Mozart's Don Giovanni from the Royal Opera House, with Mariusz Kwicien in the title role. Catriona Young presents.
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone, Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (bass, Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (bass, Commendatore), Véronique Gens (soprano, Donna Elvira), Malin Bystrom (soprano, Donna Anna), Antonio Poli (Don Ottavio), Elizabeth Watts (soprano, Zerlina), Dawid Kimberg (baritone, Masetto), Royal Opera House Chorus, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Nicola Luisotti (conductor)
Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone, Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (bass, Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (bass, Commendatore), Véronique Gens (soprano, Donna Elvira), Malin Bystrom (soprano, Donna Anna), Antonio Poli (Don Ottavio), Elizabeth Watts (soprano, Zerlina), Dawid Kimberg (baritone, Masetto), Royal Opera House Chorus, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Nicola Luisotti (conductor)
Water Music: Suite in G major for 'flauto piccolo', sopranino recorder, 2 oboes, bassoon and strings (HWV.350)
Qual musico gentil - from L'ottavo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice 1586)
Five Piano Pieces - Als de beke zingt (When the brook is chanting); Menuet; Mazurka triste; Wals; Lentewandeling (Vernal wanderings)
Elsner, Józef Antoni Franciszek [Joseph Anton Franciskus, Józef Ksawery, Joseph Xaver] (1769-1854)
Les contes d'Hoffmann - Recit and duet 'C'est une chanson d'amour' (Antonia and Hoffmann)
Lyne Fortin (soprano), Richard Margison (tenor), Orchestre Symphonique du Québec, Simon Streatfield (conductor)
Sonata no. 10 in C major Op.70 for piano
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear.
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is the radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock.
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love - Glenn Gould'. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for the polarising pianist Glenn Gould in music by Byrd, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Bach.
The radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock joins Rob in the studio. Francine was one of the original presenters of BBC Radio 4's Front Row and later moved to The Film Programme, as well as writing about film for Prospect magazine. On television she has presented Newsnight, The Money Programme and The Antiques Show, and she is also the regular host of the BAFTA Life in Pictures strand. As a novelist, she has published two works of fiction: A Foreign Country (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel award) and Man-Made Fibre. Francine shares a selection of her favourite music with Rob.
Conductor Lorin Maazel in music by Mendelssohn, Scriabin, Respighi, Schubert and Prokofiev.
This week's Essential Choices feature the genre of the Prelude.
Prélude à l'imitation de Mr. Froberger
Alessandro Stradella finds a creative collaborator in one of Rome's most significant cultural figures, Queen Christina of Sweden.
Stradella's life ended abruptly when he was stabbed in the street at the age of just 42. By this time he had weathered a whole series of scandals revolving around dodgy business deals, an affair with his patron's mistress and an almost fatal beating by two thugs. Posthumously these events so captured the public imagination they were reinterpreted in a popular novel and in an opera bearing Stradella's name by Friedrich von Flotow. However dramatising his life has unfairly skewed the focus away from his musical achievements. In fact Stradella was a highly respected and successful composer. He wrote in all the genres of the period, oratorios, cantatas, theatre music, serious opera, songs, sacred music, and instrumental music - all in all amounting to over 300 hundred compositions. His musical language was innovative and ahead of its time, he produced one of the earliest known comic operas as well as writing the first datable work scored for concerto grosso instrumentation in 1674, well before Corelli produced his famous Opus 6 set.
In today's programme, Donald Macleod considers the ways that access to Queen Christina's intellectual circle assisted Alessandro Stradella. It was for her that he created one of his best known secular cantatas, to a scenario she had written herself.
Norway's finest musicians converge on the pretty coastal town of Risor in Norway for their annual Chamber Music Festival with music from Norway and Germany.
Penny Gore presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert, recorded last month at Glasgow City Halls. In between Nielsen's Helios Overture and Dvorak New World Symphony is Magnus Lindberg's 2006 Violin Concerto, one of a series of recent concertos by the Finnish composer which pleased and dazzled audiences across the world.
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op.95 (From the New World)
An archive broadcast from Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, first transmitted in 1974.
Suzy Klein with the Wihan Quartet from the Czech Republic who perform live in the In Tune Studio as they prepare for a concert at the Hampstead Arts Festival tomorrow.
