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SAT SATURDAY 21 DECEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 07:00 Breakfast b03lz71r (Listen) SAT Martin Handley presents Radio 3's Breakfast, with specially SAT recorded carols from the BBC Singers and your requests in SAT our Advent Calendar of seasonal music. SAT SAT Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music SAT requests or Musical Map suggestions. SAT SAT Music Played SAT 00:03 SAT Francis Poulenc SAT Quem vidistis pastores: no.2 from 4 Motets pour le temps de SAT Noel SAT Choir: Polyphony. SAT Stephen Layton SAT HYPERION SAT 00:06 SAT Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart SAT Le Nozze di Figaro - (K.492), Overture SAT Colin Davis. SAT Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden SAT RCA Red Seal SAT 00:11 SAT Nicola Porpora SAT Silvio amante disperato - aria from Cantata no.9 "Destatevi, SAT o pastori" SAT Singer: SAT Iestyn Davies SAT Ensemble: Arcangelo. Jonathan Cohen. Director: Jonathan SAT Cohen. SAT HYPERION SAT 00:18 SAT Otto Nicolai SAT Christmas Overture SAT Choir: BBC Singers. SAT BBC Concert Orchestra SAT Barry Wordsworth SAT NAXOS SAT 00:31 SAT Joseph Haydn SAT Trio for keyboard and strings (H.15.27) in C major, 1st SAT movement; Allegro SAT Ensemble: SAT Florestan Trio SAT Susan Tomes SAT Anthony Marwood SAT Richard Lester SAT Hyperion SAT 00:40 SAT Ruth Gibbs SAT Con Moto - 1st movement from Horn Concerto, Op.58 SAT David Pyatt SAT London Philharmonic Orchestra SAT Nicholas Braithwaite SAT LYRITA SAT 00:50 SAT Leos Janacek SAT Allegro - 5th movement from Sinfonietta SAT Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. SAT Jonathan Nott SAT TUDOR SAT 01:04 SAT William James SAT An Australian Christmas arr. James Curnow SAT Sellers Engineering Band SAT Phillip McCann. SAT Chandos SAT 01:13 SAT Ralph Vaughan Williams SAT Folk songs of the four seasons - no.1; Children's Christmas SAT song SAT Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra SAT Choir: SAT City of London Choir SAT Hilary Davan Wetton SAT Naxos SAT 01:16 SAT Ralph Vaughan Williams SAT Folk songs of the four seasons - no.2; Wassail song SAT Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra SAT Choir: SAT City of London Choir SAT Hilary Davan Wetton SAT Naxos SAT 01:20 SAT Johann Sebastian Bach SAT Suite for cello solo no. 1 (BWV.1007) in G major, Prelude SAT Mischa Maisky SAT Deutsche Grammophon SAT 01:24 SAT Johannes Brahms SAT Symphony no. 2 (Op. 73) in D major, 4th mvt; Allegro con SAT spirito SAT Berlin Philharmonic. SAT Sir Simon Rattle SAT EMI SAT 01:34 SAT Michael Head SAT The Three Mummers SAT Singer: SAT Anne Sofie von Otter SAT Bengt Forsberg SAT DG SAT 01:42 SAT Ludwig van Beethoven SAT Adagio cantabile (2nd movement)from Piano Sonata no.8 in C SAT minor, Op.13 "Pathetique" SAT András Schiff SAT ECM NEW SERIES SAT 01:48 SAT Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina SAT O magnum mysterium SAT Choir: SAT Westminster Cathedral Choir SAT Martin Baker SAT HYPERION SAT 01:55 SAT Jean Sibelius SAT Karelia - suite (Op.11), Alla marcia SAT Lorin Maazel SAT Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra SAT SONY SAT SAT 14:00 Saturday Classics b03lz71y (Listen) SAT Richard Sisson - Winter SAT SAT The composer Richard Sisson takes his wheel-cutter to the SAT final segment of the Saturday Classics Four Seasons Pizza SAT with an edition devoted to the music of winter. Music SAT includes Tchaikovsky, Offenbach, Sufjan Stevens and Purcell. SAT SAT Music Played SAT 00:03 SAT Émile Waldteufel SAT Skater's Waltz SAT Mary Schneider SAT Sydney International Orchestra. SAT Tommy