BBC Music (January 2020)

January Live





Bournemouth Royal Northern Sinfonia BACKSTAGE WITH…
Symphony Orchestra Sage, Gateshead, 10, 17 January
The Lighthouse, Poole, Tel: +44 (0)191 443 4661 Soprano Faye Newton
22 January Web: www.sagegateshead.com
Tel: +44 (0)1202 280000 Two concerts delve into the
Web: www.bsolive.com ‘Roaring Twenties’. Narrated Views of Venice:
Shostakovich’s Symphony by Radio 4 newsreader and ‘It’s exciting to
No. 6 crowns a line-up that also children’s author Zeb Soanes, hear these sounds
places the twists and turns of the first partners Walton’s for the first time’
Elgar’s Violin Concerto alongside Façade with works by Martinu˚,
the ‘Träumerei am Kamin’ Amy Beach and Korngold. The
interlude from Richard Strauss’s second, conducted by Duncan
Intermezzo. Ning Feng is the Ward, makes a beeline for
Elgar soloist; Carlos Miguel Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
Prieto conducts. via works by Copland, Barber
and Milhaud.
EAST
Academy of Ancient Music City of Birmingham
West Road Concert Hall, Symphony Orchestra
Cambridge, 15 January Symphony Hall, Birmingham,
Tel: +44 (0)1223 357851 18, 19 January
Web: www.westroad.org Tel: +44 (0)121 780 3333
Ahead of a repeat performance Web: www.thsh.co.uk
as part of the Barbican’s ‘Bach: Music director Mirga Gra!inyte˙ -
A Beautiful Mind’ weekend, the Tyla launches the CBSO’s
Academy of Ancient Music and centenary year with the You’re performing a selection of works published in Venice in
baritone Benjamin Appl explore most imposing of Mahler’s 1629 with the Gonzaga Band this month. Why did you choose
choice cantata movements and symphonies: No. 8, the to focus on this particular time and place?
excerpts from the St Matthew ‘Symphony of a Thousand’. There were quite a few major works published that year, and
Passion. Cantata 82, Ich habe Five choirs and eight soloists, then in 1630 the plague hit Venice, so nothing really happened
genug is given complete and, by including mezzo-soprano Alice
way of secular sign-off, there’s Coote, make up the considerable for the next decade because of its devastating effects. Schütz
the Air from the Third Orchestral cohort of musicians. was there at the time too, immersing himself the musical style.
Suite (Air on the G String). This concert is a real snapshot of musical life at that time.
Beethoven: The 1808 Concert How was Schütz’s music influenced by his time in Venice?
BBC Symphony Orchestra St David’s Hall, Cardiff, He began writing for smaller forces, but with much more
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, 19 January virtuosity and emphasis on the text. There is a lot of word
19 January Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 8444
Tel: +44 (0)845 548 7650 Web: www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk painting in the vocal works of this time. I worked with an Italian
Web: www.saffronhall.com A freezing Theater an der Latin expert for a number of the works in this concert, because
Conductor Joana Carneiro Wien awaited the audience it was important for me to put the text at the forefront and
masterminds a Beethoven for Beethoven’s gargantuan sing in the Ecclesiastical Venetian Latin. It was helpful to know
celebration that packs a playful benefit concert in December which nuances to bring out.
punch. Following the knotty 1808. Hopefully St David’s Hall There are also some relatively unknown pieces in the
truculence of the Grosse Fuge, should be more comfortable as programme, too. How did you come across them?
and before the might of the the BBC National Orchestra of
Eroica Symphony, the Doric Wales and Orchestra of Welsh Almost half the pieces in the programme were newly
Quartet joins the orchestra for National Opera, conductors transcribed for this project. Our director, Jamie Savan, is a
John Adams’s 2012 Absolute Carlo Rizzi and Jaime Martín, and lecturer at Birmingham Conservatoire, and this is very much
Jest, a single-movement soloists including pianist Steven tied up with his research. He found some quite obscure
concerto referencing Beethoven Osborne recreate a marathon manuscripts by composers such as Rè and Tarditi. It’s exciting
at every turn. that included the premieres of to hear these sounds for the first time in so many years.
the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies,
MIDLANDS, the Fourth Piano Concerto and
Choral Fantasia. Don’t forget
NORTH AND WALES your sandwiches.