We also hear live music from Tomasz Lis who launches his debut solo disc with a special concert at the Royal Overseas League Club next week, performing works by Schubert, Faure and Chopin.
And as Remembrance Sunday comes around this week, Suzy talks to conductor Richard Cooke about a very special performance of Britten's War Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall which features Bryn Terfel and Ekaterina Scherbachenko with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society.
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Martin Roscoe joins the BBC Philharmonic in Mozart's enchanting and pastoral G major Piano Concerto. John Storgards, the orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor pays tribute to centenery composer Andrzej Panufnik in music that conjures up a "boundless landscape which evokes melancholy" while Sibelius's Second Symphony brings the concert to a positive and resolute end.
David Willetts MP and the writer and philosopher Roger Scruton discuss the best way to foster knowledge in schools and universities and whether politicians have become too professionalised. In an age when many politicians have never had other jobs, are we better off with representatives who have specialist knowledge from careers forged outside Westminster?
Roger Scruton is the author of books including The Soul Of The World, The Palgrave MacMillan Dictionary of Political Thought and How to Be a Conservative.
The Rt Hon David Willetts MP was Minister for Universities and Science, attending Cabinet from 2010 to 2014. He has held various posts in the Shadow Cabinet and has worked at HM Treasury, and the Number 10 Policy Unit. He is a member of the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and has written widely on economic and social policy including The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future, and Why They Should Give it Back.
The conversation is chaired by Anne McElvoy and was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage, Gateshead.
All the discussions and essays from the festival are available as Radio 3 Arts and Ideas downloads.
Women are often urged to consider 'tradition' when deciding whether to take their husband's name, but where did that idea begin?
Sophie Coulombeau from Cardiff University explains the origins of the custom and recalls dissidents who bucked the trend, from Georgian women who went to extraordinary lengths to compel men to take their names, to the early twentieth-century feminist movement the 'Lucy Stoners', who used the slogan, 'My name is my identity and must not be lost'.
Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead.
More music library recordings, modern electronic sounds from Japan and a classic 80s ECM track from Brian Eno and Jon Hassell.
THURSDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2014
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b04n318p)
Royal Concertgebouw Archives
Paavo Berglund and Pierre Boulez conducting performances from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Sibelius and Schoenberg. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957]
Symphony no. 4 in A minor Op.63;
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
1:04 AM
Schoenberg, Arnold [1874-1951]
Verklärte Nacht Op.4, arr. for string orchestra
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
1:36 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
12 Studies Op.10 for piano
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
2:07 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings in D minor (H.426)
Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
2:31 AM
Rheinberger, Joseph [1839-1901]
Sonata in E flat major Op.178 for horn and piano
Martin Van der Merwe (horn), Huib Christiaanse (piano)
2:52 AM
Taneyev, Sergey Ivanovich (1856-1915)
Symphony No.4 in C minor (Op.12)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
3:33 AM
Durante, Francesco (1684-1755)
Concerto no.8 in A major 'La Pazzia'
Concerto Köln
3:46 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Petites voix
Maîtrise de Radio France, Denis Dupays (director)
3:53 AM
Mortelmans, Lodewijk (1868-1952)
Lyrisch gedicht voor klein orkest
Vlaams Radio Orkest , Bjarte Engeset (conductor)
4:05 AM
Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921)
Puisque l'aube grandit (song)
Christa Pfeiler (mezzo-soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
4:12 AM
Grainger, Percy (1882-1961)
Ramble on the Last Love Duet in Richard Strauss's opera 'Der Rosenkavalier'
Dennis Hennig (piano)
4:20 AM
Van Hoof, Jef (1886-1959)
Symphonic Introduction to a Festive Occasion (1942)
Vlaams Radio Orkest , Jan Latham-Koenig (conductor)
4:31 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Meine Seele hört im Sehen (HWV.207) - No.6 from Deutsche Arien
Hélène Plouffe (violin), Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom André Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoît-du-Lac)
4:38 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Meinem Kinde (Op.37 No.3)
Edith Wiens (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
4:40 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
An die Musik (D.547)
Edith Wiens (soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
4:43 AM
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)
Madrigal: 'Altri canti d'Amor' à 6 - from 'Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi con alcuni opuscoli in genere rappresentativo, che saranno per brevi episodi frà i canti senza gesto: libro ottavo' (Venice 1638)
Suzie Le Blanc & Kristina Nilsson (sopranos), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Rodrigo del Pozo (tenor), Josep Cabré (baritone), Bernard Deletré (bass), Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs (conductor), Concerto Palatino, Bruce Dickey (conductor)
4:53 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98 for orchestra
Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik (conductor)
5:11 AM
Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899)
Chanson perpétuelle
Lena Hoel (soprano), Bengt Åke-Lundin (piano), Yggdrasil String Quartet
5:19 AM
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621)
Psalm 110: Le Toutpuissant a mon Seigneur et maistre
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Peter Phillips (conductor)
5:27 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for keyboard and string orchestra No.1 in D minor (BWV.1052)
Raphael Alpermann (harpsichord), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
5:48 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
32 Piano Variations in C minor (Wo
0.80)
Antti Siirala (piano)
5:59 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Quartet for strings No.1 in D major (Op.11)
Tämmel String Quartet.
