Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 March 2021 Page 1 of 12 SATURDAY 13 MARCH 2021 Heartbreakers Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord/director) Alpha ALPHA644 (2 CDs) SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m000szyq) Jorja Smith presents an hour of healing, emotional music. https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/Handel-Brockes-Passion- Montreal's Domaine Forget Festival Immerse yourself in a world of soothing orchestral music, ALPHA644 piano, strings and soundtracks to bring you comfort and escape. Pianist André Laplante with a recital of music by Mozart, Liszt and Ravel. Catriona Young presents. This episode features heartbreaking tracks from Nitin Sawhney, SAT 10:30 Discovery and Innovation (m000t7wp) Puccini and the original game soundtrack for The Elder Scrolls BBC Symphony Orchestra 01:01 AM V: Skyrim. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) The first of the weekend's programmes features the oldest of Piano Sonata No 4 in E flat, K 282 the BBC orchestras in its 90th anniversary season, reflecting Andre Laplante (piano) SAT 06:00 Downtime Symphony (m000t4fd) both its wide-ranging and diverse repertoire and pivotal role at Slow it down with lush orchestral textures from Mozart to Mary the BBC Proms. 01:17 AM Lou Williams Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Two big choral works featuring large orchestra and extra brass Petrarch Sonnet No 104 (Années de Pelerinage, année 2, S 161) An hour of wind-down music to help you press pause and reset bookend the programme. Anna Meredith's spectacular opener Andre Laplante (piano) your mind. With chilled sounds of orchestral, jazz, ambient, and to the 2018 BBC Proms, which movingly sets soldiers' messages lo-fi beats to power your downtime - with tracks by Yaw, Death from the WWI front line and Walton's biblical epic, very much 01:25 AM in Vegas and Mozart. a BBC SO calling card, paints the fall of Babylon in irresistible, Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) lurid Technicolor. In between, two composers with a long BBC Miroirs (extracts) SO associations, Harrison Birtwistle and Elizabeth Maconchy. Andre Laplante (piano) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m000t4fj) Saturday - Elizabeth Alker Introduced by Hannah French. 01:36 AM Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the Anna Meredith: Five Telegrams Sonatine odd unclassified track. National Youth Choir of Great Britain Andre Laplante (piano) BBC Proms Youth Ensemble BBC Symphony Orchestra 01:48 AM SAT 09:00 Record Review (m000t4fm) Sakari Oramo (conductor) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Ravel's Introduction and Allegro in Building a Library with Piano Sonata No 26 in E flat, op. 81a 'Les Adieux' Jeremy Sams and Andrew McGregor Harrison Birtwistle: Violin Concerto Andre Laplante (piano) Christian Tetzlaff (violin) 9.00am BBC Symphony Orchestra 02:07 AM David Robertson (conductor) Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Motets: Music by Anton Bruckner and Michael Haydn Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Kinderszenen, op 15) MDR Leipzig Radio Choir Elizabeth Maconchy: Proud Thames Andre Laplante (piano) Philipp Ahmann (director) BBC Symphony Orchestra Pentatone PTC5186868 (hybrid SACD) Sakari Oramo (conductor) 02:10 AM https://www.pentatonemusic.com/bruckner-michael-haydn- Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) motets-mdr-leipzig-radio-choir Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast Symphony No. 9 in E flat major Op. 70 Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Michal Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol. 9 BBC Singers Klauza (conductor) Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) BBC Symphony Chorus Chandos CHAN20131 BBC Symphony Orchestra 02:36 AM https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020131 Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Le Carnaval des animaux Monteverdi: Il Delirio Della Passione Festival Ensemble of the Festival of the Sound, James Anna Lucia Richter (soprano) SAT 12:15 Music Matters (m000t4fp) Campbell (director) Ensemble Claudiana Celebrating a Century of Astor Piazzolla Luca Pianca (director) 03:01 AM Pentatone PTC5186845 Tom Service commemorates the centenary of the birth of Astor Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) https://www.pentatonemusic.com/il-delirio-della-passione- Piazzolla with a portrait of the great Argentine bandoneon Musical Offering in C minor, BWV 1079 monteverdi-anna-lucia-richter-luca-pianca-ensemble-claudiana player and tango composer, and explores his revolutionary style, Nova Stravaganza, Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Lisa Marie which changed the genre for ever. He also questions his legacy Landgraf (violin), Dimitri Dichtiar (cello), Siegbert Rampe Ligeti: The 18 Études in today's Argentina. (harpsichord) Danny Driver (piano) Hyperion CDA68286 We hear from Piazzolla himself in rare BBC archive material, 03:49 AM https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68286 as well as his widow Laura Escalada Piazzolla; his grandsons Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Arnold Schoenberg (arranger) Daniel Villaflor Piazzolla, who runs the 'Fundación Piazzolla' Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Hilary Hahn – Paris: Music by Chausson, Prokofiev and and Daniel 