RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 3
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SATURDAY 07 JANUARY 2023
SAT 01:00 Composed with Emeli Sandé (m0015v5k)
Find hope with the sounds of spring
Emeli Sandé explores the music that brings her strength and inspiration, from classical to pop and beyond.
She begins the series by celebrating the hope and renewal of spring, with a selection of music that includes Julianna Barwick, Sampa The Great and Frederick Delius.
Emeli shares her love of Tchaikovsky who, more than any other composer, inspires her to find new ways of expressing emotions. Plus we hear a Max Richter composition that reminds Emeli of falling in love.
In this, and every episode, Emeli will invite listeners to join her in Composure Moment, and put everything on pause. The first Composure Moment comes from Jon Hopkins’s 2018 album Singularity.
01
00:01:00 Julianna Barwick (artist)
In Spirit
Performer: Julianna Barwick
Duration 00:04:02
02
00:05:02 Max Richter
Spring 1
Performer: Daniel Hope
Performer: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin
Duration 00:03:12
03
00:08:21 Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring: Suite 1
Performer: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Duration 00:02:53
04
00:11:14 Rachel Grimes (artist)
Every Morning, Birds
Performer: Rachel Grimes
Duration 00:01:53
05
00:13:22 Jon Hopkins (artist)
Feel First Life
Performer: Jon Hopkins
Duration 00:05:08
06
00:18:30 Sampa the Great (artist)
Healing
Performer: Sampa the Great
Duration 00:03:24
07
00:22:51 Frederick Delius
On Hearing The First Cuckoo in Spring
Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Duration 00:05:33
08
00:28:24 Edvard Grieg
To Spring
Performer: Lang Lang
Duration 00:03:41
09
00:32:39 Aphex Twin (artist)
Avril 14th
Performer: Aphex Twin
Duration 00:01:53
10
00:34:32 Justin Adams (artist)
Djinn Pulse
Performer: Justin Adams
Performer: Mauro Durante
Duration 00:04:13
11
00:38:46 Agnes Obel (artist)
Riverside
Performer: Agnes Obel
Duration 00:03:41
12
00:43:29 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
It Happened In The Early Spring
Performer: Mischa Maisky
Performer: Pavel Gililov
Duration 00:02:15
13
00:45:44 Joe Hisaishi
The Flower Garden
Performer: Czech Philharmonic
Duration 00:02:53
14
00:48:43 Free (artist)
Lying In The Sunshine
Performer: Free
Duration 00:03:48
15
00:52:31 Moses Sumney (artist)
In Bloom
Performer: Moses Sumney
Duration 00:03:00
16
00:55:45 Richard J. Birkin
Blooming (Haiku Salut Remix)
Performer: London Contemporary Orchestra
Duration 00:04:15
SAT 02:00 Piano Flow (m00139yt)
Tokio Myers
Uplifting sounds to boost your mood
Pianist, record producer and 2017 Britain's Got Talent winner Tokio Myers presents a mixtape of soothing piano sounds. This week Tokio shares uplifting piano sounds that are aimed to boost your mood and help you relax and reflect. Including pieces from Phil France, Mozart, Poppy Ackroyd, Delius and Kanye West.
01
00:01:58 Tokio Myers (artist)
Children (Interlude)
Performer: Tokio Myers
Duration 00:01:09
02
00:03:07 Ed Harcourt (artist)
Duet For Ghosts
Performer: Ed Harcourt
Duration 00:03:29
03
00:06:37 Years & Years (artist)
Starstruck (Acoustic)
Performer: Years & Years
Duration 00:03:16
04
00:09:52 GoGo Penguin (artist)
Hopopono
Performer: GoGo Penguin
Duration 00:03:48
05
00:13:41 Sigur Rós (artist)
Hoppípolla
Performer: Sigur Rós
Duration 00:04:06
06
00:17:48 Phil France (artist)
Circle (Reprise)
Performer: Phil France
Duration 00:03:47
07
00:21:36 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545: I. Allegro
Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja
Duration 00:04:35
08
00:26:11 Kanye West (artist)
All Of The Lights (Interlude)
Performer: Kanye West
Duration 00:01:00
09
00:28:03 Tim Atack
Balcony Scene (arr. piano)
Performer: Music Lab Collective
Duration 00:02:33
10
00:30:36 Hauschka (artist)
Hike
Performer: Hauschka
Duration 00:02:45
11
00:33:22 Giona Ostinelli
Toss A Coin To Your Witcher (Solo Piano Version)
Performer: Sonya Belousova
Performer: Giona Ostinelli
Duration 00:03:14
12
00:36:36 Jax Jones (artist)
Breathe (Acoustic)
Performer: Jax Jones
Performer: Ina Wroldsen
Duration 00:03:43
13
00:41:24 Poppy Ackroyd (artist)
Light
Performer: Poppy Ackroyd
Duration 00:05:05
14
00:46:30 Julian Lloyd Webber
Over the Mountains High
Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber
Performer: John Lenehan
Duration 00:02:15
15
00:48:45 Michael Nyman
The heart ask pleasure first
Performer: Valentina Lisitsa
Duration 00:03:34
16
00:52:20 Jamiroquai (artist)
Spend A Lifetime
Performer: Jamiroquai
Duration 00:04:06
17
00:56:27 Art Tatum (artist)
Tea For Two
Performer: Art Tatum
Duration 00:03:06
SAT 03:00 Through the Night (m001ghk3)
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony from the Lanaudière Festival in Canada
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony alongside Etienne-Nicolas Méhul's First Symphony and Cherubini's Overture to 'Lodoïska'. Danielle Jalowiecka presents.
03:01 AM
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Overture to 'Lodoïska'
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck (director)
03:11 AM
Etienne-Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817)
Symphony no 1 in G minor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck (director)
03:36 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op 67
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck (director)
04:08 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Non sa che sia dolore - cantata, BWV 209
Robin Johannsen (soprano), Leonard Schelb (flute), Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Raphael Alpermann (harpsichord), Bernhard Forck (director)
04:30 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Concerto No 5 in A major, K 219 'Turkish'
James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
05:01 AM
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Manon Act 1: Manon and Des Grieux recit and duet
Lyne Fortin (soprano), Richard Margison (tenor), Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
05:08 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Variations on "Deandl is arb auf mi'" for string trio
Leopold String Trio
05:15 AM
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Perfect Fool, Op 39, ballet music
Argovia Philharmonic, Douglas Bostock (conductor)
05:26 AM
Gosta Nystroem (1890-1966)
Tre havsvisioner (3 Visions about the sea)
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustav Sjokvist (conductor)
05:38 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Oboe Concerto in A minor
Matthias Arter (oboe), I Tempi Chamber Orchestra, Gevorg Gharabekyan (conductor)
05:57 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Kinderszenen, Op 15
Havard Gimse (piano)
06:17 AM
Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797)
Concert de simphonies à IV parties in F major, Op 3 no 2
Capella Coloniensis, William Christie (director)
06:38 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3, 'Rider'
Ebene Quartet
SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m001gtp4)
Saturday - Elizabeth Alker
Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.
SAT 09:00 Record Review (m001gtp6)
Mahler's Symphony No 6 in Building a Library with Edward Seckerson and Andrew McGregor
9.00am
Haydn: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 27
Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Klumpp
Hänssler HC22077
https://haensslerprofil.de/shop/sinfon-musik/haydn-vol-27-sinfonien-33310814/
Handel: Five Great Suites For Harpsichord (London, 1720)
Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
Challenge Classics CC72923
https://challengerecords.com/products/16631647639333/five-great-suites-for-harpsichord-london-1720
Malcolm Arnold: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 and other works
Michael Collins (clarinet)
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba
Chandos CHAN20152
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020152
Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets
Takács Quartet
Hyperion CDA68400
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68400
9.30am Kate Kennedy: New Releases
Kate Kennedy shares some new releases that have caught her attention with Andrew and reveals her 'On Repeat' choice and explains her current preoccupation with it.
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Four Serious Songs
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
Onyx ONYX4226
https://onyxclassics.com/release/leonard-elschenbroich-brahms-cello-sonatas/
Krise/Crisis – music by Haydn, Shostakovich, Reich, etc.
Kuss Quartet
Rubicon RCD1102
https://rubiconclassics.com/release/kuss-quartet-krise-crisis/
Schubert Revisited
Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
DG 4839758
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/schubert-revisited-goerne-12859
Tom & Will - Weelkes and Byrd: 400 Years
King's Singers
Fretwork
Signum SIGCD731
https://signumrecords.com/product/tom-will-weelkes-byrd-400-years/SIGCD731/
Kate Kennedy: On Repeat
Pál Hermann: Complete Surviving Music, Vol. 1
Clive Greensmith (cello)
Kateryna Poteriaieva (violin)
Alina Shevchenko (piano)
Roman Marchenko (piano)
Sofia Soloviy (soprano)
Lviv International Symphony Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar
Toccata Classics TOCC0443
https://toccataclassics.com/product/pal-hermann-complete-surviving-music-volume-one/
10.10am Listener On Repeat
Mirrored in Time – music by Bartók, Schumann, Meijering, etc.
Jörgen van Rijen (trombone)
Alma Quartet
BIS BIS2616 (Hybrid SACD)
https://bis.se/performers/rijen-jorgen-van/mirrored-in-time-trombone-and-string-quartet
Galina Grigorjeva: Music For Male-Voice Choir
Theodor Sink (cello)
Estonian National Male Choir
Mikk Uleoja
Toccata Classics TOCC0679
https://toccataclassics.com/product/galina-grigorjeva-music-for-male-voice-choir/
Signor Gaetano – music by Donizetti
Javier Camarena (tenor)
Gli Originali
Riccardo Frizza
Pentatone PTC5186886
https://www.pentatonemusic.com/product/signor-gaetano/
10.30am Building a Library: Edward Seckerson on Mahler’s Symphony No 6 in A minor
More often than not, Mahler's symphonies end positively, whether in triumph, exaltation, joyful exuberance, quiet bliss, or resignation and acceptance. But the Sixth is unique in its tragic, minor-key conclusion and this Symphony as a whole is among his darkest music. Intriguingly, he wrote it during one of the happiest periods of his life, the summers of 1903 and 1904. Mahler was convinced that, in his music, he had the ability to foresee and even predict events and, painful though it might be, as an artist he could not avoid doing so. And in 1907, when he looked back on the Sixth Symphony's finale with its 'three hammer blows of fate' he could point to the death of his daughter Maria, the diagnosis of the severe heart disease which would kill him, and the bitter end of his decade as director of the Vienna Opera. Closer to our own times, some have suggested that, as well as tragic autobiography, Mahler was predicting the tragedies of a whole century.
11.15am
Martinů: Piano Trio No. 1 '5 Pièces brèves' - Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3
Aoi Trio
Hänssler HC22029
https://haensslerprofil.de/shop/kammermusik-instrumental/piano-trios-martinu-1-dvorak-3/
Mozart: Coronation Mass - Vesperae solennes de Dominica
Katharina Konradi (soprano)
Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano)
Steve Davislim (tenor)
Krešimir Stražanac (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Howard Arman
BR Klassik 900530
11.25am Record of the Week
Walking in the Dark – music by Billy Taylor, Barber, Denny, etc.
Julia Bullock (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christian Reif (piano and conductor)
Nonesuch 7559790817
https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/walking-in-the-dark
Send us your On Repeat recommendations at recordreview@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @BBCRadio3
SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m001gtp8)
Kaija Saariaho
As part of Radio 3's New Year New Music, Kate Molleson talks at length to one of the 21st-century's leading creative artists – the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.
Celebrating her 70th birthday this year, Kaija describes music as a study of self and the human spirit. Kate meets her at home in Paris where she reflects on her life in music, describing the conviction with which she pursued compositional classes with Paavo Heininen at the Sibelius Academy, and the distinctive musical style she developed as a result. Kate hears how Saariaho found herself in the musical milieu of Paris and the draw of the city’s research institute for music and sound, IRCAM, where she cemented her place on the world stage with a dazzling work for small chamber orchestra and electronics inspired by the aurora borealis, Lichtbogen (1986). She tells Kate too about the challenges of writing her opera Innocence, whose subject matter deals with the legacy of trauma surrounding a shooting in a Finnish International School, and the inevitability of embodying the emotional pain of the story’s characters during the composition process.
And as 2023 commences, Kate is joined by the Managing Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, Kathryn McDowell, and the music journalist and author, Norman Lebrecht, to discuss the major challenges and opportunities awaiting the musical world in the year ahead.
SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m001gtpb)
Jess Gillam with... Ellie Consta
Jess Gillam is joined by violinist Ellie Consta to share some of the music they love the most. Ellie is the founder of Her Ensemble which champions the work of female composers and strives to present classical music in new diverse ways, and her music choices reflect that - from Florence Price's dreamy Clouds to Little Simz Mercury-winning homage to women everywhere, Woman.
Jess brings along the majesty of Mozart's Requiem, some lunar insanity on the theremin and a cracker of a song by Bettye Swann.
