Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 17 MARCH 2018 Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV.1056 Jorg Mammel (tenor) Matthias Vieweg (bass), Ricercar Angela Hewitt (Piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Consort/Philippe Pierlot SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b09vjz0v) Mirare MIR 332 (CD) Janine Jansen plays Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto 5:16 am The Oslo Philharmonic under conductor, Thomas Søndergård Marcel Tournier (1879-1951) 9.30am perform Tchaickovsky's Violin Concerto with soloist Janine Images for harp and string quartet (Op.35) Building a Library: Massenet's Manon with Flora Willson. Jansen as well as Dvorak's Seventh Symphony. Catriona Young Erica Goodman (Harp), Amadeus Ensemble presents. Based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et 5:27 am de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost, Manon is probably still 1:01 am Jozef Swider (1930-2014) Massenet's most popular opera. It was first performed at the Leos Janacek (1854-1928) Piesn & Moja piosnka from 10 Songs to Lyrics by Polish Poets Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1884, and it has never been out of Jealousy - Polish Radio Choir the repertory since its creation. It is full of charm and vitality Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sondergard (Conductor) with a complex central character who develops from the 5:35 am ingenue of Act 1 to someone altogether more manipulative at 1:07 am Franz Schubert (1797-1828) the end of the drama. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Rosamunde (Ballet Music No 2 (D.797)) Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (Conductor) 10.20am New Releases: Janine Jansen (Violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas HORENSTEIN CONTUCTS SIBELIUS Sondergard (Soloist) 5:42 am JEAN SIBELIUS: Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) Symphony No. 2 1:43 am Sonatina for cello & piano Violin Concerto Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Laszlo Mezo (Cello), Lorant Szucs (Piano) Ivry Gitlis (violin), Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Souvenir d'un lieu cher - Melodie Radio National de France, Jascha Horenstein Janine Jansen (Violin), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas 5:52 am Pristine Audio PASC 516 (CD) Sondergard (Conductor) Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Concerto da Camera in D major RV.95 SARGENT CONDUCTS ELGAR: 1:48 am Camerata Koln EDWARD ELGAR: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) Cello Concerto Symphony no. 7 in D minor Op.70 6:00 am The Dream of Gerontius Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sondergard (Conductor) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Richard Lewis (tenor), Marjorie La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra Thomas (mezzo), John Cameron (baritone), Huddersfield 2:24 am Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Choral Society, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) (Conductor) Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor Op.35 for piano Pristine Audio PASC 525 (CD) Beatrice Rana (Piano) 6:29 am Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Pristine Audio releases can be found at 2:51 am String Quartet in C major K.465 "Dissonance" https://www.pristineclassical.com/ Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) Ebene Quartet, Pierre Colombet (Violin), Gabriel Le Magadure Toccata per cembalo (in G minor/major) (Violin), Mathieu Herzog (Viola), Raphael Merlin (Cello). 10.50am New Releases: Simon Heighes on baroque vocal Rinaldo Alessandrini (Harpsichord) Simon Heighes reviews new releases of baroque music including works by Bach, Handel and William Hayes. 3:01 am SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b09w2mp5) Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Saturday - Martin Handley HANDEL'S LAST PRIMA DONNA: GIULIA FRASI IN Piano Quintet in E flat major Op.44 Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, LONDON Ebene Quartet, Ingrid Fliter (Piano) featuring listener requests. GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Susanna, HWV 66: Crystal Streams in Murmurs Flowing 3:31 am Email [email protected]. VINCENZO CIAMPI: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) L'Adriano: O Dio! Mancar mi sento Symphony No.6 (Op.104) in D minor Il trionfo di Camilla: Là per l'ombrosa sponda Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernhard Klee SAT 09:00 Record Review (b09w8fxr) THOMAS ARNE: (Conductor) Andrew McGregor with Flora Willson and Simon Heighes Artaxerxes: Why Is Death for Ever Late JOHN CHRISTOPHER SMITH: 4:02 am 9.00am Paradise Lost: Oh! Do Not, Adam, Exercise on Me Thy Hatred Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) GABRIELI FOR BRASS: VENETIAN EXTRAVAGANZA Paradise Lost: It Comes! It Comes! It Must Be Death! Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden BWV.230 GIOVANNI BATTISTA BUONAMENTE: Rebecca: But See, the Night with Silent Pace Steals On Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Sonata a 6 Rebecca: O Balmy Sleep! Ivars Taurins (Conductor) GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI: THOMAS ARNE: Canzon a due canti No. 3 Alfred: Gracious Heav'n, O Hear Me! (Revised Version, 1753) 4:08 am GIOVANNI GABRIELI GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Canzona per sonare a quattro - ‘La Spiritata' Theodora, HWV 68: Le Corsaire - overture (Op.21) Canzon III a 6 Symphony BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (Conductor) Canzon VIII O Thou Bright Sun! Canzon V With Darkness Deep as Is My Woe 4:18 am Canzon duodecimi toni, a 10 (No. 1) Symphony of Soft Musick Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Canzon noni toni a 12, C 183 But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul? Tzigane - rapsodie de concert arr. for violin & orchestra Canzon septimi toni a 8 Oh That I on Wings Could Moshe Hammer (Violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Sonata No.19 à 15 PHILIP HAYES: Kazuhiro Koizumi (Conductor) Sonata No. 18 à 14 Telemachus: Soon Arrives Thy Fatal Hour Sonata XXI con tre violini GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: 4:27 am Sonata XX a 22 The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: There the Brisk Sparkling Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Sonata octavi toni a 12 Nectar Drain Io ti lascio - aria for bass and strings (KA.245) Sonata pian e forte a 8 Jephtha, HWV 70: Ye Sacred Priests Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano) CESARIO GUSSAGO: Jephtha, HWV 70: Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs Canzona a 4 "La Bottaga" Solomon, HWV 67: Will the Sun Forget to Streak 4:32 am PIETRO LAPPI: Ruby Hughes (soprano) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) Canzon Undecima ‘La Serafina’ a 4 Laurence Cummings Concerto for lute, strings and basso continuo in D minor TIBURTIO MASSAINO: Canzon XXXIII Chandos CHSA0403 (Hybrid SACD) Konrad Junghanel (Lute), Music Antiqua Koln, Reinhard LODOVICO DA VIADANA: Goebel (Director) Sinfonia "La bergamasca" CEREMONIAL OXFORD, MUSIC FOR THE GEORGIAN Royal Academy of Music and Juilliard School Brass, Reinhold UNIVERSITY BY WILLIAM HAYES 4:47 am Friedrich WILLIAM HAYES: Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Linn CKD581 (CD) The Passions Introduction & variations on a theme from Herold's Ludovic O worship the Lord (Op.12) in B flat maj THE ROMANTIC PIANO CONCERTO 74 - SIR WILLIAM Psalm 23: Lo! My Shepherd's hand divine Ludmil Angelov (Piano) STERNDALE BENNETT Lord, how long wilt thou be angry SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT: Organ Concerto in G major 4:54 am Piano Concerto No.1 In D Minor, Op. 1 Save, Lord, and hear us Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682) Piano Concerto No.2 In E Flat, Op. 4 Voluntary in G Major Fulmini quanto sa for voice and accompaniment Piano Concerto No.3 In C Minor, Op. 9 Lord, thou has been our refuge Emma Kirkby (Soprano), David Thomas (Bass), Alan Wilson Howard Shelley (piano & conductor), BBC Scottish Symphony Psalm 120 - To God I cry'd with anguish stung (Harpsichord), Jakob Lindberg (Lute), Anthony Rooley (Lute) Orchestra O be joyful I God, all ye lands Hyperion CDA68178 (CD) The Fall of Jericho 5:01 am The Hundredth Psalm Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) JS BACH: CONSOLATIO The Choir of Keble College, Instruments of Time & Truth, Overture - from Candide JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Edward Higginbottom (organ), Rory Moules (organ), Matthew BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (Conductor) Cantata BWV22 'Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe' Martin (organ and director), Cantata BWV75 'Die Elenden sollen essen' CRD CRD3534 (CD) 5:06 am Cantata BWV127 'Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott' Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Hannah Morrison (soprano), Carlos Mena (counter-tenor), Hans- BACH, J S: MASS IN B MINOR, BWV232 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 2 of 11 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Album David Grisman Quintet music of harpist, pianist and composer Alice Coltrane, in the Mass In B Minor, BWV 232 Label Kaleidoscope company of trumpeter Matthew Halsall, reassessing her music Katherine Watson (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Number K5 Track 1 in what would have been her 80th year. Also featuring music Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Neal Duration 2.37 from other artists associated with the Spiritual movement Davies (bass), Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Orchestra of Performers David Grisman, Todd Philips, mandolin; Darol including Pharaoh Sanders, Sun Ra, and Don Cherry. the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton Anger, vn; Tony Rice g; Bill Amatneek, b; Hyperion CDA68181/2 (2 CDs) Artist Willie The Lion Smith SAT 18:30 Opera on 3 (b09vz4pf) 11.45am Disc of the Week Title Morning Air Strauss's Elektra from the New York Met BACH, J S: MASS IN B MINOR, BWV232 Composer Smith Today's opera from the Met is Richard Strauss's mighty take on JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Album Luckey and the Lion: Harlem Piano the Greek legend of Elektra. Daughter of King Agamemnon Mass In B Minor, BWV 232 Label Good Time Jazz and Queen Klytämnestra, Elektra is in mourning for her father, Katherine Watson (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Number 10035-2 Track 7 killed by her mother and her lover. Elektra is obsessed with the Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), André Morsch (bass), Les Arts Duration 2.54 revenge she intends to take, enlisting her siblings for help. In Florissants, William Christie Performers Willie The Lion Smith, p; 1958. this startlingly modern sounding work, Christine Goerke sings Harmonia Mundi HAF 8905293.94 (2 CDs) Elektra, driven mad by her desire for revenge, Michaela Artist Dick Hyman, Dick Wellstood Schuster her fearsome mother, and Mikhail Petrenko and Elza Title Who? van den Heever her brother and sister. SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b09w2q6x) Composer Jerome Kern Laurence Equilbey Album Stridemonster Elektra ..... Christine Goerke (soprano) Presented by Tom Service Label Sackville Chrysothemis ..... Elza van den Heever (soprano) Number 2064 Track 4 Klytämnestra ..... Michaela Schuster (mezzo-soprano) Tom talks to the French conductor Laurence Equilbey about her Duration 5.57 Aegisth ..... Jay Hunter Morris (tenor) work with Insula Orchestra, a period instrument ensemble at the Performers Dick Hyman, Dick Wellstood, p; 1986. Orest ..... Mikhail Petrenko (bass) centre of a recent project, La Seine Musicale, involving the local community in south-west Paris. Also, Caroline Potter, Artist New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra biographer of Lili Boulanger, on the life and legacy of the Title Exit Stage Left Yannick Nézet-Séguin. French composer, in the first centenary of her death. With Composer Roland contributions by the conductors Yan Pascal Tortelier and James Album Adventures in Blues Gaffigan too. Tom discusses the new book 'What Opera Label Capitol SAT 20:45 Night Music (b09wwl5p) Means', a selection of essays exploring the psychoanalytic thrust Number ST 1985 Track 4 Philip Glass behind words and actions, with author Christopher Wintle as Duration 4.20 Matt Haimovitz plays Philip Glass's 2010 Partita No 2 for Solo well as opera experts Barbara Eichner and Claire Seymour. And Performers: Bob Behrendt, Bob Rolfe, , Norman Cello. after Stephen Hawking's passing this week we look into the Baltazar, Dalton Smith, t; Bud Parker, Bob Fitzpatrick, Dave Music Matters archive in search of an interview he gave Tom in Wheeler, Jim Amlotte, tb; Gabe Baltazar, Gene Roland, Joel 2006 revealing his favourite compositions, and also comparing Kaye, Allan Buetler, Buddy Arnold, Paul Renzi, reeds; Stan SAT 21:30 Between the Ears (b09vzj0r) the nature of Music with the world of Physics. Kenton, p; Pat Senatore, b; Jerry McKenzie, d; Dwight Carver, Astronautica Fantastica , Keith Lamotte, Ray Starling (and Gene Roland Children listen to soundtracks from classic films they've never again) mellophone. 