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Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2020 05:05 AM e_Scythian_Suite_-_A__Chatschaturjan__Masquerade_Suite__ Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Luc Brewaeys (arranger) Spartacus_Suite SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m000lvrn) La cathedrale engloutie - (No 10 from Preludes - Book 1) The Maisky Trio Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor) 9.30am Proms Composer: Verdi

Cellist Mischa Maisky performs with his violinist son Sascha 05:12 AM Flora Willson chooses five indispensable recordings of Proms and pianist daughter Lily in three piano trios by celebrated (1892-1974) composer Verdi and explains why you need to hear them. Romantic and neo-romantic composers: Tchaikovsky, 3 Psaumes de David for chorus, Op 339 Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. Jonathan Swain presents. Elmer Iseler Singers, Elmer Iseler (conductor) Recommended Recordings:

01:01 AM 05:21 AM Requiem Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799) Anja Harteros (soprano) Trio élégiaque no 1 in G minor Cello Sonata, Op 5 no 7 (1780) Sonia Ganassi (mezzo-soprano) Sascha Maisky (violin), Mischa Maisky (cello), Lily Maisky Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ton Koopman (harpsichord), Ageet Rolando Villazon () (piano) Zweistra (cello) René Pape () Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia 01:15 AM 05:32 AM Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia Dmitry Shostakovich (1906 -1975) (1732-1809) (conductor) Piano Trio no 2 in E minor, Op 67 String Quartet in D major (Op.64, No.5) (Hob.III.63) "Lark" Warner Classics 6989362 (2 CDs) Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Mischa Maisky Bartok String Quartet (cello) Ernani 05:50 AM Leontyne Price (soprano, Elvira) 01:42 AM Frederick Delius (1862-1934) Carlo Bergonzi (tenor, Ernani) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) In a Summer Garden for orchestra Mario Sereni (, Don Carlo) Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor) Ezio Flagello (bass, Don Ruy) Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Mischa Maisky Fernando Iacopucci (tenor, Don Riccardo) (cello) 06:07 AM RCA Italiana Orchestra and Chorus Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) RCA Italiana Opera Chorus 02:27 AM Polish Fantasy, Op 19 Thomas Schippers (conductor) Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Lukasz Krupinski (piano), Santander Orchestra, Lawrence Sony G010003563725B Symphony no 5 in E flat major, Op 82 Foster (conductor) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Sondergard La Traviata (conductor) 06:29 AM Rosa Ponselle (soprano, Violetta Valery) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Frederick Jagel (tenor, Alfredo Germont) 03:01 AM Ich ging mit lust durch einen grunen Wald Lawrence Tibbett (baritone, Giorgio Germont) (1685-1759) Arleen Auger (soprano), Irwin Gage (piano) Orchestra and Chorus Concerto grosso in F major, Op 6 no 9 Ettore Panizza (conductor) Estonian Radio Chamber Orchestra, Paul Magi (conductor) 06:34 AM Sony G0100030276090 Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900) 03:18 AM 6 Characteerstykker med indledende Smaavers af H.C (1903-1986) Andersen, Op 50 José Van Dam (bass-baritone, Philippe II) Missa Festiva - for mixed choir and organ (Op.62) Nina Gade (piano) (tenor, Don Carlos) Flemish Radio Choir, Vic Nees (director), Peter Pieters (organ) Thomas Hampson (baritone, Rodrigue) 06:46 AM Eric Halfvarson (bass, Le Grand Inquisiteur) 03:45 AM Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) Csaba Airizer (bass, Un moine) Armas Jarnefelt (1869-1968) Violin Concerto in B flat major Karita Mattila (soprano, Élisabeth de Valois) Music to 'The Promised Land' Andrea Keller (violin), Concerto Koln Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano, La princesse Eboli) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus Donna Brown (soprano, Une voix d’en haut) (conductor) Choeur du Théâtre du Châtelet SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m000m0m6) Orchestre de Paris 03:59 AM Saturday - Elizabeth Alker Antonio Pappano (conductor) Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Erato 9029581793 (3 CDs) Scherzo for piano in D minor, Op 10 no 1 for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the Angela Cheng (piano) odd unclassified track. Falstaff Tito Gobbi (baritone, Falstaff) 04:04 AM Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano, Alice) (1833-1897) SAT 09:00 Record Review (m000m0m8) Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano, Meg Page) Hungarian Dance No 5 in F sharp minor BBC Proms Composer - Verdi with Flora Willson and Tom Rolando Panerai (bass-baritone, Ford) Orchestre de la Francophonie, Jean-Philippe Tremblay Service Fedora Barbieri (mezzo-soprano, Mrs Quickly) (conductor) Anna Moffo (soprano, Nannetta) 9.00am Luigi Alva (tenor, Fenton) 04:08 AM Philharmonia Orchestra And Chorus (1813-1901) Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 5 (conductor) Duet: Tardo per gli anni, e tremulo (Attila & Ezio) from the Le Concert des Nations Warner Classics 3773492 prologue to Attila Jordi Savall (conductor) Nicola Ghiuselev (bass), Vladimir Stoyanov (baritone), Sofia Alia Vox AVSA9937 (2 Hybrid SACDs) 10.15am New Releases Symphony Orchestra, Boris Hinchev (conductor) https://www.alia-vox.com/en/catalogue/beethoven-revolution- symphonies-1-a-5/ Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 & 2 Overtures 04:14 AM Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) (1685-1750) Bienvenue En France: music by Saint-Saëns, Dutilleux, Freiburger Barockorchester Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV1023 Debussy, Pécou etc. Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor) Andrew Manze (violin), oyvind Gimse (cello), Andreas Staier François Leleux (oboe/cor anglais) Harmonia Mundi HMM902413 (harpsichord) Emmanuel Strosser (piano) http://www.harmoniamundi.com/#!/albums/2642 Warner Classics 9029524957 04:27 AM https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/bienvenue-en-france Spem in alium - Vidi aquam: music by Tallis, MacMillan, (1756-1791) Ferrabosco, Byrd etc. Rondo in D major (KAnh.184) arranged for flute and piano Smyth: The Prison ORA Singers Carina Jandl (flute), Svetlana Sokolova (piano) Dashon Burton (bass-baritone, The Prisoner) Suzi Digby (director) Sarah Brailey (soprano, His Soul) Harmonia Mundi HMM90266970 (CD + DVD) 04:33 AM Experiential Chorus (Voices) http://www.harmoniamundi.com/#!/albums/2639 (1813-1883) Experiential Orchestra Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg James Blachly (conductor) Picchi: Canzoni da sonar con ogni sorte d'istromenti Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Arvid Engegard (conductor) Chandos CHSA5279 (Hybrid SACD) Concerto Scirocco https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%205279 Giulia Genini (director) 04:44 AM Arcana A476 Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944) Journeys to the New World: Hispanic Sacred Music from the https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/canzoni-da-sonar-con- Automne Op 35 No 2 16th & 17th Centuries ogni-sorte-d-istromenti-a476 Valerie Tryon (piano) The Queen's Six Signum SIGCD626 Verdi/Sibelius 04:51 AM https://signumrecords.com/product/journeys-to-the-new-world- Vertavo String Quartet Milko Lazar (b.1965) hispanic-sacred-music-from-the-16th-17th- LAWO LWC1201 Prelude (Allegro moderato) centuries/SIGCD626/ http://www.lawostore.no/vare/19368 Mojca Zlobko-Vajgl (harp), Bojan Gorisek (piano) Orchestral Suites by Sergei Prokofiev & Aram Khachaturian Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 05:01 AM Zagreb Philharmonic Gürzenich-Orchester Köln Benjamin Ipavec (1839-1908) Dmitri Kitayenko (conductor) François-Xavier Roth (conductor) Lahko Noc Oehms OC471 (2 CDs) Myrios MYR028 (Hybrid SACD) Ana Pusar-Jeric (soprano), Natasa Valant (piano) https://www.oehmsclassics.de/artikel/23470/Kitajenko_Dmitrij https://myriosmusic.com/products/myr028-schumann- ___Zagreb_Philharmonic_S__Prokofiev__Summer_Night_Suit symphonies-1-4 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 2 of 11 Outi Tarkiainen: The Earth, Spring's Daughter & Saivo music - from the inside. Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, Virpi Räisänen (mezzo-soprano) including music from the recent Witten New Music Days, new Jukka Perko (soprano saxophone) A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3 solo works commissioned by Riot Ensemble, a major Proms Lapland Chamber Orchestra premiere from Michael Finnissy and electronic music by John Storgårds (conductor) Bérangère Maximin and Lee Fraser https://www.ondine.net/?lid=en&cid=2.2&oid=6591 SAT 15:00 Sound of Cinema (m000m0mh) Juliet Fraser: Loop 2 (Wallace Stevens) Olympians Lola de la Mata: [LAND] & OTHER HAZARDS 11.20am Proms Building a Library Recommendation Ausias Garrigos (bass clarinet) 'Rising Phoenix', a new documentary film charting the history Finnissy: Janne Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626 of the Paralympic Games is launched this week with a new BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov Reviewer: Nicholas Kenyon, February 2016 score by Daniel Pemberton. Matthew Sweet features some of Huihui Cheng: Sonic Leak this music and other soundtracks which have taken their Ensemble Nikel Recommended recording: inspiration from the history of the Olympics, at a time Zoë Martlew: Salamander Reconstruction of first performance originally earmarked for the launch of the Tokyo 2020 Ruth Rosales (bassoon) Paralympics. Bérangère Maximin: Walking barefoot, Imaginary quintet Joanne Lunn (soprano) Joseph Bates: Sparrow Rowan Hellier (alto) The programme includes music from ‘Clash of the Titans’, ‘The Marianne Schofield (double bass) Thomas Hobbs (tenor) Giant of Marathon’, ‘The Games’, ‘Foxcatcher’, ‘Unbroken’, Lee Fraser: Pline Expol A Matthew Brook (bass) ‘Race’, ‘’, ‘Visions of Eight’, ‘I Tonya’, ‘Bhaag Milkha Oliver Leith: Good Day Good Day Bad Day Bad Day (parts 1 – The Dunedin Consort Bhaag’. The Classic Score of the Week is ..... (well what else 4) John Butt (conductor) could it be?) ...... Vangelis’s distinctive synth sounds for George Barton (percussion) Linn CKR449 ‘Chariots of Fire’. Siwan Rhys (piano)

SAT 11:45 New Generation Artists (m000m0mb) SAT 16:00 Music Planet (m000m0mk) Schumann from Katharina Konradi and the Aris Quartet World Mix with Lopa Kothari SUNDAY 23 AUGUST 2020

