Radio 3 Listings for 16 – 22 December 2017 Page 1 of 10

SATURDAY 16 DECEMBER 2017 5:13 AM Schubert's last sonata, perhaps his greatest achievement in the Schubert, Franz (1797­1828) form, has a feeling of tranquility and ease ­ the ease of a SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b09hqkn5) Overture to the opera "Des Teufels Lustschloss" (The Devil's composer who is relaxed in his ability to express his ideas and Jonathan Swain presents a concert of chamber music by Schubert, Pleasure Palace ) emotions. This sonata was to be Schubert's last, and the flow and Shostakovich and Dvorak Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, majesty of the first movement spring from the hymn­like breadth Jonathan Swain presents a concert of chamber music by Schubert, Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor) of the opening theme. Shostakovich and Dvorak from the Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen 5:23 AM 10.35am Critics’ Choice Part 2 Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660­1725) Andrew McGregor and his three guests Natasha Loges, Elin 1:01 AM Toccata per cembalo Manahan Thomas and Andrew Mellor continue to share and Schubert, Franz (1797­1828) Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord, Franciscus Debbonis, Roma discuss the merits of their favourite discs of 2017. Allegro in A minor, D 947, (Lebenssturme) for piano duet 1678) Wu Han (piano), Alessio Bax (piano) LAST LEAF 5:31 AM TRAD. ARR. DANISH STRING QUARTET: Despair Not, O 1:17 AM Urbaitis, Mindaugas (b.1952) Heart; Polska from Dorotea; Minuet No.60; Æ Rømeser; Drømte Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906­1975) Lacrimosa mig en drøm; Stædelil; Unst Boat Song; Hur var du i aftes så Quintet in G minor, Op 57, for piano and strings Polifonija, Sigitas Vaiciulionis (conductor) sildig; The Dromer; Now Found Is The Fairest Of Roses Alessio Bax (piano), Danish String Quartet FREDRIK SJØLIN: Shore; Intermezzo; Naja’s Waltz 5:36 AM GJERMUND HAUGEN: Tjønneblomen 1:51 AM Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756­1791) RUNE TONSGAARD SORENSEN: Shine You No More Dvorak, Antonin (1841­1904) Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 EVA SÆHTER: Fastän Quartet No 2 in E flat major, Op 87, for piano and strings Risør Festival Strings Danish String Quartet Ben Beilman (violin), Yura Lee (viola), Jakob Koranyi (cello), ECM 4815746 (CD) Wu Han (piano) 5:44 AM Liszt, Franz (1811­1886), Lhevinne, Josef (transcriber) PERCY GRAINGER: FOLK MUSIC 2:27 AM Reminiscences on Meyerbeer's "Robert le diable" PERCY GRAINGER: Bold William Taylor; Six Dukes Went Ravel, Maurice (1875­1937) Josef Lhevinne (piano) Afishin’; Knight and Shepherd’s Daughter; Lord Maxwell’s 3 Chansons for unaccompanied chorus (Nicolette; Trois beaux Goodnight; My Robin Is to the Greenwood Gone; The Pretty 5:56 AM oiseaux du paradis; Ronde) Maid Milkin’ Her Cow; The Sprig of Thyme; The Sussex Moyzes, Alexander (1906­1984) BBC Singers: Alison Smart (soprano), Judith Harris (mezzo Mummers’ Christmas Carol; The Twa Corbies; Irish Tune from Symphony No 6, Op 44 soprano), Daniel Auchinloss (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth County Derry; Died for Love; The Power of Love; Walking Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava, Ladislav Slovak (baritone), Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Tune; Willow Willow; Early One Morning; One More Day. My (conductor) John; Hard Hearted Barb’ra (H)Ellen; Country Gardens AM 2:34 Claire Booth (soprano); Christopher Glynn (piano) 6:26 AM Dutilleux, Henri (1916­2013) Avie AV2372 (CD) L'arbre des songes ­ concerto for violin and orchestra Debussy, Claude (1862­1918) String Quartet in G minor, Op 10 Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Rotterdam Philharmonic, Valery FRANCO FACCIO: HAMLET RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet Gergiev (conductor) Pavel Černoch (Amleto); Claudio Sgura (Claudio); Eduard Tsanga (Polonio); Sébastien Soulès (Orazio); Bartosz 3:01 AM 6:53 AM Urbanowicz (Marcello); Paul Schweinester (Laerte); Iulia Maria Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770­1827) Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873­1943) Dan (Ofelia); Dshamilja Kaiser (Gertrude); Gianluca Buratto Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op 60 Romance and Waltz (The Ghost/A Priest); Jonathan Winell (King Gonzaga/A Herald); Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor) Members of The Dutch Pianists' Quartet. Sabine Winter (The Queen); Yasushi Hirano (Luciano/First 3:35 AM Gravedigger); Hans­Jorg Ulm (Second Gravedigger); Wiener Larsson, Lars­Erik (1908­1986) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b09jbwhg) Symphoniker; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Paolo Carignani Croquiser, Op 38, for piano Saturday ­ Martin Handley (conductor); Olivier Tambosi (director) Marten Landström (piano) C Major 740704 (BluRay) or 470608 (2 DVDs) Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This 3:48 AM month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of SCHUBERT: PIANO SONATAS D959 AND D960 Vivaldi, Antonio (1678­1741) Bach's Well­Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.16 in G minor, FRANZ SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D959; Flute Concerto in D major, RV428 (Op 10 No 3), 'Il gardellino' BWV.885. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960 Karl Kaiser (flute), Camerata Köln Advent Calendar. Krystian Zimerman (piano) DG 4797588 (CD) 4:00 AM Email [email protected]. Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770­1827) MUSIC FOR THE 100 YEARS’ WAR Rondo in C major, Op 51 No 1 JOHANNES ALANUS: Sub Arturo plebs; Fons citharizancium; SAT 09:00 Record Review (b09jbwhj) Andreas Staier (fortepiano) In omnem terram Andrew McGregor with Natasha Loges, Elin Manahan Thomas & FOREST: Ascendit Christus super celos; Alma redemptoris 4:06 AM Andrew Mellor mater; Gaude martyr; Collaudemus venerantes; Celestium Rore, Cipriano de (c.1515­1565) contemplator Da le belle contrade d'oriente (From the fair regions of the East, 9.00am Critics’ Choice JOHN DUNSTAPLE: Preco preheminencie; Precursor Venus, clear and untroubled, shone...) ­ madrigal for 5 voices Andrew McGregor is joined in the studio by Natasha Loges, Elin premittitur; Inter natos mulierum; Veni Sancte Spiritus; Veni The Consort of Musicke: Anthony Rooley (director): Emma Manahan Thomas and Andrew Mellor to discuss which new creator Spiritus Kirkby (soprano), Mary Nichols (alto), Andrew King (tenor), releases they have most enjoyed this year. They champion music ANON: Ianuam quam clauserat; Iacintus in saltibus; Ianut Paul Agnew (tenor), Alan Ewing (bass) ranging from the early 15th century to the early 21st in granum; Opem nobis, Thoma; Salve Thoma; Pastor cesus; De performances by Krystian Zimerman, the Finnish Radio flore martyrum; Deus tuorum militum; Ave rex gentis Anglorum; 4:10 AM Symphony Orchestra, the Danish String Quartet and singers The Agincourt Carol; Kyrie ... Domine miserere – Ab inimicis Ansell, John (1874­1948) Iestyn Davies and Claire Booth. nostris Nautical Overture LEONEL POWER: Gloria ‘Ad Thome memoriam’; Credo West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SINFONIA ANTARTICA, FOUR ‘Opem nobin, o Thoma’ (conductor) LAST SONGS & CONCERTO FOR TWO PIANOS & CHANT: Pastor cesus in gregis medio; Ecce mitto angelum ORCHESTRA The Binchois Consort; Andrew Kirkman (director) 4:19 AM RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Sinfonia Antartica Hyperion CDA68170 (CD) Liszt, Franz (1811­1886) ORCH. ANTHONY PAYNE: Four Last Songs Mephisto waltz No 1, S 514 ARR. JOSEPH COOPER: Concerto SIBELIUS: TAPIOLA, EN SAGA & 8 SONGS Khatia Buniatishvili (piano) Mari Eriksmoen (soprano); Roderick Williams (baritone); Hélène JEAN SIBELIUS: Tapiola, Op.112; En Saga, Op.9; Mercier (piano); Louis Lortie (piano); Bergen Philharmonic ORCH. AULIS SALLINEN: Eight Songs 4:29 AM Choir; Edvard Grieg Kor; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo­soprano); Finnish Radio Symphony Kilar, Wojciech (b.1932) Andrew Davis (conductor) Orchestra; Hannu Lintu (conductor) Orawa for string orchestra (1988) Chandos CHSA 5186 (Hybrid SACD) Ondine ODE 1289­5 (Hybrid SACD) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor) DVOŘÁK: QUINTETS OP.81 & 97 4:38 AM ANTONĺN DVOŘÁK: Piano Quintet No.2 in A major, Op.81; SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b09jbwhl) Hellendaal, Pieter (1721­1799) String Quintet in E flat major, Op.97 Craft and Traditions Concerto grosso in G minor, Op 3 No 1, for strings and continuo Pavel Haas Quartet; Boris Giltburg (piano); Pavel Nikl (viola) Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Bohdan Warchal (leader) Supraphon SU­4195­2 (CD) Presented by Sara Mohr­Pietsch

