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SAT SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Britten 100 b03j46zt (Listen) SAT Britten by Night, Nocturnal SAT SAT The night - what it both reveals and covers up - is a theme SAT which runs throughout Britten's composing career. The first SAT of two unpresented late night, hour-long music sequences SAT delving into Britten's preoccupation with the nocturnal, SAT supernatural and creepy. Including a performance of SAT Britten's Nocturnal by Radio 3 New Generation Artist, SAT guitarist Sean Shibe. SAT Britten 100 SAT SAT 00:00 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT A Midsummer night's dream - opera in 3 acts Op.64 SAT Elizabeth Harwood SAT Owen Brannigan SAT London S O.. SAT DECCA SAT 425-663-2 SAT 00:02 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Holiday diary - suite Op.5 for piano SAT Stephen Hough SAT DECCA SAT 478 5547 SAT 00:09 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Oft in the stilly night - folksong arr. Britten SAT Peter Pears SAT DECCA SAT 430-063 2 SAT 00:12 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT A Boy was born - choral variations Op.3 vers. original SAT [1933] SAT John Scott. SAT Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral SAT COLLINS SAT 12862 SAT 00:17 SAT Franz Schubert SAT Die Schone Mullerin - song-cycle D.795 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Peter Pears SAT Decca SAT 452 402 2 SAT 00:24 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Nocturnal after John Dowland Op.70 for guitar SAT Sean Shibe SAT 00:42 SAT Henry Purcell SAT The Fairy Queen - opera Z.629 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Norma Burrowes SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT DECCA SAT 478 5878 SAT 00:47 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Night piece (Notturno) for piano SAT Stephen Hough SAT DECCA SAT 478 5547 SAT 00:53 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Serenade Op.31 for tenor, horn and string orchestra SAT Barry Tuckwell SAT Peter Pears SAT London Symphony Orchestra SAT DECCA SAT 478 5525 SAT SAT 01:00 Through the Night b03hmp6w (Listen) SAT Concertgebouw Archives, Episode 1 SAT SAT Concertgebouw Archives. Riccardo Chailly conducts SAT Hindemith's Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber, and Sir Georg SAT Solti conducts Shostakovich's 1st Symphony. With John Shea. SAT SAT 1:01 AM SAT Hindemith, Paul [1895-1963] SAT Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber SAT Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) SAT SAT 1:23 AM SAT Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975] SAT Symphony no.1 in F minor Op.10 SAT Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti (conductor) SAT SAT 1:52 AM SAT Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) SAT Trio for piano and strings (Op. 1'1) in E flat major SAT Grieg Trio SAT SAT 2:23 AM SAT Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) SAT Symphony No.8 in G major (Op.88) SAT Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Berhard Gueller (conductor) SAT SAT 3:01 AM SAT Kilar, Wojciech (b. 1932) SAT Chorale Prelude (1988) SAT Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor) SAT SAT 3:19 AM SAT Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) SAT Symphony No.7 in A major (Op.92) SAT Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor) SAT SAT 3:56 AM SAT Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937) SAT Variations on a Polish Folk theme in B minor (Op.10) SAT Jerzy Godziszewski (piano) SAT SAT 4:16 AM SAT Trad. Hungarian SAT 18th Century Dances SAT Csaba Nagy (solo recorder), Camerata Hungarica, László SAT Czidra (conductor) SAT SAT 4:22 AM SAT Spohr, Louis (1784-1859) SAT Fantasia in C minor (Op.53) SAT Mojca Zlobko (harp) SAT SAT 4:31 AM SAT Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) SAT Overture to Halka (Original version) SAT Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz (conductor) SAT SAT 4:40 AM SAT Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) SAT Eight Ländler (German dances) (from D.790) SAT Leif Ove Andsnes piano SAT SAT 4:48 AM SAT Moszkowski, Moritz (1854-1924) SAT Guitarre SAT Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano) SAT SAT 4:52 AM SAT Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) SAT Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in D major SAT Friedemann Immer (trumpet), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard SAT Goebel (director) SAT SAT 5:01 AM SAT Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) SAT Suite Champêtre (Op.98b) SAT Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor) SAT SAT 5:08 AM SAT Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm van (1692-1766) SAT Concerto No.5 in F minor (from Sei Concerti Armonici 1740) SAT Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend SAT (conductor) SAT SAT 5:19 AM SAT Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) SAT La plus que lente (1910) SAT Roger Woodward (piano) SAT SAT 5:24 AM SAT Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) ed. Eric Fenby SAT La Calinda - concert version for orchestra from 'Koanga' SAT BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) SAT SAT 5:28 AM SAT Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857) SAT Allegro for 4 string quartets in D minor (1845) SAT Viotta Ensemble, Viktor Liberman (conductor) SAT SAT 5:40 AM SAT Grainger, Percy (1882-1961) SAT Danish Folk-Music Suite SAT Claire Clements (piano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, SAT Geoffrey Simon (conductor) SAT SAT 5:59 AM SAT Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) SAT Quartet for Strings (Op.74'3) in G minor "Rider" SAT Ebene Quartet (string quartet) SAT SAT 6:21 AM SAT Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) arr anon SAT Rosenkavalier - suite arr. anon SAT Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender (conductor) SAT SAT 6:45 AM SAT Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) SAT Scherzo Capriccioso (Op.66) SAT Orchestre du Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Raffi SAT Armenian (conductor). SAT SAT 07:00 Breakfast b03j99mf (Listen) SAT Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. SAT As part of Britten 100, Martin catches up with Tom Service SAT and volunteers having breakfast at The Red House in SAT Aldeburgh. SAT SAT 09:00 Britten 100 b03j99mh (Listen) SAT CD Review SAT SAT Live from Snape Maltings, Andrew McGregor and John Bridcut SAT pick some of the plums from a bumper year for recordings of SAT Britten's music. And on a day themed 'Festival of Britten', SAT they look at the recorded legacy of the Aldeburgh Festival, SAT including some highlights from Britten's own performances. SAT SAT 11:00 Britten 100 b03j99mk (Listen) SAT Family Concert SAT SAT Live from Snape Maltings, Suzy Klein presents a fun concert SAT for children of all ages. It includes Britten's virtuoso SAT introduction to the family of orchestral instruments, 'The SAT Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' (with CBBC's Johny SAT Pitts as narrator) and 'Soirées Musicales', his sparkling SAT arrangement of Rossini tunes. The boy from Lowestoft who SAT became one of the greatest of English composers would surely SAT have relished the three specially commissioned choruses by SAT young composers sung by local schools' choirs. And the SAT concert begins with his last ever piece, the jolly 'Welcome SAT Ode', also written for Suffolk schoolchildren. SAT SAT Britten: Welcome Ode SAT Britten: Soirées Musicales SAT Luke Fitzgerald: A Wish SAT Jay Richardson: And Death Shall Have No Dominion SAT Anna Meredith: My Car SAT Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra SAT SAT Choirs of: County Upper School Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich SAT School, Woodbridge School SAT Julian Jarvis, Andrew Leach, Claire Weston (conductors) SAT Johny Pitts (narrator) SAT BBC Symphony Orchestra SAT Andrew Gourlay (conductor). SAT SAT 12:15 Britten 100 b03j99mm (Listen) SAT Singing for Britten SAT SAT Benjamin Britten was notoriously particular about the SAT professional musicians he worked with (a close-knit circle SAT of friends) and he had famously high musical standards. Yet SAT all his life he embraced working with amateurs and children. SAT John Bridcut tracks down amateur singers from Suffolk and SAT beyond to share their experiences of singing for Britten - SAT and to discover why it was so special. SAT SAT John Bridcut sang for Britten as a student in 1971, on the SAT recording of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. It's an experience SAT he will never forget: SAT SAT 'How I wish I could remember every moment of those recording SAT sessions. But at the time I was far too busy getting the SAT notes right. What has stayed with me is Britten's SAT crystal-clear beat, and his nervous intensity. He demanded SAT the most of you. When he first appeared, he greeted our SAT chorus master with a kiss on both cheeks - that sort of SAT thing was quite rare in those days - and the whole of the SAT London Symphony Chorus cheered!' SAT SAT John returns to Suffolk, to Britten's Snape Maltings, to SAT swap memories with two fellow singers from that summer more SAT than forty years ago. He also talks to long-standing members SAT of Britten's 'house choir', the Aldeburgh Festival Singers; SAT Suffolk children who sang for Britten in the 1940s and SAT 1950s; and two retired doctors who've not seen each other SAT since they sang on Britten's celebrated recording of his War SAT Requiem as schoolboys. SAT SAT Britten worked with amateur singers right to the end of his SAT career. John Bridcut asks what he drew from them, and why SAT working with amateurs was so central to his vision of music SAT being 'useful, and to the living'. SAT SAT Producers: Jane Greenwood and Elizabeth Burke. SAT SAT 13:00 Britten 100 b03j99mp (Listen) SAT Britten Plus, Festival of Britten, 1970s SAT SAT Britten, at once performer, composer and planner, was still SAT the creative force behind the Aldeburgh Festival of the SAT 1970s, despite his failing health. Andrew McGregor talks to SAT Jenni Wake-Walker, Aldeburgh Festival Concerts Administrator SAT at the time and Festival regular, countertenor James Bowman, SAT about the special atmosphere of the Festival of those years. SAT SAT Purcell: Symphony (The Fairy Queen, Part IV: Epithalamium) SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor) SAT SAT Purcell / Britten: Sweeter than roses SAT James Bowman (countertenor) SAT Benjamin Britten (piano) SAT SAT Wolf: An eine Äolsharfe (Mörike Lieder) SAT Peter Pears (tenor) SAT Benjamin Britten (piano) SAT SAT arr. Britten: The Salley Gardens SAT Peter Pears (tenor) SAT Benjamin Britten (piano) SAT SAT Britten: Canticle V 'The Death of Saint Narcissus' SAT Peter Pears (tenor) SAT Osian Ellis (harp) SAT SAT Rossini: La regata veneziana (Soireés musicales) SAT Heather Harper (soprano) and Janet Baker (mezzo) SAT Benjamin Britten (piano) SAT SAT Schumann: Overture (Scenes from Goethe's Faust) SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor). SAT SAT 14:00 Britten 100 b03j99mr (Listen) SAT Britten's Church Parables, Curlew River SAT SAT On the face of it, Britten's Three Church Parables, composed SAT in the 60s with their fusion of east and west, might be a SAT sorry attempt to jump on a trendy bandwagon. But they are a SAT triptych of beguiling one-act operas whose individual sound SAT worlds are uniquely Britten's. SAT SAT Curlew River, the first Parable, takes elements of SAT traditional Japanese theatre and court music which so SAT impressed Britten on his 1956 world tour and transplants SAT them to East Anglia to tell the story of a woman driven mad SAT by the loss of her child. The Madwoman, as with each SAT principal tenor role in the Parables, was written for Peter SAT Pears and here is sung by James Gilchrist. SAT SAT Rarely presented as a group of three, these critically SAT acclaimed performances were recorded at the 2013 Aldeburgh SAT Festival in Orford Church, the place for which they were SAT originally written. SAT Presented by Louise Fryer. SAT SAT Britten: Curlew River SAT The Madwoman .... James Gilchrist (tenor) SAT The Abbot .... Lukas Jakobski (bass baritone) SAT The Ferryman .... Rodney Earl Clarke (baritone) SAT Mahogany Opera SAT Roger Vignoles (music director) SAT Frederic Wake-Walker (director) SAT SAT The Burning Fiery Furnace is tomorrow at 2.00 pm. SAT SAT 15:30 Britten 100 b03j9d8h (Listen) SAT Words and Music: Britten's Poets SAT SAT Benjamin Britten's settings of poetry have earned him SAT comparisons with Schubert. He spoke of his desire to SAT 'restore to the musical setting of the English language a SAT brilliance, freedom and vitality' and this he did through SAT the poets he loved, from John Donne and Henry Vaughan to SAT Rimbaud and W.H Auden. In this special edition of Words and SAT Music Alex Jennings and Diana Quick read a selection of SAT verse by the poets who captivated Britten, alongside SAT recordings of some of his best-loved settings, including the SAT Canticles, Les Illuminations and the War Requiem. SAT SAT Both readers have an association with Britten: Alex Jennings SAT played the composer in Alan