Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 1 of 20 SATURDAY 26 MAY 2012 Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] Fugue in G minor (BWV.542) 'Great' SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b01hrjy4) Guitar Trek Lukasz Borowicz conducts the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring works by the neglected 4:43 AM composer Zygmunt Stojowski. John Shea presents. Rossini, Gioachino [1792-1868] Overture to La Gazza ladra 1:01 AM Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor) Liszt, Franz [1811-1886] Les Preludes - symphonic poem after Lamartine S.97 4:54 AM Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) Anon. (14th century) Saltarello 1:18 AM Ensemble Micrologus Stojowski, Zygmunt [1870-1946] Symphonic Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra 5:01 AM Jonathan Plowright (piano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wagner, Richard [1813-1883] Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) Der Fliegende Hollander ('The Flying Dutchman') - overture Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor) 1:33 AM Paderewski, Ignacy Jan [1860-1941] 5:13 AM Nocturne in B flat major Op.16'4 for piano Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da [c.1525-1594] Jonathan Plowright (piano) Stabat Mater for 8 voices Silvia Piccollo (soprano), Teresa Nesci (soprano), Marco Beasley 1:39 AM (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass), Paolo Crivellaro (organ), Alberto Stojowski, Zygmunt [1870-1946] Rasi (viola da gamba), Theatrum Instrumentorum, Chorus of Symphony in D minor Swiss Radio, Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) 5:19 AM 2:17 AM Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827] Fantasy in C minor (K.396) Quartet for strings (Op.130) in B flat major Juho Pohjonen (piano) Vertavo String Quartet 5:28 AM 3:01 AM Britten, Benjamin [1913-1976] Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] Canadian Carnival, Op.19 Concerto for piano and orchestra no.21 (K.467) in C major Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor) Håvard Gimse (piano), Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor) 5:42 AM Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich [1865-1936] 3:28 AM Iz Petraski (Op.59 No.3) Suk, Josef [1874-1935] Peter Mattei (baritone), Stefan Lindgren (piano) Krekovice mass for chorus, strings and organ in B flat minor Marie Matejková (soprano), Ilona Satylova (alto), Jirí Vinklárek 5:45 AM (tenor), Michael Mergl (bass), Miluska Kvechová (organ), Czech Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich [1865-1936] Radio Choir, Pilzen Radio Orchestra, Stanislav Bogunia Vakkhicheskaja Pesnja (The Amber-coloured goblet - drinking (conductor) song) (Op.27 No.1) Peter Mattei (baritone), Stefan Lindgren (piano) 3:53 AM Kuula, Toivo [1883-1918] 5:48 AM Suru (Sorrow) (Op.22 No.2) for cello and piano (orig. cello and Mendelssohn, Felix [1809-1847] orchestra) Quartet for strings in D major (Op.44 No.1) Arto Noras (cello), Tapani Valsta (piano) Tankstream Quartet
4:00 AM 6:15 AM Corelli, Arcangelo [1653-1713] Poulenc, Francis [1899-1963] Sonata da Chiesa in A major (Op.1 No.3) Mass in G major London Baroque Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler (conductor)
4:07 AM 6:31 AM Humperdinck, Engelbert [1854-1921] Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] Dream Pantomime from Hansel and Gretel Sonata in D minor 'La Folia' (Op.1/12) Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor) Musica Antiqua Köln
4:17 AM 6:40 AM Thomas Tallis [c.1505-1585] Moeschinger, Albert [1897-1985] Gloria from Mass Puer natus est nobis for 7 voices Quintet on Swiss folksongs for wind (Op.53) BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Members of La Strimpellata Chamber Orchestra (Bern).
4:27 AM Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b01hz7fs) Barcarolle in F sharp major (Op.60) Saturday - Martin Handley Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano) Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. 4:36 AM Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 2 of 20 SAT 09:00 CD Review (b01hz7fz) performances by The Nash Ensemble, the Berlin Philharmonic Building a Library: Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony and Kathleen Ferrier.
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony; Recent choral releases; Disc of the SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b01hz7rq) Week: Britten: Serenade; Nocturne. Finzi: Dies Natalis. Alyn Shipton presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests, including music by Horace Silver, John McLaughlin, and Michel Petrucciani. There's also a surprising appearance by Acker Bilk, SAT 12:15 Music Feature (b010nqnl) revivalist jazz from Turk Murphy, and music from young British The Sound That Burned: The Queen's Hall 70th Anniversary artists Finn Peters and Kaz Simmons.
On May 10th 1941, during the worst night of the Blitz German incendiary bombs set fire to one of Europe's great concert halls. SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b01hz7rs) The water supply ran out and Queen's Hall, famed for its Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro acoustic, burned. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Andrew Green tells the story of the hall - its struggle for Presented by Louise Fryer financial viability, its relationship with visiting and home-grown orchestras and conductors, its design and acoustic qualities, its Ildebrando D'Arcangelo stars as Figaro, Lucas Meachem as place in concert-goers' affections - and traces the events of that Count Almaviva and Aleksandra Kurzak as Susanna in Mozart's fateful night. great comic opera. Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera. With contributions from, among others, broadcasters John Amis and Richard Baker, cultural historian Leanne Langley, When Count Almaviva takes an over-eager interest in his acoustician Rob Harris, Queens Hall 'guide' Robert Threlfall and cunning manservant's wife-to-be, he sets off an elaborate train archive of many of the last century's finest musicians. of events and finds himself thwarted many times. But after a day of madness and a night of confusion, everything ends more A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3. or less happily.
Figaro.....Ildebrando D' Arcangelo (Bass) SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b01hz82f) Susanna.....Aleksandra Kurzak (Soprano) Alfred Deller Centenary Bartolo.....Carlo Lepore (Bass) Marcellina.....Ann Murray (Mezzo-Soprano) Catherine Bott presents a programme to celebrate the Cherubino.....Anna Bonitatibus (Mezzo-Soprano) centenary of the birth of the pioneering countertenor, Alfred Count Almaviva.....Lucas Meachem (Baritone) Deller, who was born May 31st 1912. Catherine is joined in the Basilio.....Bonaventura Bottone (Tenor) studio by 3 countertenors, James Bowman, Robin Blaze and Antonio.....Jeremy White (Bass) Alfred's son Mark, to discuss some of the many facets of Don Curzio.....Harry Nicoll (Tenor) Alfred's art. They play a selection of Alfred's many recordings Barbarina.....Susana Gaspar (Soprano) dating from the 1950s, including some from the early days of Countess Almaviva.....Rachel Willis Sorensen (Soprano) Alfred's Deller Consort, one of his most important contributions Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent to the early music movement. Catherine and Mark also chat Garden about Stour Music, the Festival which Alfred founded and which conductor Antonio Pappano. celebrates its 50th anniversary this June. Music in the programme includes lute songs by Dowland and Campion, a scene from Handel's opera Orlando, and the 50 year old SAT 21:30 Between the Ears (b00xmv11) recording of father and son, Alfred and Mark, singing Purcell's The Cost of Coal Sound the Trumpet. The media's fascination with mining disasters is nothing new. In 1936 in Moose River, Canada, a mine entrance collapsed when SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01hq2z3) a tree fell over the shaft. It was assumed the men were dead. Johannes Moser, Paul Rivinius Five days later a faint tapping was heard. Canadian radio sent a journalist, J. Frank Willis, to start a live hourly broadcast from Today's live Wigmore Lunchtime Concert features the German- the head of the mineshaft, which was carried on 650 radio Canadian cellist Johannes Moser with pianist Paul Rivinius. They stations across North America. This was three quarters of a perform Britten's Rostropovich-inspired Cello Sonata, along with century ago and a turning point in radio history. one of the staples of the cello repertoire, Brahms' E minor sonata. Introduced by Catriona Young. In 2010, there were times when it was hard to remember that the situation at the San Jose copper mine in Chile, where 33 Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 men were awaiting rescue, was reality, rather than reality TV. Britten: Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 The media circus that descended on the Atacama Desert - setting up camp at the top of the mine - created an Johannes Moser (cello) atmosphere, at times, almost of a game show. Yet the mine Paul Rivinius (piano). disaster in New Zealand that followed shortly afterwards, with its tragic outcome, disappeared swiftly from the front pages and TV headlines of the world. The thought of such confinement SAT 15:00 Saturday Classics (b01hz7rn) underground is almost unthinkable, unless a splinter of light Zeb Soanes can pierce its darkness - bringing home to the audience the possibility of salvation. A personal view of classical music from a range of presenters continues with a diverse selection of music by Radio 4 The fear and exploitation of fear of being trapped underground presenter Zeb Soanes, who chooses works related to the sea. - from real life to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe - is reflected The programme includes works by Britten, Wagner, Zemlinsky, here, using sounds, media archive, the words of the mining Vivaldi, Beethoven, Elgar and Sibelius, and features poet and blogger Mark Nowak Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 3 of 20 (http://coalmountain.wordpress.com), coal miner Willie 1:26 AM McGranaghan, and Newfoundland sound man Chris Brookes. Zelenka, Jan Dismas [1679-1745] The very natural fear nascent in all of us of being buried alive, Capriccio no. 3 in F major (ZWV. 184) and the contradictions in the low-status dangerous work of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor) miner, and the treasure it produces, are powerful themes which create the most compelling horror fiction and news stories 1:41 AM alike. Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681-1767] Concerto for recorder, bassoon and strings in F major TWV Producer Sara Jane Hall. 52:F1 Isabel Lehmann (recorder) Javier Zafra (bassoon) Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor) SAT 22:00 Pre-Hear (b01hz7wl) Richard Ayres - Noncerto 1:59 AM Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel [1714-1788] British composer Richard Ayres is known for his idiosyncratic Symphony (Wq.183'1) in D major takes on some of the more hallowed conventions of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor) orchestral repertory. His series of so-called 'Noncertos' cast the soloist in unusual or unfamiliar (or uncomfortable) scenarios in 2:10 AM which the conventional relationship between the individual and Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) the crowd is subverted to tragi-comic effect. In 'No.36' a Piano Quartet in E flat major (Op.47) 'Noncerto' for horn and orchestra, the soloist is an outsider, Alexander Melnikov (piano), Leopold String Trio trying to integrate with the ensemble, whether by calling across mountain peaks (and being its own echo), standing outside the 2:37 AM gates of Heaven or narrating a series of silent-film vignettes in Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) a quasi Buster Keaton role. This solo horn here, despite its Piano Concerto in G major tumescent Straussian associations, is an uncertain hero Alwin Bär (piano), Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, ('Noncerto' is a pun on Concerto and the Italian for 'uncertain'). Bernhard Klee (conductor) This energetic performance was recorded in the City Halls, Glasgow by Saar Berger (horn) with the BBC Scottish Symphony 3:01 AM Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov. Anonymous Four Renaissance Chansons Vancouver Chamber Choir, Ray Nurse (lute, guitar, viol), Nan SAT 22:30 Hear and Now (b01hz7wn) Mackie & Patricia Unruh (viols), Magriet Tindemans Raymond Yiu, Robert Keeley, Brian Elias, Kevin Volans (viol/recorder), Liz Baker (recorder), Jon Washburn (director)
