Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 07 MAY 2011 Isabelle Perrin and Ghislaine Petit (harps), Maîtrise de Radio discusses his Danish StoRMChaser project and his recent album France, Denis Dupays (conductor) Beloved Bird. SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b010vy7m) Rarities, archive and classic recordings from Europe. Tonight, 5:49 AM John Shea's selection includes a concert by the Bergen Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests (b010xw3f) Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto in E minor for recorder, transverse flute, strings and Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. continuo 1:01 AM La Stagione Frankfurt Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (b010xw7h) Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" 6:03 AM Live from the Met Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor) Pejacevic, Dora (1885-1923) Life of Flowers (Op.19) Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos 1:12 AM Ida Gamulin (piano) Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893) Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 (Op. 23) in B flat minor 6:23 AM Live from the New York Metropolitan Opera Stephen Hough (piano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) Andrew Litton (conductor) 5 Flower Songs In the grand house of an 18th century nobleman preparations Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor) are underway for the performance of a serious new opera, 1:44 AM Ariadne auf Naxos, to be followed by an Italian comic opera. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (1844-1908) 6:34 AM But due to a mix up with the timings, the performers are told Sheherazade - symphonic suite (Op.35); Bruch, Max (1838-1920) that both operas are going to have to be performed at the same Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitajenko (conductor) Violin Concerto No.2 in D minor (Op.44) time. The composer will have to cut his opera, and the troupe of James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, comedians will be let loose on the opera seria, trying to cheer 2:31 AM Mario Bernardi (conductor). Ariadne up with singing, dancing and advice about love. Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Trio for horn, violin and piano in E flat major (Op.40) Presented by Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff. Martin Hackleman (horn), Martin Beaver (violin), Jane Coop SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b010xvnc) (piano) Saturday - Martin Handley Ariadne ..... Violeta Urmana (soprano) The Composer ..... Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) 3:01 AM Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including music from Zerbinetta ..... Kathleen Kim (soprano) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake performed by the London Harlequin ..... Vasili Ladyuk (baritone) Suite no.1 in C major (BWV.1066) Symphony Orchestra under Andre Previn, Riccardo Chailly Scaramuccio ..... Mark Schowalter (tenor) Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor) conducts the National Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance Truffaldino ..... Joshua Bloom (bass) of Rossini's Tancredi Overture, and the Gloria from Janacek's Brighella ..... Paul Appleby (tenor) 3:27 AM Glagolitic Mass is performed by soprano Elizabeth Soderstrom The Music Master ..... Thomas Allen (baritone) Jenner, Gustav Uwe (1865-1920) with the Prague Philharmonic Choir and Czech Philharmonic Bacchus ..... Robert Dean Smith (tenor) Trio in E flat for Clarinet, Horn and Piano Orchestra conducted by Charles Mackerras. The Dancing Master ..... Tony Stevenson (tenor) James Campbell (clarinet), Martin Hackleman (horn), Jane A Wigmaker ..... David Crawford (baritone) Coop (piano) A Footman ..... James Courtney (bass) SAT 09:00 CD Review (b010xvp2) An Officer ..... Noah Baetge (tenor) 3:54 AM Building a Library: Tomas Luis de Victoria on disc The Major-Domo ..... Michael Devlin (spoken role) Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958) Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis CD Review Andrew McGregor with all that's new in the world Metropolitan Opera Chorus The Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould (director) of classical music recordings 9.30 Tomas Luis de Victoria on Conductor ..... Fabio Luisi. disc 10.30 Chris de Souza looks at new Liszt recordings. 4:07 AM Tallis, Thomas (c.1505-1585) SAT 21:00 Between the Ears (b010xw7k) Gloria - from Mass Puer natus est nobis SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b010xw35) Child of Ardoyne BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Terry Gilliam, Shostakovich Quartets, 60 Years of British Folk, Music and Technology Ardoyne, in north Belfast, lies at the heart of 'murder mile', the 4:17 AM working class community where there were more deaths per Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Terry Gilliam on his capita than anywhere else in Northern Ireland during thirty Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor (Op.39) production of Faust, Shostakovich's string quartets, how British years of 'the Troubles' And at the centre of Ardoyne are the Ivo Pogorelich (piano) folk music has changed since the Festival of Britain in 1951. Holy Cross primary schools, one for girls and one for boys.

4:25 AM Of the ninety-nine people killed in Ardoyne between 1969 and Boeck, August de (1865-1937) SAT 13:00 The Early Music Show (b010xw37) 1997 by the army or by nationalist or loyalist paramilitaries, two- Fantasy on 2 Flemish Folksongs Purcell's The Fairy Queen thirds attended these schools. Children like Philip McTaggart Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, used the burnt-out houses abandoned by Protestant families in Alexander Rahbari (conductor) Lucie Skeaping presents a programme exploring Purcell's semi- 1969 as their playground. Others like Karen McGuigan leapt opera, The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer from their bicycles and ran for cover as gun battles broke out 4:33 AM Night's Dream. Purcell did not set any of Shakespeare's original between republicans and the army. Eccles, Henry (1675/85-1735/45) text, and instead added self-contained masques in each of the Sonata for double bass and piano acts, which include some of Purcell's finest music. Lucie plays A generation later - and three years after the Good Friday Gary Karr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano) musical extracts from each of the masques from various Agreement - Karen and her daughter Christine, who was then in recordings, directed by Ton Koopman, Roger Norrington, Harry her last year at primary school, became embroiled in the Holy 4:42 AM Christophers and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Cross dispute. This protest by loyalist residents against their Geminiani, Francesco (1687-1762) Catholic neighbours' route to the school shocked a world that Concerto Grosso in G minor had been lulled into thinking the worst of Northern Ireland's Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director/violin) SAT 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010ntym) troubles was in the past. Ashley Wass 4:50 AM In this 'composed meditation', residents of Ardoyne - Catholic Bodinus, Sebastian (c.1700-1760) Presented by Katie Derham and Protestant, nationalist and loyalist - remember growing up Trio in G major for oboe and 2 bassoons during the conflict and, together with children of today, seek an Hildebrand'sche Hoboïsten Compagnie Ashley Wass - piano understanding of the legacy that's been bequeathed to the children of tomorrow. 5:01 AM LISZT: Années de pèlerinage: Première année: Suisse. Boulogne, Joseph - Chevalier de Saint-Georges (c.1748-1799) Overture to the opera 'L'amant anonyme' (1780) SAT 21:30 Night Music (b01112wn) Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor) SAT 15:00 World Routes (b01flx63) Vilde Frang, Milana Chernyavska Seun Kuti, Egypt 80 5:09 AM Recorded at The Sage Gateshead, the young Norwegian Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621) Rita Ray introduces a concert from Edinburgh, given as part of violinist Vilde Frang and Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska Psalm 23 from 5 Psalms of David (1604) the 2011 Africa Soul Rebels tour and featuring Seun Kuti and perform sonatas by Richard Strauss & Béla Bartok. Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) Egypt 80. Seun is the son of legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, and the band contains the musicians who played with his STRAUSS - Sonata for violin and piano in E flat, Op.18 5:17 AM late father. Their Afrobeat sound is a fusion of brass-driven BARTOK - Sonata for solo violin. Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) funk and traditional Yoruba rhythms. Rondo in C major, Op.73 Ludmil Angelov (piano) SAT 22:30 Hear and Now (b010xw8v) SAT 16:00 Jazz Library (b010xw3c) Contemporary Harp Music 5:26 AM Django Bates Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert of contemporary music 2 pieces for cello & piano, Op.2 Pianist, composer and bandleader Django Bates has been one of featuring the harp. Monika Leskovar (cello), Ivana ?varc-Grenda (piano) the most innovative figures on the European jazz scene since the 1980s. In front of an audience at this year's Cheltenham Luciano Berio: Chamber Music 5:35 AM Jazz Festival, he joins Alyn Shipton to look back over his Per Nørgård: Harp Concerto No. 2: Through Thorns (UK Daniel-Lesur, Jean Yves (1908-2002) recorded career from his early days with Loose Tubes to his premiere) Le Cantique des colonnes more recent bands. As well as his group Human Chain, he also Thomas Adès: The Origin of the Harp Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 2 of 10 Gerald Barry: Feldman's Sixpenny Editions (World Premiere) 4:48 AM baroque pieces - an extract from Purcell's 'Fairy Queen' and Casella, Alfredo (1883-1947) Handel's 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba', as well as Itzhak Tunde Jegede (kora) Sicilienne and Burlesque (1914) Perlman playing Paganini's Caprice No.5, 'Knee Play 5' from Allison Bell (soprano) Kathleen Rudolph (flute), Rena Sharon (piano) Philip Glass's opera 'Einstein on the Beach', and 'The Floating Helen Tunstall (harp) Crowbar' for bagpipes - an instrument which plays a major role London Sinfonietta 4:57 AM in Ruth's own domestic life. conductor Thomas Adès Nordin, Bosse Schottische The works are interspersed with traditional kora music played The Young Danish String Quartet SUN 13:00 The Early Music Show (b010xwg6) by Tunde Jegede. Concerto Copenhagen 5:01 AM Mendelssohn Batholdy, Felix (1809-1847) Catherine Bott talks to the Danish harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Three Etudes Mortensen about his role as artistic director of Concerto SUNDAY 08 MAY 2011 Sylviane Deferne (piano) Copenhagen - the exciting period ensemble which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The music is taken from their SUN 00:00 Jazz Library (b00wfqc4) 5:09 AM extensive discography as well as some live recordings kindly Australian Jazz Mendelssohn Batholdy, Felix (1809-1847) provided by Danish Radio. It includes pieces by Telemann, 4 songs from Im Grünen (Op.59) Handel, Bach and Haydn as well as music from less well-known Episode 1 BBC Singers; Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Scandinavian-based composers such as Johann Scheibe and Ferdinand Zellbell. In the first of two programmes, Alyn Shipton is joined by 5:18 AM Roger Dean, former Chair of the Board of the Australian Music Gossec, François-Joseph (1734-1829) Centre, to survey the finest examples of Australian jazz. Symphony in D major SUN 14:00 Sunday Concert (b0110kq1) Tafelmusik Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor) Ulster Orchestra - Nielsen, Walton, Vaughan Williams Among the music recommended are tracks from saxophonist Charlie Munro's '60s quartet, the Mike Nock Trio and pianist 5:35 AM Recorded at the Ulster Hall, Belfast Paul Grabowsky. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Quartet for piano and strings (K.478) in G minor Presented by John Toal Aronowitz Ensemble SUN 01:00 Through the Night (b010xwfy) Paul Watkins conducts the Ulster Orchestra in a programme John Shea presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing 6:01 AM which has lyricism at its heart. The concert begins with Bruckner at the 2010 BBC Proms Hubay, Jenö (1858-1937) Nielsen's Helios Overture, written during a holiday with his Spinning Room (Op.44 No.3) wife to Athens in January 1903. The music poetically depicts 1:01 AM Ferenc Szecsódi (violin), István Kassai (piano) the sun over the Aegean Sea, described in the score as Wagner, Richard [1813-1883] "Tranquillity and darkness - then the sun comes out with a Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin - opera in 3 acts 6:06 AM joyous, exultant song. It traces its golden arc and sings BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Byrd, William (c.1543-1623) peacefully back into the sea". This showpiece is followed by Goodnight Ground for keyboard (MB.27.42) in C major Walton's Viola Concerto - a work which marked a new phase in 1:05 AM Aapo Häkkinen (harpsichord) his career, where lyricism and melancholy played greatly Raitio, Väinö (1891-1945) increased roles. Hindemith premiered the work to warm Joutsenet (Op.15) (1919) 6:15 AM reviews in October 1929, under the baton of the composer Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor) Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764) himself. In this performance the exceptional Ukrainian viola Suite from Platée player Maxim Rysanov takes the solo role in this performance. 1:13 AM Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director) Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625) The concert concludes with Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. The Silver Swan 6:41 AM 5. He started to write it in 1938, just before the outbreak of the Emma Kirkby (soprano), The Rose Consort of Viols Schuyt, Cornelis (1557-1616) Second World War, and completed in 1943. While the work's Padovano et Gagliarda del sesto modo a6 serenity was set against the horrific backdrop of violence taking 1:15 AM Leo van Doeselaar (organ of Pieterskerk, Leiden) place throughout Europe at the time, Vaughan Williams Bruckner, Anton [1824-1896] conjures up an ever beautiful soundscape, ending in peace and Symphony No.7 6:48 AM tranquillity. BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806) Ave Regina for double choir (MH.140) Nielsen: Helios Overture, Op.17 2:17 AM Ex Tempore, Florian Heyerick (director). Walton: Viola Concerto Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5 in D Arietta and 12 variations (Hob.XVII/3) Andreas Staier (fortepiano) SUN 07:00 Breakfast (b010xwg0) Maxim Rysanov (viola) Sunday - Martin Handley Ulster Orchestra 2:36 AM conductor Paul Watkins. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) Martin Handley presents Breakfast including the Rondo from Concerto for flute and strings in D minor (Wq.22) Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik played by Tafelmusik Martin Michael Koffer (flute), Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra, directed by Bruno Weil, pianist Helene Grimaud performs SUN 16:00 Choral Evensong (b010nxzj) Uros Lajovic (conductor) Bartok's Romanian Folk Dances, and Walton's Henry V suite is Magdalen College, Oxford performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 3:01 AM conducted by Andrew Litton. From the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford. Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) Dioclesian - semi-opera in five acts Introit: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Richard Nicholson) Lynne Dawson and Gillian Fisher (sopranos), Rogers Covey- SUN 10:00 Sunday Morning (b010xwg2) Responses: Smith Crump and Paul Elliott (tenors), Michael George and Stephen Louise Fryer presents great music by Handel, Warlock, Office Hymn: Before the ending of the day (Te lucis ante Varcoe (basses), Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Beethoven, Purcell, Byrd and Warlock, and Mark terminum) Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Swartzentruber brings in a vintage recording of Horowitz Psalms: 22, 23 (Wesley, Smart, Goss) playing Liszt's B minor Sonata. Plus, your emails, Louise's First Lesson: Ezekiel 1 vv1-14 4:33 AM recommended gigs and a new release. Canticles: The First Service (Weelkes) Dowland, John (1563-1626), arr. Timothy Kain Second Lesson: John 1 vv1-14 Complaint 'Fortune my foe' Anthems: Praise the Lord, O my soul (Tomkins), Glory be to Guitar Trek SUN 12:00 Private Passions (b010xwg4) God on high (Tomkins) Ruth Goodman Hymn: Glory to thee, my God, this night (Tallis's Canon) 4:36 AM Organ Voluntary: Voluntary for Double Organ (Blow) Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) (arr. Timothy Kain) Michael Berkeley's guest this week is the social and domestic Sonata in D major (K.430) historian Ruth Goodman, well known to TV viewers as the co- Daniel Hyde (Informator Choristarum) Guitar Trek presenter of highly successful historical reality series such as Benjamin Giddens (Sub Organist) 'The Victorian Farm', 'The Edwardian Farm', 'Tales from the David Gerrard (Organ Scholar). 4:40 AM Green Valley' and 'The Victorian Pharmacy'. She is a freelance Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937) consultant, offering advisory services to museums, theatres, and Serenata (Op.121 No.5) from 6 Easy Pieces (1924) educational establishments around the country. Her particular SUN 17:00 Discovering Music (b010xwg8) Arto Noras (cello), Tapani Valsta (piano) interest is the domestic - how daily lives were lived in former Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ times from the Tudor to Edwardian periods; and her courses 4:41 AM and lectures - delivered in her trademark lively and hands-on Charles Hazlewood examines the background and music to Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937) style - cover many topics from 'History of Eating', 'Victorian Hector Berlioz's "sacred trilogy" - L'enfance du Christ - The Leivo (Op.138 No.2) Cleaning' and 'Medicine - A Consumer's Guide' to 'Babies and Childhood of Christ which contains some of the composer's Sauli Tiilikainen (baritone), Markus Lehtinen (piano) Birth', and 'A Good Death'. most immediate and intimate music.

4:44 AM As might be expected of such a live wire, Ruth is passionate Berlioz wrote it in the 1850s after penning a short musical Lindberg, Oskar (1887-1955) about music, and particularly dance, of which she herself is an sketch in a friend's Vistors' Book, in which he'd set out to Morgonen enthusiastic exponent. Dance informs many of her choices, parody the sounds of the 17th century. Liking the sketch, Swedish Radio Choir (women's voices only), Eric Ericson from the famous Clog Dance from the Herold/Lanchbery ballet Berlioz worked on it further, expanding it into a three part Chamber Choir, Maria Wieslander (piano), Gustav Sjökvist 'La fille mal gardee', to the Dance of the Knights from oratorio recounting the childhood of Christ, with a text by (conductor) Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'The Princesses' Round Berlioz himself. In proved to be one of the composer's most Dance' from Stravinsky's 'The Firebird'. She also chooses two successful and popular pieces during his lifetime. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 3 of 10 Charles Hazlewood joins the members of the BBC Concert The lights, the greasepaint, the roar of applause: there's no Handel in the Strand Orchestra and the BBC Singers with soloists, Jeremy Ovenden business like show business and this week's Words and Music Leslie Howard (piano) as the Narrator; Catherine Hopper as Marie; Stephan Loges as turns the spotlight on the theatre and showbiz. Actors have Joseph and Brindley Sherratt as the Father, in an examination of fascinated audiences from ancient Greece through to the 4:11 AM Berlioz's music, the background and ideas to the piece. Charles groundlings of Shakespeare's Globe, on into modern movie Melartin, Erkki (1875-1937) also conducts complete performances of the second and third houses; and the theatre has been both celebrated as a grand Karelian Scenes (Op.146) parts: "The Flight into Egypt" and "The Arrival at Sais". metaphor for life and denigrated as the the site of moral decay. Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jorma Palas (conductor) Henry Goodman and Samantha Bond read from work by The programme was recorded before an audience at the Queen Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, John Dryden, T.S Eliot and 4:22 AM Elizabeth Hall in London. Dorothy Parker, accompanied by the music of Puccini, Irving Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) Berlin, Purcell, Sondheim and Thomas Ades. Wie nahte mir der Schlummer...Leise, leise - from Act II of Der Freischütz SUN 18:30 Choir and Organ (b010xwgb) Producer: Georgia Mann. Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Netherlands Radio Men in Choirs Philharmonic, Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

Aled Jones extols the splendours of men-only choruses in SUN 23:30 Jazz Line-Up (b010xwgj) 4:31 AM contrasting works by Wagner and Gavin Bryars, and he asks The Passion Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) why British choirs often struggle to match their ranks of female Rondo brillante in E flat (Op.62) singers with equal numbers of tenors and basses. Jazz Line -Up presented by Claire Martin will feature this week Raoul Pugno (1852-1914) (piano) a concert recorded at London's Dean Street Pizza Express Jazz Club in a night of music for voice and piano. 4:36 AM SUN 20:00 Drama on 3 (b00qztyg) The concert features American pianist and vocalist Charlie Lima, Juan Sequeiros de (c.1655-c.1726) La princesse de Cleves Wood, the duo of pianist Darius Brubeck and singer Georgia ¡Ay, mísera de tí, Jerusalen! Mancio, and a three part vocal harmony set by "The Passion" Compañía Musical Madame de Lafayette's classic tale of intrigue and love with Liane Carroll, Jacqui Dankworth and Sara Coleman. Re translated and freely dramatised by Jo Clifford. forming for this occasion after 5 years. Also on the programe 4:41 AM the band "Outhouse" are interviewed about their latest Album " Scarlatti, Domenico [1685-1757] Set in the 16th Century, the play follows the life of a beautiful Straw, Bricks and Sticks." The bands drummer Dave Smith, and Sonata (Kk. 87) in B minor young lady newly presented to Court. It's the reign of Henri II saxophonist Robin Fincker explain how they have collaborate Eduard Kunz (piano) and Mary Queen of Scots is safely ensconced in France. It's a with New York based, Icelandic born guitarist Hilmar Jensson, time of dangerous liaisons when one step out of line could ruin and are currently on UK tour. 4:47 AM a woman and her family. Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935) Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 Quickly married off, the naïve Princess finds herself admired Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor) and taunted by those around her. And, whilst they gossip MONDAY 09 MAY 2011 cruelly, she becomes helplessly and dangerously caught up in 5:01 AM matters of love. MON 01:00 Through the Night (b010xwh1) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) John Shea introduces a concert of Vivaldi from 2010 Torroella Overture from 'Der Schauspieldirektor' Playfully adapted, this radio dramatisation offsets the Princess's de Montfri Music Festival, featuring soprano Sandrine Piau. Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Borge Wagner (conductor) painful conflict between duty and love with characters who delight in the wickedness of their world. 