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b04n5qsq)
Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b04n5qx1)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Francine Stock
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is the radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock.
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love - Glenn Gould'. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for the polarising pianist Glenn Gould in music by Byrd, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Bach.
9.30am
Classical Consequences
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next.
10am
The radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock joins Rob in the studio. Francine was one of the original presenters of BBC Radio 4's Front Row and later moved to The Film Programme, as well as writing about film for Prospect magazine. On television she has presented Newsnight, The Money Programme and The Antiques Show, and she is also the regular host of the BAFTA Life in Pictures strand. As a novelist, she has published two works of fiction: A Foreign Country (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel award) and Man-Made Fibre. Francine shares a selection of her favourite music with Rob.
10.30am
Artist of the Week
Conductor Lorin Maazel in music by Mendelssohn, Scriabin, Respighi, Schubert and Prokofiev.
11am
This week's Essential Choices feature the genre of the Prelude.
Bach
Chorale Prelude, BWV 651: 'Fantasia super Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott'
Ton Koopman (organ).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04n5r44)
Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682)
Love and the Moral Mindset
Misadventures in Rome force Alessandro Stradella to make a hasty move to Venice, where embroiling himself in an affair of the heart has disastrous consequences.
Stradella's life ended abruptly when he was stabbed in the street at the age of just 42. By this time he had weathered a whole series of scandals revolving around dodgy business deals, an affair with his patron's mistress and an almost fatal beating by two thugs. Posthumously these events so captured the public imagination they were reinterpreted in a popular novel and in an opera bearing Stradella's name by Friedrich von Flotow. However dramatising his life has unfairly skewed the focus away from his musical achievements. In fact Stradella was a highly respected and successful composer. He wrote in all the genres of the period, oratorios, cantatas, theatre music, serious opera, songs, sacred music, and instrumental music - all in all amounting to over 300 hundred compositions. His musical language was innovative and ahead of its time, he produced one of the earliest known comic operas as well as writing the first datable work scored for concerto grosso instrumentation in 1674, well before Corelli produced his famous Opus 6 set.
Today, Donald Macleod follows the scandalous events that led to Stradella's ostracisation from two cities. After a failed attempt at marriage broking enrages the Pope's Secretary of State, Stradella flees from Rome. Settling in Venice, it's not long before a romantic entanglement with his patron's mistress causes further problems.
Si salvi chi può
Christine Brandes, soprano
Paul O'Dette, baroque guitar
Mary Springfels, viola da gamba
Barbara Weiss, harpsichord
Crocifissione e morte di N. S. Giesù Christo
Gérard Lesne, countertenor
Il Seminario musicale (2 violins & continuo)
Ester (excerpt from Part One)
Debora Parodi, soprano (A Hebrew woman)
Francesco Lambertini, bass (Testo)
Elisa Franzetti, soprano (Speranza Celeste)
Il Concento
Luca Franco Ferrari, director
La Susanna (excerpt from Part One)
Freddo gelo ... La bellezza
Martyn Hill, tenor (Judge 2)
Ulrik Cold, bass (Judge 1)
Ingrid Seifert, baroque violin (Hajo Bäss)
Jaap van ter Linden, baroque cello
Jeroen van der Linden, violone
Konrad Junghängel, theorbo
Alan Curtis, harpsichord and direction
Quando mai vi stancherete
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Alan Wilson, harpsichord.