4:50 AM J.S. BACH: CANTATAS 54, 82 & 170 Sara investigates the state of early music instrument building in Mendelssohn, Felix (1809­1847) JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte the UK, amid concerns from some of today's makers about a 4 songs from Im Grünen (Op 59): No 1 Im Grünen; No 4 Die Seelenlust BWV170; Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht! BWV52; missing generation of traditional craftspeople. With harpsichord Nachtigall; No 5 Ruhetal; No 6 Jagdlied Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV54; Ich liebe den Höchsten von builder Andrew Wooderson, maker of viols Shem Mackey, and BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) ganzen Gemüte BWV174; Ich habe genug BWV82 Richard Earle, a player and maker of baroque oboes. Iestyn Davies (countertenor); Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen 5:01 AM (conductor) Introducing a new series on Music Matters exploring dialects and Chopin, Fryderyk (1810­1849) Hyperion CDA68111 (CD) languages around the British Isles and how they influence music­ Grand Duo in E major on Themes from Meyerbeer's 'Robert le making, Sara talks to the English folklore expert Steve Roud, and Diable' 9.30am finds out about songs in the Scots language from singer Steve Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Building a Library ­ live. David Owen Norris joins Andrew to Byrne. explore recordings of Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat D960. The composer and vocalist Jennifer Walshe muses on the delights Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 16 – 22 December 2017 Page 2 of 10 and horrors of Christmas musical kitsch. Album Claytonia Romitelli: La Sabbia del tempo Label BCLB Explore Ensemble And Sara visits the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery for a Number 001 Track 3 new exhibition, From Ear to Ear to Eye, which uses sound, music Duration 6.10 Klaus Lang: Tehran dust; Improvisations and listening to reflect on stories across the Arab world. Two of Performers Menno Daams, Ian Smith, t; Matthias Seuffert, Alan Polwechsel & Klaus Lang (organ). the featured artists, Jumana Manna and Haig Aivazian, introduce Barnes, reeds; Adrian Fry, tb; Martin Litton, p; Martin Wheatley, their work and share their passion for exploring oriental musical g; Alyn Shipton, b; Norman Emberson, d. 2011 cultures. Artist Lambert Hendricks and Ross SUNDAY 17 DECEMBER 2017 Title Cloudburst SAT 13:00 Saturday Classics (b09jbwhn) Composer Kirkland, Harris SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b09jc2g5) Richard Egarr Album Sing a Song for Basie Christmas 2017 Label Verve Richard Egarr, keyboardist, conductor and Early Music expert, Number 5438272­NA introduces some of the music that has inspired him, including Duration Geoffrey Smith provides a party­time mix of stars from the past legendary maestros (Bernstein conducting Mahler, Kleiber 2.42 Performers Lambert Hendricks and Ross year and yuletide treats for the present, from Ella Fitzgerald and conducting Wagner), early music played by Musica Antiqua Köln Dizzy Gillespie to Lionel Hampton and Fats Domino. and Early Music Consort of London, Chopin played by Raoul Koczalski and ... a song from Cliff Richard's early days. Artist Thelonious Monk Title Stuffy Turkey SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b09jc2g7) Composer Monk John Shea presents archive performances from Swedish Radio of Album It’s Monk’s Time SAT 15:00 Sound of Dance (b09jby5d) Haydn and Schumann The Nutcracker Label Columbia Number CS 8984 Track 3 John Shea presents archive performances from Swedish Radio of Katie Derham considers a seasonal favourite ­ Tchaikovsky's The Duration 8.11 symphonies by Haydn and Schumann. Nutcracker. She looks at its journey from the short story by ETA Performers Charlie Rouse, ts; Thelonious Monk, p; Butch Hoffmann, via Alexandre Dumas, to the ballet stage and talks to Warren, b and Ben Riley d. 1964 1:01 AM conductor Paul Murphy of the Birmingham Royal Ballet about Haydn, Joseph (1732­1809) the nature of Tchaikovsky's music and how, as a conductor, he Artist Duke Ellington Symphony No 56 in C major, H.1.56 sets about shaping it to make it work for the dancers. Title Blues To Be there Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Georg Ludwig Jochum Composer Ellington / Strayhorn (conductor) Album Ellington at Newport Complete SAT 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (b09jby5g) Label Columbia 1:23 AM Number C2K 64932 CD 1 Track 11 Haydn, Joseph (1732­1809) In the run up to Christmas Alyn Shipton includes festive music Duration 7.09 Lindora's aria 'Son pietosa, son bonina' from 'Circe, ossia l'isola including the joyous Latin jazz of Tito Puente. Performers DE, p, dir; Clark Terry, Willie Cook, Cat Anderson, incantata', H.32.1b Ray Nance, t; Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders, tb; Karin Langebo (soprano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Artist Glenn Miller Hamilton, Procope, Carney, Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, reeds; Sten Frykberg (conductor) Title Jeep Jockey Jump Jimmy Woode, b; Sam Woodyard, d. 7 July 1956, Newport RI. Composer Jerry Gray 1:29 AM Album And the Army Air Force Band Artist Roger Beaujolais Haydn, Joseph (1732­1809) Label RCA/Jazz Tribune Title And when you smile Symphony No 49 in F minor H.1.49 (La Passione) Number ND 89767 CD 2 Track 10 Composer Beaujolais Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sten Frykberg (conductor) Duration 2.16 Album Sunset Performers Zeke Zarchy, Bernie Privin, Bunny Nicholls, Jack Label Spin Cycle Music 1:49 AM Steele, t; Jim Priddy, Larry Hall, Johnny Halliburton, Jim Number ST010 Haydn, Joseph (1732­1809) Harwood, tb; Hank Freeman, Freddy Guerra, Thomas Brecker, Duration 8.29 Il meglio mio carattere ­ aria H.24b.17 for soprano and orchestra Vince Carbone, Jack Ferrier, Chuck Gentry, reeds; Mel Powell, p; Performers Roger Beaujolais, vib; Robin Aspland on piano, Karin Langebo (soprano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Carmen Mastren, g; Trigger Alpert, b; Ray McKinley, d. Simon Thorpe on Double Bass and Winston Clifford on drums. Sten Frykberg (conductor)

Artist Stan Kenton 1:54 AM Title Artistry In Rhythm SAT 17:00 Jazz Line­Up (b09jgl2y) Schumann, Robert (1810­1856) Composer Kenton Charles Lloyd Quartet Symphony No 2 in C major, Op 61 Album Artistry in Rhythm Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache Label Avid Julian Joseph presents a performance by American saxophonist (conductor) Number AMSC­912 CD 1 Track 1 Charles Lloyd and his quartet recorded at the Tampere Jazz Duration 3.21 Happening in Finland. The musicians featured in this concert 2:31 AM Performers Ray Borden, John Carroll, Buddy Childers, Karl include pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Reuben Rogers, drummer Strauss, Richard (1864­1949) George, Dick Morse, t; Harry Forbes, George Faye, Bart Kendrick Scott and Charles Lloyd on tenor saxophone and flute. Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op 18 Varsalona, tb; Eddie Meyers, Art Pepper, Red Dorris, Maurice Lloyd has worked with a wide range of artists including Baiba Skride (violin), Lauma Skride (piano) Beeson, Bob Gioga, reeds; Stan Kenton, p; Bob Ahern, g; Clyde Cannonball Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Charlie Haden, Keith Jarrett Singleton, b; Joe Vernon, d. 19 Nov 1943. and Geri Allen. In his early days he also served as a sideman to 3:01 AM blues giants including Howlin' Wolf and BB King. Carniolus, Iacobus Gallus (1550­1591) Artist Tito Puente Missa super Adesto dolori meo a 5 (SQM III/9) ­ from the Title Oye Coma Va Selectiones quaedam missae (3rd volume) Composer Puente SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (b09jby5k) Madrigal Quintett Brno, Roman Válek (leader) Album El Rey From the Met: Bellini's Norma Label Tico 3:23 AM Number 1086 Track 2 Bellini's masterpiece, Norma, from the Metropolitan Opera Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685­1750) Duration 4.26 House, New York. Angela Meade leads the cast as the Druid Solo Cello Suite No 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010 Performers Tito Puente and His Orchestra, 1962. priestess, Norma, with Jamie Barton as her arch­rival, Adalgisa, Guy Fouquet (cello) and star tenor Joseph Calleja as Pollione, Norma's unfaithful Artist Johnny Richards lover. The opera is an archetypal situation: a powerful woman 3:48 AM Title Turn Aboot compromises her ideals for love, only to find herself betrayed by Vierne, Louis (1870­1937) Composer Richards her lover. Bellini's score and deep understanding of the human Clair de lune ­ No.5 from Pièces de fantaisie: suite for organ No 2 Album Somethin’ Else voice combine sublime melodies with vocal challenge and (Op 53) Label Fresh Sound dramatic power. Joseph Colaneri conducts the Metropolitan Stanislas Deriemaeker (organ) Number 2207 Track 5 Opera House Chorus and Orchestra. 3:58 AM Duration 6.27 Hannikainen, Ilmari (1892­1955) Performers Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Childers, Pete Candoli, Presented by Mary Jo Heath with commentator Ira Siff. Suihkulähteellä (At a fountain) Stu Williamson, Ray Copeland, Shorty Rogers (tp), Milt Norma ..... Angela Meade (soprano) Liisa Pohjola (piano) Bernhart, Frank Rosolino, Don Nelly, Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Adalgisa ..... Jamie Barton (soprano) Julius Watkins, Vince De Rosa (Frh), Charlie Mariano, Gene Pollione ..... Joseph Calleja (tenor) 4:05 AM Quill (as), Richie Kamuca, Frank Socolow (ts), Ronny Lang (bs), Oroveso ..... Matthew Rose (bass) Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841­1894) Marty Paich, John Knapp (p), Buddy Clark (b), Stan Levey, Ed Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra España ­ rhapsody for orchestra Shaughnessy (d) Joseph Colaneri (conductor). Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)

Artist Buddy Greco 4:12 AM Title I Can’t Get Started SAT 22:00 Hear and Now (b09jby5m) Gratton, Hector (1900­1970) arr. David Passmore Composer Duke Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Explore Ensemble, Première danse canadienne (1927) Album Jazz Grooves Ensemble PHACE, Polwechsel Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Label Candid Tritt (piano) Number CCD­79755 Track 7 Highlights from last month's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Duration 6.09 Festival, presented by Sara Mohr­Pietsch and Robert Worby. 4:16 AM Performers Buddy Greco, p; Joe Lano, g; Bob Sachs, b; Gregg Schubert, Franz (1797­1828) Field, d. 1998 Bernhard Lang: DW24 3 Songs ­ Liebesbotschaft; Heidenroslein; Litanei auf das Fest Bowler: FFF Bryn Terfel (bass baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Artist Buck Clayton Legacy Band Ensemble PHACE Title Party Time 4:26 AM Composer Clayton Daverson: Elusive Tangibility II Haydn, Joseph (1732­1809) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 16 – 22 December 2017 Page 3 of 10

Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (H.7e.1) services to Anglo­French relations and released thirteen albums. 6.00pm from Concert Hall, DR Concert House, Copenhagen Gyõrgy Geiger (trumpet), Hungarian Radio Orchestra, András Bach: Cantatas I­III from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 Ligeti (conductor) In Private Passions, she remembers Paris in the 1960s, and above followed by a selection of Scandinavian Christmas songs all, her beloved Serge Gainsbourg; she describes the night they performed by the Danish National Girls' Chorus 4:40 AM met in vivid cinematic detail. She talks too about her marriage to Christina Landshamer (soprano) Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805­1847) the film composer John Barry and chooses music he wrote for the Wiebke Lemkuhl (alto) Excerpts from Songs Without Words, Op 6: no 1, Andante funeral of her daughter. She talks perceptively about getting Benjamin Hulett (tenor) espressivo; no 3, Andante cantabile; no 4, Il saltarello romano: older, and the strange freedom age brings. Andre Morsch (bass) Allegro molto DR Vocal Ensemble Music choices include Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring; Allegri's Sylviane Deferne (piano) Danish National Symphony Orchestra Miserere; John Barry's music for The Lion in Winter; Mahler's Marcus Creed (conductor) 4:51 AM 10th Symphony, and Bernstein's West Side Story. Piccinini, Alessandro (1566­c.1638) 8.00pm from the Hessischer Rundfunk Broadcasting Hall, Produced by Elizabeth Burke Toccata; Mariona alla vera spagnola, chiaccona Frankfurt A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3. United Continuo Ensemble Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 Bach: Magnificat in E flat, BWV 243a 5:01 AM Emoke Barath, Lea Desandre (sopranos) Prokofiev, Sergey (1891­1953) SUN 13:00 Christmas Around Europe (b09jc2gg) Christmas Around Europe, Helsinki and Vienna Damien Guillon (alto) Cinderella's waltz from Zolushka ­ suite No 1 (Op 107) Patrick Grahl (tenor) BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's annual journey around Europe for a Victor Sicard (bass) Le Concert d'Astrée Chorus 5:06 AM sequence of live and specially recorded concerts. The day begins live at Kallio Church in Helsinki for a programme of music for Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Kreisler, Fritz (1875­1962) Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor) Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani for violin organ and wind quintet. Then to St Ulrich's Church, Vienna, and piano where the Vienna Chamber Choir perform traditional Christmas songs.1.05pm LIVE from Kallio Church, HelsinkiSibelius: Bell Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano) SUN Tune of Kallio ChurchTrad arr Ahmas: 5 Finnish Christmas 21:00 Drama on 3 (b06rwgcv) Nordic Voices 5:12 AM songsGaston Litaize: Variations on a Christmas song from AnjouSibelius: 5 Christmas Songs Op.1 arr for soprano and Offenbach, Jacques (1819­1880) Nordic Voices Recit and duet 'C'est une chanson d'amour' (Antonia and organTrad arr Ahmas: 4 Finnish Christmas songsSuvi Väyrynen by Anna Bro, Arne Lygre and Jonas Gardell Hoffmann) ­ from Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Act 3 (soprano)Zagros Wind QuintetJan Lehtola (organ)2.00pm from Lyne Fortin (soprano), Richard Margison (tenor), Orchestre St Ulrich's Church, ViennaSebastian Taschner: Hirten, wacht auf! First broadcast in 2015 as part of Radio 3's Northern Lights Symphonique du Quebec, Simon Streatfield (conductor) (Premiere)Michael J Richter: Leise dahin (Premiere)Marina and season, three short plays explore contemporary life in Denmark, Elena Hobarth: Punschlied (Premiere)Elgar: Lux AeternaOla Sweden and Norway. 5:21 AM Gjeilo: Serenity (O magnum Mysterium)James MacMillan: O Vivaldi, Antonio (1678­1741) Radiant DawnTrad arr Gjeilo: In the Bleak MidwinterTrad arr The first play, An Emergency by Anna Bro, is set at a Danish Concerto in F, RV 569, for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon and Gjeilo: O Com, o come, EmmanuelMax Reger: Es kommt ein summerhouse. A mother (Deborah Findlay) and father (Tim cello Schiff geladenTrad arr Hemedinger: Es bluh'n drei RosenBrahms: McInnerny) have laid out a birthday spread for their daughter and Zefira Valova (violin), Markus Muller & Anna Starr (oboes), 'O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf' ­ Motet, Op 74 No 2Praetorius anticipate her imminent arrival from the ferry port. However, Anneke Scott & Joseph Walters (horns), Moni Fischaleck arr Sandtrom: Det ar en ros utsprungenVienna Chamber nerves are frayed. This will be the first time they will have seen (bassoon),Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director) ChoirYouth Choir Academy, ViennaMichael Grohotolsky their daughter since her breakdown and both parents are (conductor). desperately worried about the reunion. So when a group of 5:33 AM teenagers, armed with a crate of beer and a stereo, choose to loiter Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770­1827) on the beach directly in front of their summerhouse, anxiety Piano Sonata No 18 in E flat, Op 31 No 3 SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b09hw383) levels go through the roof. Ana Bro's drama explores parent­child Ingrid Fliter (piano) Eton Choral Course in the Chapel of St John's College, dynamics within Danish family life, and themes which are Cambridge instantly recognisable. 5:55 AM Messager, Andre (1853­1929) Eton Choral Course recorded in the Chapel of St John's College, Anna Bro is an award­winning Danish playwright. Solo de concours for clarinet and piano Cambridge. Pavlo Boiko (clarinet), Viola Taran (piano) Cast: Introit: The truth from above (Vaughan Williams) Mum ...... Deborah Findlay 6:02 AM Responses: Leighton Dad . . . . . Tim McInnerny Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862­1921) Psalms 69, 70 (Stainer, Mann) Lisbeth . . . . . Susan Jameson Im grossen Schweigen ("Hier liegt das Meer, hier können wir die First Lesson: Amos 9 vv.11­15 Daughter . . . . . Rebecca Hamilton Stadt vergessen") (after Nietzsche, 1905­6, rev. 1918) Canticles: Collegium Regale (Howells) Girl . . . . . Katie Redford Håkan Hagegård (baritone), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Second Lesson: 1 Romans 13 vv.8­14 Girl . . . . . Evie Killip Riccardo Chailly (conductor) Anthem: Vox dicentis clama (Naylor) Boy . . . . . George Watkins Hymn: O come O come Emmanuel (Traditional, descant Ledger) Boy . . . . . Leo Wan 6:26 AM Organ Voluntary: Overture to 'St Paul' (Mendelssohn, arr. W.T. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756­1791) Best) Adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz from a literal translation by Quintet in E flat major for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and Anders Lundorph bassoon, K452 Tim Johnson (Director of Music) Director: Sasha Yevtushenko Anton Kuerti (piano), James Mason (oboe), James Campbell Tom Winpenny (Organist). (clarinet), James McKay (bassoon), James Somerville (horn) The second play, Nothing of Me by Arne Lygre, is an innovative and moving play for voices, which follows a woman's (Amanda 6:50 AM SUN 16:00 Christmas Around Europe (b09jc2gj) Hale) grieving process over a year. It explores identity, and how Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723­1787) Christmas Around Europe, Nuremberg, Sofia, Copenhagen and much we are defined by what other people think about us. Symphony in D major, Op 10 No 5 Frankfurt Arne Lygre is a leading Norwegian playwright, and former La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor). Ian Skelly continues Radio 3's annual journey around Europe for writer­in­residence at Oslo's National Theatre. a sequence of live and specially recorded concerts. Part 2 includes Cast: SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b09jc2g9) a Bach and Vivaldi programme from Ensemble 1700, recorded at Her . . . . . Amanda Hale Sunday ­ Martin Handley the German National Museum in Nuremberg. Then at 5pm we go to Bulgaria for a performance of Dimitar Nenov's Christmas Him . . . . . Joel MacCormack Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This Oratorio. The Danish contribution to the day is part of Bach's His Mother . . . . . Susan Jameson month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Christmas Oratorio followed by Scandinavian Christmas songs, Her Mother . . . . . Deborah Findlay Bach's Well­Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.17 in A flat and then to Frankfurt for Bach and Handel performed by Le Her Son . . . . . Alexander Arnold major, BWV.886. Also including listener requests and the Concert d'Astrée Chorus and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz from a literal translation by Breakfast Advent Calendar. Orchestra. May­Brit Akerholt Email [email protected]. 4.00pm from the German National Museum, Nuremberg Director: Anders Lundorph Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G, BWV 1049 The final play, Wild Is The Wind by Jonas Gardell, tells the story Vivaldi: Sol da te mio dolce amore, from 'Orlando furioso', RV of an interview between a religious young man and the Pastor SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (b09jc2gc) 728 from his local church. The young man describes a recent intimate Corelli: Concerto gross in G minor, Op.6'8 'Fatto per la Notte di encounter with another young man, and struggles to reconcile the This week's Sunday Escape is a Sunday Morning favourite, the Natale' church's doctrines with his own feelings. As with much of Jonas Enchanted Lake by Liadov. Sarah Walker also presents music Vivaldi: Trio Sonata in D minor, RV 63 'La Follia' Gardell's work, the play explores homosexuality and the church, from Haydn, Schumann and Holst. Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freude, from cantata 'Herz und Mut and challenges the perception of Sweden's liberalism surrounding und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 LGBT rights. Vivaldi: Allegro molto from Flute Concerto in D, RV 443 SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b09jl41d) (encore) Jane Birkin Jonas Gardell is an extremely popular playwright, author, Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin/countertenor) comedian in Sweden. He wrote the internationally renowned Emiliano Rodolfi (recorder/baroque oboe) Jane Birkin came to fame in the swinging 60s, thanks to her wild trilogy Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves about the impact Ensemble 1700 beauty and daring appearances in avant­garde films such as of AIDS in the homosexual community in the early 1980s. Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder/director) Blow­up, and thanks also to her tempestuous relationship with Serge Gainsbourg. In 1969 their song "Je t'aime" was banned by Cast: 5.00pm from Bulgaria Concert Hall, Sofia Pastor . . . . . Tim McInnerny the BBC and the rest is history; it became the biggest­selling Dimitar Nenov: Christmas Oratorio foreign language record ever. Since then, Jane Birkin has David . . . . . Matthew Tennyson BNR Symphony Orchestra Youth Leader . . . . . Chris Pavlo appeared in more than fifty films, been awarded the OBE for Mark Kadin (conductor) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 16 – 22 December 2017 Page 4 of 10