Tom Service presents contemporary chamber works recorded 3:13 AM at a recent Maida Vale Studio Concert, and in the Hear And Now Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) transcribed by Franz Liszt Fifty, choreographer Siobhan Davies nominates an iconic piece Isolde's Liebestod by Kevin Volans. François-Frédéric Guy (piano)
Raymund Yiu: Northwest Wind 3:20 AM Robert Keeley: On the Tiles Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958) Brian Elias: Geranos A London Symphony Lontano conducted by Odaline de la Martinez BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
Kevin Volans: White Man Sleeps. 4:06 AM Trad. Hungarian 17th Century Dances Csaba Nagy (tárogató), Peter Ella (harpsichord) SUNDAY 27 MAY 2012 4:13 AM SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b01hz823) Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) Roy Haynes Martedi' (TWV42:B3) - from 'Pyrmonter Kurwoche' Albrecht Rau (violin), Heinrich Rau (viola), Clemens Malich What do Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Chick (cello), Wolfgang Hochstein (harpsichord) Corea have in common? Drum legend Roy Haynes has played with them all, and is still going strong! 4:23 AM Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) Geoffrey Smith surveys the starry career of a master musician Variations in E major on a German National Air who has just celebrated his 90th birthday. Ludmil Angelov (piano)
First broadcast 27/05/2012. 4:31 AM Hannikainen, Ilmari (1892-1955) Rural Dances (Op.39a) SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b01hz825) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor) Susan Sharpe presents a programme of music by Rebel, Zelenka, Telemann and CPE Bach with Freiburg Baroque 4:46 AM Orchestra conducted by Gottfried von der Goltz. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Deh vieni, non tardar - from Le Nozze di Figaro 1:01 AM Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano - Susanna), Canadian Opera Rebel, Jean-Féry [c.1666-1747] Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor) Les Elémens - simphonie nouvelle ballet suite Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor) 4:51 AM Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 4 of 20 Polish Dances by Holst and Ibert, a memory of early music pioneer David Jerzy Godziszewski (piano) Munrow, and this week's Bach Cantata, BWV 34 O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe. 5:01 AM Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) Rondo brillante in E flat 'La gaieté for piano' (Op.62) SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b01hz82c) Niklas Sivelöv (piano) Matthew Fort
5:08 AM Michael Berkeley welcomes the food writer and critic Matthew Marais, Marin (1656-1728) Fort, who for over 20 years was the Food & Drink Editor of The La Sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont de Paris for violin, Guardian. A keen cook for most of his life, he has also written bass viol and continuo for Vanity Fair, the Observer, the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor) Telegraph and Country Living, among many other papers and journals. His books include Rhubarb and Black Pudding (1998), 5:17 AM about the traditional foods of Lancashire; Eating Up Italy: Alabiev, Alexander (1787-1851) Voyages on a Vespa (2004), and its sequel about Sicilian food, Overture in F minor Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons (2008). he has also contributed to Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mario Kosik (conductor) Nigel Slater's book and TV series Real Food, and to Rick Stein's TV series Food Heroes. 5:29 AM Clarke, Rebecca (1886-19790) Matthew is a passionate music-lover, and his choices begin with 4 songs Schubert's Marche Militaire No.1 for piano duet, the first record Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Paul Turner (piano) he owned. The virtuoso piano music of the eccentric composer Alkan is another of his enthusiasms, as is the playing of the 5:38 AM great Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti, who died so tragically Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) young. His love of the English countryside is represented by Sonata in C minor for recorder, violin and continuo (HWV.386a) Finzi's Romance for string orchestra, Op.11, while he has Musica Alta Ripa always loved opera, especially the works of Verdi, and La Traviata in particular. His final choice is a chamber sonata by 5:49 AM Rossini, who was a great gastronome as well as a fine Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) composer. Symphony No. 31 (K.297) in D major 'Paris' Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Adam Fischer (conductor) SUN 13:00 The Early Music Show (b01j6tgc) 6:06 AM The Art of the Violin in Rome and Venice Schubert, Franz (1797-1828), trans. Franz Liszt Ständchen Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert from the early Simon Trpceski (piano) music ensemble L'Estravagante exploring the Art of the Violin in Rome and Venice at the turn of the 18th Century. Featuring 6:12 AM music from Corelli and Vivaldi's collections of Violin Sonatas. Jeune, Claude le (1528-1600) Dieu, nous te loüons Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius, Christina Pluhar (lute), Michel SUN 14:00 Sunday Concert (b01hz82h) Laplénie (conductor) Ulster Orchestra - Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky
6:21 AM Recorded at Ulster Hall, Belfast Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809] Quartet for strings (Op.42) in D minor Presented by John Toal Pavel Haas Quartet The climax of the Ulster Orchestra's season celebrates three 6:34 AM Russian masterpieces. Conducted by their Principal Conductor, Gershwin, George (1898-1937) JoAnn Falletta, they open with Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful An American in Paris depiction of a Russian Easter festival. Benjamin Schmid is Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester (conductor) soloist in Tchaikovsky's exuberant Violin Concerto and the concert ends with Stravinsky's ballet score Petrouchka, which 6:53 AM tells the story of a puppet brought to life, described by the Kálmán, Emmerich Imre (1882-1953) composer as 'the immortal and unhappy hero of every Two lovely eyes fairground in all countries'. Gyõrgy Korondy (tenor), Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Tamas Brody (conductor). Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Stravinsky: Petrouchka SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b01hz827) Sunday - Martin Handley Benjamin Schmid (violin) Ulster Orchestra Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. JoAnn Falletta (conductor).
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (b01hz829) SUN 16:00 Choral Evensong (b01hrjmm) Rob Cowan Wells Cathedral
Rob Cowan's Sunday selection of music includes piece on the From Wells Cathedral during the New Music Wells Festival theme of War and Peace, among them John Adams's "The including the first performance of a new composition Wound Dresser" and Martinu's "Memorial to Lidice". Plus works commissioned for the Choirbook for the Queen, a collection of Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 5 of 20 contemporary anthems, published to celebrate the Diamond the local council about obtaining a license to build which went Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen. on for years before plans could go ahead.
Introit: Sincerity (first broadcast) (Michael Finnissy - Choirbook The new cathedral was designed to encompass its worldwide for the Queen) message of peace and consecrated 50 years ago on 25th May Responses: Gabriel Jackson 1962. Like the city itself rising phoenix-like from the ashes, it Psalms: 114, 115 (Tonus Peregrinus, South) represented new hope, pulling together the foremost British First Lesson: Deuteronomy 31 vv30-32 v14 architects, artists, sculptors, craftsmen, musicians and Office Hymn: Hail the day that sees him rise (Llanfair) performers of the day, effectively creating a cultural snapshot Canticles: The Wells Service (first broadcast) (Howard of 60s Britain. These included the architect Basil Spence, John Skempton) Hutton, Jacob Epstein, Graham Sutherland, John Piper and Second Lesson: 1 John 3 vv11-24 Elizabeth Frink, to name but a few. Anthem: Love divine (Howard Goodall) Final Hymn: O for a thousand tongues to sing (Richmond) In spite of the difficulties, the feverish excitement when the Organ Voluntary: Dance-Rondo (Philip Moore) new cathedral opened was felt throughout Coventry and the Midlands. The message of peace and reconciliation chimed in Matthew Owens (Organist and Master of the Choristers) with the mood of the 60s and there were long queues of long- Jonathan Vaughn (Assistant Organist). haired, mini-skirted visitors winding through the surrounding cobbled streets, desperate to witness for themselves such an overtly modern creation. SUN 17:00 Choir and Organ (b01hz82k) The Songmen, Diamond Jubilee Celebrations A three-week festival took place to celebrate the consecration which included drama, sport, pageantry, poetry and exhibitions. Aled Jones looks ahead to next week's English Music Festival Coventry became a cauldron of culture not seen in the UK since with top-quality close harmony in the studio from The the Festival of Britain. Songmen, and music from the Belgian group Capilla Flamenca who are mining the treasures of Renaissance Flemish The most famous musical legacy from the cathedral's polyphony. Plus a look ahead to the many choral celebrations consecration is Britten's War Requiem, now a recognised planned in celebration of the Queen's Jubilee. modern masterpiece, but other well known composers also wrote commemorative works including Arthur Bliss, Herbert Howells, William Walton and Duke Ellington. Michael Tippett's SUN 18:30 Words and Music (b01hz82m) "King Priam" was premiered the night before the War Requiem. Fighting Spirit In modern times the Cathedral has built a reputation for being With just two months to go before the start of the 2012 at the forefront of international reconciliation through its links Olympics, and inspired by the idea of what motivates athletes with other war-damaged cities and its spiritual message of to compete, an exploration of the theme of fighting spirit in its peace, with a particularly strong link to Dresden in Germany. many guises. From Aesop's famous morality tale of the hare and tortoise, Giles Fraser is a former canon of St Paul's - another cathedral through Lewis Carroll's selfish Queen domineering in a game of that burned down and was rebuilt four centuries ago. He is croquet, to Henry V's call to arms on St Crispin's Day - a range expertly placed, therefore, to discover the story of Coventry of driven characters reveal what it is that makes them tick. Cathedral and find out how relevant such a building and ministry is in today's troubled world. Contributors include the Actors Alison Steadman and Peter Egan read poetry and prose opera conductor and former Coventry Cathedral chorister Paul alongside music including Raymond Scott, Schubert, Wagner, Daniel, former Cathedral organist Robert Weddle, glass maker Irving Berlin and Queen. Patrick Reyntiens, Louise Campbell - Reader in History of Art at Warwick University, the musicologist Michael Foster who has just published a book about the War Requiem, Anthony Blee - SUN 19:45 Sunday Feature (b01hz82p) son-in-law and colleague of Sir Basil Spence, members of the Phoenix Rising: The Story of Coventry Cathedral current Cathedral clergy and members of the Frauenkirche in Dresden. Giles Fraser examines the history, ministry and artistic legacy of Coventry Cathedral as it celebrates its Golden Jubilee. Producer - Helen Garrison (former Coventry Cathedral tour guide). The Medieval Cathedral church of St Michael was destroyed during a bombing raid by the Luftwaffe during the night of November 14th 1940. It was the first time that a city had been SUN 20:30 Drama on 3 (b0151p5w) deliberately targeted and totally destroyed in this way and it The Comic Illusion brought a new word into the English language - from then on, any city that was completely flattened by a bombing raid would Ranjit Bolt's reworking of Pierre Corneille's classic comedy. An be "Coventrated". This event was to change the course of World old man seeks his estranged son with the help of a wizard. The War 2. magician shows the grieving father the boy's recent life in the form of an action-packed comedy adventure. From the moment The Rev Arthur Wales stood amongst the rubble in 1940 and formed three giant 14th Century iron nails Matamore ..... John Sessions into a cross, Coventry Cathedral became an international Alcandre ..... Richard Johnson symbol of reconciliation. Clindor ..... Michael Maloney Isabelle ..... Hattie Morahan Right from the beginning there was controversy. Plans were G�ronte ..... Benjamin Whitrow made straight away to rebuild the cathedral, but the appointed Adraste ..... Pip Torrens architect - Giles Gilbert Scott - resigned over criticism of his Lyse ..... Rosie Fellner design, and it was thrown open to competition. Many thought Pridamant ..... Paul Moriarty Basil Spence's winning design was too modern, irrelevant and Dorante ..... Simon Bubb an expensive white elephant. There was a raging battle with Jailer ..... James Lailey Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 6 of 20 Page ..... Jonathan Forbes Pastorale for cello and piano Empress, Queen ..... Victoria Inez-Hardy Lluis Claret (cello) Gerard Pastor (piano)