Bennett's play The Habit of Art SAT about a fictional meeting between Auden and Britten. SAT SAT Diana Quick has a home on the Suffolk Coast and has been SAT involved in Britten centenary celebrations. SAT SAT 15:30 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Hymn to St Cecilia SAT Emma Preston-Dunlop, Gill Ross (sopranos), Penelope Vickers SAT (contralto), Peter Mitchell (tenor), Richard Savage (bass), SAT Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). SAT Deutsche Grammophon 453 433-2 SAT John Donne SAT Batter my heart, three-person'd God, read by Alex Jennings SAT 15:32 SAT Robert Schumann SAT V. Stark und markiert, from Funf Stucke SAT Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Benjamin Britten (piano). SAT DECCA 475 8239 SAT Gerard Manley Hopkins SAT God's Grandeur, read by Diana Quick SAT 15:37 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry SAT Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson SAT (conductor). SAT Naxos 8554791 SAT 15:39 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Spring, the Sweet Spring, from Spring Symphony SAT Alison Hagley (soprano), Catherine Robbin (contralto), John SAT Mark Ainsley (tenor), Monteverdi Choir, Philharmonia SAT Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). SAT Deutsche Grammophon 453 433-2 SAT John Milton SAT Song on May Morning, read by Alex Jennings? SAT 15:41 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Pastoral, from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings SAT Ian Bostridge (tenor), Radek Baborak (horn), Berlin SAT Philharmonic, Simon Rattle (conductor). SAT EMI 558 049-2 SAT Thomas Hardy SAT At Day Close in November, read by Alex Jennings SAT 15:45 SAT Franz Schubert SAT 'Letzte Hoffnung', from Winterreise SAT Mark Padmore (tenor), Paul Lewis (piano). SAT Harmonia Mundi HMU 907484 SAT Thomas Hardy SAT The Oxen, read by Diana Quick SAT 15:48 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT 'Wolcum Yole', from A Ceremony of Carols SAT Westminster Cathedral Choir, Sioned Williams (harp), David SAT Hill (conductor). SAT Hyperion CDA 66220 SAT 15:49 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Nocturnal after John Dowland (No. 6, Dreaming) SAT Julian Bream (guitar). SAT HYPERION CDA 67648 SAT Louis MacNiece SAT Cradle Song for Eleanor, read by Alex Jennings SAT 15:51 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT 'On the ground', from A Midsummer Night's Dream Act II SAT Downside School Choir, Emanuel School Boys' Choir, London SAT Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor). SAT DECCA 425-663-2 SAT 15:54 SAT Arnold Schoenberg SAT Sechs kleine Klavierstucke Op. 19, Nos 4 & 5 SAT Roland Pontinen (piano). SAT BIS BIS-CD-1417 SAT W. H. Auden SAT Underneath an Abject Willow, read by Alex Jennings SAT 15:56 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Tell me the truth about love (excerpt) SAT Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano), Bengt-Ake Lundin (piano). SAT Bis BIS-CD-1154 SAT 15:59 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87, molto simplice SAT Jamie Walton (cello). SAT Signum SIGCD336 SAT Trad. SAT The Ash Grove, read by Diana Quick SAT 16:02 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Sinfonia da Requiem (opening) SAT Simon Rattle (conductor) CD. SAT EMI 5553942 SAT Wilfred Owen SAT Anthem for Doomed Youth, read by Diana Quick SAT 16:03 SAT Gustav Mahler SAT 'Abschied', from Das Lied von der Erde SAT Violeta Urmana (mezzo soprano), Vienna Philharmonic, Pierre SAT Boulez (conductor). SAT Deutsche Grammophon 469 526-2 SAT John Keats SAT To Sleep, read by Diana Quick SAT 16:07 SAT Frank Bridge SAT 'Moonlight', from The Sea (excerpt) SAT BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor). SAT Chandos CHAN 10729 (6) SAT 16:09 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT 'Storm', from the Four Sea Interludes (excerpt) SAT BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner (conductor). SAT Chandos CHAN 10658 SAT Alfred Lord Tennyson SAT The Kraken, read by Alex Jennings SAT William Blake SAT Auguries of Innocence (extract), read by Alex Jennings SAT 16:12 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Hymn to St Cecilia SAT Emma Preston-Dunlop, Gill Ross (sopranos), Penelope Vickers SAT (contralto), Peter Mitchell (tenor), Richard Savage (bass), SAT Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). SAT Deutsche Grammophon 453 433-2 SAT SAT Georgia Mann-Smith & Clara Nissen (producers) SAT SAT 16:15 Britten 100 b03j99mt (Listen) SAT Britten Plus, Festival of Britten, English Chamber Orchestra SAT SAT Continuing Radio 3's residency in Suffolk. The English SAT Chamber Orchestra was Britten's 'house orchestra' at the SAT Aldeburgh Festival. From shortly after its founding in 1960 SAT until his death in 1976, Britten conducted it in a wide SAT range of repertoire, performed chamber music with its SAT principal players, and entrusted it with important premieres SAT of both his and others' music. SAT Live from Snape Maltings Suzy Klein discusses the ECO's role SAT as Britten's orchestra of choice with its manager at the SAT time, Ursula Jones and its former cellist Anita SAT Lasker-Wallfisch . SAT SAT Bridge: Sir Roger de Coverley SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor) SAT SAT Britten: Act II (excerpt) (A Midsummer Night's Dream) SAT Oberon ..... Alfred Deller (countertenor) SAT Tytania ..... Elizabeth Harewood (soprano) SAT London Symphony Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor) SAT SAT Debussy: Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor) SAT SAT Britten: Passacaglia (Cello Symphony) SAT Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor) SAT SAT Britten: Overture 'The Building of the House' SAT Chorus of East Anglian Choirs SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor) SAT SAT Mozart: Rondo (Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K 482) SAT Sviatoslav Richter (piano) SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor) SAT SAT Schubert: Der Hirt aus dem Felsen SAT Heather Harper (soprano) SAT Thea King (clarinet) SAT Benjamin Britten (piano) SAT SAT Shostakovich: Lorelei (Symphony No 14, Op 135) SAT Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) SAT Mark Rezhetin (bass) SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor) SAT SAT Mendelssohn: Overture 'The Hebrides' Op 26 SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor). SAT SAT 17:55 Britten 100 b03j9d8k (Listen) SAT Saint Nicolas SAT SAT Britten's cantata Saint Nicolas, at once theatrical and SAT solemn, humorous and quirky, was premiered in the opening SAT concert of the first Aldeburgh Festival in 1948. As on that SAT occasion, this live performance comes from Aldeburgh Parish SAT Church. With its mainly amateur forces, including the SAT community itself in the shape of the audience, it set a SAT pattern that established the values at the heart of SAT Britten's artistic credo: 'I want my music to be of use to SAT people, to please them, to enhance their lives.' Introduced SAT by Sean Rafferty in conversation with Ben Parry. SAT SAT Britten: Saint Nicolas SAT Alan Oke (tenor) SAT Jubilee Opera Chorus SAT Aldeburgh Voices SAT The Suffolk Ensemble SAT Ben Parry (conductor) SAT David Briggs (Children's Chorus conductor). SAT SAT 18:50 Britten 100 b03j9d8m (Listen) SAT Albert Herring SAT SAT Live from the Barbican, Steuart Bedford conducts the BBC SAT Symphony Orchestra and a fabulous ensemble cast including SAT Christine Brewer as Lady Billows, Gillian Keith as Miss SAT Wordsworth, Roderick Williams as Mr Gedge and rising star SAT Andrew Staples as Albert himself. SAT SAT Presented by Donald Macleod with contributions from Steuart SAT Bedford who knew and worked with Britten, and members of the SAT cast. Plus, in the Radio 3 Opera Guide at about eight SAT o'clock, soprano Dame Josephine Barstow and Britten experts SAT Paul Kildea and Christopher Wintle uncover the SAT sophistication that lies at the heart of Brittten's comic SAT masterpiece. SAT SAT Britten: Albert Herring SAT SAT Lady Billows ..... Christine Brewer (soprano) SAT Florence Pike ..... Gaynor Keeble (mezzo) SAT Miss Wordsworth ..... Gillian Keith (soprano) SAT Mr Gedge ..... Roderick Williams (baritone) SAT Mr Upfold ..... Adrian Thompson (tenor) SAT Superintendent Budd ..... Matthew Rose (bass) SAT Sid ..... Marcus Farnsworth (baritone) SAT Albert ..... Andrew Staples (tenor) SAT Nancy ..... Kitty Whately (mezzo) SAT Mrs Herring ..... Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo) SAT BBC Symphony Orchestra SAT Steuart Bedford (conductor) SAT Kenneth Richardson (director) SAT SAT In the Suffolk town of Loxford, the lax morals of the local SAT girls preclude local worthy Lady Billows from finding an SAT appropriate candidate to crown May Queen. Desperate times SAT call for desperate measures and she finds a suitably SAT virtuous May King in Albert Herring, whose domineering SAT mother has kept him on the straight and narrow. But it only SAT takes lemonade spiked with rum for Albert to go off the SAT rails and discover there's more to life than than doing what SAT mother tells him. SAT SAT Once again Britten found inspiration on his doorstep but SAT unlike the grim tale of Peter Grimes from a couple years SAT earlier, Albert Herring's affectionate parody of small-town SAT life is a comic tour de force. SAT SAT 22:00 Britten 100 b03j9d8p (Listen) SAT Britten String Quartets, Quartet No 3 SAT SAT Andrew McGregor presents the second of three concerts SAT pairing the Britten Quartets with chamber music by composers SAT Britten loved and admired. Recorded this evening at Snape SAT Maltings Concert Hall, the Kuss Quartet play the SAT extraordinary final string quartets of Schubert and Britten. SAT SAT Schubert: String Quartet in G major, D 887 SAT Britten: String Quartet No 3, Op 94 SAT Britten's 3 Divertimenti, String Quartet No 1 and SAT Shostakovich Piano Quintet, live tomorrow at 11.00 am. SAT SAT 23:30 Britten 100 b03j9dc6 (Listen) SAT Festival of Britten, Haydn: Cello Concerto in C SAT SAT By 1964 both Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber SAT Orchestra were regular fixtures at the Aldeburgh Festival. SAT In a concert at that year's Festival (which also included SAT the premiere of Britten's Cello Symphony) Britten conducted SAT them in the first English performance of the recently SAT discovererd Haydn C major Cello Concerto. As if all that SAT wasn't enough, Britten wrote the cadenzas for Rostropovich SAT in the Haydn and they recorded it in December. Presented by SAT Tom Service. SAT SAT Haydn: Cello Concerto in C, Hob.VIIb:1 SAT Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) SAT English Chamber Orchestra SAT Benjamin Britten (conductor). SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Britten 100 b03j9ddy (Listen) SUN Britten by Night, A Charm of Lullabies SUN SUN The night - what it both reveals and covers up - is a theme SUN which runs throughout Britten's composing career. The second SUN of two unpresented late night, music sequences delving into SUN Britten's preoccupation with the nocturnal, supernatural and SUN creepy. Including a performance of Britten's A Charm of SUN Lullabies by Radio 3 New Generation Artist, mezzo Jennifer SUN Johnston and pianist Joseph Middleton. SUN SUN 00:00 SUN Benjamin Britten SUN The Turn of the screw - chamber opera Op.54 SUN Eileen Hulse SUN Felicity Lott SUN Nadine Secunde SUN Philip Langridge SUN Phyllis Cannan. Sam Pay. Aldeburgh Festival Chamber SUN Ensemble. SUN COLLINS CLASSICS SUN 7030-2 SUN 00:02 SUN Benjamin Britten SUN Suite Op.6 for violin and piano SUN Alexander Barantschik SUN John Adey. SUN DECCA SUN 478 5540 SUN 00:07 SUN Henry Purcell SUN Now that the sun hath veiled his light, real. Britten for SUN voice and piano [orig. voice and bc] SUN Felicity Lott SUN Graham Johnson. SUN HYPERION SUN CDA-67061/2 SUN 00:12 SUN Benjamin Britten SUN Russian funeral - march for brass and percussion [1936] SUN Philip Jones Brass Ensemble SUN DECCA SUN 468 811-2 SUN 00:19 SUN Benjamin Britten SUN Sonata in C major Op.65 for cello and piano SUN Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich SUN DECCA SUN 421 859-2 SUN 00:25 SUN Frederick Delius SUN Summer night on the river RT.6.19 for small orchestra SUN Benjamin Britten SUN English Chamber Orchestra SUN DECCA SUN 478 5893 SUN 00:30 SUN Franz (1) Schubert SUN Nachtstuck D.672 SUN Benjamin Britten SUN Peter Pears SUN DECCA SUN 433-933-2 SUN 00:37 SUN Benjamin Britten SUN The Prince of the pagodas - ballet Op.57 SUN Oliver Knussen SUN London Sinfonietta SUN Virgin Classics SUN VCD-759578 2 SUN 00:41 SUN Benjamin Britten SUN Concerto Op.15 for violin and orchestra SUN Edward Gardner SUN Tasmin Little SUN BBC Philharmonic SUN Chandos SUN CHAN 10764 SUN 00:46 SUN Benjamin Britten SUN A Charm of lullabies Op.41 for mezzo-soprano and piano SUN Jennifer Johnston SUN Joseph Middleton. SUN 00:58 SUN Benjamin Britten SUN Suite no. 3 Op.87 for cello solo SUN Pieter Wispelwey SUN CHANNEL CLASSICS SUN CCS SA-25308 SUN SUN 01:00 Through the Night b03j9dhf (Listen) SUN Concertgebouw Archives, Episode 2 SUN SUN With John Shea SUN Recordings from the Archives of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. SUN Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Thomas