Four concerts in the Afternoon on 3 series (14:00-16:00) w/c 08 July 2013 offer a chance to listen to music-making featuring recent concerts conducted around central Europe by Sir Simon Rattle - mainly (every day) with the orchestra of which he's Chief Conductor, the Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic), but also with the Vienna Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras. Music from Haydn to Ligeti, via the likes of Beethoven, Schumann, Dvorak, Sibelius and one of this year's centenary composers, Witold Lutoslawski.
Monday 08 July
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle
2.15pm
Dvorak: Biblical Songs
Magdalena Kozená (mezzo-soprano)
2.35pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major (Pastoral)
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle
3.25pm
Ravel:
Daphnis et Chloé 2
Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor Simon Rattle
3.45pm
Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
Tuesday 09 July 2013
Today's performances by the week's featured conductor and orchestra, the top pairing of Simon Rattle and his Berlin Philharmonic, are complemented by a concert conducted at last year's Lucerne Festival by Rattle's equally distinguished predecessor in Berlin, Claudio Abbado. Abbado and his acclaimed Lucerne Festival Orchestra play a Beethovenian hymn to freedom - Egmont - and Mozart's final great masterpiece, his Requiem. Rattle conducts his Berliners in Haydn and Ravel and lets his hair down in Dvorak.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Beethoven: Egmont - complete incidental music
Juliane Banse (soprano),
Bruno Ganz (narrator),
Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Conductor Claudio Abbado.
2.30pm
Mozart, ed. Franz Beyer and Robert Levin: Requiem
Anna Prohaska (soprano),
Sara Mingardo (contralto),
Maximilian Schmitt (tenor),
René Pape (bass),
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Swedish Radio Chorus,
Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Conductor Claudio Abbado.
3.25pm
Haydn: Symphony no. 95 in C minor
3.45pm
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
3.55pm
Debussy Jeux, poème dansé pour orchestre
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Afternoon on 3 presents Simon Rattle conducting not his own Berlin Philharmonic, but probably Germany's second-best orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Symphonies by Haydn and Schumann frame the concert, and they're joined by the Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan in stunning pieces by Sibelius and Ligeti.
Haydn: Symphony No. 91 in E flat major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
2.20pm
Sibelius: Luonnotar
Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Barbara Hannigan (soprano),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
2.40pm
Schumann: Symphony no. 2 in C major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
Thursday 11 July 2013
Radio 3's celebrations of Verdi's bicentenary continue with his rarely-heard early opera Alzira, starring Ileana Cotrubas, Francisco Araiza and Renato Bruson. It's a would-be tale of blood and thunder in sixteenth-century Peru, with the Incas fighting against Spanish imperial domination - but surprisingly, both sides keep releasing rather than killing each other. Maybe that's why it's never been popular... The Inca princess Alzira is caught at the centre of the conflict, as the Inca leader Zamoro (whom she loves) fights the Spanish Governor Gusmano (whom she doesn't) for her favours. Who will she end up with? Tune in at 2 o'clock to find out.
Plus, after the opera, Louise Fryer presents a Sibelius Symphony performed by this week's featured performers: Simon Rattle and the orchestra of which he's Chief Conductor, the Berlin Philharmonic.
Verdi: Alzira
Alzira, Inca princess ..... Ileana Cotrubas (soprano)
Zamoro, Inca leader ..... Francisco Araiza (tenor)
Gusmano, Spanish Governor of Peru ... Renato Bruson (baritone)
Alvaro, Gusmano's father ... Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass)
Ovando, Spanish Duke ... Donald George (tenor)
Ataliba, Alzira's father ..... Daniel Bonilla (tenor)
Zuma, her maid ... Sofia Lis (mezzo-soprano)
Otumbo, Inca warrior ... Alexandru Ionita (tenor)
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Munich Radio Orchestra,
Conductor Lamberto Gardelli.
3.35pm
Sibelius: Symphony no. 4 in A minor
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
Friday 12 July 2013
Jonathan Swain rounds off her week [it says here] featuring Simon Rattle and great central European orchestras with him conducting the Vienna Philharmonic as well as his own Berlin Philharmonic. There's Schumann's large-scale cantata 'Paradise and the Peri' from Vienna, and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony to end the week from Berlin.