THU 13:00 Risor Chamber Music Festival 2014 (b04n5rxj)
Episode 3
Highlights from some of the concerts at this year's Risor Festival of Chamber music in Norway including Halvorsen, Poulenc and Respighi featuring some of Norway's finest musicians.
Halvorsen - Veslemoy's song
Halvorsen - Fanitullen
Brustad - Fanitul from Fanitull Suite
Poulenc - Clarinet Sonata in B
Respighi - Il Tramonto
Ragnhild Hemsing, violin
Risor Festival Singers
Sharon Kam, clarinet
Christian Ihle Hadland, piano
David Hanson, countertenor
Yi Yang, violin
Aslak Juva, violin
Cecilia Wilder, viola
Erlend Habbestad, cello.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04n5rzk)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Meyerbeer - L'Africaine (Acts 1-3)
Not one but three love triangles, a love potion, wounded pride, and a poison tree are all part of the heady mix of the rather un-PC plot of Meyerbeer's L'Africaine. Driven, impetuous and the possessor of a massive ego, Vasco da Gama is thwarted by rival explorer Don Pedro in his attempt to gain royal backing for an expedition to the uncharted zone beyond Africa. Vasco nonetheless sets sail, in bitter pursuit of Don Pedro who also happens to be married to Inès, Vasco's old flame. Taking with him a couple of slaves from a previous expedition, Nélusko and Sélika (the proud and regal African woman of the title), Vasco catches up with Don Pedro. The Europeans are shipwrecked and captured by Sélika's compatriots. With all his countrymen executed (and the women marched off to the poison tree), Vasco marries Sélika and decides, with the help of a love potion, that his new life isn't so bad, after all. But in the end, Sélika resolves that Inès is Vasco's real true love and helpfully takes herself off to the poison tree so that Vasco and Inès can sail back home together to Portugal.
When it came to L'Africaine, Meyerbeer didn't hold back: mid-nineteenth century opera doesn't come much grander than this. The monster five-acter, begun in 1837, originally clocked in at over six hours (Meyerbeer died during rehearsals) but was cut to a more practical three for its 1865 premiere. L'Africaine's long gestation and tortuous progress to its final version led to various confusing anomalies, including references to Indian religion in what appears to be Madagascar. But with Sélika Meyerbeer came up with the operatic prototype of the ill-fated exotic woman whose love for a white man proves her undoing.
This live recording was made last November at one of Italy's most famous opera houses, Venice's historic La Fenice. Concludes tomorrow with Acts 4 and 5.
Plus Strauss from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Penny Gore Presents.
Meyerbeer: L'Africaine (acts 1 - 3)
Sélika..... Veronica Simeoni (soprano)
Vasco da Gama..... Gregory Kunde (tenor)
Inès..... Jessica Pratt (soprano)
Nélusko-.. Angelo Veccia (baritone)
Don Pédro-.. Luca dall'Amico (bass)
Don Diégo-.. Davide Ruberti (bass)
Anna-.. Anna Bordignon (mezzo-soprano)
Don Alvaro-.. Emanuele Giannino (tenor)
Grand Inquisitor of Lisbon-.. Mattia Denti (bass)
High Priest of Brahma-.. Ruben Amoretti (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice
Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)
3.55pm
Strauss: Violin Concerto in D minor Op.8
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Garry Walker (conductor).
THU 16:30 In Tune (b04n5s3t)
Elizabeth Watts, Raphael Wallfisch, John York
Suzy Klein with a lively mix of music and conversation. Today's guests include cellist Raphael Wallfisch performing with pianist John York - a duo dating back some 25 years; and soprano Elizabeth Watts singing Scarlatti with Laurence Cummings at the harpsichord ahead of their Scarlatti programme with the English Concert at Milton Court in London. Elizabeth Watts was a featured soloist at this year's Last Night of the Proms.
Main news headlines are at
5pm and
6pm
In.Tune@bbc.co.uk
@BBCInTune.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04n5r44)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04n5vwf)
BBC SSO - Rameau, Adams, Rebel, Beethoven
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Musical mavericks, and musical humour. This eclectic concert from the City Halls in Glasgow pits Beethoven's most sprightly of Symphonies, his Second, against a recent work by American megastar composer John Adams. Joined by the Doric String Quartet the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will perform Adams' cheeky take on fragments of Beethoven's music.