New Generation Artists: Katharina Konradi sings a seldom- Lopa Kothari presents two specially curated mixtapes, with SUN 00:00 Freeness (m000ffg0) heard set of songs by Robert Schumann and the Aris Quartet music from international collective Monoswezi, Nigerian singer Hindustani classical music and ASMR play his First String Quartet, written in 1842, his 'year of and guitarist King Sunny Ade, and South Africa’s Hugh chamber music'. Masekela from his 1973 collaboration with Hedzoleh Soundz. Corey Mwamba presents an improvisation rooted in Hindustani classical music by the cellist, sitarist and vocalist Pete Yelding; Presented by Kate Molleson. a tingling track that provokes an ASMR reaction (like the hair SAT 17:00 J to Z (m000m0mm) on the back of your neck standing on end when someone Brahms: Es wohnet ein Fiedler zu Frankfurt am Main John Scofield in concert whispers in your ear) by using wide stereo and sounds that (Volkslieder WoO33) require close attention. Plus new music from the Portuguese Brahms; Dort in den Weiden steht ein Haus (Volkslieder Jumoké Fashola presents a concert from the topflight Danish trumpeter, composer and vocalist Susana Santos Silva and her WoO33) Radio Big Band with special guest John Scofield. Over the Impermanence quintet. Katharina Konradi (soprano), Eric Schneider (piano) course of his 50-year career, Scofield has worked with many of the biggest names in jazz. He made his recording debut with Produced by Rebecca Gaskell Schumann: Quartet in A minor Op. 41 no. 1 Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan and went on to work with A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3 Aris Quartet Charles Mingus and Miles Davis, carving out a signature sound influenced by blues and rock as well as mainstream jazz Schumann: Six Songs Op. 107 tradition. Backed by the DR Big Band he performs some large- SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m000m0ms) Katharina Konradi (soprano), Roland Vieweg (piano) scale arrangements of his tunes, full of bluesy melodies and Haydn's London Symphony from Helsinki explosive solos. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Herbert SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m000m0md) Also in the programme, Anglo-Polish vocalist and violinist Blomstedt, with music by Haydn and Brahms. Jonathan Swain Jess Gillam with...Tabea Debus Alice Zawadzki shares some of the music that inspires her, presents. including pieces by Bartok and much-loved South African Jess Gillam and recorder player Tabea Debus have a virtual trumpeter Hugh Masekela. 01:01 AM lockdown listening party to share the music they love including Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Take 6, Joby Talbot, and Johann Bernhard Bach. Produced by Dominic Tyerman for Somethin’ Else. Symphony No. 104 in D, Hob. I:104 'London' Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Playlist: (conductor) Johann Bernhard Bach - Ouverture from Suite in E Minor SAT 18:30 BBC Proms (p08kdbgl) (L’Acheron, Francois Joubert-Caillet) 2020 01:29 AM Joby Talbot – Transit of Venus (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Christopher Austin) Haitink conducts Verdi's Don Carlos Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 Michel Legrand -Windmills of your mind (Take 6) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt Johannes Brahms - Cello sonata no. 1 in E minor Op. 38: 1st In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from (conductor) mvt Allegor non troppo (Truls Mork , cello; Juhani Lagerspetz, the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. piano) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable 02:15 AM Ugis Praulins - The Nightingale: Tableau VII ‘The Artificial Proms concerts. First appearing at the festival in 1966, Bernard Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Bird’ (Danish National Vocal Ensemble; Michala Petri, Haitink gave his final Proms performance – his 90th! – in Quartet for Strings in D minor (K.421) recorder; Stephen Layton, director) September 2019, on his last week before retirement. In 1996 he Artemis Quartet, Natalia Prischepenko (violin), Heime Muller Basement Jaxx – Where’s your head at brought to the Proms forces from the Royal Opera (Covent (violin), Volker Jacobsen (viola), Eckart Runge (cello) Antonio Sartorio – Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Aria, Quando voglio Garden) – of which he was Music Director at the time – for a (, soprano; Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni performance of Verdi’s Don Carlos. Perhaps the composer’s 02:47 AM Antonini, director) greatest opera, its principal characters are entangled in a web Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) Maurice Ravel – Concerto in G Major, 1st mvt Allegramente cast by the Church and State. This Proms performance features Alles, was ihr tut mit Worten oder mit Werken, Bux WV 4 (Martha Argerich, piano; Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; a fine cast including Olga Borodina and , Klaus Mertens (bass), Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor) as well as future Proms favourite Roderick Williams. Amsterdam Baroque Chorus, Ton Koopman (conductor)

Presented by Petroc Trelawny 03:01 AM SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m00093hy) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill on musical rediscovery Verdi: Don Carlos (1886 version) Concerto for piano and orchestra No 2 Op 19 in B flat major Henri Sigfridsson (piano), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill was a BBC New Generation Roberto Scandiuzzi (King Philip II) Jerzy Semkow (conductor) Artist from 2014 to 2016, was the Scottish Chamber Richard Margison (Don Carlos) Orchestra’s principal horn player for a decade and has been Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Rodrigo) 03:30 AM principal horn of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra since Robert Lloyd (Grand Inquisitor) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) last year. Sylvie Valayre (Elisabeth de Valois) Miroirs Olga Borodina (Princess Eboli) Pedja Muzijevic (piano) Today, Alec takes us on a musical journey, from a dramatic Susan Parry (Thibault) musical experience at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, to the Robin Leggate (Count of Lerma) 04:00 AM recent rediscovery of a piece of French chamber music. Sorin Coliban (Old Monk) Fernando Sor (1778-1839) Mary Plazas (Voice from Heaven) Introduction and variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' for He also finds Prokofiev’s Dance of the Mandolins to be Roderick Williams (Royal Herald) guitar (Op 9) beautiful yet disturbing, and reveals how different types of Royal Opera Chorus Xavier Diaz-Latorre (guitar) guitar from Portugal and Spain perfectly complement each Orchestra of the other in the music of Pedro Caldeira Cabral. Bernard Haitink (conductor) 04:09 AM Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1590-1664) Finding fun in music is essential for Alec, as you can hear in his (From the BBC Proms 1996, 20 July) choices, which also include The Real Group virtuosically Camerata Silesia - Katowice City Singers, Anna Szostak singing ‘Chilli Con Carne’, and a 17th-century dance which he (director) thinks is unrivalled in dance music today. SAT 22:15 New Music Show (m000m0mq) Sparrow, Salamander and Sonic Leak 04:19 AM A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 3 of 11 Three Gymnopedies SUN 12:00 The Future of the Past - Early Music Today Introduced by Louise Fryer. Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman (conductor) (m000c3j9) Mixing it up Bizet: Chanson d'avril 04:28 AM Franck: Nocturne Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Nicholas Kenyon asks where the historical performance style Chabrier: Les cigales Six Chorales from the Schemelli Collection revolution will take us next. Bachelet: Chere nuit Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Marco Fink (bass baritone), Duparc: Au pays ou se fait la guerre Domen Marincic (gamba), Dalibor Miklavcic (organ) Fifty years ago a revolution began in classical music. Back then, there was little doubt how to play a Mozart symphony or a Bach Ravel: La paon 04:40 AM passion – it meant big symphonic forces, heavy textures, slow Caplet: Le corbeau et le renard Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), David Lindup (arranger) speeds and modern instruments. But then along came period Roussel: Reponse d'une epouse sage Murder on the Orient Express - music from the film (arr. performance: a new generation of musicians researched and Debussy: Colloque sentimental Lindup) revived period instruments, performance styles and forgotten Honegger: Three Songs from 'The Little Mermaid' BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor) composers. With lighter forces, faster speeds and new tools, Rosenthal: La souris d'Angleterre they declared war on the interventionist musical culture of the 04:52 AM mid-19th century. To start with, they were largely dismissed as Poulenc: La Dame de Monte Carlo Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) eccentrics - Neville Marriner called them "the open-toed- First movement (Allegro) from Concerto for trumpet and sandals and brown-bread set” – and academics unable to play in (From the BBC Proms, 27 July 2009) orchestra (H.7e.1) tune. But throughout the 1970s and 80s they multiplied and Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Vienna Symphony Orchestra, gathered force. Along with the advent of the CD, their Christian Arming (conductor) newfound repertory and fascinating new-old sound gave a boost SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m000m0nc) to the classical recording industry. They overturned the way Nuremberg International Organ Festival 2020 05:01 AM classical music was listened to and performed, making Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) household names of musicians whose scholarly credentials Highlights from this summer's International Organ Festival Concerto da Camera in C major RV.87 became almost as important as their performing flair. 2020 in Nuremberg, which aimed to "think beyond crisis" with Camerata Koln a bold programme recorded without audiences. Lucie Skeaping Nicholas Kenyon tells the story of that revolution, from the presents a selection from a wide-ranging concert, including 05:09 AM earliest pioneers to the global superstars of today. Across the performances by Capella de la Torre and Ensemble Continuum Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967) series, he’ll uncover the musical detective-work which went on and works by Hildegard of Bingen, Legrenzi and JS Bach. Adagio for violin (or viola, or cello) and piano in C major in universities and rehearsal rooms, reliving the incredible Tamas Major (violin), Zoltan Kocsis (piano) vitality of the times through landmark recordings which took the musical world by storm. SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m000ls7y) 05:18 AM St Martin-in-the-Fields Veljo Tormis (1930-2017) In the last episode in this series, Nicholas looks at new Sugismaastikud (Autumn landscapes) discoveries and recent trends in early music performance. From St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with The Gesualdo Six. Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Grete Helgerod (conductor) Where do we go next? Introit: Night Prayer (Owain Park) – first performance 05:28 AM J. S. Bach: Sinfonia - Cantata 29 Responses: Piers Kennedy Thea Musgrave (b.1928) Wendy Carlos, Moog Psalms 98, 99, 100, 101 (Plainchant, plainchant, plainchant, Loch Ness - a postcard from Scotland for orchestra Kerensa Briggs) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles Anon: Sanctus First Lesson: Isaiah 45 vv.1-7 (conductor) Hilliard Ensemble Canticles: Fauxbourdon Setting (Byrd) Jan Garbarek, saxophone Second Lesson: Ephesians 4 vv.1-16 05:38 AM Anthem: Quemadmodum (Taverner) Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Spring 0-1, Recomposed By Max Prayer anthem: O Lord, support us (Henrietta Moran) Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck Richter Voluntary: Benedictus sit Deus Pater (Thomas Preston) Angela Cheng (piano) Daniel Hope, violin Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin Owain Park (Director) 05:46 AM André de Ridder, conductor Ben Giddens (Organist) Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) Scherzo Capriccioso, Op 66 Barbara Strozzi: E pazzo il mio core Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi Emanuela Galli, soprano SUN 16:00 BBC Proms (p08kznz8) (conductor) La Risonanza 2020 Fabio Bonizzoni, conductor 06:00 AM Organ Symphony August de Boeck (1865-1937) Schutz: Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Friede fahen Violin Concerto Vox Luminis BBC Proms: Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris continue Kam Ning (violin), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Marc Soustrot Lionel Meunier, conductor our series of highlights from the Proms archive, beginning with (conductor) Arvo Pärt’s meditative Cantus in memoriam . Schubert: Impromptu D 935 no 4 in F minor Janine Jansen is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto, written 06:27 AM Andras Schiff, piano during the composer’s war-time years in New York. ‘I feel so Krsto Odak (1888-1965) deeply about this piece… one experiences the incredible Adriatic Symphony, Op 36 Wagner: Lohengrin - Act 3 Prelude strength of it,’ Jansen has said. Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Baldo London Classical Players The Mediterranean verve of Berlioz’s overture Le Corsaire and Podic (conductor) Sir Roger Norrington, conductor the shimmering weight of full orchestra and organ in Saint- Saëns’s Third Symphony complete a programme of Lanner: Jorgel-Polka introspective reflection and extrovert display. SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m000m0n5) Concentus Musicus Presented by Hannah French. Sunday - Martin Handley Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Debussy: Nocturnes - Fetes Britten: Violin Concerto including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio Les Siecles Berlioz: Overture ‘Le corsaire’ soundscape. Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor Saint‐Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’