1963 seen, and invent original stories. Each story features the SAT 13:00 Saturday Classics (b09vz3zw) enigmatic Jonny T. A man of many parts, Johnny pulls himself Rosalind Plowright Artist out of his own hat and finds himself in guise after spectacular Rosalind Plowright introduces the music that has been most Title Indian Lady guise, adopting any shape he wants. influential on her life and operatic career. Including John Composer Ellis Ogdon playing Beethoven, Maria Callas singing Puccini and Album Electric Bath Starring Ed Gaughan, and children from Bristol, London and Bernhard Klee conducting Mahler. Label Columbia Glasgow. Number CS 9585 Track 1 Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz Duration 8.06 Produced and directed by Joby Waldman SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (b09vz3zy) Performers: Don Ellis / trumpet; Ruben Leon / alto sax, soprano A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3. Gaming sax, flute; Joe Roccisano / alto sax, soprano sax, flute; Ira As Lara Croft leaps into cinemas in the latest Tomb Raider Shulman / tenor sax, piccolo, flute, clarinet; Ron Starr / tenor With many thanks to Felix Road Adventure Playground and film, Matthew Sweet takes on her, pacman and the Super Mario sax, flute, clarinet; John Magruder / baritone sax, flute, clarinet, Linkes Community Project. Brothers as he explores the influence video games have had on bass clarinet; Edward Warren / trumpet; Alan Weight / trumpet; film and filmmakers. Alan Wight / trumpet; Bob Harmon / trumpet; Glenn Stuart / Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual trumpet; Terry Woodson / trombone; Ron Myers / trombone; events is purely coincidental. David Sanchez / trombone; Tom Myers / trombone: Michael SAT 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (b09w2q6z) Lang / piano, keyboards, clavinet; Ray Neapolitan / bass, sitar; It features original music from the following Motion Picture Among this week's requests from listeners for all styles of jazz, Dave Parlato / bass: Frank DeLaRosa / bass; Steve Bohannon / Soundtracks: Alyn Shipton plays music by the great American pianist drums; Alan Estes / percussion, timbales, vibraphone; Mark The Grifter (composer Elmer Bernstein) Ramsey Lewis. Stevens / percussion, timbales, vibraphone; Chino Valdes / Diamonds are Forever (composer John Barry) bongos, conga The Godfather (composer Nino Rota) Artist Stan Sulzmann Eight and a Half (composer Nino Rota) Title Chu-Chu Artist Earl Bostic Chinatown (composer Jerry Goldsmith) Composer Sulzmann Title Cherokee Psycho (composer Bernard Herrmann) Album Live at the Spotted Dog Composer Noble Casenova, (composer Nino Rota) Label Stoney Lane Album Plays Jazz Standards The Road to Perdition (composer Thomas Newman) Number 1878 Track 1 Label Definitive The Omen (composer Jerry Goldsmith) Duration 6.53 Number 11295 Track 27 Blade Runner (composer Vangelis) Performers Stan Sulzmann, ts; with Tom Walsh, Sean Gibbs, Duration 3.00 The Big Country (composer Jerome Moross). Mike Adlington, Aaron Diaz, t; Kieran McLeod, Richard Foote, Performers Earl Bostic, as; Blue Mitchell, t; Ray Felder, ts; Tom Dunnett, Yusef Narcin, tb; Elliot Drew, Chris Young, Gene Redd vib; Joe Knight, p; Mickey Baker, g; Ike Isaacs, b; Helena Kay, John Fleming, Colin Mills, reeds; David Ferris, p; George Brown, d. 17 Dec 1952 SAT 22:00 Hear and Now (b09w23m5) Ben Lee, g; Nick Jurd, b; Jonathan Silk, d. 2017. The BBC Scottish Symphony in music by James Tenney, Jose Artist Louis Armstrong Maceda & Salvatore Sciarrino Artist Jack Parnell Title St James Infirmary Robert Worby uncovers the music of the American theorist and Title Skin Deep Composer Primerose pioneering experimentalist, James Tenney (1934-2006). Also Composer Bellson Album Complete NY Town Hall and Boston Symphony Hall tonight, the UK premiere of a major work by José Maceda Album Concerts (1917-2004), a Manila-born ethnomusicologist and composer, Label Label Definitive whose music fuses Asian and Western styles. Plus a modern Number Side 2 Track 1 Number 11291 CD 1 Track 17 Italian classic by Salvatore Sciarrino inspired by Mendelssohn's Duration 2.48 Duration 3.37 Violin Concerto. As the composer says: "Amid flashes of Performers Hank Shaw, Ronnie Simmonds, Jo Hunter, Terry Performers: Jack Teagarden, tb, v; Dick Cary, p; Bob Haggart, consciousness...other music issues forth, literally generated by Lewis (tp), Mac Minshull, Bobby Lamb, Robin Kay, Jimmy b; Sid Catlett, d. 17 May 1947 the echo of a lyrical outburst...the two sound Tobbett (tb), Bob Burns, Jimmy Phillips (as), Joe Temperley, images...elementary opposites against a black sky." Ronnie Keene (ts), Don Honeywell (bs), Max Harris (p), Kenny Artist Tony Allen Napper (b), Jack Parnell, Phil Seamen (d). 6 Jan 1954 Title Bad Roads James Tenney: Clang (1972) Composer Allen James Tenney: Beast from Postal Pieces (1965-71) for solo Artist Ramsey Lewis Album The Source double bass Title Love Theme from Spartacus Label Blue Note (France) James Tenney: Diapason (1996) Composer North Number OO2721402 Track 2 José Maceda: Distemperament (1992, UK Premiere) Album The In Crowd Duration 5,48 Salvatore Sciarrino: Allegoria della note (1985) Label Argo Performers: Tony Allen, d, ldr; Nicolas Giraud, t; Daniel James Tenney: Analog#1 (Noise Study) Number LPS 757 Track 5 Zimmerman, tb; Yan Yankielewicz, as; Remi Scuito, fl; Jean Ilya Grigolts (violin) Duration 7.18 Jacques Elange, ts; Jean Phi Dary, kb; Indy Debonge, g; Mathias Dominic Lash (double bass) Performers: Ramsey Lewis p; Eldee Young, b; Red Holt, d. Allemane, b. 2017. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor) May 1965 Sound of the Week: Raven Chacon, the forty year old Native Artist David Grisman SAT 17:00 Jazz Line-Up (b09w2q71) American composer, performer of experimental noise music Title E.M.D. Alice Coltrane and installation artist. Composer Grisman Kevin Le Gendre presents a special edition celebrating the Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 3 of 11 SUNDAY 18 MARCH 2018 5:29 AM 05 00:36 Traditional Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827) Teri Aankhon Mein (Seren Syw) SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (b09w2s39) 7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen' WoO.46 Singer: Tahseef Akhbar Gary Burton for cello and piano (from Mozart's "Die Zauberflote") Singer: Gwyneth Gwyn A vibraphone superstar for some six decades, Gary Burton has Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) combined jazz, rock, Latin and classical in starry groups 06 00:40 Traditional featuring the likes of Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny and 5:39 AM Woh dil hi kya Keith Jarrett. Geoffrey Smith surveys a great career. Heinichen, Johann David [1683-1729] Singer: Jagjit Singh Concerto for flute, bassoon, cello, double bass and harpsichord Vladislav Brunner jr. (flute), Jozef Martinkovic (bassoon), Juraj 07 00:47 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b09w6xwr) Alexander (cello), Juraj Schoffer (double bass), Miloš Starosta Cherubic Hymn (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom) St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. Beethoven and Brahms (harpsichord) Choir: State Chamber Choir of Moscow Conservatory John Shea presents a chamber concert from members of Saint Conductor: Valery Kuzmich Polyansky Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota, playing Beethoven & 5:49 AM Brahms Morawetz, Oskar (1917-2007) 08 00:54 Elizabeth Poston Clarinet sonata Jesus Christ the Apple Tree 1:01 AM Joaquín Valdepeñas (clarinet), Patricia Parr (piano) Singer: Aled Jones Ludwig van Beethoven [1770-1827] Choir: BBC Welsh Chamber Choir Piano Quintet in E flat op16 5:59 AM Members of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Jeremy Denk Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809] (piano) Symphony No. 88 (H.1.88) in G major SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09v5ncd) Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Adam Fischer (conductor) Wigmore Hall Mondays: Calidore String Quartet 1:24 AM Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Johannes Brahms [1833-1897] 6:20 AM Horn Trio in E flat op 40 Kodaly, Zoltan (1882-1967), Unknown (Arranger) The Calidore String Quartet is a member of the Radio 3 New René Pagen (horn), Steven Copes (violinv), Jeremy Denk Dances of Galanta (Galántai táncok) Generation Artists scheme, and today they perform an early (piano) Adam Fellegi (Piano) Divertimento by Mozart followed by Caroline Shaw's First Essay, 'Nimrod'. The concert concludes with Shostakovich's 1:52 AM 6:36 AM contemplative Ninth String Quartet. Fodor, Carolus Antonius (1768-1846) Schobert, Johann (c.1735-1767) Symphony No.3 in C minor (Op.19) Keyboard Concerto in G major Presented by Andrew MacGregor. Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Halstead Eckart Sellheim (fortepiano), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef (conductor) Meier (conductor). Mozart: Divertimento in F, K138 Caroline Shaw: First Essay: Nimrod 2:21 AM Shostakovich: String Quartet No 9 in E flat, Op 117. Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943) SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b09w2s3j) The Bells Sunday - Martin Handley Roumiana Bareva (soprano), Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor), Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (b09vz5br) Stoyan Popov (baritone), 'Sons de la mer' Mixed Choir Varna, featuring listener requests. Debussy and Rameau Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov As part of the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of (conductor) Email [email protected]. Debussy's death, Hannah French asks what it was about Rameau that inspired the composer's "Hommage a Rameau". 3:01 AM Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (b09vyzjv) Cello Concerto No.2 in B minor, Op 104 Sarah Walker with Bernstein, Borodin and Bach SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (b09v6427) Truls Mørk (cello), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn Sarah Walker's selection of music for a Sunday Morning ranges Eton Choral Course at Eton College (conductor) from sacred to secular, with Purcell's anthem "Rejoice in the Recorded in the Chapel of Eton College during the 2017 Eton Lord Alway" on the one hand and part of J S Bach's "Coffee Choral Course. 3:41 AM Cantata" on the other. Her Sunday Escape is by Tchaikovsky Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) and there's also music by Bernstein, Borodin and Thomas Arne. Introit: Adoro te devote (Cecilia McDowall) Piano Sonata in B flat major D.960 Responses: Ralph Allwood Naum Grubert (piano) Psalms 73, 74 (Lang, Brooksbank, Parratt) SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b093m73p) First Lesson: Jeremiah 13 vv.20-27 4:23 AM Gwyneth Glyn Office Hymn: O kind creator bow thine ear (plainsong) Dufay, Guillaume (c.1400-1474) The poet and singer-songwriter Gwyneth Glyn talks to Michael Canticles: Service for Trebles (Weelkes) Balsamus et munda cera Berkeley about the music she loves from Wales and around the Second Lesson: 1 Peter 1 v.17 - 2 v.3 Orlando Consort world. Anthem: Media Vita (Sheppard) Hymn: Ah, holy Jesus (Herzliebster Jesu) 4:29 AM Gwyneth has been described as a poet among singers and a Organ Voluntary: Voluntary in A minor (Benjamin Cosyn) Arban, Jean-Baptiste [1825-1889] singer among poets. She's also a television script writer, a Variations on "Casta diva... Ah! Bello" from Bellini's 'Norma' playwright and a children's author, having won the Crown at the Ralph Allwood (Director of Music) Alison Balsom (trumpet), John Reid (piano) Urdd Eisteddfod aged 18, and going on to be appointed Wales' Robert Scamardella (Organist). National Poet Laureate for Children in 2006, the year she also 4:35 AM won Best Female Artist in the Radio Cymru Rock and Pop Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881), orch. Rimsky- Awards. Brought up in a Welsh speaking household, she's a SUN 16:00 Choir and Organ (b09w6xwt) Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908) passionate advocate of the language both within Wales and Dvorak, Schubert and McDowall Dance of the Persian Slaves - from the Opera Khovanshchina internationally. Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of beautiful music for (Act IV, Scene 1) many voices. Today, she presents Dvořák in jubilant mood in Slovenian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Samo Gwyneth talks to Michael about writing a libretto for the first his setting of Psalm 149 for full chorus and orchestra. The Hubad (Conductor) ever Welsh language opera, growing up in a rural Welsh- Netherlands-based Egidius Kwartet offer Schubert at his most speaking community, and the pleasures and challenges of charming and flirtatious, plus a gently uplifting hymn to 4:42 AM passing the language on to the next generation. Motherhood from British composer Cecilia McDowall. Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) Rondo capriccioso in E major/minor, Op 14 She chooses music from her collaboration with Indian ghazal Sook-Hyun Cho (piano) singer Tauseef Akhtar, as well as music by Tippett, Welsh folk SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b09vzjk0) hero Meredydd Evans, Rimsky Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. Searching for Paradise 4:49 AM The Listening Service investigates music's divine journeys as Jiranek, Frantisek (1698-1778) Producer: Jane Greenwood part of the BBC's Civilisations season. Bassoon Concerto in F major A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3. Sergio Azzolini (Bassoon), Collegium Marianum, Jana Humanity has used music to commune with the sacred for as Semeradova (Director) 01 00:03 Guto Puw long as we have been human: from the caves of Chauvet, tens Torri'r garreg - Overture of thousands of years ago, to the churches, temples, and 5:01 AM Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales synagogues of today, we have sung and hymned and played our Grieg, Edvard Hagerup [1843-1907] Conductor: Guto Puw connection with our God(s). 2 Norwegian Dances (Op.35, nos. 1 & 2) Something else has happened in modern Western society: as Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Rouslan Raychev (conductor) 02 00:11 Michael Tippett organised religion has waned, a cult of music has developed, in Concerto for Double String Orchestra (2nd mvt) which we don't just use music to worship, but worship music 5:11 AM Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra and musicians as carriers of a divine spark. With the help of Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Grieg, Edvard Conductor: Andrew Davis Keith Howard, Emeritus Professor of Music at SOAS and The (1843-1907) Reverend Lucy Winkett, Tom explores how music has sounded Sonata for piano in C major (K.545) (arr. for two pianos) 03 00:26 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov the sacred and itself become sacred. Julie Adam and Daniel Herscovitch (pianos) The Sea and Sinbad's Ship (Scheherazade) Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra 5:20 AM Conductor: Mariss Jansons SUN 17:30 Words and Music (b09w2s3m) Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914) Man's Best Friend Third Song-Wreath (From my homeland) 04 00:34 Traditional A celebration mankind's greatest ally in the animal kingdom - Karolj Kolar (Tenor), Nikola Mitic (Baritone), Belgrade Radio Y cariad cyntaf dogs. Actors Robert Lindsay and Claire Benedict read some of and Television Chorus (Choir), Mladen Jagust (Conductor) Singer: Meredydd Evans the canine literature of writers including Dodie Smith, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickinson. With music by Gershwin, Elgar, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 4 of 11 Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. G.R.S (Enigma Variations) South African born Nicholas Wright is one of Britain's Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin foremost playwrights and has written regularly for the National 01 [conductor] Theatre. His plays include 'Vincent in Brixton' (Laurence Fenton! Olivier Award for Best New Play 2003), 'The Last of the Duration: 00’20 25 00:01 Duchess' (2011), 'Travelling Light' (2012) and recently a Kevin Young dramatisation of Pat Barker's 'Regeneration' (2014). 02 Noël Coward Bereavement [Robert Lindsay] Mad Dogs and Englishmen Performer: Noël Coward 26 00:01 Edward Elgar SUN 22:25 Early Music Late (b09w6xww) Sospiri Les Talens Lyriques 03 00:00 Performer: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields [orchestra], Sir Elin Manahan Thomas introduces highlights from a concert Emily Dickinson Neville Marriner [conductor] recorded in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg last year, given by Les A little Dog that wags his tail [Claire Benedict] Talens Lyriques directed by Christophe Rousset, featuring music by Telemann and Rameau. 04 00:00 George Gershwin SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (b09w2s3p) Walking the Dog (Shall We Dance) Blind, Black and Blue The instrumental and vocal ensemble Les Talens Lyriques was Performer: Philharmonic (orchestra), Michael There were many real blind, black bluesman, scraping a living founded twenty-five years ago by the harpsichordist and Tilson Thomas (conductor) in the Deep South a hundred years ago. From Blind Willie conductor Christophe Rousset. It owes its name to an opera by Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson on opposite street corners Rameau, and it's the music of Rameau which features in this 05 00:00 in Dallas to Blind Blake and Blind Boy Fuller in Georgia and performance, along with two colourful overtures by Telemann. Thomas Hardy the Carolinas, the early 20th century saw blind bluesmen A Popular Personage at Home [Robert Lindsay] playing everything from the lewd, raw blues of the juke joint to Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) - Overture in G, TWV the God-fearing spirituals beloved of the new wave of Southern 55:G1 ('La musette') 06 00:00 Frédéric Chopin churches and with a musical legacy that's lasted through the Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) - Le berger fidèle, cantata Waltz in D flat major, Op 64, No 1, ‘Valse du Petit Chien’ decades. Georg Philipp Telemann - Overture in B flat, TWV 55:B5 ('Les Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Nations') How did this group of blind musicians, faced with all the 07 00:00 Mel Leven disadvantages of race, segregation, disability and poverty, Les Talens Lyriques Cruella de Vil manage to achieve celebrity in their own day and leave such a Christophe Rousset, director Performer: Bill Lee (piano/vocals) lasting mark on the history of American music? Producer Helen Garrison. 08 00:00 Gary O'Donoghue, who is blind himself, explores the elements Dodie Smith of race and culture that made this phenomenon possible. 101 Dalmations [Claire Benedict] SUN 23:25 Night Music (b09w6xwy) Presenter, Gary O'Donoghue Charles Villiers Stanford 09 00:00 Eric Coates Producer, Lee Kumutat Two works spanning Charles Villiers Stanford's composing Knightsbridge March (London Suite) Sound Engineer, Peter Bosher career - his early Cello Concerto in D minor from 1880, Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra, Vernon Handley Every member of the production team who made this performed by Alexander Baillie with the Royal Philharmonic (conductor) programme is blind. Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Braithwaite, and his final Symphony, No 7 in D minor, Op 124 from 1911, performed by 10 00:00 Editor, Andrew Smith. the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Jack London Lloyd-Jones. The Call of the Wild [Robert Lindsay] SUN 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b09w2s3r) 11 00:00 Tom Waits Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra: Schumann Rain Dogs Radio 3's weekly look at some of the best concerts from around MONDAY 19 MARCH 2018 Performer: Tom Waits Europe. MON 00:30 Through the Night (b09w6y66) 12 00:00 Tonight, a visit to the Oslo Concerto Hall, where Arvid Leif Ove Andsnes, Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic Fred Gipson Engegård conducts the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in music Catriona Young presents a concert of Russian music by the Old Yeller [Claire Benedict] by Schumann. Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, conducted by Vasily Petrenko. 13 00:00 Scott Bradley Schumann:Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op.52 Downbeat Bear (Tom and Jerry) Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129 12:31 AM Performer: Scott Bradley (conductor), studio orchestra Symphony No.1 in B flat, Op.38 'Spring' Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) The Firebird, suite (1919) 14 00:00 Daniel Müller-Schott, cello Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (Conductor) Don Marquis Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra “confessions of a glutton” [Robert Lindsay] Arvid Engegård, conductor. 12:52 AM Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) 15 00:00 Johann Strauss II Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor Op 40 Wine, Woman and Song SUN 21:00 Drama on 3 (b06qjknz) Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Performer: Alfred Mitterhofer (harmonium), Heinz Curated by Harriet Walter, A Human Being Died That Night Petrenko (Conductor) Medjimorec (piano), Alban Berg Quartet (ensemble) Harriet Walter introduces an acclaimed theatre production from the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town and later seen in London and 1:19 AM 16 00:00 Johann Strauss II New York. Based on Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela's book, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) The Beautiful Blue Danube Nicholas Wright's play explores the relationship between the Romance in D flat major Op. 24, No. 9 (encore) (10 Pieces Performer: Tina the dog psychologist and Eugene de Kock, the apartheid regime's most Op.24 for piano, No. 9) notorious assassin. Leif Ove Andsnes (Piano) 17 00:00 Dorothy Parker Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela ..... Noma Dumezweni 1:24 AM Verse for a Certain Dog [Claire Benedict] Eugene de Kock ..... Matthew Marsh Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) Symphony No. 12 in D minor Op.112 (The Year 1917) 18 00:00 Bob Dylan Sound design by Christopher Shutt Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (Conductor) If Dogs Run Free Directed by Jonathan Munby Performer: Bob Dylan 2:17 AM Produced for the Fugard Theatre by Eric Abraham Pierre Agricola Genin (1832-1903) 19 00:00 Produced for radio by Toby Swift Fantasie sur Rigoletto (Op.19) Ted Hughes Zhenia Dukova (Flute), Andrey Angelov (Piano) Roger the Dog [Robert Lindsay] 1997. Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa. Psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela prepares to sit opposite the 2:31 AM 20 00:00 Robert Schumann notorious Eugene de Kock, nicknamed 'Prime Evil', the head of Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Traumerei (Kinderszenen, Op 15 No 7) the apartheid regime's death squads. A member of the Truth Symphony No.2 in C minor Performer: Moura Lympany [piano] and Reconciliation Commission, Madizikela questions de Kock Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshi Wakasugi who is serving a 212 year sentence for crimes against humanity, (Conductor) 21 00:00 murder, conspiracy to murder, attempted murder, assault, Robert William Service kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms, and fraud. She is 3:32 AM My Dog [Claire Benedict] determined to try to understand what motivated de Kock's Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) actions. One is reminded of European writer and philosopher Adagio in E flat (WoO.43 No.2) 22 00:00 Heiner Goebbels Hannah Arendt's endeavour to understand the nature of evil Lajos Mayer (Mandolin), Imre Rohmann (Piano) Dwell Where the Dogs Dwell (The Horatian) when she wrote about the Nazi holocaust architect Adolf Performer: Jocelyn B Smith [vocals], South German Youth Eichmann's trial in Israel in 1961. 