Tomas . . . . . Alexander Arnold 2:31 AM Email [email protected]. Strauss, Johann Jr (1825­1899) arranged by Schoenberg, Arnold Translated by Nichola Smalley from a literal translation by (1874­1951) Anders Lundorph Kaiser­Walzer, Op 437 MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b09jl4mf) Director: Anders Lundorph Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (conductor) Monday with Suzy Klein ­ Tinsel, Mozart Rondo in A minor, Brian Blessed produced by Anders Lundorph and Sasha Yevtushenko. 2:43 AM Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770­1827) Essential Classics with Suzy Klein Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, Op 73, 'Emperor' SUN 22:30 Christmas Around Europe (b09jc2gl) Suzy takes us through the morning with the best in classical Susanna Stefani (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oleg Christmas Around Europe, Brno and Mafra Caetani (conductor) music: The final part of Radio 3's annual journey around Europe for a 0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for a well­known 3:20 AM sequence of live and specially recorded concerts. The Brno piece of music. Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525­1594) concert includes a premiere for baritone and chorus by the 1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history Agnus Dei ­ super ut­re­mi­fa­sol­la (for 6 and 7 voices) composer and musician Ondrej Kyas. Then finally to the 1050 Brian Blessed regales us with the experiences, times and Huelgas Ensemble; Paul van Nevel (director) monastery church in Mafra for a concert of Christmas music places that have inspired him throughout his life. featuring six organs and three choirs. 3:27 AM Monti, Vittorio (1868­1922), arranger unknown 10.30pm from Brothers of Mercy Hall, Brno MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09jcby3) Csardas Ondrej Kyas: O Antiphons for baritone and chorus (first Johann Sebastian Bach (1685­1750), Sowing Seeds Hungarian Brass Ensemble performance) Donald Macleod traces J S Bach's early life from birth in Peter Graham: Sonata da chiesa for strings 3:31 AM Eisenach through becoming an orphan, family and schooling to Ondrej Kyas: Magnificat Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756­1791) early employment in Arnstadt and Mülhausen, and first marriage. Roman Hoza (baritone) Rondo in D, K485 Ensemble Versus Jean Muller (piano) Ensemble Opera Diversa In this first portrait, the boy Bach can be pictured studying at Gabriela Tardonova (conductor) Luther's old school and becoming orphaned at the age of nine and 3:38 AM going to live with an older brother, from whom he had to conceal Avison, Charles (1709­1770) 11.30pm from Basilica, Mafra his love of composition by copying out music by moonlight. The Concerto Grosso No 4 in A minor (after Domenico Scarlatti) 15­year­old Bach sets off, accompanied by his school­friend, Trad arr Raposo: Natal de Linhares Tafelmusik, Jeanne Lamon (director) Trad arr Garcia: O menino esta dormindo walking the 180 miles to a boarding school in Lüneburg to continue his studies. His first job is as organist at Arnstadt where Garcia: Ave Maria 3:51 AM he famously gets into a brawl with a bassoonist and goes AWOL Trad arr Raposo: Oh bento airoso Traditional (Catalonia); Campion, Francois (1686­1748) for three months from his post to go and hear Buxtehude perform Trad arr Garcia Eu hei­de m'ir ao resepio El cant dels ocells; Campion: Les ramages in Lübeck. Bach causes a scandal by allowing a "strange young Trad arr Garcia: Gloria in excelsis Deo Zefiro Torna, Cécile Kempenaers (vocals), Liam Fennelly (viola woman" to go up into the choir loft and "make music there." He Carrapatoso: Floresta de musica (Suite for the six historical da gamba), Jowan Merckx (recorder), Jurgen De Bruyn finds a new job in Mülhausen, where he marries his second organs of Mafra) (renaissance guitar, director) Trad arr Garcia: O Tannenbaum cousin Maria Barbara. Trad arr Willcocks: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing 3:59 AM Holst: In the Bleak Mid­winter Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen (St Matthew Passion, Grieg, Edvard (1843­1907) opening chorus) Trad arr Wilberg: Ding dong merrily on high Holberg Suite, Op 40 Trad arr Willcocks: Adeste fideles Collegium Vocale Gent Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Plamen Djouroff (conductor) Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) Rafaela Faria (soprano) Rui Paiva, Flavia Almeida Castro, Antonio Pereira, Joao Valerio, 4:19 AM Capriccio in E 'in honorem Johann Christoph Bachii Sara Neto, Afonso Dias (organs) Schulz­Evler, Adolf (1852­1905) Ohrdrufiensis', BWV 993 Vocal Ensemble of Academia de Música de Santa Cecília, Lisbon Arabesques on Themes from The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Angela Hewitt (piano) Children and Youth Choirs of AMSC Strauss Antonio Gonçalves (conductor) Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) Overture from French Overture in B minor, BWV 831 Steven Devine (piano) 4:31 AM Maliszewski, Witold (1873­1939) Toccata in D minor, BWV 538, "Dorian" MONDAY 18 DECEMBER 2017 Festive Overture in D, Op 11 Marie Claire Alain (organ) National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz MON 00:30 Through the Night (b09jc6kd) (conductor) Cantata: Gott ist mein König, BWV 71 (opening chorus) John Shea presents a concert of music by Lutoslawski and Kodaly Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists by the Polish Radio SO 4:42 AM John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Chopin, Frédéric (1810­1849) Rondo à la mazur in F major, Op 5 Cantata: Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196 John Shea presents a concert of music by Lutoslawski and Kodaly Ludmil Angelov (piano) Concentus Musicus Wien by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zsolt Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) Hamar. 4:50 AM Tormis, Veljo (b. 1930), text: Viivi Luik Presenter: Donald Macleod 12:31 AM Sügismaastikud (Autumn Landscapes) Producer: Rosie Boulton. Zoltán Kodály (1882­1967) Estonian Radio Choir, Toomas Kapten (conductor) Summer Evening MON Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zsolt Hamar (conductor) 5:00 AM 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09jcby5) Kempis, Nicolaes a (c.1600­1676) Wigmore Hall Mondays: Alina Ibragimova and Cedric 12:49 AM Symphonia No 1 a 5, Op 2 Tiberghien Aaron Copland (1900­1990) Concordia, Mark Levy (conductor) Live from Wigmore Hall in London, violinist Alina Ibragimova Concerto for clarinet, strings, harp and piano and pianist Cédric Tiberghien perform music by Ysaye and Andrzej Ciepliński (clarinet), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, 5:05 AM Vierne. The duo met while members of the Radio 3 New Zsolt Hamar (conductor) Weill, Kurt (1900­1950) Excerpts from Kleine Dreigroschenmusik for wind Generation Artists Scheme and their partnership continues to 1:07 AM Winds of the Flemish Radio Orchestra, Jan Latham Koenig flourish. Today they perform two works, Ysaye's atmospheric Claude Debussy (1862­1918) (conductor) Poeme elegiaque and Vierne's Violin Sonata Op 23. La fille aux cheveux de lin Presented by Sara Mohr­Pietsch. Andrzej Ciepliński (clarinet), unnamed pianist from Polish Radio 5:14 AM Eugène Ysaÿe: Poème élégiaque, Op 12 Symphony Orchestra Hoffmann, Leopold (1738­1793) (formerly attrib. to Haydn) Louis Vierne: Violin Sonata, Op 23 Flute Concerto in D major AM 1:10 Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Bienne Symphony Orchestra, Marc Alina Ibragimova, violin Witold Lutoslawski (1913­1994) Tardue (conductor) Cédric Tiberghien, piano. Musique funèbre (Funeral Music), dedicated to Béla Bartók Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zsolt Hamar (conductor) 5:34 AM Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756­1791) MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09jgmgz) AM 1:26 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport, K573 Bach Zoltán Kodály (1882­1967) Dances of Galanta 5:47 AM Penny Gore presents works by Telemann and Bach performed by Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zsolt Hamar (conductor) Mielck, Ernst (1877­1899) Philippe Jaroussky and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Symphony in F minor, "Fairy Tale", Op 4 1:43 AM Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor). 2.00 pm Bartok, Bela (1881­1945) Georg Philipp Telemann String Quartet No 1 Sz 40) Overture: St Matthew Passion, TWV 5:53. MON 06:30 Breakfast (b09jc815) Meta4 Cantata: Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus, TWV 1:364 Monday ­ Petroc Trelawny Overture: Der für die Sünden der Welt gemarterte und sterbende 2:15 AM Jesus, TWV 5:1 Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685­1750) Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This Cantata: Jesus liegt in letzten Zügen, TWV 1:983 Chaconne (from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV 1004) month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Bach's Well­Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.18 in G sharp Tomaz Rajteric (guitar) J.S. Bach minor, BWV.887. Also including listener requests and the Sinfonia: 'Gleich wie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt', Breakfast Advent Calendar. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 16 – 22 December 2017 Page 5 of 10

BWV 18 He was a complex character, an angry anti­Semite who made 4:04 AM Sinfonia: 'Der Herr denket an uns', BWV 196 enemies easily; he was also brilliant, courageous, and Albinoni, Tomaso (1671­1750) Sinfonia: 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis' BWV 21 revolutionary. In the first of five essays this week which look at Concerto in B flat, Op 7 No 3 Cantata: Ich habe genug, BWV 82 the most influential figures who brought about the Reformation, Ivan Hadliyski (trumpet), Kamerorchester, conductor Alipi Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oxford University, Naydenov Freiburg Baroque Orchestra profiles the man who has caused her so much fascination and Petra Müllejans, director delight and frustration. 4:13 AM Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935) 3.25 pm Producer: Rosie Dawson Spiegel im Spiegel J.S. Bach Morten Carlsen (viola), Sergej Osadchuk (piano) Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083 Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free series of programmes exploring Ania Vegry, soprano Martin Luther's Revolution. 4:21 AM Hilke Andersen, contralto Bach, Johann Christian (1735­1782) Hanover Girls' Chorus Quintet in G major, Op 11 No 2, for flute, oboe, violin, viola and NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra MON 23:00 Jazz Now (b09jcbyd) continuo David Stein, conductor Herts Jazz Festival ­ tribute to Bobby Wellins Les Adieux Soweto Kinch with a tribute to the great Scottish saxophonist 4.00 pm 4:31 AM Bobby Wellins, who died two years ago, from the Herts Jazz J.S. Bach Schubert, Franz (1797­1828), orchestrated by Anton Webern Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 Festival in Welwyn Garden City. Featuring Mornington Lockett, (1883­1945) Art Themen, Spike Wells and the Purcell School Big Band, and Leonidas Kavakos, violin 6 Deutsche, D820 Danish National Symphony Orchestra including a performance of Bobby's Culloden Suite. Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor) Fabio Luisi, conductor. 4:40 AM Larsson, Lars­Erik (1908­1986) TUESDAY 19 DECEMBER 2017 MON 17:00 In Tune (b09jcby8) Croquiser, Op 38 Christmas Special from the BBC Radio Theatre Marten Landström (piano) TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b09jccmj) In Tune celebrates Christmas live from the BBC Radio Theatre. John Shea presents CPE Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach from 4:52 AM Sean Rafferty and Katie Derham are joined by the Academy of St 2015 BBC Proms Saturday Matinees Bruch, Max (1838­1920) Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, the BBC Singers Kol Nidrei, Op 47 conducted by David Hill, comedian and singer Alexander Adam Krzeszowiec (cello), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Armstrong, folk singer Cara Dillon, young pianist Gerard John Shea presents a performance of CPE Bach, Vivaldi, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) Aimontche and opera star Michael Fabiano. Telemann and Bach from the 2015 BBC Proms Saturday Matinees with Alina Ibragimova, Apollo's Fire and Jeannette 5:05 AM Sorrell Poulenc, Francis (1899­1963) MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b09jcbyb) Sept Chansons Spirit of Bach Mixtape 12:31 AM Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (conductor) Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714­1788) To mark the Spirit of Bach season this special In Tune Mixtape Symphony in B minor, Wq 182 No 5 5:19 AM tries to capture that very spirit. This all­Bach mixtape dares to Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord/director) Handel, Georg Frideric (1685­1759) venture into the mind of the elderly, reflective Johann Sebastian Harp Concerto in B flat major, Op 4 No 6 (HWV 294) Bach, to walk in his shoes as he reminisces about a life's work; 12:43 AM Sofija Ristič (harp), Slovenian Radio Television Symphony perhaps even imagining how future musicians might reinvent his Vivaldi, Antonio (1685­1741) Orchestra, Pavle Dešpalj (conductor) music, just as he did himself, time and time again. Violin concerto in D major, RV 234 (L'inquietudine) Alina Ibragimova (violin), Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell 5:32 AM In 30 minutes it takes in the B minor mass, a keyboard Partita, a (harpsichord/director) Elgar, Edward (1857­1934) cello Suite, a Cantata, an organ chorale, a Brandenburg Concerto, Sea Pictures, Op 37 the St Matthew Passion, The Art of Fugue and a violin Partita, all 12:49 AM Margreta Elkins (mezzo­soprano), Queensland Symphony of it knitted together with the Air from the Orchestral Suite No 3. Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681­1767) Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert (conductor) If you like, it's an invitation to take the air with Bach. Overture (Suite) in G major, TWV.55:G10 (Burlesque de Quixotte) 5:55 AM Narrated by Horation Clare. Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord/director) Haydn, Joseph (1732­1809) Producer: Philip Barrett. Trio in E flat major, H.15.30, for keyboard and strings 1:02 AM Kungsbacka Piano Trio Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685­1750) MON 19:30 Proms 2017 Repeats (b09lds8d) Violin concerto No 2 in E major, BWV 1042 6:13 AM Prom 49: Bach's St John Passion Alina Ibragimova (violin), Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell Walters, Gareth (1928­2012) (harpsichord/director) Divertimento for Strings John Butt and the Dunedin Concert with Nicholas Mulroy, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor). Matthew Brook, Sophie Bevan, Tim Mead, Andrew Tortise and 1:19 AM Konstantin Wolff in JS Bach's St John Passion from this year's Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685­1750) BBC Proms. Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b09jccml) Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord/director) Presented by Sara Mohr­Pietsch Tuesday ­ Petroc Trelawny 1:41 AM Bach: St John Passion, BWV 245 Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This Chopin, Fryderyk (1810­1849) month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Nicholas Mulroy, tenor (Evangelist) 12 Studies, Op 10 Bach's Well­Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.19 in A major, Matthew Brook, bass (Jesus) Lukas Geniusas (piano) BWV.888. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Sophie Bevan, soprano Advent Calendar. 2:12 AM Tim Mead, countertenor Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778­1837) Andrew Tortise, tenor Email [email protected]. Trio in E flat major, Op 12 Konstantin Wolff, bass The Hertz Trio Dunedin Consort TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b09jkxyj) John Butt, conductor 2:31 AM Tuesday with Suzy Klein ­ Brian Blessed, Albinoni Adagio, The Taneyev, Sergey Ivanovich (1856­1915) A complete performance of Bach's St John Passion. 'More daring, Christmas of 1817 forceful and poetic' than the St Matthew Passion, according to Symphony No 4 in C minor, Op 12 Marinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (Conductor) Essential Classics with Suzy Klein Schumann, this is a work of almost operatic vividness that brings both a humanity and a painful immediacy to the Passion 3:12 AM Suzy takes us through the morning with the best in classical narrative. Bach specialist John Butt and his Dunedin Consort Peeters, Flor (1903­1986) music: make their Proms debut in a performance that offers the audience Missa Festiva ­ for mixed choir and organ, Op 62 the chance to join in the chorale­singing, reflecting how the work Flemish Radio Choir, Vic Nees (director), Peter Pieters (organ) 0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for a well­known might originally have been heard in a church setting. piece of music. 3:39 AM 1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history Boeck, August de (1865­1937) 1050 Brian Blessed regales us with the experiences, times and MON 22:00 Music Matters (b09jbwhl) Fantasy on Two Flemish Folk Songs places that have inspired him throughout his life. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:15 on Saturday] Vlaams Radio Orkest , Marc Soustrot (conductor)