Zehetmair (violin) in SUN Schumann's Fantasy for violin and Orchestra. John Eliot SUN Gardiner conducts Schubert's 9th Symphony. SUN SUN 1:01 AM SUN Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897] SUN Tragic overture (Op.81) SUN Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt SUN (conductor) SUN SUN 1:15 AM SUN Schumann, Robert [1810-1856] SUN Fantasy for violin and orchestra (Op.131) in C major SUN Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, SUN Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) SUN SUN 1:32 AM SUN Schubert, Franz [1797-1828] SUN Symphony no. 9 (D.944) in C major "Great"; SUN Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner SUN (conductor) SUN SUN 2:20 AM SUN Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) SUN Kinderszenen for piano (Op.15) SUN Håvard Gimse (piano) SUN SUN 2:40 AM SUN Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) SUN 11 Zigeunerlieder for 4 voices and piano (Op.103) SUN Danish National Radio Choir, Bengt Forsberg (piano), Stefan SUN Parkman (conductor) SUN SUN 3:01 AM SUN Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) SUN String Quartet No.1 in G minor (Op.27) SUN Engegård Quartet SUN SUN 3:34 AM SUN Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) SUN Missa sancta No.1 in E flat major, (J.224) SUN Norwegian Soloist Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete SUN Pedersen Helgerød (conductor) SUN SUN 4:08 AM SUN Corelli, Arcangelo [1653-1713] SUN Trio sonata in F major Op.3'1 SUN Concerto Copenhagen, Alfredo Bernardini (director) SUN SUN 4:15 AM SUN Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] SUN Fantasy in C minor (K.396) SUN Juho Pohjonen (piano) SUN SUN 4:24 AM SUN Haydn, (Franz) Joseph [1732-1809] SUN Divertimento for 2 flutes and cello (H.4.1) in C major SUN "London trio" no.1 SUN Les Ambassadeurs SUN SUN 4:33 AM SUN Grandjany, Marcel (1891-1975) SUN Rhapsodie pour la harpe (Op.10) (1921) SUN Rita Costanzi (harp) SUN SUN 4:42 AM SUN Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931) SUN Serenata in vano for clarinet, horn, bassoon, cello and SUN double bass (FS.68) SUN Kari Krikku (clarinet), Jonathan Williams (horn), Per SUN Hannisdahl (bassoon), Øystein Sonstad (cello), Katrine SUN Øigaard (double bass) SUN SUN 4:50 AM SUN Svendsen, Johann (1840-1911) SUN Festival Polonaise - for orchestra (Op.12) SUN Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Jordan (conductor) SUN SUN 5:01 AM SUN Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835) SUN Overture to Norma SUN Oslo Philharmonic, Nello Santi (conductor) SUN SUN 5:08 AM SUN Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) SUN Vocalise (Op.34 No.14) SUN Desmond Hoebig (cello), Andrew Tunis (piano) SUN SUN 5:15 AM SUN Andriessen, Jurriaan (1925-1996) SUN Sonnet No.43 SUN Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (conductor) SUN SUN 5:22 AM SUN Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) transcr. Liszt SUN Isolde's Liebestod transc. Liszt for piano (S.447) SUN François-Frédéric Guy (piano) SUN SUN 5:29 AM SUN Lysenko, Mykola (1842-1912) SUN Fantasy on Two Ukrainian Themes SUN Yuri Shut'ko (flute), Ukrainian National Radio Symphony SUN Orchestra, Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor) SUN SUN 5:37 AM SUN Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937) SUN Prelude and fugue in C sharp minor SUN Jerzy Godiszewski (piano) SUN SUN 5:46 AM SUN Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778-1837) SUN Trio in G major, for violin, viola and cello SUN Viktor Šimcisko (violin), Alzbeta Plazkurova (viola), Jozef SUN Sikora (cello) SUN SUN 6:01 AM SUN Gorczycki, Grzegorz Gerwazy (1665-1734) SUN Missa Paschalis SUN Il Canto: Barbara Janowska and Wanda Laddy (sopranos), SUN Robert Lawaty (counter-tenor), Cezary Szyfman (baritone), SUN Michal Straszewski (bass) SUN SUN 6:16 AM SUN Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) SUN Quartet for strings (Op.18'6) in B flat major; SUN Psophos Quartet SUN SUN 6:40 AM SUN Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) SUN Orchestral Suite No.4 in D major (BWV.1069) SUN La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor). SUN SUN 07:00 Breakfast b03j9dhh (Listen) SUN Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. SUN As part of Britten 100, Martin catches up with Tom Service SUN and volunteers having breakfast at The Red House in SUN Aldeburgh. SUN SUN 09:00 Britten 100 b03j9dhk (Listen) SUN More music and conversation live from Snape Maltings as part SUN of the Britten 100 weekend as Suzy Klein is joined by SUN Britten biographer Paul Kildea, tenor Ben Johnson and SUN guitarist Sean Shibe. As well as hearing from local voices SUN about how Aldeburgh has changed over the years, and what's SUN good for a Suffolk brunch, she'll be finding out about the SUN performers and composers who inspired Britten's own music, SUN including: SUN SUN Grainger SUN Scotch Strathspey and Reel SUN Ambrosian Singers SUN English Chamber Orchestra SUN Benjamin Britten (conductor) SUN SUN LIVE SUN Britten: 'Sailor-boy', 'Bonny at Morn', 'The Shooting of his SUN Dear' (Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 6 England) SUN Ben Johnson (tenor) SUN Sean Shibe (guitar) SUN SUN Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op 70 SUN Dennis Brain (horn) SUN Benjamin Britten (piano) SUN SUN Bridge: The Sea SUN English Chamber Orchestra SUN Benjamin Britten (conductor) SUN SUN Britten: Hymn, Sonnet and Epilogue (Serenade for tenor, horn SUN and strings) SUN Peter Pears (tenor) SUN Dennis Brian (horn) SUN Boyd Neel String Orchestra SUN Benjamin Britten (conductor) SUN SUN LIVE SUN Britten: Songs from the Chinese SUN Ben Johnson (tenor) SUN Sean Shibe (guitar). SUN SUN 11:00 Britten 100 b03j9dhm (Listen) SUN Britten String Quartets, Quartet No 1 SUN SUN The final concert pairing the Britten Quartets with chamber SUN music by composers he admired features works from the 1930s SUN and 40s: Britten's 3 Divertimenti and Quartet No. 1 and SUN Shostakovich's Piano Quintet. Presented live from Snape SUN Maltings Concert Hall by Andrew McGregor. SUN SUN In the interval, at about 11.40am, Suzy Klein talks to SUN composer Colin Matthews. SUN SUN Britten: Three Divertimenti SUN Britten: String Quartet No 1 in D major, Op 25 SUN Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op 57 SUN Ensemble 360 SUN Benjamin Nabarro, violin SUN Claudia Ajmone-Marsan, violin SUN Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola SUN Gemma Rosefield, cello SUN Tim Horton, piano. SUN SUN 12:30 Britten 100 b03j9fdr (Listen) SUN Britten Plus, Gamelan SUN SUN Live from Snape Maltings, Suzy Klein is joined by composer SUN Colin Matthews, who helped Britten complete his final opera SUN 'Death in Venice', to talk about the influence of gamelan in SUN Britten's music and the developing artistic relationship SUN with Peter Pears. SUN SUN Music to include: SUN SUN Colin McPhee: Balinese Ceremonial Music SUN Pemúngkah (Overture to Shadow-play); Gambangan (Intermezzo) SUN Colin McPhee and Benjamin Britten (piano) SUN SUN Britten: Variation VII 'At Night' (The Turn of the Screw) SUN Peter Pears (Quint) SUN David Hemmings (Miles) SUN English Opera Group Orchestra SUN Benjamin Britten (conductor) SUN SUN Britten: Act 2, Scene 2 (excerpt) (The Prince of the SUN Pagodas) SUN Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden SUN Benjamin Britten (conductor) SUN SUN Britten: Death in Venice (excerpts) SUN Peter Pears (Gustav von Aschenbach) SUN Iris Saunders (Strawberry Seller) SUN English Opera Group Chorus SUN English Chamber Orchestra SUN Steuart Bedford (conductor). SUN SUN 13:00 Britten 100 b03j9fdt (Listen) SUN Private Passions: Maggi Hambling SUN SUN As part of Radio 3's Britten Centenary weekend, Michael SUN Berkeley travels to Aldeburgh beach to meet the artist Maggi SUN Hambling at her controversial memorial to Britten in the SUN form of two giant interlocking scallop shells. SUN SUN Michael also visits her nearby studio to see her paintings SUN inspired by the Suffolk sea and to talk about the effect of SUN Britten's music on her painting and sculpture. SUN SUN She tells Michael about her fascination with drawing and SUN painting people she's loved after they've died; the SUN importance of drawing; and her love of feeling rooted in SUN Suffolk. SUN SUN Maggi's music choices include music from Peter Grimes and SUN the War Requiem, as well as Schubert, a song by her friend SUN George Melly and some surprising music which sums up how she SUN relaxes in the rare moments when she's not working. SUN SUN 14:00 Britten 100 b03j9fdw (Listen) SUN Britten's Church Parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace SUN SUN The second Church Parable is the Old Testament story of the SUN triumph of the Israelites Ananias, Misael and Azarias over SUN the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar who singularly fails to SUN make them renounce their faith. The humour and virtuoso SUN handling of the chamber forces, including alto trombone, SUN make it the most fun and approachable of the Parables. As in SUN the first Parable, Britten creates a fusion of East and West SUN but this time the sound world owes more to Balinese gamelan SUN than the Japanese-infused Curlew River. SUN SUN James Gilchrist sings the arrogant, petulant, and ultimately SUN penitent Nebuchadnezzar in Mahogany Opera's acclaimed SUN production recorded in the place for which it was written, SUN Orford Church. Presented by Louise Fryer. SUN SUN Britten: The Burning Fiery Furnace SUN Nebuchadnezzar.... James Gilchrist (tenor) SUN Astrologer.... Lukas Jakobski (bass baritone) SUN Ananias.... Samuel Evans (baritone) SUN Misael.... John McMunn (tenor) SUN Azarias.... Rodney Earl Clarke (baritone) SUN Mahogany Opera SUN Roger Vignoles (music director) SUN Frederic Wake-Walker (director) SUN The Prodigal Son is tomorrow at 2.00 pm. SUN SUN 15:30 Britten 100 b03j9fdy (Listen) SUN Backgrounds to Britten SUN SUN The BBC Singers perform some of Britten's most popular and SUN best-loved pieces for choir, plus music by other composers SUN he admired, including Purcell and Bridge, and a world SUN premiere. Presented live from St Edmund's Church, Southwold SUN by Sean Rafferty. SUN SUN Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia SUN Bridge: Music when soft voices die SUN Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana SUN Sean Shepherd: Daffodils (first performance) SUN Purcell: I was glad SUN Britten: Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Vittoria SUN Ireland: Ex ore innocentium SUN Britten: A Shepherd's Carol SUN Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb SUN SUN BBC Singers SUN Iain Farrington (organ) SUN David Hill (conductor) SUN SUN Music for voices - both solo and in ensemble - is at the SUN heart of Britten's compositional output, reflecting both his SUN personal fascination with vocal timbres as well as his SUN lifelong preoccupation with creating a body of work which SUN could be performed and enjoyed by amateurs and professionals SUN alike. Choral works, in fact, form an arc which reaches from SUN his earliest compositions to some of the very last he wrote. SUN In this afternoon's concert the BBC Singers - who themselves SUN have premiered a number of Britten's most important pieces - SUN perform a selection of his best-loved choral works, together SUN with some by other composers he admired and who influenced SUN him - including teachers John Ireland and Frank Bridge, and SUN the great 17th-century master Henry Purcell. Alongside SUN these, Britten's most substantial solo work for the organ, SUN and the first performance of a new choral piece by Sean SUN Shepherd - one of several commissioned by Aldeburgh Music to SUN mark this Britten centenary year. SUN SUN 16:45 Britten 100 b03j9ff0 (Listen) SUN Britten Answers SUN SUN Tom Service and John Bridcut answer your questions about SUN Britten and ask which performers and composers inspired him SUN and why. Live from Snape Maltings SUN SUN Mozart: Allegro molto (Sonata in D major for two pianos, K SUN 448) SUN Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten (pianos) SUN SUN Schubert: Die Sterne, D 939; Nachtviolen, D 752; Auflösung, SUN D 807 SUN Peter Pears (tenor) SUN Benjamin Britten (piano) SUN SUN Mahler (arr. Britten): "What the wild flowers tell me" SUN (Minuet from Sympnony No 3) SUN English Chamber Orchestra SUN Benjamin Britten (conductor) SUN SUN Purcell (realised Britten): I attempt from love's sickness SUN to fly; I'll sail upon the Dog-star; There's not a Swain of SUN the plain; Man is for the woman made SUN Peter Pears (tenor) SUN Benjamin Britten (piano) SUN SUN Schubert: Allegro Moderato (Arpeggione Sonata, D 821) SUN Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) SUN Benjamin Britten (piano) SUN SUN Tchaikovsky: Finale (Tema Russo) (Serenade for Strings in C SUN major, Op 48) SUN English Chamber Orchestra SUN Benjamin Britten (conductor) SUN SUN 18:00 Britten 100 b03j9ff2 (Listen) SUN Noye's Fludde SUN SUN Britten wanted to be at the centre his community, a composer SUN who wrote demanding and satisfying music for that community, SUN whether his musicians be children, amateur or professional. SUN With Noye's Fludde he reached that ideal (even the audience