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Breakfast

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

Breakfast: Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

03/11/2009

Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, Tuesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a refreshing choice of music.

7.03	

HAYDN
Finale from Symphony No 104 in D, 
London Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana
Howard Shelley
HYPERION44371/4		CD4	t12					

7.10	

FAURE
Apres un reve (arrangement)
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Alexi Grynyuk (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 476339	t8				

7.14	

TELEMANN
Quartet in G from the Musique de Table
Amsterdam Baroque Soloists
Ton Koopman
ERATO 94355	t1-3							

7.21	

TAVERNER
Kyrie
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
HYPERION 44401		CD2	t2					

7.27	

TCHAIKOVSKY
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Nutcracker
London Symphony Orchestra	
Andre Previn
EMI 690442		t20							

7.31

SCARLATTI
Sonata in F (k525)
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
SONY SK 53460 			tr3						

7.34	

RAVEL arr. palmer
Five o'clock Foxtrot
Philharmonia
Geoffrey Simon, (conductor)
CALA CACD1005 		tr 6						

7.39	

BRITTEN
Frolicksome â Finale from Simple Symphony
Slovak Chamber Orchestra
Bohdan Warchal
CAMPION1313		tr4						

7.43	

MOZART
Mitridate: venga pur
Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
DECCA 466196	t14							

7.50

JS BACH
Prelude from Cello Suite No 1 in G
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
EMI 27908	CD1	tr1							

7.54	

SCHUBERT
Polonaise D580
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
DG 437535	tr1							

8.03	

PIAZZOLLA
Primavera Portena
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Rodolfo Mederos (bandoneon)
Hector Console (bass)
TELDEC 13474	tr10							

8.06

BRUCH
Romance in F major, op.85
Janine Jansen (viola)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 475 8133 		tr 4							

8.15

HANDEL
Keyboard suite No 5 in E: 
Air with 5 variations (Harmonious Blacksmith)
Murray Perahia (piano) 
SONY 62785			tr4							
8.28	

Johann STRAUSS 2nd
Blue Danube Waltz
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
Will Boskovsky
EMI81524	CD1	tr1		

			
8.31	

BERNSTEIN
Wonderful Town Overture
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Sir Simon Rattle
EMI 67136	tr1							

8.37	

BACH (arr. Walter Rummel)
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
HYPERION CDA67481	CD1	tr5				

8.44	

BARTOK
Door 5 from Bluebeardâs Castle
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)
John Tomlinson (bass)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
EMI				t6						

8.51

VIVALDI
Concerto in D, RV 222
Giuliano Carmignola, violin
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon
SONY 89362			t4-6							
9.03	

GERSHWIN
Cuban Overture
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor) 
EMI 64084			t3							
9.14	

Grazyna BACEWICZ
Last mvt: Vivace â from Sinfonietta
New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp
HYPERION CDA 67783		t6							
9.18	

SCHUBERT
Rondo in A, D951 âGrand Rondeauâ
Martha Argerich + Nelson Freire (piano)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477857	t14				

9.30	

MONTEVERDI
Ottavo Libro dei Madrigali:
Ardo, avvampo, mi struggo
La Venexiana
Claudio Cavina
GLOSSA GCD 920928  CD2 	t1				

9.38	

KORNGOLD 
Music from Elizabeth and Essex
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 471347	t14-17			

9.46	

J S BACH
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
Quartetto Italian di viole da gamba
WINTER AND WINTER91053 t1						

9.50	

ROSSINI
Valse Torturee
Marco Sollini (Piano)
CHANDOS 10520 t6							

9.57	

BIZET
Habenerra from Carmen
Maria Callas (soprano)
Orchestra of French Radio
Georges Pretre		
EMI 82613	t2

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: Tuesday - Sarah Walker

Tuesday - Sarah Walker

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, Tuesday - Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker with music by Stravinsky, Gesualdo, Fanny Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Weill.

With Sarah Walker. Including Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (opening). Gesualdo: First Nocturne (Tenebrae Responsaries for Good Friday). Fanny Mendelssohn: November (Das Jahr).

With Sarah Walker.

Featuring great performances and classic recordings. The theme is the passing of time and a highlight is Richard Hickox's recording of the original version of Vaughan Williams' London Symphony.