Playlist:
FLORENCE PRICE: Clouds [Lara Downes (piano)]
HARRY REVEL: Lunar Rhapsody (from Music Out of the Moon) [Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman (theremin), Vocal Group and Orchestra/Les Baxter (bandleader)]
TIGRAN HAMASYAN: The Dream Voyager
MOZART: Requiem in D minor – Sequentia…Lachrimosa [Swedish Radio Choir, Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado]
LILI BOULANGER: Nocturne [Janine Jansen (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)]
BETTYE SWANN: Tell it Like it Is
GEORGE ANTHEIL: Over the Plains [BBC Philharmonic/John Storgards]
LITTLE SIMZ: Woman
SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m001gtpd)
Harpist Rachel Masters with music that touches the soul
Rachel Masters is the principal harpist in the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and today on Inside Music she reveals her passion for good orchestration - from Tchaikovsky’s ability to transform the simplest melody into something magnificent, to Henri Dutilleux’s capacity to make every single note matter.
Rachel also revels in the dreamy brass sounds of Toru Takemitsu’s Night Signal, is transported to another world by John Williams, and finds herself feeling jealous that she can’t transfer the smooth chord progressions of the guitar onto the harp.
Plus, a brief history of the harp: from an instrument stretching back centuries, to the concert harp that Rachel plays every day…
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SAT 15:00 Sound of Gaming (m001gtpg)
Comedy
Louise Blain explores the lighter side of gaming soundtracks with a look at music for some of the wittiest games on the screen and talks to composer Grant Kirkhope. The programme looks at some of the ways humour appears in games and in gaming scores and features music from Oli Woods' 'Worms WMD', Peter McConnell's 'Psycholnauts 2', River Boy's 'Cult of the Lamb', Christopher Heral's 'Rayman Legends', Ryan Ike's 'West Of Loathing', Dan Golding's 'Untitled Goose Game', Toby Fox's 'Undertale' and the 'Stanley Parable' from the Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra. The programme also features cues from 'Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope', 'Yooka-Laylee' and 'Kingdons of Amalar - Reckoning' by Grant Kirkhope and this month's HiScore is Gareth Coker's 'Immortals - Fenyx Rising'.
SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m001gtpj)
Sushma Soma and Aditya Prakash in session
Lopa Kothari introduces a session from Carnatic musicians Sushma Soma and Aditya Prakash, performing with percussionist Pirashanna Thevarajah and double bassist Nina Harries, plus a round-up of the latest new releases from across the world. For today's Classic Artist we celebrate the Scottish musician Dick Gaughan.
SAT 17:00 J to Z (m00161yc)
Binker and Moses in session
Kevin Le Gendre presents a session from UK jazz heavyweights, Binker and Moses, comprising of drummer Moses Boyd and saxophonist Binker Golding. Over the past few years Binker and Moses have become frontrunners of the UK jazz community, winning awards such as the 2015 MOBO Award for Best Jazz Act, a Parliamentary Jazz Award, and two Jazz FM Awards as well as numerous individual accolades. In session for J to Z they perform music from their latest album, Feeding the Machine, which blends heavy grooves, soaring melodies and freewheeling improvisation.
Also in the programme, we hear from acclaimed American jazz pianist and composer Helen Sung. Initially classically trained, Helen found herself drawn to the world of jazz and has gone on to become a celebrated jazz pianist both nationally and abroad. She has worked with jazz greats such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington and Wynton Marsalis. Here, Helen shares some of her inspirations, including a McCoy Tyner classic she describes as "musical ecstasy".
Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin' Else
01
00:00:05 KOKOROKO (artist)
We Give Thanks
Performer: KOKOROKO
Duration 00:03:37
02
00:04:32 Miles Okazaki (artist)
I'll Build A World
Performer: Miles Okazaki
Duration 00:09:54
03
00:04:32 Binker and Moses (artist)
Feed Infinite
Performer: Binker and Moses
Duration 00:09:54
04
00:24:47 Somi (artist)
Mabhongo
Performer: Somi
Duration 00:05:19
05
00:30:40 Jessica Williams (artist)
When Your Lover Has Gone
Performer: Jessica Williams
Duration 00:05:50
06
00:42:57 Binker and Moses (artist)
Asynchronous Intervals
Performer: Binker and Moses
Duration 00:08:27
07
00:52:09 Ron Miles (artist)
I Am A Man
Performer: Ron Miles
Duration 00:06:30
08
00:59:28 Helen Sung (artist)
Feed The Fire
Performer: Helen Sung
Duration 00:04:24
09
01:04:44 Kenny Wheeler (artist)
Part 1 Opening
Performer: Kenny Wheeler
Duration 00:02:17
10
01:07:36 Wayne Shorter (artist)
When You Dream
Performer: Wayne Shorter
Duration 00:04:26
11
01:12:29 McCoy Tyner (artist)
Passion Dance
Performer: McCoy Tyner
Duration 00:08:39
12
01:22:28 Binker and Moses (artist)
Accelerometer Overdose
Performer: Binker and Moses
Duration 00:06:24
SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m001gtpm)
Cherubini's Medea
Medea is the very personification of the phrase 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'. Even by Greek myth standards, this is a gruesome tale where jealousy and vengeance collide with truly appalling results. We're in Corinth, 1200 BCE, and Jason (Giasone) is about to be married to Glauce. Medea is not pleased: she and Jason have quite a backstory. With the help of Medea's magic, Jason had seized the Golden Fleece and to make sure he got away with it, Medea killed and dismembered her brother, and then killed King Pelias so that Jason could take his throne. She is also the mother of Jason's children. Now she's determined to stop Jason's wedding: she sends a poisoned robe and crown to Glauce, which duly do their job. Finally, desperately, to teach Jason a lesson, there is one more terrible act of self-destructive vengeance when Medea brutally murders their two children.
Dating from the end of the 18th century, Luigi Cherubini's music – by turns fury-filled and movingly beautiful, elegant and tranquil – triumphantly meets the demands of this exacting drama. The title role has been a favourite of divas down the ages, perhaps most famously Maria Callas. Tonight, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky leads a starry cast, with the Met forces conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
Presented by Debra Lew Harder with commentator Ira Siff.
Medea ..... Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano)
Glauce ..... Janai Brugger (soprano)
Neris ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (soprano)
Giasone ..... Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
Creonte ..... Michele Pertusi (bass)
First Lady ..... Brittany Renee (soprano)
Second Lady ..... Sarah Larsen (mezzo-soprano)
Leader of the King's Guards ..... Christopher Job (bass-baritone)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Carlo Rizzi
SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m001gtpp)
Ligeti Quartet, Distractfold, Kate Ledger and Mariam Rezaei in concert
Tom Service hosts a special New Music Show concert at the Fire Station in Sunderland, featuring performances by exciting new music specialists: Ligeti Quartet, Distractfold ensemble, pianist Kate Ledger and turntablist Mariam Rezaei.
Music by Anna Meredith, Sean Noonan, Katherine Norman, Michael Finnissy, Anna Korsun, and a new BBC commission from Mariam Rezaei for four turntables.
SUNDAY 08 JANUARY 2023
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m001gtpr)
Luminous Interactions
Corey Mwamba picks a glowing selection of new free jazz and improvised music, featuring the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra performing at their home city’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, and a track from violinist Biliana Voutchkova and artist Jeff Surak, the results of their open-air sessions in the streets of Berlin. Also, with a deep and luminous sound emanating from Finland, the recently-formed sexted Muumiot warm the spirits during these cold winter nights with a piece taken from their debut album Gau Ri Laa.
Elsewhere in the show, we hear legendary improviser Evan Parker combine forces with Henry Dagg and his Stage Cage, a new electronic instrument that generates its own sounds as well as processing the notes of Parker’s soprano saxophone in real time. Plus a track from the forthcoming release of Japanese musicians Kawashima Makoto and Mochizuki Harutaka and French lapsteel player Michel Henritzi, who collaborated remotely in 2021 to create poignant lines inspired by Georg Trakl's poem, Nocturnal Song, their music an antidote to the darkness.
Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m001gtpt)
Beethoven, Czerny and Hummel from City Church Thun
GAIA Music Festival - In Beethoven's Universe performed by CHAARTS Chamber Artists. Catriona Young presents.
01:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Seven Variations on 'Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen', WoO 46
Benedict Klockner (cello), Jose Gallardo (piano)
01:11 AM
Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
Marcia funebre sulla morte di Luigi van Beethoven, op. 146
Jose Gallardo (piano)
01:20 AM
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Piano Quintet in E flat minor, op. 87
Wouter Vossen (violin), Tomoko Akasaka (viola), Chiara Enderle Samatanga (cello), Lars Olaf Schaper (double bass), Diana Ketler (piano)
01:42 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Septet in E flat, op. 20
Moritz Roelcke (clarinet), Herve Joulain (horn), Igor Ahss (bassoon), Gwendolyn Masin (violin), Rumen Cvetkov (viola), Benedict Klockner (cello), Lars Olaf Schaper (double bass)
02:22 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata (Op.53) in D major (D.850)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
03:01 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Hebrew Psalms and Instrumental Canzonas
Ars Cantus, Tomasz Dobrzanski (director)
03:47 AM
Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838)
Clarinet Concerto no 1 in E flat major, Op 1
Kullervo Kojo (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ulf Soderblom (conductor)
04:10 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Bolero in A minor, Op 19
Emil von Sauer (piano)
04:17 AM
Godfrey Ridout (1918-1984)
Fall fair (1961)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor)
04:25 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Adagio for violin (or viola, or cello) and piano in C major
Tamas Major (violin), Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
04:34 AM
Georg Christoph Bach (1642-1703)
Siehe, wie fein und lieblich ist es - vocal concerto
Paul Elliott (tenor), Hein Meens (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
04:41 AM
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris
Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor)
04:49 AM
Johann Anton Reichenauer (1694-1730)
Bassoon concerto in G minor
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Camerata Bern, Sergio Azzolini (director)
05:01 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Hebrides - overture (Op.26)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Markus Lehtinen (conductor)
05:12 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Chaconne for piano (Op.32)
Anders Kilstrom (piano)
05:21 AM
Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981)
Qui habitat
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (director)
05:30 AM
Willem De Fesch (1687-1761)
Concerto No.3 in G major – from Six Concerti Opera Quinta (Op.5)
Musica ad Rhenum
05:37 AM
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Dover beach for voice and string quartet (Op.3)
Urszula Kryger (mezzo-soprano), Royal String Quartet
05:46 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Fantasia for keyboard in C major, Wq.61'6
Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
05:54 AM
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Variaciones concertantes, Op 23
Bern Chamber Orchestra, Kaspar Zehnder (conductor)
06:19 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Histoire du Tango
Jadwiga Kotnowska (flute), Leszek Potasinki (guitar), Grzegorz Frankowski (double bass)
06:35 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Concerto for 2 pianos in E flat major, K365/316a
Jon Kimura Parker (piano), James Parker (piano), CBC Radio Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m001gtr9)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m001gtrf)
Sarah Walker with a stirring musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, there’s a traditional Irish song performed by the duo Ye Vagabonds in perfect lilting harmony, and an arrangement of Purcell’s Fantasia Upon One Note for brass that sparkles with energy.
Sarah also finds fascinating ambiguity in the voice of Joni Mitchell singing Gershwin’s song The Man I Love, and plays a 15th-century piece for choir that sounds like it could have been written just yesterday.
Plus, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra summons up a ‘Happy Forest’...
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m001gtrk)
Todd Field
Todd Field began his career as a jazz musician and as an actor; he has appeared in over forty films, including Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” and Woody Allen’s “Radio Days”. He then went on to direct two full-length award-winning films, “In the Bedroom” - about grief and revenge in a close-knit family - and “Little Children”, starring Kate Winslet. Both were nominated for multiple Oscars. This week his third feature film “Tar” opens in Britain. Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tar, the conductor of a major German orchestra; the film is an exploration of the darker side of the classical music world, the power of the conductor, and of abusive power more generally – it’s also a celebration of some really wonderful music.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Todd Field talks about how he started writing “Tar” by interviewing classical musicians, and particularly women working in the industry. He looks back on his “free-range” childhood in Oregon, and tells how his wife financed his ambition to become a film director by buying a truck, going round flea-markets, and starting an interior-design shop. He reveals the struggle to release his award-winning film “In the Bedroom” after Harvey Weinstein bought it and demanded more and more cuts. Field won the fight and retained the film he believed in, but it took six months and a fiendishly clever strategy invented by his friend Tom Cruise.
Todd Field started out as a jazz musician in a big band, and his choices include two tracks by Sarah Vaughan, whom he met backstage at a concert in Oregon. Other choices include Mahler’s Symphony No 5; Elgar’s Cello Concerto; and Gorecki’s second string quartet, which played constantly in his head while making “Tar”.
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001ghgr)
Paul Watkins and Huw Watkins
Brothers Paul and Huw Watkins perform cello sonatas by Debussy and Fauré, as well as Schumann's 5 Pieces in Folk Style and Michael Zev Gordon's Roseland, a piece that takes its title from a remote, serene region of Cornwall.
From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Sarah Walker
Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata
Robert Schumann: 5 Stücke im Volkston, Op 102
Michael Zev Gordon: Roseland
Gabriel Fauré: Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117
Paul Watkins (cello)
Huw Watkins (piano)
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000qb42)
Light in the Darkness: Chiaroscuro
As part of Radio 3’s Light in the Darkness season, illuminating winter, Lucie Skeaping explores depictions of chiaroscuro - a technique used in visual art that produces striking musical contrasts too. With music by Gesualdo, Dowland, de Rore, Handel, Graupner and Haydn.