3:37 AM Philharmonic [orchestra], Peter Rundel [conductor] Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) 'A Human Being Died That Night' is based on Professor Pumla Waltz in E flat, Op.18 'Grande valse brillante' 23 00:01 Gobodo-Madizikela's best-selling book of the same name and Zoltan Kocsis (Piano) Rudyard Kipling explores, through her extraordinary prison interviews with de The Power of the Dog [Claire Benedict] Kock, how a fundamentally moral person could become a mass 3:42 AM murderer. Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594) 24 00:01 Edward Elgar 3 motets: Jubilate Deo; Io ti voria; Tristis est anima mea Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 5 of 11 Netherlands Chamber Choir, Paul van Nevel (Conductor) featuring listener requests. MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09w2vmw) Monday - The Ulster Orchestra 3:48 AM Email [email protected]. Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most Antonio Soler (1729-1783) recent recordings. Today's programme includes descriptive Fandango works by Grieg, Nielsen and Debussy and as part of Afternoon Fredrik From (Violin), Benjamin Scherer Questa (Violin), MON 09:00 Essential Classics (b09vzlr1) Concert's tone poem theme. Teodoro Baù (Viola D'Arco), Hager Hanana (Cello), Joanna Monday with Suzy Klein Boślak-Górniok (Harpsichord), Dagmara Kapczyńska Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. 2pm (Harpsichord), Gwennaëlle Alibert (Harpsichord), Bolette Roed 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Grieg - Suite: Peer Gynt (Flute), Komalé Akakpo (Dulcimer) playlist. Selections from Suite No. 1, Op.46, and Suite No. 2, Op.55. 1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op 43 3:55 AM 1050 Each day this week the bestselling author and playwright Nielsen - Symphony No 5 Op 50 Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Kate Mosse reveals the cultural influences that have inspired Simon Trpčeski (piano) L'Arlesienne - suite no.1 and shaped her life and career. Ulster Orchestra RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (Conductor) Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor)

4:13 AM MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09w248w) 3.35pm Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Claude Debussy (1862-1918), You have to drown the sense of Carl Nielsen - En Saga Drøm Op 39 Duet: Tardo per gli anni, e tremulo (Attila & Ezio) from the key Ulster Orchestra prologue to Attila Donald Macleod looks at the beginnings of Debussy's career as Giordano Bellincampi (conductor) Nicola Ghiuselev (Bass), Vladimir Stoyanov (Baritone), Sofia a composer and the early love interests of his life Symphony Orchestra, Boris Hinchev (Conductor) 3.45pm In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune 4:20 AM Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against Pacho Flores (trumpet) Roger Matton (1929-2004) the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every Ulster Orchestra Danse bresilienne for 2 pianos (1946) crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his Rafael Payare (conductor) Ouellet-Murray Duo (Piano Duo) biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an 4pm 4:25 AM affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris Debussy - Printemps Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife Ulster Orchestra Chinese Tambourine Op 3 Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma Baldur Brönnimann (conductor) Barnabas Kelemen (Violin), Zoltan Kocsis (Piano) Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, 4.15pm 4:31 AM wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing Hindemith - Symphony "Mathis der Maler" Georg Muffat (1653-1704),Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), his longing for home. Ulster Orchestra Georg Muffat (Arranger) Baldur Brönnimann (conductor). Suite for Orchestra In Monday's programme, Donald Macleod explores Debussy's Armonico Tributo Austria, Lorenz Duftschmid (Director) life and loves from the end of his student days up to his early thirties and his first masterpiece: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un MON 17:00 In Tune (b09w2vmy) 4:43 AM faune. His chief romantic interest during this period was Gaby Katona Twins, Holly Mathieson, Mary Bevan Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Dupont, with whom the composer lived for several years in a Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts Duet: Bei Mannern, from Die Zauberflote dank attic with a borrowed piano, a bed, three chairs and a news. Her guests include soprano Mary Bevan, who sings live Isabel Bayrakdarian (Soprano), Russell Braun (Baritone), rickety table. They mingled with the who's who of the Parisian for us before performing the title role in Mark-Anthony Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw artistic and intellectual circles of the late 19th century, but with Turnage's new opera Coraline. Guitar duo the Katona Twins (Conductor) very little money coming in, their meals often consisted of also perform live for us before a recital in Reading, and young bread and chocolate... New Zealand-born conductor Holly Mathieson chats to us from 4:46 AM Glasgow, where she is conducting the Royal Scottish National Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Anton Webern (Orchestrator) Debussy: Printemps (Suite Symphonique mvt 2) Orchestra. 6 Deutsche Tanze for piano (D.820) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus; Vasily Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Brown Petrenko, conductor (Conductor) MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b09w2vn0) La Damoiselle Elue Mussorgsky, Gesualdo, Wagner 4:56 AM Maria Ewing, soprano; Brigitte Balleys, mezzo-soprano; London In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix Erik Satie (1866-1925) Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor of music, featuring arrangements of Gesualdo and Wagner, plus Gnossienne No.1 Mussorgsky, Mendelssohn and Emily Barker and the Red Clay Andreas Borregaard (Accordion) Fêtes galantes Halo. Véronique Gens, soprano; Roger Vignoles, piano 4:59 AM Traditional String Quartet (mvt 3) MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b09w2vn2) Hei, Buzau, Buzau Takacs Quartet Daniil Trifonov plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 with Sandu Sura (Cimbalom), Dan Bobeica (Violin), Sergiu Pavlov the LPO. (Violin), Veaceslav Stefanet (Violin), Vlad Tocan (Violin), Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Anatol Vitu (Viola), Dorin Buldumea (Saxophone), Stefan Orchestre National de France, Daniele Gatti, conductor. Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall on 17th March Negura (Pipe), Andrei Vladimir (Clarinet), Ion Croitoru Presented by Ian Skelly (Double Bass), Veaceslav Palca (Accordion), Andrei Prohnitschi (Guitar) MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09w2vmt) Tchaikovsky (arr. Stravinsky): Sleeping Beauty (excerpts) Wigmore Hall Mondays: Stile Antico Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 5:03 AM Live from Wigmore Hall, London, vocal ensemble Stile Antico Max Reger (1873-1916) perform works associated with Queen Elizabeth I by Byrd, Interval Praludium in D minor, op.65/6 Tallis, Lassus, Dowland, Wilbye, Weelkes and others. Cor Ardesch (Organ) Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss Introduced by Fiona Talkington. 5:11 AM Daniil Trifonov (piano) Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) Byrd: O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen; Attollite London Philharmonic Orchestra Frohlocket mit Handen, BuxWV 29 portas Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Marieke Steenhoek (Soprano), Miriam Meyer (Soprano), Bogna Tallis: Absterge Domine Bartosz (Contralto), Marco van de Klundert (Tenor), Klaus Lassus: Madonna, mia pietà 'My heartfelt homage to Tchaikovsky's wonderful talent': Mertens (Bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Amsterdam Willaert: Vecchie letrose audiences in the 1920s were astonished when the modernist Baroque Chorus, Ton Koopman (Conductor) Sandrin: Doulce memoire firebrand Stravinsky started adapting Tchaikovsky (tonight we Ferrabosco: Exaudi Domine orationem meam; Ad Dominum hear his arrangements of 'Variation d'Aurore' and 'Bluebird pas- 5:19 AM cum tribularer de-deux' from Sleeping Beauty). In fact, Stravinsky adored him, Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Dowland: Now, o now I needs must part; Can she excuse my and his ballet The Fairy's Kiss transforms Tchaikovsky's music Phantasy for string quintet in F minor wrongs into something that magically fuses the spirit of both Lawrence Power (Viola), RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet Wilbye: The Lady Oriana composers. And what better homage to the composer that Weelkes; As Vesta was from Latmos hills descending Stravinsky revered so much than a performance of 5:31 AM Tchaikovsky's sweeping First Piano Concerto, performed Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) Stile Antico tonight by the incomparable Daniil Trifo. 3 Piezas espanolas for guitar Goran Listes (Guitar) The long reign of Elizabeth I saw an unparalleled flourishing of musical composition. Elizabeth's personal patronage of William MON 22:00 Free Thinking (b09w6lbd) 5:44 AM Byrd and Thomas Tallis, her attempts at religious tolerance, and Festival 2018 - The One and the Many, Are We Afraid of Richard Strauss (1864-1949) her own love of music created an environment for a 'golden age' Being Alone? Ein Heldenleben Op.40 of music. Stile Antico explores the events of Elizabeth's life and Author of A Book of Silence Sarah Maitland, medievalist John- BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (Conductor). reign; from antiphons recalling the glories of Henry VIII's Henry Clay, writer Lionel Shriver and Professor Barbara Taylor Catholic court, to virtuosic madrigals using the latest continental face the crowd to contemplate the many sides to solitude. innovations to praise the 'Virgin Queen', the programme Chaired by Rana Mitter with an audience at the Free Thinking MON 06:30 Breakfast (b09w2vmr) celebrates the rich musical legacy of Elizabeth I. Festival at Sage Gateshead. Monday - Petroc Trelawny Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, "If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company". Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 6 of 11 Was Jean Paul Sartre right or are we just hot-wired to prefer the (conductor) 5:20 AM company of others? Is it even possible - as the famous hermit St Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) Cuthbert once did - to experience true seclusion in our age of 2:20 AM Piano Sonata in D major (H.XVI.33) hyperconnectivity? And as we flock to cities in increasing Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909), arr. Shchedrin, Rodion Bart van Oort (fortepiano) numbers why do so many of us feel so isolated and alone? Konstantinovich (b.1932) Tango No.2 5:34 AM Sarah Maitland has lived by herself for the last twenty years on St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov Crusell, Bernhard Henrik (1775-1838) an isolated moor in northern Galloway, taking pleasure in (conductor) Clarinet Concerto No.1 in E flat silence and solitude. She is the author of numerous short stories, Kullervo Kojo (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, novels and non-fiction books including A Book of Silence. 2:24 AM Ulf Söderblom (conductor) Caplet, André (1878-1925) Lionel Shriver's novels include The Standing Chandelier, The Divertissement No.1 - A la française 5:57 AM Mandibles, and We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her Mojca Zlobko (harp) Bacheler, Daniel (c.1574-c.1610) forthcoming collection of stories Property, explores how our Mounsiers almain for lute possessions act as proxies for ourselves. 2:31 AM Nigel North (lute) Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903) Barbara Taylor is a Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary 8 songs from Morike lieder for voice and piano 6:03 AM University of London. Her current research includes attitudes to Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) solitude in Enlightenment Britain and her books include On 4 Klavierstücke (Op.119) Kindness, written with Adam Phillips; and The Last Asylum. 