SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER 2022
SAT 01:00 Tearjerker (m001cyr3)
Sigrid
A beautiful playlist of nostalgia
Sigrid has a playlist of soothing orchestral music, piano, strings and soundtracks, drenched in nostalgia. Featuring Debussy, Lizst and HAIM.
SAT 02:00 Downtime Symphony (m000sq1x)
Celeste’s mix of chilled tracks to ground you
Celeste curates an hour of wind-down music to help you press pause and reset your mind. With chilled sounds of orchestral, jazz, ambient and lo-fi beats to power your downtime - including tracks from Isaac Hayes, Yusef Lateef and a classic song by The Shirelles.
01
00:00:02 Janis Joplin (artist)
Summer Time
Performer: Janis Joplin
Duration 00:03:57
02
00:03:56 Isaac Hayes (artist)
Part Time Love
Performer: Isaac Hayes
Duration 00:08:13
03
00:12:09 Michael Andrews (artist)
Liquid Spear Waltz
Performer: Michael Andrews
Duration 00:01:54
04
00:14:06 Gerald Finzi
Five Bagatelles for clarinet & piano, Op. 23
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra
Conductor: Nicholas Collon
Duration 00:02:56
05
00:17:02 A5 (artist)
Nostalgia
Performer: A5
Duration 00:03:38
06
00:20:40 OutKast (artist)
She Lives in My Lap
Performer: OutKast
Featured Artist: Rosario Dawson
Duration 00:04:09
07
00:24:49 Maurice Ravel
Daphnis & Chloe (excerpt)
Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin
Duration 00:05:16
08
00:30:07 Yusef Lateef (artist)
Morning
Performer: Yusef Lateef
Duration 00:05:10
09
00:35:17 Georges Bizet
Symphony In C Major ii) Adagio
Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Donald Johanos
Duration 00:08:26
10
00:43:43 Eric Whitacre
Sleep
Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers
Conductor: Eric Whitacre
Duration 00:05:02
11
00:48:43 Goldmund (artist)
Respite
Performer: Goldmund
Duration 00:02:37
12
00:51:20 The Shirelles (artist)
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Performer: The Shirelles
Duration 00:02:34
13
00:53:54 Joseph Haydn
Sonata No.50 in D Major, Hob. XVI: 37 ii) Adagio
Performer: Jenő Jandó
Duration 00:06:02
14
00:59:59 Jon Batiste (artist)
I Need You
Performer: Jon Batiste
Duration 00:02:34
SAT 03:00 Through the Night (m001cyr6)
Treasures from Davos Festival
Works by Ethel Smyth, Germaine Tailleferre and Henriëtte Bosmanns performed in Switzerland at Davos Festival - Young Artists in Concert. Catriona Young presents.
03:01 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Frauenliebe und leben, Op 42
Isabel Pfefferkorn (mezzo-soprano), Dominic Chamot (piano)
03:24 AM
Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952)
Allegro maestoso, from 'Cello Sonata in A minor'
Friedrich Thiele (cello), Amadeus Wiesensee (piano)
03:33 AM
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
La Bonne Cuisine (Four Recipes)
Jenny Hogstrom (soprano), Amadeus Wiesensee (piano)
03:37 AM
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
6 Chansons Françaises
Jenny Hogstrom (soprano), Amadeus Wiesensee (piano)
03:46 AM
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
March of the Women
Isabel Pfefferkorn (mezzo-soprano), Jenny Hogstrom (soprano), Amadeus Wiesensee (piano)
03:49 AM
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Concerto for Violin and Horn in A major
Anna Agafia Egholm (violin), Tillmann Hofs (horn), Alice Burla (piano)
04:00 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director)
04:31 AM
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Rapsodie espagnole
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
04:47 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata for oboe and continuo in B flat major (Essercizii Musici, 1739-40)
Camerata Koln
05:01 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture to L'Italiana in Algeri (Italian Girl in Algiers)
Capella Coloniensis, Gabriele Ferro (conductor)
05:09 AM
Giovanni V. Sarti (fl.1643-1655),Giovanni Battista Buonamente (1595-1642)
Anima Christi sanctifica (Sarti); Brando quarto (Buonamente)
Andrea Inghisciano (cornet), Gawain Glenton (cornet), Giulia Genini (soloist), Guido Morini (harpsichord), Maria Gonzalez (organ)
05:18 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in C major (Hob.XVI/35)
Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
05:30 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV.230
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
05:36 AM
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Timothy Kain (arranger)
Scaramouche
Guitar Trek
05:47 AM
Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962)
The Farmer's boy - overture for flute and strings
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Bell (conductor)
05:54 AM
Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Flute Concerto in D major (Op.283) (1908)
Matej Zupan (flute), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, David de Villiers (conductor)
06:15 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony no 3 in D major (D.200)
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti (conductor)
06:40 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Variations on a theme of Haydn Op.56a 'St Antoni Chorale'
Sinfonia Varsovia, Tomasz Bugaj (conductor)
SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m001d63t)
Saturday - Elizabeth Alker
Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.
SAT 09:00 Record Review (m001d63w)
Mozart's Symphony No 31 in D in Building a Library with Simon Heighes and Andrew McGregor
9.00am
Roots – music by Falla, Pérez Prado, Gardel, etc.
Nemanja Radulović (violin)
Double Sens
Warner Classics 9029619839
https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/roots
Insieme - Opera Duets – music by Puccini, Ponchielli, Verdi
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano
Sony 19439987002
Louise Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1; Études
Maria Stratigou (piano)
Grand Piano GP912-13 (2 CDs)
https://grandpianorecords.com/Album/AlbumDetails/GP912-13
Eclipse – music by Dvořák, Ginastera, Sarasate
Hilary Hahn (violin)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada
DG 4862383
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/eclipse-hilary-hahn-12761
9.30am Gillian Moore: New Releases
Writer Gillian Moore chooses her pick of new releases from Thomas Ades's Beethoven cycle to an invigorating new French recording of Rameau's opera Zoroastre, as well as the track which she has regularly "On Repeat".
Rameau: Zoroastre 1749
Jodie Devos (Amélite)
Véronique Gens (Erinice)
Reinoud Van Mechelen (Zoroastre)
Tassis Christoyannis (Abramane)
Les Ambassadeurs
La Grande Écurie
Chœur de Chambre de Namur
Alexis Kossenko
Alpha ALPHA891 (3 CDs)
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/rameau-zoroastre-1749
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies & Barry: Selected Works
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
Lawrence Power (viola)
Jennifer France (soprano)
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano)
Ed Lyon (tenor)
Mark Stone (baritone)
Joshua Bloom (bass)
Matthew Rose (bass)
Britten Sinfonia
Royal Holloway Choir
Britten Sinfonia Voices
Thomas Adès
Signum SIGCD687 (6 CDs)
https://signumrecords.com/product/beethoven-complete-symphonies-barry-viola-and-piano-concerti-box-set/SIGCD687/
Visions – music by Messaien, Knussen, Birtwhistle, etc.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Tamara Stefanovich (piano)
Pentatone PTC5186957
https://www.pentatonemusic.com/product/visions/
Delius & Smyth: String Quartets
Villiers Quartet
Naxos 8574376
https://www.naxos.com/FeaturePages/Details/?id=Delius_%C2%B7_Smyth_String_Quartets_Villiers_Quartet
Gillian Moore: On Repeat
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Marijana Mijanovic (Giulio Cesare)
Magdalena Kožená (Cleopatra)
Anne Sofie von Otter (Sesto)
Charlotte Hellekant (Cornelia)
Bejun Mehta (Tolomeo)
Alan Ewing (Achilla)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski
DG Archiv 4742102 (download only)
10.10am Listener on Repeat
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4
Anna Fedorova (piano)
Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen
Modestas Pitrenas
Channel CCS42522
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/rachmaninoff-piano-concertos-nos-2-4
10.30am Building a Library: Simon Heighes on Mozart’s Symphony No 31 in D ‘Paris’
Simon Heighes with his pick of recordings of Mozart's sparkling and tuneful Symphony no.31 in D, nicknamed the "Paris" Symphony.
11.15am
Nocturne: Rachmaninov Vespers & Byzantine Hymns
La Tempête
Simon-Pierre Bestion
Alpha ALPHA897
https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/nocturne-rachmaninov-vespers-byzantine-hymns
Telemann: Fantasias for solo violin
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Hyperion CDA68384
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68384
11.25am Record of the Week
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 6 & 8
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus
Martyn Brabbins
Hyperion CDA68396
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68396
SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m001d63y)
Rachel Podger
Tom Service joins violinist Rachel Podger for a walk in the Brecon Beacons to talk about her new album of lesser-known music written for solo violin and her annual Brecon Baroque Festival.
Tom also talks to Takacs Quartet violinist Edward Dusinberre about his new book ‘Distant Melodies’ which explores ideas of home, displacement and return through the chamber music of Dvorak, Elgar, Bartok and Britten.
SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m001d640)
Jess Gillam with... Daniel Pioro
Jess Gillam is joined in the TCL studio by the violinist and composer Daniel Pioro, to share an eclectic mix of some of their favourite music. Jess' choices today include a violin concerto by Vivaldi, music for saxophone by Gavin Bryars and a track by James Blake. Daniel brings along one of Biber's Rosary Sonatas, music by Claire M Singer and a tribute to the American saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, who died recently.
SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m001bry8)
Percussionist Calum Huggan with a playlist of groove and grace
Percussionist Calum Huggan creates a playlist that takes in music from around the world. A melody by renaissance composer John Dowland is reworked for the marimba by Japanese composer Keiko Abe, Ayanna Witter-Johnson arranges the famous Police track Roxanne, Anoushka Shankar and Manu Delago create a transportive soundscape for sitar and handpan and there’s an energetic fusion of cello and overtone singing courtesy of Abel Selaocoe.
Calum also chooses a selection of colourful orchestral works by composers including Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Debussy, Vivaldi and Arnold Bax.
Plus, find out how sandpaper blocks are used to create a meditative groove…
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
Photo credit: Foxbrush
SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m001d642)
Lorne Balfe
Matthew Sweet in conversation with Lorne Balfe, the prolific, Grammy-winning composer of films ranging from Mission Impossible: Fallout to Churchill. Lorne talks about working with Hans Zimmer, how dyslexia shaped him as a composer, and the day Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson turned up at a recording session.
SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m001d644)
WOMAD Revisited: Son Rompe Pera and ADG7
Lopa Kothari with previously unbroadcast material from this year's WOMAD Festival, including Korean collective ADG7 and Mexican cumbia band Son Rompe Pera. Plus a look at some of the latest releases from across the globe.
SAT 17:00 J to Z (m001d646)
Donald Harrison’s inspirations
Julian Joseph presents an exclusive interview with one of the greats of New Orleans jazz, saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison. Over the course of his career, Donald has worked with everyone from Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock to Terence Blanchard and Joanne Brackeen. He is devoted to celebrating and preserving the cultural heritage of his home city, both as a founder of the Congo Square Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group and through his music which blends jazz tradition with the musical lineages of New Orleans.
He is also an important mentor to younger musicians, including his nephew Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Jon Batiste, Trombone Shorty, Esperanza Spalding and hip-hop legend The Notorious B.I.G.
Here Donald shares his musical inspirations and a whole lot of wisdom, including the lessons Art Blakey taught him and the secret messages embedded in the music of his father, Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr and his Mardi Gras troop The Guardians of the Flame.
