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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: Sara Mohr-Pietsch

11/08/2009

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, Sara Mohr-PietschSearch BBC

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents great pieces, great performances - and a few surprises.

The complete Breakfast playlist is posted after the programme has been broadcast.


07:02

HUGO ALFVEN
Vallflickans dans (arr. Christian Lindberg)
Christian Lindberg (trombone)
Roland PÃ¶ntinen (piano)
BIS CD298, T.7									

07:07	

RAMEAU
Choeur from In convertendo
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (director)
ERATO 4509 96967-2, T.7			
					
07:12

DâINDY
Lied, op.19
Lawrence Power (viola)
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67690, T.6						

07:20	

DONIZETTI
Ah! Rammenta, o bella Irene
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
James Levine (piano)
DECCA 478 1380, T.4								

07:26

SCARLATTI
Sonata in A major, K.39
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
SONY SMK90435, T.12								

07:32	

STRAUSS
Overture to Der Zigeunderbaron â The Gypsy Baron
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
WCJ 2564 69125-0, CD1/T.1			
				
07:42	

ALONSO LOBO 
Versa est in luctum
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips (director)
GIMELL CDGIM 012, T.11			


07:48	

FIELD
Rondo in Ab major
MÃ­ceÃ¡l OâRourke (piano)
CHANDOS CHAN 241-38, CD2/T.16						

07:52

PETER WARLOCK (ARR. CAREY BLYTON)
Beethovenâs Binge
The Phoenix Saxophone Quartet
UPBEAT RECORDINGS URCD 106							

08:04	

SULLIVAN
Patience â overture
Pro Arte Orchestra
Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
EMI CMS7644062, CD1/T.1			


08:10	

SWEELINCK
Chorale âPuer nobis nasciturâ
Masaaki Suzuki (organ)
BIS CD1614, T.15									
08:15

TCHAIKOVSKY
Elegie
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
JosÃ© Serebrier (conductor)
BIS CD 1283, T.2								

08:23	

HANDEL
Overture to Il Pastor Fido
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Raymond Leppard (conductor)
PHILIPS 422 486-2, T.10			

					
08:31

BERLIOZ
Le carnival romain, op.9
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (Conductor)
PHILIPS 4164302, T.3								

08:41	

BACH
Corrente from Partita No.6 in E minor, BWV 830
Richard Goode (piano)
NONESUCH 7559-79698 2, T.16							

08:46	

WAGNER (English translation: Amanda Holden)
Elsaâs Dream from Lohengrin
Christine Brewer (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
David Parry (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 3159, T.9			

					
08:54

SCHUMANN
Mit Humor from FÃ¼nf StÃ¼cke im Volkston, Op.102
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Peter Wallfisch (piano)
CHANDOS CHAN8528, T.1								

08:58	

HANDEL 
Concerto no.2 in Bb major
Linde Consort
Hans-Martin Linde
VIRGIN CLASSIS 50999 699472 2 3, T.4-8						

09:13	

BEETHOVEN
Piano concerto no.4 in G major, Rondo
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)
PHILIPS 475 7182, CD2/T.3							
	
09:23

TRAD. HUNGARIAN
Whistled Hora
Sandor Lakatos and his Gypsy Band
WHITE LABEL HRC 068, T.2							

09:27	

FAURE 
Pelleas et Melisande, op.80
Orchestre de la Suisse Romand
Armin Jordan (conductor)
ERATO 2292-45813-2, T.1-4							

09:44	

FAURE (arr. David Rees-Williams) 
Libera me
David Rees-Williams Trio
LATE JUNCTION BBCLJ30032, T.9		

					
09:53	

MOZART
Divertimento in D major, KV 136 â Allegro
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman (director)
ERATO 2292 45471-2, T.1

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.

Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: James Jolly

James Jolly

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, James Jolly

James Jolly presents music by Ravel, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Scarlatti, Sullivan and Verdi.

With James Jolly. Including Ravel: Vocalise-etude (en forme de habanera). Mendelssohn: Songs without Words. Wagner, arr Stokowski: Parsifal Act 3: Synthesis. Scarlatti: Te Deum.