Email [email protected] Knussen: Two Organa - No 1 Janine Jansen (violin) London Sinfonietta Orchestre de Paris Oliver Knussen, conductor Paavo Järvi (conductor) SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m000m0n7) Sarah Walker with an intriguing musical mix J. S. Bach: Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54 (Transcr. by In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Víkingur Ólafsson) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting Víkingur Ólafsson, piano Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable music to complement your morning. Proms concerts. Produced in Cardiff by Amy Wheel Today, Sarah starts the morning with music by Bach, played on (From the BBC Proms 2013, 1 September) the mandolin, and enjoys an invigorating piece by Benjamin Britten, which she feels has been unfairly neglected. SUN 13:00 BBC Proms (m000m0n9) 2020 SUN 18:15 Proms Preview (m000m0ng) She also finds interesting textures in music, from the glittering A Week at the Proms sound of the harpsichord in Franz Benda’s Flute Concerto, to an Susan Graham sings French song arrangement by Joseph Haydn of a traditional Welsh folk song, An exploration of the coming week's Proms. Georgia Mann in and a rich brass band version of Dvorak’s most famous slow In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from conversation with Flora Willson, Edward Seckerson and Sir movement. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Nicholas Kenyon. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Plus, some laid-back jazz that will transport you onto the night Proms concerts. train… SUN 19:00 The Listening Service (m0002gts) In today's chamber music concert given in Cadogan Hall in The Key to Keys A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3 2009, American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham performs repertoire close to her heart with pianist Malcolm Martineau: a What is a key? In western music, if all the intervals and possible sampler of 19th- and 20th-century French song. chords in every scale in any major key are the same (and ditto Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 4 of 11 for every scale and chord in every minor key), why do we need Orchestra and the Metropole Orkest - and over the past nine Rondo concertante in B flat major, K 269 12 major keys and 12 minor ones? What have keys meant to years he has been responsible for some of the most James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra composers down the centuries and has that changed? Are keys groundbreaking BBC Proms, including the Ibiza Prom, 1Xtra's now so last-century (or even before that)? What even is a key? Grime Symphony, The Songs of Scott Walker, Jacob Collier 04:20 AM Why is the Pythagorean Comma important and what even is it? and Friends, and tributes to Quincy Jones, Nina Simone and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Charles Mingus. In 2019, Jules joined the BBC Symphony Leonore Overture No 1, Op 138 So many questions... To attempt some answers, Tom Service Orchestra as Creative Artist in Association. Sinfonia Iuventus, Rafael Payare (conductor) enlists the help of harpsichord maker and tuner Andrew Wooderson, harpsichord player Masumi Yamamoto and 04:31 AM musicologist Katy Hamilton. MON 00:30 Through the Night (m000m0np) Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) You heard them here first Overture to Verbum Nobile: Opera in 1 act (1860) David Papp (producer) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Salwarowski Young Russian pianist Anton Lyakhovsky performs Liszt's (conductor) Second Piano Concerto with the Latvian National Symphony SUN 19:30 Record Review Extra (m000m0nj) Orchestra. Presented by Jonathan Swain. 04:36 AM Flora Willson's Verdi Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) 12:31 AM Elegy, Op 24 Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), Emmanuel Strosser (piano) length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Piano Concerto No 2 in A major, S125 Record Review, including an extended excerpt of one of our Anton Lyakhovsky (piano), Latvian National Symphony 04:43 AM reviewer Flora Willson's favourite recordings of music by Orchestra, Andris Poga (conductor) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Verdi. Schicksalslied (Song of destiny), Op 54 12:52 AM Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Fruhbeck de Burgos (conductor) SUN 21:00 BBC Proms (p08kvsbr) Keyboard Sonata in B minor, Kk 27 (L449) 2020 Anton Lyakhovsky (piano) 04:59 AM Francesco Durante (1684-1755) Bach's St Matthew Passion 12:54 AM Concerto per quartetto No 2 in G minor Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Concerto Koln In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Etude in G sharp minor, S141/3, 'La campanella' the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Anton Lyakhovsky (piano) 05:11 AM Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Proms concerts. 12:59 AM Divertimento in E flat major, K113 Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung BBC Proms: Phillipe Herreweghe’s expressive but fleet-footed Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44 (conductor) Bach won praise at his Proms debut in 1996. Two years later, in Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga this highlight from the archives, he turned to one of the peaks (conductor) 05:25 AM of Bach’s output: the telling of Matthew’s version of the Passion Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) with the narration of Christ’s mission, his political fates, and our 01:38 AM Rondo in B minor Op.109 response in the meditative music of arias, all mingled to create Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Stefan Lindgren (piano) one of the most original music dramas of any age. Ian Rienzi Overture Bostridge, then near the start of his career sings the role of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, (conductor) 05:34 AM Evangelist. Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) 01:51 AM Trois Pieces Breves for wind quintet Presented by Petroc Trelawny who between Parts 1 and 2 talks Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Ariart Woodwind Quintet to Andreas Scholl about working with Herreweghe, and his Partita for keyboard No 6 in E minor BWV 830 approach to singing the music of JS Bach. Ilze Graubina (piano) 05:41 AM Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Bach: St Matthew Passion 02:22 AM Froissart, concert overture Op 19 Alfred Kalnins (1879-1951) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor) Ian Bostridge (Evangelist) Ballad for cello and piano Sibylla Rubens (soprano) Marcis Kuplais (cello), Ventis Zilberts (piano) 05:57 AM Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Werner Güra (tenor) 02:31 AM Toccata in D major, BWV 912 Dietrich Henschel (bass) (1809-1847) (piano) Elisabeth Hermans (soprano) Concerto in D minor for violin, piano and string orchestra Susan Hamilton (soprano) Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace (piano), Risor Festival 06:09 AM Franz-Josef Selig (bass) Strings Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) Frits Vanhule (bass) Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117 Dominik Wörner (bass) 03:09 AM Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano) Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Chorus and Orchestra of Collegium Vocale Ghent Partita in E flat (K.Anh.C 17.04) and unnumbered Rondo for wind octet MON 06:30 Breakfast (m000m06m) (From the BBC Proms 1998, 23 August) Festival Winds Monday - Petroc's classical alarm call