'Pipi' Piazzolla, drummer in jazz band Urszula Kryger (mezzo soprano), Kwartesencja Ensemble, Rautavaara 'Escalandrum'. There are contributions, too, from the critic Marcin Kaminski (flute), Adrian Janda (clarinet), Bartosz Hilary Hahn (violin) Fernando González, who translated a biography of Piazzolla Jakubczak (harmonium), Bartlomiej Zajkowski (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France into English and interviewed him for international publications; Tomasz Januchta (double bass), Hubert Zemler (percussion), Mikko Franck (conductor) the pianist Pablo Ziegler, who performed with Piazzolla for 11 Monika Wolinska (director) Deutsche Grammophon 4839847 years in one of his Quintets; and amongst others, the singers https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/ Amelita Baltar, who premiered many of Piazzolla’s songs, and 04:08 AM paris-hilary-hahn-12227 Elena Roger, who offers a new take of Piazzolla's music. Jehan Alain (1911-1940) Le Jardin suspendu for organ 9.30am Building a Library: Jeremy Sams on Ravel’s Also in the programme, the violinist Isabelle Faust describes her Tomas Thon (organ) Introduction and Allegro, M.46 recent experience of travelling to Japan where she was able to perform to sold-out concert hall audiences. She shares her 04:15 AM Jeremy Sams chooses his favourite recording of Ravel thoughts about the future of touring the world as soloist, how Arvo Part (1935-) Introduction & Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string things may look in a post-Covid world, and the role of music The Woman with the Alabaster box quartet. for her during the pandemic. Erik Westbergs Vocal Ensemble In turn-of-the-century Paris harp wars raged between two rival Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo 04:22 AM harp manufacturers. But what could have been an arcane foot Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010) note in the history of an often dull solo instrument left the String Quartet No 1 Op 62 'Already It Is Dusk' repertoire enriched by two of the leading French composers of SAT 13:00 Discovery and Innovation (m000t7yz) Royal String Quartet the day. Claude Debussy's 1904 Danses sacrée et profane for BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra solo harp was written for Pleyel. A year later Maurice Ravel's 04:37 AM commission came from the firm of Érard and the result was his Founded in 1935, the Glasgow-based BBC Scottish Symphony Kaspar Forster (1616-1673) Introduction & Allegro 'pour Harpe avec accompagnement de Orchestra has long-championed new music, forming a Jesu dulcis memoria Quatuor à cordes, Flûte et Clarinette', as the score puts it. reputation for performances of Sibelius's music (acknowledged Dirk Snellings (bass), Ensemble Il tempo Ravel's genius is in the amazing variety he gets out of the by the composer himself) as early as the 30s. The Sibelius 'accompanying' instruments, from the barest whisper to the connection, which continues to this day, was enhanced by an 04:44 AM richest and most sumptuous textures. And whatever the relative acclaimed series of concerts and recordings made with Finnish Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927), Jens Peter Jacobsen merits of Ravel's and Debussy's music, of the two it's Ravel's conductor Osmo Vänskä, Chief Conductor 1996-2002. (lyricist) Introduction & Allegro which has become the most frequently Three choral songs recorded repertoire staple (and it was the Érard instrument The BBC SSO continues to nurture close relationships with Swedish Radio Choir, Gustav Sjokvist (conductor) which triumphed over its rival). living composers and one of its most important relationships was with Jonathan Harvey who was the orchestra's Composer in 04:50 AM 10.16am Record of the Week Association for three years from 2005. The BBC SSO has also Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) been at the heart of Tectonics, Glasgow's annual cutting-edge Concerto Grosso in D Op 6 No 4 Handel: Brockes-Passion new music festival, begun by its Chief Conductor from Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director) Sandrine Piau (soprano) 2003-2009, Ilan Volkov. Stuart Jackson (tenor) Konstantin Krimmel (baritone) Introduced by Hannah French. SAT 05:00 Tearjerker with Jorja Smith (m000szys) Arcangelo Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 13 – 19 March 2021 Page 2 of 12 Sibelius: Wood Nymph, Op. 15 Also in the programme, Pat Metheny himself reflects on some Rolling grooves, fragments of melody and a canny BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra of the music that inspires him. Metheny has made an indelible understanding of each other's space makes a joyful listen from Osmo Vänskä (conductor) mark on the global stage, celebrated for his improvisational an American group of well-loved players who create music ingenuity, intense musicality and genre spanning compositions. that’s engaged and intimate. Over many decades of musical Helen Grime: Snow (Two Eardley Pictures) As well as leading his own projects, Metheny has played with partnership, the connection between bassist William Parker, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra jazz heavy-weights such as Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, drummer Gerald Cleaver, pianist Matthew Shipp and Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) and Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Daniel Carter runs deep.