Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 1 of 12 SATURDAY 29 FEBRUARY 2020 Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Piano Music of Howard Skempton (author) William Howard (piano) SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m000fpx8) Gesang der Geistern über den Wassern, Op 167 Orchid Classics ORC100116 Remembering Sven-David Sandström Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony http://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100116-william- Orchestra, Juri Alperten (director) howard-plays-howard-skempton/ The Swedish Radio Choir with two pieces by Sven-David Sandström who died in June 2019, alongside motets by his 04:38 AM Offenbach: Maître Péronilla revered Bach. With John Shea. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1590-1664) Véronique Gens (Léonora – soprano) Agnus Dei - super ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la (for 6 and 7 voices) Antoinette Dennefeld (Frimouskino – mezzo-soprano) 01:01 AM Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel (director) Chantal Santon-Jeffery (Alvarès – soprano) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Anaïs Constans (Manoëla – soprano) Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 04:45 AM Diana Axentii (paquita / Marietta / Rosita - soprano) Swedish Radio Choir, Johannes Rostamo (cello), Michael William Hugh Albright (1944-1998) Éric Huchet (Maître Péronilla – tenor) Engstrom (organ), Kaspars Putnins (conductor) Morning reveries (excerpt Dream rags (1970)) Tassis Christoyannis (Ripardos – baritone) Donna Coleman (piano) François Piolino (Don Guardona – tenor) 01:14 AM Patrick Kabongo (Vélasquez Major – tenor) Sven-David Sandström (1942-2019) 04:52 AM Loïc Félix (Vélasquez Junior – tenor) Laudamus te (1993) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Yoann Dubruque (Le Marquis Don Henrique – baritone) Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putnins (conductor) Coriolan Overture, Op 62 Matthieu Lécroart (Don Fabrice / 1st Judge – bass-baritone) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck Raphaël Brémard (Le Notaire / Pédrillo - tenor) 01:23 AM (conductor) Jérôme Boutillier (Le Corrégidor / Brid’Oison / Juanito – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) baritone) Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 05:01 AM Philippe-Nicolas Martin (Félipe / Antonio / 2nd Judge – Swedish Radio Choir, Johannes Rostamo (cello), Michael Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) baritone) Engstrom (organ), Kaspars Putnins (conductor) Introduction to Act III & Dances of the Highlanders from Antoine Philippot (Le Majordome / L’Huissier / Un Valet – 'Halka' baritone) 01:32 AM Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz French Radio Choir Sven-David Sandström (1942-2019) (conductor) French National Orchestra Es ist genug Markus Poschner (conductor) Swedish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putnins (conductor) 05:08 AM Bru Zane BZ1039 (2 CDs + book) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) https://bru-zane.com/en/pubblicazione/maitre-peronilla/ 01:40 AM Trio for piano, clarinet and viola in E flat major, K498, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 'Kegelstatt' 9.30am Building a Library Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 Martin Frost (clarinet), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Cedric Swedish Radio Choir, Michael Engstrom (organ), Johannes Tiberghien (piano) Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Béla Bartók Rostamo (cello), Kaspars Putnins (conductor) Piano Concerto No. 3. 05:27 AM 02:02 AM Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) In a desperate fight against the clock, Bartók finished his final Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Berceuse, in D flat major, Op 57 piano concerto (and but for its last 17 bars, his final completed Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV.230 Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano) work) just four days before his death in New York on 26th Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, September 1945. More lyrical and less angular than his first two Ivars Taurins (conductor) 05:32 AM concertos, the third is much recorded, including by many of the Hugo Alfven (1872-1960), Herman Satherberg (lyricist) biggest and starriest pianists of our times. Perhaps its most 02:08 AM Aftonen (The Evening) memorable music is the central slow movement, based on Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson (conductor) Beethoven's 'Heiliger Dankgesang' (Holy song of thanksgiving), Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228 the middle movement of his string quartet Op. 132, written by Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, 05:36 AM Beethoven after he had recovered from illness. Like the Ivars Taurins (conductor) Franz Berwald (1796-1868) Beethoven, Bartók's music here is apparently simple and serene Septet in B flat major (1828) and features, too, a wonderful example of his night music, 02:17 AM Niklas Andersson (clarinet), Henrik Blixt (bassoon), Hans including evocative bird calls and a magical blending of Sven-David Sandström (1942-2019) Larsson (horn), Jannica Gustafsson (violin), Hakan Olsson orchestra and solo piano. En ny himmel och en ny jord (A new heaven and a new earth) (viola), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Maria Johansson (double Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman (conductor) bass) 10.15am New Releases
02:25 AM 05:59 AM The Early Horn: Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) Graun, Haydn and Telemann Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV.226 Overture à due chori in B flat Ursula Paludan Monberg (horn) Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor) Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor) Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen (director/harpsichord) 02:33 AM 06:24 AM Hyperion CDA68289 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68289 Symphony no 1 in C major, Op 21 String Quartet in D minor, Op 76, No. 2 Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor) Signum Quartet Suk: Symphony No. 2 'Asrael' Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 03:01 AM 06:46 AM Jakub Hruša (conductor) William Walton (1902-1983) John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) BR Klassik 900188 Cello Concerto Krazy Kat: A Jazz Pantomime (1921) Zara Nelsova (cello), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart (conductor) Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 Haitink (conductor) Federico Colli (piano) Chandos CHAN20134 03:29 AM SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m000g2v8) https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020134 Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Saturday - Elizabeth Alker Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' Adès Conducts Adès: Piano Concerto and Totentanz Orchestra London Canada, Uri Mayer (conductor) Classical music for breakfast time plus found sounds and the Christianne Stotijn (mezzo-soprano) odd unclassified track. Mark Stone (baritone) 03:55 AM Kirill Gerstein (piano) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Edvard Grieg Email [email protected] Boston Symphony Orchestra (arranger) Thomas Adès (conductor) Sonata for piano in C major, K545 (arr. Grieg) Deutsche Grammophon 4837998 Julie Adam (piano), Daniel Herscovitch (piano) SAT 09:00 Record Review (m000g2vb) https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/us/cat/4837998 Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No 3 on Building a Library with 04:04 AM Kate Molleson and Andrew McGregor 10.45am New Releases – Jeremy Summerly on new choral George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) releases Radamisto (excerpt 'Già che morir non posso') 9.00am Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Ash Wednesday: Byrd, Allegri, Weelkes and J. S. Bach Kossenko (director) Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 5 Choir of St John's College Cambridge Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) Andrew Nethsingha (director) 04:09 AM Manchester Camerata Signum SIGCD605 Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Gábor Takács-Nagy (conductor) https://signumrecords.com/product/ash-wednesday/SIGCD605/ Reverie Chandos CHAN20137(2) (2 Cds) Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Karkkainen (piano) https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020137 Tallis: Sacred Choral Music Fiori Musicali Choir 04:14 AM Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 1 and other works Penelope Rapson (director) Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Solistes Européens Luxembourg Fiori Musicali FMCD-1911 Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op 22 Christoph König (condcutor) Ludmil Angelov (piano), Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Naxos 8.574094 Janáček: Choral Works Orchestra, Milen Nachev (conductor) https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.57409 Thomas Walker (tenor) 4 Dirk Luijmes (harmonium) 04:28 AM Philip Mayers (piano) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 2 of 12 Ernestine Stoop (harp) Duration 00:08:31 SAT 17:00 J to Z (m000g2vk) Cappella Amsterdam Tony Allen and Martin Speake Daniel Reuss (director) 04 00:28:31 Nicolò Paganini Harmonia Mundi HMM932097 Variations on 'God save the King' Jumoké Fashola presents a session from UK saxophonist Martin http://www.harmoniamundi.com/#!/albums/1785 Performer: Salvatore Accardo Speake’s International Quartet, who recreate the sparkling Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra melodies and inventive solo flights of their latest release, There Will Come Soft Rains: Choral Works by Ēriks Ešenvalds Conductor: Charles Dutoit Intention, alongside brand new material. The band features The Pacific Lutheran Choir Of The West Duration 00:06:44 pianist Ethan Iverson (formerly of The Bad Plus), drummer Jeff Richard Nance (director) Williams and bassist Calum Gourlay. Signum SIGCD603 05 00:37:00 Johannes Brahms https://signumrecords.com/product/there-will-come-soft-rains/ Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major Op.83 - movement 3 Also in the programme, pioneering drummer Tony Allen shares Performer: Krystian Zimerman some of the music that inspires him and reflects on his time Jančevskis: Aeternum & other choral works Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic creating afrobeat with Fela Kuti and meeting his hero, Art Katrīna Kivleniece-Cābule (soprano saxophone) Conductor: Leonard Bernstein Blakey. Artis Sīmanis (alto saxophone) Duration 00:14:34 Ainars Šablovskis (tenor saxophone) Produced by Dominic Tyerman for Somethin’ Else. Kristaps Bergs (cello) 06 00:52:58 Claudio Monteverdi Ansis Jansons (zither) S'andasse amore a caccia Marta Kauliņa (percussion) Ensemble: Concerto Italiano SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (m000g2vm) Ernests Mediņš (percussion) Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini Giulio Cesare in Egitto Kristīne Adamaite (organ) Duration 00:01:23 Riga Cathedral Choir School Mixed Choir Martin Handley presents this performance of one of the most Jurģis Cābulis (conductor) 07 00:54:21 Claudio Monteverdi popular operas of the Baroque, Handel's 'Giulio Cesare in Hyperion CDA68328 Io mi son Giovinetta Egitto' first performed in London in 1724, recorded at the 2019 https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68328 Ensemble: Concerto Italiano George Enescu International Festival held biannually in Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini Bucharest. With Christopher Lowry as Cesare and Karina 11.15am Record of the Week Duration 00:02:16 Gauvin as Cleopatra and Les Talens Lyriques conducted by Christophe Rousset. Schoenberg: Violin Concerto & Verklärte Nacht 08 00:58:42 Giacomo Puccini Isabelle Faust (violin) Manon Lescaut - Act 2 duet 'Oh, saro la piu bella' 'Veni, Vidi, Vici', 'Et tu Brute?' and crossing the Rubicon - just Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin) Singer: Mirella Freni three things that come readily to mind when thinking of Julius Antoine Tamestit (viola) Singer: Plácido Domingo Caesar - a historical figure with a huge literary legacy. Danusha Waskiewicz (viola) Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli Since his own time, and his memoirs and contemporary Christian Poltéra (cello) Duration 00:08:25 accounts of deeds and misdeeds, to Shakespeare, to the operatic Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra stage, and on to Goscinny and Uderzo's comic creation in Daniel Harding (conductor) 09 01:08:51 Johannes Brahms Asterix and Obelix, and countless Latin textbooks; Julius Caesar Harmonia Mundi HMM902341 Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052 - 3rd movement has attracted repeated attention across the ages, and Martin is Performer: Mahan Esfahani joined by noted classicist Mary Beard to discuss the legacy of Ensemble: Concerto Köln the man who would be King of Rome. SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m000fzf8) Duration 00:08:15 Kate Molleson speaks to the cast and creative team of a new [this is the 1725 performing version omitting the characters production of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Royal Opera House. 