Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 07 DECEMBER 2019 The Song my Paddle Sings for SATB with piano Lully: Isis accompaniment Julie Calbète (soprano) SAT 01:00 Through the Night (m000c2lz) Elmer Iseler Singers, Claire Preston (piano), Lydia Adams Julie Vercauteren (soprano) Rachmaninov from Shanghai (conductor) Bénédicte Tauran (soprano) Ambroisine Bré (mezzo-soprano) Lu Jia conducts the Shanghai Philharmonic in Rachmaninov 05:48 AM Eve-Maud Hubeaux (mezzo-soprano) Symphony No 2 in E minor. John Shea presents. Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799) Cyril Auvity (tenor) Sonata for cello and continuo Op 5 No 5 Fabien Hyon (tenor) 01:01 AM Jaap ter Linden (cello), Ageet Zweistra (cello), Ton Koopman Aimery Lefèvre (baritone) Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) (harpsichord) Philippe Estèphe (baritone) Symphonic Dances, Op 45 Edwin Crossley-Mercer (bass-baritone) Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Lu Jia (conductor) 06:00 AM Chœur de Chambre de Namur Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Les Talens Lyriques 01:37 AM Jesu, meine Freude - motet BWV.227 Christophe Rousset (conductor) Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Choir of Latvian Radio, Aivars Kalejas (organ), Orchestra of Aparté AP216 (2CDs) Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27 Latvian Radio, Sigvards Klava (conductor) https://www.apartemusic.com/albums/lully-isis/?lang=en Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Lu Jia (conductor) 06:22 AM Mahler: Symphony No. 8 02:34 AM Giovanni Aber (fl.1765-1783) Manuela Uhl (soprano) Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) Quartetto II Polina Pasztircsák (soprano) Three Polonaises Bolette Roed (recorder), Frederik From (violin), Hager Hanana Fatma Said (soprano) Kevin Kenner (piano) (cello), Komale Akakpo (psalter) Katrin Wundsam (mezzo-soprano) Katharina Magiera (alto) 02:55 AM 06:30 AM Neal Cooper, Tenor / Doctor Marianus Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907) Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone) Ave, dulcissima Maria for 5 voices Sextet for piano and wind quintet in B flat major, Op 6 Peter Rose (bas)s BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor) Tae-Won Kim (flute), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon), Kawng-Ku Choir of the Städtischer Musikverein zu Düsseldorf Lee (horn), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Philharmonischer Chor, Bonn 03:01 AM Jae-Eun Ku (piano) Kartäuserkantorei Köln Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Youth Choir of the Clara-Schumann Musikschule, Düsseldorf Symphony No 4 in A major Op 90, 'Italian' Düsseldorfer Symphoniker Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Tamas Vasary (conductor) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (m000c2rj) Ádám Fischer (conductor) Saturday - Elizabeth Alker Avi Music AVI8553474 03:30 AM https://avi-music.de/html/2019/3474.html Max Reger (1873-1916) Classical music for breakfast time plus found sounds and the Four Tone Poems after Arnold Bocklin Op 128 odd unclassified track. 10.45am New Releases – Jan Smaczny on Sony’s Rudolf Philippe Koch (violin), Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Firkušný collection Olaf Henzold (conductor) Email [email protected] Jan Smaczny joins Andrew to discuss resissues of the great 04:00 AM Czech pianist Rudolf Firkusny who studied with the composers Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) SAT 09:00 Record Review (m000c2rl) Janáček and Suk, and later with the legendary pianists Alfred Lied (Lenau): Larghetto; Wanderlied: Presto Op 8 Nos 3 & 4 Andrew McGregor with Flora Wilson and Jan Smaczny Cortot and Artur Schnabel. He escaped the Nazis in 1939, fled (1840) to Paris, later settled in New York and eventually became a U.S. Sylviane Deferne (piano) 9.00am citizen. He had a broad repertoire and became known especially for his performances of the Czech composers Smetana, Dvořák, 04:06 AM Mozart: Youth Symphonies Janáček, and Martinů. Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Freiburger Barockorchester Rejoice in the Lord alway (Z.49) "Bell Anthem" Gottfried von der Goltz (conductor) Rudolf Firkušný - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Robert Lawaty (counter tenor), Robert Pozarski (tenor), Aparté AP215 Collection Miroslaw Borczynski (bass), Sine Nomine Chamber Choir, https://www.apartemusic.com/albums/mozart-youth- Gabriela Beňačková (soprano) Concerto Polacco Baroque Orchestra, Marek Toporowski symphonies/?lang=en Tossy Spivakovsky (violin) (director) Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) Noëls Baroques à Versailles: Golden Age of French Organ Janos Starker (cello) 04:14 AM Collection, vol. 3 Juilliard Quartet Dragana Jovanovic (b.1963) Gaétan Jarry (organ and conductor) Rudolf Firkušný (piano) Incanto d'inverno from Four Seasons, for viola strings and harp Les Pages du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles Claus Peter Flor (conductor) Sasa Mirkovic (viola), Ljubica Sekulic (harp), Ensemble Château de Versailles Spectacles CVS025 