Also in the programme, Julian shares concert highlights from Scottish saxophonist Matt Carmichael performing as a special guest with Germany’s Grammy award-winning WDR Big Band led by US sax great Bob Mintzer. Matt's compositions are a fusion of lyrical jazz and Scottish folk music, beautifully arranged for the band by Bob.
Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin’ Else
SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m001d648)
Mozart's Don Giovanni
Kaspar Holten's memorable production of Don Giovanni returns to the Royal Opera House with a brand new cast. Luca Micheletti takes on the role of the iconic operatic bad boy, who already has 2,065 female conquests and is after more. But will his plans be thwarted by the ghost of the man he kills? Maria Bengtsson, Paula Murrihy and Christina Gansch play the trio of women who get drawn into his net, and Christopher Maltman sings his unlucky sidekick, Leporello. Constantin Trinks conducts from the fortepiano.
Presented by Flora Willson, with guest Timothy Jones.
6.30pm
Mozart Don Giovanni - Act 1
c.
8.10 - interval
Flora Willson chats to tonight's conductor Constantin Trinks, and discusses the opera with Mozart expert Timothy Jones
c.
8.25 - Act 2
Don Giovanni.....Luca Micheletti (baritone)
Leporello....Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Donna Anna....Maria Bengtsson (soprano)
Donna Elvira....Paula Murrihy (mezzo-soprano)
Don Ottavio....Charles Castronovo (tenor)
Zerlina....Christina Gansch (soprano)
Masetto....Thomas Faulkner (bass)
The Commendatore....Adam Palka (bass)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Constantin Trinks (conductor)
Read the full synopsis on the Royal Opera House website: https://bit.ly/3VLb6Kc
SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m001d64b)
Fragments and Sounding Change from Ukraine
Tom Service presents the best in new music performance. This week's programme includes live recordings from Wales’s new music ensemble, Uproar - recorded earlier this year at Galeri Caernarfon and including Kaija Saariaho’s Lichtbogen, which was inspired by the Northern Lights, and Tristan Murail’s Winter Fragments. The Ivors Composer Awards are celebrating their twentieth anniversary and during the weeks leading up to an exclusive New Music Show dedicated to the awards on Saturday 19th November, we'll broadcast a work by a previous winner - this week, Skin by Rebecca Saunders. There are new releases of music by Kotoka Suzuki and John Luther Adams and this week's "Sounding Change" is presented by Natalia Tsypryk - a London based Ukrainian composer who talks about composition happening in Ukraine at the moment and about her own piece which she created using the sound of the air raid sirens she recorded in Kyiv this summer.
SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 2022
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m001d64d)
Cosmic expansions
Corey Mwamba sets sail on a new adventure in the cosmos of improvised music.
Pianist Meg Morley is joined by drummer Emiliano Caroselli and Richard Sadler at the bass in her new album ‘A Journey Through Home’ that stands out for its enchanting and warm atmospheres. The same elegant playing is to be found in the freshly released improvisations from the Mancunian duo, Mark Hanslip and Andrew Cheetham, fusing soft singing lines with multi-textural percussion.
Elsewhere in the programme, an exclusive live extract from the recent Meakusma Festival in Eupen, Belgium, featuring Anil Eraslan, Tom Malmendier and Ignaz Schick, plus a track from Let Spin's forthcoming album ‘Thick As Thieves’, which captures their vital post-jazz and post-punk spirit.
Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m001d64g)
From Beethoven to Chopin
Pianist Zoltan Peter performs masterpieces by Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin. Presented by Jonathan Swain
01:01 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptu in E flat, D.899 No.2
Zoltan Peter (piano)
01:06 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, op. 13 ('Pathétique')
Zoltan Peter (piano)
01:26 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, op. 27/1
Zoltan Peter (piano)
01:32 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, op. 23
Zoltan Peter (piano)
01:41 AM
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
String Quartet in D minor
Ljubljanski String Quartet
02:27 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 41 in C major K.551 "Jupiter"
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Gunter Pichler (conductor)
03:01 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Concerto for flute and strings in A major (Wq.168)
Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
03:20 AM
Julius Rontgen (1855-1932)
Piano Trio in C minor, Op 50 no 4
Alexander Kerr (violin), Gregor Horsch (cello), Sepp Grotenhuis (piano)
03:41 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Charles Koechlin (arranger)
Khamma, legende dansee
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
04:03 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Etude in D flat, Op 52, No 6 (Etude en forme de valse)
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
04:10 AM
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
Badinage & Chaconne from Deuxieme Recreation de musique d'une execution facile
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
04:19 AM
Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921)
Puisque l'aube grandit (song)
Christa Pfeiler (mezzo soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano)
04:26 AM
John McLeod (b.1934)
The Sun dances for orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
04:38 AM
Petko Stainov (1896-1977)
Horsemen, ballad for men's choir
Kaval Men's Choir, Mihail Angelov (conductor)
04:45 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Three Fantasias, Op 11
Brita Hjort (piano)
05:01 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z 49 (Bell Anthem)
Alex Potter (counter tenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Collegium Vocale Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe (director)
05:09 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), Alban Berg (arranger)
Wein, Weib und Gesang (Wine, Woman and Song) waltz
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
05:20 AM
Jean Francaix (1912-1997)
8 Danses exotiques vers. for 2 pianos
Laszlo Baranyai (piano), Jeno Jando (piano)
05:30 AM
Giaches de Wert (1535-1596), Torquato Tasso (author)
Qual musico gentil
Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director)
05:41 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo concertante in B flat major, K 269
James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
05:48 AM
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)
Izhe Kheruvimi (Song of the Cherubim)
Hover State Chamber Chorus of Armenia, Sona Hovhannisyan (conductor)
05:56 AM
Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758)
13 pieces from 'Drottningholmsmusiquen' (for the Swedish Royal Wedding of 1744)
Concerto Koln
06:17 AM
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
Suite for large orchestra in A minor, Op 42
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson (conductor)
06:37 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108
Marianne Thorsen (violin), Havard Gimse (piano)
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m001d62f)
Sunday - Elizabeth Alker
Elizabeth Alker presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m001d62h)
Sarah Walker with an invigorating musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, Sarah explores the interweaving melodic lines which combine to tell the story of August Klughardt’s Wind Quintet, and finds an unusual merging of medieval music and jazz in pianist Steve Lodder’s own version of an old melody…
There’s also music by Laura Zaerr that transports us to the North Umpqua River in Oregon, and Dietrich Fischer Dieskau’s voice soars in Schubert’s song An Sylvia.
Plus, a track by Ruby Colley that celebrates the rain…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m001d62k)
William Kentridge
It’s hard to think of an artist with a more striking and ambitious range than William Kentridge; his work spans etching, drawing, collage, huge tapestries - as well as film, theatre, dance and opera. He was born in Johannesburg and brought up during the apartheid regime; his art is highly politically charged. His parents, both lawyers, were notable figures in the anti-apartheid movement – his father being Sir Sydney Kentridge, who represented Nelson Mandela. For forty years now William Kentridge has used his art to explore the legacy of colonialism, and the barbarity of war. He’s probably best known for his charcoal sketches, which become stop-go animations, preserving almost every change and rubbing-out. But he has a keen eye for the absurdity of life too, so we watch typewriters turn into trees, birds flying off the pages of dictionaries, or a film titled “Portrait of the artist as a coffee pot”.
In conversation with Michael Berkeley, William Kentridge talks about the importance of music in his work, and brings a playlist that reflects a lifetime of listening. We hear a famous 1937 recording of a Monteverdi madrigal; Janet Baker singing one of the songs from “Les Nuits d’ete” by Berlioz; a duet from The Magic Flute; a rare recording of the American guitarist Elizabeth Cotten; and a collaboration between the Kronos Quartet and a trio of musicians from Mali.
He looks back to his childhood in South Africa, and what it was like to grow up under the cruel system of apartheid; and he reveals how important early failures were in enabling him to see the way forward.
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
Produced by Elizabeth Burke
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001cyl7)
Christine Rice and Julius Drake
Mezzo-soprano Christine Rice and pianist Julius Drake perform two of the most celebrated song-cycles on the subject of summer and winter: Berlioz's Les nuits d'été and Britten's Winter Words.
From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op 7
Britten: Winter Words, Op 52
Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)
Julius Drake (piano)
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000j2bg)
A Black History
Celebrating the early cultural contribution of black people in the arts in the 17th and 18th centuries, including music by the first black man to vote in a British general election, Ignatius Sancho. There's also the musketeer Le Chevalier Meude-Monpas, 'the Black Mozart' Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-George, Brazilian composer Jose Nunes Garcia, and the real dedicatee of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata. Lucie Skeaping presents.
01
00:02:49 Rachel Portman
Belle: Main titles
Performer: Original Film Soundtrack
Duration 00:01:31
02
00:04:25 Tielman Susato
Basse danse (La Mourisque)
Performer: Early Music Consort of London
Conductor: David Munrow
Duration 00:01:11
03
00:06:16 Ignatius Sancho
The Complaint
Ensemble: The Windsor Box & Fir Company
Duration 00:02:10
04
00:08:53 Ignatius Sancho
13 Minuets for keyboard: No 6 (Birdcall); No 7
Performer: Janise White
Music Arranger: Janise White
Ensemble: Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra
Duration 00:01:49
05
00:12:26 Chevalier J.J.O. de Meude-Monpas
Concerto no. 4 in D major: Adagio
Performer: Rachel Barton
Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Hege
Duration 00:05:47
06
00:20:21 Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Quartet in C major Op.1`1: Allegro
Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet
Duration 00:05:13
07
00:27:23 Juan Manuel Olivares
Stabat Mater (excerpt)
Ensemble: Orfeon Lamas y Orquestra Sinfonica Venezuela
Conductor: Vicente Emilio Sojo
Duration 00:03:25
08
00:30:49 José Maurício Nunes Garcia
Tarambote
Ensemble: Ensemble Turicum
Conductor: Luiz Alves da Silva
Duration 00:03:03
09
00:33:52 José Maurício Nunes Garcia
Missa de nossa senhora da conceicao: Cum sancto spiritu
Choir: The University of Texas at Austin Chamber Singers
Conductor: James Morrow
Duration 00:04:30
10
00:39:24 Traditional English
The Willow song
Performer: Robert Spencer
Singer: James Bowman
Duration 00:03:30
11
00:42:56 John Gay
The Beggar's opera: Overture
Ensemble: Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen
Duration 00:03:16
12
00:47:29 Traditional English
The jovial broom-man
Ensemble: City Waites
Duration 00:02:56
13
00:50:25 Traditional English
Bobbing Jo
Performer: City Waites
Duration 00:01:21
14
00:53:13 Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in A major Op.47 (Kreutzer): Finale
Performer: Viktoria Mullova
Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout
Duration 00:08:25
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m001cyvw)
St Martin-in-the-Fields
From St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir.