And at the helm is a conductor whose musical imagination stretches far and wide. Markus Stenz intersperses these works with two sparkling pieces from more ancient sources: Rameau's Suite No. 1 from his theatrical work 'Les Indes Galantes', and Jean-Féry Rebel's evocative and dramatic overture Chaos from Les Élémens.
Rameau: Suite No. 1 (from 'Les Indes Galantes')
John Adams: Absolute Jest, for String Quartet and Orchestra
8.10 Interval Music
Featuring a chance to hear another example of an American composer's musical irreverence, in Michael Daugherty's cheeky but heartfelt 'Le Tombeau de Liberace', conducted by Markus Stenz and the London Sinfonietta back in 1996.
8.30
Rebel: Chaos (from 'Les Élémens')
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Doric String Quartet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Markus Stenz (conductor).
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b04n5vwh)
2014 Festival
Burning the Facts: The Link Between Lord Lucan and Joan of Arc
Which historical 'facts' should be burned on the fire? How do you comb ancient and recent times for evidence?
Rana Mitter is joined by Helen Castor and Laura Thompson to discuss the ways mythmaking can cloud history.
Laura Thompson's books include Life in a Cold Climate:Nancy Mitford - A Portrait of a Contradictory Woman, An English Mystery: A Life of Agatha Christie and A Different Class of Murder:The Mysterious Case of Lord Lucan.
Helen Castor is the author of Joan of Arc and writer and presenter of the TV series She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England and the book it was based upon.
Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead. All the discussions and essays from the Free Thinking festival are available as Radio 3 Arts and Ideas downloads.
Producer: Harry Parker.
THU 22:45 Free Thinking (b04n5st9)
The Free Thinking Essay
Disraeli the Romantic
Daisy Hay from Exeter University explores the way in which Disraeli invented the modern politician as a man - or woman - of feeling, and asks whether the image he projected as an emotionally in-touch everyman stemmed from fact or fiction?
Politicians talking about their private lives are a commonplace of our age. However, long before it became obligatory for aspiring statesmen and women to be photographed unloading dishwashers and eating sandwiches, Benjamin Disraeli spun a public fantasy about his private life in order to win votes. What lessons does his story have for politicians today ?
Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead. All the discussions and essays from the Free Thinking festival are available as Radio 3 Arts and Ideas downloads.
Producer: Harry Parker.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b04n5vwk)
Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe presents 1960's Peruvian grooves from Cacique, the new sound of London singer and producer Sam Sure and American roots music from Spider John Koerner.
FRIDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2014
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b04n318r)
Olivier Latry in Poulenc's Organ Concerto
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Olivier Latry in Poulenc's Organ Concerto. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Dukas, Paul [1865-1935]
The Sorcerer's Apprentice - symphonic scherzo for orchestra
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor)
12:43 AM
Poulenc, Francis [1899-1963]
Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor
Olivier Latry (organ), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor)
1:09 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai [1844-1908]
Scheherazade, symphonic suite after 1001 Nights (Op.35)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Rossen Milanov (conductor)
1:58 AM
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
Les Illuminations for voice and string orchestra
Magdaléna Hajóssyová (soprano), Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Bohdan Warchal (director)
2:19 AM
Schumann, Robert [1810-1856]
Phantasiestucke Op.73 for clarinet and piano
Marten Altrov (clarinet), Holger Marjamaa (piano)
2:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Quartet for strings (Op.131) in C sharp minor
Paizo Quartet (Denmark)
3:12 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat (K449)
Maria João Pires (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
3:33 AM
Navas, Juan de (1650-1719)
Ay, divino amor for soprano and organ
Olga Pitarch (soprano), Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer (director)
3:39 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in D minor for strings and basso continuo (RV.128)
Arte dei Suonatori, Eduardo Lopez (conductor)
3:45 AM
Sor, Fernando (1778-1839)
Fantaisie et variations brillantes sur 2 airs favoris connus for guitar (Op.30) in E minor
Tomaz Rajteric (guitar)
4:00 AM
Bersa, Blagoje (1873-1934)
Capriccio-Scherzo (Op.25c)
Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)
4:09 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Tu del Ciel ministro eletto - from Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
Sabine Devieilhe (Bellezza, soprano), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
4:15 AM
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896)
Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann in F sharp minor (Op.20)
Angela Cheng (piano)
4:24 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture from 'Der Schauspieldirektor'
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Borge Wagner (conductor)
4:31 AM
Messager, Andre [1853-1929]
