SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2024
SAT 00:30 Through the Night (m00253px)
Concerto Copenhagen: music written by and for women
Concerto Copenhagen take us from the Baroque era to the present day with music by Jacquet de La Guerre, Vivaldi, Signe Lykke and more. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Overture to 'Céphale et Procris'
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
12:35 AM
Wilhelmine von Bayreuth (1709-1758)
Harpsichord Concerto in G minor
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
12:50 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV 498
Jane Gower (bassoon), Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
01:02 AM
Signe Lykke (b.1984)
A world seen from above
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
01:18 AM
Mr Carolo (c.1700)
Sonata VIII
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
01:24 AM
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Suite from 'Céphale et Procris'
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
01:32 AM
Augusta Holmes (1847-1903)
Roland Furieux, Symphony after Ariosto
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Valentina Peleggi (conductor)
01:59 AM
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Viola Sonata in E minor
Lise Berthaud (viola), Xenia Maliarevitch (piano)
02:22 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Rondino in E flat, WoO 25
Festival Winds
02:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony no 6 in B minor, Op 74 'Pathetique'
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
03:18 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sposa son disprezzata, from Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet), RV.703
Julie Fuchs (soprano), La Scintilla Orchestra, Anna Gebert (conductor)
03:28 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Richard Epstein (transcriber)
Excerpts from 'La Bohème'
Richard Epstein (piano)
03:37 AM
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944)
Concerto for Violin and Horn in A major - 1st movt
Anna Agafia Egholm (violin), Tillmann Hofs (horn), Alice Burla (piano)
03:48 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Overture, Le Corsaire, Op 21
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)
03:58 AM
Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
When David heard (O my son Absalom) - for 6 voices
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (director)
04:02 AM
Antonio de Cabezon (1510-1566)
3 works for Arpa Doppia
Margret Koll (arpa doppia)
04:12 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quartet for oboe and strings in F major, K370
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Psophos Quartet
04:26 AM
Nicolas Chedeville (1705-1782)
Les Saisons Amusantes Part I - Transcription of Vivaldi's 'Le Printemps'
Ensemble 1700, Dorothee Oberlinger (director)
04:31 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture to L' Italiana in Algeri
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
04:39 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op 25 no 2
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
04:46 AM
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (1708-1780)
Concerto for horn or trumpet and strings in E flat major
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Oslo Camerata, Stephan Barratt-Due (conductor)
05:02 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
4 Hungarian folk songs for chorus, Sz 93
Hungarian Radio Chorus, Peter Erdei (conductor)
05:15 AM
Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
Serenade (to Frederick Delius on his 60th birthday)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
05:23 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata no 2 in B flat minor, Op 35
Zheeyoung Moon (piano)
05:46 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Violin Concerto in A minor, B108, Op 53
Vilde Frang Bjaerke (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, William Eddins (conductor)
06:18 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Marco Uccellini (c.1603-1680), Giulio Caccini (lyricist)
2 madrigals by Monteverdi and a Sonata by Uccellini
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
SAT 06:30 Breakfast (m0025c3p)
Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast
Join Emma Clarke to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast."
SAT 09:00 Saturday Morning (m0025c3r)
Tom meets composer Caroline Shaw and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev
Tom Service welcomes composer Caroline Shaw and the players of percussion supergroup Sō Percussion to play live in the studio, Plus he meets conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, discovers the musical backstory to the famous Crystal Palace and serves up the perfect classical soundtrack for Saturday morning.
American composer, singer and producer Caroline Shaw is one of the most exciting musical voices out there today. She was the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize and has won various Grammys for her music. She's a musical shapeshifter who moves between different worlds and roles whether it's choral music, film scoring, contemporary classical or songwriting. Her musical collaboration with So Percussion is a glorious and genre-defying mix of eclectic sounds and inspirations, so anything could happen in the studio as Caroline and Sō Percussion join Tom to perform live and talk about the joy of making music together.
On St Andrew's Day, Tom also chats to one of the country's adopted musical sons - the conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, chief of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. After a fairytale first encounter together after he stepped in at short notice to conduct the orchestra in Schubert, within a year he'd been announced as their new Principal Conductor. Maxim talks about their electrifying partnership and his musical plans for the future.
Plus, on the anniversary of the great fire that destroyed the famous Crystal Palace in London - we discover the musical backstory of the famous building, that hosted the first UK performances of Schubert symphonies, yearly Handel spectaculars and performances from everyone from Clara Schumann to Brahms to Liszt.
SAT 12:00 Earlier... with Jools Holland (m0025c3t)
Classical, blues and jazz for the weekend
In a new show for Saturday lunchtimes, Jools shares his lifelong passion for classical music, and the beautiful connections with jazz and blues. With fascinating guests each week, who bring their own favourite music and occasionally perform live in Jools's studio.
Today, Jools's choices include music by Johannes Brahms, Fats Waller, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian and Felix Mendelssohn. His guest is musician Roxanne de Bastion who tells the fascinating story of her grandfather, a Hungarian pianist and composer who, along with his beloved piano, survived World War II and ended up settling in Stratford-upon-Avon. Roxanne shares a track from her album 'Songs From The Piano Player of Budapest' which combines archive cassette recordings of her grandfather with her own singing, and introduces music by Chopin and George Martin.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Earlier with Jools Holland".
SAT 13:00 Music Matters (m0025c3w)
Music, My Family and Me
Neil Kinnock
Nicky Campbell is joined by a high-profile figure from broadcasting, entertainment and public life to share and explore how classical music has soundtracked their worlds as parents, children and caregivers: with a host of arresting, moving and funny stories from both parties along the way.
In this episode, Nicky is in the studio with former Leader of the Labour Party, Lord Neil Kinnock as he reflects on the music that he was introduced to by his mother, his youth spent singing in the Glamorgan Youth Choir and how music was at the very heart of his loving marriage to Baroness Glenys Kinnock. And the pair share stories about the challenges and occasional hilarity of raising children in the public eye.
Produced by Leonie Thomas and Katie Hill
Exec Producer: Steven Rajam
An Overcoat Media Production for BBC Radio 3
SAT 14:00 Record Review (m0025c3z)
Poulenc's Stabat Mater, in Building a Library with Jeremy Sams & Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.
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Flora Willson shares her choices of the latest releases of one of the greatest and most popular opera composers, Giacomo Puccini, who died 100 years ago yesterday.
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Building a Library
Jeremy Sams selects his favourite version of Poulenc's Stabat Mater.
Poulenc wrote his dramatic Stabat Mater after the death of his friend, the artist Christian Bérard and after a visit to the shrine of the Black Virgin of Rocamadour. His setting of the medieval Stabat Mater text is scored for soprano solo, mixed chorus, and orchestra and was premiered in 1951.
Recommended Version
Marlis Petersen (soprano)
Stuttgart Southwest Radio Vocal Ensemble
North German Radio Chorus
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Stéphane Denève (conductor)
Hanssler Classic 93297CD
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Record of the Week: Andrew’s top pick.
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Record Review”
SAT 16:00 Sound of Cinema (m0025c41)
Music from films themed around the Vatican
What is the sound of Papal Rome? Matthew Sweet explores the music of films set in and influenced by the Vatican. From Morricone's melancholy oboe in The Mission to Hans Zimmer's massed choirs and menacing strings in Angels & Demons. Nino Rota's score for The Godfather Part III exquisitely demonstrates both the pageantry of the Catholic Church and Michael Corleone's personal feelings of guilt in the film. Meanwhile, the solo guitar highlights the intimacy between the two protagonists in Bryce Dessner's score for the gripping biographical drama The Two Popes, highlighting the intimacy between the popes of the film's title.
The Vatican has even issued a list of films it deems important so we'll hear the music that they're recommending, such as On The Waterfront, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Wizard of Oz.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: "Ask BBC Sounds to play Sound of Cinema.”
SAT 17:00 This Classical Life (m0025c43)
Jess Gillam with... Mary Bevan
Jess Gillam is joined by internationally renowned soprano Mary Bevan to share some of the tracks they love including music by Bach, Handel and Caroline Shaw plus pop from The Divine Comedy.
SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b047zwnk)
Puccini's Manon Lescaut
An acclaimed Royal Opera performance to mark the 100th anniversary of Puccini's death: this 2014 production stars Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann with conductor Antonio Pappano.
Manon, who has shown a taste for pleasure, is on her way to a convent on the orders of her parents when she meets the young student Des Grieux. The pair fall in love and elope to Paris, but when the elderly Geronte offers Manon a life of wealth and luxury, her head is turned.
Presented by Andrew McGregor, with guest Alexandra Wilson.
First broadcast, live, on 1 July 2014.
Manon Lescaut ..... Kristine Opolais (soprano)
Chevalier des Grieux ..... Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Lescaut, Manon's brother ..... Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Geronte de Ravoir ..... Maurizio Muraro (bass)
Singer ..... Nadezhda Karyazina (soprano)
Edmondo ..... Benjamin Hulett (tenor)
Dancing Master ..... Robert Burt (tenor)
Lamplighter ..... Luis Gomes (tenor)
Innkeeper ..... Nigel Cliffe (baritone)
Sergeant ..... Jihoon Kim (bass-baritone)
Naval Captain ..... Jeremy White (bass)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Antonio Pappano (conductor)
SAT 21:30 Music Planet (m0025c45)
Aidan O’Rourke’s Return Journey
On St Andrew’s Day, Scottish fiddle player Aidan O’Rourke shares his two “Return Journey” tracks - one he met on his travels, and one that reminds him of home. Elsewhere in the show, Kathryn Tickell presents the finest in roots-based music from around including a new heart-warming song from Puerto Rican artist Esotérica Tropical about the relationship with her grandmother and a piece combining North African melodies and electronics from DIDON, a Tunisian-American duo featuring the voice of Meriem Ben Amor and the production of Carmen Rizzo.
Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: “Ask BBC Sounds to play Music Planet.”
SAT 22:30 New Music Show (m0025c47)
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2/4): Ligeti Quartet play Wadada Leo Smith
Tom Service reports from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, with interviews and live recordings from across this 10-day international event. Tonight, music for string quartet by featured composer Wadada Leo Smith; we'll hear the fruits of a collaboration between GBSR Duo (UK) and Twenty Fingers Duo (Lithuania), as well as pieces from Finland's defunensemble and the eight trumpets of the Monochrome Project.
SUNDAY 01 DECEMBER 2024
SUN 00:30 Through the Night (m0025c49)
Trumpet Concerto Double Bill
Ole Edvard Antonsen delivers virtuosic performances of the Trumpet Concertos by Haydn and Tartini. He's accompanied by the Argovia Philharmonic conducted by Rune Bergmann. The orchestra also performs Debussy's Petite Suite and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arr. Henri Büsser
Petite Suite
Argovia Philharmonic, Rune Bergmann (conductor)
12:45 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Argovia Philharmonic, Rune Bergmann (conductor)
01:01 AM
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), arr. Oivind Westby
Trumpet Concerto in D major
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Argovia Philharmonic, Rune Bergmann (conductor)
01:12 AM
Leif Strand (1942-2021), arr. Oivind Westby
Men går jag över engarna (But I Walk Across the Meadows)
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Argovia Philharmonic, Rune Bergmann (conductor)
01:18 AM
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), orch. Maurice Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition
Argovia Philharmonic, Rune Bergmann (conductor)
01:53 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto no 2 in F major, BWV.1047
Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Alexis Kossenko (recorder), Erik Niord Larsen (oboe), Elise Batnes (violin), Risor Festival Strings, Knut Johannessen (harpsichord)
02:04 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arr. Nancy Allen
Arabesque no 2
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
02:08 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Trio élégiaque no 1 in G minor
Esther Hoppe (violin), Christian Poltera (cello), Hiroko Sakagami (piano)
02:22 AM
Leonel Power (1370-1445)
Salve Regina
Hilliard Ensemble
02:31 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), arr. Ann Kuppens
Variations on a rococo theme for cello and string orchestra, Op 33
Gavriel Lipkind (cello), Brussels Chamber Orchestra
02:53 AM
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Sinfonia concertante a 8, ZWV 189
Katharina Heutjer (violin), Xenia Loffler (oboe), Gabriele Gombi (bassoon), La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basle, Maurice Steger (conductor)
03:16 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594), arr. Francesco Soriano
Missa Papae Marcelli arr. Soriano for double choir
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
03:42 AM
Ivo Parac (1890-1954)
Andante amoroso for string quartet
Zagreb Quartet
03:49 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Largo from 5 Klavierstücke, Op 3 no 3
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
03:58 AM
Andreas Schencker (C18)
Symphony no 5 in B flat major
Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Horia Andreescu (conductor)
04:06 AM
Marcel Tournier (1879-1951)
Au Matin - etude de concert
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
04:10 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Ballet Music for the Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:20 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano, Op 66
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello), Jose Gallardo (piano)
04:31 AM
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Overture to Candide
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Richard Dufallo (conductor)
04:36 AM
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Lied (Lenau): Larghetto; Wanderlied: Presto Op 8 nos 3 & 4
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:42 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Duet: Tardo per gli anni, e tremulo (Attila & Ezio) from the prologue to Attila
Nicola Ghiuselev (bass), Vladimir Stoyanov (baritone), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Boris Hinchev (conductor)
04:49 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in A major, RV 335, 'The Cuckoo'
Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director)
04:59 AM
Giulio Schiavetto (fl.1562–5), transc. Dr Lovro Zupanovic
Canzon
Slovenian Chamber Choir, Vladimir Kranjcevic (director)
05:08 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 23 in D major, K.181
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
05:20 AM
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940)
Piano Trio in A minor, Op Posth
Gould Piano Trio
05:48 AM
Ivan Zajc (1832-1914)
Symphonic Picture in C minor, Op 394
Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Niksha Bareza (conductor)
06:09 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Grand Motet "Deus judicium tuum regi da" (Psalm 71)
Veronika Winter (soprano), Andrea Stenzel (soprano), Patrick Van Goethem (alto), Markus Schafer (tenor), Ekkehard Abele (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
SUN 06:30 Carols Across the Country: A Seasonal Journey (m0025dc6)
with Tom McKinney from Martin Mere Wetland Centre, Lancashire
As dawn breaks on Advent, we begin our seasonal journey live from Martin Mere Wetland Centre in Lancashire. Kantos Chamber Choir will be live in our bird hide bringing festive cheer with carols both traditional and new. Tom McKinney will be taking us on a wildlife adventure in sound as we join him in his canoe through the waterways of the mere. And, as the sun rises, we will hear the sound of thousands of birds as they wake up, spread their wings and take to the skies.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast."
SUN 09:00 Carols Across the Country: A Seasonal Journey (m0025dc8)
with Sarah Walker from Yorkshire’s Cannon Hall
Our seasonal journey across the UK continues with a crisp advent morning at the stunningly beautiful Cannon Hall in Barnsley – the Georgian country house decked out in full Christmas regalia. Sarah Walker is joined by the illustrious Grimethorpe Colliery Band for joyful festive brass band tunes and a feast of wintery Yorkshire music and carols, plus she visits the Hall's walled garden, bringing back memories of childhood Christmasses. Plus, Radio 3's specialist seasonal series of Essential Carols launches - each day, a range of musicians, actors and writers, including Bryn Terfel, Errollyn Wallen, Charlotte Ritchie, Reverend Richard Coles, Elim Chan, and Dr Sian Williams will introduce their favourite carol, sharing their personal anecdotes.
SUN 11:00 Carols Across the Country: A Seasonal Journey (m0025dcb)
with Petroc Trelawny from St Michael's Mount, Cornwall
The incoming tide washing against a cobbled causeway, an historic church with battlements perched high on the mount and the Archangel Michael all combine to create a unique location, from where we'll hear Cornish carols and discover some of the hidden secrets connected to this enigmatic island.
SUN 13:00 Carols Across the Country: A Seasonal Journey (m0025dcf)
with Kate Molleson live from Glenuig in Lochaber, the West Highlands of Scotland
Kate Molleson continues Radio 3's seasonal voyage around the UK broadcasting live from Glenuig Hall in the West Highlands region of Lochaber. Glenuig Hall looks out over the splendour of Glenuig Bay on the West Coast of Scotland, a 30 year-old village community hall steeped in traditional music. There's live music from bagpiper Angus MacDonald, and traditional harp and fiddle folk duo Ingrid and Megan Henderson.
SUN 14:45 Carols Across the Country: A Seasonal Journey (m0025fh2)
with Linton Stephens at St John's College, Cambridge
The idea of Barry Rose (BBC's Music Adviser to the Head of Religious Broadcasting and producer), Canon Colin Semper (then Head of Religious Broadcasting) and Ian McIntyre (then Controller of Radio 3 and a former graduate of St. John's), the annual Advent Carol Service has been a tradition of the Radio 3 advent schedule since the very first broadcast on the 29th November 1981. Linton Stephens discovers how that legacy is being honoured and continued today.
SUN 15:00 Carols Across the Country: A Seasonal Journey (m0025dch)
A Service for Advent with Carols
A Service for Advent with Carols, live from the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge.
Introit: Rorate caeli (plainsong)
Processional Hymn: O come, O come Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel, descant David Hill)
Bidding Prayer
Carol: In the stillness (Sally Beamish)
I The Message of Advent
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonaï (plainsong)
Carol: People, look east (Tradition Bescançon, arr. Shaw)
First Lesson: Isaiah 11 vv. 1-5
Carol: A tender shoot (Kerensa Briggs)
Carol: There is no rose (Joubert)
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv. 1-11
Carol: Christ hath a garden (Eleanor Daley)
II The Word of God
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David (plainsong)
Third Lesson: Micah 4 vv. 1-4
Carol: A Hymn of St Columba (Britten)
Fourth Lesson: Luke 4 vv. 14-21
Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus, descant Christopher Robinson)
III The Prophetic Call
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium (plainsong)
Fifth Lesson: Malachi 3 vv1-7
Carol: This is the record of John (Gibbons)
Sixth Lesson: Matthew 3 vv1-11
Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New, descant Christopher Robinson)
IV The God-Bearer
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Emmanuel and O Virgo Virginum (plainsong)
Carol: Annunciation (The Angel and the girl are met) (Helena Paish)
Seventh Lesson: Luke 1 vv. 39-49
Magnificat: St John’s Service (Jonathan Dove)
Eighth Lesson: John 3 vv1-8
Anthem: The seven joys of Mary (Trad, arr. William Whitehead)
Sentence and Christmas Collect
Carol: What child is this? (Russell Pascoe) (first broadcast, commissioned by the Master and Fellows for the service)
Hymn: Hills of the north rejoice (Little Cornard)
The College Prayer and The Blessing
Organ Voluntary: In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 (Bach)
Christopher Gray (Director of Music)
Alexander Robson (Herbert Howells Organ Scholar)
The Revd Canon Dr Victoria Johnson (Dean)
SUN 16:30 Carols Across the Country: A Seasonal Journey (m0025dck)
with John Toal from Seamus Heaney’s home in Northern Ireland
Join John Toal at The Seamus Heaney HomePlace in the poet's home village of Bellaghy, Co. Londonderry. One of Heaney’s Christmas traditions was to write a poem for his annual Christmas card. We’ll also hear a heart-warming selection of those in the course of the programme. John also pays homage to Cecil Frances Alexander, who wrote what is the sound of Christmas for many – the glorious Carol, Once In Royal David’s City. He’ll be visiting St. Columb’s Cathedral to see the magnificent stained-glass window which commemorates her and the piece.
