene Abrigo (violin), Jurg Dahler (viola), Gilles Vonsattel (piano)

02:18 AM
Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889)
Two songs for soprano, double bass and piano
Sophie Klussmann (soprano), Sophie Lucke (double bass), Gilles Vonsattel (piano)

02:29 AM
Philippe Racine (b.1958)
Mais, hier…
Felix Renggli (flute), Gilles Vonsattel (piano)

02:39 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Two songs [1. Suleika ; 2. Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh]
Sophie Klussmann (soprano), Gilles Vonsattel (piano)

02:44 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italien, Op 45
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko (conductor)

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
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Humoreske for piano in B flat major, Op 20
Ivetta Irkha (piano)

04:04 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Two Waltzes, Op.54
Sebastian String Quartet

04:12 AM
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris
Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor)

04:21 AM
Miguel Yuste (1870-1947)
Estudio melodico for clarinet and piano, Op 33
Cristo Barrios (clarinet), Lila Gailing (piano)

04:28 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
2 Sonatinas for mandolin: C minor WoO 43/1 and C major WoO 44/1
Avi Avital (mandolin), Shalev Ad-El (harpsichord)

04:35 AM
Leo Delibes (1836-1891)
Fantaisie aux divins mensonges (from "Lakmé", Act 1)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)

04:41 AM
Wojciech Kilar (1931-2013)
Orawa
Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Jarvi (conductor)

04:51 AM
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783)
Sinfonia (Overture), from 'Cleofide'
Arte dei Suonatori

05:01 AM
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Overture (La Fille du regiment)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)

05:10 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor
Ladislav Fantzowitz (piano)

05:19 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Stabat Mater
Camerata Silesia - Katowice City Singers, Anna Szostak (director)

05:29 AM
Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799)
Sonata Prima in G major (Op.5)
Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Zweistra (cello)

05:38 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Domingo Hindoyan (conductor)

05:48 AM
Piotr Moss (b.1949)
Wiosenno
Polish Radio Choir, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)


06:20 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Concerto in the Italian style for keyboard in F major BWV 971
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)

06:33 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Sonata for violin and piano (M.8) in A major
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Havard Gimse (piano)


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m001xnnt)
Classical lie-in

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m001xnnw)
A classical Sunday mix for Easter

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

Sarah celebrates Easter Sunday with festivities from Rimsky-Korsakov and J. S. Bach. An intriguing madrigal by Italian Renaissance composer Maddalena Casulana is paired with pianistic acrobatics from David Greilsammer, and there's a buccaneering overture from Berlioz.

There’s also quiet reflection in a new recording from pianist and composer Stuart MacRae, a comforting Dvorak trio performed by Triple Forte, and a true taste of Spanish sunshine from Joaquin Rodrigo.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m001lnwk)
John Krebs

John Krebs is a zoologist who has specialised in the behaviour of birds. Although he was the son of a Nobel prize-winning chemist, ornithology was a very early passion: he hand-reared birds as a child and allowed them to fly freely around at family mealtimes.

In his later research, he discovered that birds that store seeds for the winter have remarkable spatial memory and an enlarged hippocampus – the part of the brain essential for remembering.

Alongside his academic career, he’s taken on high-profile public roles: he was the first chairman of the Food Standards Agency, where he faced the outbreak of foot and mouth disease. He’s also a cross-bench peer and was principal of Jesus College, Oxford, for a decade.

His musical choices include Haydn, Schubert, Schumann and Corelli.


SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001xdtb)
Nelson Goerner

The celebrated Argentinian pianist brings together Handel's Chaconne with Schumann’s 18 miniature pieces, Davidsbündlertänze, which the composer began working on just a week after his secret engagement to Clara. Goerner closes with Balakirev’s Islamey, described by music critic Harold C Schonberg as ‘at one time…considered the most difficult of all piano pieces and is still one of the knucklebusters’.

From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Hannah French

Handel: Chaconne in G, HWV 435
Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze Op 6
Balakirev: Islamey

Nelson Goerner (piano)


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000zl85)
Music at West Horsley Place

Lutenist Paula Chateauneuf and historian Clare Clinton reflect on the history and music associated with the household of West Horsley Place in Surrey during the 16th and 17th centuries, with intriguing links to King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh and even Guy Fawkes!

The programme explores the Golden Age of English lute music, and includes pieces by John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Daniel Batchelar, Robert Jones, John Coprario, Richard Allison and Thomas Morley.

Presented by Lucie Skeaping in conversation with historian Clare Clinton, lutenist Paula Chateauneuf and Isabel Dawson of the Investec International Music Festival.

01 00:02:59 John Dowland
Queene Elizabeth, her galliard P.41
Performer: Nigel North
Duration 00:01:16

02 00:09:09 Anonymous
Pavan & Galliard of Albarti
Ensemble: Parley of Instruments
Duration 00:01:31

03 00:11:57 John Dowland
Fantasie No. 1
Performer: Nigel North
Duration 00:04:20

04 00:17:48 Robert Johnson
A Pavan in F minor
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny
Duration 00:06:06

05 00:23:55 Robin Jones
What if I seek for love of thee?
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny
Singer: James Bowman
Duration 00:01:54

06 00:29:32 John Coprario
Gray's Inn the First
Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Duration 00:01:24

07 00:40:22 Anon.
Walsingham
Performer: Paul O’Dette
Singer: Custer LaRue
Duration 00:01:23

08 00:43:49 Thomas Morley
Passemezzo antico
Duration 00:02:33

09 00:47:38 Thomas Morley
Beesides a fountaine
Ensemble: Consort of Musicke
Duration 00:02:02

10 00:53:46 Richard Alison
Goe from my window
Ensemble: The Musicians of Swanne Alley
Duration 00:03:19

11 00:58:30 Anonymous
Poor Tom of Bedlam
Performer: Paula Chateauneuf
Duration 00:01:21


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001xnny)
Canterbury Cathedral

Live from Canterbury Cathedral on Easter Day.

Introit: Jesus Christ is risen today (C.V. Stanford)
Responses: Smith
Office hymn: All praise to Christ, our Lord and king divine (Engelberg)
Psalm: 66 vv.1-11 (C.V. Stanford)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 37:1-14
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: Luke 24:13-35
Anthem: Ye choirs of New Jerusalem (C.V. Stanford)
Hymn: Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus)
Voluntary: Postlude in D minor, op. 105, no. 6 (C.V. Stanford)

David Newsholme (Director of Music)
Jamie Rogers (Assistant Director of Music)


SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m001xnp0)
Celebrating Sarah Vaughan

Alyn Shipton presents your favourite recordings by the great American vocalist Sarah Vaughan, in a special edition marking the centenary of her birth.

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

DISC 1
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title Nice Work If You Can Get It
Composer G and I Gershwin
Album Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin
Label Master Jazz Records
Number 8892780 CD 2 Track 15
Duration 2.39
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Miles Davis, t; Bennie Green, tb; Tony Scott, cl; Budd Johnson, ts; Jimmy Jones, p; Mundell Lowe, g; Billy Taylor Sr, b; J C Heard, d. 19 May 1950.

DISC 2
Artist Sarah Vaughan and Lester Young
Title I Cried For You
Composer Arnheim, Lyman, Freed
Album One Night Stand, the Town Hall Concert 1947
Label Blue Note
Number CDP 7243 8 32139 2 4 Track 16
Duration 3.46
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Lester Young, ts; Shorty McConnell, t; Sammy Benskin, p; Freddie Lacey, g; Rodney Richardson, b; Roy Haynes, d. 8 Nov 1947.

DISC 3
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title April in Paris
Composer Harburg, Duke
Album Four Classic Albums
Label Avid
Number AMSC1352 CD 1 Track 2
Duration 6.22
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Clifford Brown, t; Paul Quinichette, ts; Herbie Mann, fl; Jimmy Jones, p; Joe Benjamin, b; Roy Haynes, d. Ernie Wilkins, arr, dir; Dec 1954.

DISC 4
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title Shulie-a-bop
Composer Sarah Vaughan / George Treadwell
Album Swingin’ Easy
Label Emarcy
Number MG36109 Track 1
Duration 2.43
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; John Malachi, p; Joe Benjamin, b; Roy Haynes, d. 2 April 1954.

