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SAT SATURDAY 27 DECEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 01:00 Through the Night b04vd9dn (Listen) SAT Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra SAT Nicola Benedetti is the soloist in Bruch's First violin SAT concerto with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted SAT by Andrew Litton. Catriona Young presents. SAT 1:01 AM SAT Svendsen, Johan [1840-1911] SAT Carnival in Paris - episode Op.9 for orchestra SAT Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor) SAT 1:14 AM SAT Bruch, Max [1838-1920] SAT Concerto no. 1 in G minor Op.26 for violin and orchestra SAT Nicola Benedetti (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, SAT Andrew Litton (conductor) SAT 1:41 AM SAT Prokofiev, Sergei [1891-1953] SAT Symphony no. 5 in B flat major Op.100 SAT Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor) SAT 2:27 AM SAT Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) SAT String Octet (Op.20) in E flat major SAT Yoshiko Arai & Ik-Hwan Bae (violins), Yuko Inoue (viola), SAT Christoph Richter (cello), Vogler Quartet SAT 3:01 AM SAT Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) SAT Magnificat in D major (Wq.215) SAT Linda Ovrebo (soprano), Anna Einarsson (alto), Anders SAT J.Dahlin (tenor), Johannes Mannov (bass), Norwegian Radio SAT Orchestra, Oslo Chamber Choir, Alessandro de Marchi SAT (conductor) SAT 3:37 AM SAT Stenhammar, Wilhelm (1871-1927) SAT String Quartet No.3 in F major (Op.18) SAT Yggdrasil String Quartet: Henrik Peterson & Per Öman SAT (violins); Robert Westlund (viola); Per Nyström (cello) SAT 4:09 AM SAT Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) SAT Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162) SAT Janina Fialkowska (piano) SAT 4:19 AM SAT Koussevitsky, Serge (1874-1951) SAT Andante cantabile & Valse Miniature (Op.1, Nos. 1 & 2) SAT Gary Carr (double bass), Harmon Lewis (piano) SAT 4:28 AM SAT Gilse, Jan van (1881-1944) SAT Concert Overture in C minor SAT Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen SAT (conductor) SAT 4:38 AM SAT Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) SAT L'isle joyeuse (1904) SAT Philippe Cassard (piano) SAT 4:45 AM SAT Pandolfi Mealli, Giovanni Antonio [fl.1660-1669] SAT Sonata in A minor Op.3'2 (La Cesta) for violin and continuo SAT Daniel Sepec (violin), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Lee SAT Santana (theorbo), Michael Behringer (harpsichord) SAT 4:52 AM SAT Kilar, Wojciech (b. 1932) SAT Little Overture (1955) SAT National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stanislav Macura SAT (conductor) SAT 5:01 AM SAT Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) SAT Two Lyric Pieces: Evening in the Mountains (Op.68 No.4); At SAT the cradle (Op.68 No.5) SAT CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor) SAT 5:09 AM SAT Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931) SAT Chaconne for piano (Op.32) SAT Anders Kilström (piano) SAT 5:19 AM SAT Platti, Giovanni Benedetto (1697-1763) SAT Trio in C minor for oboe, bassoon and continuo SAT Ensemble Zefiro SAT 5:28 AM SAT Schutz, Heinrich [1585-1672] SAT 3 sacred pieces - Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich SWV.415; SAT Nun will sich scheiden Nacht und Tag, after SWV.138; Herr, SAT unser Herrscher (Psalm 8) SWV.27 SAT Kölner Kammerchor , Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann SAT (conductor) SAT 5:40 AM SAT Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) SAT Sonata for cello and piano in D minor SAT Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Francine Kay (piano) SAT 5:52 AM SAT Rossini, Gioachino [1792-1868] SAT William Tell - Overture SAT BBC Philharmonic, Paul Watkins (conductor) SAT 6:05 AM SAT Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) SAT 4 Ballades for piano (Op.10) (1. D minor 'Edward'; 2. D SAT major; 3. B minor; 4. B major) SAT Paul Lewis (piano) SAT 6:27 AM SAT Gesualdo Da Venosa (1561?-1613) SAT Miserere SAT Camerata Silesia, Anna Szostak (conductor) SAT 6:38 AM SAT Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) SAT Brandenburg concerto No.5 (BWV.1050) in D major SAT Per Flemstrøm (flute), Andrew Manze (violin), Andreas Staier SAT (harpsichord), Risør Festival Strings. SAT SAT 07:00 Breakfast b04vxbpw (Listen) SAT Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, SAT with the final week of the Best of British music Playlist, SAT compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests SAT for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to SAT hear. SAT Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests. SAT SAT 09:00 CD Review b04vdfbg (Listen) SAT Building a Library: Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) SAT SAT with Andrew McGregor. Building a Library on Schubert's SAT Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) and an interview with pianist SAT Alfred Brendel SAT SAT 09.00am SAT BACH, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 SAT Sunhae Im (soprano), Petra Noskaiova (mezzo-soprano), SAT Stephan Scherpe (tenor), Jan van der Crabben (baritone), La SAT Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor) SAT CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72394 (2Hybrid SACD mid-price) SAT SAT *Agricola: Die Hirten bei der Krippe* SAT AGRICOLA, J F: Kundlich gross ist das gottselige Geheimnis; SAT Die Hirten bei der Krippe; Uns ist ein Kind geboren SAT Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano), Myriam Arbouz (alto), SAT Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthias Vieweg (bass), Daniel SAT Rothert (flute), Chris Weddle (horn), Kolner Akademie, SAT Michael Alexander Willens (conductor) SAT CPO 7779212 (CD) SAT SAT BRAUNFELS: Verkundigung SAT Juliane Banse, Janina Baechle, Vanessa Goikoetxea, SAT (soprano), Hanna Schwarz (alto), Matthias Klink, Mauro Peter SAT (tenore), Adrian Erod (baritone), Robert Holl, Johannes SAT Stermann (bass), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munchner SAT Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer (conductor) SAT BR KLASSIK 900311 (2CD mid-price) SAT SAT *Vivaldi & Bach: Magnificats and Concerti* SAT BACH, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052; SAT Magnificat in D major, BWV243; Magnificat in D major, SAT BWV243; Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052 SAT VIVALDI: Concerto Op. 3 No. 2 'Con due Violini e Violoncello SAT obligato', RV 578; Magnificat in G minor, RV610; Magnificat SAT in G minor, RV610 SAT Pierre Hantai (harpsichord), Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, Johannette SAT Zomer (sopranos), Damien Guillon (countertenor), David SAT Munderloh (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (baritone), La Capella SAT Reial de Catalunya, Manfredo Kraemer, Pablo Valetti SAT (violins), Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor) SAT ALIA VOX AVSA9909 (Hybrid SACD + DVD Video) SAT SAT 09.30am Building a Library SAT Chris de Souza compares recordings of Schubert’s Symphony SAT no.8 “Unfinished” and makes a recommendation. SAT SAT 10.15am SAT Andrew talks to pianist Alfred Brendel about a lengthy SAT recording career and collaborations with some of the SAT greatest artists of the 20th century. SAT SAT *Keyboard Magic * SAT J S BACH: Italian Concerto in F BWV.971; “Ich ruf’ zu dir, SAT Herr Jesu Christ” BWV.639 (arr. Busoni); Prelude (Fantasia) SAT in A minor BWV.922; Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor SAT BWV.903; “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland” BWV.659 (arr. SAT Busoni); Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV.904 SAT Alfred Brendel (piano) SAT PHILIPS 4544092 (CD) SAT SAT *The Vox Years: The Young Brendel* SAT http://voxcd.com/VOX/CD6X3601.htm SAT Alfred Brendel (piano) and various artists SAT VOX CD6X3601 (6CD) SAT SAT BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (complete) SAT Alfred Brendel (piano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon SAT Rattle (conductor) SAT PHILIPS 4627812 (3CD) SAT SAT *Beethoven - Complete Works for Piano & Cello* SAT BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5 (complete); Variations SAT (12) on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen" for Cello and Piano Op. SAT 66; Variations (12) on "See the conquering hero comes" for SAT Cello and Piano, WoO 45; Variations (7) on "Bei Mannern, SAT welche Liebe fuhlen", for Cello and Piano, WoO 46 SAT Adrian Brendel (cello), Alfred Brendel (piano) SAT DECCA 4753792 (2CD budget) SAT SAT *Alfred Brendel - The Farewell Concerts* SAT BACH, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV659 'Nun komm, der Heiden SAT Heiland' SAT BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major Op. 27 No. 1 SAT 'Quasi una fantasia'; Bagatelles (7): No. 4 SAT HAYDN: Andante & Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6 (Sonata - SAT un piccolo divertimento) SAT MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K271 SAT "Jeunehomme"; Piano Sonata No. 15 in F major, K533/494 SAT SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960; SAT Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3 SAT Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor), SAT Alfred Brendel (piano) SAT DECCA 4782116 (2CD mid-price) SAT SAT *Haydn - 11 Piano Sonatas* SAT HAYDN: Piano Sonata No. 20 in B flat major, Hob.XVI:18; SAT Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major, Hob. XVII:4; Adagio in F SAT major, Hob.XVII/9; Andante & Variations in F minor, SAT Hob.XVII:6 (Sonata - un piccolo divertimento); Piano Sonata SAT No. 32 in G minor, Hob.XVI:44; Piano Sonata No. 34 in D SAT major, Hob.XVI:33; Piano Sonata No. 37 in E major, SAT Hob.XVI:22; Piano Sonata No. 40 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:25; SAT Piano Sonata No. 42 in G major, Hob.XVI:27; Piano Sonata No. SAT 48 in C major, Hob.XVI:35; Piano Sonata No. 50 in D major, SAT Hob.XVI:37; Piano Sonata No. 51 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:38; SAT Piano Sonata No. 52 in G major, Hob.XVI:39 SAT Alfred Brendel (piano) SAT PHILIPS 4166432 (4CD) SAT SAT 11.15am SAT *Schubert: Octet D803 & Quartettsatz D703* SAT SCHUBERT: Octet in F major, D803; String Quartet No. 12 in C SAT minor (fragment), D703 ‘Quartettsatz' SAT Northernlight, Edding Quartet SAT PHI LPH015 (CD) SAT SAT *Grieg & Gade: String Quartets* SAT GADE, N: String Quartet in F major (Willkommen und Abschied) SAT GRIEG: String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 SAT Leipziger Streichquartett SAT MDG MDG3071870 (CD) SAT SAT STILL, R: The Four String Quartets SAT Villiers Quartet SAT NAXOS 8571353 (CD budget) SAT SAT 11.40am Disc of the Week SAT *Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works* SAT VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; SAT Symphony No. 3 'A Pastoral Symphony'; Five Variants of SAT ‘Dives and Lazarus'; The Wasps Overture SAT Sarah Fox (soprano), Halle, Sir Mark Elder (conductor) SAT HALLE CDHLL7540 (CD mid-price) SAT SAT 12:15 Sunday Feature b041vg00 (Listen) SAT Educating Isaac SAT SAT Could your child compose like Mozart? While searching for a SAT creative and fun way to teach his 3-year-old son, Nick SAT Baragwanath discovered a forgotten history of music SAT completely different from the usual dull routine of practice SAT and graded exams. In the 18th century, the conservatoires SAT (orphanages) of Naples developed an education system that SAT enabled destitute children to become professional-level SAT composers and performers by their early teens. Almost every SAT famous musician of the time was trained in this way, in what SAT is an astonishing untold rags-to-riches story. Airbrushed SAT from history by Romantic writers, who valued the idea of SAT spontaneous genius above the reality of craft training, the SAT real story of classical music is finally coming to light. SAT And modern conservatoires, such as the Royal Academy of SAT Music, are taking notice. Could this revival transform the SAT way we teach children music? SAT SAT The 18th century is widely regarded as a golden age for SAT European music, producing Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and SAT Beethoven. But it is often forgotten that professional SAT music-making was dominated by Italians, especially those SAT trained at one of the Neapolitan orphanage-conservatories. SAT How many music lovers today could name even one of the 'big SAT four' put forward by Charles Burney in 1770: Jommelli, SAT Galuppi, Piccinni and Sacchini? Not to mention others such SAT as Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Paisiello, Cimarosa, etc. SAT SAT They stand witness to an incredible rags-to-riches story, SAT testament to the egalitarian ideals of the enlightenment. SAT SAT Poverty, disease and prostitution were rife in 18th-century SAT Naples, resulting in a large number of abandoned children. SAT Conservatories took them in and taught them a lucrative SAT trade: music. Discipline was a constant problem, and the SAT conservatories were policed by special priests chosen for SAT their burliness. But they developed an education system SAT which devolved on creativity, enabling disadvantaged SAT children to compose immaculate operas and symphonies by SAT their early teens. Through what was probably the most SAT effective music education system ever devised, poor children SAT could become famous artists, rubbing shoulders with princes SAT and the super-rich. The penniless 17-year-old Haydn had the SAT good fortune to learn this system from Neapolitan maestro SAT Nicola Porpora (teacher of Farinelli), in return for SAT cleaning his boots. SAT SAT Recently uncovered by scholars, 18th-century methods are SAT gaining currency in a modern system often criticised for SAT stifling individualism. Nicholas Baragwanath has started to SAT train his 3-year-old son, Isaac, in the old Neapolitan way. SAT He travels to Naples to uncover the forgotten story of the SAT musicians who were really famous during the 18th century and SAT to find out how they became so skilled in such a short time. SAT Their methods involved giving children simple musical games SAT and puzzles to play with, rather than teaching them how to SAT read a score 'correctly'. He visits an 8-year-old girl in SAT Surrey who has already been trained through these methods SAT and who has composed critically acclaimed operas and string SAT quartets. He investigates what this might mean for modern SAT music education by speaking with educators from the UK, USA, SAT Italy, and Switzerland. SAT SAT 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b04vdfpl (Listen) SAT La Colombina SAT SAT 16th-century Spanish vocal music of the Marian tradition by SAT Morales, Victoria and Carceres from a concert given by vocal SAT quartet La Colombina in Switzerland last December. SAT SAT La Colombina: Raquel Andueza (soprano), José Hernández SAT Pastor (alto), Josep Benet (tenor) and Josep Cabré SAT (baritone). SAT SAT 14:00 Saturday Classics b04vdfpn (Listen) SAT Zenaida Yanowsky SAT SAT Zenaida Yanowsky, one of the Principal dancers of The Royal SAT Ballet, chooses music that has inspired her in her personal SAT and professional life. She was brought up in Spain, both her SAT parents were dancers, and she has been with the Royal Ballet SAT for 20 years. Her choice includes Spanish music and ballet SAT music for Christmas. SAT SAT 16:00 Sound of Cinema b04vdfpq (Listen) SAT Ennio Morricone SAT SAT Matthew Sweet looks back on the career of the great Italian SAT film composer Ennio Morricone with the Morricone expert SAT Pasquale Iannone. SAT SAT The programme includes music from much loved classics such SAT as "A Fist Full of Dollars" and "The Good, The Bad and the SAT Ugly"; "Cinema Paradiso", "1900", "The Mission"; and less SAT well known scores such as "The Investigation Of A Citizen SAT Above Suspicion"; "A Quiet Place In The Country" and SAT Morricone's first score: "Il Federale". SAT SAT The Classic Score of the Week is "Once Upon A Time In The SAT West". SAT SAT 17:00 Jazz Record Requests b04vdfpw (Listen) SAT Review of 2014 SAT SAT Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests looking back at SAT jazz events of 2014. There are suggestions of new bands to SAT follow, memories of gigs and of musicians no longer with us. SAT SAT DISC 1 SAT Artist Greg Abate SAT Title Steppin’ Out SAT Composer Abate SAT Album Motif SAT Label Whaling City Sound SAT Number WCS 070 Track 7 SAT Duration 4.39 SAT Performers Greg Abate, as; John Lockwood, b; SAT Mark Walker, d; Tim Ray, p. 2014. SAT SAT DISC 2 SAT Artist Archie Semple and Fred Hunt SAT Title I’m In The Market For You SAT Composer Hanley / McCarthy SAT Album The Clarinet of Archie Semple SAT Label Lake SAT Number 290 Track 18 SAT Duration 3.46 SAT Performers Archie Semple, cl; Fred Hunt, p. SAT SAT DISC 3 SAT Artist Ben Webster and Art Tatum SAT Title Gone With The Wind SAT Composer Steiner SAT Album Ben Webster / Art Tatum Quartet SAT Label Poll Winners SAT Number Track 3 SAT Duration 4.47 SAT Performers: Ben Webster, ts; Art Tatum, p; SAT Red Callendar, b; Bill Douglass, d. SAT SAT DISC 4 SAT Artist Keith Jarrett SAT Title Over the Rainbow SAT Composer Arlen / Harburg SAT Album La Scala SAT Label ECM SAT Number 1640 Track 3 SAT Duration 6.01 SAT Performers Keith Jarrett, p; 1995. SAT SAT DISC 5 SAT Artist The New Jazz Orchestra SAT Title Dusk Fire SAT Composer Michael Garrick SAT Album Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe SAT Label Dusk Fire SAT Number CD110 Track 5 SAT Duration 5.25 SAT Performers: Derek Watkins, Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett, SAT Ian Carr, (t), John Mumford, Mike Gibbs, Derek Wadsworth, SAT Tony