With James Jolly.

10.00am
Ravel: Vocalise-etude (en forme de habanera)	
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
DECCA 4526672

10.04am
Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Op 30
Daniel Adni (piano)
EMI 5693522

10.24am
Wagner, arr. Stokowski: Parsifal Act 3 - Synthesis
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
EVEREST EVC 9024

10.42am
Scarlatti: Te Deum
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO COR 16003

10.47am
Poulenc: Quatre petites prieres de Saint Francois d'Assise
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
VIRGIN VC 7910752

10.55am
Britten: Antiphon
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
COLLINS 13432

11.01am
Sullivan: String Quartet
Yeomans String Quartet
SOMM SOMMCD 233

11.13am
Verdi, arr. Mackerras: Suite: The Lady and the Fool
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
CFP CDCFP 4618

11.44am
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw, Op 46
Simon Callow (speaker)
London Voices
London Symphony Orchestra
Robert Craft (conductor)
KOCH 372632.

Introduced by James Jolly. 
Ravel Vocalise-Etude en Forme de Habanera 
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Myung-Whun Chung (piano) 
10.04 Mendelssohn Songs without Words, Op 30 Daniel Adni (piano) 
10.24 Wagner, arr Stokowski Parsifal - Symphonic Synthesis 
Houston SO, conductor Leopold Stokowski 
10.42 D Scarlatti Te Deum in C 
Poulenc Quatre petites prières de Saint Francois d'Assise 
Britten Antiphon , Op 56b 
The Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers 
11.01 Sullivan String Quartet Yeomans Quartet 
11.13 Charles Mackerras Ballet Suite: The Lady and the Fool (after Verdi) 
LPO, conducted by the composer 
11.44 Schoenberg A Survivor from Warsaw 
Simon Callow (speaker), London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Craft

Composer of the Week

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Carl Orff (1895-1982)

Composer of the Week: Carl Orff (1895-1982): Episode 2: A New Regime

Episode 2

Episode 2: A New Regime

Carl Orff (1895-1982)

A New Regime

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Carl Orff (1895-1982), A New Regime

Donald Macleod on how Orff's life and work were shaped by the start of the Third Reich.

Donald Macleod and Michael Kater discuss how Carl Orff's life and work were shaped by the start of the Third Reich, and the Nazi reaction to his 1937 work Carmina Burana.

This episode is available until midday on Friday, 21st August as part of the Series Catch-up Trial.

Donald Macleod and Michael Kater discuss the way Orff's life and work were shaped by the beginning of the Third Reich, and the Nazi reaction to his 1937 work Carmina Burana.

Catulli Carmina I and II (1930-1) - Aus Catulli Carmina
Carl Orff Choir
Arthur Gross (conductor)
WER 4006-50, Tr 18

Schulwerk (excerpts)  						 
Tolzer Boys Choir
Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (conductor)
Chamber Choir of the Munich National College of Music
Fritz Schieri (conductor)
Stuttgart Chorus
Heinz Mende (conductor)
BMG Conifer 75605513572, Trs 18, 24, 25, 31, 32

Ein Sommernachtstraum (excerpts)
Orchestra of the Staatstheaters am Gartnerplatz, Munich
Klaus E Schneider (conductor)
RCA 74321735202, Trs 1-5

Carmina Burana - Part 1 						
Berliner Philharmonic
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI 7243 5 578888 2 5, Trs 1-10.

Donald Macleod and Michael Kater unravel the complex life and work of Carl Orff

Donald Macleod is joined by Professor Michael Kater, author of the book Composers in the Nazi Era, to unravel the complex life and work of Carl Orff

Composer of the Week: Orff

2/5. Donald Macleod and Michael Kater discuss how Orff's life and work were shaped by the beginning of the Third Reich, and the Nazi reaction to his 1937 work Carmina Burana. Catulli Carmina I and II 
Carl Orff Choir , conductor Arthur Gross 
Schulwerk (excerpts) To Boys Choir, conductor Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden ; Chamber Choir of the Munich National College of Music, conductor Fritz Schieri ; Stuttgart Chorus, conductor Heinz Mende Incidental music: Ein Sommernachtstraum 
Orchestra of the Staatstheaters am Gartnerplatz, Munich, conductor Klaus E Schneider 
Carmina Burana, Part 1 Berlin Radio Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Mananan International Festival 2009