10 01:19:33 Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco Nireno and Curio] Ballade for violin and piano She also talks to Marta Gardolinska, Young Conductor in Performer: Francesca Dego Cleopatra.....Karina Gauvin (Soprano) Association at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; discusses Performer: Francesca Leonardi Sesto.....Ann Hallenberg (Mezzo-soprano) We Are In Time, a new music-theatre piece about a heart Duration 00:11:45 Giulio Cesare.....Christopher Lowrey (Counter-tenor) transplant, with composer Valgeir Sigurdsson and writer Pamela Tolomeo.....Kacper Szelazek (Counter-tenor) Carter; and investigates the effectiveness of mood-based music 11 01:32:58 Jerry Bock Cornelia.....Eve-Maud Hubeaux (Mezzo-soprano) playlists. Fiddler on the roof - If I were a rich man Achilla.....Ashley Riches (Baritone) Lyricist: Sheldon Harnick Les Talens Lyriques Orchestra Music Arranger: John Williams Christophe Rousset (Harpsichord) SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m000d6n8) Singer: Topol Jess Gillam with... Flora Curzon Duration 00:04:56 SAT 22:00 New Music Show (m000g2vp) Saxophonist Jess Gillam is joined by violinist Flora Curzon. 12 01:40:15 Ralph Vaughan Williams Cold heat, tripotage and European towns They share music by Vivaldi, film music by Jonny Greenwood Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis and Shostakovich and a traditional Romanian doina and hora. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra Kate Molleson presents more of the best in new music in Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington concert and on download. Tonight features concert Duration 00:14:36 performances by soprano Juliet Fraser, Klein and Bastard SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m00010gw) Assignments. Violinist Francesca Dego finds Italian flavour wherever she 13 01:55:38 Richard Strauss listens Traum durch die Dammerung - 3 Lieder Op.29 no.1 James Luff: Some music for Molly Singer: Steve Davislim Violinist Francesca Dego admires the cool dexterity of her Orchestra: Orchestra Victoria Anna Meredith: Tripotage Miniatures teacher Salvatore Accardo, can’t resist the combination of Conductor: Simone Young Aurora Orchestra Brahms and the cello, and tries to work out how harpsichordist Duration 00:03:03 Mahan Esfahani gets around the fact he can’t play dynamics. Georgia Rodgers: Masking Set 14 01:59:58 Eric Spear Sara Rodrigues (alto) Francesca also treats us to her world premiere recording of a Coronation Street Theme piece by a composer she loves, fellow Italian Mario Orchestra: Studio Orchestra Tansy Davies: Loopholes and lynchpins Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Duration 00:01:02 Elizabeth Burley (piano)
At 2 o’clock Francesca’s Must Listen piece is a glorious operatic Klein: For what worth duet, where every phrase is given a special, emotion-wrenching SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m000g2vf) (featuring Matana Roberts) musical treatment. The Female Gaze Caitlin Rowley: Quiet Songs A series in which each week a musician reveals a selection of With the release this week of the acclaimed 'Portrait of a Lady Bastard Assignments music - from the inside. on Fire' with music by Jean-Baptiste Laubier, Matthew considers the impact of "the female gaze" on film- making. He Anders Hillborg: Cold Heat A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3 foregrounds films and their associated music that in some way Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David or other deliberately set out to examine the distinctive Zinman 01 00:04:51 Maurice Ravel perspectives of the female viewer. Matthew is joined by the String Quartet in F - last movement critic Pamela Hutchinson and features music to films such Laurence Crane: European towns (world premiere) Ensemble: Quartetto Italiano Greta Gerwig's 'Little Women', 'Thelma and Louise', Juliet Fraser (soprano) Duration 00:05:24 'Desperately Seeking Susan', 'The Night Porter, 'Wonder Colin Alexander (cello) Women', 'The Devil Wears Prada', 'The Piano' and the Classic Stephanie Tress (cello) 02 00:12:27 Benjamin Britten Score of the Week, music by Michel Legrand for Agnes Peteris Sokolovskis (cello) Serenade for tenor, horn, strings - Prologue and Pastoral Varda's 'Cleo from 5 to 7'. We also hear music form the Celine Performer: Martin Owen Sciamma's new film 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'. Tansy Davies: Grind show Performer: Clio Gould London Sinfonietta conducted by Richard Baker Singer: Toby Spence Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m000g2vh) Duration 00:04:31 With Lopa Kothari SUNDAY 01 MARCH 2020 03 00:18:07 Richard Strauss Lopa Kothari with the latest releases from across the globe, plus 'Aus Italien' Op.16 - finale a Road Trip to Mozambique with Ivan Larangeira., and a tribute SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000g2vr) Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to the late Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Roll the Dice Conductor: Riccardo Muti Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 3 of 12 Corey Mwamba hosts the best adventurous improvisation. Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) numerous awards for his buildings, not least for his bright-green Featuring a chance piece for a new-music chamber ensemble, Variations on "Casta diva - Ah! Bello" from Bellini's 'Norma' triangular public lavatory in London’s Westbourne Grove. And where a roll of the dice determines how many times to play Alison Balsom (trumpet), John Reid (piano) six of his buildings have been listed by English Heritage, certain materials and which path through the score to take, protected for posterity. He’s been president of the Architectural recorded at the Brasswind Festival in Norway. Plus, 05:01 AM Association, he’s a Royal Academician... which all sounds freewheeling avant-blues from Kim Macari’s Family Band, and Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778) steady enough, but trying to sum up his style, the Architects an abstract take on a British church hymn by saxophonist Guido Concerto in G major for solo flute, two flutes, viola & basso Journal said: “One’s never certain whether one is in a town Spannocchi and Capitol K. continuo house, a country house, a castle, or a gigantic piece of Jed Wentz (flute), Marion Moonen (flute), Cordula Breuer sculpture.” (flute), Musica ad Rhenum SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000g2vt) In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Piers Gough reflects on 90th Anniversary Concert of the Slovak Radio Symphony 05:09 AM the challenges of designing for the modern city, and on the Orchestra Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) influence of the accident that broke his spine and which at one Ballade no.1 in G minor (Op.23) point made him doubtful that he would ever walk again. He Music by Godar, Kodaly, Suchon, Novak and Moyzes. John Valerie Tryon (piano) shares, too, the surprise and fun of becoming a father in his Shea presents. sixties. 05:18 AM 01:01 AM Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) Music choices include William Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast”; Vladimir Godar (b.1956) Magnificat anima mea Dominum, SWV468 Monteverdi’s haunting love duet “Pur ti miro”; Handel’s Tombeau de Bartók Cologne Chamber Chorus, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter “Semele”; and Piers's favourite country-music track, “Truckstop Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Valentovic Neumann (conductor) Honeymoon”. (conductor) 05:29 AM A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3 01:20 AM Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) Produced by Elizabeth Burke. Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) Suite for cello solo no.1 Dances from Galánta Esther Nyffenegger (cello) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Valentovic SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000fnbw) (conductor) 05:39 AM The other Mendelssohn Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) 01:36 AM Wienerblut (waltz) (Op 354) From Wigmore Hall, London, the Finnish string quartet Meta4 Eugen Suchon (1908-1993) Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Borge Wagner (conductor) play the first of Bartók's six great Quartets and a rarely heard Symfonietta rustica quartet by Fanny Mendelssohn. Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Valentovic 05:49 AM (conductor) Frantisek Jiranek (1698-1778) Introduced by Andrew McGregor. Bassoon Concerto in F major 01:54 AM Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Collegium Marianum, Jana Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat Vitezslav Novak (1870-1949) Semeradova (director) Bartók: String Quartet No 1 In the Tatras, op. 26 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Valentovic 05:59 AM (conductor) Louis Spohr (1784-1859) SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (b08dnjb2) String Sextet in C, Op 140 Thomas Campion 02:13 AM Wiener Streichsextett (sextet) Alexander Moyzes (1906-1984) Lucie Skeaping marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of Pohronie Dances, op. 43 06:24 AM English composer, poet and physician Thomas Campion. Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Peter Valentovic Antonio Soler (1729-1783) (conductor) Fandango for keyboard in D minor, R 146 01 00:05:10 Thomas Campion Scott Ross (harpsichord) When To Her Lute Corrina Sings 02:34 AM Performer: Anthony Rooley Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) 06:36 AM Singer: Emma Kirkby Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34 Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Duration 00:01:36 James Campbell (clarinet), Orford String Quartet Piano Trio in G major 'Premier Trio' (c.1879) Grumiaux Trio 02 00:08:24 Thomas Campion 03:01 AM My Love Hath Vow'd Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) Performer: Andreas Martin Concerto in modo misolidio for piano and orchestra SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000fzl4) Singer: Andreas Scholl Olli Mustonen (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Markus Sunday - Martin Handley Duration 00:02:53 Lehtinen (conductor) Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show 03 00:12:59 Thomas Campion 03:37 AM including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio The Sypres Curten Of The Night Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) soundscape. Performer: Christopher Wilson String Octet in E flat major, Op 20 Singer: Michael Chance Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Per KristianSkalstad (violin), Frode Email [email protected] Duration 00:06:26 Larsen (violin), Tor Johan Boen (violin), Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Catherine Bullock (viola), oystein Sonstad (cello), Ernst 04 00:20:35 Thomas Campion Simon Glaser (cello) SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m000fzl6) Oft Have I Sigh'd For Him That Heares Me Not Sarah Walker with guest Gary Raymond Performer: David Tayler 04:09 AM Singer: Brian Asawa George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting Duration 00:03:38 Pensieri notturni di Filli: Italian cantata No 17, HWV 134 music to complement your morning, and puts a musical spin on Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Musica Alta Ripa events. 05 00:25:51 Thomas Campion My Sweetest Lesbia 04:17 AM Today Sarah puts woodwind instruments in the spotlight with a Performer: Andreas Martin Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994), Gregor Piatigorsky (arranger) beautiful renaissance dance, a concerto by Vaughan Williams Singer: Andreas Scholl 5 Bukoliki for viola and cello and three fantasy pieces by Robert Schumann. After that she Duration 00:03:42 Maxim Rysanov (viola), Kristina Blaumane (cello) plays exuberant music by two leading American composers, a piquant song from inner Mongolia, and enjoys the powerful 06 00:29:36 Thomas Campion 04:25 AM combination of the voice of Bryn Terfel and the music of I Care Not For These Ladies Leopold Ebner (1769-1830) Richard Rodgers. Performer: Desmond Dupré Trio in B flat major Singer: Alfred Deller Zagreb Woodwind Trio At 10.30am Sarah invites novelist and broadcaster Gary Duration 00:01:41 Raymond to join her for the Sunday Morning monthly arts 04:32 AM roundup, focussing on five cultural happenings around the UK, 07 00:31:18 Thomas Campion Vaino Haapalainen (1893-1945) from film, theatre and visual art, to dance and TV - including It Fell On A Sommers Daie Lemminkainen Overture (1925) the rediscovery of a classic BBC Arts documentary available on Performer: Paul O’Dette Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atso Almila (conductor) iPlayer. Singer: Drew Minter Duration 00:02:17 04:41 AM A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3 Richard Flury (1896-1967) 08 00:34:22 Thomas Campion Three pieces for violin and piano Beauty Since You So Much Desire Sibylle Tschopp (violin), Isabel Tschopp (piano) SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m000fzl8) Performer: Elizabeth Kenny Piers Gough Singer: Robin Blaze 04:49 AM Duration 00:01:51 Anonymous Piers Gough co-founded his own architectural practice while he Puse mis amores was still at college, at the age of only twenty-two. He made his 09 00:39:08 Thomas Campion Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Maite Arruabarrena (mezzo name during the redevelopment of London’s Docklands, though Now Hath Flora Rob'd Her Bowers soprano), Laurence Bonnal (counter tenor), Hesperion XX, you can also see his work in Liverpool (the golden “bling bling” Performer: David Tayler Jordi Savall (director) building), in Nottingham, where he built a centre for Maggie’s Singer: Brian Asawa cancer charity, and in Glasgow, where he designed the Duration 00:03:31 04:53 AM masterplan for the redevelopment of the Gorbals. He’s won Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 4 of 12 10 00:42:39 Thomas Campion Duration 4.26 Sibelius, Nielsen, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Björk and Gyða Move Now With Measured Sound Performers: Bobby Wellins, ts; Liam Noble, p; Simon Thorpe, Valtýsdóttir all feature. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny b; Dave Wickens, d. 2000. Singer: Robin Blaze You might also be interested in a new three-part series called Duration 00:02:08 DISC 5 Nordic Sounds, presented by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Artist Michael Gibbs which starts tonight on Radio 3. 11 00:46:22 Thomas Campion Title On The Third Day Wooe Her, And Win Her Composer Gibbs Producer: Paul Frankl Performer: Elizabeth Kenny Album Michael Gibbs Singer: Robin Blaze Label Deram Duration 00:02:09 Number 3006 Side B track 4 SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m000fzld) Duration 8.08 The East Speaks Back 12 00:50:21 John Coprario Performers Derek Watkins, Henry Lowther, Ian Hamer, Kenny So Parted You Wheeler, Maurice Miller, Nigel Carter, John Wilbraham, t; We are used to getting a world view from the west, but what did Performer: Elizabeth Kenny Bobby Lamb, Chris Pyne, Cliff Hardie, David Horler, tb; Ken the east make of us? Jerry Brotton heads to Turkey on the trail Director: Gabriel Crouch Goldie, Maurice Gee, Ray Premru, btb; Dick Hart, Martin Fry, of one the world's great travellers, Ottoman writer Evliya Singer: Mark Chambers tu; Alan Civil, Jim Buck, Nicolas Busch, frh; Alan Skidmore, Celebi. In the 17th century, Celebi described the places he Duration 00:04:20 Barbara Thompson, Duncan Lamont, John Surman, Mike visited and the people he encountered in what has been called Osborne, Ray Warleigh, Tony Roberts, reeds; Mick Pyne, Bob 'the world's first travel book'. It gives us a fascinating insight 13 00:56:41 Thomas Campion Cornford, kb; Alan Ford, Fred Alexander, vc; Ray Russell, into how the Ottomans viewed western civilisation. Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire Chris Spedding, g; Brian Odges, Jack Bruce, b; John Marshall, Performer: Paul O’Dette Tony Oxley, d. Dir: Michael Gibbs, 1970. Talking to modern day Turkish and Bulgarian writers and Singer: Drew Minter historians, Jerry pieces together a story of cultural interchange Duration 00:02:01 DISC 6 and mutual fascination, along with a few tall tales along the Artist Sonny Stitt way. Tracing Celebi's journey across Europe involves 14 00:59:54 Thomas Campion Title Blues for Pres, Sweets, Ben and all the other funky ones something of a logistical nightmare for Jerry as he makes his Never Weather-Beaten Saile Composer Stitt way from Istanbul through the Balkans to Vienna, the city the Performer: Jacob Heringman Album Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio Ottomans saw as 'the golden apple'. Singer: Barbara Bonney Label Verve Duration 00:02:20 Number Track 7 Producer Mark Rickards Duration 6.04 Performers Sonny Stitt, ts; Oscar Peterson, p; Ray Brown, b; Ed SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000fmt6) Thigpen, d. 1959 SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (b08k4s1p) The Temple Church, London A Streetcar Named Desire DISC 7 From the Temple Church, London on Ash Wednesday. Artist West London Rhythm Kings Anne Marie Duff leads a stellar cast in a new landmark Title The Eyes of Texas production of Tennessee Williams's iconic play, telling the story Introit: Salvator mundi (Tallis) Composer John Lang Sinclair of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, Responses: Tomkins Album Remembering Doug Kennedy embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Psalm 51: Miserere (James MacMillan) Label John Keen Kowalski. First Lesson: Isaiah 1 vv.10-18 Number 001 Track 3 Canticles: Short Service (Weelkes) Duration 6.14 Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep of her Second Lesson: Luke 15 vv.11-32 Performers: John Keen, t; Tony Pyke, cl; Pete Dyer, tb; Doug sister Stella and her explosive brother-in-law Stanley. Over the Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end (Greene) Kennedy, bj; Terry Knight, b; Dave Evans, d. 8 Dec 1991. course of one hot and steamy New Orleans summer, Blanche's Prayer Anthem: Come, let us return to the Lord (Gareth fragile façade slowly crumbles, wreaking havoc on Stella and Treseder) DISC 8 Stanley's already turbulent relationship. Embodying the turmoil Voluntary: Fantasia in C Minor BWV 562 (Bach) Artist City Ramblers Skiffle Group and drama of a changing nation, A Streetcar Named Desire Title 2.19 Blues strips Williams's tortured characters of their illusions, leaving a Roger Sayer (Director of Music) Composer trad wake of destruction in their path. Charles Andrews (Organist) Album Golden Years of Revival Jazz Vol 9 Label Storyville Tennessee Williams's 1947 play is justifiably one of the most Number Track 9 loved and well-known stage plays of the 20th century. It won SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m000fzlb) Duration 4.08 the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics' 01/03/20 Performers: Hylda Sims, v; g; Henrik Johansen, cl; Russell Circle Award in 1948, and picked up four Oscars when it Quaye, g; Bobo Buquet, b; Alan Sutton, wbd. 12 Sept 1956. transferred to the screen with largely the same cast three years Jazz records from across the genre, as requested by Radio 3 later. When it made its London debut, the Public Morality listeners. DISC 9 Council denounced it as "salacious and pornographic". Not Artist Joe Zawinul coincidentally, the production was booked solid for nine DISC 1 Title Brown Street months. Artist Henry Red Allen Composer Shorter Title Love Me Or Leave Me Album Brown Street Anne-Marie Duff (Blanche) is an Olivier-winning actress, who Composer Donaldson, Kahn Label Cream will soon be appearing in DC Moore's 'Common' at the National Album World on a String Number 830-2 CD 1 Track 1 Theatre. Matthew Needham's (Stanley) previous work includes Label Bluebird Duration 10.58 the eponymous role in Mark Ravenhill's 'Candide' at the RSC. Number ND 82947 Track 8 Performers: Joe Zawinul (keyboards, vocoder); Victor Bailey Pippa Bennett-Warner (Stella) recently appeared in The Beaux' Duration 5.13 (bass guitar); Nathaniel Townsley (drums); Alex Acuña Stratagem at the National Theatre, and in River on BBC One. Performers: Henry Red Allen, t; J C Higginbotham, tb; Buster (percussion), WDR Big Band. 2006 John Heffernan's (Mitch) work includes titular roles in Bailey, cl; Coleman Hawkins, ts; Marty Napoleon, p; Everett 'Macbeth' at the Young Vic Theatre and 'Oppenheimer' with the Barksdale g; Lloyd Trotman, b; Cozy Cole, d. 10 April 1957. RSC. SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b0b89gc6) DISC 2 The Fifth Broadcast by arrangement with the University of the South, Artist Humphrey Lyttelton Sewanee, Tennessee. Title Bad Penny Blues Tom Service savours the sound of the fifth - an interval with Composer Lyttelton many meanings, from mystic drone to military bugle call. He's Album 1955-56 joined by Early Music expert Jeremy Llewellyn who explains SUN 21:25 Radio 3 in Concert (m000fzlg) Label Lake the significance of the fifth in medieval music, related to The Mahler and the forever Number 238 CD 2 Track 11 Music of the Spheres and used to invoke the Almighty in Duration 2.46 religious chant; and by composer David Bruce, who describes Fiona Talkington introduces a concert recorded last year at the Performers Humphrey Lyttelton, t; Johnny Parker, p; Jim Bray, how composers today find fresh uses for this primal sound. Rudolfinum in Prague, in which Sir Simon Rattle conducts the b; Stan Greig, p. 20 April 1956 Tom finds the open, ringing sound of the fifth in all sorts of Czech Philharmonic in Dvořák's The Golden Spinning Wheel music, from a Buzzcocks guitar solo to a Bruckner symphony, and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. DISC 3 providing the thrill of adventure in the Star Wars theme and Artist Karen Sharp underpinning the reels of Scottish bagpipe music. Dvořák: The Golden Spinning Wheel Title My Blue Jacket Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Composer Sharp Album Another Place SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m000dxyn) Magdalena Kožena (mezzo-soprano) Label KLS Nordic Noir Simon O'Neill (tenor) Number 001 Track 8 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Duration 5.14 The actors Lars Mikkelsen (House of Cards, The Killing, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) Performers Karen Sharp, ts; Colin Oxley, g; Simon Thorpe, b. Borgen and Ride Upon the Storm) and Vera Vitali (star of the 2019. mega-hit series Bonus Family) read from the misdemeanour, magic and poetry of Scandinivian gloom and Nordic Noir - the SUN 23:00 Nordic Sounds (m000fzlj) DISC 4 term given to a genre of crime writing established in the Martin Music and Landscape Artist Bobby Wellins Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Other Title Fascinating Rhythm crime writing featured in the programme includes Jo Nesbø, Historian Eleanor Rosamunde Barraclough looks at Nordic Composer Gershwin Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, along with the history, culture, and identity, through the music of the region. Album The Best Is Yet To Come philosophising of Søren Kierkegaard and prose by William She begins by exploring the influence of landscape, with music Label Jazzizit Heinesen that straddles the spirit-world and imagination. As by Jean Sibelius, Jan Garbarek, Bjork and Anna Number CD0024 Track 3 ever, music shapes and charges the atmosphere even further. Thorvaldsdottir. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 5 of 12 MONDAY 02 MARCH 2020 Bozidar Sirola (1889-1956) Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. Missa Poetica MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m00093z8) Slovenian Chamber Choir, Vladimir Kranjcevic (director) 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics The Guilty Feminist aka Deborah Frances-White playlist. 03:38 AM Writer, comedian and host of the hit podcast The Guilty Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) 1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music Feminist, Deborah Frances-White, tries Clemmie's classical Nocturne no 1 in E flat minor, Op 33 No 1 making of the British Isles. playlist. Stephane Lemelin (piano) 1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Deborah's playlist in full: 03:45 AM Handel arias. David Popper (1843-1913) John Adams: Hallelujah Junction: 1st Movement Hungarian rhapsody, Op 68 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's Isobel Waller-Bridge: The Last Words of M Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario musical reflection. George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo / Act 2: Vo' far guerra Bernardi (conductor) Howard Skempton: More Sweet Than My Refrain Miriam Hyde: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp minor: 2. 03:54 AM MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000fzdt) Andante tranquillo Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) Florence Price (1887-1953) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, P. 77: I. Stabat Mater A Sad paven for these distracted tymes for string quartet dolorosa Pavel Haas Quartet Florence Price experiences racial prejudice