Tycho SAT Koch SAT 00:07 SAT Ludwig Minkus SAT Don Quixote - Pas de Deux (extract) SAT London Symphony Orchestra SAT Richard Bonynge SAT Decca SAT 00:10 SAT Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev SAT Lieutenant Kije - Troika SAT Nicholas Childs SAT OBRASSO SAT 00:13 SAT Henry Purcell SAT King Arthur - Cold Song SAT Singer: SAT Klaus Nomi SAT RCA SAT 00:17 SAT Lars-Erik Larsson SAT En vintersaga op.18 - Epilog SAT Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. SAT Stig Westerberg SAT SWEDISH SOCIETY SAT 00:22 SAT Sir Peter Maxwell Davies SAT Symphony No.8 "Antarctica" - 1st mvt. (extract) SAT BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra SAT 00:23 SAT Jake Wilson SAT Black Was The Flag SAT Jake Wilson. SAT JAKE WILSON MUSIC SAT 00:28 SAT Claude Debussy SAT Des pas sur la neige (Preludes, Bk.1) SAT Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli SAT Deutsche Grammophon SAT 00:33 SAT Claude Debussy SAT Snowflakes are Dancing SAT Isao Tomita SAT RCA SAT 00:37 SAT Richard Sisson SAT Living By SAT Britten Sinfonia SAT Nicholas Daniel SAT 00:38 SAT Robert Frost SAT Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening SAT BRITISH LIBRARY SAT 00:41 SAT Eric Whitacre SAT Sleep SAT Choir: SAT Laudibus SAT Choir: SAT The Eric Whitacre Singers SAT Decca SAT 00:48 SAT Sufjan Stevens SAT Winter Solstice SAT ROUGH TRADE SAT 00:52 SAT Johannes Brahms SAT Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat op.83 - 2nd mvt. SAT Emil Gilels. Berlin Philharmonic. SAT Eugen Jochum SAT Deutsche Grammophon SAT 01:02 SAT Arthur Honegger SAT Pacific 231 SAT The French National Radio Orchestra SAT Jean Martinon SAT EMI SAT 01:10 SAT Benjamin Britten SAT Winter Words, op.52 - Midnight on the Great Western SAT Singer: SAT Daniel Norman SAT Christopher Gould. SAT BIS SAT 01:17 SAT Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky SAT Winter Dreams - Scherzo SAT Maly State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR. Yuri Simonov. SAT Russian Music Society SAT 01:28 SAT Tommy Wolf SAT Ballad of the Sad Young Men SAT Singer: SAT Ian Shaw SAT Sue Richardson. Composer: SAT Fran Landesman SAT SPLASH POINT RECORDS SAT 01:33 SAT John Rutter SAT Blow, blow, thou winter wind SAT Choir: SAT The Cambridge Singers SAT City of London Sinfonia SAT COLLEGIUM SAT 01:38 SAT Franz Schubert SAT Winterreise - Der Leiermann SAT Singer: SAT Mark Padmore SAT Paul Lewis. SAT HARMONIA MUNDI SAT 01:43 SAT Nino Rota SAT Theme from Amarcord SAT Jaume Tugores. SAT PRODUCCIONS BLAU SAT 01:46 SAT David Byrne SAT Winter (Music from the Knee Plays) SAT Nonesuch SAT 01:56 SAT Marguerite Monnot SAT Hymne a l'amour SAT Singer: SAT Édith Piaf SAT [unknown] SAT Capitol SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 DECEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 07:00 Breakfast b03lz84p (Listen) SUN Martin Handley presents Radio 3's Breakfast, with specially SUN recorded carols from the BBC Singers and your requests in SUN our Advent Calendar of seasonal music. SUN SUN Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music SUN requests or Musical Map suggestions. SUN SUN Music Played SUN 00:04 SUN Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky SUN Eugene Onegin - lyric scenes in 3 acts (Op.24), Act 2 sc.1, SUN no.?; Waltz ... SUN Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia SUN Antonio Pappano SUN EMI Classics SUN 00:11 SUN Georg Philipp Telemann SUN Hirten aus den goldnen Zeiten from Christmas Oratorio, SUN TWV.1.797 SUN Singer: SUN Klaus Mertens SUN Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein. Ludger Remy. SUN CPO SUN 00:17 SUN Franz Schubert