Original music composed and performed by Russell Taylor and 12:38 AM Steve Cooke Casals, Pablo (1876-1973) Sardana for Cello Orchestra Director: Peter Kavanagh. Barcelona Cello Orchestra
12:45 AM SUN 22:00 World Routes (b01hz88t) Casals, Pablo (1876-1973) 2012 Rêverie, for cello and piano (Première) Lluis Claret (cello) Gerard Pastor (piano) World Routes Academy - Colombian Culture in London 12:51 AM Lucy Duran explores how London's Colombian community keep Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) arr. Colin Hampton their culture alive so far from home. With a studio session by Sarabande from Suite for cello solo no. 6 (BWV.1012) in D Roberto Pla and World Routes Academy protégé José Hernando. major Barcelona Cello Orchestra A master timbale player, UK-based Roberto Pla has given a new voice to the rhythmic sounds of his native Colombia. Together 12:56 AM with his 14-piece Latin ensemble he continues to stretch the Rosetti, Antonín Franti?ek (c.1750-1792) boundaries of Colombian music by infusing it with his own mix Concerto for 2 horns and orchestra in E flat (K.3.53) of salsa, cumbia and Afro-Cuban jazz. Jozef Illés and Ján Budzák (horns), Chamber Association of Slovakian Radio, Vlastimil Horák (conductor) Launched in 2010, the BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy aims to support and inspire young UK-based world music artists 1:15 AM by bringing them together with an internationally renowned Casals, Pablo (1876-1973) artist in the same field belonging to the same tradition. This Full d'àlbum (Album Leaf), for cello and piano (Première) year the scheme explores the Colombian accordion folk Lluis Claret (cello) Gerard Pastor (piano) tradition called vallenato through the eyes of self-taught, UK based accordionist José Hernando Arias Noguera. 1:19 AM Casals, Pablo (1876-1973) orch. Enric Casals Growing up in a Colombian household, José fell in love with El cant dels ocells vallenato, the popular folk style from the Caribbean coast of Barcelona Cello Orchestra Colombia which he learned through watching internet clips and video cassettes his father brought back from Colombia. José 1:22 AM plays in a number of Latin music bands in London and dreams de Falla, Manuel (1876-1946) of becoming an ambassador for Vallenato music in Europe. The Noches en los jardines de España Colombian community constitutes the UK's second largest Latin Filip Pavlov (piano), Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Marinov American community, and on a global scale it ranks as the (conductor) world's fourth largest overseas Colombian immigrant population. The overwhelming majority of Colombians in the UK 1:46 AM live in London. This edition of the World Routes Academy gives Casals, Pablo (1876-1973) an insight into Colombian cultural life in the UK and hears from Romance, for cello and piano (Premere) a number of UK-resident Colombian movers and shakers Lluis Claret (cello) Gerard Pastor (piano) including Landa Acevedo Scott from Colombiage, a London- based organisation promoting contemporary Colombian arts in 1:53 AM the UK, and harpist Diego Laverde Rojas, who has lived in the Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] arranged Henri Barouk UK for 12 years and plays the arpa llanera - the Colombian harp Aria from Suite for orchestra no. 3 (BWV.1068) in D major named after Los Llanos, the lowland area between Colombia Barcelona Cello Orchestra and Venezuela. 1:57 AM Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) SUN 23:00 Jazz Line-Up (b01hz88w) Suite for Orchestra No.3 in D (BWV.1068) Melody Gardot, Edition Records Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor)
Julian Joseph interviews vocalist Melody Gardot and previews 2:18 AM her brand new recording for Decca Records 'The Absence'. Plus Casals, Pablo (1876-1973) a profile of the Cardiff based label Edition Records, run by Poème, for cello and piano (Première) pianist Dave Stapleton and jazz photographer Tim Dickenson , Lluis Claret (cello) Gerard Pastor (piano) whose roster includes Troyka, Marius Neset, Curios and the Kairos 4tet. 2:25 AM Casals, Pablo (1876-1973) Sant Martí del Canigó (sardana) Barcelona Cello Orchestra MONDAY 28 MAY 2012 2:31 AM MON 00:30 Through the Night (b01hz9cf) Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Susan Sharpe's selection includes a concert in tribute to Pablo Piano Sonata in A minor (Op.42) (D.845) Casals, performer and composer, including the world premieres Alfred Brendel (piano) of 2 pieces by the Catalan cellist. 3:07 AM 12:31 AM Fodor, Carolus Antonius (1768-1846) Casals, Pablo [1876-1973] Symphony No.2 in G major, Op.13 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 7 of 20 Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Halstead 5:42 AM (conductor) Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621) O Domine Jesu Christe 3:32 AM Netherlands Chamber Choir and instrumental ensemble of Kreisler, Fritz [1875-1962] three sackbutts and tenor shawm, Paul van Nevel (conductor) Recitativo and scherzo-caprice for violin solo, (Op.6) Fanny Clamagirand (violin) 5:49 AM Piccinini, Alessandro (1566-c.1638) 3:37 AM Toccata/Chiaccona - from Intavolatura di liuto, et di chitarrone, Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931) libro primo (Bologna 1623) Pan and Syrinx (Op.49) (symphonic poem) Stephen Stubbs (chitaronne) Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor) 5:54 AM Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] 3:46 AM Symphony No. 39 in E flat (K.543) Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegard (conductor) Sonata a 3 in C minor Musica Fiata, Roland Wilson (director) 6:23 AM Grieg, Edvard (Hagerup) [1843-1907] 3:53 AM Norwegian Dance No.1 (Op.35) for piano duet Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Leif Ove Andsnes and Håvard Gimse (piano). Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Op.28) BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) MON 06:30 Breakfast (b01hz9ch) 4:07 AM Monday - Ian Skelly Stadlmayr, Johann (c1575-1648) Ave Maris Stella Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Capella Nova Graz, Otto Kargl (conductor)
4:13 AM MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b01hz9ck) Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) Monday - Sarah Walker La Cathédrale engloutie - from Préludes Book 1 (1910) Philippe Cassard (piano) 9am A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: 4:19 AM Romantic Overtures - London Classical Players, Roger Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) Norrington (conductor). EMI CDC 749889-2. Andante and Rondo Ungarese in C minor (Op.35) Juhani Tapaninen (bassoon), Finnish Radio Symphony 9.30am Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Stephen Layton and his choir, Polyphony. 4:31 AM Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) 10.30am Overture in Bb major (D.470) This week marks the 50th anniversary of the consecration of Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti the new St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry, built beside the (conductor) ruins of the old Gothic cathedral, which was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing during World War II. Sarah Walker's guest 4:37 AM this week is the British architect and TV presenter Ptolemy Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Dean, who specialises in historic preservation, as well as Brandenburg Concerto no.2 (BWV.1047) in F major designing new buildings that are in keeping with their historic Alexis Kossenko (recorder), Erik Niord Larsen (oboe), Ole settings. He shares some of his essential pieces of classical Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Elise Batnes (violin), Risör Festival music. Strings, Knut Johannessen (harpsichord) 11am 4:49 AM Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphony (excerpt) Kodály, Zoltán [1882-1967] The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD To Ferenc Liszt Review Hungarian Radio & Television Choir, János Ferencsik (conductor) Presenter: Sarah Walker 4:58 AM Producer: Richard Denison. Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) Tasso: lamento e trionfo - symphonic poem after Byron (S.96) Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01hz9cm) (conductor) Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
5:19 AM Alexander's Ragtime Band Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809] Trio Sonata in E flat major (H.XV.29) Irving Berlin's 1911 hit Alexander's Ragtime Band made him the Kungsbacka Trio King of Ragtime, but Berlin would take on other crowns during the course of his life of 101 years - with triumphs on Broadway 5:36 AM and in Hollywood. Music was very much a means of survival for Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] Berlin from an early age. He had arrived aged 5 in the new Nocturne No 2, Op 27 immigrant-processing facility on Ellis Island in 1893, fleeing Ronald Brautigam (piano) with his family from the pogroms of Tsarist Russia. They lived in a crowded tenement on disreputable Cherry Street in the Lower Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 8 of 20 East Side of New York, an area which was one of the most Monday - Sean Rafferty crowded in the city and in effect a Jewish ghetto. Having to leave home at 14, Berlin, whose father had been a cantor in the As they prepare for their final concert as outgoing Artists in synagogue, found work singing, in his raspy tenor voice, Residence at London's Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Piano Trio entertaining the customers in seamy bars and saloons. In these perform live in the studio. Also performing live, London Haydn tough surroundings he quickly learned that simple, well-known Quartet ahead of their upcoming weekend residency at the tunes were the most reliable. He had no formal musical training Wigmore Hall. Plus sitar player, multi-instrumentalist and of any kind, so had great appeal as a musical "man of the founder and musical director of Inner Vision Orchestra, Baluji people", playing up to this image, and parading his musical Shrivastav plays live in the studio with tabla player Baldev ignorance. He would often say that the only reason he was in Singh and talks to presenter Sean Rafferty about the orchestra the music business was to make money. Donald Macleod made up from visually impaired musicians from all over the explores the early life and work of a composer whose career world. spanned Dvorak to the Beatles. Main news headlines are at 5:00 and 6:00 E-mail: [email protected] MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01hz9cp) Twitter: @BBCInTune. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays MON 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01hz9cm) works by two of the most influential composers for the piano, [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Liszt and Debussy. Two sides of Liszt are on display in the solemn Invocation (from the Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses) and his brilliantly virtuosic Grosses Konzertsolo, MON 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01hz9cw) while Debussy's Images show his genius for evocative piano Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall textures. Presented by Sean Rafferty. Venice Baroque - L'Olimpiade FULL PROGRAMME Liszt: Invocation from Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses (first Metastasio's L'Olimpiade - an Olympian 'best seller' set by version) sixteen composers Debussy: Images oubliées Andrew McGregor presents Metastasio's tale of friendship, Debussy: Images Book I loyalty and passion as depicted against the back drop of the Debussy: L'isle joyeuse Ancient Olympic Games. In this performance live from the Liszt: Grosses Konzertsolo Queen Elizabeth Hall, sixteen of the leading operatic composers of the eighteenth century vie with one another in their settings Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano). of the great poet's tale. Metastasio's L'Olimpiade is presented as a pasticcio with music by Caldara, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Leo, Galuppi, Perez, Hasse, MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01hz9cr) Traetta, Jommelli, Piccinni, Gassman, Myslivecek, Cherubini, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Cimarosa and Paisiello, just some of the fifty or so composers who followed Caldara's lead in 1733 with their settings of of Episode 1 Metastasio's Olympian drama. For decades L'Olimpiade was to be seen and heard in royal courts and public opera houses from Louise Fryer presents music from a recent series of concerts Naples to Moscow and from London to Warsaw. with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, celebrating the The egocentric noble son, Licida asks his more athletically artistry of Scotland's greatest living conductor Donald Runnicles inclined friend, Megacle to run a race using his name. As Licida in works by Mozart, Bruckner and Osvaldo Golijov. excitedly compares himself to a racehorse, the unquestioning young hero, Megacle readily agrees, only to find out that the Svend Brown, Director of Glasgow Music, said: "Donald prize in this race is his teenage crush, Aristea. Megacle faces a Runnicles is a rarity among conductors - a true maestro capable tremendous conflict between love and duty and, in one of the of inspiring searingly intense performances from an orchestra most famous theatrical moments of the entire eighteenth but who is also an excellent accompanist to singers. Glasgow century, he and Aristea bid one another farewell. Things are Music is delighted to be celebrating such a respected figure in complicated when parents and oracles get involved and a the international music scene with his colleagues and command is given to kill the arrogant Licida on the altar. Can audiences." anything save the mad and inconstant, Licida?
Edinburgh-born Runnicles is arguably one of the greatest Act 1: At the urgent request of his friend Licida, Megacle arrives conductors of both opera and symphonic music in the world, in Elide, where Clistene, King of Sicione, has been appointed to and became Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony host the Olympics. Orchestra in 2009. Today we have a chance to hear them in Bruckner's best-known symphony and concertante works by approx 8.25pm Osvaldo Golijov - featuring the orchestra's principal cellist Interval - Twenty Minutes: Arne's Olympic Flop Martin Storey - and Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 18, played by The only known setting of Metastasio's L'Olimpiade by an Sofya Gulyak. English composer is one by Thomas Arne - and it has disappeared. Piers Burton-Page tells the story of one of the Throughout the week you can also hear Runnicles at the piano, lesser-known catastrophes of English music with mezzo Karen Cargill singing Brahms and cellist Steven Isserlis playing Glazunov. approx. 8.45pm Act 2: Argene and Aristea are informed that Licida (i.e. Plus the BBC SSO in Debussy, Richard Strauss, Vaughan Megacle) has won the race and Aristea is summoned to the Williams and the UK premiere of Philip Glass's Sixth Symphony - arena as part of the celebrations of Glass's 75th birthday this year. approx 9.15pm Act 3: Argene restrains Aristea from following Megacle in suicide, while a fisherman saves Megacle. Licida in a fury MON 16:30 In Tune (b01hz9ct) attempts to kill the King and is condemned to die. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 9 of 20 Argene ..... Luanda Siqueira (soprano), Share. Along with Hannah McGill, Anne Karpf and Lynda Aristea ..... Ruth Rosique (soprano), Mugglestone he also discusses the use of strong swearwords in Megacle ..... Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), the film and the controversy surrounding the cuts that Loach Licida ..... Delphine Galouu (mezzo-soprano), was forced to make in order to obtain a 15 certificate for the Clistene ..... Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), film. THIS ITEM WILL CONTAIN THE STRONGEST LANGUAGE Aminta ..... Nicholas Spanos (countertenor), AND MAY OFFEND SOME LISTENERS. Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea Marcon (conductor). And science writer Marcus Chown, creative writing teacher Richard Hamblyn and translator Martin McLaughlin discuss the work and life of Italo Calvino and the way he uses science in his MON 20:25 Twenty Minutes (b01hz9cy) writing. Arne's Olympic Flop
The only known setting of Metastasio's L'Olimpiade by an MON 22:45 The Essay (b00yrjxg) English composer is one by Thomas Arne - and it has The Life Cycle of a Fictional Character - An Alternative History disappeared. Piers Burton-Page tells the story of one of the of the Novel lesser-known catastrophes of English music. The World
MON 20:45 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01hz9d0) Critic James Wood explores aspects of novelistic technique Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall through a fictional character.
L'Olimpiade - Act 3 A young man or woman walks along the street of a modern city. There are all kinds of sensations, apprehensions, and The Olympics in Opera calculations. Buildings, cars, people - the entirety of modern Andrew McGregor presents Metastasio's 'best seller' life, at speed - rush at us, and rush past us. Exactly what does L'Olimpiade, a tale of friendship, loyalty and passion as this person hear and see and feel, and how is this represented depicted against the back drop of the Ancient Olympic Games. in the modern novel? In this performance live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, sixteen of the leading operatic composers of the eighteenth century vie with one another in their settings of the great poet's tale. MON 23:00 Jazz on 3 (b01hz9d2) Metastasio's L'Olimpiade is presented as a pasticcio with music Bill Frisell at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival by Caldara, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Leo, Galuppi, Perez, Hasse, Traetta, Jommelli, Piccinini, Gassman, Myslivecek, Cherubini, Jez Nelson presents guitarist Bill Frisell and his Beautiful Cimarosa and Paisiello, just some of the fifty or so composers Dreamers Trio at the 2012 Cheltenham Jazz Festival. Founded who followed Caldara's lead in 1733 with their settings of of in 2008, the trio includes Eyvind Kang on viola and Rudy Metastasio's Olympian drama. For decades L'Olimpiade was to Royston on drums, and combines an impressionistic take on be seen and heard in royal courts and public opera houses from American folk music with a playful approach to some well- Naples to Moscow and from London to Warsaw. known tunes. Frisell's career, now spanning over 30 years, has The egocentric noble son, Licida asks his more athletically seen him work alongside the likes of Eberhard Weber, Joe inclined friend, Megacle to run a race using his name. As Licida Lovano, John Zorn, Charlie Haden, and Lee Konitz. While excitedly compares himself to a racehorse, the unquestioning incorporating a wide range of American popular and art-music young hero, Megacle readily agrees, only to find out that the styles, his work is unified by a sophisticated and distinctive prize in this race is his teenage crush, Aristea. Megacle faces a approach to sound. tremendous conflict between love and duty and, in one of the most famous theatrical moments of the entire eighteenth Presenter: Jez Nelson century, he and Aristea bid one another farewell. Things are Producer: Peggy Sutton. complicated when parents and oracles get involved and a command is given to kill the arrogant Licida on the altar. Can anything save the mad and inconstant, Licida? TUESDAY 29 MAY 2012 approx. 8.45pm Act 2: Argene and Aristea are informed that Licida (i.e. TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b01hz9z6) Megacle) has won the race and Aristea is summoned to the Susan Sharpe presents a selection of music by Haydn and arena Mozart performed by BBC New Generation Artists. approx 9.15pm Act 3: Argene restrains Aristea from following Megacle in 12:31 AM suicide, while a fisherman saves Megacle. Licida in a fury Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809] attempts to kill the King and is condemned to die. Trio for keyboard and strings (H.15.18) in A major Atos Trio Argene ..... Luanda Siqueira (soprano), Aristea ..... Ruth Rosique (soprano), 12:46 AM Megacle ..... Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] Licida ..... Delphine Galouu (mezzo-soprano), Sonata for violin and keyboard (K.303) in C major Clistene ..... Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), Tai Murray (violin), Shai Wosner (piano) Aminta ..... Nicholas Spanos (countertenor), Venice Baroque Orchestra 12:56 AM Andrea Marcon (conductor). Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] 4 Songs Malin Christensson (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano) MON 22:15 Night Waves (b01jsxql) The Angels' Share 1:06 AM Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809] Matthew Sweet watches Ken Loach's new film The Angels' Quartet for strings (Op.76, No.1) in G major Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 10 of 20 Elias Quartet 4:17 AM Solnitz, Anton Wilhelm (c.1708-c.1752-3) 1:29 AM Sinfonia (Op.3 No.4) in A major for strings and continuo Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) Musica ad Rhenum Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, B.108 (Op.53) Vilde Frang Bjærke (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, 4:31 AM William Eddins (conductor) Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) Overture - Peter Schmoll und sein Nachbarn 2:01 AM Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà Andriessen, Hendrik (1892-1981) (conductor) Miroir de Peine - song-cycle for voice and orchestra Roberta Alexander (soprano), The Netherlands Radio Chamber 4:41 AM Orchestra, David Porcelijn (conductor) Paganini, Niccolò (1782-1840) Sonata for violin and guitar No.3 in C major from Centone di 2:15 AM sonate (Op.64) Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914) Andrea Sestakova (violin), Alois Mensik (guitar) Second Song-Wreath (From my homeland) Nikola Mitic (baritone), Belgrade Radio & Television Choir, 4:46 AM Mladen Jagust (conductor) Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594) Motet - Iam Lucis orto sidere 2:19 AM Currende, Erik van Nevel (conductor) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Academic Festival Overture (Op.80) 4:49 AM Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909) (conductor) Serenade in G major, for strings (Op.2) Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra "Amadeus", Agnieszka 2:31 AM Duczmal (conductor) Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) Orpheus - ballet in three scenes 5:11 AM Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor) Groneman, Johannes (c.1710-1778) Flute Sonata in E minor 2:59 AM Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736) (harpsichord) Salve Regina in F minor Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano) Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, 5:22 AM Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) Hungarian Royal Song 3:14 AM Zoltán Kocsis and György Oravecz (piano duet) Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759] Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) 5:29 AM Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Symphony No.5 in B flat major (K.22) 3:31 AM Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Ernest Bour (conductor) Gershwin, George [1898-1937] 3 Preludes for piano 5:37 AM Nikolay Evrov (piano) Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909) 10 Songs (Op.3) (1896) 3:39 AM Jadwiga Rappé (contralto), Ewa Poblocka (piano) Halvorsen, Johan [1864-1935] Pictures from Norwegian Fairy-Tales (Op.37) 5:52 AM Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Vytautas Lukocius (conductor) Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) 2 Elegiac melodies for string orchestra (Op.34) 3:53 AM CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor) Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) arr. Stefan Bojsten Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen - from Dichterliebe (Op.48 No.10) 6:02 AM arr. for baritone, piano, violin & cello Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) Olle Persson (baritone), Dan Almgren (violin), Torleif Thedén Keyboard Sonata in C minor, Hob.XVI/20 (cello), Stefan Bojsten (piano) Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
