Radio 3 Listings for 4 – 10 October 2014 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 04 OCTOBER 2014 each other, and to confuse matters further, Romilda's sister, Fats Waller Atalanta, is secretly in love with Arsamenes and decides to SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b04jjq83) encourage the King. Humour and social satire are combined Fats Waller (1904-43) was a legendary bringer of joy. Brilliant Musica Aeterna with Handel's glorious music. A stellar cast includes Alice pianist and singer, he was famous for hilarity and rhythm from Coote as Xerxes, Sarah Tynan as Romilda and Andrew Watts as New York to Hollywood. Geoffrey Smith picks favourites by John Shea's selection includes Musica Aeterna performing Arsamenes, with Michael Hofstetter conducting. this "cheerful little earful". music by Zimmermann, Lotz, Druschetzky and Haydn. Presented by Mary King SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b04k7wxl) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b04k7t3q) Xerxes.....Alice Coote (Mezzo) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Saturday - Victoria Meakin Arsamenes.....Andrew Watts (Countertenor) Romilda.....Sarah Tynan (Soprano) John Shea presents music with a Latin flavour performed by Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Atalanta.....Rhian Lois (Soprano) guitarist Lukasz Kuropaczewski and the Polish Radio featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from Amastris.....Catherine Young (Mezzo) Symphony Orchestra including Rodrigo's Concierto de listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite Elviro.....Adrian Powter (Baritone) Aranjuez and Villa-Lobos's Guitar Concerto. works and pieces that you would like to hear. Email Ariodates.....Neal Davies (Bass Baritone) [email protected] with your music requests. English National Opera Chorus 1:01 AM English National Opera Orchestra Guerra-Peixe, Cesar [(1914-1993)] Michael Hofstetter (Conductor). O Gato malhado SAT 09:00 CD Review (b04k7t3s) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, José Maria Florencio Brahms Experience (conductor) SAT 21:30 Between the Ears (b04k7vqk) With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Brahms: Piano More than a Desert 1:10 AM Quartet in G minor; Vasily Petrenko's Shostakovich symphony Rodrigo, Joaquín [1901-1999] cycle; Disc of the Week: Brahms: Die schone Magelone. More than twenty years after the death of the iconic filmmaker Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra Derek Jarman, the poet Kate Tempest - only a child when Lukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar), Polish Radio Symphony Jarman died - creates a new radio poem on the Kent beach Orchestra, José Maria Florêncio (conductor) SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b04k7t3v) where he lived. Tempest has been shortlisted for Mercury-prize The Girl of the Golden West, Edward Gardner, Early 20th- and was named in September 2014 as one of the Next 1:33 AM Century Music Drama, Nike Wagner Generation poets. Villa-Lobos, Heitor [1887-1959] Concerto for guitar and orchestra Tom Service reviews ENO's new production of Puccini's "The Crunching across the shingle of Britain's only desert, poet and Lukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar), Polish Radio Symphony Girl of the Golden West", talks to conductor Edward Gardner, playwright Kate Tempest's words are buffeted by the relentless Orchestra, José Maria Florêncio (conductor) hears about Roger Savage's new book Masques, Mayings and wind of Dungeness - home to two lighthouses, two nuclear Music Dramas - a look at early 20th century English music power stations, abundant wildlife, and to Prospect Cottage. 1:53 AM drama, with Vaughan Williams at its core - and talks to Nike Lutoslawski, Witold [1913-1994] Wagner about Beethovenfest, Bonn. Here iconic British filmmaker Derek Jarman spent the last 9 Folk Melodies - 1. Ach moj Jasienko (Oh, my Johnny) years of his life building his garden, writing diaries, inscribing Lukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar) the words of John Donne on the wall of his cottage. Here the SAT 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b04k7t3x) wind whips across the flat, barren shingle, around the 1:56 AM Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin - CPE Bach fisherman's cottages, out to the open sea where rolling waves Ginastera, Alberto [1916-1983] meet a vast sky. Estancia - dances from the ballet op.8a for orchestra A selection of chamber works by JS Bach's second son, Carl Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Florêncio, José Maria Philipp Emanuel Bach, performed by Akademie für Alte Musik Recorded entirely on location in Dungeness, at Jarman's desk (conductor) Berlin and recorded at the Schwetzingen Festival in May 2014, and out in the elements, Kate Tempest weaves the words and in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the composer's birth. thoughts of local families and fishermen with rich soundscapes, 2:17 AM Music includes his Trio Sonata in G Wq 144, the cantata Der both natural and man-made. Amidst the quietest sounds of the Ginastera, Alberto [1916-1983] Frühling with soprano Isa Katharina Gericke, and the Quartet sanctuary of Prospect Cottage, to the roaring innards of the Estancia - dances from the ballet op.8a for orchestra - 7. Danza for piano, flute, viola and cello in G, Wq 95. power station, Tempest crafts vivid new verse, at once intimate final (Malambo) and elemental, mapping Dungeness anew. Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Florêncio, José Maria (conductor) SAT 14:00 Saturday Classics (b04m3gnb) Features music recorded on the beach by musician Alexander Ten Pieces Ambassadors Tucker, and Keith Collins reading from Derek Jarman's 2:20 AM "Modern Nature". Includes field recordings from the RSPB Soler, Antonio [1729-1783] Alison Balsom nature reserve and inside Dungeness B Nuclear Power Station. Fandango for keyboard in D minor (R.146) Scott Ross (harpsichord) Today, a programme from another of the "Ten Pieces" Producer, Peter Meanwell Ambassadors - trumpeter Alison Balsom shares some of the An Open Audio production for BBC Radio 3. 2:32 AM music and musicians that continue to inspire her, including Boccherini, Luigi [1743-1805] Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.5, Shostakovich's Piano La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid Quintet No 6, Op 30 Concerto No.2, Strauss's Alpine Symphony, and recordings by SAT 22:00 Hear and Now (b04k7vqm) (G.324) trumpeter Maurice André and pianist Krystian Zimerman. Howard Skempton Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor) Revised repeat. Presented by Robert Worby in conversation with the composer Howard Skempton 2:45 AM Kilar, Wojciech [b.1932] SAT 16:00 Sound of Cinema (b04k7t41) This edition of Hear and Now features music by Howard Orawa for string orchestra (1988) Guilty 'til Proven Innocent Skempton in recent recordings from the BBC Philharmonic Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski conducted by Clark Rundell, including the song cycle The (conductor) Matthew Sweet with a selection of music for films on the Moon is Flashing featuring tenor James Gilchrist, and from the subject of innocence and guilt prompted by the release of David new-music ensemble Psappha. 2:53 AM Fincher's "Gone Girl" with a new score by Trent Reznor. Zarzycki, Aleksander [1834-1895] Howard Skempton is also the subject of this week's Composers' Mazurka for violin and piano (Op.26) in G major The programme also features music from "To Kill A Rooms with Sara Mohr-Pietsch, as she talks with him in his Monika Jarecka (violin) Krystyna Makowska (piano) Mockingbird"' "In The Heat Of The Night", "Who Framed workspace at his home in the West Midlands. Roger Rabbit", "The Green Mile" and "The Fugitive". 3:01 AM And the cellist Anton Lukoszevieze plays music for multi- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's for tracked cellos by the Lithuanian experimental composer Joseph Divertimento in D major (K.136) Hitchcock's "North By Northwest". Kudirka. National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman (conductor) #soundofcinema. Howard Skempton: 3:15 AM The Light Fantastic; Lento; The Moon is Flashing* Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) James Gilchrist (tenor)* Violin Concerto No.5 in A major (K.219) SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b04k7t45) BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Pinchas Zukerman (violin/director), National Arts Centre Alyn Shipton's selections of listeners' requests includes music Clark Rundell (conductor) Orchestra from the Count Basie Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald and the Ramsey Lewis trio. Plus there's music from saxophonist Scott Howard Skempton: 3:45 AM Hamilton, and vintage British sounds from Buddy Gleams and Fragments; Gemini Dances; Winter Sunrise Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Featherstonhaugh and Sid Phillips. Psappha Du meines Herzens Krönekein (Op.21 No.2); Die Nacht (Op.10 No.2); Ruhe meine Seele (Op.27 No.1); Allerseelen (Op.10 Joseph Kudirka: No.8) SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b04k7t47) Wyoming Snow Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano) Handel's Xerxes Anton Lukoszevieze (cello). 3:58 AM Tonight's Opera on 3 is Handel's comic opera Xerxes in Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Nicholas Hytner's award-winning production for English Ständchen (Op.17 No.2); Morgen (Op.27 No.4); Für fünfzehn National Opera. Xerxes, the King of Persia, falls in love with SUNDAY 05 OCTOBER 2014 Pfennige (Op.36 No.2); Zueignung (Op.10 No.1) Romilda, and tells his brother Arsamenes to woo her for him. Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Gérard van Blerk (piano) Unfortuately Arsamenes and Romilda are already in love with SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b04k7wxj) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 4 – 10 October 2014 Page 2 of 10 4:09 AM Brahms Experience In Disguise Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) (arr. Carl Tausig) Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV.565) arr. Tausig As part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience, exploring the life and Men, women, gods and a toad all don disguise in this edition of Dennis Hennig (piano) work of one of the 19th century's greatest composers, Rob Words and Music, in pursuit of sex, riches, revenge and Cowan plays a recording of Brahms' Cello Sonata no 2 in F, op freedom.