Northern Ireland pianist Michael McHale will be adding his own inimitable style to carols with Irish connections and local folk musician Nodlaig Ní Bhrollaigh will be taking us deep into the Irish tradition, with music including her own magical setting of the Gaelic poem Oíche Nollag (Christmas Eve).
SUN 18:00 Carols Across the Country: A Seasonal Journey (m0025dcm)
with Hannah French and Catrin Finch from Swansea Bay
Join Hannah French and Catrin Finch in the intimate and cosy alcoves of 11th-century All Saints’ Church in Mumbles, overlooking the sea, as the night frost starts to cover Swansea Bay. It’s time to open the book of magical Christmas stories… in music. Catrin Finch promises a truly enchanted musical dream on the harp, while the voices of the Morriston Orpheus Choir will resonate in the chapel, and singer-songwriter and musician Al Lewis will be the narrator of sparkling festive tunes. Discover a bedtime favourite near the sparkling Christmas tree, with Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales, inviting you to sing along to Good King Wenceslas with all your heart. Why not indulge in a few deliciously buttery toffees, as is the tradition in North Wales? In South Wales, enter the dance of the Mari Lwyd, in which we’ll go wassailing, in fully colourful costumes. And along our carolling journey, maybe accompanied by a few snowflakes falling on the peaceful waterfront visible through the stained-glass windows, we’ll listen to the venerable chant from the Plygain tradition. So deck the halls – after all, this favourite carol is based on a Welsh melody – with the best joyful tunes to conclude your celebration day, wishing Nadolig Llawen merrily, for ‘tis the season to be jolly.
SUN 19:30 Words and Music (m0025dcp)
A Seasonal Journey
Wassail! wassail! all over the town, Our toast it is white, and our ale it is brown: the words of the Gloucester wassailer's song are just one of the Advent and Christmas traditions you'll hear in this selection of Words and Music as part of Radio 3's day marking customs from around the country and we'll add in some fictional ones too. Our readers OIivia Williams and Owen Teale bring us Mog's Christmas, apples roasting on St Martin's Eve in John Clare's poem, Christina Rosetti's advent moon and a church service attended by Queenie in Candice Carty's hit novel. The music ranges from a Coventry carol and Corelli to John Harle and Nat King Cole.
Readings:
John Clare: St Martin’s Eve
Karen Maitland: Stir-Up Sunday
William Bottrell: A Madron Feast
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree
Judith Kerr: Mog’s Christmas
Robert Herrick: Wassail the Trees
Anon: Wassailing Songs from around the UK
J. Ceredig Davies: Folk-lore of West and Mid-Wales- The Mari-Lwyd
Laurie Lee: A Village Christmas
Christina Rosetti: Advent
Floella Benjamin: Coming to England
Brian Bilston: The Good Old Days
Winifred Holtby: South Riding
William Marshall: The bishop who banned York’s Yuletide
Katrina Porteus: The Mizzletow
George Mackay Brown: Miss Tait and Tommy and the Carol Singers
MR James: Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad
Theresa Lola: Look at the Revival
Produced in Salford by Jessica Treen and Joseph Zubier
SUN 20:45 Drama on 3 (m001qn7d)
Come Closer Now
Katie Hims’ love letter to radio drama to celebrate 100 years of the medium.
Annie is writing a radio play about a hundred years of radio plays, and it’s also, curiously, the story of her own family. As she writes, she unearths the myths, half-truths and lies that have been woven into her family’s fabric for generations. Stories that are written to cope with uncomfortable facts. Stories that warp and twist reality. Stories stowed in the studio walls. Stories that crackle with electricity. Stories that move across space and time, and end up right in your ear, right in your head. Stories a bit like this one.
From gathering around the wireless to listening on-demand on headphones, the listener, and the medium, has transformed over the century. And across this sweep of time, radio drama has remained an innovative, yet deeply intimate art form, with infinite possibilities. It’s often called the most visual medium there is.
CAST
Annie ….. Rebekah Staton
Farley ….. Joseph Kloska
Connie and Jane ….. Rhiannon Neads
Older Jane ….. Jessica Turner
Younger Jane ….. Maisie Avis
Dan ….. Don Gilet
Joe ….. Tyler Cameron
Michael ….. Josh Bryant-Jones
Nora ….. Kitty O’Sullivan
The Boy ….. Milton Dighton
Written by Katie Hims
Directed by Anne Isger
Sound by Ali Craig and Andy Garrett
Production Co-ordination by Jenny Mendez
A BBC Audio Production for BBC Radio 3
Katie Hims wrote her first play for radio in 1996, and has been writing extensively in the genre ever since, to great acclaim. Katie’s play Waterloo Station was the winner of Best Radio Drama at the 2023 Writers Guild Awards. Her other original audio work includes Black Eyed Girls (winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama), Lost Property (winner of the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Original Drama), The Gunshot Wedding (winner of The Writer’s Guild Best Original Radio Drama). Katie was lead writer on BBC's Home Front and has written multiple leading adaptations for BBC Radio 4: Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'ubervilles, George Eliot's Middlemarch, Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls and The Martin Beck Killings by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.
In theatre, Katie is currently on attachment at the National Theatre. Her recent stage work includes a contemporary retelling of Kafka's The Trial which ran at The Unicorn Theatre in 2023 and received 4 and 5 star reviews.
SUN 22:00 Ultimate Calm (m0024qvn)
Ólafur Arnalds: Series 3
Finding stillness in sound ft. girl in red
Take a moment to stop, be still and breathe.
Icelandic pianist and composer Ólafur Arnalds returns with his third series of Ultimate Calm, each episode a musical journey into a world of calm. Ólafur invites you to join him for an hour of music that he turns to for escape and reflection - finding stillness in sound. There’ll be tracks from the likes of Brian Eno, Hinako Omori and Kelly Moran, and Ólafur reflects on the importance of carving out space for one’s self amidst the busy noise of the modern world.
Plus we visit the first safe haven of the series, discovering the piece of music that brings ultimate calm to Norwegian singer and songwriter girl in red, a personal, nostalgic track that reminds her of a certain time in her life.
Produced by Kit Callin
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 3 Unwind
SUN 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m001v1y9)
Music for the evening
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening.
SUN 23:30 Unclassified (m0025dct)
Unclassified Live: Erland Cooper with the BBC Philharmonic at Aerial Festival
Elizabeth Alker presents a very special episode of Unclassified recorded at Aerial Festival in Ambleside, Cumbria. She’ll be on stage at St. Mary’s Church to introduce a unique concert which sees Erland Cooper teaming up with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for a reimagining of his latest work 'Carve The Runes Then Be Content With Silence', featuring solo violinist Freya Goldmark.
At forty years of age, Erland has already established himself as one of the leading voices in a new generation of neoclassical composers, with albums like Solan Goose and Sule Skerry establishing his trademark sound, steeped in the sea-swept rhythms and atmospheres of his Orkney home. For his latest album 'Carve The Runes', he explores themes of time and decay through a compositional process that involved burying the master tapes of the album in the ground and leaving clues for intrepid fans to find them and release them into the world.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: “Ask BBC Sounds to play Unclassified.”
Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
MONDAY 02 DECEMBER 2024
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m0025dcw)
Schumann and Mendelssohn at the BBC Proms
Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra with András Schiff as the soloist in Schumann's Piano Concerto, followed by Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Overture to Der Freischütz, Op 77
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
12:42 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54
Andras Schiff (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
01:13 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Liebe Schwalbe, kleine Schwalbe (no 4 from Zigeunerlieder, Op 112)
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Andras Schiff (piano)
01:15 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fröhlicher Landmann, from Album für die Jugend, Op 68
Andras Schiff (piano)
01:16 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op 56 'Scottish'
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
01:56 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance no 1 in B major, Op 72
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
02:01 AM
Laszlo Lajtha (1892-1963)
Three Nocturnes, Op 34
Julia Paszthy (soprano), Istvan Matuz (flute), Ida Lakatos (harp), New Budapest Quartet
02:20 AM
Laszlo Sary (b.1940)
Kotyogó ko egy korsóban (Pebble Playing in a Pot)
Amadinda Percussion Group
02:31 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
The Four Seasons, Concertos Op 8, nos 1-4
Barbara Jane Gilby (violin), Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Lancaster (conductor)
03:11 AM
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
Suite for flute and piano, Op 34
Katherine Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano)
03:29 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Antonin Dvorak (orchestrator)
Legend in C major, Op 59 no 4
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor)
03:36 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Aure, deh, per pieta (Giulio Cesare)
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
03:44 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for piano in B flat major K 281
Ingo Dannhorn (piano)
03:56 AM
Ture Rangstrom (1884-1947)
Suite for violin and piano No 2 (in Modo barocco)
Tale Olsson (violin), Mats Jansson (piano)
04:07 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Fundamenta ejus - motet for 4 voices
Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Diego Fasolis (conductor)
04:12 AM
Walter Piston (1894-1976)
Prelude and Allegro (for organ and orchestra) (1943)
David Schrader (organ), Grant Park Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar (conductor)
04:23 AM
Maciej Radziwill (1749-1800)
Divertimento in D major
Polish Radio Orchestra, Warsaw, Michal Klauza (conductor)
04:31 AM
Jacob Obrecht (1457-1505)
Frólich wesen (Cheerful disposition)
Grace Newcombe (soprano), Katharina Haun (cornetto), Baptiste Romain (fiddle), Elizabeth Rumsey (gamba), Marc Lewon (viola d'arco)
04:37 AM
Arvo Part (b.1935)
Spiegel im Spiegel
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
04:45 AM
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Polovtsian dances (Prince Igor)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor)
04:56 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
3 Keyboard Sonatas
Claire Huangci (piano)
05:07 AM
Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991)
Dodolice: traditional folk ceremony for soprano, piano and girls' choir
Slovenian Chamber Choir, Miljenka Grdan (soprano), Vladimir Krpan (piano), Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)
05:27 AM
Antonin Kraft (1749-1820)
Cello Concerto in C major, Op 4
Michal Kanka (cello), Prague Chamber Orchestra, Pavel Safarik (conductor)
05:51 AM
August Enna (1859-1939)
Skitsebogen (Sketch Book)
Ida Cernecka (piano)
06:07 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 96 in D major "Miracle" H.
1.96
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neville Marriner (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m0025df9)
Classical music to start the day
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning 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 (m0025dfc)
A feast of great music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Essential Carol - introduced by a special guest
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
MON 13:00 Classical Live (m0025dff)
Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman live at Wigmore Hall and Brahms from Glasgow
Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
The week begins with a live concert from London’s Wigmore Hall given by former BBC Young Musician of the Year, cellist Laura van der Heijden with pianist Jâms Coleman. Their programme, entitled ‘Paths to the Moon’, features nocturnal music from Fauré, Price and Korngold alongside sonatas by Debussy and Britten.
Throughout this week, we travel to the Cotswolds for highlights from a trio of concerts given at this year’s Tetbury Music Festival, recorded in October this year. We also hear from a concert given by French baroque group Le Consort at this summer’s Rheingau Musik Festival exploring treasures of the British baroque. And today at
3pm our orchestra in focus this week, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, performs the Third Symphony by Brahms in a recording made earlier this year in City Halls, Glasgow.
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Live from Wigmore Hall, London, presented by Fiona Talkington
Lili Boulanger
Reflets
Gabriel Fauré
Clair de lune Op. 46 No. 2
Claude Debussy
Cello Sonata
Benjamin Britten
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22 (Sonetto XXX: Veggio co’ bei vostri occhi um dolce lume)
Florence Price
Night
Tōru Takemitsu
Will Tomorrow, I Wonder, Be Cloudy or Clear?
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die stumme Serenade Op. 36 (Die schönste Nacht)
Benjamin Britten
Cello Sonata in C, Op. 65
Laura van der Heijden (cello)
Jâms Coleman (piano)
1400
Ludwig van Beethoven orch. Schulhoff
Rondo Capriccio, ‘Rage over a Lost Penny’
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)
Charles Villiers Stanford
3 Latin Motets
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Farrington
Bassoon Quartet in B flat major [after Sonata for bassoon and cello, K292]
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Henry Purcell
Sonata No. 6 in G minor, from 'Ten sonatas in Four Parts' Z. 807
Le Consort
1500
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Cecilia McDowall
3 Latin Anthems
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live".
MON 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0025dfh)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927)
Family Support
Donald Macleod explores the influence of Le Beau’s parents upon her musical beginnings
Luise Adolpha Le Beau was a German composer, concert pianist, teacher and music critic. Although her music was performed as far afield as Calcutta and Sydney, and despite the musical luminaries who influenced her career including the conductor Hans von Bülow, her story is one of continual struggle for recognition and respect. Le Beau’s parents were huge supporters of their daughter right from the start, but their frequent moving of home in Germany, including Baden-Baden, Munich and Berlin, tells another story. Le Beau frequently met opposition to her works and to performance opportunities, and would eventually move on with her parents to seek better prospects. Despite these set-backs, Le Beau forged her own path as a composer not only with works for her own instrument, the piano, but also with chamber music, opera, a symphony and many songs. She was determined to succeed, but after her death, without anyone to promote her works on her behalf, Le Beau soon fell into obscurity and was largely forgotten.
Luise Adolphe Le Beau was born in Rastatt in Germany in 1850, but the family early on moved to Karlsruhe. From a young age Luise began to study the violin and piano, and unusually for the time, her father also taught her other subjects such as geometry. Many considered that learning the violin was not suitable for a girl, but her musical talents started to flourish, and she was soon having piano lessons with the court conductor Wilhelm Kalliwoda. By 1867, under his guidance, Le Beau gave a public performance of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto. Donald Macleod is also joined throughout the series by Dr Katy Hamilton, who in this programme discusses the significant support Le Beau’s parents gave her, to the extent that her mother would chaperone Le Beau on concert tours.
Piano Concerto in D minor, Op 37 (excerpt)
Katia Tchemberdji, piano
Berlin Chamber Symphony Orchestra
Jürgen Bruns, conductor
Fantasiestück, Op 1 No 1 (Drei Klavierstücke)
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Fünf Lieder, Op 7 (excerpt)
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Michael Pandya, piano
Piano Concerto in D minor, Op 37 (Allegro maestoso)
Katia Tchemberdji, piano
Berlin Chamber Symphony Orchestra
Jürgen Bruns, conductor
Piano Sonata, Op 8 (excerpt)
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Violin Sonata, Op 10
Bartek Nizioł, violin
Tatiana Korsunskaya, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
MON 17:00 In Tune (m0025dfk)
Classical artists live in session
Sean Rafferty is joined by world-class choral ensemble, Tenebrae to sing Christmas favourites ahead of their Wigmore Hall concert on December 4th.
MON 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0025dfm)
Half an hour of the finest classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites from Jean Cras, Cecile Chaminade, Hubert Parry, Karl Jenkins, Beethoven and Alexander Glazunov.
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Mixtape”.
Producer: Zara Siddiqi
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0025dfp)
Bryn Terfel in Belshazzar’s Feast
In October 1931, William Walton took a huge choir and a giant orchestra, added a couple of brass bands, and blasted British music sky-high. Belshazzar’s Feast is big, brassy, and utterly outrageous – now add the one and only Sir Bryn Terfel, and you’ve got a seriously impressive celebration of the human voice. Anna Meredith’s Nautilus and Mendelssohn's gorgeous Violin Concerto – with international violin sensation Ning Feng returning as soloist – are the icing on the cake.
Recorded at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on 9th November 2024.
Presented by Penny Gore.
Anna Meredith: Nautilus
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
Ning Feng, violin
Sir Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Adam Hickox, conductor
MON 21:45 The Essay (m001md7s)
Journeys to the Grave
Tracy Chevalier on Thomas Hardy
Five more writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Today Tracy Chevalier strolls to Stinsford, the Dorset village where Thomas Hardy’s heart is poetically buried separately from his body at Poets' Corner, Westminster – echoing the writer’s divided self.
Chevalier was born in America but now lives in Hardy's beloved home county, Dorset. She has written 12novels, including Girl with a Pearl Earring which was adapted into a film of the same name, and most recently The Glassmaker.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
MON 22:00 Night Tracks (m0025dfr)
Immersive music for late-night listening
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
MON 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0025dft)
ganavya's 4/4
‘Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
ganavya is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and scholar, whose work explores South Asian classical music and the jazz tradition. As well as being a prolific solo artist, ganavya has also collaborated with luminaries including Wayne Shorter, Milton Nascimento, Quincy Jones and Esperanza Spalding. ganavya is this week’s guest on the 4/4 series, where musicians share selections from their personal collection. Tonight, she picks her first record and it’s from Les Filles de Illighadad.