Russell, (tb), George Smith, (tu), SAT Barbara Thompson, Dave Gelly, Jim Philip, SAT Dick Heckstall-Smith, (reeds), Frank Ricotti (vib, mar), SAT Jack Bruce (b), Jon Hiseman (d), Neil Ardley (dir). SAT 17/18 September 1968. SAT SAT DISC 6 SAT Artist Ken Colyer SAT Title Tuxedo Rag SAT Composer Celestin SAT Album New Orleans To London and Back To The Delta SAT Label Lake SAT Number Track 16 SAT Duration 3.09 SAT Performers: Ken Colyer, t; Acker Bilk, cl, Ed O’Donnell, tb; SAT Diz Disley, bj; Dick Smith, b; Stan Greig, d. Oct 1954. SAT SAT DISC 7 SAT Artist Euan Burton SAT Title Too Much Love SAT Composer Burton SAT Album Too Much Love SAT Label Whirlwind SAT Number Track 7 SAT Duration 3.59 SAT Performers: Euan Burton, b; Adam Jackson, as; SAT Alyn Cosker, d; Tom Gibbs, p; June 2013 SAT SAT DISC 8 SAT Artist Dinah Washington SAT Title Look To The Rainbow SAT Composer Lane / Harburg SAT Album Dinah SAT Label Emarcy SAT Number 36065 Track 1 SAT Duration 2.46 SAT Performers: Dinah Washington and Orchestra 1956 SAT SAT DISC 9 SAT Artist Manhattan Transfer SAT Title Birdland SAT Composer Zawinul, Hendricks SAT Album Extensions SAT Label Atlantic SAT Number Track 1 SAT Duration 6.01 SAT Performers Tim Hauser, Alan Paul, Janis Siegel, SAT Cheryl Betine, plus acc, inc Yaron Gershowsky, kb. 1979. SAT SAT DISC 10 SAT Artist Michel Petrucciani / Ron McClure SAT Title Beautiful But Why SAT Composer Petrucciani SAT Album Cold Blues SAT Label Sunnyside SAT Number Track 1 SAT Duration 8.37 SAT Performers Michel Petrucciani, p; Ron McClure, b. 1985. SAT SAT DISC 11 SAT Artist Miles Davis SAT Title Half Nelson SAT Composer Davis SAT Album Workin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet SAT Label Prestige SAT Number Track 7 SAT Duration 4,.45 SAT Performers: Miles Davis, t; John Coltrane, ts; SAT Red Garland, p; Paul Chambers, b; Philly Joe Jones, d. SAT SAT 18:00 Jazz Line-Up b04vdfpy (Listen) SAT Alan Broadbent and the Mark Nightingale Big Band, plus Dee SAT Dee Bridgewater SAT SAT Claire Martin presents music from Grammy award-winning SAT pianist, composer and arranger Alan Broadbent with the Mark SAT Nightingale Big Band recorded at Watermill Jazz in Dorking SAT as part of the club's 20th anniversary celebrations. The SAT band perform music written by Broadbent who has worked with SAT some of the biggest names in music including Woody Herman, SAT Paul McCartney, Nelson Riddle, Diana Krall, Johnny Mandel SAT and a long association with the late Charlie Haden. SAT SAT Trombonist and big band leader Mark Nightingale is an SAT established face on the British Jazz scene and for this SAT special concert his band include Andy Panayi and Jamie SAT Talbot - alto saxes, Ben Castle & Sammy Mayne - tenor saxes, SAT Martin Williams - baritone sax, Simon Gardner, Andy SAT Greenwood, Tom Walsh, Martin Shaw - trumpets, Alistair SAT White, Trevor Mires, Adrian Halliwell - trombones, Sam SAT Burgess - double bass, Ian Thomas - drums and Alan Broadbent SAT on piano. SAT SAT Plus a short set by vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater performing SAT on the Jazz Line-Up stage at the 2014 London Jazz Festival. SAT SAT 19:30 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdfq0 (Listen) SAT Prom 62: Beethoven, Berlioz and Dvorak SAT SAT The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sir Roger SAT Norrington at this year's BBC Proms with music by Beethoven, SAT Berlioz and Dvorak. SAT SAT Presented by Andrew McGregor at the Royal Albert Hall, SAT London SAT SAT Beethoven: Symphony no. 8 in F major SAT Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet - Romeo Alone SAT Dvovak: Symphony no. 9 in E minor 'From the New World' SAT SAT Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra SAT Sir Roger Norrington (Conductor) SAT SAT Following his St John Passion earlier in the season, Roger SAT Norrington returned as Honorary Conductor of the Stuttgart SAT Radio Symphony Orchestra. Much-loved symphonies by Beethoven SAT and Dvorak bookend a programme of big musical emotions that SAT has at its core the wistful romance of the Romeo Alone SAT section of Berlioz's sprawling choral symphony. SAT SAT Beethoven's 'little symphony in F' brings joy and wit to the SAT mix, belying the composer's troubled personal life with its SAT sunny good humour. By contrast, biography is woven tightly SAT into the melodies and rhythms of Dvorak's final symphony - SAT the elegiac testimony to his love of his Bohemian homeland SAT and his new-found fascination for the stories and traditions SAT of America. SAT SAT Concert originally broadcast 03/09/2014. SAT SAT 21:10 BBC Proms 2014 b04w15nm (Listen) SAT Prom 37: Steve Reich SAT SAT BBC Singers and David Hill recorded at the BBC Proms with an SAT iconic work by Minimalism's founding father. SAT SAT Steve Reich: The Desert Music (chamber version) SAT SAT Endymion SAT BBC Singers SAT David Hill (conductor) SAT SAT Steve Reich's extraordinary musical vision The Desert Music' SAT tells of the end of the world as imagined in the apocalypse SAT of the post-nuclear age. Texts by William Carlos Williams SAT are set for amplified voices, strings, synthesisers and a SAT huge array of percussion; since its composition in 1983 it SAT has become one of Reich's most iconic works. SAT SAT Concert originally broadcast 13/08/2014. SAT SAT 22:00 Hear and Now b04vdfs4 (Listen) SAT Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2014, Episode 5 SAT SAT Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present the final SAT programme of recordings from this year's Huddersfield SAT Contemporary Music Festival, including a concert from Trio SAT Accanto and a new work by Norwegian composer Jon Oivind SAT Ness. SAT SAT Brice Pauset: Adagio Dialletico (UK premiere) SAT Hans Thomalla: Lied (UK Premiere) SAT Andreas Dohmen: Versi Rapportati SAT Trio Accanto - Christian Dierstein (percussion); Marcus SAT Weiss (saxophone); Nicolas Hodges (piano) SAT SAT Jon Oivind Ness: Gimilen (UK premiere) SAT Cikada Ensemble. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 DECEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz b01nznws (Listen) SUN Count Basie, Episode 1 SUN SUN In 1936, The Count Basie Band came sweeping out of the West, SUN to amaze America with great soloists such as Lester Young, SUN and the most swinging rhythm section in jazz. In the first SUN of two programmes, Geoffrey Smith celebrates the Basie SUN effect with that original band, followed next week by the SUN Count's famous crew from the 1950s and 60s. SUN SUN First broadcast in 2012. SUN SUN 01:00 Through the Night b04vdgbj (Listen) SUN Danielle de Niese and the Australian Chamber Orchestra SUN Danielle de Niese and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. With SUN Jonathan Swain. SUN 1:01 AM SUN Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] SUN Symphony in D, K. 196/121 (Overture to 'La finta SUN giardiniera') SUN Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (conductor) SUN 1:09 AM SUN Vine, Carl [b.1954] SUN The Tree of Man SUN Danielle de Niese (soprano), Australian Chamber Orchestra, SUN Richard Tognetti (conductor) SUN 1:22 AM SUN Meale, Richard [1932-2009] SUN Cantilena Pacifica SUN Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin & SUN conductor) SUN 1:30 AM SUN Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] SUN Exsultate, jubilate- motet for soprano and orchestra (K.165) SUN Danielle de Niese (soprano), Australian Chamber Orchestra, SUN Richard Tognetti (conductor) SUN 1:44 AM SUN Schubert, Franz [1797-1828] arr. Richard Tognetti SUN Der Tod und das Mädchen (Death and the Maiden), (D. 531) SUN Danielle de Niese (soprano), Australian Chamber Orchestra, SUN Richard Tognetti (conductor) SUN 1:46 AM SUN Schubert, Franz [1797-1828 SUN Quartet No.14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' (D.810) SUN Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin & SUN conductor) SUN 2:24 AM SUN Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) SUN Serenade in D minor (Op.44) SUN I Solisti del Vento, Etienne Siebens (conductor) SUN 2:48 AM SUN Röntgen, Julius (1855-1932) SUN Theme with Variations SUN Wyneke Jordans and Leo van Doeselaar (pianos) SUN 3:01 AM SUN Simpson, Christopher [c.1605-1669] SUN The Four Seasons - Winter SUN Les Voix Humaines - Susie Napper, Margaret Little (viola da SUN gambas); Arparla - Maria Christina Cleary (double harp), SUN Davide Monti (violin), Joanna Boslak-Górniok (harpsichord) SUN 3:16 AM SUN Puccini, Giacomo [1858-1924] SUN Rodolfo's aria ("Your tiny hand is frozen") from La Boheme, SUN Act 1 (sung in Hungarian) SUN Denes Gulyas (tenor) (Rodolfo), Hungarian Radio Orchestra, SUN Adam Medveczky (conductor) SUN 3:21 AM SUN Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893] SUN The Seasons Op.37b for piano SUN Juhani Lagerspetz (piano) SUN 4:04 AM SUN Vaughan Williams, Ralph [1872-1958] SUN No sad thought his soul affright SUN BBC singers, Paul Brough (conductor) SUN 4:07 AM SUN Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) SUN Song and chorus 'Sound Fame' from Act IV of 'Dioclesian', SUN Z.627 SUN Paul Elliott (tenor), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque SUN Soloists, Crispian Steele-Perkins and David Staff SUN (trumpets), John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) SUN 4:13 AM SUN Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay [1844-1908] SUN Capriccio espagnol Op.34 SUN Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Dmitriev (conductor) SUN 4:29 AM SUN Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) SUN Violin Concerto in A minor, (BWV.1041) SUN Midori Seiler (violin), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin SUN 4:43 AM SUN Bernat Vivancos [b.1973] SUN A Child is born SUN Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor) SUN 4:51 AM SUN Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich [1840-1893] SUN Waltz from Sleeping Beauty (Op.66) SUN Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvid Engegård (conductor) SUN 4:56 AM SUN Leontovitch, Mykola (1877-1921) / Kountz, Richard (b. 19??), SUN arr. Cable, Howard SUN Carol of the Bells & The Sleigh à la Russe arranged by SUN Howard Cable in 1992 SUN The Toronto Children's Chorus, Members of the Toronto SUN Symphony Orchestra, Judy Loman (harp), Jean Ashworth Bartle SUN (conductor) SUN 5:01 AM SUN Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) SUN Lucio Silla - Overture (K.135) SUN Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor) SUN 5:10 AM SUN Schubert, Franz [1797-1828], arr.Reger, Max [1873-1916] SUN Nacht und Träume D.827, arr. Reger for voice and orchestra SUN Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony SUN Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor) SUN 5:13 AM SUN Schubert, Franz [1797-1828], arr.Reger, Max [1873-1916] SUN Gretchen am Spinnrade D.118 SUN Brigitte Fournier (soprano), National Polish Radio Symphony SUN Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow (conductor) SUN 5:17 AM SUN Handel, Georg Frideric [1685-1759] SUN Concerto Grosso in F major, op. 6 no. 2, HWV 320 SUN European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen SUN (conductor) SUN 5:29 AM SUN James MacMillan SUN O Radiant Dawn (from the Strathclyde motets) SUN BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor) SUN 5:34 AM SUN Ravel, Maurice [1875-1937] SUN Trio for piano and strings in A minor SUN Altenberg Trio, Vienna SUN 5:59 AM SUN Chaminade, Cecile [1857-1944] SUN Concertino Op.107 SUN Maria Filippova (flute), Ekaterina Mirzeava (piano) SUN 6:08 AM SUN Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) SUN Jesu, meine Freude: BWV 610 from the Orgelbüchlein SUN Dick Koomans (organ) SUN 6:11 AM SUN Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694) SUN Halt, was du hast SUN Cantus Cölln Konrad Junghänel (director) SUN 6:16 AM SUN Rodrigo, Joaquin [1901-1999] SUN Invocacion y danza (Homenaje a Manuel de Falla) for guitar SUN Sean Shibe (guitar) SUN 6:24 AM SUN Hartmann, Johann Peter Emilius (1805-1900) SUN Blomstre som en rosengård (Blooming like a rose garden) SUN Fionian Chamber Choir, Alice Granum (director) SUN 6:30 AM SUN Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] SUN Concerto no. 3 in G major K.216 for violin and orchestra SUN Natsumi Wakamutsu (violin) Orchestra Libera Classica, Hidemi SUN Suzuki (conductor) SUN 6:54 AM SUN Weber, Carl Maria von [1786-1826] SUN Adagio and rondo (J.115) (arr. Piatigorsky ) SUN Dominik Plocinski (cello), Paul Arendt (piano). SUN SUN 07:00 Breakfast b04vxbrr (Listen) SUN Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, SUN with the final week of the Best of British music Playlist, SUN compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests SUN for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to SUN hear. SUN Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests. SUN SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning b04vdgbn (Listen) SUN Rob Cowan SUN SUN Rob Cowan's Sunday selection includes Prokofiev's 1st SUN symphony, and music for the holidays by Fanny Mendelssohn, SUN Borodin and Waldteufel. He concludes the Sunday cycle of SUN Haydn String quartets with Op. 77 No 2 and the short op. SUN 103, played by the Smithsonian and Juilliard Quartets SUN respectively. SUN SUN 12:00 Private Passions b04vdgbq (Listen) SUN Roger Moore SUN SUN James Bond, Simon Templar... Michael Berkeley's guest today SUN can only be Roger Moore. He played Bond for twelve years, in SUN seven films, more than any other actor. And before that he SUN was a much-loved figure throughout the 1960s as The Saint. SUN In fact he's rarely been off the big and small screens since SUN he began his acting career in 1945, working as an extra SUN alongside his idol Stewart Granger in Caesar and Cleopatra. SUN SUN What's less well known about Roger is his passion for music. SUN He counts many musicians among his friends and has chosen SUN music performed by two of them - Julian Rachlin and Janine SUN Jansen, who reflect his passion for strings. His other great SUN love is opera, and he entertains us with stories about music SUN from his heroine Joan Sutherland, as well as La Traviata, a SUN piece of music connected with one of his earlier film roles. SUN SUN And he shares the secret of how, after 86 years of mostly SUN star-studded living, he's managed to keep his feet on the SUN ground. SUN SUN Producer: Jane Greenwood. SUN SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b04v1rbv (Listen) SUN Wigmore Hall Mondays: Badke Quartet with Maximiliano Martin SUN SUN The Badke Quartet perform Haydn's early and optimistic SUN string quartet - "The Hunt" or "La Chasse", and join forces SUN with Spanish clarinettist Maximiliano Martín to perform one SUN of Brahms' most popular works - his clarinet quintet. SUN SUN Haydn - String Quartet in B flat, Op. 1 No. 1 'La chasse' SUN Brahms - Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 SUN SUN Badke String Quartet SUN Maximiliano Martín (clarinet). SUN SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show b04vdgq4 (Listen) SUN Here We Come a-Wassailing SUN SUN Lucie Skeaping investigates an ancient musical tradition SUN whereby people went from door to door singing carols and SUN were rewarded with hot mulled cider. Wassailing can be SUN traced back possibly as far as Anglo-Saxon times and has SUN evolved over time to become associated with Christmas. Lucie SUN Skeaping introduces some of the music that has been SUN associated with the wassailing tradition and her guests SUN include the historian Joanna Crosby, from Essex Univeristy, SUN who has a particular interest in apples. SUN SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong b04vd79s (Listen) SUN Archive Broadcast from Tewkesbury Abbey with the Exon SUN Singers SUN SUN An archive broadcast from Tewkesbury Abbey with the Exon SUN Singers, first broadcast at Christmastide in 2002 SUN SUN Introit: No small wonder (Paul Edwards) SUN Responses (Clucas) SUN Psalm 12, 13, 14 (Barnby, Camidge, Vann) SUN 1st lesson: Genesis 12 vv 1-7 SUN Office hymn: From east to west, from shore to shore (A Solis SUN Ortus) SUN Canticles: Second Service (Leighton) SUN 2nd lesson: John 6 vv 1-14 SUN Anthem: Long, long ago (Howells) SUN Hymn: Unto us a boy is born (Puer Nobis) SUN Organ voluntary: Toccata on 'Vom Himmel hoch' SUN (Edmundson) SUN SUN Matthew Owens, Director of Music SUN Carleton Etherington, Organist. SUN SUN 16:00 The Choir b0414fq0 (Listen) SUN West Gallery Music SUN SUN Sara Mohr-Pietsch looks at the modern revival of West SUN Gallery Music, a sacred singing tradition born in the parish SUN churches and non-conformist chapels of Georgian England. SUN Plus her regular choral features: 'Meet my Choir' and SUN 'Sara's Choral Classic'. SUN SUN First broadcast 20/04/2014. SUN SUN 17:30 Words and Music b04vrjb8 (Listen) SUN Rooms SUN SUN Poetry, prose and music on the theme of rooms - from SUN ballrooms to bedrooms, from Beethoven to the Beach Boys and SUN from Dylan Thomas to Roald Dahl and the voices of Amanda SUN Root and Nicholas Farrell. SUN SUN Producer's Note SUN SUN Most of us spend most of our lives in enclosed in rooms of SUN one sort or another. If they weren’t there we would create SUN them, as nomads do with tents or children do with dens. Of SUN course we need them for protection and warmth but they also SUN have dedicated functions in our lives – special places to do SUN special things. SUN SUN The hall is usually the first room we come to in a building SUN and so is often designed to impress. The Hall of the SUN Mountain King, given musical form in Grieg’s suite for Peer SUN Gynt, must have inspired awe in the eponymous protagonist of SUN Ibsen’s play who dreams of visiting the troll king. Michael SUN William Balfe gives us a different take on fantasising about SUN the grandeur of imposing buildings with the poignant and SUN aspirational air I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls from The SUN Bohemian Girl. SUN SUN Snuggling between them, John Donne addresses the day from a SUN more intimate room; the bedroom shared with a lover, and SUN compares the world inside the walls with the one without. SUN SUN In her 1928 lectures at the Cambridge women's colleges, SUN Girton and Newnham, Virginia Woolf sees ‘a room of her own’ SUN as a prerequisite for a woman to be able to write fiction SUN and the idea of the room as an emblem of self-determination SUN becomes a feminist cultural marker. That rooms can be seen SUN as social symbols is explored by Sylvia Townsend Warner who SUN views the transformation of a culture and an era exemplified SUN in the rooms of stately homes, their furnishings and SUN contents. SUN SUN The Duke Ellington Orchestra’s reiteration of the popular SUN standard Rose Room recalls another changing society, the SUN fleeting ‘jazz age’. This tune would have provided a SUN soundtrack for the silent movie stars dancing in that very SUN room at the St Francis Hotel in San Francisco, and was SUN surely played by the house band led by the songwriter, Al SUN Hickman. SUN SUN Hickman must have considered the acoustics of the room when SUN he composed the melody in 1917. Eighty years earlier Hector SUN Berlioz too had a specific room in the mind when, to SUN commemorate the dead of the 1830 Revolution, he wrote his SUN Requiem, or Messe des Morts. It was the chapel of Les SUN Invalides in Paris where the work was first performed with SUN more than 400 musicians exploiting to full effect the sound SUN of the room in an invocation of Judgment Day. This version, SUN with Leonard Bernstein conducting, was recorded at the same SUN venue in 1975. SUN SUN In childhood, rooms are our world within a world - none more SUN so than the one Anne Frank and her group lived in during the SUN Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. Andrew Motion’s poem visits SUN the concealed annexe where she hid in fear for two years. SUN But teenage rooms are often places not of enforced but SUN voluntary retreat. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote In SUN My Room and said "I had a room, and I thought of it as my SUN kingdom. And I wrote that song, very definitely, that you're SUN not afraid when you're in your room.” In it he taught his SUN brothers to sing harmony. SUN SUN Nowadays childhood rooms are likely to be dominated by SUN electronic equipment which, in Roald Dahl’s day, meant the SUN television - something he didn’t approve of at all. It would SUN have been interesting to see what he would have written SUN about computer games. For Edward Elgar dolls embody the SUN notion of childhood play and his Nursery Suite contains SUN three movements about dolls as well as awakening and SUN dreaming sections expressing the happiness of a child’s SUN room. SUN SUN Nevertheless rooms can seem like prisons to children longing SUN to go out and play although in DH Lawrence’s poem Last SUN Lesson of the Afternoon it is the teacher who can’t wait to SUN escape the classroom. SUN SUN Illness can confine us to our rooms too. Beethoven was SUN recovering from a serious intestinal complaint in 1825 and SUN it was while he was on a Spartan diet and still coughing up SUN blood that he composed his string quartet Op 132. The dry SUN scratchiness of the third movement speaks of sickness. SUN Eventually he did recover as the other movements attest. It SUN is more difficult to gauge the attitude to her childhood SUN sickroom of the American poet Louise Glück, anorexic as an SUN adolescent. She seems to find a strange comfort in lying ill SUN in bed. SUN SUN Aaron Copland’s 1930s composition El Salón México is SUN subtitled ‘A Popular Type Dance Hall in Mexico City’ and SUN conjures up the Latin flavours of the room, in the same vein SUN but with a completely different approach from Hickman’s SUN musical depiction of the Rose Room. SUN SUN It is Italian flavours that Elizabeth David wanted to SUN conjure up for the British palate of the early fifties, SUN innocent of Mediterranean food. She aimed to introduce us to SUN the Italian kitchen. In Italy and France the name of the SUN room, cucina or cuisine, is a metonym for not just the SUN activity that takes place there but a whole gastronomic way SUN of life. Leonard Bernstein tries the same thing musically SUN with his setting of four recipes by Emile Dumont, a sort of SUN nineteenth century Raymond Blanc, who published La Bonne SUN Cuisine Française, a manual for the ‘mistress of the house’. SUN SUN The idea of sharing rooms is something we are always SUN ambivalent about – they are enclosures in a physical sense SUN but also in a mental or emotional way and to let others in SUN is either an invasion or a sharing of privacy, depending on SUN your point of view. Philip Larkin displays his distaste for SUN the legacy of Mr Bleaney, the previous occupant of his SUN lonely room and, already in the 1950s, seems to be with SUN Roald Dahl on televisions. Dylan Thomas leaves us to guess SUN whether the stranger in his room is literally there or SUN whether something else is occupying the inner room of the SUN mind. SUN SUN The Rothko Chapel was created by the painter Mark Rothko in SUN 1971 as a ‘spiritual environment’, an octagonal room in SUN which to share contemplation. Morton Feldman’s piece of the SUN same name was written to be performed in the room the year SUN after it opened. He wrote that he wanted the sound to SUN permeate the room in the same way that Rothko’s paint went SUN right to the edge of the canvas. “The sound is closer, more SUN physically with you than in a concert hall.” SUN SUN The same might be said of Haydn’s Piano Trios. Haydn was a SUN founding father of classical chamber music where the drier SUN acoustic of a smaller room enabled faster, more complicated, SUN conversational playing than a more reverberant auditorium SUN would allow. You can get an idea of how it might have SUN sounded in a palace chamber on this recording of Trio No 39 SUN in G Major which uses a fortepiano from the 1790s, for which SUN Haydn wrote, the forerunner of the modern grand piano. SUN SUN Apart from the church, the music chamber and the concert SUN hall another room where music was heard historically was the SUN ballroom. The importance of finding the right one is SUN illustrated in the extract from Jane Austen’s Emma. The SUN ballroom at the Crown was clearly a little more than a room SUN above a pub but whether it would have been big enough for SUN waltzing is unclear. Emma was published in 1815 around about SUN the time the modern waltz made its first appearance in SUN Britain but it might well have been too racy for Emma SUN Woodhouse and her friends. However by the time Johann SUN Strauss II wrote the Wine Women and Song Waltz in 1869 it SUN had become the height of fashion and was to be a staple of SUN the style known as ‘ballroom’ dancing - another example of SUN the room defining the activity – to the point that two SUN hundred years later it is essential to popular Saturday SUN evening television on Strictly Come Dancing. One wonders SUN what Dahl and Larkin would have made of that. SUN SUN Harry Parker SUN SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature b04vdgq8 (Listen) SUN Matthew Sweet's Palace of Great War Varieties SUN SUN Matthew Sweet presents a special 'live documentary' SUN exploring First World War popular culture - from music hall SUN to movies, theatre to night clubs and drugs - recorded SUN before an audience at the BBC's Maida Vale SUN Studios, in the style of a music hall evening. SUN SUN On the Bill: SUN SUN How did Britain's touring trick-cyclists cope with the loss SUN of their male colleagues to the Western Front? SUN SUN What could you see at the movies at Christmas? SUN SUN How did boredom in the trenches become the theme of a hit SUN stage play? SUN SUN What activity, first banned during the war, linked SUN aristocrats and actresses, movie stars and prostitutes? SUN SUN And what did audiences make of all this? SUN SUN Find out as Matthew leads an evening of interviews, SUN discussions and 100 year old jokes with historians Fern SUN Riddell, Ian Christie, Helen Brooks and Marek Kohn. SUN SUN With piano accompaniment and contributions from Neil Brand, SUN and song and play extracts performed by Ian Conningham and SUN Hannah Genesius of the BBC Radio Drama. SUN SUN 19:30 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdgqb (Listen) SUN Prom 68: Cleveland Orchestra SUN SUN The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst at this year's SUN BBC Proms with music by Brahms and the UK premiere of a work SUN by Jörg Widmann featuring flautist Joshua Smith. SUN SUN Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal SUN Albert Hall, London SUN SUN Brahms: Academic Festival Overture SUN Jörg Widmann: Flûte en suite (UK premiere) SUN Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 SUN SUN Joshua Smith (flute) SUN Cleveland Orchestra SUN Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) SUN SUN The Cleveland Orchestra is one of America's great ensembles. SUN After an absence of almost a decade it returns to the Proms SUN under its Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. SUN SUN If Brahms's stormy and intricately structured First Symphony SUN sees the composer at his most serious and structurally SUN ambitious, his Academic Festival Overture is a rare example SUN of his levity - an elegantly constructed musical SUN thank-you-letter to Breslau University, taking its themes SUN from boisterous student songs. SUN At the centre of the programme is a concerto commissioned by SUN the Cleveland Orchestra for its principal flautist Joshua SUN Smith. Rejecting anything too grandiose, young German SUN composer Jörg Widmann has opted for a suite of dance SUN movements - playful, referential and imaginatively SUN disorientating. SUN SUN Concert originally broadcast 07/09/2014. SUN SUN 21:00 Drama on 3 b0414fq4 (Listen) SUN Antony and Cleopatra SUN SUN Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston take the lead roles in SUN this great tragedy of love and power, a new production to SUN mark the 450th anniversary of the birth of William SUN Shakespeare. SUN SUN Lovers, politicians, superstars. SUN Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare's late and epic tragedy SUN of mature love and the catastrophic fall from grace and SUN power that it brings about. Irresistibly drawn together, the SUN couple are surrounded by friends, enemies, admirers and SUN critics, none of who remain unscathed by the folly and SUN heartbreak of this magnificent pair. As empires clash around SUN them, their destiny seems inevitable: to love each other SUN till death and even beyond. SUN SUN This new production of Antony and Cleopatra marks the return SUN of Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston's Shakespearean SUN partnership, last seen in their sold-out Macbeth at the SUN Manchester International Festival in 2013. SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 3 SUN SUN First broadcast in April 2014. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: William Shakespeare SUN Antony: Kenneth Branagh SUN Cleopatra: Alex Kingston SUN Octavius Caesar: Geoffrey Streatfeild SUN Enobarbus: Robert Pugh SUN Lepidus: Nigel Anthony SUN Agrippa: Simon Armstrong SUN Dolabella: Matthew Gravelle SUN Proculeius: Alun Raglan SUN Octavia/Iras: Priyanga Burford SUN Philo: Richard Clifford SUN Pompey: Richard Harrington SUN Charmian: Janice Acquah SUN Alexas: Don Gilet SUN Mardian: Ewan Bailey SUN Eros/Messenger: Will Howard SUN Soothsayer/Snakeman: Peter Polycarpou SUN Composer: Elizabeth Purnell SUN Director: Alison Hindell SUN SUN 23:25 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdgrm (Listen) SUN Prom 70: Peter Maxwell Davies Birthday Concert SUN SUN To celebrate his 80th birthday, the Scottish Chamber SUN Orchestra play music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. SUN SUN Recorded during this year's BBC Proms at the Royal Albert SUN Hall, London. SUN Presented by Andrew McGregor SUN SUN Sir SUN Peter Maxwell Davies: Concert Overture 'Ebb of Winter' SUN (London premiere) SUN Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 4 SUN SUN Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet) SUN Scottish Chamber Orchestra SUN Ben Gernon (conductor) SUN SUN On Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's 80th birthday the Proms pays SUN tribute to this leading figure in contemporary British music SUN with a programme of works selected by the composer. SUN The concert overture Ebb of Winter, commissioned by the SUN Scottish Chamber Orchestra as part of its 40th-anniversary SUN celebrations, captures the rugged, rough-hewn beauty of SUN Davies's Orkney home. The fourth Strathclyde Concerto, for SUN clarinet and orchestra, completes the concert - a thrilling SUN tour de force, demanding equal virtuosity from soloist and SUN ensemble. SUN SUN Concert originally broadcast 08/09/2014. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 DECEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:30 Through the Night b04vdkqw (Listen) MON Music of the Beguines MON Jonathan Swain presents a concert of music from beguinages MON across Northern Europe. MON 12:31 AM MON Anonymous MON Sancta Trinitas MON Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele MON (director) MON 12:39 AM MON Hildegard von MON Bingen (1098-1179) MON O vis aeternitatis (Responsorium) - for voice, female MON chorus, 2 fiddles, organistrum MON Sequentia: Laurie Monahan (solo voice), Barbara Thornton, MON Gundula Anders, Pamela Dellal, Elizabeth Glen, Heather MON Knutson, Susanne Norin, Janet Youngdahl (chorus), Elizabeth MON Gaver & Elisabetta de Mircovich (fiddles), Benjamin Bagby MON (organistrum) MON 12:47 AM MON Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) MON Instrumental piece MON Sequentia MON 12:52 AM MON Anonymous MON Mulieres religiosae MON Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele MON (director) MON 1:21 AM MON Hollander, Christian (1510/15-1569) MON Ave Maria MON Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet MON 1:22 AM MON Willaert, Adrian (c.1490-1562) MON A la fontaine du prez MON Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet MON 1:28 AM MON Anonymous MON Fundatrix begginarum MON Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele MON (director) MON 1:37 AM MON Folquet de Marseille (c 1155-1231) MON Flores sur 'Tant m'abellis l'amoros pessamens' MON Ensemble Lucidarium MON 1:41 AM MON Gautier d'Espinal (c.1215-c.1272) MON Puis que en moi a recouvré seignorie MON Ensemble Lucidarium: Annemieke Cantor (voice) (with MON instrumental introduction played by Francis Biggi) MON 1:47 AM MON Thibault IV de Navarre (1201-1253) MON Robert veez de Perron (instrumental) MON Ensemble Lucidarium MON 1:50 AM MON Anonymous MON Corpus et sanguis Christi; Summe Trinitatis, responsory, MON from 'Sancta Trinitas' MON Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele MON (director) MON 2:10 AM MON Anonymous MON Ave verum corpus MON Psallentes Plainchant Ensemble, Hendrik Vandeen Abeele MON (director) MON 2:13 AM MON Alpaerts, Flor (1876-1954) MON James Ensor Suite (1928) MON Vlaams Radio Orkest , Michel Tabachnik (conductor) MON 2:31 AM MON Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896) MON Symphony No.4 in E flat major, 'Romantic' MON National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice MON (NOSPR), Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (conductor) MON 3:34 AM MON Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) MON Rondo capriccioso for piano in E major/minor (Op.14) MON Sook-Hyun Cho (piano) MON 3:41 AM MON Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809) MON Trio for keyboard and strings in F major (H.15.4), attrib. MON to Haydn MON Moscow Trio - Vladimir Ivanov (violin), Michail Utkin MON (cello), Alexander Bonduriansky (piano) MON 3:54 AM MON Lisinski, Vatroslav (1819-1854) MON Vecer (Evening) - Symphonic Idyll MON Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Niksha Bareza MON (conductor) MON 4:01 AM MON Bach, Johann Michael (1648-1694) MON Fürchtet euch nicht - motet for double chorus and continuo MON Cantus Cölln Konrad Junghänel (director) MON 4:05 AM MON Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741) MON Concerto in D major (RV.208), 'Grosso mogul' MON Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Australian Brandenburg MON Orchestra, Paul Dyer (director) MON 4:20 AM MON Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) MON Sonata in C major (K.420) MON Ilze Graubina (piano) MON 4:26 AM MON Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) arr. Sibelius MON Dance Intermezzo (Op.45, No.2) (1907) MON Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste MON (conductor) MON 4:31 AM MON Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904) MON Bacchanalia, No.10 from Poetické nálady (Poetic tone MON pictures) (Op.85) MON Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava; Róbert MON Stankovský (conductor) MON 4:36 AM MON Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958) MON Overture from The Wasps - Aristophanic suite (from MON incidental music) MON BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor) MON 4:47 AM MON Alkan, Charles-Valentin (1813-1888) MON Le Festin d'Esope (Op.39 no.12 in E minor, from '12 studies' MON Op.39) (1857) MON Johan Ullén (piano) MON 4:57 AM MON Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857) MON