Introit: Excellent (Martha Munizzi)
Responses: Peter Yarde Martin
Psalms 98-101 (Better is One Day/Victory) (Matt Redman, Trey Mclaughlin, Erica Hesketh)
First Lesson: Hosea 14 vv.1-9
Office hymn: I Go to the Rock (Joyce Reba Rambo)
Canticles: Gospel Canticles (Peter Yarde Martin)
Second Lesson: James 2 vv.14-26
Anthem: Total Praise (Richard Smallwood)
Hymn: Amazing Grace (Amazing Grace)
Voluntary: Excellent (reprise) (Martha Munizzi)
Christine Bullock, Peter Yarde Martin (Directors of Music)
Peter Yarde Martin (Piano)
Johnny Cox (Bass)
Joe Malone (Drums)
Recorded 16 October.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m001d62p)
BBC 100
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, and today celebrating 100 years of jazz on the BBC with recordings by Humphrey Lyttelton, Joe Harriott and Django Bates. Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
DISC 1
Artist Humphrey Lyttelton
Title Jersey Lightning
Composer Luis Russell
Album Humphrey Lyttelton Big Band with Jimmy Rushing
Label Upbeat
Number 174 Track 3
Duration 3.30
Performers Humphrey Lyttelton, t; John Picard, tb; Tony Coe, as; Jimmy Skidmore, ts; Joe Temperley, bars; Ian Armit, p; Brian Brocklehurst, b; Eddie Taylor d. 1958
DISC 2
Artist Savoy Havana Band
Title Last Night on the Back Porch
Composer Brown and Schraubstader
Album n/a dubbed from single
Label Columbia
Number 3349 Side A
Duration 3.14
Performers include: Reginald Batten vn, dir; Harry Thompson, Jimmy Wornell, t; Bernard Tipping, tb; Van Phillips, Leslie Bates, reeds; Cyril Ramon Newton, vn. v; Billy Mayerl, p; Dave Thomas, bj; Jim Bellamy, tu; Ronnie Gubertini, d. Oct 1923.
DISC 3
Artist New Orleans Wanderers
Title Perdido Street Blues
Composer Louis Armstong
Album Johnny Dodds – King of the Blues Clarinet
Label Upbeat
Number 225 Track 4
Duration 3.05
Performers George Mitchell, c; Johnny Dodds, cl; Kid Ory, tb; Lil Armstrong, p; Johnny St Cyr, bj. 13 July 1926
DISC 4
Artist Joe Harriott
Title Variations on Monk
Composer Dizzy Reece
Album BBC Jazz For Moderns
Label Gearbox
Number 1503 Track 3
Duration 2.59
Performers Shake Keane, fh; Joe Harriott, as; Pat Smythe, p; Coleridge Goode, b; Bobby Orr, d. 1962
DISC 5
Artist Bill Evans
Title Beautiful Love
Composer Churchill / Morey
Album Live In London
Label Harkit
Number 8058 Track 1
Duration 7.21
Performers Bill Evans, p; Chuck Israels, b; Larry Bunker, d. 2 March 1965
DISC 6
Artist Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington
Title Sophisticated Lady
Composer Duke Ellington. Irving Mills, Mitchell Parrish
Album Blue Rose
Label Columbia
Number CL 872 Track 2
Duration 2.57
Performers Rosemary Clooney, v; Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Ray Nance, Clark Terry, t; Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders, tb; Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, reeds; Duke Ellington, p; Jimmy Woode, b; Sam Woodyard, d. Jan 1956.
DISC 7
Artist Loose Tubes
Title Säd Afrika
Composer Django Bates
Album Säd Afrika
Label Lost Marble
Number 006 Track 1
Duration 5.40
Performers Eddie Parker, Dai Pritchard, Steve Buckley, Iain Ballamy, Mark Lockheart, Julian Nichols, Ken Stubbs, reeds; Lance Kelly, Chris Batchelor, Ted Emmett, Paul Edmonds, Noel Langley, t; John Harborne, Steve Day, Paul Taylor, Richard Powell, Ashley Slater, tb; Dave Powell, tu; Django Bates, kb; Steve Watts, b; Martin France, d. Thebi Lipere, perc. Sept 1990
DISC 8
Artist Barbara Thompson
Title It Don’t Mean A Thing
Composer Ellington
Album Live at the BBC
Label Repertoire
Number 1376 CD 14 Track 2
Duration 6.01
Performers Barbara Thompson, ts; Pete Lemer, kb; Phil Mulford, b; Jon Hiseman, d. 19 Feb 1989.
DISC 9
Artist Neil Ardley
Title Carillon
Composer Ardley
Album Symphony of Amaranths
Label Dusk Fire
Number 107 track 1
Duration 5.53
Performers Derek Watkins, Nigel Carter, Harry Beckett, Henry Lowther, t; Derek Wadsworth, Ray Premru, tb; Dick Hart, tu; Barbara Thompson, Don Rendell, Dave Gelly, Dick Heckstall Smith, saxophones; John Clementson, ob; Bunny Gould, bassoon; David Snell, Sidonie Goossens, hp; Neil Ardley, Stan Tracey, p; Frank Ricotti, vib; Chris Laurence, Jeff Clyne, b; Jon Hiseman, d. Strings. 1971
DISC 10
Artist Stan Tracey
Title Festival Junction
Composer Ellington, Strayhorn
Album At The Appleby Jazz Festival
Label ReSteamed
Number 103 Track 3
Duration 7.42
Performers Henry Lowther, Mark Armstrong, Nathan Bray, Guy Barker, t; Mark Nightingale, Adrian Fry, Andy Wood, tb; Alan Barnes, Simon Allen, Mornington Lockett, reeds; Stan Tracey, p; Andy Cleyndert, b; Clark Tracey, d. 29 July 2006.
DISC 11
Artist Tom McCredie Tell Trio
Title The Tortoise
Composer McCredie
Album Tell Trio
Label Self released
Number Track 3
Duration 4.47
Performers James Kitchman, g; Tom McCredie, b; Jay Davis, d. 2022.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m001dgs7)
The Hebrides Overture: Mendelssohn's melodious cave
Tom Service explores the story behind the very first orchestral tone poem and one of the best-loved pieces in classical music: Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture. Cave expert Prof Stuart Jeffrey shares his insights into Fingal's cave (which inspired Mendelssohn to write his overture), from its many famous visitors over the years to its extraordinary - and sometimes disconcerting - acoustic.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m001d62t)
Writers and the BBC
From wax discs to colour TV and Marshall McLuhan's "global village", a comedian's audition for the "Deputy Head of Variety" to advice on how to read a poem on radio: as part of BBC 100 today's programme takes its cue from fictional depictions of the corporation and references to specific programmes. Actors Henry Goodman and Grace Cookey-Gam read texts by authors who worked at the BBC including George Orwell who between 1941-1943 was a Talks Producer on what was then the 'Eastern Service' and gives us here his views about poetry on the radio; PH Newby, the first winner of the Booker Prize and a former controller of the Third programme and Penelope Fitzgerald, who worked at the BBC during the Blitz when she was in her twenties. Other extracts from novels include Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole, Gordon Burns' The North of England Home Service, Jonathan Coe's new book Bournville and an imagined Queen's Speech from Alan Bennett. There are archive extracts featuring John Gielgud and an unusual voice for the shipping forecast, poems written by Roger McGough, Wendy Cope and Elizabeth Burns and music commissioned by the BBC, plus pieces by Britten, Debussy, Fauré, Chopin, Bach, Bart Howard, Django Reinhardt and American rock from the 1960s.
Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo
Readings:
'A for Announcer' by Eleanor Farjeon (from 'The ABC of the BBC')
'Bournville' by Jonathan Coe (excerpt)
‘The North of England Service’ by Gordon Burns (excerpt)
'Three Rooms' by Jo Hamya (excerpt)
Shipping forecast, read by Alan Bennett on BBC Radio 4
'Listening to Bach’s B Minor Mass in the kitchen' by Elizabeth Burns
'Poetry and the Microphone' by George Orwell (excerpt)
'Sonnet 18' by William Shakespeare
'Lessons' from Ian McEwan (excerpt)
'A is for The Archers and Adultery' by Wendy Cope
'Human Voices' by Penelope Fitzgerald (excerpt)
'The Whistling Woman' by AS Byatt (excerpt)
‘Going Out Live’ by Mark Lawson (excerpt)
‘Feelings have changed’ by P.H. Newby (excerpt)
'Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾' by Sue Townsend (excerpt)
'Afterwards' by Thomas Hardy
'The Uncommon Reader' by Alan Bennett (excerpt)
'To Poetry Please' by Roger McGough
01
Georgia Mann
Introduction to the programme, read by Georgia Mann
Duration 00:01:13
02
00:01:14
Eleanor Farjeon
A for Announcer, from The ABC of the BBC, read by Grace Cookey-Gam
Duration 00:00:45
03
00:01:59 William Walton
Orb and Sceptre March
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Duration 00:01:57
04
00:03:55
Jonathan Coe
Bournville (excerpt), read by Henry Goodman
Duration 00:01:52
05
00:05:48 William Walton
Orb and Sceptre March
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Adrian Boult
Duration 00:00:31
06
00:06:19 Spike Hughes & His Dance Orchestra (artist)
Tap Your Feet
Performer: Spike Hughes & His Dance Orchestra
Duration 00:02:48
07
00:09:08
Gordon Burns
The North of England Service (excerpt), read by Grace Cookey-Gam
Duration 00:01:42
08
00:10:50 Erich Wolfgang Korngold
4 Shakespeare Songs, Op.31, When birds do sing
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter
Performer: Bengt Forsberg
Duration 00:02:36
09
00:13:26 Trad.