SUN plays a part) in a work that is celebratory, serious, fun SUN and profoundly moving. Performed in Britten's birthplace, SUN it's a fitting musical end to the centenary celebrations. SUN SUN Louise Fryer presents this live performance from St SUN Margaret's Church in Lowestoft. Andrew Shore is Noye, SUN Felicity Palmer is Mrs Noye and Zeb Soanes is The Voice of SUN God. The Navarra Quartet and young people from Lowestoft SUN schools and choirs are conducted by Paul Kildea. SUN SUN Britten: Noye's Fludde SUN SUN Noye ..... Andrew Shore (baritone) SUN Mrs Noye ..... Felicity Palmer (soprano) SUN The Voice of God ..... Zeb Soanes (speaker) SUN The Navarra Quartet SUN Paul Kildea (conductor). SUN SUN 19:00 Britten 100 b03j9ff4 (Listen) SUN Britten Round-up SUN SUN Live from Snape, Suzy Klein, Tom Service and John Bridcut SUN look back over the centenary weekend and its highlights to SUN see what it has revealed about Britten as composer, SUN performer and man. SUN SUN 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert b03j9ffm (Listen) SUN Peter Hill - Bach, Berg, Messiaen, Schoenberg SUN SUN Tom McKinney introduces a recital of piano music by Olivier SUN Messiaen, Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg and JS Bach recorded SUN earler this month at the Upper Chapel in Sheffield, in SUN conversation with pianist and Messiaen specialist, Peter SUN Hill. SUN SUN Peter Hill's programme includes the first performance of SUN Messiaen's La Fauvette Passerinette (Subalpine warbler). SUN SUN The concert was given as part of the series "Music in the SUN Round". SUN SUN Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat minor (Well-Tempered SUN Clavier Book 1, No. 8 BWV.853) SUN Berg Sonata, Op 1 SUN Messiaen: La Colombe (the Dove) from Preludes; La Chouette SUN hulotte (Tawny owl) and L'Alouette Lulu (woodlark) from SUN Catalogue d'oiseaux SUN SUN Messiaen/Hill: La Fauvette Passerinette (Subalpine warbler) SUN (World premiere); Messiaen: Le Traquet stapazin (Black-eared SUN Wheatear) SUN Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces, Op.19 SUN Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor (Well-Tempered SUN Clavier Book 1, No. 4 BWV.849) SUN Messiaen: Morceau de Lecture a Vue SUN SUN Peter Hill, piano SUN SUN Following the concert, a selection from the shortlist of the SUN British Composer Awards, winners to be announced next week. SUN SUN 22:00 Drama on 3 b01p9d6z (Listen) SUN Austerlitz SUN SUN W G Sebald's masterpiece novel about remembering the SUN Holocaust, in a new dramatisation for radio by Michael Butt. SUN The narrator meets a quiet stranger in the Antwerp station SUN cafe and he begins to confide an unsettling story of SUN vanished identity - which travels through 1930s SUN Czechosolovakia, the Kindertransport of Jewish children to SUN Britain and adoption in Wales. SUN SUN Sebald came to prominince in the 1990s as an acclaimed SUN German writer, living in Britain, whose novels tackled many SUN aspects of Germany's confrontation wth its traumatic wartime SUN past. He died in 2001 at the height of his critical SUN appreciation. SUN SUN A Fiction Factory Production. SUN SUN Austerlitz: James Fleet SUN Narrator: Stephen Greif SUN Elias: David Sibley SUN Margaret: Poppy Miller SUN Evan: Michael Elwyn SUN Agata: Morven Christie SUN Maximilian: Timothy Watson SUN Marie: Amanda Drew SUN Vera: Deborah Findlay SUN Young Vera: Emma Powell SUN Young Austerlitz: Dyfan Dwyfor SUN Actor: Kim Guest SUN Child Austerlitz: Kalum Guest SUN Director: John Taylor SUN Adaptor: Michael Butt SUN Writer: Winfried Georg Sebald SUN SUN 23:30 BBC Performing Groups b03j9fgn (Listen) SUN Brostrom, Bystrom, Eliasson SUN SUN BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Manze, SUN perform Tobias Brostrom's Transit Underground, Britta SUN Bystrom's trumpet concerto Forvillelser (Delusions), with SUN Norwegian trumpet player Tine Thing Helseth, and Anders SUN Eliasson's Symphony No 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:30 Through the Night b03j9gbc (Listen) MON 12:31 AM MON Popper, David [1843-1913] MON Cello Concerto no. 1 in D minor (Op. 8); MON Jirí Hosek (cello), Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, MON Vladimir Válek (conductor) MON MON 12:54 AM MON Popper, David [1843-1913] MON Hungarian Rhapsody op 68 (1894) MON Fjodor Amosov (cello), (first prize), Vera Langerová (piano) MON MON 1:00 AM MON Hubay, Jenö (1858-1937) MON Spinning Room (Op.44 No.3) MON Ferenc Szecsódi (violin), István Kassai (piano) MON MON 1:06 AM MON Popper, David [1843-1913] MON Im Walde Op. 50; MON Jirí Hosek (cello), Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, MON Vladimir Válek (conductor) MON MON 1:27 AM MON Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) MON Piano Trio No.3 in C minor (Op.101) MON Christopher Krenyak (violin), Jan Insinger (cello), Dido MON Keuning (piano) MON MON 1:48 AM MON Popper, David [1843-1913] MON Tarantella in G (op. 33) MON Jirí Hosek (cello), Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, MON Vladimir Válek (conductor) MON MON 1:53 AM MON Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) MON Scherzo and March (S.177) MON Jeno Jandó (piano) MON MON 2:06 AM MON Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) MON Suite for orchestra no.1 in C major (BWV.1066) MON La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) MON MON 2:31 AM MON Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) MON Piano Quintet in A major (B.155) (Op.81) (Allegro ma non MON tanto; Dumka ; Scherzo ; Allegro) MON Menahem Pressler (piano), Orlando Quartet MON MON 3:04 AM MON Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764) [Edition prepared by MON Victor Gavenda] MON Le Temple de la Gloire - orchestral suites from the MON opera-ballet (1745) MON Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon MON MON 3:34 AM MON Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) MON Fest- und Gedenksprüche for 8 voices (2 choirs) (Op.109) MON Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor) MON MON 3:45 AM MON Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) MON Quartettsatz (movement) for strings in C minor (D.703) MON Tilev String Quartet MON MON 3:55 AM MON Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) MON Fantasy in C minor (K.396) MON Valdis Jancis (piano) MON 4:05 AM MON MON Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983) MON Sonata for harp MON Godelieve Schrama (harp) MON MON 4:16 AM MON Tumasch, Dolf (1889-1963) [text: Sep Mudest Nay and C. Mani] MON Me ànc egn pintg mumaint (Just a little while) MON Schams-Heinzenberg-Domleschg Vocal Ensemble, Luzius Hassler MON (director) MON MON 4:19 AM MON Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767) MON Trio No.4 from Essercizii Musici MON Camerata Köln MON MON 4:31 AM MON Spohr, Louis (1784-1859) MON Fantasy, Theme and Variations a theme of Danzi in B minor MON (Op.81) MON László Horvath (clarinet), New Budapest String Quartet MON MON 4:39 AM MON Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594) MON Pelli meae consumptis carnibus MON The King's Singers MON MON 4:47 AM MON Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) MON 12 Variations on 'La Folia' (Wq.118/9) (H.263) MON Andreas Staier (harpsichord) MON MON 4:57 AM MON Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) MON Overture to "Des Teufels Lustschloss" (The Devil's Castle) MON opera MON Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, MON Miroslaw Blaszczyk (conductor) MON MON 5:07 AM MON Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849) MON Four Mazurkas MON Ashley Wass (piano) MON MON 5:17 AM MON Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) [Text: Peter Pindar] MON Der Sturm - chorus for SATB choir and orchestra (H.24a.8) MON Netherlands Radio Choir and Chamber Orchestra, Antoni MON Ros-Marba (conductor) MON MON 5:27 AM MON Doppler, Franz [1821-1883] MON Fantaisie pastorale hongroise (Op.26) (version for flute and MON piano) MON Ivica Gabrisova -Encingerova (flute) (Slovakian) MON MON 5:38 AM MON Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) MON Piano Quartet in E flat major (Op.47) MON Alexander Melnikov (piano), Leopold String Trio MON MON 6:05 AM MON Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) MON Symphony No. 25 in G minor (K.183) MON Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Adam Fischer (conductor). MON MON 06:30 Breakfast b03j9gbf (Listen) MON Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. MON MON 09:00 Essential Classics b03j9gbh (Listen) MON With Rob Cowan and his guest Alex Jennings MON MON 9am MON A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the MON Week: 'Homage To Pavlova' with the London Symphony Orchestra MON conducted by Richard Bonynge. Also, at 9:30am, our daily MON brainteaser - Who's Dancing? MON MON 10am MON Artist of the Week: Quartetto Italiano MON MON 10.30am MON With Radio 3 having just marked Benjamin Britten's MON centenary, our guest on Essential Classics is acclaimed MON actor Alex Jennings. MON MON 11am MON Rob's Essential Choice MON MON Wagner MON Das Rheingold: Prelude, Interludes and entry of the Gods MON into Valhalla MON Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris MON Philippe Jordan (conductor) MON ERATO. MON MON 12:00 Composer of the Week b03j9gbk (Listen) MON Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Hens, Hugo and Havanaises MON MON Beastly goings on as Noel Coward introduces the Carnival of MON the Animals. Plus, Saint-Saëns's much-loved Havanaise for MON violin and orchestra. MON MON Camille Saint-Saëns reached the pinnacle of his career in MON 1886, when both his famous "Carnival of the Animals" and his MON "Organ" Symphony were first performed. He was 51 - and yet MON he'd live on for a further three-and-a-half decades, well MON into the age of Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Poulenc. His late MON works have often been unfairly neglected - seen as 'out of MON time' in a thrusting new century. This week, Donald Macleod MON explores the charming and eccentric variety of pieces MON Saint-Saëns left behind from the last decades of his life. MON MON The week begins with a contrasting trio of pieces MON Saint-Saëns composed in 1887, following the huge success of MON the previous year. "La fiancée du timbalier" is a dramatic MON scene for soprano and piano, once popular at the BBC Proms MON but now out of favour - Felicity Lott brings it back to our MON attention. Then we hear the Latin-tinged Havanaise for MON violin and orchestra, perhaps the most popular of the MON composer's later works. MON MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b03j9gm8 (Listen) MON Wigmore Hall: Maxim Rysanov MON MON Live from Wigmore Hall, London. MON MON Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonata No 1 in G major, BWV1027 MON Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D821 MON Hindemith: Viola Sonata, Op 11 No 4 MON MON Maxim Rysanov (viola) MON Ashley Wass (piano) MON MON Presented by Fiona Talkington. MON MON 14:00 Britten 100 b03j9gmb (Listen) MON Britten's Church Parables, The Prodigal Son MON MON The third and last of the Church Parables tells the parable MON of the Prodigal Son. Benjamin Britten's take on the biblical MON tale of a farmer's youngest child who leaves his father and MON older brother to indulge his most secret longings, only to MON return penniless and destitute and begging for forgiveness. MON MON James Gilchrist sings the intriguing role of the tempter who MON lures the younger son towards sin in Mahogany Opera's MON acclaimed production recorded at the 2013 Aldeburgh Festival MON in the place for which it was written, Orford Church. MON Presented by Louise Fryer. MON MON Britten: The Prodigal Son MON MON The Tempter ..... James Gilchrist (tenor) MON The Father ..... Lukas Jakobski (bass baritone) MON The Elder Son ..... Rodney Earl Clarke (baritone) MON The Younger Son ..... John McMunn (tenor) MON Mahogany Opera MON Roger Vignoles (music director) MON Frederic Wake-Walker (director). MON MON 15:20 Afternoon on 3 b03j9l9n (Listen) MON Transatlantic Travel, American Emigres, Part 1 MON MON The third of three weeks of Afternoon on 3 celebrating MON different sides of the music of America. This week's MON programmes centre on music written in exile, by the great MON number of twentieth-century European composers who fled MON persecution by moving to the USA. Louise Fryer introduces MON some of their music written far from home, explores their MON personal circumstances, and discusses how it affected the MON artistic process. Some found the move easier than others.... MON MON Bartok wrote his Concerto for Orchestra to a commission from MON the conductor Serge Koussevitzky, having initially found it MON hard to compose after his move to the US. The Boston MON Symphony Orchestra premiered the work under Koussevitzky's MON baton in 1944 to critical acclaim, and it quickly became MON Bartok's most popular work. Sadly he didn't live long enough MON to see its full impact. MON MON Martinu fled Paris early in WW2 after the Nazis blacklisted MON his music. Life in America was difficult for him: lack of MON knowledge of English, lack of funds, and lack of MON opportunities caused frustration. Eventually he acclimatised MON and his