2:57 AM Robert Silverman (piano) Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827] John-Henry Clay is associate Professor in the Department of String Quartet in G major (Op.18'2) 6:21 AM History at Durham University whose main research interests are Kroger Quartet Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921) in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon history and archaeology, and the Danse macabre (Op.40) themes of conversion and religious identity. John is also the 3:23 AM Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Kjell Seim (conductor). author of historical fiction including The Lion and the Lamb Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr.Weigelt, Gunther and At the Ruin of the World. Adagio in B flat major (K.411) Galliard Ensemble TUE 06:30 Breakfast (b09w2wdn) Producer: Luke Mulhall. Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny 3:29 AM Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) featuring listener requests. MON 22:45 The Essay (b09w2vn6) Violin Concerto in G major, RV.315 'L'Estate' )] The Free Thinking Essay, A War of Words Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg Email [email protected]. A fashion show in Buenos Aires was put on for propaganda but Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director) football fixtures were deemed too risky. New Generation Thinker Dr Christopher Bannister, from the University of 3:38 AM TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (b09vzm2x) Manchester, looks at attempts to influence opinion about World Moscheles, Ignaz (1794-1870) Tuesday with Suzy Klein War II in Latin America. La Gaité - Rondo brillant pour le Piano Forte in A major Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. Although relatively untouched by violence, support in such a (Op.85) 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics strategically important region was vital to the British war effort. Tom Beghin (fortepiano - built by John Broadwood & Sons, playlist. Bombs and bullets were no use here, so fashion shows, book London, 1827) 1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history launches, soap operas and films became the British Ministry of 1050 Each day this week the bestselling author and playwright Information's weapons of war as New Generation Thinker Dr 3:47 AM Kate Mosse reveals the cultural influences that have inspired Christopher Bannister, from the University of Manchester, Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861) and shaped her life and career. explains. Overture in D major (1814) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cracow, Szymon Kawalla Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead for BBC Radio (conductor) TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09w27sg) 3's Free Thinking Festival. Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Fin de siecle 3:56 AM Donald Macleod explores a period of Debussy's life spent New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and Paganini, Nicolò (1782-1840) languishing in fin de siècle Paris clutching several masterpieces the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten Sonata for violin and guitar No.3 in C major but no money academics each year who can turn their research into radio. Andrea Sestakova (violin), Alois Mensik (guitar) In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Producer: Jacqueline Smith. 4:01 AM Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) [text Friedrich Schiller] the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every Hektors Abschied D312b crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his MON 23:00 Jazz Now (b09w06lt) Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano - after biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from INNTone Jazz Festival 2/2 Johann Fritz, Vienna c.1815) Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an Soweto Kinch with the second of two visits to Austria's affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris INNTöne Jazz Festival, and a concert by the trio co-led by 4:06 AM and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife American pianist Kirk Lightsey, (a veteran of bands with Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma Dexter Gordon, Yusef Lateef, Betty Carter and Chet Baker) Scherzo for piano No.4 in E major, Op 54 Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his and the Art Ensemble of Chicago drummer Famadou Don Simon Trpceski (piano) life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, Moye, also featuring bassist Darryl Hall. Plus a second set wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing featuring the Zhenya Strigalev Never Band, with UK pianist Ivo 4:18 AM his longing for home. Neame, bassist Linley Marthe and drummer Stéphane Galland. Platti, Giovanni Benedetto (1696-1763) Oboe Concerto in G minor In the second programme this week Donald Macleod looks at Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, the kind of man Debussy was in his thirties, as he faced the Mary Utiger (director) 20th century. During the years of writing his opera Pelléas et TUESDAY 20 MARCH 2018 Mélisande he was earning very little, while being supported and 4:31 AM looked after by his partner Gaby Dupont. But that didn't stop TUE 00:30 Through the Night (b09w6yk3) Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914) him from abruptly proposing to another woman, Therese Roger, St Petersburg Philharmonic. Nikolai Lugansky Seventh Song-Wreath (Songs from old Serbia and Macedonia) while still living with Gaby. Abandoned by several of his John Shea presents a BBC Prom from 2015 featuring Rimsky- Karolj Kolar (tenor), Belgrade Radio & Television Choir, friends at this point, one recalled that he was typically 'lost in Korsakov's Scheherazade and Rachmaninov's second piano Mladen Jagust (conductor) thought in the company of his genius', while Gaby pawned their concerto with Nikolai Lugansky and the St Petersburg belongings so they had enough money to live on. Philharmonic. 4:36 AM Dvorák, Antonín [1841-1904] Et la lune descend sur la temple qui fut (Images) 12:31 AM 4 Romantic pieces Op.75 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich (1840-1893) Elena Urioste (violin), Zhang Zuo (piano) Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op 32 Concert Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande (Act III-IV-V) St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov 4:50 AM Berliner Philharmoniker; Claudio Abbado, conductor (conductor) Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908) May Night - overture Chansons de Bilitis 12:55 AM Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (Conductor) Nathalie Stutzmann, alto; Catherine Collard, piano Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18 4:59 AM Nocturnes Nikolai Lugansky (piano), St Petersburg Philharmonic Nicolai, Otto (1810-1849) Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor. Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov (conductor) Fenton's aria 'Horch, die Lerch singt in Hain' - from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Act 2 1:30 AM Roberto Sacca (tenor, Italy), Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09w6yk5) Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) Armin Jordan (conductor) LSO St Luke's Debussy Series, Debussy and Pizzetti at LSO St Etude-tableau in G minor (Op.33 No.8) Luke's Nikolai Lugansky (piano) 5:05 AM Fiona Talkington presents a series of concerts from LSO St Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837) Luke's in London featuring the music of two anniversary 1:35 AM Trio in G major composers - Claude Debussy, the centenary of whose death falls Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolay Andreyevich (1844-1908) Viktor Šimcisko (violin), Alzbeta Plazkurova (viola), Jozef at the end of this week, and the younger Italian Ildebrando Scheherazade - symphonic suite, Op.35 Sikora (cello) Pizzetti, who died 50 years ago and greatly admired the music St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov of his French colleague. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 7 of 11 French pianist Cédric Tiberghien features in three of the assessment of the influence of people power. Democracy was Orchestra, concerts, and to launch the series he's joined today by Belgian the most successful political idea of the last century but can it Nikša Bareza (conductor) violinist Lorenzo Gatto. survive the digital age? Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead. 1:38 AM Debussy: Violin Sonata Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Debussy: Étude No 9, pour les notes répétées David Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge Overture - from Der Schauspieldirektor, singspiel in 1 act Debussy: Des pas sur la neige; Ce qu'a vu le Vent d'Ouest (from University currently working on a project about the (K.486) Preludes, Book 1) pervasiveness of conspiracy theories in the twenty-first century. Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor) Pizzetti: Violin Sonata David's books include Politics: Ideas in Profile, The Confidence Lorenzo Gatto (violin) Trap, and the forthcoming, How Democracy Ends. 1:44 AM Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849) Caroline MacFarland is the founder and director of Common Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58 Here's a little quiz for you: Vision (CoVi), an independent think tank with a mission to Van Cliburn (piano) 1. Which composer was described by a top Italian critic in 1921 'inspire civic engagement and policy understanding amongst the (three years before Puccini's death) as 'without doubt the millennial generation'. Previously, she was managing director at 2:10 AM greatest musician in Italy today'? the think tank ResPublica, one of the founding team members Haydn, (Franz) Jozef (1732-1809) 2. Which composer's 'sensibility for the chorus' was rated of the foundation Power to Change, and a special advisor to the Symphony no.95 (H.1.95) in C minor 'comparable to that of Chopin for the piano or Ravel for the Big Lottery Fund. Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Marek Janowski (conductor) orchestra' by an Italian critic in 1942? 3. Which Italian composer apart from Puccini wrote one of the Rod Liddle is an associate editor of The Spectator and a 2:31 AM top five operas of the twentieth century, according to a poll of columnist for The Sunday Times and The Sun. The author of Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827] Italian critics in 1956? Selfish Whining Monkeys: How we Ended Up Greedy, Cello Sonata in D major (Op.102'2) The answer to all three questions is: Ildebrando Pizzetti. Narcissistic and Unhappy, Liddle is a former editor of BBC Arto Noras (cello), Yeol Eum Son (piano) This series offers a chance to discover some of Pizzetti's Radio 4's Today programme. beautiful chamber and choral music alongside that of one of the 2:52 AM composers he most admired: Claude Debussy. Danny Dorling is Professor of Geography at Oxford University Converse, Frederick [1871-1940] and the author of Population 10 Billion. His research focuses on Festival of Pan, Op.9 housing, health, employment, education and poverty. His recent BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart (conductor) TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09w2wdr) books include Do We Need Economic Inequality?, The Tuesday - The Ulster Orchestra Equality Effect and he co -wrote Why Demography Matters. 