DISC 5
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Composer Jerome Kern / Otto Harbach
Album No Count Sarah
Label Mercury
Number SFX 10536 Track 1
Duration 4.00
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman, t; Henry Coker, Al Grey, Bennie Powell, tb; Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Billy Mitchell, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes, reeds; Ronnel Bright, p; Freddie Green, g; Eddie Jones, b; Sonny Payne, d. 1958.

DISC 6
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title Linger Awhile
Composer Vincent Rose / Harry Owens
Album Swingin’ Easy
Label Emarcy
Number MG36109 Track 13
Duration 1.00
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Jimmy Jones, p; Richard Davis, b; Roy Haynes, d. 14 Feb 1957.

DISC 7
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title In A Sentimental Mood
Composer Kurtz, Mills, Ellington
Album Sarah Vaughan: Jazz Characters
Label Le Chant Du Monde
Number 2742462 CD 3 Track 24
Duration 4.06
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Mundell Lowe, g; George Duvivier, b. 18 July 1961.

DISC 8
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title They All Laughed
Composer G and I Gershwin
Album Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin
Label Master Jazz Records
Number 8892780 CD 1 Track 13
Duration 2.28
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Jimmy Jones, p; Hal Mooney’s Orchestra 21 March 1957.

DISC 9
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title Teach Me Tonight
Composer DePaul / Cahn
Album Count Basie & Sarah Vaughan
Label Roulette
Number CDP 743 8 37241 2 3 Track 12
Duration 2.53
Performers Sarah Vaughan, Joe Williams, v; Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Sonny Cohn, Joe Newman, t; Henry Coker, Al Grey, Bennie Powell, tb; Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Billy Mitchell, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes, reeds; Kirk Stuart, p; Freddie Green, g; Richard Davis, b; Sonny Payne, d. 14 July 1960.

DISC 10
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title Garden In The Rain
Composer Gibbons, Dyrenforth
Album The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan
Label Roulette / Blue Note
Number 72438286402 8 Track 6
Duration 3.18
Performers Sarah Vaughan with Benny Carter’s orchestra. 1963.

DISC 11
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title Sometimes I’m Happy
Composer Grey / Caesar
Album Sassy Swings the Tivoli
Label Emarcy
Number 832788-2 CD 1Track 5
Duration 4.15
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Kirk Stuart, p; Charles Williams, b; George Hughes, d. July 1963

DISC 12
Artist Sarah Valentine
Title My Funny Valentine
Composer Rodgers / Hart
Album Live in Japan
Label Mainstream
Number MSD 4001 CD 1 Track 10
Duration 5.56
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Carl Schroeder, p; John Gianelli, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. 24 Sept 1973.

DISC 13
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title The Man I Love
Composer G and I Gershwin
Album Live in Laren Festival 1975
Label Fondamenta
Number FON 1604022 Track 1
Duration 5.02
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; Carl Schroeder, p; Bob Magnusson, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. 5 Aug 1975, Laren (Netherlands).

DISC 14
Artist Sarah Vaughan
Title So Many Stars
Composer Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Sergio Mendes
Album Brazilian Romance
Label Columbia
Number Track 4
Duration 4.07
Performers Sarah Vaughan, v; George Duke, kb; Dan Huff, Dori Caymmi, g; Alphonso Johnson, b; Carlos Vega, d; Paulino Da Costa, perc. Strings, Jan 1987.


SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m001xnp2)
What's the point of Listening?

Isn’t it great to be able to listen to so much music, to be able to search and scroll and find anything you want…? Or to have tracks suggested for you without even thinking about it…? Or is it? Perhaps you miss the days when you had to save up to buy a recording, and you loved it so much you listened over and over again. Or you waited for something to be played on the radio, knowing it might be the only chance you’d have to hear it.

Tom Service explores how we listen today in the digital age and reflects on the pieces of music that changed his life when he heard them first, and then really listened to them, again and again.

Producer: Ruth Thomson


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b09k68p7)
A Celebration of the Life of Bach

A celebration of the life of Bach, with readings from his own words and the words of those who knew him. With readers Roger Allam and David Annen.

01 00:00:00 Bach
Motet ‘Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied’, BWV225 (excerpt)
Performer: Trinity Baroque, directed by Julian Podge)
Duration 00:00:01

02 00:00:00
Johann Matthias Gesner
On Bach’s playing and conducting read by David Annen
Duration 00:00:01

03 00:00:01 Bach
Cantata ‘Erhalt uns Herr, bei deinem Wort’ BWV126 (excerpt)
Performer: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, directed by Ton Koopman
Duration 00:00:02

04 00:00:04
Johann Sebastian Bach
Dedication of the Brandenburg Concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg read by Roger Allam
Duration 00:00:01

05 00:00:06 Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047 (3rd movement)
Performer: European Brandenburg Ensemble, directed by Trevor Pinnock
Duration 00:00:02

06 00:00:08
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Friedrich Agricola read by Roger Allam
From Bach’s obituary
Duration 00:00:02

07 00:00:09 Bach
Organ Sonata No. 1 in E flat major, BWV525 (1st movement)
Performer: Simon Preston (organ)
Duration 00:00:02

08 00:00:12
Johann Sebastian Bach
Dedication of the Clavierübung, Part 1 read by Roger Allam
Duration 00:00:02

09 00:00:12 Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) (artist)
Partita No. 1 B flat major, BWV825 (1st movement)
Performer: Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Duration 00:00:02

10 00:00:14
Johann Sebastian Bach
Report on the choristers at St Thomas School, Leipzig read by Roger Allam
Duration 00:00:02

11 00:00:16 Bach
Motet ‘Fürchte dich nicht’ (excerpt)
Performer: Leipzig Thomanerchor, conducted by Kurt Thomas
Performer: Leipzig Thomanerchor, conducted by Kurt Thomas
Duration 00:00:02

12 00:00:18
Johann Christian Kittel
A reminiscence of Bach, by one of Bach’s pupils read by David Annen
Duration 00:00:02

13 00:00:19 Bach
Cantata ‘Geist und Seele wird verwirret’, BWV35 (1st movement)
Performer: Concentus Musicus Wien, directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Performer: Concentus Musicus Wien, directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Duration 00:00:05

14 00:00:25
Johann Sebastian Bach
Letter to Georg Erdmann, Imperial Russian Residence agent in Danzig (and childhood friend) read by Roger Allam
Duration 00:00:02

15 00:00:27 Bach
Wedding Quodlibet, BWV524 (excerpt)
Performer: Bach Collegium Japan, directed by Masaaki Suzuki
Duration 00:00:01

16 00:00:29
Johann Sebastian Bach
Letter to his cousin Johann Ernst Bach read by Roger Allam
Duration 00:00:01

17 00:00:30 Bach
Cantata ‘Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht’ BWV211 (‘Coffee Cantata’) (excerpt)
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Bach Collegium Japan, directed by Masaaki Suzuki
Duration 00:00:04

18 00:00:35
Johann Adolph Scheibe
A Criticism read by David Annen
Duration 00:00:01

19 00:00:36 Bach
Sonata No. 1 for solo violin, BWV1001 (3rd movement)
Performer: Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Duration 00:00:04

20 00:00:41
Johann Abraham Birnbaum
A Reply read by David Annen
Duration 00:00:04

21 00:00:42 Bach
Sonata No. 3 in A major for violin and harpsichord, BWV1015 (3rd movt)
Performer: Rachel Podger (violin), Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Duration 00:00:03

22 00:00:45
Luise Culmus
A letter to her fiancée read by David Annen
Duration 00:00:03

23 00:00:46 Bach
Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV826 (6th movement)
Performer: Kenneth Weiss (harpsichord)
Duration 00:00:03

24 00:00:50
Johann Sebastian Bach
Letter to Johann Georg Martius read by Roger Allam
Duration 00:00:03

25 00:00:50 Bach
Fugue in E minor, BWV856 (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Performer: Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Duration 00:00:01

26 00:00:51
Johann Sebastian Bach
Dedication of the B minor Mass read by Roger Allam
Duration 00:00:01

27 00:00:53 Bach
Mass in B minor, BWV232 (Laudamus te)
Performer: Ida Falk Winland (soprano), Arcangelo, conducted by Jonathan Cohen
Duration 00:00:04

28 00:00:58
Spenersche Zeitung
An account of Bach’s visit to Frederick the Great at Potsdam Palace read by David Annen
Duration 00:00:01

29 00:00:59 Bach
Musical Offering, BWV1041 (Ricercar a 6)
Performer: Sonnerie
Duration 00:00:07

30 00:01:06
Berlinische Privilegirte Zeitung
Report on the arrival in Leipzig of the celebrated English eye-surgeon Dr Taylor read by David Annen
Duration 00:00:07

31 00:01:07 Bach
Violin Concerto in E major, BWV1042 (3rd movement)
Performer: Rachel Podger (violin), Brecon Baroque
Duration 00:00:02

32 00:01:09 Bach
Motet ‘Jesu meine Freude’, BWV227 (excerpt)
Performer: Monteverdi Choir, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Duration 00:00:03

33 00:01:10
Spenersche Zeitung
Bach’s Death notice read by David Annen
Duration 00:00:03


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m001f6rk)
The Microphone

“Testing, testing… 1, 2, 3… Is this thing on?”