six symphonies were written at a phenomenal rate in MON little more than a decade. MON MON 3.20pm MON Bartok: Concerto for orchestra, Sz 116 MON BBC National Orchestra of Wales, MON Thierry Fischer (conductor). MON MON 3.55pm MON Martinu: Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No 6) MON BBC Philharmonic, MON Gunter Herbig (conductor). MON MON 16:30 In Tune b03j9l9q (Listen) MON Barnabas Kelemen, Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang MON MON Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from the MON music world. MON MON Main headlines are at 5pm and 6pm. MON In.Tune@bbc.co.uk MON @BBCInTune. MON MON 17:30 Opera on 3 b03j9l9s (Listen) MON Verdi 200: Don Carlos MON MON John Shea presents the 1886 five act French version of Don MON Carlos with Placido Domingo in the title role and Katia MON Ricciarelli as Elisabeth. With background from Flora MON Willson. MON MON Don Carlos in its complete form is Verdi's longest opera. It MON was written for the Paris Opera whose resources were MON considerable with long rehearsals, opportunities for large MON scale production and a large chorus and orchestra. Not to MON mention the financial rewards for the composer. Initially MON Verdi was uninterested in the subject and it was 15 years MON before he changed his mind when he asked to compose a large MON scale opera for Napoleon III's Universal Exhibition in 1867. MON The opportunity to create a success in a city where MON Meyerbeer was the king of opera was a great enticement. MON MON The libretto was based on the play by Schiller but Verdi the MON theatrical genius knew it needed more and asked his MON librettists Mery and du Locle to compose a duet between MON Carlos and Rodrigo and between the King and the Grand MON Inquisitor. For spectacle there was the Act 3 auto da fe MON scene with its executions. MON MON At the centre of the story are three sets of relationships: MON between Elisabeth who wants to marry Carlos but ends up with MON his father the King, between Eboli the former mistress of MON Philip but now in love with Carlos and the friednship MON between Carlos and Posa who is also loved and admired by the MON King. MON MON Elisabeth de Valois ..... Katia Ricciarelli (Soprano) MON La Princesse Eboli ..... Lucia Valentini Terrani MON (Mezzo-soprano) MON Don Carlos ..... Placido Domingo (Tenor) MON Rodrigue Marquis de Posa ..... Leo Nucci (Baritone) MON Philippe II Roi d'Espagne ..... Ruggero Raimondi (Bass) MON Le Grand Inquisiteur ..... Nicolai Ghiaurov (Bass) MON A Monk ..... Nikita Storoyev (Bass) MON Thibault ..... Ann Murray (Mezzo-soprano) MON Le Comte de Lerme ..... Tibere Raffalli (Tenor) MON The Royal Herald ..... Antonio Savastano (Tenor) MON Voice from High ..... Arleen Auger (Soprano) MON La Scala Chorus MON La Scala Orchestra MON Conductor Claudio Abbado. MON MON 22:00 Night Waves b03j9l9v (Listen) MON Tony Benn Diaries MON MON Matthew Sweet talks to the politician Tony Benn about his MON final volume of diaries, A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine, which MON covers the years in which he campaigned against the wars in MON Iraq and Afghanistan and suffered the loss of his wife MON Caroline after 51 years of marriage and his own failing MON health. MON MON 22:45 The Essay b03j9mcx (Listen) MON The Islamic Golden Age, Professor Hugh Kennedy MON MON In a major series for Radio 3, we rediscover some of the key MON thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age. The MON period ranges from 750 to 1258 CE and over twenty episodes, MON we'll hear about architecture, invention, medicine, MON innovation and philosophy. Professor Hugh Kennedy begins the MON series with an introductory essay explaining how the Islamic MON state established itself. MON MON Producer: Sarah Taylor. MON MON 23:00 Jazz on 3 b03j9myf (Listen) MON Jaimeo Brown Trio at the 2013 London Jazz Festival MON MON Jaimeo Brown's debut album released earlier this year draws MON on the rich musical traditions of the American South. Most MON prominent are samples of spirituals sung by the Gee's Bend MON quilters, a remote community of artisans in Alabama, MON variously treated as the basis for improvisation or as the MON chorus in passages of call and response. The album is called MON Transcendence, a reflection of Brown's deep religiosity as MON well as his circling, shimmering compositions that build to MON an ecstatic crescendo. MON MON Somewhat unusually for a composer/ bandleader, Brown is a MON drummer; he leads this trio - including saxophonist John MON Allen on saxophone and guitarist/ producer Chris Sholar - MON from behind the kit. MON MON Presenter: Jez Nelson MON Producers: Peggy Sutton; Chris Elcombe. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:30 Through the Night b03j9n50 (Listen) TUE With John Shea TUE TUE 12:31 AM TUE Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] TUE Quintet for strings (K.516) in G minor TUE Baiba Skride (violin), Diamond Ensemble. TUE TUE 1:04 AM TUE Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809] TUE Concerto for violin and orchestra (H.7a.1) in C major TUE Baiba Skride (violin), Diamond Ensemble. TUE TUE 1:23 AM TUE Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] TUE Concerto for oboe, violin and strings (BWV.1060) vers. in C TUE minor TUE Baiba Skride (violin), Max Artved (oboe), Diamond Ensemble. TUE TUE 1:37 AM TUE Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) TUE Stabat mater for 10 voices, organ and basso continuo in C TUE minor TUE Danish National Radio Chorus, Søren Christian Vestergaard TUE (organ), Bo Holten (conductor) TUE TUE 2:01 AM TUE Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) TUE Symphony No.64 in A major, 'Tempora mutantur' (Hob: I/64) ] TUE Danish Radio Sinfonietta/DR, Rolf Gupta (conductor) TUE TUE 2:21 AM TUE Bach, Johann Sebastian [1685-1750] TUE Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf - motet (BWV.226) TUE Danish National Radio Choir, Stefan Parkman (conductor) TUE TUE 2:31 AM TUE Foulds, John [1880-1939] TUE Keltic Suite (Op.29) TUE Katharine Wood (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp TUE TUE 2:46 AM TUE Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) TUE Five Scottish and Irish Folksongs (WoO.152/20) TUE Stephen Powell (tenor soloist in No.1), Lorraine Reinhardt TUE (soprano soloist in No.3), Linda Lee Thomas (piano), Gwen TUE Thompson (violin), Eugene Osadchy (cello), Vancouver Chamber TUE Choir, Jon Washburn (conductor) TUE TUE 3:00 AM TUE Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736) TUE Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in B flat TUE Andrea Keller (violin), Concerto Köln TUE TUE 3:14 AM TUE Rachmaninov, Sergey (1873-1943) TUE Italian Polka (for piano duet) TUE Ruta Ibelhauptiene and Zbignevas Ibelhauptas (pianos) TUE TUE 3:16 AM TUE Prokofiev, Sergey [1891-1953] TUE Excerpts from the ballet Romeo and Juliet (Op.64) TUE Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor) TUE TUE 3:58 AM TUE Shearing, George (b. 1919) TUE Music to Hear (Five Shakespeare Songs) TUE Vancouver Chamber Choir, Peter Berring (piano), David Brown TUE (double bass), Jon Washburn (director) TUE TUE 4:12 AM TUE Gershwin, George [1898-1937], arr. Lundin, Bengt-Åke TUE [b.1963] TUE Rhapsody in Blue arr. for piano and string quintet TUE Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano), New Stenhammar String Quartet , TUE Staffan Sjöholm (double bass) TUE TUE 4:31 AM TUE Moniuszko, Stanislaw (1819-1872) TUE Mountain Dances - from the opera 'Halka' (1846-1857) TUE Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Szymon Kawalla (conductor) TUE TUE 4:36 AM TUE Smetana, Bedrich (1824 -1884) TUE String Quartet No.1 in E minor 'From My Life' TUE Vertavo Quartet TUE TUE 5:05 AM TUE Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) TUE Playford, John (1623-1686) TUE Soft Notes and Gently Raised, Z.510 TUE 4 works TUE Anders J Dahlin (tenor), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko TUE (director) TUE TUE 5:17 AM TUE Elgar, Edward (1857-1934) TUE Concerto for cello and orchestra in E minor (Op.85) TUE Pieter Wispelwey (cello), National Polish Radio Symphony TUE Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura (conductor) TUE TUE 5:45 AM TUE Pezel, Johann Christoph (1639-1694) TUE Four Intradas TUE Hungarian Brass Ensemble TUE TUE 5:53 AM TUE Kodály, Zoltán arranger unconfirmed TUE Dances of Galanta (orig. for orchestra) TUE Adam Fellegi (piano) TUE TUE 6:08 AM TUE Trad. Hungarian TUE Dances from Csiksomelyo TUE Csaba Nagy (tárogató), Viktória Herencsár (cimbalom) TUE TUE 6:12 AM TUE Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), orch. Schoenberg, Arnold TUE (1874-1951) TUE Prelude and Fugue in E flat (BWV.552), (orchestrated 1928) TUE Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor). TUE TUE 06:30 Breakfast b03j9n6m (Listen) TUE TUE 09:00 Essential Classics b03j9n7y (Listen) TUE With Rob Cowan and his guest Alex Jennings TUE TUE 9am TUE A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the TUE Week: 'Homage To Pavlova' with the London Symphony Orchestra TUE conducted by Richard Bonynge. Also, at 9:30am, our daily TUE brainteaser - Critic's Corner TUE TUE 10am TUE Artist of the Week: Quartetto Italiano TUE TUE 10.30am TUE With Radio 3 having just marked Benjamin Britten's TUE centenary, our guest on Essential Classics is acclaimed TUE actor Alex Jennings. TUE TUE 11am TUE Rob's Essential Choice TUE TUE Bloch TUE Poème mystique TUE Midori (violin) TUE Ozgür Aydin (piano) TUE ONYX. TUE TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week b03j9n98 (Listen) TUE Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Memories of Africa TUE TUE The composer's exotic musical impressions of North Africa. TUE Plus, a virtuoso showpiece for the harp. TUE TUE Camille Saint-Saëns reached the pinnacle of his career in TUE 1886, when both his famous "Carnival of the Animals" and his TUE "Organ" Symphony were first performed. He was 51 ? and yet TUE he'd live on for a further three-and-a-half decades, well TUE into the age of Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Poulenc. His late TUE works have often been unfairly neglected ? seen as 'out of TUE time' in a thrusting new century. This week, Donald Macleod TUE explores the charming and eccentric variety of pieces TUE Saint-Saëns left behind from the last decades of his life. TUE TUE Saint-Saëns was an avid traveller, and particularly loved TUE spending time under the warm sunshine, blue skies and exotic TUE locales of North Africa. Today, Donald Macleod introduces TUE two rare musical impressions of the composer's travels, plus TUE a dazzling virtuoso showpiece for solo harp. TUE TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b03j9nbj (Listen) TUE Bath Mozartfest 2013, Episode 1 TUE TUE This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Bath TUE Mozartfest, with performances from the Takacs Quartet and TUE Trio Wanderer, including Mozart's "Hunt" Quartet and Ravel's TUE Piano Trio. TUE TUE Mozart - String Quartet in B flat, K.458 "The Hunt" TUE Takacs Quartet with Lawrence Power (viola) TUE TUE Ravel - Piano Trio TUE Trio Wanderer. TUE TUE 14:00 Afternoon on 3 b03j9nc5 (Listen) TUE Transatlantic Travel, American Emigres, Part 2 TUE TUE Today, as part of this week's focus on European émigré TUE composers in the USA, we've the first of two live concerts: TUE John Toal presents The Ulster Orchestra live from Ulster TUE Hall in Belfast in a programme of music by Stravinsky, TUE Bartok and Dohnanyi. All three pieces use folk melodies as TUE their source: Stravinsky used Norwegian tunes to inspire the TUE 'moods' of the title, Bartok used an original Hungarian folk TUE dance theme in the first movement of the concerto he wrote TUE as a surprise birthday present for his wife Ditta, and TUE Dohnanyi, in his last orchestral work, included American TUE folk material including Turkey in the Straw, On Top of Old TUE Smokey and I am a poor wayfaring stranger. TUE TUE Following the live concert, Louise Fryer continues our theme TUE with major works by Schoenberg, Korngold and Stravinsky. TUE Although the Schoenberg and Stravinsky are revisions of TUE earlier works, Korngold's 1945 Violin Concerto was the first TUE non-film piece he wrote after having vowed to give up TUE composing anything other than film music until Hitler had TUE been defeated. TUE TUE LIVE from Ulster Hall, Belfast TUE Stravinsky: Four Norwegian Moods TUE Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3, Sz 119 TUE Dohnanyi: American Rhapsody, Op 47 TUE Zhang Zuo (piano), TUE Ulster Orchestra, TUE Jac van Steen (conductor). TUE TUE 3pm TUE Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, Op 16 (1949 revision) TUE BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, TUE Ilan Volkov (conductor). TUE TUE 3.15pm TUE Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 TUE Matthew Trusler (violin), TUE BBC National Orchestra of Wales, TUE Rumon Gamba (conductor). TUE TUE 3.45pm TUE Stravinsky: The Firebird - Suite (1945) TUE BBC Philharmonic, TUE Dimitri Jurowski (conductor). TUE TUE 16:30 In Tune b03j9nf4 (Listen) TUE Sean Rafferty's guests include master of American TUE contemporary dance - dancer, choreographer and director Mark TUE Morris. He brings his acclaimed Dance