03:34 AM Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) featuring listener requests. MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2020 Pezzo capriccioso - morceau de concert Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), Katya Apekisheva (piano) Email [email protected] MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000m0nm) Georgia 03:42 AM Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m000m06p) Guest presenter Jules Buckley stands in for Clemmie Burton- Psalm 110: Le Toutpuissant a mon Seigneur et maistre Ian Skelly Hill in a new series of Classical fix, mixing bespoke classical Chamber Choir, Peter Phillips (conductor) playlists for music-loving guests. This week, Jules is joined by Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly. Mercury-nominated singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, 03:50 AM Georgia Barnes. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Jean-Francois Zygel (orchestrator) 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Lullaby (Berceuse) on the name of Faure playlist. Georgia's playlist: Ronald Patterson (violin), Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Murry Sidlin (conductor) 1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite Joseph Haydn - Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major (3rd performers. movement) 03:54 AM Anna Clyne - DANCE (1st movement 'When you're broken up') Nicolaes a Kempis (1600-1675) Thomas Adès - 3 Studies from Couperin: no. 1. Les Symphonia No.1 a 5, Op 2 MON 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m000m06r) Amusemens Concordia, Mark Levy (conductor) Queen's Hall Series Robert Schumann - Kreisleriana: no.4 Sehr langsam Oliver Leith - Honey Siren (3rd movement 'Like slow dancing 03:59 AM The Chiaroscuro Quartet in honey') Petko Stainov (1896-1977), Traditional (lyricist) Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque A bright sun has risen Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the (arranged by Isao Tomita) Petko Stainov Mixed Choir Kazanlak, Petya Pavlovich stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall series over the past (conductor) decade. Today Donald Macleod introduces the Chiaroscuro Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of Quartet, celebrated for their trailblazing work performing classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Jules 04:05 AM classical chamber music on gut strings. This recording from the Buckley is a Grammy-winning conductor, arranger and John Foulds (1880-1939) 2017 Edinburgh International Festival features a dazzling composer who pushes the boundaries of almost all musical Keltic Overture, Op 28 performance of Schubert’s sorrowful ‘Death and the Maiden’ genres by placing them in an orchestral context, and has earned BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor) Quartet, plus one of Haydn’s Op.76 works, his final visionary himself a reputation as a 'pioneering genre alchemist' and' word on the quartet form. The recital opens with JS Bach’s most agitator of musical convention'. He leads two of the world’s 04:12 AM enigmatic work, the Art of Fugue. most versatile and in-demand orchestras - the Heritage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 5 of 11 Bach: The Art of Fugue BWV 1080, Nos 1,4 and 9 Recorded at the Marth Argerich Project in Lugano in 2004. O’Halloran and Keats biographer Professor Nicholas Roe. Fiona Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op.76 No.6 Stafford’s windswept, dramatic storytelling recreates this epic journey aiming to transform Keats’ image in the same way the INTERVAL: Joshua Bell plays works by Brahms and MON 16:30 Early Music Now (m000m06z) journey transformed Keats from a doctor into a poet. Rachmaninov European Summer Festivals - Valle Baroque Festival During this trip he wrote regularly to his brother, Tom, and Schubert: String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D810 'Death and Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Carissimi's sacred sister, Fanny, including comic poems. The letters and poems the Maiden' masterpiece 'Jephte', recorded by Goteborg Baroque at the from Keats’s walking tour are full of fascinating detail and Abbey Church in Varnhem, in Sweden, as part of the Valle entertainment. This was Keats’ first sight of mountains and The Chiaroscuro Quartet Baroque Festival. outside of England, a literary pilgrimage and journey of exploration. The sights and sounds hugely influenced the Giacomo Carissimi: - Jephte, oratorio creative outpouring of the following months, when Keats wrote MON 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000m06t) all his best-known poems. This epic journey was the making of Beethoven Unleashed: How to Play Beethoven Göteborg Baroque: Keats the poet, as this active, rich, location feature shows, Anna Jobrant, Ann Kjellson - soprano recreating his walk by also getting buffeted by the wind and Beethoven and the Bass Amanda Flodin, Anna Einarsson - contraltos waves just like Keats was on Iona and at Fingal’s Cave, and Leif Aruhn-Solén, Carl Johan Lillierorh - visiting the significant places that transformed him. Donald Macleod is joined by Chi-chi Nwanoku to explore Karl Peter Eriksson, Arvid Eriksson - basses Beethoven’s writing for the double bass. Fredrik From, Marie-Louise Marming - violins Producer – Turan Ali. A Bona Broadcasting production for Nora Roll - viola da gamba BBC Radio 3 Throughout this week, Donald Macleod meets with different Anders Ericson - theorbo professional musicians to get a performer's eye view of Mattias Frostensson - violone/double bass Beethoven’s music and the challenges it presents. Directed by Magnus Kjellson from the claviorganum MON 22:45 The Essay (m000m076) A Birdsong Garden During Beethoven’s life, great technical advances were being made to musical instruments such as the keyboard and the horn. MON 17:00 In Tune (m000m071) The Great Chorus It was also a period when virtuoso musicians of all kinds began Music and conversation with some of the world's finest to tour Europe and Beethoven was able to meet some of the musicians. What is it about the silence of a global crisis that makes us greatest exponents of different instruments and learn from finally take note of the beauty of birdsong readily available them. He was inspired to push the limits of his performers as upon our doorsteps? never before, and his works continue to fascinate and challenge MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000m073) musicians today. Your relaxing classical playlist On this episode of The Essay, it’s springtime in the Vale of Whittingham and we’re up early to admire the awakening of Today, Donald Macleod is joined by Chi-chi Nwanoku to In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, nature as the sun rises. But which birds will be present for this explore Beethoven from the perspective of a double bassist. Chi- including a few surprises. Today there's music by Mozart, year’s dawn chorus - will there be redstarts, blackcaps and chi shares her thoughts on what it’s like to perform and record Gershwin, Scarlatti, Bernard Herrmann, and Cole Porter. garden warblers? Beethoven on a regular basis, and also her experience of working with conductor, Sir Roger Norrington and following The lockdown through the spring of 2020 gave much space for Beethoven precise tempo markings. Donald and Chi-chi also MON 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvlv4) reflection about life; and for wildlife sound recordist Geoff discuss the impact the virtuoso bass player Domenico 2020 Sample an opportunity to review the five-year period spent in Dragonetti had on Beethoven's music. the remote and quiet Northumbrian home he sought out, to Daniel Harding and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie record and study the birdsong of a typical rural garden. Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s Bremen in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony life and music throughout 2020 as part of Radio 3’s Beethoven This five-part series, ‘A Birdsong Garden’ is a mix of memoir, Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from natural history, folklore, birdsong and spacious soundscapes. birth. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Geoff takes us through the four seasons of the year, considering Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable how living close to and listening intently to nature can enrich Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 “Pastoral” (Donner. Sturm) Proms concerts. our lives. Vienna Philharmonic Sir Simon Rattle, conductor BBC Proms: In 2003 the distinguished Deutsche Presenter and Producer: Geoff Sample Kammerphilharmonie Bremen made its second visit to the Executive Producer: Clare Freeman Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92 (Allegro con brio) Proms, with its then Music Director Daniel Harding – making Commissioned for Culture in Quarantine, funded and supported Chamber Orchestra of Europe his fifth Proms appearance at the age of just 27. A suite of by The Space Arts, BBC Arts and Arts Council England. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor dance music from Rameau’s celebrated first opera and the Beethoven symphony that Wagner declared ‘the apotheosis of Septet in E flat, Op 20 (Scherzo) dance’ framed Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, whose final MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m000h030) The Nash Ensemble movement was once famously described as ‘a polonaise for a Around Midnight polar bear’. The soloist was the acclaimed Russian-born Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125 “Choral” (Presto) Viktoria Mullova. Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive Rebecca Nash, soprano soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to Wilke te Brummelstroete, mezzo-soprano Presented by Tom Service. contemporary and everything in between. Marcel Beekman, tenor Michael Tews, bass Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie – suite Laurens Collegium Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor Laurens Cantorij Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2020 Orchestra of the 18th Century Frans Bruggen, director Viktoria Mullova (violin) TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m000m079) Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen In Nature's Realm Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales. Daniel Harding (conductor) Romanian Radio National Orchestra with works by Chopin and Dvorak from Bucharest. Jonathan Swain presents. MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000m06x) MON 22:00 Sunday Feature (m0001wy1) Summer Festivals Keats Goes North 12:31 AM Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Tom McKinney introduces a selection of music gathered from The poet John Keats is often seen as a sickly individual, dying Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, op. 11 some of Europe's foremost summer music festivals including a young due to his frailty. In this walking, talking Sunday Feature, Toma Popovici (piano), Romanian Radio National Orchestra, concert from the Israel Philharmonic under at the Professor Fiona Stafford’s aims to show that far from being a Andrei Feher (conductor) Berlin Festival, with violinist Gil Shaham; and, across the week, consumptive weakling who never left Hampstead, he was a music for piano and orchestra by Liszt, recorded at the Martha strapping, fit young man who resigned as a doctor and 01:11 AM Argerich Project in Lugano, showcasing some of the world's undertook an amazing journey on foot, which was to inspire his Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) brightest young pianists. greatest poetic works. Alborada del gracioso, from 'Miroirs' Toma Popovici (piano) Including: In July 1818, Keats travelled to Liverpool because his brother George was sailing to America. He would never see him again. 01:18 AM Oedeon Partos: Concertino for String Orchestra Keats and his walking companion, Charles Brown, then walked Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor across Cumbria to visit Wordsworth (who was out), on to In Nature's Realm, op. 91, concert overture (Gil Shaham - violin) Scotland, to Burns’ birthplace (unimpressed by the gaudy Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Andrei Feher (conductor) Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique mausoleum), to Northern Ireland (shocked by the poverty), Mull (where he got very cold and wet and probably got TB), 01:33 AM Israel Philharmonic Iona and Fingal’s Cave (an inspiration), climbed Ben Nevis, Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) Zubin Mehta (conductor) then over the Highlands to Inverness before sailing back to The Golden Spinning Wheel, op. 109, symphonic poem London. Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Andrei Feher (conductor) Recorded at the Berlin Festival in 2019 Professor Fiona Stafford builds on her five series of Radio 3 02:01 AM Franz Liszt: Totentanz for piano and orchestra essay successes by following in Keats’s footsteps, tramping his Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Sergio Tiempo (piano) route, adding extracts from his letters and poems and of Charles Quartet for strings (Op.41 No.3) in A major Orchestra della Svizzera italiana Brown. She reflects on what Keats saw, thought and heard, Vertavo Quartet, Berit Varnes Cardas (violin), oyvor Volle Ion Marin (conductor) witnessing them herself and walking parts of Keats’ journey (violin), Henninge Baatnes Landaas (viola), Bjorg Vaernes with Keats experts such as Professor Nigel Leask, Dr. Meiko (cello) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 6 of 11 02:31 AM 06:05 AM Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Konstantin Balmont Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Sir Simon Rattle, conductor (author) Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129 The Bells (Kolokola) for soloists, chorus and orchestra (Op.35) Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Fidelio, Act 2 No 12 Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor), Roumiana Bareva (soprano), Gurer Aykal (conductor) Jessye Norman (Leonore), soprano Stoyan Popov (baritone), Sons de la mer Mixed Choir, Kurt Moll (Rocco), bass Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov Chor der Staatsoper Dresden (conductor) TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m000m0v1) Staatskapelle Dresden Tuesday - Petroc's classical picks Bernard Haitink, conductor 03:09 AM Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Fidelio, Act 2 No 14-15 8 Pieces for Piano (Op.76) featuring listener requests. Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Don Pizarro), bass-baritone Robert Silverman (piano) Jessye Norman (Leonore), soprano Email [email protected] Reiner Goldberg (Florestan), tenor 03:37 AM Kurt Moll (Rocco), bass Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) Chor der Staatsoper Dresden Introduction to Act III & Dances of the Highlanders from TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m000m0v3) Staatskapelle Dresden 'Halka' Ian Skelly Bernard Haitink, conductor Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly. Missa Solemnis, Op 123 (Agnus Dei) Lucy Crowe, soprano 03:45 AM 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Jennifer Johnston, mezzo Hermann Ambrosius (1897-1983) playlist. James Gilchrist, tenor Suite Matthew Rose, bass Zagreb Guitar Trio 1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite Monteverdi Choir performers. Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique 03:52 AM Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor John Field (1782-1837) Rondo for piano and strings (H.18A) in A flat major TUE 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m000m0v5) Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales. Eckart Selheim (pianoforte), Collegium Aureum, Franzjosef Queen's Hall Series Maier (director) Ronald Brautigam TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000m0v9) 04:00 AM Summer Festivals Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the Duet for viola and cello in E flat major, WoO.32 stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall over the past decade. Tom McKinney introduces a selection of music gathered from Milan Telecky (viola), Juraj Alexander (cello) Today Donald Macleod introduces a recording from the 2018 some of Europe's foremost summer music festivals including a Edinburgh International Festival of Ronald Brautigam, one of concert from the Rotterdam Philharmonic conducted by Lahav 04:10 AM the world’s leading virtuoso performers of historical keyboard Shani, with the violinist Vilde Frang, at the Bremen Music Traditional, Percy Grainger (arranger) instruments. Brautigam's recital includes works by Chopin & Festival; and the Vox Clamantis Choir performing an anthology Irish Tune from County Derry (Danny Boy] Mendelssohn on an instrument almost identical to the one that of 20th century and mediaeval choral music imaginatively Camerata Ireland, Barry Douglas (conductor) Mendelssohn owned himself, an 1847 Errard piano. bound around a mass by Arvo Part - which they call "Estonian Visions". 04:14 AM Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso Op. 14 Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Chopin: Scherzo no. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 31 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595 La Cathedrale engloutie - no.10 from Preludes book 1 (1910) Chopin: 2 Nocturnes, Op. 27 (Lahav Shani - piano) Philippe Cassard (piano) Mendelssohn: Variations Sérieuses, Op. 54 Max Bruch: Violin Concerto in G Minor (Vilde Frang - violin) 04:20 AM INTERVAL: Dorothea Roschmann performs Strauss: Vier Maurice Ravel: La Valse Ludwik Grossman (1835-1915) letzte Lieder, No's 2, 3 and 4 with the Rotterdam Philharmonic : Petrushka (1947 version) Csardas from the comic opera Duch wojewody (The Ghost of Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Voyvode) (1875) Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Miroslaw Blaszczyk Mendelssohn: 6 Songs without Words, Op. 19 Lahav Shani (conductor) (conductor) Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60 Chopin: Berceuse, Op. 57 Recorded at the Bremen Music Festival in 2019 04:31 AM Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61 Toivo Kuula (1883-1918) "Estonian Visions" South Ostrobothnian Dances, Op 17 (excerpts) Ronald Brautigam (Fortepiano) Gregorian Chant: Introitus 'Spiritus Domini' Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kari Tikka (conductor) Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame - Kyrie Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Kyrie & Gloria 04:39 AM TUE 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000m0v7) Gregorian Chant: Graduale 'Locus Iste' Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Beethoven Unleashed: How to Play Beethoven Arvo Part: The Deer's Cry Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor Perotin: Beata viscera (conductus) Ladislav Fantzowitz (piano) Beethoven and the Voice Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Credo John Dunstable: Descendi in ortum meum 04:49 AM Donald Macleod is joined by Rachel Nicholls to explore Liturgical: Praefacio Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) Beethoven’s writing for the voice. Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Sanctus 2 sacred pieces - Spes mea, Christe Deus; Wie lieblich sind Igor Stravinsky: Pater noster deine Wohnungen Throughout this week, Donald Macleod meets with different Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame - Agnus Dei Cologne Chamber Chorus, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter professional musicians to get a performer's eye view of Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Agnus Dei Neumann (conductor) Beethoven’s music and the challenges it presents. Gregorian Chant: Communio 'Illumina faciem meam' Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica - Ite missa est 05:00 AM During Beethoven’s life, great technical advances were being Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) made to musical instruments such as the keyboard and the horn. Vox Clamantis directed by Jaan-Eik Tulve Divertimento for 2 flutes and cello in C major, Hob.4.1, It was also a period when virtuoso musicians of all kinds began 'London trio' No 1 to tour Europe and Beethoven was able to meet some of the Recorded at the RheinVokal Festival in Bad Neuenahr- Les Ambassadeurs greatest exponents of different instruments and learn from Ahrweiler in August 2019 them. He was inspired to push the limits of his performers as 05:09 AM never before, and his works continue to fascinate and challenge Armas Jarnefelt (1869-1968) musicians today. TUE 17:00 In Tune (m000m0vc) The Sound of Home Music and conversation with some of the world's finest Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ilpo Mansnerus Today Donald Macleod is joined by Rachel Nicholls to explore musicians. (conductor) Beethoven from the perspective of a singer. Rachel shares her experience of what it’s like to sing the role of Leonore in 05:20 AM Fidelio, and also Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, including the TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000lvrf) Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) difficulties associated with Beethoven’s athletic vocal writing. Classical music to inspire you Three Tone Pictures, Op 5 Donald and Rachel also explore the impact the 20-year-old David Allen Wehr (piano) vocalist Anna Milder had on the music of Beethoven. In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. 05:29 AM Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) life and music throughout 2020 as part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Grand Quartet for 4 flutes in E minor (Op.103) Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s TUE 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvmld) Valentinas Kazlauskas (flute), Albertas Stupakas (flute), Lina birth. 2020 Baublyte (flute), Giedrius Gelgoras (flute) Fidelio, Act 1 No 1-3 The Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra 05:51 AM Angela Denoke (Leonore), soprano Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908-2002) Laszlo Polgar (Rocco), bass BBC Proms: In this concert from the Proms archives, British Suite Medievale for flute, harp and string trio Juliane Banse (Marzelline), soprano conductor Jonathan Nott conducted the Gustav Mahler Arpae Ensemble Rainer Trost (Jaquino), tenor Jugendorchester in a programme framed by a pair of works Arnold Schoenberg Choir famously used on the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 7 of 11 film 2001: A Space Odyssey – Ligeti’s nebulous Atmosphères Brissago, Switzerland. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Diego Ortiz (c.1510-1570),Pierre Sandrin (c.1490-c.1561) and Strauss’s visionary Also sprach Zarathustra. Leading 3 pieces: La Spagna, Doulce Memoire & Recercada German baritone Matthias Goerner sings Mahler’s harrowing set 12:31 AM Trio Montparnasse of meditations on infant mortality. Premiered at the 1912 Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Proms by Henry Wood, Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces Overture to 'L'isola disabitata', Hob.Ia:13 04:44 AM contain the composer’s first painterly experiments in shaping Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Elena Schwarz (conductor) Adolf Schulz-Evler (1852-1905) melodies based on instrumental colours, as opposed to pitches. Concert arabesque on themes by Johann Strauss for piano Presented by Tom Service. 12:38 AM Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Ligeti: Atmosphères Sinfonia Concertante in B flat, Hob.I:105 04:54 AM Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Gabor Barta (violin), Orfeo Mandozzi (cello), Silvia Zabarella Lars-Erik Larsson (1908-1986) Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces (oboe), Mathieu Brunet (bassoon), Orchestra della Svizzera Pastoral Suite, Op 19 (1938) R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra italiana, Elena Schwarz (conductor) CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)