01
00:04:56 John Dowland
In darkness let me dwell
Performer: Paul Beier
Singer: Michael Chance
Duration 00:04:16
02
00:10:30 Cipriano de Rore
Or che'l ciel et la terra e'l vento tace
Ensemble: Blue Heron
Director: Scott Metcalfe
Duration 00:05:18
03
00:16:35 Carlo Gesualdo
Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ
Conductor: Marco Longhini
Duration 00:05:32
04
00:22:27 Jordi Savall
Planctus Caravaggio I & II
Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI
Director: Jordi Savall
Duration 00:06:20
05
00:29:39 Christoph Graupner
Aus der Tieffen ruffen wir (Opening chorus)
Ensemble: Ricercar Consort
Duration 00:04:33
06
00:34:50 William Lawes
Consort sett No.8 for 6 viols in F major "The Sunrise" (Fantazy I)
Performer: Paul Nicholson
Ensemble: Fretwork
Duration 00:04:49
07
00:40:21 Thomas Arne
The glittering sun begins to rise [The Morning]
Singer: Emma Kirkby
Ensemble: Parley of Instruments
Director: Roy Goodman
Duration 00:01:37
08
00:41:57 Thomas Tallis
O nata lux de lumine
Choir: Tallis Scholars
Conductor: Peter Phillips
Duration 00:01:56
09
00:44:50 George Frideric Handel
For behold, darkness shall cover the Earth; The people that walked in darkness; For unto us a child is born [The Messiah]
Singer: Christopher Purves
Choir: The Sixteen
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Duration 00:09:57
10
00:55:26 Claudio Monteverdi
Al lume de le stelle [Madrigals, Book 7]
Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants
Conductor: Paul Agnew
Duration 00:04:13
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001ghgg)
Clare College, Cambridge
A carol service for Epiphany from the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge.
Introit: Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier (Bach)
Bidding
Hymn: O worship the Lord (Was lebet, arr. Graham Ross)
Reading: Genesis 12 vv.1-9
Carol: The Magi (Cecilia McDowall) – first broadcast
Reading: Isaiah 60 vv.1-7
Anthem: Twelfth Night (Barber)
Reading: Psalm 72 vv.10-15
Anthem: When Jesus our Lord – Say, where is he born (Mendelssohn)
Reading: Matthew 2 vv.1-6
Anthem: Epiphany (Judith Bingham)
Reading Matthew 2 vv.7-12
Carol: Lute-book Lullaby (Alexander L’Estrange)
Reading: Revelation 7 vv.9-17
Carol: There is no rose (Lucy Walker)
Prayers
Anthem: A gallery carol (Gardner)
Hymn: Hail to the Lord’s anointed (Cruger, arr. Graham Ross)
Voluntary: Symphony No 6 in G, Op 42 No 2 (Finale) (Widor)
Graham Ross (Director of Music)
Samuel Jones (Sir William McKie Senior Organ Scholar)
Daniel Blaze (Junior Organ Scholar)
Recorded 24 November 2022.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m001gtrp)
New discoveries and evergreen classics
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with music this week from Duke Ellington, Keith Jarrett and Billie Holiday. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
DISC 1
Artist Dick Morrissey
Title Puffing Billy
Composer Stan Jones
Album It’s Morrissey Man!
Label Fontana
Number TFL 5149 Track 6
Duration 4.23
Performers Dick Morrissey, ts; Stan Jones, p; Malcolm Cecil, b; Colin Barnes, d. April 1961.
DISC 2
Artist Snooks Eaglin
Title High Society
Composer Piron, Williams
Album New Orleans Street Singer
Label Smithsonian Folkways
Number FA 2476 Track 3
Duration 1.37
Performers Snooks Eaglin, g. March 1958.
DISC 3
Artist Fionna Duncan
Title Lady be Good
Composer G and I Gershwin
Album Young and Foolish
Label Tentoten
Number TTTCDS755 Track 2
Duration 3.30
Performers Fionna Duncan, v; Brian Kellock, p; Ronnie Rae, b; John Rae, d. Dec 2004.
DISC 4
Artist John Coltrane and Milt Jackson
Title Three Little Words
Composer Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar
Album John Coltrane The Heavyweight Champion
Label Rhino/Atlantic
Number 8122796427 CD 1 Track 4
Duration 7.28
Performers John Coltrane. ts; Milt Jackson, vib; Hank Jones, p; Paul Chambers, b; Connie Kay, d. 15 Jan 1959.
DISC 5
Artist Rachel Rodgers
Title Work Song
Composer Nat Adderley
Album Summer after 7
Label CD Baby
Number RACH10447 Track 1
Duration 4.08
Performers Rachel Rodgers, fl; Ron Carter Trio 2008.
DISC 6
Artist Gerry Mulligan
Title Festive Minor
Composer Mulligan
Album Milestones of a Legend
Label Intense Media
Number 600305 CD 5 Track 10
Duration 6.12
Performers Art Farmer, t; Gerry Mulligan, bars; Bill Crow, b; Dave Bailey, d. 1959
DISC 7
Artist Carmen McRae
Title All The Things You Are
Composer Kern, Hammerstein
Album Carmen For Cool Ones
Label Fresh Sound
Number FSR CD 70 Tracjk 5
Duration 2.26
Performers Carmen McRae, v; Harry Klee, Bill Green, fl; George W Smith, cl; Mahlon Clark, Justin Gordon , bcl; Ike Isaacs, b; Specs Wright, d, 16 Dec 1957
DISC 8
Artist Ella Fitzgerald
Title All The Things You Are
Composer Kern, Hammerstein
Album Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook
Label Verve
Number V 4060 Track 3
Duration 3.14
Performers Ella Fitzgerald, v; Nelson Riddle Orchestra 1963
DISC 9
Artist Duke Ellington
Title Raincheck
Composer Billy Strayhorn
Album Indispensible Duke Ellington
Label RCA / Jazz Tribune
Number ND 89274 CD 2 Track 1
Duration 2.28
Performers Wardell Jones, Ray Nance , Rex Stewart, t; Lawrence Brown, Juan Tizol, Tricky Sam Nanton, tb; Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwicke, Ben Webster, Harry Carney, reeds; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g Junior Raglin, b; Sonny Greer, d; 2 Dec 1941
DISC 10
Artist Michael Sarian
Title Picklepuss Romp
Composer Sarian
Album Living at the End of the World
Label EarsandEyes Records
Number EE22169 Track 6
Duration 7.33
Performers Michael Sarian, t; Santiago Leibson, p; Marty Kenney, b; Nathan Ellman-Bell, d. 2022
DISC 11
Artist Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett
Title Como en Vietman
Composer Steve Swallow
Album Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett
Label Atlantic
Number 40.208 Track 3
Duration 7.02
Performers Gary Burton, vib; Keith Jarrett, ss, p; Sam Brown, g; Steve Swallow, b; Bill Goodwin, d. 1971.
DISC 12
Artist Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson’s Orchestra
Title I Wished on the Moon
Composer Rainger / Parker
Album Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia
Label Columbia
Number 88697538062 CD 1 Track 3
Duration 3.01
Performers Billie Holiday, v; Roy Eldridge, t; Benny Goodman, cl; Ben Webster, ts; Teddy Wilson, p; John Truehart, g; John Kirby, b; Cozy Cole, d. 2 July 1935.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b07tz12y)
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
Tom Service examines one of the most famous concertos in the piano repertoire. What is the secret of its appeal? Why does it have such emotional impact? Why did the critics hate it, yet why is it such a classical favourite in the world of popular culture - from Mickey Mouse to Marilyn Monroe to Muse? And what did Rachmaninov have to go through to compose it? With pianist Lucy Parham.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m0019sc6)
Electricity
From pylons "tall with prophecy" to the literal darkness of power cuts and the life force of lightning - today's programme hears extracts from writers including Naomi Alderman, Michel Faber, DH Lawrence, Stephen Spender, Gregory Orr and Polly Atkin who have explored electricity as a life-force of energy and the metaphor for the spark of creativity. Music fizzes through the programme, from Bjork, Janacek, Philip Glass, Jeff Beck, Blanck Mass, along with Bob Dylan's electric masterpiece Maggie's Farm and the exquisite electricity of the tragic young American violinist Michael Rabin. Nikolas Tesla, who worked on electric power and induction coils used in radio technology, died on January 7th 1943. As we explore electricity - please make sure your radio is properly earthed. Sparks may fly.
With readers Rosie Cavaliero and Ray Fearon.
01
00:01:09 Benjamin John Power
Chernobyl
Performer: Blanck Mass
Duration 00:04:24
02
00:05:29
Stephen Spender
Pylons read by Ray Fearon
Duration 00:00:51
03
00:06:19 Jean Sibelius
The Swan of Tuonela
Performer: Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra
Duration 00:07:48
04
00:14:00
Naomi Alderman
The Power read by Rosie Cavaliero
Duration 00:01:54
05
00:15:55 Jeff Beck (artist)
Beck's Bolero
Performer: Jeff Beck
Duration 00:02:56
06
00:18:46
Sam Illingworth
read by Ray Fearon
Duration 00:00:27
07
00:19:12 Claudio Monteverdi
Zefiro Torna
Performer: Red Byrd
Duration 00:05:50
08
00:24:55 Leos Janáček
String Quartet No.2
Performer: Hagen Quartett
Duration 00:04:06
09
00:25:17
Victoria Glendinning
Electricity read by Rosie Cavaliero
Duration 00:01:59
10
00:28:59 Björk
Possibly Maybe
Performer: Björk
Duration 00:05:05
11
00:33:55
DH Laurence
Storm in the Black Forest read by Rosie Cavaliero
Duration 00:00:49
12
00:34:44 n/a
Thunderstorm
Performer: n/a
Duration 00:05:45
13
00:34:56
Michel Faber
The Fahrenheit Twins read by Ray Fearon
Duration 00:01:37
14
00:39:05 Philip Glass
New York - Mad Rush
Performer: Thibault Cauvin
Duration 00:03:47
15
00:42:50 Charles Ives
Central Park in the Dark
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Duration 00:03:33
16
00:43:02
Polly Atkins
Colony Collapse Disorder read by Rosie Cavaliero
Duration 00:02:25
17
00:46:25
Aaron Sorkin
The Farnsworth Experiment read by Ray Fearon
Duration 00:01:12
18
00:47:37 Bob Dylan
Maggies Farm
Performer: Bob Dylan
Duration 00:03:51
19
00:51:27
Priscilla Morris
Black Butterflies read by Rosie Cavaliero
Duration 00:01:59
20
00:00:52 Maurice Ravel
Petit Poucet (Ma Mere Oye)
Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin
Duration 00:03:26
21
00:56:18
Philip K Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? read by Ray Fearon
Duration 00:01:41
22
00:57:49 Vangelis
Blade Runner (Main Title)
Performer: Vangelis
Duration 00:03:42
23
01:01:25
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar read by Rosie Cavaliero
Duration 00:01:59
24
01:03:24 Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne No.8 in D flat major op.27 no.2
Performer: Michael Rabin
Performer: Leon Pommers
Duration 00:06:20
25
01:09:38
Gregory Orr
To Be Alive read by Ray Fearon
Duration 00:00:12
26
01:09:50 Cole Porter
Lets Do it
Performer: Ella Fitzgerald
Duration 00:03:35
Producer: Paul Frankl
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m001gtrt)
Unlocking Anne
Anne Lock, a woman living in 16th-century England, wrote the first ever sonnet sequence in the English language? Impossible, thought Clare Pollard. As a celebrated playwright and poet, with much of her work focused on giving a voice to forgotten women, how could she not have known about Anne Lock?
In this Sunday Feature, Pollard takes listeners into Anne's world and time, as she pieces together the fascinating life and work of a forgotten female sonneteer.
With contributions from:
Dr Deirdre Serjeantson, Director of Studies in English at Trinity College, Cambridge
Susan Felch is Emeritus Professor of English at Calvin University, Michigan and editor of the Selected works of Anne Lock
Dr. Jake Arthur's research focuses on women's writing in the 16th and 17th centuries
Readings by Colin Ryan and Ruth Everett
Produced by Sarah Shebbeare
Mixed by Giles Aspen
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m001gtrw)
HashtagPublicEnemy
“The Haven” is a Norfolk eco-village on the cusp of a grand opening, which is jeopardised by the discovery of toxic waste in the water table. Based on Henrik Ibsen’s tragi-comedy about a whistle-blower, An Enemy of the People, Steve Waters’ original play HashtagPublicEnemy brings Ibsen’s themes into the 21st Century to explore colliding pressures around the economy, ecology, cancel-culture, corruption and popularism.
Dr Tom Stockman has returned from a medical career in Uganda to his birthplace, Branwich, on the Norfolk coast. The town is governed by his sister Penny, a dynamic politician seeking to restore its fortunes with The Haven, a state-of-the art eco-village including holiday homes and an aqua-park. Having joined the executive team as an adviser, Tom realises that The Haven sits on a landfill site. Rising sea levels have caused toxins to enter the water table, threatening a tender ecosystem which risks undermining the idyllic vision, and economic promise of The Haven. When Tom breaks the unwelcome news he finds himself at the heart of a spiral of media interest.