3:10 AM Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most Quantz, Johann Joachim [1697-1773] recent recordings. Today's programme includes the World Producer: Luke Mulhall. Concerto in G minor, for 2 flutes, 2 oboes & bassoon Premiere of a trumpet concerto by the Venezuelan-Spanish Alexis Kossenko & Anne Freitag (flutes), Anna Starr & Markus composer Giancarlo Castro and concludes with Bartók's Müller (oboes), Jane Gower (bassoon), Les Ambassadeurs colourful 5-movement Concerto for Orchestra. TUE 22:45 The Essay (b09w2wf1) New Generation Thinkers 2018, When Shakespeare Travelled 3:28 AM 2pm With Me Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich [1865-1936] Elgar - Introduction and Allegro Op. 47 April 1916. By the Nile, the foremost poets of the Middle East Albumblatt for trumpet and piano in D flat major Dvořák - Cello Concerto Op. 104 are arguing about Shakespeare. In 2004, Egyptian singer Essam Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) Sibelius - Symphony No. 4 Op.63 Karika released his urban song Oh Romeo. Johannes Moser (cello) Reflecting on his travels and encounters around the Arab world, 3:33 AM Ulster Orchestra Islam Issa, from Birmingham City University, discusses how Wagner, Richard [1813-1883] Jac van Steen (conductor) canonical English writers (Shakespeare and Milton) creep into Prelude to Act 1 - from 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg' the popular culture of the region today. Recorded with an BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor) 3.35pm audience at Sage Gateshead as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Giancarlo Castro -Trumpet Concerto (World Première) Thinking Festival. 3:43 AM Pacho Flores (trumpet) Wolf, Hugo [1860-1903] Piazzolla - Winter in Buenos Aires Islam's Issa's book, Milton in the Arab-Muslim World, won the 3 Songs (Morgentau; Das Vöglein; Mausfallen-Sprüchlein) Pacho Flores (flugelhorn) Milton Society of America's 'Outstanding First Book' award. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Felix de Nobel (piano) Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra His exhibition Stories of Sacrifice won the Muslim News Ulster Orchestra Awards 'Excellence in Community Relations' prize. 3:48 AM Rafael Payare (conductor). Francaix, Jean [1912-1997] New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and L'Heure du berger (excerpts) the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound; James TUE 17:00 In Tune (b09w2wdt) academics each year who can turn their research into radio Campbell (conductor) Joo Yeon Sir, Robin Ticciati, Christoph Prégardien and Julia Kleiter Producer: Fiona McLean. 3:57 AM Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764) news. Her guests include conductor Robin Ticciati, who chats Ces oiseaux from Le Temple de la gloire - opera-ballet down the line from Edinburgh, where he is appearing for one of TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b09w2wf3) (Trajan's aria) his last concerts at the helm of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Nick Luscombe with Ilan Volkov Anders J Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko Tenor Christoph Prégardien and soprano Julia Kleiter sing live Conductor, improviser and champion of many musics: Ilan (director) for us before giving a joint recital in Middle Temple Hall in Volkov returns to the Late Junction studio with some new London. Plus violinist Joo Yeon Sir and pianist Irina discoveries. 4:02 AM Andrievsky play live for us before heading to Cheltenham for a Chabrier, Emmanuel (1841-1894) recital. Volkov has been Principal Conductor of the BBC Scottish España - rhapsody for orchestra Symphony Orchestra and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor) annual Tectonics Festival he founded in Reykjavik and which TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b09w2wdw) continues in Glasgow reflects his devotion to contemporary 4:09 AM Chopin, Bach, Spiro music, including improvisation, electronics and hip-hop Lassus, Orlande de [1532-1594] In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix alongside classical works. Magnificat 'Praeter rerum seriem' of music, featuring favourites together with lesser-known gems, King's Singers with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. The perfect His selections tonight include something new from Australian way to usher in your evening. saxophonist Rosalind Hall, whose explorations of her 4:18 AM instrument challenge its every aspect: making reeds from Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787) different materials, attaching found objects to the bell, and Symphony (Op.10 No.2) TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b09w6ykd) using multiple microphones to capture unusual acoustic La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor) Sondheim on Sondheim resonances. Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and a host 4:31 AM of music theatre stars in the European premiere of a brand new Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening. Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893) review of the work of Stephen Sondheim, featuring some of his Three Characteristic Pieces: 1. Troika (November from The best-known songs such as 'Send in the Clowns' and 'Losing my Seasons, Op.37); 2. Chant sans paroles (Op.2 no.3); 3. Mind', from some of his greatest shows including Company, Humoresque (Op.10 no.2) Follies, Gypsy and A Little Night Music. The concert includes WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH 2018 Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Vassil Kazandijiev specially recorded introductions to some of the songs by (conductor) Stephen Sondheim himself. WED 00:30 Through the Night (b09w6yrd) Salieri's 'Prima la Musica, Poi le Parole'. With John Shea 4:41 AM Singers: Liz Callaway, Claire Moore, Julian Ovenden; Rebecca John Shea presents a 1973 performance of Salieri's one-act Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) Trehearn, Tyrone Huntley, Damian Humbley opera 'Prima la Musica, Poi le Parole' from the archives of Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor (Op.31) BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart Croatian Radio. Alex Slobodyanik (piano) Director: Bill Deamer. 12:32 AM 4:52 AM Salieri, Antonio (1750-1852) [Libretto Giovanni Battista Casti] Duijck, Johan [b.1954] TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (b09w6lpq) Prima la Musica, Poì le Parole - Divertimento teatrale in one act Cantiones Sacrae in honorem Thomas Tallis, op.26, Book 1 Festival 2018 - The One and the Many, Power to the People? Maestro ..... Enrico Fissore (bass Flemish Radio Choir, Johan Duijck (conductor) Anne McElvoy hosts Rod Liddle, associate editor of The Poet ..... Vladimir Ruzdak (baritone: Spectator; David Runciman, author of How Democracy Ends; Donna Eleonora ..... Durdevka Cakarevic (mezzo-soprano 5:02 AM Caroline MacFarland, the head of a think tank promoting the Tonina ..... Nada Sirišcevic (soprano) Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) interests of 'millennials' and geographer Danny Dorling in an Festival Opera Ensemble, City of Dubrovník Symphony Concerto for 3 oboes and orchestra in B flat major Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 8 of 11 Peter Westermann, Michael Niesemann, Piet Dhont (oboes), Luke's 8.35pm Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director) Fiona Talkington presents a series of concerts from LSO St Beethoven: Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' in F Op.68 Luke's in London featuring the music of two anniversary 5:11 AM composers - Claude Debussy and his younger Italian colleague Vilde Frang (violin) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] Ildebrando Pizzetti. BBC Symphony Orchestra Violin Sonata in C major (K.303) Sakari Oramo (conductor) Tai Murray (violin), Shai Wosner (piano) French pianist Cédric Tiberghien features in three of the concerts, and today he's joined by his compatriot, the young British composer Anna Clyne's 2015 orchestral work This 5:22 AM cellist Camille Thomas. Midnight Hour draws inspiration from the waltz and two Kajanus, Robert (1856-1933) poems, one by Juan Ramón Jiménez, where music is described Finnish Rhapsody No.1 Debussy: Étude No 8, pour les agréments as 'a naked woman running mad through the pure night'; the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam Pizzetti: Cello Sonata other by lover of the decadent Charles Baudelaire from his (conductor) Debussy: La sérénade interrompue (from Preludes, Book 1) Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) . Expect a magic-lantern Debussy: Cello Sonata show in music, a panorama of vivid, intoxicating nocturnal 5:32 AM Camille Thomas (cello) sounds. Peskin, Vladimir [1906-1988] Cédric Tiberghien (piano). Trumpet Concerto no.1 in C minor Then Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang plays Britten's Violin Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Roberto Arosio (piano) Concerto, one of the profoundest of twentieth century concertos WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09w2z03) for the instrument, a work that has finally emerged from the 5:51 AM Wednesday - The Ulster Orchestra shadows and one that Frang has made her own. Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most Variations on a theme of Corelli for piano (Op.42) recent recordings. Today's programme includes descriptive Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No.6 concludes tonight's Natalya Pasichnyk (piano) works by Dukas and Debussy and concludes with Ravel's excursions in sound; but here it is a composer's infatuation with dazzling evocation of gliding dancers, warped and transmuted nature, sparked on his walks in the countryside around Vienna, 6:08 AM into something rather more sinister in his La valse. that lights the score. A concert certain to display Sakari Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Oramo's range and superb rapport with his orchestra. Brandenburg concerto No.5 in D major, BWV 1050 2pm Per Flemstrøm (flute), Andrew Manze (violin), Andreas Staier Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice (harpsichord), Risør Festival Strings. Dutilleux - Tout un monde lointain WED 22:00 Free Thinking (b09w7qqg) Debussy - La mer Festival 2018 - The One and the Many, Gangs: The Usual Ravel - La valse Suspects WED 06:30 Breakfast (b09w2z00) Alisa Weilerstein (cello) From Brighton Rock and Goodfellas to the streets of Glasgow, Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny Ulster Orchestra London's East End and Chicago, what's it really like to be part Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Rafael Payare (conductor). of a gang and do gangs lead to organised crime? Matthew Sweet featuring listener requests. calls a meeting with Criminologist Alistair Fraser, journalist Symeon Brown and James Docherty of Scotland's Violent Email [email protected]. WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (b09xycnq) Reduction Unit Archive Service from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral An archive service from the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Symeon Brown describes himself as an 'activist/writer on youth, WED 09:00 Essential Classics (b09w2cd2) Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool (first broadcast 3 April justice and urbanism' and is a journalist for Channel 4 News. Wednesday with Suzy Klein 1974). He was senior researcher for The Guardian's investigation team Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. on their in-house study, Reading the Riots about the English 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Introit: The Lamentation of a Sinner (Dowland) riots of 2011. playlist. Responses: Philip Duffy 1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history Psalm 50 (Plainsong) Alistair Fraser researches gang culture with a particular focus 1050 Each day this week the bestselling author and playwright The Lamentation (Bairstow) on youth 'gangs', street-based teenagers involved in criminal Kate Mosse reveals the cultural influences that have inspired First Lesson: Isaiah 52 vv.13-53 activity in Glasgow, Chicago and Hong Kong. His book Urban and shaped her life and career. Office hymn: The royal banners forward go (Angel's Song) Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City, was awarded Canticles: Faux bourdon Service (Tallis) the British Society of Criminology Book Prize. Second Lesson: Mark 10 vv.32-45 WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09w2cd4) Anthem: Cast me not away (Wesley) James Docherty has worked with a leading children's charity Claude Debussy (1862-1918), The Sea Hymn: When I survey the wondrous Cross (Rockingham) helping young people on the cusp of organised crime and with Donald Macleod explores a Donald Macleod explores a short the 'Violence Reduction Unit' in Glasgow. He advocates for period in Debussy's life which scandalised Paris and turned Philip Duffy (Master of the Music) change in the way we address the hidden cost of untreated most of his friends against him Terence Duffy (Organist). trauma in our communities.

