Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 11 APRIL 2020 Sonata in C minor (1824) https://bis.se/conductors/suzuki-masaaki/js-bach-st-matthew- Sylviane Deferne (piano) passion SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m000h2kx) Bach's choral masterpiece 05:45 AM 10.45am New Releases – Kenneth Hamilton on new 20th Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Unknown (transcriber) century piano releases Bach's B Minor Mass is a towering work of genius and a joy to Notturno (Andante) - from String Quartet No.2 in D sing. Tonight we are treated to a performance by Balthasar Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi Kenneth Hamilton joins Andrew with a rucksack full of Neumann Chorus, B'Rock Orchestra and Ivor Bolton. John Shea (conductor) virtuoso piano recordings from the less temperate areas of the presents. instrument's repertoire. Expect Samuel Feinberg, Alexey 05:54 AM Stanchinsky and Ronald Stevenson to make an appearance, 01:01 AM George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Wolfgang Amadeus alongside an eight hour - yes, EIGHT HOUR! - set of variations Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Mozart (orchestrator) by Kaikhosru Sorabji. Mass in B minor, BWV 232 Overture and prelude to act II of Acis and Galatea K 566 Balthasar Neumann Chorus, B'Rock Orchestra, Ivor Bolton Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor) Sorabji: Sequentia Cyclica (conductor) Jonathan Powell (piano) 06:04 AM Piano Classics PCL10206 (7 CDs) 02:44 AM Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) https://www.piano-classics.com/articles/s/sorabji-sequentia- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Sonata for viola da gamba & basso continuo in A minor cyclica/ Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV 225) Camerata Koln, Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba), Ghislaine Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, The Sixteen, Ton Wauters (viola da gamba), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord) Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music Volume Four Koopman (conductor) Christopher Guild (piano) 06:14 AM Toccata Classics TOCC0555 03:01 AM Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) https://toccataclassics.com/product/ronald-stevenson-piano- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) 4 Songs music-volume-four/ Serenade after Plato's 'The symposium' Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Paul Turner (piano) Jaap van Zweden (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Homage to Godowsky: music by Hofmann, Blumenfeld, Sauer, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) 06:23 AM Pirani etc. Renaat Veremans (1894-1969) Andrey Gugnin (piano) 03:31 AM Nacht en Morgendontwaken aan de Nete Hyperion CDA68310 Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Flemish Radio Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor) https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68310 L'Anima del Filosofo, ossia 'Orfeo ed Euridice' Act IV Grit van Juten (soprano), Elena Vink (soprano), Robert Gambill 06:34 AM Alexey Stanchinsky: Complete Piano Works for Piano Vol. 1 (tenor), Henk Smit (bass), Netherlands Radio Chamber Choir, Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) Olga Solovieva (piano) Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Dieter Rossberg (conductor), Violin Concerto in D, Op 35 Grand Piano GP766 Robin Gritton (choirmaster) James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, https://grandpianorecords.com/Album/AlbumDetails/GP766 Bramwell Tovey (conductor) 03:51 AM Feinberg: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-6 Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Concerto festivo for orchestra SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m000h6q5) Hyperion CDA68233 National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68233 (conductor) odd unclassified track. 11.15am Record of the Week 04:04 AM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) SAT 09:00 Record Review (m000h6q7) Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Overture to the Magic Flute Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet with David Owen Norris and Andrew Sandrine Piau (soprano) Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor) McGregor Christopher Lowrey (countertenor) Les Talens Lyriques 04:10 AM 9.00am Christophe Rousset (conductor) Barbara Strozzi ([1619-1677]) Alpha ALPHA449 "L'Eraclito amoroso" for Soprano and continuo Čiurlionis: The Sea; In the Forest; Kestutis https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/stabat-mater-alpha449 Musica Fiorita, Susanne Ryden (soprano), Rebeka Ruso (viola Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra da gamba), Rafael Bonavita (theorbo), Daniela Dolci Modestas Pitrėnas (conductor) (harpsichord), Daniela Dolci (director) Ondine ODE13442 SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m000h6pp) https://www.ondine.net/?lid=en&cid=2.2&oid=6487 An organ fest for a silent Easter 04:16 AM Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 9 - Robin Tritschler For many of us, Easter means organs and churches and the 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid Robin Tritschler (tenor) sombre tones of Good Friday moving to the joy of Easter Owen Dennis (oboe) Harriet Burns (soprano) Sunday. But this year, Easter is pretty much cancelled, and Graham Johnson (piano) churches are shut. So organs around the world are silent - but 04:30 AM Hyperion CDJ33129 not on Music Matters: Kate Molleson presents a mini organ fest, Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497) https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDJ33129 with contributions from Glasgow-based organist John Butt, who Ave Maria demonstrates his own home digital organ, and Canadian Hilliard Ensemble Bach: Cello Suites organist Rachel Mahon, who looks forward to when Coventry Alisa Weilerstein (cello) Cathedral is again unlocked, and she can take up her post as 04:33 AM Pentatone PTC5186751 (2 CDs) Music Director. And Nicholas Thistlethwaite talks about his Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750),Charles Gounod https://www.pentatonemusic.com/bach-cello-suites-alisa- new book about organ building in Georgian and Victorian (1818-1893), Blagoj Angelovski (arranger) weilerstein England, a time which saw a transformation from small pipe Ave Maria arr for trumpet and organ organs to the mighty Town Hall organs of the mid nineteenth Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ) Vexilla Regis: A sequence of music from Palm Sunday to Holy century. Saturday 04:36 AM Choir of Westminster Cathedral Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Peter Stevens (organ) SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m00061h6) String Quartet in C minor (D 703) Martin Baker (conductor) Jess Gillam with... Jonathon Heyward Tilev String Quartet Ad Fontes AF002 https://www.adfontes.org.uk/catalogue/martin-baker/vexilla- Jess Gillam is joined by Jonathon Heyward, one of the most 04:47 AM regis/ exciting conductors of the younger generation who is just Arvo Part (b.1935) completing three years as Assistant Conductor of the Hallé Fratres 9.30am Building a Library Orchestra. They chose Boulez conducting Stravinsky, a Satie Petr Nouzovsky (cello), Yukie Ichimura (piano) song, Stevie Wonder and Madeleine Peyroux. Another chance to hear David Owen Norris sift through 05:01 AM recordings of the piano quintet Schubert made around his own From musical beginnings in a carnival band, to being the first Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), John P.Paynter (arranger) song "The Trout", with a recommendation for the ultimate ever saxophone finalist in BBC Young Musician, and Little Suite for Brass Band No.1, Op 80 performance to buy, download or stream. appearances at the Last Night of the Proms in 2018 and at this Edmonton Wind Ensemble, Harry Pinchin (conductor) year’s BAFTA awards, Jess is one of today’s most engaging and 10.15am New Releases charismatic classical performers. Each week on This Classical 05:09 AM Life, Jess will be joined by young musicians to swap tracks and Claude Debussy (1862-1918) JS Bach: St Matthew Passion share musical discoveries across a wide range of styles, Premiere rapsodie arr. for clarinet and orchestra (orig. clarinet Benjamin Bruns (tenor, Evangelist) revealing how music shapes their everyday lives. and piano) Christian Immler (baritone, Jesus) Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Sampson (soprano) This Classical Life is also available as a podcast on BBC Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Aki Matsui (soprano) Sounds. Damien Guillon (counter-tenor) 05:17 AM Clint van der Linde (baritone) Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Makato Sakurada (tenor) SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m000h6qc) 3 Motets: Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Locus iste Zachary Wilder (tenor) Brilliant brass and a drunken Santa with trumpeter Anne Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt-Jensen (conductor) Toru Kaku (bass) McAneney Bach Collegium Japan 05:30 AM Masaaki Suzuki (Conductor) London Philharmonic Orchestra trumpeter Anne McAneney Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) BIS BIS2500 (2 Hybrid SACDs) chooses music with the magic of live performance at its heart. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 2 of 11 She reflects on her own experiences working with conductors Rose Maurrant…..Gillene Butterfield 6. "Patterns (cypher)" like Kurt Masur, Sir Andrew Davis and Vladimir Jurowski, and Sam Kaplan …..Alex Banfield 7. "Solo" enjoys the comic musical genius of Dudley Moore and his Greta Fiorentino…..Miranda Bevin 8. "Aria 1" interactions with the audience. Lippo Fiorentino…..Christopher Turner 9. "Return 2 (song)" Emma Jones…..Claire Pascoe 10. "nor earth, nor boundless sea" Anne also demonstrates the subtleties of double and triple George Jones…..Richard Mosley-Evans 11. "Dream 11 (whisper music)" tonguing on the trumpet, before finding similar techniques in a Mae Jones…..Michelle Andrews 12. "moth-like stars" track by Indian classical virtuoso Zakir Hussain. Dick Mcgann…..Rodney Vubya 13. "Path 17 (before the ending of daylight)" Olga Olsen…..Amy J Payne 14. "Space 26 (epicardium)" And if you want to know about the difficulties of playing in Carl Olsen…..John Savournin 15. "Patterns (lux)" time while pretending to be a drunk Santa Claus (who doesn’t?), Henry Davis….Byron Jackson 16. "Constellation 1" Anne will enlighten you. Harry Easter…..Quirijn De Lang 17. "Constellation 2" Daniel Buchanan…..Stuart Laing 18. "Space 2 (slow waves)" A series in which each week a musician reveals a selection of Abraham Kaplan…..Dean Robinson 19. "Chorale/glow" music - from the inside. Jennie Hildebrand…..Laura Kelly-McInroy 20. "Dream 19 (pulse)" Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North 21. "Cassiopeia" A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3 James Holmes, conductor 22. "Non-eternal" 23. "Song/echo" 24. "Aria 2" SAT 15:00 Sound of Gaming (m000h6qf) SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m000h6qp) 25. "never fade into nothingness" Wilbert Roget Electronic echoes and medieval Welsh harp 26. "Return 16 (time capsule)" 27. "if you came this way" Jessica Curry continues her look at video game music with Kate Molleson presents a selection of some of the best new 28. "Space 17 (chains)" composer Wilbert Roget II. music releases, from solo voice to soundscapes, and introduces 29. "Sublunar" our first Home Session, specially recorded at home in Wales by 30. "Dream 17 (Alpha)" Music played: harpist Rhodri Davies, playing a medieval harp that he designed 31. "Dream 0 (till break of day)" himself. Bear McCreary - Deliverance (God of War) Siria: Boa Lingua Andrew Prahlow - Timber Hearth (Outer Wilds) Adrian Democ: Canon from Kvarteto Petri Alanko - Loquitur Ahti Sequuntur (Control) Apartment House SUNDAY 12 APRIL 2020 Guy Jackson - Overcome with Emotion / I Picture You Before Lucy Railton & Peter Zinovieff: RFG Inventions for Cello and Me (Sea of Solitude) Computer SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000h6sv) J.J. Ipsen - Green Shoots (Planet Zoo), feat. Young Mbazo Beatriz Ferreyra : Echos Sunday - Martin Handley Choir Home Session: Rhodri Davies performs his new piece for telyn Ludvig Forssell - Spatial Awareness (Death Stranding) rawn (medieval Welsh harp) Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Brad Fotsch - Spring Jive (Wattam) Lea Bertucci: Wind Piece including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio Sam Bird - Operation Receiver (Wattam) Lawrence Dunn: While we are both soundscape. Daniel Olsén / Jonathan Eng - Sayonara Wild Heart (Sayonara Juliet Fraser (soprano) Wild Hearts), feat. Linnea Olsson Robert Barry: Physics out of school hours Email [email protected] Laurence Chapman - Heaven's Vault (Heaven's Vault) Ryo Nagamatsu - Title (The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening) SAT 23:00 Sleep (b06db5tv) SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m000h6sx) Ryo Nagamatsu - Sword Search on Koholint Island (The Part of Slow And Mindful, BBC Radio 3’s offering of music for Sarah Walker with an enticing musical mix Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening) the mind in the time of lockdown, Max Richter’s eight-hour British Sea Power -Instrument of Surrender (Disco Elysium) epic Sleep, his 'lullaby for a frenetic world', returns home to the Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting Olivier Derivière - Massacre (A Plague Tale: Innocence) station’s airwaves with a simulcast with the European music to complement your morning. British Sea Power - Disco Elysium, pt. 1 (Disco Elysium) Broadcasting Union - uniting quarantined nations across the continent in a search for sleep and moments of meditative Sarah discovers an orchestral elegy Elgar wrote for his little stillness. dog, finds a combination of the free-wheeling and the mellow SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m000h6qh) in music by Delius, and plays an invigorating Hallelujah by With Lopa Kothari This was the world premiere performance, a live Radio 3 Handel (but not the one you’re thinking of). broadcast in September 2015 – since then, the piece has been Lopa Kothari with the latest new releases from across the globe, staged across the globe, with landmark concerts in Paris, Los She also reflects musically on Easter Sunday with a gentle with singer Damir Imamovic in Sarajevo introducing his new Angeles and Sydney. The album of Sleep has recently returned moment from Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony and an upbeat album, and a tribute to Manu Dibango, the saxophone star from to number one in the USA Billboard classical album charts – one from Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade. Cameroon who died last month. which Billboard attributes to ‘consumers in coronavirus quarantine at home, seeking out peaceful music’. Several top pianists feature too, including Andre Previn playing Gershwin, Yuja Wang bringing a mercurial touch to Ravel’s G SAT 17:00 J to Z (m000h6qk) On the night of Saturday 26th September 2015, in the Reading major Piano Concerto, and Yevgeny Sudbin impersonating Avishai Cohen trio in concert Room of the Wellcome Collection in London, Max Richter on Rossini’s cat. piano and electronics was joined by soprano Grace Davidson Jumoké Fashola presents the best in jazz – past present and plus five string players, and an audience who were encouraged future from her front room. This week’s featured concert is by to lie on beds and sleep through the performance. The work A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3 Israeli bass icon Avishai Cohen and his top flight trio of pianist seeks to examine the relationship between music and the Elchin Shirinov and drummer Noam David. Together they subconscious mind: instead of giving the music full perform tracks from Cohen’s latest album Arvoles, with its concentration, listeners are encouraged to experience it in a SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m000h6sz) enticing grooves and lilting melodies influenced by Jewish folk state of sleep. The piece indeed provides an apt soundtrack for Chris Watson music. these times of lockdown – when hours seemingly stretch into the distance. Sleep offers a mindful way to forget everything Wildlife sound recordist and sound artist Chris Watson talks to Also in the programme, creative UK pianist Elliot Galvin shares going on around us and to enter another world. Michael Berkeley about how his favourite music is inspired by some of the music that inspires him and influences his work. the natural world. Max Richter says of the piece in today's context: "Five years Chris is most famous for his sound recordings for David Produced by Dominic Tyerman for Somethin’ Else. ago I wrote SLEEP as an invitation to pause our busy lives for a Attenborough’s television series – for which he’s won BAFTAs moment. Now we are all facing an unexpected and involuntary – but he’s a musician too. A member of the influential post- pause. It is far from easy to adjust to this new normal, which punk band Cabaret Voltaire in the late 70s and early 80s, today SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m000h6qm) shifts continuously, and brings anxiety and suffering to those we he’s a sound artist and composer, creating installations around Street Scene by Kurt Weill love and to ourselves. At such times the magical ability of the world. creativity to elevate our days and to connect us is more Petroc Trelawny presents a performance of Opera North's important than ever, and I’m really happy that the EBU allows His 2003 release Weather Report, featuring soundscapes of a highly acclaimed new production of Kurt Weill's 1946 operatic us to listen all together across the whole of Europe. Please Kenyan savannah, a Highland glen, and an Icelandic glacier, was materpiece Street Scene recorded at the Leeds Grand Theatre. enjoy this eight-hour place to rest.” voted one of the 100 best albums to hear before you die by The Petroc is joined by Kara McKechnie, professor of dramaturgy Guardian, and has been described as ‘cinema for the ears’. at Leeds University. During the interval we hear from Kim Radio 3's 8-hour live broadcast broke two Guinness World Kowalke, President of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music and Records - for the longest broadcast of a single piece of music, Chris’s mission in life is to make us stop what we’re doing and rare recordings of Kurt Weill himself both singing, and also and the longest live broadcast of a single piece of music. listen to the sounds of the natural world and this is reflected in speaking on American radio in the 1940's. his choices of music. We hear his own recording of a Sami Grace Davidson (soprano) calling to his ancestors across a Norwegian lake, and northern Street Scene Steve Morris and Natalia Bonner (violins) landscapes echoed in Sibelius’s symphonic poem Tapiola. And Reiad Chibah (viola) Chris chooses the music of multi-award-winning Icelandic film American Opera in two acts Ian Burdge and Chris Worsey (cellos) composer Hildur Guðnadottir, who worked with him to record Chris Ekers (sound design) the soundscape for the television series Chernobyl. Music by Kurt Weill Max Richter (piano, keyboards and electronics) Chris tells Michael about the challenges of recording in cold Book by Elmer Rice, based on his play of the same name 'Sleep' by Max Richter: and hostile environments for his many series with David 1. "Dream 1 (before the wind blows it all away)" Attenborough, and the pleasures of the year he spent recording Lyrics by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice. 2. "Cumulonimbus" the sounds around Aldeburgh for Benjamin Britten’s centenary, 3. "Dream 2 (entropy)" in 2013. We hear the magical combination of a recording he Anna Maurrant …..Giselle Allen 4. "Path (7676)" made of a nightingale in Britten’s garden paired with the Frank Maurrant …..Robert Hayward 5. "whose name is written on water" Ciaconna from Britten’s Second Cello Suite. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 3 of 11 Producer: Jane Greenwood DISC 4 Performers: Dominic Ingham, vn; Jonny Mansfield – Vibes ; A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3 Artist Tricia Boutté and Ytre Suløens Jazz-ensemble David Swan – Piano; Title Because He Lives Will Sach – Bass; Boz Martin-Jones – Drums 2020 Composer Gloria and William Gaither SUN 13:00 Liam Byrne's String Theories (m000h024) Album Oh Mahalia Motion and suspension Label Sonor SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b07z72jb) Number Track 6 Colour and music A three-part series exploring strong voices in string playing Duration 5.48 across a range of time periods and genres, hosted by viola da Performers: Tricia Boutté, v; Kare Nymark, t; Jens Arne Tom Service listens to the world in glorious technicolor as he gamba player Liam Byrne. Molvaer, cl; Jan Inge Melsaeter, tb; Askjell Molvaer, p; Svein investigates the link between music and colour. Tore Anderson, bj; David Gald, tu; Ottar Anderson, d. 2007 The viola da gamba became virtually extinct at the end of the We put music and colour together all the time. A piece of music 18th century and as such the aural lineage of performers has DISC 5 can be 'dark' or 'bright' or we could be singing the 'Blues' - but been severed. Part of Liam’s practice is to listen to a wide Artist Louis Armstrong what does that mean? Professor Jamie Ward - an expert in variety of string voices that do have that historical continuity, Title Potato Head Blues synaesthesia - is on hand to help. While Tom delves into a from Appalachian folk to Indian classical music. Composer Armstrong world of musical colour from Messiaen and Copland, Scriabin Album Hotter Than That and Ravel to David Bowie and Beyoncé to discover whether Across this series, Liam shares his favourite discoveries with Label Marshall Cavendish music can ever be colourful. each episode focusing on a common energy, vibe or mood. In Number CD03 Track 12 this opening episode it’s the feeling of motion and suspension, Duration 2.55 featuring a 17th-century Italian dance played on period Performers Louis Armstrong, c; John Thomas, tb; Johnny SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000h6t7) instruments; a traditional Irish sean-nós song rearranged for Dodds, cl; Lil Armstrong, p; Johnny St Cyr, bk; Pete Briggs, tu; Easter cello with haunting concertina-like harmonics; and the fiddle Baby Dodds, d. 10 May 1927 player Martin Hayes playing a fast jig with exquisite and Music and readings on the theme of Eastertide, Spring and the effortless sweetness. DISC 6 Passover including prose by Tolstoy, Richard Yates and Jane Artist Bix Beiderbecke Austen, poetry by TS Eliot and Christina Rossetti, and music by Produced by Rebecca Gaskell Title Riverboat Shuffle Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Judy Garland. The readers are A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 Composer Carmichael / Voynow Samantha Bond, Henry Goodman, Emily Bruni, Sam West, Album In a Mist Molly Hanson and Robert Lindsay. Label Phoenix SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000h6t1) Number 131535 Track 5 Producer: Nick Holmes Ensemble Correspondances - Music for Holy Week Duration 3.12 Performers Bix Beiderbecke c; Frank Trumbauer, c-mel; Don Sebastian Dauce directs Ensemble Correspondances in 18th- Murray, cl; Doc Ryker, as; Bill Rank, tb; Irving Riskin, p; Eddie SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m00013y8) century music for Holy Week by Michel-Richard de Lalande as Lang, g; Chauncey Morehouse, d. 9 May 1927 The Ruhleben Legacy part of a concert given at the 2019 Actus Humanus Festival in Gdansk. DISC 7 Kate Kennedy reveals how life within a largely forgotten First Artist Duke Ellington World War German internment camp shaped the course of Presented by Lucie Skeaping. Title In a Sentimental Mood early 20th Century classical music. Exploring the lasting impact Composer Ellington, Mills of this imprisonment on the men’s lives and careers, Kate visits Album The Private Collection the site of the former camp and speaks to some of the detainees’ SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b08md9vg) Label Music Club families and former colleagues. Easter Festal Evensong - Norwich Cathedral Number 167 CD 1 Track 20 Duration 2.54 Many of those imprisoned at Ruhleben would go on to Easter Festal Evensong from Norwich Cathedral Performers Paul Gonsalves, ts; Duke Ellington, p; Jeff important and influential positions. Edward Clark helped to Castleman b; Rufus Jones, d. 29 Nov 1968. shape the tastes of the post-war British public, programming Introit: My beloved spake (Hadley) music at the BBC. Edgar Bainton would become director of Responses: Ayleward DISC 8 Australia’s New South Wales Conservatorium. Sir Ernest Office Hymn: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (St Fulbert) Artist Blossom Dearie MacMillan drew on the diverse musical programme in the camp Psalm 105 (Hawes, Brooksbank) Title Sunday Afternoon and became one of Canada’s most celebrated conductors. Percy First Lesson: Song of Solomon 3 vv.2-5 ; 8 vv.6-7 Composer Len Saltzburg / Blossom Dearie Hull worked as music director at Hereford Cathedral, Canticles: Dyson in D Album Blossom Dearie Sings commissioning fellow former inmates to perform at the Three Second Lesson: John 20 vv.11-18 Label Daffodil Choirs Festival. Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father (S S Wesley) Number BMD 101 S1 T 3 Te Deum in C (Stanford) Duration 3.40 At the outbreak of war in August 1914 some 5000 mainly Organ Voluntary: Carillon-Sortie (Mulet) Performers Blossom Dearie, v, p; Pete Morgan, b; John Webb, British men in Germany found themselves locked up for the d. 1973 duration of the Great War in a makeshift internment camp at Ashley Grote (Master of Music) Ruhleben, a racecourse on the outskirts of Berlin. It housed a David Dunnett (Organist). DISC 9 wide cross-section of people - from sailors to chemists - but a Artist Esbjörn Svensson Trio sizeable number were musicians who had been drawn to First broadcast 16 April 2017. Title I Mean You Germany by the summer festivals at Bayreuth and Salzburg. For Composer Thelonious Monk four years the camp acted as an extraordinary musical college: Album Plays Monk the prisoners composed new pieces and staged ambitious SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000h6t5) Label ACT performances. Ernest MacMillan even gained a musical Alyn Shipton plays your Jazz Record Requests. Number 9010-2 Track 1 doctorate from Oxford University. Duration 6.47 DISC 1 Performers: Esbjörn Svensson, p; Dan Berglund, b; Magnus We also hear the first broadcast performance of one of Ernest Artist McCoy Tyner Ostrom, d, Elisabeth Arnberg, Ulf Forsberg, Ulrika Edström, MacMillan’s compositions, written whilst in the camp more Title Reaching Fourth Ulrika Jansson, strings, 1996. than a century ago. A reading from John Ketchum's book Composer Tyner 'Ruhleben: A Prison Cap Society' is included, with kind Album Reaching Fourth DISC 10 permission from University of Toronto Press. Label Impulse! Artist Peter Brötzmann / Bill Laswell Number 255 Track 1 Title The Last Detective Produced by Matt Willis and Dave Anderson Duration 4.22 Composer Peter Brötzmann / Bill Laswell A 7digital production Performers: McCoy Tyner, p; Henry Grimes, b; Roy Haynes, d. Album Low Life 14 Nov 1962 Label Charly Number CDGR209 Track 11 SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m000h6t9) DISC 2 Duration 2.32 Elizabeth and Essex Artist Duke Ellington Performers Peter Brötzmann, bsx; Bill Laswell, elb; Jan 1987. Title Take the Coltrane Elizabeth and Essex is a new play by Robin Brooks, based on Composer Ellington DISC 11 the writings of Lytton Strachey, about Elizabeth I and her young Album Duke Ellington and John Coltrane Artist Lucky Thompson favourite, the Earl of Essex. It was recorded live at the Label Impulse Title Where or When Alexandra Palace Theatre, with music by Erich Wolfgang Number 0607 5334729 Track 10 Composer Rodgers / Hart Korngold, drawn from his classic score which Korngold Duration 4.44 Album Accent on Tenor Saxophone originally composed for the 1939 movie The Private Lives of Performers: John Coltrane, ts; Duke Ellington, p; Jimmy Label Fresh Sound Elizabeth and Essex, starring Bette Davis as Elizabeth and Errol Garrison, b; Elvin Jones, d. 26 Sept 1962 Number CD 355 Track 2 Flynn as Essex. Duration 6.27 Korngold’s music is played by the BBC Concert Orchestra and DISC 3 Performers: Lucky Thompson, ts; Billy Taylor, p; Oscar conducted by Robert Ziegler. Artist Oscar Peterson / Flip Phillips Pettiford, b; Osie Johnson, d. NYC 1954. Title Singin’ The Blues The play stars Simon Russell Beale as both Strachey, leading Composer Conrad, Robinson DISC 12 light of the Bloomsbury Group, and Elizabeth I. It explores the Album Oscar Peterson Songbooks Etcetera Artist Dominic Ingham way in which Strachey gradually became absorbed in a rich Label Avid Title Fall fantasy life inspired by intrigue at the Tudor court, into which Number AMSC 820 Track 15 Composer Ingham he drew the young man who was then the object of his Duration 3.19 Album Role Models affections. The two stories, of the Virgin Queen and the ageing Performers Flip Phillips, ts; Oscar Peterson, ts; Herb Ellis, g; Label Dominic Ingham writer, play out in parallel, with assistance from other Ray Brown, b; Buddy Rich, d. 13 Sept 1954 Number 01 Bloomsbury-group members, Lady Ottoline Morrell and John Duration 5.44 Maynard Keynes. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 4 of 11 Lytton Strachey ..... Simon Russell Beale Ieva Saliete (harpsichord), Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin), Ilze Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Essex / Roger ..... Harry Lloyd Grudule (cello) 6 Variations on an Original Theme in F major, Op.34 for piano Bacon / Ottoline ..... Nancy Carroll Boris Berman (piano) Cecil / Maynard ..... Julian Harries 12:43 AM Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) 04:22 AM With the BBC Concert Orchestra Capriccio and Fugue in G minor, K.404 Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) Conducted by Robert Ziegler Ieva Saliete (harpsichord) Kamarinskaya - fantasy for orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ludovit Rajter (conductor) Directed and Produced by Fiona McAlpine and Robin Brooks 12:52 AM An Allegra Production Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680) 04:31 AM Sonata Quarta for violin and basso continuo in D, from 'Sonatae David Wikander (1884-1955), Ragnar Jandel (lyricist) Unarum Fidium' Forvarskvall (An evening early in spring) SUN 21:10 Record Review Extra (m000h6tc) Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin), Ieva Saliete (harpsichord), Ilze Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor) Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet Grudule (cello) 04:35 AM Hannah French presents the first edition of a new weekly 01:00 AM Richard Wagner (1813-1883) programme, Record Review Extra, offering listeners a chance Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) O du mein holder Abendstern – from "Tannhauser" to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed Sì dolce è'l tormento, madrigal in stile recitativo, for voice & Brett Polegato (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, in yesterday’s Record Review. Including the recommended basso continuo Richard Bradshaw (conductor) version of the Building a Library work, Schubert's 'Trout' Dmitry Sinkovsky (counter tenor), Ieva Saliete (harpsichord), Quintet. Ilze Grudule (cello) 04:41 AM Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1840) 01:04 AM Lied fur pianoforte SUN 23:00 Mindful Mix (m000h6tg) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750),Antonio Vivaldi Frans van Ruth (piano) Delightful and beautiful classical pieces to calm your mood (1678-1741) Concerto for keyboard solo in D, BWV.972 (after Vivaldi, 04:46 AM For your Sunday evening and more, this mix has been curated RV.230) Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868-1952) to highlight the events we're currently facing in the world. Take Ieva Saliete (harpsichord) Lyrisch gedicht voor klein orkest a minute to sit back and take some time out to music by Amy Flemish Radio Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor) Beach, Brahms and Liszt. To access more Mindful Mixes, 01:13 AM search 'Mindful Mix' on BBC Sounds and find the full selection George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) 04:58 AM of classical mixes. Nel dolce tempo, HWV.135b, cantata Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Dmitry Sinkovsky (counter tenor), Ieva Saliete (harpsichord), Violin Sonata no 6 in A major, Op 30 no 1 Ilze Grudule (cello) Mats Zetterqvist (violin), Mats Widlund (piano)

MONDAY 13 APRIL 2020 01:24 AM 05:20 AM Giovanni Verocai (c.1700-1745) Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795) MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000bms0) Violin Sonata in D minor Sinfonia for strings and continuo in D minor Liam Williams Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin), Ieva Saliete (harpsichord), Ilze Das Kleine Konzert Grudule (cello) Comedian, actor and writer Liam Williams tries Clemmie's 05:30 AM classical playlist. 01:35 AM Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) John Dowland (1563-1626) Serenade no 2 in A major, Op 16 Liam's playlist in full: Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian Dmitry Sinkovsky (counter tenor), Ieva Saliete (keyboard), Ilze (conductor) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Mélodie Op. 42, No. 3 Grudule (cello) Matthew Locke: The Tempest: The Second Musick: Curtain 06:02 AM Tune 01:38 AM Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900) Camille Saint-Saens: Bassoon Sonata Op. 168 (3rd movement) Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) 6 Fantasiestucke (Op.54) (1855) (Dedicated to Clara Missy Mazzoli: Vespers for Violin Gloria in D major, RV.589 Schumann) William Henry Harris: Faire is the Heaven Ann Monoyios (soprano), Matthew White (counter tenor), Nina Gade (piano) Scott Joplin: Stoptime Rag Colin Ainsworth (tenor), Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor) 06:18 AM 01 00:03:41 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Frantisek Jiranek (1698-1778) Mélodie Op. 42, No. 3 02:07 AM Flute Concerto in G major Performer: Itzhak Perlman Marcel Dupre (1886-1971) Jana Semeradova (flute), Collegium Marianum, Jana Performer: Samuel Sanders Organ Concerto in E minor, Op 31 Semeradova (artistic director) Music Arranger: Carl Flesch Simon Preston (organ), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Duration 00:05:48 Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000h6p9) 02 00:09:42 Matthew Locke 02:31 AM Monday - Petroc's classical picks The Tempest: The Second Musick: Curtain Tune Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico Symphony no 2 in D major, Op 43 Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Director: Giovanni Antonini BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards (conductor) featuring a complete Bach cantata in our regular 'Bach Before 7' Duration 00:03:54 slot, as well as including listeners' requests. 