Tom Stockman ..... Joseph Millson
Penny Stockman ..... Alexandra Gilbreath
Petra ..... Norah Lopez Holden
Maggie Killingworth ..... Anna Savva
Conor Houston ..... Carl Prekopp
Millie Goff ..... Silvia Presente
Ajay Charkraborti ..... Sartaj Garewal
Writer: Steve Waters
Sound design: Alisdair McGregor
Producer and director: Jeremy Mortimer
Executive Producer: Joby Waldman
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
This is the latest ecologically-minded fictional work by Steve Waters following The Contingency Plan, a diptych of plays about climate change, and his role as co-convenor of the Writing and Science Project at UEA. He returned to environmental themes with his solo show 'In a vulnerable place' performed in 2014-2015 and is currently working on an AHRC Leadership Fellowship funded project 'The Song of the Reeds: Dramatising Conservation', an 18-month long collaboration with Wicken Fen and Strumpshaw Fen nature reserves, which has led to a series of acclaimed Radio 4 audio dramas.
SUN 21:00 Record Review Extra (m001gtry)
Mahler's Sixth Symphony
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Mahler's fateful Symphony No 6 in A minor.
SUN 23:00 The Art of Music with Anna Clyne (m001h6dh)
Music Inspired by Art
Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne is fascinated by the relationship that exists between art and music. In this series she explores the stories, imagery, and colour of some of her favourite music and art, and how one inspires the other.
In this first episode Anna describes how pencil sketches worked their way into Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices, and the importance of a black and white print to Rachmaninov’s starkly evocative Isle of the Dead. Anna also considers Debussy’s La Mer, how he musically illustrated the great waves of the sea and why he printed Japanese art onto his original score. We discover how Jackson Pollock’s paint splatters have encouraged the American jazz saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom to paint with sound and finally, we break out of the picture frame with music by Errollyn Wallen.
MONDAY 09 JANUARY 2023
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m0019xl8)
Michelle de Swarte
Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week Linton is joined by comedian, actor and writer Michelle de Swarte, star of hit comedy horror series The Baby.
Michelle's playlist:
Rebecca Clarke - Two Pieces for viola and cello: no.1 Lullaby
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Marriage of Figaro: Letter Duet
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in the Curved Air
Takashi Yoshimatsu - And birds are still
Isobel Waller-Bridge - September
Gustav Mahler - Symphony no.2 (finale)
Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries.
Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.
01
00:04:35 Rebecca Clarke
Two Pieces for Viola & Cello - I. Lullaby
Performer: Vinciane Béranger
Performer: David Louwerse
Duration 00:03:40
02
00:08:47 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sull' aria... Che soave zeffiretto (The Marriage of Figaro)
Singer: Patrizia Ciofi
Singer: Véronique Gens
Orchestra: Concerto Köln
Conductor: René Jacobs
Duration 00:02:32
03
00:13:02 Terry Riley
A Rainbow in the Curved Air
Performer: Terry Riley
Duration 00:04:51
04
00:18:01 Takashi Yoshimatsu
And birds are still... Op.72
Orchestra: Manchester Camerata
Conductor: Sachio Fujioka
Duration 00:03:17
05
00:21:18 Isobel Waller-Bridge
September
Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge
Duration 00:03:24
06
00:24:42 Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection - V. (g) Mit Aufschwung aber nicht eilen
Singer: Magdalena Kožená
Singer: Kate Royal
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Choir: Berlin Radio Choir
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Duration 00:04:19
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m001gts0)
Neo-Classica Chamber Orchestra
A concert from China's Neo-Classica Chamber Orchestra, made up of players born after the year 2000. They perform Schnittke, Respighi and Max Richter's re-composition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Presented by Danielle Jalowiecka.
12:31 AM
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Yukuang Jin (arranger)
Suite in the Old Style arr violin and chamber orchestra
Lee Byung-chang (violin), Neo-Classica Chamber Orchestra, Yukuang Jin (conductor)
12:48 AM
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Suite pour instruments d'archet et flûte, P.57
Tong Jiayi (flute), Neo-Classica Chamber Orchestra, Yukuang Jin (conductor)
01:07 AM
Max Richter (1966-)
Four Seasons - Recomposed
Jiang Pillow Yi (violin), Neo-Classica Chamber Orchestra, Yukuang Jin (conductor)
01:50 AM
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814-1865)
Grand Caprice on Schubert's Der Erlkönig, Op.26
Jiang Pillow Yi (violin)
01:54 AM
Max Richter (1966-)
Four Seasons - Recomposed; Presto from 'L'Estate
Jiang Pillow Yi (violin), Neo-Classica Chamber Orchestra, Yukuang Jin (conductor)
01:58 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Magnificat RV 610/RV 611
Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Maria Espada (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo soprano), Florian Boesch (baritone), Bavarian Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra (director), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
02:18 AM
Jules August Demersseman (1833-1866)
Italian Concerto in F major, Op 82 no 6
Kristina Vaculova (flute), Inna Aslamasova (piano)
02:31 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
The Seasons (Op 67) - ballet in 1 act
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
03:08 AM
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Automne, Op 35 No 2
Valerie Tryon (piano)
03:15 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Folksongs for chorus, Op 49
Carmina Chamber Choir, Peter Hanke (conductor)
03:30 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Francesco Squarcia (arranger)
3 Hungarian Dances - No.1 in G minor; No.3 in F major; No.5 in F sharp minor
I Cameristi Italiani
03:38 AM
Joseph Lauber (1864-1952)
Sonata Fantasia in una parte for flute & piano (Op.50)
Marianne Keller Stucki (flute), Agathe Rytz-Jaggi (piano)
03:52 AM
Luka Sorkocevic (1734-1789)
Sinfonie in D major
Salzburger Hofmusik, Wolfgang Brunner (organ), Wolfgang Brunner (director)
03:59 AM
Jacob Obrecht (1457-1505)
Salve Regina
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
04:04 AM
Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-1986)
Concertino for Piano and Strings, Op 45 no 12 (1957)
Marten Landstrom (piano), Uppsala Chamber Soloists
04:20 AM
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
Sonata in D minor
Amsterdam Bach Soloists, Wim ten Have (conductor)
04:31 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Overture from Beatrice et Benedict
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
04:39 AM
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)
Three sonnets by Shakespeare
Taru Valjakka (soprano), Jari Salmela (piano)
04:46 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto for Flute, Violin and Cello, TWV 53:A2
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Jaroslaw Thiel (conductor)
05:07 AM
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Prelude for guitar no 3 in A minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
05:14 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (orchestrator)
Tarantelle styrienne
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
05:20 AM
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-c.1678)
O quam bonus es - motet for 2 voices
Cappella Artemisia
05:30 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Symphony no 1 in E flat major, Op 28
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
06:01 AM
Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)
Oboe Quintet in F major, Op 107
Les Adieux
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m001gtqr)
Monday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m001gtqt)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000s8w6)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
A Servant’s Lot in Life
Donald Macleod looks at the pivotal roles played by the servants in Mozart's operas Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni.
The characters Mozart creates in his operas are some of the most acutely observed heroes, heroines and villains ever to grace the stage. They reflect both the strengths and the weaknesses of humanity in ways that are still easily recognisable more than two hundred years later.
Born in 1756, the theatre was a life-long passion for Mozart. Starting at the tender age of just 11, in the space of 22 years he produced an astonishing 24 theatrical works. His destiny was to follow in his father’s footsteps, as a court musician. Instead, by 1781, after a disagreement over his frequent absences from court, Mozart parted ways with his employer, the Elector of Cologne. He left Salzburg and servitude behind, to set himself up in Vienna, a thriving centre for music. The following year he triumphed with his comic singspiel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The succession of works that followed include many of the mainstays of operatic repertory, among them The Magic Flute, which was completed in the year of his death, at the age of 35 in 1791.
This week Donald Macleod finds connecting points between the characters Mozart created for the stage and the composer's own experiences in life. He examines how Mozart struggled to be a dutiful son, and how he tackles honour and duty in Idomeneo, Lucio Silla and Mitridate. The ideas of enlightenment that influenced Mozart's own views find expression in the balance of power he depicts between servants and the ruling classes in The Marriage of Figaro. The composer’s thorny path to marriage with Constanze also finds him examining the complexities of love in Die Enführung aus dem Serail and Così fan tutte. The series ends with Mozart's masterly representation of temptation and evil, as characterised by the ultimate bad boy Don Giovanni and the scheming and manipulative Queen of the Night.
Today, Figaro and Susanna are busy planning their forthcoming nuptials, but their boss, the Count, has some ignoble ideas of his own. Despina teams up with Don Alfonso in a ruse to trick sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, and Don Giovanni's servant Leporello is fed up with his lot in life. He always gets the boring jobs to do.
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
Le nozze di Figaro (Act 1)
Cinque, dieci …. Se vuol ballare, Signor Contino
Lucia Popp, soprano, Susanna,
Samuel Ramey, baritone, Figaro
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
La finta giardiniera (Act 1)
Appena mi vedon
Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Serpetta
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, director
Così fan tutte ( Act 1, Sc 3 excerpt)
In uomini, in soldati ….alla bella Despinetta
Hanny Steffek, soprano, Despina
Walter Berry, bass, Don Alfonso
Alfredo Kraus, tenor, Ferrando
Giuseppe Taddei, baritone, Guglielmo
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano, Fiordiligi
Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano, Dorabella
Philharmonia Orchestra
Karl Böhm, conductor
Don Giovanni (Act 1)
Notte e giorno faticar
Luca Pisaroni, baritone, Leporello
Diana Damrau, soprano, Donna Anna
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, bass, Don Giovanni
Vitalij Kowaljow, bass, Il Commendatore
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Don Giovanni (Act 1)
Ah! Chi mi dice mai...Madamina, il catalogo è questo
Joyce di Donato, mezzo-soprano, Donna Elvira
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, bass, Don Giovanni
Luca Pisaroni, baritone, Leporello
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Producer Johannah Smith for BBC Wales
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001gtqw)
Mithras Trio
Formed at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2017, the Mithras Trio has already won a number of prizes - including the 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award – and is currently part of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. In this recital the trio performs Bridge's Phantasie Piano Trio, Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio, and a new work by Joy Lisney, Petrichor, receiving its world premiere.
Live from Wigmore Hall
Presented by Hannah French
Frank Bridge: Phantasie Piano Trio in C minor
Joy Lisney: Petrichor (world premiere)
Beethoven: Piano Trio in D, Op 70 No 1 'Ghost'
Mithras Trio
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001gtqy)
Monday - Beethoven's Seventh Symphony from Tokyo
Christoph Eschenbach conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No 7 in A, plus more recordings made in the Japanese capital.
Presented by Fiona Talkington
Eminent German conductor Christoph Eschenbach was a welcome guest last year on the podium of the Metropolitan Theater, Tokyo. He leads them in works by Dvorak and Beethoven, as well as one of Mozart's delightful flute concertos
Japanese violinist Mayumi Hirasaki presents baroque violin sonatas, while we have Chopin played by Spanish pianist Martín García García.
2.00pm
Dvorak
Carnival Overture, op. 92
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Popper arr. Kotaro Kobayashi
Hungarian Rhapsody, op. 68.
Kisekino Cello Ensemble
Corelli
Violin Sonata in G minor, op. 5/5
Mayumi Hirasaki, baroque violin
Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord
Chopin
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 31
Martín García García, piano
Bach
Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1024
Duration of work:
15:00 min.
Mayumi Hirasaki, baroque violin
Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord
3.00pm
Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A, op. 92
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Chopin
Impromptu in G flat, op. 51
Martín García García, piano
Mozart
Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313
Stathis Karapanos, flute
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m001gtr0)
Eric Lu plays Schubert's Sonata in A minor D.784
This afternoon we hear pianist Eric Lu play music by the composer who moves him most intensely - Schubert. The Sonata in A minor is one of Schubert's greatest sonatas, and one of the core works in the piano repertoire. This performance is from Eric's most recent recording that was released in early December, a solo album devoted solely to Schubert.
Schubert: Sonata in A minor D.784
Eric Lu, piano
MON 17:00 In Tune (m001gtr2)
Apollo5, Elena Urioste and Tom Poster, and Peaky Blinders
Katie Derham is joined in the studio for live music by a cappella vocal group Apollo5 who are looking forward to their concert at Marylebone Theatre, London. More live music comes from violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster ahead of their all-French programme at Wigmore Hall, London. Plus choreographer Benoit Swan Pouffer and screenwriter Steven Knight introduce us to Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby: a dance theatre event touring the UK in 2023.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001gtr4)
The perfect classical half hour
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world. This edition of the mixtape begins with Florence Price's Colonial Dance and the movement 'The Fog is Lifting' from Carl Nielsen's incidental music The Mother. The mixtape slows the pace with Olga Scheps' piano performance of the Family Theme from Hans Zimmer's score for 'Blue Planet'. Julian Arcas's Bolero in A Minor leads into Home, a piece composed by Ramin Djawadi for the seventh series of Game of Thrones.
The Romance movement from Shostakovitch's score for the film The Gadfly then leads into Sheku Kanneh-Mason's performance of the Northumbrian folk song Blow The Wind Southerly, followed by the Andante movement from Dvorak's "American" Suite in A Major. The mixtape draws to a conclusion with the Epilogue movement of Vaughan-Williams' String Quartet no. 2 in A Minor and Aunt Marge's Waltz taken from the John Williams score for 'Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban'.
Producer: James Rushworth
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001gtr6)
Les Siècles in Prague
As part of the César Franck bicentennial celebrations, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles were in Prague in May 2022 to perform Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit", Symphony in D minor and Symphonic Variations with pianist Bertrand Chamayou. Debussy's "La Mer" is also on the menu.