Plus, there's music from Mona Krogstad, Cassius Cobbson and the finalists of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
TUESDAY 03 DECEMBER 2024
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m0025dfw)
Ensemble MidtVest from Nørre Vosborg
Members of Ensemble MidtVest and harpist Anneleen Lenaerts perform music by Takemitsu, Dvořák, Piazzolla. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
And then I Knew 'twas wind
Charlotte Norholt (flute), Sanna Ripatti (viola), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)
12:46 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Piano Trio no 4 in E minor, Op 90 'Dumky'
Nicolas Dautricourt (violin), Jonathan Slaatto (cello), Martin Qvist-Hansen (piano)
01:18 AM
Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763)
Sonata for oboe, bassoon and basso continuo in C minor, WD. 695
Peter Kirstein (oboe), Yavor Petkov (bassoon), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)
01:29 AM
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Vltava (Moldau), from 'Má vlast' (My Homeland)
Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)
01:39 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Le Grand Tango
Nicolas Dautricourt (violin), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)
01:49 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Libertango
Nicolas Dautricourt (violin), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)
01:52 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
La Muerte del ángel
Nicolas Dautricourt (violoncello), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp), Jonathan Slaatto (cello)
01:56 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Two Flute Quartets: no 3 in C major K.285b & no 1 in D major, K.285
Dora Seres (flute), Young Danish String Quartet
02:22 AM
Traditional, arr. Toru Takemitsu
Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) from Uta - songs for chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
02:26 AM
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Kuniharu Akiyama (author)
Sayonara (Goodbye) from Uta - songs for chorus
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
02:31 AM
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Missa Dei filii (Missa ultimarum secundat) ZWV.20
Martina Jankova (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak (tenor), Felix Rumpf (bass), Dresden Chamber Choir, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Vaclav Luks (conductor)
03:12 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Phantasy in C major, D.934
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Kai Ito (piano)
03:39 AM
Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962)
Kentonia
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Bell (conductor)
03:46 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 no 2
Jane Coop (piano)
03:53 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Joseph Eichendorff (author)
Wehmut (no 9) & Im Walde (no 11) from Liederkreis, Op 39
Olle Persson (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
03:57 AM
Frantisek Jiranek (1698-1778)
Sinfonia in D major
Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova (director)
04:05 AM
Anonymous (16th Century)
Suite
Hortus Musicus, Andres Mustonen (conductor)
04:13 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
To a Nordic Princess (bridal song) vers. piano
Leslie Howard (piano)
04:20 AM
Antonio Lotti (1667-1740)
Sonata for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo in F major, 'Echo sonata'
Ensemble Zefiro, Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)
04:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Coriolan - overture Op 62
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
04:40 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI/37
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
04:51 AM
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
De profundis (Psalm 129) in C minor
Czech Chamber Choir, Virtuosi di Praga, Petr Chromcak (conductor)
05:00 AM
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824)
Duo concertante in D minor
Alexandar Avramov (violin), Ivan Peev (violin)
05:09 AM
Ivo Parac (1890-1954)
Pastorale
Ljerka Ocic-Turkulin (organ)
05:17 AM
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Langsamer Satz
Zermatt Music Festival Academy Students
05:27 AM
Ludvig Norman (1831-1885)
String Quartet in E major, Op 20
Berwald Quartet
05:50 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
5 Lyric Pieces
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
06:03 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonata for violin and piano no 1 in G major, Op 78
Vilde Frang Bjaerke (violin), Jens Elvekjaer (piano)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m0025dhm)
Classical sunrise
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning 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 (m0025dhp)
Your perfect classical playlist
1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Essential Carol - introduced by a special guest
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
TUE 13:00 Classical Live (m0025dhr)
Choral and chamber concerts from the Cotswolds
Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
Today, world-renowned pianist Imogen Cooper performs the first of three late Beethoven sonatas at this year’s Tetbury Music Festival in the heart of the Cotswolds. There’s also music by Parry and Pejačević from Tetbury, and we hear French baroque ensemble Le Consort exploring British baroque treasures at this summer’s Rheingau Musik Festival. Plus at
3pm our orchestra in focus this week, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, perform Stravinsky’s ballet The Fairy’s Kiss, a loving homage to the music of Tchaikovsky.
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Gustav Holst
Nunc Dimittis
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Imogen Cooper (piano)
Hubert Parry
Songs of Farewell (selection)
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Dora Pejačević
Piano Quartet in D minor, Op. 25
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
1400
Mrs Philarmonica
Sonata No 3 in G minor
Le Consort
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 39 in G minor, ‘Tempesta di mare’
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
Janez Podlesek (conductor)
George Walker
Lyric for strings
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)
1500
Igor Stravinsky
The Fairy’s Kiss
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Nicola Matteis
Suite in G minor
Le Consort
To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live".
TUE 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0025dht)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927)
Tuition with Josef Rheinberger
Donald Macleod explores the period Le Beau has lessons with the celebrated composer Josef Rheinberger.
Luise Adolpha Le Beau was a German composer, concert pianist, teacher and music critic. Although her music was performed as far afield as Calcutta and Sydney, and despite the musical luminaries who influenced her career including the conductor Hans von Bülow, her story is one of continual struggle for recognition and respect. Le Beau’s parents were huge supporters of their daughter right from the start, but their frequent moving of home in Germany, including Baden-Baden, Munich and Berlin, tells another story. Le Beau frequently met opposition to her works and to performance opportunities, and would eventually move on with her parents to seek better prospects. Despite these set-backs, Le Beau forged her own path as a composer not only with works for her own instrument, the piano, but also with chamber music, opera, a symphony and many songs. She was determined to succeed, but after her death, without anyone to promote her works on her behalf, Le Beau soon fell into obscurity and was largely forgotten.
Luise Adolpha Le Beau had had a series of piano lessons with the pianist and composer Clara Schumann. There had been a clash of personality, and these lessons had not gone well. On the advice of the conductor Hans von Bülow, Le Beau was then accepted for lessons with Josef Rheinbeger. To begin with these lessons went very well, with Rheinberger even dedicating one of his own works to Le Beau. However, this relationship turned sour, and soon Le Beau was seeking another tutor who came in the form of Franz Lachner. Lachner would teach Le Beau aspects of orchestration, which would impact upon the composition of her own orchestral music. Donald Macleod is joined by Dr Katy Hamilton, who discusses the relationship Le Beau had with Rheinberger, and the possible reasons for its deterioration.
Mazurka, Op 57 No 3 (Drei Klavierstücke)
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Polonaise, Op 26 No 3 (Drei Stücke)
Ulrich Koch, viola
Maria Bergmann, piano
Theme and Variations, Op 3
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Fünf Lieder, Op 11 (excerpt)
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Michael Pandya, piano
Piano Trio, Op 15
Bartek Nizioł, violin
Denis Severin, cello
Tatiana Korsunskaya, piano
Concert Overture in F major, Op 23
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Patterson, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m0025dhw)
Music news and live classical music
Pianist Melvyn Tan performs live in the studio.
TUE 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0025dhy)
Classical music to inspire you
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites including Saint-Saens' 'Wedding Cake' Caprice-Valse, John Joubert's 'There is No Rose', Ruth Gipps' Sinfonietta, and preludes by Villa-Lobos and Scriabin.
Produced by Ella Lee
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0025dj0)
Mendelssohn's Elijah
Dubbed the ‘Messiah of its day’, Mendelssohn’s Elijah was an instant hit and the most popular oratorio of the nineteenth century.
Elijah tells the dramatic story of this inspirational and complex Old Testament prophet – single-minded yet full of doubts, an angry zealot who showed compassion and kindness. Mendelssohn’s visionary music depicts storms, earthquakes, floods and a chariot of fire – plus moments of tender consolation.
Recorded in the chapel of King's College, Cambridge on 1 November 2024. Presented by Sarah Walker.
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Auberon Adam - treble
Carolyn Sampson - soprano
Dame Sarah Connolly - mezzo
Andrew Staples - tenor
Sir Simon Keenlyside - baritone
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Daniel Hyde - conductor
TUE 22:00 Night Tracks (m0025dj2)
Dissolve into a nocturnal sound world
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUE 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0025dj4)
New Ronald Snijders
‘Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist ganavya is back with her second 4/4 selection - tonight she shares a release by jazz great Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Plus, there's tracks from Anwen, Byron Wallen and John Escreet.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
WEDNESDAY 04 DECEMBER 2024
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m0025dj6)
Debussy and Beethoven from Geneva
Pianist Kit Armstrong joins Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Jonathan Nott in Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arr. Jonathan Nott
Suite, from "Pelléas et Mélisande"
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
01:16 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto no 4 in G major, Op 58
Kit Armstrong (piano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott (conductor)
01:50 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue no 15 in G, BWV 860
Kit Armstrong (piano)
01:54 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Etude in C sharp minor, Op 10 no 4
Kit Armstrong (piano)
01:57 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Wellingtons Sieg or Die Schlacht bei Vittoria, Op 91 'Battle symphony'
Octophoros, Paul Dombrecht (conductor)
02:12 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Felix Renggli (flute), Jurg Dahler (viola), Sarah O'Brien (harp)
02:31 AM
Maria Antonia Walpurgis (1724-1780)
Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni - excerpts
Christine Wolff (soprano), Johanna Stojkovic (soprano), Marilia Vargas (soprano), Ulrike Bartsch (soprano), Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (director and harpsichord)
03:10 AM
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Quintet for guitar and strings in D major, G448
Zagreb Guitar Quartet, Varazdin Chamber Orchestra
03:29 AM
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900)
6 Characteerstykker med indledende Smaavers af H.C Andersen, Op 50
Nina Gade (piano)
03:42 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Sinfonia for orchestra, Op 36 "Jupiter"
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
03:48 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Polish Dances
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
03:57 AM
Alessandro Piccinini (1566-c.1638)
Toccata; Mariona alla vera spagnola, chiaccona
United Continuo Ensemble
04:05 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo concertante in B flat major, K 269
James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
04:13 AM
Johannes Ockeghem (1410-1497)
Intemerata Dei mater
Hilliard Ensemble
04:22 AM
John Foulds (1880-1939)
Keltic Overture, Op 28
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
04:31 AM
Joan Baptista Pla i Agusti (1720-1773)
Sonata in C major for flute, violin and basso continuo
La Guirlande
04:39 AM
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Part-song book - 4 madrigals for mixed chorus
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
04:49 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Ferruccio Busoni
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV.565
Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:58 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Concert waltz for orchestra no 2 in F major, Op 51
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
05:06 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata for arpeggione and piano in A minor, D. 821
Toke Moldrup (cello), Per Salo (piano)
05:16 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Hymn to St Cecilia for chorus Op 27
BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor)
05:27 AM
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
String Quartet no 2 'Listy duverne' (Intimate letters)
Orlando Quartet
05:53 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Rondo for piano in C minor, Op 1
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
06:01 AM
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944)
Concerto for violin and horn in A major
Agata Raatz (violin), Zora Slokar (horn), Bern Chamber Orchestra, Graziella Contratto (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m0025dcy)
Your classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning 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 (m0025dd0)
Great classical music 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 Essential Carol - introduced by a special guest
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
WED 13:00 Classical Live (m0025dd2)
Imogen Cooper plays Beethoven in concert from the Cotswolds
Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
Today, we return to this year’s Tetbury Music Festival for another late Beethoven sonata performed by Imogen Cooper, and choral group Polyphony singing music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. There’s an enticing selection of music by Nicola Matteis played by French baroque ensemble Le Consort from this summer’s Rheingau Musik Festival, and at
2pm our orchestra in focus this week, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, perform Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra.