Song of the Birds (El Cant del Ocells)
Music Arranger: Pau Casals
Performer: Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla
Duration 00:02:24
10
00:15:48 BBC Sound Effects
Birds singing
Performer: Unknown
Duration 00:00:06
11
00:15:54
Jo Hamya
Three Rooms (excerpt), read by Henry Goodman
Duration 00:01:04
12
00:16:58 Claude Debussy
La Mer, I. De laube à midi sur la mer (Transcribed for four-hand piano)
Performer: Alexander Melnikov
Performer: Olga Pashchenko
Duration 00:04:02
13
00:21:00
BBC
BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast, read by Alan Bennett
Duration 00:00:45
14
00:21:46 BBC Sound Effects
Big Ben chimes and bongs
Performer: Unknown
Duration 00:00:34
15
00:22:21 Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor (BWV 232) Pt.2, Gloria in excelsis Deo, Et in terra Pax
Choir: Monteverdi Choir
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Duration 00:02:12
16
00:24:33
Elizabeth Burns
Listening to Bachs B Minor Mass in the kitchen, ready by Grace Cookey-Gam
Duration 00:01:29
17
00:26:01 Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor (BWV 232) Pt.2, Gloria in excelsis Deo, Et in terra Pax
Choir: Monteverdi Choir
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Duration 00:02:01
18
00:28:02
George Orwell
Poetry and the Microphone (excerpt), read by Henry Goodman
Duration 00:01:54
19
00:29:57 John Dowland
My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Performer: Nigel North
Duration 00:01:46
20
00:31:44
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18, read by Sir John Gielgud
Duration 00:00:49
21
00:32:33 Doris Day (artist)
Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
Performer: Doris Day
Duration 00:02:32
22
00:35:05
Ian McEwan
Lessons (excerpt), read by Henry Goodman
Duration 00:00:20
23
00:35:26
Wendy Cope
A is for The Archers and Adultery, ready by Wendy Cope
Duration 00:01:15
24
00:36:42 Gabriel Fauré
Pavane for orchestra (with chorus ad lib) (Op.50)
Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris
Choir: Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris
Conductor: Paavo Järvi
Duration 00:04:18
25
00:41:00
Penelope Fitzgerald
Human Voices (excerpt), ready by Henry Goodman
Duration 00:00:49
26
00:41:49 Django Reinhardt / Stéphan Grappelli
Echoes of France - La Marseillaise
Performer: Django Reinhardt (guitar)
Duration 00:02:44
27
00:44:33 Big Brother & the Holding Company (artist)
Piece of My Heart
Performer: Big Brother & the Holding Company
Duration 00:01:27
28
00:46:00
AS Byatt
The Whistling Woman (excerpt), ready by Grace Cookey-Gam
Duration 00:01:55
29
00:47:54 Big Brother & the Holding Company (artist)
Piece of My Heart
Performer: Big Brother & the Holding Company
Duration 00:00:39
30
00:48:34 Frédéric Chopin
Mazurka for piano (B.16`2) in B flat major [1826]
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Duration 00:01:07
31
00:49:41
Mark Lawson
Going Out Live (excerpt), read by Henry Goodman
Duration 00:02:00
32
00:51:41 John Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Duration 00:04:11
33
00:55:53
P.H. Newby
Feelings have changed (excerpt), ready by Grace Cookey-Gam
Duration 00:01:38
34
00:57:31 Ron Grainer
Doctor Who Theme (Series 8)
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Ben Foster
Conductor: James Shearman
Duration 00:00:39
35
00:58:10
Sue Townsend
Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ (excerpt), ready by Grace Cookey-Gam
Duration 00:01:14
36
00:59:24
Thomas Hardy
Afterwards, ready by Jeremy Irons
Duration 00:01:00
37
00:59:59 Jon Lord
Afterwards
Performer: Jon Lord
Duration 00:02:56
38
01:02:20 Benjamin Britten
Gloriana - symphonic suite Op.53a: Courtly dances: March & Coranto
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic
Conductor: Edward Gardner
Duration 00:01:54
39
01:04:14
Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader, ready by Henry Goodman
Duration 00:02:00
40
01:06:14 Daniel McGrath
Strictly Come Dancing
Performer: Sacre
Duration 00:00:38
41
01:06:52
Roger McGough
To Poetry Please, read by Grace Cookey-Gam
Duration 00:01:20
42
01:08:11 Howard Skempton
Lento
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
Duration 00:05:23
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m001d62w)
The Sonic Century: A New Art
Radio pioneer Lance Sieveking headed the BBC’s Programme Research Department in 1928 and saw radio as art and himself as an artist and producer. His book The Stuff of Radio, he described as “observations about a new art, comparing its technique with that of other arts. The Mystery of Painting with Sound.” Absorbing modernist theories and practices of the time, and influenced by the emerging field of psychoanalysis, he created innovative and experimental radio which fully exploited the creative potential of the new technology available to him.
In this feature we hear newly recorded extracts of Sieveking’s “first full-sized” 70-minute-long live radio “experiment”, The Kaleidoscope, a Rhythm, Representing the Life of Man from Cradle to Grave. Time travelling back to the BBC studios where Sieveking ‘conducted’ his experiment, the producer and composer Nina Perry creates a kaleidoscopic montage, made with modern-day audio technology, to reveal the daring complexity of what was at the time, an exceptional feat of live broadcasting involving seven different studios with actors, a choir, a quintet, a jazz band, sound effects and a full orchestra.
The actor Colin Morgan plays the role of Lance Sieveking, London Bubble Young Theatre Makers perform a reading of Kaleidoscope and discuss their impressions of the script exploring how Sieveking and his experimental storytelling in sound resonates for us now. Radio artist Magz Hall, historian of the BBC David Hendy and Lance's son Paul Sieveking share their in-depth research and fascination for Lance Sieveking - revealing him to be a multimedia artist ahead of his time and a captivating, unconventional and hugely significant figure in the history of broadcasting.
Lance Sieveking ..... Colin Morgan
London Bubble Young Theatre Makers reading Kaleidoscope:
The man ..... Deshaye Gayle
The voice of good ..... Tia N Wingate
The voice of bad ..... Oliver Samuel
All other characters read by Elyce Dowell, Florence Williams, Joba Bajuwoye, Kc Gardiner, Natalie Berry, Patrick Ashe, Polly Wilson, Sasha Bond.
Producer: Nina Perry
Mix Engineer: Peregrine Andrews.
An Open Audio Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m001d62y)
Ariel and Winter Trees
Marking what would have been Sylvia Plath’s 90th birthday (Oct 27th, 2022), ARIEL AND WINTER TREES is a vibrant journey through Plath's last collections of poetry. Eschewing academic analysis and autobiographical assumptions, ARIEL AND WINTER TREES offers instead a sonic celebration of Plath’s work through readings and testimonies by women artists, joined together by an immersive soundscape that allows the listener to truly experience the power and depth of Plath’s words.
Performed by Dame Siân Phillips, Indira Varma, and Eva Feiler with testimonies from authors/poets Lucy Caldwell, Sarah Corbett, Michèle Roberts and Chloé Savoie-Bernard, ARIEL AND WINTER TREES includes Plath’s unique radio-play THREE WOMEN in its first airing since it was written and broadcast for the BBC in August of 1962.
The poems and radio play that form ARIEL and WINTER TREES were written by Plath at the height of her creative powers, when she began to write for her words to be read out loud. Set within every day and other-earthly landscapes, Plath’s poetic persona shatters its sense of self and picks up the pieces to examine who she is as a woman, mother, daughter, wife. But above all else, Plath’s poems are an exploration of the range and depths of human emotion, with all its collisions and conflagrations.
Indeed, throughout her anthologies, Plath’s persona is pushed and pulled between different emotional forces. Forces which twist and reshape Plath’s poetic voice from being that of a tranquil clairvoyant to a vengeful magician.
An Almost Tangible production for BBC Radio 3, ARIEL AND WINTER TREES was conceived and directed by Saskia Black, the sound designer was Jon Nicholls and the producers were Charlotte Melén and Eleanor Mein.
SUN 21:00 Record Review Extra (m001d630)
Mozart's Paris Symphony
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Wolfgang Amadeus's Symphony No 31 in D major, 'Paris'.
SUN 23:00 The American Clarinet (m001d632)
So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star?
Berginald Rash explores the wide-ranging developments of the American School of clarinet playing from the late 20th century to today, and plays us his favourite performers and tracks. This time, the clarinet steps out from its early role as band-member, dons its tight trousers and strides straight out into centre stage - the clarinet as rock star! There are stomping pyrotechnic concertos by Artie Shaw, John Corigliano and Scott McAllister, and Deborah Bish's provocatively bluesy chamber music, and we also go to the movies with John Williams, with some modern developments in South America on the way. But every school has its teachers, so Berginald digs out two classic recordings by the clarinettists that have influenced him most: the great performers and pedagogues, Harold Wright and Robert Marcellus.
MONDAY 24 OCTOBER 2022
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m001d634)
Kemah Bob
For Black History Month, Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist of music by black composers for his guest, comedian and writer Kemah Bob.
Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m001d636)
War Requiem
Martyn Brabbins conducts the combined forces of the Cologne Cathedral Choir, Berlin Radio Chorus and the WDR Chorus and Orchestra in Benjamin Britten's cry for humanity. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Wilfred Owen (author)
War Requiem, Op.66
Elza van den Heever (soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Hanno Muller-Brachmann (baritone), WDR Chorus, Cologne Cathedral Choir, Berlin Radio Chorus, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
01:56 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
String Quartet no.14 in G major, K.387
Orford String Quartet
02:27 AM
William Byrd (1543-1623)
Alman MB.117
Aapo Hakkinen (harpsichord)
02:31 AM
Florence Price (1887-1953)
Concert Overture no.2
BBC Concert Orchestra, Jane Glover (conductor)
02:46 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Sonata for cello and piano in G minor (Op.19)
Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Francine Kay (piano)
03:24 AM
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Exaudi me, for 12 part triple chorus, continuo and 4 trombones
Danish National Radio Chorus, Copenhagen Cornetts & Sackbutts, Lars Baunkilde (violone), Soren Christian Vestergaard (organ), Bo Holten (conductor)
03:30 AM
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Symphony in A major, K 24 (Op 10 No 6)
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
03:43 AM
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Wind Quintet Op 14 in A flat major
Cinque Venti
03:57 AM
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
Villanelle for horn and orchestra
Esa Tukia (horn), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Adelson (conductor)
04:05 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 7
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
04:23 AM
Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682)
Ardo, sospiro e piango
Emma Kirkby (soprano), David Thomas (bass), Jakob Lindberg (lute), Anthony Rooley (lute), Anthony Rooley (director)
04:31 AM
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Polonaise de concert in A major (1867)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zygmunt Rychert (conductor)
04:38 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue from Sonata no 3 in C for solo violin, BWV.1005
Sigiswald Kuijken (violin)
04:48 AM
Johannes Ockeghem (1410-1497)
Salve Regina
Hilliard Ensemble
04:54 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Excelsior! Op 13
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)
05:07 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Quadro in G minor, TWV 43:g4
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori
05:17 AM
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847)
7 Songs Vikingen (The Viking) ; Den lilla kolargossen
Samuel Jarrick (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
05:31 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
05:56 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Trio in D minor (Op.63)
Dan Almgren (violin), Torleif Thedeen (cello), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m001d67t)
Monday - Kate's classical picks
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m001d67w)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0005nnn)
England's Golden Age
Oriana's Triumphs
The composers of 16th-century England flourished under the rule of Elizabeth I, rapidly developing a diverse musical culture unparalleled anywhere on the continent, a truly Golden Age for English music. In this week of programmes Donald Macleod explores six composers who were key to this ascent - Thomas Morley, John Bull, Peter Philips, Thomas Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tomkins. These composers were all active at around the same time as the “Father of British Musick” William Byrd and John Dowland, and all either studied or worked with Byrd, but they don’t often receive the same attention as those more famous names. In Monday’s programme, Donald explores the circumstances which allowed the six composers to flourish under Elizabeth I's rule.
Morley: It was a Lover and his lass
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Elizabeth Kenny, lute
Tomkins: Fantasia a 6 no. 18
Phantasm
Tomkins: Too Much I Once Lamented (for Byrd)
Le Cris de Paris
Geoffroy Jourdain, director
Bull: Chromatic Pavan and Galliard MB 87a/b
Sophie Yates, virginals
Philips: Hodie beata Virgo Maria; Surgens Jesus; Ave Verum Corpus (Cantiones Sacrae 1612, Vol I)
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
Richard Marlow, conductor
Gibbons: Prelude in D minor
Laurence Cummings, organ
Gibbons: See, See the World is Incarnate
Robin Blaze, countertenor
Oxford Camerata
Laurence Cummings, organ
Jeremy Summerly, conductor
Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth, conductor
Morley: Hard by a Crystal Fountain
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth, conductor
Produced by Sam Phillips for BBC Wales
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001d67y)
Christian Lindberg and Roland Pöntinen
Andrew McGregor presents the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall in London, today featuring two top Swedish soloists: trombonist Christian Lindberg and pianist Roland Pöntinen. Alongside Hindemith's 1941 sonata and the brooding Romance supposedly composed by Weber, each artist contributes one of his own works, Lindberg a trombone solo and Pöntinen a work for piano.