Matthias Goerne (baritone) 01:01 AM 05:08 AM Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Jonathan Nott (conductor) Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129 Melina Mandozzi (violin), Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Elena Schwarz (conductor) Gurer Aykal (conductor) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable 01:29 AM 05:33 AM Proms concerts. (1797-1828) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 4 Impromptus, Op 142 (D.935) Le Nozze di Figaro, Act 4: Susanna's aria 'Deh vieni, non tardar' (From the BBC Proms 2009, 4 September) Alfred Brendel (piano) Irma Urrila (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor) 02:01 AM TUE 22:00 Sunday Feature (m000205x) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 05:38 AM Afterwords: Martha Gellhorn Symphony no 40 in G minor (K.550) Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768) National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Sonata in F major for Violin and Continuo, Op 1 no 12 In 'Afterwords' we explore the ideas of great writers in their Skrowaczewski (conductor) Gottfried von der Goltz (violin), Lee Santana (theorbo), Torsten own words - as archive recordings in which they articulate their Johann (harpsichord) approach are interwoven with the thoughts of contemporary 02:31 AM writers, academics and activists. Anonymous 05:56 AM Motet: In deliquio amoris Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) In this episode we focus on the words of Martha Gellhorn, one Currende, Erik van Nevel (director) Sonata quasi una fantasia in C sharp minor for piano, Op 27 No of the most prescient and insightful journalists of the 20th 2 (Moonlight) century. During her sixty-year career, from the 1930s onwards, 02:45 AM Louis Schwizgebel (piano) Gellhorn's work often focused on the 'sufferers of history' - Luys de Narvaez (fl.1526-1549) those who find themselves caught up in the decisions of leaders Los Seys libros del Delphin de musica - excerpts 06:12 AM from which they neither have the influence nor means to Hopkinson Smith (vihuela) Johann Ernst Bach (1722-1777) extricate themselves. She reported on almost every major world Ode on 77th Psalm 'Das Vertrauen der Christen auf Gott' conflict that occurred within that period - from the Spanish 03:18 AM Barbara Schlick (soprano), Martina Lins (soprano), Christoph Civil War through to conflicts in Nicaragua and El Salvador in Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Pregardien (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass baritone), Rheinische the 1980s. Through her ideas, contemporary writers and Andante con moto for piano trio in C minor Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor) journalists reflect on modern reporting - on capturing truth Kungsbacka Trio amidst the chaos of conflict, on the responsibility of the reporter, on memory, objectivity and the failures of political 03:29 AM WED 06:30 Breakfast (m000m117) imagination. Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) Wednesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op.72 no.2 Featuring contributions from Patrick Cockburn, Rosie Boycott, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, John Pilger, Lindsey Hilsum, Janine di Giovanni and Jon Snow, featuring listener requests. this programme explores how her approach might inform the 03:35 AM way we document the world we live in now. Franz Lehar (1870-1948) Email [email protected] Duet "Wie eine Rosenknospe" and "Romanze" – from "The Produced by Eleanor McDowall and Arlie Adlington Merry Widow" A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Three Michelle Boucher (soprano), Mark Dubois (tenor), Kitchener- WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m000m119) Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Raffi Armenian (conductor) Ian Skelly

TUE 22:45 The Essay (m000m0vg) 03:42 AM Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly. A Birdsong Garden Alberta Suriani (1920-?) Partita for harp 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics Summer in the Vale Branka Janjanin-Magdalenic (harp) playlist.