3:46 AM TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09jcmx5) MON 22:45 The Essay (b08ndxg9) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756­1791) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685­1750), The Servant of Two Masters Luther's Reformation Gang, Martin Luther Rondo in A minor, K511 Jean Muller (piano) Donald Macleod explores J S Bach's time in Weimar where he Martin Luther is a larger than life figure, a difficult hero who writes music for the court chapel: the Himmelsburg or Castle of escapes any pigeon­holes you might try to stuff him into. Over 3:57 AM Heaven. At Weimar, Bach was the servant of two masters. The the last five hundred years he has been made into a nationalist Maxwell Davies, Peter (1934­2016) elder brother, Duke Wilhelm Ernst, lived in the official ducal hero, the founder of the German language, the original pater A Sad Paven for these Distracted Tymes for string quartet residence, the vast Wilhelmsburg palace; while his younger familias of the pious parsonage, the man who ushered in the Pavel Haas Quartet brother, Duke Johann Ernst III, lived in the more modest Red modern era. Palace next door. When Johann Ernst died and his 19­year old son, Ernst August, inherited the title, the difference in age

Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 16 – 22 December 2017 Page 6 of 10 between him and his uncle made for an impossible working James Baillieu (piano) of Víkingur Ólaffson; the electroacoustic music of D. Nikos environment for Bach. Stavropoulos; the voice of Nell Ní Chrónín; the bell crafting of Schumann arr Liszt: Widmung Marcus Vergette; and Jennifer Veillerobe's amazing sonic In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 Beatrice Rana (piano). experiments using sparkling water and plastic bottles. Simon Preston (organ) Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening. So lasset uns gehen in Salem der Freuden (final chorus from TUE 19:00 Bach Walks (b09jkxyl) Cantata BWV 182 ­ Himmelskönig, sei willkommen) 1: Arnstadt to Erfurt Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki (conductor) In 1705 the 20­year­old Johann Sebastian Bach set off from his WEDNESDAY 20 DECEMBER 2017 home in Arnstadt to walk 250 miles to Lübeck, there to meet his Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 hero, the composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude. In the first WED 00:30 Through the Night (b09jky4s) Gidon Kremer (violin) of five 'slow­radio' walks in which writer Horatio Clare searches John Shea with concert music and opera, recorded from locations for his footsteps ­ and his ghost ­ the route takes him from throughout Europe Aria: Sheep May Safely Graze, (Cantata BWV 208 ­ Was mir Arnstadt towards Erfurt. behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!) Magdalena Kozená (mezzo) John Shea presents a concert with the Polish National Radio Musica Florea TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b09ldshf) Symphony Orchestra, Katowice conducted by Lawrence Foster Marek Stryncl (conductor) Beatrice Rana plays Goldberg Variations including Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto with soloist Elena Bashkirova Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903 From Wigmore Hall in London, pianist and Radio 3 New Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) Generation Artist Beatrice Rana plays Bach's mighty Goldberg 12:31 AM Variations. Presenter: Donald Mcleod Bohuslav Martinu [1890­1959] Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca Producer: Rosie Boulton. Introduced by Sara Mohr­Pietsch Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Lawrence Bach: Goldberg Variations Foster (conductor) TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01nb0mn) Solo Bach at St Luke's, Mahan Esfahani Beatrice Rana (piano) 12:51 AM Ludwig van Beethoven [1770­1827] Solo Bach at LSO St Lukes. In the third of this week's concerts 24­year­old Italian Rana, a silver medallist at the 2013 Van Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37 featuring music by Bach for various solo instruments, Cliburn Competition, is one of the most talked­about pianists to Elena Bashkirova (piano) Polish National Radio Symphony harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani plays the Sonata in D minor, have appeared on the scene in recent years, and joined the Radio Orchestra, Katowice, Lawrence Foster (conductor) BWV964, a selection of Preludes and Fugues from Book 1 of the 3 New Generation Artist in 2015. Since then Gramophone Well­Tempered Clavier, and the Partita No 5 in G magazine has described her as an artist who 'possesses an old soul 1:28 AM that belies her years, and more than a touch of genius'. Robert Schumann [1810­1856] FULL PROGRAMME Des Abends (from Fantasiestücke, Op 12) Bach: Sonata in D minor, BWV964 This concert is a repeat from January 2017. Elena Bashkirova (piano) Bach: Preludes and Fugues from Book 1 of The Well­Tempered Clavier: Nos. 20 in A major, 22 in B major and 24 in B minor 1:32 AM Bach: Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV829 TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b08nf02y) Paul Hindemith [1895­1963] Breaking Free ­ Martin Luther's Revolution Geschwindmarsch by Beethoven, Paraphrase ('Symphonia Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord). Serena' 2nd movement) Martin Luther ­ Fundamentalist, Reactionary or Enlightened Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Lawrence Creator of the Modern World? Peter Stanford, Ulinka Rublack Foster (conductor) TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09jcmx7) and Diarmaid MacCulloch join Anne McElvoy to explore the Bach question. 1:36 AM Paul Hindemith [1895­1963] Penny Gore presents three cantatas by J.S. Bach performed by the The discussion was recorded in front of an audience at the LSE Symphony Mathis der Maler Netherlands Bach Ensemble directed by Peter Dijkstra, recorded Literary Festival for Radio 3's Breaking Free series of Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Lawrence earlier this year in Utrecht programmes exploring Martin Luther's Revolution. Foster (conductor)

2.00 pm 500 years ago Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation 2:03 AM J.S. Bach when he nailed a sheet of paper to the door of a church in a small Mancini, Francesco [1672­1727] Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn, BWV 119 university town in Germany. That sheet and the incendiary ideas Missa Septimus for 5­part choir, soloists, strings and continuo Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137 it contained flared up into religious persecution and war, Claire Lefilliâtre (soprano), Marnix De Cat (alto), Han Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69 eventually burning a huge hole through 16th century Warmelinck (tenor), Currende, Erik van Nevel (conductor) Miriam Feuersinger, soprano Christendom. And yet the man who sparked this revolution has Alex Potter, countertenor somehow been lost in the glare of events. 2:31 AM Thomas Hobbs, tenor Dvorák, Antonín (1841­1904) Peter Stanford is the author of a new biography of Luther Peter Kooij, bass Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op 81 Ulinka Rublack is the author of Reformation Europe Netherlands Bach Society Janine Jansen (violin), Anders Nilsson (violin), Julian Rachlin Diarmaid MacCulloch's most recent book is All Things Made Peter Dijkstra (viola), Torleif Theden (cello), Itamar Golan (piano) New ­ Writings on the Reformation 3.40pm 3:10 AM Producer Zahid Warley. Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition 2017 Schumann, Robert (1810­1856) Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given by the BBC Singers of Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 97, 'Rhenish', the six finalists from this year's Radio 3 Breakfast Carol TUE 22:45 The Essay (b08nf057) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor) Competition 2017. Alongside the six settings of 'Sir Christemas', Luther's Reformation Gang, Thomas Muntzer David Hill directs the BBC Singers in popular Christmas songs 3:41 AM and carols. Thomas Muntzer was a fire and brimstone apocalyptic preacher Scarlatti, Domenico (1685­1757) and reformer who was more popular than Martin Luther in his Sonata in E minor, Kk81, arr for flute and harpsichord day. As leader of 'The Peasants' War' in 1525 he is hailed as the Bolette Roed (recorder), Joanna Boślak­Górniok (harpsichord) TUE 16:30 Words and Music (b0770h0n) forerunner of Communist revolutionaries. Though not a AM Serpentine communist himself, he had no respect for the social hierarchy ­ 3:49 Agay, Denes (1911­2007) Poems, prose and music about snakes ­ real, mythological and neither princes, dukes, bishops nor civic dignitaries and this was based on his belief that every man was equal before God. It was 5 Easy Dances for wind quintet metaphorical. With readings by Tracy­Ann Oberman and Ewan Tae­Won Kim (flute), Hyong­Sup Kim (oboe), Hyon­Kon Kim Bailey. the task of princes to wield the sword on the side of God ­ but with the people and not against the people. He initially saw (clarinet), Sang­Won Yoon (bassoon), Kawng­Ku Lee (horn) Luther as a comrade­in­arms but he went on to write two major Producer: Torquil MacLeod. 3:57 AM pamphlets against Luther in 1524 describing him as 'soft­living Bernat Vivancos [b.1973] flesh', 'Dr Liar', 'the Wittenberg Pope' and worse. Luther Nigra sum denounced him as a devil and Thomas Muntzer ended up losing TUE 17:45 New Generation Artists (b09jcmx9) Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor) Kathryn Rudge. Van Kuijk Quartet his head. Edinburgh writer Andy Drummond profiles the man that Luther later admitted had been his most dangerous opponent. 4:06 AM Clemency Burton­Hill presents the first of the season's Saint­Saëns, Camille (1835­1921) Producer: Rosie Dawson programmes featuring specially­recorded performances from the Havanaise current members of the New Generation Artists scheme. Today Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Marta Gulyas (piano) we hear the mezzo Kathryn Rudge and the Van Kuijk Quartet. Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free series of programmes exploring Martin Luther's Revolution. 4:15 AM Schubert: An die Laute Debussy, Claude (1862­1918) Bridge: Coleridge settings: Des pas sur la neige ­ from Preludes Book 1 Thy hand is mine; Where she lies asleep; Love went a­riding TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b09jldgn) Danae O'Callaghan (piano) Kathryn Rudge (mezzo­soprano) Verity Sharp James Baillieu (piano) A history lesson, as brought to you by your favourite 4:20 AM Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732­1795) Beethoven: String Quartet in E flat major, Op 127 experimental music programme. Tonight we reflect on the Radio Sinfonia for strings and continuo in D minor Van Kuijk Quartet 4 three­part documentary 'Black Music In Europe', which challenges the notion that black popular music arrived in Europe Das Kleine Konzert Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring with the Empire Windrush in 1948. Kathryn Rudge (mezzo­soprano) 4:31 AM Also tonight: fascination aplenty in the form of the piano playing Svendsen, Johan (1840­1911) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 16 – 22 December 2017 Page 7 of 10