1303
Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Prelude to Act 1)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Imogen Cooper (piano)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
3 Shakespeare Songs
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Nicola Matteis
Sarabanda Amorosa, Adagio and Diverse Bizzarrie sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda o pur Ciaccona
Le Consort
1400
Witold Lutosławski
Concerto for Orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Marta Gardolinska (conductor)
Johann Sebastian Bach transc. Busoni
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, Chorale Prelude BWV 659
Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)
To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live".
WED 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0025dd4)
St Mary-le-Bow, London
From St Mary-le-Bow, London with St Martin's Voices, including music by French composers Gounod, Villette and Fauré, to mark the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Introit: People look East (Besançon carol arr. Barry Ferguson)
Responses: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Psalms 22, 23 (Plainsong, Jackman)
First Lesson: Isaiah 65 v17 – 66 v2
Office hymn: Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy)
Canticles: Magnificat in D and Nunc dimittis in B flat (Gounod)
Second Lesson: Matthew 24 vv1-14
Anthem: Hymne à la Vierge (Villette)
Marian Antiphon: Ave Maria (Fauré)
Hymn: Christ, be our light! (Christ be our light)
Voluntary: Ave Maris stella (Dupré)
Andrew Earis (Director of Music)
Andrew Lumsden (Organist)
Recorded 26 November.
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Choral Evensong”.
WED 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0025dd6)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927)
Derailed by Intrigues
Donald Macleod explores the period in Le Beau’s life when she meets Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms.
Luise Adolpha Le Beau was a German composer, concert pianist, teacher and music critic. Although her music was performed as far afield as Calcutta and Sydney, and despite the musical luminaries who influenced her career including the conductor Hans von Bülow, her story is one of continual struggle for recognition and respect. Le Beau’s parents were huge supporters of their daughter right from the start, but their frequent moving of home in Germany, including Baden-Baden, Munich and Berlin, tells another story. Le Beau frequently met opposition to her works and to performance opportunities, and would eventually move on with her parents to seek better prospects. Despite these set-backs, Le Beau forged her own path as a composer not only with works for her own instrument, the piano, but also with chamber music, opera, a symphony and many songs. She was determined to succeed, but after her death, without anyone to promote her works on her behalf, Le Beau soon fell into obscurity and was largely forgotten.
It had reached a point where Luise Adolpha Le Beau had decided, along with her parents, to leave Munich and head to Wiesbaden. In her autobiography Le Beau comments upon the artistic circles in Munich, which largely remained closed to her. It was during this period that Le Beau met Franz Liszt, and she was not overly impressed. On the other hand, Le Beau also had meetings with Johannes Brahms and Eduard Hanslick. These encounters were far more positive. Dr Katy Hamilton joins Donald Macleod to discuss the reviews Le Beau was receiving for her music at this time, and also the composer's endeavours to establish a school for teaching the daughters of educated classes.
Eight Preludes, Op 12 No 2 (Munter)
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Romance, Op 35
Thomas Albertus Imberger, violin
Barbara Moser, piano
Vier Stücke, for cello and piano, Op 24
Thomas Blees, cello
Maria Bergmann, piano
Fünf Lieder, Op 11 (excerpt)
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Michael Pandya, piano
Improvisata for left hand, Op 30
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Gavotte, Op 32
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Piano Concerto in D minor, Op 37 (excerpt)
Katia Tchemberdji, piano
Berlin Chamber Symphony Orchestra
Jürgen Bruns, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock
WED 17:00 In Tune (m0025dd8)
Chiaroscuro quartet and the choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Chiaroscuro Quartet and Choir of Clare College, Cambridge with Graham Ross are Sean Rafferty's guests today and perform live in the studio.
WED 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0025ddb)
Expand your horizons with classical music
Tonight's Classical Mixtape begins with the Minuet from John Ireland's Downland Suite. There is also Rachmaninov, Arvo Part and chamber music by Louise Farrenc.
Producer: Zerlina Vulliamy
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0025ddd)
Enigma Variations from Manchester
The BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds are joined by bassoonist Roberto Giaccaglia for the world premier of Geoffrey Gordon's 'Anima Mia' (my soul) inspired by the work of Swiss artist Hans Ruedi Giger.
The exploration of an inner life is continued as Roderick Williams joins the orchestra to mark the 50th anniversary of Swiss composer Frank Martin's death with his 'Six Monologues from 'Everyman''. With words taken from Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play 'Jedermann', this is the journey of all of us; allegorical art exploring the values of a life well lived and speaking of the transition to death.
Arvo Pärt's atmospheric 'Swansong', originally written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of theologian Cardinal Newman, opens the concert, and is inspired by the poet's prayer for "a safe lodging and a holy rest".
Edward Elgar dedicated his Enigma Variations to his "...friends pictured within"; Alice Elgar appears at the start and the touching portraits include the famous 'Nimrod' dedicated to music critic and friend Jaeger.
Recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Tom McKinney
Arvo Pärt: Swansong
Geoffrey Gordon: Anima Mia - Symphonie Concertante for Bassoon and Orchestra (world premier, BBC commission)
8.10
Music Interval
Frank Martin: Six Monologues from 'Everyman'
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Roberto Giaccaglia (bassoon)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
John Storgärds (conductor)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
To listen on most smart speakers just say "ask BBC Sounds to play Radio 3 in Concert".
WED 21:45 The Essay (m001md9g)
Journeys to the Grave
Helen Mort on Sylvia Plath
Five more writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Today Helen Mort ventures up a Yorkshire hill to find Sylvia Plath’s much-vandalised gravestone, a battleground for those claiming the American poet's contested legacy.
Born in Sheffield, Mort is an award-winning poet and novelist.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
WED 22:00 Night Tracks (m0025ddg)
Eclectic music for after dark
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WED 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0025ddj)
One from Orchestra Mambo International
‘Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
ganavya is guiding us around her record collection all this week. The vocalist and multi-instrumentalist shares a track by friend and collaborator, Esperanza Spalding.
Plus there’s music from Lou Donaldson, Kika Sprangers and Cassandra Wilson.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
THURSDAY 05 DECEMBER 2024
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m0025ddl)
Castel, Brunetti and Boccherini
The Baroque ensemble Concerto 1700 performs a selection of 18th century string trios composed in Spain. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Jose Castel (1737-1807)
String Trio no 1 in B flat major
Concerto 1700
12:41 AM
Gaetano Brunetti (1744-1798)
String Trio in D major, Op 3 no 6
Concerto 1700
12:55 AM
Jose Castel (1737-1807)
String Trio no 4 in G minor
Concerto 1700
01:10 AM
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
String Trio in G, Op 34 no 2
Concerto 1700
01:30 AM
Jose Castel (1737-1807)
String Trio no 3 in E flat major
Concerto 1700
01:39 AM
Jose Castel (1737-1807)
Minuetto, from String Trio no 2 in F major
Concerto 1700
01:43 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
"Si, si, fellon, t'intendo.." & "Fra Tempeste funeste a quest'alma" (Rodelinda)
Matthew White (counter tenor), Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez Banzo (conductor)
01:48 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 92 in G major, "Oxford", H.