3:57 AM 6:19 AM Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849) Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000) Waltz for piano (Op.34 No.2) in A minor 5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet Zoltán Kocsis (piano) Tae-Won Kim (flute), Hyong-Sup Kim & Pil-Kwan Sung (oboes), Hyon-Kon Kim(clarinet), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon). 4:03 AM Marais, Marin (1656-1728) Tombeau pour Monsr. de Lully TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b01hz9z8) Ricercar Consort, Henri Ledroit (conductor) Tuesday - Ian Skelly
4:11 AM Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) Mazurka - from the idyll 'Jawnuta' (1850) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b01hzb0h) (conductor) Tuesday - Sarah Walker Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 11 of 20 9am TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01j28vy) A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Romantic Overtures - London Classical Players, Roger Norrington (conductor). EMI CDC 749889-2. Episode 2
9.30am Louise Fryer presents recent concerts by the BBC Scottish A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Symphony Orchestra. Today violinist Jennifer Pike and Andrew Stephen Layton and his choir, Polyphony. Manze join the orchestra in Perth for a Vaughan Williams concert: The Lark Ascending and the Fourth and Fifth 10.30am Symphonies. Andrew Manze also conducts VW's Tallis Fantasia This week marks the 50th anniversary of the consecration of and music by George Butterworth before the orchestra's Chief the new St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry, built beside the Conductor Donald Runnicles takes over for another fantasy. ruins of the old Gothic cathedral, which was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing during World War II. Sarah Walker's guest this week is the British architect and TV presenter Ptolemy TUE 16:30 In Tune (b01j28xy) Dean, who specialises in historic preservation, as well as Gil Shaham, David Fray and Garsington Opera designing new buildings that are in keeping with their historic settings. He shares some of his essential pieces of classical Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from the music. music world - including singers Naomi O'Connell and Robert Murray, and conductor David Parry on their upcoming 11am production of Offenbach's effervescent comedy La Perichole at Sarah's Essential Choice Garsington Opera. Plus violinist Gil Shaham and pianist David Fray talk to Sean about their respective upcoming concerts with Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Bernard Haitink (conductor) Main news headlines are at 5:00 and 6:00 DECCA 433 611-2. E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @BBCInTune.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01j291g) Irving Berlin (1888-1989) TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01j291g) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Always
During the First World War Berlin was drafted into the army and TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01j2954) stationed at Camp Upton in Long Island, where he raised The English Concert - Handel, Purcell $80,000 dollars for the war effort by writing a vaudeville-style show, Yip, Yip, Yaphank. Cannily making the maximum profit Live from London's Wigmore Hall, presented by Catherine Bott. possible from his hit songs by being composer, lyricist and publisher in-one, by the early 1920s he was already very Harry Bicket and the English Concert perform a programme wealthy and took possibly the biggest risk of his career, that surveys early 18th-century London's operatic taste. The building his own theatre on Broadway, The Music Box. He suites from Purcell's tragicomic semi-opera Dioclesian and his began to socialise with the likes of Dorothy Parker, Harpo Marx more widely know masque The Fairy Queen sit alongside and HG Wells by joining the Round Table Society, and in 1924 selections from two of Handel's most jealousy infused operas - met a young woman who was to become his wife, the rebellious Ariodante and Hercules. English mezzo-soprano Alice Coote heiress Ellin Mackay. From one of the wealthiest families in joins the English Concert with whom she has a long association. America, Berlin dedicated his song 'Always' to her. Although her family disapproved of their union and was seen as a traitor to Purcell: Suite from Dioclesian her class, Berlin became embroiled in the Mackay family's Handel: Hercules (extracts) misfortune when his father-in-law incurred the biggest losses of any individual during the Wall Street Crash of 1929. After a 8.10 Music Interval period of silence after his marriage, he responded to the changed social realities of the times with two satirical musicals Purcell: Suite from the Fairy Queen in the early 1930s, Face the Music and As Thousands Cheer. Handel: Ariodante (extracts) Donald Macleod explores this tumultuous time for America and for Irving Berlin. Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) The English Concert Harry Bicket (conductor). TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01j28tv) Hay Festival 2012 TUE 22:00 Night Waves (b01j291j) Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexei Grynyuk Rana Mitter meets John Irving
In the first of a week of recitals from last year's Hay Festival at As part of the World Shakespeare Festival the Globe Theatre St Mary's Church, the brilliant young virtuoso Leonard has been presenting all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in 37 Elschenbroich performs sensuous late sonatas for 'cello and different languages. For Night Waves writers Gabriel piano by Debussy and Beethoven. Gbadamosi and Kamila Shamsie have been covering the season, and tonight they report back on the controversial Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) Hebrew Merchant of Venice, the Urdu Taming of the Shrew, and Alexei Grynyuk (piano) the Shona Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Debussy: Sonata Rana Mitter meets John Irving whose new novel 'In One Person' Beethoven: Sonata, Op.102 no.1 examines loss of innocence, loss of sexual identity and trust in Beethoven: Sonata, Op.102 no.2. his most political novel since 'The Cider House Rules'. He talks Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 12 of 20 to Rana about the relationship between the personal and the Katowice, Michal Klauza (conductor) political, and how far we can separate the character Billy Abbot from Irving himself. 1:05 AM Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) Rana talks to artist Tom Phillips about his best-known work, A Polishynel Humument. Now re-published in its fifth edition, in the 1960s Olga Kern (piano) Phillips took an obscure Victorian novel and altered all 367 pages - using a mixture of collage, ornament and other 1:08 AM techniques - to create a new book. How much does each edition Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (1844-1908) change, and why does the art begin with the text? Flight of the Bumblebee Olga Kern (piano) The Hungarian director Bela Tarr is known as an artist of 'slow cinema', or cinema of the long take - he's said to have joked 1:10 AM that for Kodak to issue film that's 11 minutes long is a form of Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975) censorship. His latest film, 'The Turin Horse', continues a series Symphony no. 11 (Op.103) in G minor "The Year 1905" of visionary, apocalyptic films, and Tarr says it will be his last National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Michael work as a director. Film historian John Cunningham and the Klauza (conductor) poet and translator George Szirtes join Rana to discuss this Leviathan of European art cinema. 2:15 AM Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) Magnificat in G minor (RV.610) for SSAT soloists, choir, string TUE 22:45 The Essay (b00yrl2n) orchestra and 2 oboes The Life Cycle of a Fictional Character - An Alternative History Unidentified soloists, Choir of Latvian Radio and the Riga of the Novel Chamber Players, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
Thought 2:31 AM Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) Critic James Wood explores aspects of novelistic technique Concerto for flute and orchestra in G major (Wq.169) through a fictional character Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor) Our hypothetical fictional character does not merely experience the fleeting sensations of urban life. He or she must think - she 2:55 AM has a past, and thus a memory; and a mind engaged in Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881) purposeful thought about the future. She has regrets and Pictures from an Exhibition, for piano hopes, exuberance and shame; she has siblings and parents, Aldo Ciccolini (piano) perhaps a spouse or lover. She may believe in God (a significant origin of the stream of consciousness is the Biblical 3:29 AM psalm). How does the novelist represent this kind of thought on Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903) the page? The novel's ability to depict such thought has Intermezzo for string quartet in E flat major (1886) "improved" over the last two hundred years, as surely as the Ljubljana String Quartet combustion engine has become more efficient -- what are the elements of this progress? 3:40 AM Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) Sonata for cello and piano in D minor TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b01j294f) Duo Krarup-Shirinyan Tuesday - Verity Sharp 3:52 AM Verity Sharp's selection tonight includes pieces from the Lazar, Milko (b.1965) Mountain Music Project that brings together musicians from Prelude (Allegro moderato) Virginia and Nepal, a rarity of electronic beauty from Amon Mojca Zlobko Vajgl (harp), Bojan Goricek (piano) Tobin, violist Garth Knox playing Dowland and Jim Moray's take on the traditional ballad of the Eighteenth of June from his new 4:01 AM album Skulk. Plus an extensive piece for nine bagpipes by Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594) America's Julia Wolfe. Pelli meae consumptis carnibus The King's Singers
4:09 AM WEDNESDAY 30 MAY 2012 Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) Overture - Beatrice and Benedict (Op.27) WED 00:30 Through the Night (b01hz9zb) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner Susan Sharpe presents the National Polish Radio SO in concert (conductor) in Katowice in works by Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov & Shostakovich. 4:18 AM Albicastro, Henricus (fl.1700-06) 12:31 AM Trio Sonata (Op.8 No.11) Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881) Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (conductor) Dawn over the Moscow River from Khovanshchina National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Michael 4:31 AM Klauza (conductor) Zagar, Peter (b. 1961) Blumenthal Dance No.2 for violin, viola, cello, clarinet and piano 12:38 AM (1999) Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) Opera Aperta Ensemble Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 4 (Op.40) in G minor; Olga Kern (piano), National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 4:39 AM Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 13 of 20 Weckmann, Matthias (1616-1674) 11am Wenn der Herr die Gefangenen zu Zion erlosen wird - Concert Sarah's Essential Choice for 4 voices, strings & continuo Soloists from Rheinische Kantorei, Musica Alta Ripa, Hermann Falla: El Amor Brujo Max (conductor) Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra 4:48 AM Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Grieg, Edvard EMI CDM769037-2. (1843-1907) Sonata for piano in C major (K.545) Julie Adam and Daniel Herscovitch (pianos) WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01j291l) Irving Berlin (1888-1989) 4:58 AM Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907] Nothing But Blue Skies from Now On 2 Norwegian Dances (Op.35, nos. 1 & 2) Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Rouslan Raychev (conductor) Donald Macleod explores Berlin's experiences in Hollywood in the mid 1930s, where he worked with Fred Astaire and Ginger 5:08 AM Rogers on films that were seen as finally mastering the art of Fesch, Willem de (1687-c.1757) musical comedy. While Top Hat and Follow the Fleet found a Concerto for violin and orchestra in C minor (Op.5 No.5) formula that was hugely successful with audiences, he would Manfred Kraemer (violin), Musica ad Rhenum also provide the music for some ambitious misfires, and ultimately found the process of working in the movies 5:18 AM frustrating. Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) Litanies à la Vierge Noire Maîtrise de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, George WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01j28tx) Prêtre (conductor) Hay Festival 2012