Norwegian Artists' Carnival, Op 14 English Chamber Orchestra Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet) Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor) Daniel Barenboim (conductor) James Baillieu (piano)

4:38 AM Two­Part Inventions BWV 772­786 Donald Swann: Old Songs of Lost Love Chopin, Frédéric (1810­1849) Andras Schiff (piano) Kathryn Rudge (mezzo­soprano) Rondo in C minor, Op 1 Christopher Glynn (piano) Ludmil Angelov (piano) Presenter: Donald Mcleod Producer: Rosie Boulton. James Lynam Molloy: Love's Old Sweet Song 4:47 AM Ivor Novello: My life belongs to you (from The Dancing Years) Sermisy, Claudin de (c.1490­1562) Kathryn Rudge (mezzo­soprano) 5 Chansons (Paris 1528­1538) (1. Au joly boys (Paris 1538); 2. Je WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01nb0mq) James Baillieu (piano). ne menge point de porc (Paris, 1538); 3. Tant que vivray (Paris Solo Bach at St Luke's, Isabelle Faust 1528); 4. Vien tost (Paris 1538); 5. Tu disoys que j'en mourroys (Paris 1530)) Solo Bach at LSO St Lukes. In the last of this week's concerts WED 19:00 Bach Walks (b09jl5qt) featuring music by Bach for various solo instruments, violinist Ensemble Clement Janequin 2: Schierke to Brocken Summit Isabelle Faust plays the Solo Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3, and Partita 4:57 AM No. 3 In 1705 the 20­year­old Johann Sebastian Bach set off from his Suriani Germani, Alberta home in Arnstadt to walk 250 miles to Lübeck, there to meet his Bach: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001 Partita hero, the composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude. In the Bach: Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV1006 Branka Janjanin­Magdalenic (harp) second of five 'slow­radio' walks in which writer Horatio Clare Bach: Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV1005 searches for his footsteps ­ and his ghost ­ the putative route takes 5:07 AM him into the Harz Mountains and up to its highest point, the Isabelle Faust (violin). Schubert, Franz (1797­1828) Brocken Summit. Rosamunde ­ Overture (D644) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor) WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09jcqlv) WED 19:30 Proms 2017 Repeats (b09ldskf) Bach 5:17 AM Prom 25: Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir Enescu, George (1881­1955) Tom Redmond presents a concert live from MediaCityUK, Konzertstück in F for viola and piano Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Salford, in which the BBC Philharmonic performs a programme Baroque Soloists mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Gyözö Máté (viola), Balázs Szokolay (piano) infused with the spirit of Johann Sebastian Bach From the Royal Albert Hall 5:26 AM Steve Elcock: Choses renversées par le temps ou la destruction, Presented by Georgia Mann Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756­1791) Op 20 Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat major, K207 Bach arr. Reger: O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross, BWV 622 Schütz: Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, SWV 41 Director: James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra Berg: Violin Concerto Nicht uns, Herr, sondern deinem Namen, SWV 43 Bach arr. Elgar: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 Danket dem Herren, denn er ist freundlich, SWV 45 5:48 AM Michael Barenboim (violin) Bach: Cantata No. 79, 'Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild' Meulemans, Herman (1893­1965) BBC Philharmonic Cantata No. 80, 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' Five Piano Pieces: Als de beke zingt (When the brook is Moritz Gnann, conductor. chanting); Menuet; Mazurka triste; Wals; Lentewandeling Monteverdi Choir (Vernal wanderings) English Baroque Soloists Steven Kolacny (piano) WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b09jcqlx) Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Music and Readings for Advent 6:07 AM Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Rimsky­Korsakov, Nikolai (1844­1908) 'A Blessing to the World' ­ an Advent Sequence recorded in Baroque Soloists mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The Tale of Tsar Saltan ­ Suite, Op 57 Edington Priory Church during the 2017 Festival of Music within Bach's austere and beautiful Lutheran cantatas stand in contrast to Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky the Liturgy. the lively rhythms and rich textures of Schütz's music. (conductor). Organ Prelude: Wir glauben all en einen Gott BWV 680 (Bach) Producer Anthony Sellors. Chant: Ubi caritas et amor (plainchant) WED 06:30 Breakfast (b09jcqlm) Reading: Matthew 25 vv.31­46 Wednesday ­ Petroc Trelawny Hymn: I heard the voice of Jesus say (Kingsfold) WED 22:00 Sunday Feature (b08nyr3b) Reading: Life (George Herbert) Reformation 500 Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This Motet: Beati mundo corde (Byrd) month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Reading: For the time being (W.H. Auden) Germany's celebrating 500 years since the Reformation ­ but what Bach's Well­Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.20 in A minor, Chant: Rorate coeli desuper (plainchant) does it mean today? Chris Bowlby visits Wittenberg ­ where BWV.889. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Motet: Ubi caritas et amor (Ola Gjeilo) Martin Luther started it all in 1517. He discovers how the Advent Calendar. Reading: The Communion of Saints (Eric Milner White) Reformation transformed life in many different ways, and helped Motet: Warum ist das Licht gegeben (Brahms) make Germany a nation of singers and book­lovers. But amidst Email [email protected]. Hymn: Come, thou long­expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) all the culture and kitsch Germany's also grappling with a darker Organ Postlude: Toccata in F, BuxWV 156 (Buxtehude) legacy ­ Luther's anti­Semitism and exploitation by dictators and populists. WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b09jl5qr) Jeremy Summerly and Peter Stevens (conductors) Wednesday with Suzy Klein ­ The Nutcracker, Christmas Stamps, Charles Maxtone­Smith (organist). Producer, Chris Bowlby Brian Blessed Editor, Penny Murphy

Essential Classics with Suzy Klein WED 16:30 Words and Music (b085yk6x) Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free series of programmes exploring A String of Pearls Martin Luther's Revolution. Suzy takes us through the morning with the best in classical music: Pearls of Oyster, born of the new moon and harvested at great peril; pearls for tears and teeth, pearls flung round the neck of a WED 22:45 The Essay (b08nf059) 0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for a well­known lover; pearls of joy and pearls of sorrow; pearls of poetry and Luther's Reformation Gang, Katharina von Bora piece of music. myth; Jude Akuwudike and Aysha Kala read the pearly words of 1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history Pliny and Keats, Shakespeare and Erasmus, Darwin and Dr Charlotte Woodford, fellow in German at Cambridge 1050 Brian Blessed regales us with the experiences, times and Steinbeck to the sound of Debussy and Bartok, Gershwin and University, tells the story of the woman who won Martin Luther's places that have inspired him throughout his life. Bruckner, Shankar and Britten. heart. If ever there were a power behind the throne, none was stronger WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09jcqls) than Katharina von Bora. Known as 'The Lutherine', this former WED 17:45 New Generation Artists (b09jcqm1) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685­1750), Cappellmeister at Last Kathryn Rudge, Peter Moore, Van Kuijk Quartet, Annelien Van nun found her true vocation as Luther's 'Power­Frau,' arguing the finer points of Theology with him as well as raising their six Wauwe Donald Macleod explores J S Bach's time as Cappellmeister at the children and providing hospitality for Luther's fellow­reformers Court in Cöthen for the 24­year­old Prince Leopold, where he is Clemency Burton­Hill introduces more from the current young in Wittenberg. able to hone his orchestral style. It's at Cöthen that his wife Maria stars on the Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Today's trombonist Barbara dies and where Bach marries again, this time to Anna Peter Moore plays a seldom­heard French sonata, clarinettist Luther had told friends he didn't intend to take a wife, and when Magdalena. Eight days after the Bachs' wedding, Prince Leopold he eventually decided to marry Katharina he wrote to a friend that Annelien Van Wauwe is heard in Hindemith's sonata at Wigmore also gets married. But the new Princess of Anhalt­Berenburg Hall and the Van Kuijk Quartet embrace a Mendellsohn quartet in he did not feel 'passionate love' for her. But later he described her dislikes music and would later describe Bach as a bit of an in the most glowing terms possible for a biblically­minded a recording made especially for this series. . airhead. The clouds are gathering. It's time, once again, for Bach theologian, comparing his devotion to her with that which he felt to move on. Jerome Kern: Song is you (from Music in the Air) for one of St Paul's epistles. 'The epistle to the Galatians is my Kathryn Rudge (mezzo­soprano) dear epistle. I have put my confidence in it. It is my Katy von Aria: Es strahle die Sonne (Cantata BWV 66a ­ Der Himmel James Baillieu (piano) Bora'. dacht auf Anhalts) Mitteldeutsche Hofmusik Guy Ropartz: Piece in E flat minor for trombone and piano Producer: Rosie Dawson Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik (conductor) Peter Moore (trombone) Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free series of programmes exploring Richard Uttley (piano) Brandenburg No 4 in G major, BWV 1049 (1st mvt: Allegro) Martin Luther's Revolution. Academy of St Martin in the Fields Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2 Neville Marriner (conductor) Van Kuijk Quartet WED 23:00 Late Junction (b09jld6g) Concerto for Two Violins BWV 1043 Hindemith: Clarinet Sonata Verity Sharp Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman (violins) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 16 – 22 December 2017 Page 8 of 10