Oral historian Alan Dein explores the world-changing cultural history of an overlooked object.

When we think about the last 100 years of recorded and broadcast sound, we might think about the programmes, the listeners, or maybe the dynamics and physics of it: the mysteries of the ether or the magic of a needle on a disc.

One small thing is often forgotten – ignored and literally spoken over – omnipresent but invisible, just out of frame.

The microphone.

It’s the Zelig of recorded history, a disregarded presence as the world turns.

The microphone was there; it’s heard it all.

At first an uncanny contraption approached with apprehension. Now an object of ubiquity. In our microphone-saturated era of ‘surveillance capitalism’, a smart speaker in the kitchen is now also a smart listener.

The history of the microphone is a history of forgetting all about it.

Alan Dein explores the cultural history of the microphone and argues that this unobtrusive, tenacious thing has changed our lives more profoundly than we realise.

Featuring:
Mhairi Aitken, Ethics Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute
Raj Bhan, proprietor of The Spy Shop
David Edgerton, historian and author of The Shock of the Old
David Hendy, cultural historian and author of The BBC: A People’s History
Dawn Scarfe, sound artist
Janet Topp-Fargion, ethnomusicologist and Head of Sound and Vision at the British Library
Chris Watson, sound recordist and musician.

The voice of Olive Shapley courtesy of Manchester Central Library Sound Archives.

The programme includes the following recording, from the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits:
C80/816 Vocal group (Unidentified male chorus)

For more information about the Torres Strait recordings, please visit www.true-echoes.com/

With grateful thanks to Sam Inglis; Lloyd Silverthorne; Anthony Bailey and all the great performers at the Spoken Word Poetry Open Mic at Brixton Library.

Producer: Martin Williams


SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m001xnp5)
When We Dead Awaken

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted for radio by Ian McDiarmid from the translation by Michael Meyer.

In Ibsen's final play, Arnold Rubek, a celebrated sculptor, returns to Norway with his disillusioned wife – only to bump into Irena, the woman who inspired his masterpiece, Resurrection Day.

Rubek ..... Ian McDiarmid
Irena ..... Stella Gonet
Maja ..... Melody Grove
Ulfheim ..... Sandy Grierson
Manager ..... John Dougall

Introduction by Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr

Sound recording by Gary Newman and Tim Sturgeon
Sound design by Eloise Whitmore

Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane


SUN 20:35 Record Review Extra (m001xnp7)
Britten's War Requiem

Hannah French has more music from the new releases featured on yesterday's Record Review, including the complete chosen recording in Building a Library. This week, the work under consideration was Britten's War Requiem.


SUN 23:30 Slow Radio (m001xnp9)
The Millennial Loop

Longplayer is the brainchild of one of the founding members of the Pogues, Jem Finer. A sound installation at London's Trinity Buoy Wharf (where scientist Michael Faraday conducted experiments), it began on 31st December 1999 and hasn't stopped since. It is intended to last a thousand years.

Using the sounds of hundreds of Tibetan singing bowls, and a piece of music 20 minutes and 20 seconds long, processed by a simple algorithm, the resulting variations can be played without repetition for a millennium.

We encounter a fraction of that sonic journey, as Carnatic singer, artist and composer Supriya Nagarajan plays with time and sound, as she responds to and duets with Longplayer.

MONDAY 01 APRIL 2024

MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m001w8x7)
Jo Brand

Linton Stephens tries out a classical playlist on comedian, actor, presenter and writer Jo Brand.

Jo's playlist:

Alexander Glazunov - Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 82 (3rd mvt)
Francisco Guerrero - Maria Magdalene
Meredith Monk - The Games: Memory Song (arr. J Wolfe for voices & chamber ensemble)
Antonio Pasculli - Le Api (Etude Caractéristique for oboe and piano)
Francesca Caccini - Romanesca
Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (2nd mvt)

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

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

01 00:02:22 Peter Maxwell Davies
Farewell to Stromness (The Yellow Cake Revue)
Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies
Duration 00:05:31

02 00:04:07 Alexander Glazunov
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 82 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Nicola Benedetti
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Kirill Karabits
Duration 00:03:33

03 00:07:48 Francisco Guerrero
Maria Magdalene
Choir: The Rose Ensemble
Director: Jordan Sramek
Duration 00:03:58

04 00:11:48 Meredith Monk
The Games: Memory Song
Music Arranger: Julia Wolfe
Ensemble: Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble
Ensemble: Bang on a Can All-Stars
Duration 00:04:15

05 00:16:06 Antonio Pasculli
Le Api (Studio caratteristico for Oboe and Piano)
Performer: Yeon-Hee Kwak
Performer: Chia Chou
Duration 00:03:17

06 00:19:25 Francesca Caccini
Romanesca
Ensemble: Capella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini
Conductor: Gian Luca Lastraioli
Duration 00:05:00

07 00:24:30 Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Op.16 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko
Duration 00:04:51


MON 00:30 Through the Night (m001xnpf)
BBC Proms 2022

Andrew Manze conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a sea-inspired programme at the 2022 BBC Proms. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003)
Bishop Rock Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Andrew Manze (conductor)

12:39 AM
Grace Williams (1906-1977)
Sea Sketches for string orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Andrew Manze (conductor)

12:57 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Symphony no.1, 'A Sea Symphony'
Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Andrew Manze (conductor)

02:00 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 17 in D minor, Op 31 no 2 'Tempest'
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

02:24 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
"Mogst du, mein kind" (Daland's aria from Act II Die Fliegende Hollander)
Martti Talvela (bass), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jussi Jalas (conductor)

02:31 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Petrushka
Swiss National Youth Orchestra, Kai Bumann (conductor)

03:03 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Quartet for strings in G major Hob III:81 'Lobkowitz'
Fine Arts Quartet

03:28 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Vlci stopa (The wolf's trail) for soprano, female choir & piano
Susse Lillesoe (soprano), Danish National Radio Choir, Per Salo (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)

03:36 AM
Robert Kajanus (1856-1933)
Finnish Rhapsody No 1
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)

03:47 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue BWV.542 'Great' (orig. for organ)
Guitar Trek

03:54 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Dances from Galánta
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Petr Popelka (conductor)

04:10 AM
Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
Miserere mei Deus (Psalm 51) for 9 voices
Camerata Silesia, Anna Szostak (conductor)

04:24 AM
Milton Barnes (1931-2001)
Three Folk Dances
Moshe Hammer (violin), Valerie Tryon (piano)

04:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No 12 in D flat major Op 72'4
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

04:37 AM
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

04:46 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Severn Suite for brass band, Op 87
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists

05:02 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Cara sposa, aria from Rinaldo
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

05:07 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Zara Nelsova (cello), Grant Johannesen (piano)

05:17 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in F for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon & cello, RV569
Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr (oboe), Markus Muller (oboe), Anneke Scott (horn), Joseph Walters (horn), moni Fischaleck (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

05:30 AM
Juan de Navas (1650-1719)
Ay, divino amor
Olga Pitarch (soprano), Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)

05:36 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
South Ostrobothnian Suite No 1, Op 9
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)

06:02 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17
Erika Radermacher (piano), Eva Zurbrugg (violin), Angela Schwartz (cello)


MON 06:30 Breakfast (m001xnh3)
Morning Classical

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


MON 09:30 Essential Classics (m001xnhq)
Classical coffee break

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week


MON 13:00 Classical Live (m001xnjr)
Standout pianists and contemporaries of Mozart plus Monday Live from London's Wigmore Hall

Tom McKinney presents an afternoon of specially recorded music, his playlist this week includes four outstanding pianists plus orchestral music by 18th Century contemporaries of Mozart. At 3.00 the great Japanese-British pianist Mitsuko Uchida plays the first set of Schubert's lyrical and inventive Impromptus and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barbara Hannigan perform a symphony conceived for the Easter period.
We begin - live - at Wigmore Hall in London with a recital given by former New Generation Artists, Quatuor Arod in a programme which features the celebrated 'Emperor' Quartet of Joseph Haydn.