03:18 AM 03 00:13:53 Camille Saint‐Saëns Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Email [email protected] Sonate op. 168, III. Molto adagio - Allegro moderato 2 Finnlandische Volksweisen (Finnish folksong arrangements) Performer: Per Hannisdal for 2 pianos, Op 27 Performer: Vebjørn Anvik Erik T. Tawaststjerna (piano), Hui-Ying Liu (piano) MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000h6pc) Duration 00:03:20 Georgia Mann 03:29 AM 04 00:17:28 Missy Mazzoli Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) Georgia Mann with Essential Classics - the best in classical Vespers for Violin De klare dag - song music. Performer: Jennifer Koh Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Rudolf Jansen (piano) Performer: Missy Mazzoli 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Duration 00:04:17 03:34 AM playlist. Josef Suk (1874-1935) 05 00:22:06 William Harris Elegy (Op 23) arr. for piano trio 1010 Essential Symphony from the BBC archive Faire is the Heaven Trio Lorenz Choir: Tenebrae 1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Easter Conductor: Nigel Short 03:42 AM pieces. Duration 00:02:28 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Flute Quartet in G K.285a 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's 06 00:24:50 Scott Joplin Joanna G'froerer (flute), Martin Beaver (violin), Pinchas musical reflection. Stoptime Rag Zukerman (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello) Performer: Benjamin Loeb Duration 00:03:55 03:52 AM MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00013zr) Francesco Durante (1684-1755) Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) Concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra in B flat major MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000h6tk) Gerald Hambitzer (harpsichord), Concerto Koln The Rossini Code Venetian Baroque Masterpieces 04:02 AM This week, Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and Music performed at the Riga & Rundale International Early Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) music of Gioachino Rossini. Today, the winning formula Music Festival in Latvia. With John Shea. Twill soon be midnight - aria from 'Pique Dame' Rossini hit on right at the start of his operatic career. Joanne Kolomyjec (soprano), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, 12:31 AM Mario Bernardi (conductor) Rossini had the good fortune to learn his craft not from a course Francesco Rognoni Taeggio (fl. c.1600-c.1626) of dry academic study but by toiling in the operatic trenches of Vestiva i colli, for violin and basso continuo 04:08 AM Venice’s Teatro San Moisè, for which he produced a youthful Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 5 of 11 string of one-act farces – four of which are sampled in today’s Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, op. 43, Suite No. 2 but is nowadays associated with loneliness and unhappiness. To programme. Thrown in at the deep end at the tender age of 18, counter these stereotypes, Rachel takes as her starting point Rossini almost immediately – and apparently instinctively – Orchestre National d’Île-de-France George Gissing's 1893 novel The Odd Women, whose heroines caught on to the essentials of writing music for the stage. More Fabien Gabel, conductor are independent and brave. She explores the shift from spinsters than that, he seems to have codified his instincts into a as businesswomen, handling their own affairs, to the repressed structural ground plan that not only underpins his early farces, Recorded in January 2019 in the Philharmonie, Paris. and downtrodden figures of more recent popular culture, and but continued to serve him when he graduated to writing comic argues it's time to embrace the word 'odd'. operas on a larger scale – a case in point being the deftly-paced 1st-act finale of Cinderella, which concludes today’s MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000h9q0) programme. Come ye sons of art MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000h6pv) Evening soundscape La cambiale di matrimonio; overture Presented by Georgia Mann Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for Purcell: Come, ye sons of art late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and La scala di seta; scene 1, Introduzione everything in between. Teresa Ringholz, soprano (Giulia) Salome Kammer, soprano Alessandro Corbelli, baritone (Germano) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Francesca Provvisionato, mezzo soprano (Lucilla) Choir of the Age of Enlightenment English Chamber Orchestra Laurence Cummings, conductor TUESDAY 14 APRIL 2020 Marcello Viotti, conductor Purcell wrote Come Ye Sons of Art, Z.323, as an Ode for TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000h6px) L’inganno felice; scene 8 (extract): Terzetto: ‘Quel sembiante’ Queen Mary's birthday, in 1694. The text of the ode is often Eroica Raúl Giménez, tenor (Bertrando) attributed to Nahum Tate, who was poet laureate at the time. Pietro Spagnoli, bass (Tarabotto) With its splendid vocal writing and instrumental interludes, it is Beethoven's Symphony No 3 and the Adagio from Mahler's Annick Massis, soprano (Isabella) an exuberant celebration of the Queen's virtues. Symphony No 10, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Le Concert des Tuileries Orchestra. Presented by John Shea. Marc Minkowski, conductor MON 17:00 In Tune (m000h6ph) 12:31 AM L’occasione fa il ladro (or Il cambio della valigia); scenes 12 Ruby Hughes and David Okumu, and Marin Alsop Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) (extract)–13: Symphony No 10 (Adagio) – Duet: ‘Voi la sposa!’ Sean Rafferty introduces an In Tune home session from Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor) – Recit: ‘Qui non c’è scampo’ soprano Ruby Hughes and guitarist, songwriter & producer – Aria: ‘Il mio padrone’ David Okumu. He also talks to conductor Marin Alsop, who 12:58 AM Enrico Fissore, bass (Don Parmenione) was due to conduct the National Youth Orchestra of Great Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Margherita Rinaldi, soprano (Berenice) Britain this week. Symphony No 3 in E Flat 'Eroica' Antonio Pirino, tenor (Don Eusebio) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor) Gianni Socci, baritone (Martino) Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000h6pk) 01:48 AM Vittorio Gui, conductor Get into the holiday mood with a classical staycation mix Fernando Lopes-Graca (1906-1994) Cancoes heroicas (Heroic Songs) from Books 1 & 2 (Op.44) La Cenerentola; Act 1, finale In Tune's specially curated playlist: stay at home and enjoy an (1946-85) Luigi Alva, tenor (Ramiro) eclectic musical escape that is guaranteed to bring a smile to Ricercare Chorus, Rodrigo Gomes (piano), Pedro Teixeira Renato Capecchi, baritone (Dandini) your face on a bank holiday like no other. (conductor) Margherita Guglielmi, soprano (Clorinda) We jump straight in with Clyde Valley Stompers' swinging Laura Zannini, soprano (Tisbe) arrangement of Peter and the Wolf, Randy Newman rounds up 02:11 AM Ugo Trama, bass (Alidoro) the gang in Toy Story 2, it's a Jolly Holiday with Mary Poppins, Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Teresa Berganza, mezzo soprano (Cenerentola) we have a hoedown with Aaron Copland and the Brodsky Kinderszenen for piano (Op.15) Paolo Montarsolo, bass (Don Magnifico) Quartet, Brad Meldau's Blackbird sings and finally we soar Eun-Soo Son (piano) Scottish Opera Chorus through the moonlit sky with E.T. - The Extraterrestrial. You London Symphony Orchestra won't want to be anywhere else. 02:31 AM Claudio Abbado, conductor Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) Producer: Barnaby Gordon Matthaus-Passion (SWV.479) Produced by Chris Barstow for BBC Wales Paul Elliott (tenor), Paul Hillier (bass), Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier (director) MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000h6pm) MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b06zjbv2) Hymns to Love 03:26 AM Death and the Maiden Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Recorded last December in the Philharmonie, Berlin, this Des pas sur la neige - no 6 from Preludes book 1 From Wigmore Hall, London, former Radio 3 New Generation concert was dedicated to the memory of the great conductor Danae O'Callaghan (piano) Artists the Escher String Quartet, from New York, play two of Mariss Jansons, who was greatly loved by the Berlin Mendelssohn's Pieces for String Quartet Op 81, plus Schubert's Philharmonic. 03:31 AM darkly powerful Quartet in D minor, D810, with its slow- Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) movement set of variations on his own song 'Death and the The programme centres around Strauss’s Drei Hymnen, three Concerto for String Orchestra Maiden' hymns to freedom and to the power of love which can Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi overcome all obstacles. They are framed by operatic extracts on (conductor) Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch the same themes, and by the delightful Sonatina No 1 for winds, which Strauss wrote in 1943, at a time when freedom seemed a 03:46 AM Mendelssohn: Andante sostenuto and variations, Op 81 No 1 distant illusion. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Mendelssohn: Scherzo Op 81 No 2 Adagio and Allegro in E flat major (K.Anh.C 17.07) for wind Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Wagner: Prelude to Act I of 'Lohengrin' octet Maiden) Strauss: Sonatina for 16 Winds No. 1 in F, AV 135 ('From the Festival Winds Workshop of an Invalid') Escher String Quartet 03:56 AM 8.15: Interval: C.P.E. Bach: Symphony in D major Wq.183 no.1 Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682) Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London, on 8 February 2016 Berlin Academy for Early Music Toccata for harpsichord Hans-Christoph Rademann, director Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord)

MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000h6pf) 8.35: Strauss: Drei Hymnen, op. 71, 04:00 AM Bach from Paris Suite from 'Der Rosenkavalier', op. 59 Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) Quartet no 1 in F major for flute, clarinet, bassoon and horn Hannah French presents a celebration of highlights from recent Anja Kampe, soprano Canberra Wind Soloists concerts by great French orchestras and ensembles. Today, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Bach’s great Mass in B minor performed by the Philharmonic Christian Thielemann, conductor 04:12 AM Orchestra of Radio France, along with French ballet favourites, Leos Janacek (1854-1928) played by the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France. Followed at 9.20 by Schubert: Sonata in C minor D.958 Mladi (Youth) Louis Schwizgebel, piano Anita Szabo (flute), Bela Horvath (oboe), Zsolt Szatmari Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (clarinet), Pal Bokor (bassoon), Gyorgy Salamon (bass clarinet), Mariana Flores, soprano Tamas Zempleni (horn) Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000h6pp) Paulin Bündgen, countertenor [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 on Saturday] 04:31 AM Julian Prégardien, tenor Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Andreas Wolf, bass Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury for 3 trumpets Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus MON 22:45 The Essay (m000h02x) Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble Leonardo García Alarcón, conductor 'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females 04:34 AM Recorded last November in the Auditorium, Radio France The Spinster Abbe Joseph Bovet (1879-1951), Andre Scheurer (arranger) Broadcasting House, Paris La fanfare du printemps (Spring fanfare) Rachel Cooke explores five versions of the single woman. She Zurich Boys' Choir, Ludus Ensemble, Alphons von Aarburg Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 1 starts with the spinster, a word which once had positive origins (conductor) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 6 of 11 04:37 AM now regard it as his tragic masterpiece. Sean Rafferty talks to soprano Sarah Traubel about her latest Gwilym Simcock (1981-) recording, 'Arias for Josepha', featuring works written for the Spring step for piano Il barbiere di Siviglia; Act 1 Scene 1, ‘Largo al factotum’ legendary soprano, and sister-in-law of Mozart, Josepha Hofer. Gwilym Simcock (piano) Sesto Bruscantini, baritone (Figaro) And there's another In Tune Home Session. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 04:43 AM Vittorio Gui, conductor Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000hjj1) Psalmy Dawida (from the Psalms of David) for chorus and Zelmira; Act 1 Scene 5 (extract): Classical tunes for your Easter staycation percussion – ‘S'intessano agli allori’ Camerata Silesia, Anna Szostak (director), AUKSO Tychy – ‘Terra amica’ In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, Chamber Orchestra, Marek Mos (conductor) Juan Diego Flórez, tenor (Ilio) including a few surprises. Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi 04:53 AM Riccardo Chailly, conductor Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000h6w3) Schmucke dich, O liebe Seele – chorale-prelude for organ Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra; Act 2 Scene 1 (extract) The Dream of Gerontius (BWV.654) – ‘Dov'è Matilde?’ Bine Katrine Bryndorf (organ) – ‘Pensa che sol per poco’ The Dream of Gerontius, one of the most moving works in the – ‘Non bastan quelle lagrime’ choral repertory, is based on a poem by the Catholic Cardinal 05:00 AM – ‘Misero me!...la sposa’ (now Saint) John Henry Newman which tells the story of the Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) – ‘L'avverso nio destino’ dying Gerontius's soul as it passes from life into death, from Symphony (after Ovid's Metamorphoses) no 3 in G major – ‘Ah! Fra Poco, in Faccia A Morte’ judgement to purgatory. Elgar imagined Gerontius as a man like La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (director) Montserrat Caballé, (Elisabetta) us with all his worldly sins, brought before God for judgement. Neil Jenkins, (Guglielmo) He poured his heart into the work, throughout the score his 05:18 AM Valerie Masterson, (Matilde) great mastery of orchestration and choral writing is on display Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), Vadim Borisovsky (arranger) London Symphony Orchestra and it is for good reason that Elgar wrote at the end of his Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet ballet suite) Gianfranco Masini, conductor manuscript 'This is the best of me..this, if anything of mine, is Gyozo Mate (viola), Balazs Szokolay (piano) worth your memory.' Ermione; Act 1 Scene 6 (finale) 05:24 AM Colin Lee, tenor (Oreste) Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Carmen Giannattasio, soprano (Ermione) Concerto for organ, strings and timpani Paul Nilon, tenor (Pirro) Angel ..... Christine Rice (mezzo soprano) Michael Dudman (organ), Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Bottone, soprano (Cleone) Gerontius ..... Paul Groves (tenor) Leonard Dommett (conductor) Patricia Bardon, mezzo soprano (Andromaca) Priest/Angel of the Agony ..... Neal Davies (bass) Victoria Simmonds, alto (Cefisa) Choir of Clare College Cambridge 05:47 AM Bülent Bezdüz, tenor (Pilade) London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Loïc Félix, tenor (Attalo) Edward Gardner (conductor) Le Roi Lear, Op 4 (Overture) Graeme Broadbent, baritone (Fenicio) BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Geoffrey Mitchell Choir Performance given in March 2011 at The Royal Festival Hall. London Philharmonic Orchestra 06:03 AM David Parry, conductor Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000h6w7) Cello Concerto in C major (H.7b.1) Produced by Chris Barstow for BBC Wales What's so great about EM Forster Steven Isserlis (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Jean Fournet (conductor) Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000h6vk) the writer's work from his earliest novel, Where Angels Fear to Verbier Festival (1/4) Tread (1905), to his essay, Aspects of the Novel. Recorded in TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000h6v9) partnership with the Royal Society of Literature at the British Tuesday - Petroc's classical mix Sarah Walker presents a recital by Renaud Capucon and Andras Library. Schiff performing violin sonatas by Debussy and Franck, Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, recorded at last year's Verbier Festival. Producer: Torquil MacLeod featuring a complete Bach cantata in our regular 'Bach Before 7' slot, as well as including listeners' requests. The duo of French violinist and Hungarian-born British pianist Laurence Scott present a Radio 3 Sunday Feature about presents Claude Debussy's only sonata for these instruments, Merchant Ivory, which includes interviews about their film Email [email protected] cool and mysterious, written towards the end of the composer's adaptations of EM Forster's work life. Alongside it is the only sonata by Belgian composer Cesar https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04003kn Franck, written as a (very generous) wedding present for his TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000h6vf) friend, virtuoso Eugene Ysaye. Find more programmes about literature in this Free Thinking Georgia Mann Prose and Poetry playlist on our website Debussy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047v6vh Georgia Mann with Essential Classics - the best in classical Violin Sonata in G minor You'll find Deborah Levy on Writing and Frankness, Wilfred music. Franck Owen Poetry and Peace, winners of the RSL Ondaatje Prize Violin Sonata in A debating place, all recorded with the Royal Society of Literature 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Renaud Capucon, violin at the British Library. playlist. Andras Schiff, piano Our Landmarks collection includes programmes about George Eliot, James Joyce, George Orwell and many other writers 1010 Essential Symphony from the BBC archive https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44 TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000h6vq) 1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Easter Highlights from the Montpellier Festival pieces. TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000h1sy) Georgia Mann presents a celebration of highlights from the 'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's concert season in France. Today, the Radio France musical reflection. Philharmonic Orchestra and Yevgeny Kissin at the Montpellier Career Girls Festival, in a programme of Vasks, Liszt and Prokofiev. Then the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Emmanuel Writer Rachel Cooke looks at five versions of the single TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00013x0) Krivine, play Brahms and Berlioz. woman. In this essay: career girls. Rachel recalls her own first Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) tentative steps into working life; the loneliness and elation of Vasks: Lauda making your own way in the world and considers portrayals of Stick to Comedy! Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S. 124 ambitious women in fiction and on screen. Kissin: Tango dodécaphonique This week, Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and Brahms: Waltz in A flat, op. 39/15 music of Gioachino Rossini. Today, Rossini’s serious side. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat, op. 100 TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000h6wh) Sibelius (1865-1957) - Valse triste, from 'Kuolema, op. 44 Adventures in sound With the exception of William Tell, from which most people Yevgeny Kissin, piano know only the overture, Rossini is generally regarded first and Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for foremost as a composer of comic operas – the most familiar of Andris Poga, conductor late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and these being The Barber of Seville. With a couple of notable Recorded at the Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, last everything in between. exceptions, his serious operas remain relatively virgin territory, July, during the 2019 Montpellier Festival. yet as Rossini expert Richards Osborne points out, it’s on the sequence of nine opere serie Rossini wrote for Naples between Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, op. 90 1815 and 1822 that his reputation as the founding father of Berlioz: Harold en Italie, op. 16 WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 2020 Italian 19th-century opera principally rests. Today’s programme Nicolas Bône, viola explores three of these operas: Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra, Orchestre National de France WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000h6wm) with which Rossini made his dazzling Neapolitan début; Emmanuel Krivine, conductor Boris Giltburg piano recital Zelmira, with which he said farewell Naples and hello Vienna; Recorded last June in the Auditorium, Radio France and Ermione, which ran for only seven performances before Broadcasting House, Paris. Music by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Liszt and being indefinitely mothballed. “Ermione is my little William Schumann with pianist Boris Giltburg. John Shea presents. Tell,” said Rossini, “and it will not see the light of day until after my death.” He was right; a century-and-a-half after its TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000h6vv) 12:31 AM disastrous opening run it was triumphantly revived, and many Sarah Traubel Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975), Boris Giltburg (arranger) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 7 of 11 String Quartet no 3 in F, op 73, arr. for piano Three Gymnopedies Teresa Berganza, mezzo soprano (Isabella) Boris Giltburg (piano) Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman (conductor) Fernando Corena, bass (Mustafà) Rolando Panerai, baritone (Taddeo) 01:04 AM 05:09 AM Paolo Montarsolo, bass (Haly) Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) Luigi Alva, tenor (Lindoro) Piano Sonata no 3 in A minor, op 28 Sonata in D minor Giuliana Tavolaccini, soprano (Elvira) Boris Giltburg (piano) Amsterdam Bach Soloists, Wim ten Have (conductor) Mitì Truccato Pace, mezzo soprano (Zulma) Florence Maggio Musicale Chorus and Orchestra 01:12 AM 05:19 AM Silvio Varviso, conductor Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Preludes, op 32 Overture (May Night) Mosé in Egitto; Act 3 Boris Giltburg (piano) Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor) Lorenzo Regazzo, bass (Mosé) Akie Amou, soprano (Elcìa) 01:51 AM 05:28 AM Karen Bandelow, mezzo soprano (Amenofi) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Giorgio Trucco, tenor (Aronne) La leggierezza, from 'Trois études de concert' Trio for piano, clarinet and viola in E flat major, K498, Wojtek Gierlach, bass (Faraone) Boris Giltburg (piano) 'Kegelstatt' Giuseppe Fedeli, tenor (Mambre) Martin Frost (clarinet), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Cedric Sa Pietro a Majella Chorus 01:57 AM Tiberghien (piano) Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) Antonino Fogliani, conductor Suggestion diabolique, op 4 05:46 AM Boris Giltburg (piano) Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) Produced by Chris Barstow for BBC Wales Flute Concerto in D major (Op.283) (1908) 02:00 AM