10.00am
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (opening)
Narrator ...... Melvyn Douglas
The Soldier ...... James Mitchell 
The Devil ...... Alvin Epstein
Members of the Kapp Sinfonietta
Emanuel Vardi (conductor)
MCA  MCAD 29820A

10.16am
Gesualdo: First Nocturne (Tenebrae Responsaries for Good Friday)
Taverner Consort and Choir
Andrew Parrott (conductor)
SONY  SK62977

10.39am
Fanny Mendelssohn: November (Das Jahr)
Lauma Skride (piano)
SONY  88697030162

10.44am
Tchaikovsky: November (The Seasons)
Lydia Artimiw (piano)
CHANDOS  CHAN 8349

10.47am
Weill: September Song
Lotte Lenya (voice)
Orchestra
Maurice Levine (conductor)
CONNOISEUR COLLECTION  VSOPCD 126

10.53am
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (original version)
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor)
CHANDOS  CHAN 9902.

With Sarah Walker. 
Stravinsky The Soldier's Tate (opening) 
Melvyn Douglas (narrator), James Mitchell (The 
Soldier), Alvin Epstein (The Devil), Members of the Kapp Sinfonietta , conductor Emanuel Vardi 
10.16 Gesualdo First Nocturne (Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday) Taverner Choir and Consort, conductor Andrew Parrott 
10.39 Fanny Mendelssohn 
November (Das Jahr) Lauma Skride (piano) 
10.44 Tchaikovsky November (The Seasons) Lydia Artymiw (piano) 
10.47 Weill September Song 
Lotte Lenya , unknown orchestra conducted by Maurice Levine 
10.53 Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No 2) (original version) London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox

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 Nielsen (1865-1931)

Composer of the Week: Carl Nielsen (1865-1931): Episode 2

Episode 2

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), Episode 2

Donald Macleod introduces two of Nielsen's works inspired by paintings.

Donald Macleod introduces two works inspired by paintings - Nielsen's first opera and the symphony he subtitled 'The Four Temperaments'.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Carl Nielsen, Denmark's best-known composer.

He dicusses Nielsen's relationship with the Royal Theatre, affected by his attempt to gain recognition as conductor there, and which ultimately led to his resignation. But his work as composer for the stage was constantly in demand and while he was still a violinist with the Theatre Orchestra, he wrote the first of his two operas.

With an excerpt from Saul and David, which was inspired by a Renaissance painting of David and Goliath, plus a complete performance of another visually inspired work - the symphony Nielsen subtitled 'The Four Temperaments'.

Graeshoppen
Canzone-Koret
Frans Rasmussen (conductor)
Danacord  DACOCD 368  Tr 5

Song for the May Festival of the Kolding Grammar School
Song of the Siskin
Canzone-Koret
Frans Rasmussen (conductor)
Danacord  DACOCD 368  Tr 12

Saul og David (excerpt)
Saul ...... Aage Haugland (bass)
David ...... Peter Lindroos (tenor)
Jonathan ...... Kurt Westi (tenor)
Mikal ...... Tina Kiberg (soprano)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
Chandos CHAN 8911/12 CD1  Trs 7-9

Symphony No 2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS-CD-1289  Trs 1-4.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Carl Nielsen, Denmark's most famous composer.

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Carl Nielsen. Through his work as conductor, teacher, writer and composer, he became the most influential Danish musician of his time

Composer of the Week: Nielsen

2/5. Donald Macleod introduces part of Nielsen's first opera and a complete performance of the symphony he subtitled the Four Temperaments. Grasshopper; Song for the May Festival of the Kolding Grammar School; Song of the Siskin Canzone-Koret , conductor, Frans Rasmussen Saul and David (excerpt)  
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor, Neeme Jarvi 
Symphony No 2 (Four Temperaments) 
BBCSSO, conductor OsmoVanska Rptdatiopm

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: LSO St Luke's Vienna Collection

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: LSO St Luke's Vienna Collection: Episode 1: Alexander Madzar

Episode 1

Episode 1: Alexander Madzar

LSO St Luke's Vienna Collection

Alexander Madzar

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, LSO St Luke's Vienna Collection, Alexander MadzarClose menu

Aleksander Madzar (piano) performs music by Schoenberg, Schubert and Ravel.

Jonathan Swain presents a piano recital given by Aleksander Madzar at LSO St Luke's, London. Schoenberg: 3 Klavierstucke, Op 11. Schubert: Sonata in A, D959. Ravel: La valse.

