Jaco Pastorius was a master of the fretless electric bass, and became a key figure in jazz-rock fusion. To identify the essential Pastorius albums, Alyn Shipton is joined by pianist Gwilym Simcock, to cover music ranging from discs by Weather Report and Joni Mitchell to several of the records the bassist made under his own name.
Jonathan Swain presents a BBC Prom given by WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne in 2010
Viviane Hagner (violin), WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
Christoph Pr�gardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after Johann Fritz, Vienna c.1815)
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (b. 1928)
Capriccio for keyboard (BWV.993) in E major "In honorem Joh. Christoph. Bachii"
Bo?o Rogelja (oboe), Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Kent Nagano (conductor)
Jill Feldman (soprano), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (harpsichord and director)
Markus Maskuniitty (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Junichi Hirokami (conductor)
Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers from his ballet The Nutcracker performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Georg Solti, Balakirev's Islamey, Fantasie Orientale performed by pianist Yefim Bronfman, and cellist Peter Wispelwey together with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer perform the Finale from Dvorak's Cello Concerto.
Suzy Klein presents music by Weber, Ravel and Mahler, and Mark Swartzentruber offers a vintage recording of Beethoven Symphony No 4. Plus, your emails and Suzy's gigs of the week.
Michael Berkeley's guest on Private Passions this week is the journalist and former newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald. Born in Trinidad, he moved to Britain and began his media career as a BBC radio producer. He began his long association with ITN in 1973, first as a general reporter, then as a sports correspondent, and subsequently focusing on international politics - he secured interviews with Yasser Arafat, Colonel Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein, among other notorious international figures.
In the 1980s he became the first black TV newsreader in the UK. From 1992 he was the sole presenter of ITV's News at Ten, quickly gaining a profile as one of the best-known faces on British TV, and continued to present the evening news until he finally retired after the 2008 US Presidential Election. From 1999 to 2009 he hosted ITN's flagship current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald. He now focuses on presenting documentaries and features. He has won more awards than any other British reporter, and was knighted in 1999.
His musical choices start with Elgar's 'Introduction and Allegro', which he first heard as a young man played by the Halle Orchestra on tour in Trinidad. They continue with the Prisoners' Chorus from Verdi's Nabucco, which represents the cry for freedom of all oppressed people; an aria from Handel's 'Messiah', which moves him as an expression of faith; an excerpt from Beethoven's Violin Concerto played by Nigel Kennedy, whom he greatly admires as a violinist; the Shaker hymn tune 'Simple Gifts' from Copland's 'Appalachian Spring'; an aria from Act I of Puccini's 'Tosca', and the finale of Chopin's First Piano Concerto, played by Artur Rubinstein, another of his musical heroes.
Lucie Skeaping introduces 18th Century Bohemian music by Brentner and Zelenka recorded at this year's Lufthansa Festival from Ensemble Inegal.
Czech musicians could be found in abundance throughout Europe in the 18th Century and in this concert the Czech based group, Ensemble Inegal directed by Adam Viktoria, pay tribute to their historical musical past with a selection of music by two of its finest 18th century composers - Jan Dismas Zelenka and Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, as well as featuring music by a major contemporary figure of their day, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO and pianist Yefim Bronfman in both Shostakovich Piano Concertos and Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony.
Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto is very much the work of a young man spreading his creative wings, with the unusual combination of piano, trumpet and strings - the trumpeter tonight is the orchestra's section principal, Philip Cobb. The Second Concerto, a present for the composer's son has, at its centre, what's possibly the most romantic slow movement that Shostakovich ever composed. The concert's second half features the third and least-known of Tchaikovsky's early symphonies, the so-called Polish Symphony, music that opens in the manner of a sombre funeral march and closes with a thrilling Polonaise.
Organ Voluntary: Chorale-Improvisation on 'Der Hölle Pforten sind zerstört' (Karg-Elert)
Stephen Johnson is the guest of the Sowerby Music in Yorkshire for an exploration of one of the pinnacles of the repertory, Beethoven's String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132.
This is one of the so called "late" quartets of Beethoven, written after he had recovered from a debilitating illness. Beethoven used the quartet medium to grapple with some of his deepest feelings and sensibilities and the work is striking for the profundity of its expression and its novel and imaginative use of form. At the heart of the work lies one of the composers' most heart felt slow movements - an expression of an artist's thanks to God after recovering from illness.
Stephen is joined by members of the Wihan Quartet who perform illustrations and a complete performance of the work, and he explores the piece by way of a series of queries and questions from the members of Sowerby Music.
Aled Jones takes another tour of the wonders of the choral world, including choirs in UK conservatoires, with his guest the conductor and composer Paul Spicer.
Flare Path is a play by Terence Rattigan, written in 1941 and first staged in 1942. Set in a hotel near an RAF Bomber Command airbase during the Second World War, the story involves a love triangle between a pilot, his actress wife and a famous film star.
The title of the play refers to the flares that were used to light runways to allow planes to take off and land but the flare paths were also used by the Germans to target the RAF planes.
In writing the play, Terence Rattigan drew on his experiences as a tail gunner in the RAF Coastal Command.
Peter Kyle ..... Rupert Penry Jones
Patricia Graham ..... Ruth Wilson
Teddy Graham ..... Rory Kinnear
Doris Skriczevinsky ..... Monica Dolan
Mrs Oakes ..... Una Stubbs
Count Skriczevinsky ..... Tom Goodman-Hill
Dusty Miller ..... Justin Salinger
Swanson ..... Julian Wadham
Percy ..... David Hartley
Maudie Miller ..... Kelly Shirley.
Directed by Jeremy Herrin (Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Court) For Catherine Bailey Ltd
ETA Hoffmann summarised the business of music criticism very neatly by saying it existed 'to lead people to listen well'. Hilary Finch, who has been a classical music critic on The Times for thirty years, considers the craft, purpose and future of her own profession at a time when the 'death of the critic' has been proclaimed.
The Times was the first newspaper to appoint a regular music critic, but with a combination of changes in the arts, in newspapers and in social media, she considers whether it might be the last.
Hilary talks with fellow critics Hugh Canning, Anna Picard and Paul Morley, the Radio 3 presenter and twitterer Tom Service, and people from other corners of the music industry - the soprano Elizabeth Watts, the chief executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and media relations expert Ginny Macbeth.
In this edition of Words & Music Helena Bonham Carter and Hugh Bonneville explore Turning Points, from life-changing and epoch-making, to funny and insignificant.
Love is the pivot for many of the programme's turning points. Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, artist Marc Chagall, and Coleridge fall in it; Dorothea (in George Eliot's 'Middlemarch') and Carol Ann Duffy's Eurydice fall out of it; Alan Bennett movingly describes his mother's final days.
Revolutions provide other turning points: the Industrial one provokes opposing reactions from Erasmus Darwin and William Blake; Igor Stravinsky self-consciously remembers his musical one, and Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst recalls her part in an episode in the fight for Women's Suffrage.
The lives of Hilaire Belloc's Matilda and the Bible's Saul are changed forever by versions of the truth, and there's a culinary miracle when eggs and oil emulsify into a mayonnaise, according to Julia Child's instructions.
Music is by Bach, Beethoven, Janacek, Rachmaninov, Vaughan Williams and Erma Franklin, among others.
Double bill presented by Julian Joseph...
Two by Two, Jazz Line-Up presents a duo double bill with the best in British Jazz. To begin, the duo of virtuoso guitarist John Etheridge and pianist John Horler deliver the finest in lyricism and free-thinking creativity. The celebrated pairing of Andy Sheppard and regular collaborator John Parricelli showcases the inventiveness and versatility off two outstanding jazz musicians. Essential late night jazz.