Including:

WIGMORE HALL LIVE
Johann Sebastian Bach: Herzlich tut mich verlangen (O Sacred head, sore wounded)
Benjamin Attahir: Al Asr
Joseph Haydn: Quartet in E flat, Op76/3 'Emperor'
(Quatuor Arod)

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No 49 in F minor 'La Passione'
(Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan)

Imogen Holst: The Fall Of The Leaf
(Leo Popplewell, cello)


3.00
Franz Schubert: Four Impromptus D899
(Mitsuko Uchida, piano)

Antonin Dvorak: The Noon Day Witch
(Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Robert Jindra)


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MON 16:00 Composer of the Week (m001xnkd)
Mozart's Grand Tour

Setting out

Donald Macleod follows Mozart and his family on an ambitious European adventure.

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just seven years old, he and his family set out on an epic journey. Their goal: to travel through Europe and become famous; bringing their awesomely talented children to concert halls, homes and royal palaces across Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland. At the start of their trip, young Wolfgang could already perform and improvise better than most adults. By the time they returned home, three and a half years later, he’d grown into a fully fledged composer of sonatas, symphonies and arias. This week, Donald Macleod accompanies the Mozart family on their musical marathon and invites us to follow their many scrapes and adventures.

Today, the Mozarts wave goodbye to their neighbours in Salzburg and head north. Their savings will only sustain them a few months and they’ll have to learn how to earn as they go if they want to reach Paris.

Allegro in F major, K 1c
Lang Lang, piano

Exsultate, jubilate, K 165, 1. Exsultate, jubilate
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Academy of Ancient Music, conducted by Christopher Hogwood

Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello in F Major, K 370
Robin Williams, oboe
Members of Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Alexander Janiczek, director & violin

Misericordias Domini in D Minor, K 222
The Dunedin Consort, directed by John Butt

Violin Concerto No 4 in D major, K 218
Simon Standage, violin
Academy of Ancient Music, directed by Christopher Hogwood


MON 17:00 In Tune (m001xnl1)
Classical music live from the BBC

Katie Derham is joined by mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill to speak about her upcoming concert with the Manchester Camerata. Pianist Alexander Gadjiev also performs live music in the studio.


MON 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001xnlm)
Switch up your listening with classical music

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




MON 21:45 The Essay (m001xnml)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands

Hildaland

Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...

Tonight Orcadian historian and storyteller Tom Muir is our guide to the myth and magic of Hildaland, one of Orkney's vanishing islands and the summer home of the Finfolk.

Score by Erland Cooper
Recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson

The Lost Sister - a poem by John Burnside - read by Keeley Forsyth

Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3


MON 22:00 Night Tracks (m001xnmz)
Soundtrack for night

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


MON 23:30 'Round Midnight (m001xnnb)
Nubya Garcia picks her 4/4

This week marks the first instalment of ‘Round Midnight, the new Radio 3 weekday evening jazz programme presented by British saxophonist Soweto Kinch and showcasing the very best jazz, with a particular focus on the UK scene.

On Monday to Thursday, British saxophonist and Mercury Prize nominee Nubya Garcia will be Soweto’s guest - selecting a treasure each night from her personal record collection. Her first choice is by Malian singer Oumou Sangaré.

There's also music from Dave Holland, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Nye Banfield - as well as a live session track from Leeds ensemble Ancient Infinity Orchestra.

TUESDAY 02 APRIL 2024

TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m001xnnh)
Matthias Goerne sings Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Romanian conductor Cristian Măcelaru and the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, perform Mahler's song cycle alongside Bartók's ballet The Wooden Prince. Jonathan Swain presents

12:31 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Detlev Glanert (arranger)
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Matthias Goerne (baritone), WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)

01:13 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
The Wooden Prince, Op 13
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)

02:06 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Hungarian Dance no 5
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Cristian Macelaru (conductor)

02:09 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Three Polonaises
Kevin Kenner (piano)

02:31 AM
Johann Rosenmuller (1619-1684)
Gloria for SATB, cornett, 2 violins, 2 violas and bass continuo
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), David Cordier (tenor), Gerd Turk (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Carsten Lohff (organ), Cantus Colln, Konrad Junghanel (director)

02:46 AM
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), William Walton (1902-1983)
Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)

02:52 AM
Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
Octet for strings in A major, Op 3
Atle Sponberg (violin), Joakim Svenheden (violin), Aida-Carmen Soanea (viola), Adrian Brendel (cello), Vertavo String Quartet

03:29 AM
Zoltan Havrylovych Almashi (1975-)
Sinfonietta
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Oksana Lyniv (conductor)

03:42 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Partita No 1 in B flat major, BWV 825
Zhang Zuo (piano)

03:55 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Tristan and Isolde (Prelude)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Tabita Berglund (conductor)

04:05 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Faj a szivem - My heart is breaking - No.4 of 4 Songs for voice and piano
Ilona Tokody (soprano), Imre Rohmann (piano)

04:11 AM
Willem De Fesch (1687-1761)
Concerto in D major (Op.5 No.1)
Musica ad Rhenum

04:19 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance in A major, Op 46 no 5
James Anagnoson (piano), Leslie Kinton (piano)

04:23 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872), Zygmunt Noskowski (orchestrator)
Polonaise in E flat major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Katlewicz (conductor)

04:31 AM
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900), P. Gunther (arranger), U. Teuber (arranger)
Blomstre som en rosengard (Blooming like a rose garden)
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director)

04:36 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Adagio and fugue for strings (K.546) in C minor
Risor Festival Strings

04:44 AM
John Stanley (1712-1786)
Concerto for organ in C minor
John Toll (organ), London Baroque

04:55 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Excerpts from Songs Without Words, Op 6 (1846)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)

05:05 AM
Philip Glass (1937-)
Music in similar motion for ensemble
Ricercata Ensemble, Ivan Siller (director)

05:18 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Ma Mère l'Oye
National Orchestra of France, Hans Graf (conductor)

05:46 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Recitative and Leonora's aria from 'Fidelio'
Anja Kampe (soprano), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Angel Gomez Martinez (conductor)

05:54 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonata in D major Wq 137 for viola da gamba and continuo
Friederike Heumann (viola da gamba), Dirk Borner (harpsichord)



TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m001xnh4)
Ease into the day with classical music

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


TUE 09:30 Essential Classics (m001xnhn)
Celebrating classical greats

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week


TUE 13:00 Classical Live (m001xnj6)
Mitsuko Uchida playing Schubert plus music by contemporaries of Mozart

Tom Mckinney with selections of specially recorded music for afternoon listening. Today at 3.00, the Japanese-British pianist Mitsuko Uchida performs the second set of Schubert's much loved Impromptus and continuing with his feature of music by Mozart's contemporaries, Tom foregrounds a recording by the Sinfonietta Riga of a symphony by the German-Swedish composer Joseph Martin Kraus. Also in today's programme, music by Britten and Mendelssohn from Germany, Berlioz from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and an overture attributed to JS Bach performed by the BBC Philharmonic directed by Rachel Podger.

Including:

Felix Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Wrote (Songs Without Words) Book 1 Op 19 Nos 1&2
(Paul Lewis, piano)

Hector Berlioz: Overture les Francs Juges
(BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer)

Maurice Ravel: Tzigane
(Geneva Lewis, violin
Sam Armstrong, piano)

Joseph Martin Kraus: Symphony in C minor, VB 142
(Sinfonietta Riga
Normunds Sne)

Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture
(Frieburg Baroque
Pablo Heras-Casedo)


Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
(NDR ElbPhilharmonie
Karina Canellakis)

3.00
Franz Schubert: Four Impromptus D935
(Mitsuko Uchida, piano)



TUE 16:00 Composer of the Week (m001xnjs)
Mozart's Grand Tour

A rocky road to Paris

The Mozart family have barely started their European adventure, and already their plans are going awry. With Donald Macleod.