1:01 AM 5:06 AM Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] Purcell, Henry [1659-1695] La Princesse ..... Melody Grove In furore iustissimae irae, motet RV 626; Chacony a 4 for strings (Z.730) in G minor Her Mother ..... Candida Benson Sandrine Piau (soprano), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Psophos Quartet (BBC New generation Artists 2005-07) Clèves ..... Liam Brennan Dantone (director) Nemours ..... Robin Laing 5:14 AM Guise ..... Laurie Brown 1:15 AM Mokranjac, Stevan (1856-1914) Marie Stuart ..... Meg Fraser Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] Third Song-Wreath (From my homeland) Chorus 1 ..... Irene MacDougall Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro, sonata for two violins, viola and Karolj Kolar (tenor), Nikola Mitic (baritone), Belgrade Radio & Chorus 2 ..... Ralph Riach continuo, RV 169; Television Choir, Mladen Jagust (conductor) Chrous 3 ..... Crawford Logan Stefano Montanari (violin), 2nd violinist uncredited, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (director) 5:22 AM Director: Kirsty Williams. Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861) 1:20 AM Allegro from Violin Concerto No.3 in E minor (Op.24) Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] (1830-33) SUN 21:30 Sunday Feature (b010xwgd) Concerto in D minor for violin and organ RV 541; Albrecht Breuninger (violin), Polish Radio Symphony Hume, the Philosophical Historian Stefano Montanari (violin), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor) Dantone (organ & director) "Mary Queen of Scots was a Strumpet and a murtherer!" 5:38 AM 1:30 AM Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) - bellowed the famous philosopher, right into the ear of a Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] Piano trio No.7 in B flat major, 'Archduke' (Op.97) snoozing elderly Jacobite reader in the Advocates Library. You Violin Concerto in F ('Per la solennita di S. Lorenzo') RV 286 Arcadia Trio might think this more David Starkey than David Hume, and you Stefano Montanari (violin), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio wouldn't be far off the mark: the 18th-century author of the Dantone (director) 6:19 AM Treatise on Human Nature was also, like Starkey, a highly Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay [1844-1908] bankable writer of Tudor history who profoundly admired 1:43 AM Capriccio Espagnol (Op.34) Elizabeth I and reached out beyond academia to a popular Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Milen Natchev (conductor) audience. Laudate Pueri Dominum in G, Psalm 112, RV 601; Sandrine Piau (soprano), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio 6:36 AM History made Hume's fortune. He took sides Elizabeth versus Dantone (director) Wert, Giacches de (1535-1596) Mary. He sought a female readership for his work. He Motet Peccavi super numerum (6 part) jettisoned his philosophical works for the witty, readable, 2:08 AM Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson sometimes gossipy but always polished style of the History of Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759] (director) Great Britain, designed to be read out loud to delight and Aria della bellezza - Tu del Ciel ministro eletto provoke the tea-table. Sandrine Piau (soprano), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio 6:40 AM Dantone (director) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) But the history had a serious purpose. It meant to explode the Chaconne from the Partita for solo violin No.2 in D minor very bedrock of political hackery in Hume's day by destroying 2:15 AM (BWV.1004) the myth of England's matchless ancient constitution, and you Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) Tomaz Rajteric (guitar) can follow this powder trail all the way to the American 4 Nachtstücke for piano (Op.23) Revolution. Convinced England was in danger of becoming Shai Wosner (piano) 6:55 AM ungovernable due to bitter factional political warfare and falling Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) back into the bloody religious wars of the 16th and 17th 2:32 AM Etude in E major (Op.10 No.3). century, Hume went on the offensive against fanatical religion. Fruhling, Carl (1868-1937) Britain's most famous 'atheist' (he was a sceptic who found the Trio for clarinet, cello and piano (Op.40) 'A'-word too dogmatic for his liking) set out to write a Amici Chamber Ensemble MON 07:00 Breakfast (b010xxrg) subversive account of the psychology of religion to show his Monday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch audience the deep dangers of relying on beliefs for which there 3:01 AM was no evidence. His three chief weapons were satire, irony and Franck, Cesar [1822-1890] Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast and introduces the latest wit. Nobody expected the Edinburgh inquisition, and, as Hume Cello Sonata in A major Comedy Classics guest - actor and comedian Alexander ruefully recorded, his writings made him no enemies except all Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano) Armstrong. Best known as half of the comedy duo Armstrong the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. That's what you and Miller and frequent host of Have I Got News for You, get for writing history! 3:31 AM Alexander is also an accomplished actor and singer, having been Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) a member of Trinity Chapel Choir, Cambridge as well as the First broadcast in May 2011. Symphony No.8 in G major (Op.88) Cambridge Footlights whilst a student. He will be talking to BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor) Sara about his favourite five pieces of classical music which include choral works by Britten and Bach, piano music by SUN 22:15 Words and Music (b010xwgg) 4:08 AM Scriabin and orchestral music by Beethoven. All the World's a Stage Grainger, Percy (1882-1961) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 4 of 10 MON 10:00 Classical Collection (b010xxrj) of Wales. Part of the Wales Millennium centre, it provides the broadcaster, librettist and novelist. His poetry collections Monday - James Jolly orchestra with a recording studio and concert hall with a 350 include 'Raising Sparks', 'Burning Babylon', which was seat capacity. The hall is also an excellent venue for chamber shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, and 'Corpus', which won the With James Jolly. This week performances by Jiri Belohlavek, music - as we'll discover in Radio 3's lunchtime concerts this Whitbread Award for Poetry. His continuing collaboration with chief conductor of the BBC SO, and today a selection of recent week. During the afternoons, we'll be hearing from those artists composer James MacMillan has led to two BBC Proms choral releases of Victoria's music. who have given recitals here following them through to commissions, song cycles, music theatre works and operas for performances with the orchestra, and hearing BBC NOW in the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, Boston Lyric Opera 10.00 action in concert, in session, in Wales and beyond. and Welsh National Opera. Their WNO commission - 'The Arnold Sacrifice' - won the RPS Award for opera. A Grand, Grand Overture, op.57 There's no direct link with our lunchtime today (live from BBC Philharmonic Wigmore Hall). Instead, we hear from a recent Radio 3 New Rumon Gamba (conductor) Generation Artist, mezzo Daniela Lehner, singing six Viennese MON 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010xxxs) Chandos 10293 songs which inhabit the twilight world of the impressionist poet Vienna Piano Trio at the Newbury Spring Festival Maurice Maeterlinck. This concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall 10.07 also included Strauss's uplifting journey from dark to light, Schubert Bach Death and Transfiguration. The hall also holds regular Partita in E major, BWV 1006 rehearsals with the BBC National Chorus of Wales. Chorus Live from the Newbury Spring Festival, at St George The Jascha Heifetz (violin) master Adrian Partington directs them in Stravinsky's setting of Martyr Church, Wash Common. RCA 61748 the Mass, a liturgical work written without a commission during the hard times Stravinsky suffered when he moved to America Presented by Martin Handley. 10.25 during the Second World War. No less an authority than Alfred Brendel has said that Paul The Vienna Piano Trio, currently one of the leading Lewis is 'developing into one of the outstanding pianists of his At four o'clock today we feature Russian music, following on international chamber ensembles, brings some of the great generation'. Lewis's recordings of the complete Beethoven from Martin Sixsmith's landmark series on the history of Russia works of the repertoire to the Newbury Spring Festival. piano sonatas have been described by Gramophone Magazine as on Radio 4. Both Rimsky Korsakov and Mussorgsky based their Mozart's cheerful Trio in G major, written in 1788 in Vienna, is 'an unmissable benchmark', and Geoffrey Norris of the Daily tone poems on works by Nikolai Gogol, the father of Russian followed by Ravel's expressive Trio which features influences Telegraph called his Beethoven piano concertos cycle 'a superb realism. In turn they depict the violence of a witches' Sabbath from his Basque heritage, and is regarded as one of the major set in which Lewis asserts his own inspiring voice together with and a village wedding in the Ukraine. twentieth century works for piano trio. The recital ends with his mature insight into Beethoven's creative mind'. Today Paul Schubert's monumental Piano Trio No 1 in B flat major. Lewis performs the 3rd Beethoven concerto with the BBC Presented by Katie Derham. Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Classical Collection's Schubert: Piano Trio No.1 in B flat major, D898 Artist of the Week, Jiri Belohlavek. Alternating energy and serenity, the concerto was composed in 1800, towards the end MON 16:30 In Tune (b010xxss) Vienna Piano Trio. of Beethoven's so-called 'early period'. The composer himself The chamber ensemble Endymion perform piano trios, and gave the first performance, from a score that was, according to songs with soprano Joan Rodgers, ahead of a series of concerts his page-turner, Ignaz von Seyfried, largely blank, as he hadn't at Kings Place - Goodbye Stalin! - which explores the music of MON 22:00 Night Waves (b010xy1w) yet had time to write down the piano part - happily, he found Dmitry Shostakovich and Alfred Schnittke. Joseph Nye, Malcolm X Biography time to do this later. There's also live performance from young baritone Marcus On Night Waves tonight Philip Dodd talks to the former US Beethoven Farnsworth, winner of this year's Kathleen Ferrier Song Prize, chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Joseph Nye Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor, op.37 and Sean talks to conductor James Gaffigan. about his new book 'The Future of Power', and discusses what it Paul Lewis (piano) means to be powerful in the 21st century. BBC Symphony Orchestra Presented by Sean Rafferty. Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) With a selection of music and guests from the music world. And, as a new biography of the American civil rights leader Harmonia Mundi HMC 902053.55 Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 Malcolm X is published, Philip examines his legacy and debates E-mail: [email protected]. the connection between Islam, Malcolm and the African 11.02 American experience. Stravinsky Apollo MON 18:30 Composer of the Week (b010xxrl) Columbia Symphony Orchestra [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] MON 22:45 The Essay (b010xy1y) Igor Stravinsky (conductor) The Feast of Language Sony SM3K 46292 MON 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010xxsv) Seamus Heaney 11.30 Vienna Piano Trio at the Newbury Spring Festival A selection of recent releases of music by Tomas Luis de Poet Thomas Lynch looks to the work of the Irish poet and Victoria as discussed on last Saturday's CD Review. Mozart, Ravel Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, whose death at the age of 74, was announced today. Lynch describes how Heaney's Presenter: James Jolly Live from the Newbury Spring Festival, at St George The writing has nourished him and offers a warm appreciation of Producer: Chris Barstow. Martyr Church, Wash Common. Heaney's poetic gifts.