César Franck - Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman)
César Franck - Symphonic Variations, Op.46
Claude Debussy - La Mer
César Franck - Symphony in D minor, Op.48
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth (conductor)
Presented by Fiona Talkington
MON 21:15 Northern Drift (m001gtrb)
Anthony Dunn and Nightports
Leeds-based poet Antony Dunn and collaborative musicians Nightports join Elizabeth Alker at the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m001gtp8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m001gtrg)
Art and Uncertainty
The Benefit of Doubt
Margaret Heffernan explores how art can help us deal with uncertainty in our lives.
Modern life feels increasingly uncertain, to the point of making us uncomfortable. Most people hate uncertainty. We feel calmer knowing something bad is definitely coming (say, an electric shock) than when there's a possibility we might escape it. New technology sometimes seems to have the goal of eliminating uncertainty, but is this really desirable? Margaret argues that an element of uncertainty is a necessary part of the creative process, a catalyst which can help us find ways of meeting the challenges of the future.
Artists deal with uncertainty all the time: starting work nobody asked for, rarely sure where the work will go, when it’s finished or whether it will connect with a public. This can be deeply frightening: Tracey Emin sketches before having enough courage to paint; Sebastian Barry fears the next word won’t come. To the frequent dismay of fans, artists change direction before they have to. They have agency, independence, but they take a risk each time they begin.
We love their work because it shows a truth we avoid. We want evidence for every decision, proof that our project will be successful before it starts, ratings, sales numbers and prizes to prove our worth. Data to promise certainty before we dare try anything. But maybe this craving for certainty constrains our imagination and leaves us passive, because there are no datasets from the future. Perhaps an addiction to certainty suppresses our capacity for exploration and discovery in ourselves and in the world.
Margaret Heffernan is a writer and entrepreneur. Here, she takes inspiration from artists who embrace uncertainty.
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m001gtrl)
The late zone
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 10 JANUARY 2023
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m001gtrq)
Stravinsky in Switzerland
Pianists Bruno Canino and Antonio Ballista give a recital in Lugano of music for two pianos by Stravinsky. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Sonata for Two Pianos
Bruno Canino (piano), Antonio Ballista (piano)
12:42 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Agon, ballet music (transcription for 2 pianoforte)
Bruno Canino (piano), Antonio Ballista (piano)
01:07 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
The Rite of Spring, arr. for piano four-hands
Bruno Canino (piano), Antonio Ballista (piano)
01:43 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Petrushka
Swiss National Youth Orchestra, Kai Bumann (conductor)
02:14 AM
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Trio Pathétique in D minor
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Ekaterina Apekisheva (piano), Boris Andrianov (cello)
02:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Rinaldo Alessandrini (arranger)
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord), Concerto Italiano
03:15 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
4 Psalms for baritone and mixed voices, Op 74 (excerpts)
Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Helgerod (conductor)
03:29 AM
Arvo Part (1935-)
Fratres
Tobias Feldmann (violin), Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
03:41 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Traumerei am Kamin: Symphonic interlude no.2 from Intermezzo, Op 72
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
03:49 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Preludes (Op.28 Nos.16-20)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
03:57 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Ah! che troppo inequali Italian cantata HWV 230
Maria Keohane (soprano), European Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
04:08 AM
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889)
Variations on "Casta diva - Ah! Bello" from Bellini's 'Norma'
Alison Balsom (trumpet), John Reid (piano)
04:14 AM
Daniel Auber (1782-1871)
Bolero - Ballet music No 2 from La Muette de Portici (Masaniello)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
04:22 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Abegg Variations, Op 1
Zhang Zuo (piano)
04:31 AM
Bernard Piris (b.1951)
Deux Preludes
Heiki Matlik (guitar)
04:34 AM
Jan de Castro (c.1540-1600)
Je suis tellement langoureus
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa (director)
04:40 AM
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Concerto grosso in E minor, Op 3 no 6
Camerata Bern, Thomas Furi (conductor)
04:50 AM
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)
Two works - Nocturne in B flat (Op.16/4) & Dans le désert (Op.15)
Kevin Kenner (piano)
05:02 AM
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Kol Nidrei Op 47
Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
05:15 AM
Johan Duijck (b.1954)
Het zachte leven (The gentle life), Op.15
Flemish Radio Choir, Johan Duijck (conductor)
05:30 AM
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834)
Harp Concerto in C major
Xavier de Maistre (harp), Indiana University Orchestra, Gerhard Samuel (conductor)
05:52 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures, Op 37
Margreta Elkins (mezzo-soprano), Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
06:15 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quartet in B flat major K.159
Signum Quartet
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m001gts2)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m001gts4)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000s9bz)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Life in Vienna
Donald Macleod looks at Mozart's characterisation of the gentry in his operas Don Giovanni, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Le nozze di Figaro.
Born in 1756, the theatre was a life-long passion for Mozart. Starting at the tender age of just 11, in the space of 22 years he produced an astonishing 24 theatrical works. His destiny was to follow in his father’s footsteps, as a court musician. Instead, by 1781, after a disagreement over his frequent absences from court, Mozart parted ways with his employer, the Elector of Cologne. He left Salzburg and servitude behind, to set himself up in Vienna, a thriving centre for music. The following year he triumphed with his comic singspiel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The succession of works that followed include many of the mainstays of operatic repertory, among them The Magic Flute, which was completed in the year of his death, at the age of 35 in 1791.
This week Donald Macleod finds connecting points between the characters Mozart created for the stage and the composer's own experiences in life. He examines how Mozart struggled to be a dutiful son, and how he tackles honour and duty in Idomeneo, Lucio Silla and Mitridate. The ideas of enlightenment that influenced Mozart's own views find expression in the balance of power he depicts between servants and the ruling classes in The Marriage of Figaro. The composer’s thorny path to marriage with Constanze also finds him examining the complexities of love in Die Enführung aus dem Serail and Così fan tutte. The series ends with Mozart's masterly representation of temptation and evil, as characterised by the ultimate bad boy Don Giovanni and the scheming and manipulative Queen of the Night.
In today's episode, Don Giovanni shamelessly celebrates a virtueless life, while Konstanze sticks to her moral principles. Life isn't running smoothly for the Count and Countess Almaviva as Susanna and Figaro challenge the status quo of their employers.
Don Giovanni (Act 1)
Champagne Aria
Simon Keenlyside, baritone, Don Giovanni
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Act 2)
Martern aller Arten
Christine Shäfer, soprano, Konstanze
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, director
Le nozze di Figaro (Act 2)
Esci ormai, garzon malnato …Signore! Cos’è quell’stupore?
Anna Moffo, soprano, Susanna
Eberhard Wächter, baritone, Conte
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano, Contessa
Giuseppe Taddei, baritone, Figaro
Piero Cappuccili, bass, Antonio
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Le nozze di Figaro (Act 3)
Hai già vinto la causa….. Vedró, mentr’io sospiro
Eberhard Wachter, baritone, Count Almaviva
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Don Giovanni (Finale to Act 1)
Riposate, vezzose ragazze
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, bass, Masetto
Patrizia Pace, soprano, Zerlina
Simon Keenlyside, baritone, Don Giovanni
Soile Isokoski, soprano, Donna Elvira
Uwe Heilmann, tenor, Don Ottavio
Carmela Remigio, soprano, Donna Anna
Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone, Leporello
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado, director
La clemenza di Tito (Act 1)
Parto, parto
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano, Sesto
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
René Jacobs, conductor
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00066py)
LSO St Luke's - Alice Sara Ott and Friends
Alice Sara Ott with Ray Chen and Pablo Ferrández
The German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott, a prominent figure on the international classical music scene, beings her series of Lunchtime Concerts at LSO St Luke's in London by playing two major piano trios. She is joined by the charismatic violinist Ray Chen, and cellist Pablo Ferrández, a rising star from Madrid, to play Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio and the equally eerie Second Piano Trio by Shostakovich.
Fiona Talkington (presenter)
BEETHOVEN
Piano Trio in D major, Op 70 No 1 (Ghost)
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op 67
Ray Chen (violin)
Pablo Ferrández (cello)
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
Photo: © Jonas Becker
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001gts6)
Tuesday - Beethoven's Eighth Symphony from Tokyo
Fabio Luisi conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo in Beethoven's Symphony No 8 in F, and there's more music from the Japanese capital.
Presented by Fiona Talkington
Dynamic Italian maestro Fabio Luisi guest-conducts the Japanese national broadcast orchestra in Mozart and Beethoven; there's more from baroque violinist Mayumi Hirasaki and Spanish pianist Martín García García, and there's a morsel from the Kisekino Cello Ensemble.
2.00pm
Mozart
Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Chopin
Waltz in A flat, op. 34/1; Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, op. 64/2
Martín García García, piano
Handel
Violin Sonata in A, HWV 361
Mayumi Hirasaki, baroque violin
Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord
Davidov arr. Werner Thomas-Mifune
Hymn
Kisekino Cello Ensemble
Bach
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, BWV 1015
Mayumi Hirasaki, baroque violin
Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord
3.00pm
Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F, op. 93
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Alexander Melnikov, piano
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Telemann
Fantasia no.12 in A minor
Mayumi Hirasaki, baroque violin
Nielsen
Symphony No. 6, FS 116 ("Sinfonia semplice")
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m001gts8)
Joel Frederiksen, Emma-Lisa Roux and Danny Driver
Katie Derham is joined in the studio by pianist Danny Driver for live music ahead of his Strand International Piano Series concert at St Mary le Strand, London. Plus, singers and lutenists Joel Frederiksen and Emma-Lisa Roux introduce their new disc 'A Day with Suzanne - a Tribute to Leonard Cohen'.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001gtqb)
Classical music for focus or relaxation
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001gzg7)
Lucienne Renaudin Vary and Sinfonia Cymru
Lucienne Renaudin Vary and Sinfonia Cymru in South Wales perform works by Ravel, Weill and Gershwin, presented by Linton Stephens. The concert begins with Sinfonia Cymru performing Wagner’s birthday present to his wife Cosima, Siegfried Idyll. Lucienne Renaudin Vary then joins the orchestra for one of Hummel’s most popular works today, his lively Trumpet Concerto. During the interval we hear a Sonata by the harpsichordist, singer and composer Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, whose musical abilities were once described as supernatural.
Jacquet de La Guerre was a contemporary of François Couperin, and after the interval, Sinfonia Cymru return to perform Ravel’s nod to this French Baroque composer, in Le tombeau de Couperin. Ravel orchestrated four parts of a six movement work for piano he’d composed, each movement dedicated to his friends who had died during the First World War. Lucienne Renaudin Vary then joins the orchestra again, with a selection of music with links to New York and Paris, including music by Ravel, Milhaud, Lowry, Weill and Bechet. The concert finishes with an encore, Gershwin’s lilting I Love you Porgy, from his opera Porgy and Bess.
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Sinfonia Cymru
Hummel: Trumpet Concerto
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru
c.
8.13pm - Interval music
Jacquet de La Guerre: Sonata No 1 in D minor, for violin and continuo
Camerata moderna
c.
8.29pm
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Sinfonia Cymru
Ravel: Pavanne pour une infante défunte, Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru
Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit, Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru
Lowry: Shall We Gather at the River? , Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru
Weill: Je ne t’aime pas, Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru
Bechet: Si tu vois ma mère, Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru
Gershwin: I Loves you Porgy (Porgy and Bess), Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru
Produced by Luke Whitlock
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m001gtsb)
Anna Kavan
Asylum and psychiatric institutions, obsession and heroin, and imagining a new self are explored in the writing of Anna Kavan (1901 – 1968). With the republication of her novel Ice and a series of artists and musicians exploring her work, her reputation is now on the rise. Matthew Sweet is joined by critic and author Chris Power, Carole Sweeney, who researches experimental fiction, Sally Marlow, who studies the psychology of addiction and is Radio 3’s researcher in residence, and the literary scholar Victoria Walker, who founded the Anna Kavan Society.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
You might also be interested in an episode of Words and Music curated by Sally Marlow exploring ideas about addiction and intoxication being broadcast in January.
Free Thinking has a playlist called Prose, Poetry and Drama where you can find plenty of conversations about other authors including John Cowper Powys, Sylvia Plath, Claude McKay, ETA Hoffmann https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m001gtsd)
Art and Uncertainty
Where am I?
Margaret Heffernan explores how art can help us deal with uncertainty in our lives. How do artists begin a new project? The point is to be open to the world, and to have 'an eye that is always watching'.
Modern life feels increasingly uncertain, to the point of making us uncomfortable. Most people hate uncertainty. We feel calmer knowing something bad is definitely coming (say, an electric shock) than when there's a possibility we might escape it. New technology sometimes seems to have the goal of eliminating uncertainty, but is this really desirable? Margaret argues that an element of uncertainty is a necessary part of the creative process, a catalyst which can help us find ways of meeting the challenges of the future.
Artists deal with uncertainty all the time: starting work nobody asked for, rarely sure where the work will go, when it’s finished or whether it will connect with a public. This can be deeply frightening: Tracey Emin sketches before having enough courage to paint; Sebastian Barry fears the next word won’t come. To the frequent dismay of fans, artists change direction before they have to. They have agency, independence, but they take a risk each time they begin.