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just seven years old, he and his family set out on an epic journey. Their goal: to travel through Europe and become famous; bringing their awesomely talented children to concert halls, homes and royal palaces across Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland. At the start of their trip, young Wolfgang could already perform and improvise better than most adults. By the time they returned home, three and a half years later, he’d grown into a fully fledged composer of sonatas, symphonies and arias. This week, Donald Macleod accompanies the Mozart family on their musical marathon and invites us to follow their many scrapes and adventures.

Today, the Mozarts' plans to enthral wealthy royals in Mainz and Bonn are scuppered when they arrive to discover the princes are either absent or ill. Bad weather ruins a river voyage down the Rhine and they are kept waiting for six weeks by Prince Karl Alexander of Belgium. Young Wolfgang is homesick and the family coffers are emptying fast.

Symphony in C, K 208/102, 1. Molto allegro
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

Allegro in C Major, K 6
Florian Birsak, clavichord

Piano Concerto No 17 in G major, K 453: II. Andante
Lang Lang, piano
Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Mass in C, K 317 'Coronation Mass': Credo & Agnus Dei
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, contralto
Jamie MacDougall, tenor
Stephen Gadd, bass
The English Concert Choir
The English Concert, directed by Trevor Pinnock

Violin Sonata No 1 in C Major, K 6
Rachel Podger, baroque violin
Gary Cooper, fortepiano


TUE 17:00 In Tune (m001xnkc)
Live music and news from the world of classical

Katie Derham introduces live music from the In Tune studio.


TUE 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m000twk4)
The eclectic classical mix

Half and hour of classical music to help you wind down at the end of a busy day. Today's sequence makes a journey from Somewhere Over the Rainbow thorough Italy to the planet Mercury, opening with Halvorsen’s dramatic Passacaglia plus music by JS Bach, Mozart and Cécile Chaminade.

Producer: Charlotte Parr

01 00:00:00 Johan Halvorsen
Passacaglia on a Theme of Handel
Performer: Julia Fischer
Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott
Duration 00:05:48

02 00:05:49 Harold Arlen
Over the Rainbow
Performer: Miloš Karadaglić
Duration 00:02:52

03 00:08:42 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in C minor for wind octet K384a, 3rd movement
Performer: Consortium Classicum
Duration 00:04:07

04 00:12:49 Johann Sebastian Bach
Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 Pt.2 No.17: Schaut hin!
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Choir: Dresdner Kammerchor
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Duration 00:00:36

05 00:13:26 Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite Op. 32, Mercury, the winged messenger
Conductor: Andrew Litton
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration 00:04:00

06 00:17:27 Cécile Chaminade
Valse romantique Op. 115
Performer: Peter Jacobs
Duration 00:04:06

07 00:21:34 Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 Op. 90 in A major 'Italian', 1st movement
Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
Duration 00:07:53


TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001xnlk)
Schubert's last three sonatas

Recorded live at Wigmore Hall last month, Paul Lewis comes to the end of his acclaimed Schubert cycle with the final three sonatas. It's deeply personal music, at once complex and nostalgic, fragile and unresolved, full of loss, hope and nostalgia. To play these sonatas together, says Lewis, 'is an incredible journey hard to resist.'

Martin Handley presents.

Schubert:
Piano Sonata in C minor, D 958
Piano Sonata in A, D 959
Piano Sonata in B flat, D960

Paul Lewis (piano)


TUE 21:45 The Essay (m001xnm4)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands

The Isle of Demons

Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...

The Isle of Demons - or Île des Démons - was believed to be located at the top of the Straits of Belle Isle which divides Newfoundland and Labrador. It first appeared in 1508 on Johannes Ruysch's world map with the description: "Demons assaulted ships near these islands, which were avoided, but not without peril.” It also appeared on other leading cartographers' maps including Gérard Mercator's 1569 world map; Giovanni Battista Ramusio's map of New England and New France in 1556; and Abraham Ortelius’ 1569 map.

The phantom island gained notoriety when French noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval claimed to have been abandoned there by her uncle in 1542. After Marguerite's rescue and return to France, her story was told in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron in 1558, Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques in 1572, and Andre Thevet's Cosmographie Universelle in 1575.

L'Île des Démons is thought perhaps to be based on a real island, most logically the remote Quirpon Island (pronounced Karpoon). Ed English comes from a seafaring family and owns the Quirpon island lighthouse and adjacent Lighthouse Inn, together Ed and Erland explore this ghostly phantom isle. Perhaps the terrifying screams came from the now extinct Great Auk - Erland remembers a stuffed specimen in the Orkney museum in Stromness.

Score by Erland Cooper, recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson

Readings by Keeley Forsyth from Marguerite or The Isle of Demons by George Martin (1886)

Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3


TUE 22:00 Night Tracks (m001xnmh)
Adventures in sound

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


TUE 23:30 'Round Midnight (m001xnmy)
BBC Introducing track by Amy Gadiaga

This week marks the beginning of ‘Round Midnight, the new Radio 3 weekday evening jazz programme presented by British saxophonist Soweto Kinch and showcasing the very best jazz, with a particular focus on the UK scene.

On Monday to Thursday, British saxophonist and Mercury Prize nominee Nubya Garcia will be Soweto’s guest - selecting a treasure each night from her personal record collection. Her second choice is by fellow UK sax player Courtney Pine.

There's also music from Max Roach, Tumi Mogorosi and BOREAL SUN – plus an exclusive unaired session track from 2014 by Norma Winstone and her trio, recorded for Jamie Cullum’s Radio 2 programme at Maida Vale.

WEDNESDAY 03 APRIL 2024

WED 00:30 Through the Night (m001xnn9)
Kammerakademie Potsdam performs works by Bach, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn

Justin Doyle conducts RIAS Chamber Chorus and Kammerakademie Potsdam at the Philharmonie, Berlin. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

12:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Christus, op. 97, oratorio
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Martin Mitterrutzner (tenor), RIAS Chamber Choir, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Justin Doyle (conductor)

12:51 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Lobgesang 'Meine Seele ist stille'
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Franziska Markowitsch (alto), RIAS Chamber Choir, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Justin Doyle (conductor)

01:06 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068
Kammerakademie Potsdam, Justin Doyle (conductor)

01:23 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen, from 'Elias'
RIAS Chamber Choir, Justin Doyle (conductor)

01:27 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Psalm 42 'Wie der Hirsch schreit nach frischem Wasser, op. 42'
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Minsub Hong (tenor), Volker Nietzke (tenor), Stefan Drexlmeier (bass), Andrew Redmond (bass), RIAS Chamber Choir, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Justin Doyle (conductor)

01:53 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto no 3 in C minor
Maria Joao Pires (piano), National Orchestra of France, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)

02:31 AM
Friedrich Kunzen (1761-1817)
Symphony in G minor
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (conductor)

02:50 AM
Anonymous
Lauda Jerusalem (Psalm)
Claire Lefilliatre (soprano), Marnix De Cat (alto), Han Warmelinck (tenor), Currende, Erik van Nevel (director)

03:11 AM
Rudolf Escher (1912-1980)
Arcana Suite for piano
Ronald Brautigam (piano)

03:33 AM
Ivan Jarnovic (1747-1804)
Quartetto concertante No.1 in F major
Jarnovic Quartet

03:45 AM
Bo Holten (b. 1948)
Alt har sin tid (There's a time for everything)
Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor)

03:55 AM
Anonymous
Branles de Bourgogne; A la claire fontaine
New World Consort, Susie Le Blanc (soprano), Peter Hannan (recorder), Nan Mackie (viol), Ray Nurse (lute), Salvador Ferreras (percussion)

04:03 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Beatrice et Benedict Overture
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Neville Marriner (conductor)

04:11 AM
Kaspar Forster (1616-1673)
Repleta est malis (KBPJ.35) - sacred concerto
Kai Wessel (counter tenor), Krzysztof Szmyt (tenor), Grzegorz Zychowicz (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble

04:22 AM
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Three Rag caprices, Op 78 (1922)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Daniel Swift (conductor)

04:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
10 Variations on 'Unser dummer Pobel meint', K455
Shai Wosner (piano)

04:44 AM
Nils-Eric Fougstedt (1910-1961)
Concert Overture (1941)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

04:52 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Le Grand Tango
Musica Camerata Montreal

05:03 AM
Dario Castello (fl.1621-1629)
Sonata XII, a due soprani e trombone
Musica Fiata Koln

05:11 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Overture Genoveva Op 81
National Orchestra of France, Heinz Wallberg (conductor)

05:21 AM
Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981)
Qui habitat
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (director)

05:30 AM
Eugen Suchon (1908-1993)
The Night of the Witches, symphonic poem
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mario Kosik (conductor)

05:50 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sonata for piano no. 7 (Op.83) in B flat major
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)

06:09 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture vers. standard
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)


WED 06:30 Breakfast (m001xmld)
Sunrise classical

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


WED 09:30 Essential Classics (m001xmll)
A feast of great music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week


WED 13:00 Classical Live (m001xmlw)
Nelson Goerner with piano music by Brahms plus music by contemporaries of Mozart

Tom McKinney with specially recorded music making for your afternoon listening including at 2.00 pianist Nelson Goerner playing Brahms’ mighty 3rd Piano Sonata and Rachel Podger directing an early colourful symphony by Joseph Haydn.

The programme also features music by Chopin and the string section of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concerto by Grazyna Bacewicz, and Rumon Gamba conducting Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia.

Including:

Frederic Chopin; Barcarolle in F sharp major Op60
(Nelson Goerner, piano)



3.00
Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor Op 5
(Nelson Goerner, piano)


Anon; Passacaglia/Improvisation
(Latvian Radio Choir
Marco Ambrosini, harp
Ieva Saliete, organ
Kaspars Putnins, director)


WED 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001xmm9)
The Church of Our Lady of Victories, Kensington

Choral vespers for Easter Wednesday, from the Church of Our Lady of Victories, Kensington, London.

Prelude: Improvisation on ‘Victimae paschali laudes’ (Martin Baker)
Invitatory: Deus in adjutorium (Gastoldi)
Hymn: Ad cenam Agni providi (plainsong, with improvised organ versets)
Psalms 109, 113 (plainsong)
Reading: Hebrews 7 vv.24-27
Short Responsory: Haec dies (plainsong)
Magnificat Tertii toni a5 (Bevan)
Lord’s Prayer (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Motet: Surrexit pastor bonus (Victoria)
Antiphon: Regina caeli laetare (plainsong)
Voluntary: Sortie improvisation on ‘Regina caeli laetare’ (Martin Baker)

Timothy Macklin (Director of Music)
Martin Baker (Grand Organ)
Benjamin Bloor (Choir Organ)
Monsignor James Curry (Celebrant)

Recorded 1 December 2023.


WED 16:00 Composer of the Week (m001xmmt)
Mozart's Grand Tour

Mixed fortunes in London

The Mozart’s arrive in Britain with high hopes, but unexpected problems arise. With Donald Macleod.

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just seven years old, he and his family set out on an epic journey. Their goal: to travel through Europe and become famous; bringing their awesomely talented children to concert halls, homes and royal palaces across Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland. At the start of their trip, young Wolfgang could already perform and improvise better than most adults. By the time they returned home, three and a half years later, he’d grown into a fully fledged composer of sonatas, symphonies and arias. This week, Donald Macleod accompanies the Mozart family on their musical marathon and invites us to follow their many scrapes and adventures.

Today, the Mozarts change their plans and divert to London, lured by the promise of large profits to be made in Europe’s wealthiest capital. The children quickly make a big impression at Buckingham House, but a mystery disease threatens to derail their progress.

Sonata No 14, K 29: I. Allegro molto
François Fernandez, violin
Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord

Divertimento in F, K 138
Hagen Quartet

Va, dal furor portata, K 21
Rolando Villazón, tenor
London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antonio Pappano

Symphony No 1 in E flat major, K 16
Northern Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Ward

Flute Sonata in C major, K 14
Marc Grauwels, flute
Guy Penson, harpsichord


WED 17:00 In Tune (m001xmnh)
In session with stellar classical artists

Katie Derham speaks to soprano Aigul Akhmetshina as she prepares to perform the role of Carmen at the Royal Opera House. Plus, there’s live music from Baroque ensemble Solomon’s Knot.


WED 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001xmp1)
Power through with classical music

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


WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001xmpn)
Dvořák, Liszt, Kanai and Takemitsu

Nodoka Okisawa makes her debut conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for a programme which brings together Japan and Eastern Europe. The first half begins with prolific Japanese film composer Tōru Takemitsu, and a suite that he made by reworking his music from three very different films. Blues, threnody, waltz - the style of each movement shows a vastly different side to a composer that we think we know, creating a perfectly balanced concert suite. This is followed by Okinawan composer Kikuko Kanai's Capriccio Okinawa, a work from one of the first Japanese women to compose in a western style, and its first performance in the UK. She transcribed traditional Okinawan melodies to use in the work, which also features the instrument at the heart of Okinawan folk music, the Sanshin. After the interval, Iyad Sughayer joins the Orchestra for Liszt's poetic Second Piano concerto, and the concert concludes with a tone poem by Dvořák - his Wild or Wood Dove. The music masterfully tells the story by Czech folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben, in which the dove of the title eventually drives a guilty wife to suicide.

Presented by Verity Sharp in Hoddinott Hall, recorded on the 24th of February.

Takemitsu: Three Film Scores (12')
Kanai: Capriccio Okinawa (25')
Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A major, S 125 (21')
Dvořák: The Wood Dove, B 198 (19')

Iyad Sughayer (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nodoka Okisawa (conductor)


WED 21:45 The Essay (m001xmqb)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands

The Auroras

Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...

To explore the Aurora Islands in the South Atlantic - Erland is joined by Chilean historian Natalia Gándara Chacana, an expert on the scientific and cultural history of Latin America in the colonial and early republican period.

The Auroras take their name from a Peruvian ship which reported a group of three Islands in 1762 whilst on a voyage from Lima to Cádiz, midway between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. South Georgia is about 500 miles from the South Orkney islands - named after Erland's home - which are located at roughly the same latitude south as Orkney is north. They are claimed by both Argentina and Britain.

The Auroras were spotted by numerous more ships including in 1794 by the Spanish corvette Atrevida, which was despatched to find them as part of a scientific survey of the Patagonian coast. In a region where colonial powers were competing for control of the seas, islands held a particular importance and the Auroras had great geostrategic value, in addition to being a potential navigational hazard to ships in one of the most dangerous places to sail. They were dismissed as non-existent by the British admiralty in 1825 but they continued to be sighted and appeared on maps until the 1870s.

Score by Erland Cooper
Recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson

Readings by Keeley Forsyth from the journals of the Captain of the Atrevida and the Captain of the Helen Baird

With thanks to Sara Jane Hall

Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3


WED 22:00 Night Tracks (m001xmqy)
Night music

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


WED 23:30 'Round Midnight (m001xmrm)
Alice Coltrane live recording

This week marks the first instalment of ‘Round Midnight, the new Radio 3 weekday evening jazz programme presented by British saxophonist Soweto Kinch and showcasing the very best jazz, with a particular focus on the UK scene.

On Monday to Thursday, British saxophonist and Mercury Prize nominee Nubya Garcia will be Soweto’s guest - selecting a treasure each night from her personal record collection

THURSDAY 04 APRIL 2024

THU 00:30 Through the Night (m001xms6)
Schubert and Shostakovich in Helsinki

Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra are joined by cellist István Várdai for Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto, before Schubert's 'Great' Symphony No 9. Jonathan Swain presents.