National Youth Orchestra SCOTLAND & Ulster Orchestra
of Great Britain The Gonzaga Band Ulster Hall, Belfast, 23 January
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, St Mary’s Church, Warwick, NORTHERN IRELAND Tel: +44 (0)28 9033 4455
6 January 28 January Ensemble Stravaganza Web: www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0)115 989 5555 Tel: +44 (0)1926 334418 St Andrew’s & St George’s, A lunchtime pairing of two
Web: www.nyo.org.uk Web: www.leamingtonmusic.org Edinburgh, 18 January effervescent orchestral works.
After concerts in Coventry and In the company of soprano Tel: +44 (0)131 668 2019 Begun in France and Switzerland
London, the NYO heads north Faye Newton (see ‘Backstage Web: www.gcs.org.uk and completed in America,
under conductor Jaime Martín. with…’, right) the Gonzaga New Town’s earliest Georgian Stravinsky’s incisive Symphony
The 1920s Berlin of Eisler’s Auf Band takes the musical church welcomes the acclaimed in C is paired with early Haydn
den Strassen zu singen gives temperature of Venice in French period instrument (the G major Symphony No. 27
way to the ’30s pacifism of 1629, when Schütz returned ensemble for ‘Abendmusiken’: from around 1761) in this
Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem from Dresden to soak up the music for two violins and concert conducted by Christian
before Shostakovich’s Symphony latest thoughts of Monteverdi continuo by Bach, Buxtehude, Reif who was, until recently,
No. 11 turns the political clock and other composers such as Reinken and the prolific if little- resident conductor of the San
back to ‘The Year 1905’. Castello, Grandi and Marini. known Philipp Heinrich Erlebach. Francisco Symphony Orchestra.


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Your complete guide to what’s on Radio 3 this month, plus TV highlights








JANUARY’S RADIO 3 LISTINGS

Schedules may be subject to alteration. For up-to-date listings see Radio Times



Proms 2019 Prom 59 (rpt). 11.30pm-12.30am
Three to look out for Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini. Unclassified
Michael Spyres (Benvenuto 3 FRIDAY
Cellini), Sophia Burgos
Alan Davey, the controller
(Teresa), Maurizio Muraro 6.30-9am Breakfast
of BBC Radio 3, picks out (Balducci), Tareq Nazmi 9am-12noon Essential Classics
three great moments to (Pope Clement VII), Vincent 12 noon-1pm Composer of
tune into this January Delhoume (Francesco), the Week Tchaikovsky
Lionel Lhote (Fieramosca), 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert
Beethoven Unleashed Adèle Charvet (Ascanio), 2-5pm Afternoon Concert
To kick off our year-long Ashley Riches (Bernardino), 5-6.15pm New
celebrations of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, Duncan Meadows (Perseus), Generation Artists
the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Welsh Monteverdi Choir, Orchestra 6.15-7.30pm Words and Music
National Opera recreate the composer’s epic 1808 Révolutionnaire et Romantique/ 7.30-10.15pm Radio 3 in
John Eliot Gardiner
Concert Proms 2019 Prom 55
Vienna concert when several major works received 10-10.45pm Free Thinking (rpt). Handel Jephtha. Allan
premieres, including his Fourth Piano Concerto 10.45-11pm The Essay Clayton (Jephtha), Jeanine De
and Symphonies Nos 5 & 6.
11pm-12.30am Night Tracks Bique (Iphis), Hilary Summers
Radio 3 in Concert: 19 January, 7.30pm New Year Special (Storgè), Tim Mead (Hamor),
Cody Quattlebaum (Zebul),
New Year New Music 2 THURSDAY Rowan Pierce (Angel),
In this special edition of the New Music Show, 6.30-9am Breakfast Scottish Chamber Orchestra &
we’re bringing in the new year by asking 11 of our 9am-12noon Essential Classics Chorus/Richard Egarr Generation game:
presenters to name their favourite pieces of music 12 noon-1pm Composer of 10.15-11pm The Verb Benjamin Grosvenor
composed in the last decade. Choices include the Week Tchaikovsky 11pm-1am Late Junction performs in New
works by John Luther Adams, Dobrinka 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 4 SATURDAY Generation Artists Week
Tabakova and Rebecca Saunders. 2-5pm Afternoon Concert
New Music Show: 4 January, 10pm 5-6.15pm New 7-9am Breakfast
Generation Artists 9-11.45am Record Review
6.15-7.30pm Words and Music 11.45am-12.30pm
New Generation Artists Week 7.30-9.35pm Radio 3 in Music Matters 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt)
Ahead of its full day of 20th anniversary Concert Proms 2019 Prom 12.30-1pm This Classical Life 2-3pm The Early Music Show
celebrations on 1 February, our New Generation 68 (rpt). Weber Der Freischütz 1-3pm Inside Music 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt)
Artist scheme showcases some of its most – Overture, Wagner Siegfried 3-4pm Sound of Gaming 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests
prestigious alumni in a week-long series of concerts. – Forest Murmurs, Franck Le 4-5pm Music Planet 5-5.30pm The
Radio 3 in Concert: 27-31 January, 7.30pm chasseur maudit, Wagner 5-9.50pm Opera on 3 from Listening Service
Götterdämmerung – Dawn the Metropolitan Opera, New 5.30-6.45pm Words and Music
and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, York. Richard Strauss Der 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature
Duet: ‘Zu neuen Taten, Rosenkavalier. Camilla Nylund Gentileschi’s Revenge
teurer Helde’, Siegfried’s (Marschallin), Magdalena 7.30-9.30pm Drama on 3
1 WEDNESDAY
and readings for the New Year. Death and Funeral March, Ko!ená (Octavian), Golda The Wild Duck (Henrik Ibsen)
6.30-9am Breakfast Britten A New Year Carol, Willis Brünnhilde’s Immolation Schultz (Sophie), Katharine 9.30-11pm Radio 3 in Concert
9-10.15am Essential Classics It came upon a midnight clear, Scene. Christine Goerke Goeldner (Annina), Orchestra 11pm-12 midnight Black
10.15am-1pm New Year’s Stanford Magnificat in B flat, (soprano), Stephen Gould of the Metropolitan Opera/ Classical The first of a
Day Concert live from the Vaughan Williams Love bade me (tenor), Royal Philharmonic Simon Rattle three-part series on BAME
Musikverein, Vienna. Vienna welcome, Warlock Bethlehem Orchestra/Marc Albrecht 9.50-10pm Between composers from the 16th
Philharmonic/Andris Nelsons Down, Finzi In terra pax, Elgar 9.35-11.30pm Radio 3 in the Ears All Ball century to the present day
1-2pm Sound of Gaming Pomp and Circumstance March Concert Proms 2019 Prom CHOICE 10pm-12 12 midnight-12.30am
Special Jessica Curry presents No. 4 in G. Poems by Christina 74 (rpt). Handel Music for the midnight New Year Classical Fix
her pick of the best games Rossetti and Alfred Lord Royal Fireworks, Beethoven Ah! New Music 6 MONDAY
soundtracks from 2019 and Tennyson. Anne Hailes (reader), perfido, JS Bach orch. Elgar 12 midnight-1am Freeness
looks ahead to music from Charles Wood Singers, Ulster Fantasia and Fugue in C minor 5 SUNDAY 6.30-9am Breakfast
2020’s new films. Orchestra/David Hill BWV 537, Beethoven Fidelio 9am-12 noon
2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 4.30-6.15pm New – Overture, Symphony No. 5. 7-9am Breakfast Essential Classics
3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong Generation Artists Elizabeth Watts (soprano), NDR 9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Composer of
from St Patrick’s Cathedral, 6.15-7.30pm Words and Music Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/ 12 noon-1pm Private Passions the Week George Walker
Armagh. A sequence of music 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert Andrew Manze Carlo Rovelli (physicist, writer) 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live


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from Wigmore Hall, London. Philharmonic/Kirill Petrenko 10.45-11pm The Essay Mariss Jansons 12 noon-1pm Composer of
Grieg 6 Songs Op. 48, Medtner 10-10.45pm Music Matters 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks 10-10.45pm Free Thinking the Week George Walker
Mailied Op. 6 No. 2, Meeresstille 10.45-11pm The Essay 10.45-11pm The Essay 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert
Op. 15 No. 7, Tchaikovsky Beneath the Night 8 WEDNESDAY 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks 2-5pm Afternoon Concert
Sérénade (Où vas-tu, soufflé 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks 6.30-9am Breakfast 9 THURSDAY 5-7pm In Tune
d’aurore), Les larmes Op. 65 7 TUESDAY 9am-12noon Essential Classics 7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape
No. 5, Britten The Poet’s Echo 12 noon-1pm Composer of 6.30-9am Breakfast 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert
Op. 76, Rachmaninov Sing not 6.30-9am Breakfast the Week George Walker 9am-12noon Essential Classics from the Royal Concertgebouw,
to me, beautiful maiden, How 9am-12 noon 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Amsterdam. Strauss Tod
fair this spot, Sibelius Säv, säv, Essential Classics 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert Week George Walker und Verklärung (Death and
susa, Våren flyktar hastigt, 12 noon-1pm Composer of 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong 1-7.30pm As Tuesday 7 January Transfiguration), Mahler
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings the Week George Walker live from the Chapel Royal 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert Rückert-Lieder, excerpts from
mote. Louise Alder (soprano), 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert of St Peter ad Vincula, from St Bavo’s Cathedral, Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’,
Joseph Middleton (piano) 2-5pm Afternoon Concert Tower of London Ghent. Bruckner Mass No. 2 Beethoven Symphony No. 3
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune 4.30-5pm New in E minor, Symphony No. 2. ‘Eroica’. Christian Gerhaher
5-7pm In Tune 7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape Generation Artists Collegium Vocale Ghent, (baritone), Gustav Mahler Youth
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape Orchestre des Champs-Elysées/ Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt
7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from Gewandhaus, Leipzig. 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert Philippe Herreweghe 10-10.45pm The Verb
from the Philharmonie, Berlin. Jolas Betsy Letters from from Hercules Hall, Residenz, 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Kirill Petrenko’s inaugural Bachville, Clara Schumann Munich. Strauss Four Symphonic 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Late Junction
Piano Concerto, Robert
Interludes from Intermezzo,
concert as chief conductor.
PATRICK ALLEN/OPERA OMNIA Berg Lulu Suite, Beethoven Schumann Widmung Op. 25 Das Rosenband, Ständchen, 11.30pm-12.30am 7-9am Breakfast
11-11.30pm Night Tracks
11 SATURDAY
Freundliche Vision, Wiegenlied,
No. 1, Symphony No. 1 ‘Spring’.
Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’. Marlis
Unclassified
Petersen (soprano), Elisabeth
Lauma Skride (piano), Leipzig
Allerseelen, Morgen!, Brahms
9-11.45am Record Review
10 FRIDAY
Kulman (mezzo-soprano),
Gewandhaus Orchestra/
Symphony No. 4. Sarah
11.45am-12.30pm
6.30-9am Breakfast
Music Matters
Wegener (soprano), Bavarian
Andris Nelsons
Benjamin Bruns (tenor),
12.30-1pm This Classical Life
Kwangchul Youn (bass), Berlin
9am-12noon Essential Classics
Radio Symphony Orchestra/
10-10.45pm Free Thinking
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1-3pm Inside Music Prizewinner Recitals. Debussy 1-2pm As Thursday 16 January
3-4pm Sound of Cinema Estampes, Rêverie, Lachenmann 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape Stage sensation:
4-5pm Music Planet 5 Variations on a Theme of 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert Anna Netrebko as
5-6.30pm J to Z Schubert, Schubert Piano from Wigmore Hall, London. Lady Macbeth at the
6.30-10pm Opera on 3 Sonata in A minor, Piano Sonata Robert Schumann 5 Stücke im Metropolitan Opera
10pm-12 midnight in D, Bartók Two Romanian Volkston, Frühling Clarinet Trio,
New Music Show Dances, 3 Hungarian Folksongs Brahms Clarinet Trio, Hungarian
12 midnight-1am Freeness from Csík, Allegro Barbaro, Dance No. 5 in F sharp minor
Piano Sonata Sz. 80. Mario (trans. Stephen Hough for
12 SUNDAY
Häring (piano), Xinyuan clarinet trio), Intermezzo in E flat
7-9am Breakfast Wang (piano) Op. 117 No. 1 (trans. Stephen
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 10-10.45pm Free Thinking Hough for clarinet trio). Stephen
12 noon-1pm Private Passions 10.45-11pm The Essay Hough (piano), Michael Collins
Helen Cammock (artist) My Life in Music (clarinet), Andrei Ionita ˘ (cello)
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1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks 10-10.45pm The Verb
2-3pm The Early Music Show 15 WEDNESDAY 10.45-11pm The Essay
3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) My Life in Music
4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 6.30-9am Breakfast 11pm-1am Late Junction
5-5.30pm The 9am-12noon Essential Classics 18 SATURDAY
Listening Service 12 noon-1pm Composer of
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music the Week Beethoven 7-9am Breakfast
6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 9-11.45am Record Review
7.30-9pm Drama on 3 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 11.45am-12.30pm
Magnitsky the Musical 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong Music Matters
9-11pm Radio 3 in Concert A recording from the archives 12.30-1pm This Classical Life
11pm-12 midnight 4.30-5pm New 1-3pm Inside Music PODCAST CHOICE
Black Classical Generation Artists 3-4pm Sound of Cinema Opera Podcasts
12 midnight-12.30am 5-7pm In Tune 4-5pm Music Planet
Classical Fix 7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 5-6.30pm J to Z The Metropolitan Opera’s podcast Aria Code –
7.30-10pm Radio 3 in 6.30-10pm Opera on 3 from the
13 MONDAY produced in collaboration with WQXR and WNYC
Concert from Wigmore Hall, Metropolitan Opera, New York.
6.30-9am Breakfast London. Robert Schumann Verdi La traviata. Aleksandra Studios – has returned for a second season, telling
9am-12noon Essential Classics Geistervariationen (Theme Kurzak (Violetta Valéry), Dmytro the story of a different aria each episode, with
12 noon-1pm Composer of the and Variations on an Original Popov (Alfredo Germont), Quinn operas ranging from Philip Glass’s Akhnaten to
Week Beethoven. Featuring Theme in E flat), Brahms 6 Kelsey (Giorgio Germont), Verdi’s Macbeth. Performers and experts discuss
interviews with conductor Klavierstücke Op. 118, Orchestra of the Metropolitan the aria, which is then heard in full performed
Marin Alsop and historian Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28. Opera/Karel Mark Chichon
Simon Schama Eric Lu (piano) 10pm-12 midnight by a leading opera singer from the stage of the
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking New Music Show Metropolitan Opera.
live from Wigmore Hall, 10.45-11pm The Essay 12 midnight-1am Freeness For anyone wanting to stay up to date with the
London. Clementi Musical My Life in Music 19 SUNDAY latest news from the world of opera, Northern
Characteristics Op. 19: Prelude 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks Opera Group has created Operacast. Each episode –
alla Haydn in C, Prelude alla 16 THURSDAY 7-9am Breakfast released on a monthly basis – features reviews and
Mozart in A, Piano Sonata in G 9am-12 noon Sunday Morning
minor Op. 34 No. 2, Haydn 6.30-9am Breakfast 12 noon-1pm Private interviews with leading singers and conductors.
Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, 9am-12 noon Passions William Sieghart Meanwhile, over in the Radio 3 archives on BBC
Mozart Fantasia in D minor. Essential Classics (entrepreneur, publisher) Sounds is a series of Opera Guides. Released in
Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano) 12 noon-1pm Composer of 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2014 but still available to listen to and download
2-5pm Afternoon Concert the Week Beethoven 2-3pm The Early Music Show in podcast form, the guides explore the operas of
5-7pm In Tune 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) Verdi, Britten, Wagner and Strauss, with insights
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests
7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 5-7pm In Tune 5-5.30pm The from musicologists and historians.
from the Barbican, London. 7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape Listening Service
Eisler Auf den Stressen zu 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 5.30-6.45pm Words and Music
Singen, Britten Sinfonia live from the Royal Festival Hall, 6.45-7.15pm Between the Ears
da Requiem, Shostakovich London. Weber Overture to 7.15-7.30pm New
Symphony No. 11. National Der Freischütz, Mark-Anthony Generation Thinkers 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
Youth Orchestra of Great Turnage Horn Concerto (world CHOICE 7.30-11pm live from Wigmore Hall, London. 21 TUESDAY
Britain/Jaime Martin premiere), Britten Serenade for Radio 3 in Concert Haydn String Quartet in D minor
10-10.45pm Music Matters tenor, horn and strings, Strauss live from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’, Bartók 6.30-9am Breakfast
10.45-11pm The Essay Till Eulenspiegel. Richard Beethoven 1808 Vienna String Quartet No. 4. 9am-12 noon
My Life in Music Watkins (horn), Allan Clayton Concert. Llyˆr Williams (piano), Jerusalem Quartet Essential Classics
11pm-12.30am Night Tracks (tenor), Philharmonia/ Orchestra of the Welsh National 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 12 noon-1pm Composer of
Esa-Pekka Salonen Opera/Carlo Rizzi, BBC 5-7pm In Tune the Week Szymanowski
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10-10.45pm Free Thinking National Orchestra of 7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert
6.30-9am Breakfast 10.45-11pm The Essay Wales/Jaime Martin 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in 2-5pm Afternoon Concert
9am-12noon Essential Classics My Life in Music 11pm-12 midnight Concert from St George’s Hall, 5-7pm In Tune
12 noon-1pm Composer of 11-11.30pm Night Tracks Black Classical Blackburn. Humperdinck Hansel 7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape
the Week Beethoven 11.30pm-12.30am 12 midnight-12.30am and Gretel: Prelude to Act I, 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert Unclassified Classical Fix Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, from Wigmore Hall, London.
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 17 FRIDAY 20 MONDAY Dvorˇák Symphony No. 8. Nash Ensemble Series: Around
5-7pm In Tune Aleksey Semenenko (violin), Schubert. Rossini String
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 6.30-9am Breakfast 6.30-9am Breakfast BBC Philharmonic/ Sonata No. 1 in G, Spohr Octet
7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 9am-12noon Essential Classics 9am-12noon Essential Classics Holly Mathieson in E, Schubert Octet in F.
from Wigmore Hall, London. 12 noon-1pm Composer of 12 noon-1pm Composer of 10-10.45pm Music Matters Nash Ensemble
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11.45am-12.30pm 10.45-11pm The Escape Artist
Music Matters 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
Natural lieder:
Karen Cargill 12.30-1pm This Classical Life 28 TUESDAY
performs songs 1-3pm Inside Music
by Alma Mahler 3-4pm Sound of Cinema 6.30-9am Breakfast
4-5pm Music Planet 9am-12noon Essential Classics
5-6.30pm J to Z 12 noon-1pm Composer of
6.30-9.50pm Opera on 3 the Week Beethoven
from the Metropolitan Opera, 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert
New York. Puccini La bohème. 2-5pm Afternoon Concert
Ailyn Pérez (Mimì), Olga 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape
Kulchynska (Musetta), Matthew 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert
Polenzani (Rodolfo), David Bizic from Wigmore Hall, London.
(Marcello), Andrey Zhilikhovsky Schubert Winterreise. BBC Music
(Schaunard), Orchestra Alice Coote (mezzo),
of the Metropolitan Opera/ Julius Drake (piano) Magazine Podcast
Marco Armiliato 10-10.45pm Free Thinking Have you subscribed
9.50-10pm Between the Ears 10.45-11pm The Escape Artist to the BBC Music
Breath Wave 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks Magazine podcast? If
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7-9am Breakfast the Week Beethoven others find the podcast.
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert
12 noon-1pm 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert If you haven’t tried it yet,
Private Passions Jan Ravens 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong you can catch up on all
(actor, impressionist) from St Albans Cathedral. our previous episodes
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) Hurford Laudate Dominum, The on Acast, Apple
2-3pm The Early Music Show holy Son of God most high, Trad Podcasts, Spotify, as
10.45-11pm The Escape Artist 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) Teach me my God and King, well as the ‘Podcasts’
11pm-12.30am Night Tracks 5-7pm In Tune 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests Howells Gloucester Service, section on our website.
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 5-5.30pm The Joubert Lord, make me an Happy listening!
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7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert Listening Service instrument of thy peace, Hurford
6.30-9am Breakfast live from the Philharmonic 5.30-6.45pm Words and Music Truly the Lord is in this place
9am-12noon Essential Classics Hall, Liverpool. Webern In 6.45-7.15pm Between the Ears 4.30-5pm New
12 noon-1pm Composer of Sommerwind, Schubert Songs Diorama Drama Generation Artists & Choir/Mark Elder
the Week Szymanowski (selection), Mahler Symphony 7.15-7.30pm New 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 10-10.45pm Free Thinking
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert No. 1. Benjamin Appl (baritone), Generation Thinkers 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10.45-11pm The Escape Artist
2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert Royal Liverpool Philharmonic 7.30-9pm The Escape from the Barbican, London. 11-11.30pm Night Tracks
3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko Artist (omnibus) New Generation Artists. Robert 11.30pm-12.30am
from the Chapel of the Old Royal 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 9-11.30pm Radio 3 in Concert Schumann Blümenstück, Unclassified
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Music that changed me






Yan Pascal Tortelier







Conductor






The son of cellists Paul and Maud As a violinist, I performed my first
Tortelier, Yan Pascal Tortelier began Brahms Double Concerto with my father
his career as a violinist before turning at the BBC Proms in 1962, nearly 60 years
his attention to conducting. A former ago. We played in major UK cities and
principal conductor of the Ulster whenever I passed through London I went
Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic, to the disc shop next to the concert agency
for the last three years he has been chief Ibbs and Tillett to listen to jazz, which I
conductor of the Iceland Symphony had discovered through GERSHWIN’s
Orchestra (ISO). He will be joining the Rhapsody in Blue. At one stage my father
ISO for its 70th anniversary tour of the even thought I had lost interest in classical
UK in February 2020. music. I would later record Gershwin’s two
Rhapsodies and the Concerto in F with my
y parents were both cellists friend Howard Shelley as the soloist.
and my sister and I started But it is RAVEL that speaks to me in a
M to learn the piano and violin way no other composer does. This solitary,
very young. Maud was as good a cellist little man, so keen on his appearance, had
as my dad. In fact, he fell in love with her a side of him that was touched by magic.
when he first heard her play at the Paris Debussy may be a mystery, but the two of
Conservatoire. As a result I spent nine them are definitely the Castor and Pollux
months in the womb pressed against of French music. As a violinist, I found his
the cello, and must have received many The choices Tzigane a unique piece in the repertoire,
wonderful vibes. with its famous cadenza on the G string. If
Brahms String Quintet No. 2
My earliest memories of great music- there is a peak of my violin-playing it must
Stern, Tortelier, Schneider, Katims, Thomas
making were of the Pablo Casals Prades be performing Tzigane with my sister for
Philips ABL 3184
Festival, where my father played, among my father’s 70th birthday. It was filmed by
other masterpieces, the BRAHMS Quintet Holst The Planets French TV and you can find it on YouTube.
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Malcolm Sargent
No. 2 with Isaac Stern, my favourite In 1989, establishing myself as a
Warner Classics 5859132
violinist. A few years later we went to live conductor, I joined the Ulster Orchestra
on a kibbutz in Israel, which must have Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue etc and had the chance to record the complete
Howard Shelley; Philharmonia/Tortelier
been my parents’ happiest year. One night Ravel and Debussy orchestral works for
Chandos CHAN 9092
while we contemplated the stars, my father Chandos, both a challenge and a treat.
had the incredible idea of putting on a Ravel Daphnis et Chloé That passage in the second suite of Ravel’s
Ulster Orchestra/Tortelier
45rpm record of Toscanini conducting Daphnis et Chloé, when they re-enact the
Chandos CHAN 9205
Wagner’s Prelude to Lohengrin. He said he glorious dance of Pan and Syrinx – do
could tell by the tears in my eyes that I was Dutilleux Complete orchestral works remember to play it at my funeral!
going to be a natural musician. Anyway, BBC Philharmonic/Tortelier My father and HENRI DUTILLEUX
Chandos CHAN 9565
that combination of music and nature is were brothers-in-arms from the day
still so important to me. they joined the Paris Conservatoire.
I entered the Paris Conservatoire aged One became a great cellist, the other a
ten and left with my first prize in violin at and what an orchestra was about, and great composer. As the son of Paul, I have
14. There was a quartet of violinists about I listened to it over and over. It became appropriated the music of Dutilleux – the
my age – Augustin Dumay, Pierre Amoyal, not only a favourite piece to conduct ultimate in the evolution of French music
Emmanuel Krivine and me – and, if not throughout my career, but also the first – and have had the privilege of recording
prodigies, we must have been quite gifted. score I conducted by memory. With the all of it for Chandos with my dear BBC
One day my father brought me conductor BBC Philharmonic, The Planets was Philharmonic. Also for Chandos I have just
Malcolm Sargent’s recording of HOLST’s on the first ever recording made in the recorded another Frenchman, Gounod,
The Planets, which absolutely bowled me Bridgewater Hall – even before the venue’s with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
over. I was discovering symphonic music opening – for BBC Music Magazine. Interview by Amanda Holloway



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