Solo de concours for clarinet and piano
Pavlo Boiko (clarinet) , Viola Taran (piano)
4:37 AM
Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935)
Norwegian Rhapsody No.1 in A minor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)
4:49 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Sonata for piano no. 5 (Op.10'1) in C minor
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
5:09 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Divertimento in B flat major K.137
Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi Suzuki (conductor)
5:22 AM
Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707)
Ich bin die Auferstehung und das Leben, Bux WV 44
Klaus Mertens (bass) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman (conductor)
5:28 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Symphony No.5 in B flat major (D.485)
Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
5:55 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Concerto for 2 violins and string orchestra in D minor (BWV.1043)
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and conductor), Lucy van Dael (2nd violin solo), La Petite Bande
6:12 AM
Forqueray, Jean-Baptiste (1699-1782)
La Morangis, ou La Plissay - chaconne
Teodoro Baù (viola da gamba), Deniel Perer (harpsichord)
6:20 AM
Kozeluch, Leopold [1747-1818]
A Grand Scotch Sonata in D
Jana Semerádová (flute), Hana Fleková (cello), Monika Knoblochová (piano).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b04n5qss)
Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b04n5qx3)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Francine Stock
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is the radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock.
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love - Glenn Gould'. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for the polarising pianist Glenn Gould in music by Byrd, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Bach.
9.30am
Recording Rewind
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
The radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock joins Rob in the studio. Francine was one of the original presenters of BBC Radio 4's Front Row and later moved to The Film Programme, as well as writing about film for Prospect magazine. On television she has presented Newsnight, The Money Programme and The Antiques Show, and she is also the regular host of the BAFTA Life in Pictures strand. As a novelist, she has published two works of fiction: A Foreign Country (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel award) and Man-Made Fibre. Francine shares a selection of her favourite music with Rob.
10.30am
Artist of the Week
Conductor Lorin Maazel in music by Mendelssohn, Scriabin, Respighi, Schubert and Prokofiev.
11am
This week's Essential Choices feature the genre of the Prelude.
Villa Lobos
5 Preludes for guitar; No.1 in E minor, No.2 in E
Julian Bream (guitar).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b04n5r48)
Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682)
A Murder Mystery
Leaving behind a succession of misadventures, Alessandro Stradella takes advantage of the musical riches of Genoa, but it isn't too long before his chequered past catches up with him.
Stradella's life ended abruptly when he was stabbed in the street at the age of just 42. By this time he had weathered a whole series of scandals revolving around dodgy business deals, an affair with his patron's mistress and an almost fatal beating by two thugs. Posthumously these events so captured the public imagination they were reinterpreted in a popular novel and in an opera bearing Stradella's name by Friedrich von Flotow. However dramatising his life has unfairly skewed the focus away from his musical achievements. In fact Stradella was a highly respected and successful composer. He wrote in all the genres of the period, oratorios, cantatas, theatre music, serious opera, songs, sacred music, and instrumental music - all in all amounting to over 300 hundred compositions. His musical language was innovative and ahead of its time, he produced one of the earliest known comic operas as well as writing the first datable work scored for concerto grosso instrumentation in 1674, well before Corelli produced his famous Opus 6 set.
The concluding part of Donald Macleod's survey finds Stradella making a fresh start in Genoa. Despite arriving with a somewhat tarnished reputation, the composer finds work plentiful and rewarding but then he is murdered in mysterious circumstances.
FRI 13:00 Risor Chamber Music Festival 2014 (b04n5rxl)
Episode 4
Highlights from some of this year's Risor Festival of Chamber Music in Norway features a starry line-up of international soloists converging on this pretty coastal town and includes a rare chance to hear the wonderful hardanger fiddle in action.
Kvandal - Quintet for hardanger fiddle and string quartet Op 50
Grieg - String Quartet No 2 in F
Schonberg - Verklärte Nacht
Philipp - Gnomes & Dwarfs
Ragnhild Hemsing, hardanger fiddle
Vertavo String Quartet
Risor Festival Singers
Karen Gomyo, violin
Maria Angelica Carlsen, violin
Lars Anders Tomter, viola
Anders Rensvik, viola
Christian Poltera, cello
Benedicte Årsland, cello.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b04n5rzp)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 4
Penny Gore presents the conclusion of Meyerbeer's grand opera and ends her week devoted to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music recorded at Orkney's St Magnus Festival this summer.
