Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 11 APRIL 2020 Sonata in C minor (1824) https://bis.se/conductors/suzuki-masaaki/js-bach-st-matthew- Sylviane Deferne (piano) passion SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m000h2kx) Bach's choral masterpiece 05:45 AM 10.45am New Releases – Kenneth Hamilton on new 20th Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Unknown (transcriber) century piano releases Bach's B Minor Mass is a towering work of genius and a joy to Notturno (Andante) - from String Quartet No.2 in D sing. Tonight we are treated to a performance by Balthasar Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi Kenneth Hamilton joins Andrew with a rucksack full of Neumann Chorus, B'Rock Orchestra and Ivor Bolton. John Shea (conductor) virtuoso piano recordings from the less temperate areas of the presents. instrument's repertoire. Expect Samuel Feinberg, Alexey 05:54 AM Stanchinsky and Ronald Stevenson to make an appearance, 01:01 AM George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Wolfgang Amadeus alongside an eight hour - yes, EIGHT HOUR! - set of variations Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Mozart (orchestrator) by Kaikhosru Sorabji. Mass in B minor, BWV 232 Overture and prelude to act II of Acis and Galatea K 566 Balthasar Neumann Chorus, B'Rock Orchestra, Ivor Bolton Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor) Sorabji: Sequentia Cyclica (conductor) Jonathan Powell (piano) 06:04 AM Piano Classics PCL10206 (7 CDs) 02:44 AM Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) https://www.piano-classics.com/articles/s/sorabji-sequentia- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Sonata for viola da gamba & basso continuo in A minor cyclica/ Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV 225) Camerata Koln, Rainer Zipperling (viola da gamba), Ghislaine Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, The Sixteen, Ton Wauters (viola da gamba), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord) Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music Volume Four Koopman (conductor) Christopher Guild (piano) 06:14 AM Toccata Classics TOCC0555 03:01 AM Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) https://toccataclassics.com/product/ronald-stevenson-piano- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) 4 Songs music-volume-four/ Serenade after Plato's 'The symposium' Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Paul Turner (piano) Jaap van Zweden (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Homage to Godowsky: music by Hofmann, Blumenfeld, Sauer, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) 06:23 AM Pirani etc. Renaat Veremans (1894-1969) Andrey Gugnin (piano) 03:31 AM Nacht en Morgendontwaken aan de Nete Hyperion CDA68310 Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Flemish Radio Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor) https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68310 L'Anima del Filosofo, ossia 'Orfeo ed Euridice' Act IV Grit van Juten (soprano), Elena Vink (soprano), Robert Gambill 06:34 AM Alexey Stanchinsky: Complete Piano Works for Piano Vol. 1 (tenor), Henk Smit (bass), Netherlands Radio Chamber Choir, Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) Olga Solovieva (piano) Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Dieter Rossberg (conductor), Violin Concerto in D, Op 35 Grand Piano GP766 Robin Gritton (choirmaster) James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, https://grandpianorecords.com/Album/AlbumDetails/GP766 Bramwell Tovey (conductor) 03:51 AM Feinberg: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-6 Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Concerto festivo for orchestra SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m000h6q5) Hyperion CDA68233 National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68233 (conductor) odd unclassified track. 11.15am Record of the Week 04:04 AM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) SAT 09:00 Record Review (m000h6q7) Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Overture to the Magic Flute Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet with David Owen Norris and Andrew Sandrine Piau (soprano) Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor) McGregor Christopher Lowrey (countertenor) Les Talens Lyriques 04:10 AM 9.00am Christophe Rousset (conductor) Barbara Strozzi ([1619-1677]) Alpha ALPHA449 "L'Eraclito amoroso" for Soprano and continuo Čiurlionis: The Sea; In the Forest; Kestutis https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/stabat-mater-alpha449 Musica Fiorita, Susanne Ryden (soprano), Rebeka Ruso (viola Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra da gamba), Rafael Bonavita (theorbo), Daniela Dolci Modestas Pitrėnas (conductor) (harpsichord), Daniela Dolci (director) Ondine ODE13442 SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m000h6pp) https://www.ondine.net/?lid=en&cid=2.2&oid=6487 An organ fest for a silent Easter 04:16 AM Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 9 - Robin Tritschler For many of us, Easter means organs and churches and the 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid Robin Tritschler (tenor) sombre tones of Good Friday moving to the joy of Easter Owen Dennis (oboe) Harriet Burns (soprano) Sunday. But this year, Easter is pretty much cancelled, and Graham Johnson (piano) churches are shut. So organs around the world are silent - but 04:30 AM Hyperion