In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Producer: Jacqueline Smith. Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (b09w6yrl) the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every NGA Andrei Ionita plays Bach's Cello Suite No 3 crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his New Generation Artists. WED 22:45 The Essay (b09vz677) biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from Romanian-born Andrei Ionita plays Bach's Cello Suite no 3 in C The Free Thinking Essay, Speaking Truth to Power in the Past Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an major in a recording made a few weeks ago at the BBC's and Present affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris studios. From Monarchs to Presidents. Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and the Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma relevance of strategies for telling truth to those who hold power Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his WED 17:00 In Tune (b09w2z09) over us now. life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, Jacqui Dankworth and Butterfly's Wing Five hundred years ago a miscalculation on this front could wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts leave you without a head. Today, the personal stakes may not be his longing for home. news. Her guests include jazz singer Jacqui Dankworth and as high, but globally, we've never had so much to lose. Butterfly's Wing, who perform tracks from their new album Renaissance historian and New Generation Thinker Dr Joanne Donald Macleod explores a traumatic period in Debussy's life live for us. Paul, from the University of Sussex, takes us back to the 16th when Parisian society, and many of his close friends, turned and 17th century techniques for challenging the establishment against the composer for abandoning his wife in virtual poverty and the writings of Gegorge Puttenham, Thomas More and Sir to run off with a woman of the world, the rich wife of a banker, WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b09w2z0d) Thomas Elyot and debates over the merits of flattery versus Emma Bardac. The works he wrote during these first few years Rodrigo, Telemann, Mascagni honesty, and whether it was better to lead or to compel. of the 20th century reflect both his state of mind and his In Tune's specially curated mixtape: a concerto for not one environment. guitar but four by Rodrigo, a Spanish count's moonlight Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead as part of BBC serenade, a Polish nocturnal song by Chopin arranged for piano Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival. Masques by his friend and rival Liszt, Telemann in tender mood, Steven Osborne, piano romantic Rachmaninov and the stirring Easter Hymn from New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and Mascagni's opera Cavalleria Rusticana. the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select 10 Estampes academics each year who can turn their research into radio Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Producer: Ian Wallington. Producer: Torquil MacLeod. Trois Chansons de France Sarah Walker, mezzo soprano; Roger Vignoles, piano WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b09vywsm) BBC SO Sakari Oramo in Clyne, Britten and Beethoven WED 23:00 Late Junction (b09w2cd6) L'Isle Joyeuse Live from Barbican Hall, Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Nick Luscombe Ulster Orchestra; Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor Symphony Orchestra in music by Anna Clyne, Britten's Violin We've landed in a world inhabited by bird-like creatures with Concerto with soloist Vilde Frang, & Beethoven's 6th both beaks and teeth, where experimental electro-acoustic Reflets dans l'eau (Mvt 1 Images) Symphony, 'Pastoral'. music plays. It must be Les Shadoks, the cult French cartoon Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano whose complete soundtrack by Robert Cohen-Solal has just Presented by Martin Handley been released in its entirety for the first time. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (La Mer) New Philharmonia Orchestra; Pierre Boulez, conductor. Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour (2015) Cut to the inside of the Taj Mahal, where flautist and one-time Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15 jazzman Paul Horn recorded one of the first new-age records 50 years ago. Then to 15th-century France, and the music of WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09w6yrh) 8.15pm Johannes Ockeghem; but wait - composer Michael Winter has LSO St Luke's Debussy Series, Debussy and Pizzetti at LSO St Interval reframed it algorithmically! Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 9 of 11 Through the wonders and mysteries, Nick Luscombe is your Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (1550-1622) Rondes de Printemps (Images) guide. Cieco amor non ti cred'io London Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Monteux, conductor Cantus Cölln Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening. La plus que lente 4:40 am San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Antonio Sacchini (1735-1786) Trio Sonata in G major Trois Poemes de Stéphane Mallarmé THURSDAY 22 MARCH 2018 Violetas Visinskas (flute), Algirdas Simenas (violin), Gediminas Lorna Anderson, soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano Derus (cello), Daumantas Slipkus (piano) THU 00:30 Through the Night (b09w6yvw) Jeux Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Bernard Haitink and Maria 4:51 am Hallé Orchestra; Mark Elder (cond). Joao Pires Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Liszt (Transcriber) John Shea presents a performance from the 2015 BBC Proms Adelaide, Op.46 of Schubert's 9th Symphony and Mozart's Piano Concerto Ferruccio Busoni (piano) THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09w7cnk) No.23 with Maria João Pires as pianist and Bernard Haitink LSO St Luke's Debussy Series, Debussy and Pizzetti at LSO St conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. 5:01 am Luke's Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Ulrich, Titus (author), Mörike, Fiona Talkington presents a series of concerts from LSO St 12:31 am Eduard (author), Heyse, Paul (author), Wolfgang Müller von Luke's in London featuring the music of two anniversary Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Königswinter (author), Johann Gottfried Kinkel (author) composers - Claude Debussy and his younger Italian colleague Overture in C major, 'In the Italian style' 6 Songs, Op.107 Ildebrando Pizzetti. Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink (conductor) Jan Van Elsacker (tenor), Claire Chevallier (fortepiano) Pizzetti's 'sensibility for the chorus' was rated 'comparable to 12:39 am 5:12 am that of Chopin for the piano or Ravel for the orchestra' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Claude Debussy (1862-1918), orch. Henri Busser Italian critics, and in today's concert the BBC Singers perform Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K.488 Printemps - Symphonic Suite some of his beautiful choral music, including his remarkable Maria João Pires (Piano), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Jun Markl (conductor) Requiem and the Shelley setting A Lament. Bernard Haitink (conductor) 5:30 am Debussy: Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans 1:06 am Maurice Ravel Pizzetti: A Lament Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Trio for piano and strings in A minor Pizzetti: Requiem Symphony No.9 in C major, D.944, 'Great' Altenberg Trio Vienna Pizzetti: 2 Canzoni corali Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink (conductor) Debussy, arr Clytus Gottwald: Des pas sur la neige (from 5:55 am Preludes, Book 1) 2:02 am John Marson (1932-2007) Pizzetti: De Profundis Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Waltzes and Promenades for 2 harps BBC Singers Violin Sonata in G major, Op.78, arr for viola Julia Shaw (harp), Nora Bumanis (harp) Conductor Owain Park. Maxim Rysanov (viola), Katya Apekisheva (piano) 6:08 am 2:31 am Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Ferruccio Busoni THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09w307g) Toivo Kuula Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV.565 Thursday - Opera Matinee: Hansel and Gretel 3 Satukuvaa (Fairy-tale pictures) for piano, Op.19 Valerie Tryon (piano) Penny Gore introduces Engelbert Humperdinck's setting of Juhani Lagerspetz (piano) Hansel and Gretel: the classic story from the Brothers Grimm, 6:17 am where two children get lost in a forest after dark and are 2:47 am Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) charmed by a witch to enter her magical gingerbread house. The Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) Turcaria - Eine musikalische Beschreibung children are ensnared but manage to defeat the witch, and in a Cinderella - Suite No 1, Op 107 Armonico Tributo Austria, Lorenz Duftschmid (director). rousing happy ending they are returned home and reunited with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas their parents. (conductor) THU 06:30 Breakfast (b09w307c) In a performance from the Royal Opera House, Sir Colin Davis 3:14 am Thursday - Petroc Trelawny conducts Humperdinck's fairytale opera with a cast that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, includes mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirschlager as Hansel and 6 Little Sonatas for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and bassoon, featuring listener requests. soprano Diana Damrau as Gretel. Wq.184 Bratislava Chamber Harmony Email [email protected]. Hansel ...... Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) Gretel ...... Diana Damrau (soprano) 3:34 am Gertrud ...... Elizabeth Connell (soprano) Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), orch. Washburn, Jon THU 09:00 Essential Classics (b09w2fsd) Peter ...... Thomas Allen (baritone) Messe basse - for solo soprano, choir and orchestra Thursday with Suzy Klein Witch ...... 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3:50 am And at 3.45pm Janis Medins (1890-1966) THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09w2fsg) Flower Waltz - from the ballet 'Victory of Love' Claude Debussy (1862-1918), A New World Dawns Penny Gore continues this week's focus on recent Ulster Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor) Donald Macleod explores Debussy's contented domestic life in Orchestra recordings, with works by Piers Hellawell and the years leading up to the First World War Prokofiev. 3:55 am George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Piers Hellawell - Wild Flow Lascia la spina - from Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op 100 Anna Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every Ulster Orchestra Kossenko (director) crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his Rafael Payare (conductor). biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from 4:01 am Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris THU 17:00 In Tune (b09w307j) Piano Sonata in G major, K.283 (1774) and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife Carducci Quartet Marie Rorbech (piano) Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his news. Her guests include the Carducci Quartet, who perform 4:14 am life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, live in the studio ahead of their recital at St John's Smith Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing Square. Sinfonia con tromba in D major (G.8) his longing for home. Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ) "Several days ago I became the father of a little girl. The joy of THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b09w307l) 4:20 am it has overwhelmed me a bit and still frightens me" wrote In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Debussy to a friend in 1905. Donald Macleod looks at the only of music, featuring favourites together with lesser-known gems, Two orchestral intermezzi from "I gioielli della Madonna", period of Debussy's life when he was happily settled into with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. The perfect Op.4 domesticity, but, accepting invitations to conduct abroad to earn way to usher in your evening. KBS Symphony Orchestra, Othmar Maga (conductor) a better income, was taken away from his family more than he wanted. 4:31 am THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b09w6yw0) Giovanni Ambrosio (fl. after 1450) Serenade for the Doll BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Nielsen and Mozart Rostiboli Gioioso Noriko Ogawa, piano Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC SSO in Nielsen's Ensemble Claude Gervais, Gilles Plante (director) Symphony No 5, and they are joined by Martin Frost to Poissons d'or (Images for piano Set 2) perform Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. 4:36 am Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 10 of 11 Live from City Halls, Glasgow Brubaker of Terry Riley's Keyboard Study No. 2 interspersed 4:41 AM Presented by Kate Molleson with music from the Codex Faenza, a 15th-century manuscript Frederick the Great (1712-1786) thought to be one of the earliest collections of keyboard music. Sonata in C minor for flute & basso continuo Nielsen: Pan and Syrinx Konrad Hünteler (flute), Wouter Möller (cello), Ton Koopman Mozart: Clarinet Concerto Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening. (harpsichord)