Trio pathétique arr. for piano trio MON Trio Luwigana: Darko Brlek (clarinet), Igor Skerjanec MON (cello), Vladimir Mlinaric (piano) MON 5:13 AM MON Stamitz, Carl (1745-1801) MON Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No.2 in A MON Michal Kanka cello, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Jirí Pospíchal MON concert master MON 5:33 AM MON Weber, Carl Maria von (1786-1826) MON Rondo brillante in E flat 'La gaieté for piano' (J.252) MON (Op.62) (1819) MON Niklas Sivelöv (piano) MON 5:40 AM MON Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel (1714-1788) MON Sinfonia No.2 in B flat major (Wq.182, No.2) MON Camerata Bern MON 5:52 AM MON Poulenc, Francis [1899-1963] MON Allegro con fuoco from the Sonata for violin and piano - MON (competition performance) MON Fanny Clamagirand (violin); Nicolas Bringuer (piano) MON 5:59 AM MON Gershwin, George (1898-1937) MON Rhapsody in Blue MON William Tritt (piano), Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, MON Boris Brott (conductor) MON 6:17 AM MON Benjamin, Arthur (1893-1960) MON North American square dance - suite for orchestra MON Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor). MON MON 06:30 Breakfast b04vxc1h (Listen) MON Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast MON show, with the final week of the Best of British music MON Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including MON requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would MON like to hear. MON Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests. MON MON 09:00 Essential Classics b04vdkr0 (Listen) MON Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical MON music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is MON journalist and presenter of BBC's Top Gear programme, James MON May. MON MON 9am MON A selection of music MON including '5 Reasons to Love... orchestral lollipops'. MON Throughout the week Rob welcomes in the New Year with a MON selection of orchestral lollipops recalling the tradition of MON Thomas Beecham's orchestral bons-bons. The San Francisco MON Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas play familiar MON favourites include Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Delius's On MON Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Schubert's Entracte No.3 MON from Rosamunde and Litolff's celebrated Scherzo. MON MON 9.30am MON Musical challenge: Mapping the Music MON MON 10am MON Rob's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music MON every day at 10am, is James May. Best known as co-presenter MON of the BBC's Top Gear programme, the Renaissance man of MON motoring takes off his driving gloves and returns to MON Essential Classics to dig deeper into another of his great MON passions. A former chorister and occasional flautist, May is MON a classical music enthusiast with a particular love of the MON keyboard. MON MON 10.30am MON This week Rob's featured artist is the eminent Italian MON conductor Riccardo Muti, whose performances combine probing MON intelligence and an intense conviction. Rob will feature MON benchmark recordings throughout the week from his MON prestigious career with orchestras such as the Berlin MON Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic MON and from his tenure as music director at La Scala, Milan. MON Not forgetting his memorable New Year's Day Concert of 2000. MON MON 11am MON Today's Essential Choice is taken from the Building a MON Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review. MON MON Schubert MON Symphony no.8 in B minor, D759 ('Unfinished'). MON MON 12:00 Composer of the Week b04vdkr2 (Listen) MON Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), The Bon Vivant MON MON Donald Macleod explores the engaging personality and music MON of Emmanuel Chabrier, a man whose reputation has come to MON rest on a handful of hits, yet whose originality is MON acknowledged by some of the leading voices MON of French music in the twentieth century, among them Debussy MON and Ravel. MON MON Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to MON have graced this earth. It seems no-one had a bad word to MON say about him. His wide circle of friends included all the MON leading musicians, writers, poets and painters of the day. MON Chabrier owned a remarkable collection of impressionist MON paintings including several by Manet, who produced the best MON known portrait of the composer. MON MON Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in MON French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz MON was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, MON while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, MON were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed MON Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's MON music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics MON subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner MON of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, MON at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely MON self-taught, and although he was better educated than most MON musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into MON the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained MON first in law, only taking up full time composition in his MON thirties. MON MON In the first of the series, Donald Macleod traces Chabrier's MON roots from a childhood spent in provincial Auvergne to the MON salons of Paris, where his engaging personality charmed all MON the leading artists of the day, eventually leading to MON success with a sparkling confection for stage, l'Étoile. MON MON Joyeuse marche MON Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo MON Hervé Niquet, conductor MON MON Duo de la chartreuse vert (Act 3, l'Étoile) MON Georges Gautier, tenor, Le roi Ouf MON Gabriel Bacquier, bass, Siroco MON Lyons Opera Orchestra MON John Eliot Gardiner, conductor MON MON Bourrée fantasque MON Allan Schiller, piano MON MON L'éducation manquée (excerpt) MON Jean-Louis Georgel, baritone, Pausanias MON Mireille Delunsch, soprano, Gontran MON Brigitte Desnoues, soprano, Hélène MON Orchestra du Collegium Musicum de Strasbourg MON Roger Delage, director MON MON Larghetto for horn & orchestra MON Pierre Del Vescovo, horn MON Capitole Toulouse Orchestra MON Michel Plasson, conductor MON MON L'Étoile (Act 1, excerpt) MON O petite étoile.....Je suis Lazuli! MON Colette Alliot-Lugaz, soprano, Lazuli, MON Magali Damonte, mezzo, Aloès MON Ghislaine Raphanel, soprano, La Princesse Laoula MON Lyons Opera Orchestra MON John Eliot Gardiner, conductor. MON MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b04vdsx4 (Listen) MON Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle, Episode 1 MON MON For the last three years, the Elias Quartet have been MON devoting their time to a complete concert cycle of the MON Beethoven quartets, which they have performed at venues up MON and down the country. The first instalment MON was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 over the Christmas-New Year MON period last year; now, in this second part, broadcast MON throughout this week on Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, they MON bring the project to a conclusion. MON MON Beethoven: String Quartet in F major Op 18 No 1 MON Beethoven String Quintet in C major, Op 29 MON Elias Quartet with Malin Broman (viola) MON (Recorded last May at All Saints Church, Brighton, as part MON of the 2014 Brighton Festival). MON MON 14:10 Afternoon on 3 b04vdvzg (Listen) MON BBC Performing Groups Best of 2014, Episode 1 MON MON This week celebrates the BBC Performing Groups with some of MON their highlight concerts and recordings from over the last MON year. Today's programme includes the BBC Scottish Symphony MON Orchestra on tour in Mumbai with MON Nicola Benedetti as soloist in Mozart's Violin Concerto MON no.5. The orchestra followed this with Tchaikovsky's MON fate-ridden Symphony no.4. Then pianist Barry Douglas and MON the Ulster Orchestra take centre stage with Strauss' MON Burleske, recorded as part of the 2014 Strauss 150 MON celebrations. Finally the BBC Philharmonic end the afternoon MON with a performance of Beethoven's Symphony no.4, conducted MON by Juanjo Mena at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. MON MON Presented by Penny Gore. MON MON c.2.10pm MON Mozart Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major K.219 for violin and MON orchestra MON Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 4 in F minor Op.36 MON Nicola Benedetti (Violin) MON BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra MON James MacMillan (conductor) MON MON c.3.30pm MON Strauss Burleske in D minor MON Barry Douglas (piano) MON Ulster Orchestra MON Michael Seal (conductor) MON MON c.3.50pm MON Beethoven Symphony no. 4 in B flat major Op.60 MON BBC Philharmonic MON Juanjo Mena (conductor). MON MON Credits MON Performer: BBC Philharmonic MON Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra MON MON 16:30 New Generation Artists b04vdkr8 (Listen) MON Clemency Burton-Hill continues begins another week of a two MON week series showcasing the BBC Radio 3 New Generation MON Artists. MON MON As part of the BBC's commitment to developing and nurturing MON young talent, BBC Radio 3 MON launched its New Generation Artists scheme in the autumn of MON 1999. Now well into its second decade, the scheme has MON acquired the reputation of being a world leader for young MON artists. Every autumn six to seven artists or groups who are MON beginning to make a mark on the international music scene MON are invited to join. Opportunities include concerts in MON London and around the UK, appearances and recordings with MON the BBC Orchestras, special studio recordings for Radio 3, MON and, for some, appearances at the Proms. MON MON "The Devil's Trill" comes with the story that Tartini had a MON dream in which he imagined a deal with the Devil, who MON proceeded to play the best solo Tartini had ever heard. MON After waking Tartini wrote down this sonata. Another story MON is that Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio was composed during an MON afternoon game of skittles, hence the nickname "Kegelstatt" - MON but this remains an uncorroborated rumour! MON Haydn wrote this D major concerto in 1783 for Anton Kraft, MON the principal of his two regular cellists at MON the Esterházy court during the 1780s. Today it is played by MON the Radio 3 New Generation Artist, cellist, Leonard MON Elschenbroich. MON MON TARTINI: Sonata in G minor (Devil's trill) MON Esther Yoo (violin); Robert Koenig (piano) MON MON Mozart: Trio in E flat major K.498 (Kegelstatt) MON Mark Simpson (clarinet); Lise Berthaud (viola); Joseph MON Middleton (piano) MON MON HAYDN Cello Concerto no. 2 in D major H.7b.2 MON Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) MON BBC Philharmonic MON Lorenzo Viotti (conductor). MON MON 17:45 Opera on 3 b04vdkrb (Listen) MON Wagner: Tristan und Isolde MON MON "The most audacious and original work of my life" Wagner MON said of his epic opera Tristan and Isolde. The opera is MON based on the Celtic legend of Tristan and Iseult, an MON ill-fated love triangle. The eponymous MON couple meet onboard Tristan's ship as he brings Isolde from MON Ireland to Cornwall to marry his uncle, King Marke, sung by MON bass John Tomlinson. Isolde offers Tristan a deathly potion MON unaware that Isolde's maid Brangane, mezzo-soprano Sarah MON Connolly, has switched this to a love potion and the two MON fall fatefully for each other. They continue to meet even MON after Isolde's marriage to King Marke, who is too MON broken-hearted to show his anger at Tristan's betrayal. MON Knowing their love cannot survive in this world, Tristan MON allows himself to be wounded by one of Marke's courtiers, MON and dies in Isolde's arms. In her Liebestod, Isolde sings of MON the love that can only be fulfilled in death with Tristan. MON The cast is led by soprano Nina Stemme as Isolde, and tenor MON Stephen Gould as Tristan. Antonio Pappano conducts the MON Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent MON Garden, and is presented by Christopher Cook, who is joined MON by Wagner specialist Sarah Lenton. MON MON Tristan.....Stephen Gould (Tenor) MON Isolde.....Nina Stemme (Soprano) MON King Marke.....John Tomlinson (Bass) MON Kurwenal.....Iain Paterson (Bass) MON Brangane.....Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-soprano) MON Melot.....Neal Cooper (Tenor) MON Sailor.....Ed Lyon (Tenor ) MON Shepherd.....Graham Clark (Tenor) MON Steersman.....Yuriy Yurchuk (Bass-baritone) MON Royal Opera House Orchestra MON Royal Opera House Chorus MON Antonio Pappano (Conductor). MON MON 22:45 The Essay b04vdkrd (Listen) MON World War I Round the World, Paris: The Christmas Truce MON MON Christian Carion, Heroism and the Christmas Truce MON MON One hundred years ago the First World War set the course for MON the modern world: for the countries that took part nothing MON would be the same again. In these special MON editions of The Essay we gain an international perspective MON on the war as we hear from cultural figures from around the MON world taking part in an international series of events MON called The War That Changed The World, made in partnership MON with the British Council and the BBC World Service. MON Christian Carion is the director of the French film 'Joyeux MON Noël' shortlisted for an Oscar in 2006. He is a child of MON farmers of the fields of northern France and grew up among MON the battlefields of the First World War. He has lost friends MON to the live ordnance which is still being ploughed up every MON year. This is a war which still claims lives. For this MON Christmas edition of The Essay, recorded with an audience at MON Hotel National des Invalides, in Paris - the historic and MON ceremonial heart of the French Armed Forces - Christian MON Carion will look at heroism and the truce of Christmas 1914. MON MON 23:00 Jazz on 3 b045xk19 (Listen) MON Loose Tubes MON MON A second chance to hear legendary British big band Loose MON Tubes, reunited and in concert at Ronnie Scott's, performing MON new music commissioned by BBC Radio 3. MON MON Bursting onto the scene in the 1980s, Loose Tubes MON represented one of the most exciting movements in British MON jazz history, winning crowds over with a combination of MON trailblazing compositions, anarchic stage performances and MON an irreverent sense of humour. Twenty four years after their MON last outing, they're back at their spiritual home of Ronnie MON Scott’s, with all that original spirit intact. This MON performance features brand new music from the band’s MON composers Chris Batchelor, Steve Berry, Eddie Parker and MON Django Bates, alongside a selection of old favourites. MON MON Presenter: Jez Nelson MON Producer: Chris Elcombe MON MON First broadcast 09/06/2014. MON MON Line Up MON MON Flutes: Eddie Parker MON Clarinets: Dai Pritchard MON Alto / Soprano Sax: Steve Buckley MON Alto / Soprano Sax: Iain Ballamy MON Tenor Sax: Mark Lockheart MON Tenor Sax: Julian Nicholas MON Baritone Sax: Julian Argüelles MON Trumpet: Lance Kelly MON Trumpet: Noel Langley MON Trumpet: Chris Batchelor MON Trumpet: John Eacott MON Trombone: John Harborne MON Trombone: Ashley Slater MON Trombone: Richard Pywell MON Bass Trombone: Richard Henry MON Tuba: Dave Powell MON Keyboards: Django Bates MON Guitar: John Parricelli MON Bass: Steve Watts MON Drums: Martin France MON Percussion: Louise Petersen Matjeka MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:30 Through the Night b04vdvts (Listen) TUE Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1 and 7 TUE The Danish National Chamber Orchestra and conductor Adám TUE Fischer perform Beethoven symphonies. Jonathan Swain TUE presents. TUE 12:31 AM TUE Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827] TUE Symphony no. 1 in C major Op.21 TUE Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (conductor) TUE 12:57 AM TUE Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827] TUE Symphony no. 7 in A major Op.92 TUE Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Adám Fischer (conductor) TUE 1:40 AM TUE Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) TUE Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor (Op.111) TUE Anton Dikov (piano) TUE 2:07 AM TUE Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) TUE Sonata for violin and piano in F major ""Spring"" (Op.24) TUE Henning Kraggerud (violin), Harvard Gimse (piano) TUE 2:31 AM TUE Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975) TUE Waltz no.2 from the Jazz suite no.2 TUE Eolina Quartet TUE 2:36 AM TUE Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974) TUE La Création du monde - ballet (Op.81a) TUE Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernhard Klee TUE (conductor) TUE 2:56 AM TUE Gershwin, George (1898-1937) TUE Piano Concerto in F major TUE Ronald Brautigam (piano), Netherlands Radio Symphony TUE Orchestra, Richard Dufallo (conductor) TUE 3:30 AM TUE Copland, Aaron (1900-1990) TUE Danzon Cubano version for 2 pianos TUE Aglika Genova (piano), Liuben Dimitrov (piano) TUE 3:37 AM TUE Hannikainen, Ilmari (1892-1955) TUE Rural Dances (Op.39a) TUE Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor) TUE 3:52 AM TUE Papandopulo, Boris (1906-1991) TUE Nad grobom ljepote djevojke (By the grave of the Beauty) TUE (Op.39) TUE Slovenian Chamber Choir, Vladimir Kranjcevic (conductor) TUE 4:00 AM TUE Schäfer, Dirk (1873-1931) TUE Adagio patetico, 3rd movement from Piano Quintet, Op.5 TUE Jacob Bogaart (piano), Orpheus String Quartet TUE 4:09 AM TUE Vilec, Michal [1902-1979] TUE Na rozhl'adni (z cyklu 'Letné