Margaret Heffernan is a writer and entrepreneur, author of the award-winning 'Uncharted: How to Map the Future'. Here, she takes inspiration from artists who embrace uncertainty.
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m001gtsg)
A little night music
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 11 JANUARY 2023
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m001gtsj)
Songs of Love and Loss
Les Voix Humaines and tenor Jeffrey Thompson perform songs by Barbara Strozzi and sinfonias by Leonora Duarte at the Montreal Baroque festival. Presented by Danielle Jalowiecka.
12:31 AM
Leonora Duarte (1610-1678)
Sinfonia de Decimitoni
Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
12:33 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
L’Amante segretto
Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
12:41 AM
Leonora Duarte (1610-1678)
Sinfonia de Duodesimitoni
Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
12:44 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Presso un ruscelloargento
Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
12:52 AM
Leonora Duarte (1610-1678)
Sinfonia de Primitoni
Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
12:55 AM
Leonora Duarte (1610-1678)
Sinfonia Seconda Parte
Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
12:57 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Begle’ochi
Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
01:01 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
L’Amante consolato
Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
01:05 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Costume de grandi
Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
01:09 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
La riamata da chi amava
Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
01:16 AM
Leonora Duarte (1610-1678)
Sinfonia No 5 de Seconda toni
Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
01:18 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
La sol fa, mi, re, do
Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
01:23 AM
Leonora Duarte (1610-1678)
Sinfonia No 6 de Otavi toni
Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
01:24 AM
Leonora Duarte (1610-1678)
Sinfonia No 7 de Terti toni
Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
01:27 AM
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
L'Eraclito amoroso
Jeffrey Thompson (tenor), Les Voix Humaines, Eric Milnes (director)
01:36 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Eine Alpensinfonie Op 64
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit (conductor)
02:31 AM
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Wind Quintet Op 43
Galliard Ensemble
02:57 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Serenade for String Orchestra in C (Op.48)
Virtuosi di Kuhmo, Peter Csaba (conductor)
03:30 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Partita for solo violin No.1 in B minor, (BWV.1002)
Rachel Podger (violin)
03:46 AM
Elfrida Andree (1841-1929)
Concert Overture in D major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chloe van Soeterstede (conductor)
03:58 AM
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1911)
De Profundis (cantata)
Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Petras Bingelis (conductor)
04:07 AM
Johann Wilhelm Wilms (1772-1847)
Rondo - Polonaise pour le pianoforte in D major (1809)
Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fortepiano)
04:13 AM
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Chanson sans paroles for cello and orchestra (Op.22 No.1)
Arto Noras (cello), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Panula (conductor)
04:18 AM
Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962)
Taaveti laul (David's psalm), "Onnis on inimene"
Tallinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Evi Eespere (director)
04:21 AM
George Walker (1922 - 2018)
Lyric for Strings
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)
04:31 AM
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Peterloo Overture, Op 97
BBC Philharmonic, Ben Gernon (conductor)
04:41 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Concert aria: Männer suchen stets zu naschen (K.433) for voice & piano
Bryn Terfel (bass baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
04:44 AM
Niels Gade (1817-1890)
Ved solnedgang (At sunset) for choir and orchestra Op 46
Danish National Radio Choir, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
04:52 AM
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Ritual for orchestra
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michal Klauza (conductor)
05:02 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp (L. 137)
Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Jon Sonstebo (viola), Sidsel Walstad (harp)
05:20 AM
Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755)
Sonata for Orchestra in C minor, J.III.2b
Kore Orchestra, Andrea Buccarella (harpsichord)
05:25 AM
Judith Weir (1954-)
String quartet
Silesian Quartet
05:37 AM
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812)
Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 35 no 3
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
06:02 AM
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Violin Concerto (1916)
Philippe Djokic (violin), Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m001gtq0)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m001gtq2)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000s9hc)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Lessons in Love
Donald Macleod explores Mozart's treatment of love in its many guises in Die Zauberflöte, Idomeneo, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro and Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
Born in 1756, the theatre was a life-long passion for Mozart. Starting at the tender age of just 11, in the space of 22 years he produced an astonishing 24 theatrical works. His destiny was to follow in his father’s footsteps, as a court musician. Instead, by 1781, after a disagreement over his frequent absences from court, Mozart parted ways with his employer, the Elector of Cologne. He left Salzburg and servitude behind, to set himself up in Vienna, a thriving centre for music. The following year he triumphed with his comic singspiel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The succession of works that followed include many of the mainstays of operatic repertory, among them The Magic Flute, which was completed in the year of his death, at the age of 35 in 1791.
This week Donald Macleod finds connecting points between the characters Mozart created for the stage and the composer's own experiences in life. He examines how Mozart struggled to be a dutiful son, and how he tackles honour and duty in Idomeneo, Lucio Silla and Mitridate. The ideas of enlightenment that influenced Mozart's own views find expression in the balance of power he depicts between servants and the ruling classes in The Marriage of Figaro. The composer’s thorny path to marriage with Constanze also finds him examining the complexities of love in Die Enführung aus dem Serail and Così fan tutte. The series ends with Mozart's masterly representation of temptation and evil, as characterised by the ultimate bad boy Don Giovanni and the scheming and manipulative Queen of the Night.
In today's programme, bird-catcher Papageno and the kidnapped princess Pamina reflect on marital love. For Princess Electra, love has turned to jealousy. The depth of Fiordiligi and Dorabella's love for their absent fiancés is put to the test, and Countess Almaviva despairs of receiving her husband's affection. Forgiveness is the order of the day for Konstanze and Blonde.
Die Zauberflöte (Act 1)
Bei mannern, weiche Liebe fühlen
Dorothea Röschmann, soprano, Pamina
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Papageno
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Idomeneo (Act 1)
Estinto e Idomeneo ….tutte nel cor vi sento ..Pieta! Numi pieta!
Hillevi Martinpelto, soprano Elettra
The English Baroque Soloists
The Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Così fan tutte (Finale to Act 1)
Ah che tutta in un momento … Dammi un bacio
Monserrat Caballé, soprano, Fiordiligi
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano, Dorabella
Nicolai Gedda, tenor, Ferrando
Wladimiro Ganzarolli, baritone, Guglielmo
Ileana Cotrubas, soprano, Despina
Richard van Allan, bass, Don Alfonso
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Colin Davis, conductor
Le nozze di Figaro (Act 2)
Porgi Amor
Kiri te Kanawa, soprano, Countess
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Act 2)
Wenn der Freude Tränen fliessen … Ach Belmonte! ach mein Leben!
Ian Bostridge, tenor, Belmonte
Christine Schäfer, soprano, Konstanze
Ian Paton, tenor, Pedrillo
Patricia Petibon, soprano, Blonde
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, director
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00066qs)
LSO St Luke's - Alice Sara Ott and Friends
Alice Sara Ott and Ray Chen play Grieg and Stravinsky
The virtuosic German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott continues her series of Lunchtime Concerts at LSO St Luke's in London with her close musical friends, today turning to works for violin and piano. She is joined by the charismatic violinist Ray Chen to perform the lyrical Second Violin Sonata by Grieg and Duschkin's arrangement of music from Stravinsky's ballet, The Fairy's Kiss. Plus some fireworks for solo violin by Ysaye.
Fiona Talkington (presenter)
GRIEG
Sonata No.2 in G major Op.13 for violin and piano
YSAYE
Sonata No.3 ‘Ballade’ (solo violin)
STRAVINSKY
Divertimento (from The Fairy's Kiss, arr. Stravinsky and Dushkin)
Ray Chen (violin)
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
Photo: © Jonas Becker
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001gtq4)
Wednesday - Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony from Seoul
Pietari Inkinen conducts the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4 in F minor. They are joined by Vadim Repin for Bruch's First Violin Concerto.
Presented by Penny Gore
Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen leads South Korea's national broadcast orchestra in much-loved works by Tchaikovsky and Bruch, and there are appearances from Spanish guitar, French baroque and a Japanese take on Debussy
2.00pm
Albeniz
Asturias, op. 47/5, from Suite española No. 1
Anabel Montesinos, guitar
Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26
Duration of work:
23:59 min.
Vadim Repin, violin
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen, conductor
Marais
Tempest Scene, from 'Alcyone'
Rameau
Overture to 'Naïs'; Tambourin, from 'Dardanus'
Holland Baroque
Philipp Ahmann, conductor
Debussy / Kotaro Kobayashi
Clair de lune
Kisekino Cello Ensemble
3.00pm
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Seoul
Pietari Inkinen, conductor
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m001gtq6)
St Matthew's Church, Westminster, London
From St Matthew’s Church, Westminster, London.
Introit: Brightest and best (S.S.Wesley)
Responses: Caesar
Office hymn: Hail, thou Source of every blessing (Redhead)
Psalms 59, 60, 61 (Barnby, South, Morgan, Gray)
First Lesson: Exodus 15 vv.1-19
Canticles: Jackson in G
Second Lesson: Colossians 2 vv.8-15
Anthem: Here is the little door (Howells)
Hymn: Brightest and best (Wessex)
Voluntary: Fugue in C major, BWV 547 (Bach)
Nigel Groome (Director of Music)
Samuel Bristow (Organist)
Recorded 7 January.
WED 17:00 In Tune (m001gtq8)
Cate Blanchett, Todd Field, Elena Fischer-Dieskau, Michael Collins
Katie Derham chats to Tár actor Cate Blanchett and director Todd Field. Pianist Elena Fischer-Dieskau performs live in the studio. Plus clarinettist Michael Collins also performs live in the studio ahead of his concerts with the Philharmonia.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000djht)
Thirty minutes of classical inspiration
There's a salty tang to In Tune’s specially curated playlist as we take to the high seas with an eclectic mix of music. The Foggy Morning from Uuno Klami's Sea Pictures gives way to Medtner's Meeresstille, Debussy's little boat is rocked by Judith Weir's Storm and Britten's Peter Grimes. After the tranquility of Vaughan Williams's Full Fathom Five, Korngold's Captian Blood soundtrack sends us one our way in swash-buckling style. Splice the main-brace!
Producer Barnaby Gordon
01
00:00:08 Uuno Klami
Sea pictures for orchestra; 1.The Foggy Morning
Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Leif Segerstam
Duration 00:03:17
02
00:03:26 Nikolai Karlovich Medtner
Meeresstille, Op 15 No 7 (12 Lieder von Goethe)
Performer: Geoffrey Tozer
Singer: Susan Gritton
Duration 00:03:44
03
00:07:02 Claude Debussy
En bateau (Petite suite)
Orchestrator: Henri Büsser
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor: Louis Lane
Duration 00:03:43
04
00:10:48 Judith Weir
Storm; Shipwreck (Storm)
Choir: BBC Singers
Choir: Choristers of Temple Church
Ensemble: Endymion Ensemble
Conductor: David Hill
Duration 00:05:26
05
00:16:14 Claude Debussy
Voiles (Preludes, Book 1)
Performer: Maurizio Pollini
Duration 00:03:19
06
00:19:30 Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes (Sea Interlude No 3)
Conductor: Steuart Bedford
Singer: Giselle Allen
Orchestra: Britten Pears Orchestra
Duration 00:03:54
07
00:23:23 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Full Fathom Five (3 Shakespeare Songs)
Choir: The Cambridge Singers
Conductor: John Rutter
Duration 00:03:17
08
00:26:39 Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Captain Blood (Main Title)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: André Previn
Duration 00:03:06
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001gtqd)
Schubert from Wigmore Hall
Paul Lewis plays three of Schubert’s piano sonatas spanning three periods in composer’s very short career – we meet him as an ambitious teenager aiming to emulate his great heroes Mozart and Beethoven; we meet him again just as he was struck down for the first time by the disease that was to kill him; and we meet him finally during an extremely happy period of remission from that disease, in the summer of 1825 when he felt well enough to head off on what turned out to be a holiday of a lifetime.
Presented by Ian Skelly
Schubert: Piano Sonata in E flat D568
Piano Sonata in A minor D784
Piano Sonata in D D850
Recorded at the Wigmore Hall on 30th November.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m001gtqg)
Phillis Wheatley
Seized from Senegal/Gambia aged 7, Phillis Wheatley, as she was named by the American family who raised her, went on to become one of the best known poets in nineteenth century America. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) displayed her facility writing couplets and elegies and the knowledge of Greek and Latin classics she developed after being given by John Wheatley as a gift to his wife and then taught to read and write. New Generation Thinker Christienna Fryar hosts a conversation with the playwright Adeola Solanke, American academics Montaz Marché and Brigitte Fielder and New Generation Thinker Xine Yao about the impact of Wheatley’s trip to London in 1773 and the people she met both on that trip and back in the city of Boston.
Dr Xine Yao is a Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at UCL and a BBC Radio 3 / AHRC New Generation Thinker.
Montaz Marché is a historian and PhD student at the University of Birmingham, researching the lives of black women in 18th century London.
Brigitte Fielder is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is co-editor of a recent special edition of the Early American Literature journal dedicated to Phillis Wheatley.
Adeola Solanke is a British-Nigerian London based playwright who is currently a Fulbright scholar at Emerson College in Boston. She wrote a play, Phillis in London, depicting Wheatley’s time in London.