Jonathan Swain presents a series of recitals given at LSO St Luke's in London

Jonathan Swain presents a series of recitals given at LSO St Luke's in London, loosely focused on the musical schen in Vienna in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Afternoon on 3

With Jonathan Swain. 
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 
1/4. A recital given at LSO St Luke's in London. Aleksander Madzar (piano) Ravel La Valse 
Schoenberg Drei Klavierstucke, Op 11 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D959 
2.00 Ulster Orchestra Summer Series 
Music recorded in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, as part of the 2009 BBC Summer Concert series. lbert Divertissement 
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Pierre-Andre Valade Stravinsky Suite: Pulcinella 
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Pierre-Andre Valade Franck Symphonic Variations Michael McHale (piano), 
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Pascal Rophe 
3.10 Lalo Symphony in G minor 
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud Roussel Concerto for Small Orchestra 
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Jane Glover 
3.55 Ian White Strata (first performance) Ulster Orchestra, conductor Pascal Rophe 
4.35 Debussy, arr Caplet Suite: Children's Corner 
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Pierre-Andre Valade

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 on 3: Ulster Orchestra Summer Series

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra Summer Series: Episode 2

Ulster Orchestra Summer Series

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ulster Orchestra Summer Series, Episode 2

The Ulster Orchestra in works by Ibert, Stravinsky, Franck, Lalo, Roussel, White, Debussy.

The Ulster Orchestra recorded in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, as part of the BBC Summer Concert series, in works by Ibert, Stravinsky, Franck, Lalo, Roussel, White and Debussy.

Ulster Orchestra Summer Series

The Ulster Orchestra performs music recorded in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, as part of the 2009 BBC Summer Concert series. The 2009 themes include French connections, Irish pianists and Northern Ireland's composers.

The programme includes Ibert's Divertissement, which began life as music for a revival of Eugene, Labiche's farce about a bridegroom trying to get to the church on time, and Stravinsky's Pulcinella, his ballet based on music attributed to Pergolesi.

Young Belfast pianist Michael McHale performs Franck's virtuosic Symphonic Variations and there is the world premiere performance of Belfast-born composer Ian White's new work, Strata - a BBC Radio 3 commission inspired by the Mourne Mountains in County Down and the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, as well as by the history revealed through a visit to the Museu Historia de la Ciutad in Barcelona.

2.15pm
Ibert: Divertissment
Pierre Andre Valade (conductor)
     
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Pierre Andre Valade (conductor)

Franck: Symphonic Variations
Michael McHale (piano)
Pascal Rophe (conductor)

3.10pm
Lalo: Symphony in G minor
Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor)

Roussel: Concerto for small orchestra
Jane Glover (conductor)

3.55pm
Ian White: Strata (BBC Radio 3 commission; world premiere)
Pascal Rophe (conductor)

4.35pm
Debussy, arr. Caplet: Children's Corner Suite
Pierre Andre Valade (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra Summer Series

The Ulster Orchestra performs music as part of the 2009 BBC Summer Concert series

The Ulster Orchestra performs music in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, as part of the 2009 BBC Summer Concert series. The themes include French connections, Irish piainists and Northern Ireland's composers

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: 03/11/2009 ENO Double Bill, Shesh Besh

03/11/2009 ENO Double Bill, Shesh Besh

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 03/11/2009 ENO Double Bill, Shesh Besh

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With ENO's opera/ballet double-bill and Arab-Israeli music.

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With director Daniel Kramer on ENO's double-bill of Duke Bluebeard's Castle and The Rite of Spring, plus music from Arab-Israeli ensemble Shesh Besh.

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.

Celebrated American director Daniel Kramer discusses the new opera and ballet double bill at English National Opera of Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

And Arab-Israeli ensemble Shesh Besh, featuring members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, performs in the studio ahead of its UK concerts.

17.02
TCHAIKOVSKY
Swan Lake (Waltz)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta (conductor)
TELDEC 4509 90201 2
Track 3
6â51

17.10
Adham Bek AâSantury
Longa Shahnaz
Shesh Besh â The Arab-Jewish Ensemble
ACUM
Track 10
2â34

17.13
BARTOK
Will you enter?   (opening, Duke Bluebeardâs Castle)
John Tomlinson (bass (Bluebeard)
Sally Burgess (mezzo-soprano (Judith)
Orchestra of Opera North
Richard Farnes (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN3133
Track 2
3â30

17.21
BARTOK
The Armoury (Duke Bluebeardâs Castle)
John Tomlinson (bass (Bluebeard)
Sally Burgess (mezzo-soprano (Judith)
Orchestra of Opera North
Richard Farnes (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN3133
Tracks 8-9
4â29

17.31
BARTOK
Fifth Door (Duke Bluebeardâs Castle)
John Tomlinson (bass (Bluebeard)
Sally Burgess (mezzo-soprano (Judith)
Orchestra of Opera North
Richard Farnes (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN3133
Tracks 12-13
6â56

17.39
SCHUMANN
Kinderszenen Op. 15
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
EMI 6 98360 2
Tracks 20-32
19â01
				
18.03
KHACHATURIAN
Waltz (Masquerade)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Paavo JÃ¤rvi (conductor)
VIRGIN 545 609 2
Track 2
4â08

18.08
SCHUBERT arr.Schoenberg 
Standchen, D.889
LUIGI DENZA arr.Schoenberg
Funiculi-Funicula
Markus Schafer, tenor
Soloists of Lyons Opera Orchestra
ERATO 0630 13541
Tracks 7-8
4â35

18.14
BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto in D, op.61 (final movement)
Janine Jansen (violin)
Deutsche Chamber-philharmonic Bremen
Paavo Jarvi (conductor)
DECCA 478 1530
Track 3
9â11

18.24
HANDEL				
Nisi Dominus
Diana Montague (contralto)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Simon Birchall (bass)
Choir and Orchestra of Westminster Abbey
Simon Preston (conductor)
ARCHIV 423 594 2
Tracks 10-15
12â14

18.37
LIVE MUSIC
JS BACH
Suite for Orchestra No. 2 BWV. 1067 in B 
minor (7th movement â Badinerie)
M. SHELEM
Shibolet Basade (A Sheaf of Wheat in the Field)         
Sami Khashibun (Oriental Violin)
Saida Bar-Lev (Violin and Viola)
Yossi Arnheim (Flute)
Alfred Hajar (Ney)
Ramsis Kasis (Oud)
Bishara Naddaf (Deff, Darbuka)
Peter Marck (Double Bass)
3'25

18.46
LIVE MUSIC
ASSI & MANSOUR RAHBANI
Nasam Alaina el Hawa (Air Blew on us)                     
Reham Hamadi (singer)
Sami Khashibun (Oriental Violin)
Saida Bar-Lev (Violin and Viola)
Yossi Arnheim (Flute)
Alfred Hajar (Ney)
Ramsis Kasis (Oud)
Bishara Naddaf (Deff, Darbuka)
Peter Marck (Double Bass)
3'35

18.53
LIVE MUSIC
SAMI KHASHIBOUN
Spring Longa
Sami Khashibun (Oriental Violin)
Saida Bar-Lev (Violin and Viola)
Yossi Arnheim (Flute)
Alfred Hajar (Ney)
Ramsis Kasis (Oud)
Bishara Naddaf (Deff, Darbuka)
Peter Marck (Double Bass)
2'52

18.58
CHOPIN				
Waltz in A flat Op. 70
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
EMI 50999 69835124
Track 14
1â19

A selection of music, with guests and news from the arts world. With Sean Rafferty.

Performance on 3

Performance on 3 has been replaced by Radio 3 Live in Concert.

Performance on 3: SCO/Knussen

SCO/Knussen

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, SCO/Knussen

Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Oliver Knussen in music by Knussen, Mahler and Maxwell Davies.

With Martin Handley. Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Oliver Knussen. Knussen: Music for a puppet court. Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder (Helena Rasker - mezzo). Maxwell Davies: Symphony No 4.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Olver Knussen conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a work of his own, as well as Mahler and Peter Maxwell Davies - as part of a celebration of the British composer's 75th birthday.

The concert opens with Knussen's own miniatures, based on two Tudor puzzle canons, with his own variations superimposed. Following this, young Dutch mezzo-soprano Helena Rasker sings Mahler's touching and lyrical songs on the poems of Ruckert, which inspired him to write some of his most profound music.

To conclude, there is a performance of Peter Maxwell Davies' Fourth Symphony. The SCO have enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the composer, and they gave the first performance of this symphony at the BBC Proms in 1989. Oliver Knussen was in the audience for the premiere, and he has long since regarded it as a masterpiece.

Helena Rasker (mezzo-soprano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Knussen: Music for a puppet court
Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder
Maxwell Davies: Symphony No 4

Followed by highlights from the final of The Voice of Black Opera, a new vocal competition for professional black and Asian singers, held at the Great Hall of the University of Birmingham.

Peter Brathwaite - winner of the Samuel Coleridge Taylor award
Mozart: Der Vogelfangerbin bin ich ja from The Magic Flute
Britten: Within this frail crucible of light from The Rape of Lucretia
Spiritual: Steal Away

Elizabeth Llewellyn: Winner of the Voice of Black Opera 2009
Puccini: Si, mi chiamano Mimi from La Boheme
Spritual: Ride on, King Jesus

Both singers were accompanied by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by James Lowe, and by Nigel Foster at the piano.

Followed by music from orchestras of the former East Germany, as we lead up to Monday's special concert, live from Berlin on Performance on 3 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Strauss: Rosenkavalier waltzes
Dresden Staatskapelle
Rupert Kempe (conductor)
EMI 3458262

Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op. 46 No 6 & 8
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)
PHILIPS 416 623-2

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Oliver Knussen continues Peter Maxwell Davies 's 75th birthday celebrations with a performance of his Fourth Symphony, Knussen's own miniatures, based on two Tudor puzzle canons, and Mahler's songs on the poems of Riickert. Presented by Martin Handley. 
Helena Rasker (mezzo), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Oliver Knussen Knussen Music for a Puppet Court Mahler Ruckert Lieder 
Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No 4 
Followed by highlights from the final of the Voice of Black Opera, a new vocal competition for black and Asian singers, held last Saturday at the Great Hall of the University of Birmingham.

Night Waves

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Over 350 editions available in the archive.

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Search the extensive archive for interviews, debates and reviews. Go to Free Thinking for the new home of arts and ideas on Radio 3.

Night Waves: Free Thinking 2009

Night Waves: Free Thinking 2009: Free Thinking - David Miliband

Free Thinking - David Miliband

Free Thinking 2009

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Free Thinking 2009, Free Thinking - David Miliband

Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd at 2009's Free Thinking festival.

In an interview from Free Thinking 2009, Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd about his family background, his political life and his vision for democracy.

In an interview given in front of an audience at The Sage Gateshead as part of the 2009 Free Thinking festival, Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd about his family background, his life in politics and his vision for democracy - both home and abroad. A rising star in the Blair government, Miliband has become a government heavyweight under Gordon Brown. He is among the youngest foreign secretaries in history.

Radio 3's ideas festival, with interviews, talks, public debates, drama and performance

Radio 3's festival of ideas, featuring interviews, talks, public debates, drama and live performance. With contributions from today's leading thinkers, artists, scientists and writers

Free Thinking: David Miliband

Night Waves: Free Thinking

Foreign Secretary David Miliband is interviewed by Philip Dodd in front of an audience at the Sage Gateshead during this year's Free Thinking festival. He talks about his life in politics and his vision for democracy, both at home and abroad. Producer Anthony Denselow

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: A Five-Day Journey

The Essay: A Five-Day Journey: Episode 2: Haunting

Episode 2: Haunting

A Five-Day Journey

Haunting

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, A Five-Day Journey, HauntingClose menu

Writer Robert Macfarlane walks the length of the South Downs over five days.

Writer Robert Macfarlane walks the length of the South Downs, exploring its chalk paths and its ghosts.

Walking the Downs on the Sussex-Hampshire border, Robert Macfarlane explores the poet Edward Thomas's love-affair with paths and tracks. For twenty years, Thomas walked what he called 'the long white roads' and 'frail tracks' of England's chalk country. Then in 1916, he enlisted and was sent as an officer to the chalk landscape of Arras in Northern France, with its far more dangerous paths, 'Where any turn may lead to Heaven / Or any corner may hide Hell'. He was killed on Easter Monday, 1917. Producer Tim Dee.

Robert Macfarlane walks along the South Downs, discovering its chalk paths and its ghosts.

Writer Robert Macfarlane walks along the South Downs, discovering its chalk paths and its ghosts

The Essay: A Five Day Journey

2/5. Haunting. Robert Macfarlane explores the poet Edward Thomas 's love affair with paths and tracks of the South Downs on the Sussex-
Hampshire border.

Late Junction

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

Late Junction: Verity Sharp

Verity Sharp

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, Verity Sharp

Verity Sharp with music from Kamel El Harrachi, Chris Smither and Paul Ruders.

Verity Sharp's selection includes Algerian rai from Kamel El Harrachi, blues from Chris Smither, a lullaby from Psarantonis and Niki Xylouri, and Paul Ruders' reworking of Bach.

Verity Sharp's diverse musical selection includes Algerian rai from Kamel El Harrachi, blues from Chris Smither, a lullaby from Crete performed by Psarantonis and Niki Xylouri, and Paul Ruders' reworking of Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring.

Track List:

23:15
Amrani: Ghana Fenou 
Kamel El Harrachi 
Album: Ghana Fenou
Turn Again Music TAM09/001		


23:21
El Médoni arr. Rodriquez: Ana Ouana 
Maurice El Médioni, piano/Roberto Rodriguez, percussion 
Album: Descarga Oriental: The New York Sessions
Piranha CD-PIR2003					

23:30
Trad arr. Stankovic: Ciganka Emina (Gypsy Girl Emina)
Gypsy Groovz Orchestra Goes Tuttimundi
Album: Night Train for Lovers and Thieves
Network 495126				

	
(Segue) 

23:35
TBEFP: Striptease
The Big Eyes Family Players
Album: Warm Room
Pickled Egg Records Egg 72				

(Segue)

23:40
Smither: Old Man Down
Chris Smither
Album: Time Stands Still 
Signature Sounds Sig 2024	

			 
23:45
Ruders: Diferencias
Ensemble Fyn
Album: Poul Ruders: Works for Guitar
Dacapo 8 226542		

				 
23:54
Taqaq: Ilunikavi
Tania Taqaq
Album: Sinaa
SS 137 05			

				
(Segue) 

23:56
Trad: Yamagoe (Beyond the Mountain)
Tajima Tadashi (shakuhachi)
Album: Master of Shakuhachi
World Network 32 379					

00:02
Trad arr. Xylouris: Kimáte O Ilios Sta Vouná
Psarantonis and the Ensemble Xylouris, Niki Xylouris
Album: Mountain Rebels
Raki Records Network 495123				

(Segue)

00:07
Clarke/Akst: Am I Blue
Ray Charles
Album: The Genius of Ray Charles
Atlantic 7567813382			

00:11
TBEFP: Galapagos
The Big Eyes Family Players
Album: Warm Room
Pickled Egg Records Egg 72		

(Segue)

00:14
Hume: An Answere
Ralph Rousseau (viola da gamba)
Album: Gambomania
Challenge Classics CC72334					
(Segue)

00:17
Boesset: Départ que le devoir me fair Précipiter 
Le Poème Harmonique
Album: Anthoine Boesset: Je Meurs Sans Mourir
Alpha 57							 
(Segue)

00:22
Harding: See Britain by Train
July Skies
Album: The Weather Clock
Make Mine Music MMM027					

00:26
Trad: Sweet William and Lady Margaret
Jean Ritchie 
Album: Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her Appalachian family tradition
Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40145			 

00:33
Reich: Electric Counterpoint
Pat Metheny 
Album: Steve Reich: Different Trains etc
Nonesuch 7559 79176 2			

00:48
Djabaté: Djalia
Kimi Djabaté
Album: Karam
Cumbancha Discovery CMB CD 12				 
(Segue)

00:53
Tampen: Xylofon
Snöleoparden
Album: Snöleoparden
Rump Recordings

Algerian rai from Kamel El Harrachi, blues from Chris Smither , a lullaby from Crete performed by Psarantonis and Niki Xylouri , and Poul Ruders 's reworking of Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. Presented by Verity Sharp. 
Producer Roger Short EMAIL: late.junction@bbc.co.uk;

Through the Night

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

Through the Night: 04/11/2009

04/11/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 04/11/2009

Including Vignery, Clara Schumann, A Scarlatti, Schubert, Mozart, Prokofiev and Rossini.

Music including Vignery, Clara Schumann, A Scarlatti, Schubert, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rossini, Brahms, Salzedo, Strauss, Vivaldi, Ockeghem, Chopin, Larsson, Debussy, Bach and Smetana.

1.00am
Vignery, Jane (1913-1974): Sonata for horn and piano, Op 7
Renate Hupka (horn)
Lora Tchekoratova (piano)

1.19am
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896): Trio in G minor for piano and strings, Op 17
Trio George Sand

1.48am
Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725): Stabat Mater (1724)
Valeri Popova (soprano)
Penka Dilova (mezzo-soprano)
Tolbuhin Children's Chorus
Bulgarian National Radio Sinfonietta
Dragomir Nenov (conductor)

2.29am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Rosamunde - incidental music, D797
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

3.01am
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Concerto No 17 in G for piano and orchestra, K453
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Terje Tonnesen (conductor)

3.31am
Prokofiev, Sergey (1891-1953): Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 80
Georgi Badev (violin)
Nikolay Evrov (piano)

4.01am
Rossini, Gioachino (1792-1868): Overture (La gazza ladra)
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Roman Zeilinger (conductor)

4.11am
Matteis, Nicola (d.c.1707): Passages in Imitation of the Trumpet (Ayres and Pieces IV - 1685)
Anon (17th century): Five Marches from John Playford's new tunes: Isaac's maggot; Waltham Abbey; The Marlborough; The Grenadier's March; Glory of the Sun
After Nicola Matteis: Chaconne; Plaint; Ecchi
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder)
Andreas Staier (harpsichord)

4.21am
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Fest- und Gedenkspruche for eight voices (two choirs), Op 109
Danish National Radio Choir
Stefan Parkman (conductor)

4.31am
Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961): Variations sur un theme dans le style ancien, Op 30
Mojca Zlobko (harp)

4.42am
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949): Andante (Funf Klavierstucke, Op 3, No 1)
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

4.48am
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741): Concerto in D for two violins, two cellos and orchestra, RV 564
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi (violin/director)

5.01am
Sorkocevic, Luka (1734-1789), arr Frano Matusic: Symphony No 3 in D
Dubrovnik Guitar Trio

5.08am
Ockeghem, Johannes (c.1410-1497): Intemerata Dei mater
The Hilliard Ensemble

5.17am
Chopin, Fryderyk (1810-1849): Rondo in C, Op 7
Ludmil Angelov (piano)

5.26am
Larsson, Lars-Erik (1908-1986): Pastoral Suite, Op 19 (1938)
CBC Vancouver Orchestra
Mario Bernardi (conductor)

5.40am
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918): Estampes for piano
Roger Woodward (piano)

5.55am
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828): Rondo in A for violin and strings, D438
The National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada
Pinchas Zukerman (violin/director)

6.10am
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Jesu, meine Freude - motet, BWV 227
Aivars Kalejas (organ)
Orchestra and Choir of Latvian Radio
Sigvards Klava (conductor)

6.31am
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884): Piano Trio in G minor, Op 15
Suk Trio.

Viqnery Horn Sonata, Op 71.19 Clara Schumann 
Piano Trio in G minor. Op 171.48 A Scarlatti Stabat Mater 2.29 Schubert Incidental music: Rosamunde 
3.01 Mozart Piano Concerto No 17 in G, K453 
3.31 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 1, Op 80 
4.01 Rossini Overture: La gazza ladra 
4.11 Matteis Passages in Imitation of the Trumpet 
Anon Five Marches: Isaac's Maggot; Waltham Abbey; The Marlborough; The Grenadier's March; Glory of the Sun (John Playford 's new tunes) 
Anon after Mattels Chaconne; Plaint; Ecchi 
4.21 Brahms Fest- und gedenksprucne, Op 109 
4.31 Salzedo Variations sur un theme dans le style ancien, Op 30 442 Strauss Andante, Op 3 No 1 (Funf Klavierstucke) 4.48 Vivaldi Concerto in D for two violins, two cellos and orchestra, RV564 
5.01 Sorkocevic, arr Frano Matusic Symphony No 3 in D 5.08 Ockeqhem Intemerata Dei mater 
5.17 Chopin Rondo in C, Op 7 5.26 Larsson Pastoral Suite, Op 19 5.40 Debussy Estampes 5.55 Schubert Rondo in A, D438 6.10 Bach Jesu, meine Freude, 
BWV227 6.31 Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Op 15

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