Presented by Martin Handley. First broadcast in May 2011. MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (b010xxrl) Henry Purcell (1659-1695) The Vienna Piano Trio, currently one of the leading international chamber ensembles, brings some of the great MON 23:00 Jazz on 3 (b010xxz4) Before the 'Glorious' Revolution works of the repertoire to the Newbury Spring Festival. Django Bates at the Cheltenham Festival Mozart's cheerful Trio in G major, written in 1788 in Vienna, is Donald Macleod explores Purcell's earliest contributions to the followed by Ravel's expressive Trio which features influences Jez Nelson presents the multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and theatre, from a smattering of songs for plays in the 1680s, to his from his Basque heritage, and is regarded as one of the major composer Django Bates, recorded live at this year's Cheltenham only 'all-sung' work for the stage which has eclipsed all his other twentieth century works for piano trio. The recital ends with Festival, including a new work specially commissioned by Jazz theatre music - Dido and Aeneas. Privately performed before Schubert's monumental Piano Trio No 1 in B flat major. on 3 and Radio 3 for rising stars on the UK scene. Bates's the composer had established himself in the professional reputation as a writer and performer of richly inventive, often theatre, it is now the only piece with a secure place in the Mozart: Piano Trio in G major, K564 humorous improvised music was forged in the 1980s as part of modern repertoire. Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor the Loose Tubes big band. The group's energetic, off-the-wall approach has had a lasting influence on British jazz, despite the Vienna Piano Trio. limited availability of their recordings, and their impact is MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010xxsn) celebrated in this new commission. Bates has handpicked Alisa Weilerstein leading members of the latest generation of UK jazz musicians MON 20:20 Twenty Minutes (b010xxxq) to perform it, including Shabaka Hutchings, James Allsopp and Alisa Weilerstein made a dynamic Proms debut last year, and The Ballad of Wash Common Kit Downes. The composer promises "something very groove- here shows what can be done with the colourful palette of solo orientated" in his new music, while the first half of the concert cello. She performs one of the mighty solo suites by Bach, plus To complement the concert from there, a lyrical evocation of features a solo piano set from Bates, revisiting music from 1994 Kodaly's highly emotional solo cello sonata. She also plays a the area around Wash Common, Newbury, by poet Michael album Autumn Fires (and Green Shoots). fantasy on an Argeninian song by Golijov, "Omaramor". Symmons Roberts, who used to live there in the 1980s. Presenter: Jez Nelson Presented by Louise Fryer Wash Common is the location of five Bronze Age tumuli and Producers: Russell Finch & Rebecca Aitchison. was also the site of one of the bloodiest battles in the English Alisa Weilerstein - cello Civil War, the First Battle of Newbury. The area used to be flat open heathland, but since the 19th century, residential housing Golijov: Omaramor has gradually encroached on the common. Michael has written TUESDAY 10 MAY 2011 J.S. Bach: Suite No. 1 BWV1007 on the common, and on its near and more famous neighbour, Kodaly: Cello Sonata Op. 8. Greenham Common, in his collections 'Raising Sparks' and TUE 01:00 Through the Night (b010xy7b) 'Burning Babylon'. Valery Gergiev conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Schubert's "Great" Symphony no.2. MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b010xxsq) Through interviews, sound and poetry, Michael conjures the Presented by John Shea BBC National Orchestra of Wales landscape and the residents of Wash Common, past and present. 1:01 AM Episode 1 Produced by Emma Harding Schubert, Franz [1797-1828] Symphony no. 9 (D.944) in C major "Great" BBC Hoddinott Hall is the home of the BBC National Orchestra PRESENTER: Michael Symmons Roberts is a poet, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 5 of 10 (conductor) La Stagione Frankfurt the moment when it came to the concert. Today we hear him conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a classic 1:57 AM 5:55 AM performance of Sibelius's 5th Symphony, composed in 1915. Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (1695-1764) Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Concerto in E flat (Op.7 No.6), 'Il pianto d'Ariana' Fantasy for piano (D.760) in C major 'Wandererfantasie' Sibelius Amsterdam Bach Soloists Alfred Brendel (piano) Symphony no.5 in E flat, op.82 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra 2:13 AM 6:16 AM Sergiu Celibidache (conductor) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Reicha, Antonin (1770-1836) DG 469 072-2. Piano Sonata in F major (K.280) Symphony 'a grande orchestre' in E flat major, (Op.41) 'First Sergei Terentjev (piano) symphony' Capella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (director) TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (b010xy7j) 2:33 AM Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Aulin, Valborg (1860-1928) 6:42 AM String Quartet in F major (1884) Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) Equal with the Best Abroad Tale String Quartet Concerto Grosso in A major (Op.6 No.11) Barbara Jane Gilbey (violin), Tasmanian Symphony Chamber In the last five years of his life Purcell was to contribute music 3:01 AM Players. to around 50 stage productions. The reign of William and Mary Leo, Leonardo (1694-1744) brought about a scaling back of court music, so the composer Cello Concerto in D minor turned to the theatre as a source of income. He became a more Werner Matzke (cello), Concerto Köln TUE 07:00 Breakfast (b010xy7d) public figure in the process, and began to work with playwrights Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch such as John Dryden, chief poet of the Restoration. With 3:15 AM Donald Macleod. Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, including Mozart's Quintet for piano and strings (Op.44) in E flat major overture to his opera The Marriage of Figaro performed by the Ingrid Fliter (piano); Ebène Quartet Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010xy9h) Marriner, Sibelius's Finlandia played by the Helsinki PerformerPlus 3:45 AM Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Okko Kamu, and Sara Walton, William (1902-1983) takes a look at what's new in this week's Specialist Classical ATOS Trio Sonata for Strings (1972) Chart. Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor) Katie Derham introduces the first in a series of chamber recitals given by guest artists of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales 4:11 AM TUE 10:00 Classical Collection (b010xy7g) at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Bay. Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884) Tuesday - James Jolly Ma Vlast No 2 - Vltava ATOS Trio BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor) With James Jolly. This week performances by Jiri Belohlavek, chief conductor of the BBC SO, and the next in our Beethoven Joseph Haydn: Trio in D Major (Hob. XV:16) 4:25 AM piano sonata cycle. Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in E flat Major (Op. 70/2) Bergh, Gertrude van den (1793-1840) Felix Mendelssohn: Trio no. 2 (Op.66) in C minor. Rondeau (Op.3) 10.00 Frans van Ruth (piano) Bach Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 174 TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b010xy9k) 4:32 AM The English Baroque Soloists BBC National Orchestra of Wales Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Wer ist so würdig als du (Wq.222) (Hamburg 1774) SDG 121 Episode 2 Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Herman Max (conductor) 10.05 BBC Hoddinott Hall is the home of the BBC National Orchestra Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle of Wales. Part of the Wales Millennium centre, it provides the 4:37 AM orchestra with a recording studio and concert hall with a 350 Chopin, Frederic (1810-1849) Sonata in D, WoO 47 no3 seat capacity. The hall is also an excellent venue for chamber Nocturne in F major (Op.15 No.1) Jeno Jando music - as we'll discover in Radio 3's lunchtime concerts this Tanel Joamets (piano) Naxos 8.550255 week. During the afternoons, we'll be hearing from those artists who have given recitals here following them through to 4:43 AM 10.18 performances with the orchestra, and hearing BBC NOW in Spohr, Louis (1784-1859) Artist of the Week action in concert, in session, in Wales and beyond. Fantasie and variations on a theme of Danzi in B minor (Op.81) Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovene Philharmonic String Quartet Brahms Today we're joined by Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Atos Tragic Overture, op.81 Trio, who visited Cardiff a couple of months ago. Principal 4:50 AM Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Guest Conductor Jac van Steen directed them with the BBC Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Jiri Belohlavek National Orchestra of Wales in music by Czech composer Love Scene - from the opera 'Feuersnot' (Op.50) Supraphon 11 1272-2 Bohuslav Martinu, the original version of his piano trio, a work Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor) rejected by his publisher and not heard until after his death - 10.30 when it was immediately hailed as one of his finest pieces. 5:01 AM Shostakovich Another, more famous, Czech composer launches our afternoon Mednis, Janis (1890-1966) Piano Concerto no.2 with an overture based on a Shakespeare play. We also hear the Flower Waltz - from the ballet 'Victory of Love' Dmitri Shostakovich Jr orchestra playing in Prague, on tour in 2007 in the Dvorak hall Lepaja Symphony Orchestra, Imants Resnis (conductor) I Musici de Montreal at the Rudolfinum with Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer. Maxim Shostakovich (conductor) Massenet's suite is also based on Shakespeare; the three 5:06 AM Chandos CHAN 8443 "dramatic scenes" are taken from The Tempest, Othello and Mompou, Federico [1893-1987] Macbeth - complete with triumphant military fanfares. The Damunt de tu, només les flors from Combat del somni 10.51 storytelling continues, this time in Greek mythology with the Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) Gonzalo Soriano (1913-1972) Dvorak second suite from Roussel's vibrant ballet of Bacchus and (piano) Romance in F minor, op.11 Ariadne. Finally this afternoon we've part of a recent concert Vaclav Hudecek (violin) from St. David's Hall in Cardiff with Principal Conductor 5:10 AM Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Thierry Fischer. John Adams takes the musical language of Mertz, Johann Kaspar (1806-1856) Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century and gives it a Hungarian Fatherland Flowers Supraphon SU 3187-2 031 punchy, vibrant and ecstatic minimalist updating. László Szendry-Karper (guitar) 11.05 Presented by Katie Derham. 5:19 AM Pergolesi Popper, David (1843-1913) Salve Regina in C minor Hungarian Fantasy (Op.68) Julia Kleiter (soprano) TUE 16:30 In Tune (b010xy9m) Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Orchestra Mozart Pianist Charles Owen will perform works by Ravel, Faure and Bernardi (conductor) Claudio Abbado (conductor) Schubert live in the In Tune studio ahead of his concert at Archiv 477 8464 Wigmore Hall, London where he will be playing Bach, Ravel 5:27 AM and Schubert. Charles Owen's new CD will be released on the Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) 11.18 Avie label shortly featuring Faure's 'Barcarolles'. Liebestraum No.3 It's a paradox that despite Romanian conductor Sergiu Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Celibidache's almost lifelong refusal to make studio recordings Scottish Opera presents a new production of Verdi's 'Rigoletto' Tritt (piano) (he once compared listening to records with 'going to bed with a starring baritone Eddie Wade in the lead role with Tobias picture of Brigitte Bardot'), he's extremely well-represented on Ringborg conducting. They will take time out of rehearsals to 5:33 AM CD - in rehearsal, in radio broadcasts and in live concert talk to Sean Rafferty live from Scotland. Glanville-Hicks, Peggy (1912-1990) performance. Known to his players as 'Celi', his approach to Three Gymnopedies conducting was highly idiosyncratic. He's been called 'the Presented by Sean Rafferty. Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman (conductor) mystic maestro', a Buddhist-influenced perfectionist who With a selection of music and guests from the music world. rehearsed his performances in the minutest detail, taking Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 5:42 AM account of every factor from the timbres produced by his E-mail: [email protected]. Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) players to the acoustic characteristics of the space they were Concerto in D major for transverse flute, strings and continuo playing in - then responding spontaneously to the demands of Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 6 of 10 TUE 18:30 Composer of the Week (b010xy7j) Film Classification Andreas Whittam Smith discuss the ethical Terje Tønnesen (conductor) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] issues surrounding death on television. 4:01 AM And there's a review of I Am the Wind, directed by Patrice Castelnuovo Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968) TUE 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010xy9p) Chereau, France's leading opera, film and theatre director. The Capriccio Diabolico for guitar (Op.85) Brandenburg Concertos from the Chipping Campden Music Young Vic theatre has a watery set for this tale of two men on a Goran Listes (guitar) Festival small boat drifting out to sea. 4:11 AM Bach - Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1, 6 and 3 Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787) TUE 22:45 The Essay (b010xyb0) Symphony (Op.10 No.4) in C major Live from St James's Church, Chipping Campden, as part of the The Feast of Language La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor) Chipping Campden Music Festival. Michael Heffernan 4:20 AM Presented by Louise Fryer. Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Michigan based Thomas Lynch is an accomplished poet, Sonata for piano (Op.78) in F sharp major The British baroque ensemble Florilegium are celebrating their essayist and funeral director whose dry wit and captivating Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) (piano) 20th anniversary this year, and what better way to do it than storytelling have won him a devoted following on both sides of with the complete Brandenburg Concertos by Bach. A fitting the Atlantic. In this series of essays, The Feast of Language, 4:30 AM celebration also for the Chipping Campden Music Festival, in Lynch looks at five of his most beloved poets and examines Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) its 10th season. Bach presented these glorious works to the how their poems have nourished and sustained him throughout Sonata for trumpet, strings and basso continuo in D major Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721. The manuscript contained his life; how their work, almost literally, can be read as a 'feast'. Ivan Hadliyski (trumpet), Kammerorchester, Alipi Naydenov six concertos for chamber orchestra based on the Italian (conductor) concerto grosso style, each with a different combination of Be it the subtle nuances of meaning in an elegant stanza, or the soloists, and each is a masterpiece. simple, visceral pleasure in the sound of a particular word, 4:36 AM Lynch makes it clear that poetry continues to have a profound Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no.1 in F and revitalizing role in our lives. 5 Songs for chorus (Op.104) Brandenburg Concerto no.6 in B flat Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor) Brandenburg Concerto no.3 in G Under the umbrella term of "Feast", Lynch explores sex and death, those "bookends of life", alongside religion, love, 4:50 AM Florilegium anecdote, food, personal history and memory, evoking the Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958) director Ashley Solomon. power and richness of poetic language and its ability to contain The Wasps - Overture from the Incidental Music such diverse themes. Bbc Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (Conductor)

TUE 20:25 Twenty Minutes (b010xy9s) For Lynch, "Poetry is as good an axe as a pillow": it can 5:01 AM A History of the Interval comfort as much as it can cause harm. As such, it is the most Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962) important art form he knows. In the first programme he turns to Trois Pièces Brèves We know that the dramatists of Ancient Greece presented their the work of Seamus Heaney, for programme two, the American The Ariart Woodwind Quintet work in a festival that lasted days and was both competitive and poet, Michael Heffernan, in programme three, Carol Ann religious. But, following the inexorable horror of Oedipus's Duffy, in programme four Michael Donaghy and finally the 5:08 AM tragedy, did the audience have a break? Some dramas of the modernist, William Carlos Williams. Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694) Middle Ages actually began in the interval, inasmuch as they Liebster Jesu, hor mein Flehen were performed during pauses in the liturgy. Shakespeare's Maria Zedelius (soprano), David Cordier (alto), Paul Elliott and plays were originally performed without a break, though TUE 23:00 Late Junction (b010xyb2) Hein Meens (tenors), Michael Schopper (bass), Musica Antiqua members of the audience came and went as they pleased. But Verity Sharp - 10/05/2011 Koln, Reinhard Goebel (director) by the middle of the 19th century full curtain calls were taken at the end of the first act. Today, at Glyndebourne, no matter how Verity Sharp returns after a year away with a powerful song 5:16 AM urgent the drama, the performance stops long enough for from Serbia alongside pianist Leszek Możdżer's jazz take on a Arriaga, Juan Crisostomo (1806-1826) everyone to have a full meal and a snooze, before returning to prelude by Chopin, the impeccable bluegrass playing of Los Esclavos Felices - overture the opera. But the National Theatre's current production of Cahalen Morrison & Ely West, and a track from flautist Brian Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor) 'Frankenstein', which lasts two hours, is played straight through, Finnegan's Ravishing Genius of Bones. Plus Indian vocalist to the discomfort of some of those not forewarned. Sandhya Sanjana and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber 5:23 AM In this interval feature the writer and broadcaster Paul Allen Choir's recording of Arvo Pärt's Beatus Petronius. Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) explores the interval itself. He talks to a conductor, a director, Images II for piano performers, a bar person and audience members to find out how This programme marks the return of Verity Sharp to Late Roger Woodward (piano) and when the interval came about; its purpose, physical, social Junction after a year away. She resumes her place as a regular and economic; and its dramatic and musical effect. presenter alongside Fiona Talkington and Max Reinhardt. 5:37 AM Musorgsky, Modest (1839-1881) Producer: Julian May. Khovanschina: Prelude; Dance of the Persian Slaves Sofia Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Marinov (conductor) WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2011 TUE 20:45 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010xy9v) 5:51 AM Brandenburg Concertos from the Chipping Campden Music WED 01:00 Through the Night (b010xyhr) Chambonnieres, Jacques Champion de (c.1601-1672) Festival John Shea presents a performance of Beethoven's String Pièces de clavecin du premier livre (Paris, 1670) Quartet Op.130 and Grosse Fuge by the Vertavo String Quartet. Hank Knox (harpsichord) Bach - Brandenburg Concertos Nos 2, 5 and 4 1:01 AM 6:04 AM Live from St James's Church, Chipping Campden, as part of the Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827] Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) Chipping Campden Music Festival. Quartet for strings (Op.130) in B flat major Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B flat (J.182) (Op.34) Vertavo String Quartet Lena Jonhäll (clarinet) with the Zetterqvist String Quartet Presented by Louise Fryer. 1:43 AM 6:29 AM The British baroque ensemble Florilegium are celebrating their Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770-1827] Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673) 20th anniversary this year, and what better way to do it than Grosse Fuge for string quartet (Op.133) Vanitas vanitatum with the complete Brandenburg Concertos by Bach. A fitting Vertavo String Quartet La Capelle Ducale celebration also for the Chipping Campden Music Festival, in its 10th season. Bach presented these glorious works to the 2:01 AM 6:40 AM Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721. The manuscript contained Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj (1933-2010) Tchaikovsky, Pytor Il'yich (1840-1893) six concertos for chamber orchestra based on the Italian Totus tuus (Op.60) Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra, Op.33 concerto grosso style, each with a different combination of Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (director) Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Alexander Rudin (cello & soloists, and each is a masterpiece. conductor). 2:11 AM Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957] Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D Symphony No.5 in E flat major, Op.82 WED 07:00 Breakfast (b010xyht) Brandenburg Concerto no.4 in G Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor) Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Florilegium 2:45 AM Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, including Gershwin's director Ashley Solomon. Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953] Cuban Overture performed by the London Symphony Orchestra Pensées (Op.62) conducted by Andre Previn, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Roger Woodward (piano) Bryden Thomson perform Malcolm Arnold's Four Cornish TUE 22:00 Night Waves (b010xy9x) Dances, and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Rana Mitter presents the arts and ideas programme. Rana 3:01 AM Andrew Litton perform Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet - speaks to John Boyne, the author of award-winning and Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) Fantasy Overture. bestselling novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, about his new Quartet for strings in F major novel, The Absolutist, set partly in the First World War. Biava Quartet WED 10:00 Classical Collection (b010xyhw) As BBC One prepares to screen the final moments of an 84 3:31 AM Wednesday - James Jolly year old man as part of a new science documentary series, Rana Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) and guests including filmmaker Patrick Collerton, historian Dr Concerto for piano and orchestra no.17 (K.453) in G major with James Jolly. This week performances by Jiri Belohlavek, Ruth Richardson and former President of the British Board of Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, chief conductor of the BBC SO, and our Wednesday Award- Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 7 of 10 winner is pianist Emmanual Ax. WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b010xyj2) WED 22:00 Night Waves (b010xyjb) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Gerrard Winstanley, Diana Athill, A Screaming Man, and 10.00 Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves Glinka Episode 3 Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila Matthew Sweet talks to publishing legend and novelist Diana Chicago Symphony Orchestra BBC Hoddinott Hall is the home of the BBC National Orchestra Athill about her newly published collection of short stories - Fritz Reiner (conductor) of Wales. Part of the Wales Millennium centre, it provides the written throughout her distinguished literary career, and only RCA 61394 orchestra with a recording studio and concert hall with a 350 now reprinted in book form. seat capacity. The hall is also an excellent venue for chamber 10.06 music - as we'll discover in Radio 3's lunchtime concerts this Tony Benn and novelist Marina Lewycka join the programme Bruckner week. During the afternoons, we'll be hearing from those artists to discuss the work of the English Protestant reformer and Locus Iste who have given recitals here following them through to political activist Gerrard Winstanley - and why Winstanley is The Sixteen performances with the orchestra, and hearing BBC NOW in still relevant today. Harry Christophers (conductor) action in concert, in session, in Wales and beyond. Decca 453102 Critic Dave Calhoun and the African specialist David Styan Today we go live to BBC Hoddinott Hall to hear the orchestra join Matthew to review the acclaimed Chadian film, A 10.10 in action with a long-time friend and frequent guest conductor Screaming Man. Wednesday Award Winner: David Atherton. We're also joined by ex-Radio 3 New Generation Artist Andrew Kennedy. Together we explore three And Jacqueline Yallop explains how the Victorians exploited Haydn faces of English music: the warmth and good humour of Elgar, other peoples' political upheavals to build vast collections of Piano Sonata no.32 in G minor, Hob XVI:44 the dreamlike atmosphere of Britten and the raw energy and artefacts. Emanuel Ax (piano) anger of Vaughan Williams - not quite what we might expect Sony 53635 from the quintessential purveyor of "pastoral". Our soloist for Producer: Lisa Davis. the preceding Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert was violist Lawrence 10.22 Power. He was recently recording works by Vaughan Williams Artist of the Week: with the orchestra for CD with Hyperion, but the finished WED 22:45 The Essay (b010xyjd) product is still under wraps, so we've a set of choral variations The Feast of Language Czech conductor Jiri Belohlavek is Classical Collection's Artist from an earlier collaboration between soloist and orchestra, by of the Week. According to Gramophone magazine, he "has French composer Vincent d'Indy. Carol Ann Duffy become a major fixture on the international music scene - as feted at the Met in New York as he is at the helm of the BBC Presented by Katie Derham. Michigan based Thomas Lynch is an accomplished poet, Symphony or in the intimate surroundings of Glyndebourne. essayist and funeral director whose dry wit and captivating His repertoire is broad ... but it is in the music of Central storytelling have won him a devoted following on both sides of Europe that he is at his finest, shedding new light on some WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (b010xyj4) the Atlantic. In this series of essays, The Feast of Language, magnificent corners of the repertoire." Today we hear him St Pancras Church, London Lynch looks at five of his most beloved poets and examines doing just that, with a performance of the Symphony in D by how their poems have nourished and sustained him throughout Czech classical composer Jan Vaclav Vorisek - hardly a From the 2011 London Festival of Contemporary Church his life; how their work, almost literally, can be read as a 'feast'. household name nowadays, but one that certainly deserves to Music at St Pancras Church, London. become much more familiar than it is. Vorisek was born in the Be it the subtle nuances of meaning in an elegant stanza, or the year of Mozart's death, 1791, and like Mozart, he didn't live to Introit: Save us, O Lord, waking (Andrew Simpson) simple, visceral pleasure in the sound of a particular word, see his 35th birthday. One of his final works, the Symphony Responses: Cecilia McDowall Lynch makes it clear that poetry continues to have a profound shows the influence of Vorisek's idol, Beethoven, but it's full of Psalms: 59, 60, 61 (Léon Charles) and revitalizing role in our lives. confidence and originality too. Belohlavek conducts the First Lesson: Genesis 3 vv8-21 orchestra he founded, the Prague Philharmonia, in a thrilling Canticles: The Fifth Service 'The Bells' (Gregory Rose) Under the umbrella term of "Feast", Lynch explores sex and performance. Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv12-28 death, those "bookends of life", alongside religion, love, Anthem: Te Deum (Antony Pitts) anecdote, food, personal history and memory, evoking the Vorisek Final Hymn: How shall I sing that majesty (Coe Fen) power and richness of poetic language and its ability to contain Symphony in D, op.24 Voluntary: Easter Alleluyas (Thomas Hyde) such diverse themes. Prague Philharmonia Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Christopher Batchelor (Director of Music) For Lynch, "Poetry is as good an axe as a pillow": it can Supraphon SU 3713-2 031 Léon Charles (Assistant Organist) comfort as much as it can cause harm. As such, it is the most important art form he knows. In the first programme he turns to 10.50 First broadcast 11 May 2011. the work of Seamus Heaney, for programme two, the American Zelenka poet, Michael Heffernan, in programme three, Carol Ann Mass in D Duffy, in programme four Michael Donaghy and finally the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra WED 17:00 In Tune (b010xynl) modernist, William Carlos Williams. Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Wednesday - Sean Rafferty Supraphon 11 0816-2 Presented by Sean Rafferty. WED 23:00 Late Junction (b010xyjg) 11.24 With a selection of music and guests from the music world. Verity Sharp - 11/05/2011 Janacek Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 The Excursions of Mr Broucek - suite from the opera E-mail: [email protected]. Tonight the Future Trad Collective Strike the House Down, Prague Symphony Orchestra Dariush Dolat-Shahi plays a delicate solo on the tar lute, and Jiri Belohlavek there are hymns sung by both Nancy Kerr and Stile Antico. Plus Supraphon SU 3436-2 031. WED 18:30 Composer of the Week (b010xyhy) the electronic world of BILL and the mesmeric piano music of [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Peter Michael Hamel. With Verity Sharp.

WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (b010xyhy) Henry Purcell (1659-1695) WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010xyj8) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Janacek, Tchaikovsky THURSDAY 12 MAY 2011 Thou Genius of This Isle Live from the Lighthouse, Poole. THU 01:00 Through the Night (b010xylm) Donald Macleod explores Purcell's major collaboration with John Shea introduces the first of two concerts from the 2010 John Dryden, King Arthur, and looks at some of the characters Presented by Martin Handley. BBC Proms by the English Baroque Soloists celebrating the populating London's theatrical world in the 1690s. A spoken music of J S Bach verse drama 'adorn'd with Scenes, Machines, Songs and The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is led by its Principal Dances', King Arthur features the extraordinary Frost Scene. A Conductor Kiril Karabits in music with connections to his 1:01 AM military hero and British virtues made it appropriate to the homeland, Ukraine. Janacek's stirring rhapsody, Taras Bulba, is Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] current regime, and there was also room for reflection on the based on episodes from Gogol's story of a Cossack family going Brandenburg concerto no. 1 (BWV.1046) in F major; new commercial ethos of the times, with songs in praise of to war against Poland, with military music to the fore. English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Britain's chief exports, fish and wool... Tchaikovsky spent many summers with his sister's family in Ukraine (or 'Little Russia' as it was known to Russians then), 1:23 AM and some of the folksongs he heard there can be found in both Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010xyj0) his hugely popular Piano Concerto no.1 and his Second Brandenburg concerto no. 6 (BWV.1051) in B flat major PerformerPlus Symphony. English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Lawrence Power, Simon Crawford-Phillips Janacek: Taras Bulba 1:40 AM Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto no.1 Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] Katie Derham introduces works for viola recorded at Cardiff's Brandenburg concerto no. 4 (BWV.1049) in G major BBC Hoddinott Hall, including music from a largely forgotten 8.30 Interval Music English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) composer with a depth of understanding for the instrument seldom rivalled. 8.50 Part 2 1:56 AM Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), transc. Busoni Shostakovich arr. Borisovsky: Suite from 'The Gadfly' Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.2 'Little Russian' Adagio and Fugue from Toccata, Adagio and Fugue (BWV Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata 564) in C major Prokofiev arr. Borisovsky : 5 Pieces from 'Romeo & Juliet' Kirill Gerstein (piano) Vladimir Horowitz (piano roll) Lawrence Power (viola) Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano). Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conductor Kirill Karabits. 2:06 AM Busoni, Ferrucio (1866-1924) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 8 of 10 Suite No.2 for orchestra (Op.34a) Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, including music from Jack Liebeck, Katya Apekisheva Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet performed by the Takacs Quartet (conductor) with double bassist Joseph Carver and pianist Andreas Katie Derham introduces a series of concerts featuring concerto Haefliger, Faure's In paradisum from his Requiem is sung by collaborators of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the 2:35 AM The Sixteen with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields ensemble's home in Cardiff Bay. Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) conducted by Harry Christophers, and Bruckner's Ave Maria is Agrippina condotta a morire: Dunque sarà pur vero (HWV.110) sung by the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Schumann: Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 (Op.105) Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Musica Alta Ripa: Anne Röhrig conducted by Duncan Ferguson. Sergey Prokofiev: Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 (Op.80) & Ursula Bundies (violins), Guido Larisch (cello), Bernward Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Valse Scherzo (Op.34) Lohr (harpsichord) Jack Liebeck (violin), Katya Apekisheva (piano). THU 10:00 Classical Collection (b010xylr) 3:01 AM Thursday - James Jolly Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896) THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b010xyly) Te Deum for soloists, chorus and orchestra in C major With James Jolly. This week performances by Jiri Belohlavek, Thursday Opera Matinee Giorgia Milanesi (soprano), Ulfried Haselsteiner (tenor), Anne chief conductor of the BBC SO, and an explosive performance Margrethe Punsvik Gluch (soprano), Thomas Mohr (baritone), of Beethoven's Appassionata Piano Sonata. Puccini - La boheme Håvard Stendsvold (bass-baritone), Kristiansand Cathedral Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor) 10.00 Today's Opera Matinee is Puccini's La Boheme. It tells the story Artist of the Week of a group of struggling bohemians in Paris in the 1830s, 3:27 AM focusing on the love between poet Rodolfo (Stephen Costello) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Smetana and seamstress Mimi (Krassimira Stoyanova). Franz Welser- Quartet for piano and strings No.3 (Op.60) "Werther" in C Overture to The Bartered Bride Most conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna minor Prague Symphony Orchestra Staasoper in this performance from June 2010. Håvard Gimse (piano), Stig Nilsson (violin), Anders Nilsson Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) (viola), Romain Garioud (cello) Supraphon 11 0377-2 After our opera, lunchtime soloist Jack Liebeck plays with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, in music from their most 4:03 AM 10.06 recent tour around Wales, a couple of months back. Chausson's Durante, Francesco (1684-1755) Mahler Poème was recorded on the North Wales coast in Llandudno, a Concerto per quartetto for strings no.6 in A major Blumine rapturous work which luxuriates in a Wagnerian sound world. Concerto Köln Philadelphia Orchestra (trumpet solo: Gilbert Johnson) Eugene Ormandy (conductor) Presented by Katie Derham. 