zápisky') (On the Watchtower TUE (from the cycle 'Summer Pictures')) TUE Ivica Gabrisova -Encingerova (flute), (unnamed pianist) TUE 4:14 AM TUE Canis, Cornelius (1515-1561) TUE Tota pulchra es TUE Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel (conductor) TUE 4:19 AM TUE Françaix, Jean (1912-1997) TUE 8 Danses exotiques vers. for 2 pianos TUE László Baranyai, Jenö Jandó (pianos) TUE 4:31 AM TUE Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) TUE Love Scene - from the opera 'Feuersnot' (Op.50) TUE Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor) TUE 4:40 AM TUE Bartók, Béla (1881-1945) TUE Andante in A major for violin and piano (1902) TUE Tamás Major (violin), György Oravecz (piano) TUE 4:44 AM TUE Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) TUE Von ewiger Liebe (Op.43 No.1) TUE Urszula Kryger (mezzo-soprano), Katarzyna Jankowska (piano) TUE 4:49 AM TUE Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) TUE Wie bist du, meine Königin (Op.32 No.9) TUE Urszula Kryger (mezzo-soprano), Katarzyna Jankowska (piano) TUE 4:54 AM TUE Berwald, Franz [1796-1868] TUE String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (1849) TUE Bernt Lysell (violin), Per Sandklef (violin), Thomas TUE Sundkvist (viola), Mats Rondin (cello) TUE 5:14 AM TUE Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) TUE On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - from Two Pieces for TUE Small Orchestra (1911/12) TUE Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor) TUE 5:22 AM TUE Holmboe, Vagn (1909-1996) TUE A Song at Sunset (Walt Whitman) TUE Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor) TUE 5:30 AM TUE Biber, Heinrich Ignaz von (1644-1704) TUE Sonata violino solo representativa for violin and continuo TUE in A major TUE Elizabeth Wallfisch (Baroque violin), Rosanne Hunt (cello), TUE Linda Kent (harpsichord) TUE 5:41 AM TUE Vierne, Louis (1870-1937) TUE Clair de lune - No.5 from Pieces de fantaisie: suite for TUE organ no.2 (Op.53) TUE Stanislas Deriemaeker (organ) TUE 5:52 AM TUE Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) TUE Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune TUE Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Matthew Rowe (conductor) TUE 6:03 AM TUE Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) TUE 6 Moments Musicaux (D.780) TUE Alfred Brendel (piano). TUE TUE 06:30 Breakfast b04vxc2c (Listen) TUE Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast TUE show, with the final week of the Best of British music TUE Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including TUE requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would TUE like to hear. TUE Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests. TUE TUE 09:00 Essential Classics b04vdt06 (Listen) TUE Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical TUE music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is TUE journalist and presenter of BBC's Top Gear programme, James TUE May. TUE TUE 9am TUE A selection of music TUE including '5 Reasons to Love... orchestral lollipops'. TUE Throughout the week Rob welcomes in the New Year with a TUE selection of orchestral lollipops recalling the tradition of TUE Thomas Beecham's orchestral bons-bons. The San Francisco TUE Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas play familiar TUE favourites include Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Delius's On TUE Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Schubert's Entracte No.3 TUE from Rosamunde and Litolff's celebrated Scherzo. TUE TUE 9.30am TUE Musical challenge: Relative Values TUE TUE 10am TUE Rob's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music TUE every day at 10am, is James May. Best known as co-presenter TUE of the BBC's Top Gear programme, the Renaissance man of TUE motoring takes off his driving gloves and returns to TUE Essential Classics to dig deeper into another of his great TUE passions. A former chorister and occasional flautist, May is TUE a classical music enthusiast with a particular love of the TUE keyboard. TUE TUE 10.30am TUE This week Rob's featured artist is the eminent Italian TUE conductor Riccardo Muti, whose performances combine probing TUE intelligence and an intense conviction. Rob will feature TUE benchmark recordings throughout the week from his TUE prestigious career with orchestras such as the Berlin TUE Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic TUE and from his tenure as music director at La Scala, Milan. TUE Not forgetting his memorable New Year's Day Concert of 2000. TUE TUE 11am TUE Essential Choice TUE TUE Bach TUE The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (extract) TUE Charles Rosen (piano). TUE TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week b04vdswg (Listen) TUE Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), The Civil Servant TUE TUE Emmanuel Chabrier's 'road to Damascus' encounter with Wagner TUE inspires him to write a grand opera, Gwendoline. TUE TUE Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to TUE have graced this earth. It seems no-one TUE had a bad word to say about him. His wide circle of friends TUE included all the leading musicians, writers, poets and TUE painters of the day. Chabrier owned a remarkable collection TUE of impressionist paintings including several by Manet, who TUE produced the best known portrait of the composer. TUE TUE Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in TUE French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz TUE was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, TUE while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, TUE were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed TUE Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's TUE music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics TUE subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner TUE of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, TUE at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely TUE self-taught, and although he was better educated than most TUE musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into TUE the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained TUE first in law, only taking up full time composition in his TUE thirties. TUE TUE Today Donald Macleod follows Chabrier to Germany, where TUE hearing Wagner's Tristan und Isolde creates a profound TUE impression. He finally decides to abandon his career as a TUE civil servant in favour of becoming a full-time composer. TUE For the next six years Chabrier toils over creating his own TUE grand opera, Gwendoline. TUE TUE Overture to l'Étoile TUE Lyons Opera Orchestra TUE John Eliot Gardiner, conductor TUE TUE Impromptu TUE Kathryn Stott, piano TUE TUE Lied TUE Stephen Varcoe, baritone TUE Graham Johnson, piano TUE TUE Gwendoline (Act 2, excerpt) TUE Didier Henry, baritone, Harald TUE Adrian Kohútková, soprano, Gwendoline TUE Gérard Garino, tenor, Armel TUE Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus TUE Czech Philharmonic Chorus of Brno TUE Jean-Paul Penin, conductor TUE TUE Pieces pittoresques, Nos 1, 2, 3 & 5 (Paysage; Mélancolie; TUE Tourbillon, Mauresque, Menuet Pompeux) TUE Kathryn Stott, piano. TUE TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b04vdsx6 (Listen) TUE Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle, Episode 2 TUE TUE For the last three years, the Elias Quartet have been TUE devoting their time to a complete concert cycle of the TUE Beethoven quartets, which they have performed at venues up TUE and down the country. The first instalment TUE was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 over the Christmas-New Year TUE period last year; now, in this second part, broadcast TUE throughout this week on Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, they TUE bring the project to a conclusion. TUE TUE Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat major, Op 18 No 6 TUE Elias Quartet TUE (Recorded in May at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, University TUE of Southampton) TUE TUE Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 TUE Elias Quartet TUE (Recorded in May at All Saints Church Brighton, as part of TUE the 2014 Brighton Festival). TUE TUE 14:20 Afternoon on 3 b04vdvzj (Listen) TUE BBC Performing Groups Best of 2014, Episode 2 TUE TUE Afternoon on 3 continues its celebration of the BBC TUE Performing Groups with some of their highlight concerts and TUE recordings from 2014. Today's programme features the BBC TUE National Orchestra of Wales in concert at TUE Cheltenham Town Hall performing Bartok and Barber with TUE cellist Alban Gerhardt. Then it's the turn of the BBC TUE Singers, and music to celebrate their 90th birthday this TUE year. Finally to the BBC Concert Orchestra and part of a TUE concert they gave called Crazy Paris, including Milhaud's TUE Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel with narrators Alistair McGowan TUE and Kevin Eldon. TUE TUE Presented by Penny Gore. TUE TUE c.2.20pm TUE Bartok Divertimento Sz.113 for string orchestra TUE Barber Concerto Op.22 for cello and orchestra TUE Alban Gerhardt (cello) TUE BBC National Orchestra of Walwa TUE Thomas Søndergård (conductor) TUE TUE c.3.15pm TUE Michael Tippett The Weeping Babe TUE Judith Bingham Unpredictable but providential TUE BBC Singers TUE Stephen Cleobury (conductor) TUE TUE c.3.35pm TUE Porter Within the quota TUE Milhaud Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel TUE Alistair McGowan and Kevin Eldon (narration in Milhaud) TUE BBC Concert Orchestra TUE Keith Lockhart (conductor). TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales TUE Performer: BBC Singers TUE Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra TUE TUE 16:30 Words and Music b013ls91 (Listen) TUE The Eternal City TUE TUE Sian Phillips and Peter Marinker with words and music about TUE everyday life in Ancient Rome including texts by Pliny, TUE Juvenal, Dickens, Henry James, Mark Twain, W.H Auden & TUE Kipling. And music by Wagner, Carl TUE Orff, Nino Rota, Stephen Sondheim, John Williams, Respighi, TUE Allegri, Berlioz, Britten and Puccini. TUE TUE 17:45 New Generation Artists b04vdxd6 (Listen) TUE Clemency Burton-Hill continues a two week series showcasing TUE the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists. TUE TUE As part of the BBC's commitment to developing and nurturing TUE young talent, BBC Radio 3 launched its New TUE Generation Artists scheme in the autumn of 1999. Now well TUE into its second decade, the scheme has acquired the TUE reputation of being a world leader for young artists. Every TUE autumn six to seven artists or groups who are beginning to TUE make a mark on the international music scene are invited to TUE join. Opportunities include concerts in London and around TUE the UK, appearances and recordings with the BBC Orchestras, TUE special studio recordings for Radio 3, and, for some, TUE appearances at the Proms. TUE Olena Tokar studied at the Ukrainian Tchaikovsky National TUE Academy of Musicin Kiev - Rachmaninov was one its founder in TUE 1913. Today, Olena Tokar sings Rachmaninov with Igor TUE Gryshyn. Frédéric Chopin's Sonata no. 3 in B minor, op. 58 TUE was written during the summer of 1844 and it combines both TUE the classical and romantic traditions and allows Radio 3 New TUE Generation Artist, Pavel Kolesnikov to show both poise and TUE virtuosic flair. To end today's programme the Danish Quartet TUE play the String Quartet No. 4 by fellow Dane, Carl Nielsen. TUE Nielsen composed this quartet in 1906 under the title TUE Piacevolezza - which simply means something pleasing. He TUE revised it in 1919 and published it 1923 as Op. 44. TUE TUE RACHMANINOV: The Dreams Op. 38; TUE Olena Tokar (soprano); Igor Gryshyn (piano) TUE TUE CHOPIN: Sonata no. 3 in B minor TUE Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) TUE TUE RACHMANINOV: Night is sorrowful Op. 26 TUE Olena Tokar (soprano); Igor Gryshyn (piano) TUE TUE NIELSEN String Quartet No. 4 in F major, Op. 44, TUE Piacevolezza TUE Danish Quartet. TUE TUE 19:00 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdxvb (Listen) TUE Prom 67: Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Behzad Ranjbaran TUE TUE The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Han-Na TUE Chang made their Proms debut this summer playing music by TUE Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Behzad Ranjbaran. TUE TUE Presented by Petroc Trelawny at the Royal Albert TUE Hall, London. TUE TUE Behzad Ranjbaran: Seemorgh - The Sunrise (European premiere) TUE Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor TUE Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor TUE TUE Denis Matsuev (piano) TUE Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra TUE Han-Na Chang (conductor) TUE TUE Cellist and conductor Han-Na Chang makes her Proms TUE conducting debut as Music Director of the Qatar Philharmonic TUE Orchestra - one of this year's global orchestras, also TUE making its debut. Their concert culminates in Tchaikovsky's TUE Symphony No. 5, haunted by its recurring 'Fate' theme. TUE TUE Vivid with contrasts and surging climaxes, the symphony is TUE matched for drama by Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, a TUE Proms favourite whose slow movement burns with restrained TUE passion. Behzad Ranjbaran's Seemorgh is inspired by the TUE mythical Persian bird of its title. TUE TUE Concert originally broadcast 07/09/2014. TUE TUE 21:00 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdyf6 (Listen) TUE Prom 45: Late Night with Laura Mvula TUE TUE Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London TUE TUE Presented by Tom Service TUE TUE Laura Mvula live at the BBC Proms with the premiere of Jules TUE Buckley's new orchestral remix of Mvula's album Sing to the TUE Moon. TUE TUE Music includes: TUE Father, Father TUE Flying Without You TUE Make Me Lovely TUE She TUE TUE Laura Mvula (vocalist) TUE Esperanza Spalding (vocalist) TUE ElectricVocals TUE Metropole Orchestra TUE Jules Buckley (conductor) TUE TUE Brit Award- and Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter TUE Laura Mvula made her Proms debut last year in the hugely TUE successful Urban Classic Prom. Now the classically trained TUE artist returns for a Late Night Prom that showcases her TUE talents in a new light. This Prom includes the public TUE premiere of Jules Buckley's new orchestral remix of Mvula's TUE album Sing to the Moon, in which the Netherlands-based TUE Metropole Orchestra makes its Proms debut. TUE TUE Concert originally broadcast 19/08/2014. TUE TUE 22:45 The Essay b04vdw17 (Listen) TUE World War I Round the World, St Petersburg - White Flowers TUE and Revolution TUE TUE One hundred years ago the First World War set the course for TUE the modern world: for the countries that took part nothing TUE would be the same again. In these special editions of The TUE Essay we gain an international TUE perspective on the war as we hear from cultural figures TUE around the world. TUE Tatyana Tolstaya is an internationally acclaimed Russian TUE novelist and broadcaster, and well known in Russia as a TUE scion of the country's most famous literary family. In this TUE essay 'White Flowers', she tells a moving story from her own TUE family, the story of her grandmother's chance encounter with TUE British journalist William Stead. This is a poetic story TUE about revolution, ideology and the individual, through which TUE we glimpse a different future for Russia and for Europe. It TUE is recorded with an audience at the Hermitage in St TUE Petersburg, which was known as the Winter Palace when it was TUE 'stormed' in 1917. TUE TUE 23:00 Late Junction b04vdykm (Listen) TUE Verckys and Orchestre Veve, Ruth Wall, Susannah Austin, Sam TUE Lee TUE TUE Max Reinhardt brings a brilliant fiery glow to the dying TUE embers of 2014 with a Late Junction radio exclusive: a short TUE visit from Sam Lee who brings along his new album The Fade TUE In Time for the world to hear on TUE radio for the first time ever. Plus some vintage Congolese TUE funk from Verckys and Orchestre Veve, Ruth Wall's version of TUE the Sans Day Carol, a new song from Susannah Austin, a fresh TUE reworking of a Blues classic by Rhiannon Giddens, a Chopin TUE Nocturne, Anna Meredith's remix of Tanya Auclair's Kimchi TUE Landslide and some festive Cakes and Ale, courtesy of Howard TUE Skempton. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:30 Through the Night b04vdvtv (Listen) WED Attilio Ariosti's La fede ne' tradimenti WED Opera rara - Attilio Ariosti's La fede ne' tradimenti. WED Presented by Jonathan Swain. WED 12:32 AM WED Ariosti, Attilio [1666-1729]; Libretto by Girolamo Gigli WED [1660-1722] WED La fede ne' tradimenti (Faithfulness WED amid Betrayal) WED Havard Stensvold (bass) (Garzia, King of Navarre); Roberta WED Invernizzi (soprano) Anagilda (Sister of the King of WED Navarre); Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo soprano) (Fernando, WED Prince of Castille); Lucia Cirillo (soprano) (Elvira, sister WED of Fernando); Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director) WED 3:05 AM WED Brahms, Johannes [1833-1897] WED Sonata for violin and piano no. 1 (Op. 78) in G major WED Vilde Frang Bjaerke (violin), Jens Elvekjaer (piano) WED 3:31 AM WED Buus, Jacques [c.1500-1565] WED Ricercare WED Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet - Daniël Brüggen, Bertho WED Driever, Paul Leenhouts and Karel van Steenhoven (recorders) WED 3:38 AM WED Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) WED Overture - from Der Schauspieldirektor, singspiel in 1 act WED (K.486) WED Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton (conductor) WED 3:44 AM WED Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) WED Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, strings and basso WED continuo (BWV.1043) WED Nicolas Mazzoleni and Lidewij van der Voort (violins), WED European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (director) WED 4:00 AM WED Wolf, Hugo [1860-1903] WED Italian serenade for string quartet WED Bartok Quartet WED 4:07 AM WED Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) WED Gesang der Geistern über den Wassern, Op.167 ('Spirits' song WED above the waters', words by Goethe) WED Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony WED Orchestra, Juri Alperten (director) WED 4:17 AM WED Baltzar, Thomas (1630-1663) WED Divisions on 'John Come Kiss Me Now' WED Elizabeth Wallfisch (baroque violin), Rosanne Hunt (cello), WED Linda Kent (harpsichord) WED 4:23 AM WED Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) WED Symphonic dance no.2 (Allegro grazioso) (Op.64 No.2) WED Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ingar Bergby (conductor) WED 4:31 AM WED Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713) WED Concerto Grosso in D (Op.6 No.4) WED Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin/director) WED 4:40 AM WED Byrd, William (c.1543-1623) WED O Lord, how vain - for voice and 4 viols WED Emma Kirkby (soprano), The Rose Consort of Viols WED 4:47 AM WED Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918) WED Prelude and Fugue for orchestra (Op.10) (1909) WED The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pertti Pekkanen WED (conductor) WED 4:57 AM WED Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] WED Fantasia for piano in C minor (K.475) WED Juho Pohjonen (piano) WED 5:09 AM WED Beethoven, Ludwig van [1770 -1827] WED Symphony no. 4 (Op.60) in B flat major; WED BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) WED 5:43 AM WED Debussy, Claude [1862-1918] WED L'isle joyeuse (1904) WED Balázs Fülei (piano) WED 5:49 AM WED Chopin, Fryderyk [1810-1849], arranged Lyadov WED Nocturne in G minor (Op.15, No.3) arranged for 2 pianos WED Dina Yoffe & Daniel Vaiman (pianos) WED 5:55 AM WED Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941) arranged by Stanislaw WED Wiechowicz WED From 6 Lieder (Op.18) arranged for choir (Polaly sie lzy; WED Nad woda wielka; Tylem wytrawal; Piosnka dudarza) (Tears WED were shed; Over the big water; I have persevered so long; WED The piper's song) WED Polish Radio Chorus, Wlodzimierz Siedlik (conductor) WED 6:07 AM WED Pokorny, Frantisek Xaver [(1729-1794)] WED Concerto for Horn, Timpani and Strings in D major WED Radek Baborák (french horn) Prague Chamber Orchestra, WED Antonin Hradil (conductor) WED 6:23 AM WED Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da [c.1525-1594] WED Stabat Mater for 8 voices WED Silvia Piccollo (soprano), Teresa Nesci (soprano), Marco WED Beasley (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass), Paolo Crivellaro WED (organ), Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Theatrum WED Instrumentorum, Chorus of Swiss Radio, Lugano, Diego Fasolis WED (conductor). WED WED 06:30 Breakfast b04vxcbb (Listen) WED Breakfast with Clemency Burton-Hill. An all-British WED programme to celebrate our year-long Best of British WED Playlist WED WED From New Years Day 2014 onwards, Breakfast listeners have WED been contributing to The Best of WED British Playlist - 365 pieces celebrating British music WED throughout the centuries. The list includes many well-known WED favourites, but also spans the almost forgotten, the WED neglected and one or two delightful surprises. WED WED 09:00 Essential Classics b04vdt08 (Listen) WED Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical WED music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is WED journalist and presenter of BBC's Top Gear programme, James WED May. WED WED 9am WED A selection of music WED including '5 Reasons to Love... orchestral lollipops'. WED Throughout the week Rob welcomes in the New Year with a WED selection of orchestral lollipops recalling the tradition of WED Thomas Beecham's orchestral bons-bons. The San Francisco WED Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas play familiar WED favourites include Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Delius's On WED Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Schubert's Entracte No.3 WED from Rosamunde and Litolff's celebrated Scherzo. WED WED 9.30am WED Musical challenge: Mystery Composer WED WED 10am WED Rob's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music WED every day at 10am, is James May. Best known as co-presenter WED of the BBC's Top Gear programme, the Renaissance man of WED motoring takes off his driving gloves and returns to WED Essential Classics to dig deeper into another of his great WED passions. A former chorister and occasional flautist, May is WED a classical music enthusiast with a particular love of the WED keyboard. WED WED 10.30am WED This week Rob's featured artist is the eminent Italian WED conductor Riccardo Muti, whose performances combine probing WED intelligence and an intense conviction. Rob will feature WED benchmark recordings throughout the week from his WED prestigious career with orchestras such as the Berlin WED Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic WED and from his tenure as music director at La Scala, Milan. WED Not forgetting his memorable New Year's Day Concert of 2000. WED WED 11am WED Essential Choice WED WED Chausson WED String Quartet in C minor, op.35 WED Via Nova Quartet. WED WED 12:00 Composer of the Week b04vdswj (Listen) WED Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), The Apprentice WED WED The Chabriers take a trip to Spain where the dances and WED rhythms fascinate Emmanuel, inspiring him to write his WED biggest ever hit, Espana. WED WED Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to WED have graced WED this earth. It seems no-one had a bad word to say about him. WED His wide circle of friends included all the leading WED musicians, writers, poets and painters of the day. Chabrier WED owned a remarkable collection of impressionist paintings WED including several by Manet, who produced the best known WED portrait of the composer. WED WED Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in WED French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz WED was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, WED while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, WED were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed WED Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's WED music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics WED subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner WED of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, WED at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely WED self-taught, and although he was better educated than most WED musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into WED the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained WED first in law, only taking up full time composition in his WED thirties. WED WED The Chabriers' holiday in Spain is vividly documented in WED Emmanuel Chabrier's delighted correspondence with all his WED friends back home in Paris. Today Donald Macleod dips into WED those letters for an insight into the sights and experiences WED that inspired Chabrier to produce a uniquely Gallic take on WED Spanish rhythms, much loved everywhere except Spain! WED WED España WED Ulster Orchestra WED Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor WED WED Rondes Champêtre WED Allan Schiller, piano WED WED Finale to Fisch-Ton-Kan (orchestration by Roger Delage) WED Mireille Delunsch, soprano, Goulgouly WED Christian Mehn, tenor, Fisch-Ton-Kan WED Ensemble Vocal WED Collegium Musicum de Strasbourg WED Roger Delage, director WED WED Trois valses romantiques (arr. Cortot) WED Kathryn Stott, piano WED Elizabeth Burley, piano WED WED La Sulamite WED Susan Mentzer, mezzo soprano WED Toulouse-Midi-Pyrénées Womens' Chorus WED Toulouse Capitole Orchestra WED Michel Plasson, conductor. WED WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b04vdsx8 (Listen) WED Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle, Episode 3 WED WED For the last three years, the Elias Quartet have been WED devoting their time to a complete concert cycle of the WED Beethoven quartets, which they have performed at venues up WED and down the country. The first instalment WED was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 over the Christmas-New Year WED period last year; now, in this second part, broadcast WED throughout this week on Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, they WED bring the project to a conclusion. WED WED Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor, Op 18 No 4 WED Elias Quartet WED (Recorded in February at The Concert Hall, Reading) WED WED Beethoven String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2 WED Elias Quartet WED (Recorded in May at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, University WED of Southampton). WED WED 14:05 Afternoon on 3 b04vdvzl (Listen) WED BBC Performing Groups Best of 2014, Episode 3 WED WED Afternoon on 3 continues its celebration of the BBC WED Performing Groups with some highlight concerts and WED recordings from over the last year. Today's programme WED features the BBC Philharmonic on tour in Valencia WED performing Walton, Bartok and Turina. Then the BBC Singers, WED and music they performed as part of Radio 3's Strauss 150 WED celebrations - his Deutsche Motette. WED WED Presented by Penny Gore WED WED c.2.05pm WED Walton Scapino - overture WED c.02.15pm WED Bartok Concerto Sz.116 for orchestra WED Turina Danzas fantasticas Op.22 for orchestra : Orgia WED BBC Philharmonic WED Juanjo Mena (conductor) WED WED c.3pm WED Strauss Deutsche Motette WED Olivia Robinson (soprano), Rebecca Lodge (mezzo-soprano), WED Edward Goater (tenor), Edward Price (bass) WED BBC Singers WED David Hill (conductor). WED WED Credits WED Performer: BBC Philharmonic WED Performer: BBC Singers WED WED 15:30 Choral Evensong b04vdyn0 (Listen) WED With the Rodolfus Choir at St Gabriel's, Pimlico WED WED Live with the Rodolfus Choir at St Gabriel's, Pimlico WED WED Responses: Smith WED Psalms 149 and 150 (Hanford, Goodenough) WED Lessons: Jeremiah 23 vv1-6, Colossians 2 vv8-15 WED Magnificat: Praetorius with Joseph, WED lieber Joseph mein WED Nunc dimittis: Arvo Pärt WED Anthem: Jesu, meine Freude (J.S. Bach) WED Hymn: God rest ye merry, gentlemen (English traditional) WED Organ voluntary: Sinfonia from Cantata 29 BWV 29 (J.S. Bach WED arr. Dupré) WED WED Tom Winpenny, Organist WED Ralph Allwood, Director of Music. WED WED 16:30 Words and Music b01806nq (Listen) WED Tendrilled Avenues WED WED "Tendrilled Avenues": poetry and prose from Pliny to Proulx WED celebrating and cautioning, lamenting and laughing, about WED humanity's complex relationship with alcohol, read by Sally WED Dexter and Jon Strickland. WED WED 17:45 New Generation Artists b04vdxd8 (Listen) WED Clemency Burton-Hill continues her two week series WED showcasing the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists. WED WED As part of the BBC's commitment to developing and nurturing WED young talent, BBC Radio 3 launched its New WED Generation Artists scheme in the autumn of 1999. Now well WED into its second decade, the scheme has acquired the WED reputation of being a world leader for young artists. Every WED autumn six to seven artists or groups who are beginning to WED make a mark on the international music scene are invited to WED join. Opportunities include concerts in London and around WED the UK, appearances and recordings with the BBC Orchestras, WED special studio recordings for Radio 3, and, for some, WED appearances at the Proms. WED WED Elena Urioste begins today's programme with a short WED arrangement of a song by Debussy by the virtuoso violinst WED Jascha Heifetz. Ben Appl performs Shumann's settings of WED Heine's texts of frustrated or lost love, Liederkreis Op. WED 24. And, the programme ends with a performance the Str--ing WED Quartet in No. 2 in A minor Op. 13, composed when WED Mendelssohn was still a teenager and in awe of his hero, WED Beethoven. WED WED DEBUSSY arr. Heifetz: Beau soir WED Elena Urioste (violin); Tom Poster (piano) WED WED SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op. 24 WED Benjamin Appl (baritone); Joesph Middleton (piano) WED WED DVOARK: Four Romantic pieces Op.75 WED Elena Urioste (violin); Zhang Zuo (piano) WED WED MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in No. 2 in A minor WED Apollon Musagete Quartet. WED WED 19:00 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdyn2 (Listen) WED Prom 69: Cleveland Orchestra WED WED Franz Welser-Möst and Cleveland Orchestra at this year's BBC WED Proms with music by Brahms and the UK premiere of a new work WED by Jörg Widmann. WED WED Presented by Donald Macleod at the Royal Albert Hall, WED London. WED WED Brahms: WED Tragic Overture WED Jörg Widmann: Teufel Amor (UK premiere) WED Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 WED WED Cleveland Orchestra WED Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) WED WED The Cleveland Orchestra begins its second concert at the BBC WED Proms featuring music by Brahms and Jörg Widmann with WED Brahms's Tragic Overture, a work which lives up to its name WED with turbulent intensity. This year's cycle of Brahms WED symphonies wass brought to a conclusion with a performance WED of the sunny Second. The composer was in unusually high WED spirits while composing it, joking with his publisher, 'I WED have never written anything so sad'. The result, in fact, WED sets aside Brahms's habitual seriousness and dramatic WED tensions in an open-hearted score of great warmth and WED appeal. In between these two works is young German Jörg WED Widmann's Teufel Amor - a musical account of the WED contradictions, tensions and resolutions of love, inspired WED by Schiller's lost poem. WED WED Concert originally broadcast 08/09/2014. WED WED 20:45 The Essay b04mbljb (Listen) WED World War I Round the World, London - Shell Shock and the WED Shock of Shells WED WED One hundred years ago the First World War set the course for WED the modern world: for the countries that took part nothing WED would be the same again. In these special editions of The WED Essay we gain an international WED perspective on the war as we hear from cultural figures in WED the countries that took part. WED Joanna Bourke stunned academics and the reading public alike WED with her extraordinary study 'An Intimate History of WED Killing', since which she has written studies of Fear, Rape, WED Pain and Humanity. Shell Shock and the Shock of Shells draws WED on the letters and diaries of soldiers and their families. WED In this essay she returns to the First World War to reflect WED not only on shell shock, but also on the actual shells WED themselves, presenting her latest research into their WED physical impact and the language which evolved to describe WED them. Her essay was recorded with an audience at the WED Imperial War Museum in London. WED WED 21:00 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdyn4 (Listen) WED Prom 76: Last Night of the Proms WED WED The Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with WED the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sakari Oramo, star WED violinist Janine Jansen and baritone Roderick Williams. WED WED Presented by Sean Rafferty and Suzy WED Klein WED WED Sakari Oramo directs his first Last Night, joined by star WED Dutch violinist Janine Jansen. WED We pay tribute to the late John Tavener with his touching WED Song for Athene, and mark the 50th anniversary of the film WED Mary Poppins with a singalong medley. WED Arnold's Peterloo overture receives its first performance in WED a new choral version with lyrics by Sir Tim Rice, while our WED Richard Strauss anniversary celebrations conclude with the WED Proms premiere of the composer's massive cantata Taillefer. WED The nautical flavour of Ansell's Plymouth Hoe (and its brief WED quotation of Rule, Britannia!) forms an upbeat to the WED traditional Last Night favourites, led by baritone Roderick WED Williams. WED WED Gavin Higgins: Velocity (BBC commission: world premiere) WED Arnold: Overture 'Peterloo' (new choral version with lyrics WED by Sir Tim Rice: world premiere) WED Walton: Facade - Popular Song WED Chausson: Poème WED Tavener: Song for Athene WED R Strauss: Taillefer, Op. 52 WED WED Khachaturian: Gayane - Sabre Dance WED Ravel: Tzigane WED Kern arr. Roderick Williams: Show Boat - 'Ol' Man River' WED Trad. arr. Roderick Williams: Joshua Fit the Battle of WED Jericho WED Richard M Sherman & Robert B Sherman: Mary Poppins - medley WED Ansell: Plymouth Hoe WED Arne arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia! WED Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land WED of Hope and Glory') WED Parry orch. Elgar: Jerusalem WED arr. Britten: The National Anthem WED WED Janine Jansen (violin) WED Roderick Williams (baritone) WED Elizabeth Watts (soprano) WED John Daszak (tenor) WED BBC Singers WED BBC Symphony Chorus WED BBC Symphony Orchestra WED Sakari Oramo (conductor) WED WED Concert originally broadcast 13/09/2014. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 JANUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Late Junction b04vxxy8 (Listen) THU It's About Time THU THU Max Reinhardt kicks off the New Year with Its About Time - THU Late Junction's First Mix for 2015. THU THU 00:30 Through the Night b04vdvty (Listen) THU New Year's Day THU Jonathan Swain presents a New year's Day programme of Gade, THU Arutiunian, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky, THU Jarre, Halvorsen, Strauss & Leroy Anderson with WDR Radio THU Orchestra conducted by Helmuth THU Groschauer and Keith Lockhart THU 12:31 AM THU Gade, Jacob [1879-1963] THU Jalousie - tango THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor) THU 12:36 AM THU Arutiunian, Aleksandr Grigori [1920-2012] THU Concerto for trumpet and orchestra THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Reinhard Ehritt (trumpet), WDR THU Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Helmuth Froschauer (conductor) THU 12:53 AM THU Borodin, Alexander [1833-1887] THU Polovtsian dances for orchestra THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, THU Helmuth Froschauer (conductor) THU 1:12 AM THU Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893] THU Eugene Onegin - Polonaise THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, THU Helmuth Froschauer (conductor) THU 1:18 AM THU Shostakovich, Dmitri [1906-1975] THU Jazz Suite no 1 (excerpts) THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, THU Helmuth Froschauer (conductor) THU 1:28 AM THU Kabalevsky, Dmitri [1904-1987] THU Komedianti - suite Op.26 for small orchestra (excerpts) THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, THU Helmuth Froschauer (conductor) THU 1:37 AM THU Jarre, Maurice [1924-2009] THU Dr Zhivago - Lara's Theme THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, THU Helmuth Froschauer (conductor) THU 1:45 AM THU Halvorsen, Johan [1864-1935] THU Entry March of the Boyars THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor) THU 1:51 AM THU Kabalevsky, Dmitri [1904-1987] THU Colas Breugnon - Overture THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor) THU 1:57 AM THU Strauss, Johann, II [1825-1899] THU An der schönen, blauen Donau - waltz Op.314 for orchestra THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor) THU 2:06 AM THU Anderson, Leroy [1908-1975] THU Concerto for piano and orchestra in C THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor) THU 2:26 AM THU Anderson, Leroy [1908-1975] THU Fiddle faddle for orchestra THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, Keith Lockhart (conductor) THU 2:31 AM THU Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847) THU Double concerto in D minor for violin, piano and string THU orchestra THU Jaroslaw Zolnierczyk (violin), Andrzej Tatarski (piano), The THU "Amadeus" Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, THU Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor) THU 3:06 AM THU Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594) THU Missa in duplicibus minoribus II for 5 voices THU Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar, Ensemble Giles Binchois, THU Ensemble Cantus Figuratus der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, THU Dominique Vellard (director) THU 3:40 AM THU Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) THU 10 Variations on 'La stessa, la stessissima' for piano, from THU Salieri's 'Falstaff' (WoO.73) THU Theo Bruins (piano) THU 3:51 AM THU Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) THU The Duke of Gloucester's trumpet suite THU Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), The King's Consort, THU Robert King (director) THU 4:03 AM THU Sanz, Gaspar (17th century) THU Suite espanola for guitar THU Tomaz Rajteric (guitar) THU 4:13 AM THU Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) THU Petite Suite - for brass septet THU Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists THU 4:21 AM THU Diepenbrock, Alphons (1862-1921) [text: Baudelaire, Charles THU (1821-1867)] THU L'Invitation au voyage THU Christa Pfeiler (mezzo-soprano), Rudolf Jansen (piano) THU 4:28 AM THU Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich [1840-1893] THU The Nutcracker - suite Op.71a - Trepak THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, THU Helmuth Froschauer (conductor) THU 4:31 AM THU Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich [1804-1857] THU Ruslan i Lyudmila - overture THU WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne, THU Helmuth Froschauer (conductor) THU 4:37 AM THU Schubert, Franz [1797-1828] THU Klavierstück No. 2 in E flat, D. 946 THU Cyprien Katsaris (piano) THU 4:49 AM THU Sheppard, John [c.1515-1558], Dove, Jonathan [b.1959] THU In manus tuas (Sheppard)& Into Thy Hands (Dove) THU Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director) THU 5:00 AM THU Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918) THU South Ostrobothnian Dances 1-5 (Op.17) (1909) THU Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kari Tikka (conductor) THU 5:09 AM THU Desprez, Josquin [1440-1521]; Anon (c.1500) THU 3 pieces (Josquin) In te Domine speravi (in 4 parts) ; THU (Anon) Zorzi, Giorgio - Salterello ; (Anon) Forte cosa e la THU speranza (in 5 parts) ] THU Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano), Musica Antiqua of London, THU Philip Thorby (director) THU 5:18 AM THU Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) THU 12 Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman' (K.265) THU (arranged from piano solo for wind quintet) THU Yur-Eum Woodwind Quintet THU 5:31 AM THU Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840-1893) THU Suite No.4 in G major for orchestra (Op.61), 'Mozartiana' THU Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor) THU 5:55 AM THU Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849) THU Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor (Op.31) THU Alex Slobodyanik (piano) THU 6:05 AM THU Barber, Samuel [1910-1981] THU Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Op.14) THU James Ehnes (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell THU Tovey (conductor). THU THU 06:30 Breakfast b04vxcfc (Listen) THU Clemency Burton-Hill presents a New Year's Day edition of THU Radio 3's Breakfast. Also, including requests for your THU favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear. THU Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music THU requests. THU THU 09:00 Essential Classics b04vdt0b (Listen) THU Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical THU music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is THU journalist and presenter of BBC's Top Gear programme, James THU May. THU THU 9am THU A selection of music THU including '5 Reasons to Love... orchestral lollipops'. THU Throughout the week Rob welcomes in the New Year with a THU selection of orchestral lollipops recalling the tradition of THU Thomas Beecham's orchestral bons-bons. The San Francisco THU Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas play familiar THU favourites include Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Delius's On THU Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Schubert's Entracte No.3 THU from Rosamunde and Litolff's celebrated Scherzo. THU THU 9.30am THU Musical challenge: Classical Consequences THU THU 10am THU Rob's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music THU every day at 10am, is James May. Best known as co-presenter THU of the BBC's Top Gear programme, the Renaissance man of THU motoring takes off his driving gloves and returns to THU Essential Classics to dig deeper into another of his great THU passions. A former chorister and occasional flautist, May is THU a classical music enthusiast with a particular love of the THU keyboard. THU THU 10:15 New Year's Day Concert b04vrkjc (Listen) THU Live from the Musikverein, Vienna THU Presented by Petroc Trelawny THU THU The annual New Year's Day concert with the Vienna THU Philharmonic. Zubin Mehta returns to conducts this year's THU selection of waltzes and polkas mainly THU from the Strauss family - his fifth occasion to lead this THU special event in his long standing relationship with the THU orchestra. THU THU Suppé: Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna THU Johann Strauss: Tales from the Orient THU Josef Strauss: Viennese Life THU Eduard Strauss: Where one Laughs and Lives THU Josef Strauss: Village Swallows from Austria THU Johann Strauss: By the shores of the Danube THU THU 10.55am - Interval THU THU 11.15am - Part 2 THU Johann Strauss: Perpetuum mobile THU Johann Strauss: Acceleration waltz THU Johann strauss: Electro-magnetic polka THU Eduard Strauss: At full steam THU Johann Strauss: On the Elbe THU Johann Strauss: Beloved Anna Polka THU Lumbye: Champagne Galop THU Johann Strauss: My Life is Love and Laughter THU Johann Strauss Snr: Freedom march THU Johann Strauss: Wine, women and song THU Eduard Strauss: With Style polka THU THU Vienna Philharmonic THU conductor Zubin Mehta. THU THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b04vdsxb (Listen) THU Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle, Episode 4 THU THU For the last three years, the Elias Quartet have been THU devoting their time to a complete concert cycle of the THU Beethoven quartets, which they have performed at venues up THU and down the country. The first instalment THU was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 over the Christmas-New Year THU period last year; now, in this second part, broadcast THU throughout this week on Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, they THU bring the project to a conclusion. THU THU Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op 130 (with Grosse Fuge THU finale, Op 133) THU Elias Quartet THU (Recorded in February at The Concert Hall, Reading). THU THU 14:00 Afternoon on 3 b04vdvzr (Listen) THU BBC Performing Groups Best of 2014, A Christmas Carol THU THU Afternoon on 3 continues its BBC Performing Groups Best of THU 2014 with a chance to hear the BBC Singers and Symphony THU Orchestra in Neil Brand's new adaption of Dickens' A THU Christmas Carol. In this dark and THU atmospheric version of the story, follow Ebenezer Scrooge as THU his past, present and future conspire to teach him the real THU spirit of Christmas, and his own humanity, to an exciting THU orchestral underscore. Plus more from the BBC Singers' 90th THU birthday concert, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra THU performing Part, and the Ulster Orchestra in Strauss as part THU of Radio 3's Strauss 150 celebrations. THU THU Presented by Penny Gore. THU THU c.2pm THU Neil Brand A Christmas Carol THU Ebenezer Scrooge (Robert Powell) THU Ghost of Christmas Past/Laundress/ Maid/Woman (Sophie THU Thompson) THU Ghost of Christmas Present/Jacob Marley (Ron Cook) THU Dora/Mrs Fezziwig/Betty (Tracy-Ann Oberman) THU Alfred/Phil 1/Fezziwig/Fat man 1/Man (Patrick Brennan) THU Benjamin/Fred/Phil 2/Fat man 2/Undertaker (Shaun Mason) THU Charles - (young)/Cratchit/Joe (Paul Heath) THU Emily/Belle/Mrs Cratchit/ Charwoman (Hannah Genesius) THU Fanny/Fan/Tiny Tim/Boy (Bettrys Jones) THU BBC Singers THU BBC Symphony Orchestra THU Martin Andre (conductor) THU David Hunter and Neil Brand (directors) THU Ann McKay and David Hunter (producers) THU THU c.3.15pm THU Bob Chilcott Weather Report THU Lennox Berkeley There was neither grass nor corn THU Britten Shepherd's Carol THU Helen Neeve (sop), Margaret Cameron (mezzo-soprano), THU Stephen Jeffes (tenor), Andrew Rupp (bass) THU BBC Singers THU Bob Chilcott ( conductor) THU THU c.3.30pm THU Part Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten THU BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra THU Donald Runnicles (conductor) THU THU c.3.40pm THU Strauss Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Op.60 THU Ulster Orchestra THU Michael Seal (conductor). THU THU Credits THU Performer: BBC Singers THU Performer: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra THU Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra THU THU 16:30 Words and Music b041vfzy (Listen) THU After Shakespeare THU THU Poetry, prose and music inspired by Shakespeare including THU words by T.S. Eliot, Michael Longley, Anna Akmatova, Sylvia THU Plath, James Joyce and Carol Ann Duffy and music by THU Sibelius, Frank Martin, Duke Ellington, THU Tchaikovsky, Michael Tippett and Loudon Wainwright III. The THU readers are Rory Kinnear and Adjoa Andoh. THU THU Producer: Fiona McLean. THU THU 17:45 New Generation Artists b04vdxdb (Listen) THU Clemency Burton-Hill continues a two week series showcasing THU the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists. THU THU As part of the BBC's commitment to developing and nurturing THU young talent, BBC Radio 3 launched its New THU Generation Artists scheme in the autumn of 1999. Now well THU into its second decade, the scheme has acquired the THU reputation of being a world leader for young artists. Every THU autumn six to seven artists or groups who are beginning to THU make a mark on the international music scene are invited to THU join. Opportunities include concerts in London and around THU the UK, appearances and recordings with the BBC Orchestras, THU special studio recordings for Radio 3, and, for some, THU appearances at the Proms. THU THU Music for New Year's Day includes Walton's nod towards THU Elizabethan lute songs, performed by Robin Tritschler and THU Sean Shibe; Leonard Elschenbroich playing Saint-Saens Cello THU Concerto No. 1, written when French musicians were falling THU under the spell of Franz Liszt; and to end music by jazz THU saxophonist, Trish Clowes; as well as songs from the shows THU when mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately joins the BBC Concert THU Orchestra and Barry Wordsworth for music by Richard Rodgers, THU Jerome Kern and Cole Porter. THU THU SCHUMANN: Romances op. 94 THU Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn); Alisdair Beatson (piano) THU THU WALTON: Anon in Love THU Robin Tritschler (tenor); Sean Shibe (guitar) THU THU SAINT-SAENS Cello Concerto No 1 (19:14) THU BBC Philharmonic THU Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) THU THU TRISH CLOWES: Dance with me THU Trish Clowes (saxophone) THU James Maddren (drums) THU Louise McMonagle (cello) THU THU SONGS FROM THE SHOWS by Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern and THU Cole Porter. THU Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano) THU BBC Concert Orchestra THU Barry Wordsworth (conductor). THU THU 19:00 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdyt0 (Listen) THU Prom 21: The John Wilson Orchestra - Kiss Me, Kate THU THU Cole Porter's award-winning 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate with THU the John Wilson Orchestra and a cast of leading singers, THU recorded at the 2014 BBC Proms. THU THU Presented by Suzy Klein at the Royal Albert Hall, London. THU THU Cole THU Porter: Kiss Me Kate THU THU Fred Graham / Petruchio ..... Ben Davis THU Lilli Vanessi / Katherine Minola ..... Alexandra Silber THU Bill Calhoun / Lucentio ..... Tony Yazbeck THU Lois Lane / Bianca ..... Louise Dearman THU John Wilson Orchestra THU John Wilson (conductor) THU THU The appearances of John Wilson and his orchestra have become THU one of the annual highlights of the Proms. Following the THU enormous success of the staged performance of My Fair Lady THU in 2012, John Wilson returns to perform Cole Porter's Tony THU Award-winning musical Kiss Me, Kate in its original 1948 THU arrangements. He is joined by a cast of leading singers in THU this irreverent reworking of The Taming of the Shrew - a THU play within a play. THU THU Concert originally broadcast 02/08/2014. THU THU 21:45 BBC Proms 2014 b04w0hd0 (Listen) THU Proms Saturday Matinee 3: A Portrait of Sir Peter Maxwell THU Davies THU THU Sian Edwards conducts the London Sinfonietta and soprano THU Rebecca Bottone in music from a concert celebrating Sir THU Peter Maxwell Davies's 80th birthday, recorded during the THU 2014 BBC Proms. THU THU Presented by Clemency THU Burton-Hill at Cadogan Hall, London. THU THU Peter Maxwell Davies: Revelation and Fall THU Peter Maxwell Davies: A Mirror of Whitening Light THU THU Rebecca Bottone (soprano) THU London Sinfonietta THU Sian Edwards (conductor) THU THU Celebrating his 80th birthday year and the subject of one of THU the 2014 season's Proms Plus Composer Portraits, Sir Peter THU Maxwell Davies is one of the greats of contemporary British THU music. THU THU The programme, chosen by the composer himself, explores his THU wide-ranging sound-worlds, from the sleek and glittering THU chamber textures of A Mirror of Whitening Light (completed THU in 1977, shortly after his move to Orkney) to the THU confrontational music drama of Revelation and Fall. THU THU Concert originally broadcast 30/08/2014. THU THU 22:45 The Essay b04mbljl (Listen) THU World War I Round the World, Sarajevo - Divine Uncertainty THU THU One hundred years ago the First World War set the course for THU the modern world: for the countries that took part nothing THU would be the same again. In these special editions of The THU Essay we gain an international THU perspective on the war as we hear from cultural figures THU around the world. This essay comes from the place where the THU conflict was triggered on June 28th 1914. THU Haris Pasovic lived through the Siege of Sarajevo and was THU the producer of Susan Sontag's legendary 1993 'Waiting for THU Godot', produced in the city during the war. Since then he THU has developed theatrical spectaculars with a special focus THU on the impact of war including The Red Line (11,500 chairs THU representing those killed in the siege) and 'The Conquest of THU Happiness' (a massive open-air theatre event for Derry Year THU of Culture based on the works on Bertrand Russell). His THU essay 'Divine Uncertainty' is a personal take the war in THU Bosnia and the First World War. In this essay, recorded at THU the Sarajevo Theatre of War, Haris explains how he sees THU politics as a force woefully out of step with science and THU playfully suggests that a theory of 'political relativity' THU is needed in which cultural identity is cushioned by THU tolerance. THU THU 23:00 Late Junction b04vdyt4 (Listen) THU Richard Dawson, Bela Fleck, Keith Jarrett, Nancy Kerr THU THU A visit to Late Junction by Richard Dawson plus Banjo duo THU Fleck/Washburn asking What'cha Gonna Do?, The Dawn of a New THU Day by Classica Orchestra Afrobeat, an extract from Lubomyr THU Melnik's The Voice of Trees and THU a field recording of the Dasaswamedh Ghat Ganga Aarti THU ceremony made next to the Ganges. Presented by Max THU Reinhardt. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 JANUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:30 Through the Night b04vdvv0 (Listen) FRI Bruckner: Symphony No 8 FRI From the Archives of Netherlands Radio - the Royal FRI Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Bruckner 8 under Zubin Mehta FRI and Haydn's Symphony No.97 under Nikolaus Harnoncourt. FRI Jonathan Swain presents. FRI 12:31 FRI AM FRI Haydn, Joseph [1732-1809] FRI Symphony no. 97 in C major Hob.I:97 (1792) FRI Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt FRI (conductor) FRI 12:57 AM FRI Bruckner, Anton [1824-1896] FRI Symphony no. 8 in C minor FRI Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Zubin Mehta (conductor) FRI 2:20 AM FRI Grandjany, Marcel (1891-1975) FRI Rhapsodie pour la harpe (Op.10) (1921) FRI Rita Costanzi (harp) FRI 2:31 AM FRI Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) FRI Oboe Concerto in C major (K.285d/314a) FRI Heinz Holliger (oboe), Symphony Orchestra of Austrian Radio, FRI Leif Segerstam (conductor) FRI 2:52 AM FRI Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) FRI Serenade for string trio (Op.8) in D major FRI Leopold String Trio - Marianne Thorsen (violin), Lawrence FRI Power (viola), Kate Gould (cello) FRI 3:22 AM FRI Eybler, Joseph Leopold von [1765-1846] FRI Symphony in C major FRI Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor) FRI 3:46 AM FRI Vivaldi, Antonio [1678-1741] FRI Concerto in C major, RV.444 for recorder, strings & continuo FRI Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (recorder) FRI 3:55 AM FRI Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924) FRI Dolly Suite for piano duet (Op.56) FRI Erzsébet Tusa, Istvan Lantos (pianos) FRI 4:09 AM FRI Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959) FRI Bachianas Brasileiras No.9 for string orchestra FRI The "Amadeus" Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra in Poznan, FRI Agnieszka Duczmal (conductor) FRI 4:19 AM FRI Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962) FRI Berceuse romantique (Op.9) for violin and piano FRI Tobias Ringborg (violin), Anders Kilström (piano) FRI 4:24 AM FRI Nielsen, Carl [1865-1931] FRI Overture to Maskerade (FS.39) FRI Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor) FRI 4:31 AM FRI Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) FRI Irmelin: prelude FRI Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor) FRI 4:36 AM FRI Bree, Johannes Bernardus van (1801-1857) FRI Allegro for 4 string quartets in D minor (1845) FRI Viotta Ensemble, Viktor Liberman (conductor) FRI 4:48 AM FRI Faggioli, Michelangelo (1666-1733) FRI Marte, ammore, guerra e pace from the opera 'La cilla' FRI Pino de Vittorio (tenor), Cappella della Pietà dé Turchini, FRI Antonio Florio (director) FRI 4:57 AM FRI Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621) FRI Psalm 23 from the Genevan Psalter FRI Leo van Doeselaar (Van Hagerbeer organ (1643) at the FRI Pieterskerk in Leiden) FRI 5:06 AM FRI Halvorsen, Johan (1864-1935) FRI Norwegian Rhapsody No.1 in A FRI Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green FRI (conductor) FRI 5:18 AM FRI Diamond, David (1915-2005) FRI Rounds for string orchestra FRI CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor) FRI 5:33 AM FRI Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) FRI Viola Sonata in F minor (Op.120 No.1) FRI Ilari Angervo (viola), Konstantin Bogino (piano) FRI 5:56 AM FRI Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) FRI Symphony No.5 in E flat major, Op.82 FRI Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen (conductor). FRI FRI 06:30 Breakfast b04vxcj2 (Listen) FRI Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Classical Breakfast FRI show, including requests for your favourite works and pieces FRI that you would like to hear. FRI Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests. FRI FRI 09:00 Essential Classics b04vdt0d (Listen) FRI Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical FRI music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is FRI journalist and presenter of BBC's Top Gear programme, James FRI May. FRI FRI 9am FRI A selection of music FRI including '5 Reasons to Love... orchestral lollipops'. FRI Throughout the week Rob welcomes in the New Year with a FRI selection of orchestral lollipops recalling the tradition of FRI Thomas Beecham's orchestral bons-bons. The San Francisco FRI Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas play familiar FRI favourites include Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Delius's On FRI Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Schubert's Entracte No.3 FRI from Rosamunde and Litolff's celebrated Scherzo. FRI FRI 9.30am FRI Musical challenge: Recording Rewind FRI FRI 10am FRI Rob's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music FRI every day at 10am, is James May. Best known as co-presenter FRI of the BBC's Top Gear programme, the Renaissance man of FRI motoring takes off his driving gloves and returns to FRI Essential Classics to dig deeper into another of his great FRI passions. A former chorister and occasional flautist, May is FRI a classical music enthusiast with a particular love of the FRI keyboard. FRI FRI 10.30am FRI This week Rob's featured artist is the eminent Italian FRI conductor Riccardo Muti, whose performances combine probing FRI intelligence and an intense conviction. Rob will feature FRI benchmark recordings throughout the week from his FRI prestigious career with orchestras such as the Berlin FRI Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic FRI and from his tenure as music director at La Scala, Milan. FRI Not forgetting his memorable New Year's Day Concert of 2000. FRI FRI 11am FRI Essential Choice FRI FRI Tchaikovsky (completed by Semyon Bogatyrev) FRI Symphony no.7 in E flat FRI Philadelphia Orchestra FRI Eugene Ormandy (conductor). FRI FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week b04vdswn (Listen) FRI Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), A Bouillabaisse FRI FRI The demise of Chabrier's brilliant comic opera, Le roi FRI malgré lui, on the Paris stage sees the composer's FRI reputation spread in Germany. FRI FRI Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to FRI have graced FRI this earth. It seems no-one had a bad word to say about him. FRI His wide circle of friends included all the leading FRI musicians, writers, poets and painters of the day. Chabrier FRI owned a remarkable collection of impressionist paintings FRI including several by Manet, who produced the best known FRI portrait of the composer. FRI FRI Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in FRI French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz FRI was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, FRI while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, FRI were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed FRI Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's FRI music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics FRI subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner FRI of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, FRI at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely FRI self-taught, and although he was better educated than most FRI musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into FRI the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained FRI first in law, only taking up full time composition in his FRI thirties. FRI FRI Today Donald Macleod looks at Chabrier's final comic opera, FRI a work in which the riches and innovation of the music FRI managed to overcome the deficiencies of a confusing plot and FRI weak libretto. Fellow composer, Ravel, declared that its FRI premiere had "changed the direction of French harmony." FRI FRI Danse slave. Allegro con brio FRI Orchestre de la Suisse Romande FRI Neeme Järvi, conductor FRI FRI Ode à la musique FRI Barbara Hendricks, soprano FRI Toulouse-Midi-Pyrénées Womens' Chorus FRI Capitole Toulouse Orchestra FRI Michel Plasson, conductor FRI FRI Suite pastorale FRI Orchestra de la Suisse Romande FRI Neeme Järvi, conductor FRI FRI Introduction & choeur dansé (Act 2, Le roi malgré lui) FRI Ah! Hurrah! FRI Chris de Moor, bass, Laski FRI Chorus of Radio France FRI New Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France FRI Charles Dutoit, conductor FRI FRI O rêve éteint! Réveils funèbres (Act 3, Le roi malgré lui) FRI Barbara Hendricks, soprano, Minka FRI Isabel Garcisanz, soprano, Alexina FRI New Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France FRI Charles Dutoit, conductor. FRI FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert b04vdvwx (Listen) FRI Elias Quartet Beethoven Cycle, Episode 5 FRI FRI For the last three years, the Elias Quartet have been FRI devoting their time to a complete concert cycle of the FRI Beethoven quartets, which they have performed at venues up FRI and down the country. The first instalment FRI was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 over the Christmas-New Year FRI period last year; now, in this second part, broadcast FRI throughout this week on Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, they FRI bring the project to a conclusion. FRI FRI Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op 74 (Harp) FRI Elias Quartet FRI (Recorded in February at The Concert Hall, Reading) FRI FRI Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 135 FRI Elias Quartet FRI (Recorded in May at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, University FRI of Southampton). FRI FRI 14:10 Afternoon on 3 b04vdw01 (Listen) FRI BBC Performing Groups Best of 2014, Episode 5 FRI FRI The final programme celebrating the BBC Performing Groups' FRI Best of 2014 features the BBC National Orchestra of Wales FRI with soloist Chloe Hanslip for Bruch's ever-popular Violin FRI Concerto no.1. Then the BBC FRI Symphony Orchestra with a highlight from this year's Proms FRI season - Vaughan Williams' Job, conducted by Sakari Oramo. FRI There's the final section from the BBC Singers 90th Birthday FRI concert before we return to the BBC National Orchestra of FRI Wales for a performance of Mahler's 4th Symphony given at St FRI David's Cathedral. FRI FRI Presented by Penny Gore. FRI FRI c.2.10pm FRI Bruch Concerto no. 1 in G minor Op.26 for violin and FRI orchestra FRI Chloe Hanslip (violin) FRI BBC National Orchestra of Wales FRI Nicholas Collon (conductor) FRI FRI c.2.35pm FRI Vaughan Williams Job - a masque for dancing FRI BBC Symphony Orchestra FRI Sakari Oramo (conductor) FRI FRI c.3.35pm FRI Mahler Symphony no. 4 in G major FRI Ailish Tynan (soprano) FRI BBC National Orchestra of Wales FRI Jac van Steen (conductor). FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: BBC Singers FRI Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra FRI Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales FRI FRI 16:30 Words and Music b03hj56r (Listen) FRI Hard Times FRI FRI Money and its lack provides the theme for this edition. FRI Sarah Smart and Nathaniel Parker read poems and prose about FRI the Bohemian life, the dream of getting rich and life at the FRI bottom of the pile by Thomas Hardy, George Orwell and U A FRI Fanthorpe. There's music by Handel, Ligeti and Prokofiev. FRI FRI 17:45 New Generation Artists b04vdxdd (Listen) FRI Clemency Burton-Hill brings a two week series showcasing the FRI BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists to a close. FRI FRI As part of the BBC's commitment to developing and nurturing FRI young talent, BBC Radio 3 launched its New FRI Generation Artists scheme in the autumn of 1999. Now well FRI into its second decade, the scheme has acquired the FRI reputation of being a world leader for young artists. Every FRI autumn six to seven artists or groups who are beginning to FRI make a mark on the international music scene are invited to FRI join. Opportunities include concerts in London and around FRI the UK, appearances and recordings with the BBC Orchestras, FRI special studio recordings for Radio 3, and, for some, FRI appearances at the Proms. FRI FRI Esther Roo plays the virtuoso show-piece which was written FRI for Sarasate by Saint-Saens. Irish tenor joins Lise FRI Berthaud, viola, and pianist Joseph Middleton to perform FRI settings of four poems by Jeremy Taylor, Isaac Watts, FRI Richard Crashaw, and Robert Bridges set to music by Vaughan FRI Williams. And the Danish Quartet bring this series of BBC FRI Radio 3 New Generation Artists to a close with a performance FRI of Beethoven's Op.131, often regarded as the pinnacle of FRI Beethoven's writing for string quartet. FRI FRI SAINT-SAENS Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso FRI Esther Yoo (violin); Robert Koenig (piano) FRI FRI VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Four Hymns FRI Robin Tritschler (tenor), Lise Berthaud (viola); Joseph FRI Middleton (piano) FRI FRI BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C sharp minor Op.131 FRI Danish Quartet. FRI FRI 19:00 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdyww (Listen) FRI Prom 73: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra FRI FRI The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra recorded at the 2014 BBC FRI Proms: Alan Gilbert conducts Mahler's Third Symphony. FRI FRI Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, FRI London. FRI FRI Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor FRI Gerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano) FRI Leipzig Opera and Gewandhaus Choir (women's voices) FRI Leipzig Gewandhaus Childrens Choir FRI Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra FRI Alan Gilbert (conductor) FRI FRI 'The world will never have heard the likes of my symphony!' FRI A bold claim by any composer, but one more than justified by FRI Mahler's Third Symphony. FRI This epic, unorthodox work unfolds over six movements, FRI painting a musical portrait of nature's very essence. Pagan FRI gods and Christian saints, flower meadows and silent FRI forests, instruments and voices all come together in a work FRI that moves beyond the confines of programme music. FRI American conductor Alan Gilbert returns to conduct this FRI masterpiece in the first of two Proms with the Leipzig FRI Gewandhaus Orchestra. FRI FRI Concert originally broadcast 11/09/2014. FRI FRI 21:00 BBC Proms 2014 b04vdywy (Listen) FRI Prom 65: Late Night with Paloma Faith FRI FRI Paloma Faith with the Guy Barker Orchestra & Urban Voices FRI Collective live at the BBC Proms. FRI FRI Presented by Andrew McGregor at the Royal Albert Hall, FRI London. FRI FRI Music includes FRI Paloma Faith, orch. Guy Barker: FRI Picking up the pieces FRI Can't rely on you FRI Only love can hurt like this FRI Guy Barker: Upside down FRI FRI Paloma Faith FRI Ty Taylor (guest vocalist) FRI Urban Voices Collective FRI Guy Barker Orchestra FRI Guy Barker (Conductor) FRI FRI Brit Award-nominated Paloma Faith brings her sleek vocals FRI and retro style to a Late Night Prom. The British FRI singer-songwriter is joined by a 42-piece jazz orchestra and FRI the Urban Voices Collective. This is cabaret, Royal Albert FRI Hall-style. FRI FRI Concert originally broadcast 05/09/2014. FRI FRI 22:45 The Essay b04mbljx (Listen) FRI World War I Round the World, Dresden - Targets FRI FRI One hundred years ago the First World War set the course for FRI the modern world: for the countries that took part nothing FRI would be the same again. In these special editions of The FRI Essay we gain an international FRI perspective on the war as we hear from cultural figures FRI around the world. Herlinde Koebl, is an artist and FRI photographer known for her in-depth, political and thematic FRI work. In this essay she draws on the experience of her FRI latest project 'Targets' which was a series of documentary FRI photographs of the targets used for training by soldiers in FRI 30 countries. Contrasting accounts of First World War FRI training, and quoting from contemporary soldiers, Herlinde FRI Koebl asks what makes a soldier able to kill? The essay is FRI performed in front of an audience at the Bundeswehr Military FRI Museum in Dresden. FRI FRI 23:00 World on 3 b04vdyx8 (Listen) FRI WOMAD Unheard - Highlights from WOMAD 2014 FRI FRI Mary Ann Kennedy introduces previously-unbroadcast FRI highlights from last summer's WOMAD Festival, from FRI performances recorded on the BBC Radio 3 Charlie Gillett FRI Stage. FRI FRI Features the closing set of the BBC Radio 3 FRI Charlie Gillett Stage, from Zimbabwean legend Oliver FRI Mtukudzi with his band The Black Spirits, his set spanning FRI his 40-year career with classic songs and new material. The FRI classic rembetika songs of early twentieth century Greece FRI and Turkey are brought to life once more by Turkish singer FRI Cigdem Aslan at Womad 2014. FRI
26 December 2014
Radio 3 Listings for 27/12/2014 - 02/01/2015
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