PAUL HINDEMITH
Sonata for trombone and piano
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Romance
CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
Land of the Rising Sun
ROLAND PONTINEN
Prélude d'automne
TCHAIKOVSKY, arr. Christian Lindberg/Roland Pöntinen
Nutcracker Suite
Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Roland Pöntinen (piano)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001d680)
Debussy's La mer from Paris
Cristian Macelaru conducts the French National Orchestra in Debussy's La mer, plus works by Mozart, Bach and Alma Mahler.
Presented by Fiona Talkington
In the first of this week's programmes celebrating French and Belgian orchestral works, Cristian Macelaru directs a dazzling performance of Debussy's aquatic masterpiece. Plus Philippe Herreweghe conducts Mozart's "Prague" symphony and Vilde Frang plays the first of Bach's exquisite violin concertos
2.00pm
Debussy orch. Colin Matthews
Fireworks (Preludes, Bk.2)
Halle
Mark Elder, conductor
Bach
Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV.1041
Vilde Frang, violin
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Philippe Manoury
State of Alert for percussion duet and orchestra
Emmanuel Curt, percussion
Florent Jodelet, percussion
Orchestre National de France
Cristian Macelaru, conductor
Handel
Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 390a
Arcangelo
3.00pm
Debussy
La mer
French National Orchestra
Cristian Macelaru, conductor
Alma Mahler
Three Early Songs
BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter, conductor
Mozart
Symphony no.38 in D, K.504 'Prague'
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m001d682)
Johan Dalene plays Ravel's Sonata in G
Chamber music from Radio 3's New Generation Artists: Johan Dalene and Charles Owen play Ravel's violin sonata in G major, recorded last year at the Brittne Studio, Snape. Before that, we'll hear Stanford's song 'La belle dame sans merci', a setting of Keat's ballad of the unnamed knight fatally bewitched by the mysterious ‘faery’s child'. After the Ravel sonata, Catriona Morison sings 'Silent Noon', the most well-known and beautiful song from Vaughan Williams's cycle, 'The House of Life'.
Stanford: La Belle Dame sans merci
James Newby, tenor
Simon Lepper, piano
Ravel: Violin Sonata No 2 in G major
Johan Dalene, violin
Charles Owen, piano
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon (from 'The House of Life')
Catriona Morison, mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau, piano
MON 17:00 In Tune (m001d684)
Daniel Pioro, Mark Elder
The violinist Daniel Pioro performs live in the studio for presenter Katie Derham ahead of his concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and we're joined by conductor Sir Mark Elder as he prepares for a performance of Verdi's Requiem in Manchester and York. There’s the latest arts news, too, from across the classical music world.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001d686)
Thirty minutes of classical Inspiration
An eclectic mix of classical music begins with the Waltz movement from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet and Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn, with music from the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Frank Bridge and Benjamin Britten. The mixtape draws to a conclusion with the third movement of Chopin's Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor and Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001d688)
CPE Bach oratorio The Israelites in the Desert
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's oratorio The Israelites in the Desert in a performance given at last month's Utrecht Early Music Festival.
Fiona Talkington introduces this rare performance C.P.E. Bach's oratorio which traces in extended arias, recitatives and short choruses the Old Testament story of the pain and suffering of the Israelites in the desert. Written for the consecration of Hamburg's Lazarettkirche in 1769, Bach wrote the piece with the intention that it be performed "not only on a solemn occasion, but at any time, inside or outside the Church." The work went on to achieve popularity in concert halls across Europe.
Die Israeliten in der Wüste, Wq. 238 oratorio
Daniel Schiebeler (1741-1771), librettist
Marie Lys (soprano),
Zoë Brookshaw (soprano)
Valerio Contaldo (tenor)
Stephan MacLeod (bass and conductor)
Gli Angeli Genève
MON 21:00 Ultimate Calm (m001d68b)
Ólafur Arnalds
Drift away with ocean sounds feat. ODESZA
Float away with Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds for an hour-long musical journey into an ocean of calm.
This week, Ólafur taps into the sounds of the sea and shares music inspired by the ocean, from the lapping of waves to songs inspired by lighthouses. There are pieces from Gustav Holst, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou and Amiina, and Ólafur reflects on his own relationship with the sea from his studio on the harbour in Reykjavík.
Plus the Seattle-based electronic duo ODESZA transport us to their safe haven, the place they feel most calm, on the shore of Lake Washington, and talk about the calming powers of water.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m001d63y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m001d68d)
The Beeb and the Bard
Finding a Way
Soon after the BBC was born came the ambition to broadcast Shakespeare plays on 'the wireless'. Theatres refused to allow recording of stage versions so the BBC had to go it alone. The BBC's first Director-General, Lord Reith, thought radio well suited to the task of producing Shakespeare:
‘The plays of Shakespeare fulfil to a great extent the requirements of wireless, for he had little in the way of setting and scenery, and relied chiefly on the vigour of his plot and the conviction of the speakers to convey his ideas. It is not at all unlikely that wireless will render a highly important service in popularizing Shakespeare.’
Our series looks at how well Reith's ambition was realised. We have brilliant clips from some of the country's best loved actors who have performed Shakespeare on the radio as productions grew more sophisticated, as acting styles changed and as radio's production values allowed the listener to experience Shakespeare's world in the most imaginative way.
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m001d68g)
Music for the evening
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2022
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m001d68j)
In memoriam
Tributes to Nicholas Angelich, Radu Lupu and Harrison Birtwistle who all died in April 2022. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, op. 83
Nicholas Angelich (piano), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
01:22 AM
Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022)
Night’s Black Bird
NDR Symphony Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)
01:35 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Radu Lupu (piano), NDR Symphony Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)
02:06 AM
Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 89
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet
02:31 AM
Jan Cikker (1911-1989)
Slovak Suite, op 22
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mirko Krajci (conductor)
02:54 AM
Joaquin Nicolas Ximenez Brufal (1742-1791)
Violin Sonata in G major
La Guirlande
03:13 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no. 33 in B flat major K.319
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor)
03:33 AM
Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely (1785-1858)
Messe des fetes solennelles
Marcel Verheggen (organ)
03:42 AM
Andre Jolivet (1905-1974)
Chant de Linos for flute and piano
Ales Kacjan (flute), Bojan Gorisek (piano)
03:53 AM
Augustin Dautrecourt de Sainte-Colombe (fl.1657-1670)
Concert à Deux Violes no 44, "Tombeau des Regrets"
Violes Esgales, Susie Napper (viol), Margaret Little (viol)
04:03 AM
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Havanaise for violin and orchestra, Op 83
Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
04:13 AM
Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000)
5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet
Tae-Won Kim (flute), Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Pil-Kwan Sung (oboe), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon)
04:23 AM
Kaspar Forster (1616-1673)
Sonata (ca 1660)
Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble
04:31 AM
Johannes Bernardus van Bree (1801-1857)
Le Bandit (Overture)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
04:38 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in C
Eduardo Lopez Banzo (harpsichord)
04:46 AM
Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838)
The Little Slave Girl - concert suite for orchestra (1824)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor)
05:05 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Recitativo accompagnato – Dall'ondoso periglio; Aria – Aure, deh, per pieta
Graham Pushee (counter tenor), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer (artistic director)
05:12 AM
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Le Loriot (No.2 of Catalogue d'Oiseaux)
David Louie (piano)
05:21 AM
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Toccata XI for organ
Nikiforos Klironomos (organ)
05:28 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Iberia: Images for Orchestra, No. 2 (1909)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Markl (conductor)
05:50 AM
Leonel Power (1370-1445)
Missa 'Alma redemptoris mater'
Hilliard Ensemble
06:11 AM
Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978)
Sonatina Concertante, Op 28
Ivan Eftimov (piano)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m001d68l)
Tuesday - Kate's classical alternative
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m001d68n)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0005nlx)
England's Golden Age
The Italian Influence
The composers of 16th-century England flourished under the rule of Elizabeth I, rapidly developing a diverse musical culture unparalleled anywhere on the continent, a truly Golden Age for English music. In this week of programmes Donald Macleod explores six composers who were key to this ascent - Thomas Morley, John Bull, Peter Philips, Thomas Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tomkins. These composers were all active at around the same time as the “Father of British Musick” William Byrd and John Dowland, and all either studied or worked with Byrd, but they don’t often receive the same attention as those more famous names. One of the major factors in this English explosion of cultural maturity was the influence of the Italian renaissance. In Tuesday’s programme, Donald examines the impact of Italy on England’s Golden Age and the role of Thomas Morley and his monopoly of printing in the promotion of Italianate styles.
Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder: Questi ch'indizio fan del mio tormento (Madrigal from Musica transalpina I, 1588)
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Morley: Now is the month of maying; Sing we and chant it; On a fair morning
Madrigal;
The King’s Singers
Robert Spencer, lute
Morley: Canzonets or Litle Short Aers to Five and Six Voices: No. 12 Cruel, Wilt Thou Persever
King’s Singers
Morley/Philips: Pavan & Galliard (arr. Philips based on Morley’s originals)
Rose Consort of Viols
Philips: Lasso, non e morir
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, director
Philips: Amarilli (after G. Caccini)
Christopher Hogwood, virginals
Philips: Gaude Maria virgo
Stile Antico
Weelkes: O Care Thou Wilt Dispatch Me (Parts 1 and 2)
Hilliard Ensemble
Paul Hillier, conductor
Weelkes: Come, Sirrah Jack, ho!
The King’s Singers
Weelkes: Thule, the period of cosmology – The Andalusian merchant
The Queen's Six
Gibbons: The Silver Swan (c.1611)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Tomkins: Oft did I marle (c.1622)
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth, conductor
Produced by Sam Phillips for BBC Wales
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001d68q)
2022 Dartington Music Festival - Schubert, Chaminade and Magnard
Linton Stephens presents a selection of highlights from the 2022 Dartington Music Summer School and Festival, located in the rolling hills of Devon near Totnes. The concert begins with the pianist Ivana Gavric performing a work she’d recently discovered, Chaminade’s Autrefois. This is followed by Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton, who join forces to present a variety of songs by Schubert, Grieg and Barber. The Magnard Ensemble step forward to perform a Quintet, one of the few surviving works by their namesake, Albéric Magnard. The concert ends with an encore item from Gemma Rosefield and Tim Horton, Pablo Casals arrangement of a traditional Catalan Christmas Lullaby, The Song of the Birds.
Chaminade: Autrefois (Pièces Humoristiques, No 4)
Ivana Gavric, piano
Schubert: Auflösung, D807
Grieg: Dereinst, Gedanke mein, Op 48 No 2
Barber: The Desire for Hermitage, Op 29 No 10
Mary Bevan, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Magnard: Quintet in D minor, Op 8
Magnard Ensemble
Joseph Havlat, piano
Trad. Arr. Pablo Casals
The Song of the Birds
Gemma Rosefield, cello
Tim Horton, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001d68s)
Lalo's Symphonie espagnole
Violinist Augustin Hadelich plays Lalo's sun-infused Spanish Symphony, plus music by Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann.