CDJ33129 not on Music Matters: Kate Molleson presents a mini organ fest, Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497) https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDJ33129 with contributions from Glasgow-based organist John Butt, who Ave Maria demonstrates his own home digital organ, and Canadian Hilliard Ensemble Bach: Cello Suites organist Rachel Mahon, who looks forward to when Coventry Alisa Weilerstein (cello) Cathedral is again unlocked, and she can take up her post as 04:33 AM Pentatone PTC5186751 (2 CDs) Music Director. And Nicholas Thistlethwaite talks about his Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750),Charles Gounod https://www.pentatonemusic.com/bach-cello-suites-alisa- new book about organ building in Georgian and Victorian (1818-1893), Blagoj Angelovski (arranger) weilerstein England, a time which saw a transformation from small pipe Ave Maria arr for trumpet and organ organs to the mighty Town Hall organs of the mid nineteenth Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ) Vexilla Regis: A sequence of music from Palm Sunday to Holy century. Saturday 04:36 AM Choir of Westminster Cathedral Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Peter Stevens (organ) SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m00061h6) String Quartet in C minor (D 703) Martin Baker (conductor) Jess Gillam with... Jonathon Heyward Tilev String Quartet Ad Fontes AF002 https://www.adfontes.org.uk/catalogue/martin-baker/vexilla- Jess Gillam is joined by Jonathon Heyward, one of the most 04:47 AM regis/ exciting conductors of the younger generation who is just Arvo Part (b.1935) completing three years as Assistant Conductor of the Hallé Fratres 9.30am Building a Library Orchestra. They chose Boulez conducting Stravinsky, a Satie Petr Nouzovsky (cello), Yukie Ichimura (piano) song, Stevie Wonder and Madeleine Peyroux. Another chance to hear David Owen Norris sift through 05:01 AM recordings of the piano quintet Schubert made around his own From musical beginnings in a carnival band, to being the first Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), John P.Paynter (arranger) song "The Trout", with a recommendation for the ultimate ever saxophone finalist in BBC Young Musician, and Little Suite for Brass Band No.1, Op 80 performance to buy, download or stream. appearances at the Last Night of the Proms in 2018 and at this Edmonton Wind Ensemble, Harry Pinchin (conductor) year’s BAFTA awards, Jess is one of today’s most engaging and 10.15am New Releases charismatic classical performers. Each week on This Classical 05:09 AM Life, Jess will be joined by young musicians to swap tracks and Claude Debussy (1862-1918) JS Bach: St Matthew Passion share musical discoveries across a wide range of styles, Premiere rapsodie arr. for clarinet and orchestra (orig. clarinet Benjamin Bruns (tenor, Evangelist) revealing how music shapes their everyday lives. and piano) Christian Immler (baritone, Jesus) Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Sampson (soprano) This Classical Life is also available as a podcast on BBC Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Aki Matsui (soprano) Sounds. Damien Guillon (counter-tenor) 05:17 AM Clint van der Linde (baritone) Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Makato Sakurada (tenor) SAT 13:00 Inside Music (m000h6qc) 3 Motets: Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Locus iste Zachary Wilder (tenor) Brilliant brass and a drunken Santa with trumpeter Anne Sokkelund Choir, Morten Schuldt-Jensen (conductor) Toru Kaku (bass) McAneney Bach Collegium Japan 05:30 AM Masaaki Suzuki (Conductor) London Philharmonic Orchestra trumpeter Anne McAneney Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) BIS BIS2500 (2 Hybrid SACDs) chooses music with the magic of live performance at its heart. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 11 – 17 April 2020 Page 2 of 11 She reflects on her own experiences working with conductors Rose Maurrant…..Gillene Butterfield 6. "Patterns (cypher)" like Kurt Masur, Sir Andrew Davis and Vladimir Jurowski, and Sam Kaplan …..Alex Banfield 7. "Solo" enjoys the comic musical genius of Dudley Moore and his Greta Fiorentino…..Miranda Bevin 8. "Aria 1" interactions with the audience. Lippo Fiorentino…..Christopher Turner 9. "Return 2 (song)" Emma Jones…..Claire Pascoe 10. "nor earth, nor boundless sea" Anne also demonstrates the subtleties of double and triple George Jones…..Richard Mosley-Evans 11. "Dream 11 (whisper music)" tonguing on the trumpet, before finding similar techniques in a Mae Jones…..Michelle Andrews 12. "moth-like stars" track by Indian classical virtuoso Zakir Hussain. Dick Mcgann…..Rodney Vubya 13. "Path 17 (before the ending of daylight)" Olga Olsen…..Amy J Payne 14. "Space 26 (epicardium)" And if you want to know about the difficulties of playing in Carl Olsen…..John Savournin 15. "Patterns (lux)" time while pretending to be a drunk Santa Claus (who doesn’t?), Henry Davis….Byron Jackson 16. "Constellation 1" Anne will enlighten you. Harry Easter…..Quirijn De Lang 17. "Constellation 2" Daniel Buchanan…..Stuart Laing 18. "Space 2 (slow waves)" A series in which each week a musician reveals a selection of Abraham Kaplan…..Dean Robinson 19. "Chorale/glow" music - from the inside. Jennie Hildebrand…..Laura Kelly-McInroy 20. "Dream 19 (pulse)" Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North 21. "Cassiopeia" A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3 James Holmes, conductor 22.