With the Winter Solstice approaching, enjoy music for mid­ Allegro appassionato, Op 95 No 2, from 2 Pieces for Piano Trio lively city with a university, nine banks and huge tri­annual trade winter. Expect to hear Sufjan Stevens, Sudan Archives, David Grumiaux Trio Recorded at Studio Toots, Brussels fairs plus a legendary Christmas market. And it's at Christmas Cain, the Folklore Tapes collective, and more. that Bach's workload seems Herculean, with several services each 4:21 AM day over the holiday period, each requiring new repertoire. Verity also looks ahead to the upcoming Celtic Connections, Berlioz, Hector (1803­1869) which will celebrate its 25th anniversary in January. The festival Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, Op 27 Christen, ätzet diesen Tag (Cantata BWV 63, opening chorus) begins on Thursday 18 January, and features 18 days of New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) entertainment to brighten up the dark, wet nights with concerts, (conductor) collaborations, ceilidhs, and film screenings. Partita No 2 in C minor, BWV 826 4:31 AM Martha Argerich (piano) Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening. Donizetti, Gaetano (1797­1848) Overture to La Fille du régiment Magnificat in D major, BWV 243 Oslo Philharmonic, Nello Santi (conductor) Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) THURSDAY 21 DECEMBER 2017 4:40 AM Gounod, Charles (1818­1893) arranged by Liszt, Franz (1811­ Presenter: Donald Mcleod THU 00:30 Through the Night (b09jl6n8) 1886) Producer: Rosie Boulton. Catriona Young with concert music and opera, recorded from Waltz (Faust) locations throughout Europe Petras Geniušas (piano) THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b01nb0ml) 4:49 AM Solo Bach at St Luke's, Pieter Wispelwey Arabella Steinbacher is the soloist in Prokofiev's 2nd Violin Schubert, Franz (1797­1828), Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Solo Bach at LSO St Lukes. In the second of this week's concerts Concerto with the Monte­Carlo Philharmonic. Also (author) featuring music by Bach for various solo instruments, cellist Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony. With Catriona Young. An den Mond (Fullest wieder Busch und Tal), D259 (To the Pieter Wispelwey plays the Cello Suites Nos. 3 and 6. Moon) AM 12:31 Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano) Bach: Solo Cello Suite in C major, BWV1009 Sergei Prokofiev [1891­1953] Bach: Solo Cello Suite in D major, BWV1012 Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63 4:53 AM Arabella Steinbacher (violin) Monte­Carlo Philharmonic Schubert, Franz (1797­1828), Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Pieter Wispelwey (cello). Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor) (Author) Auf dem See, D543 (On the Lake) 1:00 AM Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano) THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09jcrsz) Sergei Prokofiev [1891­1953] Thursday Opera Matinee: Chabrier's L'Etoile Solo Violin Sonata No 1 in D major, Op 115: 1st Movement 4:57 AM (Moderato) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685­1750) Penny Gore presents L'Etoile, Chabrier's sparkling opera, in a Arabella Steinbacher (violin) Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 performance conducted by Mark Elder and recorded last year at Ensemble 415, Lars­Ulrik Mortensen (Harpsichord) the Royal Opera House 1:06 AM Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [1840­1893] 5:18 AM Chabrier's comic opera L'Étoile is a rarity but is considered to be Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74, 'Pathétique' Bruckner, Anton (1824­1896) a masterpiece of the genre Monte­Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk 2 graduals for chorus: Locus iste; Christus factus est (conductor) Danish National Radio Choir, Jesper Grove Jorgensen It was first performed to great success in 1877 and was performed (conductor) 48 times in its first run. It's a wonderfully ridiculous plot, with 1:50 AM each role perfectly characterised in the music Rachmaninov, Sergei [1873­1943] 5:26 AM 6 Duets, Op 11, for piano 4 hands Ysaÿe, Eugène (1858­1931) The story begins on King Ouf's birthday (the tenor Christophe Zhang Zuo (piano), Louis Schwizgebel (piano) Prelude from Sonata No 2 in A minor, Op 27 No 2 (Obsession) Mortagne), which he always celebrates with a public impalement, for violin solo and this year his victim is the pedlar Lazuli (a role for a mezzo­ 2:16 AM Arabella Steinbacher (violin) soprano and sung here by Kate Lindsey), who unwittingly struck Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich [1865­1936] the King without knowing who he was. However, when the Saxophone Concerto in E flat major, Op 109 5:29 AM King's astrologer Siroco (bass­baritone Simon Bailey) tells the Virgo Veldi (saxophone), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tarmo Stucken, Frank van der (1858­1929) King that his star and Lazuli's are so closely bound that they will Leinatamm (conductor) Symphonic prologue to Heinrich Heine's tragedy 'William die on the same day, the King cancels the execution Ratcliffe' 2:31 AM Vlaams Radio Orkest, Bjarte Engeset (conductor) Mark Elder conducts what was the Royal Opera's first ever Czerny, Carl (1791­1857) production of L'Étoile, directed by Mariame Clément Sonata No 9 in B minor, Op 145, "Grande fantaisie en forme de 5:58 AM King Ouf I ..... Christophe Mortagne (tenor) Sonate" Berwald, Franz [1796­1868] Siroco ..... Simon Bailey (bass­baritone) Stefan Lindgren (piano) String Quartet No 2 in A minor (1849) Prince Hérisson de Porc­Epic ..... François Piolino (tenor) Bernt Lysell (violin), Per Sandklef (violin), Thomas Sundkvist Tapioca ..... Aimery Lefèvre (baritone) 3:04 AM (viola), Mats Rondin (cello) Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778­1837) Lazuli ..... Kate Lindsey (mezzo­soprano) Trumpet Concerto in E flat major 6:17 AM Princesse Laoula ..... Hélène Guilmette (soprano) Odin Hagen (trumpet), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Per Kristian Durante, Francesco (1684­1755) Aloès ..... Julie Boulianne (mezzo­soprano) Skalstad (conductor) Concerto per quartetto No 2 in G minor Patacha ..... Samuel Sakker (tenor) Concerto Köln. Zalzal ..... Samuel Dale Johnson (baritone) 3:23 AM Smith ..... Chris Addison (actor) Mendelssohn, Felix (1809­1847) Dupont ..... Jean­Luc Vincent (actor) Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op 35 No 1 (1832) THU 06:30 Breakfast (b09jcrst) Royal Opera House Chorus Sylviane Deferne (piano) Thursday ­ Petroc Trelawny Royal Opera House Orchestra 3:33 AM Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This Mark Elder (conductor) Danzi, Franz (1763­1826) month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of followed at 4.00pm by: Duos from Mozart's Don Giovanni arranged for 2 cellos Bach's Well­Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.21 in B flat JS Bach ('Giovinette che fate all'amore'; 'La ci darem la mano', 'Finch han major, BWV.890. Also including listener requests and the dal vino') Breakfast Advent Calendar. Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068 Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Duo Fouquet: Elizabeth Dolin, Guy Fouquet (cellos) Email [email protected]. 3:38 AM THU 16:30 Words and Music (b08rg1fk) Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775­1838) O Albion Introduction et Air suèdois, Op 12, for clarinet and orchestra THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b09jl6nb) Thursday with Suzy Klein ­ Brian Blessed, Christmas Piggies Anne­Marja Korimaa (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony How could you resist the temptation of "a full English" with Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor) Essential Classics with Suzy Klein Meera Syal and Philip Franks? The star of Goodness Gracious Me joins forces with the narrator of The Rocky Horror Show to 3:49 AM Suzy takes us through the morning with the best in classical explore the meaning of England and Englishness to a score Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562­1621) music: provided by Thomas Adès, Edward Elgar, Cornershop, William Psalm 23, 'The Lord is my Shepherd' (5 Psalms of David (1604)) Byrd, Fairport Convention, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Purcell Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) 0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for a well­known amongst others. piece of music. 3:58 AM 1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history Producer: Zahid Warley. Zarzycki, Aleksander [1834­1895] 1050 Brian Blessed regales us with the experiences, times and Mazurka in G major, Op 26 places that have inspired him throughout his life. Monika Jarecka (violin), Krystyna Makowska (piano) THU 17:45 New Generation Artists (b09jgqvf) Ashley Riches sings Schubert's Schwanengesang. Andrei Ionite 4:04 AM THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09jcrsx) plays Schumann's Fantasy Pieces Telemann, Georg Philipp [1681­1767] Johann Sebastian Bach (1685­1750), Christmas in Leipzig Concerto polonaise, TWV 43:G4 Clemency Burton­Hill continues the Christmas season Arte dei Suonatori (ensemble) Donald Macleod paints a portrait of a Bach family Christmas in programmes of performances by some of the current members of Leipzig, where the family have moved so that Bach can take up the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, including bass­ AM 4:13 his post as Cantor at the Thomasschule. By 1723, Leipzig's a baritone Ashley Riches, trombonist Peter Moore and cellist Jongen, Joseph (1873­1953) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 16 – 22 December 2017 Page 9 of 10