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Mananan International Festival 2009: Episode 1: Raphael Wallfisch, Stephen Coombs

Episode 1

Episode 1: Raphael Wallfisch, Stephen Coombs

Mananan International Festival 2009

Raphael Wallfisch, Stephen Coombs

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Mananan International Festival 2009, Raphael Wallfisch, Stephen CoombsClose menu

Raphael Wallfisch (cello) and Stephen Coombs (piano) perform Bloch, Mendelssohn and Franck

Penny Gore presents Raphael Wallfisch (cello) and Stephen Coombs (piano) performing Bloch: From Jewish Life. Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes. Franck: Sonata in A minor.

Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals.

Penny Gore presents a chamber music concert from the 2009 Mananan International Festival on the Isle of Man.

Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Stephen Coombs (piano)

Bloch: From Jewish Life - three sketches for cello and piano
Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes for cello and piano
Franck: Sonata in A minor for cello and piano.

Penny Gore presents a series of concerts from the 2009 Mananan International Festival

Penny Gore presents a series of chamber concerts from the 2009 Mananan International Festival, held on the Isle of Man

Afternoon on 3

With Penny Gore. 
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 
The first in a series of chamber music concerts from the 2009 Mananan international Festival of Music and the Arts on the Isle of Man. 
Raphael Wallf isch (cello), Stephen Coombs (piano) Bloch From Jewish Life 
Mendelssohn Variations concertantes, Op 17 Franck Cello Sonata in A 
2.00 BBC Proms 2009 
Another chance to hear last Tuesday's Prom. Mendelssohn Symphony No 1 in C minor: Violin Concerto in E minor 
Heinz Holliger  irató  
Prokofiev Ballet: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) 
Isabella Faust (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Thierry Fischer (Revised repeat) 
4.30 Chamber music from last year's Edinburgh Festival, including: 
Brahms Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2 
Paul Meyer (clarinet), Eric Le Sage (piano)

Afternoon Concert

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon Concert: Prom 26/BBCNOW - Fischer

Prom 26/BBCNOW - Fischer

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Prom 26/BBCNOW - Fischer

BBCNOW in Mendelssohn: Symphony No 1; Violin Concerto. Plus Holliger and Prokofiev.

BBC Proms 2009: Another chance to hear the BBCNOW in Mendelssohn: Symphony No 1; Violin Concerto. Holliger: (S)irato. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts). Plus chamber music.

Presented by Penny Gore.

BBC Proms 2009:

Another chance to hear Felix Mendelssohn's First Symphony, written when he was only 15, and his lyrical Violin Concerto in a performance given at the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales under principal conductor Thierry Fischer also perform music by distinguished Swiss composer Heinz Holliger - (S)irato is an anguished lament for Holliger's Hungarian teacher Sandor Veress, to whom the piece is dedicated.

The Prom concludes with Prokofiev's ballet score for Romeo and Juliet - selected by the conductor - which reveals all the intimacy, tragedy and tenderness of Shakespeare's drama.

Isabelle Faust (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 1 in C minor; Violin Concerto in E minor
Heinz Holliger: (S)irato
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

4.30pm
Chamber music from the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, including:

Brahms: Sonata in E flat for clarinet or viola and piano, Op 120, No 2
Paul Meyer (clarinet)
Eric Le Sage (piano).

In Tune

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians. If it's happening in the world of music, you'll hear it first on In Tune.