04:01 AM Donald Macleod looks at Florence Price's early years and MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000fzlm) Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) explores the impact racial prejudice had on her life and career. Romeo and Juliet Florez and Blanzeflor, Op 3 Peter Mattei (baritone), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Florence Price became a highly successful classical composer, Music inspired by the Shakespeare's tragic tale. John Shea Manfred Honeck (conductor) organist, pianist and teacher of music during the 20th century in presents. America. She was the first African-American woman to be 04:10 AM recognised as a composer of symphonic music, and also the first 12:31 AM Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Anton Webern (orchestrator) African-American woman to have her works performed by one Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) 6 Deutsche Tänze, D820 of the world’s leading orchestras. In collaboration with the Arts Sinfonia, from 'I Capuleti e i Montecchi' Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor) and Humanities Research Council, BBC Radio 3 launched the WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) Forgotten Women Composers Project, of which Florence Price 04:19 AM was one of the championed composers. With the assistance of 12:36 AM Richard Strauss (1864-1949) the composer and educator Shirley Thompson, scores by Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) Festmusik der Stadt Wien AV.133 for brass and percussion Florence Price were located and subsequently recorded by BBC Excerpts from 'Romeo and Juliet, op. 64' Tom Watson (trumpet), Royal Academy of Music Brass orchestras and choirs. It will be the first time Florence Price has WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) Soloists been featured on Composer of the Week, and the series is supplemented by many specially recorded works. 12:45 AM 04:31 AM Hitoshi Sakimoto (b. 1969), Roger Wanamo (arranger) Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) Florence Price was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1887. She Excerpts from 'Romeo x Juliet' Symphony in C major, Op 10 No 4 was baptised as Florence Beatrice Smith, and took the surname WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor) of Price once married. Her family were relatively well-off, and were seen as middleclass. Her mother would often host 12:52 AM 04:40 AM musicians in their house, and she encouraged her daughter Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Frederick Muller (arranger) Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) Florence to play music, giving her first public recital as a pianist Highlights from 'West Side Story' Excerpts from Songs Without Words, Op 6 (1846) at the age of four. Racial tensions at this time were never far WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) Sylviane Deferne (piano) away, and when Florence was at university she changed her birthplace to Mexico. Her parents believed that her future 12:57 AM 04:50 AM career would be hampered when being identified as black, Nino Rota (1911-1978), Karl Heinz Loges (arranger), Ingo Luis Vladimir Ruzdjak (1922-1987) whereas it would be improved if she were considered of (arranger) 5 Folk Tunes for baritone and orchestra Spanish origin. Florence only perpetuated this myth regarding Love Theme from 'Romeo and Juliet' Miroslav Zivkovich (baritone), Croatian Radio and Television her birthplace for a year or so. Once she graduated Florence WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor) returned to Little Rock. She went on to teach at Shorter College in Argenta, going on to become Head of Music at Clark 01:01 AM 05:00 AM University in Atlanta. Despite rising so quickly to the position Elton John (b.1947), Marc-Aurel Floros (arranger) Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) of Head of Music, black teachers at this time including Price, Your Song Zigeunerweisen for violin and orchestra (Op.20) were often paid less than their white counterparts. WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) Laurens Weinhold (violin), Brussels Chamber Orchestra The Deserted Garden 01:06 AM 05:09 AM Zina Schiff, violin Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Giovanni Valentini (1582/3-1649) Cameron Grant, piano Juliet asleep, from 'Roméo et Juliette' Fra bianchi giglie, a 7 WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata Koln Sonata in E minor (Andante – Allegro) Althea Waites, piano 01:09 AM 05:19 AM Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) Carlos Salzedo (1885-1961) Suite for Organ No 1 (Fughetta and Air) Excerpt from 'Romeo and Juliet, op. 64' Variations sur un theme dans le style ancien, Op 30 Kimberly Marshall, organ WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) Mojca Zlobko (harp) The Oak 01:17 AM 05:29 AM The Women’s Philharmonic Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Apo Hsu, conductor Funeral March , from 'Romeo and Juliet, incidental music, AV Quintet for wind (Op.43) 86' Cinque Venti Violin Concerto No 2 WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) Er-Gene Kahng, violin 05:53 AM Janacek Philharmonic 01:20 AM Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) Ryan Cockerham, conductor Frederick Delius (1862-1934), Thomas Beecham (arranger) Intermezzo for string quartet in E flat major (1886) The Walk to the Paradise Garden, from 'A Village Romeo and Ljubljana String Quartet Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales Juliet' WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Wayne Marshall (director) 06:05 AM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000fzdw) 01:29 AM Piano Concerto No.23 in A major (K.488) Viola soul Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Joanna MacGregor (piano), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, 12 Studies Op 25 for piano Susanna Malkki (conductor) Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Lukas Geniusas (piano) The acclaimed French violist Lise Berthaud is joined by her 02:01 AM MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000fzdp) pianist compatriot David Saudubray to perform two major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Monday - Petroc's classical alarm call sonatas that were originally conceived for other instruments. Quartet in G major (K.387) While Schubert's much-loved Arpeggione sonata was written Quatuor Mosaiques, Erich Hobarth (violin), Andrea Bischof Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, for the bowed guitar after which it is named, and has been (violin), Anita Mitterer (viola), Christophe Coin (cello) including listener requests, and in a daily feature Steve transcribed for cello amongst other instruments, Brahms's 1894 Rosenberg, amateur pianist and BBC Moscow correspondent, sonatas was originally written for clarinet. 02:31 AM introduces music for a Russian spring. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Presented by Fiona Talkington. Triple Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra in C major (Op. Email [email protected] 56) Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 (trans. Ulrich Arve Tellefsen (violin), Truls Mork (cello), Havard Gimse von Wrochem) (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor) MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000fzdr) Brahms: Viola Sonata in F minor, Op 120 No 1 Ian Skelly 03:06 AM Lise Berthaud (viola) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 6 of 12 David Saudubray (piano) atmosphere, his clarinet concerto Peacock Tales is less abstract 02:31 AM and more immediate, tailored to the theatrical and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) communicative flair of soloist Martin Fröst. There are two UK Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV131 (Cantata) MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000fzdy) premieres: Carolin Widmann is the soloist in the Violin Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto), BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers Concerto No 1, and Through Lost Landscapes is brand-new Christopher Purves (bass), Krystian Adam (tenor), Wroclaw work co-commissioned by the BBC. Philharmonic Chorus, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Penny Gore presents a week with the BBC Symphony Orchestra Antonini (conductor) and the BBC Singers. Presented by Natasha Riordan. Surely you jest? A Beethoven-inspired concert with a 02:55 AM difference from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Portuguese Recorded at the Barbican Hall, London, on Saturday 22nd Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) powerhouse conductor Joana Carneiro. The ‘Eroica’ symphony February 2020. Violin Sonata no 1 in A major Op.13 blew classical music sky-high and the Grosse Fuge still sounds Bomsori Kim (violin), Philip Chiu (piano) modern after nearly 200 years. John Adams’ Absolute Jest – Anders Hillborg: starring the Doric Quartet – absorbs musical artefacts, saluting Fanfare 03:19 AM Beethoven the way he would have wanted: with one enormous Eleven Gates Richard Strauss (1864-1949) musical joke. Beast Sampler Love Scene - from the opera 'Feuersnot', Op 50 Followed by the BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor Sofi Concerto for Clarinet 'Peacock Tales' Millennium Version Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor) Jeannin, who perform the world premiere of David Sawer’s work for choir and bassoon 'How Among the Frozen Words'. 8.25pm 03:28 AM The perfect music for a winter’s afternoon, this piece came Interval - Anders Hillborg talks to Natasha Riordan about his Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) from a chapter in Rabelais’ novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. life and music. Prelude, theme and variations for horn and piano in E major Whilst travelling towards the North Pole, Rabelais describes Mindaugas Gecevicius (horn), Ala Bendoraitiene (piano) seeing letters of the alphabet frozen in the sky. Sawer's also 8.35pm inspired by Omyakon, a remote village in eastern Siberia which Anders Hillborg: 03:39 AM holds the record for the coldest place on earth. Also in the Violin Concerto no. 1 Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896) programme, repertoire by Edvard Grieg, Karin Rehnqvist, Through Lost Landscapes. (BBC co-commission, UK premiere) Aria: "Elle ne croyait pas" (from "Mignon", Act 3) Kaija Saariaho and Matthias Skold. Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Canadian Opera Company Carolin Widmann (violin) Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor) 2.00pm Martin Fröst (clarinet) Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 BBC Symphony Orchestra 03:43 AM John Adams: Absolute Jest for string quartet and orchestra Sakari Oramo (conductor) Bernardo Storace (1637-1707) Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 'Eroica' Ciaconna Doric String Quartet United Continuo Ensemble BBC Symphony Orchestra MON 22:00 Music Matters (m000fzf8) Joana Carneiro, conductor [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 on Saturday] 03:50 AM Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) 3.40pm Symphony in B flat major (Wq.182 No.2) Karin Rehnqvist: HAYA! MON 22:45 The Essay (m000fzfb) Camerata Bern Edvard Grieg: Ved Rondane, 12 Songs Op. 33 No. 9 Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf Kaija Saariaho: Nuits adieux 04:01 AM Edvard Grieg: Ave Maris Stella Charlotte Turner Smith Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Mattias Skold: We Know Not Where The Dragons Fly Preludes (Op.28 Nos.16-20) Edvard Grieg: Våren, 12 Songs Op. 33 No. 2 New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau argues that we Krzysztof Jablonski (piano) David Sawer: How Among the Frozen Words* - BBC should salute this woman who supported her family through her COMMISSION WORLD PREMIERE writing, who perfected sonnets about solitude before 04:10 AM Wordsworth began writing his, and who explored the struggles Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Jonathan Davies, bassoon* of women and refugees in her fiction. Mother to 12 children, Gestillte Sehnsucht Op 91 no 1 BBC Singers Charlotte Turner Smith wrote ten novels, three poetry Judita Leitaite (mezzo soprano), Arunas Statkus (viola), Sofi Jeannin, conductor collections and four children's books and translated French Andrius Vasiliauskas (piano) fiction. In 1788 her first novel, Emmeline, sold 1500 copies within months but by the time of her death in 1803 her 04:16 AM MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000fzf0) popularity had declined and she had become destitute. Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Antonin Dvorak (orchestrator) Music by Handel and CPE Bach Legend in C major, Op 59 no 4 New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl Czech period instrument group, Ensemble 18+, under the the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with (conductor) direction of Blanka Karnetová, with Handel's overture to his academics to turn their research into radio. oratorio Messiah, then his Harp Concerto in B flat, Op. 4/6, 04:23 AM with soloist Kateřina Englichová, finishing with the Sinfonia in Producer: Robyn Read Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680) C Wq. 182/3, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Suite no 2 in D major Presented by Penny Gore. Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Rosanne Hunt (cello), Linda Kent MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000fzfd) (harpsichord) 4.30pm Music for midnight Handel: Messiah HWV 56, overture 04:31 AM Handel: Harp Concerto in B flat major, op. 4/6, HWV 294 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900), P. Gunther CPE Bach: Sinfonia in C Wq. 182/3 soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to (arranger), U. Teuber (arranger) contemporary and everything in between. Blomstre som en rosengard (Blooming like a rose garden) Kateřina Englichová, harp Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director) Ensemble 18+ Blanka Karnetová, director 04:36 AM TUESDAY 03 MARCH 2020 Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Carl Tausig (arranger) Sonata in D minor Kk 9 'Pastorale' MON 17:00 In Tune (m000fzf2) TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000fzfg) Joseph Moog (piano) Elizabeth Llewellyn, Linos Piano Trio, Igudesman & Joo Variations and Dances 04:39 AM Katie Derham is joined by the Linos Piano Trio, and by soprano The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky Willem De Fesch (1687-1761) Elizabeth Llewellyn, currently starring in Verdi's Luisa Miller and Rachmaninov. With John Shea. Concerto No.3 in G major – from Six Concerti Opera Quinta with English National Opera. And the duo Igudesman & Joo, (Op.5) who use their musical virtuosity to great comic effect, also join 12:31 AM Musica ad Rhenum Katie. They are in the UK for a concert with the London Britta Byström (b.1977) Philharmonic Orchestra. Farewell Variations 04:47 AM Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) (conductor) 4 Sea interludes Op 33a MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000fzf4) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor) Power through with classical music 12:48 AM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) 05:04 AM In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33 Gustav Holst (1874-1934) including a few surprises. Amalie Stalheim (cello), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wind Quintet Op 14 in A flat major Dalia Stasevska (conductor) Cinque Venti