SUN Trio in E flat major D.897 (Notturno) for piano and strings SUN Ensemble: SUN Vienna Piano Trio SUN MDG SUN 00:34 SUN Gioachino Rossini SUN La Cenerentola - Overture SUN Claudio Abbado SUN The Chamber Orchestra of Europe SUN Deutsche Grammophon SUN 00:47 SUN Ludwig van Beethoven SUN Rondo from Piano concerto no.4 in G major, Op.58 SUN Robert Levin. SUN Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique SUN John Eliot Gardiner SUN ARCHIV SUN 01:04 SUN Johann Sebastian Bach SUN Cantata no. 63 BWV.63 (Christen, atzet diesen Tag): SUN Christen, atzet diesen Tag SUN Ensemble: SUN Ricercar Consort SUN Philippe Pierlot. SUN Mirare SUN 01:11 SUN Gabriel Fauré SUN Nocturne no. 5 in B flat major Op.37 for piano SUN Charles Owen. SUN AVIE SUN 01:20 SUN Wiener Sängerknaben SUN Es wird schon glei dumpa SUN Philips Classics SUN 01:24 SUN Paul Dukas SUN The Sorcerer's apprentice - symphonic scherzo for orchestra SUN London Symphony Orchestra SUN Sir Charles Mackerras SUN CALA SUN 01:35 SUN John Goss SUN See amid the winter's snow - carol SUN Singer: SUN Jeremy White SUN Music Arranger: Willcocks, David. Singer: SUN Sally Dunkley SUN Choir: The Sixteen. SUN Harry Christophers SUN CORO SUN 01:51 SUN Nigel Hess SUN A Christmas Overture SUN Royal Philharmonic Orchestra SUN John Rutter SUN COLLEGIUM SUN SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning b03lz84r (Listen) SUN James Jolly - Christmas SUN SUN James Jolly celebrates Puccini's birthday, which would have SUN fallen today, and plays seasonal music by Corelli and SUN Charpentier, Ryba and Rutter, plus the week's cantata by SUN Telemann, Lauter Wonne, Lauter Freude. SUN SUN Music Played SUN 00:05 SUN Philip Lane SUN Wassail Dances SUN City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra SUN Gavin Sutherland. SUN Naxos SUN 00:14 SUN Giacomo Puccini SUN La rondine - 'Chi il bel sogno di Doretta' SUN Singer: SUN Leontyne Price SUN Rome Opera Orchestra. SUN Oliviero de Fabritiis SUN RCA SUN 00:17 SUN Georg Philipp Telemann SUN Lauter Wonne, lauter Freude SUN Singer: SUN Susanne Rydén SUN Ensemble: solistenensemble stimmkunst. SUN Kay Johannsen SUN Carus SUN 00:28 SUN Arcangelo Corelli SUN Concerto grosso Op 6 No 8, 'Christmas Concerto' SUN The English Concert SUN Trevor Pinnock SUN Trevor Pinnock SUN Archiv Produktion SUN 00:43 SUN Stephen Dodgson SUN Sonata for Brass Quintet SUN Ensemble: SUN Philip Jones Brass Ensemble SUN Lyrita SUN 00:54 SUN Giacomo Puccini SUN La boheme - O Soave Fanciulla SUN Singer: SUN Mirella Freni SUN Singer: SUN Luciano Pavarotti SUN Choir: SUN Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin SUN Herbert von Karajan SUN Decca SUN 01:00 SUN Robert Schumann SUN Symphony No 4 in D minor, Op 120 SUN Statskapelle Dresden. SUN Wolfgang Sawallisch SUN EMI SUN 01:29 SUN Marc-Antoine Charpentier SUN Dialogus inter angelos et Pastores Judeae in nativitatem SUN Domini SUN Ensemble: SUN Aradia Ensemble SUN Kevin Mallon SUN Naxos SUN 01:50 SUN Giacomo Puccini SUN Madama Butterfly - Vogliatemi bene, un bene piccolino (Act 1 SUN finale) SUN Singer: SUN Renata Scotto SUN Singer: SUN Carlo Bergonzi SUN Rome Opera Orchestra. SUN Sir John Barbirolli SUN EMI SUN 02:00 SUN Sir William Walton SUN Spitfire Prelude and Fugue SUN Ensemble: SUN Philip Jones Brass Ensemble SUN Music Arranger: SUN Elgar Howarth SUN Decca SUN 02:08 SUN Antonio Vivaldi SUN Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV630 SUN Singer: SUN Emma Kirkby SUN Academy of Ancient Music SUN Decca L'Oiseau-Lyre SUN 02:22 SUN Giacomo Puccini SUN Tosca - Vissi d'arte SUN Yvar Mikhashoff SUN Mode Records SUN 02:28 SUN Jakub Jan Ryba SUN Ceska Mse Vanocni - Kyrie; Gloria; Graduale; Credo SUN Choir: SUN Capella Regia Musicalis SUN Robert Hugo SUN Archiv Produktion SUN 02:51 SUN Hely-Hutchinson, Victor SUN A Carol Symphony - Rondo finale SUN City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra SUN Gavin Sutherland. SUN Naxos SUN 02:58 SUN anon SUN We wish you a Merry Christmas SUN Ensemble: SUN Philip Jones Brass Ensemble SUN Music Arranger: SUN John Rutter SUN Decca SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 DECEMBER 2013 MON MON 06:30 Breakfast b03lzb7z (Listen) MON Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, with MON specially recorded carols from the BBC Singers and your MON requests in our Advent Calendar of seasonal music. MON Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music MON requests or Musical Map suggestions. MON MON Music Played MON 00:01 MON [anonymous] MON The Shepherd's Star for Chorus MON Harmonia Mundi MON 00:04 MON Pablo de Sarasate MON Romanza andaluza (Op.22`1) orch. Otto Hohn [orig. vn & pf] MON Chloë Hanslip MON Paul Mann. MON London Symphony Orchestra MON Warner Classics MON 00:09 MON Joseph Haydn MON Sonata in A flat major H.16.46 (Divertimento)..: 3rd MON movement; Finale (Presto) MON Jean-Efflam Bavouzet MON Chandos MON 00:14 MON Johann Sebastian Bach MON Mass in B minor BWV.232: Part 4; Sanctus, Osanna [chorus], MON Benedictus [T aria] MON Ensemble: Dunedin Consort and Players. Director: MON John Butt MON Linn Records MON 00:34 MON Leroy Anderson MON A Christmas festival for orchestra MON Dallas Wind Symphony MON Jerry Junkin MON Reference Recordings MON 00:42 MON Robert Schumann MON Quintet for piano and strings (Op.44) in E flat major, 3rd MON movement; MON Christian Zacharias MON Ensemble: MON Cherubini Quartet MON EMI Classics MON 00:48 MON Herbert Howells MON A Spotless Rose MON Singer: MON Roderick Williams MON Choir: MON City of London Choir MON Hilary Davan Wetton MON Naxos MON 00:52 MON Silvestre Revueltas MON La Noche de los Mayas - suite from the film..: 2nd movement; MON La Noche.. MON Jalapa Symphony Orchestra. MON Luis Herrera de la Fuente MON Catalyst MON 00:58 MON Domenico Scarlatti MON Sonata in D minor Kk.517 MON Elaine Comparone MON Lyrichord Early Music Series MON 01:03 MON Tom Lehrer MON A Christmas carol for voice and piano MON Warner/RHINO MON 01:05 MON George Frideric Handel MON Overture to the Occasional Oratorio MON King's Consort. Robert King. MON Hyperion MON 01:20 MON [traditional] MON It came upon the midnight clear MON Music Arranger: MON Sir Arthur Sullivan MON Choir: MON BBC Singers MON Richard Pearce MON David Hill MON BBC Radio 3 Live recording MON 01:15 MON Antonin Dvorak MON Carnival overture Op.92 MON Concertgebouw Orchestra. MON Riccardo Chailly MON Decca MON 01:25 MON Chet Baker MON Let's Get Lost MON 01:34 MON Camille Saint-Saëns MON Bacchanale from Samson and Dalila MON Neeme Järvi MON Royal Scottish National Orchestra MON Chandos MON 01:43 MON Sir David Willcocks MON O come, all ye faithful - carol, arr. for chorus/es and MON accomp. MON Ensemble: Thoresby RJB Band. Stan Lippeatt. MON Doyen MON 01:47 MON Bohuslav Martinu MON Merry Christmas 1941 for piano MON Giorgio Koukl MON Naxos MON 01:51 MON Jean Sibelius MON Symphony no. 1 (Op.39) in E minor, 3rd movement; Scherzo MON (Allegro) MON Paavo Berglund MON Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri MON EMI MON 01:56 MON Samuel Scheidt MON Puer natus in Bethlehem MON Choir: Vox Luminus. Lionel Meunier. MON RICERCAR MON 02:01 MON George Gershwin MON Porgy and Bess - suite arr. Heifetz..., Summertime - A woman MON is a sometime thing MON Matthew Trusler MON Music Arranger: MON