MONDAY 06 JUNE 2011
MON 01:00 Through the Night (b011pnnp)
Concerto Copenhagen perform concertos by Vivaldi, Fasch and Pisendel. Presented by Jonathan Swain
1:01 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas [1679-1745]
Overture a 7 (ZWV.188) in F major
Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (conductor)
1:21 AM
Fasch, Johann Friedrich [1688-1758]
Concerto for b assoon, 2 oboes and string in C minor
Jane Gower (bassoon) Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (conductor)
1:31 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741]
Concerto for oboe and orchestra (RV.449) (Op.8'12) in C major
Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (conductor and oboe)
1:41 AM
Rubbra, Edmund (1901-1986)
Trio in one movement, Op.68
The Hertz Trio
2:01 AM
Pisendel, Johann Georg [1687-1755]
"Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, strings and continuo in D major
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Peter Spisskky (violin), Lars Henriksson (Oboe), Per Bengtsson (Oboe) Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (conductor)
2:14 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767]
Overture in B flat TWV 55:B10
Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (conductor)
2:39 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750]
Gavotte from Orchestral suite no. 4 in D BWV 1069
Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (conductor)
2:42 AM
Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962)
Little Suite in 15 pictures
Adam Fellegi (piano)
3:01 AM
Lopes-Graça, Frenando (1906-1994)
Cancoes regionais portuguesas (Op.39) (1943-88)
Ricercare Chorus, Rodrigo Gomes (piano), Pedro Teixeira (conductor)
3:44 AM
Rautio, Matti (b. 1922-1986)
Concerto No.2 for piano and orchestra (1971)
Paavo Rautio (piano) (the composer's nephew), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Martti Rautio (conductor)
4:06 AM
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875) (compiled by Ernest Guiraud)
L'Arlésienne Suite No.2
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
4:20 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne (Sing not, thou beauty) (song)
Petteri Salomaa (baritone), Ilmo Ranta (piano)
4:22 AM
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857)
Ya pomnyu chudnoye mgnoven'ye (I recall a wondrous moment) (song)
Petteri Salomaa (baritone), Ilmo Ranta (piano)
4:26 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Cantata: 'Widerstehe doch der Sünde' (BWV.54)
Jadwiga Rappé (alto), Concerto Avenna, Andrzej Mysinski (conductor)
4:37 AM
Paganini, Nicolo [1782-1840]
Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 7 - 3rd movement 'La Campanella'
Viktor Pikajzen (violin), Evgenia Sejdelj (piano)
4:45 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Gnomenreigen - from Two Concert studies for piano (S.145)
Lana Genc (piano)
4:49 AM
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Prelude to Act 1 - from 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor)
5:01 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Overture from Die Zauberflöte (K.620)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Christie (conductor)
5:08 AM
MacDowell, Edward (1860-1908)
Hexentanz (Witches Dance) (Op.17 No.2)
Yuki Takao (piano)
5:11 AM
Suchon, Eugen [1908-1993]
The Night of the Witches, symphonic poem
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, Mário Kosík (conductor)
5:31 AM
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918)
Satukuva 3 (A Fairytale vision)
Liisa Pohjola (piano)
5:37 AM
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)
Song 'See, see, even Night herself is here' (Z.62/11) - from The Fairy Queen, Act II Scene 3
Nancy Argenta (soprano), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Monica Huggett (guest conductor)
5:43 AM
Falla, Manuel de (1876-1946) (arr. Gregor Piatigorsky)
Danza rituale del fuoco (Ritual Fire Dance) - from El Amor brujo
Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano)
5:47 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Raduz and Mahulena (Op.16), 'A fairy tale suite' ; Mourning Music , Runa's curse and how love triumphed over it]
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Smetácek (conductor)
6:16 AM
Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937)
The Fountain of Arethusa - from Myths for violin and piano (Op.30)
Hyun-Mi Kim (female) (violin), Seung-Hye Choi (female) (piano)
6:22 AM
Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957)
Luonnotar, tone poem (Op.70) for soprano and orchestra
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
6:31 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) [Libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder]
Pamina's aria: Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden - from 'The Magic Flute', Act 2, Scene 6 no.17
Irma Urrila (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor)
6:35 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
The Three Wonders from The tale of Tsar Saltan - suite (Op.57)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
6:43 AM
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953)
Cinderella Fantasy Suite
Aglika Genova & Liuben Dimitrov (pianos)
6:56 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Troldtog (March of the Dwarfs) - from Lyric Pieces Book 5 (Op.54 No.3)
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor).
MON 07:00 Breakfast (b011pnnt)
Monday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast, including Elgar's Serenade for Strings performed by the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Paul Goodwin, the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev perform Shostakovich's Festival Overture, and pianists Evgeny Kissin and Jonathan Biss perform music by Chopin and Schumann.
MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b011pnnw)
Monday - James Jolly
With James Jolly. This week musicians and music associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the festival's current artistic director, is our Artist of the Week.
To celebrate the opening of the 64th festival on Friday 10th June, here on Classical Collection James Jolly celebrates the music and musicians associated with the Festival.
"The annual Aldeburgh Festival, arguably the best musical event in Britain" - (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian).
"World-renowned as an outstanding year-round performance centre, Aldeburgh is also a place where artists at all stages of their career can be inspired and energized. With inspirational scenery, a rich musical heritage and the time and space for musicians and audience to discover, create and explore, Aldeburgh is the place to help artists reach their full potential and define their own musical landscape." (Aldeburgh Music)
Central to this week music and musicians associated with Aldeburgh are performances by the festival's current artistic director, the French pianist, Pierre-Laurent Aimard. "I''m a musician, and the piano happens to be my instrument. I don't like to have one function, to give me just one perspective on music. I like to make chamber music, to be part of a group, to play song accompaniments, to teach, to speak about music. In other words, to live the phenomenon on different sides." (Aimard in interview with Tom Service, The Guardian).
There are also performances from former directors including Oliver Knussen (Mussorgsky), Steuart Bedford (Britten), Murray Perahia (Liszt), Imogen Holst (in her husband's music), Thomas Ades, and from Britten himself (Bach, Mozart as well as his own).
10.00
Mussorgsky arr. Stokowski
Night on Bare Mountain - Witches' Sabbath (1940)
Cleveland Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)
DG 457 646-2
10.09
Artist of the Week
Beethoven
Rondo in B flat major, WoO6
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nicolas Harnoncourt (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 6060-2
10.18
The Festival was founded by Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Eric Crozier in 1948 with concerts given in the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh and in local churches. In the mid-1960s the Festival gained a new concert hall with the conversion of Snape Maltings, which includes one of the largest mid nineteenth century barley malthouses in East Anglia. Most of the building's original character, such as the distinctive square malthouse roof-vents, was retained. The new concert hall was opened by the Queen on 2 June 1967, at the start of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival.
The next recording was made in 1968, a year before the old concert hall was destroyed by fire on the first night of the 1969 festival.
Britten
Simple Symphony
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 417 509-2
10.36
Poulenc
Sonata for horn, trombone and trumpet
Alan Civil (horn)
John Wilbraham (trumpet)
John Iveson (trombone)
EMI CMS 566831-2
10.45
Artist of the Week
Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 62160-2
11.15
Beethoven
String Quartet in E flat, Op.74 "Harp" The Building a Library choice from Saturday's CD Review.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00npls6)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Gymnopediste
Irascible. Irreverent. Infuriating. He's the author of one of the most famous - and beautiful - piano pieces ever written. Yet away from the famous Gymnopédie, Erik Satie still divides opinion like no other composer.
In today's episode, Donald Macleod explores Satie's early life - from his youth in the sleepy seaside town of Honfleur to the boozy dives of bohemian Montmartre...and that trio of Gymnopédies, written at the tender age of 20.
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b011pntg)
Angela Hewitt
Live from Wigmore Hall in London. The renowned Canadian pianist, Angela Hewitt, gives a recital of keyboard works by Bach and Chopin. She couples two of Bach's French Suites, which are full of idealized dances, with works by Chopin that are based round his music used in the ballet Les Sylphides.
Angela Hewitt, who used to dance in Les Sylphides with the original choreography, has chosen to play the Chopin pieces in the same sequence as the ballet.
Presented by Fiona Talkington
Angela Hewitt - piano
JS BACH
French Suite No. 2 in C minor
French Suite No. 3 in B minor
CHOPIN
Nocturne in A Flat Major, Op. 32, No. 2
Waltz in G Flat Major, Op. 70, No. 1
Mazurka in D Major, Op. 33, No. 2
Mazurka in C Major, Op. 67, No. 3
Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7
Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2
Grande Valse Brillante in E Flat Major, Op. 18.
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b011pntj)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 1
Across the week the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays complete concerts from around Scotland featuring their family of conductors: Donald Runnicles, Ilan Volkov, Andrew Manze and Matthias Pintscher. There's also the chance to hear brand-new CD releases of British Music recorded by the orchestra, featuring music by Walton and Somervell.
The Thursday Opera Matinee this week is Wagner's Das Rheingold from the Paris National Opera, and on Wednesday we go live to the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff for a concert conducted by Roberto Minczuk featuring Rachmaninov's final work, the Symphonic Dances, alongside one of the greatest masterpieces of Russian music: Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, sung by Radio 3 New Generation Artist Henk Heven.
Walton's driving rhythms and passionate lyricism are combined in one of his greatest works, his First Symphony. This brand-new recording conducted by Martyn Brabbins is about to be issued on CD. The second half of the afternoon is dedicated to a concert given in Aberdeen with the BBC SSO's Principal Guest Conductor, Ilan Volkov. Bruckner's Fifth was his longest Symphony and in some ways his most complex work, overcoming the pain and frustration of life with an atmosphere of spiritual exaltation. This is a mammoth work given life in one of Scotland's best concert halls.