Revisiting a rare moment on a summer afternoon, the northern 03:52 AM 1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite nightingales stand silent as a solar eclipse sweeps through the Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) performers. Vale of Whittingham. Concerto da Camera in D major (RV.94) Camerata Koln, Michael Schneider (recorder), Hans-Peter The lockdown through the spring of 2020 gave much space for Westermann (oboe), Michael McCraw (bassoon), Mary Utiger WED 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m000m11c) reflection about life; and for wildlife sound recordist Geoff (violin), Hajo Bass (violin), Rainer Zipperling (cello), Harald Queen's Hall Series Sample an opportunity to review the five-year period spent in Hoeren (harpsichord) the remote and quiet Northumbrian home he sought out, to Les Vents Français record and study the birdsong of a typical rural garden. 04:04 AM This five part series, ‘A Birdsong Garden’ is a mix of memoir, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the natural history, folklore, birdsong and spacious soundscapes. Piano Sonata in C major (K.545) (1778) stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall series over the past Geoff takes us through the four seasons of the year, considering Vanda Albota (piano) decade. Today Jamie MacDougall introduces an Edinburgh how living close to and listening intently to nature can enrich festival debut from 2012, as Les Vents Français perform a our lives. 04:15 AM charmingly witty programme of mostly French music by Ibert, Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Luc Brewaeys (orchestrator) Ravel, Barber, Milhaud, Zemlinsky and Taffanel. Presenter and Producer: Geoff Sample No.7. La terrasse des audiences du clair - from Preludes Book Executive Producer: Clare Freeman II Ibert: Trois pièces brèves Commissioned for Culture in Quarantine, funded and supported Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Daniele Callegari (conductor) Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin by The Space Arts, BBC Arts and Arts Council England. Milhaud: Quintet 'La Cheminée du Roi René' 04:20 AM Henri Nibelle (1883-1967) INTERVAL: Emmanuel Pahud, Ella Fitzgerald and Jacques TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m000h1t0) Orleannais Loussier perform jazz arrangements of Ravel, Debussy and Music after dark Tong-Soon Kwak (organ) Bach.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive 04:26 AM Barber: Summer Music soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to Frederick Hollander (1896-1976) Zemlinsky: Humoreske contemporary and everything in between. Kinder heut abend Taffanel: Quintette Helene Gjerris (mezzo soprano), Esbjerg Ensemble, Jorgen Lauritsen (director) Les Vents Français

WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2020 04:31 AM Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) WED 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000m11f) WED 00:30 Through the Night (m000m0vj) Petites voix pour voix egales a capella Beethoven Unleashed: How to Play Beethoven Haydn and Mendelssohn Maîtrise de Radio France, Denis Dupays (director) Beethoven and the Drums A concert given by the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in 04:37 AM Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 8 of 11 Donald Macleod is joined by Adrian Bending to explore Katharina Konradi and the Consone Quartet A Birdsong Garden Beethoven’s writing for timpani. New Generation Artists: The UK-based period instrument Autumn Passage Throughout this week, Donald Macleod meets with different Consone Quartet play Schumann in Birmingham and Katharina professional musicians to get a performer's eye view of Konradi sings a From the young chiffchaff taking its first words, to the Beethoven’s music and the challenges it presents. bitter-sweet ballad about a poor boy called Peter. cacophony of pheasants and mallards over the river, in autumn Geoff and his family begin to appreciate the annual visitors on During Beethoven’s life, great technical advances were being Schumann: Romances and Ballads, Op. 53 no. 3 'Der arme their doorstep as the swallows come...and go once again. made to musical instruments such as the keyboard and the horn. Peter wankt vorbei.' It was also a period when virtuoso musicians of all kinds began Katharina Konradi (soprano), Roland Vieweg (piano) The lockdown through the spring of 2020 gave much space for to tour Europe and Beethoven was able to meet some of the reflection about life; and for wildlife sound recordist Geoff greatest exponents of different instruments and learn from Schumann; String Quartet No.2 in F major, Op.41 Sample an opportunity to review the five-year period spent in them. He was inspired to push the limits of his performers as Consone Quartet the remote and quiet Northumbrian home he sought out, to never before, and his works continue to fascinate and challenge record and study the birdsong of a typical rural garden. musicians today. WED 17:00 In Tune (m000m11p) This five-part series, ‘A Birdsong Garden’ is a mix of memoir, Today, Donald Macleod is joined by Adrian Bending to explore Music and conversation with some of the world's finest natural history, folklore, birdsong and spacious soundscapes. Beethoven from the perspective of a timpanist. Adrian shares musicians. Geoff takes us through the four seasons of the year, considering his thoughts on regularly performing and teaching the music of how living close to and listening intently to nature can enrich Beethoven, how the composer placed greater demands upon his our lives. timpanists including widening the dynamic range of the WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000m11r) instrument, and Adrian’s criteria for deciding whether to use Classical music to fill half an hour Presenter and Producer: Geoff Sample period timpani or not. Donald and Adrian also explore the Executive Producer: Clare Freeman impact the timpanist Ignaz Manker had on the music of In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, Commissioned for Culture in Quarantine, funded and supported Beethoven. including a few surprises. by The Space Arts, BBC Arts and Arts Council England.

Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020 as part of Radio 3’s Beethoven WED 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvnrv) WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m000h2g8) Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s 2020 The late zone birth. Leonard Bernstein conducts Mahler's Fifth Symphony Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive Violin Concerto in D, Op 61 (excerpt) soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to Christian Tetzlaff, violin In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from contemporary and everything in between. Deutsche Symphonie Orchestra, Berlin the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Robin Ticciati, conductor Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. Symphony No 4 in B flat, Op 60 (Adagio – Allegro vivace) THURSDAY 27 AUGUST 2020 Academy of St Martin in the Fields BBC Proms: Bernstein appeared only twice at the Proms. In Joshua Bell, conductor tonight’s selection from the Proms archive, we hear the first of THU 00:30 Through the Night (m000m11x) those appearances, from 1987. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, with Lavrangas and Tchaikovsky in Athens Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 55 “Eroica” (Marcia funebre) its sublime slow movement, is the composer at his sunniest and The London Classical Players most mellow, despite the fact that he was to die two months The ERT National Symphony Orchestra performs Sir Roger Norrington, conductor after its completion. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a work Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony along with music by one of especially associated with Bernstein, is by contrast the urgent the first Greek composers to incorporate folk music into his Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67 (Allegro & Allegro - Presto) work of a composer starting a new adventure, charged with new works - Dionysios Lavrangas. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Berlin Philharmonic musical possibilities and a new love, expressed with impossible Sir Simon Rattle, conductor tenderness in its famous Adagietto. 12:31 AM Dionysios Lavrangas (1860-1941) Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales. Presented by Ian Skelly Greek Suite no.1 ERT National Symphony Orchestra, Ender Sakpinar Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622 (conductor) WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000m11h) Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor Summer Festivals 12:45 AM Peter Schmidl (clarinet) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Tom McKinney introduces a concert of popular Baroque music Vienna Philharmonic Symphony no.4 in F Minor, Op.36 from the Saintes Festival in western France, recorded last Leonard Bernstein (conductor) ERT National Symphony Orchestra, Ender Sakpinar month and performed by Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe (conductor) Rousset. (From the BBC Proms 1987, 10 September) 01:25 AM Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concertos Op 8 Nos 1-4, "The Four Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Seasons" WED 22:00 Sunday Feature (m00007jy) Sheherazade - symphonic suite (Op.35) Gilone Gaubert-Jacques (violin) The Bernstein Files New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares (conductor) Les Talens Lyriques directed from the harpsichord by . For more than three decades the US government compiled 02:13 AM covert reports on the political activities and associations of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No 4 in A BWV legendary conductor composer, Leonard Bernstein. With claims 6 Impromptus, (Op.5) 1055 of connections to communists, the Black Panthers and radicals, Juhani Lagerspetz (piano) Les Talens Lyriques directed from the harpsichord by concerns about Bernstein's politics had reached the White Christophe Rousset. House and the House of Representative’s Un-American 02:31 AM Activities Committee. The golden boy of classical music - with Max Bruch (1838-1920) Concert recorded in the Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes, as part of a string of Broadway hits - had been blacklisted by the FBI. Scottish fantasy, Op 46 the 2020 Saintes Summer Festival. James Ehnes (violin), Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Mario Investigative reporter Jonathan Coffey travels to New York and Bernardi (conductor) Washington to open the secret FBI files on Leonard Bernstein WED 15:30 Choral Evensong (m000m11k) and ask why the US Government spied him for more than three 03:01 AM St Martin-in-the-Fields decades. Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Piano Trio No 1 in F major, Op 18 From St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with St Martin’s Voices. Drawing on hundreds of pages of previously classified Stefan Lindgren (piano), Ulf Forsberg (violin), Mats Rondin government files, Jonathan examines how the FBI, the US State (cello) Introit: At the end of the day (Nils Greenhow) (first Department, and the Nixon White House suspected Bernstein performance, commissioned for the service) of being a Communist and even a national security threat. 03:32 AM Responses: Ben Parry John Ansell (1874-1948) Psalm 119 vv.145-176 (Goss, Mornington, Goss) Jonathan speaks to Bernstein’s friends and family, as well as the Nautical Overture First Lesson: Deuteronomy 11vv.1-21 political activists who saw his politics up close. He meets a West Australian Symphony Orchestra, David Measham Office hymn: Take my life and let it be (Nottingham) former Nixon White House staffer who exchanged secret (conductor) Canticles: Sumsion in G memos about Bernstein, and speaks to witnesses who attended Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 9 vv.6-15 an infamous fundraiser for the Black Panthers at Bernstein’s 03:40 AM Anthem: Standing as I do before God (Cecilia McDowall) New York apartment. Oskar Merikanto (1868-1924) Prayer anthem: Hear my prayer (Moses Hogan) Merella Hymn: O praise ye the Lord (Laudate Dominum) More than a century on from Leonard Bernstein’s birth, Arto Satukangas (piano) Voluntary: Alleluyas (Simon Preston) Jonathan reveals how the FBI, its Director J Edgar Hoover, and the Nixon White House tracked, monitored and may even have 03:44 AM Andrew Earis (Director of Music) tried to damage the reputation of one of America’s most Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) Ben Giddens (Associate Organist) celebrated cultural figures. Symphony of Psalms (1930 revised 1948) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Choir, Recorded 18 August 2020. Producer: Graeme Stewart Colin Davis (conductor)