Meyerbeer: L'Africaine (acts 4 & 5)
Sélika..... Veronica Simeoni (soprano)
Vasco da Gama..... Gregory Kunde (tenor)
Inès..... Jessica Pratt (soprano)
Nélusko-.. Angelo Veccia (baritone)
High Priest of Brahma-.. Ruben Amoretti (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice
Emmanuel Villaume (conductor)
3.05pm
Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D major AV.144
3.45.pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B minor Op.74 (Pathétique)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b04n5s3w)
Renaud Capucon, Simon Keenlyside, Noriko Ogawa
Suzy Klein with a lively mix of music and conversation. Today's guests include acclaimed violinist Renaud Capucon who is in the middle of a Beethoven sonata cycle at Southbank Centre.
Baritone Simon Keenlyside pops in to sing live highlights from his new Broadway album with the BBC Concert Orchestra
Plus pianists Noriko Ogawa and John Humphreys will put the studio Steinway through its paces together in piano duets.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b04n5r48)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b04n5vyz)
Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius
Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales in Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, a setting of Cardinal Newman's dramatic depiction of a dying man going before his God.
Live from St. David's Hall, Cardiff
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Anna Larsson (mezzo)
Peter Hoare (tenor)
Peter Rose (bass)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Bristol Choral Society
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)
As a Roman Catholic, Elgar was naturally attracted to the text of The Dream of Gerontius by the Victorian Catholic convert, Cardinal John Henry Newman. Prayers to the Virgin Mary and souls residing in Purgatory may have been controversial to protestant ears in 1900 when it was first performed, but the imagery gave the composer a wealth of dramatic possibility. From the dread of death, Gerontius passionately declares his resolute faith to be sent on his journey by a priest. On the way he meets a cackling chorus of demons, and angels singing the hymn 'Praise to the Holiest in the height' - a text already a firm fixture in many anglican hymnals by this point, to a tune named "Gerontius". Elgar unleashes the full might of the orchestra, complete with full organ, at the moment when Gerontius finally meets his maker, but it's a blinding flash, lasting only a moment. Finally the angel consoles him with a beautiful lullaby, 'Softly and Gently'.
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth was Music Director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the late 1990s. This summer saw his first return to the orchestra since he left, with a performance of Elgar's First Symphony at the BBC Proms, winning superlatives from critics and five-star reviews. This concert marks his long-awaited return to Cardiff at the helm of his old orchestra.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b04n5vz1)
The Verb at the Free Thinking Festival
This week the 'Cabaret of the word' comes from Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage Gateshead, the first of two Verbs which explore the role of limits within language, poetry, reading and as part of the creative writing process.
FRI 22:45 Free Thinking (b04n5swk)
The Free Thinking Essay
Beards and Whiskers
Jeremy Paxman made headlines when he grew a beard, taking his place alongside actors Jake Gyllenhaal and George Clooney, Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst, folk-rocker Marcus Mumford and hipster model Johnny Harrington.
Historian Alun Withey from Exeter University says beards can shed light on a whole range of things from medicine to the military. Pogonotomy - or the art of shaving - is about more than fashion.
Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the AHRC to find the brightest academic minds with the potential to turn their ideas into broadcasts.
All the discussions and essays from the Free Thinking festival are available as Radio 3 Arts and Ideas downloads.
Producer: Georgia Catt.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b04n5vz3)
Lopa Kothari - Simo Lagnawi in Session
Lopa Kothari presents new tracks from across the globe, and Moroccan Gnawa master Simo Lagnawi plays a live session.
With his band including Samir Nacer, Said Boussaod, Abdelmajid Shili and Griselda Sanderson, singer and guembri player Simo Lagnawi brings the mystical music of the Gnawa to the World on 3 studio. The Gnawa music of Morocco is seen as powerful music for healing, a hypnotic music intended to induce deep trances and a spiritual high. After becoming a Gnawa master in Morocco, Simo moved to London, and has released two albums here. He has been nominated for Best Newcomer as well as Best Artist in the 2014 Songlines Awards.
Programme iPlayer picture by Hassan Hajjaj.