5:28 AM Jonathan Lemalu Barber, Samuel (1910-1981) Adagio for Strings (Op.11) Presented by Louise Fryer. Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Richard Dufallo (conductor) In a recital from St Mary's Church at the 2011 Hay Festival, featuring late and valedictory works by Debussy, Beethoven, 5:39 AM Mendelssohn and others, New Zealand-Samoan bass-baritone Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) Jonathan Lemalu gives a complete performance of perhaps the String Quartet in G minor (Op.10) most famous musical "swan song" of them all: Schubert's Yggdrasil String Quartet posthumous collection of lieder, Schwanengesang.
6:03 AM Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Mike Hampton (piano) Trio for viola, cello and piano (Op.114) in A minor Maxim Rysanov (viola), Ekaterina Apekisheva (piano), Kristina Schubert: Schwanengesang (D.957). Blaumane (cello).
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01j28w0) WED 06:30 Breakfast (b01hz9zd) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Wednesday - Ian Skelly Episode 3 Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Louise Fryer presents a BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert given just last week. Nicholas Collon, Principal WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b01j295s) Conductor of the Aurora Orchestra, conducts Richard Strauss's Wednesday - Sarah Walker epic tone-poem of decay and rebirth, Death and Transfiguration. 9am A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Then he and the BBC SSO are joined by soprano Lauren Romantic Overtures - London Classical Players, Roger Flanigan for the UK premiere of Philip Glass's Sixth Symphony, Norrington (conductor). EMI CDC 749889-2. as part of Glass's 75th birthday celebrations. His Sixth Symphony, an impassioned setting of Allen Ginsberg's protest 9.30am poem Plutonian Ode, an outcry against nuclear contamination A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, and pollution. The symphony follows an arc from outrage and Stephen Layton and his choir, Polyphony. condemnation to spiritual and personal transformation.
10.30am This week marks the 50th anniversary of the consecration of WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b01j297b) the new St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry, built beside the Manchester Cathedral ruins of the old Gothic cathedral, which was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing during World War II. Sarah Walker's guest Standby programme from Manchester Cathedral recorded on this week is the British architect and TV presenter Ptolemy Wednesday 30th June 2004 Dean, who specialises in historic preservation, as well as designing new buildings that are in keeping with their historic Introit: Alleluia, pro Virgine Maria (Maxwell Davies) settings. He shares some of his essential pieces of classical Responses: Tomkins music. Psalms: 147, 148, 150 (Woodward, Ashfield, Stanford) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 14 of 20 First Reading: Job 17 leave a similar legacy? Or is the modern world too different a Canticles: The Hereford Service (Lloyd) place and power too far away from the monarchy now for her Second Reading: John 11: 1-16 name to mean anything when discussing the era in which we Anthem: Give unto the Lord (Elgar) now live? Juliet Gardiner, Stephen Haseler, Vernon Bogdanor Hymn: Disposer supreme (Old 104th) and Julie Sanders join Philip Dodd to discuss in what sense we Hymn to St Peter (Britten) are all new Elizabethans. Organ Voluntary: Toccata (Francis Pott) From a curling bridge in Paddington to the new London route Organist and Master of the Choristers: Christopher Stokes master buses, Thomas Heatherwick has a record of bringing Sub-Organist: Jeffrey Makinson. extraordinary design to ordinary contexts. As an exhibition of his work opens at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Philip meets Heatherwick to explore how he sees his work - WED 16:30 In Tune (b01j28y0) Design? Architecture? Sculpture? Or simply making things? Wednesday - Sean Rafferty Antigone defied the rule of law in order to defend the honour of In Tune begins its approach to the weekend's Diamond Jubilee her family. Her drama is being played out on the stage of the celebrations with the inimitable and peerless King's Singers, National Theatre in a new production starring Jodie Whittaker performing live in the studio numbers from their Royal Rhymes and Christopher Ecclestone. Sophocles' tragedy was a set text and Rounds tour. for the ideological debates of the 20th century. The classicist Edith Hall and political theorist Kimberly Hutchings join Philip to And the cast of Opera Holland Park perform arias from Mozart's discuss how the play resonates today. Cosi fan tutte, in anticipation of the season opening next week.
Sean Rafferty presents. WED 22:45 The Essay (b00yrlh4) The Life Cycle of a Fictional Character - An Alternative History Main news headlines are at 5:00 and 6:00 of the Novel E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @BBCInTune. Speech
Critic James Wood explores aspects of novelistic technique WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01j291l) through a fictional character. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Our fictional character is not alone - few novels can be made out of absolute solitude. At some point, he or she will interact WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01j297d) with someone else: a stranger, a spouse, a parent. What do Coventry Cathedral 50th Anniversary writers do with dialogue?
Live from Coventry Cathedral WED 23:00 Late Junction (b01j294k) Presented by Martin Handley Wednesday - Verity Sharp
The CBSO and Andris Nelsons give an anniversary performance Music tonight from Mali's Djelemady Tounkara, the Gabrieli of Britten's War Requiem in Coventry Cathedral 50 years after Consort sing the music of John Sheppard, cellist Lars Danielsson they gave the historic premiere there with the composer. and pianist Tigran interprets an Armenian folk song and the heady and hypnotic music of the Gypsies of Rajasthan. With The piece requires two orchestras, large choir and soloists and Verity Sharp. combines a setting of the liturgical Requiem Mass with settings of poems by the First World War poet Wilfred Owen. Britten composed it for the opening of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962, which had been built to replace the one destroyed during THURSDAY 31 MAY 2012 the devastating blitz on the city in 1940. Britten's profound and moving work became an instant international success. As with THU 00:30 Through the Night (b01hz9zg) the first performance, the fiftieth anniversary performance With Susan Sharpe features a line up of soloists from different European countries. 12:31 AM Tonight's performance is broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and Bortnyansky, Dmitry [1751-1825] simultaneously across European television. Concerto for chorus No.6; Hymn of the Cherubim No.7 Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor) Britten - War Requiem 12:40 AM Erin Wall (soprano) Galuppi, Baldassarre (1706-1785) Mark Padmore (tenor) Sonata for keyboard No.1 in B flat Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone) Leo van Doeselaar (organ) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra CBSO Chorus 12:45 AM CBSO Youth Chorus Bortnyansky, Dmitry [1751-1825] Andris Nelsons (conductor) Choral concerto No.6; Choral Concerto No.28 Tasia Buchna (soprano), Valentina Slezniova (contralto), Vasyl Kovalenko (tenor), Fedir Brauner (tenor), Evgen Zubko (bass), WED 22:00 Night Waves (b01j291n) Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor) Antigone 1:01 AM Are we living in a second Elizabethan era? Elizabeth I left a Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) mark on British History that survives to this day. Will Elizabeth II 12 Variationen über den russischen Tanz Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 15 of 20 Theo Bruins (piano) Sonatina, Romance and Menuet Antra Viksne and Normunds Viksne (piano duet) 1:15 AM Berezovsky, Maxim Sosontovitch [1745-1777] 3:52 AM Choral concerto "Cast Me Not Off in the time of Old Age" Rosenmüller, Johann (c.1619-1684) Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Yulia Tkach (conductor) Beatus vir qui timet Dominum Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), David Cordier (countertenor), 1:26 AM Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Field, John (1782-1837) Carsten Lohff (organ), Cantus Köln, Konrad Junghänel Rondo in A flat for piano and strings (conductor and lute) Eckart Selheim (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Maier (director) 4:06 AM Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857) 1:34 AM Overture - from Ruslan & Lyudmila Vedel, Artemy [1767-1808] Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Arvid Engegaard (conductor) Choral concerto No.5 Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor) 4:12 AM Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936) 1:43 AM Serenade Espagnol (Op.20 No.2) Verbytsky, Mykhalo [1815-1870] Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano) Otce nas (Lord's Prayer); Choral concerto "The Angel Declared" Valentina Reshetar (soprano), Irina Horlytska (contralto), Vasyl 4:16 AM Kovalenko (tenor), Oleksandr Bojko (bass) Platon Maiborada Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor) Mazurka No.25 in B minor (Op.33 No.4) Roland Pöntinen (piano) 1:51 AM Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) 4:22 AM Overture from Béatrice et Bénédict Kunzen, Friedrich (1761-1817) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Overture to the play 'Husitterne' Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Peter Marschik (conductor) 2:00 AM Leontovych, Mykola [1877-1921] 4:31 AM Hymn to the Cherubim Walpurgis, Maria Antonia (1724-1780) Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor) Sinfonia from 'Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni' Dramma per musica 2:05 AM Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Tobias Schade (harpsichord/director) Leontovych, Mykola [1877-1921] Credo from the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom 4:38 AM Oleksandar Pushniak (bass), Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849) Lesya Shavlovska (conductor) Waltz for piano (Op.18) in E flat major 'Grande valse brillante' Zoltán Kocsis (piano) 2:09 AM Stetsenko, Volodymyr [b.1941] 4:43 AM Praise the Lord, Oh My Soul Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857) Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor) Allegro for 4 string quartets in D minor Viotta Ensemble, Viktor Liberman (conductor) 2:11 AM Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893) 4:55 AM Hamlet Overture Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Trumpet Concerto in E flat major Ole Edvard Antonsen (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, 2:31 AM Nicolae Moldoveanu (conductor) Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909 -1969) Violin Concerto No.4 5:12 AM Janusz Skramlik (violin), Polish Radio National Symphony Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) Orchestra in Katowice, Tomasz Bugaj (conductor) Légende No.1: St. François d'Assise prêchant aux oiseaux (S.175) 2:56 AM Llyr Williams (piano) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E flat major (BWV. 998) 5:23 AM Konrad Junghänel (lute) Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré 3:10 AM James Ehnes (violin), Wendy Chen (piano) Méhul, Etienne-Nicolas (1763-1817) Symphony No.1 in G minor 5:27 AM Cappella Coloniensis, Bruno Weil (director) Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899) Poeme de l'amour et de la mer (Op.19) 3:38 AM Maria Oran (soprano), Residentie Orchestra, The Hague, Hans Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903) Vonk (conductor) Italian serenade for string quartet Bartók Quartet 5:54 AM Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914) 3:45 AM Fifth Song-Wreath (From my homeland) Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) Irina Arsikin (soprano), Karolj Kolar (tenor), Belgrade Radio & Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 16 of 20 Television Choir, Mladen Jagust (conductor) Igor Levit
6:05 AM This concert from St Mary's Church at the 2011 Hay Festival Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) features the young German pianist Igor Levit giving a complete Songs Without Words (Op.6) performance of Beethoven's last major work for piano, the Sylviane Deferne (piano) composer's monumental Diabelli Variations, Op.120.
6:15 AM Igor Levit (piano) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Concerto in A major (BWV.1055) (Allegro; Larghetto; Allegro ma Beethoven: Diabelli Variations. non tanto) Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe d'amore), Camerata Köln. THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01j28w2) Thursday Opera Matinee THU 06:30 Breakfast (b01hz9zj) Thursday - Louise Fryer Handel - Teseo
Louise Fryer presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Jonathan Swain presents Thursday Opera Matinee. Handel's Teseo is a story about the fate of the ancient Greek hero Theseus, who has returned in disguise to the city of Athens, THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b01j295v) ruled by his capricious father Aegeus. Both men are in love - or Thursday - Sarah Walker lust - with the same woman, Agilea. And so the drama unfolds, as Aegeus tries to break his earlier promise to marry the 9am sorceress Medea... A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Romantic Overtures - London Classical Players, Roger Nicholas McGegan conducts a stellar cast at the Gottingen Norrington (conductor). EMI CDC 749889-2. International Handel Festival 2011.
9.30am After the first three acts of the opera today (you can hear Acts A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, 4 & 5 tomorrow) there's more from the BBC Scottish Symphony Stephen Layton and his choir, Polyphony. Orchestra: songs by Debussy orchestrated by John Adams.
10.30am Handel: Teseo, Acts 1-3 This week marks the 50th anniversary of the consecration of Teseo ..... Susanne Ryden (soprano) the new St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry, built beside the Agilea ..... Amy Freston (soprano) ruins of the old Gothic cathedral, which was destroyed by Medea ..... Dominique Labelle (soprano) Luftwaffe bombing during World War II. Sarah Walker's guest Clizia ..... Celine Ricci (soprano) this week is the British architect and TV presenter Ptolemy Egeo ..... Robin Blaze (altus) Dean, who specialises in historic preservation, as well as Minerva ..... Johanna Ness (soprano) designing new buildings that are in keeping with their historic Egeo ..... Drew Minter (countertenor) settings. He shares some of his essential pieces of classical New York Baroque Dance Company music. Gottingen Festival Orchestra Nicholas McGegan (conductor). 11am Sarah's Essential Choice Debussy (arr. Adams): Le Livre de Baudelaire Ruby Hughes (soprano) Schoenberg BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4 Andrew Gourlay (conductor). LaSalle Quartet DG 423 250-2. THU 16:30 In Tune (b01j28y2) Thursday - Sean Rafferty THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01j291q) Irving Berlin (1888-1989) As the Diamond Jubilee weekend approaches, In Tune looks forward to the celebrations with live performance from guests God Bless America soprano Mhairi Lawson and lutenist Paula Chateauneuf, music for British monarchs from the courts of Elizabeth I, James VI and In the run up to the Second World War Berlin once again judged I, Charles I, Charles II, and William and Mary, and compositions the mood of the American people perfectly by writing the by Dowland, Lawes and Purcell. patriotic song God Bless America, and similarly, once the war And, in lively contrast, the David Rees-Williams Trio entertain had begun, the songs he wrote for the film Holiday Inn affirmed us live in the studio with their unique classical-jazz hybrid the values of hearth, home and country. These included White ahead of David's new solo album, Full English. Christmas, which Berlin considered the best song he ever Plus conductor Ben Palmer visits the In Tune studio to discuss wrote, and it was particularly popular with soldiers posted his upcoming world premiere concert performance of Elgar's overseas. During the war Berlin led his own military troupe King Arthur (complete incidental music) with the Orchestra of St around the world with a revue, This is the Army, which 2.5 Paul's at the English Music Festival. million soldiers saw between its Broadway debut in 1942 and the Hawaiian finale in 1945. Donald Macleod looks at Berlin's Presented by Sean Rafferty. role as national minstrel during the 1940s. Main news headlines are at 5:00 and 6:00 E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @BBCInTune. THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01j28v1) Hay Festival 2012 THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01j291q) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 17 of 20 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Critic James Wood explores aspects of novelistic technique through a fictional character.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01j29c4) Is our fictional character a coherent self? Up till now, we have Philharmonia - Janacek, Dvorak, Mozart assumed so. But why? The thrust of twentieth-century philosophy and cultural theory, not to mention the latest Live from The Royal Festival Hall. findings of neuro-biology, all work to suggest, instead, the incoherence of the self, the self's relative lack of autonomy. Presented by Martin Handley
The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, THU 23:00 Late Junction (b01j294m) perfrom Dvorák's Symphony No 7, Janácek's Sinfonietta, and Late Junction Sessions are joined by pianist David Fray in Mozart's Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat, K.482. Carlos Ivan Medina, Wilson Cifuentes
Janácek's Sinfonietta and Dvorák's Symphony No.7 are both Tonight, classic Congolese rumba from Kékélé, a dramatic pieces suffused with musical references to the Czech nation. electroacoustic piece called Vinylika by Mexico's Rogelio Sosa, Janácek was inspired to write his Sinfonietta, scored for 14 the Breton group Soïg Sibéril and a take on Greensleeves from trumpets, after listening to brass bands performing in his native pianist Bugge Wesseltoft. Plus a session specially recorded last Czechoslovakia. Dvorák explained his motivation for writing his month in Bogotá with Colombian musicians Carlos Ivan Medina seventh symphony in equally patriotic terms: 'What is in my (keyboard) and Wilson Cifuentes (flutes and saxophone). With mind is Love, God, and my Fatherland'. Verity Sharp.