In Tune: 11/08/2009

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 11/08/2009

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Harpsichordist Laura Tivendale, Ilan Volkov & Robert Levin

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Harpsichordist Laura Tivendale (winner of this year's Broadwood Harpsichord Prize) performs in the studio, and Ilan Volkov and Robert Levin in the studio.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Harpsichordist Laura Tivendale (winner of this year's Broadwood Harpsichord Prize) performs in the studio and young Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov talks about his Prom with the BBC SSO. Famed American pianist Robert Levin talks to Petroc about his all Mozart concert at Aldeburgh. 
Main news headlines are at 5.00 and 6.00
E-mail: in.tune@bbc.co.uk

17.03
MOZART
Overture, Don Giovanni
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
TELDEC 4509 95523 2
Track 1
5â40â

17.09
PHILIP GLASS
Morning Passages (The Hours)
Michael Riesman, piano
Orchestra
Nick Ingman (conductor)
NONESUCH 7559 796932
Track 2
5â31â

17.15
LIVE MUSIC
J.S. BACH  
Prelude in G major BWV 902
Laura Tivendale (harpsichord)
3â42

17.23
LIVE MUSIC
SCARLATTI 
Sonata K. 492 in D major
Laura Tivendale (harpsichord)
3â52 

17.32
LIVE MUSIC
HANDEL 
Chaconne in G major HWV 435.
Laura Tivendale (harpsichord)
11â14

17.45
DELIBES
Prelude and Mazurka; Valse; Czardas (CoppÃ©lia)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor
EMI CDE5 75221 2
Tracks 1-3
11â56â

17.57
ANDRE MESSAGER
Les hommes sont biens tous les memes (from Coups de roulis)
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
CBSO
Yves Abel (conductor)
Erato 0927-42106-2
Track 7
1â52

18.00
NEWS

18.03
STRAVINSKY
Jeu de cartes
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67698
Track 1
5â26â

18.16
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.7 (2nd movement)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilvan Volkov (conductor)
BBC Recording
8â37

18.29
STRAVINSKY
Orpheus : Third Scene: Apotheosis of Orpheus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
HYPERION CDA 67698
Track 22
2â46â
		
18.33
LISZT
Hungarian Rhapsody No.8 
Alfred Brendel (piano)
VANGUARD 084024
Track 5
7â27â

18.40
DEBUSSY
La Plus Que Lente
John Leach (cimbalom)
French National Radio Orchestra
Jean Martinon (conductor)
EM I 3 65240 2
CD2 Track 4
5â54â

18.48
MOZART (ed. Robert Levin)
Agnus Dei/ Communion (Requiem)	
Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus
Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor
LINN CKD211
Tracks 14-16
7â47â

19.03
MOZART
Adagio, Piano Concerto no.23 in A., K.488
Robert Levin (fortepiano)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
LâOiseau-Lyre 452 052 2
Track 2
6â16

19.17
MOZART
Piano Concerto no.22 in E flat major, K.482 (final movement)
Robert Levin (fortepiano)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
LâOiseau-Lyre 452 052 2
Track 6
11â49

BBC Proms

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 35: Patience

BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 35: Patience: Part 1

Part 1 2009

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2009, Prom 35: Patience, Part 1

BBC Concert Orchestra/Charles Mackerras in Part 1 of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Gilbert and Sullivan expert Charles Mackerras conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Part 1 of a semi-staged version of the operetta Patience.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Martin Handley.

Charles Mackerras is an acknowledged expert in the music of Gilbert and Sullivan and he returns to the Proms to conduct a performance of the exuberant operetta Patience.

Patience opened the famous Savoy Theatre in London in 1881 - the first theatre in the world to be lit by incandescent electric light - and it satirises the fad of the 1870s and 1880s known as the 'aesthetic craze', when poets, painters and composers were prolific but, some argued, empty and self-indulgent. It centres on Patience, the simple village milkmaid, who cares nothing for poetry.

Gilbert and Sullivan: Patience (semi-staged) - Part 1

Patience ...... Rebecca Bottone (soprano)
Lady Jane ...... Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
Lady Angela ...... Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
Lady Ella ...... Elena Xanthoudakis (soprano)
Lady Saphir ...... Sophie-Louise Dann (mezzo-soprano)
Reginald Bunthorne ...... Simon Butteriss (baritone)
Archibald Grosvenor ...... Toby Stafford-Allen (baritone)
Colonel Calverley ...... Donald Maxwell (baritone)
Major Murgatroyd ...... Graeme Danby (bass) 
Lt Duke of Dunstable ...... Bonaventura Bottone (tenor)
Chorus of English National Opera	
BBC Concert Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Martin Duncan (director).