4:13 AM RCA 76233 Traditional, arranged by Petrinjak, Darko 6 Renaissance Dances 10.13 THU 16:30 In Tune (b010xym0) Zagreb Guitar Trio Mozart Michael Nyman talks to Sean Rafferty live in the studio about Horn Quintet in E flat, K407 the re-release of his opera 'Facing Goya' on the MN Records 4:24 AM Andrew Clark (natural horn) label. Nyman's score for ballet 'Danse A Grande Vitesse' Wirén, Dag (1905-1986) Catherine Martin (violin) appears at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden London Violin Sonatina (1939) Katherine McGillivray & Jane Rogers (violas) shortly. Arve Tellefsen (violin), Lucia Negro (piano) Alison McGillivray (cello) EMI 5 72822 2 Sean also talks to Suzi Digby OBE about a Cambridge Union 4:35 AM debate carrying the motion: 'Classical music is irrelevant to Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) 10.30 today's young people' which has been opposed by Stephen Fry Songs Without Words (Op.6) (1846) - selections Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle and Ivan Hewett. Sylviane Deferne (piano) When the critics went crazy for Emil Gilels after his US debut Live performance by the St Pancras Parish Church Choir, 4:45 AM in 1955, he modestly said, "Wait till you hear Richter". This directed by Christopher Batchelor ahead of their performance Fasch, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758) reaction to Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter from a fellow as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music Lute Concerto in D minor musician was not unusual: Van Cliburn said Richter's was "the at the Purcell Room where they will be celebrating the 60th Konrad Junghänel (lute), Music Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel most powerful piano playing I have ever heard"; Glenn Gould birthday of Cecilia McDowall. The composer will talk to Sean (director) called him "one of the most powerful communicators the world live in the studio. of music has produced in our time"; Dmitri Shostakovich wrote 5:01 AM that "Richter is an extraordinary phenomenon. The enormity of Presented by Sean Rafferty. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908) his talent staggers and enraptures. All the phenomena of With a selection of music and guests from the music world. May Night: overture musical art are accessible to him." Today, in our ongoing survey Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor) of Beethoven's piano sonatas, we hear Richter in a performance E-mail: [email protected]. of a work he recorded several times in his career - the justly 5:09 AM famous 'Appassionata' (a nickname the piece didn't acquire till Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), arr. Edvard Grieg after the composer's death). Of this recording, made in 1960, THU 18:30 Composer of the Week (b010xylt) Sonata in G major (K.283) Gramophone magazine wrote that "for sheer boldness of [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Julie Adam and Daniel Herscovitch (pianos) interpretation and brilliance of piano playing it makes one gasp". 5:23 AM THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010xynb) Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Beethoven BBC SSO - Martin Suckling, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky 3 Songs for chorus (Op.42) Sonata in F minor, op.57 (Appassionata) Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Live from City Halls, Glasgow RCA GD86518 5:33 AM Presented by Jamie MacDougall Tournier, Marcel (1879-1951) 10.55 Images for harp and string quartet (Op.35) Artist of the Week To end the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's 75th Birthday Erica Goodman (harp), Members of the Amadeus Ensemble season, Ilan Volkov conducts Tchaikovsky's magnificent Fifth Dvorak Symphony. Not popular at its premiere, it has today grown to be 5:44 AM Symphony no.6, Op.60 one of his most enduring symphonies. The programme starts Czerny, Carl (1791-1857) Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with Scottish composer Martin Suckling's piece "The Moon, the Brilliant polonaise for piano six hands (Op.296) Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Moon", based on the ideas and images portrayed in Edward Kestutis Grybauskas, Vilma Rindzeviciute, Irina Venkus Chandos CHAN 9170 Lear's poem The Owl and the Pussy Cat. And one of the most (pianos) outstanding pianists in the world today, Nelson Freire, joins the Presented by James Jolly orchestra to play one of the most central works in the piano 5:58 AM Produced by Chris Barstow repertory, Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto Bach, Johann Ernst (1722-1777) A Classic Arts Production for BBC Radio 3. 19.30 Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn (motet) Martin Suckling: The Moon, The Moon Martina Lins (soprano), Silke Weisheit (alto), Martin Schmitz Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 in G major (tenor), Hans-Georg Wimmer (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (b010xylt) Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor) Henry Purcell (1659-1695) 20.20 - Interval Music

6:11 AM We'll Try a Thousand Charming Ways to Win Ye 20.40 - Part Two Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor String Trio in G (Op.9 No.1) Donald Macleod explores Purcell's music for a spectacular 1692 Trio Aristos adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Nelson Freire (Piano) Fairy Queen. Later that year the London stage faced disasters BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 6:36 AM involving its principal performers - the worst being the murder Ilan Volkov (conductor). Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921) of the actor William Mountfort, by an army officer, over the Le carnaval des animaux star actress Anne Bracegirdle. This was a bad omen for the The Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James United Company, which thanks to financial mismanagement THU 22:00 Night Waves (b010xynd) Campbell (director). was on the brink of collapse. Ai Weiwei, A Delicate Balance, 1911 Festival of Empire, Iphigenia in Forest Hills

THU 07:00 Breakfast (b010xylp) THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010xylw) Anne McElvoy discusses the case of the artist Ai Weiwei with Thursday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch PerformerPlus critic and curator on contemporary Chinese art Dr Katie Hill, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 9 of 10 the archaeologist Mike Pitts, and the journalist Peter Aspden. Franck, César (1822-1890), arr. Jean Pierre Rampal Detlef Bratschke (conductor), Johannes Happel (bass) Weiwei is currently in prison in China and his work is being Flute Sonata shown in his absence in a new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery Carlos Bruneel (flute), Levente Kende (piano) 6:36 AM in London, while his "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" have Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) just been unveiled in the courtyard of Somerset House. 2:32 AM Piano Trio in G major 'Premier Trio' (c.1879) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Grumiaux Trio. Theatre critic Michael Coveney joins Anne to review a new Quartet for strings (K.465) in C major 'Dissonance' production of Edward Albee's 'A Delicate Balance', with a cast Jupiter Quartet including Penelope Wilton, Tim Piggott-Smith and Imelda FRI 07:00 Breakfast (b010xyq2) Staunton. 3:01 AM Friday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) A hundred years to the day since the May 12th opening of the Symphony no.3 in D major (D.200) Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, including Beethoven's 1911 Festival of Empire, historians Juliet Gardiner and Jeffrey Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcello Viotti Fidelio overture performed by the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich Richards look back to what The Times then described as 'the (conductor) conducted by David Zinman, Dvorak's Slavonic Dance in G most elaborate advertisement of the resources of the British minor (Op 46'8) arranged for wind ensemble, and the Boston Empire that has ever been devised'. 3:26 AM Symphony Orchestra under William Steinberg perform Mars Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) from Gustav Holst's suite, The Planets. And in previous books the award winning writer Janet Malcolm Alles redet jetzt und singet has explored the worlds of psychoanalysis, biography and Barbara Schlick (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Michael journalism: she has been described as someone whose 'blade Schneider and Konrad Hunteler (recorders), Hans-Peter FRI 10:00 Classical Collection (b010xysr) gleams with a razor edge'. Now, in her latest book, she presents Westermann and Pieter Dhont (oboes), Michael McCraw Friday - James Jolly an anatomy of a murder trial in New York in 2009. The (bassoon), Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor) journalist Ian Jack and American lawyer David Bedingfield join with James Jolly. This week performances by Jiri Belohlavek, Anne to discuss 'Iphigenia in Forest Hills'. 3:55 AM chief conductor of the BBC SO, and our Friday virtuoso is Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov. Flute Sonata in A major for transverse flute (BWV.1032) THU 22:45 The Essay (b010xyng) Bart Kuijken (flute), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) 10.00 The Feast of Language Friday Virtuoso 4:10 AM Michael Donaghy Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) Rimsky-Korsakov Estampes Flight of the Bumblebee Michigan based Thomas Lynch is an accomplished poet, Hinko Haas (piano) Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet) essayist and funeral director whose dry wit and captivating Alexander Markovich (piano) storytelling have won him a devoted following on both sides of 4:24 AM Teldec 94524 the Atlantic. In this series of essays, The Feast of Language, Lebedjew, Alexej (1924-1993) Lynch looks at five of his most beloved poets and examines Concerto in one movement (Concerto No.1) in A minor for 10.01 how their poems have nourished and sustained him throughout bass trombone and piano Purcell his life; how their work, almost literally, can be read as a 'feast'. Csaba Wagner (trombone), Katalin Sarkady (piano) Incidental Music for The Gordian Knot Unty'd Accademia Bizantina Be it the subtle nuances of meaning in an elegant stanza, or the 4:31 AM Stefano Montanari (director) simple, visceral pleasure in the sound of a particular word, Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921) Decca 478 2262 Lynch makes it clear that poetry continues to have a profound Dream Pantomime - from Hansel and Gretel and revitalizing role in our lives. Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor) 10.12 Artist of the Week Under the umbrella term of "Feast", Lynch explores sex and 4:41 AM death, those "bookends of life", alongside religion, love, Viotti, Giovanni Battista (1755-1824) Suk anecdote, food, personal history and memory, evoking the Serenade for 2 violins no.1 (Op.23) in A major Fantastic Scherzo power and richness of poetic language and its ability to contain Angel Stankov , Yossif Radionov (violins) Czech Philharmonic Orchestra such diverse themes. Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) 4:50 AM Chandos CHAN 8897 For Lynch, "Poetry is as good an axe as a pillow": it can Abel, Carl Friedrich (1723-1787) comfort as much as it can cause harm. As such, it is the most Symphony in D major (Op.10 No.5) 10.26 important art form he knows. In the first programme he turns to La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor) Friday Virtuoso the work of Seamus Heaney, for programme two, the American poet, Michael Heffernan, in programme three, Carol Ann 5:01 AM Jean-Baptiste Arban Duffy, in programme four Michael Donaghy and finally the Haapalainen, Väinö (1893-1945) Fantasie and Variations on The Carnival of Venice modernist, William Carlos Williams. Lemminkainen Overture (1925) Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet) The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atso Almila Alexander Markovich (piano) (conductor) Teldec 94524 THU 23:00 Late Junction (b010xynj) Verity Sharp - 12/05/2011 5:09 AM 10.34 Förster, Kaspar (1616-1673) Artist of the Week Verity Sharp's choices tonight include slick tunes from Seamie Beatus vir (KBPJ.3) for soprano, alto, bass, 2 violins & basso O'Dowd, Máirtín O'Connor and Cathal Hayden, the sparse continuo Mozart music of Laurence Crane, the benju zither of Balochistan and Marta Boberska (soprano), Kai Wessel (countertenor), Grzegorz Symphony no.35 in D, K385 (Haffner) the guitar playing of Madagascar's Modeste. Plus Oxana Zychowicz (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble Prague Philharmonia Schevchenko plays La Vallée des cloches from Miroirs by Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Ravel. 5:18 AM Harmonia Mundi 901891 Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) Fantasy on an Irish song 'The Last Rose of Summer' (Op.15) 10.58 Sylviane Deferne (piano) Purcell FRIDAY 13 MAY 2011 Dido's Lament; Sound the trumpet 5:27 AM Accademia Bizantina FRI 01:00 Through the Night (b010xyq0) Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) Stefano Montanari (director) John Shea introduces the second of two concerts with the Tzigane Decca 478 2262 English Baroque Soloists from the 2010 Proms celebrating the Moshe Hammer (violin), Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, music of J S Bach Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor) 11.05 Friday Virtuoso 1:01 AM 5:37 AM "A phenomenon." "The Caruso of the trumpet." "The Paganini Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] Sanz, Gaspar (17th century) of the trumpet." "This kid has the chops." The accolades are for Brandenburg concerto no. 3 (BWV.1048) in G major Spanish Suite Classical Collection's Friday Virtuoso, Sergei Nakariakov, and English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Tomaz Rajteric (guitar) they're richly deserved. Signed to his first record deal at the age of 14, the Russian-born trumpeter combines deep musicality 1:14 AM 5:48 AM with a technique that defies belief. As one US reviewer said, Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) "There really isn't enough solo trumpet repertoire to reward an Brandenburg concerto no. 5 (BWV.1050) in D major Concerto for flute and orchestra in D major artistic gift like this. No problem ... Nakariakov has simply English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard moved into the string repertoire and made it his own." Today, Goebel (conductor) we'll hear him in one of those string transcriptions - Saint- 1:35 AM Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, originally written Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] 6:00 AM for violin and orchestra. Nakariakov is accompanied by the Brandenburg concerto no. 2 (BWV.1047) in F major Barber, Samuel (1910-1981) Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by fellow Russian Vladimir English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.14) Ashkenazy. Dene Olding (violin), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, 1:47 AM Hiroyuki Iwaki (conductor) Saint-Saens arr. Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Sonata for piano No.30 in E (Op.109) 6:24 AM Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet) Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) Kirnberger, Johann Philipp (1721-1783) Philharmonia Orchestra Cantata 'An den Flüssen Babylons' Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor) 2:06 AM Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Teldec 8573-80651-2 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 May 2011 Page 10 of 10 11.14 FRI 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert (b010xyt2) Artist of the Week Bach's B minor Mass from the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Live from St John's, Smith Square, London as part of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Chandos CHAN 9462. Presented by Martin Handley

A rare appearance in the UK from one of the world's leading FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (b010xyst) early music ensembles. Philippe Herreweghe brings his choir Henry Purcell (1659-1695) and orchestra to London to open this year's Lufthansa Festival, with the awe-inspiring setting of the Mass by Bach: the most In His Sickness astounding spiritual encounter between the worlds of Catholic glorification and the Lutheran cult of the cross. Donald Macleod explores the later works Purcell wrote for the stage, including his last song, and the semi-opera The Indian Bach: Mass in B Minor Queen, which he did not live to complete. Dorothee Mields (soprano) Hana Blazikova (soprano) FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (b010xysw) Damien Guillon (counter-tenor) PerformerPlus Thomas Hobbs (tenor) Peter Kooij (bass) Alban Gerhardt Collegium Vocale Gent conductor Philippe Herreweghe Katie Derham introduces the last in a series of chamber concerts recorded at the home of the BBC National Orchestra During the Interval at approx 8.25 Martin Handley introduces of Wales in Cardiff Bay. recordings of Bach chamber music.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for cello solo no. 1 (BWV.1007) Ligeti: Sonata for cello solo FRI 22:00 The Verb (b010xyt4) Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for cello solo no. 6 (BWV.1012) Tessa Hadley, Jane Draycott, Daniel Morden and Ira Lightman Alban Gerhardt (cello). on Bob Dylan

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's language cabaret with a Verb FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (b010xysy) commission from Tessa Hadley, who writes about families and BBC National Orchestra of Wales relationships in a way that is subtly subversive and difficult to pin down. Episode 4 Jane Draycott reads from her new translation of The Pearl, the BBC Hoddinott Hall is the home of the BBC National Orchestra fourteenth century poem by the unknown writer of the Gawain of Wales. Part of the Wales Millennium centre, it provides the poem, and talks about how she recreated the imaginative orchestra with a recording studio and concert hall with a 350 intensity of the original. seat capacity. The hall is also an excellent venue for chamber music - as we'll discover in Radio 3's lunchtime concerts this Storyteller Daniel Morden breathes new life into the tale of week. During the afternoons, we'll be hearing from those artists Sleeping Beauty as he performs the opening of his new version who have given recitals here following them through to which concentrates on the themes of love, separation and performances with the orchestra, and hearing BBC NOW in reunion. action in concert, in session, in Wales and beyond. May sees the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan, and conceptual poet Following Alban Gerhardt's lunchtime concert, we continue Ira Lightman celebrates his lyrics, and illustrates them on the with a concert he gave just a few weeks ago with the BBC ukelele. National Orchestra of Wales at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea. Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer opens with Elgar's warm and radiant concert overture, inspired by the Italian town of FRI 22:45 The Essay (b010xyt6) Alassio where the composer was holidaying to escape the The Feast of Language British winter. Alban joins us for the Schumann concerto, a work not heard until after the composer's death. He says it has William Carlos Williams hidden difficulties that belie its sleek lines and tuneful melodies. The Swansea audience encouraged Alban to stay on Michigan based Thomas Lynch is an accomplished poet, the platform for an encore, a short showpiece by Russian cellist essayist and funeral director whose dry wit and captivating Rostropovich - who also loved to play the Schumann concerto. storytelling have won him a devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. In this series of essays, The Feast of Language, Russian music follows, part of a concert given by Associate Lynch looks at five of his most beloved poets and examines Guest Conductor Francois-Xavier Roth. Shostakovich's great how their poems have nourished and sustained him throughout tenth symphony was his personal and powerful response to the his life; how their work, almost literally, can be read as a 'feast'. death of Stalin in 1953. Benjamin Britten was another great friend of Rostropovich; his American Overture was written in Be it the subtle nuances of meaning in an elegant stanza, or the the states during the early years of the Second World War, simple, visceral pleasure in the sound of a particular word, when Britten, as a pacifist, escaped the turmoil in Europe. Lynch makes it clear that poetry continues to have a profound Alban returns to close our week of afternoons with Richard and revitalizing role in our lives. Hickox, one of the greatest champions of British Music in recent years. They play Oration by Frank Bridge, Britten's Under the umbrella term of "Feast", Lynch explores sex and teacher and fellow-pacifist. Written in the 1930, Oration is an death, those "bookends of life", alongside religion, love, outcry against the futility of war, within a musical landscape anecdote, food, personal history and memory, evoking the haunted by personal images. power and richness of poetic language and its ability to contain such diverse themes. Presented by Katie Derham. For Lynch, "Poetry is as good an axe as a pillow": it can comfort as much as it can cause harm. As such, it is the most FRI 16:30 In Tune (b010xyt0) important art form he knows. In the first programme he turns to Presented by Sean Rafferty. the work of Seamus Heaney, for programme two, the American poet, Michael Heffernan, in programme three, Carol Ann Guests today include Sir Willard White (bass baritone) and Duffy, in programme four Michael Donaghy and finally the conductor Leo Hussain who discuss the English National modernist, William Carlos Williams. Opera's new production of A Midsummer night's dream. Sean also talks to Neil Metcalfe, musical director of the Edinburgh Grand Opera about their new production Imprisoned in FRI 23:00 World on 3 (b010xyt8) Edinburgh (La Prigione di Edimburgo). Enrico Gatti (violin) Tiken Jah Fakoly in Session and Fabio Ciofini (organ) perform live in studio ahead of their concert on May 14th as part of the Lufthansa Festival. Sean also Mary Ann Kennedy introduces a specially recorded session by talks to the festival director Lindsay Kemp. the Ivory Coast singer and bandleader Tiken Jah Fakoly, whose politically-charged music brings together reggae and traditional Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00 West African sounds. Plus a selection of the latest new releases E-mail: [email protected]. from around the globe.

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