12:31 AM
Heloise Werner (b. 1991)
for mira
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor)

12:39 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat, Op 107
Istvan Vardai (cello), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor)

01:10 AM
Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
El Cant del Ocells
Istvan Vardai (cello)

01:13 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No 9 in C major, D944, 'Great'
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor)

02:05 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for solo Cello No.3 in C major (BWV.1009)
Guy Fouquet (cello)

02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2, 'Rasumovsky'
Artis Quartet

03:02 AM
Per Gunnar Petersson (b.1954)
Aftonland (Evening Land) for choir and solo horn
Soren Hermansson (horn), Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (director)

03:16 AM
Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Rodion Shchedrin (arranger)
Suite from Carmen
I Tempi Chamber Orchestra, Gevorg Gharabekyan (conductor)

04:00 AM
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Nocturne for flute and piano
Valentinas Gelgotas (flute), Audrone Kisieliute (piano)

04:03 AM
Antonio Vivaldi ((1678-1741))
Violin Concerto in D major, RV 204, Op.4'11
Fabio Biondi (violin), Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)

04:10 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Rustic Dance
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)

04:14 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Tranquillamente from 3 Satukuvaa (Fairy tale pictures) for piano (Op 19 no 3)
Liisa Pohjola (piano)

04:20 AM
Giovanni Picchi (1572-1643)
Canzon Decima Sesta à 6, from 'Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d'istromenti'
Cardinal Complex, Jonas Gassmann (conductor)

04:24 AM
Jacob Obrecht (1457-1505)
Salve Regina
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)

04:31 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt - Overture, Op 27
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Simone Young (conductor)

04:44 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Phantasy Quintet
Mary Ellen Woodside (violin), Asli Ayben Ozdemir (violin), Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola), Alessandro D'Amico (viola), Rafael Rosenfeld (cello)

04:58 AM
Rene Eespere (b.1953)
Sub specie quietatis - for percussion and choir
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Evi Eespere (director), Unknown (percussion)

05:07 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Waltz from Sleeping Beauty, Op 66
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegard (conductor)

05:12 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Prelude, fugue et variation for organ (M.30) (Op.18)
Pierre Pincemaille (organ)

05:21 AM
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Sonata No 6, 'Senti lo Mare' (Listen to the Sea)
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin)


05:46 AM
Georg Druschetzky (1745-1819)
Sextet for 2 clarinets, 2 french horns and 2 bassoons in E flat major
Bratislava Chamber Harmony

06:04 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Waldszenen - 9 pieces for piano, Op 82
Stefan Bojsten (piano)


THU 06:30 Breakfast (m001xml1)
Boost your morning with classical

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


THU 09:30 Essential Classics (m001xml5)
Classical soundtrack for your morning

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week


THU 13:00 Classical Live (m001xmlb)
Including music for two pianos from Louis Lortie and Helene Mercier

Tom McKinney with selections taken from specially made recordings for the afternoon. Included in his programme are the French Canadian piano duo of Louis Lortie and Helene Mercier - at the heart of today's programme, at 3.00, you can hear them performing Rachmaninov's masterly Symphonic Dances. The cellist Sol Gambetta performs the Cello Concerto by Robert Schumann. And there is also music from a composer who exerted an important influence on the music of the young Mozart, Johann Christian Bach.

Including:


Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnol- III. Ferie
(Helen Mercier, piano
Louis Lortie, piano)


Franz Schubert: Des Fischers Liebsgluck D933
(Helen Charlston, mezzo
Kunal Lahiry, piano)

Johann Christian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in F minor W C69
(Anthony Halstead, harpsichord
Hanover Band)


Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor Op129
(Sol Gambetta, cello
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Giovanni Antonini)

3.00
Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
(Helene Mercier, piano
Louis Lortie, piano)



THU 16:00 Composer of the Week (m001xmlm)
Mozart's Grand Tour

Encounters with scientists and doctors

Donald Macleod sees the Mozart family rally together as catastrophe strikes.

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just seven years old, he and his family set out on an epic journey. Their goal: to travel through Europe and become famous; bringing their awesomely talented children to concert halls, homes and royal palaces across Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland. At the start of their trip, young Wolfgang could already perform and improvise better than most adults. By the time they returned home, three and a half years later, he’d grown into a fully fledged composer of sonatas, symphonies and arias. This week, Donald Macleod accompanies the Mozart family on their musical marathon and invites us to follow their many scrapes and adventures.

Today, the boy Mozart is tested by a scientist of the Royal Society in London and the family is struck by a sudden and desperate crisis. Is their wonderful tour destined to end in tragedy?

Violin Sonata No 8 in F major, K 13: I. Allegro
Abegg Trio

String Quartet No. 3 in G major, K 156: II. Adagio
Armida Quartett

Sonata for Piano duet in C major, K 521: II Andante, III Allegretto
Kirill Gerstein & Ferenc Rados, piano

Symphony No 4 in D major, K 19
The Mozartists, directed by Ian Page

Mass in C minor, K 427 'Great': VI Qui tollis, VII Quoniam, VIII Jesu Christe
Christiane Oelze, soprano
Jennifer Larmore, soprano
Scott Weir, tenor
Chœurs du Collegium Vocale et de La Chapelle Royale
Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe


THU 17:00 In Tune (m001xmm3)
World-class classical music – live

Katie Derham is joined by Scottish tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Dylan Perez to perform live music in the studio.


THU 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m000s3zr)
Classical music to inspire you

In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music with a few surprises. Tonight's mixtape features works by Schubert, Dvořák and Debussy writing for different combinations of instruments, plus Swedish folk music sung by Trio Mediæval and an appearance from the great Nina Simone. We'll also dip into an early Mozart Symphony and one of Joaquín Rodrigo's most popular works for guitar and orchestra.

01 00:00:00 Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet no.2 in A major Op.81 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet
Performer: Stefan Vladar
Duration 00:04:12

02 00:04:09 Anonymous
Jag haver ingen kärare [No one is dearer to me]
Ensemble: Trio Mediæval
Duration 00:02:11

03 00:06:13 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony no.29 in A major K.201 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Charles Mackerras
Duration 00:06:54

04 00:13:04 Claude Debussy
Danse profane (Danse sacrée et danse profane)
Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson
Ensemble: Quatuor Voce
Duration 00:04:54

05 00:17:48 Traditional American
Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair
Singer: Nina Simone
Performer: Lisle Atkinson
Duration 00:03:26

06 00:21:11 Joaquín Rodrigo
Danza de las hachas (Fantasía para un gentilhombre)
Performer: Narciso Yepes
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Luis Antonio García Navarro
Duration 00:02:06

07 00:23:14 Franz Schubert
Octet in F major, D.803 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Emma Johnson
Performer: Chris West
Performer: Philip Gibbon
Performer: Michael Thompson
Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet
Duration 00:06:28




THU 21:45 The Essay (m001xmnz)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands

Frisland

Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...

In 1558, the Venetian senator Nicolò Zeno published a text: "Dello scoprimento dell'isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engrouelanda, Estotilanda e Icaria fatto sotto il Polo artico da' due fratelli Zeni, M. Nicolò il K. e M. Antonio" in which the writer claims that as a child he discovered letters and a map from his ancestors, two knights and expert sailors who travelled north to these unknown islands in the north in the late 14th century - but in his youthful ignorance he tore the documents up. Years later, on realising their importance, Nicolò recovered them.

The letters describe a voyage north to Frisland which is decribed as an island larger than Ireland. On Frisland, Nicolò's ancestors encounter a Prince Zichmni - later suggested to be the Earl of Orkney - who had recently defeated the King of Norway. The accompanying navigational chart included islands called Estotiland, Icaria, and Drogeo - which would find their way onto major maps by leading cartographers of the early modern period such as Ortelius and Mercator.

Joining Erland on this imaginary journey to Frisland is Liz Horodowich, Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She also points to some of the personal and political reasons for the publication of Zen's text.

Score by Erland Cooper
Recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson

Reading by Keeley Forsyth from Thomas Elyot's The Boke named the Governour (1531)

Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3


THU 22:00 Night Tracks (m001xmpw)
Music for the darkling hour

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


THU 23:30 'Round Midnight (m001xmqj)
A song for Evan Parker’s 80th

This week marks the first instalment of ‘Round Midnight, the new Radio 3 weekday evening jazz programme presented by British saxophonist Soweto Kinch and showcasing the very best jazz, with a particular focus on the UK scene.