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000fzf6) 01:09 AM 05:19 AM Total Immersion: Anders Hillborg Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Symphonic Dances, Op 45 Five Scottish and Irish songs It is easy to immerse yourself in music as seductive as that of Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska Stephen Powell (tenor), Lorraine Reinhardt (soprano), Linda Anders Hillborg - the Swedish maverick with a background in (conductor) Lee Thomas (piano), Gwen Thompson (violin), Eugene pop and electronics. The climax of the BBC Symphony Osadchy (cello), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn Orchestra's Total Immersion is this concert, in which large- 01:45 AM (conductor) scale, spectral canvases full of detail and playfulness will Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) mesmerize you. Whilst some of Hillborg’s works are traditional Piano sonata no 29 in B flat, op 106 'Hammerklavier' 05:33 AM Nordic nature landscapes built on spatial breadth and filmic Kabi Laretei (fortepiano) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 7 of 12 String Quartet in E minor Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales Dimitrios Skyllas: Kyrie Eleison (World Premiere; BBC & Artis Quartet Onassis Cultural Centre co-commission)
05:54 AM TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0000hc1) BBC Symphony Orchestra Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Artist Spotlight at LSO St Luke's Robert Spano, conductor Piano Concerto no 1 in B flat minor, Op 23 Andre Laplante (piano), Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Ingrid Fliter Yoav Talmi (conductor) TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000fwf4) In the first of four concerts this week, the spotlight is on Inon Barnatan, Florilegium, Lucy Stevens Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter who focuses on the solo piano TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000fwdv) works of Chopin, from his nocturnes to his Ballade No 4 in F Katie Derham introduces live music from the pianist Inon Tuesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine minor, recorded at LSO St Luke's in London. Barnatan, and from the early music ensemble Florilegium: Ashley Solomon (flute), Reiko Ichise (viola da gamba) and Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show Presented by Fiona Talkington. David Miller (theorbo). Singer Lucy Stevens also visits Katie to including listener requests, and in a daily feature Steve talk about her new recording of music by Ethel Smyth. Rosenberg, amateur pianist and BBC Moscow correspondent, CHOPIN introduces music for a Russian spring. 2 Nocturnes, D-flat major Op.27 No.2 & Op.9 No.3 Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op.44 TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000fwf6) Email [email protected] Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 No.2 Expand your horizons with classical music Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op.50 No.3 3 Ecossaises Op.72 In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000fwdx) Nocturne in B major, Op.62 No.1 including a few surprises. Ian Skelly Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52
Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. Ingrid Fliter (piano) TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000fwf8) Piano Experiments 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Concert recorded at LSO St Luke's, London, on 14 September playlist. 2018. Beethoven’s piano variations are a continuous thread which run through the whole of his composing life. The five sets of 1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music Four leading pianists take us into their musical worlds. Focusing variations in Cédric Tiberghien’s recital, from the earliest making of the British Isles. on a single composer each, they reveal the poetry, charm, period in Beethoven’s career, brilliantly show what Beethoven intricacy and intimacy of music by Chopin, Mozart, Bach and could already do with a simple theme. 1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Schubert. Handel arias. Tiberghien has chosen to intersperse Beethoven’s variations with music by 20th century American experimentalists. It’s a 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000fwf2) fitting tribute: Beethoven was, after all, one of the most forward- musical reflection. Live from Salford: BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers thinking figures in all music, constantly trying out what could be achieved by pushing the limits of instruments, especially his Live from Salford - presented by Sarah Walker. own, the piano. TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000fwdz) The BBC Philharmonic performing at MediaCity with Florence Price (1887-1953) repertoire including two pieces by the Israeli composer Paul And like Beethoven, these 20th-century composers are striving Ben-Haim, his Pastorale variee for clarinet, harp and string to discover new ways of writing for the piano: from the chance Florence Price and marriage orchestra, and his piece Pan, featuring soprano Claudia elements of John Cage’s 7 Haiku, to the haunting beauty of Barainsky, performed as bookends. In the middle comes Elgar's George Crumb’s Processional, which lets the pianist choose Donald Macleod looks at the impact married life had on the life Cello Concerto with soloist Anastasia Kobekina. The orchestra from alternative passages in the score. and career of Florence Price. is conducted by Omer Meir Wellber. Then the afternoon continues with Penny Gore presenting Recorded last month at Wigmore Hall and presented by Georgia Florence Price became a highly successful classical composer, excerpts from a concert given recently by the BBC Singers in Mann. organist, pianist and teacher of music during the 20th century in which conductor Sofi Jeannin explored German Romantic America. She was the first African-American woman to be repertoire, including Abendfeier in Vendedig by Clara Beethoven: 5 Variations on 'Rule Britannia' in D, WoO 79 recognised as a composer of symphonic music, and also the first Schumann and some arrangements for choir of songs by Feldman: Last Pieces African-American woman to have her works performed by one Schubert. Beethoven: 6 Variations on an Original Theme in G, WoO 77 of the world’s leading orchestras. In collaboration with the Arts Next come two pieces by Detlev Glanert, taken from the recent Cage: 7 Haiku and Humanities Research Council, BBC Radio 3 launched the BBC SO’s Total Immersion season dedicated to the German Beethoven: 9 Variations on a March by Dressler in C minor, Forgotten Women Composers Project, of which Florence Price composer's work, first his Three Pieces for viola and piano WoO 63 was one of the championed composers. With the assistance of followed by one of his Three Songs on poems by Christoph the composer and educator Shirley Thompson, scores by Klimke, performed by musicians from the Guildhall School of INTERVAL Florence Price were located and subsequently recorded by BBC Music & Drama. orchestras and choirs. It will be the first time Florence Price has It's followed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with music that Crumb: Processional been featured on Composer of the Week, and the series is lays down roots in ritual and lament. After the meditative Beethoven: 12 Variations on 'Menuet à la Viganò' from Haibel’s supplemented by many specially recorded works. stillness of Arvo Pärt’s sonic sculpture in memory of a dear Le nozze disturbate in C, WoO 68 colleague, we hear the fruits of the first Greek composer ever Cage: In a Landscape Donald Macleod journeys through Florence Price’s period of commissioned for the BBC SO’s Barbican concerts: Dimitrios Beethoven: 7 Variations on 'God save the King' in C, WoO 78 marriage to the ambitious and successful New England lawyer Skyllas’s Kyrie Eleison. Thomas Jewell Price. Although Price subsequently gave up her Cédric Tiberghien (piano) career as a performer, she did continue to develop as a music 2.00pm - Live from Salford teacher and composer. Price also continued her own personal Ben-Haim: Pastorale variee for clarinet, harp and string study of composition, harmony and orchestration at the Chicago orchestra TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m000fwfb) Musical College. However, at this time racial tensions in Elgar: Cello Concerto Anne Enright + the value of gossip Arkansas were escalating, and Price and her family had to flee Ben-Haim: Pan* for their lives to Chicago, where she picked up her career again The Irish novelist Anne Enright talks to Laurence Scott about as a musician. By the time of the Great Depression, Thomas John Bradbury, clarinet her new book Actress and being the inaugural Irish laureate, Price found it difficult to find work, and started to become Anastasia Kobekina, cello plus a discussion of gossip past and present with Emily violent. Florence Price divorced her husband, and in the same Claudia Barainsky*, soprano Butterworth, Daisy Black and political journalist and writer year entered the Rodman Wannamaker Competition, where her BBC Philharmonic Marie Le Conte. first symphony and piano sonata both won top prizes. Omer Meir Wellber, conductor Anne Enright's novels include The Gathering; The Forgotten My Dream 3.15pm Waltz and The Green Road. Robert Honeysucker, baritone Clara Schumann: Abendfeier in Venedig Vivian Taylor, piano Schubert, arr. Lydia Smallwood: An die Musik* Emily Butterworth works on early modern literature and Schubert: Psalm 43* thought, with a particular interest in Montaigne and in deviant Cotton Dance Brahms: Six Quartets op.112* speech and language. Althea Waites, piano Her book The Unbridled Tongue: Babble and Gossip in Richard Pearce, piano* Renaissance France, looks at forms of excessive speech – The Old Boatman BBC Singers babble, gossip and rumour – and why they were considered so Althea Waites, piano Sofi Jeannin, conductor personally and politically dangerous in the sixteenth century.
The Moon Bridge 3.50pm Daisy Black researches medieval history at the University of Vocalessence Ensemble Singers Glanert: Three Pieces Op.1, for viola and piano (1982) Wolverhampton and is a New Generation Thinker on the Paul Shaw, piano Agnieszka Zyniewicz, viola scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to put academic Philip Brunelle, conductor Matthew Gemmill, piano research on the radio. She writes about women in performance in The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe. My Soul’s been anchored in the Lord Glanert: Three Songs on Poems by Christoph Klimke – no.1; Her book Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality Roberta Alexander, soprano Schatten schlafen (2014) in Medieval Biblical Drama is out this year. Brian Masuda, piano Jonathan De Garis, baritone Matthew Gemmill, piano Marie Le Conte is a political journalist who has worked for the Symphony No 1 in E minor Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, the Evening Standard and Fort Smith Symphony 4.10pm BuzzFeed. Her book Haven't You Heard? Gossip, power, and John Jeter, conductor Arvo Part: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten how politics really works explores the potency of gossip in the Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 8 of 12 Westminster bubble. Sylviane Deferne (piano) playlist.
You can find Matthew Sweet and guests discussing What is 03:56 AM 1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music Speech? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1q2f3 Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) making of the British Isles. Polonaise de concert in A major (1867) Producer: Paula McGinley Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zygmunt Rychert 1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential (conductor) Handel arias.
