Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 December 2017 Page 1 of 21 SATURDAY 09 DECEMBER 2017 Ardo, sospiro e piango - duet for soprano, baritone and continuo Emma Kirkby (soprano), David Thomas (bass), Jakob Lindberg SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b09h31g3) (lute), Anthony Rooley (director and lute) Jonathan Swain presents a concert from the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra 4:42 AM Jonathan Swain presents a concert of Ravel, Shostakovich and Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764) Stravinsky from the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. L'entretien des Muses (from Pieces de clavessin, Paris 1724) Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) 1:01 AM Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) 4:48 AM Pavane pour une infante défunte Bacewicz, Grazyna (1909-1969) Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno Folk Sketches (conductor) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor) 1:09 AM 4:53 AM Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975) Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Violin Concerto No 2 in C sharp minor, Op 129 Ricercar a 3 from the Musical Offering, BWV1079 Sergey Khachatryan (violin), Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano) Gustavo Gimeno (conductor) 5:01 AM 1:41 AM Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) Romance in F minor for violin and orchestra, Op 11 The Rite of Spring Jela Spitkova (violin), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno Lenard (conductor) (conductor) 5:13 AM 2:16 AM Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975) Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31 24 Preludes, Op 34 Valerie Tryon (piano) Igor Levit (piano) 5:23 AM 2:52 AM Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) Concerto in F major, RV568 for violin, 2 oboes, 2 horns, bassoon Petite Suite for brass septet and cello Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists Zefira Valova (violin), Anna Starr & Markus Müller (oboes), Anneke Scott & Joseph Walters (horns), Moni Fischaleck (bassoon), Les 3:01 AM Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director) Alban Berg (1885-1935) Three Fragments from Wozzeck (Op. 7) 5:37 AM Dunja Vejzovic (mezzo soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gershwin, George (1898-1937) [words by Ira Gershwin] Gerd Albrecht (conductor) 3 Songs: 'The Man I Love'; 'I Got Rhythm'; 'Someone To Watch Over Me' 3:21 AM Annika Skoglund (soprano), Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano), Staffan Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) Sjöholm (double bass) String Octet in E flat, Op 20 Leonidas Kavakos, Per Kristian Skalstad, Frode Larsen & Tor Johan 5:47 AM Böen (violins), Lars Anders Tomter & Catherine Bullock (violas), Gesualdo, Carlo (c.1560-1613), arr. Maxwell Davies, Peter (1934- Öystein Sonstad & Ernst Simon Glaser (cellos) 2016) 2 Motets: Peccantem me quotidiae; O vos omnes 3:54 AM The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV229 5:56 AM Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Suk, Josef (1874-1935) Taurins (conductor) Serenade in E flat major for strings, Op 6 Budapest Strings, Béla Banfalvi (leader) 4:03 AM Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) 6:26 AM Concertino for string quartet Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732-1809) Apollon Musagete Quartet Symphony No 49 in F minor (Hob.1.49), 'La Passione' Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk 4:10 AM (conductor) Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) Sonata in A major, Kk208 6:43 AM Ilze Graubina (piano) Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) Images, set 1, for piano 4:14 AM Marc-André Hamelin (piano). Flor Alpaerts (1876-1954) Zomer-idylle (1928) Flemish Radio Orchestra, Michel Tabachnik (conductor) SAT 07:00 Breakfast (b09hr3w2) Saturday - Martin Handley 4:22 AM Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959) Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This Prelude for guitar No 1 in E minor month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Norbert Kraft (guitar) Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.9 in E major, BWV.878. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast 4:27 AM Advent Calendar. Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903) Italian Serenade for string quartet Email [email protected]. Bartok String Quartet 4:35 AM SAT 09:00 Record Review (b09hr3w4) Stradella, Alessandro (1644-1682) Andrew McGregor with Mark Lowther and Sophie Yates Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 December 2017 Page 2 of 21 9.00am orchestra DEBUSSY: IMAGES, CHILDREN'S CORNER AND SUITE FRANZ SCHUBERT: Das Grab D.377, arr. Krawczyk for choir and BERGAMASQUE orchestra CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Images I; Images II; Children’s Corner; Suite Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor), Accentus Choir, Insula Orchestra, Bergamasque; L’Isle Joyeuse Laurence Equilbey (conductor) Seong-Jin Cho (piano) Erato 0190295769437 (CD) Deutsche Grammphon 479 8308 (CD) THOMISSON’S EASTER BRAHMS: SYMPHONY No.2 This recording reflects the elements that made up an early JOHANNES BRAHMS: Symphony No.2; Tragic Overture, Op.81; Lutheran feast-day service in Denmark, including a fashionable Academic Festival Overture, Op.80 Mass cycle by the Flemish master Jacobus Clemens non Papa. Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi (conductor) CLEMENS NON PAPA: Agnus Dei (from Missa Virtuta Magna) RCA Red Seal/Sony 88985 459462 (CD) ANON.: Sung Liturgy (Postcommunion collect; Blessing) THOMISSON: Hymn: O Lord, in these times so perilous HANS ABRAHAMSEN: STRING QUARTETS Nos.1-4 Musica Ficta, Bo Holten (conductor) Arditti String Quartet DaCapo 8226188 (CD) Winter & Winter 910 242-2 (CD) 10.55am New Releases: Sophie Yates on new Baroque CDs ES WAR EINMAL…ONCE UPON A TIME… Sophie Yates assesses new releases of instrumental and vocal ROBERT SCHUMANN: Fairy Tales Op.132; Fantasiestücke Op.73; baroque music, including Rinaldo Alessandrini's arrangements of Märchenbilder Op.113 Bach keyboard works for period instrument ensemble. JÖRG WIDMANN: Es War Einmal: Five Pieces in a Fairytale Mood for Clarinet, Viola and Piano BACH VARIATIONS ON VARIATIONS Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Dénes Várjon Rinaldo Alessandrini’s adaptations of some famous Bach works, (piano) including: Myrios Classics MYR020 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Passacaglia in C minor BWV582 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Goldberg Variations BWV988 9.30am Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (director and arranger) Building a Library on Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with Mark Naïve OP30575 (CD) Lowther. BACH IN BLACK Following the triumph of Elgar's Enigma Variations, The Dream of Three violin concertos and three famous arias (from St Matthew Gerontius is a work by a confident composer at the height of his Passion, St John Passion and B minor Mass) powers. But sharing the fate of so many first performances, its JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Violin Concerto in D minor BWV1052 1900 premiere was not a popular success. Under-rehearsed and JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Erbarme Dich (from St Matthew chaotic, partly due to the complexity and modernity of the Passion BWV244) writing, there was another issue, too: the Anglican community La Voce Strumentale, Dmitry Sinkovsky (countertenor and violin) bridled at the work's uncompromisingly Catholic text by Cardinal Naïve OP30567 (CD) Newman. More than a century later, in more ecumenical times, the work is part of the standard repertoire of choral societies up QUELLA FIAMMA: ARIE ANTICHE and down the land and has been most often recorded by UK A selection of pieces from Arie antiche, a 19th Century collection conductors, choirs and orchestras. of songs edited by Alessandro Parisotti to be a vocal primer, including: 10.20am – NEW RELEASES GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Piangero la sorte mia (from Giulio ADVENT CALENDAR Cesare) Carols by composers including Sally Beamish, Richard Allain, ANDREA FALCONIERI arr. Tufvesson: Passacalle Morten Lauridsen, Cecilia McDowall and Arvo Pärt, and newly Nathalie Stutzmann (mezzo and conductor), Orfeo 55 (orchestra) commissioned works from John Rutter and Debbie Wiseman. MORTEN LAURIDSEN: O Magnum Mysterium for chorus TELEMANN: QUATUORS PARISIENS ORA Singers, Suzi Digby (conductor) GEORGE PHILIPP TELEMANN: 20 Fuguettes pout l’orgue ou pour le orasingers.co.uk (download from Harmonia Mundi from 24th clavessin; Nouveaux quatuors Parisiens; Quatrième livre de December) quatuors; Quatuors Parisiens; Nouveaux quatuors Parisiens Nevermind: Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac’h (violin), Robin THE KING’S SINGERS - GOLD Pharo (viola da gamba), Jean Rondeau (harpsichord) The King’s Singers’ 50th Anniversary album with 60 tracks Alpha Classics Alpha299 (CD) divided across three albums, themed as Close Harmony, Spiritual and Secular. 11.45am Disc of the Week TOBY HESSION: Master of Music BRAHMS & SCHUMANN – CHAMBER MUSIC WITH PIANO The King’s Singers ROBERT SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.47 Signum Classics SIGCD500 (CD) JOHANNES BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34 http://signumrecords.com/?s=king%27s+singers+gold Hrachya Avanesyan (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Diemut Poppen(viola), Alexander Chaushian (cello), Yevgeny Sudbin VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BERNSTEIN (piano) LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms for treble, chorus and BIS2258 (Hybrid SACD) orchestra RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Dona Nobis Pacem re-orchestrated by Jonathan Rathbone SAT 12:15 Music Matters (b09hr3w6) Aylish Tynan (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) Mitsuko Uchida Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) Tom Service meets Mitsuko Uchida, recognised as one of the most King’s College KGS0021 (Hybrid SACD) influential pianists of her generation. Plus a report on a new project that creates music out of DNA. SCHUBERT: NACHT UND TRAUME Famous Schubert songs performed in orchestral versions by such SAT 13:00 Saturday Classics (b09hr3w8) masters as Berlioz, Liszt, Brahms, Strauss, Webern, Britten and Ailish Tynan Schubert himself. FRANZ SCHUBERT: Erlkönig D.328, arr. Berlioz for voice and Soprano Ailish Tynan explores the effect different languages have Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 3 Listings for 9 – 15 December 2017 Page 3 of 21 on songs and vocal works. Ailish feels that words are the Duration 2.56 foundation blocks to unlocking a song, and explores the Performers Monty Sunshine, cl; Chris Barber, b; Lonnie Donegan, fascinating way different languages (English, French, German) bj.