BBC Proms: 2009

Prom 35: Patience

Charles Mackerras conducts the BBC CO in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Patience

Acknowledged Gilbert and Sullivan expert Charles Mackerras conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a semi-staged performance of the exuberant operetta Patience

BBC Proms 2009

From the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Martin Handley.
Charles Mackerras, renowned afficianado of Gilbert and Sullivan, makes a welcome return this Proms season for a performance of Patience, the operetta that opened the famous Savoy Theatre in London in 1881.

Gilbert and Sullivan Patience, Part 1 (semi-staged)
Chorus of English National Opera, BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras

8.45 Twenty Minutes: Proms Literary Festival Victorians: Gilbert and Sullivan
Ian McMillan explores the power of the partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan with expert Ian Bradley.

9.05 Patience, Part 2

BBC Proms: 2009: Proms Plus

BBC Proms: 2009: Proms Plus: Proms Literary Festival - Gilbert and Sullivan

Proms Literary Festival - Gilbert and Sullivan

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2009, Proms Plus, Proms Literary Festival - Gilbert and Sullivan

Ian McMillan explores the power of the partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan.

Ian McMillan explores the power of the partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan with Ian Bradley, author of a complete annoted version of their works.

In a discussion recorded in front of an audience, Ian McMillan explores the power of the partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan with writer Ian Bradley, author of a complete annoted version of their works.

Proms Plus

Series of events providing a context to the 2009 Proms season's music and artists

Series of events providing a fascinating context to the 2009 Proms season's music and artists

BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 35: Patience: Part 2

Part 2 BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2009, Prom 35: Patience, Part 2

Charles Mackerras conducts the BBC CO in Part two of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience.

From the Royal Albert Hall. Martin Handley presents the second part of a semi-staged version of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Patience, with the BBC CO under Charles Mackerras.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. 

Martin Handley presents the conclusion of a semi-staged version of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Patience. 

Gilbert and Sullivan: Patience (Part 2)

Patience ...... Rebecca Bottone (soprano)
Lady Jane ...... Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
Lady Angela ...... Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
Lady Ella ...... Elena Xanthoudakis (soprano)
Lady Saphir ...... Sophie-Louise Dann (mezzo-soprano)
Reginald Bunthorne ...... Simon Butteriss (baritone)
Archibald Grosvenor ...... Toby Stafford-Allen (baritone)
Colonel Calverley ...... Donald Maxwell (baritone)
Major Murgatroyd ...... Graeme Danby (bass) 
Lt Duke of Dunstable ...... Bonaventura Bottone (tenor)
Chorus of English National Opera	
BBC Concert Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Martin Duncan (director).

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: Vril

04/01/2009

Vril

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Vril

Matthew Sweet finds out about Vril, an all-powerful Victorian fictional energy source.

Matthew Sweet finds out about Vril, the energy source of the species of superhumans which featured in Edward Bulwer Lytton's pioneering science fiction novel The Coming Race.

Matthew Sweet finds out about Vril, the infinitely powerful energy source of the species of superhumans which featured in Victorian author and politician Edward Bulwer Lytton's pioneering science fiction novel The Coming Race. Although it was completely fictional, many people were desperate to believe it really existed and had the power to transform their lives. 

At Knebworth House - Lytton's vast, grandiloquent Gothic mansion, where Matthew meets Lytton's great-great-great-grandson - he hears how the book was meant to be a warning about technology, soulless materialism and utopian dreams. At the Royal Albert Hall, Matthew discovers how a doctor, Herbert Tibbits, along with a handful of aristocrats, tried to promote the notion of electrical cures and the possibility of a 'coming race'. 

Along the way, Matthew and his contributors consider why so many English people have been so desperate to see the fantasy of regeneration transformed into fact.