Howard Hanson (conductor) Metamorphosis https://tickets.chateauversailles-spectacles.fr/uk/merchandising/ Libor Pešek (conductor) 10925/cd-noel-baroques-a-versailles George Szell (conductor) 04:21 AM Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Diego Ortiz (c.1510-1570),Pierre Sandrin (c.1490-c.1561) Bliss: Mary of Magdala, The Enchantress & Meditations of a Cleveland Orchestra Improvisations on Ortiz and Sandrin Theme by John Blow Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Thomas Boysen (theorbo), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) Eastman-Rochester Symphony Alvaro Garrido (percussion) James Platt (bass) Sony 19075922812 (18CDs) BBC Symphony Chorus 04:35 AM BBC Symphony Orchestra 11.15am Record of the Week Hilda Sehested (1858-1936) Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) Tre Fantasistykker (3 Fantasy pieces) (1908) Chandos CHSA5242 (Hybrid SACD) Beethoven: Leonore Nina Reintoft (cello), Malene Thastum (piano) https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%205242 Marlis Petersen (soprano) Robin Johannsen (soprano) 04:45 AM Franck - Chopin Johannes Chum (tenor) Johan Svendsen (1840-1911) Gautier Capuçon (cello) Florian Feth (tenor) Romeo and Juliet, Op 18 Yuja Wang (piano) Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) Norwegian Radio Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor) Erato 9029539226 Johannes Weisser (baritone) https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/franck-chopin Dimitry Ivashchenko (bass) 05:01 AM Tareq Nazmi (bass) Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) 9.30am Building a Library: Flora Willson choose her favourite Julian Popken (bass) Overture 'Prince Igor' recordings of Delibes' opera Lakme Zürcher Sing-Akademie Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi Freiburger Barockorchester (conductor) Written in the early 1880s and set in the British India of the René Jacobs (conductor) mid-19th century, Lakmé is based on the novel Le Mariage de Harmonia Mundi HMM90241415 (2CDs) 05:12 AM Loti by Pierre Loti. The opera includes the ever-popular Flower http://www.harmoniamundi.com/#!/albums/2570 Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) Duet sung by Lakmé, the daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her Aria Quinta in A minor (from 'Hexachordum Apollinis') servant Mallika. It's most famous aria is the Bell Song in Act 2. Angela Tomanic (organ) Like other French operas of the 19th Century, Lakmé projects SAT 11:45 Music Matters (m000c2rn) a view of the Orient seen through Western eyes. However as a Angela Gheorghiu, Mariss Jansons, La Traviata, Rossini 05:22 AM piece of well-crafted escapism with gorgeous tunes and lavish Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) scenic backdrop it is an opera well worth discovering. Tom Service talks to director Richard Eyre, whose celebrated Battalia a 10 in D (C.61) production of Verdi's La Traviata for the Royal Opera House Ensemble Metamorphosis 10.20am New Releases has clocked up 25 years. Soprano Angela Gheorghiu was its first Violetta, and Tom catches up with her, and with one of the 05:32 AM Tchaikovsky & Barber: Violin Concertos production's more recent Violetta's, Ermonela Jaho. And Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Johan Dalene (violin) starting at the site where La Traviata was first performed, just Flute Quartet no 4 in A major K.298 Norrköping Symphony Orchestra south of Piccadilly, Professor Susan Rutherford takes Tom on a Tom Ottar Andreassen (flute), Frode Larsen (violin), Jon Daniel Blendulf (conductor) tour of the streets of London to learn more about the city’s Sonstebo (viola), Emery Cardas (cello) BIS BIS2440 (Hybrid SACD) historical soundscapes as they’re reflected in a new book she co- https://bis.se/performers/dalene-johan/tchaikovsky-and-barber- edited with the scholar Roger Parker – London Voices, 05:44 AM violin-concertos 1820–1840. Staying in the world of opera, Tom is joined by Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-) both Roger and the director Annabel Arden to review a new Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 2 of 11 book on Rossini's operas in their time. Tom also hears from its Queen Tye.....Disella Larusdottir (Soprano) 03:29 AM author, Emanuele Senici. And we pay tribute to the conductor Nefertiti.....J'nai Bridges (Mezzo-soprano) Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Konstantin Balmont Mariss Jansons who died this week, with an interview he gave in Akhnaten.....Anthony Roth Constanzo (Countertenor) (author) 2017. High Priest.....Aaron Blake (Tenor) The Bells (Kolokola) for soloists, chorus and orchestra (Op.35) Horemhab.....Will Liverman (Baritone) Pavel Kourchoumov (tenor), Roumiana Bareva (soprano), SAT 12:30 This Classical Life (m000c2rq) Aye.....Richard Bernstein (Bass) Stoyan Popov (baritone), Sons de la mer Mixed Choir, Jess Gillam with... Bartosz Glowacki Amenhotep III.....Zachary James (Bass) Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov Bekhataten.....Lindsay Ohse (Soprano) (conductor) Jess is joined by the accordionist Bartosz Glowacki to share