Presented by Katie Derham.
MON 16:30 In Tune (b011pntl)
Monday - Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
MON 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00npls6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
MON 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b011pp66)
The Cardinall's Musick
Byrd, Tallis, Sheppard, Mundy
Live from St.John's College Cambridge
Presented by Louise Fryer
This concert, which is part of Cambridge Summer Music, puts the music of Elizabethan composer William Byrd firmly in the context of his colleagues and friends. In what was a golden age for English music, Byrd and Thomas Tallis wrote music for the Protestant church despite both having strong Catholic sympathies, and Byrd co-wrote the psalm setting In exitu Israel with John Sheppard and William Mundy. Robert Parsons was Byrd's predecessor as Organist of Lincoln Cathedral and Alfonso Ferrabosco was an exotic spy-composer and both of them had an impact on Byrd's own compositions. The Cardinall's Musick is known for its extensive study of English Renaissance music, winning Recording of the Year at the 2010 Gramophone Awards for a recording of William Byrd's latin music.
Thomas Tallis - Candidi facti sunt
Thomas Tallis - O salutaris hostia
William Byrd - O salutaris hostia
John Sheppard - Libera nos
John Sheppard, William Mundy & William Byrd - In exitu Israel
William Mundy - Adoloscentulus sum ego
William Byrd - Ad Dominum cum tribularer.
MON 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b011pp68)
Emotional Breakdown
Glory
The first in a six-part series of lively conversations examining how and why certain pieces of music make us feel the way they do. In each programme, presenter Suzy Klein and two guests explore a theme such as tragedy, glory or romance. They champion favourite pieces that evoke the theme and discuss just what it is about the music that pulls these emotional strings. Tonight's theme is glory, with composer Anna Meredith and Aurora Orchestra's principal conductor Nicholas Collon talking to Suzy about Handel, Sibelius and Messiaen.
Presenter: Suzy Klein
Producer: Lyndon Jones.
MON 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b011pp6b)
The Cardinall's Musick
Byrd, Parsons, Ferrabosco
Live from St.John's College Cambridge
Presented by Louise Fryer
This concert, which is part of Cambridge Summer Music, puts the music of Elizabethan composer William Byrd firmly in the context of his colleagues and friends. In what was a golden age for English music, Byrd and Thomas Tallis wrote music for the Protestant church despite both having strong Catholic sympathies, and Byrd co-wrote the psalm setting In exitu Israel with John Sheppard and William Mundy. Robert Parsons was Byrd's predecessor as Organist of Lincoln Cathedral and Alfonso Ferrabosco was an exotic spy-composer and both of them had an impact on Byrd's own compositions. The Cardinall's Musick is known for its extensive study of English Renaissance music, winning Recording of the Year at the 2010 Gramophone Awards for a recording of William Byrd's latin music.
Robert Parsons - Peccantem me quotidie
William Byrd - Peccantem me quotidie
William Byrd - Mass for Four Voices - Kyrie & Gloria
Alfonso Ferrabosco - Fuerunt me lacrimae
William Byrd - Mass for Four Voices - Credo
Alfonso Ferrabosco - Decantabat populos
William Byrd - Decantabat populous
William Byrd - Mass for Four Voices - Sanctus & Benedictus - Agnus Dei.
MON 22:00 Night Waves (b011pp6d)
Contemporary India, Sentimentality, Butley, John Burnside
Rana Mitter talks to two acclaimed Indian novelists about their new - non-fiction - books. Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb discuss their views on the nature of India's development into an emerging superpower and explore how the dream of a new India compares to the reality.
Controversial writer V.S Naipaul last week suggested that women's writing is overly sentimental; and this year's Orange Prize for literature - a prize which has often attracted criticism for its exclusion of male writers - is about to be announced. Novelists Sarah Dunant and Philip Hensher join Rana to debate why accusations of sentimentality are so often levelled at female writing, and whether or not matters of gender have any place in the appreciation of literature.
Susannah Clapp reviews the 40th anniversary revival of Simon Gray's award-winning comedy, Butley - with Dominic West in the starring role as a charismatic professor.
And Rana talks to poet and writer John Burnside about his new novel, A Summer of Drowning, set in the white nights of an Arctic summer.
MON 22:45 The Essay (b00twyq2)
A Letter to My Body
Sarah Graham
'A Letter to my Body' is a series of essays in which five thinkers, artists and writers ask themselves how they relate to their own bodies. In this first essay Sarah Graham, who is now a successful therapist and addictions counsellor, explores her at times turbulent relationship with her body. From the age of eight Sarah was given ongoing medical treatment for a disorder of sexual development - but she only learned the real nature of her diagnosis at the age of twenty-five when a gynaecologist finally revealed the truth: that she is an intersex woman. She has XY chromosomes. She had never questioned her sex and had lived her life as a woman. Doctors had even shielded her parents from the truth about her gender. The shock of the revelation led Sarah on a path of depression and addiction which nearly killed her. However she has gradually rebuilt her health and her self esteem. In this essay she makes peace with her body and questions our society's polarised expectations of gender.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.
MON 23:00 Jazz on 3 (b011pp6g)
Overtone Quartet at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival
Jez Nelson presents transatlantic group the Overtone Quartet at the Cheltenham Festival. This all-star band first came together in 2007, although some of the musical relationships involved go back 20 years. Notionally led by bass player Dave Holland, the group has a strong collective ethos, with each member stamping their authority through adventurous compositions, virtuosic sparring and subtle interplay. It features Chris Potter on saxophone, pianist Jason Moran, drummer Eric Harland and, replacing Dave Holland for this performance, Larry Grenadier on double bass.
Also on the programme Nate Chinen talks to Jason Moran about his musical influences, and Jez discusses the new Smithsonian jazz anthology with Nate and Smithsonian panel member and Radio 3 presenter Alyn Shipton.
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producers: Rebecca Aitchison and Phil Smith.
TUESDAY 07 JUNE 2011
TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b011ppdd)
Jonathan Swain presents Rossini's opera The Italian Girl in Algiers
1:01 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
L'Italiana in Algeri (Italian Girl in Algiers)
Mustafà (Bey of Algiers): Wladimiro Ganzarolli
Elvira (his wife): Jeanne Marie Bima
Zulma (Elvira's confidante): Lucia Rizzi
Haly (Captain of the Algiers Corsairs): Alessandro Corbelli
Lindoro (A young Italian, slave of Mustafa): Francisco Araiza
Isabella (Italian woman): Lucia Valentini Terrani
Taddeo (Isabella's companion): Enzo Dara
Georg Fischer (fortepiano), Male Chorus of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln, Gottfried Ritter (Chorus master), Cappella Coloniensis, Gabriele Ferro (conductor)
3:30 AM
Roukens, Joey (b. 1982)
Un Cuadro de Yucatan - a violin caprice
Janine Jansen (violin)
3:35 AM
Mozetich, Marjan (b. 1948) (male)
The Passion of Angels - Concerto for 2 harps and orchestra (1995)
Nora Bumanis & Julia Shaw (harps), Marc Destrubé (violin), Diane Berthelsdorf (cello), Roger Cole (oboe), Christopher Millard (bassoon), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
3:57 AM
Reger, Max (1873-1916)
Four Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin (Op.128)
Philippe Koch (violin), Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Olaf Henzold (conductor)
4:26 AM
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
Secondo Trietto
La Coloquinte
4:34 AM
Andriessen, Hendrik (1892-1981)
Variations and fugue on a theme by Kuhnau
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, David Porcelijn (conductor)
4:47 AM
Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672)
Feritevi, ferite, viperette, mordaci (SWV.9) - from Il Primo Libro de Madrigali Venice 1611
The Consorte of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (conductor)
4:51 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto VII in F major for four violins & basso continuo (RV.567) - from 'L'estro Armonico' (Op.3)
Paul Wright, Natsumi Wakamatsu, Sayuri Yamagata, Staas Swierstra (violins), Hidemi Suzuki (cello), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (conductor)
5:01 AM
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
La Campanella
Valerie Tryon (piano)
5:06 AM
Rung, Henrik (1807-1871)
Kimer, I klokker (Chime, you bells)
Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director)
5:08 AM
Champagne, Claude (1891-1965)
Danse Villageoise
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Jacques Lacombe (conductor)
5:14 AM
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Symphony for string orchestra in B minor, No.10
Risör Festival Strings
5:24 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (BWV.230)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
5:31 AM
Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795)
Trio in C major, for flute, violin & continuo
Musica Petropolitana
5:43 AM
Norman, Ludwig (1831-1885), arranged by Niklas Willen
Andante Sostenuto
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willén (conductor)
5:53 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Concert Fantasia on two Russian themes for violin and orchestra (Op.33)
Valentin Stefanov (violin), Orchestra 'Symphonieta' of the Bulgarian National Radio, Stoyan Angelov (conductor)
6:12 AM
Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809]
Sonata for piano (H.