Presented by Fiona Talkington
A violin concerto in all but name, Lalo's Spanish Symphony was written for the virtuoso and fellow-composer Pablo de Sarasate. His modern-day successor, the German-American violinist revels in the sparkling writing in this live recording made in Paris in May. There's music from Duparc and Mendelssohn and, in Bach, a very different, much earlier violin concerto
2.00pm
Bach
Violin Concerto no.2 in E, BWV.1042
Vilde Frang, violin
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Duparc
Phidyle
Veronique Gens, soprano
Susan Manoff, piano
Franz Schmidt
Orchestral extracts from Notre Dame
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon, conductor
3.00pm
Lalo
Symphonie espagnole in D minor, Op.21
Augustin Hadelich, violin
French National Orchestra
Cristian Macelaru, conductor
Mendelssohn
Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op.107 ('Reformation')
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier, conductor
Schumann
Kinderszenen, Op.15
Elisabeth Brauss, piano
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m001d68v)
Richard Tognetti, Alina Ibragimova, Cedric Tiberghien
Conductor Richard Tognetti and musicians from the Australian Chamber Orchestra join Sean Rafferty to perform live in the In Tune studio ahead of their concert at Milton court on Thursday, and we've music making from violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien in advance of their concert at Wigmore Hall.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001d68x)
Switch up your listening with classical music
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises, including a Rondo for string quartet by Bruckner, a Spanish dance on the piano by Granados, Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, Haydn's Symphony No. 78, an arrangement of a Bach Prelude, featuring a cello, by Ignaz Moscheles, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Solfeggietto in a Jazz interpretation, a favourite Monteverdi madrigal, Beethoven writing for the mandolin... and the evergreen Largo al Factotum from Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001d68z)
Wigmore Soloists play Beethoven, Berwald and Zemlinsky
Wigmore Soloists is a group of starry musicians originally formed just before the pandemic and lockdown. They firs performed online but now, in happier times, they present their programmes as a communal experience, tonight with a programme bookended by jolly septets.
Beethoven's Septet was premiered in Vienna in 1800. But much to his chagrin, and despite the next three decades of exacting effort and continual ground-breaking musical innovation, the affable and witty Septet stubbornly remained Beethoven's most popular work. Its then unusual combination of solo wind and strings was a direct model for the Swedish composer Franz Berwald whose own equally easy-going and good-humoured Septet premiered in Stockholm in 1818. In Vienna at the other end of the century, Zemlinsky's Clarinet Trio was composed very much in the shadow of Brahms and with the hope of his approval, which it duly received. Perhaps, whether unconsciously or not, the older composer was flattered by the pronounced similarities to his own music.
Recorded last week at Wigmore Hall and introduced by Ian Skelly.
Franz Berwald: Septet in B flat
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3
8.30pm
Interval music (from CD)
Beethoven: 7 Bagatelles, Op. 33
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
8.50 pm
Beethoven: Septet in E flat, Op. 20
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Robin O'Neill (bassoon)
Alberto Menéndez Escribano (horn)
Isabelle van Keulen (violin)
Adrien La Marca (viola)
Torleif Thedéen (cello)
Tim Gibbs double (double bass)
Michael McHale (piano)
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m001d691)
Dead languages
John Gallagher discusses the latest research on the languages of the ancient world that weren't Latin and Greek. We associate places like Italy and Cyprus with those two best known ancient languages. But both were linguistically diverse. What informed people's choice of language in these places? How were alphabets developed and used? Plus, an exhibition at the British Museum explores the world opened up when Egyptian hieroglyphics were deciphered 200 years ago, and how the invention of the Cyrillic alphabet, developed in the Balkans over 1,000 years ago, still has political repercussions today.
With Dr Katherine McDonald, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham, Dr Mirela Ivanova, Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield, and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, Dr Philippa Steele is Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and Dr Ilona Regulski, an Egyptologist based at the British Museum.
The British Museum exhibition Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt runs until Feb 189th 2023.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
You can find other episodes exploring language in the New Research playlist on the Free Thinking programme website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90
New Thinking: the impact of being multilingual hears from Katrin Kohl, Rajinder Dudrah and Wen-chin Ouyang https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08s6mjd
New Thinking: Shakespeare's language talks to Alison Findlay and Jonathan Culpeper, collaborators on an Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07h2z4r
New Thinking: City Talk looks at the Manchester accents mapping project with Dr Erin Carrie and Dr Rob Drummond https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07h30hm
Free Thinking: Speech, Voice, Accents and AI brought together Sadie Ryan, Allison Koenecke and Lynda Clark https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000srbn
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m001d693)
The Beeb and the Bard
Shakespeare in war and peace
Actor Samuel West is joined by Dr Andrea Smith in a journey through 100 years (nearly ) of Shakespeare on the radio. You might think that the years of the Second World War would have given listeners a thirst for history plays and great stirring speeches such as those in Henry V. But in fact it was pastoral comedy that was most popular - a reminder perhaps of the idealised, imagined Britain that people were fighting to protect. We hear too how production techniques gained sophistication and that theatricality slowly gave way to realism.
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m001d695)
Dissolve into sound
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER 2022
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m001d697)
Schubert's Schwanengesang
Baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber in an all-Schubert programme from Stockholm. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Ludwig Rellstab (lyricist)
Schwanengesang, D. 957 (Book I)
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)
01:01 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Heinrich Heine (lyricist)
Schwanengesang, D. 957 (Book II)
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)
01:20 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Gabriel Seidl (lyricist)
Sehnsucht, D. 879
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)
01:23 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Gabriel Seidl (lyricist)
Der Wanderer an den Mond, D. 870
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)
01:26 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Gabriel Seidl (lyricist)
Am Fenster, D. 878
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)
01:29 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Gabriel Seidl (lyricist)
Im Freien, D. 880
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)
01:34 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Gabriel Seidl (lyricist)
Die Taubenpost, from 'Schwanengesang, D. 957'
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)
01:39 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola and 2 Cellos in C major (D.956)
Artemis Quartet, Christian Poltera (cello)
02:31 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony no. 8 (Op.88) in G major
KBS Symphony Orchestra, Hubert Soudant (conductor)
03:09 AM
Bozidar Sirola (1889-1956)
Missa Poetica
Slovenian Chamber Choir, Vladimir Kranjcevic (director)
03:41 AM
Ivo Parac (1890-1954)
Andante amoroso
Zagreb Quartet
03:48 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
4 Studies, Op 7
Nikita Magaloff (piano)
03:55 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for flute, violin and continuo in G major, BWV 1038
Musica Petropolitana
04:03 AM
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1630-1670)
Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 3 no 2, 'La Cesta'
Daniel Sepec (violin), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Lee Santana (theorbo), Michael Behringer (harpsichord)
04:11 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Two Nocturnes, Op 32
Kevin Kenner (piano)
04:21 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Concert waltz for orchestra no 2 in F major, Op 51
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
04:31 AM
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Beatrice et Benedict Overture
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Neville Marriner (conductor)
04:39 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Prelude and Fugue No.1 in E minor (Op.35)
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
04:49 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Luonnotar, Op 70
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
04:57 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Sonata No.6 for 2 violins and continuo in G minor (Z.807)
Il Tempo Ensemble
05:04 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Danse sacree et danse profane for harp and strings
Eva Maros (harp), Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bela Drahos (conductor)
05:15 AM
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900)
Etudes instructives, Op 53 (1851)
Nina Gade (piano)
05:25 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Cello Sonata in A major, Op 69
Jong-Young Lee (cello), Keum-Bong Kim (piano)
05:49 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in D major, K.285
Carol Wincenc (flute), Chee-Yun (violin), Nokuthula Ngwenyama (viola), David Finckel (cello)
06:03 AM
John Williams (b.1932)
Horn Concerto
Radovan Vlatkovic (soloist), Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Enrico Dindo (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m001d66c)
Wednesday - Kate's classical mix
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m001d66f)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0005nqg)
England's Golden Age
Composers in Exile
The composers of 16th-century England flourished under the rule of Elizabeth I, rapidly developing a diverse musical culture unparalleled anywhere on the continent, a truly Golden Age for English music. In this week of programmes Donald Macleod explores six composers who were key to this ascent - Thomas Morley, John Bull, Peter Philips, Thomas Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tomkins. These composers were all active at around the same time as the “Father of British Musick” William Byrd and John Dowland, and all either studied or worked with Byrd, but they don’t often receive the same attention as those more famous names. In Wednesday’s programme, Donald explores the lives of the composers who lived and worked in exile during this period including Peter Philips – after Byrd the most published English composer of the age.
Philips: Salve Regina
Capella Mediteranea
Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, conductor
Philips: Pavan & Galliard in memory of Lord Paget
Rose Consort of Viols
Morley: Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis from First Service
Bristol Cathedral Choir
Ian Ball, organ
Christopher Brayne, conductor
Bull: Pavan No 2 (from Parthenia)
Catalina Vicens, double virginal
Bull: Almighty God, Which by the leading of a Star
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal
Christopher Jackson, conductor
Bull: Fantasia on a fugue of Sweelinck
Robin Walker, organ
Philips: Pavan and Galliard Dolorosa
Ton Koopman, harpsichord
Produced by Sam Phillips for BBC Wales
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001d66h)
2022 Dartington Music Festival - Beethoven, Roussel and Ravel
Linton Stephens presents a selection of highlights from the 2022 Dartington Music Summer School and Festival, beginning with Mary Bevan who teams up with Joseph Middleton to perform Ravel, Schubert and Schumann. This is followed by French music for wind instruments and piano, with the Magnard Ensemble presenting a Divertissement by Albert Roussel. Beethoven’s challenging Cello Sonata No 5 is performed by Gemma Rosefield and Tim Horton, before the concert ends with a celebratory encore item, Grieg’s Wedding at Troldhaugen with the pianist Ivana Gavric.
Ravel: Kaddish (Two Hebrew Melodies, No 1)
Schubert: Die Götter Griechenlands, D677
Schubert: Nachstück, D672
Schumann: Requiem, Op 90 No 7
Mary Bevan, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Roussel: Divertissement, for piano and winds, Op 6
Magnard Ensemble
Joseph Havlat, piano
Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 5 in D, Op 102 No 2
Gemma Rosefield, cello
Tim Horton, piano
Grieg: Wedding at Troldhaugen, Op 65 No 6
Ivana Gavric, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001d66k)
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
Kazuki Yamada conducts the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic in exuberant music by Berlioz; there's also a keyboard concerto by Bach and exquisite vocal music from Josquin des Prez.
Presented by Fiona Talkington
Berlioz's fantastical symphony is almost hallucinatory, taking us from daydreams to the scaffold and even to a terrifying witches' sabbath. Chief conductor-designate of the CBSO, Kazuki Yamada here leads the Monte Carlo Philharmonic in a fiery live recording made in the summer.
2.00pm
Berlioz
Overture: Le Corsaire, Op.21
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Kazuki Yamada, conductor
Bach
Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor, BWV.1052
Stephane Fuget, harpsichord
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, conductor
Josquin
Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria
Stile Antico
3.00p,
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique, Op.14
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Kazuki Yamada, conductor
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m001d66m)
Royal Holloway, University of London
Live from the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London.
Introit: Venite et audite (Langlais)
Responses: George Arthur (after Vaughan Williams)
Psalm 119 vv.145-176 (Walford Davies, Walmisley, Hopkins, Ashfield)
First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 24 vv.1-22
Magnificat (Peeters)
Second Lesson: John 13 vv.21-30
Nunc dimittis (Howells)
Anthem: Arise in beauty (Dan Locklair)
Prayer Anthem: Abendlied (Matthew Coleridge)
Hymn: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (St Clement)
Voluntary: Partita (Allegro ma non troppo) (Mathias)
Rupert Gough (Director of Music)
David Goode (Organist)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m001d66p)
Bertrand Chamayou
The pianist Bertrand Chamayou performs live in the studio for Sean Rafferty ahead of his concert at LSO St Luke’s tomorrow, plus there’s the latest arts news from across the classical music world.