Janácek: Sinfonietta
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat, K.482 FRIDAY 01 JUNE 2012
8.30 pm - Music Interval FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b01hz9zl) Susan Sharpe presents a concert by the Stavanger Symphony Dvorák: Symphony No.7 Orchestra featuring Schumann's First Symphony and Beethoven's mighty "Emperor" Concerto. David Fray (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra 12:31 AM Edward Gardner (conductor). Schumann, Robert [1810-1856] Symphony No.1 in B flat major (Op.38) 'Spring' Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Steven Sloane (conductor) THU 22:00 Night Waves (b01j291s) Prometheus; Consumption; Antony Beevor; Serpentine Pavilion 1:02 AM Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827] Acclaimed director Ridley Scott returns to the big screen this Concerto for piano and orchestra no.5 (Op.73) in E flat major, week with his new film Prometheus. The film tells the story of a 'Emperor' group of explorers who discover a clue to the origin of mankind Makoto Ueno (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Steven and it was rumoured to be a prequel to Scott's cult classic, Sloane (conductor) Alien. Writer Toby Litt gives Anne McElvoy his verdict. 1:42 AM Consumer society is often blamed for all kinds of ills, from the Czerny, Carl (1791-1857) riots last summer, climate change to the current financial crisis, Brilliant polonaise for piano six hands (Op.296) but is consumption itself as individualistic and hedonistic as it is Kestutis Grybauskas, Vilma Rindzeviciute, Irina Venkus (pianos) made out to be? In a new book "Consumption and its consequences", anthropologist Daniel Miller argues that 1:55 AM consumption is actually central to social relationship and that Schubert, Franz [1797-1828] advocating curbing it is the wrong place to start. LSE sociologist Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello & db (D.667) in A major Don Slater joins the discussion. "Trout" Aronowitz Ensemble The award-winning military historian Antony Beevor talks to Anne McElvoy about his new history of the Second World War. 2:31 AM He explains why he feels the conflict must be treated as an Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594) amalgamation of conflicts, why there is a renewed fascination Sicut cervus - motet for 4 voices with the war today, and why it is so critical for Europe - Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), especially now - to remember the lessons that were learned Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Diego Fasolis (conductor) between 1939-1945. 2:35 AM And Anne McElvoy visits the Serpentine Gallery in London and Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594) talks to the architects responsible for the Beijing National Gloriosi principes terrae for 4 voices (1581) Stadium about their first UK collaboration with Chinese artist Ai Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar, Ensemble Giles Binchois, Weiwei - this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Ensemble Cantus Figuratus der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Dominique Vellard (director)
THU 22:45 The Essay (b00yrltj) 2:39 AM The Life Cycle of a Fictional Character - An Alternative History Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594) of the Novel Ad te levavi oculos meos - motet for 4 voices Silvia Piccollo (soprano), Annemieke Cantor (alto), Marco The Self Beasley (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass), Paolo Crivellaro (organ), Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 18 of 20 Diego Fasolis (conductor) Pierrette fatyla Central Woodwind Orchestra of the Hungarian Army, Frigyes 2:43 AM Hidas (conductor) Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594) Fundamenta ejus - motet for 4 voices 4:56 AM Chorus of Swiss Radio (Lugano), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Diego Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] Fasolis (conductor) 24 Preludes for piano (Op.28) Cédric Tiberghien (piano) 2:49 AM Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713) 5:35 AM Sonata da Chiesa in C minor (Op.1 No.8) Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782) London Baroque Quintet in D major (Op.11 No.6) for flute, 2 violins, cello and harpsichord 2:56 AM Musica Petropolitana Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Two excerpts from Idomeneo, rè di Creta 5:52 AM BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor) Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868) Overture - from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) 3:15 AM Polish Radio Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Tragic Overture (Op.81) 6:00 AM Sinfonia Varsovia, Tomasz Bugaj (conductor) Turina, Joaquín (1882-1949) Danzas Fantasticas (Op.22) 3:28 AM The West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Jorge Mester Salmenhaara, Erkki (1941-March 2002) (conductor) Adagietto for Orchestra (1981) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ralf Sjöblom (conductor) 6:16 AM Granados, Enrique (1867-1916) 3:35 AM La Maja y el Ruiseñor - from Goyescas Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Marilyn Richardson (soprano), Queensland Symphony Motet: 'Komm, Jesu, komm!' (BWV.229) Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski (conductor) Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor) 6:23 AM 3:44 AM Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672) Schumann, Robert [1810-1856] O primavera, gioventù de l'anno Marchenbilder for viola and piano (Op.113) Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel (lute and director). Maxim Rysanov (viola), Evgeny Samoyloff (piano)
4:01 AM FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b01hz9zn) Anon (Italian c.1400) Friday - Louise Fryer Istampitta 'Belicha' Ensemble Unicorn, Michael Posch (recorder & conductor) Louise Fryer presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
4:08 AM Dufay, Guillaume (c.1400-1474) FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b01j295x) Rondeau 'Donnés l'assault' - from the 'Mellon-Chansonnier' at Friday - Sarah Walker Yale University Library, New Haven Bernhard Landauer (countertenor), Ensemble Unicorn, Michael 9am Posch (recorder & conductor) A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Romantic Overtures - London Classical Players, Roger 4:12 AM Norrington (conductor). EMI CDC 749889-2. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Rondo in D (K.485) 9.30am Jean Muller (piano) A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Stephen Layton and his choir, Polyphony. 4:19 AM Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707) 10.30am Jubilate Domino, omnis terra for alto, viola da gamba and This week marks the 50th anniversary of the consecration of continuo (BuxWV.64) the new St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry, built beside the Zoltán Gavodi (countertenor), The Sonora Hungarica Consort ruins of the old Gothic cathedral, which was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing during World War II. Sarah Walker's guest 4:31 AM this week is the British architect and TV presenter Ptolemy Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725) Dean, who specialises in historic preservation, as well as Toccata in F major designing new buildings that are in keeping with their historic Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord) settings. He shares some of his essential pieces of classical music. 4:37 AM Liszt, Franz (1811-1886), trans. Dohnányi, Ernst von 11am Fantasia and Fugue on B.A.C.H Sarah's Essential Choice Ernst von Dohnányi (piano) Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) 4:49 AM Berlin Philharmonic Dohnányi, Ernõ (1877-1960) Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) keringo (The Wedding Waltz) from the incidental music to SONY CLASSICAL MK42662. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 19 of 20 FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b01j291v) FRI 16:30 In Tune (b01j28y4) Irving Berlin (1888-1989) Friday - Sean Rafferty
The Song Is Ended Sean Rafferty presents a special Diamond Jubilee-themed edition, with guests and live music looking forward to the Donald Macleod looks at Berlin's final years and projects, weekend's royal celebrations. including his last Broadway musical Mr President, and an intended swansong to the cinema, Say it with Music. After Main news headlines are at 5:00 and 6:00 several attempts at one last big hit show, he became a recluse E-mail: [email protected] as he entered the final phase of his life, fighting off any attempt Twitter: @BBCInTune. to document his life or examine his music, and becoming a prisoner of himself. FRI 18:30 Composer of the Week (b01j291v) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01j28v3) Hay Festival 2012 FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01j29d3) Elias Quartet, Xuefei Yang Live from Dorchester Abbey
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Elias String Quartet Parry, Curtis, Vaughan Williams, Ireland were joined by Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang at St Mary's Church at last year's Hay Festival, for the fireworks of Live from Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-On-Thames Boccherini's "Fandango" Guitar Quintet. The recital also features Mendelssohn's last composition, his String Quartet in F Presented by Catherine Bott Minor, Op. 80 and a solo guitar work by JS Bach. The opening concert from this year's English Music Festival in Xuefei Yang (guitar) Dorchester-on-Thames. The BBC Concert Orchestra are joined Elias Quartet by pianist Mark Bebbington in John Ireland's Legend and the first performance of an early work by Vaughan Williams, his Mendelssohn: String Quartet no.6 in F Minor, Op. 80 Piano Fantasia. The concert ends with another premiere: JS Bach, arranged by Yang: Sonata for solo violin, BWV1001 conductor Martin Yates's completion of Moeran's Second Boccherini: Guitar Quintet no.4 in D "Fandango" Symphony.
Presenter Jonathan Swain. Parry: Jerusalem Curtis: Festival Overture Vaughan Williams: Piano Fantasia (World Premiere) FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b01j28w4) Ireland: Legend BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Mark Bebbington (piano) Episode 4 BBC Concert Orchestra Martin Yates (conductor). Louise Fryer introduces the final acts of Handel's opera, Teseo, performed at the Gottingen International Handel Festival 2011. FRI 20:20 Discovering Music (b01j29dp) Plus this week's focus on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Moeran's Symphony No 2 concludes with two twentieth-century German composers. Andrew Gourlay conducts Kurt Weill's Second Symphony - the Towards the end of his life, Ernest John Moeran was working on music he was writing when he was forced to flee the country his second Symphony, inspired by the mountains of Kerry. On when Hitler took over in 1933. And the BBC SSO's Artist-in- the 1st of December 1950, during an overcast and stormy day, Association Matthias Pintscher conducts a performance of Moeran was spotted walking towards the end of the pier at Schoenberg's Erwartung, with the dramatic monologue role of a Kenmare in County Kerry. As he made to return, Moeran fell, despairing lover searching for her beloved taken by soprano possibly from a brain haemorrhage, and he never got to Jeanne-Michelle Charbonnet. complete this work. Conductor Martin Yates has now realised and completed this second Symphony, and joins Stephen Handel: Teseo, Acts 4-5 Johnson to discuss Moeran's last major orchestral project. Teseo ..... Susanne Ryden (soprano) Agilea ..... Amy Freston (soprano) Medea ..... Dominique Labelle (soprano) FRI 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b01j29dr) Clizia ..... Celine Ricci (soprano) Live from Dorchester Abbey Egeo ..... Robin Blaze (altus) Minerva ..... Johanna Ness (soprano) Delius, Moeran Egeo ..... Drew Minter (counter-tenor) New York Baroque Dance Company Live from Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-On-Thames Gottingen Festival Orchestra Nicholas McGegan (conductor). Presented by Catherine Bott
Weill: Symphony no. 2 The opening concert from this year's English Music Festival in BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Dorchester-on-Thames. The BBC Concert Orchestra are joined Andrew Gourlay (conductor) by pianist Mark Bebbington in John Ireland's Legend and the first performance of an early work by Vaughan Williams, his Schoenberg: Erwartung Piano Fantasia. The concert ends with another premiere: Jeanne-Michelle Charbonnet (soprano) conductor Martin Yates's completion of Moeran's Second BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Symphony. Matthias Pintscher (conductor). Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 26 May – 1 June 2012 Page 20 of 20 Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away Moeran comp.Yates: Symphony no.2 (World Premiere)
Mark Bebbington (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra Martin Yates (conductor).
FRI 22:00 The Verb (b01j29f8) Jackie Kay, Jean Sprackland, Jane Feaver, Tom McRae
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's Cabaret of the Word'. His guests include Jackie Kay whose play 'Manchester Lines' opens on June 12th and is set in a lost property office, Jane Feaver, whose new novel 'An Inventory of Heaven' is a 'meditation on the things we try to hold on to across our lives', the poet Jean Sprackland, who's turned to non-fiction with 'Strands' to record a year of discoveries on the beaches between Ainsdale and Liverpool, and acclaimed singer-songwriter Tom McRae.
Producer: Faith Lawrence.
FRI 22:45 The Essay (b00yrlwn) The Life Cycle of a Fictional Character - An Alternative History of the Novel
Death
Critic James Wood explores aspects of novelistic technique through a fictional character.
We have talked a lot about life, and its crucial nutrients - thought, talk, sensation, knowing others, our sense of self. How does the novel deal with the end of life, and the absence of all this?
Presenter James Wood was the tyro lead fiction reviewer on the Guardian for several years. He now is a professor at Harvard.
FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b01j29fb) Lopa Kothari
Lopa Kothari presents the latest releases from around the globe plus a specially recorded studio session by the Cypriot contemporary rembetika group Trio Tekke.
Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/
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