16.29) in F major
Eduard Kunz (piano)
6:26 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Rosamunde - Overture (D.644)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor)
6:37 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Symphony No.29 in A major (K.201)
Amsterdam Bach Soloists.
TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b011ppdg)
Tuesday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast including Vivaldi's 'La Tempesta di mare' violin concerto performed by Andrew Manze with the Academy of Ancient Music, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis bring jollity with a performance of Jupiter from Holst's suite The Planets, and a look at what's new in this week's Specialist Classical Chart.
TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b011ppdj)
Tuesday - James Jolly
With James Jolly. This week musicians and music associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the festival's current artistic director, is our featured artist, and our Beethoven piano cycle continues with a performance by Friedrich Gulda.
10.00
Grainger
Molly on the Shore
English Chamber Orchestra
Steuart Bedford (conductor)
LONDON 425 159-2
10.04
Artist of the Week
Debussy
Reflects dans l'eau; Poissons d'or (Images)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 0927-43088-2
10.13
Haydn
Cello Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIb:1
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello/director)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
EMI CDC 749305-2
10.38
Ravel
Introduction and Allegro
Melos Ensemble
DECCA 421 154-2
10.49
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle
Beethoven's Sonata in E flat major, Op.27 No.1 is the featured sonata today. Unfairly neglected in favour of its famous "Moonlight" companion, this work marked a radical breakthrough, a new sense of freedom in Beethoven's piano writing. With its coquettish dancing andante, a breathless moto perpetuo, romantic full-bodied adagio, and improvisatory fugal finale the work expresses the emotional turmoil Beethoven was suffering at the time of its composition as his deafness threatened his livelihood as a performing musician.
The pianist Friedrich Gulda was born to take on the challenges of this sonata. Trained in the classical tradition in its home town of Vienna, from the 1950s onwards he cultivated an interest in jazz, and he brings the best of both styles to his performance of this sonata.
Sonata in E flat major, Op.27 No 1 (quasi una fantasia)
Friedrich Gulda (piano)
BRILLIANT 92773
11.05
Britten
Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 417 509-2
11.33
Butterworth
Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
DG 445 946-2.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00npm6n)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Monsieur Le Pauvre
In the 1890s, Satie reinvented himself as a holy man - a self-imposed outcast from the 'wicked' musical establishment. After a brief spell as the composer for a Christian cult, he set up his own church, studied mystical volumes in Paris's National Library, and penned vitriolic articles in his own magazine (average circulation: 1).
Donald Macleod introduces the music of this 'mystic' period, including the infamous Vexations - a short piece which the pianist is apparently instructed to repeat 840 times - and the rare, almost Zen-like ballet Uspud.
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b011ppgt)
Hay Festival 2011
Jonathan Lemalu, Mike Hampton
Presented by Katie Derham.
In the first of this week's recitals from St Mary's Church at the Hay Festival, featuring late and valedictory works by Debussy, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and others, New Zealand-Samoan bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu gives a complete performance of perhaps the most famous musical "swan song" of them all: Schubert's posthumous collection of lieder, Schwanengesang.
Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)
Mike Hampton (piano)
Schubert: Schwanengesang (D.957).
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b011ppgw)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 2
Today's music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's brand-new CDs begins with William Walton's Second Symphony, conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Composed over 25 years after Walton had written his first symphony, it was greeted with a muted response by the younger critics of the time as being out of date; but as the years pass opinions are shifting in its favour. We also hear from another English composer - Arthur Somervell, with a work for piano and orchestra in which pianist Martin Roscoe joins the orchestra and Martyn Brabbins.
The second half of the programme is given over to a performance recorded in Inverness featuring the BBC SSO's Principal Oboe, Stella McCracken and conducted by the orchestra's Associate Guest Conductor Andrew Manze. Mozart's wonderful Oboe Concerto is sandwiched between the gems of Brahms' Tragic Overture and his First Symphony.
Presented by Katie Derham.
TUE 16:30 In Tune (b011ppgy)
Artistic director Ian Page and singer Matthew Rose talk to Sean Rafferty about the upcoming Classical Opera Company production of Le nozze di Figaro at Cadogan Hall. Matthew performs live in the studio with Ian accompanying on Piano.
Also on the programme Bruno Caproni talks about his role debut as Simon Boccanegra in the ENO production of Verdi's Opera. He will sing live in the studio with Brindley Sherratt who plays the role of Jacopo Fiesco. Simon Boccanegra starts at the London Coliseum this week.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00npm6n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b011pph0)
Royal Philharmonic - Weber, Beethoven, Stravinsky
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Presented by Martin Handley.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and its Artistic Director Charles Dutoit perform Stravinsky's infamous ballet score for the Rite of Spring, together with a Beethoven piano concerto and a lively concert waltz by Weber.
Originally composed for the piano, Weber's Invitation to the Dance tells the story of a couple at a ball. It caught the imagination of many composers, most notably the master orchestrator Berlioz. In Beethoven's Fourth Piano concerto the orchestra and soloist are in close partnership, and the gentle lyricism of the opening movements contrasts with the exuberance of the finale.
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes had helped to establish Stravinsky's reputation as one of the leading modern composers of the day, but that reputation turned into notoriety at the angry, hooliganistic reception of The Rite of Spring in 1913. Described by Debussy as a 'beautiful nightmare', the Rite combines music of terrifying savagery with passages of quiet wonder and mystery, and remains one of the towering masterpieces of 20th-century music.
Weber/Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance
Beethoven: Piano concerto no.4 in G
8.15pm Interval Music
Martin Handley introduces a selection of recordings by Nikolai Lugansky.
8.35pm Part 2
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor Charles Dutoit.
TUE 22:00 Night Waves (b011pph2)
AC Grayling, Obsession with the Past, Amitav Ghosh, Tarell Alvin McCraney
As philosopher A C Grayling announces the foundation of the New College of the Humanities, Philip Dodd brings him together with critic Terry Eagleton to discuss the new venture. What will the students be taught?
In a new book called Retromania, the music writer Simon Reynolds argues that contemporary pop culture is addicted to the past. But what about the renaissance's attraction to the classical past, or the Victorians' penchant for the medieval gothic? Philip Dodd and historians, Rosemary Sweet and Roger Luckhurst, ask how new is our love of the old?
Amitav Ghosh is the bestelling author of the Sea of Poppies, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. He joins Philip to discuss the next in the epic trilogy, a sweeping swashbuckling tale set during the Opium Wars.
And Philip talks to American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney about his new RSC commission opening at the Hampstead Theatre this week.
Producer: Deborah Cohen.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (b00twyty)
A Letter to My Body
Antony Gormley
Sculptor Antony Gormley discusses his relationship to his own body and why it has featured so prominently in his art. He remembers how the experience of being forced to take an afternoon nap during his childhood set him on the path to learning meditation and he explains why he is now making a conscious effort to 'simply be' in the space of the body without seeking to control it or to make constant use of it.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.
TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b011pph4)
Max Reinhardt - 07/06/2011
Songs from Lotte Lenya, Nathalie Stern and Madelaine Peyroux, jazz from Outhouse plus Bartok piano music. Presented by Max Reinhardt.