Matej Zupan (flute), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Robert Schumann (1810-1856) David de Villiers (conductor) WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000h6y5) Zart und singend, from 'Davidsbündlertänze, op 6' Verbier Festival (2/4) Boris Giltburg (piano) 06:07 AM Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) Sarah Walker presents sonatas by Haydn and Schumann played 02:03 AM Concierto de Aranjuez by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Recorded at last year's Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Norbert Kraft (guitar), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Verbier Festival. Symphonic Dances, Op 64 Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor) Bavouzet is a noted interpreter of his compatriots Ravel and Debussy. Yet his repertoire is vast, from Prokofiev and Bartok 02:31 AM WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000h6xx) (his recording of Bartok's third piano concerto was Record Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Wednesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine Review's Building a Library recommendation last month) to the Double Concerto in A minor for Violin and Cello (Op.102) complete sonatas of Beethoven and Haydn Solve Sigerland (violin), Ellen Margrete Flesjo (cello), Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Per Kristian Skalstad featuring a complete Bach cantata in our regular 'Bach Before 7' In this afternoon's programme, he contrasts a quirky F minor (conductor) slot, as well as including listeners' requests. sonata by Haydn with a passionate Schumann sonata, a product of the composer's outpouring of love for the woman he was to 03:06 AM Email [email protected] marry Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010) Miserere (Op.44) Haydn Danish National Radio Choir, Jesper Grove Jorgensen WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000h6y1) Sonata in E flat H.16.49 (conductor) Georgia Mann Schumann Sonata F minor, Op.14 03:40 AM Georgia Mann with Essential Classics - the best in classical Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano Jean-Baptiste Quinault (1687-1745) music. Overture and Dances - from the Comedy 'Le Nouveau Monde' (1723) 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000h6y9) L'ensemble Arion playlist. Radio France Philharmonic

03:49 AM 1010 Essential Symphony from the BBC archive Continuing our survey of French orchestral life, Hannah French Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) presents a concert by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Variations in E major on a German National Air (op.posth) 1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Easter with Mikko Franck, Melody Louledjian and Nikolai Lugansky. Ludmil Angelov (piano) pieces. Stravinsky: Four Russian Peasant Songs 03:56 AM 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 16 Nicolaas Arie Bouwman (1854-1941) musical reflection. Rachmaninov: Prelude No. 5, from 'Thirteen Preludes, op. 32' Thalia - overture for wind orchestra (1888) Debussy: La Damoiselle élue, L. 62 Dutch National Youth Wind Orchestra, Jan Cober (conductor) Ravel: Boléro WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000140s) Melody Louledjian, soprano 04:05 AM Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) Emanuela Pascu, mezzo-soprano Rudolf Tobias (1873-1918) Nikolai Lugansky, piano Prelude and Fugue in D minor The New Conqueror Anthony Devriendt, horn Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmar Stéphane Bridoux, horn (conductor) This week, Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and Bruno Fayolle, horn music of Gioachino Rossini. Today, Rossini seen through the Hugues Viallon, horn 04:13 AM enthusiastic but distorting lens of the writer Stendahl. Radio France Children's Chorus (Maîtrise de Radio France) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Sofi Jeannin, chorus director Sonetto 123 di Petrarca (S.158 No.3): Io vidi in terra angelici “Light, lively, amusing, never wearisome but seldom exalted – Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra costumi Rossini would appear to have been brought into this world for Mikko Franck, conductor Janina Fialkowska (piano) the express purpose of conjuring up visions of ecstatic delight in the commonplace soul of the Average Man.” – a typically Given in the Auditorium, Radio France Broadcasting House, 04:21 AM ambivalent pronouncement by the composer’s earliest Paris, last September. Johan Svendsen (1840-1911) biographer. Baptised Marie-Henri Beyle, Stendahl is best Romance for violin & orchestra (Op.26) in G major arr. for known today as a writer of fiction, and there’s a substantial violin & choir fictive element about his biography of the world’s greatest WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b08mp5fz) Borisas Traubas (violin), Polifonija, Sigitas Vaiciulionis living Italian composer, written when his subject, already an Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas (conductor) international celebrity, was less than halfway through his life. Nonetheless, Stendahl provides an eyewitness account of From the Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas. 04:31 AM Rossini’s life in its busiest and most productive period, and Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) while he can be an infuriatingly unreliable guide, he’s also a Introit: King of glory, King of peace (Harold Friedell) Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C major RV.444 delightful and, ultimately, indispensible one. Responses: Bruce Neswick Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Koln Psalm 105 (Ritchie, Dettra, Fenstermaker) Tancredi; Act 1 Scene 5, ‘Di tanti palpiti’ First Lesson: Song of Solomon 3 04:40 AM Marilyn Horne, mezzo soprano (Tancredi) Office Hymn: Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary (Fisk of Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) Teatro La Fenice Orchestra Gloucester) Excerpts from Songs Without Words, Op 6 (1846) Ralf Weikert, conductor Canticles: Dallas Service (Howells) Sylviane Deferne (piano) Second Lesson: Matthew 28 vv.16-20 La pietra del paragon; Act 2, extract: Anthems: I was glad (Leo Sowerby) 04:50 AM – ‘A caccia o mio Signore’ (chorus) Light's Glittering Morn (Horatio Parker) Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Jon Washburn (orchestrator) – ‘Oh come il fosco impetuoso nembo’ / ‘Quell’alme pupille’ Organ Voluntary: Toccata (Vincent Persichetti) Messe Basse (Giocondo)) Henriette Schellenberg (soprano), Vancouver Chamber Choir, José Carerras, tenor (Giocondo) Scott Dettra (Director of Music) CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Jon Washburn (conductor) The Clarion Concerts Orchestra and Chorus L. Graham Schultz (Assistant Organist) Newell Jenkins, conductor 05:00 AM First broadcast 19 April 2017. Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) L’Italiana in Algeri; Act 1 Scene 4 (finale) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 8 of 11 WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000h6yl) Rachel Cooke considers the divorcee - once seen as a dangerous 04:41 AM Anastasia Kobekina plays Weinberg and predatory figure out to steal husbands. She charts the George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) depiction of faithless wives in fiction, from the Victorian Suite No 2 in F major HWV 427 BBC New Generation Artists: Anastasia Kobekina plays the sensation novel East Lynne to Nora Ephron's 1980s classic Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) Cello Concerto by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Once seen, along Heartburn. with Shostakovich and Prokofiev as one of the big three of 04:50 AM Soviet music, his music has until recently been largely forgotten Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) figure. The young Russian-born cellist made this recording to WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000h6z0) Fest- und Gedenkspruche for 8 voices, Op 109 mark the centenary of Weinberg's birth last year. Dissolve into sound Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor)

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for 05:00 AM Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Berne Symphony Orchestra, Kevin late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (1626-c1677) John Edusei (conductor) everything in between. 5 pieces: Achas; Bacas; Ruggiero; Xacaras; Espanoletas Margret Koll (arpa doppia) Carlo Domeniconi: Variations on Anatolian Folksong Thibaut Garcia (guitar) 05:10 AM THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2020 Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Overture in D major, D590, 'in the Italian style' WED 17:00 In Tune (m000h6yp) THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000h6z2) Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (conductor) Ksenija Sidorova, Jess Gillam Mozart and Schumann from Lausanne 05:18 AM Sean Rafferty introduces an In Tune Home Session by classical Lucas Debargue is the soloist in Mozart Piano Concerto No 24 Alexander Albrecht (1885-1958) accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, and he talks to saxophonist Jess with Lausanne Chamber Orchestra conducted by Joshua Quintet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon Gillam about her Virtual Scratch Orchestra, which will debut Weilerstein. John Shea presents. Bratislava Wind Quintet, Pavol Kovac (piano) this Friday. 12:31 AM 05:27 AM Caroline Shaw (b.1982) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000h6yr) Entr’acte, for strings Piano Concerto in G major A 30-minute classical mix for your staycation Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Joshua Weilerstein (conductor) Havard Gimse (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Arvid Engegard (conductor) In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, 12:43 AM including a few surprises. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 05:49 AM Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Lucas Debargue (piano), Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Joshua Quartet for strings Op 64 No 5 in D major "Lark" WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000h6yt) Weilerstein (conductor) Tilev String Quartet, Gueorgui Tilev (violin), Svetoslav Two hours of ecstasy Marinov (violin), Ogunian Stantchev (viola), Yontcho Bayrov 01:13 AM (cello) Another chance to hear Steven Osborne performing his Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) critically acclaimed interpretation of one of the most Keyboard Sonata in E flat, K. 253 06:07 AM groundbreaking piano works of the 20th century. The Lucas Debargue (piano) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) monumental Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus is a moving and Piano trio op.11 in B flat major, 'Gassenhauer-Trio' personal expression of Messiaen's Catholic faith: 20 01:17 AM Arcadia Trio contemplations on the infant Jesus, based around three Robert Schumann (1810-1856) distinctive themes, powerfully woven through the music. With Symphony No. 2 in C, op. 61 its superhuman demands on concentration and stamina, this is a Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Joshua Weilerstein (conductor) THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000h8bx) rare chance to hear complete this intense, two-hour Thursday - Petroc's classical alarm call masterpiece. 01:55 AM Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885) Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Presented by Martin Handley from Queen Elizabeth Hall, Piano Quintet in G minor (Op.34) (1885) featuring a complete Bach cantata in our regular 'Bach Before 7' London Pawel Kowalski (piano), Silesian Quartet slot, as well as including listeners' requests.

Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus 02:31 AM Email [email protected] Steven Osborne (piano) Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) Missa Alleluja a36 Gradus ad Parnassum, Concerto Palatino, Wiener THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000h8bz) WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000h6yw) Hofburgkapelle, Konrad Junghanel (director) Georgia Mann Science Fiction and ecological thinking 03:07 AM Georgia Mann with Essential Classics - the best in classical Hetta Howes discusses current academic thinking on science Franz Schubert (1797-1828) music. fiction, as a way of thinking that extends beyond writing, film Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat D.960 and TV to architecture and beyond. With Caroline Edwards, Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at playlist. Birkbeck, University of London, and Amy Butt, Lecturer in 03:47 AM Architecture at the University of Reading. Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975) 1010 Essential Symphony from the BBC archive Festive Overture (Op.96) This conversation was recorded in mid February before Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor) 1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Easter coronavirus hit the UK. pieces. It is one of a series of conversations - New Thinking - produced 03:53 AM in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Henry Purcell (1659-1695) 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's part of UK Research & Innovation. Sonata - 1683 no. 9 in C minor Z.798 for 2 violins and continuo musical reflection. Further podcasts are available on the BBC Radio 3 Free Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director) Thinking website under the playlist New Research https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90 04:00 AM THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00014ps) Gion Giusep Derungs (b.1932) Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) In the Free Thinking archives: Epigrams for male voices and piano New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon’s Essay on is science Ligia Grischa, Rudolf Reinhardt (piano), Gion Giusep Derungs Noises Off fiction is sexist https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g2wkp (director) A discussion about Zamyatin’s novel We This week, Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03f8bqz 04:07 AM music of Gioachino Rossini. Today, the music that Rossini A discussion with Naomi Alderman, Roger Luckhurst and Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) didn’t have to write. Alessandro Vincentelli on science fiction & space travel Danses champetres Op.106 for violin and piano (nos 1 & 2) https://www.bbc.com/programmes/b04ps158 Petteri Iivonen (violin), Philip Chiu (piano) According to Rossini’s biographer Richard Osborne, the Matthew Sweet explores psychohistory and Isaac Asimov and composer left a “large and absorbingly diverse collection of non- guiding the future 04:14 AM operatic compositions” – some written during his career, many https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d84g Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) more after his early retirement from the stage in 1831. They Naomi Alderman is in conversation with Margaret Atwood Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, K.584 - from Cosi fan tutte range from a short occasional fanfare for four horns and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07xhzy8 Russell Braun (baritone), Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, orchestra written as a musical thank-you for a well-to-do host Ursula Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest Richard Bradshaw (conductor) who was crazy about hunting, to the masterpiece of Rossini’s https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6yb37 late years, the Petite messe solennelle, which the composer 04:20 AM prefaced with a tongue-in-cheek letter to God: “Good God, Producer: Luke Mulhall Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) there we have it, complete, this poor little Mass. Is it really Symphony in D major, Op 10 No 5 sacred music that I’ve made, or is it merely abominable music? I La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor) was born for opera buffa, as Thou well knowest. Little skill, a WED 22:45 The Essay (m000h2g6) little heart, and that is all. So be Thou blessed, and admit me to 'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females 04:31 AM Paradise. G. Rossini. Passy, 1863.” Arcangelo Califano (fl.1700-1750) The Divorcee Sonata for 2 oboes, bassoon and keyboard in C major String Sonata No 1 in G; 3rd mvt, Allegro Ensemble Zefiro Ensemble de I Virtuosi Italiani In the third episode of her essays about the single woman, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 9 of 11 Messa di Gloria; Kyrie eleison—Christe eleison—Kyrie eleison THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000h8c9) FRIDAY 17 APRIL 2020 Francisco Araiza, tenor Beethoven Unleashed: Youthful Beethoven Raúl Gimenez, tenor FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000h8cm) Academy and Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields In a week when the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Bucolic Beethoven Neville Marriner, conductor was to have worked with conductor Marin Alsop on Beethoven's mighty Ninth Symphony, another chance to hear The Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Antonello Manacorda La pastorella the Orchestra's Proms performance of the same work from perform Beethoven's Symphony No 6, 'Pastoral'. They're joined Beltà crudele 2013. by Isabelle Faust for Schumann's Violin Concerto. John Shea Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano presents. Charles Spencer, piano The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain is joined by four soloists and three youthful choirs from the UK and Ireland, 12:31 AM Serenata per piccolo compresso including from Derry-Londonderry, the UK City of Culture Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Anton Webern (arranger) Members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra 2013, in music by Vaughan Williams, Turnage and Beethoven. Fugue (Ricercata) a 6 from the Musical Offering BWV 1079/5 NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Antonello Manacorda Le Rendez-vous de chasse Presented by Petroc Trelawny (conductor) Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi Riccardo Chailly, conductor Vaughan Williams: Toward The Unknown Region 12:40 AM Mark-Anthony Turnage: Frieze (BBC Co-Commission With Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Petite messe solennelle; Credo—Crucifixus—Et resurrexit The Royal Philharmonic Society And The New York Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23 Kari Løvaas, soprano Philharmonic: World Premiere) Isabelle Faust (violin), NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Brigitte Fassbaender, alto Antonello Manacorda (conductor) Peter Schreier, tenor 20.00 Interval - Beethoven 9 and the RPS Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone 01:12 AM Die Münchner Vokalsolisten Petroc Trelawny discusses the link between Beethoven and the Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Oscar Strasnoy (arranger) Reinhard Raffalt, harmonium London-based Royal Philharmonic Society with music writer Romanze in F, Op 118 No 5 Hans Ludwig Hirsch, piano Helen Wallace, while scholar Amanda Glauert provides an Isabelle Faust (violin), NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch, piano and conductor introduction to his Symphony No 9, a product of that fruitful Antonello Manacorda (conductor) relationship. Produced by Chris Barstow for BBC Wales 01:16 AM 20.25 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Beethoven: Symphony No 9 In D minor, 'Choral' Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 'Pastoral' THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000h8c1) NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Antonello Manacorda Verbier Festival (3/4) Ailish Tynan (soprano) (conductor) Jennifer Johnston (mezzo) Sarah Walker presents piano music by Tchaikovsky and Toby Spence (tenor) 01:59 AM Rachmaninov played by young Russian virtuoso Sergei Redkin. Gerald Finley (bass) Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Codetta Les nuits d'ete (Op.7) (Six songs on poems by Theophile In his recital, he contrasts a dream-like evocation of the Russian Irish Youth Chamber Choir Gautier) countryside by Tchaikovsky with the second set of National Youth Choir of Great Britain Randi Steene (mezzo soprano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rachmaninov's Etudes-tableaux, strikingly original piano pieces National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Berhard Gueller (conductor) written in 1917 as revolution forced the composer into exile Vasily Petrenko (conductor) 02:31 AM Tchaikovsky Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Dumka THU 22:00 Shakespeare's Bookshelf (b0786900) The Planets - suite Op 32 Rachmaninov Rana Mitter is joined by Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice NFM Chorus, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Etudes-tableaux Op.39 Groves to explore the books which inspired Shakespeare from Katowice, Jose Maria Florencio (conductor) Sergei Redkin, piano the Bible and classical stories to the writing of some of Shakespeare's contemporaries. 03:29 AM Beat Furrer (1954-) THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000h8c3) Edith Hall is Professor in the Classics Department and Centre Strane Costellazioni Stanford from the Wexford Festival for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. Her books Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, include Introducing The Ancient Greeks and has co-written A Alexander Liebreich (conductor) Opera Matinee: Stanford - The Veiled Prophet, from the 2019 People's History of Classics with Henry Stead. Wexford Festival. 03:41 AM Nandini Das is Professor of English Literature at the University Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Presented by Hannah French of Oxford. She is also a New Generation Thinker on the scheme French suite for keyboard no 2 in C minor, BWV.813 run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Cristian Niculescu (piano) Mokanna, The Veiled Prophet: Simon Mechlinski Council. Zelika, Priestess: Sinéad Campbell-Wallace 03:54 AM Fatima, Chief Slave in the Harem: Mairead Buicke Beatrice Groves is Research Lecturer in Renaissance Literature Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Azim, a young warrior: Gavan Ring at the University of Oxford and her books include Texts and Sonata for flute and continuo in A minor (Wq.128) Abdullah, Mokanna's Slave: John Molloy Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604 Robert Aitken (flute), Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Margaret The Caliph Mahadi: Thomas D Hopkinson Gay (cello) A Young Watchman: Dominick Felix The programme was recorded in front of an audience in BBC Radio 3's pop-up studio as part of Radio 3's Stratford residency 04:04 AM Orchestra of Wexford Opera at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) David Brophy, conductor (12) Waltzes for piano (D.969) "Valses nobles" Producer: Torquil MacLeod Arthur Schnabel (piano) Stanford wrote his romantic opera The Veiled Prophet in 1877, basing it on the 1817 poem "The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan" You can find a playlist of programmes exploring different 04:12 AM by Thomas Moore. It was first performed in Hanover in 1881, aspects of Shakespeare on the Free Thinking programme Barbara Strozzi ([1619-1677]) in German. In 1893, it was given a single performance in Italian website including interviews with the actors Antony Sher & "Begl'occhi, bel seno" Costumo de grandi for Soprano, 2 violins at Covent Garden, and it had to wait until 2019 to be heard in Janet Suzman, writers including Jo Nesbo & Mark Ravenhill and continuo its original English version at the Wexford Festival. Reviewing and detailed explorations of The Tempest and the Winter's Tale Musica Fiorita, Susanne Ryden (soprano), Daniela Dolci the performance, The Daily Telegraph noted: "The Veiled https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06406hm (director) Prophet may be a technically clumsy and naively bombastic affair in the vein of Meyerbeer, but it has heartfelt melodies 04:18 AM and youthful ambition that merit an airing." THU 22:45 The Essay (m000h09x) Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) The opera depicts the tyranny of Mokanna, the hideously 'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females Overture Domov muj Op 62 disfigured veiled prophet, and his overthrow by the young Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marian Vach (conductor) warrior Azim. The opera ends happily with Azim and his love Widows Zelika united. 