Jascha Heifetz MON Wayne Marshall. MON Orchid Classics MON 02:04 MON Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart MON Concerto for horn and orchestra no. 1 (K.412) in D major ... MON [complete] MON Alessio Allegrini MON Orchestra Mozart MON Claudio Abbado MON Deutsche Grammophon MON 02:13 MON Dan Locklair MON Hodie Christus Natus est MON Choir: MON BBC Singers MON David Hill MON BBC Radio 3 Live recording MON 02:16 MON Johann Sebastian Bach MON Concerto in the Italian style for keyboard (BWV.971) ..., MON 1st movement; MON András Schiff MON The Chamber Orchestra of Europe MON Director: MON András Schiff MON Decca MON 02:20 MON Engelbert Humperdinck MON Hansel und Gretel - opera in 3 acts, Overture MON Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden MON Colin Davis. MON Philips MON MON 09:00 Essential Classics b03lzb81 (Listen) MON Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and MON comedian, Sandi Toksvig. MON 9am MON A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the MON Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from MON the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We MON also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30. MON MON 10am MON Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski. MON MON 10.30am MON Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, MON Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 MON listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the MON travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things MON You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My MON Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows MON including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. MON She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for MON more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week MON in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas MON and Queues, was published earlier this year. MON MON 11am MON Rob's Essential Choice: MON Dvorak MON Symphony No. 6 MON The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's MON CD Review. MON MON Music Played MON 00:00 MON Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky MON The Comedians, Op. 26: Galop MON RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra MON Kirill Kondrashin MON RCA MON 00:02 MON Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka MON Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture MON Philharmonia. MON Constantin Silvestri MON EMI MON 00:08 MON Howells MON Long, Long Ago MON Choir: MON Gabrieli Consort MON Paul McCreesh MON Signum MON 00:15 MON Antonin Dvorak MON Slavonic Rhapsody in D, Op. 45 No. 1 MON Česká filharmonie MON Bohumil Gregor. MON Supraphon MON 00:30 MON anon MON Who's Marching? MON anon. MON 00:37 MON George Frideric Handel MON Il delirio amoroso, HWV 99: "Un pensiero voli in ciel" MON Singer: MON Magdalena Kožená MON Les Musiciens du Louvre MON Marc Minkowski MON Archiv MON 00:47 MON Percy Grainger MON Hill Song No. 2 MON Ensemble: MON Eastman Wind Ensemble MON Frederick Fennell MON Mercury Living Presence MON 00:54 MON Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov MON Prelude in B minor, Op. 32 No. 10 MON Howard Shelley MON Hyperion MON 01:02 MON Joseph Haydn MON Symphony No. 94 in G 'Surprise' MON Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. MON Marc Minkowski MON Naive MON 01:24 MON Gustav Holst MON In the Bleak Midwinter MON Händel and Haydn Society MON Harry Christophers (conductor). MON CORO MON 01:32 MON Paul Dukas MON The Sorcerer's Apprentice MON The Philadelphia Orchestra MON Leopold Stokowski MON Disney MON 