Andrei Ionita. Martin Luther's Revolution. 3:36 AM Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714­1788) Kreisler: Liebesleid 12 Variations on 'La Folia', Wq.118/9 (H.263) Peter Moore, trombone THU 23:00 Late Junction (b09jlcqd) Andreas Staier (harpsichord) Richard Uttley, piano Verity Sharp with Ed Atkins' Mixtape 3:46 AM Schumann: Phantasiestücke, Op.73 Ed Atkins is the latest compiler of the Late Junction mixtape. He Pachelbel, Johann (1653­1706) Andrei Ionita, cello, has 30 minutes to make his musical mark on the programme. Canon in D major arr. for 3 violins Roman Rabinovich, piano Members of the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Described as "one of the great artists of our time" by the Swiss Katowice Schubert: Schwanengesang, D957 curator Hans­Ulrich Obrist, Atkins works with high definition Ashley Riches, bass­baritone, video, CGI, facial recognition software, and poetical text. He 3:51 AM Joseph Middleton, piano plays with notions of the moving image, literature, and anxiety in Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770­1827) the digital age. Piano Sonata No 24 in F sharp major, Op 78 Weber: Romance Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Peter Moore, trombone Music plays a vital role in Atkins' practice, often becoming a key Richard Uttley, piano. element of his work. He has said, "I never was that interested in 3:59 AM art, really. Literature, cinema and music definitely ­ if there was Geijer, Erik Gustaf [1783­1847] ever a hierarchy, art would be right at the bottom for me." Violin Sonatina in A flat THU 19:00 Bach Walks (b09jl6nd) Klara Hellgren (violin), Anders Kilström (piano) 3: Oderwald to Wolfenbuttel Elsewhere, Verity chooses music to coexist, collide, and correlate with Atkins' mix. Featured artists include Thru Colours, Ariel 4:13 AM In 1705 the 20­year­old Johann Sebastian Bach set off from his Pink, White Goblin, and the man in black, Johnny Cash. home in Arnstadt to walk 250 miles to Lübeck, there to meet his Söderman, August (1832­1876) [lyrics by Johan Ludvig hero, the composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude. In the third Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening. Runeberg] of five 'slow­radio' walks in which writer Horatio Clare searches Three songs from 'Idyll and Epigram': När den sköna maj med for his footsteps ­ and his ghost ­ the route takes him through the sippor kommit (When lovely May with anemones comes); Mellan beeches of the Oderwald and on into the town of Wolfenbuttel. friska blomster genom lunden (Among fresh flowers through the FRIDAY 22 DECEMBER 2017 meadow); Minna satt I lunden (Minna sat in the meadow) Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor) THU 19:30 Proms 2017 Repeats (b09ldslx) FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b09jl04t) 4:20 AM Mahan Esfahani and the Academy of Ancient Music play The Art John Shea with concert music and opera, recorded from locations Strauss, Johann II (1825­1899) of Fugue throughout Europe An der schönen blauen Donau ­ waltz for orchestra, Op 314 Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani joins the Academy of Ancient BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor) Music to perform Bach's Art of Fugue in a new instrumental John Shea presents the Romanian­Moldovan Youth Orchestra in 4:31 AM arrangement by Esfahani himself. In doing so he revives the Enescu, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. informal spirit of Bach's Leipzig coffee house concerts, in which Ravel, Maurice (1875­1937) the composer would direct his own band of musicians. 12:31 AM Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré Enescu, George (1881­1955) James Ehnes (violin), Wendy Chen (piano) Based on a single melody and consisting of 14 Fugues and 4 Orchestral Suite No 1 in C major, Op 9 4:34 AM Canons, Bach explores the possibilities of what can be written by Romanian­Moldovan Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal Elgar, Sir Edward (1857­1934) weaving the line of the melody against and around itself. Bach (conductor) himself didn't stipulate the instrument (or instruments) for which Nimrod, from 'Enigma Variations' he envisaged the work ­ the original manuscript is written in four 12:57 AM Romanian­Moldovan Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal voices on four separate lines and though Esfahani feels sure the Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840­1893), arr. Cazacu, Marin (conductor) work was undoubtedly written for a keyboard instrument, he says (b.1956) 4:39 AM "it doesn't mean we can't explore another side of the music". Lensky's aria from 'Eugene Onegin', arr. for cello and orchestra Krupowicz, Stanisław (b. 1952) Marin Cazacu (cello), Romanian­Moldovan Youth Orchestra, Miserere (based on Allegri's Miserere) J S Bach: The Art of Fugue (arr. Mahan Esfahani) Cristian Mandeal (conductor) Camerata Silesia, Anna Szostak (conductor) Academy of Ancient Music 1:04 AM Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord/director) 4:53 AM Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840­1893) Schumann, Clara (1819­1896) Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33 This concert is a repeat of a Proms Saturday Matinee from July 4 Pièces fugitives for piano, Op 15 Stefan Cazacu (cello), Romanian­Moldovan Youth Orchestra, 2012. Angela Cheng (piano) Cristian Mandeal (conductor) 5:06 AM 1:25 AM THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b08nf032) Nielsen, Carl (1865­1931) Prokofiev, Serge (1891­1953) Breaking Free ­ How the Reformation Changed British Daily Life Pan og Syrinx (Pan and Syrinx), Op 49 (FS.87) Suite from 'Romeo and Juliet', Op 64 Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, Michael Schonwandt Romanian­Moldovan Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal What chewing cloves had to do with sermons, the significance of (conductor) a giant fish with vast teeth and the poignant histories and perilous (conductor) journeys undertaken by nuns who lost their homes and 5:15 AM 2:01 AM workplaces. Rana Mitter looks at new research into the way daily Brahms, Johannes (1833­1897) Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804­1857) life changed in Britain after the Reformation for Radio 3's series Gestillte Sehnsucht, Op 91 No 1 Overture to 'Ruslan and Lyudmila' of programmes exploring Martin Luther's Revolution. His guests Jennifer Johnston (mezzo­soprano) , Lise Berthaud (viola), Romanian­Moldovan Youth Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal are: Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) (conductor) Alec Ryrie, Professor in Religion and Theology at the University 5:22 AM 2:06 AM of Durham and author of: Protestants: The Faith that Made the Jadin, Hyacinthe (1776­1800) Grieg, Edvard (1843­1907) Modern World 201; Keyboard Sonata in F major, Op 6 No 3 Selected Lyric Pieces ­ March of the Trolls, Op 54 No 3 ; Gade, Tom Charlton, New Generation Thinker is currently studying the Patrick Cohen (fortepiano) history of Protestant nonconformity at Dr Williams's Library, Op 57 No 2; Homesickness, Op 57 No 6; Sylph, Op 62 No 1; The Brooklet, Op 62 No 4; Cradle Song, Op 68 No 5; Wedding Day at London 5:43 AM Troldhaugen, Op 65 No 6 Elizabeth Goodwin from the University of Sheffield and Haydn, Joseph (1732­1809) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Birmingham is an expert on Nuns in the Reformation Symphony No 6 in D major (H.1.6) 'Le Matin' Tara Hamling from the University of Birminghamb is the author Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa­Pekka Salonen 2:31 AM of Decorating the Godly Household: Religious Art in Protestant (conductor) Britain c.1560­c.1660. Ravel, Maurice (1875­1937) L'Heure espagnole 6:04 AM Goran Eliasson (tenor), Marianne Eklof (mezzo), Trong Halstein Producer Jacqueline Smith. Ravel, Maurice (1875­1937) Moe (baritone), Carl Unander­Scharin (tenor), Lars Avidson Le Tombeau de Couperin for piano (bass), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Dimitriev Louis Schwizgebel (piano). THU 22:45 The Essay (b08nf05j) (conductor) Luther's Reformation Gang, Johann Walther 3:23 AM FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b09jct5x) Johann Walther was adopted out of poverty as a boy and could Ortiz, Diego (c.1510­c.1570) / Sandrin, Pierre (c.1490­c.1561) / Friday ­ Petroc Trelawny sing like a canary. Initially taking a series of courtly composer Ortiz, Diego (c.1510­c.1570) and cantor roles, he jumped at the chance to edit the people's first Ortiz: La Spagna (from Trattado de glosas, 1553); Sandrin: Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny. Protestant hymn book. It's a great untold story ­ the hymns of Doulce memoire (from Le Paragon des chansons, 1538); Ortiz: Luther and Walther began a rich musical tradition in Protestant Recercada segonda sobre doulce memoire (from Trattado de Petroc Trelawny announces the winner of Radio 3's Breakfast Germany which changed the musical world. Without Luther and glosas, 1553) Carol Competition. Walther we would not have the oratorios, cantatas and passions of Trio Montparnasse: Anne Azéma (soprano), Carol Lewis (viola Bach and the word­centred, 'Protestant' tradition of high­quality da gamba), Olav Chris Henriksen (vihuela) Back in August, we challenged amateur composers to create a and complex music and hymnody we know today. Dr Stephen 21st­century carol for a 15th­century text: Sir Christemas. After a Rose from Royal Holloway University of London tells the story 3:30 AM great response from very many talented people, the time has now of Johann Walther, the man behind Luther's musical Reformation. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756­1791) arrived for the result of the voting on the six shortlisted finalists. Andante in C major for flute and orchestra, K315 The winning entry will be performed live by the BBC Singers. Producer: Rosie Dawson Anita Szabo (flute), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zoltán Kocsis (conductor) The six carols were shortlisted by a panel including Judith Weir, Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free series of programmes exploring Master of the Queen's Music, and David Hill, former Chief

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Conductor of the BBC Singers. John Sessions and Juliet Stevenson are in Radio 3's pop­up studio Producer: Rosie Dawson at Southbank Centre to perform forward­looking prose and poetry Email [email protected]. accompanied by music to tie in with the theme of this year's Part of Radio 3's Breaking Free series of programmes exploring London Literature Festival, which begins later this week. The Martin Luther's Revolution. selection includes Debussy, Chopin, Mozart, Bob Dylan, Dylan FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b09jl04z) Thomas, Dorothy Parker, Charlie Parker, Charles Ives and PG Friday with Suzy Klein ­ The Original Santa, Mozart Clarinet Wodehouse. FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b09jl06m) Concerto, Brian Blessed WOMAD Revisited Sound Frontiers: BBC Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre Essential Classics with Suzy Klein Celebrating 7 decades of pioneering music and culture Lopa Kothari presents highlights from this year's WOMAD festival of world music which took place at Charlton Park in Suzy takes us through the morning with the best in classical Producer: Harry Parker. Wiltshire at the end of July. Featured artists include Bonga music: (Angola), Chico Trujillo (Chile), King Ayisoba (Ghana), Ladysmith Black Mambazo (South Africa), Oumou Sangare 0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for a well­known FRI 17:45 New Generation Artists (b09jlcdr) (Mali) and Zhou Family Band (China). piece of music. Andrei Ionita and the Amatis Piano Trio 1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history 1050 Brian Blessed regales us with the experiences, times and Clemency Burton­Hill presents specially­recorded performances places that have inspired him throughout his life. from the current Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Today the Amatis Trio are heard in a performance they gave in the Stratford­Upon­Avon Music Festival of one of Beethoven's most FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09jct60) joyful works. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685­1750), It Is Enough Brahms: Da unten im Tale; Die Mainacht; Auf dem See Donald Macleod traces Bach's final years. Bach enjoys great Ilker Arcayurek (tenor), Simon Lepper (piano) success at the palace of King Frederick the Great which results in his genius late work the Musical Offering. But Bach's eyesight is Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op.38 beginning to fail and cataract operations lead to infections and a Andrei Ionita stroke which eventually result in his death in the evening of the (cello), Roman Rabinovich (piano) 28th July 1750. Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat, Op1 No 1 Ricercar a 6 (Musical Offering, BWV 1079) Amatis Piano Trio. Musica Antiqua Köln Reinhard Goebel (conductor) FRI 19:00 Bach Walks (b09jl056) Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor, BWV 1029 4: Medingen to Bienenbuttel Pablo Casals (cello) / Paul Baumgartner (piano) In 1705 the 20­year­old Johann Sebastian Bach set off from his Ich habe genug, BWV 82 home in Arnstadt to walk 250 miles to Lübeck, there to meet his Dietrich Fischer­Dieskau (baritone) hero, the composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude. In the fourth Munich Bach Orchestra of five 'slow­radio' walks in which writer Horatio Clare searches Karl Richter (conductor) for his footsteps ­ and his ghost ­ the route takes him along the banks of the River Ilmenau from Medingen to Bienebuttel. Presenter: Donald Macleod Producer: Rosie Boulton. FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b09ldspz) Prom 73: Sir Andras Schiff performs Bach's The Well­Tempered FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09jlcdp) Clavier Sharon Bezaly, London Baroque Live at BBC Proms: Sir András Schiff performs Book 1 of Bach's Considering that neither Bach nor any member of his family The Well­Tempered Clavier. played the instrument, the flute is a remarkably strong presence The master pianist plays nearly two hours of music that for many both in his domestic chamber music and his orchestral works. represents both the foundation and one of the summits of the Flautist Sharon Bezaly and London Baroque perform a range of entire keyboard literature. Bach's flute music from the Solo Partita, his only solo work for the flute, through two of his sonatas to movements from the Suite Presented by Ian Skelly in B minor which highlight the flute. Bach The Well­Tempered Clavier ­ Book 1 Handel: Sonata in B minor, Op 1 No 9 Sir András Schiff (piano) Bach: Sonata in A minor, BWV 1013, for unaccompanied flute (3rd movement: Sarabande) The two volumes of Bach's The Well­Tempered Clavier together Kalevi Aho): Solo III for flute (2nd mvt: Presto) represent one of Western music's greatest achievements. Bach: Flute Sonata in E major, BWV 1035 Bach: Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (movts 5 ­ Polonaise; 6 Once described as the 'Old Testament' of the keyboard repertoire, ­ Menuett; 7 ­ Badinerie) these two sequences of 24 Preludes and Fugues ­ one in every key Sharon Bezaly (flute) ­ represent a wealth of musical invention, ingenuity and delight. London Baroque: Charles Medlam (cello) Terence Charlston A supreme technical challenge for any performer, they also offer (harpsichord) an astonishing experience for every listener.

Recorded at Wigmore Hall in London and first broadcast in 2007. Sir András Schiff, whose discography includes Bach's complete keyboard repertoire, here performs Book I ­ embarking upon a cycle that he will conclude next year with Book 2. FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09jgslg) Bach FRI 22:00 The Verb (b09jlcdt) Penny Gore presents Orchestral Suites and Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach performed by the Academy for Ancient Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word. Music Berlin

J.S. Bach FRI 22:45 The Essay (b08nf05l) Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1046 Luther's Reformation Gang, Philip Melanchthon Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048 Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon are the odd couple of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat, BWV 1051 Reformation, inseparable in the religious revolution they Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D, BWV 1069 inaugurated, and yet in personality chalk and cheese ­ and there's Academy for Ancient Music Berlin no doubt that it's Luther who is the cheese: volatile, colourful, impassioned; ripening majestically but also suddenly going off, 3.30pm like one of those goats' cheeses in the middle of France that could J.S. Bach easily double up as an explosive device. Luther has priority in Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050 terms of being older, and by force of personality. Melanchthon Aapo Häkkinen, harpsichord seems monochrome by comparison. It has been easy for history, Helsinki Baroque Ensemble outside of specialists, to forget him. But if Margaret Thatcher once said of her right­hand man William Whitelaw that "every 3.50pm Prime Minister needs a Willie", this is all the more the case with J.S Bach true revolutionaries. Revolutions seem to need an odd couple: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 Robespierre and Danton, or Marx and Engels. Melanchthon is Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. hardly a household name these days but he is (if you like) a revolutionary's revolutionary. Intellectual, serious, endlessly patient, he kept clearing up the mess that Luther left around him. FRI 16:30 Words and Music (b07xhfd1) Professor Brian Cummings, from the University of York, tells his Sound Frontiers: Turning Points story.

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