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000d84b)
Classical music for focus and inspiration
There's a salty tang to In Tune’s specially curated playlist as we take to the high seas with an eclectic mix of music. The Foggy Morning from Uuno Klami's Sea Pictures gives way to Medtner's Meeresstille, Debussy little boat is rocked by Judith Weir's Storm and Britten's Peter Grimes. After the tranquillity of Vaughan Williams's Full Fathom Five Korngold's Captian Blood soundtrack sends us one our way in swash-buckling style. Splice the mainbrace!
[The playlist doesn't match the description, so it has not been included - Ed.]
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001d66t)
BBC Concert Orchestra - Celebrating Mingus
With Martin Handley. Guy Barker conducts his New Jazz Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra in a musical tribute to Charles Mingus in his centenary year, recorded at the end of September from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. They are joined by New York guests saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin and narrator/singer Allan Harris. Mingus briefly played in Ellington's band and the first half includes music by Duke Ellington and others who influenced him. The whole of the second half features stories from Mingus's life, set to his own music, orchestrated and arranged into a symphonic suite by Guy Barker with narration written by Rob Ryan.
Mingus arr & orch. Barker: Don’t Be Afraid, the Clown’s Afraid Too / Us Is Two (Medley)
Ellington arr & orch. Barker: Fleurette Africaine
Ellington arr & orch. Barker: Money Jungle
Ellington arr & orch. Barker: I Got It Bad
Scott Joplin arr. Jelly Roll Morton, orch Barker: Maple Leaf Rag
Tizol arr & orch. Barker: Caravan
2015
INTERVAL
2035
Mingus arr & orch. Barker: “Mingus 100” Suite
Narration written by Robert Ryan
Lakecia Benjamin (alto sax)
Allan Harris (singer/narrator)
Guy Barker New Jazz Orchestra
BBC Concert Orchestra
conductor Guy Barker
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m001d66w)
Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire
A pandemic, crumbling empire and new nationhood are the backdrop for Orhan Pamuk's latest novel Nights of the Plague. He talks to Rana Mitter about the historical basis for his novel. They're joined by historian and BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot and literary scholar Keya Anjaria.
Some of the books they recommend at the end of the conversation are
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901 – 1962) whose The Time Regulation Institute and A Mind at Peace have been published in English by Penguin
Halide Edib Adıvar (1884 – 1964) whose memoirs have been published in English
Yasher Kemal (1923 – 2015) author of Mehmet My Hawk
Orhan Kemal - the pen name of Turkish novelist Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü (1914 - 1970) whose books describe the life of the poor in Turkey
Oğuz Atay (1934 - 1977) a pioneer of the modern novel whose The Disconnected has become a best-seller
Latife Tekin (1957 - )
and the film-maker Yılmaz Güney (1937 - 1984)
Producer Luke Mulhall
You can find more conversations about Turkish history on the Free Thinking website list of past programmes:
Michael Talbot discussed aspects of the Ottoman empire with Alev Scott https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000qj7
Orhan Pamuk compared notes with Edmund de Waal https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06cb0hz
Jeremy Seal and Ecce Temelkuran discussed Adnam Menderes and populism https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s9hq
Elif Shafak discussed her novel 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00066qd
WED 22:45 The Essay (m001d66y)
The Beeb and the Bard
A century of Juliets
Actor Samuel West, who has played many Shakepearian roles - some of them on the radio - is joined by Dr Andrea Smith as they take a trip through 100 years (nearly) of Shakespeare on the 'wireless'.
Today they focus on one returning character - Juliet from Romeo and Juliet. This is without doubt the most popular play and there are wonderful very early clips of actors such as Fay Compton taking the role in 1944. We hear how sometimes the part of 14-year-old Juliet was taken by an actor old enough to be her grandmother and about the snobbery attached to the idea of how exactly Shakespeare should be spoken.
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m001d671)
The music garden
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER 2022
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m001d673)
De Sabata, Rachmaninov and Chausson from Monte Carlo
Pianist Nicholas Angelich with conductor Kazuki Yamada and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Victor De Sabata (1892-1967)
Gethsemani
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
12:55 AM
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, op. 1
Nicholas Angelich (piano), Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
01:28 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Symphony in B flat, op. 20
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor)
02:04 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Trio for clarinet or viola, cello and piano (Op.114) in A minor
Anatoli Krastev (cello), Mina Ivanova (piano), Svilen Simeonov (clarinet)
02:31 AM
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)
Concerto for keyboard and strings in A major (1779)
Linda Nicholson (fortepiano), Florilegium Collinda
02:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Jesu, meine Freude - motet (BWV.227)
Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)
03:10 AM
Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Horn Sonata in E flat major, Op 178
Martin Van der Merwe (horn), Huib Christiaanse (piano)
03:31 AM
Anonymous
5 Cantos: Canto di lanzi venturieri; Canto ti lanzi sonatori di rubechine; Canto di lanzi venturieri; Canto dei capi tondi; Carro della morte
Ensemble Claude Gervaise, Gilles Plante (director)
03:39 AM
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Fantasia and Toccata in D minor
David Drury (organ)
03:52 AM
Bozidar Kunc (1903-1964)
Tryptich for cello and orchestra (Op.40) (1941)
Monica Leskhovar (cello), Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)
04:03 AM
Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Automne, Op 35 No 2
Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:11 AM
Edward Pallasz (1936-2019)
Epitafium
Polish Radio Choir, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor)
04:19 AM
Alberta Suriani (1920-1977)
Partita for harp
Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp)
04:31 AM
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Eccomi in lieta vesta ... Oh! Quante volte, from I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Adriana Marfisi (soprano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)
04:41 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Ligita Sneibe (organ)
04:49 AM
Christoph Demantius (1567-1643)
Intraden und Tanze - from Conviviorum Deliciae, Nuremberg 1608
Hortus Musicus, Andres Mustonen (director)
04:59 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Concert waltz for orchestra No 1 Op 47 in D major
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
05:08 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Jezus es a kufarok
Hungarian Radio Chorus, Janos Ferencsik (conductor)
05:15 AM
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Moses fantaisie (after Rossini) arr. unknown for double bass and piano
Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano)
05:23 AM
Augusta Holmes (1847-1903)
Roland Furieux, Symphony after Ariosto
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Valentina Peleggi (conductor)
05:50 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Keyboard Sonata in C minor (Hob.XVI/20)
Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
06:08 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Deus, judicium tuum, TWV 7:7 - grand motet after Psalm 71
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Vocal Ensemble, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Instrumental Ensemble, Jorg Andreas Botticher (conductor), Jorg Andreas Botticher (harpsichord)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m001d6b2)
Thursday - Kate's classical commute
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m001d6b4)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0005nr8)
England's Golden Age
James I's Chapel Royal and the short life of Orlando Gibbons
The composers of 16th-century England flourished under the rule of Elizabeth I, rapidly developing a diverse musical culture unparalleled anywhere on the continent, a truly Golden Age for English music. In this week of programmes Donald Macleod explores six composers who were key to this ascent - Thomas Morley, John Bull, Peter Philips, Thomas Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tomkins. These composers were all active at around the same time as the “Father of British Musick” William Byrd and John Dowland, and all either studied or worked with Byrd, but they don’t often receive the same attention as those more famous names. The Chapel Royal played an important role in musical life under James I. In Thursday’s programme, Donald explores the Chapel Royal and the increasing importance of Orlando Gibbons in James I’s court.
Bull: Coranto - Alarm
The Canadian Brass
Weelkes: O Lord, Grand the King a Long Life
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Fretwork
David Skinner, conductor
Gibbons: Fantasia No 5 in G minor
Robert Wooley, organ
Gibbons: O Clap your hands
The Clerkes of Oxenford
David Wulstan, conductor
Gibbons: Lord Salisbury’s Pavan and Galliard from Parthenia
Alina Rotaru, virginals
Bull: Pavan & Galliard “St Thomas Wake”
Alina Rotaru, virginals
Gibbons: Nay Let me weep (Part 1)
The Consort of Musicke
Anthony Rooley, conductor
Tomkins: Know You Not
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Gibbons: O Lord in thy Wrath, Rebuke me Not
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly, conductor
Produced by Sam Phillips for BBC Wales
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001d6b6)
2022 Dartington Music Festival - Grieg, Frances-Hoad and Strauss
Linton Stephens presents a selection of highlights from the 2022 Dartington Music Summer School and Festival, beginning with one of the most challenging cello sonatas written, Grieg’s Sonata in A minor performed by Gemma Rosefield and Tim Horton. A collection of homages for piano is presented by Ivana Gavric, composed by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, followed by two works sung by Mary Bevan who is joined by the pianist Joseph Middleton. Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, which is better known performed with orchestra, is accompanied by Strauss’s popular Morgen. The concert ends with an encore work, Faure’s jolly Berceuse from his Dolly Suite, in an arrangement performed by the Magnard Ensemble.
Grieg: Cello Sonata in A minor, Op 36
Gemma Rosefield, cello
Tim Horton, piano
Frances-Hoard: Homages (excerpt)
Ivana Gavric, piano
Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Seven Late Songs, No 4)
Strauss: Morgen: Op 27 No 2
Mary Bevan, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Faure Arr. Iain Farrington: Berceuse, Op 56 No 1 (Dolly Suite)
Magnard Ensemble
Joseph Havlat, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001d6b8)
Saint-Saens's Organ Symphony
Organist Juan de la Rubia raises the rafters in Saint-Saens's Third Symphony, plus music by Wagner, Haydn and Brahms.
Presented by Penny Gore
A favourite with audiences (and organists) for over 130 years, Saint-Saens was commissioned by our very own Royal Philharmonic Society to write a piece for orchestra and his own instrument - it was first performed in London in 1886 and shortly afterwards dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt.
2.00pm
Saint-Saens
Coronation March
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Stravinsky
Piece no.3 (3 Pieces for clarinet)
Dario Castello
Sonata seconda
Lucie Horsch, recorder
Thomas Dunford, lute
Wagner
Tannhauser Overture
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu, conductor
3.00
Saint-Saens
Symphony no.3 in C minor, Op.78 'Organ'
Juan de la Rubia, organ
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
Pablo Gonzalez, conductor
Lotta Wennakoski
Arteria
Lucie Horsch, recorder
Haydn
Symphony no.82 in C, Hob.I:82 'The Bear'
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, conductor
Brahms
Intermezzi, Op.117
Adam Laloum, piano
THU 17:00 In Tune (m001d6bb)
With Sean Rafferty
Sean Rafferty presents the latest arts news from across the classical music world.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001d6bd)
The eclectic classical mix
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001d6bg)
Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
Joana Carneiro conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra: plus music by Anna Clyne; and pianist Zlata Chochieva joins for some Chopin.
Live from City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Kate Molleson
Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1
8.30 Interval
Kate introduces recordings which compliment this evening's live performance.
