SATURDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2017
SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b08c340s)
Igor Levitt plays Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich
Jonathan Swain presents a performance from pianist Igor Levit of Tchaikovsky's The Seasons and Shostakovich's 24 Preludes.
1:01 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich [1840-1893]
The Seasons Op 37b
Igor Levit (piano)
1:44 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975]
24 Preludes Op 34
Igor Levit (piano)
2:20 AM
Martinu, Bohuslav [1890-1959]
Symphony No 1
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Válek (conductor)
3:01 AM
La Rue, Pierre de (c.1460-1518)
Missa Sancto Job
Orlando Consort
3:37 AM
Lindblad, Adolf Fredrik (1801-1878)
String Quartet No 3 in C major
Yggdrasil String Quartet
4:13 AM
Medtner, Nikolai [1879-1951]
3 Fairy Tales (Fairy Tale in A minor, Op 51 No 2; Fairy Tale in E flat major, Op 26 No 2; Fairy Tale in B flat minor Op 20 No 1)
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
4:21 AM
Viotti, Giovanni Battista [1755-1824]
Duo concertante in D minor
Alexandar Avramov (violin), Ivan Peev (violin)
4:30 AM
Raitio, Väinö (1891-1945)
Joutsenet, Op 15 (1919)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor)
4:38 AM
Westlake, Nigel (b.1958)
Winter in the Forgotten Valley
Guitar Trek
4:51 AM
Fontana, Giovanni Battista (c.1592-1631)
Sonata No 11 for cornet, violin and continuo
Le Concert Brisé - William Dongois (cornet/director), Christine Moran (violin), Carsten Lohff (harpsichord), Anne-Catherine Bucher (organ/harpsichord), Benjamin Perrot (theorbo)
5:01 AM
Stradella, Alessandro (c.1642-c.1682)
Sinfonia in D minor
The Private Music: Mira Glodeanu and Karen Raby (violins), Abby Wall (bass violin), Silas Standage (organ)
5:08 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Variations Brillantes in B flat major, on a theme from Hérold's 'Ludovic'
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
5:16 AM
Berezovsky, Maxim Sosontovitch (1745-1777)
Do not reject me (Ps 70)
The Seven Saints Chamber Choir, Dimitar Grigorov (conductor)
5:25 AM
Boeck, August de (1865-1937)
Nocturne (1931)
Vlaams Radio Orkest, Marc Soustrot (conductor)
5:34 AM
Cabezon, Antonio de [1510-1566]
3 pieces for double harp
Margret Köll (arpa doppia)
5:43 AM
Schmitt, Matthias (b.1958)
Ghanaia for solo percussion
Colin Currie (marimba)
5:51 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Avondmuziek
I Solisti del Vento, Ivo Hadermann (conductor)
6:00 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Divertimento in B flat major for violin, cello and piano, K254
Trio Orlando
6:22 AM
Molique, Bernhard (1802-1869) transc. Giulio Regondi, arr. for accordion & harp by Joseph Petric & Erica Goodman
Six Songs without Words
Joseph Petric (accordion), Erica Goodman (harp)
6:35 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) in C major, TWV 55:C3, "Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth (Wasser-overture)"
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor).
SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b08cgttn)
Saturday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
SAT 09:00 Record Review (b08cgvlm)
Andrew McGregor with Ben Walton and Anna Picard
Andrew McGregor and guests review the best recordings of classical music.
9am
Telemann, Corelli & Bach: Chamber Music
BACH, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 6 in F major, BWV1057
CORELLI: Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 8 in G minor 'fatto per la notte di Natale'; Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 4 in D major
TELEMANN: Overture (Suite) TWV 55:C3 in C major for wind, strings & b.c. 'Hamburger Ebb und Fluth' ('Wassermusik'); Concerto TWV 54:B2 in B flat major for 2 recorders, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
Emelie Roos (recorder), Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Dan Laurin (recorder and director)
BIS BIS2235 (Hybrid SACD)
The Piano Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lake in the Mountains; Introduction and Fugue for two pianos; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons; Fantasia on Greensleeves; A Little Piano Book; Suite of Six Short Pieces
Mark Bebbington, Rebeca Omordia (pianos)
SOMM SOMM0164 (CD)
Ligeti: Concertos
LIGETI: Cello Concerto; Chamber Concerto for 13 instruments; Melodien for orchestra; Piano Concerto
Christian Poltera (cello), Joonas Ahonen (piano), BIT20 Ensemble, Baldur Bronnimann
BIS BIS2209 (Hybrid SACD)
Rostropovich Encores
CHOPIN: Etude Op. 25 No. 7 in C sharp minor
DEBUSSY: Nocturne et Scherzo; Preludes - Book 1: No. 12, Minstrels; Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque); Nocturne et Scherzo
POPPER: Dance of the Elves Op. 39
PROKOFIEV: Cinderella Op. 87: Adagio of Cinderella and the Prince; Cinderella: Waltz-Coda (transc. M. Rostropovich); The Love for Three Oranges: March
RACHMANINOV: Oriental Dance Op. 2 No. 2
RAVEL: Vocalise-etude en forme de habanera
ROSTROPOVICH: Humoresque Op. 5; Moderato
SCRIABIN: Etude Op. 8 No. 11 in B flat minor
SINDING: Suite for Violin & Orchestra Op. 10 'im alten Stil': Presto
STRAVINSKY: Le Baiser de la Fee: Pas de Deux; Chanson Russe
Alban Gerhardt (cello), Markus Becker (piano)
HYPERION CDA68136 (CD)
9.30am – Building a Library
Building a Library: a weekly look at a piece of music, a comparison of the available recordings, and a recommendation.
Composer: Giaccomo Rossini
Piece: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Reviewer: Ben Walton
10.20am – Chopin recitals
Chopin: Late Works
CHOPIN: Barcarolle in F sharp major Op. 60; Mazurkas (3) Op. 59; Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie'; Two Nocturnes Op. 62; Mazurkas (3) Op. 63; Waltz No. 6 in D flat major Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz'; Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor Op. 64 No. 2; Waltz No. 8 in A flat major Op. 64 No. 3; Mazurka No. 49 in F minor Op. 68 No. 4
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG 94796127 (CD)
Chopin: Sonata in B minor / Nocturnes / Polonaises / Mazurka
CHOPIN: Nocturne No. 17 in B major Op. 62 No. 1; Etude Op. 25 No. 5 in E minor; Etude Op. 10 No. 12 in C minor ‘Revolutionary'; Ballade No. 3 in A flat major Op. 47; Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie'; Waltz No. 8 in A flat major Op. 64 No. 3; Polonaise No. 5 in F sharp minor Op. 44; Rondo in E flat major Op. 16; Prelude Op. 45 in C sharp minor (No. 25); Barcarolle in F sharp major Op. 60; Mazurkas (4) Op. 33; Nocturne No. 18 in E major Op. 62 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58
Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano)
FREDERICK CHOPIN INSTITUTE NIFCCD617 (2CD)
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Mazurkas Op. 33
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11; Mazurkas (4) Op. 33; Etude Op. 10 No. 1 in C major; Etude Op. 10 No. 10 in A flat major; Fantasia in F minor Op. 49; Ballade No. 2 in F major Op. 38; Waltz No. 4 in F major 'Grande Valse Brillante' Op. 34 No. 3
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor), Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
FREDERICK CHOPIN INSTITUTE NIFCCD625 (CD)
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ballades
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11; Ballades Nos. 1-4
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Seong-Jin Cho (piano)
DG 94795941 (CD)
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 and other works
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 35 'Marche funebre'; Mazurkas (4) Op. 17; Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20
Aimi Kobayashi (piano)
FREDERICK CHOPIN INSTITUTE NIFCCD626 (CD)
Chopin: Les Etats D'ame
CHOPIN: Preludes (24) Op. 28; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 35 'Marche funebre'
Julien Brocal (piano)
RUBICON RCD1001 (CD)
10.50am – Anna Picard
SMETANA: Ma Vlast
Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hruša (conductor)
TUDOR TUDOR7196 (Hybrid SACD)
Martinu: Cantatas
MARTINU: Legend of the Smoke from Potato Fires; Mikes of the Mountains; The Opening of the Wells; Dandelion Romance
Pavla Vykopalova (soprano), Ludmila Hudeckova (contralto), Martin Slavik (tenor), Jiri Bruckler (baritone), Petr Svoboda (baritone), Jaromir Meduna (recitation), Ivo Kahanek (piano), Members of the Bennewitz Quartet, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Lukas Vasilek
SUPRAPHON SU41982 (CD)
Pictures of America
GRACIANE FINZI: Scenographies d’Edward Hopper
BARBER: Adagio
Arrangements of songs by Lerner, Sondheim, Bernstein, Sinatra and Thelonius Monk
Natalie Dessay (soprano), Paris Mozart Orchestra, Claire Gibault (conductor)
SONY 88985342842
Distant Light
BARBER: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Op. 24
BJORK: Virus; Joga; All is Full of Love
HILLBORG: The Strand Settings
Renee Fleming (soprano), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
DECCA 4830415 (CD)
So Many Things
ADAMS, J: Am I in Your Light?
BJORK: Cover me
BUSH, K: Pi
COSTELLO: Speak darkly, my angel
HILLBORG: Kvall
JACOBSEN, C: For sixty cents
MEHLDAU: Love Sublime
MUHLY: So many things
SHAW, C: Cant voi l'aube
STING: Practical arrangement
WAINWRIGHT, RUFUS: Les feux d’artifice t’appellent
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Brooklyn Rider
NAIVE V5436 (CD)
11.45am – Disc of the Week
Vaughan Williams: Job & Symphony No. 9
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Job - A Masque for Dancing; Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
CHANDOS CHSA5180 (Hybrid SACD)
SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b08cgvlp)
Mental health in classical music, Kasper Holten, Soosan Lolavar
Presented by Tom Service
Tom talks to the Royal Opera House's Director of Opera, Kasper Holten, who concludes his tenure with the company with a new production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, which opens in March. Holten reveals his thoughts about the future of opera's big institutions, his passion for an art-form which he believes can engage powerfully with politics and culture across the world today, and why he's giving up arguably the biggest job in opera to move back to his native Denmark.
And the young British-Iranian composer Soosan Lolavar on her new opera, ID Please, based on the testimony of people detained in immigration centres, which is soon to receive its first performance in the US.
And Tom explores issues of mental health for professional musicians in the UK, including new research by Help Musicians UK about levels of depression and anxiety in the industry, how orchestras support their players, and how music colleges are preparing the next generation for a professional life in music. With contributions from Dr Deborah Charnock, chief executive of BAPAM (British Association of Performing Arts Medicine), psychotherapist Helen Brice, the Halle's chief executive John Summers, Aaron Williamon from the Royal College of Music's Centre for Performance Science, students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and musicians' testimonies taken from recent studies in the industry. And Richard Boothby talks about working with Richard Campbell, with whom he co-founded the viol consort Fretwork, who had a long battle with depression before he died in 2011.