Ligeti: Atmospheres
Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
2.15pm
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri
Annette Dasch (soprano),
Susan Gritton (soprano),
Bernarda Fink (contralto),
Topi Lehtipuu (tenor),
Andrew Staples (tenor),
Florian Boesch (bass),
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus,
Vienna Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
3.45pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A major
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
Monday 08 July
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle
2.15pm
Dvorak: Biblical Songs
Magdalena Kozená (mezzo-soprano)
2.35pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major (Pastoral)
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle
3.25pm
Ravel:
Daphnis et Chloé 2
Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor Simon Rattle
3.45pm
Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
Tuesday 09 July 2013
Today's performances by the week's featured conductor and orchestra, the top pairing of Simon Rattle and his Berlin Philharmonic, are complemented by a concert conducted at last year's Lucerne Festival by Rattle's equally distinguished predecessor in Berlin, Claudio Abbado. Abbado and his acclaimed Lucerne Festival Orchestra play a Beethovenian hymn to freedom - Egmont - and Mozart's final great masterpiece, his Requiem. Rattle conducts his Berliners in Haydn and Ravel and lets his hair down in Dvorak.
Presented by Louise Fryer.
Beethoven: Egmont - complete incidental music
Juliane Banse (soprano),
Bruno Ganz (narrator),
Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Conductor Claudio Abbado.
2.30pm
Mozart, ed. Franz Beyer and Robert Levin: Requiem
Anna Prohaska (soprano),
Sara Mingardo (contralto),
Maximilian Schmitt (tenor),
René Pape (bass),
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Swedish Radio Chorus,
Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Conductor Claudio Abbado.
3.25pm
Haydn: Symphony no. 95 in C minor
3.45pm
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
3.55pm
Debussy Jeux, poème dansé pour orchestre
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Afternoon on 3 presents Simon Rattle conducting not his own Berlin Philharmonic, but probably Germany's second-best orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Symphonies by Haydn and Schumann frame the concert, and they're joined by the Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan in stunning pieces by Sibelius and Ligeti.
Haydn: Symphony No. 91 in E flat major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
2.20pm
Sibelius: Luonnotar
Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Barbara Hannigan (soprano),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
2.40pm
Schumann: Symphony no. 2 in C major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
Thursday 11 July 2013
Radio 3's celebrations of Verdi's bicentenary continue with his rarely-heard early opera Alzira, starring Ileana Cotrubas, Francisco Araiza and Renato Bruson. It's a would-be tale of blood and thunder in sixteenth-century Peru, with the Incas fighting against Spanish imperial domination - but surprisingly, both sides keep releasing rather than killing each other. Maybe that's why it's never been popular... The Inca princess Alzira is caught at the centre of the conflict, as the Inca leader Zamoro (whom she loves) fights the Spanish Governor Gusmano (whom she doesn't) for her favours. Who will she end up with? Tune in at 2 o'clock to find out.
Plus, after the opera, Louise Fryer presents a Sibelius Symphony performed by this week's featured performers: Simon Rattle and the orchestra of which he's Chief Conductor, the Berlin Philharmonic.
Verdi: Alzira
Alzira, Inca princess ..... Ileana Cotrubas (soprano)
Zamoro, Inca leader ..... Francisco Araiza (tenor)
Gusmano, Spanish Governor of Peru ... Renato Bruson (baritone)
Alvaro, Gusmano's father ... Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass)
Ovando, Spanish Duke ... Donald George (tenor)
Ataliba, Alzira's father ..... Daniel Bonilla (tenor)
Zuma, her maid ... Sofia Lis (mezzo-soprano)
Otumbo, Inca warrior ... Alexandru Ionita (tenor)
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Munich Radio Orchestra,
Conductor Lamberto Gardelli.
3.35pm
Sibelius: Symphony no. 4 in A minor
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
Friday 12 July 2013
Jonathan Swain rounds off her week [it says here] featuring Simon Rattle and great central European orchestras with him conducting the Vienna Philharmonic as well as his own Berlin Philharmonic. There's Schumann's large-scale cantata 'Paradise and the Peri' from Vienna, and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony to end the week from Berlin.
Ligeti: Atmospheres
Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
2.15pm
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri
Annette Dasch (soprano),
Susan Gritton (soprano),
Bernarda Fink (contralto),
Topi Lehtipuu (tenor),
Andrew Staples (tenor),
Florian Boesch (bass),
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus,
Vienna Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
3.45pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A major
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.
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