1.92
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Peeter Lilje (conductor)
02:16 AM
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid, Op 30
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Montanaro (conductor)
02:31 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54
Dina Yoffe (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen (conductor)
03:03 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Petrushka
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kiril Kondrashin (conductor)
03:37 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Impromptu in G flat major, Op 51
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
03:42 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
"Begl'occhi, bel seno" Costumo de grandi for soprano, 2 violins and continuo
Susanne Ryden (soprano), Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci (director)
03:48 AM
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Les Folies d'Espagne
Lise Daoust (flute)
03:58 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Overture to 'St Paul', Op 36
Reitze Smits (organ)
04:06 AM
Ana Milosavljevic (b.1982)
Red
Ensemble Metamorphosis
04:12 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
3 Chansons de Charles d'Orleans
BBC Singers
04:19 AM
Johann Rosenmuller (1619-1684)
Sinfonia Quinta
Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists
04:31 AM
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Overture to La Forza del destino
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
04:38 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Fantasy in D minor KV.397
Bruno Lukk (piano)
04:45 AM
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Trois Pieces Breves
Academic Wind Quintet
04:53 AM
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
Villanelle for horn and piano
Tamas Zempleni (horn), Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
04:59 AM
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Peterloo Overture, Op 97
BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon (conductor)
05:09 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Brandenburg Concerto no 2 in F major, BWV.1047
Ars Barocca
05:21 AM
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
05:27 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Peer Gynt Suite no 2, Op 55
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
05:46 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
4 Songs for women's voices, 2 horns and harp, Op 17
Danish National Radio Choir, Leif Lind (horn), Per McClelland Jacobsen (horn), Catriona Yeats (harp), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
06:01 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sinfonietta for orchestra
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m0025cfc)
Classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning 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 (m0025cff)
The best classical morning music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Essential Carol - introduced by a special guest
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
THU 13:00 Classical Live (m0025cfh)
Schumann's Second Symphony and Imogen Cooper in the Cotswolds
Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
Today, we’re back the Cotswolds with music recorded at this year’s Tetbury Music Festival: pianist Imogen Cooper plays the third in her trio of late Beethoven sonatas, and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective give the world premiere performance of Gary Carpenter’s E: scherzo for five players. There’s more from French baroque ensemble Le Consort at this summer’s Rheingau Musik Festival, and our centrepiece at
3pm is Schumann’s Second Symphony, performed in Perth by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, our orchestra in focus this week.
1303
Herbert Howells
Salve Regina
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Imogen Cooper (piano)
Gustav Holst
The Evening Watch
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Gary Carpenter
E: scherzo for five players [world premiere]
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
1400
Henry Purcell
Two Parts upon a Ground
Le Consort
Nicola Matteis the Younger
Trio Sonata in G minor
Le Consort
Eric Coates
From Meadow to Mayfair
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No 36, ‘Schwingt freudig euch empor’
Paul Bernewitz (soprano)
Stefan Kahle (alto)
Christoph Genz (tenor)
St Thomas Choir Leipzig
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Georg Christoph Biller (conductor)
1500
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Duke Ellington after Tchaikovsky
Overture (Nutcracker Suite)
Duke Ellington Orchestra
To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live".
THU 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0025cfk)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927)
Rebuffed in Wiesbaden and Berlin
Donald Macleod delves into the period Le Beau declines a teaching position in Berlin.
Luise Adolpha Le Beau was a German composer, concert pianist, teacher and music critic. Although her music was performed as far afield as Calcutta and Sydney, and despite the musical luminaries who influenced her career including the conductor Hans von Bülow, her story is one of continual struggle for recognition and respect. Le Beau’s parents were huge supporters of their daughter right from the start, but their frequent moving of home in Germany, including Baden-Baden, Munich and Berlin, tells another story. Le Beau frequently met opposition to her works and to performance opportunities, and would eventually move on with her parents to seek better prospects. Despite these set-backs, Le Beau forged her own path as a composer not only with works for her own instrument, the piano, but also with chamber music, opera, a symphony and many songs. She was determined to succeed, but after her death, without anyone to promote her works on her behalf, Le Beau soon fell into obscurity and was largely forgotten.
Le Beau had found Munich very closed in terms of its artistic circles, and so had moved to Wiesbaden with her parents. To begin with she was received very well, but with a change of personnel in relation to the court conductor, Le Beau soon found herself, yet again, out of favour. Within a few years Le Beau moved with her parents once again, this time to Berlin. Instead of a cosmopolitan city full of opportunity, Le Beau found it conservative and she soon tired of her constant battles for opportunities and recognition. Dr Katy Hamilton joins Donald Macleod to discuss the issues Le Beau faced in both Wiesbaden and Berlin, and also the possible reasons for why Le Beau started to decline opportunities.
Eight Preludes, Op 12 No 8 (Mit Grazie)
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Nachstück, Op 26 No 2 (Drei Stücke)
Ulrich Koch, viola
Maria Bergmann, piano
Deutscher Regien, Klavierstück, Op 49
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Piano Quartet, Op 28
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Elana Urioste, violin
Rosalind Ventris, viola
Laura van der Heijden, cello
Tom Poster, piano
Drei Lieder, Op 39
Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano
Michael Pandya, piano
Symphony in F major, Op 41 (Allegro con fuoco)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Patterson, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0025cfn)
Classical artists live in the studio
Mezzo soprano Alice Coote, pianist Christian Blackshaw and Sean Shibe and Aidan O'Rourke are Sean Rafferty's guests performing live in the studio.
THU 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0025cfq)
Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Mixtape.”
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m0025cfs)
BBC NOW perform Ives' 1st Symphony
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales are joined by Geoffrey Paterson to perform a work by American composer Charles Ives. Ives wrote his vigorous and youthful First Symphony around the turn of the 20th Century, and it is heavily steeped in the traditions of the late romantics. Tonight, Ives has been paired with music by two living composers, Gabriella Smith and Simon Wills. Smith's Tumblebird Contrails was inspired by an epiphany of nature while stood on the Californian coast listening to the waves and seabirds, while Wills' piece for trombone and orchestra, which he will conduct himself, was inspired by the relationship of the author James Joyce and his wife Nora Barnacle.
Presented by Ian Skelly, live from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff.
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Simon Wills: Nora Barnacle Assumes Command - Ballet Concertante in eleven scenes for trombone and orchestra
Ives: Symphony No 1 in D minor
Donal Bannister (trombone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)
Simon Wills (conductor)
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play In Concert"
THU 21:45 The Essay (m001mdb7)
Journeys to the Grave
Brandon Taylor on Langston Hughes
Five writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Today Brandon Taylor travels uptown through a racially-charged Manhattan to Harlem, where Langston Hughes is buried in a library - literally underneath his prophetic words.
Taylor is a New York-based fiction writer and essayist originally from Alabama. His novels include the Booker-shortlisted Real Life and The Late Americans, and he has also published a widely-praised short story collection, Filthy Animals.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
THU 22:00 Night Tracks (m0025cfv)
Meditative music for night owls
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THU 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0025cfx)
Fresh from Zeñel
'Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist ganavya has been selecting her favourite recordings all this week in 4/4. Her final choice is by one of her key inspirations, Alice Coltrane.
ganavya's new album, Daughter of a Temple, is out now.
There's also time for music from the Roy Haynes Trio, Peggy O’Keefe and Ebi Soda.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
FRIDAY 06 DECEMBER 2024
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m0025cfz)
Schubert, Liszt, Mahler and Beethoven
Baritone Konstantin Krimmel performs songs by Liszt and Mahler, recast here for string accompaniment and played by the Mandelring Quartet. John Shea presents.
12:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Schubert String Quartet in B flat major, D.112
Mandelring Quartet
01:01 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), arr. Aribert Reimann, Gustav Michell (author)
Verlassen
01:05 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), arr. Aribert Reimann, Heinrich Heine (author)
Anfangs wollt ich fast verzagen
01:07 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), arr. Aribert Reimann, Henriette von Schorn (author)
Sei still
01:11 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), arr. Aribert Reimann, Heinrich Heine (author)
Vergiftet sind meine Lieder
01:12 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), arr. Aribert Reimann, Friedrich von Bodenstedt (author), Mikhail Lermontov (author)
Gebet
01:16 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), arr. Aribert Reimann, Heinrich Heine (author)
Morgens steh ich auf und frage
01:18 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), arr. Aribert Reimann, Ferdinand von Saar (author)
Des Tages laute Stimmen schweigen
01:23 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), arr. Stefan Heucke, Friedrich Ruckert (author)
Ich atmet' einen linden Duft, from 'Rückert-Lieder'
01:26 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Stefan Heucke (arranger), Friedrich Ruckert (author)
Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
01:27 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), arr. Stefan Heucke, Friedrich Ruckert (author)
Um Mitternacht
01:34 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), arr. Stefan Heucke, Friedrich Ruckert (author)
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, from 'Rückert-Lieder
01:41 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), arr. Stefan Heucke
Der Tamboursg'sell, from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Mandelring Quartet
01:47 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 no 11 'Serioso'
Mandelring Quartet
02:07 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Adagietto, from Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor
Bern Chamber Orchestra, Philippe Bach (conductor)
02:17 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Unstern! Sinistre, disastro
Jos Van Immerseel (piano)
02:22 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Rondino in E flat, WoO 25
Festival Winds
02:31 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Harold en Italie - Symphony for viola and orchestra, Op 16
Milan Telecky (viola), Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
03:16 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Jesu, meine Freude - motet BWV.227
Choir of Latvian Radio, Aivars Kalejs (organ), Orchestra of Latvian Radio, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
03:38 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Hob.