Vril was the infinitely powerful energy source of a species of superhumans who populated the pioneering science-fiction novel The Coming Race by Victorian author Edward Bulwer Lytton. It was completely invented, yet many people were desperate to believe it really existed, and had the power to transform their lives. Matthew Sweet goes on their trail to find out Why. Producer Phil Tinline

The Essay

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: My Son the Fiddler

The Essay: My Son the Fiddler: Episode 2: Boarding at the Menuhin School

Episode 2: Boarding at the Menuhin School

My Son the Fiddler

Boarding at the Menuhin School

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, My Son the Fiddler, Boarding at the Menuhin SchoolClose menu

Christopher Hope discusses his son Daniel's time spent boarding at the Menuhin School.

Author Christopher Hope discusses his son Daniel's time spent as a boarder at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Author Christopher Hope recalls helping to bring up his son Daniel, who has become a renowned violin player. How do a writer and a musician survive in the same family?

He discusses Daniel's time spent as a boarder at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Author Christopher Hope recalls watching his son Daniel become a renowned violinist

Author Christopher Hope recalls watching his son Daniel become a renowned violinist, and how as a tone deaf father he helped and hindered his development

2/4. Boarding at the Menuhin School 
Daniel Hope enrols at the famous music school.

Late Junction

Journeys in music, ancient to future. The home for adventurous listeners

Late Junction: Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt presents music including Richie Beirach, Gregor Huebner and George Mraz.

Max Reinhardt presents music including Richie Beirach, Gregor Huebner and George Mraz's reworking of Carlo Gesualdo's Sabato Sancto, plus Tenniscoats and Fatai Rolling Dollar.

Max Reinhardt's varied selection includes music from Richie Beirach, Gregor Huebner and George Mraz's reworking of Carlo Gesualdo's Sabato Sancto, an essentially live field recording by Japanese duo Tenniscoats. Plus some highlife roots from Lagos' senior musical citizen, Fatai Rolling Dollar.

Track List:

23:15
Wulomei: Mawie Ga	
Album: Legendary Wulomei 
S Records SRCD 019

23:20
Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile: I Wasn't Talking To You
Album: Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile
Nonesuch 512586

(Segue)

23:22
Free Fall: Accidents With Ladders (For Nate McBride)
Album: The Blasting Concept
Smalltown Superjazz STSJ100

23:32
Lhasa: A Fish On Land
Album: Lhasa	
Warner France 25646 90483	

(Segue)

23:36
Carlo Guesaldo: Responsorium #5 (From Stabbata Sancto)	
Performed By Richie Beirach, Gregor Huebner & George Mraz	
Album: Round About Monteverdi	
ACT 9412-2

(Segue)

23:41
Lamma Rabi' ibtada/Au Debut De Rabi: Noureddine Khourshid Et Les Derviches De Damas	
Album: La Voie De L'extase
Institut du Monde Arabe 321.051

23:46
Meas Samoun: Dondung Goan Gay
Album: Sleepwalking Through The Mekong
Real World M80 102

(Segue)

23:50
John Baker: Piano Strokes	
Album: The John Baker Tapes Volume 2: Soundtracks, Library, Home Recordings, Electro Ads 1954 â 1985	
Trunk JBH029CD

(Segue)

23:52
Araujo: Silencio	
Performed By Ex Cathedra Conducted By Jeffrey Skidmore
Album: Fire Burning In Snow
Hyperion CDA67600

00:59
Fink: Sort Of Revolution (The Cinematic Orchestra Remix)
Album: Sort Of Revolution EP
Zen ZENCDS263P

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00:03
AGF/Delay: Second Life	
Album: Symptoms
BPitch Control BPC 193

00:08
Mira Calix: Tillsammans	
Album: Eyes Set Against The Sun	
Warp CD150

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00:10		
Mira Calix: Umbra/Penumbra
Album: Eyes Set Against The Sun	
Warp CD150

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00:15
Fatai Rolling Dollar: Sisi Jaiye Jaiye
Album: Papa Rise Again	
Ekostar EKCD010
			
00:19	
Ligeti: Zehn StÃ¼cke fÃ¼r BlÃ¤serquintett	
Performed By BlÃ¤serquintett des SÃ¼dwestfunks, Baden-Baden	
Album: Continuum / 10 StÃ¼cke f. BlÃ¤ser / Artikulation / Glissandi / Orgel Etuden / Volumina
Wergo WER 60161 50
			
00:32
Anon: Universi Populi Simul Iam Gaudete	
Performed By Discantus directed by Brigitte Lesne
Album: Universi Populi - Chants SacrÃ©s Ã Prague Du Xiie Au Xve SiÃ¨cle	
Zig Zag Territoires ZZT 060601

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00:35
Michal Jacaszek: III
Album: Pentral
Gustaff GRAM 0902

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00:38
Anon: O Regina Lux Divin	
Performed By Discantus directed by Brigitte Lesne
Universi Populi - Chants SacrÃ©s Ã Prague Du Xiie Au Xve SiÃ¨cle
Zig Zag Territoires ZZT 060601	
			
00:47
Natacha Atlas: Yariet
Album: Mish Maoul
Mantra MNTCD 1038

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00:45
Tenniscoats: End Of The Day - Slight Hunger
Album: Temporacha
Room RM436

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00:49
Fatai Rolling Dollar: Papa Rise Again	
Album: Papa Rise Again 
Ekostar EKCD010

00:54
Ryucihi Sakamoto: Disko
Album: Out Of Noise
KAB	

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00:57
Katsumasa Takasago: Mago Uta	
Recorded At Nangenji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Album: Flower Dance - Japanese Folk Melodies
Nonesuch Explorer Series 451900-2

From his musical top hat Max Reinhardt produces a reworking of Carlo Gesualdo 's Sabato Sancto , an essentially live field recording by Tenniscoats, and some highlife roots from Fatai Rolling Dollar. 
Producer Peter Meanwell EMAIL: late.junction@bbc.co.uk

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 12/08/2009

12/08/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 12/08/2009

Music including Spohr, Haydn, Barber, Beethoven, Paganini, Martinu, Goleminov and Lassus.

Music including Spohr: The Last Judgement, plus Haydn, Barber, Beethoven, Paganini, Martinu, Goleminov, Lassus, Telemann, Saar, Dukas, A Scarlatti, CPE Bach and Ginastera.

1.00am
Spohr, Louis (1784-1859): The Last Judgement, WoO 61
Anna Korondi (soprano)
Vanessa Barkowski (contralto)
Jorg Durmuller (tenor)
Vladimir Baykov (bass)
Chorwerk Ruhr
Philipp Ahmann (choirmaster)
Cappella Coloniensis
Bruno Weil (conductor) 

2.18am
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): Arietta and 12 variations, H XVII 3
Andreas Staier (fortepiano)

2.36am
Barber, Samuel (1910-1981): Concerto for violin and orchestra, Op 14
Dene Olding (violin)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Hiroyuki Iwaki (conductor)

3.01am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 33 Variations in C for piano on a waltz by Diabelli, Op 120
Einar Henning Smebye (piano)

3.58am
Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962): Rondino on a theme by Beethoven for violin and piano
Taik-Ju Lee (violin)
Young-Lan Han (piano) 

4.02am
Paganini, Niccolo (1782-1840): Introduction and Variations on a theme from Rossini's Mose in Egitto
Monika Leskovar (cello)
Ivana Schwartz (piano)

4.10am
Martinu, Bohuslav (1890-1959): Variations on a theme by Rossini for cello and piano
Leonid Gorokhov (cello)
Irina Nikitina (piano) 

4.18am
Goleminov, Marin (1908-2000): Symphonic Variations on a theme by Dobri Hristov (1942)
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Kamen Goleminov (conductor) 

4.35am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791):String Quartet in G, K156
Australian String Quartet 

4.48am
Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594): Omnes de Saba venient 
Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal (voices only)
Christopher Jackson (director)

4.51am
Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767): Mercordi, TWV XLII G5
Albrecht Rau (violin)
Heinrich Rau (viola)
Clemens Malich (cello)
Wolfgang Hochstein (harpsichord) 

5.01am
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan  (1860-1941), arr. Maksymiuk: Nocturne, Op 16, No 4
Polish Radio Orchestra
Jerzy Maksimiuk (conductor) 

5.06am
Saar, Mart (1882-1963): Mazurka in G minor; Moment musical; Prelude in B flat minor, Op 47, No 1
Bruno Lukk (piano)

5.14am
Saar, Mart (1882-1963): Birds' Song
Tallinn Chamber Choir
Ants Uleoja (conductor)

5.15am
Vedro, Adolf (1890-1944): The Magic Bird Game (1935)
Female Choir of Estonian Choir Conductors
Ants Soot (conductor)

5.17am
Dukas, Paul (1865-1935): The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Orchestre National de France
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

5.30am
Kuula, Toivo (1883-1918): Scherzo (Viululle ja pianolle), Op 17a, No 7
Arto Noras (cello)
Tapani Valsta (piano)

5.32am
Goens, Daniel van (1858-1904): Scherzo
Gary Karr (double bass)
Harmon Lewis (piano) 

5.33am
Lysenko, Mykola (1842-1912): Fantasy on two Ukrainian themes
Yuri Shut'ko (flute)
Ukrainian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vyacheslav Blinov (conductor) 

5.42am
Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625): Fantasia a 3 No 2 (Koninklycke Fantasien)
Concordia, Mark Levy (conductor) 

5.44am
Jenkins, John (1592-1678): Galliard
5.47am
Philips, Peter (c.1560-1628): Galliard
Concordia
Mark Levy (conductor) 

5.49am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1669-1725): Christmas Cantata
Mona Julsrud (soprano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Roy Goodman (conductor) 

6.07am
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788): Wurttemburgische Sonate No 1 in A minor 
Rietze Smits

6.19am
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Sonata in A minor for violin and piano, Op 23
Dina Schneiderman (violin)
Milena Mollova (piano) 

6.39am
Andricu, Mihail (1894-1974): Sinfonietta No 13, Op 123
Romanian National Radio Orchestra
Emanuel Elenescu (conductor) 

6.47am
Matton, Roger (b.1929): Danse bresilienne for two pianos (1946)
Ouellet-Murray Duo:
Claire Ouellet, Sandra Murray (pianos) 

6.51am
Ginastera, Alberto (1916-1983): Danza final - Malambo (Estancia -  dances from the ballet for orchestra, Op 8a
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

6.54am
Cavalli, Francesco (1602-1676): Sonata a 8 
Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor).

Spohr The Last Judgement 2.18 Haydn Arietta and 12 Variations, H XVII 3 2.36 Barber Violin Concerto 
3.01 Beethoven Diabelli Variations, Op 120 3.58 Kreisler Rondino on a theme by Beethoven 4.02 Paganini 
Introduction and Variations on a theme from Rossini's Mose in Egitto 4.10 Martinu Variations on a theme by Rossini 4.18 Goleminov Symphonic Variations on a theme by Dobri Hristov 4.35 Mozart String Quartet in G. K/56 
4.48 Lassus Omnes de Saba Venient 4.51 Telemann Mercoledi, TWV43 G5 5.01 Paderewski, arr 
Jerzy Maksymiuk Nocturne , Op 16 No 4 5.06 Saar Mazurka in G minor: Prelude in B flat minor, Op 47 No I; Birds' Song 
5.15 Vedro The Magic Bird Game 5.17 Dukas The 
Sorcerer's Apprentice 5.30 Kuula Scherzo: Viululleja pianolle, Op 17a No 7 5.32 Goens Scherzo 5.33 Lysenko Fantasy on two Ukrainian themes 5.42 Gibbons Fantasia a 3 No 2 (Koninklycke fantasien) 5.44 John Jenkins 
Galliand 5^47 Philips Calliard 5A9 A Scarlatti Christmas Cantata 6.07 CPE Bach Wurttemburgische Sonata No 1 in A minor 6.19 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A minor, Op 23 6.39 Andricu Sinfonietta No 13, Op 123 
6.47 Roger Matton Danse brésilienne 6.51 Ginastera Malambo (Estancia, Op 8a) 6.54 Cavalll Sonata a 8

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