8.25 Interval 4:50 AM Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) 8.45 FRIDAY 23 MARCH 2018 Piano Trio in G major, K564 Nielsen: Symphony No 5 Ondine Trio FRI 00:30 Through the Night (b09w6z5s) Martin Fröst, clarinet Eurgene Onegin. Andrie Bondarenko and Olga Mykytenko. 5:06 AM BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra With Catriona Young Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) Thomas Dausgaard, conductor Catriona Young presents a performance of Tchaikovsky's opera Overture to Lo Speziale (H.28.3) Eugene Onegin from the National Opera of Ukraine, recorded Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marba The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Danish-born in Kiev. (Conductor) chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard explore a composer with whom they both have great affinity: Carl Nielsen. The concert 12:32 AM 5:13 AM opens with Nielsen's Pan and Syrinx -an atmospheric evocation Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Traditional Catalan, arr. Montsalvatge, Xavier [1912-2002] of the titular instrument- and concludes with his deeply Eugene Onegin - opera in three acts, Act I El cant dels ocells expressive 5th Symphony. Eugene Onegin ..... Andrei Bondarenko (baritone), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Luis Claret (cello), Orquesta Tatyana ..... Olga Mykytenko (Soprano) Ciudad de Barcelona, Luis Garcia Navarro (conductor) Sandwiched between these comes music by a composer revered Olga ..... Iryna Petrova (Mezzo Soprano) by Nielsen: Mozart. His popular Clarinet Concerto is performed Lensky ..... Valentin Dytyuk (tenor) 5:19 AM tonight by Martin Fröst. Larina ..... Tetyana Kharauzova (Mezzo Soprano) Sanz, Gaspar [1640-1710] Filippyevna ..... Maria Berezovska (Mezzo Soprano) 4 pieces from "Instrucción de música sobre la guitara española" Ptince Gremin ..... Taras Shtonda (Bass) Xavier Diaz-Latorre (performing on the Guitarra dels Lleons - THU 22:00 Free Thinking (b09w8m3k) Triquet ..... Oleksandr Gurets (tenor) The Lion Guitar c.1700) Festival 2018 - The One and the Many, Rethinking Civilisations Zaretsky ..... Serhiy Skubak (Bass) As the BBC screens its new arts series, Civilisations, one of the National Opera of Ukraine Chorus and Symphony Orchestra 5:36 AM presenters, David Olusoga, joins presenter Philip Dodd, Alla Kulbaba (Conductor) Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) anthropologist Kit Davis and the historian Kenan Malik to Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV 497 consider our different notions of world history from the dawn 1:41 AM Ivan Pristas (bassoon), Camerata Slovacca, Viktor Malek of human civilisation to the present day. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) (conductor) Eugene Onegin - opera in three acts, Act II David Olusoga is a historian, writer and broadcaster who has 5:49 AM presented several TV documentaries including A House 2:20 AM Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Through Time; The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op 109 and the BAFTA award-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave Eugene Onegin - opera in three acts, Act III Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) Owners. His most recent book is Black and British: A Forgotten History. 2:55 AM 6:08 AM Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897] Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) Dr Kit Davis is a lecturer in social anthropology at the School of Piano Trio in E flat major (Op.40) Symphony no.7 in C major, Op.105 Oriental and African Studies who has written about travels Baiba Skride (violin), Linda Skride (viola), Lauma Skride BBC Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor). across Europe and about Rwanda. She is a regular panellist on (piano) BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review. 3:26 AM FRI 06:30 Breakfast (b09w32gq) Kenan Malik's books include From Fatwa to Jihad and The Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) Friday - Petroc Trelawny Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics. Kenan Nocturne in B major (Op.33 No.2) Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster who presented Nightwaves Stéphane Lemelin (piano) featuring listener requests. on BBC Radio 3 and has written and presented radio and TV documentaries including Disunited Kingdom, Are Muslims 3:32 AM Email [email protected]. Hated?, Islam, and Mullahs and the Media. Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Concerto for oboe and strings in G minor (reconstructed from Producer: Fiona McLean. BWV.1056) FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (b09w2lqx) Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Camerata Köln Friday with Suzy Klein Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. THU 22:45 The Essay (b09vz5lp) 3:42 AM 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics The Free Thinking Essay, Kids With Guns Cabezon, Antonio de [1510-1566] playlist. New Generation Thinker Emma Butcher looks at what we learn 3 works for Double Harp 1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history about war from the writing of child soldiers in The Battle of Margret Köll (arpa doppia) 1050 Each day this week the bestselling author and playwright Trafalgar and the childhood writings of the Bronte family who Kate Mosse reveals the cultural influences that have inspired were avid readers of newspaper accounts of battles and 3:51 AM and shaped her life and career. memoirs of soldiers. Does their fantasy fiction show an Piston, Walter (1894-1976) understanding of PTSD and the impact of battle on fighters Prelude and Allegro before such conditions were diagnosed? David Schrader (organ), Grant Park Orchestra, Carlos Kalmar FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b09w2lqz) (conductor) Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Final Flowering Dr Emma Butcher, literature historian at the University of Donald Macleod looks at Debussy's final years, and a late burst Leicester, uncovers the history of Robert Sands, a powder 4:02 AM of creativity in 1915 before a steep decline in his health monkey in the Battle of Trafalgar,. Does his experience muddy Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) our sense of what childhood is ? Vocalise (Op.34 No.14) In the week of the centenary of the composer's death, Donald Toronto Symphony, Mario Bernardi (conductor) Macleod looks at the development of Debussy's career against New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the background of his turbulent personal life. 'At every the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten 4:08 AM crossroads in Debussy's life there was a woman', wrote his academics each year who can turn their research into radio Finzi, Gerald (1901-1956) biographer Marcel Dietschy, and this week we meet them: from White-flowering days for chorus (Op.37) (no.8 in 'A Garland Mme Vasnier, the married singer with whom he conducted an Producer: Torquil MacLeod. for the Queen', 1953) affair during his early years as a struggling composer in Paris BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor) and Rome, to the bohemian Gaby Dupont, and his first wife Lily - who attempted suicide when Debussy left her for Emma THU 23:00 Late Junction (b09w2fsj) 4:13 AM Bardac. He would settle happily with Emma for the rest of his Nick Luscombe Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) life, and in his prime, touring internationally as a conductor, Rare, rejoicing and radical sounds. Adagio and allegro in A flat major, Op 70 wrote to her and their beloved daughter Chouchou, expressing Lise Berthaud (viola), Adam Laloum (piano) his longing for home. Rare: a new reissue of soul record Two Sisters from Bagdad, designed to be sold as an accompaniment to a musical theatre 4:21 AM Donald Macleod looks at a remarkable three months towards production in a Detroit church. It ended up running for just two Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857) the end of Debussy's life, spent at a villa on the Channel coast weeks, while a basement flood later destroyed most of the Valse-fantasie in B minor for orchestra which was painted several times by Monet. He went there to unsold copies. Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Robl (conductor) escape wartime Paris in 1915 with his wife Emma and daughter Chouchou, and from his letters of the time we can tell that he Radical: composer Henry Threadgill, whose jazz-ish aesthetic 4:31 AM fell in love with the place, enjoying its garden and expansive and complex musical systems have continued to break ground, Herbert, Victor (1859-1924) view of the sea. He felt so at home there that despite already has a new album out. Moonbeams - a serenade from the 1906 operetta 'The Red Mill' being seriously ill and increasingly anxious about the war, his Symphony Nova Scotia, Boris Brott (conductor) new environment encouraged a final burst of creativity. Rejoicing: wedding music from the borderlands of Azerbaijan and Iran, where women-only groups perform with voices and 4:35 AM Berceuse Héroïque hand-drums - a 1500-year-old tradition captured for Late Lanner, Joseph (1801-1843) Orchestre National de L'O.R.T.F; Jean Martinon, conductor Junction earlier this year. Old Viennese Waltzes Arthur Schnabel (1882-1951) (piano) En Blanc et Noir Plus, Riley: Nick selects a new recording by pianist Bruce Katia Labèque, piano; Marielle Labèque, piano Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 17 – 23 March 2018 Page 11 of 11 Cello Sonata Mozart: Piano Concerto No.27 in E flat major K595 Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Benjamin Britten, piano c. 8.35pm Interval: The Debussy Meme Sonata for flute, viola and harp Debussy in Paris: A survey of the influence of Debussy on Philippe Bernold, flute; Gerard Causse, viola; Isabelle Moretti, popular culture, from the music box to Tomita's recreation of harp. his music using the analogue synthesiser, via Art of Noise. With contributions from Anne Dudley from Art of Noise, film music composer Craig Armstrong, and composer and musician FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b09w6z5v) Hannah Peel. LSO St Luke's Debussy Series, Debussy and Pizzetti at LSO St Luke's c. 8.55pm Fiona Talkington presents a series of concerts from LSO St Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliées Luke's in London featuring the music of two anniversary Debussy: La Mer composers - Claude Debussy and his younger Italian colleague Ildebrando Pizzetti. Steven Osborne (piano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Pianist Cédric Tiberghien features in three of the concerts, and Jac van Steen (conductor) today he's joined by violinist Lorenzo Gatto and cellist Camille Thomas in Pizzetti's Piano Trio. Debussy's music of water, wind and light surrounds colourful works by composers at different ends of their lives. Mozart's Debussy: Étude No 10, pour les sonorités opposées 27th piano concerto was to be his last, yet despite its subdued Debussy: Images (Book 2) qualities, the finale is based on a song welcoming the summer. Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie (from Preludes, Book 1) Messiaen's meditation for orchestra dates back to his early years Pizzetti: Piano Trio after leaving conservatoire. It's a stunningly beautiful work that Lorenzo Gatto (violin) foreshadows a lifelong devotion to the mystical connection Camille Thomas (cello) between music and faith. Cédric Tiberghien (piano).

FRI 22:00 The Verb (b09w32h0) FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b09w32gt) The Verb at Free Thinking: 2/2 'The One' Friday - The Ulster Orchestra In the second of two programmes recorded at the Radio 3 Free Penny Gore showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead, The Verb turns its recent recordings. Symphonies by Brahms and Sibelius bookend attention to 'The One'. today's programme. which also includes a performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto - a work which is now cherished, Joining Ian are Tom Jackson, the curator of the hugely popular but was largely ignored during the composer's lifetime. Twitter feed and now book 'Postcard from the Past', in which Tom finds poetry in our old holiday postcards. The poet Sinéad 2pm Morrissey has written a new poem especially for The Verb Brahms - Symphony No.3 Op.90 using language from Tom's extensive archive of postcards. Beethoven - Violin Concerto Op.61 Sergey Khachatryan (violin) We feature new drama from Verb New Voice Sarah Saayed, Ulster Orchestra whose work 'My Heroes are Behind Me' celebrates Rafael Payare (conductor) extraordinary women, there's new poetry from the Newcastle- based poet Rowan McCabe who asks what destiny means in 3.25pm 2018 and there's also music from Richard Dawson, who plays Mendelssohn - Calm Sea and Prosperous Op.27 from his critically acclaimed album 'Peasant' . Ulster Orchestra Giordano Bellincampi (conductor) Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Cecile Wright. 3.35pm Neruda: Concerto for Trumpet and Strings Pacho Flores (trumpet) FRI 22:45 The Essay (b09vz70d) Ulster Orchestra The Free Thinking Essay, What Do You Do If You Are a Rafael Payare (conductor) Manically Depressed Robot? New Generation Thinker Simon Beard, from the Centre for the 4.15pm Study of Existential Risk, looks at AI and what the writing of Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 Op.39 Douglas Adams tells us about questions of morality and who Ulster Orchestra should be in control. This year is the 40th anniversary of BBC Rafael Payare (conductor). Radio 4's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead as part of BBC FRI 17:00 In Tune (b09w2lr1) Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival. Debussy's Paris Katie Derham with In Tune from Birmingham marking the New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and 100th anniversary of the death of Debussy with music and chat the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten inspired by the sounds of the Belle Epoque and Debussy's Paris. academics each year who can turn their research into radio.

Guests include Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and members of the Producer: Fiona McLean. CBSO, BCMG and soprano Ruby Hughes, Franco-Nigerian soprano Omo Bello and pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b09w2lr3) 18.30 "Debussy's Paris" - 1. The Watteau Revival. BBC Music Introducing session with The Scorpios Georgia Mann Smith in Paris looking at some of the key artistic Lopa Kothari presents a BBC Music Introducing session with and cultural events from Debussy's city from the years 1860 and London based Sudanese band The Scorpios. 1918. Based in London after fleeing the fundamentalist takeover in Central Sudan, The Scorpios mix hypnotic Arabic rhythms with FRI 18:30 Debussy's Paris (b09wv312) desert guitar riffs and synth lines to create a sound that is both Haussmann and Watteau modern and traditional. Classical music feature.

FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (b09w32gw) In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites together with lesser-known gems, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. The perfect way to usher in your evening.

FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (b09w32gy) BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Debussy, Mozart, Messiaen Pianist Steven Osborne joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Mozart's Piano Concerto No.27. Plus Jac van Steen conducts Debussy's La Mer.

Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff. Nicola Heywood Thomas presents.

Debussy: Nocturnes Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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