On Monday to Thursday, British saxophonist and Mercury Prize nominee Nubya Garcia will be Soweto’s guest - selecting a treasure each night from her personal record collection

FRIDAY 05 APRIL 2024

FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m001xmrh)
Dancing at La Scala

Isabelle Faust performs Bartok's First Violin Concerto with La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vasily Petrenko. Two sets of dances make up the rest of the programme: Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances and John Adams's The Chairman Dances. Jonathan Swain presents

12:31 AM
John Adams (1947-)
The Chairman Dances (Nixon in China, Act 3)
La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

12:44 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Violin Concerto No 1, Sz 36
Isabelle Faust (violin), La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

01:07 AM
Nicola Matteis Sr. (c. 1650-after 1713)
Preludio, Passaggio rotto and Andamento veloce (Ayres for the Violin, Part I)
Isabelle Faust (violin)

01:11 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Symphonic Dances, Op 45
La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

01:47 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Sonata for cello and piano in G minor (Op.19)
Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Francine Kay (piano)

02:24 AM
Mykola Leontovych (1877-1921)
Hymn to the Cherubim
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)

02:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quintet for strings in G minor (K.516)
Oslo Chamber Soloists

03:07 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)

03:21 AM
Hyacinthe Jadin (1776-1800)
Sonata No.1 in E flat major (Op.3)
Patrick Cohen (fortepiano)

03:39 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
2 graduals for chorus: Locus iste & Christus Factus est
Danish National Radio Choir, Jesper Grove Jorgensen (conductor)

03:47 AM
Thea Musgrave (b.1928)
Loch Ness - a postcard from Scotland for orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)

03:58 AM
Matthaus Waissel (c.1535-1602)
Three Polish Dances for lute
Jacob Heringman (lute)

04:01 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
3 Mazurkas, Op.56
Szymon Nehring (piano)

04:14 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Marinov (conductor)

04:26 AM
Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710)
Canarios (arr. for flute and ensemble)
Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)

04:31 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Largo al factotum from "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" Act 1
Allan Monk (baritone), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

04:36 AM
Gustav Lange (1830-1889)
Blumenlied for piano (Op.39)
Kyung-Sook Lee (piano)

04:41 AM
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), Remo Giazotto (1910-1998)
Adagio in G minor (arr. for organ and trumpet)
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)

04:48 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Valse-fantasie in B minor
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)

04:56 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Cor mio, deh non languire (for soprano, alto, 2 tenors, baritone and lute)
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa (conductor)

05:01 AM
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Three Shanties for wind quintet, Op 4
Ariart Woodwind Quintet

05:09 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Violin Concerto in D minor BWV.1052R
Zefira Valova (violin), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)

05:30 AM
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Requiem Mass for chorus and orchestra no 1 in C minor
Slovenian Radio and Television Chamber Choir, Tomaz Faganel (choirmaster), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor)

06:15 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Piano Sonata in C minor (1824)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)


FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m001xmv9)
Get going with classical

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning.

Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


FRI 09:30 Essential Classics (m001xmvp)
The very best of classical music

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1030 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1100 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.

1230 Album of the Week


FRI 13:00 Classical Live (m001xmw1)
Music from Mozart's great contempory Haydn, plus music for two pianos by Rachmaninov and Brahms' 4th Symphony from Germany

Tom McKinney rounds up Classical Live week with an afternoon of specially recorded music from French-Canadian pianists Louis Lortie and Helene Mercier performing Rachmaninov and Stravinsky. The Leipzig Gawandhaus Orchestra and Chorus perform music by JS Bach in the style of Mozart - and the Mozart contemporary is Joseph Haydn and his 2nd Cello Concerto recorded for us in Germany.

including:

Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
(Louis Lortie, piano
Helene Mercier, piano)


Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No 2 in D
Maxilmilian Hornung, cello
(Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck)

Igor Stavinsky; Three Movements from Petrushka
(Louis Lortie, piano
Helene Mercier, Piano)

Johann Sebastian Bach; Singet dem Hernn BWV 225
(St Thomas Choir
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Gian Andrea Reize)

Sergei Rachmaninov: Suite No 1
(Louis Lortie, piano
Helene Mercier, piano)

3.00
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 4 in e minor
(Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young)

Paolo Tosti: Sogno
(Alessandro Fischer, tenor
Gary Matthewman, piano)



FRI 16:00 Composer of the Week (m001xmwc)
Mozart's Grand Tour

Homeward Bound

The Mozarts finally return home, transformed by their extraordinary adventure. With Donald Macleod.

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just seven years old, he and his family set out on an epic journey. Their goal: to travel through Europe and become famous; bringing their awesomely talented children to concert halls, homes and royal palaces across Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland. At the start of their trip, young Wolfgang could already perform and improvise better than most adults. By the time they returned home, three and a half years later, he’d grown into a fully fledged composer of sonatas, symphonies and arias. This week, Donald Macleod accompanies the Mozart family on their musical marathon and invites us to follow their many scrapes and adventures.

Today, it’s time to head home. But how? The Mozart family are currently stranded in The Hague, with vital luggage abandoned in Paris. It’s going to be a long and winding road back to Salzburg and the family are determined to make the most of every new sight and experience along the way.

Symphony No 7a in G, K Anh 221 (K45a) 'Alte Lambacher': III. Presto
Concentus Musicus Wien, directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Gallimathias musicum K 32 (excerpts)
I Solisti Veneti, directed by Claudio Scimone

Piano Sonata No 16 in C, K 545
Mitsuko Uchida, piano

Violin Sonata in C, K 28
Alina Ibragimova, violin
Cédric Tiberghien, piano

Symphony No 5 in B flat, K 22
The English Concert, directed by Trevor Pinnock

Clarinet Concerto in A, K 622: II Adagio, III Rondo
Martin Fröst, clarinet & director
Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic


FRI 17:00 In Tune (m001xmwn)
The classical soundtrack for your evening

Katie Derham introduces live music from the Elias String Quartet and jazz singer-bassist Charlie Pyne and her Quartet.


FRI 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m001xmwy)
Classical music for your journey

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




FRI 21:45 The Essay (m001xmxm)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands

Saint Brendan's Isle

Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...

Saint Brendan was an Irish abbot born in the 5th century, known for travelling long distances to found monasteries- he reputedly visited Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes. Several centuries after his death, a Latin text - Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis - appeared which told the story of his extraordinary seven-year voyage across the seas, which culminated in his arrival on the Land of Promise. It was a self-tilling, fruitarian paradise where the weather was always just right, and visitors could find precious stones in abundance.

Painting the picture of this heavenly island is Sebastian Sobecki, Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto. As a phantom island, St Brendan's Isle or the Fortunate Isles began appearing from the 13th century. One version of the text references the Atlas mountains and they sometimes appeared near the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores. Another text mentions that Brendan travelled West from Ireland and so the phantom island began appearing in the North Atlantic near Canada.

Cartographers at the time took Brendan's voyage seriously and it was also used by Dr John Dee to justify Elizabeth I's colonial ambitions in North America - which highlights how phantom islands can also serve a political purpose.

Score by Erland Cooper
Recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson

Readings by Keeley Forsyth from Denis O’Donoghue's translation of the Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis and a 12th-century poem by a Norman-English trouvère.

Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3


FRI 22:00 Late Junction (m001xmxw)
Cello rituals, sonic monuments and musical tarot

Join Jennifer Lucy Allan for a swirling journey into the musical beyond, as we embark on another Late Junction voyage through sound. There’ll be ritualistic cello explorations from Greek artist Viki Steiri that she describes as "a balm to the soul". There’s a krautrock concept album from Swiss tarot expert Walter Wegmüller from 1973, and the sound of the new New Age from Californian label Goaty Tapes. Plus the Indonesian duo of noise artists and instrument builders Senyawa return with their new album, the making of which involved building a monument which can emit fire and was created with the hope of becoming a "knowledge artefact for humans in the future."

Produced by Kit Callin
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3


FRI 23:30 'Round Midnight (m001xmy3)
Zara McFarlane in session

This week marks the first instalment of ‘Round Midnight, the new Radio 3 weekday evening jazz programme presented by British saxophonist Soweto Kinch and showcasing the very best jazz, with a particular focus on the UK scene.

On Fridays, ‘Round Midnight will be the home of in-depth live sessions, guest mixtapes, and musical conversations. This week, British singer Zara McFarlane is live in the studio, interpreting Sara Vaughan classics to mark the centenary of her birth.