WEDNESDAY 08 JUNE 2011
WED 01:00 Through the Night (b011pphg)
Jonathan Swain presents a celebrity recital from 6th Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw
1:01 AM
Schumann, Robert [(1810-1856)]
Concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor
Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Brüggen (conductor)
1:36 AM
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois [1918-1970]
Prelude from Sonata for violin solo
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
1:40 AM
Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827]
Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 (Op.19) in B flat major
Maria João Pires (piano), Orchestra of the 18th Century; Frans Brüggen (conductor)
2:11 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791]
Sonata for piano duet (K.381) in D major
Martha Argerich (piano), Maria João Pires (piano)
2:25 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
String Quartet No.1 in G minor (Op.27)
Engegård Quartet
3:01 AM
Pärt, Arvo (1935-)
Fratres for cello and piano (1977)
Petr Nouzovský (cello), Yukie Ichimura (piano)
3:14 AM
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Stabat Mater for 8 voices
Silvia Piccollo and Teresa Nesci (sopranos), Marco Beasley (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass), Paolo Crivellaro (organ), Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Theatrum Instrumentorum, Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
3:21 AM
Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)
Symphony No.3 in D minor
Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
4:11 AM
Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
Sonata in D major (Kk.96)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
4:16 AM
Gade, Jacob (1879-1963)
Jalousie - tango tzigane
The Young Danish String Quartet
4:20 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Clarinet Concertino in E flat major (Op.26)
Hannes Altrov (clarinet), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mägi (conductor)
4:31 AM
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)
Eight Ländler (from D.790)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
4:39 AM
Gabrieli, Andrea (1532/3-1585)
Aria della battaglia à 8
Theatrum Instrumentorum, Stefano Innocenti (conductor)
4:49 AM
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Keyboard Concerto in F minor (BWV1056)
Angela Hewitt (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
5:01 AM
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868)
The Italian Girl in Algiers - overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
5:09 AM
Byrd, William (c.1543-1623) arr. Elgar Howarth
The Earle of Oxford's March (MB.28 No.93)
Tallinn Brass, Tarmo Leinatamm (conductor)
5:13 AM
Lortzing, Albert (1801-1851)
Heiterkeit und Fröhlichkeit - from Der Wildschütz Act 3
Brett Polegato (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
5:19 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
String Quartet in G major (K.156)
Australian String Quartet
5:31 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Nocturne in C minor (Op.48 No.1)
Llyr Williams (piano)
5:39 AM
Desprez, Josquin (c.1450/55-1521); Anonymous c.1500 (x2)
In te Domine speravi (in 4 parts) ;
Zorzi, Giorgio * ;
Forte cosa e la speranza (in 5 parts)
Clare Wilkinson (mezzo soprano), Musica Antiqua of London: John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks (violes*/recorders), Jacob Heringman (Renaissance guitar), Philip Thorby (viole/director)
5:48 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony No.94 in G major, 'Surprise'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Entremont (conductor)
6:10 AM
Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975)
Second Waltz from the Second Jazz suite
Eolina Quartet
6:15 AM
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit for piano
Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
6:38 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto in C major for sopranino recorder (RV.444)
Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Köln
6:47 AM
Goldmark, Károly (1830-1915)
In Italien - overture (Op.49)
The Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Geza Oberfrank (conductor).
WED 07:00 Breakfast (b011pphj)
Wednesday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast, including Albinoni's famous Adagio (compl. Giazotto) performed by Musica da Camera directed by Robert Howarth, Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody No.1 performed by the BBC Philharmonic under Gennady Roszhdestvensky, and soprano Angela Gheorghiu sings Puccini's aria O mio babbino caro from his opera Gianni Schicchi with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano.
WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b011pphs)
Wednesday - James Jolly
With James Jolly. This week musicians and music associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the festival's current artistic director, is our Artist of the Week.
10.00
Dvorak
Slavonic Dance in B major, Op.72 No.1
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Sejna (conductor)
SUPRAPHON 1916-2
10.04
Wednesday Award-winner
Dvorak
The Water Goblin, Op.107
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
SUPRAPHON SU 4012-2
10.25
Liszt
Consolation No.3
Murray Perahia (piano)
SONY SK46437
10.30
Holst
Fugal Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Strings, Op.40 No.2
William Bennett (flute)
Peter Graeme (oboe)
English Chamber Orchestra
Imogen Holst (conductor)
LYRITA SRCD.223
10.38
Artist of the Week
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, Op.58
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC CLASSICS 0927 47334-2
11.14
Ades
Les Tours de passe-passe (Three Studies from Couperin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Thomas Ades (conductor)
EMI 457813-2
11.19
Elgar
Coronation Ode, Op.44
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Richard Morton (tenor)
Stephen Roberts (bass)
Cambridge University Musical Society
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Philip Ledger (conductor)
EMI CDS 749381-2.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00npmhl)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Le Fantaisiste
In 1905, Satie renounced his bohemian lifestyle and decided, rather improbably...to go back to school, at the tender age of 39. After two years of hard graft, he graduated with flying colours - and with typical perversity, set about composing some of the most surreal piano works ever written...
In today's episode, Donald Macleod explores his famously eccentric character, as expressed in works like Desiccated Embryos and the six 'monkey dances' from his Dadaist opera Medusa's Snare. He ends with Satie's most famous stage work - the irreverent ballet Parade.
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b011ppkn)
Hay Festival 2011
Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexei Grynyuk
Broadcasts of recitals from this year's Hay Festival at St Mary's Church continue with a concert from the brilliant young virtuoso Leonard Elschenbroich; he performs sensuous late sonatas for 'cello and piano by Debussy and Beethoven.
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
Beethoven: Sonata, Op.102 no.1
Debussy: Sonata
Beethoven: Sonata, Op.102 no.2.
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b011ppkq)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales live from Cardiff
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales is joined by conductor Roberto Minczuk, and Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Dutch baritone Henk Neven, for a live concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. They perform Rachmaninov's final work, his energetic Symphonic Dances, and his dark symphonic poem The Isle of the Dead, alongside Mussorgsky's intense Songs and Dances of Death.
Presented by Catrin Finch.
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b011ppks)
Wells Cathedral
From Wells Cathedral during the New Music Wells Festival.
Introit: Glory to thee, my God, this night (Gary Davison) (first broadcast)
Responses: Shephard
Psalms: 41, 42, 43 (Bairstow, Crotch, Robinson)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 19 vv1-18
Office Hymn: Eternal Monarch, King most high (Gonfalon Royal)
Canticles: Cantate Domino and Deus misereatur (The Wells Service - Judith Bingham) (first broadcast)
Second Lesson: Luke 8 vv16-25
Anthem: Ascension (Philip Wilby) (first performance)
Hymn: Glory to thee, my God, this night (Tallis's Canon)
Organ Voluntary: Offrande et Alleluia Final from Livre du Saint-Sacrement (Messiaen)
Organist & Master of the Choristers: Matthew Owens
Assistant Organist: Jonathan Vaughn.
WED 17:00 In Tune (b011ppkv)
The Vienna Piano Trio perform works by Mozart, Bernstein and Brahms live in the studio ahead of their concert at Wigmore Hall, London where they are 'Ensemble In Residence' for the 2011/12 season.
Sean Rafferty interviews pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the artistic director of the 64th Aldeburgh Festival in June. This year the Aldeburgh Festival dedicates a day to composer Gyorgy Ligeti, marking the fifth anniversary of his death.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00npmhl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b011ppll)
Live from the church of St Lawrence Jewry
Guerrero, Lobo, de Vivanco
Live from the church of St Lawrence Jewry in London.
Martin Handley introduces a concert of music from the Spanish Golden Age - the 16th century, when its composers for church and royal court were considered amongst the finest of the day.
The programme includes works by Tomas Luis de Victoria, who was both priest and composer and died 400 years ago this year: the BBC Singers, conducted by David Hill, perform Victoria's Mass O quam gloriosum, together with the motet on which it's based. In addition, works three of Victoria's friends, contemporaries and associates - all of them masters of the rich and passionate styles of church music in the Spanish renaissance.
Completing the programme, organist Stephen Farr plays works from the brilliant and highly colourful repertoire of Spanish keyboard music of the period.
Francisco Guerrero: Ave virgo sanctissima; Regina caeli
Alonso Lobo: Versa est in luctum
Sebastian de Vivanco: Magnificat octavi toni
BBC Singers
David Hill, conductor
Stephen Farr, organ.
WED 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b011ppln)
Emotional Breakdown
Defiance
The second in a six-part series of lively conversations examining how and why certain pieces of music make us feel the way they do. In each programme, presenter Suzy Klein and two guests explore a theme such as melancholy, glory or romance. They champion favourite pieces that evoke the theme and discuss just what it is about the music that pulls these emotional strings. Tonight's theme is defiance, with choreographer Siobhan Davies and composer/artist Tom Phillips talking to Suzy about Britten, Stravinsky and the Dies Irae plainchant.
WED 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b011pplq)
Live from the church of St Lawrence Jewry
Victoria, Cabanilles, Cabezon
Live from the church of St Lawrence Jewry in London.
Martin Handley introduces a concert of music from the Spanish Golden Age - the 16th century, when its composers for church and royal court were considered amongst the finest of the day.
The programme includes works by Tomas Luis de Victoria, who was both priest and composer and died 400 years ago this year: the BBC Singers, conducted by David Hill, perform Victoria's Mass O quam gloriosum, together with the motet on which it's based. In addition, works three of Victoria's friends, contemporaries and associates - all of them masters of the rich and passionate styles of church music in the Spanish renaissance.
Completing the programme, organist Stephen Farr plays works from the brilliant and highly colourful repertoire of Spanish keyboard music of the period.