04:31 AM In this essay, continuing her consideration of the single woman, Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Rachel Cooke celebrates widows. She remembers her O Sacrum Convivium (1937) THU 17:00 In Tune (m000h8c5) redoubtable Granny who lived contentedly alone for many BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Gesualdo Six years, and considers some of the most interesting widows in literature. 04:35 AM Sean Rafferty talks to Owain Park of vocal group Gesualdo Six Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-) about their new release 'Fading', which combines early vocal Psalm 150 - for SATB choir, 2 trumpets and organ music and contemporary pieces. THU 23:00 Night Tracks: The Archive Remix (m000h8ch) Matthew Larkin (organ), Robert Venables (trumpet), Elmer Music for the evening Iseler Singers, Lydia Adams (conductor), Robert Devito (trumpet) THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000h8c7) Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey conjured from the The big classical staycation mix BBC music archives. 04:38 AM Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, Cello Concerto in D minor, RV 407 including a few surprises. THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000h8ck) Charles Medlam (cello), London Baroque Elizabeth Alker with music that defies classification. 04:48 AM Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 10 of 11 Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) nearly 20 years in a downward spiral of ill-health and Montpellier, during the 2019 Montpellier Festival. Espana - rhapsody depression whose root cause was the venereal disease he had in Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor) all probability contracted in his 20s. In 1855, he and his former mistress, now wife and carer, Olympe Pélissier, returned to FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (b07z72jb) 04:55 AM Paris, so that Rossini could benefit from the attentions of an [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) expert urologist. The Rossinis settled in Passy, where they Catalunya; Sevilla, Suite Espanola No 1 established weekly musical gatherings – Samedi soirs – and Sean Shibe (guitar) Rossini started to compose again. His Péchés de vieillesse – FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000h928) Sins of Old Age – run to 14 volumes; a Rossinian byway well With Sean Rafferty 05:03 AM worth exploring. Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Music and conversation with some of the world's finest Symphony no.4 (H.1.4) in D major Il viaggio à Reims; Scene 20, ‘Signor, ecco una lettera’ musicians. Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor) Katia Ricciarelli (Madame Cortese) Lucia Valentini Terrani (Marchesa Melibea) 05:14 AM Lella Cuberli (Contessa di Folleville) FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000h92d) George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Cecilia Gasdia (Corinna) Keep that staycation feeling with a classical mix Trio Sonata in G major (HWV 399) for 2 violins, viola and Francisco Araiza (Conte di Libenskof) continuo Op 5 No 4 Samuel Ramey (Lord Sidney) In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, Musica Antiqua Koln Ruggero Raimondi (Don Profondo) including a few surprises. Chamber Orchestra of Europe 05:27 AM Claudio Abbado, conductor Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000h92j) Horn Concerto Le Comte Ory; Act 2 No 11, ‘A la faveur de cette nuit obscure’ BBC Philharmonic: Anna Clyne, Mozart and Mahler's First Martin Hackleman (horn), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario John Aler, tenor (Count Ory) Symphony Bernardi (conductor) Diana Montague, mezzo soprano (Isolier) Sumi Jo, soprano (Countess Adèle) A second chance to hear the BBC Philharmonic's Principal 05:43 AM Lyon Opera Chorus & Orchestra Guest Conductor Ben Gernon in a UK premiere, 'This Midnight Dmytro Bortniansky (1751-1825) John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Hour' by Anna Clyne, Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 and Choral Concerto No 28, "Blessed is the Man" Mahler's First Symphony Viktor Skoromny (conductor), Tasia Buchna (soprano), William Tell; Act 3 Scene 3, ‘Sois immobile’ Valentina Slezniova (contralto), Vasyl Kovalenko (tenor), Fedir Gabriel Bacquier, baritone (William Tell) From the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester Brauner (tenor), Evgen Zubko (bass), Platon Maiborada Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Presented by Tom Redmond Academic Choir Lamberto Gardelli, conductor Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour (UK premiere) 05:52 AM Soirées musicales; 2. Il rimprovero; 3. La partenza Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor (K 466) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Stella Doufexis, mezzo soprano Wellingtons Sieg or Die Schlacht bei Vittoria (Op.91) 'Battle Bruce Ford, tenor Music Interval symphony' Roger Vignoles, piano Bach: Partita No 5 in G (BWV 829) Octophoros, Paul Dombrecht (conductor) Stabat Mater (1842 version); 2. Cujus animam gementem; 3. Mahler: Symphony No 1 06:07 AM Quis est homo Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) Anna Netrebko, soprano Richard Goode (piano) Las cuatro estaciones portenas (1969) Joyce DiDonato, mezzo soprano BBC Philharmonic Musica Camerata Montreal Lawrence Brownlee, tenor Ben Gernon (conductor) Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Antonio Pappano, conductor Ben Gernon, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000h91r) Philharmonic opens this evening's concert with the UK Friday - Petroc's classical alternative Assez de memento: dansons (Péchés de vieillesse, vol 6) premiere of Anna Clyne's 'This Midnight Hour', a piece he Frederic Chiu, piano describes as having "bite and relentless energy". Richard Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Goode, great American pianist and one of today's leading featuring a complete Bach cantata in our regular 'Bach Before 7' Mi lagnerò tacendo in D (Musique anodine) interpreters of Classical and Romantic piano repertoire joins slot, as well as including listeners' requests and the Friday Cecilia Bartoli mezzo soprano the orchestra for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 (K 466), one Poem. Charles Spencer, piano of only two of his piano concertos written in a minor key with an interestingly Romantic feel as a result. The story goes that Email [email protected] Produced by Chris Barstow for BBC Wales the ink was still wet on the orchestra parts as he launched himself into the solo part at the premiere in 1785, a picture entirely plausible given the huge amount of music he was FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000h91w) FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000h920) writing at that time. We are invited into the vast world of Georgia Mann Verbier Festival (4/4) Mahler's First Symphony after the interval; a work as immediately engaging as any in his catalogue with its array of Georgia Mann with Essential Classics - the best in classical Sarah Walker presents sonatas by Schubert and Shostakovich moods, tunes and dance rhythms as well as Mahler's sheer joy music. performed by French-born violinist Marc Bouchkov and in the glory of orchestral sound. Russian pianist Dmitry Masleev. 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. The pair contrast a delightful, lyrical sonata by Schubert with FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000h92n) one of Shostakovich's darkest utterances, written late in the Ian McMillan is joined by guests including Carys Bray and 1010 Essential Symphony from the BBC archive composer's life and full of menace and tension. there's the first in a brand new series of Verb Dramas.

1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Easter Schubert Presenter: Ian McMillan pieces. Violin Sonata in A, D.574 Producer: Cecile Wright Shostakovich 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's Violin Sonata, Op.134 musical reflection. Marc Bouchkov, violin FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000h2ks) Dmitry Masleev, piano 'The Odd Woman', or celebrating five single females

FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000158z) Aunts Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000h924) Highlights from the Montpellier Festival Where have all the aunts gone? asks Rachel Cooke in her fifth An Italian in Paris essay about The Odd Woman. She remembers her own maiden Continuing Radio 3’s celebration of French orchestras: Hannah aunts, Hilda and Vera and the many aunts that populate This week, Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and French presents a concert from the 2019 Montpellier Festival - literature - from Betsey Trotwood in David Copperfield to Aunt music of Gioachino Rossini. Today, the composer’s on-off Plaisir d'amour: 150th Anniversary of Berlioz's Death. Spiker and Aunt Sponge in James and the Giant Peach. relationship with the city of Paris. Martini: Messe des morts Rumours that Rossini was planning to leave Italy for Paris Berlioz: Messe solennelle FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000h92x) started doing the rounds in 1818, after his comic opera Adriana Gonzales, soprano Loraine James’s mixtape L’Italiana in Algeri created a sensation at the Théâtre Italien Sébastien Droy, tenor there; but it wasn’t until the end of 1824 that he finally signed Mikhail Timoshenko, bass-baritone Cutting-edge producer Loraine James takes on the Late on the dotted line and relocated to the French capital. Rossini’s Le Concert Spirituel Junction mixtape, showcasing 30 minutes of radical electronics contract with the French government required him to write Hervé Niquet, conductor to rouse the spirits. James’s latest album For You And I drew on operas for both the Théâtre Italien and the Opéra, which had Concert given at the Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, Montpellier, on the sounds of London’s nightlife, fusing grime, jungle and dub been struggling commercially. His two major contributions to 17th July 2019. into a series of woozy juxtapositions. For this mixtape she the Opéra were Count Ory and William Tell, comic and throws the net wide with dark industrial club music from ‘serious’ operas respectively: the former, a glorious musical Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), fantasy Manchester, juke from LA, and Belizean punta from Chicago. salvage operation from an operatic entertainment originally after Andersen devised for the coronation of Charles X, Il viaggio a Reims; the Orchestre National de France Elsewhere Verity Sharp brings the outside world in, with a field latter, a sprawling six-hour epic that set the template for French Emmanuel Krivine, conductor recording of a 100-year-old windmill in Sweden recorded by Grand Opera and perhaps, down the line, the music dramas of Graham Dunning, a cacophonous murmuration of swallows Wagner. In 1836, Rossini left Paris for Bologna, where he spent Recorded last July at the Opéra Berlioz, Le Corum, recorded on a lawn in Ahmedabad and the sounds of people Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 11 of 11 singing from their balconies in Rome.

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