Dr Christienna Fryar a historian of modern Britain, the British Empire, and the modern Caribbean at Goldsmiths and a BBC Radio 3 / AHRC New Generation Thinker
Producer in Salford: Jonathan Hallewell
On the Free Thinking programme website you can find a collection of discussions exploring Black History which include conversations about classical music, The Black Fantastic, Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance, Sugar, African Europeans, Black British History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t2qbp
WED 22:45 The Essay (m001gtqj)
Art and Uncertainty
In the Bottom of the Well
Margaret Heffernan explores how art can help us deal with uncertainty in our lives. How do artists tolerate the fear that uncertainty creates?
Modern life feels increasingly uncertain, to the point of making us uncomfortable. Most people hate uncertainty. We feel calmer knowing something bad is definitely coming (say, an electric shock) than when there's a possibility we might escape it. New technology sometimes seems to have the goal of eliminating uncertainty, but is this really desirable? Margaret argues that an element of uncertainty is a necessary part of the creative process, a catalyst which can help us find ways of meeting the challenges of the future.
Artists deal with uncertainty all the time: starting work nobody asked for, rarely sure where the work will go, when it’s finished or whether it will connect with a public. This can be deeply frightening: Tracey Emin sketches before having enough courage to paint; Sebastian Barry fears the next word won’t come. To the frequent dismay of fans, artists change direction before they have to. They have agency, independence, but they take a risk each time they begin.
Margaret Heffernan is a writer and entrepreneur, author of the award-winning 'Uncharted: How to Map the Future'. Here, she takes inspiration from artists who embrace uncertainty.
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m001gtqm)
Music after dark
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 12 JANUARY 2023
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m001gtqq)
James Ehnes plays Prokofiev
Canadian violinist James Ehnes joins the Zurich Philharmonia and conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Presented by Danielle Jalowiecka.
12:31 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, op. 19
James Ehnes (violin), Zurich Philharmonia, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
12:53 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Largo, from 'Violin Sonata No. 3 in C, BWV 1005'
James Ehnes (violin)
12:57 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70
Zurich Philharmonia, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
01:36 AM
Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
Missa Festiva - for mixed choir and organ (Op.62)
Flemish Radio Choir, Vic Nees (director), Peter Pieters (organ)
02:03 AM
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801-1878)
String Quartet no 6 in E flat major
Orebro String Quartet
02:31 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
L'Anima del Filosofo, ossia 'Orfeo ed Euridice' Act IV
Grit van Juten (soprano), Elena Vink (soprano), Robert Gambill (tenor), Henk Smit (bass), Netherlands Radio Chamber Choir, Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Dieter Rossberg (conductor), Robin Gritton (choirmaster)
02:51 AM
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Variations on a Polish Folk theme in B minor (Op.10)
Jerzy Godziszewski (piano)
03:11 AM
Hyacinthe Jadin (1776-1800)
Trio no 4 in E flat, Op 2 no 1 (1797)
Trio AnPaPie
03:32 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Overture in D major D590 'in the Italian style'
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
03:40 AM
Claudin De Sermisy (c.1490-1562)
5 Chansons (Paris 1528-1538)
Ensemble Clement Janequin
03:50 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Phantasiestucke Op 73 for clarinet & piano
Algirdas Budrys (clarinet), Sergejus Okrusko (piano)
04:01 AM
Ludomir Rozycki (1883-1953)
Stanczyk - Symphonic Scherzo Op 1
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janusz Przbylski (conductor)
04:11 AM
Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c.1545-1607)
O primavera for solo soprano and bc & O dolcezze d'Amore
Tragicomedia
04:19 AM
Eugene Bozza (1905-1991)
Jour d'été à la montagne
Giedrius Gelgotas (flute), Albertas Stupakas (flute), Valentinas Kazlauskas (flute), Linas Gailiunas (flute)
04:31 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor (BuxWV.149)
Velin Iliev (organ)
04:40 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98 for orchestra
Hungarian State Orchestra, Janos Ferencsik (conductor)
04:52 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Zoltan Kocsis (arranger)
Concert Prelude to Tristan und Isolde arranged Kocsis for piano
Francois-Frederic Guy (piano)
05:03 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695),John Playford (1623-1686)
Four Works
Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
05:14 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen suite Op.22)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Sondergard (conductor)
05:25 AM
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Crisantemi
Ernest Quartet
05:31 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings in A major (Wq.168)
Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
05:50 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for piano (K.332) in F major
Martin Helmchen (piano)
06:10 AM
Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729)
Clori e Tirsi: cantata ("Se mai, Tirsi, mio bene")
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Nigel Short (countertenor), Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m001gtsl)
Thursday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m001gtsn)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000s9cc)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Doing the Right Thing
Donald Macleod explores the themes of honour and duty in Mozart's operas Don Giovanni, Lucio Silla, Mitridate and La clemenza di Tito.
Born in 1756, the theatre was a life-long passion for Mozart. Starting at the tender age of just 11, in the space of 22 years he produced an astonishing 24 theatrical works. His destiny was to follow in his father’s footsteps, as a court musician. Instead, by 1781, after a disagreement over his frequent absences from court, Mozart parted ways with his employer, the Elector of Cologne. He left Salzburg and servitude behind, to set himself up in Vienna, a thriving centre for music. The following year he triumphed with his comic singspiel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The succession of works that followed include many of the mainstays of operatic repertory, among them The Magic Flute, which was completed in the year of his death, at the age of 35 in 1791.
This week Donald Macleod finds connecting points between the characters Mozart created for the stage and the composer's own experiences in life. He examines how Mozart struggled to be a dutiful son, and how he tackles honour and duty in Idomeneo, Lucio Silla and Mitridate. The ideas of enlightenment that influenced Mozart's own views find expression in the balance of power he depicts between servants and the ruling classes in The Marriage of Figaro. The composer’s thorny path to marriage with Constanze also finds him examining the complexities of love in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Così fan tutte. The series ends with Mozart's masterly representation of temptation and evil, as characterised by the ultimate bad boy Don Giovanni and the scheming and manipulative Queen of the Night.
Today, Donna Anna identifies the man who sullied her honour. In ancient Rome, honour is put to the test by the unscrupulous behaviour of the Consul Lucio Silla. Aspasia and Sifare decide to suppress their feelings for each other for the sake of their honour. In the face of temptation Sextus finds himself straying from his principles, while his friend Titus is torn between friendship and duty.
Don Giovanni (Act 1)
O sai che l’onore
Diana Damrau, soprano, Donna Anna
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Seguin, conductor
Lucio Silla – Overture
Danish Radio Sinfonietta
Adam Fischer, conductor
Lucio Silla (Act 1)
Dall sponda tenebrosa
E tollerare io posso
Il desio di vendetta
Simone Nold, soprano, Giunia
Lothar Odinius, tenor, Silla
Danish Radio Sinfonietta
Adam Fischer, conductor
Mitridate, Rè di Ponto (Act 2)
Lungi da te, mio bene
Miah Persson, soprano, Sifare
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Sebastian Weigle, conductor
horn Bengt Oleräs
La clemenza di Tito (Act 1)
Come ti piaci imponi
Bernarda Fink, mezzo, Sesto
Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano Vitellia
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
René Jacobs, conductor
La clemenza di Tito (Act 2)
Deh per questo istante solo
Ove s’intese mai più contumace
Se all’impero, amici Dei
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano, Sesto
Mark Padmore, tenor, Tito
Sergio Foresti, bass, Publio
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
René Jacobs, conductor
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00066pb)
LSO St Luke's - Alice Sara Ott and Friends
Alice Sara Ott performs Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
Today's programme from LSO St Luke's continues the series Alice Sara Ott and Friends. The virtuoso German-Japanese pianist assembles friends, all rising stars on the classical music scene, to perform Messiaen's ethereal and haunting Quartet for the End of Time, a landmark of 20th-century chamber music. Alice Sara Ott is joined by Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen, Icelandic clarinettist Dimitri Ashkenazy, and Russian cellist Alexey Stadler.
Fiona Talkington (presenter)
MESSIAEN
Quartet for the End of Time
Alice Sara Ott (piano)
Mari Samuelsen (violin)
Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet)
Alexey Stadler (cello)
Photo: © Jonas Becker
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001gtsq)
Thursday - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony from Copenhagen
Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5 in E minor, plus highlights from the combined forces of Holland Baroque and the Netherlands Bach Society.
Presented by Penny Gore
2.00pm
Traditional (Surinamese-Dutch)
Adonai
Traditional (Netherlands)
Sinte Mertensaus
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Holland Baroque
Netherlands Bach Society
Philipp Ahmann, conductor
Ariel Ramírez
Ballade to Martin Fierro
Sérgio Assad
Valseana
Cacho Tirao
Milonga de Don Taco
Anabel Montesinos, guitar
Handel
Utrecht Jubilate, HWV 279
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Alex Potter, countertenor
Christopher Ainslie, tenor
Nicholas Mogg, bass
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Holland Baroque
Netherlands Bach Society
Philipp Ahmann, conductor
Haydn
Trio in F sharp minor, Hob XV No 26
ATOS Trio
3.00pm
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467
Marie-Ange Nguci, piano
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Handel
Utrecht Te Deum in D, HWV 278
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Alex Potter, countertenor
Christopher Ainslie, tenor
Nicholas Mogg, bass
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Holland Baroque
Netherlands Bach Society
Philipp Ahmann, conductor
THU 17:00 In Tune (m001gtss)
Fabio Biondi and Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio for live music from violinist Fabio Biondi and pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001gtsv)
Expand your horizons with classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites mixed with jazz, folk and music from around the world.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001gtsx)
Xenakis, Debussy, Ligeti, Bartók
A concert from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded last month in Glasgow City Halls. Ilan Volkov conducts the orchestra in music by Xenakis, Debussy, Ligeti and Bartók.
Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow, in December 2022
Presented by Kate Molleson
Xenakis: Atrées
Debussy: Jeux
8.05 Interval, Kate introduces a recording of Sujeichon for four pianos, by Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist José Maceda.
8.25 Part Two
Ligeti: Ramifications
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m001gtsz)
Language Loss and Revival
A language is a window onto a culture, history and way of life. So what do we lose when a community stops speaking the language of its ancestors? John Gallagher is joined by Gwenno, who writes and sings in Cornish, and researchers working to reclaim endangered languages around the world.
With Mandana Seyfeddinipur of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, and Mel Engman and Mary Hermes who work in communities that speak Ojibwe, an indigenous language of Minnesota and elsewhere in North America.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
Other episodes in our series exploring language include:
What Language did Columbus Speak? Lingua franca in 15th-century travel and today’s refugee camps.
Dead Languages: John Gallagher says hello in Oscan, the daily language of ancient Pompeii and looks at the translation of hieroglyphics.
The Black Country: Matthew Sweet hears about the way the region has been depicted in writing which seeks to celebrate the local accent.
Language, the Victorians, and Us: Greg Tate, Louise Creechan, Lynda Mugglestone and Simon Rennie.
And Arts and Ideas New Thinking podcast episodes on research into
Accents: From variations in Mancunian to descriptions of the Geordie voice.
City Talk: Mapping the accents of Greater Manchester with a camper van and a laptop.
THU 22:45 The Essay (m001gtt1)
Art and Uncertainty
Are we done?
Margaret Heffernan explores how art can help us deal with uncertainty in our lives.
How does an artist know when a piece is finished? Or more precisely, when they should stop work and launch it into the world?
Margaret Heffernan is a writer and entrepreneur, author of the award-winning 'Uncharted: How to Map the Future'. Here, she takes inspiration from artists who embrace uncertainty.
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m001gtt3)
Music for night owls
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m001gtt5)
Sarah Neufeld’s Listening Chair
Ahead of the contemporary instrumental band Bell Orchestre’s Unclassified Live concert on the 25th of January at the Southbank Centre, we are joined by their founder, Canadian violinist and composer Sarah Neufeld, who sits in the Listening Chair to select a piece of music that takes her places. There’s also the chance to hear Sarah’s new solo work, a mesmerising musical landscape where her two worlds meet, a symbiotic harmony of rich violin textures and dreamy vocals. Elsewhere in the show, we hear music from Oram Award-winning emerging artists Lia Mazzari and Sarah Badr (FKRTL), as well as gorgeous new ambient sounds to keep spirits alive in the cold wintery evenings.
Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 13 JANUARY 2023
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m001gtt7)
Symphonies and Surprises
From Minneapolis, the Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vänskä in a programme of Gabrieli, Françaix, Mozart and Joseph Boulogne de Saint-Georges. Catriona Young presents
12:31 AM
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612), Eric Crees (arranger)
Canzon XIV for ten Instruments in two choirs
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
12:33 AM
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Sonata No. XIII, for double brass quartet
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
12:37 AM
Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
Quartet for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
12:48 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Concerto in B flat for bassoon and orchestra, K. 186
Fei Xie (bassoon), Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
01:07 AM
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1739-1799)
Symphony No. 1 in G Major, Op. 11, No. 1
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
01:20 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sarabande from Suite for cello solo (BWV.1007) in G major
Andreas Brantelid (cello)
01:23 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Toccata for organ in F major (BuxWV.156)
Ludger Lohmann (organ)
01:31 AM
Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991)
Croatian Mass in D minor, Op 86
Nada Ruzdjak (soprano), Marija Klasic (alto), Zrinko Soco (tenor), Vladimir Ruzdjak (baritone), Ivan Goran Kovacic Academic Choir of Zagreb, Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor)
02:31 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Symphonia Domestica (Op. 53)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski (conductor)
03:14 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Piano Trio no 2 in C minor, Op 66
Hiroko Sakagami (piano), Matthias Enderle (violin), Patrick Demenga (cello)
03:43 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Os justi ('The mouth of the righteous')
Mnemosyne Choir, Caroline Westgeest (director)
03:48 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptu no 4 in A flat major - from 4 Impromptus (D.899) for piano
Sook-Hyun Cho (piano)
03:54 AM
Mihail Andricu (1894-1974)
Sinfonietta no 13, Op 123
Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Emanuel Elenescu (conductor)
04:02 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
7 Variations on a Theme of The Magic Flute by Mozart
Miklos Perenyi (cello), Dezso Ranki (piano)
04:11 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927), Jens Peter Jacobsen (lyricist)
Three choral songs
Swedish Radio Choir, Gustav Sjokvist (conductor)
04:17 AM
John Dowland (1563-1626)
King of Denmark's Galliard
Nigel North (lute)
04:20 AM
Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909)
The Highlander's Fantasy, Op 17
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
04:31 AM
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), John P.Paynter (arranger)
Little Suite for Brass Band No.1, Op 80
Edmonton Wind Ensemble, Harry Pinchin (conductor)
04:39 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, op. 28
Piotr Alexewicz (piano)
04:47 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata no. 114 BWV.114: 'Wo wird in diesem Jammertale'
Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Alexis Kossenko (flute), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
04:57 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
Tauno Pylkkanen (1918-1980)
Suite for oboe and strings, Op 32
Aale Lindgren (oboe), Finnish Radio Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor)
05:14 AM
Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575-1647)
2 works for Arpa Doppia
Margret Koll (arpa doppia)
05:24 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Quartet for strings in G minor , Op 10
RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet
05:50 AM
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
Sicilienne and Burlesque
Kathleen Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano)
05:59 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16
Jan Lisiecki (piano), Argovia Philharmonic, Rune Bergmann (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m001gtxd)
Friday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m001gtxg)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000sbbp)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Stirring the Pot
Donald Macleod looks at the characterisation of the trouble-makers, an essential element of any good drama, in Mozart's operas Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, le nozze di Figaro, Idomeneo and Don Giovanni.
Born in 1756, the theatre was a life-long passion for Mozart. Starting at the tender age of just 11, in the space of 22 years he produced an astonishing 24 theatrical works. His destiny was to follow in his father’s footsteps, as a court musician. Instead, by 1781, after a disagreement over his frequent absences from court, Mozart parted ways with his employer, the Elector of Cologne. He left Salzburg and servitude behind, to set himself up in Vienna, a thriving centre for music. The following year he triumphed with his comic singspiel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail. The succession of works that followed include many of the mainstays of operatic repertory, among them The Magic Flute, which was completed in the year of his death, at the age of 35 in 1791.
This week Donald Macleod finds connecting points between the characters Mozart created for the stage and the composer's own experiences in life. He examines how Mozart struggled to be a dutiful son, and how he tackles honour and duty in Idomeneo, Lucio Silla and Mitridate. The ideas of enlightenment that influenced Mozart's own views find expression in the balance of power he depicts between servants and the ruling classes in The Marriage of Figaro. The composer’s thorny path to marriage with Constanze also finds him examining the complexities of love in Die Enführung aus dem Serail and Così fan tutte. The series ends with Mozart's masterly representation of temptation and evil, as characterised by the ultimate bad boy Don Giovanni and the scheming and manipulative Queen of the Night.
In this final episode, The Queen of the Night has a fit of vengeful rage, Osmin is the shady overseer of the Pasha's harem, Marcellina and Bartolo team up to cause trouble for the engaged servants Susanna and Figaro. Monostatos gets his come-uppance, Electra's venomous rage is given free rein, and hell awaits Mozart's most famous baddie, Don Giovanni.
Die Zauberflöte (Act 2)
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen
Erika Miklósa, soprano, Queen of the night
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Act 1)
Solche hergelauf’ne Laffen
Alan Ewing, bass, Osmin
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, director
Le nozze di Figaro (Act 1)
La Vendetta… via, resti servita
Kurt Moll, bass, Bartolo
Jane Barbié, mezzo soprano, Marcellina
Lucia Popp, soprano, Susanna
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
Idomeneo (Act 3)
Ha vinto amore …. d’Oreste, d’Aiace
Luca Tittoto, bass La voce
Richard Croft, tenor, Idomeneo
Bernarda Fink, mezzo soprano, Idamante
Sunhae Im, soprano, Ilia
Kenneth Tarver, tenor, Arbace
Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano, Elettra
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Rene Jacobs, conductor
Die Zauberflöte (Act 1, finale)
Wie stark ist nicht dein zauberton ...Es lebe Sarastro! Sarastro soll leben
Christoph Strehl, tenor, Tamino
Dorothea Röschmann, soprano, Pamina
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass baritone, Papageno
Kurt Azesberger, tenor, Monostatos
René Pape, bass, Sarastro
Matthias Bernhold, Martin Olbertz, Tobias Beyer, actors, slaves
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor
Don Giovanni (Act 2 Finale II)
Già mensa è preparata ... Ah dov’è il perfido?
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, baritone, Don Giovanni
Luca Pisaroni, bass- baritone, Leporello
Joyce di Donato, mezzo soprano, Donna Elvira
Diana Damrau, soprano, Donna Anna
Mojca Erdmann, soprano, Zerlina
Rolando Villazón, tenor, Don Ottavio
Konstantin Wolff, bass-baritone, Masetto
Vokalensemble Rastatt
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Seguin, conductor
Producer Johannah Smith for BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00066rm)
LSO St Luke's - Alice Sara Ott and Friends
Alice Sara Ott goes head to head with Francesco Tristano
In the final programme of the LSO St Luke's Lunchtime Concert series, Alice Sara Ott and Friends, Alice goes head to head with the Italian pianist-composer Francesco Tristano in music for two pianos.
Fiona Talkington (presenter)
RAVEL
La Valse
TRISTANO
Yoyogi reset (2018)
SATIE
Gnossienne No. 1
TRISTANO
Pastoral (2016)
SATIE
Gnossienne No. 3
TRISTANO
La Franciscana (2014)
RAVEL
Bolero
Photo: © Jonas Becker
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001gtxj)
Friday - Muti conducts conducts Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique' Symphony
Riccardo Muti, one of the most distinguished conductors of our age, took to the podium at last year's Salzburg Festival, directing two great works of drama. Tchaikovsky's last symphony is one of the composer's most emotional works and became subtitled "Pathetique"; while Muti's unrivalled flair for opera is on display in Boito's masterpiece Mephistopheles.
Presented by Penny Gore
Villa-Lobos
Prelude No. 5 in D
Paulo Bellinati
Um Amor de Valsa, waltz
Anabel Montesinos, guitar
Mendelssohn
Hear my prayer
Jennifer Adams-Barbaro, soprano
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Stephen Cleobury, conductor
Bach
Chaconne, from 'Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004'
Anabel Montesinos, guitar
Strauss I
Radetsky March
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Haydn
Trio in E major, Hob XV No 28
ATOS Trio
3.00pm
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 74 'Pathétique'
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Antonio Lauro
El Marabino (Song from Venezuela)
Anabel Montesinos, guitar
Boito
Mephistopheles: Heavenly Prologue
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir
Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (b07tz12y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m001gtxl)
Eric Lu and Kebyart
Sean Rafferty is joined in the studio for live music from pianist Eric Lu ahead of his concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Plus more live music from Spanish saxophone quartet Kebyart who are looking forward to their concert at Wigmore Hall, London.
FRI 19:00 Radio 3 in Concert (m001ch3r)
Britten's Gloriana from English National Opera
As a tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, English National Opera presents a concert staging of Britten's Gloriana, starring Christine Rice in the title role.
‘Dedicated by gracious permission to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’ and premiered in 1953 as part of the Coronation celebrations, Britten based Gloriana on Lytton Strachey's 'Elizabeth and Essex' which focuses on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, Robert Devereaux, towards the end of her reign. With its portrayal of an ageing, capricious and vain monarch, Gloriana perplexed the first night audience which included not only the Queen and the Royal Family but also a host of the world's monarchs, aristocrats and Society figures. There are impressive set-pieces of ceremonial and pageantry but at the heart of the opera is a moving portrait of the conflicted old Queen, torn between her private feelings and her sense of duty.
Recorded in December at the ENO Coliseum and presented by Martin Handley in conversation with Kate Kennedy.
Queen Elizabeth ..... Christine Rice (soprano)
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex ..... Robert Murray (tenor)
Frances, Countess of Essex ..... Paula Murrihy (mezzo-soprano)
Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy ..... Duncan Rock (baritone)
Penelope (Lady Rich) ..... Eleanor Dennis (soprano)
Sir Robert Cecil ..... Charles Rice (baritone)
Sir Walter Raleigh ..... David Soar (bass)
Henry Cuffe ..... Alex Otterburn (baritone)
A Lady-in-Waiting ..... Alexandra Oomens (soprano)
A Housewife ..... Claire Barnett Jones (mezzo-soprano)
The Spirit of the Masque ..... Innocent Masuku (tenor)
A Blind Ballad Singer / The Recorder of Norwich ..... Willard White (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m001gtxn)
Breath
This week on the Verb we're taking in the air, and letting it out again as we explore how breath shapes and moulds the poetic line and stanza, how it can breathe life into a story and how breathing itself can be a kind of narrative. Ian McMillan is joined by the poet Stephen Watts whose poems pulse and flow with the rhythm of breath, novelist Emma Carroll whose book The Tale of Truthwater Lake breathes life into the future and revives the past, James Nestor a journalist and free diver who teaches us how to survive with and without breathing and poet Daisy Lafarge whose collection Life Without Air was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m001gtxq)
Art and Uncertainty
Prepared Minds
Margaret Heffernan explores how art can help us deal with uncertainty in our lives. Without uncertainty, there is no freedom. How do artists learn how to use this freedom to act, to make something, to have original ideas?
Modern life feels increasingly uncertain, to the point of making us uncomfortable. Most people hate uncertainty. We feel calmer knowing something bad is definitely coming (say, an electric shock) than when there's a possibility we might escape it. New technology sometimes seems to have the goal of eliminating uncertainty, but is this really desirable? Margaret argues that an element of uncertainty is a necessary part of the creative process, a catalyst which can help us find ways of meeting the challenges of the future.
Margaret Heffernan is a writer and entrepreneur, author of the award-winning 'Uncharted: How to Map the Future'. Here, she takes inspiration from artists who embrace uncertainty.
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m001gtxs)
Immersive worlds and creative partnerships
Verity Sharp gets lost in a world of sound, exploring Hannibal Chew III’s sonic dreamscape pieced together from half-remembered memories of a trip to Borneo, and an immersive track by Kali Malone who draws on her experience in pipe organ tuning, harmonic theory and long durational composition. We also hear an improvisation-heavy collaboration between British electronic producer Rian Treanor and Acholi fiddle player Ocen James, created in residence at the Nyege Nyege villa studio in Kampala, and a previously unpublished live recording of the great American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry alongside his friend, composer Jean Schwarz.
Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (m001gtqy)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m001gts6)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m001gtq4)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m001gtsq)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m001gtxj)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m001gtp4)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m001gtr9)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m001gtqr)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m001gts2)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m001gtq0)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m001gtsl)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m001gtxd)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m001ghgg)
Choral Evensong
16:00 WED (m001gtq6)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m0019xl8)
Composed with Emeli Sandé
01:00 SAT (m0015v5k)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m000s8w6)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m000s9bz)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m000s9hc)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m000s9cc)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m000sbbp)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (m001gtrw)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m001gtqt)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m001gts4)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m001gtq2)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m001gtsn)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m001gtxg)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m001gtsb)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m001gtqg)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m001gtsz)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m001gtpr)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m001gtr4)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m001gtqb)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m000djht)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m001gtsv)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m001gtr2)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m001gts8)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m001gtq8)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m001gtss)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m001gtxl)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m001gtpd)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m00161yc)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m001gtrp)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m001gtxs)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m001gtp8)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m001gtp8)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m001gtpj)
New Generation Artists
16:30 MON (m001gtr0)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m001gtpp)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m001gtrl)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m001gtsg)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m001gtqm)
Northern Drift
21:15 MON (m001gtrb)
Opera on 3
18:30 SAT (m001gtpm)
Piano Flow
02:00 SAT (m00139yt)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m001gtrk)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m001ghgr)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m001gtqw)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m00066py)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m00066qs)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m00066pb)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m00066rm)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m001gtr6)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m001gzg7)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m001gtqd)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m001gtsx)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:00 FRI (m001ch3r)
Record Review Extra
21:00 SUN (m001gtry)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m001gtp6)
Sound of Gaming
15:00 SAT (m001gtpg)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m001gtrt)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m001gtrf)
The Art of Music with Anna Clyne
23:00 SUN (m001h6dh)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m000qb42)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m001gtrg)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m001gtsd)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m001gtqj)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m001gtt1)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (m001gtxq)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (b07tz12y)
The Listening Service
16:30 FRI (b07tz12y)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m001gtt3)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m001gtxn)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m001gtpb)
Through the Night
03:00 SAT (m001ghk3)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m001gtpt)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m001gts0)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m001gtrq)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m001gtsj)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m001gtqq)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m001gtt7)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m001gtt5)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m0019sc6)