8.50 Part Two
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Joana Carneiro (conductor)
Zlata Chochieva (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m001d6bj)
Ghostwatch
The director and writer of Ghostwatch Lesley Manning and Stephen Volk join Matthew Sweet and academic Lucy Arnold to look back at the reality–horror/pseudo-documentary TV, which aired on British tv screens on Halloween night 1992. The BBC switchboard received an estimated 1,000,000 phone calls on the night of the broadcast and it has never been repeated on British tv although it is now part of a BFI season exploring horror.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
A BFI Horror season In Dreams are Monsters is running at venues across the UK until 31 December 2022 with screenings and events themed around the vampire, the ghost, the zombie, the witch and the beast. https://www.bfi.org.uk/in-dreams-are-monsters
In the Free Thinking archives you can find a discussion about Vampires and the Penny Dreadful https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018h4y
Ghost Stories https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009t19
Spookiness and Fear featuring the author Sarah Perry https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000kk2
THU 22:45 The Essay (m001d6bl)
The Beeb and the Bard
Radiophonia
By the time the BBC had come of age in the 70s and 80s, radio production had become a creative art. The Radiophonic Workshop could famously transport listeners to imagined worlds and this was certainly the case with productions of Shakespeare. Actor Samuel West and Dr Andrea Smith celebrate the creativity that gave us everything from the magic of Puck and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream to battle scenes and the horrors of the gouging of eyes in King Lear.
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m001d6bn)
Music for the evening
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m001d6bq)
Ólafur Arnalds’s Listening Chair
Ólafur Arnalds is an Icelandic composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer known for his delicate and expansive neoclassical works that bridge the worlds of classical and pop music. Sitting in the Unclassified Listening Chair, he shares a track that transports him to a place of calm. Elsewhere in the show, Elizabeth offers up new sounds from the latest ambient and experimental releases, including music from Daniel Pioro, Dane Law and Neal Heppletson.
Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 2022
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m001d6bs)
Vienna Philharmonic with Blomstedt
Schubert's 'Unfinished' and Bruckner's 'Romantic' symphonies performed at the Beethoven Festival, Bonn. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
12:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 ('Unfinished')
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
12:58 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 4 in E flat ('Romantic')
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
02:05 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 102 in B flat major (H.
1.102)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
02:31 AM
Leopold Hoffmann (1738-1793)
Concerto for flute and orchestra in D major
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Bienne Symphony Orchestra, Marc Tardue (conductor)
02:51 AM
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
La creation du monde (Op.81)
Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
03:09 AM
Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550-1602),Andrea Gabrieli, Elam Rotem (b.1984)
Lamentations: Prima Diem
Profeti della Quinta
03:31 AM
Christoph Gluck (1714-1787)
Overture from Iphigenia en Aulide
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Ludovit Rajter (conductor)
03:43 AM
Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699-1782)
La Morangis, ou La Plissay – chaconne (from 'Pieces de Viole, Paris, 1747')
Pierre Pitzl (viola da gamba), Mary Jean Bolli (viola da gamba), Luciano Contini (archlute), Augusta Campagne (harpsichord)
03:50 AM
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Offertoire in G major (1859)
Joris Verdin (organ)
03:57 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Missa brevis (BuxWV.114)
Marieke Steenhoek (soprano), Miriam Meyer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz (contralto), Marco van de Klundert (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Ton Koopman (conductor)
04:08 AM
Igor Kuljeric (1938-2006)
Toccata za vibrafon i glasovir
Ivana Bilic (vibraphone), Vanja Kuljeric (piano)
04:15 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Prélude (Couperin); Harpsichord Concerto no.5 in D minor (Rameau)
Nevermind
04:31 AM
Gautier d'Espinal (c.1215-c.1272)
Puis que en moi a recouvre seignorie
Ensemble Lucidarium
04:37 AM
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812)
Sonata for piano (Op.35 No.2) in G major
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
04:52 AM
Julian Anderson (b.1967)
Harmony, for Chorus and orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)
04:58 AM
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (c.1670-1746)
Polymnia - Suite No.8 in D major (from Musicalischer Parnassus, Augsburg )
Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)
05:05 AM
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
Six Bagatelles for wind quintet
Cinque Venti
05:17 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
La Notte (No.2 from 3 odes funebres)
Jos Van Immerseel (piano)
05:27 AM
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Mors et Vita - eine geistliche Trilogie (1881-83) - 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)
05:47 AM
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010)
Piano Concerto No 2, Op 64
Andre Laplante (piano), CBC Radio Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
06:09 AM
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
Symphony in C minor
Concerto Koln
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m001d6bv)
Friday - Kate's classical rise and shine
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m001d6bx)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0005nm9)
England's Golden Age
Thomas Tomkins – a last flowering of the Golden Age
The composers of 16th-century England flourished under the rule of Elizabeth I, rapidly developing a diverse musical culture unparalleled anywhere on the continent, a truly Golden Age for English music. In this week of programmes Donald Macleod explores six composers who were key to this ascent - Thomas Morley, John Bull, Peter Philips, Thomas Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tomkins. These composers were all active at around the same time as the “Father of British Musick” William Byrd and John Dowland, and all either studied or worked with Byrd, but they don’t often receive the same attention as those more famous names. In Friday’s programme, Donald surveys the later life and work of the composers, especially Thomas Tomkins- the last surviving member of the group as England girded its loins for revolution.
Weelkes: Death hath deprived me of my dearest friend
The Queen’s Six
Tomkins: Cloris When As I Woo
The Queen’s Six
Tomkins: O Let Me Live for True Love
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth, conductor
Tomkins: Be Strong and of good courage
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor
Tomkins: Offertory
Bernard Cuillier, virginals
Tomkins: Thou Art My King
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Phantasm
Daniel Hyde, conductor
Tomkins: Pavan “for these distracted times”
Guy Penson, virginals
Tomkins: The Lady Folliot’s Galliard
Edward Parmentier, harpsichord
Tomkins: Burial Sentences
Vox Luminis
Produced by Sam Phillips for BBC Wales
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m001d6bz)
2022 Dartington Music Festival - Grieg, Ravel and Poulenc
Linton Stephens presents a selection of highlights from the 2022 Dartington Music Summer School and Festival, located in the heart of Devon within a few miles of the iconic moors. The popular Holberg Suite by Grieg begins the concert performed by the pianist Ivana Gavric, followed by Gemma Rosefield and Tim Horton presenting music by Cheryl Francres-Hoad and Ravel. The Magnard Ensemble jump into action with Poulenc’s lively and harmonically rich Sextet for piano and wind quintet, and the week’s series ends with what was a surprise for the audience at Dartington. Soprano Mary Bevan was joined by a member of the audience, her sister Anastasia Bevan, accompanied by Joseph Middleton, to perform a Dirge for Fidele by Vaughan Williams.
Grieg: Holberg Suite, Op 40
Ivana Gavric, piano
Frances-Hoad: Invocation
Ravel: Kaddish (Two Hebrew Melodies, No 1)
Gemma Rosefield, cello
Tim Horton, piano
Poulenc: Sextet for piano and wind quintet, Op 100
Magnard Ensemble
Joseph Havlat, piano
Vaughan Williams: Dirge for Fidele
Mary Bevan, soprano
Anastasia Bevan, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano
Produced by Luke Whitlock
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001d6c1)
Franck's Symphony in D minor
Chloe van Soeterstede conducts Franck's orchestral masterpiece; plus music by Debussy, Schubert and Francis Grier.
Presented by Penny Gore
In a concert performance recorded in Madrid last year, Chloe van Soeterstede leads the orchestra of Spain's national broadcaster In Cesar Franck's Symphony, written on the grandest scale and full of dynamism and emotion. There's also exquisite music for solo flute by Debussy, music for piano duet by Schubert and a 2012 setting of the mass by English composer Frances Grier
2.00pm
Franck
Les eolides
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Debussy
Syrinx
Anne Danican Philidor
Sonata in D
Lucie Horsch, recorder
Thomas Dunford, lute
Schubert
Four Polonaises, D.599
Lucas & Arthur Jussen, piano
3.00
Franck
Symphony in D minor, Op.48
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
Chloe van Soeterstede, conductor
Francis Grier
Missa Aedis Christi
BBC Singers
James Weeks, conductor
FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m001dgs7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Sunday]
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m001d6c3)
Souad Massi, Justin Adams, Rafael Payare
The Algerian singer-songwriter Souad Massi performs songs from her forthcoming album, Sequana, live in the studio with guitarist Justin Adams ahead of their concert at the Barbican tomorrow, plus the conductor Rafael Payare drops by prior to his concert with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal who are touring to the Southbank.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001d6c5)
Power through with classical music
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001d6c7)
BBC Philharmonic Centenary Concert
From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Tom McKinney
From its earliest 1922 performances as the orchestra of Manchester-based radio station 2ZY, the BBC Philharmonic has constantly reinvented itself to reflect the audiences it serves on air, in the North West of England, across the UK, and beyond. Tonight they celebrate relationships old and new; their relationship with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, their first Composer / Conductor with a new commission from Erland Cooper, a native of Orkney who grew up with "Max" as a friend. His piece "Window over Rackwick" is inspired by the landscape and also by Sir Peter's artistic colleague, poet George Mackay Brown. Soprano Héloïse Werner joins the orchestra for this premiere. The CBSO Chorus and an international team of soloists join the BBC Philharmonic for Beethoven's Choral Symphony, music which constantly reasserts its relevance for every place and age, and the programme opens with unfairly neglected music by a musician who conducted the orchestra and whose music the orchestra is championing on CD, Ruth Gipps. Her 1944 Chanticleer Overture opens with an arresting wake-up call!
Gipps: Chanticleer Overture
Erland Cooper: Window over Rackwick *
8pm Interval
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 "Choral"
Héloïse Werner (soprano)*
Tuuli Takala (soprano)
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano)
Steve Davislim (tenor)
Simon Shibambu (bass-baritone)
CBSO Chorus
BBC Philharmonic
Eva Ollikainen (conductor)
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m001d6c9)
Verbatim Speech
Ian McMillan and guests celebrate the rhythms of everyday speech. With Will Ashon, Scottee, Kate Fox and Anna Robinson.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Cecile Wright
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m001d6cc)
The Beeb and the Bard
Diversity
Once upon a time, a Shakespeare play on BBC Radio would inevitably feature actors with perfect received pronunciation. Now that has all changed. Actor Samuel West, no stranger to Shakespearian roles, is joined by Dr Andrea Smith to hear how horizons have widened and productions enriched by new voices and new settings for the plays. We'll hear about plays set in India, plays recorded in Welsh, those with characters clearly from Africa or the Caribbean and voices that are far from the cut glass of RP.
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m001d6cf)
Resina’s mixtape
Fresh back from Kraków, Jennifer Lucy Allan marks the 20th anniversary of the city’s landmark experimental music festival Unsound, sharing some of her favourite performances and memories from the last two decades, as well as a mixtape from cellist and composer Resina.
Based in Warsaw, Resina has long been a valued member of the rich Polish experimental music scene - as a solo artist, collaborator and the co-founder of multiple alternative groups. Classically trained, she now looks to play her cello in more unexpected ways, experimenting with improvisation, noise and melody. In her mixtape for Late Junction, she shines a light on that scene and selects pieces from fellow Polish artists, including experimental drummer Daniel Szwed, sound artist Mala Herba and vocalist Antonina Nowacka. Also featuring amongst her selections are some of the artists she’s connected with at Unsound festival, including her on-stage collaborator for this year’s festival, the Parisian producer Aho Ssan.
Elsewhere in the show, Jennifer shares highlights from Unsounds past and present, celebrating the festival’s place in Polish underground culture and showcasing the breadth of music it platforms, from jazz and electronic to folk and footwork.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3