SAT 13:00 Saturday Classics (b08cgvlr)
Rob's Gold Standard
Rob Cowan with music by Beethoven, Arnold, Chopin and Debussy, in classic recordings from artists including Fritz Wunderlich, Emil Gilels, Thomas Beecham and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (b08cgvlw)
Treasure Hunt
Matthew Sweet goes on a treasure hunt with a selection of film music inspired by classic stories of secret maps and lost booty in the week of the release of "Gold" with music by Daniel Pemberton.
The programme includes music from "Treasure Island", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "The Deep", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "King Solomon's Mines", "Jason and the Argonauts", "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" and "Gold".
SAT 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (b08cgvly)
Alyn Shipton with your requests for jazz from all periods and in all styles - instrumental, vocal or experimental
e-mail your requests to jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
SAT 17:00 Jazz Line-Up (b08cgvm0)
Richard Rodney Bennett
Claire Martin celebrates composer Richard Rodney Bennett, recorded at the Barbican in London and featuring pianist Gareth Williams, bassist Arnie Somogyi, drummer Sebastian de Krom, saxophonist Julian Nicholas and Claire on vocals. Bennett was a prolific composer for television and the stage, having produced over two hundred works for the concert hall and over fifty scores for film and television. He was also a highly regarded jazz writer who worked with Cleo Laine, Marion Montgomery and was a close musical partner with Claire. As part of this special programme, Claire also shares stories and insights into her unique relationship with Bennett and there's a chance to hear her perform one of his compositions, Early To Bed, with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (b08c2n96)
Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito
Tonight's Opera on 3 is Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito in a production from Madrid's Teatro Real conducted by Christophe Rousset.
Vitellia's father has been deposed as emperor by Tito and she wants revenge. She orders Sesto (who is in love with her) to murder Tito, not realising that Tito has in fact chosen her to be his empress. Luckily for the conspirators, Tito offers clemency to all concerned when the plot comes to light.
Sarah Lenton presents, in conversation with Cliff Eisen.
Tito ..... Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)
Vitellia ..... Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Sesto ..... Monica Bacelli (soprano)
Annio ..... Sophie Harmsen (soprano)
Servilia ..... Sylvia Schwartz (soprano)
Publio ..... Guido Loconsolo (bass)
Madrid Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
conductor Christophe Rousset.
SAT 21:30 Between the Ears (b06nr54x)
Alice at Crackpot Hall
Newcastle writer David Almond investigates the story of a wild child who was said to roam the Yorkshire Dales near Crackpot Hall in the 1930s - and makes a surprising discovery.
Crackpot Hall is an ancient, ruined farmhouse near the village of Keld, which lies on the crossroads of the Pennine Way and the Coast to Coast Path in Swaledale. In its time, it has been a hunting lodge, an office for the local lead-mining industry and a family farm.
The acclaimed children's writer David Almond has long been intrigued by Crackpot Hall, and for decades has travelled west from his home near Newcastle to visit it. Recently, his curiosity was rekindled when he read about Alice, a four-year old child who was said to have been discovered roaming wild near Crackpot in the 1930s.
Led by the fabled laughter of Alice, David set out to find the wild child again and hear her story. Prepared to engage his imagination as a writer if facts alone failed, David was amazed by what Crackpot could still reveal.
Spoiler Alert: Alice was 4 years old when Ella Pontefract and Marie Hartley, the author and illustrator of a 1930s guide-book to Swaledale declared they had found her - "with a mocking, chuckling laugh" as she roamed alone with her dog and cats near Crackpot. Like many others, David believed Alice to be a figment of the two women's imagination, so he set out to make a programme about how places create stories. He found Alice, now 88, living in a village near Carlisle, and as full of laughter as ever.
With music arranged by the Leeds-based composer Emily Levy.
Producer: Beaty Rubens.
SAT 22:00 Hear and Now (b08cgvpb)
London Contemporary Music Festival 2016
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents radical 1970s minimalist music by Julius Eastman and Frederic Rzewski from the 2016 London Contemporary Music Festival. Immerse yourself in Eastman's recently rediscovered hour-long blissed-out 'Femenine' [sic], composed in 1974 and here given its UK premiere by Apartment House. And vocalist Elaine Mitchener joins the ensemble for Frederic Rzewski's response to the 1971 Attica prison riots, his raw, punchy 'Coming Together'.
SUNDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2017
SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b08cgzm4)
Abbey Lincoln
Pop songs, protest, poetic musings - vocalist Abbey Lincoln (1930-2010) explored a passionate spectrum of styles on her way to being hailed as the premiere jazz singer of her time. Geoffrey Smith picks highlights from a unique career.
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b08cgzm7)
Berlioz, Mozart and Stravinsky from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
John Shea presents archive recordings from the Concertgebouw Orchestra including Stravinsky's Petrushka conducted by Riccardo Chailly.
1:01 AM
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Ballet des Sylphes; Menuet des Follets; Marche hongroise (excerpts from La Damnation de Faust, Op.24)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg (conductor)
1:14 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Violin Concerto No.3 in G major, K216
Valery Klimov (violin), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
1:37 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Petrushka
Ruud van den Brink (piano), Peter Masseurs (trumpet), Jacques Zoon (flute), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
2:13 AM
Escher, Rudolf (1912-1980)
Arcana Suite for piano
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
2:36 AM
Rota, Nino [1911-1979]
Divertimento Concertante for double bass and orchestra
Jurek Dybal (double bass), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ruben Silva (conductor)
3:01 AM
Albert, Heinrich (1604-1651)
Musikalische Kürbishütte - songcycle for 3 voices and continuo
Cantus Cölln, Musica Alta Ripa, Konrad Junghänel (lute/conductor)
3:13 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
String Quartet No14 in D minor, 'Death and the Maiden', D810
M.K. Ciurlionis String Quartet
3:57 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Aria: Mi lusinga il dolce affetto (from 'Alcina', Act 2 Scene 3)
Graham Pushee (countertenor), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:03 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Hommage à Rameau (Images, Set 1 No.2)
Walter Gieseking (piano)
4:10 AM
Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967)
Ave Maria
Tallinn Boys Choir, Lydia Rahula (conductor)
4:13 AM
Kreek, Cyrillus (1889-1962)
Taaveti laul (Psalm of David), 'Onnis on inimene' ('Blessed is the man')
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Evi Eespere (director)
4:16 AM
Sullivan, (Sir) Arthur (1842-1900)
Overture in C major (In Memoriam)
BBC Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)
4:28 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) arr. Duncan Craig
Romance in G, Op. 40, arr. for viola and piano
Gyözö Máté (viola), Balázs Szokolay (piano)
4:35 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Sonata in C major RV.779 for oboe, violin and continuo
Camerata Köln
4:49 AM
Salzédo, Carlos (1885-1961)
Chanson dans la nuit (Study for harp)
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
4:53 AM
Milosavljevic, Ana (b.1982)
Red
Mettmorphosis
5:01 AM
Rossi, Salamone (1570-c.1630)
Kaddish Prayer
Profeti della Quinta
5:05 AM
Pez, Johann Christoph (1664-1716)
Passacaglia & Aria (presto) - from Concerto Pastorella in F major for 2 recorders, strings & continuo
Carin van Heerden & Ales Rypan (recorders), L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg (director)
5:14 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
Night and Festal Music - Prelude to Act II from the opera 'Die Königin von Saba' (The Queen of Sheba)
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:21 AM
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Surte e la notte - from the opera 'Ernani'
Maria Callas (soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno (conductor)
5:29 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), transc. Busoni, Ferruccio (1866-1924)
Adagio and Fugue, from Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV.564
Vladimir Horowitz (piano roll)
5:40 AM
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)
Magnificat (for 6 voices) - from Vespro della Beata Vergine, Venice 1610
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson (conductor)
5:56 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732 - 1809)
Symphony No.64 in A, 'Tempora mutantur'
Budapest Strings, Botvay Károly (conductor)
6:14 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op.120 No.1
Martin Fröst (clarinet), Thomas Larcher (piano)
6:36 AM
Irgens-Jensen, Ludvig (1894-1969)
Japanischer Frühling
Ragnhild Heiland Sørensen (soprano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Steven Sloane (conductor).
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b08cgzm9)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (b08cgzmc)
Jonathan Swain
Following on from this week's Building a Library recommendation of The Barber of Seville, Jonathan Swain focuses on other music inspired by the Iberian Peninsula. There's organ music from Francisco Correa De Arauxo, song from Joaquin Turina, chamber music from Granados, early music from Guerrero, and Falla's El Amor Brujo. The week's young artist is soprano Rosa Feola.
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b08cgzmf)
Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas burst onto the art scene in the early 1990s, one of the wildest and most provocative of the Young British Artists. Her work was challenging, bawdy, revolutionary: her first solo show in 1992 was called "Penis Nailed to a Board". She challenged macho culture with sculptures such as "Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab" in which she constructed a naked female body - from a table, two eggs, and a kebab. Lucas makes sculptures from worn-out furniture, stuffed tights, fruit (particularly bananas), and cigarettes - she's a passionate smoker. In 2015 she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, and the centrepiece with a massive yellow sculpture named after the footballer Maradona - part man, part maypole, with dangling breasts and a nine-foot phallus.
In Private Passions, Sarah Lucas looks back on the wild days of the 90s, and her upbringing in North London "a childhood completely without ambition". She talks about leaving school at 16, becoming pregnant, but then deciding not to keep the baby; and how that decision enabled her to know clearly what she wanted to do with her life. She reflects on how the central relationships in her life lead to artistic collaboration - with her partner, the composer Julian Simmons, and with her girlfriends, whose lower bodies she cast in plaster. And Sarah Lucas reveals that the wild London party girl is now happiest in Suffolk, living at the end of a country lane, and listening to Benjamin Britten. How seriously are we supposed to take her work? "Just because you're funny doesn't mean you can't be serious too."
Sarah Lucas's music choices include Purcell's King Arthur; songs by Benjamin Britten and Ivor Gurney; and music by her partner Julian Simmons.
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08c2r15)
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Peter Moore and James Baillieu
From Wigmore Hall, London trombonist Peter Moore teams up with pianist James Baillieu for an eclectic programme of old and new music including a a world premiere.
Peter Moore, winner of the 2008 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, made history in 2014 when he was appointed the youngest-ever member of the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of 18. He is also a current Radio 3 New Generation Artist. He reveals every facet of his instrument's character in this programme, from the tender melody of the Rachmaninov to the majestic power of Hindemith's Sonata.
James Maynard (b.1977)
Urban Variations (world première)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke Op. 73
Axel Jørgensen (1881-1947)
Romance Op. 21
Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
La vie antérieure
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 (3rd movt, Andante)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Trombone Sonata
Arthur Pryor (1870-1942)
Annie Laurie.