Victoria: Motet and mass O quam gloriosum; Ave regina caelorum
With organ music by Cabanilles, Cabezon and others.
BBC Singers
David Hill, conductor
Stephen Farr, organ.
WED 22:00 Night Waves (b011ppmc)
Mysterious Wisdom, Simon Boccanegra, Stephen Law, Life in a Day
As 'Mysterious Wisdom', a new biography of the visionary painter Samuel Palmer is published Matthew Sweet talks to its author Rachel Campbell-Johnston. The book tells the story of the man who, inspired by William Blake, set up the first British art movement, the brotherhood of Ancients. Much neglected during his lifetime Palmer's reputation has grown since his death in 1881 - he has been a major influence on twentieth century artists.
And Susan Hitch gives a first night review of Verdi's 'Simon Boccanegra', a tale of public feuds and private griefs, set against a backdrop of civil war, in a production at the ENO conducted by Edward Gardner and with leading Verdi baritone Bruno Caproni in the title role .
Philosopher Stephen Law has written a book about how people come to believe in ridiculous ideas. He discusses his guide to avoiding getting sucked into intellectual black holes with Matthew and journalist Nick Cohen.
And Kevin Macdonald talks to Matthew Sweet about his new film, Life in a Day, in which he invited people across the world to submit footage of their lives on one day: 24th July 2010. He discusses how he made the four and a half thousand hours worth of footage he received into a film and examines why involving the general public in art is so popular today.
WED 22:45 The Essay (b00twz4t)
A Letter to My Body
Sheila Cassidy
In 1975 Dr Sheila Cassidy was tortured in Chile after she gave medical care to an opponent of the Pinochet regime. She has since made her name both as an expert in palliative care and as a Christian writer. In this essay she explores how her attitude towards her body and her religious faith and work in the hospice movement have been affected by her experiences as a torture victim.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.
WED 23:00 Late Junction (b011ppmf)
Max Reinhardt - 08/06/2011
Max Reinhardt introduces The Perfect Temperature for Leaving Home, Sweet Musicke, You Aint Got Faith ('Til You Got Religion) and excerpts from Schumann's Kinderszenen.
THURSDAY 09 JUNE 2011
THU 01:00 Through the Night (b011ppmy)
Jonathan Swain introduces a concert from 2010 BBC Proms with BBC Scottish SO, Donald Runnicles and soloist Ashley Wass
1:01 AM
Foulds, John [1880-1939]
Dynamic Triptych for piano & orchestra (Op. 88)
Ashley Wass (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
1:27 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
Serenade to music for 4 soloists, chorus & orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
1:41 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958]
The Lark Ascending for violin & orchestra
Nicola Benedetti (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
1:57 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
9 Variations on a minuet by Duport for piano (K.573)
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
2:10 AM
Elgar, Edward [1857-1934]
Symphony no. 1 (Op.55) in A flat major;
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
3:01 AM
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.14)
James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
3:25 AM
Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826)
Missa sancta No.2 in G major (Op.76) 'Jubelmesse'
Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Laverne G'Froerer (mezzo), Keith Boldt (tenor), George Roberts (baritone), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn (conductor)
3:50 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
Selected Lyric Pieces - Waltz (Op.12 No.2); Norwegian Melody (Op.12 No.6); Folk song (Op.12 No.5); Canon (Op.38 No.8); Elegy (Op.38 No.6); Waltz (Op.38 No.7); Melody (Op.38 No.3)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
4:08 AM
Reinecke, Carl (1824-1910)
Ballade for flute and orchestra
Matej Zupan (flute), Slovenian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
4:17 AM
Westlake, Nigel (b. 1958)
Winter in the Forgotten Valley
Guitar Trek - Timothy Kain, Fiona Walsh, Richard Strasser, Peter Constant
4:29 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for 2 cellos and orchestra in G minor (RV.531)
Maris Villeruss and Leons Veldre (cellos), Peteris Plakidis (harpsichord), Latvian Philharmony Chamber Orchestra, Tovijs Lifsics (conductor)
4:42 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Prelude in C sharp minor (Op.45)
Krzysztof Jablonski (piano)
4:47 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Scherzo capriccioso (Op.66)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
5:01 AM
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Die Braut von Messina - overture (Op.100)
The Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
5:09 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) arranged by Stanislaw Wiechowicz & Piotr Mazynski
4 Choral Songs
Polish Radio Choir; Marek Kluza (director)
5:18 AM
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Barcarolle for piano (Op.60) in F sharp major
Ronald Brautigam (piano - Erard Grand of 1842)
5:27 AM
Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787)
Trio in F major for 2 flutes and continuo
Karl Kaiser and Michael Schneider (flutes), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Hoeren (harpsichord)
5:36 AM
Suriani Germani, Alberta (b.19??)
Partita
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
5:46 AM
Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907)
String Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 27
Ensemble Fragaria Vesca
6:21 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Quintet in E flat major for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (K.452)
Anton Kuerti (piano), James Mason (oboe), James Campbell (clarinet), James McKay (bassoon), James Somerville (horn)
6:45 AM
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)
Fantastic scherzo for orchestra (Op.25)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor).
THU 07:00 Breakfast (b011ppn0)
Thursday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan presents Breakfast, including Vivaldi's 'Summer' from the Four Seasons performed by violinist Fabio Biondi with L'Europa Galante, Offenbach's Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann performed by the Rene Duclos Chorus with the Society of the Conservatory Concerts Orchestra conducted by Andre Cluytens, and the Scottish National Orchestra under Neeme Jarvi perform the famouse Troika from Prokofiev's score to the film Lieutenant Kije.
THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b011ppn8)
Thursday - James Jolly
With James Jolly. This week musicians and music associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the festival's current artistic director, is our Artist of the Week.
10.00
Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Overture
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 431 653-2
10.07
Albeniz
Bajo la palmera (Cantos de Espana) [Beneath the Palm Tree]
Julian Bream & John Williams (guitars)
RCA 09026 61452-2
10.13
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle
Sonata in G major, Op.49 No.2
Melvyn Tan (piano)
VIRGIN CLASSICS VBD 562368-2
10.18
Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
London Symphony Orchestra
Steuart Bedford (conductor)
COLLINS CLASSSICS 10192
10.43
Artist of the Week
Janacek
Pohadka
Anne Gastinel (cello)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
AUVIDIS VALOIS V4748
10.55
Bach
"Mache dich mein herze rein" (St Matthew Passion) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Munich Bach Orchestra Karl Richter (conductor)
Archiv 439 338-2
11.08
Benjamin Britten drew many great musicians to his festival in Aldeburgh, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Julian Bream and Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who is the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto in E flat, K.482, with Benjamin Britten conducting the English Chamber Orchestra. Britten wrote the cadenzas at Richter's request specifically for this performance. Britten dared to step outside the musical language of Mozart's original and express the full sonorities and virtuoso displays that a grand piano is capable of in an extraordinary mix of musical styles and melodic invention.
Mozart
Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat major, K.482
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
BBC Legends BBCB8010-2.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00npnd4)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Two Masterpieces
Donald Macleod introduces two works widely regarded as Satie's greatest, plus a rare miniature for violin and piano, The Embarkation For Cythera.
The brilliant suite of vignettes Sports Et Divertissements was commissioned to accompany a volume of artworks. Originally turned down by Stravinsky, Satie almost rejected the project - as he felt the fee offered was too handsome.
Socrate is generally considered the composer's masterpiece - a unique, poignant, stunningly beautiful work for voices and chamber orchestra, setting Plato's account of the death of Socrates.
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b011ppsj)
Hay Festival 2011
Igor Levit
This concert from St Mary's Church at the Hay Festival features the young German pianist Igor Levit giving a complete performance of Beethoven's last major work for piano, the composer's monumental Diabelli Variations, Op.120.
Igor Levit (piano)
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations.
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b011ppqq)
Thursday Opera Matinee
Thursday Opera Matinee: The Ring
Today's opera matinee is Wagner's Das Rheingold, the first opera in his epic Ring Cycle. This performance from the Opéra Bastille in Paris is given by the Paris National Opera under conductor Philippe Jordan with Falk Struckmann as Wotan, Peter Sidhom as Alberich and Kim Begley as Loge. You can hear the whole Paris staging of the Ring Cycle in 'Afternoon on 3' between now and the 2011 BBC Proms: Die Walkure next week (15 to 17 June), Siegfried on 6 to 8 July and finally Gotterdammerung on 14 and 15 July.
Presented by Katie Derham.
THU 16:30 In Tune (b011ppqs)
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
Sean is joined in studio by the acclaimed Russian tenor Daniil Shtoda, a principal soloist at the prestigious Mariinsky Theatre. Daniil sings for us in the studio ahead of his Wigmore recital on June 10th. He is accompanied by Larissa Gergieva.
Also featured on today's show is the Spitafields Festival. Sean speaks with conductor Harry Bicket who is an associate artist of the festival, along with its executive director, Abigail Pogson.
Richard Wigley, General Manager of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is also in studio today to give us an update on the "BBC Philharmonic presents" festival which takes place from 1-17 June 2011 in the orchestra's new home at MediaCityUK, Salford Quays.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00npnd4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b011ppqv)
The Philharmonia Play Music from Russia
Live from the London's Royal Festival Hall
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Yuri Temirkanov has been Music Director of the St.Petersburg Philharmonic for more than two decades and he brings an all-Russian programme to London. Liadov's Kikimora, a 'fantastic scherzo' with operatic origins, tells the story of a legendary figure from Slavic folklore who spins flax from dawn to dusk, with evil intentions for the world. The other two works on the programme are by Rachmaninov. His much-loved 2nd Piano Concerto has the award-winning Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein as soloist. The Symphonic Dances is Rachmaninov's final orchestral work, combining a remarkable rhythmic energy with a nostalgic look back to some of Rachmaninov's earlier music.
Liadov: Kikimora
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor
8.15
Interval Music with Petroc Trelawny
8.35
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor).
THU 22:00 Night Waves (b011ppqx)
A new television drama based on Mallory's Morte d'Arthur starts on Channel 4 this weekend starring Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green. The historical novelist Philippa Gregory and Professor of Medieval History Miri Rubin give their verdict on this latest foray into Arthurian legend.
This week the government brought in legislation to combat the sexualisation of children, banning the sale of deliberately provocative clothing. This Saturday hundreds of women will march in a 'Slut Walk' - a rejection of the idea that women should moderate their dress to minimise the risk of sexual attack. Classicist Edith Hall and columnist Deborah Orr discuss the historical interrelation of dress and sexuality, and ask whether it is ever possible to detach dress from social expectation.
The political cartoonist Steve Bell has artistically lampooned everyone from John Major to George Bush. He explains how he captures the mannerisms of the political elite and is joined by Sir Menzies Campbell who explains what it is like to be the subject of one of Bell's depictions.
And the author David Pryce-Jones discusses his latest book 'Treason of the Heart', which looks at the British radicals and activists who took up foreign causes; from Thomas Paine's influence on American independence to Byron's support for the Greeks rebelling against the Ottoman empire.
THU 22:45 The Essay (b00twzc0)
A Letter to My Body
Ted Harrison
Writer and journalist Ted Harrison asks what body, soul and self really mean in the light of advances in our understanding of molecular biology. Can the Cartesian idea of body-soul dualism mean anything today? Twenty years ago Ted himself received a life-saving kidney transplant. He reflects on how he views the donor organ - and the unknown friend who donated it and he asks whether the development of organ and tissue transplantation changes our notions of the integrity of the body.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.
THU 23:00 Late Junction (b011ppqz)
Max Reinhardt - 09/06/2011
Max Reinhardt presents Davey Graham's Grooveyard, Western Jazz Band's Balaa Limeniandama (Calamity Has Dogged Me), Alfred Brendel playing Liszt's 123rd Petrarch sonnet from his Italian Year of Pilgrimage and Bukka White's Parchman Farm Blues.
FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2011
FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b011pprm)
Jonathan Swain presents a concert from 6th Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw featuring Il Giardino Armonico.
1:01 AM
Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-1792)
Overture from Olympie
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
1:08 AM
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
Symphony no. 49 (H.
1.49) in F minor ""La Passione""
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
1:28 AM
Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805)
Symphony no. 4 (G.506) (Op.12'4) in D minor ""della casa del diavolo""
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
1:48 AM
Rossini, Giaochino (1792-1868)
Overture from L'Italiana in Algeri
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
1:56 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Fantasia on Polish airs for piano and orchestra (Op.13) in A major
Magdalena Lisak (piano), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
2:11 AM
Swider, Józef (b. 1930)
Piesn - from 10 Songs to Lyrics by Polish Poets
Polish Radio Choir, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)
2:18 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Furiant, No.7 from Poetické nálady (Op.85)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava; Róbert Stankovský (conductor)
2:21 AM
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)
Bacchanalia, No.10 from Poetické nálady (Op.85)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava; Róbert Stankovský (conductor)
2:27 AM
Zelenka, Jan Dismas (1679-1745)
Capriccio (ZWV.184) in F major
Ekkehard Hering & Wolfgang Kube (oboes), Andrew Joy & Rainier Jurkiewicz (horns), Rhoda Patrick (bassoon) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck (director)
2:42 AM
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Clair de lune
Jane Coop (piano)
2:48 AM
Kuhlau, Frederik (1786-1832)
Trylleharpen (The Magic Harp) - overture
The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
3:01 AM
Lucic, Franjo von (1889-1972)
Missa Jubilaris
The Ivan Goran Kovacic Academic Chorus, The Croatian Army Symphony Wind Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)
3:30 AM
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Sinfonia concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and orchestra (K.297b) in E flat major
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor)
4:00 AM
Suppé, Franz von (1819-1895)
Overture - from The Light Cavalry
Slovenian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
4:08 AM
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849)
Rondo in C minor, Op.1 (Allegro)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
4:17 AM
Sarasate, Pablo de (1844-1908)
Zigeunerweisen (Op.20) vers. for violin and orchestra
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
4:26 AM
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759)
Air: 'Return, O God of hosts' - from 'Samson', Act 2
Maureen Forrester (contralto) , I Solisti di Zagreb, Antonio Janigro (conductor)
4:35 AM
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907)
Norwegian Dance No 1 (Op.35)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Andrew Litton (conductor)
4:42 AM
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Romance for viola and piano
Steven Dann (viola), Bruce Vogt (piano)
4:49 AM
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Concerto for 2 violins, 2 cellos & orchestra (RV.564) in D major
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin/director)
5:01 AM
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908)
Overture to Pskovitjanka
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
5:09 AM
Gade, Niels Wilhelm (1817-1890)
Ved solnedgang (Op.46) - for choir and orchestra
Danish National Radio Choir, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
5:16 AM
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)
Nocturne for piano No.1 in E flat minor (Op.33 No.1)
Livia Rev (piano)
5:25 AM
Fesch, Willem de (1687-c.1757)
Concerto for 2 flutes and orchestra in G minor (Op.5 No.2)
Musica ad Rhenum
5:34 AM
Butterworth, Arthur (b. 1923)
Romanza for horn and strings
Martin Hackleman (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
5:44 AM
Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872)
String Quartet No.1 in D minor
Camerata Quartet
6:00 AM
Schlegel, Leander (1844-1913)
Sonata for piano and violin (Op.34)
Candida Thompson (violin), David Kuyken (piano)
6:23 AM
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Der Bürger als Edelmann (Le Bourgeois gentilhomme) - suite (Op.60)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Terje Tønnesen (conductor).
FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b011pprp)
The Phoenix Piano Trio are performing all of Beethoven's piano trios in a series of five programmes, touring around the United Kingdom. They will be stopping in to the In Tune studio to perform movements from two of Beethoven's trios and a specially commissioned work by Philip Venables.
Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling will be performing the role of Ilia in the upcoming Barbican production of Mozart's opera Idomeneo with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and conductor Thomas Hengelbrock.
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b011pprr)
Friday - James Jolly
With James Jolly. This week musicians and music associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the festival's current artistic director, is our Artist of the Week.
10.00
Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G major, BWV1049
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 425 726-2
10.20
Mozart
Symphony No.29 in A major, K.201
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 444 323-2
10.45
Artist of the Week
Bach
Contrapunctus XIV, Fuga a 3 Soggetti (The Art of Fugue)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
DG 477 7345
10.53
Britten
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA 417 509-2
11.10
Anon.
Paul's Steeple
Trio Sonnerie
with Stephnen Stubbs (guitar)
TELDEC 4509 90841-2
11.20
The Friday Virtuoso
This week's Friday Virtuoso is British pianist Clifford Curzon who performs Liszt's Sonata in B minor. The work was described by Wagner, Liszt's son-in-law, as "beyond all conception beautiful; great, lovely, deep and noble", and it is these qualities that Curzon emphasizes in his performance. Liszt's music can often be heard as inflated, superfluous and over-the-top, but in Curzon's hands, while delivering the pyrotechnic displays with great bravura, it is the spiritual and the humane nature of the composer that is revealed.
"Curzon is more meticulous than anyone in his observance of Liszt's tempo and tonal indications... There is wonderful delicacy in his playing and plenty of full-blooded excitement." (Gramophone)
Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor
Clifford Curzon (piano)
DECCA 452 306-2.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b00npp59)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Le Maitre
By the early 1920s, Satie was the toast of Paris. Having been spotted by the legendary impresario Jean Cocteau, he found himself working with the likes of Picasso and hailed by a new generation as "the Prince Of Musicians". The composer had also invented "furniture music" - designed to work unnoticed as interior decoration, a little like modern muzak.
Donald Macleod introduces Satie's momentous last decade, featuring two rare fanfares for trumpet and a song written in memory of the composer's greatest friend and colleague, Claude Debussy. The week ends with Satie's remarkable Entr'acte Cinematographique, the first ever film music to be written frame-by-frame, and a startling precursor of minimalism.
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b011ppqn)
Hay Festival 2011
Elias Quartet, Xuefei Yang
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Elias String Quartet were joined by Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang at St Mary's Church at the Hay Festival, for the fireworks of Boccherini's "Fandango" Guitar Quintet. The recital also features Mendelssohn's last composition, his String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80 and a solo guitar work by JS Bach.
Xuefei Yang (guitar)
Elias Quartet
Mendelssohn: String Quartet no.6 in F Minor, Op. 80
Poulenc: Sarabande for guitar
JS Bach, arranged by Yang: Sonata for solo violin, BWV1001
Boccherini: Guitar Quintet no.4 in D "Fandango"
Roland Dyens: Tango in the Sky.
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b011pptf)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Episode 3
The final programme this week featuring concert performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their family of conductors culminates in a thrilling performance of Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand from last year's Edinburgh Festival under the baton of Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles and featuring a stellar cast. We also hear the orchestra's Artist-in-Association Matthias Pintscher, who conducts the BBC SSO in Messiaen's Un Sourire - A Smile. And the programme starts with brand-new CD recordings of British music.
Presented by Katie Derham.
FRI 16:30 In Tune (b011ppth)
Friday - Sean Rafferty
Presented by Sean Rafferty.
With a selection of music and guests from the music world.
Main news headlines are at
5.00 and
6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b00npp59)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b011pptk)
The BBC Philharmonic Play Music from Your Favouite Films
Live from the BBC Philharmonic Studio, Salford
Presented by Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode guides us through music from your favourite films, in a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic, including John Williams' score for Star Wars, Korngold's swashbuckling music for The Adventures of Robin Hood and centenary tributes to Herrmann and Rota. Conducted by Robert Ziegler.
John Williams: Star Wars - Suite [Main Title, Princess Leia's Theme, The Imperial March]
Jonny Greenwood: There Will Be Blood - Suite
Bernard Herrmann*: Taxi Driver - A Night Piece
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood - Suite
20:10 - Interval Music
Mark Kermode presents recordings of classical music made famous by the movies
20:30
Bernard Herrmann: Vertigo - Suite
Nino Rota: La Strada - Suite
Angelo Badalamenti: Blue Velvet (Main Title, Mysteries of Love)
Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Main Theme)
Danny Elfman: Batman - Suite
*John Harle alto saxophone
BBC Philharmonic
Robert Ziegler - conductor.
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b011pptm)
William Boyd, Czeslaw Milosz Tribute, New Voices
Ian McMillan returns with Radio 3's language cabaret of the air featuring the writer William Boyd with a master-class on screen-writing and a sneak preview of his adaptation of his own novel Restless. The poet and critic Fiona Sampson pays tribute to the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz in the centenary year of his birth. And, the first chance to here the Verb New Voices, emergent talent on the spoken word poetry scene.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b00twzg9)
A Letter to My Body
Joan Bakewell
'A Letter to my Body' is a series of essays in which five thinkers, artists and writers ask themselves how they relate to their own bodies. In this essay broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell, who has been outspoken on the way that our society perceives and treats old people, asks herself how she feels about her own body now that she has reached her seventies. She explores the cultural influences - from Shirley Temple to the image of the white wedding - which led her to grow up seeking to use her appearance to gain affection and approval and asks whether now, as she approaches old age, she has finally been liberated from society's expectations of the female body.
Producer: Charlotte Simpson.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b011pptp)
Belshazzar's Feast Session
Mary Ann Kennedy with tracks from across the globe, and a World on 3 session featuring singer and fiddle player Paul Sartin, with accordionist Paul Hutchinson, otherwise known as folk duo Belshazzar's Feast.
Paul Sartin is a classically-trained singer, violinist and oboe player who was also a choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. He also composes music for TV and film, and performs with several folk bands. Paul Hutchinson combines his accordion playing with broadcasting. They will be playing songs from their latest album 'Find the Lady', including the poignant First World War song 'Home, Lads Home'.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (b011pntj)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (b011ppgw)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (b011ppkq)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (b011ppqq)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (b011pptf)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (b011pkrw)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (b011pkvj)
Breakfast
07:00 MON (b011pnnt)
Breakfast
07:00 TUE (b011ppdg)
Breakfast
07:00 WED (b011pphj)
Breakfast
07:00 THU (b011ppn0)
Breakfast
07:00 FRI (b011pprp)
CD Review
09:00 SAT (b011pkry)
Choir and Organ
18:30 SUN (b011plg1)
Choral Evensong
16:00 SUN (b011j85s)
Choral Evensong
16:00 WED (b011ppks)
Classical Collection
10:00 MON (b011pnnw)
Classical Collection
10:00 TUE (b011ppdj)
Classical Collection
10:00 WED (b011pphs)
Classical Collection
10:00 THU (b011ppn8)
Classical Collection
10:00 FRI (b011pprr)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (b00npls6)
Composer of the Week
18:30 MON (b00npls6)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (b00npm6n)
Composer of the Week
18:30 TUE (b00npm6n)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (b00npmhl)
Composer of the Week
18:30 WED (b00npmhl)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (b00npnd4)
Composer of the Week
18:30 THU (b00npnd4)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (b00npp59)
Composer of the Week
18:30 FRI (b00npp59)
Discovering Music
17:00 SUN (b011plfz)
Drama on 3
20:00 SUN (b011pmmr)
Hear and Now
22:30 SAT (b011pktf)
In Tune
16:30 MON (b011pntl)
In Tune
16:30 TUE (b011ppgy)
In Tune
17:00 WED (b011ppkv)
In Tune
16:30 THU (b011ppqs)
In Tune
16:30 FRI (b011ppth)
Jazz Library
16:00 SAT (b011pks6)
Jazz Library
00:00 SUN (b00qf7jz)
Jazz Line-Up
23:40 SUN (b011pmpm)
Jazz Record Requests
17:00 SAT (b011pksl)
Jazz on 3
23:00 MON (b011pp6g)
Late Junction
23:00 TUE (b011pph4)
Late Junction
23:00 WED (b011ppmf)
Late Junction
23:00 THU (b011ppqz)
Music Feature
21:30 SAT (b011pksz)
Music Matters
12:15 SAT (b011pks0)
Night Music
20:50 SAT (b011rdpc)
Night Waves
22:00 MON (b011pp6d)
Night Waves
22:00 TUE (b011pph2)
Night Waves
22:00 WED (b011ppmc)
Night Waves
22:00 THU (b011ppqx)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (b011pksn)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (b011pl6f)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 MON (b011pp66)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:40 MON (b011pp6b)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 TUE (b011pph0)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 WED (b011ppll)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
20:40 WED (b011pplq)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 THU (b011ppqv)
Radio 3 Live in Concert
19:30 FRI (b011pptk)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
14:00 SAT (b011j7gw)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (b011pntg)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (b011ppgt)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (b011ppkn)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (b011ppsj)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (b011ppqn)
Sunday Concert
14:00 SUN (b011pl6k)
Sunday Feature
21:40 SUN (b011pmmt)
Sunday Morning
10:00 SUN (b011pkvs)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SAT (b011pks2)
The Early Music Show
13:00 SUN (b011pl6h)
The Essay
22:45 MON (b00twyq2)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (b00twyty)
The Essay
22:45 WED (b00twz4t)
The Essay
22:45 THU (b00twzc0)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (b00twzg9)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (b011pptm)
Through the Night
01:00 SAT (b011j8w6)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (b011pkvg)
Through the Night
01:00 MON (b011pnnp)
Through the Night
01:00 TUE (b011ppdd)
Through the Night
01:00 WED (b011pphg)
Through the Night
01:00 THU (b011ppmy)
Through the Night
01:00 FRI (b011pprm)
Twenty Minutes
20:20 MON (b011pp68)
Twenty Minutes
20:20 WED (b011ppln)
Words and Music
22:25 SUN (b011pmpk)
World Routes
15:00 SAT (b011pks4)
World on 3
23:00 FRI (b011pptp)