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000fwfd) 04:03 AM 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (c.1632-1714) musical reflection. Beata es Maria - motet Lady Mary Wroth Juliette Perret (soprano), Marc Mauillon (tenor), VivaBiancaLuna Biffi (soprano), Elena Andreyev (cello), WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000fwrm) Author of the first prose romance published in England in 1621, Etienne Galletier (theorbo), Ground Floor, Gwennaelle Alibert Florence Price (1887-1953) her reputation at court was ruined by her thinly veiled (organ) autobiographical writing. Visit the family home, Penshurst Florence Price achieves national recognition Place in Kent, and you can see Lady Mary Wroth's portrait, but 04:09 AM New Generation Thinker Nandini Das says you can also find Richard Flury (1896-1967) Donald Macleod traces Florence Price’s life and career after her in the pages of her book The Countess of Montgomery's Three pieces for violin and piano achieving national recognition for her music. Urania which places centre stage women who "love and are not Sibylle Tschopp (violin), Isabel Tschopp (piano) afraid to love." Scandal led to her withdrawing it from sale and Florence Price became a highly successful classical composer, herself from public life. 04:17 AM organist, pianist and teacher of music during the 20th century in Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) America. She was the first African-American woman to be Producer: Torquil MacLeod The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave), Op 26 recognised as a composer of symphonic music, and also the first Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor) African-American woman to have her works performed by one of the world’s leading orchestras. In collaboration with the Arts TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000fwfh) 04:31 AM and Humanities Research Council, BBC Radio 3 launched the The late zone Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Forgotten Women Composers Project, of which Florence Price Academic Festival Overture, Op 80 was one of the championed composers. With the assistance of Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry the composer and educator Shirley Thompson, scores by soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to (conductor) Florence Price were located and subsequently recorded by BBC contemporary and everything in between. orchestras and choirs. It will be the first time Florence Price has 04:41 AM been featured on Composer of the Week, and the series is Robert Schumann (1810 -1856) supplemented by many specially recorded works. Arabesque in C Op 18 WEDNESDAY 04 MARCH 2020 Hans Leygraf (piano) Donald Macleod delves into the life and career of Florence Price during the 1930s, by the time she’d achieved national WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000fwfk) 04:47 AM recognition for her first symphony, winning the Rodman Serenades and Symphonies Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Wannamaker Musical Contest. She’d now broken out of the Rondo for violin and orchestra in C major, K373 ghetto, and her music was being received well in both white and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from Minnesota performs Barnabás Keleman (violin), Hungarian National Philharmonic black circles. This was also a time when she was in demand as a music by Brahms. Presented by John Shea. Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis (conductor) performer, teacher, and also an orchestrator for the Chicago radio station WGN. It was the conductor Frederick Stock who 12:31 AM 04:54 AM gave the premiere of her symphony with the Chicago Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Symphony Orchestra, and amongst those in the audience were Serenade No 2 in A major, Op 16 Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied - motet (BWV.225) George Gershwin. It was a productive period of Price as a Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, composer, and she soon started work on a piano concerto. This Ivars Taurins (conductor) work would also be a triumph for the composer, and she started 01:02 AM to develop partnerships with different ensembles including the Andrew Norman (1979 -) 05:07 AM Women’s Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, and also a choir Gran Turismo Arvo Part (b.1935) which asked permission if they could take her name, becoming Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten the Florence Price A Capella Chorus. Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi (conductor) 01:10 AM Song for Snow Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 05:15 AM BBC Singers Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21 Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521) Elizabeth Burgess, piano Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra La deploration de Johan Okeghem Benjamin Nicholas, conductor Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (conductor) 01:37 AM Sinner Don’t Let This Harvest Pass Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) 05:20 AM BBC Symphony Orchestra Wind Serenade in D minor, Op 44 Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Mike Seal, conductor I Soloisti del Vento, Etienne Siebens (conductor) Concerto for 3 Violins, TWV 53:F1 Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Jaroslaw Thiel (conductor) Poem of Praise 02:00 AM BBC Singers Josef Suk (1874-1935) 05:35 AM Elizabeth Burgess, piano Serenade for strings, Op 6 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Benjamin Nicholas, conductor BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Clark (conductor) Piano Sonata No 5 in C minor, Op 10 no 1 François-Frederic Guy (piano) Piano Concerto in D minor 02:31 AM Karen Walwyn, piano Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) 05:53 AM New Black Music Repertory Ensemble Te Deum in D major, ZWV 146 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Leslie B. Dunner, conductor Martina Jankova (soprano), Isabel Jantschek (soprano), Wiebke Symphony No 26 in E flat major, K184 Lehmkuhl (contralto), Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak (tenor), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Franz-Paul Decker Dances in the Canebrakes Felix Rumpf (bass), Dresden Chamber Choir, Wroclaw (conductor) Althea Waites, piano Baroque Orchestra, Václav Luks (conductor) 06:04 AM Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales 03:00 AM Francesco Mancini (1672-1727) Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900) Missa Septimus Etudes instructives, Op 53. 1851 Currende, Marnix De Cat (alto), Claire Lefilliatre (soprano), WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0000hcs) Nina Gade (piano) Han Warmelinck (tenor), Erik van Nevel (director) Artist Spotlight at LSO St Luke's
03:10 AM Anne Queffélec Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774-1842) WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000fwrh) Symphony No 6 in C minor Wednesday - Petroc's classical commute In the second programme of this week's Artist Spotlight series, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor) the legendary French pianist Anne Queffélec focuses on the Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show solo piano works of Mozart, including his piano sonatas in B- 03:37 AM including listener requests, and in a daily feature Steve flat major, K.333 and A major, K.331, recorded at LSO St Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Rosenberg, amateur pianist and BBC Moscow correspondent, Luke's in London. Overture, L'Isola disabitata introduces music for a Russian spring. Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor) Presented by Fiona Talkington. Email [email protected] 03:46 AM MOZART Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Minuet in G major, K.1 Chacony a 4 for strings in G minor, Z730 WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000fwrk) Minuet in F major, K.2 Simon Standage (violin), Ensemble Il tempo Ian Skelly Allegro in B flat major, K.3 Piano Sonata No.13 in B-flat major, K.333 03:51 AM Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. Piano Sonata No.11 in A major, K.331 Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) Allegro moderato (Song without words), Op 8 No 1 (1840) 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Anne Queffélec (piano) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 9 of 12 Concert recorded at LSO St Luke's, London, on 14 September Katie Derham is joined by the Bukolika Piano Trio, playing live Duo for violin and cello, Op 7 2018. in the studio. Sitar player Jasdeep Singh Degun also joins Katie Gabor Barta (violin), Yoel Cantori (cello) to play live and talk about his new sitar concerto, written for the Orchestra of Opera North. And American soprano Corinne 01:22 AM WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000fwrp) Winters joins Katie ahead of her appearance in English Gabor Barta (1974-) BBC Symphony Orchestra National Opera's production of Rusalka. Passacaglia latina for violin and cello Gabor Barta (violin), Yoel Cantori (cello) Presented by Penny Gore The BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Maida Vale Studios with WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000fwry) 01:29 AM a concert of fascinating contrasting works, recorded recently. Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix Gabor Barta (1974-) Two works written by composers at the start of their creative Dance for violin and cello outputs contrast with the last symphony of a master. There’s a In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, Gabor Barta (violin), Yoel Cantori (cello) rarely performed work by the 13-year-old Richard Strauss, his including a few surprises. Serenade in G major. The Concerto for piano, full string 01:31 AM orchestra and timpani (1946) is the first acknowledged serious Luigi Quadranti (1941-) work written in 1946 by the extraordinary Galina Ustvolskaya, WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000fws0) Adagio KV 138 rivisitato pupil of Shostakovich, who bravely ploughed her own distinct Beethoven Unleashed: Missa solemnis Andrea Mascetti (violin), Teira Yamashita (violin), Giulia furrow through the 20th-century Soviet Union. And we end Wechsler (viola), Claude Hauri (cello) with Jean Sibelius’s final symphony, written in 1923-24. Of all his own works, Beethoven admired one more than any Although Sibelius lived for another 33 years after finishing the other: his grand solemn mass - the Missa solemnis. When the 01:36 AM Seventh, it was one of the last works he composed. It consists of composer started to write the piece in 1819, he sensed a new Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) one long continuous movement. Finnish conductor Eva energy flowing through him. Four years later, on specially Clarinet Quintet in A, K 581 Ollikainen and Armenian-born pianist Marianna Shirinyan both enlarged sheets of paper, he had succeeded in setting down his Curzio Petraglio (clarinet), Andrea Mascetti (violin), Teira make their BBC Symphony Orchestra debuts. musical vision of the divine using every means of sonic imagery Yamashita (violin), Giulia Wechsler (viola), Claude Hauri It's followed by performances given by musicians from the available to him. Brought to life, Beethoven’s score represents (cello) Guildhall School of Music & Drama taken as part of the BBC's one of his most intense and uplifting live concert experiences. Total Immersion cycle, devoted this time to the music of Detlev 02:07 AM Glanert, including also works from some of his German Donald Runnicles steers stunning soloists and the BBC Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) contemporaries. First we hear Three Auden Songs by Hans Symphony Chorus in a cornerstone of BBC Radio 3's 2020 Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) Werner Henze, followed by Serenade for Cello and Piano, Op. Beethoven Unleashed celebrations for the 250th anniversary of Moyzes Quartet 13, by Glanert himself. the composer's birth. 02:13 AM 2.00pm Presented by Martin Handley Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) R. Strauss: Serenade in G, AV 32 Flute Concerto No. 290 in G minor Galina Ustvolskaya: Piano Concerto* Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D Op.123 Alexis Kossenko (flute), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 (director) Marianna Shirinyan, piano* Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano) 02:31 AM Eva Ollikainen, conductor Thomas Atkins (tenor) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Brindley Sherratt (bass) Symphony No 4 in G major 3.10pm BBC Symphony Chorus Camilla Tilling (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony Henze: Three Auden Songs (1983) BBC Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Jonah Halton, tenor Donald Runnicles (conductor) Matthew Gemmill, piano 03:27 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Glanert: Serenade for Cello and Piano, Op.13 (1986) WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m000fws2) Orchestral Suite No 3, in D major, BWV 1068 Leo Popplewell, cello Maths and philosophy puzzles La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) Matthew Gemmill, piano Shahidha Bari looks at the thinking of Frank Ramsey 03:47 AM (1903-1930), who translated Wittgenstein and used his Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m000fwrr) knowledge of mathematics to write influential economics Intermezzo (excerpt Manon Lescaut (between Acts 2 and 3)) The Queen’s College, Oxford papers. BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