Group to Sadler's TUE Wells for several eagerly anticipated UK premieres. TUE TUE Main headlines are at 5pm and 6pm. TUE In.Tune@bbc.co.uk TUE @BBCInTune. TUE TUE 18:00 Composer of the Week b03j9n98 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] TUE TUE 19:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert b03j9pjv (Listen) TUE Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, OAE - Beethoven, TUE Mendelssohn, Schubert (part 1) TUE TUE Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London TUE TUE Presented by Petroc Trelawny TUE TUE The period-instrument Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, TUE directed by Margaret Faultless, performs masterworks by TUE Beethoven and a concerto by Mendelssohn, set alongside one TUE of the glories of the piano duet repertoire - Schubert's TUE mighty F minor Fantasia. TUE TUE Beethoven: Overture Coriolan, Op 62 TUE Mendelssohn: Concerto in A flat for Two Pianos TUE TUE Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang fortepiano TUE Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment TUE Margaret Faultless leader/director TUE TUE Husband-and-wife piano duo Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang TUE join forces with the OAE to perform a youthful concerto by TUE Mendelssohn - composed when he was just 14 years old, and a TUE mature masterpiece by Schubert - the great Fantasia written TUE in the last year of his life. Bookending the programme, the TUE overture Beethoven composed for a play about an ancient TUE Roman leader, and one of his most cheerful and lively TUE symphonies. TUE TUE 20:05 Discovering Music b03j9pn4 (Listen) TUE Beethoven Symphony No 8 TUE TUE The musical jokes and light-hearted character of Beethoven's TUE Eighth Symphony provide an irresistible contrast with the TUE heroic and tempestuous symphonic works that precede and TUE follow it. Beethoven famously called it his "little TUE symphony", but it's never been clear what prompted him to TUE say that. Stephen Johnson peels back the layers, to reveal a TUE work that's bursting with ideas and just as radical in its TUE own way as anything else Beethoven created. TUE TUE 20:25 Radio 3 Live in Concert b03j9x2f (Listen) TUE Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, OAE - Beethoven, TUE Mendelssohn, Schubert (part 2) TUE TUE Schubert: Fantasia in F minor for piano duet D940 TUE Beethoven: Symphony No 8 in F TUE TUE Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang fortepiano TUE Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment TUE Margaret Faultless leader/director TUE TUE Following the concert, a selection from the shortlist of the TUE British Composer Awards, winners to be announced next week. TUE TUE 22:00 Night Waves b03j9ngp (Listen) TUE Edmund de Waal Review TUE TUE Philip Dodd with a review of the sculptor Edmund de Waal's TUE new work at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. TUE TUE 22:45 The Essay b03j9nht (Listen) TUE The Islamic Golden Age, Professor Robert Gleave TUE TUE In a major series for Radio 3, we rediscover some of the key TUE thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age. The TUE period ranges from 750 to 1258 CE and over twenty episodes, TUE we'll hear about architecture, invention, medicine, TUE innovation and philosophy. Professor Robert Gleave continues TUE the series with an essay featuring Ali b.Abi Talib and the TUE origins of Shi'ism. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 23:00 Late Junction b03j9ntf (Listen) TUE Eclectic late night listening with Anne Hilde Neset. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 WED WED 00:30 Through the Night b03j9n52 (Listen) WED 12:31 AM WED Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] WED 12 Studies Op.10 for piano WED Lukas Geniusas (piano) WED WED 1:02 AM WED Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] WED 12 Studies Op.25 for piano WED Lukas Geniusas (piano) WED WED 1:34 AM WED Liszt, Franz [1811-1886] WED Sonata in B minor S.178 for piano WED Lukas Geniusas (piano) WED WED 2:05 AM WED Schubert, Franz [1797-1828] WED Waltz no.6 in B minor WED Lukas Geniusas (piano) WED WED 2:07 AM WED Glenn Gould [1932-1982] WED Cadenza for Concerto no. 1 in C major Op.15 for piano and WED orchestra by Beethoven, Ludwig van WED Lukas Geniusas (piano) WED WED 2:10 AM WED Rachmaninov, Sergey [1873-1943] WED Prelude no.13 in D flat major WED Lukas Geniusas (piano) WED WED 2:16 AM WED Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] WED Symphony no.4 (K.19) in D major WED BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vanska (conductor) WED WED 2:31 AM WED Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) WED Trio for viola, cello and piano (Op.114) in A minor WED Maxim Rysanov (viola); Ekaterina Apekisheva (piano); WED Kristina Blaumane (cello) WED WED 2:57 AM WED Schumann, Clara (1819-1896) WED Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann in F sharp minor WED (Op.20) WED Angela Cheng (piano) WED WED 3:07 AM WED Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) WED Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Op.26) WED Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) WED WED 3:28 AM WED Holland, Jan David (1746-1827) [libretto by Fürst Maciel WED Radziwill] WED Agatka, Czyli Przyjazd Pana (Agatha, or the Arrival of the WED Master) Singspiel 1784) - Overture WED Concerto Polacco, Marek Toporowski (director) WED WED 3:34 AM WED Strauss, Richard [1864-1949] WED Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Op.28) WED Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Miguel Gomez Martinez WED (conductor) WED WED 3:49 AM WED Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (1695-1764) WED Violin Concerto in E flat (Op.7 No.6) "Il Pianto d'Arianna" WED Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin/director) WED WED 4:04 AM WED Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir [1936-] WED Bulgarian Madonna from 2 works after paintings of Vladimir WED Dimitrov - the Master WED Simfonieta' Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, Kamen WED Goleminov WED WED 4:09 AM WED Tippett, Michael (1905-1998) WED Five Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time' for chorus WED BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor) WED WED 4:21 AM WED Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 -1827) WED Finale from the ballet music to "Prometheus" WED Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava (orchestra), WED Ludovít Rajter (conductor) WED WED 4:31 AM WED Svendsen, Johan (1840-1911) WED Norsk kunstnerkarneval (Op.14) WED Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor) WED WED 4:38 AM WED Hurlebusch, Conrad Friedrich (1696-1765) WED Concerto in A minor for two oboes, solo violin, strings and WED basso continuo WED Paul van de Linden and Kristine Linde (oboes), Manfred WED Kraemer (violin), Musica ad Rhenum WED WED 4:50 AM WED Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759) WED Aria with variations from Piano Suite No.5 in E major WED (HWV.430) "The harmonious blacksmith" WED Marián Pivka (piano) WED WED 4:56 AM WED Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937) arranged by Wilkomirski, WED Kazimierz (1900-1995) WED Variations in B flat minor (Op.3) originally for piano and WED arranged for orchestra WED Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Marek WED Pijarowski (conductor) WED WED 5:10 AM WED Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) WED Symphony no. 4 (Op.90) in A major "Italian" WED BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor) WED WED 5:39 AM WED Uccellini, Marco [c.1603-1680] WED Violin Sonata no. 7 from 'Opera V' WED Davide Monti (violin) WED WED 5:45 AM WED Reutter, Johann Georg (1708-1772) WED Ecce quomodo moritur justus WED Capella Nova Graz, Otto Kargl (conductor) WED WED 5:52 AM WED Sibelius, Jean [1865-1957] WED 5 Esquisses for piano (Op.114) WED Raija Kerppo (piano) WED WED 6:01 AM WED Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] WED Serenade in E flat major K.375 vers. for wind octet WED Diamond Ensemble WED WED 6:25 AM WED Anonymous early C.17th WED Hanacpachap cussicuinin WED Villancico, Peter Pontvik (conductor). WED WED 06:30 Breakfast b03j9n6p (Listen) WED WED 09:00 Essential Classics b03j9n80 (Listen) WED With Rob Cowan and his guest Alex Jennings WED WED 9am WED A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the WED Week: 'Homage To Pavlova' with the London Symphony Orchestra WED conducted by Richard Bonynge. Also, at 9:30am, our daily WED brainteaser - Listener Puzzle WED WED 10am WED Artist of the Week: Quartetto Italiano WED WED 10.30am WED With Radio 3 having just marked Benjamin Britten's WED centenary, our guest on Essential Classics is acclaimed WED actor Alex Jennings. WED WED 11am WED Rob's Essential Choice WED WED Haydn WED String Quartet in B flat major Op.76 No.4 'Sunrise' WED Matangi Quartet WED CHALLENGE CLASSICS WED WED Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Rob dips into his CD WED collection and shares a piece - it could be a recent WED discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just WED has to be heard. Expect the unexpected! WED WED 12:00 Composer of the Week b03j9n9b (Listen) WED Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), A Village Affair and an WED Egyptian Fantasy WED WED As the Dreyfus Affair rocks France, Saint-Saëns takes his WED leave to Egypt ? to create his last, and perhaps most WED virtuosic, piano concerto. WED WED Camille Saint-Saëns reached the pinnacle of his career in WED 1886, when both his famous "Carnival of the Animals" and his WED "Organ" Symphony were first performed. He was 51 ? and yet WED he'd live on for a further three-and-a-half decades, well WED into the age of Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Poulenc. His late WED works have often been unfairly neglected ? seen as 'out of WED time' in a thrusting new century. This week, Donald Macleod WED explores the charming and eccentric variety of pieces WED Saint-Saëns left behind from the last decades of his life. WED WED The last years of the 19th century saw intrigue and WED conspiracy rock French society, as the infamous Dreyfus WED Affair exposed prejudice and anti-Semitism at the heart of WED the nation's political life. But for the sixty-something WED Saint-Saëns, these were years of new horizons. Donald WED Macleod explores the composer's final piano concerto ? a WED fantastical impression of his visit to Egypt, and his WED little-played ballet "Javotte", for which Saint-Saëns drew WED on his love of traditional, rustic French life. WED WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b03j9nbl (Listen) WED Bath Mozartfest 2013, Episode 2 WED WED This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Bath WED Mozartfest, with performances from soprano Elizabeth Watts WED and pianist Roger Vignoles, Trio Wanderer and the Takacs WED Quartet, including songs by Schubert, Janacek's String WED Quartet No.2 and Mozart's Piano Trio in B minor. WED WED Mozart: Piano Trio in B minor, K502 WED Trio Wanderer WED WED Schubert: Heiss mich nicht reden, D726; So last mich WED scheinen, D877'3 WED Elizabath Watts (soprano) / Roger Vignoles (piano) WED WED Janacek: String Quartet No 2, 'Intimate Letters' WED Takacs Quartet with Lawrence Power (viola). WED WED 14:00 Afternoon on 3 b03j9nc7 (Listen) WED Transatlantic Travel, American Emigres, Part 3 WED WED Already experienced in writing for film, Franz Waxman fled WED Germany for Hollywood after being physically beaten by Nazi WED sympathisers. Continuing this week's celebration of WED remarkable music written in exile, Louise Fryer introduces WED his suite from the soundtrack of 'Prince Valiant'. Listen WED out for this little-known composer's influence on film music WED since! WED WED Neither Prokofiev nor Rachmaninov found the move to the US WED easy, and neither stayed for long. Both needed to earn a WED living from concert performances, and their compositional WED output was much reduced during their time in America. WED Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov's Third WED Symphony are large-scale works which belie those WED difficulties, and remain among their most popular and WED enduring works. WED WED Franz Waxman: Prince Valiant - suite from the film score WED BBC Symphony Orchestra, WED John Wilson (conductor). WED WED 2.10pm WED Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op 26 WED John Lill (piano), WED BBC National Orchestra of Wales, WED Walter Weller (conductor). WED WED 2.40pm WED Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44 WED BBC National Orchestra of Wales, WED Rumon Gamba (conductor). WED WED 15:30 Choral Evensong b03j9x53 (Listen) WED Live from Norwich Cathedral WED WED Introit: A Hymn of St Columba (Britten) WED Responses: Aston WED Office Hymn: Rejoice, the Lord is King (Gopsal) WED Psalms: 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 (Garrett; Turle; Grote; WED Garrett; Turle after Purcell; Willcocks) WED First Lesson: Jeremiah 31 vv1-9 WED Canticles: Norwich Service (Richard Allain) (First WED broadcast) WED Second Lesson: Matthew 15 vv21-31 WED Anthem: Let all the world (Vaughan Williams) WED Te Deum: Collegium Regale (Howells) WED Organ Voluntary: Psalm Prelude Set 2, No.3 (Howells) WED WED Ashley Grote (Master of Music) WED David Dunnett (Organist). WED WED 16:30 In Tune b03j9nf6 (Listen) WED Ivana Gavric, Njabulo Madlala WED WED Sean Rafferty presents, with live music and guests from the WED music world. WED WED Main headlines are at 5pm and 6pm. WED In.Tune@bbc.co.uk WED @BBCInTune. WED WED 18:30 Composer of the Week b03j9n9b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] WED WED 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert b03j9x55 (Listen) WED Halle - Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss WED WED Stuart Flinders is in the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham WED with the Halle and conductor Markus Stenz for a concert of WED ground breaking works. A symphony by Beethoven and tone WED poems by Strauss, and the "Jeunehomme" concerto by Mozart, WED once described as Mozart's "Eroica", and performed tonight WED by the remarkable German pianist, Lars Vogt. WED WED Live from the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham WED WED Presented by Stuart Flinders WED WED Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C WED Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K 271 WED (Jeunehomme) WED WED INTERVAL WED WED Richard Strauss: Don Juan WED Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks WED WED Halle Orchestra WED Lars Vogt, piano WED Markus Stenz, conductor WED WED Following the concert, a selection from the shortlist of the WED British Composer Awards, winners to be announced next week. WED WED 22:00 Night Waves b03j9ngr (Listen) WED Happy Cities WED WED Rana Mitter explores the relationship between urban design WED and happiness, what makes some cities a pleasure to live in WED and others a miserable environment for their inhabitants. WED WED 22:45 The Essay b03j9nhw (Listen) WED The Islamic Golden Age, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi WED WED In a major series for Radio 3, we rediscover some of the key WED thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age. The WED period ranges from 750 to 1258 CE and over twenty episodes, WED we'll hear about architecture, invention, medicine, WED innovation and philosophy. Baroness Warsi, the first Muslim WED member of the British Cabinet, gives her personal take on WED Persian scholar Iman Bukhari. WED WED Producer: Sarah Taylor. WED WED 23:00 Late Junction b03j9ntm (Listen) WED A varied late-night selection of music. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2013 THU THU 00:30 Through the Night b03j9n58 (Listen) THU 12:31 AM THU Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] THU Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K.297b THU Giorgi Kobulashvili (oboe) Eduard Brunner (clarinet) Zora THU Slokar (horn) Telavi International Festival Orchestra, THU Anatoly Levin (conductor) THU THU 12:59 AM THU Schumann, Robert [1810-1856] THU Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra THU Kolja Blacker (violin) Telavi International Festival THU Orchestra, Anatoly Levin (conductor) THU THU 1:29 AM THU Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] THU Concerto no. 1 in E minor Op.11 for piano and orchestra THU Eliso Virsaladze (piano) Telavi International Festival THU Orchestra, Anatoly Levin (conductor) THU THU 2:08 AM THU Haydn, (Franz) Joseph (1732-1809) THU Symphony No 68 in B flat THU BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Stefan Solyom THU THU 2:31 AM THU Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) (Text Hölderlin) THU Schicksalslied (Song of destiny) for chorus and orchestar THU (Op.54) THU Oslo Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de THU Burgos (conductor) THU THU 2:46 AM THU Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953) (selection by M T-Thomas) THU Cinderella - suite no.1 (Op.107) THU San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas THU (conductor) THU THU 3:14 AM THU Szymanowski, Karol (1882-1937) THU 20 Mazurkas for piano (Op. 50): no 1 in E major; no 2; no 13 THU Ashley Wass (piano) rec The Warehouse, London, UK 25/05/2001 THU THU 3:23 AM THU Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782) THU Quintet in D major (Op.11 No.6) for flute, 2 violins, cello THU and harpsichord THU Musica Petropolitana THU THU 3:40 AM THU Lipinski, Karol Józef (1790-1861) THU Overture in D major (1814) THU Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cracow, Szymon Kawalla THU (conductor) THU THU 3:49 AM THU Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) THU Gallimathias Musicum (K.32) THU Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi (conductor) THU THU 4:05 AM THU Wegelius, Martin (1846-1906) THU Rondo quasi Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra (1872) THU Margit Rahkonen (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, THU Petri Sakari (conductor) THU THU 4:16 AM THU Piazzolla, Astor [1921-1992] THU Milonga del Angel THU Artemis Quartet THU THU 4:23 AM THU Grunfeld, Alfred [1852-1924] THU Soirees de Vienne for piano, Op.56 THU Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) THU THU 4:31 AM THU Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936) THU Gavotte in D (Op.49 No.3) THU Stefan Lindgren (piano) THU THU 4:36 AM THU Debussy, Claude [1862-1918] THU Gigues - from Images for Orchestra THU BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor) THU THU 4:44 AM THU Anon. THU Dance suite from Vietorisz Codex THU Kecskés Ensemble Budapest, András Kecskés (director), THU Clemencic Consort, René Clemencic (director) THU THU 4:48 AM THU Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) THU Symphony for string orchestra in B minor, No.10 THU Risör Festival Strings THU THU 4:59 AM THU Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] THU Concerto in C major, RV.444 for recorder, strings and THU continuo THU Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (recorder) THU THU 5:08 AM THU Rore, Cipriano de (c.1515-1565) THU O santo fior felice (O blest and happy flower) THU The Consort of Musicke THU THU 5:12 AM THU Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) THU Piano Sonata No.31 (Op.110) in A flat major THU THU 5:34 AM THU Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) THU Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings (D.438) THU Pinchas Zuckerman (violin/director), The National Arts THU Centre Orchestra of Canada THU THU 5:49 AM THU Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) THU Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge (Op.10) THU The Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gould (director) THU THU 6:15 AM THU Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) THU Dolly - Suite for piano duet (Op.56) THU Erzsébet Tusa, Istvan Lantos (pianos). THU THU 06:30 Breakfast b03j9n6r (Listen) THU THU 09:00 Essential Classics b03j9n82 (Listen) THU With Rob Cowan and his guest Alex Jennings THU THU 9am THU A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the THU Week: 'Homage To Pavlova' with the London Symphony Orchestra THU conducted by Richard Bonynge. Also, at 9:30am, our daily THU brainteaser - What am I? THU THU 10am THU Artist of the Week: Quartetto Italiano THU THU 10.30am THU With Radio 3 having just marked Benjamin Britten's THU centenary, our guest on Essential Classics is acclaimed THU actor Alex Jennings. THU THU 11am THU Rob's Essential Choice THU THU Hindemith THU Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber THU Scottish Symphony Orchestra THU Martyn Brabbins (conductor) THU HYPERION. THU THU 12:00 Composer of the Week b03j9n9d (Listen) THU Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), A New Century THU THU As the new century dawns, Saint-Saëns composes one of the THU first-ever original film scores. THU THU Camille Saint-Saëns reached the pinnacle of his career in THU 1886, when both his famous "Carnival of the Animals" and his THU "Organ" Symphony were first performed. He was 51 ? and yet THU he'd live on for a further three-and-a-half decades, well THU into the age of Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Poulenc. His late THU works have often been unfairly neglected ? seen as 'out of THU time' in a thrusting new century. This week, Donald Macleod THU explores the charming and eccentric variety of pieces THU Saint-Saëns left behind from the last decades of his life. THU THU The "Exposition Universelle", or World's Fair, in Paris in THU 1900 marked an exciting, thrusting new century ? one of THU electricity, innovation in art and music, and new ideas. But THU the 65-year-old Saint-Saëns was no relic. In 1908 he made THU history with one of the first ever original film scores ? THU written for the silent movie, "The Assassination of the Duke THU of Guise". We'll hear that pioneering work, as well as a THU very rare cantata composed to mark the new century, before THU one of the composer's most beloved concertante works: his THU Second Cello Concerto, performed by Steven Isserlis. THU THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b03j9nbn (Listen) THU Bath Mozartfest 2013, Episode 3 THU THU This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Bath THU Mozartfest, with performances from soprano Elizabeth Watts THU and pianist Roger Vignoles, and Trio Wanderer. Today's THU recital includes songs by Tchaikovsky, Glinka and Liszt, THU alongside Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat, D898 THU THU Tchaikovsky: None but the lonely heart, Op 6 No 6 THU Glinka: Gretchen's Song THU Liszt: Der König in Thule THU Elizabath Watts (soprano) / Roger Vignoles (piano) THU THU Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat, D898 THU Trio Wanderer. THU THU 14:00 Afternoon on 3 b03j9nc9 (Listen) THU Thursday Opera Matinee: Verdi 200. THU THU A classic live performance of Verdi's tale of intrigue and THU love based on Schiller's play of that name, continuing Radio THU 3's bicentenary series of the complete Verdi operas. Thomas THU Schippers conducts a star cast led by Montserrat Caballé in THU the title role. THU THU Plus Schoenberg's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, THU A Survivor from Warsaw, written in the USA in 1947. THU THU Verdi: Luisa Miller THU Luisa ..... Montserrat Caballé (soprano) THU Rodolfo ..... Richard Tucker (tenor) THU Miller, Luisa's father ..... Sherrill Milnes (baritone) THU Walter, Rodolfo's father ..... Giorgio Tozzi (bass) THU Federica, Walter's niece ..... Louise Pearl (mezzo-soprano) THU Wurm, Walter's steward ..... Ezio Flagello (bass) THU Laura, peasant girl ..... Nancy Williams (mezzo-soprano) THU Peasant ..... Lou Marcella (tenor) THU Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, THU Thomas Schippers (conductor). THU THU 4.15pm THU Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw, Op 46 THU Omar Ebrahim (narrator), THU Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, THU BBC Philharmonic, THU Paul Daniel (conductor). THU THU 16:30 In Tune b03j9nf8 (Listen) THU Sean Rafferty's guests include choral composer Bob Chilcott, THU and there'll be live performance of some of his new THU Christmas carols by Oxford-based chamber choir Commotio. THU THU Main headlines are at 5pm and 6pm. THU In.Tune@bbc.co.uk THU @BBCInTune. THU THU 18:30 Composer of the Week b03j9n9d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert b03j9x9w (Listen) THU Live from St David's Hall in Cardiff, BBC NOW - Prokofiev, THU Rachmaninov (part 1) THU THU Eivind Gullberg Jensen conducts the BBC National Orchestra THU of Wales in Rachmaninov's Second Symphony. Nelson Goerner is THU the soloist in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3. THU THU Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas THU THU Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 THU THU Nelson Goerner (piano) THU BBC National Orchestra of Wales THU Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor) THU THU A programme of twentieth-century Russian music featuring one THU of Rachmaninov's most dearly-loved works, his Second THU Symphony, and Prokofiev's bittersweet Piano Concerto No.3. THU THU Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, written during the THU composer's exile on the French Channel coast at the THU beginning of the 1920s, is full of wit and cosmopolitan THU glamour. Rachmaninov poured his most personal feelings into THU his monumental Second Symphony; the result is an THU extraordinary, inexhaustible stream of melody. Norwegian THU conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen makes his debut with the THU BBC National Orchestra of Wales. THU THU 20:20 Discovering Music b03j9x9y (Listen) THU Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 THU THU Written in Dresden, where he'd gone to escape the heavy THU demands of his conducting career, Rachmaninov's second foray THU into symphonic form, proved much easier than the disaster THU he'd experienced with his first symphony some nine years THU earlier. Reception to that had left him seeking THU psychotherapy and unable to compose. By 1906 though, when he THU began work on the Second Symphony, the table had been fully THU reversed. He was happily married and had established himself THU as a successful conductor and composer. Stephen Johnson THU explores a work which reveals Rachmaninov fully in command THU of the form, at the height of his expressive powers. THU THU 20:40 Radio 3 Live in Concert b03j9xb0 (Listen) THU Live from St David's Hall in Cardiff, BBC NOW - Prokofiev, THU Rachmaninov (part 2) THU THU Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 THU THU BBC National Orchestra of Wales THU Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor) THU THU 22:00 Night Waves b03j9ngt (Listen) THU Amy Tan THU THU Anne McElvoy talks to the novelist Amy Tan about her new THU book, 'The Valley of Amazement', set in China and America THU and spanning the first half of the twentieth century. THU THU 22:45 The Essay b03j9nhy (Listen) THU The Islamic Golden Age, Professor Jonathan Bloom THU THU In a major series for Radio 3, we rediscover some of the key THU thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age. The THU period ranges from 750 to 1258 CE and over twenty episodes, THU we'll hear about architecture, invention, medicine, THU innovation and philosophy. Professor Jonathan Bloom on how THU the Islamic scholars and thinkers were the early adopters of THU paper - far ahead of their European contemporaries. THU THU Producer: Sarah Taylor. THU THU 23:00 Late Junction b03j9ntp (Listen) THU Anne Hilde Neset presents a varied selection of music. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:30 Through the Night b03j9n5j (Listen) FRI John Shea presents a concert given by Daniil Trifonov at the FRI 2012 Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, FRI including music by Scriabin, Stravinsky and Chopin. FRI FRI 12:31 AM FRI Scriabin, Alexander [1872-1915] FRI Sonata for piano no. 3 (Op.23) in F sharp minor FRI Daniil Trifonov (piano) FRI FRI 12:50 AM FRI Medtner, Nikolai [1879-1951] FRI 3 Fairy Tales FRI Daniil Trifonov (piano). FRI FRI 12:58 AM FRI Stravinsky, Igor [1882-1971] FRI The Firebird - excerpts arr Guido Agosti FRI Daniil Trifonov (piano). FRI FRI 1:11 AM FRI Debussy, Claude [1862-1918] FRI Images - set 1 for piano FRI Daniil Trifonov (piano). FRI FRI 1:25 AM FRI Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] FRI 12 Studies for piano (Op.25) FRI Daniil Trifonov (piano). FRI FRI 1:56 AM FRI Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] FRI Study Op.10'1 in C major FRI Daniil Trifonov (piano). FRI FRI 1:58 AM FRI Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] FRI Study Op.10'2 in A minor FRI Daniil Trifonov (piano). FRI FRI 2:00 AM FRI Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849] FRI Study Op.10'3 in E major FRI Daniil Trifonov (piano). FRI FRI 2:05 AM FRI Daniil Trifonov [b.1991] FRI Paraphrase on themes from Die Fledermaus FRI Daniil Trifonov (piano). FRI FRI 2:10 AM FRI Szeligowski, Tadeusz (1896-1963) FRI Four Polish Dances FRI Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Miroslaw FRI Blaszczyk (conductor) FRI FRI 2:27 AM FRI Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw (1876-1909) FRI Happiness FRI Polish Radio Choir, Marek Kluza (director) FRI FRI 2:31 AM FRI Farkas, Ferenc (1905-2000) FRI 5 Ancient Hungarian Dances for wind quintet FRI Galliard Ensemble FRI FRI 2:41 AM FRI Schumann, Robert (1810-1856) FRI Symphony No.2 in C major (Op.61) FRI Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor) FRI FRI 3:20 AM FRI Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) FRI Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied - motet (BWV.225) FRI Norwegian Soloist Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete FRI Pedersen (conductor) FRI FRI 3:37 AM FRI Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) FRI Petite suite for piano duet FRI Anna Klas, Bruno Lukk (pianos) (MONO) FRI FRI 3:50 AM FRI Avison, Charles (1709-1770), after Domenico Scarlatti FRI Concerto Grosso No.2 in G major for strings and continuo FRI Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (director) FRI FRI 4:04 AM FRI Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) FRI Sonata in C major (K.460) FRI Andreas Staier (harpsichord) FRI FRI 4:11 AM FRI Rota, Nino [1911-1979] FRI Concerto for bassoon and orchestra FRI Christopher Millard (bassoon), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, FRI Mario Bernadi (conductor) FRI FRI 4:31 AM FRI Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) FRI Overture: Der Fliegende Holländer ('The Flying Dutchman') FRI BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor) FRI FRI 4:43 AM FRI Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621) FRI Psalm 23 from 5 Psalms of David (1604) FRI Netherlands Chamber Choir, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) FRI FRI 4:51 AM FRI Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) FRI Concerto for violin and orchestra no. 2 (K.211) in D major FRI Director: James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra FRI FRI 5:13 AM FRI Monti, Vittorio (1868-1922) arr. unknown FRI Csardas (orig. for violin and piano) arr. unknown for brass FRI ensemble FRI FRI 5:17 AM FRI Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967) FRI Hary János Suite (Op.35a) FRI The Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Tamás Vásáry (conductor) FRI FRI 5:41 AM FRI Byrd, William [c.1540-1623] FRI Selection from 'The Battle' for keyboard (MB.28.94) FRI Jautrite Putnina (piano) FRI FRI 5:46 AM FRI Holst, Gustav (1874-1934) FRI Beni Mora - oriental suite (Op.29 No.1) FRI BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor) FRI FRI 6:02 AM FRI Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868) FRI Lindoro's cavatina 'Languir per una bella' - from L' FRI Italiana in Algeri, Act 1 scene 3 ( FRI Francisco Araiza (tenor: Lindoro), Capella Coloniensis, FRI Gabriele Ferro (conductor) FRI FRI 6:10 AM FRI Boccherini, Luigi [1743-1805] FRI Quintet for guitar and strings (G.448) in D major FRI Zagreb Guitar Quartet, Varazdin Chamber Orchestra. FRI FRI 06:30 Breakfast b03j9n6t (Listen) FRI FRI 09:00 Essential Classics b03j9n84 (Listen) FRI With Rob Cowan and his guest Alex Jennings FRI FRI 9am FRI A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the FRI Week: 'Homage To Pavlova' with the London Symphony Orchestra FRI conducted by Richard Bonynge. Also, at 9:30am, our daily FRI brainteaser - Only Connect FRI FRI 10am FRI Artist of the Week: Quartetto Italiano FRI FRI 10.30am FRI With Radio 3 having just marked Benjamin Britten's FRI centenary, our guest on Essential Classics is acclaimed FRI actor Alex Jennings. FRI FRI 11am FRI Rob's Essential Choice FRI FRI Tchaikovsky FRI Nutcracker ? Act II FRI London Symphony Orchestra FRI Antal Dorati (conductor) FRI MERCURY. FRI FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week b03j9n9j (Listen) FRI Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Goodbyes to a Bygone World FRI FRI Saint-Saëns's war service "at the keyboard" ? and a trio of FRI valedictory works for trombone, harp and bassoon. FRI FRI Camille Saint-Saëns reached the pinnacle of his career in FRI 1886, when both his famous "Carnival of the Animals" and his FRI "Organ" Symphony were first performed. He was 51 ? and yet FRI he'd live on for a further three-and-a-half decades, well FRI into the age of Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Poulenc. His late FRI works have often been unfairly neglected ? seen as 'out of FRI time' in a thrusting new century. This week, Donald Macleod FRI explores the charming and eccentric variety of pieces FRI Saint-Saëns left behind from the last decades of his life. FRI FRI As France experienced the trauma of the First World War, the FRI elderly Saint-Saëns made sure to do his bit ? by composing a FRI series of works to rouse the spirits of the French people. FRI Spirited away from war-torn Paris, and in the company of the FRI Belgian royal family! he set to work on a new work for harp FRI and orchestra: a novel combination even for a composer in FRI his ninth decade. His wanderlust never satiated, Saint-Saëns FRI spent his final years on visits to the USA, where he was FRI appalled by animals in captivity at the zoo in New York, and FRI to Switzerland, where even at the age of 85 he insisted on FRI swimming in the lakes. FRI FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b03j9nbq (Listen) FRI Bath Mozartfest 2013, Episode 4 FRI FRI This week's Lunchtime Concerts come from the Bath FRI Mozartfest, with performances from soprano Elizabeth Watts FRI and pianist Roger Vignoles, and the Takacs Quartet with FRI viola player Lawrence Power. Today's recital includes songs FRI and arias by Schubert, Mozart, Salieri and Storace, FRI alongside Dvorak's String Quintet in E flat, Op.97. FRI FRI Schubert: Gretchens Bitte (compl Britten) FRI Mozartt: Un moto di gioia [Le Nozze di Figaro] FRI Storace: Ah, come in un istante [Gli Equivoci] FRI Mozart: Vedrai carino [Don Giovanni] FRI Salieri: Amor pietoso amore [Il ricco d'un giorno] FRI Mozart: Come scoglio [Cosi fan tutte] FRI Elizabath Watts (soprano) FRI Roger Vignoles (piano) FRI FRI Dvorak: String Quintet in E flat, Op 97 FRI Takacs Quartet with Lawrence Power (viola). FRI FRI 14:00 Afternoon on 3 b03j9ncc (Listen) FRI Transatlantic Travel, American Emigres, Part 4 FRI FRI Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale FRI Studio 1 in London in the second live concert of this week FRI celebrating the music composed by Europeans in exile in the FRI United States of America. Pieces by émigré composers Paul FRI Hindemith and Kurt Weill are framed by two movements from FRI the Holidays Symphony by American modernist Charles Ives. FRI FRI Following the concert, Louise Fryer rounds off the week with FRI two of the most famous works written by Europeans in the FRI USA: Bloch's 'Hebrew Rhapsody' Schelomo, expressing emotion FRI he felt stemming from his Jewish heritage, and Dvorak's FRI nostalgic Ninth Symphony: From the New World. FRI FRI LIVE from Maida Vale Studio 1, London FRI Ives: The Fourth of July (from Holidays Symphony) FRI Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto FRI Mark Simpson (clarinet) FRI Weill: 4 Songs of Walt Whitman FRI Robin Tritschler (tenor) FRI Ives: Decoration Day (from Holidays Symphony) FRI BBC Symphony Orchestra, FRI Sakari Oramo (conductor). FRI FRI 3.20pm FRI Bloch: Schelomo FRI Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), FRI BBC Philharmonic, FRI Paul Daniel (conductor). FRI FRI 3.40pm FRI Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 (From the New World) FRI BBC National Orchestra of Wales, FRI Nicholas Collon (conductor). FRI FRI 16:30 In Tune b03j9nfb (Listen) FRI Sean Rafferty's guests include Master of the Queen's Music, FRI Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. He'll be talking about Saffron FRI Hall - the brand new performance space for music, theatre FRI and other arts events situated in Saffron Walden, the FRI historic market town where South Cambridgeshire meets North FRI Essex. FRI FRI Plus choral expert Suzi Digby, familiar to TV viewers from FRI the BBC's Last Choir Standing and Cardiff Singer of the FRI World, talks about her Scratch Youth Messiah at the Royal FRI Albert Hall. FRI FRI Main headlines are at 5pm and 6pm. FRI In.Tune@bbc.co.uk FRI @BBCInTune. FRI FRI 19:00 Composer of the Week b03j9n9j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Radio 3 Live in Concert b03j9xdz (Listen) FRI BBC Philharmonic - Beethoven FRI FRI Live from the Victoria Hall in Hanley. FRI FRI Presented by Stuart Flinders FRI FRI The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Nicholas Collon, performs FRI an all-Beethoven concert with the 'Fidelio' overture, his FRI Second Piano Concerto with Francesco Piemontesi, and the FRI Sixth Symphony. 'Pastoral'. FRI FRI Beethoven: 'Fidelio' Overture FRI Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 FRI FRI 8.40pm Interval FRI FRI 9.00pm FRI Beethoven: Symphony No 6, 'Pastoral' FRI FRI BBC Philharmonic FRI Nicholas Collon (conductor) FRI Francesco Piemontesi (piano) FRI FRI Nicholas Collon conducts the BBC Philharmonic in an FRI all-Beethoven concert from the Victoria Hall in Hanley. FRI Alumnus of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme Francesco FRI Piemontesi joins them for an early piano concerto and the FRI concert ends with the ever-green 'Pastoral' symphony, FRI celebrating the composer's love of the countryside. FRI FRI 22:00 The Verb b03j9xf1 (Listen) FRI Ben Masters, Chloe Aridjis FRI FRI Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the word', Ian's FRI guests include novelists Chloe Aridjis and Ben Masters. FRI FRI 22:45 The Essay b03j9nj0 (Listen) FRI The Islamic Golden Age, Professor Julia Bray FRI FRI The Islamic Golden Age rediscovered through portraits of key FRI achivements and figures. The period ranges from 750 to 1258 FRI CE and over twenty episodes, we'll hear about architecture, FRI invention, medicine, innovation and philosophy. Professor FRI Julia Bray explores the figure of Harun al-Rashid known to FRI many from the Thousand and One Night tales. FRI Producer: Sarah Taylor. FRI FRI 23:00 World on 3 b03j9xf3 (Listen) FRI WOMEX 2013 FRI FRI Lopa Kothari with tracks from across the globe, plus music FRI from WOMEX, the world music expo in Cardiff. Including FRI performances from Peruvian veterans Cumbia All Stars, and FRI acoustic death metal from South Koreans Jambinai. FRI
22 November 2013
Radio 3 Listings for 23/11/2013 - 29/11/2013
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