04:04 AM WED 16:30 New Generation Artists (m000m11m) WED 22:45 The Essay (m000m11v) Ester Magi (b.1922) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 9 of 11 Murdunud aer (The broken oar) Handel: 'Da Tempeste' from 'Giulio Cesare' Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Cohen Estonian National Male Choir, Ants Soots (director) Handel: Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 6 Handel: 'Lascia ch'io pianga' from 'Rinaldo' Recorded at the Festspielhaus, Bregenz as part of the Bregenz 04:09 AM Festival last year. (1864-1949) INTERVAL: Fortepianist Robert Levin performs Haydn's Concerto No 1 in E flat major Op 11 for horn and orchestra Piano Trio No 44 in E major with Vera Beths (violin) and And from Mecklenburg and Schwetzingen : Premysl Vojta (horn), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Anner Bylsma (cello) Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Handel: Il delirio amoroso, HWV 99 Harriet Krijgh (cello) 04:25 AM ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Louise Alder, soprano Drcar Prelude and Fugue in B flat major, Op 16 no 2 Dunedin Consort Angela Cheng (piano) John Butt, director and harpsichord Serge Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D 'Classical' SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart conducted by Nicholas 04:31 AM McGegan Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Francesco Squarcia (arranger) THU 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000m16f) 3 Hungarian Dances Beethoven Unleashed: How to Play Beethoven I Cameristi Italiani THU 17:00 In Tune (m000m16k) Beethoven and the Keyboard Music and conversation with some of the world's finest 04:39 AM musicians. Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967) Donald Macleod is joined by Ronald Brautigam to explore 4 Italian madrigals for female chorus Beethoven’s writing for the keyboard. Jutland Chamber Choir, Mogens Dahl (director) THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000m16m) Throughout this week, Donald Macleod meets with different Power through with classical music 04:51 AM professional musicians to get a performer's eye view of (1792-1868) Beethoven’s music and the challenges it presents. In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, Quartet for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon no 6 in F major including a few surprises. Vojtech Samec (flute), Jozef Luptacik (clarinet), Frantisek During Beethoven’s life, great technical advances were being Machats (bassoon), Jozef Illes (french horn) made to musical instruments such as the keyboard and the horn. It was also a period when virtuoso musicians of all kinds began THU 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvpsn) 05:02 AM to tour Europe and Beethoven was able to meet some of the 2020 Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) greatest exponents of different instruments and learn from In the steppes of central Asia (V sredney Azii) - symphonic them. He was inspired to push the limits of his performers as Vasily Petrenko conducts Rachmaninov and Shostakovich poem never before, and his works continue to fascinate and challenge Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Uri Mayer (conductor) musicians today. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. 05:10 AM Today Donald Macleod is joined by fortepianist Ronald Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) Brautigam to explore Beethoven from the perspective of a Proms concerts. Sonata in G major for transverse flute and harpsichord, Op 6 no keyboard player. Ronald shares his thoughts on how 6 Beethoven's keyboard music created demands few amateur BBC Proms: ‘A composer’s music should express his love Karl Kaiser (transverse flute), Susanne Kaiser (harpsichord) performers could achieve. Donald and Ronald also explore the affairs, his religion, the books that have influenced him, the question of using historical instruments or modern pianos when pictures he loves.’ So said Rachmaninov, whose Third 05:20 AM performing Beethoven, and assess some of the criteria for Symphony does just that through irrepressible yearning and Kaspar Forster (1616-1673) making those decisions. longing. It forms the culmination of this performance from the Dialogus a 5 'Quid faciam misera?' 2016 Proms archive, in which the Royal Liverpool Olga Pasiecznik (soprano), Marta Boberska (soprano), Dirk Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s Philharmonic Orchestra and its Russian Chief Conductor Snellings (bass), Il Tempo Baroque Ensemble life and music throughout 2020 as part of Radio 3’s Beethoven performed Shostakovich’s disquieting First Cello Concerto, Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s joined by cellist Alexey Stadler. The concert opens with 05:27 AM birth. Liverpool-born Emily Howard’s Torus, inspired by the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) doughnut-shaped form of ‘the whole with a hole’. Piano Concerto no. 8 in C major, K.246 Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat, Op 27 No 1 (Andante) Yeol Eum Son (piano), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano Presented by Andrew McGregor Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas (conductor) Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37 (Largo) Emily Howard: Torus (Concerto for Orchestra) (world 05:49 AM Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano premiere) Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) Kolner Akademie Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 Mass in D major (Op.86) Michael Alexander Willens, conductor Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 Ludmila Vernerova (soprano), Olga Kodesova (alto), Vladimír Okenko (tenor), Ilja Prokop (bass), Miluska Kvechova (organ), Piano Trio No 5 in D, Op 70 No 1 “Ghost” (Largo assai ed Alexey Stadler (cello) Czech Radio Choir, Pilzen Radio Orchestra, Lubomir Matl espressivo) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor) Andreas Staier, fortepiano Vasily Petrenko (conductor) Daniel Sepec, violin Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello (From the BBC Proms 2016, 8 September) THU 06:30 Breakfast (m000m167) Thursday - Petroc's classical mix Fantasia in C minor, Op 80 Ronald Brautigam, piano THU 22:00 Sunday Feature (m0002c95) Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, Hannah Holgersson, soprano The Victorian Queens of Ancient Egypt featuring listener requests. Marie Olhans, mezzo Maria Sanner, alto Samira Ahmed explores the profound connection between Email [email protected] Mikael Stenbaek, tenor ancient Egypt and the Victorian heyday of Britain’s industrial Gunnar Bigersson, baritone north – in a legacy of museums and northern pride. Ove Pettersson, bass THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m000m169) Eric Ericson Chamber Choir Being taken to see the mummies has become a right of passage, Ian Skelly Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra captivating generations of children since the late 19th century. Andrew Parrott, director Ancient Egypt is now embedded in early years education. At Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly. more than a hundred museums across the UK, that lost culture Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales. helps shape the British imagination. Where did that affinity 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics come from? playlist. THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000m16h) To find out, Samira follows in the footsteps of three 1010 Well known musicians reveal their personal favourite Summer Festivals extraordinary women: Amelia Oldroyd, Annie Barlow and performers Marianne Brocklehurst. Each came from a northern, mill- Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Massenet's 'Don owning family, and each felt compelled not only to visit Egypt Quichotte', inspired in part by Cervantes's fictional "knight of and to collect antiquities, but to share their treasures with those THU 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m000m16c) the doleful countenance", given at the Bregenz Festival in at home. Each established local museums that survive today, Queen's Hall Series Austria, last year. The programme also features performances inspiring new generations. from Mecklenburg and Schwetzingen as part of Tom's focus on Louise Alder and the Dunedin Consort European summer festivals. Today, many such museums face an uncertain future. By returning to these women’s stories, can lessons be learned from Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the Jules Massenet: Don Quichotte (opera in five acts) the past? stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall series over the past decade. Today Donald Macleod introduces soprano Louise Anna Goryachova, mezzo-soprano, Dulcinée Contributors: Alder and the Dunedin Consort in a performance of some of Gabor Bretz, bass, Don Quichotte Katina Bill, Kirklees Museums and Galleries Handel’s most loved operatic arias and cantatas interspersed David Stout, baritone, Sancho Matthew Watson and Rizwana Khalique, Bolton Library and with instrumental interludes of some of Handel’s concerti Léonie Renaud, soprano, Pedro Museum Services grossi. Vera Maria Bitter, mezzo-soprano, Garcias Danielle Wootton Paul Schweinester, tenor, Rodriguez Emma Anderson and Kathryn Warburton, Macclesfield Handel: Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 6 No 7 Patrik Reiter, tenor, Juan Museums Handel: 'Piangero’ from 'Giulio Cesare' Prague Philharmonic Choir Rebecca Holt, MPhil student at Oxford University Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 10 of 11 Heba abd al-Gawad, Egyptian Egyptologist 01:19 AM piano) Alice Stevenson, Institute of Archaeology, UCL Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Miha Rogina (saxophone), Jan Sever (piano) Dr Chris Naunton Piano Trio No 2 in E flat, D 929 Esther Hoppe (violin), Christian Poltera (cello), Francesco 05:31 AM Producers: Simon and Thomas Guerrier Piemontesi (piano) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4 Phantasy for string quintet in F minor 02:06 AM Lawrence Power (viola), RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) THU 22:45 The Essay (m000m16q) Noches en los jardines de Espana 05:43 AM A Birdsong Garden Eduardo del Pueyo (piano), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) Orchestra, Jean Fournet (conductor) Symphony No 3 in A minor The Winter Flock Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor) 02:31 AM Escape amongst the haunting sounds of the tawny and screech Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 06:01 AM owls on a cold winter’s night in Northumberland....to the Mass in C major, Missa in tempore belli 'Paukenmesse' H.22.9 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), William Shakespeare peaceful and familiar sound of the blackbirds visiting the Hilde Haraldsen Sveen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (author) garden feeder after the lambing storm has passed through the (mezzo soprano), Jonas Degerfeldt (tenor), Gabriel Suovanen 3 Shakespeare songs for chorus Vale of Whittingham. (baritone), Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor) Orchestra, Manfred Honeck (conductor) The lockdown through the spring of 2020 gave much space for 06:07 AM reflection about life; and for wildlife sound recordist Geoff 03:11 AM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Sample an opportunity to review the five-year period spent in Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Burya - symphonic fantasia after Shakespeare, Op 18 the remote and quiet Northumbrian home he sought out, to Rosenkavalier - Grand Suite BBC Philharmonic, (conductor) record and study the birdsong of a typical rural garden. Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec, Franz-Paul Decker (conductor) This five-part series, ‘A Birdsong Garden’ is a mix of memoir, FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m000m16y) natural history, folklore, birdsong and spacious soundscapes. 03:34 AM Friday - Petroc's classical alternative Geoff takes us through the four seasons of the year, considering Juriaan Andriessen (1925-1996) how living close to and listening intently to nature can enrich Sonnet No.43 Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, our lives. Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (conductor) featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

Presenter and Producer: Geoff Sample 03:41 AM Email [email protected] Executive Producer: Clare Freeman Marius Flothuis (1914-2001) Commissioned for Culture in Quarantine, funded and supported Sonnet, Op.9 "Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye" (1940) by The Space Arts, BBC Arts and Arts Council England. Jard van Nes (mezzo soprano), Royal Concertgebouw FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m000m170) Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor) Ian Skelly