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (b06r4611)
The Duben Collection
Fiona Talkington looks at some of the music found in the Düben Collection, currently held at Uppsala University. It was originally collected by the Swedish composer Gustaf Düben, and includes many of the only surviving copies of manuscripts by Buxtehude.
01 00:00 Dieterich Buxtehude
Sonata in D - BuxBV 272
Performer: Catherine Manson
Performer: Jonathan Manson
Performer: Ton Koopman
02 00:10 Dieterich Buxtehude
Laudate, pueri, Dominum, BuxWV 69
Performer: Fretwork
Singer: Emma Kirkby
Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas
Ensemble: Purcell Quartet
03 00:16 Franz Tunder
Ach Herr laB deine lieben Engelein
Singer: Andreas Scholl
Ensemble: Basel Consort
04 00:26 Giovanni Rovetta
Salve mi Jesu
Singer: Andreas Scholl
Ensemble: Basel Consort
05 00:34 Jean‐Féry Rebel
Ulysse: Overture
Conductor: Hugo Reyne
Orchestra: La Simphonie du Marais
06 00:39 Johann Theile
Ach, dass ich hören sollte dass Gott
Performer: Düben United
Singer: Anna Jobrant
07 00:45 Ignatio von Gnessel
Venite ad me
Singer: Anna Jobrant
Ensemble: Düben United
08 00:52 Dieterich Buxtehude
Klag-Lied, 'Muß der Tod denn auch entbinden'
Singer: Maarten Engeltjes
Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Director: Ton Koopman
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b08c33wf)
Chichester Cathedral
From Chichester Cathedral on the Eve of the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Introit: Sicut audivimus (Byrd)
Responses: Philip Moore
Office Hymn: In our darkness light has shone (Upton Cheyney)
Psalm 118 (Atkins, Pye)
First Lesson: 1 Samuel 1 vv.19b-28
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Second Lesson: Hebrews 4 vv.11-18
Anthem: Suscepimus Deus (Byrd)
Hymn: Hail to the Lord who comes (Old 120th)
Organ Voluntary: Introduction, Passacagalia and Fugue (Healey Willan)
Organist and Master of the Choristers: Charles Harrison
Assistant Organist: Timothy Ravalde.
SUN 16:00 The Choir (b08cgzwx)
Bach, Bax and Faure
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's round-up of singing together, with music from a South African trade union choir and a motet from contemporary composer Nicolas Bacri, alongside Bach, Bax and Fauré. And another amateur choir take their turn in the spotlight and introduce themselves.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b08ch0hk)
What you see is what you hear?
Tom Service asks whether the way we see composers depicted in art influences the way we hear their music.
With particular reference to three pictures that you can see on the Listening Service page of the Radio 3 website for this programme - Hildegard of Bingen, Bach and Beethoven.
Rethink music with The Listening Service.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b08ch0hm)
The Silver Swan
Graceful swans, magical swans, migrating swans; swans loyal and, on occasion, cynical; swans living and dying. A miscellany of poetry and prose by WB Yeats, Hans Christian Andersen, Louise Glück, Gillian Clarke, Rilke, Tennyson and "Banjo" Paterson floats above music that includes works by Saint-Saëns, Villa-Lobos, Tchaikovsky, Rautavaara (complete with the sounds of arctic swans) and Sibelius, whose 5th Symphony was inspired by the sight of sixteen swans - "One of the great experiences of my life!" he wrote, " God, how beautiful."
Readers are Anthony Calf and Louise Jameson.
01 00:00 Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lake in the mountains
Performer: Ian Brown (piano)
02 00:00
W B Yeats
03 00:00 Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for birds and orchestra) Op.61 (3rd movement)
Performer: Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
04 00:00
Gillian Clarke
05 00:00 Tom Rigney
The Swan
Performer: Tom Rigney
06 00:00
Hans Christian Anderson trans. M R James
07 00:00 Hamilton Harty
An Irish Symphony - III. In the Antrim Hills - Lento ma non troppo
Performer: Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson (conductor)
08 00:00
Trad
09 00:00 Catriona McKay
The Swan 'LK 243' arr. for guitar quartet
Performer: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
10 00:00
Lawrence Durrell
11 00:00 Edward Cowie
Mute Swan from String Quartet No. 5 Birdsong Bagatelles
Performer: Kreutzer Quartet
12 00:00 Trad
Ton Alarch (The Swan Song) (excerpt)
Performer: Robin Huw Bowen (Welsh triple harp)
13 00:00
Humbert Wolfe
14 00:00 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Scene - Swan Theme
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
15 00:00
Rainer Maria Rilke trans Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland
16 00:00 Ravel
Jeux d'Eaux
Performer: Martha Argerich (piano)
17 00:00
Keats
18 00:00
Aesop trans Willliam Ellery Leonard
19 00:00 Carl Orff
Olim lacus colueram 'The Roasted Swan sings' (Carmina Burana)
Performer: Gerhard Stolze (tenor), Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Eugen Jochum (cond)
20 00:00 Elena Kats-Chernin
Wild swans - concert suite arr. for violin and piano ..., no.2; Eliza's aria
Performer: Daniel Hope (violin), Jacques Ammon (piano)
21 00:00
Louise Glück
22 00:00 Tchaikovsky arr Igor Ponomarenko
Variations on Swan Lake
Performer: Terem Quartet
23 00:00 B. Merrill, J. Styne
The Swan (Funny Girl)
Performer: Barbra Streisand
24 00:00 Camille Saint‐Saëns
The Swan (The Carnival of the Animals)
Performer: Steven Isserlis (cello), Dudley Moore (piano), Michael Tilson Thomas (piano)
25 00:00 Heitor Villa‐Lobos
Song of the Black Swan (O Canto do Cysne Negro)
Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (piano)
26 00:00
Randall Jarrell
27 00:00 Schoenberg
Five Orchestral Pieces Op.16, "Summer Morning by a Lake" (excerpt)
Performer: Sinfonieorchester des Sudwestfunks, Baden-Baden, Hans Rosbaud (conductor)
28 00:00 Gerald Finzi arr Harvey Brough
Clear and Gentle Stream from Seven Part Songs op 17
Performer: Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor)
29 00:00
Tennyson
30 00:01 Orlando Gibbons
The Silver Swan
Performer: The King’s Singers
31 00:01 Sibelius
Symphony no. 5 (Op.82) in E flat major, 3rd movement; Allegro molto
Performer: Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle (conductor)
32 00:01
Edna St Vincent Millay
33 00:01
A.B. Banjo Peterson
34 00:01
Edward Plunkett (Lord Dunsany)
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (b08ch0hp)
Savage Pilgrims
"The moment I saw the brilliant, proud morning shine up over the deserts of Santa Fe, something stood still in my soul, and I started to attend" wrote DH Lawrence when he arrived in New Mexico in the 1920s. Since the turn of the 20th century a steady stream of sculptors, writers, painters, and composers have made New Mexico their home, along with a caravan of people seeking new ways of living in the high desert. Sara Mohr Pietsch heads to the American south-west to discover what it was amongst the piñon trees that first attracted them, and why so many now have their homes and studios there.
On her journey around the state she meets composers Raven Chacon and Meredith Monk who talk of the peculiar acoustic propoerties when performing outside, author Henry Shukman traces the early Anglo artist colonies at Taos, poet Mei Mei Berssenbrugge and artists Richard Tuttle reflect on the nature of spirituality, and artists Lynda Benglis and Tom Joyce talk of a deep connection with the land. Sara visits the ancient Taos Pueblo, home to a Pueblo Indian community for over 1000 years, to
hear how the native communities of the land became the focus of so much artistic interest, and sits quietly at the Harwood Museum of Art to look on some of the last paintings made by minimalist Agnes Martin, another New Mexico resident.
There is no one answer to why artists are drawn to New Mexico, but through interviews with those who live there, Sara discovers a deep connection between the people - be they Native, Hispanic or Anglo - and the red land, the clear light and the humbling, savage vastness of this "Land of Enchantment".
Produced by Peter Meanwell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
SUN 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08ch0hr)
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne - Bartok
Ian Skelly introduces his regular Sunday evening programme of performances recorded in some of Europe's leading concert halls. Tonight's performances were recorded in November last year as the WDR Symphony Orchestra of Cologne embarked on a Bartok cycle with the Russian pianist Anna Vinnitskaya.
Bartok:
Divertimento, Sz 113,
Piano Concerto No. 1, Sz. 83
The Miraculous Mandarin, Op 19 (Sz 73), pantomime in one act
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
Women of the WDR Radio Chorus, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor).
SUN 21:00 Drama on 3 (b08cwlcv)
The Government Inspector
Adapted by Adrian Mitchell from Nikolai Gogol's classic satire, the drama concerns the corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Governor (Roger Allam), who react with terror to the news that an incognito inspector will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them. When Khlestakov (Lenny Henry), a penniless nobody from Moscow, is mistaken for this government inspector, a tangled web of misunderstandings ensues. Gogol portrays officialdom as self-satisfied philistines occupying positions for which they are ill-suited.
Widely held to have led the realist revolution in Russian drama, Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852) liberated comedy from a tradition of sentimentality. The Government Inspector (1835), regarded as Gogol's masterpiece, caused such a furore when first performed that he was driven into exile.
A Catherine Bailey Production.
Khlestakov ............... Lenny Henry
The Governor ............. Roger Allam
Anna, his wife ........... Monica Dolan
Marya, his daughter ...... Erin Doherty
Judge .................... Don Warrington
Charity Commissioner ..... Peter Wight
Dr Gibner ................ Paul Jesson
Bobchinsky ............... James Fleet
Dobchinsky ............... Adrian Scarborough
Postmaster ............... Ivanno Jeremiah
Osip ..................... Geoffrey Palmer
Schools Superintendent ... Stephen Critchlow
Locksmith's Wife ......... Jessica Gunning
Director ................. Jeremy Herrin
Producer ................. Catherine Bailey
SUN 23:00 Early Music Late (b08ch0hw)
Huelgas Ensemble
Elin Manahan Thomas presents a sequence of music for Advent from a concert given last year by the Huelgas Ensemble at St Paul's Church, Antwerp. They perform music from the manuscript J.11.9, the only source of medieval Cypriot music in existence.
Ordo sanctorum militum, à 1
Sanctus in eternis
O Sapientia (triplum) / Nos demoramur (duplum)
O Adonay (triplum) / Pictor eterne (duplum)
O Radix Yesse (triplum) / Cunti fundent (duplum)
O clavis David (triplum) / Quis igitur (duplum)
O lucis eterne (triplum) / Veni splendor (duplum)
O rex virtutum (triplum) / Quis possit (duplum)
O Emanuel (triplum) / Magne virtutum (duplum)
O sacra virgo (triplum) / Tu nati nata (duplum)
Hodie puer (triplum) / Homo mortalis (duplum)
The Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel (director).
MONDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2017
MON 00:00 Recital (b08ch1jb)
Friedrich Gernsheim
Oliver Triendl and the Gemeaux Quartet perform the Piano Quintet No 2 in B minor, Op 63, (1897) of the little-known German composer Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916).
MON 00:30 Through the Night (b08ch1jg)
Gounod's Mors et Vita
John Shea presents Gounod's sacred trilogy Mors et Vita recorded in Eberbach Monastery in Germany.
12:31 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Mors et Vita - Pars Prima: Mors
Barbara Frittoli (soprano), Lidia Tirendi (mezzo-soprano), Zoran Todorovich (tenor), Davide Damiani (baritone), Budapest Radio Choir, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
2:00 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Mors et Vita - Pars secunda: Judicium
Barbara Frittoli (soprano), Lidia Tirendi (mezzo-soprano), Zoran Todorovich (tenor), Davide Damiani (baritone), Budapest Radio Choir, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
2:21 AM
Gounod, Charles (1818-1893)
Mors et Vita - Pars tertia: Vita. Visio Sancti Joannis
Barbara Frittoli (soprano), Lidia Tirendi (mezzo-soprano), Zoran Todorovich (tenor), Davide Damiani (baritone), Budapest Radio Choir, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
2:49 AM
Neruda, Johann Baptist Georg [c.1707-1780]
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Oslo Camerata, Stephan Barratt-Due (conductor)
3:05 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
6 Moments Musicaux (D780)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
3:31 AM
Délibes, Leo (1836-1891)
Bell Song 'Où va la jeune hindoue?' from Act 2 of 'Lakmé'
Tracy Dahl (soprano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
3:40 AM
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962)
Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Gaetano Pugnani - for violin and piano
Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano)
3:46 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Sinfonia from L'Incoronazione di Dario - opera RV.719
Sinfonia Varsovia, Andres Mustonen (conductor)
3:52 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z49 (Bell Anthem)
Samuel Boden (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe (director)
4:01 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Serenade for string orchestra in E minor, Op.20
BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4:13 AM
Field, John (1782-1837)
Andante inédit in E flat major for piano
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
4:21 AM
Reinecke, Carl (1824-1910)
Ballade for flute and orchestra
Matej Zupan (flute), Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
4:31 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Herbstlied Op.84 No.2
Kaia Urb (soprano), Heiki Mätlik (guitar)
4:35 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Waldesrauschen - from Two Concert studies for piano, S145
Lana Genc (piano)
4:40 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Concert aria "Bella mia fiamma...Resta, O cara", K528
Andrea Rost (soprano), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor)
4:51 AM
Jarzebski, Adam (1590-1649)
Concerto primo à 2, Concerto secondo à 2, Concerto terza à 2, Concerto quarto à 2 (1627)
Bruce Dickey (cornetto), Alberto Grazzi (bassoon, in No.4 only), Michael Fentross (theorbo), Charles Toet (trombone), Jacques Ogg (organ), Lucy van Dael (conductor)
5:04 AM
Rosenmüller, Johann (c.1619-1684)
Beatus vir qui timet Dominum
Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), David Cordier (countertenor), Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Carsten Lohff (organ), Cantus Köln, Konrad Junghänel (conductor and lute)
5:18 AM
Franck, César (1822-1890)
Prélude, fugue et variation in B minor for organ, Op.18 (M.30)
Pierre Pincemaille (organ)
5:27 AM
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893)
Francesca da Rimini (symphonic fantasia after Dante), Op.32
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Raffi Armenian (conductor)
5:51 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883), arr. Zoltán Kocsis
Concert Prelude to 'Tristan und Isolde', arr. for piano
François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
6:02 AM
Korngold, Erich (1897-1957)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35
Chantal Juillet (violin), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Franz-Paul Decker (conductor).
MON 06:30 Breakfast (b08ch1jj)
Monday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b08ch1jm)
Monday - Rob Cowan with Simon Callow
9am
Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Rob's guest is the actor, writer and director Simon Callow. Sir Laurence Olivier gave Simon his first theatre job - in the box office of the National Theatre - and after that the young Callow soon found his way onto the stage, first coming to prominence playing Mozart in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. He has since become one of the UK's best-loved actors, not only on the stage, but in TV series such as Chance in a Million, and films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral. Simon is often referred to as a writer who acts, having produced not only books about his own life as an actor, but also biographies of Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Orson Welles and most recently Richard Wagner. During the week Simon discusses all this and more and chooses music by Sibelius, Grainger, Mozart and Wagner.
10.30am
Music in Time: Classical
Rob places Music and Time. Today he heads back to the Classical period, his destination, Vienna in 1786, for a piece sometimes said to have been composed during a game of skittles: Mozart's Trio in E flat Major, K498, nicknamed the 'Kegelstatt' and written for the unprecedented combination of clarinet, viola and piano.
11am
Artist of the Week: Sir Thomas Beecham
'The Beecham Touch' is an epithet for all that is stylish, delicate, mischievous and spontaneous in conducting. Sir Thomas was the living embodiment of charm, genuine authenticity (in that he conducted from the heart as well as from the head) and a sense of theatre that could leave an audience breathless with excitement. Rob's selection of Beecham recordings ranges from Handel and Haydn to Delius and Sibelius, all of them 'first-loves' for this most charismatic of conductors.
Frederick Delius
Brigg Fair
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor).
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08ch1js)
Alexander Mackenzie (1847-1935), Studying in Germany
Presented by Donald Macleod. Young Alexander Mackenzie is left by himself to study in Germany.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie rose from humble beginnings in Edinburgh, to become not only a celebrated and international composer, but also the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Along with Parry and Stanford he was a significant player in the renaissance of British music, and was pivotal in establishing the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. During his career commissions regularly came his way, including concertos, oratorios and operas. He eventually returned to London, after further spells in Edinburgh and Italy, where he remained for the rest of his life, composing and managing the RAM. He was honoured by Queen Victoria for his services to music, and he received the Gold Medal from the Royal Philharmonic Society. During his long career his music was premiered by the likes of Sarasate and the Carl Rosa opera company. W.S Gilbert and Lewis Carroll both approached Mackenzie with collaborative projects in mind, and as a conductor he worked with Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Liszt, and Saint-Saëns to name only a few.
Alexander Mackenzie was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, where his father performed as a violinist in the Theatre Royal. In the light of his own deteriorating health, Mackenzie senior wanted to make provision for his son's musical education and so took him to Germany, where he studied at a young age with Kappelmeister Eduard Stein, and played violin in the Weimar ducal orchestra. Aged fifteen, young Alick, as he was known, returned to Britain and took up further studies at the Royal Academy of Music, earning his keep by playing in theatre orchestras in London. He started writing music at this time and when he returned to live in Edinburgh in 1865, he was instrumental in setting up regular chamber music concerts there, along with founding a string quartet which gave the premiere of his own Quartet in G major.
Benedictus, Op 37 No 3
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
The Bonnie Banks o'Loch Lomond
Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano
James Baillieu, piano
April Weather (Spring Songs, Op 44 No 5)
Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano
James Baillieu, piano
Valse sérieuse (Trois Morceaux, Op 15 No 1)
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
String Quartet in G
Edinburgh Quartet
Producer Luke Whitlock.
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08ch4bt)
Wigmore Hall Mondays - Isabelle Faust and Andreas Staier
Live from Wigmore Hall in London, violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Andreas Staier play fantasies by CPE Bach and Schumann, and an arrangement of Brahms's Viola Sonata Op 120 No 2.
Introduced by Clemency Burton-Hill
CPE Bach: Fantasie in F sharp minor, Wq 80
Schumann: Fantasy in C, Op 131
Brahms: Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2
Isabelle Faust (violin)
Andreas Staier (piano).
MON 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08ch4bw)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1
Katie Derham presents a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Today, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Beethoven's 2nd Symphony, Bartok's First Violin Concerto, with Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist, and Mendelssohn's 4th Symphony, the 'Italian'. Then David Robertson takes to the rostrum to conduct the ensemble, joined by Synergy Vocals, in the world premiere of Moritz Eggert's Muzak and also Reich's The Desert Music.
2pm:
Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
2.25pm:
Bartok: Violin Concerto No 1
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
2.45pm:
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Op 90, 'Italian'
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
3.20pm:
Steve Reich: The Desert Music
Synergy Vocals
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson, conductor.
MON 16:30 In Tune (b08ch4by)
Max Richter, Aida Garifullina
Sarah Walker with a lively mix of music, chat, and arts news. Her guests include composer Max Richter, and soprano Aida Garifullina.
MON 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08ch1js)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08ch4l5)
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Kabalevsky, Michael Zev Gordon, Shostakovich
Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in an evening of Kabalevsky, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony and the premiere of Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto, with soloist Carolin Widmann.
Recorded on 3 February 2017.
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch
19.30
Dmitri Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon (Overture)
Michael Zev Gordon: Violin Concerto (BBC commission: world premiere)
20.00 Interval
20.20
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 in E minor
Thrills and high drama are guaranteed with Kabalevsky's rip-roaring overture and Shostakovich's powerful Tenth Symphony, all conducted by the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Kabalevsky's piece, full of fizz and pop, is followed by a very different work, Michael Zev Gordon's new violin concerto - a work of rich lyrical power with bold contrasts of colour and expression - and performed here with the acclaimed German violinist Carolin Widmann.
Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, a heartfelt cry for freedom written under the looming presence of Joseph Stalin, is one of the 20th century's most shattering symphonic experiences.
MON 22:00 Music Matters (b08cgvlp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:15 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (b08ch4l8)
Strange Beds, Colin Thubron
Five writers recall a night they spent somewhere out of the ordinary.
Colin Thubron is the first to report back. Thirty years ago he was in a Chinese town, unknown to the rest of the world. His time here was haunted by memories of a merciless leader, whose bed he will sleep in for one night only. One night is enough though ...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
MON 23:00 Jazz Now (b08ch4lb)
Sun of Goldfinger
Soweto Kinch presents experimental American guitarist David Torn and his band Sun of Goldfinger, with saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Ches Smith in concert at the Vortex in London. Torn is famous for his combination of electronics and acoustic guitar work, using loops and other electro-acoustic devices. The current trio is an offshoot of his band Prezens, which recorded an eponymous album in 2007. It is Torn's first UK visit for some years.
TUESDAY 07 FEBRUARY 2017
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b08ch68p)
Proms 2015: Alina Ibragimova with Apollo's Fire
John Shea presents a performance of CPE Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and Bach from the 2015 BBC Proms Saturday Matinees with Alina Ibragimova, Apollo's Fire and Jeannette Sorrell.
12:31 AM
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel [1714-1788]
Symphony in B minor, Wq 182 No 5
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord/director)
12:43 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1685-1741]
Violin Concerto in D major, RV 234, 'L'Inquietudine'
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord/director)
12:49 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Overture (Suite) in G major, TWV.55:G10, 'Burlesque de Quixotte'
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord/director)
1:02 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Violin Concerto No.2 in E major, BWV 1042
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord/director)
1:19 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major, BWV 1050
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord/director)
1:41 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849]
12 Studies Op.10, for piano
Lukas Geniusas (piano)
2:12 AM
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837)
Trio in E flat major, Op 12
The Hertz Trio
2:31 AM
Taneyev, Sergey Ivanovich (1856-1915)
Symphony No 4 in C minor, Op 12
Marinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
3:12 AM
Peeters, Flor [1903-1986]
Missa Festiva - for mixed choir and organ, Op 62
Flemish Radio Choir, Vic Nees (director), Peter Pieters (organ)
3:39 AM
Boeck, August de (1865-1937)
Fantasy on Two Flemish Folk Songs
Vlaams Radio Orkest, Marc Soustrot (conductor)
3:46 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Rondo in A minor, K511
Jean Muller (piano)
3:57 AM
Maxwell Davies, Peter [1934-2016]
A Sad paven for these distracted tymes
Pavel Haas Quartet
4:04 AM
Albinoni, Tomaso (1671-1750)
Concerto in B flat, Op 7 No 3
Ivan Hadliyski (trumpet), Kamerorchester, Alipi Naydenov (conductor)
4:13 AM
Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935)
Spiegel im Spiegel
Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano)
4:21 AM
Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782)
Quintet in G major for flute, oboe, violin, viola and continuo, Op 11 No 2
Les Adieux
4:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), orch. Anton Webern (1883-1945)
6 Deutsche for piano, D820
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)
4:40 AM
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986)
Croquiser, Op 38 (1947)
Marten Landström (piano)
4:52 AM
Bruch, Max (1838-1920)
Kol Nidrei, Op 47
Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)
5:05 AM
Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)
Sept Chansons for choir
Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor)
5:19 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Harp Concerto in B flat major, Op 4 No 6 (HWV 294)
Sofija Ristič (harp), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)
5:32 AM
Elgar, Edward (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures, Op 37
Margreta Elkins (mezzo-soprano), Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert (conductor)
5:55 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Trio in E flat major, H.
15.30, for keyboard and strings
Kungsbacka Piano Trio
6:13 AM
Walters, Gareth (1928-2012)
Divertimento for Strings (1960)
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor).
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b08ch825)
Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b08ch827)
Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Simon Callow
9am
Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?
10am
Rob's guest is the actor, writer and director Simon Callow. Sir Laurence Olivier gave Simon his first theatre job - in the box office of the National Theatre - and after that the young Callow soon found his way onto the stage, first coming to prominence playing Mozart in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. He has since become one of the UK's best-loved actors, not only on the stage, but in TV series such as Chance in a Million, and films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral. Simon is often referred to as a writer who acts, having produced not only books about his own life as an actor, but also biographies of Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Orson Welles and most recently Richard Wagner. During the week Simon discusses all this and more and chooses music by Sibelius, Grainger, Mozart and Wagner.
10.30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Rob places Music in Time. Today, he travels back to the Renaissance period to experience music from a monumental work by the French composer Antoine Brumel: his ground-breaking 'Earthquake Mass'. It's the first mass to be written for 12 independent voices, and the effect is scintillating.
Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of Rachmaninov's Prelude in G flat major, Op.23 No.10, played by the Brazilian pianist Yara Bernette and by the composer himself.
11am
Artist of the Week: Sir Thomas Beecham
'The Beecham Touch' is an epithet for all that is stylish, delicate, mischievous and spontaneous in conducting. Sir Thomas was the living embodiment of charm, genuine authenticity (in that he conducted from the heart as well as from the head) and a sense of theatre that could leave an audience breathless with excitement. Rob's selection of Beecham recordings ranges from Handel and Haydn to Delius and Sibelius, all of them 'first-loves' for this most charismatic of conductors.
Sibelius
Symphony No.2 in D major
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor).
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08ch829)
Alexander Mackenzie (1847-1935), A Mother's Wrath
Alexander Mackenzie disobeys his mother in marriage, presented by Donald Macleod
Sir Alexander Mackenzie rose from humble beginnings in Edinburgh, to become not only a celebrated and international composer, but also the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Along with Parry and Stanford he was a significant player in the renaissance of British music, and was pivotal in establishing the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. During his career commissions regularly came his way, including concertos, oratorios and operas. He eventually returned to London, after further spells in Edinburgh and Italy, where he remained for the rest of his life, composing and managing the RAM. He was honoured by Queen Victoria for his services to music, and he received the Gold Medal from the Royal Philharmonic Society. During his long career his music was premiered by the likes of Sarasate and the Carl Rosa opera company. W.S Gilbert and Lewis Carroll both approached Mackenzie with collaborative projects in mind, and as a conductor he worked with Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Liszt, and Saint-Saëns to name only a few.
By 1865 Alexander Mackenzie had returned to Edinburgh and was busy as a music teacher, and also conducting a number of choral groups as well. Whilst in Scotland he composed a number of works for the voice, including songs and partsongs. He was also active as a violinist, playing in a quartet he'd founded, and taking on work in Birmingham for Michael Costa's orchestra. Newly composed chamber works such as his Piano Quartet Op 11 were proving popular, not only in Scotland but in London as well. Much to the annoyance of his family, in 1874 he married Mary Malina Burnside, and the newlyweds moved to Darnaway Street in Edinburgh. A few years later under doctor's orders, Mackenzie was forced to take a break from his heavy workload, and so he moved with his wife and child to Florence. It was here that a commission came for his Second Scottish Rhapsody.
Harvest Home (Rustic Scenes, Op 9)
Murray McLachlan, piano
Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 11 (Canzonetta con variazioni)
The Ames Piano Quartet
It is This; The Day of Love; When Spring Begems the Dewy Scene (Seven Partsongs, Op 8)
BBC Singers
Martin Fitzpatrick, conductor
The First Spring; When I am dead (Three Songs, Op 17)
Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano
James Baillieu, piano
Burns (Scottish Rhapsody No 2), Op 24
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08ch8kz)
Dartington and Tetbury Festivals 2016, Dartington and Tetbury Festivals 2016
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents highlights from the Dartington and Tetbury Festivals 2016, featuring recitals by Chloë Hanslip, Steven Osborne and the Chiaroscuro Quartet.
Today's programme includes Mozart's ravishing String Quartet in G, K387, plus one of the pinnacles of Romantic violin repertoire, Brahms's Third Violin Sonata, Op 108. To whet the appetite for his all-Debussy performances in the rest of the week, Steven Osborne ends today's programme with a hazy, Impressionistic improvisation of his own.
Mozart: String Quartet in G, K387
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Brahms: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108
Chloë Hanslip, violin
Florian Mitrea, piano
Steven Osborne: Improvisation
Steven Osborne, piano.
TUE 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08ch96d)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Episode 2
Katie Derham presents, as part of a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Haydn's oratorio The Seasons, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. With Marlis Petersen, Andrew Staples and Florian Boesch as soloists. Also this afternoon, Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons conducts the orchestra in Sommer's Antigone, an overture to the tragedy of Sophocles.
2pm:
Haydn
The Seasons, Parts 1 & 2 (Spring and Summer)
3.10pm
Haydn
The Seasons, Parts 3 & 4 (Autumn and Winter)
Marlis Petersen, soprano
Andrew Staples, tenor
Florian Boesch, bass-baritone
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
4.10pm
Sommer
Antigone - Overture to the tragedy of Sophocles
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor.
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b08ch9mq)
Alisa Weilerstein, Maxim Vengerov, Long Yu
Sarah Walker with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Her guests include cellist Alisa Weilerstein, violinist Maxim Vengerov, and conductor Long Yu.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08ch829)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08chb56)
Ulster Orchestra - Elgar, Ravel, Franck
The Ulster Orchestra are joined by their former principal conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier in a performance of Elgar's tone poem In the South 'Alassio', written between 1903 and1904, the subtitle a reference to the town in Italy where the composer and his family stayed during the holiday when he wrote the work. Then, Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor, orchestrated and arranged by conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier. Tortelier explained that his reason for orchestrating the Trio goes back many years, when he and his father and sister performed the work, and much of it was completed during his time in Belfast and written specially for the Ulster Orchestra.
The programme is rounded off with Franck's Symphony in D minor, the only symphony the composer wrote, completed in August 1888. The piece received its premiere the following year at the Paris Conservatory and is dedicated to his pupil, the composer Henri Duparc.
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b08chbp9)
Russian Art and Revolution
As the Royal Academy unveils its huge new show of work produced in Russia between 1917 and 1932, Anne McElvoy and her guests - the gallery director, Elena Sudakova, novelist Charlotte Hobson and the historians Stephen Smith and Victor Sebestyen - assess the role played by artists in the revolution and the relevance of their paintings, sculptures, films, books and music today.
Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 runs from February 11th to April 17th at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Charlotte Hobson's novel is called The Vanishing Futurist.
Elena Sudakova is Director of the GRAD Gallery for Russian Arts and Design in London.
Professor Stephen Smith from All Souls College, Oxford is the author of books including The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism and The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction.
Victor Sebestyen's Lenin the Dictator is published later this month.
Producer: Zahid Warley
Image: Kazimir Malevich, Peasants, c. 1930
Oil on canvas, 53 x 70 cm
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Photo (c) 2016, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
(courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts, London - from the exhibition: Revolution: Russian Art 1917 - 1932).
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b08cqrcb)
Strange Beds, Rachel Cooke
Five writers recall a night they spent somewhere out of the ordinary.
Rachel Cooke was on assignment in the wilds of Scotland, reporting on a deer hunt. Exhausted, after a peaty-coloured bath, bedtime approaches. Dreams ensue and also the rattling of her door-knob ...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b08chcf6)
Fiona Talkington with a Sounds of the City Special
Fiona Talkington soundtracks the night with odes to the city. We feature one part of Steve Reich's frenetic City Life composition, an ambient urban soundscape from Brian Eno and German composer Jan Peter Schwalm and a tangle of horns from British jazz band leader Django Bates' album Travel Cartoons for the Blind, as well as snatches of shortwave radio from cities around the world.
Also on the programme we look forward to field recordist Peter Cusack's sounds of Hull on Thursday with a jazz piece selected by one of its former residents, the poet and jazz critic Philip Larkin.
Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.
WEDNESDAY 08 FEBRUARY 2017
WED 00:30 Through the Night (b08ch68s)
Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno
John Shea presents a performance from Poland of Handel's oratorio Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno.
12:32 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno - oratorio (Part 1)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano, Bellezza), Anna Reinhold (mezzo, Piacere), Mélodie Ruvio (contralto, Disinganno), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor, Tempo), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (flutes and director)
1:37 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759]
Il Trionfo del tempo e del disinganno - oratorio (Part 2)
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano, Bellezza), Anna Reinhold (mezzo, Piacere), Mélodie Ruvio (contralto, Disinganno), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor, Tempo), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (flutes and director)
2:52 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Sarah Chang (violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Juraj Valucha (conductor)
3:32 AM
Enna, August (1859-1939)
Klaverstykker (piano pieces): No.2 Waltz, No.3 Intermezzo
Ida Cernecka (piano)
3:39 AM
Walton, William [1902-1983]
Orb and sceptre - coronation march
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds (conductor)
3:48 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV.539
Ligita Sneibe (organ)
3:55 AM
Sterkel, Johann Franz Xaver (1750-1817)
Viola Duet No.2
Milan Telecky and Zuzana Jarabakova (violas)
4:05 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Quadro in G minor
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori (ensemble)
4:14 AM
Badarzewska-Baranowska, Tekla (1838-1862)
The Maiden's Prayer Op.4
Kyung-Sook Lee (piano)
4:19 AM
Françaix, Jean (1912-1997)
Le Gai Paris for wind ensemble
The Wind Ensemble of the Hungarian Radio Orchestra
4:31 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
The Italian Girl in Algiers - overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
4:39 AM
Tobias, Rudolf (1873-1918)
Sonatina No.2 in C minor
Vardo Rumessen (piano)
4:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
St. Matthew Passion - Opening Chorus, BWV.244:1
Hungarian Radio Choir, Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
4:58 AM
Djourov, Plamen (b.1949)
Ballades, Nos. 1 & 4
Eolina Quartet
5:07 AM
Corigliano, John (b.1938)
Elegy for orchestra
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:17 AM
Papandopulo, Boris (1906-1991)
Trio Sonata
Zagreb Guitar Trio: Istvan Römer and Goran Listeš (guitars), Darko Petrinjak (double bass)
5:30 AM
Müthel, Johann Gottfried (1728-1788)
Concerto in D minor for harpsichord, 2 bassoons, strings and continuo
Rhoda Patrick and David Mings (bassoons), Gregor Hollman (harpsichord), Musica Alta Ripa
5:54 AM
Koussevitsky, Serge (1874-1951)
Andante cantabile & Valse miniature, Op.1 Nos 1 & 2
Gary Carr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)
6:04 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.67 (Hob I:67) in F major
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor).
WED 06:30 Breakfast (b08ch82f)
Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b08ch82h)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Simon Callow
9am
Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Rob's guest is the actor, writer and director Simon Callow. Sir Laurence Olivier gave Simon his first theatre job - in the box office of the National Theatre - and after that the young Callow soon found his way onto the stage, first coming to prominence playing Mozart in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. He has since become one of the UK's best-loved actors, not only on the stage, but in TV series such as Chance in a Million, and films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral. Simon is often referred to as a writer who acts, having produced not only books about his own life as an actor, but also biographies of Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Orson Welles and most recently Richard Wagner. During the week Simon discusses all this and more and chooses music by Sibelius, Grainger, Mozart and Wagner.
10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Rob places Music in Time. Today the spotlight is on the Modern Era, and perhaps the greatest quartet cycle since Beethoven. Bela Bartok composed his six string quartets at intervals spread throughout his career and the Fifth dates from the summer of 1934. Bartok constructed its five movements in a symmetrical arch form around a central scherzo inspired by Bulgarian folk style.
11am
Artist of the Week: Sir Thomas Beecham
'The Beecham Touch' is an epithet for all that is stylish, delicate, mischievous and spontaneous in conducting. Sir Thomas was the living embodiment of charm, genuine authenticity (in that he conducted from the heart as well as from the head) and a sense of theatre that could leave an audience breathless with excitement. Rob's selection of Beecham recordings ranges from Handel and Haydn to Delius and Sibelius, all of them 'first-loves' for this most charismatic of conductors.
Bizet
L'Arlésienne Suite No.2
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor).
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08ch82k)
Alexander Mackenzie (1847-1935), Collaborating with Carl Rosa
Mackenzie's opera Colomba is a huge success in London and abroad. Presented by Donald Macleod.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie rose from humble beginnings in Edinburgh, to become not only a celebrated and international composer, but also the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Along with Parry and Stanford he was a significant player in the renaissance of British music, and was pivotal in establishing the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. During his career commissions regularly came his way, including concertos, oratorios and operas. He eventually returned to London, after further spells in Edinburgh and Italy, where he remained for the rest of his life, composing and managing the RAM. He was honoured by Queen Victoria for his services to music, and he received the Gold Medal from the Royal Philharmonic Society. During his long career his music was premiered by the likes of Sarasate and the Carl Rosa opera company. W.S Gilbert and Lewis Carroll both approached Mackenzie with collaborative projects in mind, and as a conductor he worked with Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Liszt, and Saint-Saëns to name only a few.
Alexander Mackenzie was now permanently settled in Florence with his wife and child, but he did make occasional return visits to London and Edinburgh. It was on one of these trips in 1882, that he was startled to find a letter waiting for him offering a commission to write a new opera for the Carl Rosa Opera Company. Mackenzie accepted and the outcome was Colomba, which was premiered a year later with the composer conducting at Drury Lane. It was a great success, and Mackenzie not only found himself being invited to breakfast at 10 Downing Street, but he also conducted another performance in Darmstadt at the court theatre where he was presented with a gold medal by the Grand Duke. Commissions were now regularly coming Mackenzie's way including an oratorio for Norwich, The Rose of Sharon, and for another choral work for Birmingham, although Mackenzie delivered on that occasion a violin concerto instead, which was premiered by Sarasate.
Colomba, Op 28 (Prelude)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Bostock, conductor
The Lord is My Shepherd - excerpt (The Rose of Sharon, Op 30)
Patricia MacMahon, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alan Hazeldine, conductor
Violin Concerto in C sharp minor, Op 32
Malcolm Stewart, violin
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor
Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 11 (Finale: Allegro molto e con brio)
The Ames Piano Quartet
Producer Luke Whitlock.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08ch8l1)
Dartington and Tetbury Festivals 2016, Episode 2
Nicola Heywood Thomas continues coverage of highlights from the Dartington and Tetbury Festivals 2016, featuring recitals by Chloë Hanslip, Steven Osborne and the Chiaroscuro Quartet.
Two contrasting piano works by Debussy begin today's programme, in the virtuoso hands of Steven Osborne - his grand, Watteau-inspired masterpiece, l'Isle Joyeuse and the charming suite Children's Corner. Chloë Hanslip and Florian Mitrea explore a work Prokofiev originally conceived for the voice, before the Chiaroscuro Quartet show off their acclaimed expertise in High Classical repertoire in Haydn's String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2.
Debussy: L'Isle joyeuse
Steven Osborne, piano
Debussy: Children's Corner
Steven Osborne, piano
Prokofiev: Cinq Mélodies, Op 35bis
Chloë Hanslip, violin
Florian Mitrea, piano
Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op 76 No 2
Chiaroscuro Quartet.
WED 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08ch96l)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Episode 3
Katie Derham presents, as part of a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brahms's Tragic Overture and Reger's Requiem after Hebbel, with baritone Michael Volle. Also today, the Bavarian Radio Chorus directed by Howard Arman in Gabriel Jackson's The Armed Man and Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth) by Schoenberg. The afternoon ends with the BRSO performing Ligeti's Violin Concerto with soloist Ilya Gringolts, conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens.
2.pm:
Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op 81
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor
2.15pm
Reger: Requiem, Op 144b
Michael Volle, baritone
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor
2.30pm
Gabriel Jackson: The Armed Man
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Howard Arman, director
2.40pm
Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, Op 13
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Howard Arman, director
2.50pm
Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Ilya Gringolts, violin
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Peter Rundel, conductor.
WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b08cqrhd)
Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Introit: Late have I loved thee (Harry Bramma)
Responses: Tomkins
Psalms 42, 43 (Wesley)
First Lesson: 1 Samuel 1 vv.19b-28
Canticles: Blair in B minor
Second Lesson: Luke 2 vv.41-52
Anthem: Give unto the Lord (Elgar)
Hymn: Praise my soul, the King of heaven (Descant: Robinson)
Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody No 3 in C sharp minor (Howells)
Director of Music: Stephen Cleobury
Organ scholars: Richard Gowers, Henry Websdale.
WED 16:30 In Tune (b08ch9nj)
John Tomlinson, Suzi Digby, Delta Piano Trio
Sarah Walker with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Her guests include bass Sir John Tomlinson, conductor Suzi Digby, and the Delta Piano Trio.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08ch82k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08chb5f)
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Kancheli, Martinu, Vaughan Williams
Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony.
Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall on 25th January.
Presented by Tom Redmond.
Giya Kancheli: Mourned by the Wind (Liturgy for solo viola and orchestra)
8.00: Interval
8.20
Martinů: Memorial to Lidice
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9
Isabelle van Keulen, viola
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
From the darkest depths of the Second World War, Bohuslav Martinů cries out in anguish and rage. In Soviet Georgia, Giya Kancheli mourns a friend with a searingly beautiful musical liturgy; music stained with tears, performed tonight by one of the world's finest viola players. And the 85-year-old Vaughan Williams rages against the dying of the light in a Ninth Symphony of breathtaking ambition and imaginative fire. Three great composers, three extraordinary testimonies.
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b08chbpc)
Robots
Matthew Sweet meets Eric the UK's first robot, built in 1928 now at the Science Museum as part of a big display exploring robotics, AI and the impact of religious belief.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b08cqrcg)
Strange Beds, Philip Hoare
Five writers recall a night they spent somewhere out of the ordinary.
Philip Hoare was thrown off his bike and spent a night in a hospital observation ward. The bed is tiny, the sheets strap him firmly in. Then he takes a look at his fellow patients ...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b08cqrcj)
Fiona Talkington
Fiona Talkington has an exclusive piece recorded at Emulsion festival in Birmingham, a new music festival curated by the composer and saxophonist Trish Clowes. We continue to thread in odes to the urban from prog guitar king Robert Fripp, cult folk-blues singer Karen Dalton, and Irish electro-acoustic artist Cathal Coughlin.
Also a chance to hear American work songs rubbing shoulders with Michael Tippett's Child of Our Time.
Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.
THURSDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2017
THU 00:30 Through the Night (b08ch68z)
Bruckner's Sixth Symphony
John Shea presents a performance of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony from the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.
12:31 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Prelude to Act 1 of 'Parsifal'
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, James Feddeck (conductor)
12:42 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Four Last Songs
Orla Boylan (soprano), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, James Feddeck (conductor)
1:04 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Symphony No.6 in A major
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, James Feddeck (conductor)
1:59 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
String Quartet in E flat major, Op.74, 'Harp'
Royal String Quartet
2:31 AM
Meulemans, Herman (1893-1965)
Five Piano Pieces: Als de beke zingt (When the brook is chanting); Menuet; Mazurka triste; Wals; Lentewandeling (Vernal wanderings)
Steven Kolacny (piano)
2:50 AM
Walton, William (1902-1983)
Cello Concerto (1956)
Zara Nelsova (cello), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
3:18 AM
Charlton, Richard (b.1955)
Dances of the Rainbow Serpent
Guitar Trek: Timothy Kain, Carolyn Kidd, Mark Norton, Peter Constant, (guitars)
3:28 AM
Kirnberger, Johann Philipp (1721-1783)
Sonata in G major for flute and continuo
Konrad Hünteler (flute), Wouter Möller (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)
3:39 AM
Guerrero, Francisco (c.1528-1599)
Prado verde y florido - sacred vilancico
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Maite Arruabarrena (mezzo-soprano), Lambert Climent (tenor), Francesc Garrigosa (tenor), Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall (director)
3:44 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
3:54 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.5 in B flat major, K22
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ernest Bour (conductor)
4:02 AM
Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694)
Sonatina No.69 for 2 trumpets and organ
Ivan Hadliyski & Roman Hajiyski (trumpets), Velin Iliev (organ)
4:05 AM
Guastavino, Carlos (1912-2000)
La rosa y el sauce (The Rose and the Willow)
Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), James Parker (piano), Bryan Epperson, Maurizio Baccante, Roman Borys, Simon Fryer, David Hetherington, Roberta Jansen, Paul Widner, Thomas Wiebe, Winona Zelenka (cellos)
4:09 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Minuet from 'Petite Suite'
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)
4:12 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Sonatina, Romance and Menuet - from Six petites pièces faciles (Op.3 Nos.1, 2 and 3)
Antra Viksne (piano), Normunds Viksne (piano)
4:19 AM
Küffner, Joseph (1776-1856) [previously attrib. Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)]
Introduction, Theme and Variations in B flat major for clarinet and string quartet
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet
4:31 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Overture in D major
Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
4:38 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in C major for sopranino recorder, RV.444
Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Köln
4:47 AM
Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868)
Lindoro's cavatina 'Languir per una bella' - from L' Italiana in Algeri, Act 1 scene 3
Francisco Araiza (tenor), Capella Coloniensis, Gabriele Ferro (conductor)
4:55 AM
Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921)
Oboe Sonata in D major (Op.166)
Roger Cole (oboe), Linda Lee Thomas (piano)
5:06 AM
Eller, Heino (1887-1970)
Romance; Dance; A Homeland Tune (from 'Five Pieces for Strings')
Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vallo Jarvi (conductor)
5:19 AM
Pärt, Arvo (b.1935)
Fratres, for cello and piano (1977)
Petr Nouzovský (cello), Yukie Ichimura (piano)
5:32 AM
Howells, Herbert (1892-1983)
Requiem, for chorus
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
5:54 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Aria and Variations - from the Keyboard Suite No.3 in D minor
Jan Jongepier on the 1740 Johann Michaell Schwarzburg organ of Waalse Kerk, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
6:06 AM
Tellefsen, Thomas (1823-1874)
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.19
Alexander Melnikov (period piano: Erard, 1849), Concerto Köln, Michael Güttler (conductor).
THU 06:30 Breakfast (b08ch82m)
Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b08ch82p)
Thursday - Rob Cowan with Simon Callow
9am
Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical personality.
10am
Rob's guest is the actor, writer and director Simon Callow. Sir Laurence Olivier gave Simon his first theatre job - in the box office of the National Theatre - and after that the young Callow soon found his way onto the stage, first coming to prominence playing Mozart in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. He has since become one of the UK's best-loved actors, not only on the stage, but in TV series such as Chance in a Million, and films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral. Simon is often referred to as a writer who acts, having produced not only books about his own life as an actor, but also biographies of Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Orson Welles and most recently Richard Wagner. During the week Simon discusses all this and more and chooses music by Sibelius, Grainger, Mozart and Wagner.
10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time, and travels back to the Romantic era. The composer, pianist and organist César Franck was renowned for his brilliance at improvising around sacred melodies. Rob explores how Franck's expertise in developing and transforming musical themes was channelled into his Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra.
Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of the aria Ombra mai fù by Handel, sung by two favourite singers from different eras: the tenor Enrico Caruso and countertenor Andreas Scholl.
11am Artist of the Week: Sir Thomas Beecham
'The Beecham Touch' is an epithet for all that is stylish, delicate, mischievous and spontaneous in conducting. Sir Thomas was the living embodiment of charm, genuine authenticity (in that he conducted from the heart as well as from the head) and a sense of theatre that could leave an audience breathless with excitement. Rob's selection of Beecham recordings ranges from Handel and Haydn to Delius and Sibelius, all of them 'first-loves' for this most charismatic of conductors.
Schubert
Symphony No.5 in B flat major
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor).
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08ch82r)
Alexander Mackenzie (1847-1935), The Royal Academy of Music
Alexander Mackenzie is appointed Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Presented by Donald Macleod
Sir Alexander Mackenzie rose from humble beginnings in Edinburgh, to become not only a celebrated and international composer, but also the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Along with Parry and Stanford he was a significant player in the renaissance of British music, and was pivotal in establishing the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. During his career commissions regularly came his way, including concertos, oratorios and operas. He eventually returned to London, after further spells in Edinburgh and Italy, where he remained for the rest of his life, composing and managing the RAM. He was honoured by Queen Victoria for his services to music, and he received the Gold Medal from the Royal Philharmonic Society. During his long career his music was premiered by the likes of Sarasate and the Carl Rosa opera company. W.S Gilbert and Lewis Carroll both approached Mackenzie with collaborative projects in mind, and as a conductor he worked with Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Liszt, and Saint-Saëns to name only a few.
By 1885, Alexander Mackenzie was living in London, where he'd taken on conducting a series of concerts promoted by the Novello publishing firm. Through his concert work, he came into contact with other composers such as Dvorak. Commissions were continuing to come Mackenzie's way including for another opera, called Troubadour; however he soon tired of London and returned to Italy. Mackenzie didn't remain there for long. In 1888 he was appointed Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, where he made quite a stir instituting changes - such as insisting that he should have his own office. Despite his now busy workload back in London, he continued to compose. His Pibroch Suite was premiered in 1889 and just a few years later came Britannia, a Nautical Overture, composed to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the Royal Academy of Music.
Shall I compare thee (Three of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Op 50)
Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano
James Baillieu, piano
Pibroch, Suite for violin and orchestra, Op 42
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Alexander Platt, conductor
Britannia, A Nautical Overture, Op 52 (excerpt)
New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
Alexander Mackenzie, conductor
Britannia, A Nautical Overture, Op 52
English Northern Philharmonia
David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
Scottish Concerto, Op 55 (2nd movt. Molto lento)
Steven Osborne, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Is the Moon Tired; A Motherless Soft Lambkin
Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano
James Baillieu, piano
Producer Luke Whitlock.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08ch8l3)
Dartington and Tetbury Festivals 2016, Episode 3
Nicola Heywood Thomas continues coverage of highlights of the Dartington and Tetbury Festivals 2016, featuring recitals by Chloë Hanslip and Steven Osborne.
An all-Dartington Festival programme today, as another of Debussy's key works for solo piano - his evocative Images - bisects two very different, highly-Romantic violin sonatas. Dvorak's charming Op 100 Sonatina was the last chamber work written on his famous journey to the USA - and features melodies inspired by his encounters with traditional American music. By contrast, Prokofiev's Op 94 sonata was originally written for flute, but rearranged for violin whilst the composer was evacuated to the Ural Mountains at the height of World War Two.
Dvořák: Sonatina, Op 100
Chloë Hanslip, violin
Florian Mitrea, piano
Debussy: Images
Steven Osborne, piano
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No 2, Op 94bis
Chloë Hanslip, violin
Florian Mitrea, piano.
THU 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08ch96x)
Thursday Opera Matinee, Marschner - Der Vampyr
Katie Derham presents Heinrich Marschner's 1827 opera Der Vampyr (The Vampire), recorded in Geneva last year - the first Gothic grand opera, inspired by the Romantic horror creations of William Polidori and Mary Shelley, mixing the Italian style with the German Singspiel.
2pm:
Heinrich Marschner: Der Vampyr - grand Romantic opera in two acts
Lord Ruthven ..... Tómas Tómasson (baritone)
Sir Humphrey Davenaut ..... Jens Larsen (bass)
Malwina ..... Laura Claycomb (soprano)
Sir Edgar Aubry ..... Shawn Mathey (tenor)
George Dibdin ..... Ivan Turšic (tenor)
Emmy Perth ..... Maria Fiselier (soprano)
Chorus of the Grand Théâtre, Geneva
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Conductor Dmitri Jurowski
Also this afternoon at c.
3.20pm:
Victoria: Missa pro Victoria
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Howard Arman, director
3.40pm
Janequin: La Guerre
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Howard Arman, director
3.50pm
Arman: La Bataille de Marignan
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Munich Radio Orchestra Percussion Ensemble
Howard Arman, director
4.10pm
Tormis: Raua needmine (Curse upon Iron)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Munich Radio Orchestra Percussion Ensemble
Howard Arman, director.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b08ch9nl)
Maya Beiser, Edward Gregson, Michael Spyres
Sarah Walker with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Her guests include cellist Maya Beiser, composer Edward Gregson, and tenor Michael Spyres.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08ch82r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08chb5y)
Britten Sinfonia - Soler, Scarlatti, Coll and Falla
Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani plays Scarlatti sonatas and concertos by De Falla and Francisco Coll with Britten Sinfonia.
Recorded 3 February at Milton Court, London
Presented by Tom Redmond.
Soler: Overture from el Villancico al Santissimo 'Alentad armonias'
D. Scarlatti: A selection of harpsichord sonatas
Francisco Coll: Harpsichord Concerto (world premiere)
8.15: interval
De Falla: Harpsichord Concerto
De Falla: El amor brujo
Mahan Esfahani, director/harpsichord
Claudia Huckle, contralto
Britten Sinfonia
Thomas Gould, violin/director
No one has done more to enhance the image of the harpsichord in recent years than virtuoso Mahan Esfahani, who has captivated audiences with his fiery and engaging performances. Tonight he performs and directs Britten Sinfonia in works by Italian and Spanish composers, including a world premiere by Francisco Coll.
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b08chbpf)
Professor Paul Gilroy
30 years ago There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation was published. Philip Dodd talks to the author Professor Paul Gilroy about its impact and whether discussions about race and culture in Britain have moved on or not.
Producer Eliane Glaser.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b08cqrcl)
Strange Beds, John Walsh
Five writers recall a night they spent somewhere out of the ordinary.
John Walsh lies in a hammock in the jungle in Guyana, with his new friend Helen close by. At two in the morning they set off to explore the undergrowth and soon encounter some other sleepers ...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b08cqrcn)
Fiona Talkington with Peter Cusack's Sounds of Hull
Fiona Talkington presents a programme of adventurous music, including recordings from sound artist Peter Cusack's Favourite Sounds of Hull project. Local residents and those who know the town have been encouraged to suggest their favourite sounds, which Peter has recorded as part of Hull City of Culture 2017.
Also on the programme music with a city theme from Laurie Anderson and a binaural recording of an insect chorus recorded at dawn in the south Sri Lankan rainforest.
Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.
FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2017
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b08ch691)
Beethoven and Schumann from the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
John Shea presents a concert including Beethoven's Violin Concerto with soloist Isabelle Faust and Schumann's First Symphony.
12:31 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1927)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61
Isabelle Faust (violin), Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor)
1:13 AM
Kurtág György (b.1926)
Doloroso, from Signs, Games and Messages
Isabelle Faust (violin)
1:15 AM
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Concerto for string orchestra in D major, "Basle Concerto"
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor)
1:28 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Symphony No.1 in B flat, Op. 38, 'Spring'
Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno (conductor)
2:00 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.1 No.1
Kungsbacka Trio
2:31 AM
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764) compiled by Marc Minkowski
L'Apothéose de la Dance - orchestral suite of dance music by Rameau
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
3:09 AM
Reinecke, Carl (1824-1910)
Trio for oboe, horn and piano in A minor, Op.188
Jaap Prinsen (horn), Maarten Karres (oboe), Ariane Veelo-Karres (Piano)
3:32 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Paysage Op.59 No.2
Roger Woodward (piano)
3:35 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Prelude Op.12 No.7
Roger Woodward (piano)
3:38 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Romance in C major for string orchestra, Op.42
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
3:43 AM
Pachelbel, Johann (1653-1706)
Magnificat
Cantus Cölln: Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Graham Pushee (counter-tenor), Wilfred Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Christoph Anselm Noll (organ), Konrad Junghänel (director)
3:48 AM
Hubay, Jenö (1858-1937)
Der Zephir Op.30 No.5 (from 6 Blumenleben)
Ferenc Szecsódi (violin), István Kassai (piano)
3:53 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 3 No 9 (RV.230), from 'L'Estro Armonico'
Paul Wright (violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
4:00 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
An die Musik, Op.88 No.4
Jadwiga Rappé (alto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
4:03 AM
Karłowicz, Mieczysław (1876-1909)
Najpiękniejsze pionski (The most beautiful songs) Op.4 - words by Adam Asnyk; Pod jaworem (Under the sycamore) - folk song from Włoszczowa region
Jadwiga Rappé (alto), Ewa Poblocka (piano)
4:06 AM
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936)
Chant du ménestrel Op.71, for cello and orchestra
Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:11 AM
Duruflé, Maurice [1902-1986]
Quatre motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens, Op.10, for a cappella choir
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
4:20 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor (from S244)
Ladislav Fantzowitz (piano)
4:31 AM
Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954)
Romanza for Violin and Orchestra (1928)
Guido De Neve (violin), Vlaams Radio Orkest, Michel Tabachnik (conductor)
4:37 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV.630, for soprano and orchestra
Marita Kvarving Sølberg (soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)
4:44 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
2 Elegiac Melodies, Op.34, for string orchestra
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
4:53 AM
Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)
Songs Without Words Op.6 (1846): No.1 (Andante espressivo); No.3 (Andante cantabile); No.4 (Il saltarello Romano: Allegro molto)
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
5:04 AM
Marcello, Alessandro [1669-1747]
Oboe Concerto in D minor
Maja Kojc (oboe), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor)
5:15 AM
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)
6 Quartets for chorus and piano, Op.112
Danish National Radio Choir, Bengt Forsberg (piano), Stefan Parkman (conductor)
5:27 AM
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)
Intermezzo in E flat major for string quartet (1886)
Ljubljana String Quartet
5:38 AM
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Antiche arie e danze - Suite No.3 (1932)
Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Igor Kuljeric (conductor)
5:57 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
16 German Dances D783
Ralf Gothoni (piano)
6:09 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV.1068
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor).
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b08ch82t)
Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b08ch82y)
Friday - Rob Cowan with Simon Callow
9am
Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Rob's guest is the actor, writer and director Simon Callow. Sir Laurence Olivier gave Simon his first theatre job - in the box office of the National Theatre - and after that the young Callow soon found his way onto the stage, first coming to prominence playing Mozart in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. He has since become one of the UK's best-loved actors, not only on the stage, but in TV series such as Chance in a Million, and films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral. Simon is often referred to as a writer who acts, having produced not only books about his own life as an actor, but also biographies of Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Orson Welles and most recently Richard Wagner. During the week Simon discusses all this and more and chooses music by Sibelius, Grainger, Mozart and Wagner.
10.30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time, and explores a form characteristic of the Baroque Era: the Trio Sonata. Despite its name, this type of sonata is generally played by four players, and first appeared in the Opus 1 of Arcangelo Corelli, published in 1681. Rob introduces Corelli's very first trio sonata, as well as a later example by Telemann - who was born in that same year.
11am
Artist of the Week: Sir Thomas Beecham
'The Beecham Touch' is an epithet for all that is stylish, delicate, mischievous and spontaneous in conducting. Sir Thomas was the living embodiment of charm, genuine authenticity (in that he conducted from the heart as well as from the head) and a sense of theatre that could leave an audience breathless with excitement. Rob's selection of Beecham recordings ranges from Handel and Haydn to Delius and Sibelius, all of them 'first-loves' for this most charismatic of conductors.
Haydn
Symphony No.100 in G major, 'Military'
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor).
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b08ch830)
Alexander Mackenzie (1847-1935), Touring Canada
Sir Alexander Mackenzie promotes British music in Canada and Europe. Presented by Donald Macleod
Sir Alexander Mackenzie rose from humble beginnings in Edinburgh, to become not only a celebrated and international composer, but also the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Along with Parry and Stanford he was a significant player in the renaissance of British music, and was pivotal in establishing the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. During his career commissions regularly came his way, including concertos, oratorios and operas. He eventually returned to London, after further spells in Edinburgh and Italy, where he remained for the rest of his life, composing and managing the RAM. He was honoured by Queen Victoria for his services to music, and he received the Gold Medal from the Royal Philharmonic Society. During his long career his music was premiered by the likes of Sarasate and the Carl Rosa opera company. W.S Gilbert and Lewis Carroll both approached Mackenzie with collaborative projects in mind, and as a conductor he worked with Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Liszt, and Saint-Saëns to name only a few.
In 1903, Sir Alexander Mackenzie accepted an invitation to tour Canada, introducing British repertoire to new audiences. He travelled the country working with fourteen choirs, and orchestras. During these travels Mackenzie became interested in Canadian folksong, which became the inspiration for an orchestral work, his Canadian Rhapsody. A few years later, in 1910, after much hard work in his role as Principal, a new building was at last built for the Royal Academy of Music in London. Among the music performed at the laying of the foundation stone, was Mackenzie's partsong My Soul Would Drink Those Echoes. Mackenzie remained Principal of the RAM until the early 1920s, when he decided to retire. He was still actively composing though, including two a cappella grace settings, written in 1931. A few years later, in 1935, Sir Alexander Mackenzie died, aged 87. He'd been a pivotal figure in British music-making for many decades. His funeral took place in the church of St Marylebone, just along the road from the Royal Academy of Music, and it was followed by a memorial service held at St Paul's Cathedral.
The Sound of the Drum
Kathryn Rudge, mezzo-soprano
James Baillieu, piano
Canadian Rhapsody, Op 67
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Andrews, conductor
My Soul Would Drink Those Echoes (Four Partsongs, Op 71)
BBC Singers
Martin Fitzpatrick, conductor
Revery; Ariel (Varying Moods, Op 88)
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Some hae meat and canna eat; O Thou in whom we live and move (Two Graces, Op 92)
BBC Singers
Martin Fitzpatrick, conductor
The Cricket on the Hearth, Op 62 (Overture)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Producer Luke Whitlock.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b08ch8l6)
Dartington and Tetbury Festivals 2016, Episode 4
Nicola Heywood Thomas continues coverage of highlights of the Dartington and Tetbury Festivals 2016, featuring recitals by Steven Osborne and the Chiaroscuro Quartet.
We end this week's selection with a pinnacle of the chamber repertoire - Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet, D810. It's preceded by a final masterpiece from Steven Osborne's journey through Debussy's piano repertory - Estampes, which features fleeting, hazy visions of East Asia, Spain and Debussy's native France.
Debussy: Estampes
Steven Osborne, piano
Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D810, 'Death and the Maiden'
Chiaroscuro Quartet.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon on 3 (b08ch973)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Episode 4
Closing a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katie Derham introduces an afternoon with Brahms's Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), with the ensemble, conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens, joined by the Bavarian Radio Chorus. It's followed by another concert with the orchestra conducted this time by Emilio Pomarico performing the world premiere of the Accordion Concerto by Georges Aperghis, as well as Stefan Wolpe's First Symphony. Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons has the last word, conducting Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier, and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.
2pm:
Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny), Op 54
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor
2.15pm:
Georges Aperghis: Accordion Concerto (World Premiere)
Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Emilio Pomarico, conductor
2.45pm:
Wolpe: Symphony No 1
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Emilio Pomarico, conductor
3.15pm:
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Janssons, conductor
3.50pm:
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op 45
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Janssons, conductor.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b08ch9nn)
Lisa Knapp, Sam Lee and Nathaniel Mann, John Wilson, Belcea Quartet
Sarah Walker with a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. Her guests include folk stars Lisa Knapp, Sam Lee, and Nathaniel Mann, conductor John Wilson, and the Belcea Quartet.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b08ch830)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b08chb63)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Wagner, Mahler, Stravinsky
Live from Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas.
Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture and Venusburg Music
Mahler: Revelge; Lob des hohen Verstands; Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen; Der Tambourg'sell (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
8.20 Interval Music
8.40
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b08chbph)
Place
The Verb this week explores how each story can change in the telling, but if we don't tell the stories, how will we know who we are? Dragan Todorović is a writer and multimedia artist. Originally from Yugoslavia, he loves small-town encounters in the UK, and considers what place he occupies in them as an exile. The Red Shed is Wakefield's Labour club and comedian Mark Thomas has been going there since he was a student. His new show is a love letter to the Red Shed and in it he explores how a sense of place can shape or distort our memory.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b08cqrcq)
Strange Beds, Naomi Alderman
Five writers recall a night they spent somewhere out of the ordinary.
Naomi Alderman signs up for a trip to the Arctic, but has to spend a lot of time in her bunk bed. When she feels better and ventures across the ice, small but vital revelations are at hand ...
Producer Duncan Minshull.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b08cqrcs)
Lopa Kothari - Derek Gripper in session
Lopa Kothari presents new releases of World music, and is joined in the studio by South African guitarist Derek Gripper for a session. Derek specialises in arranging traditional African kora (harp) music for solo guitar.