From the Chapel of The Queen’s College, Oxford (recorded on Cheryl Misak's Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers is out 03:53 AM 29 October). now. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Overture to La Forza del destino Introit: God be in my head (Judith Bingham) Producer: Luke Mulhall Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Raffi Responses: Debbie Carter Rose Armenian (conductor) Psalm 119 vv.105-128 (Fiske Scott, Humberston, Poston) First Lesson: Judges 4 vv.4–10 WED 22:45 The Essay (m000fws4) 04:00 AM Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for double chorus Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) (Roxanna Panufnik) Adagio con sentimento religioso, 2nd movement from String Second Lesson: Acts 16 vv.11–15 Margaret Oliphant Quartet (Op.44) Anthem: He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High Young Danish String Quartet (Clarke) The novel Miss Marjoribanks (1866) brought to life a large Hymn: The Lord’s my shepherd (Crimond) comic heroine who bucked 19th-century conventions. New 04:09 AM Prayer Anthem: Ave regina caelorum (Cecilia McDowall) Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gore outlines the prolific Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue on ‘O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid’ writing career of Margaret Oliphant and laments the way she Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, from "Lyric Pieces" (Op.65 (Smyth) was used by fellow novelist Virginia Woolf as a symbol of the No.6) dangers of needing to write for money to keep yourself and Carl Wendling (piano) Owen Rees (Director of Music) your family afloat. Laurence John (Organ Scholar) 04:16 AM Stephen Farr (Assistant Organist) Producer: Paula McGinley Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Trio Sonata Tafelmusik Baroque Soloists WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000fwrt) WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000fws6) Vocal music by three female composers A little night music 04:31 AM Pierre de la Rue (1452-1518) Showcasing BBC New Generation Artists Ruby Hughes and Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive Missa Sancto Job: Kyrie Catriona Morison in vocal music by three female composers - soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to Orlando Consort Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Pauline Viardot and Germaine contemporary and everything in between. Tailleferre. 04:35 AM Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-) Jacquet de la Guerre: Susanne Gloria for SSAA, brass quintet, timpani & percussion Ruby Hughes (soprano) THURSDAY 05 MARCH 2020 Elmer Iseler Singers, Robert Venables (trumpet), Robert Devito London Handel Players (trumpet), Linda Broncesky (horn), Ian Cowie (trombone), THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000fws8) Marc Bonang (tuba), Graham Hargrove (percussion), Nicolas Viardot: Lamento Classical and contemporary strings Coulter (percussion), Lydia Adams (conductor) Catriona Morison (mezzo-soprano) Simon Lepper (piano) Two concerts of chamber music from the Ticino e Grigioni 04:42 AM Festival in Italy. John Shea presents. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Daniel Schnyder Tailleferre: Pancarte pour une porte d'entrée (arranger) Ruby Hughes (soprano) 12:31 AM Water Music, extract from Suite Anna Tilbrook (piano) Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi (conductor) 8 Pieces for violin and cello, Op 39 Gabor Barta (violin), Yoel Cantori (cello) 04:49 AM WED 17:00 In Tune (m000fwrw) Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931),Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Bukolika Piano Trio, Jasdeep Singh Degun, Corinne Winters 12:50 AM Caprice d'après l'Etude en forme de Valse, op.52 no.6 by Saint- Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) Saens Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 10 of 12 Karol Danis (violin), Iveta Sabova (piano) moved, with her daughters, into her own apartment in a appearance too. dangerous part of Chicago. During this same period, she was The afternoon closes with the ensemble performing Shchedrin's 04:58 AM the first person of colour to be invited to join the Chicago Club Carmen Suite, inspired in the opera by Georges Bizet, under the Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) of Women Organists, who often gave the first performances of baton of Gergely Madaras. Suite in G major (Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin) her works. She also became the first women of colour to join Yur-Eum Woodwind Quintet the Illinois Federation of Music Clubs, and the Musicians Club 2.00pm of Women. Despite these accolades, Price still battled on trying Ethel Smyth: Fête galante - a Dance- Dream in One Act: Poetic 05:13 AM to get her music heard by a much wider audience. There is version by Edward Shanks, after Maurice Baring’s story Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) evidence of a long correspondence with Serge Koussevitsky, Overture to Prince Igor who conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the time. Columbine - Charmian Bedford (soprano) Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor) Price, in a number of rather curt letters, asked Koussevitsky to The Queen - Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo-soprano) take a look at her scores, and to consider them on their own Pierrot - Felix Kemp (baritone) 05:24 AM merit, looking beyond the fact that she was a woman and black. The King - Simon Wallfisch (baritone) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Eleanor Roosevelt did come to the rescue, complimenting Price The Lover - Mark Milhofer (tenor) Piano Sonata no 5 in C minor, Op 10 no 1 in the press for her third symphony. Harlequin - Alessandro Fisher (tenor) Cedric Tiberghien (piano) Suite for Organ No 1 (Toccata) Lontano Ensemble 05:43 AM Kimberly Marshall, organ Odaline de la Martinez, conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Agnus Dei from the Missa Brevis in B flat (K.275) Sonata in E minor (Andante) 2.50pm Lucy Crowe (soprano), Susan Atherton (alto), Edward Lyon Althea Waites, piano Glanert: Three Pieces for Clarinet (2003) (tenor), Christopher Adams (bass), Royal Academy of Music Raymond Brien, clarinet Chamber Choir, Royal Academy of Music Becket Ensemble, Sympathy Matthew Gemmill, piano Patrick Russill (conductor) Louise Toppin, soprano John O’Brien, piano 3.10pm 05:49 AM Dani Howard: Argentum Elzbieta Sikora (b.1943) The Glory of the day was in her face Florence Price: Sinner Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass Rappel III for string orchestra Jay A. Pierson, baritone Elizabeth Maconchy: Serenata Concertante* Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Michniewski John O’Brien, piano Isidora Žebeljan: The Horses of Saint Mark (conductor) Resignation Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin* 06:06 AM BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Benjamin Nicholas, conductor Michael Seal, conductor Rhapsody No.1 in D flat (Op.17 No.1) Ian Sadler (organ) Symphony No 3 4.10pm BBC National Orchestra of Wales Bizet-Shchedrin: Carmen Suite 06:12 AM Valentina Peleggi, conductor Vitezslav Novak (1870-1949) BBCSO V Tatrach (In the Tatra mountains) - symphonic poem (Op.26) Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales Gergely Madaras, conductor BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0000hp6) THU 17:00 In Tune (m000fwq6) THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000fwpy) Artist Spotlight at LSO St Luke's Lara Melda, Richard Alston, Megson Thursday - Petroc's classical mix Víkingur Ólafsson Pianist and former BBC Young Musician winner Lara Melda Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show performs live in the studio, and the choreographer Richard including listener requests, and in a daily feature Steve In the third programme of this week's Artist Spotlight series, Alston talks about the forthcoming last ever performances by Rosenberg, amateur pianist and BBC Moscow correspondent, the young Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, who has been his Richard Alston Dance Company. There's also live music introduces music for a Russian spring. described by the New York Times as 'Iceland's Glenn Gould'. from folk duo Megson. Today, he focuses on the solo keyboard works of JS Bach, Email [email protected] including partitas, sinfonias and his own arrangement of 'Widerstehe doch der Sünde', recorded at LSO St Luke's in THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000fwq8) London. Your go-to introduction to classical music THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000fwq0) Ian Skelly Presented by Fiona Talkington. In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. JS BACH Partita No 6 in E minor, BWV 830 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Adagio from Organ Sonata No 4 in E minor, BWV 528 (arr THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000fwqb) playlist. Stradal) Lauren Zhang's Rachmaninov Invention No 15 in B minor, BWV 786 1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music Sinfonia No 15 in B minor, BWV 801 Lauren Zhang brings youthful verve to a performance of making of the British Isles. Gavotte from Violin Partita No 3 in E major, BWV 1006 (arr Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto. Described as the Rachmaninov) "Everest of piano concertos" because of the scale of the 1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Prelude in B minor, BWV 855a (arr Siloti) technical demands it makes on its pianist, it also covers a huge Handel arias. Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847, from ‘The Well- emotional terrain in its adventurous musical design. Zhang is Tempered Clavier’ Book 1 reunited with the conductor Mark Wigglesworth: with whom 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 639 (arr Busoni) she won the BBC Young Musician competition in 2018 musical reflection. Aria from Cantata No 54, ‘Widerstehe doch der Sünde’ (arr performing Prokofiev. Ólafsson) And Prokofiev's Symphony no 7 precedes the concerto Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) performance. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000fwq2) perform this melancholic work, from 1957. Florence Price (1887-1953) Concert recorded at LSO St Luke's, London, on 21 September Prokofiev is a Russian composer, and another Russian-born 2018. composer is Alissa Firsova. The orchestra begins its concert Florence Price battles for recognition with a performance of her ecstatically romantic music "Die Windsbraut", inspired by the tragic love affair between Alma Donald Macleod traces Florence Price’s career as she continued THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000fwq4) Mahler and Oskar Kokoschka as depicted in his titular painting, to battle for recognition from within the musical establishment. Opera matinée: Ethel Smyth's Fête galante "The Bride of the Wind".
Florence Price became a highly successful classical composer, Presented by Penny Gore. Live from City Halls, Glasgow organist, pianist and teacher of music during the 20th century in Ethel Smyth's one-act opera Fête galante, which was described America. She was the first African-American woman to be by the composer as a 'dance-dream'. It was inspired by the Presented by Kate Molleson recognised as a composer of symphonic music, and also the first commedia dell'arte and aristocratic open-air festivities of old, African-American woman to have her works performed by one with costumes and masques. The piece, written in the neo- Firsova: Die Windsbraut of the world’s leading orchestras. In collaboration with the Arts classical style to pay homage to its legacy, has dark connotations Prokofiev: Symphony no 7 and Humanities Research Council, BBC Radio 3 launched the though, as it features the death of Pierrot, hanged by a jealous Forgotten Women Composers Project, of which Florence Price king. This version was recorded last year by the Lontano 8.10 Interval was one of the championed composers. With the assistance of Ensemble under conductor Odaline de la Martinez, the composer and educator Shirley Thompson, scores by accompanying a cast including Felix Kempe as Pierrot and 8.30 Part 2 Florence Price were located and subsequently recorded by BBC Charmian Bedford as Columbine. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no 3 orchestras and choirs. It will be the first time Florence Price has It's followed by another excerpt from the recent BBC been featured on Composer of the Week, and the series is Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion cycle, dedicated to the Lauren Zhang (piano) supplemented by many specially recorded works. music of the German composer Detlev Glanert. Today we've Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) selected his Three Pieces for Clarinet, performed by musicians BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Macleod continues his journey through the life and of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. music of Florence Price during the 1930s and into the 1940s. Then the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Michael This was a time when she’d separated from her second husband, Seal, present a concert with pieces by female composers, among THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m000fwqd) Pusey Dell Arnet, and she was in a certain amount of financial them Dani Howard, Florence Price, Elzabeth Maconchy and Discussion and debate on topical cultural issues difficulty, often needing to stay with friends. She eventually Isidora Žebeljan. Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen makes an Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 11 of 12 THU 22:45 The Essay (m000fwqg) Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in D major Irena Baar (soprano), Mirjam Kalin (alto), Branko Robinsak 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Storm Jameson (tenor), Marco Fink (bass), RTV Slovenia Chamber Choir, playlist. RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor) What is a writer's duty? Katie Cooper considers Storm 1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music Jameson's campaigning for refugees, her 1940 appeal To the 03:35 AM making of the British Isles. Conscience of the World and why her fiction fell out of favour Johann Adam Reincken (c.1643-1722) but is now seeing a revival of interest. Fuga in G minor 1100 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential Pieter Dirksen (organ) Handel arias. Born in Yorkshire in 1891, she wrote novels of speculative fiction, collections of criticism including an analysis of modern 03:40 AM 1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's drama in Europe, the introduction to the 1952 British edition of Gustav Holst (1874-1934) musical reflection. The Diary of Anne Frank and a host of novels set in European Beni Mora - oriental suite (Op.29 No.1) countries. During the Second World War years she was head of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor) PEN, the association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m000fxwr) promote literature and intellectual co-operation. 03:56 AM Florence Price (1887-1953) Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) Katie Cooper teaches at the University of East Anglia and is a Sommarnatten (Summer night) for chorus Price plans to visit Europe New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC with Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Eric-Olof Soderstrom the Arts and Humanities Research Council to turn research into (conductor) Donald Macleod explores how the health of Florence Price radio. Her book, War, Nation and Europe in the Novels of affected her career during her final years. Storm Jameson, is published April 2020. 04:00 AM Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) Florence Price became a highly successful classical composer, Producer: Alex Mansfield Lyric poem in D flat major, Op 12 organist, pianist and teacher of music during the 20th century in West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky America. She was the first African-American woman to be (conductor) recognised as a composer of symphonic music, and also the first THU 23:00 Night Tracks: The Archive Remix (m000fwqj) African-American woman to have her works performed by one Music for late night listening 04:11 AM of the world’s leading orchestras. In collaboration with the Arts Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) and Humanities Research Council, BBC Radio 3 launched the An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, Sonata for bassoon and piano (Op.168) in G major Forgotten Women Composers Project, of which Florence Price from classical to contemporary and everything in between. Jens-Christoph Lemke (bassoon), Marten Landstrom (piano) was one of the championed composers. With the assistance of Hosted by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Hannah Peel. the composer and educator Shirley Thompson, scores by 04:23 AM Florence Price were located and subsequently recorded by BBC Traditional, Petar Dinev (arranger) orchestras and choirs. It will be the first time Florence Price has THU 23:30 Unclassified (m000fwql) Two Folk Songs from South-Western Bulgaria been featured on Composer of the Week, and the series is Elizabeth Alker with music that defies classification. Bulgarian National Radio Mixed Chorus, Mihail Milkov supplemented by many specially recorded works. (conductor) In her final decade, Florence Price continued to be a prolific 04:31 AM composer and teacher of music. At one time, when she was FRIDAY 06 MARCH 2020 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) living in the Abraham Lincoln Centre in Chicago, she had more Scherzo in C minor (from F-A-E Sonata) than a hundred students. In 1940, Price was honoured at a FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000fwqn) David Petrlik (violin), Renata Ardasevova (piano) convention by Marian MacDowell for her professional Musica Viva achievements and commitment to the cause of black music, and 04:37 AM a decade later, Price’s fame had spread abroad, with Sir John A concert from Russian chamber orchestra Musica Viva, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1590-1664) Barbirolli requesting a concert overture for the Hallé Orchestra including works by Mozart, Vivaldi and Grieg. Presented by Stabat Mater for 8 voices to perform. It was around this time that Price started to plan a John Shea. Silvia Piccollo (soprano), Teresa Nesci (soprano), Marco trip to Europe. Due to poor health, she was unable to attend the Beasley (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass), Paolo Crivellaro (organ), premiere with the Halle. Price did however plan another trip to 12:31 AM Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Theatrum Instrumentorum, Europe with a friend, but before they were set to embark on a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor) ship, Price went into hospital and later died. Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550 Musica Viva, Alexander Rudin (conductor) 04:43 AM The Goblin and the Mosquito Fredrik Pacius (1809-1891) Michael Lewin, piano 12:56 AM Violin Concerto in F sharp minor (1845) Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Jorma Rahkonen (violin), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Concert Overture No 2 Overture to 'L'incoronazione di Dario, RV.719 Okko Kamu (conductor) BBC Concert Orchestra Musica Viva, Alexander Rudin (conductor) Jane Glover, conductor 05:04 AM 01:01 AM Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Five Folksongs in Counterpoint (Drink to me only with thine Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI/37 eyes) Concerto in B minor RV 580 for 4 violins and orchestra Andreas Staier (fortepiano) Apollo Chamber Players Natalia Yukhemchuk (violin), Elena Korzhenevich (violin), Pyotr Chonkushev (violin), Svetlana Gres (violin), Musica Viva, 05:14 AM Night Alexander Rudin (conductor) Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) Pamela Dillard, mezzo-soprano Bajka - concert overture Vivian Taylor, piano 01:10 AM Polish National Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazimierz Kord Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) (conductor) My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord Last Spring (from 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op.34) Pamela Dillard, mezzo-soprano Musica Viva, Alexander Rudin (conductor) 05:27 AM Vivian Taylor, piano Adolf Vedro (1890-1944) 01:16 AM Midrilinnu Mang (1935) Violin Concerto No 1 in D major Karl Yul'yevich Davidov (1838-1889) Estonian Female Conductors' Choir, Ants Soots (conductor) Er-Gene Kahng, violin Fantasy on Russian Songs for cello and orchestra, Op.7 Janacek Philharmonic Alexander Rudin (cello), Musica Viva, Alexander Rudin 05:29 AM Ryan Cockerham, conductor (director) Rodion Shchedrin (b.1932) Carmen - ballet suite after Bizet Produced by Luke Whitlock, for BBC Wales 01:29 AM Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milen Nachev Anton Arensky (1861-1906) (conductor) String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op.35 - excerpts FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0000hxp) Musica Viva, Alexander Rudin (conductor) 06:10 AM Artist Spotlight at LSO St Luke's Franz Schubert (1797-1828) 01:46 AM Variations for violin and piano in E minor (D.802) Simone Dinnerstein Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Gidon Kremer (violin), Oleg Maisenberg (piano) Symphony no 4 (Op. 36) in F minor In the final Artist Spotlight this week from LSO St Luke's in Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Alexander Rudin London, the American pianist Simone Dinnerstein focuses on (conductor) FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000fxwm) the solo piano works of Schubert, including his Sonata in B-flat Friday - Petroc's classical picks major, K.960. Dinnerstein herself describes Schubert's music 02:28 AM ‘as if wordless voices were singing textless melodies’. Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show Gde nasha roza? (Where is our rose?) - song including listener requests, and the Friday poem. Plus, in a daily Presented by Fiona Talkington. Petteri Salomaa (baritone), Ilmo Ranta (piano) feature Steve Rosenberg, amateur pianist and BBC Moscow correspondent, introduces music for a Russian spring. SCHUBERT 02:31 AM Impromptu in G-flat major Op 90 No 3 Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) Email [email protected] SCHUBERT Sonata in B-flat major D 960 Suite from "Les Indes galantes" Neue Dusseldorfer Hofmusik, Mary Utiger (director) Simone Dinnerstein (piano) FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000fxwp) 03:04 AM Ian Skelly Concert recorded at LSO St Luke's, London, on 21 September Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 29 February – 6 March 2020 Page 12 of 12 2018. nationalistic Czech style- with the third movement employing a 'furiant'- a popular dance. During the interval, presenter John Toal will be speaking with this evening's soloist, Hannes FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000fxwt) Minnaar Wagner- Overture to Tannhäuser Schumann- Piano BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra Concerto in A minor Dvořák- Symphony No. 6 in D Major Jac van Steen, conductor Hannes Minnaar, pianist Ulster Orchestra. Presented by Penny Gore. This concert presents a selection of choral works by the British Presented by John Toal composer Bernard Hughes alongside a selection of favourite composers he has chosen to complement his music. Hughes’s Ulster Orchestra music ranges from the wordless ecstasy of Revelation Window Jac van Steen (conductor) to the exciting world premiere of new commission A Ternary of Hannes Minnaar (piano) Littles. A sequence of sacred pieces in the second half includes works by Dobrinka Tabakova and Eleanor Alberga, while the Wagner - Overture: Tannhäuser secular first half includes a Burns setting by Cecilia McDowall Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 and the exquisite Pavane Fantasia by long-time BBC Singers Dvořák - Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60 collaborator Bo Holten. It's followed by American conductor Fawzi Haimor and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the German trumpeter Simon FRI 22:00 The Verb (m000c4p1) Höfele both making their BBC Symphony Orchestra debuts. Poetry and philosophy There’s Syrian-American composer’s Kareem Roustom’s recent propulsive, colourful piece 'Ramal' and a work by Ian McMillan asks where poetry and philosophy meet - with Russian/Soviet composer Sergei Vasilenko - his Concerto Poem guests Raymond Antrobus and Helen Mort. for Trumpet & Orchestra, written in the late 1940s, which demonstrates the trumpet’s lyrical voice. FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000fxx2) 2.00pm Women Writers to Put Back on the Bookshelf Bernard Hughes: Revelation Window Bo Holten: Pavan I (Pavane-Fantasia) Yolande Mukagasana Bernard Hughes: I Sing of Love Cecilia McDowall: A red, red rose New Generation Thinker Zoe Norridge describes translating the Bernard Hughes: The winter it is past testimony of a Rwandan nurse and her belief in reconciliation Bernard Hughes: Two Songs of Spring and rebuilding after the 1994 conflict. Not My Time to Die is Bernard Hughes: A Ternary of Littles - WORLD PREMIERE the English title for the first survivor testimony to be published Dobrinka Tabakova: Alma Redemptoris Mater about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Yolande Bernard Hughes: Psalm 56 Mukagasana fled to Belgium during the war and has since Bernard Hughes: Jubilate Domino created exhibitions and a play in addition to writing her Eleanor Alberga: My Heart Danceth memoir. Bernard Hughes: Precious Things BBC Singers Producer: Luke Mulhall Eamonn Dougan, conductor
3.10pm FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000fxx4) Kareem Roustom: Ramal Sonic Self-Care Sergei Vasilenko: Concerto Poem for Trumpet and Orchestra, Op.113* Noise-cancelling headphones, white noise, and phone apps Simon Höfele, trumpet* (Radio 3 New Generation Artist) playing relaxing natural sounds are increasingly ubiquitous. In BBC Symphony Orchestra Mack Hagood’s recent book ‘Hush’ these devices are labelled Fawzi Haimor, conductor “orphic media”, referencing the mythical Orpheus who counteracted the fatal song of the Sirens by playing a song of 3.45pm his own, fighting sound with sound to create a safe space. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 BBC Symphony Orchestra So, with the growth of technology that allows users to control Sakari Oramo, conductor their environment and practise sonic self-care, how does our relationship to noise, music, and listening change as a result? Mack Hagood is an author, podcaster, and professor at Miami FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (b0b89gc6) University in Ohio. He joins presenter Jennifer Lucy Allan to [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] discuss his research.
Within tonight’s discussion, hear experiments in music, sound, FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000fxww) and listening from field recordist Irv Teibel, violinist Mandhira Howard Shelley and London Mozart Players, Eszter Balogh de Saram, and composer Pauline Oliveros.
Katie Derham is joined by pianist Howard Shelley, playing with Produced by Jack Howson members of the London Mozart Players, as they prepare to play A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 all of Beethoven's piano concertos in a single day. And the Hungarian mezzo-soprano Eszter Balogh sings arias by Handel live in the studio. She won last year's Handel Singing Competition in London, and is back in the city to perform at the London Handel Festival 2020.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000fxwy) Classical music for focus and inspiration
In Tune’s specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m000fxx0) Fantasy, Forests and Folklore
From the Ulster Hall in Belfast the Ulster Orchestra are joined by their Principal Guest Conductor Jac van Steen in a programme linked together by love, fantasy and folklore, beginning with Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser, the story of the German minstrel who is banished from the underground realm of Venus and forced to find redemption through love.
The pianist Hannes Minnaar joins the orchestra in a performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor- originally based on a Phantasie the composer wrote for his then fiancé, Clara Wieck, he developed it into a symphonic concerto. The work is often seen as a reflection of the love story between the composer and Clara. To finish the programme, Dvořák's folk-inspired Symphony No. 6 with its Bohemian origins, dedicated to the Austrian-Hungarian conductor Hans Richter.
The work has a pastoral feel to it but also incorporates a Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/
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