THU 23:00 BBC Proms (p08kvt99) 03:49 AM Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Ian Skelly. 2020 Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Ballade for piano no 4 (Op 52) in F minor 0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics The Manchester Camerata Zbigniew Raubo (piano) playlist.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from 04:00 AM 1010 Well-known musicians reveal their personal favourite the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) performers. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable - overture Proms concerts. BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor) FRI 11:00 Edinburgh International Festival (m000m172) BBC Proms: Our series exploring the Proms archives continues 04:07 AM Queen's Hall Series with a performance from 2005 marking the Manchester Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Camerata’s debut at the festival. Kate Royal returned for her Flute Quartet no 4 in A major, K 298 Christian Tetzlaff and Leif Ove Andsnes third Proms visit to sing a pair of Mozart arias, having won the Dae-Won Kim (flute), Yong-Woo Chun (violin), Myung-Hee Kathleen Ferrier Award the previous summer. Michael Cho (viola), Jink-Yung Chee (cello) Every weekday for three weeks, Radio 3 broadcasts one of the Tippett’s Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round, which draws on stand-out concerts from the Queen’s Hall over the past decade. British music from across the centuries, was an apt inclusion in 04:20 AM Today Donald Macleod introduces a performance from 2017 of the centenary year of the composer’s birth. Beethoven’s Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) a musical pairing that has performed together for over twenty sparkling Eighth Symphony contrasts with his ballet overture in Cello Concerto in D minor, RV 407 years. German violinist Christian Tetzlaff and Norwegian praise of the Greek-mythical creator of mankind. Charles Medlam (cello), London Baroque pianist Leif Ove Andsnes open their recital with Janacek's violin sonata, written during great turmoil in 1914. Then follows Beethoven: Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus; 04:31 AM a selection of Sibelius's miniatures and Mozart's elegant Sonata Tippett: Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) No 27, written in just one hour. They close with Shostakovich's Mozart: ‘Bella mia fiamma … Resta, o cara’, K528 5 Ancient Hungarian dances for wind quintet Violin Sonata, written for his friend the violin virtuoso David Mozart: ‘Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia’, K582 Academic Wind Quintet Oistrakh. Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major 04:41 AM Janacek: Violin Sonata, JW VII/7 Kate Royal (soprano) Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) Sibelius: Danses champêtres, Op 106 nos 2, 4 and 5 Manchester Camerata Krakowiak Mozart: Violin Sonata No 27 in G, K379 Douglas Boyd (conductor) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor) INTERVAL: Karen Cargill sings Mahler's Rückert-Lieder (From the BBC Proms 2005, 27 July) 04:46 AM Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op.134 Lorca Suite (Lorca-Sarja) (1973) Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Eric-Olof Soderstrom Christian Tetzlaff - violin FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2020 (conductor) Leif Ove Andsnes - piano

FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m000m16t) 04:52 AM Chamber music in the grounds of Montebello castle Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) FRI 13:00 Composer of the Week (m000m174) Sonata Prima a 4 (Opera Decima Sesta) Beethoven Unleashed: How to Play Beethoven Music by Amy Beach and Franz Schubert from the Montebello Maniera Chamber Music Festival in Switzerland. Jonathan Swain Beethoven and the French Horn presents. 05:02 AM Gregory of Narek (951-1003), Petros Shoujounian (arranger) Donald Macleod is joined by Sarah Willis to explore 12:31 AM Havoon, Havoon (The Fowl) Beethoven’s writing for the French horn. Amy Beach (1867-1944) Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Elmer Iseler Singers, Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 67 Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Raffi Armenian Throughout this week, Donald Macleod meets with different Marta Kowalczyk (violin), Anastasiya Petryshak (violin), Bruno (conductor) professional musicians to get a performer's eye view of Giuranna (viola), Ludovica Rana (cello), Roberto Arosio Beethoven’s music and the challenges it presents. (piano) 05:07 AM Pedro Guerrero (c.1520-?) During Beethoven’s life, great technical advances were being 12:58 AM Di, perra mora (instrumental) made to musical instruments such as the keyboard and the horn. Amy Beach (1867-1944) Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall (director) It was also a period when virtuoso musicians of all kinds began Piano Trio in A minor, op 150 to tour Europe and Beethoven was able to meet some of the Anastasiya Petryshak (violin), Ludovica Rana (cello), Roberto 05:10 AM greatest exponents of different instruments and learn from Arosio (piano) Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) them. He was inspired to push the limits of his performers as Triumphal March from "Sigurd Jorsalfar" never before, and his works continue to fascinate and challenge 01:11 AM Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor) musicians today. Frank Bridge (1879-1941) Londonderry Air 05:20 AM Today Donald Macleod is joined by Sarah Willis to explore Marta Kowalczyk (violin), Anastasiya Petryshak (violin), Bruno Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Beethoven from the perspective of a horn player. Sarah shares Giuranna (viola), Ludovica Rana (cello) Rhapsodie for saxophone and orchestra (arr. for saxophone and her thoughts on regularly performing Beethoven, how Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 22 – 28 August 2020 Page 11 of 11 Beethoven pushed the boundaries of horn writing, and when to Eric Whitacre: Sleep* singular quality, exploring and experimenting within the use an historic natural horn instead of a modern instrument. traditions of Middle Eastern, Eastern European, and Western Donald and Sarah also discuss the impact of horn players, Aaron Copland: Quiet City classical music, as well as the blues. An active collaborator, she Giovanni Punto and the Lewy brothers on Beethoven's has worked with composers Iannis Xenakis and John Zorn, understanding of their instrument. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, music groups Erasure and Einstürzende Neubauten, and film ‘Eroica’ directors Wes Craven and Francis Ford Coppola, among many Composer of the Week is returning to the story of Beethoven’s others. life and music throughout 2020 as part of Radio 3’s Beethoven BBC Singers* Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s BBC Symphony Orchestra Also tonight, there’s a classic concert recording from another of birth. Sakari Oramo (conductor) the all-time great singers, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, plus exciting new music from psychedelic, electronic, free jazz duo Horn Sonata, Op 17 Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off this Anteloper. And finally, hear an exclusive new work for BBC Anthony Halstead, horn season’s live offering with a specially-commissioned work by Radio 3 by cellist-vocalist Abel Selaocoe, commissioned from Robert Levin, fortepiano English composer Hannah Kendall. Tuxedo: Vasco ‘de’ Gama Opera North by the BBC Arts Culture in Quarantine project. takes as its title a quote from American artist Jean-Michel They asked musicians to compose a piece for a walk at a Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 55 “Eroica” (Scherzo) Basquiat’s matrix of hieroglyphs, symbols and words, and it particular time of day. Berlin Philharmonic launches a voyage across the Atlantic that takes us via Eric Sir Simon Rattle, conductor Whitacre’s tender Sleep, sung by the BBC Singers, to the Produced by Jack Howson. expansive, desolate sound-world of Copland’s Quiet City. A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3. Sextet in E flat, Op 81b (Rondo) Consortium Classicum For the concert’s climax we plunge into the stormy waters of Beethoven’s revolutionary ‘Eroica’ Symphony, noted by one Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125 “Choral” (Adagio molto e early reviewer for its ‘strange modulations and violent cantabile) transitions’ – a passionate musical vision of heroism. Berlin Philharmonic Sir Simon Rattle, conductor FRI 22:00 Sunday Feature (m0003sgc) Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales. Harmony of the Spheres

Author Jerry Brotton goes in search of the ancient and very FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m000m176) beautiful idea that places music at the centre of our universe: Summer Festivals the harmony of the spheres. With its roots in Pythagoras, energised by Renaissance astronomy, the thought that the stars, Tom McKinney introduces more summer music-making, suns and planets of the cosmos resonate to a harmony too including a concert recorded at Berlioz's birthplace at La Cote- beautiful and too powerful for human hearing has inspired Saint-Andre in France of music inspired by the writings of Lord composers and musicians for many hundreds of years, from Byron; violinist Gil Shaham performing Mozart concertos at Purcell, Handel and Rameau to the present day, with Tarik Schwetzingen; and musicians from the Martha Argerich Project O’Regan’s rapturous ‘The Ecstasies Above’ and Pogues co- in Lugano rounding up their week of music for piano and founder Jem Finer’s Long Player project, a millennium-long orchestra by Liszt. loop of celestial music.

Louis Theodore Gouvy: Overture 'Le Giaour' Music was once a science as well as an art, joining with Karol Beffa: 'On the Dust I Love' after Byron's poem 'On the astronomy and mathematics to unlock the secrets of the Death of a Young Lady' heavens, a great celestial harmony ordering the universe. And (Albane Carrere - mezzo soprano) now it is again: across the globe telescopes like the Lovell at Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy Jodrell Bank look up to the night sky and listen, turning stars (Lawrence Power - viola) into music through the new science of astro-accoustics and what astronomers are calling sonification. Composers are again Orchestre National de Metz conducted by David Reiland tuning in to the cosmos as a song. But the harmony of the Recorded at the Chateau Louis XI as part of the 2019 La Cote- spheres has always been a moral idea as well as a musical one: Saint-Andre Festival in France that we should live in better accord with one another here on the Earth, itself a beautiful and precious sphere. In an age of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218 ecological discord, political cacophony and division do we need (Gil Shaham - violin) to listen for the harmony of the spheres - has its time come again? Featuring musicians, artists, composers and astronomers. SWR Symphony Orchestra. Stuttgart conducted by Nicholas McGegan Presented by Jerry Brotton. Produced by Simon Hollis. A Brook Recorded at Rococo Theatre as part of the 2019 Schwetzingen Lapping Production for BBC Radio 3. Festival.

Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A FRI 22:45 The Essay (m000m17g) (Gabriela Montero - piano) A Birdsong Garden

Orchestra della Svizzera italiana conducted by Ion Marin The Spring Revival Recorded as part of the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano. From gas guns to peewits to witnessing the intimate song of the blackbird like never before… In this final part of the series, we FRI 16:30 The Listening Service (m0002gts) come full circle back to springtime to hear the neighbouring [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] dunnocks and frogs, pondering what is the role of the garden - its purpose - in all of our lives in the present day?

FRI 17:00 In Tune (m000m178) The lockdown through the spring of 2020 gave much space for Music and conversation with some of the world's finest reflection about life; and for wildlife sound recordist Geoff musicians. Sample an opportunity to review the five-year period spent in the remote and quiet Northumbrian home he sought out, to record and study the birdsong of a typical rural garden. FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m000m17b) Expand your horizons with classical music This five-part series, ‘A Birdsong Garden’ is a mix of memoir, natural history, folklore, birdsong and spacious soundscapes. In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, Geoff takes us through the four seasons of the year, considering including a few surprises. how living close to and listening intently to nature can enrich our lives.

FRI 19:30 BBC Proms (m000m17d) Presenter and Producer: Geoff Sample 2020 Executive Producer: Clare Freeman Commissioned for Culture in Quarantine, funded and supported Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ by The Space Arts, BBC Arts and Arts Council England.

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the first live Prom of the 2020 season. Beethoven’s epic Third FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m000m17j) Symphony sits alongside Copland’s Quiet City and a Basquiat- Diamanda Galás’ mixtape inspired world premiere from Hannah Kendall. The BBC Singers perform Eric Whitacre's Sleep. Verity Sharp presents a 30-minute mixtape compiled by legendary singer Diamanda Galás, who chooses an array of Live from the Royal Albert Hall works from her favourite avant-garde composers. Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny After debuting with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra as a Hannah Kendall: Tuxedo: Vasco ‘de’ Gama (BBC commission: piano soloist at 14, in 1969, Galás became internationally world premiere) recognised as a performance artist, composer, and vocalist of Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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