15.10
Niklas Sivelov (piano), Bernt Lysell (violin), Mikael Sjogren (cello)
03:48 AM
Anon., John Coperario (1570-1626), William Lawes (1602-1645), arr. Pedro Memelsdorff / Andreas Staier
Court Masques under Charles I and II
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
03:59 AM
Elena Kats-Chernin (b.1957)
Russian Rag
Donna Coleman (piano)
04:05 AM
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940)
Sensemaya
Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Christian Vasquez (conductor)
04:12 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Cello Sonata in D minor
Ditta Rohmann (cello), Kristoffer Hyldig (piano)
04:24 AM
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
La Romanesca
Maria Cleary (harp)
04:31 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Ruslan i Lyudmila (overture)
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Hubert Soudant (conductor)
04:37 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Serenade to music
Bette Cosar (soprano), Delia Wallis (mezzo soprano), Edd Wright (tenor), Gary Dahl (bass), Alexander Skwortsow (violin), Vancouver Bach Choir, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Pullan (conductor)
04:51 AM
William Walton (1902-1983)
3 Pieces for organ (from the film Richard III)
Ian Sadler (organ)
04:57 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 630
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
05:04 AM
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Fantasy in A minor for two pianos
Aglika Genova (piano), Liuben Dimitrov (piano)
05:09 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), arr. Zoltan Kocsis
Rondo (Concert rondo) for horn and orchestra in E flat major, K371
Laszlo Gal (horn), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis (conductor)
05:16 AM
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680)
Fechtschule (Fencing School)
Stockholm Antiqua
05:24 AM
Nino Rota (1911-1979)
Divertimento Concertante for double bass and orchestra
Jurek Dybal (double bass), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ruben Silva (conductor)
05:48 AM
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Op 3
Trio Luwigana
06:14 AM
Alexander Arutunyan (1920-2012)
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
Stanislaw Dziewor (trumpet), Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m0025dm8)
Start the day with classical music
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning 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 (m0025dmb)
The ideal mix of classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
1000 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1030 Essential Carol - introduced by a special guest
1115 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1145 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
1230 Album of the Week
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
FRI 13:00 Classical Live (m0025dmd)
Concerts in the Cotswolds: Polyphony sing Finzi and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective play Brahms
Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
We revisit this year’s Tetbury Music Festival one last time this week with choral group Polyphony singing music by Finzi and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective playing Brahms. There’s more British baroque music from French ensemble Le Consort’s concert given at this summer’s Rheingau Musik Festival, and at
3pm our orchestra in focus this week, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, is joined by singers Nicky Spence and Ashley Riches for part of Messiaen’s extraordinary opera St Francis of Assisi.
1302
Modest Mussorgsky ed. Rimsky-Korsakov
A Night on the Bare Mountain
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
Gustav Mahler
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, No. 6)
James Newby (baritone)
Simon Lepper (piano)
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
1400
Gerald Finzi
7 Poems of Robert Bridges
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Mrs Philarmonica
Sonata No 5 in C minor (2nd and 3rd mvts)
Le Consort
1500
Olivier Messiaen
Saint Francis of Assisi – Act 2 Tableau 6 ‘St Francis preaches to the birds’ (extract)
Nicky Spence (Brother Masseo, tenor)
Ashley Riches (St Francis, bass-baritone)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante in Eb for violin, viola and orchestra K. 364
Laura Samuel (violin)
Scott Dickinson (viola)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)
Henry Mancini (arr. Tom Poster)
Moon River
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live".
FRI 16:00 Composer of the Week (m0025dmg)
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927)
Withdrawing from the battle
Donald Macleod discusses with Dr Katy Hamilton why Le Beau fell so quickly into obscurity.
Luise Adolpha Le Beau was a German composer, concert pianist, teacher and music critic. Although her music was performed as far afield as Calcutta and Sydney, and despite the musical luminaries who influenced her career including the conductor Hans von Bülow, her story is one of continual struggle for recognition and respect. Le Beau’s parents were huge supporters of their daughter right from the start, but their frequent moving of home in Germany, including Baden-Baden, Munich and Berlin, tells another story. Le Beau frequently met opposition to her works and to performance opportunities, and would eventually move on with her parents to seek better prospects. Despite these set-backs, Le Beau forged her own path as a composer not only with works for her own instrument, the piano, but also with chamber music, opera, a symphony and many songs. She was determined to succeed, but after her death, without anyone to promote her works on her behalf, Le Beau soon fell into obscurity and was largely forgotten.
Le Beau’s parents had been firm supporters of their daughter and her career. Yet not long after they all moved back to Baden-Baden, Le Beau’s father died, and four years later so did her mother. Although Le Beau promised to her parents to keep going with composing and performing, in the remaining decades of her life she had lost some of her willingness to do battle, now that her key supporters were no longer there. With limited income Le Beau took on more piano pupils, and also moved to a smaller house. Dr Katy Hamilton joins Donald Macleod to discuss the significant impact the death of her parents had on Le Beau’s career, and they explore some of the reasons why Le Beau’s name has been largely forgotten until very recently.
Gigue, Op 48 No 3 (Danze Antiche)
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Vater unser, Op 61
Singer Pur
Symphony in F major, Op 41 (Adagio)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Patterson, conductor
Cello Sonata, Op 17
Steven Isserlis, cello
Connie Shih, piano
Barcarole, Op 59
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Abendklänge, Op 63
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Symphony in F major, Op 41 (excerpt)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Patterson, conductor
Produced by Luke Whitlock
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m0025dmj)
Live music and chat with classical artists
Angela Hewitt and lots of surprise guests join Sean Rafferty to perform live in the studio.
FRI 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m0025dml)
Classical music for focus or relaxation
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites, including music by Beethoven, Elgar, York Bowen, Joanna Forbes l'Estrange and Mozart.
Produced by Ella Lee
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Mixtape”
FRI 19:30 Friday Night is Music Night (m001yhns)
Bond... James Bond
Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in music spanning six decades from the iconic film franchise. With singers Alice Fearn and Oliver Tompsett, recorded in Chichester Festival Theatre in March.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Norman Monty: James Bond Theme
David Arnold: The World is Not Enough
John Barry: Diamonds Are Forever
Paul McCartney: Live and Let Die
Bono. The Edge: Goldeneye
Chris Cornell: You Know My Name
Narada Michael Walden: Licence to Kill
Various: James Bond Suite
John Barry, Duran Duran: A View to a Kill
Marvin Hamlisch: Nobody Does It Better
John Barry, Paul Waaktaar: The Living Daylights
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John Barry: Dr. No Suite
John Barry: Goldfinger
Lionel Bart: From Russia with Love
John Barry: All the Time in the World
John Barry: All Time High
Bill Conti: For Your Eyes Only
Burt Bacharach: The Look of Love
John Barry: You Only Live Twice Suite
Adele: Skyfall
John Barry: Moonraker
John Barry: The Man with the Golden Gun
John Barry: Thunderball
Sheryl Crow: Encore: Tomorrow Never Dies
Singers Alice Fearn and Oliver Tompsett
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Martin Yates
FRI 21:45 The Essay (m001mdc2)
Journeys to the Grave
Geoff Dyer on DH Lawrence
Five writers go on five reflective, restorative and often playful journeys in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
In this final essay of the series, Geoff Dyer retraces a pilgrimage to New Mexico, where DH Lawrence’s ashes were supposedly built into a concrete shrine near Taos at the request of his estranged wife Frieda. But were they actually his ashes?
Dyer is a multi-award winning novelist and non-fiction writer. His many books include Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence, and his latest The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings, which was published in 2022.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
FRI 22:00 Late Junction (m0025dmn)
Long-lost tapes and unearthed sounds
Verity Sharp serves up another celebration of intrepid music for adventurous ears. There’ll be a long-lost live track taken from a sprawling, newly-unearthed collection of Robbie Basho’s unpublished master tapes, recently compiled by San Francisco’s Tompkins Square label; and analogue synth explorations from Mauricio Moquillaza, founder of the emergent experimental Peruvian noise and improvisation collective, Deshumanización; plus mediative drums, Korean gongs and soft-hued contralto clarinet with a side helping of tárogató (the Hungarian single reed wind instrument) from a newly-released album of live music in Antwerp, 2015, by the late Peter Brötzmann in duo with Paal Nilssen-Love.
Elsewhere, we hear the fruits of an intimate session of improvised music, recorded at the home of saxophonist extraordinaire Sakina Abdou, with drummer Toma Gouband and pianist Marta Warelis completing the trio.
Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
To listen on most smart speakers, just say “play Late Junction”.
FRI 23:30 'Round Midnight (m0025dmq)
London Jazz Festival: Billy Cobham at 80
American-Panamanian drummer Billy Cobham is one of the leading figures of modern jazz. Over his decade-spanning career, Billy has continued to push sonic boundaries, as a pioneer of jazz fusion, jazz rock, and progressive rock. Key collaborators include Miles Davis, John McLaughlin and Ron Carter.
For this year’s London Jazz Festival, and in celebration of his 80th birthday, Billy performed works from his musical catalogue, accompanied by trumpeter Guy Barker and the full BBC Concert Orchestra.
Tonight, Soweto shares some of the highlights from that performance. He also sits down with Billy to talk about growing up in New York, his roots in Panama, and working with fellow greats Horace Silver and his mentor Roy Haynes. Plus Billy shares some words of wisdom for younger musicians.
To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight".