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Through the Night

Continuous broadcast of concert music and opera, recorded from locations throughout Europe

Through the Night; Through the Night

Through the Night: Through the Night

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Sweelinck, Kuula, Cherubini, Handel, Czerny, Lalo, Milhaud, Mozart, Pergolesi and Gluck.

With Jonathan Swain.

5.00am
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Toccata in C
Jacques van Oortmerssen (organ)

5.05am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Suru, Op 22, No 2
Arto Noras (cello)
Tapani Valsta (piano)

5.12am
Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842): Ballet music (Anakreon)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Lenard (conductor)

5.21am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Return, O God of hosts (Samson, Act 2)
Maureen Forrester (contralto)
I Solisti di Zagreb
Antonio Janigro (conductor)

5.30am
Czerny, Carl (1791-1857): Brilliant polonaise for piano six hands
Kestutis Grybauskas, Vilma Rindzeviciute, Irina Venkus (piano)

5.44am
Lalo, Edouard (1823-1892): 2 Aubades
CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Swift (conductor)

5.53am
Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974): La Création du monde
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bernhard Klee (conductor)

6.13am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Piano Sonata in F, K280
Sergei Terentjev (piano)

6.34am
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736): Violin Concerto in B flat
Andrea Keller (violin)
Concerto Köln

6.47am
Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714-1787): Ballet Music (Paris e Helena)
Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Ludovít Rajter (conductor).

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Breakfast

Radio 3's breakfast show, waking the UK up with the finest classical music in the best performances

Breakfast: 

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast,

Including music by Donald Tovey, Bach, Beethoven, Pachelbel, Mozart and Strauss.

Including Tovey: The Bride of Dionysus (Prelude). Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D. Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 3. Mozart: Piano Sonata in C. Strauss: Prelude for String Sextet.

From 7.00am

Donald Tovey: The Bride of Dionysus (Prelude)
Malmo Opera Orchestra
George Vass (conductor)

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532
Christopher Herrick (organ)

From 8.00am

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

Pachelbel: Jauchzet dem Herrn (Motet)
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
Les Agremens
Jean Tubery (conductor)

From 9.00am

Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, K330
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

Strauss: Prelude for String Sextet (Capriccio, Op 85)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
William Pleeth (cello)
Amadeus Quartet.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Music includes: 
7.00-8.00: Tovey Prelude: The Bride of Dionysus Malmo Opera Orchestra, conductor George Vass Bach Prelude and Fugue in D, B WV532 Christopher Herrick (organ) 
8.00-9.00: Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3 BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rudolf Kempe Pachelbel Motet: Jauchzet dem Herrn Namur Chamber Choir, Les Agremens, conductor Jean Tubery 
9.00-10.00: Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K330 Vladimir Horowitz 
Strauss Prelude: Capriccio 
Amadeus Quartet, Cecil Aronowitz (viola), William Pleeth (cello)

Sunday Morning

Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Iain Burnside

Sunday Morning: 

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Morning,

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Iain looks at different approaches to musical sanity.

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Iain looks at different approaches to musical sanity. Including music by Schoenberg and performances by David Helfgott and Vladimir Horowitz.

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Iain looks at different approaches to musical sanity.

Including:

Schulz: Largo
Thomas Bloch (Glass Harmonica)
Naxos 8.555295

Schumann: Piano Quintet (2nd mvt)
Menahem Pressler (piano)
Emerson Quartet
DG 4458482

Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb, 
Peter Barley (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge 
Stephen Cleobury (director)
Argo 4332152

Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy (Cluster of Galaxies)
Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra 
EVIDENCE ECD220362 

Johann Strauss: Schnee-Glöckchen, Op 143
Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra
Oliver Dohnanyi (conductor)
MARCO POLO 8223207

Rachmaninov: Prelude in G, Op 32 No 5
David Helfgott (piano)
RCA 74321403782

Scarlatti: Sonata in A, L483
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
Favourite Encores
CBS CD42305

Joni Mitchell: Twisted 
Asylum K253002 

Ivor Gurney: When Smoke stood up from Ludlow
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Simon Crawford Philips (piano)
Dante Quartet
Signum 

Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (closing scene in Bedlam)
Deborah York (soprano)
Bryn Terfel, Ian Bostridge (tenors)
Monteverdi Choir
LSO
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
DG 4596482

Smetana: String Quartet No 2
The Linsay String Quartet
ASV CDDCA777

Wolf: Manuel Venegas
Mitsuko Shirai (mezzo-soprano), Josef Protschka, Christoph Spath, Kor-Jan Dusseljee (tenors), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Oliver Widmer (baritone)
Stuttgart Chamber Choir
Hartmut Holl (conductor)
Capriccio 10362CAP 

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (part 3)
Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Ensemble InterContemporain
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 457630

Sorabji: Opus clavicembalisticum/Introito
John Ogdon (piano)
Altarus 9075.

lain Burnside

As World Mental Health Day approaches, lain Burnside explores approaches to musical sanity. Including performances by David Helfgott and Vladimir Horowitz.
Music includes:
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op 43
Schoenberq Pierrot Lunaire
EMAIL: burnside@bbc.co.uk

Private Passions

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives

Private Passions: Peter Nichols

07/10/2007

Peter Nichols

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Peter Nichols

Michael Berkeley talks to playwright Peter Nichols, who chooses Erik Satie and Gershwin.

Michael Berkeley's guest is playwright and author of black comedies, Peter Nichols. His musical choices range from Erik Satie's piano music to Gershwin's delightful Walking the Dog.

Michael Berkeley welcomes playwright Peter Nichols, author of such black comedies as A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Privates on Parade, and Passion Play. His musical choices range from children's choruses by Kodaly, piano music by Erik Satie and an air from Purcell's The Indian Queen to Gershwin's Walking the Dog and Hoagy Carmichael 's Stardust.

The Early Music Show

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Children of the Revolution

The Early Music Show: Children of the Revolution: Episode 2

Episode 2

Children of the Revolution

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Children of the Revolution, Episode 2

The music of the French Revolution, and those who lived in Paris in the years of terror.

Children of the Revolution: 2/2. Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the French Revolution. Featured composers include Gossec, Cherubini, Mehul, Boieldieu and Dussek.

Children of the Revolution

2/2. Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the French Revolution and those who lived and worked in Paris through the years of terror at the end of the 18th century. Featured composers include Gossec, Cherubini, Mehul, Boieldieu and Dussek.

Lucie Skeaping presents a two-part series looking at the music of the French Revolution

Children of the Revolution 
2/2. Lucie Skeaping concludes her exploration of the music of the French Revolution and some of the composers who lived and worked in Paris through the Reign of Terror in the 1790s. Including works by Gossec, Cherubini, Mehul, Boieldieu and Dussek.

Radio 3 Requests

Weekly pick of music requests from Radio 3 listeners

Radio 3 Requests features a wide breadth of classical works requested by the station's listeners.

The final edition of Radio 3 Requests was broadcast on 1st May 2011.  We can no longer accept new requests.

Radio 3 Requests: 

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Requests,

Chi-chi Nwanoku with listeners' requests, including music by Sibelius and Robert Simpson.

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of listeners' requests. Including music by Sibelius and Robert Simpson. Plus oboist Anthony Robson explains his love of Pineapple Poll.

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of listeners' requests.

Including tempestuous scenes from Sibelius, Robert Simpson's awe-inspiring 6th Symphony, plus oboist Anthony Robson explains his love of Pineapple Poll.

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents the weekly pick of listeners' favourites. 
ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests. BBC Wales, CF 5 2YO 
Phone: [number removed] (calls from a land line cost no more than 8p per min) EMAIL: radio3requests@bbc.co.uk

Choral Evensong

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: 

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong,

From Lichfield Cathedral, with an organ voluntary and the introit by Herbert Howells.

Live from Lichfield Cathedral

Introit: Coventry Antiphon (Howells)
Responses: Paul Halley
Psalm: 84 (How)
First Reading: Jeremiah 7 vv1-11
Canticles: Stanford in G
Second Reading: Luke 19 vv1-10
Anthems: Blessed city, heavenly Salem (Bairstow)
One thing have I desired of the Lord (Sumsion)
Final Hymn: Ye that know the Lord is gracious (Hyfrydol)
Organ Voluntary: Paean (Howells)

Organist and Master of the Choristers: Philip Scriven
Sub-Organist: Martyn Rawles.

Live from Lichfield Cathedral. Introit: 
Coventry Antiphon (Howells). Responses: 
Paul Halley. Psalm: 84 (How). First Reading: 
Jeremiah 7, vv1-11. Canticles: Stanford in G. Second Reading: Luke 19, vvHO. Anthems: 
Blessed City, Heavenly Salem (Bairstow). One 
Thing Have I Desired of the Lord (Sumsion). Final Hymn: Ye That Know the Lord Is Gracious 
(Hyfrydol). Organ Voluntary: Paean (Howells). Organist and Master of the Choristers Philip Scriven. Sub-organist Martyn Rawles.

Discovering Music

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week, looking at the musical form or the composer's style, and exploring the many things contributing to the overall experience

Discovering Music: Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste

Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste

BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste

The Northern Sinfonia and conductor Thomas Zehetmair with a workshop on the popular piece.

Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste: Stephen Johnson joins the Northern Sinfonia and conductor Thomas Zehetmair for a workshop on one of Bartok's most original works.

Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste

Stephen Johnson joins members of the Northern Sinfonia and conductor Thomas Zehetmair for a workshop on one of Bartok's most popular, atmospheric and original works.

Bartok's Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta Stephen Johnson joins the members of the Northern Sinfonia under conductor Thomas Zehetmair for a workshop on one of Bartok's most popular, atmospheric and original works, the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.

Choir and Organ

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an irresistible mix of music and singing.

The Choir

Choir and Organ: 

BBC Radio 3 - Choir and Organ,

Aled Jones meets David Hill, in his first season as Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers.

Aled Jones meets David Hill, one of the UK's leading choral conductors, at the beginning of his first season as Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers.

Aled Jones meets David Hill, one of the UK's leading choral conductors, at the beginning of his first season as Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers.

Ian Kennedy and Olivia Robinson share their experiences of singing with the group and there's music recorded for The Choir by the BBC Singers with David Hill, plus a chance to hear Herbert Howells's rediscovered cantata Sir Patrick Spens.

Aled Jones meets David Hill , one of the UK's leading choral conductors, at the beginning of his first season as chief conductor of the BBC 
Singers. Ian Kennedy and Olivia Robinson share their experiences of singing with the group past and present. Including music recorded especially by the BBC Singers with David Hill , and a chance to hear Herbert Howells 's rediscovered cantata Sir Patrick Spens.

Drama on 3

Series of drama performances, ranging from experimental works to the Classics

Drama on 3: The Lamplighters, by Jackie Kay

The Lamplighters, by Jackie Kay

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, The Lamplighters, by Jackie KayClose menu

Lyrical drama exploring the heart of enslavement through the experiences of four women.

The Lamplighters, by Jackie Kay. A lyrical drama that explores the heart of enslavement through the experiences of four women, Constance, Mary, Black Harriot and The Lamplighter.

The Lamplighters

By Jackie Kay.

A lyrical drama that explores the heart of enslavement through the experiences of four women, Constance, Mary, Black Harriot and The Lamplighter.

The Lamplighter ...... Clare Perkins
Mary ...... Mona Hammond
Constance ...... Martina Laird
Black Harriot ...... Aicha Kossoko
MacBean ...... John Dougall
Anniwaa ...... Jordan Loughran
Singer ...... Gweneth-Ann Jeffers

Music composed by Dominique Le Gendre.

Director: Pam Fraser-Solomon.

Drama on 3: The Lamplighter

Jackie Kay's epic poem concerning the topic of enslavement as seen through the eyes of four women. Based on new testimony and research into the lives of slaves over hundreds of years.

Sunday Feature

Exploring music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

In-depth documentaries which explore music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

Sunday Feature: MindMaps

Sunday Feature: MindMaps: Episode 2: Manchester: Masters and Men

Episode 2: Manchester: Masters and Men

MindMaps

Manchester: Masters and Men

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, MindMaps, Manchester: Masters and Men

Chris Bowlby discovers how the city's buildings evoke a confident period of liberalism.

Chris Bowlby discovers how its buildings evoke the confident period when Manchester liberalism became the dominant ideology.

Chris Bowlby visits the Victorian cotton capital to discover how its buildings evoke the confident period when Manchester liberalism became the dominant ideology.

As the middle classes prospered, free trade and dissent achieved architectural, as well as social and political, status. Local luminaries, such as Halle, Mrs Gaskell and Engels, also decisively shaped the way later generations have thought about capitalism and how we consume culture today.

Series examining the ferment of ideas generated in a single city

2/3. Manchester: Masters and Men. In another programme in the series on the interaction between ideas, time and place, Chris Bowlby visits Manchester, the Victorian cotton capital, to discover how its buildings evoke the confident period when Manchester Liberalism became the dominant ideology. As the middle classes prospered, free trade and dissent achieved architectural as well as social and political status. Through such varied local luminaries as Halle, Mrs Gaskell and Engels, the ideology also decisively shaped the way later generations have thought about capitalism and how culture is consumed today. Producer Simon coates

Words and Music

A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: Authority

Authority

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Poetry and prose around the theme of love, with music by Britten, Elgar, De Rore and Dufay

The Truth about Love: Derek Jacobi and Juliet Stevenson read poetry and prose around the theme of love. Music includes Britten's Auden settings and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

The Truth about Love

Derek Jacobi and Juliet Stevenson read poetry and prose around the theme of love, including Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, Philip Larkin's Arundel Tomb and Auden's poems Lullaby and Oh Tell me the truth about love.

Music includes Britten's Auden settings, Elgar's Salut d'amour, madrigals by De Rore and Dufay, and Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde.

The Truth about Love 
Derek Jacobi and Juliet Stevenson read poetry and prose on the theme of love, including Marvell's To His Coy Mistress and Auden's Lullaby and Oh Tell Me the Truth about Love. Classical music on the same theme includes Britten's Auden settings, Elgar's Salutd'amour, madrigals by De Rore and Dufay, and Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde.  EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk 
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visitwww.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic

The Early Music Show: David Munrow

David Munrow

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, David Munrow

Performer portrait of one of this country's most influential early music pioneers.

David Munrow: As part of Radio 3's 40th anniversary season, Andrew Manze presents a performer portrait of one of this country's most influential early music pioneers, David Munrow.

David Munrow

As part of Radio 3's 40th anniversary season, Andrew Manze presents a performer portrait of one of this country's most influential early music pioneers, David Munrow.

Archive performances include Bach's Cantata No 54 and music by Telemann and Purcell.

David Munrow 
Andrew Manze presents a performer portrait of one of the most influential early music pioneers this country has ever seen, David Munrow. 
Archive performances include Bach's Cantata No 54 and music by Telemann and Purcell. Producer Sam Phillips Revised repeat

Through the Night: 

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night,

With music by Sulek, Sakac, Horvat, Radica, Kelemen, Roussel, Taneyev, Vedel and Paganini.

Including 1.00 Sulek, Horvat, Radica, Roussel, Taneyev. 3.07 Vedel, Paganini, Auber, Schumann, Handel, Mozart, Lisinski. 5.00 Skjavetic, Raffaelli, Odak, Bersa, Kuljeric, Gluck.

With Jonathan Swain.

Celebrating Independence Day in Croatia.

1.00am
Sulek, Stjepan (1914-1986): Classical Concerto No 3
Zagreb Soloists
Antonio Janigro (conductor)

1.19am
Sakac, Branimir (1918-1979): Serenade for strings
Zagreb Radio Chamber Orchestra
Igor Gjadrov (conductor)

1.33am
Horvat, Stanko (1930-2006): Concertino for strings
Zagreb Radio Chamber Orchestra
Stjepan Sulek (conductor)

1.41am
Radica, Ruben (b.1931): Intrada, Andante and Finale
Zagreb Radio Symphony Orchestra
Igor Gjadrov (conductor)

1.48am
Kelemen, Milko (b.1924): Divertimento for strings
Zagreb Radio Symphony Orchestra
Igor Gjadrov (conductor)

1.57am
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937): Piano Trio in E flat, Op 2
Tale Olsson (violin)
Johanna Sjunnesson (cello)
Mats Jansson (piano)

2.27am
Taneyev, Sergey Ivanovich (1856-1915): Symphony No 4 in C minor
Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

3.07am
Vedel, Artemy (1767-1808): Oh God, my hope is only in you
Dumka Academic Cappella
Evgeny Savchuk (director)

3.17am
Paganini, Nicolò (1782-1840): Violin Concerto No 1 in D
Jaap van Zweden (violin)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

3.45am
Blacher, Boris (1903-1975): Variations on a theme of Nicolo Paganini
RTV Luxembourg Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Hager (conductor).

Presented by Jonathan Swain. Sulek Classical Concerto No 3 
Zagreb Soloists, conductor Antonio Janiqro 
1.19 Sakac Serenade for Strings 
1.33 Horvat Concertino for Strings 
1.41 Radica Intrada, Andante and Finale 
1.48 Kelemen Divertimento for Strings 
1.57 Roussel Piano Trio in E flat. Op 2 
2.27 Taneyev Symphony No 4 in C minor 
3.07 Vedel Oh God, My Hope Is Only In You 
3.17 Paqanini Violin Concerto No 1 in D 
3.45 Blacher Variations on a theme of Nicob Paganini, Op 26 
4.00 Auber Guoracha; Boléro, (La Muette de Portici) 
4.13 Schumann Toccata in C, Op 7 
4.19 Handel Cantata: Pensieri Notturnidi Filli, HWV134 
4.26 Matusic Two Croatian Folk Songs 
4.33 Mozart Violin Sonata in F, K377 
4.52 Lisinski Symphonic Idyll: Evening 
5.00 Trad, arr Petrinjak Six Renaissance Dances 
5.10 Skjavetic Five Madrigals 
5.21 Sweelinck Unter der Linden grune 
5.27 Gotovac Symphonic Dance, Op 12 (Kolo) 
5.36 Raffaelli Introduction and theme with variations in A 
5.46 Odak Madrigal, Op 11 
5.53 Bersa Idyll, Op 25b 
6.00 Pejacevic Life of Flowers, Op 19 
6.21 Kuljeric Toccata for vibraphone and piano 
6.28 Anon Menuet in G Parac Pastorale 
6.39 Matz Quartetto 
6.54 Gluck Dance of the Furies (Orphee et Eurydice)

Jonathan Swain continues the programme with music by Auber, Schumann, Handel, Matusic, Mozart and Lisinski.

With Jonathan Swain.

4.00am
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit (1782-1871): Guoracha; Bolero (La Muette de Portici)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Viktor Malek, Ondrej Lenard (conductors)

4.13am
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856): Toccata in C, Op 7
Ivo Pogorelich (piano)

4.19am
Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Pensieri notturni di Filli
Johanna Koslwosky (soprano)
Musica Alta Ripa

4.26am
Matusic, Frano (b.1961): Two Croatian Folksongs
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio

4.33am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Violin Sonata in F, K377
Ana Savicka (violin)
Aljosa Lecic (piano)

4.52am
Lisinski, Vatroslav (1819-1854): Evening (Symphonic idyll)
Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra
Niksha Bareza (conductor).

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