01:46 MON Borge MON A Mozart Opera MON Singer: MON Victor Borge MON Sony MON 01:59 MON Emil Montia MON Colindita MON Angela Gheorghiou (soprano). Orchestra Nationyala Radio MON Tiberiu. MON MEDIA PRO MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT MON 02:01 MON Antonin Dvorak MON Symphony No. 6 in D, Op. 60 MON London Symphony Orchestra MON István Kertész MON Decca MON 02:48 MON Alessandro Scarlatti MON 7 Sonatas from Veintiseis Sonatas Ineditas para clave; nos 3 MON (K541) and 4 (K533) MON Sandro Russo (piano). MON MUSICAL CONCEPTS MON 02:54 MON Borodin (arr. Skip Martin) MON Swingin' with Prince Igor; Polovtsian Dance One MON Skip Martin's All-Star Jazz Band. Skip Martin (conductor). MON FLARE MON MON 12:00 Composer of the Week b03lzb83 (Listen) MON Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Bonn Beginnings MON MON Beethoven's home town of Bonn is where he learnt to be a MON composer. Donald Macleod tells the story of the maestro's MON apprentice years, and presents some of his neglected early MON works. MON MON If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its MON officers would probably have been frequent callers at 24 MON Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might MON have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where MON he had been locked by his drunkard father Johann, or MON witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to MON 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this MON abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the MON greatest musician of his age - the composer who absorbed the MON Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly MON transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course MON of this transformation in a series of five extended MON snapshots of Beethoven's life and work, from his first MON attempts at composition to the extraordinary productions of MON his final years. MON MON Today's programme surveys Beethoven's last ten years in MON Bonn, before his permanent move to Vienna in 1792. Along MON with his father, the cast of characters includes his MON grandfather, also named Ludwig, a previous court MON kapellmeister; his teacher, Christian Gottlob Neefe, who MON spotted Beethoven's prodigious talent and did everything he MON could to foster it; his mother, whose death in 1787 left MON deep scars on the 16-year-old composer; Maximilian Franz, MON Elector of Cologne and Beethoven's employer in his post as a MON sprucely liveried court musician; Mozart, with whom MON Beethoven may or may not have studied briefly; and Papa MON Haydn, with whom Beethoven was to have an uneasy MON pupil-teacher relationship in Vienna. The musical soundtrack MON includes an early piano quartet that Beethoven would later MON mine for material when he came to write his first published MON piano sonatas, and two early masterpieces: an ambitious set MON of 24 Variations on an operatic air by Righini, and the MON Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, of which Brahms MON remarked, when the manuscript resurfaced almost a century MON later, "it is Beethoven through and through". MON MON Music Played MON 00:00 MON Ludwig van Beethoven MON 9 Variations on a march by Dressler in C minor WoO.63 for MON piano MON Ronald Brautigam MON BIS MON 00:04 MON Ludwig van Beethoven MON Quartet in C major WoO.36`3 for piano and strings MON Anthony Goldstone MON Ensemble: MON Cummings String Trio MON MERIDIAN MON 00:15 MON Ludwig van Beethoven MON Trinklied (Erhebt das Glas mit froher Hand)WoO 109 MON Walter Olbertz MON Singer: MON Peter Schreier MON DGG MON 00:17 MON Ludwig van Beethoven MON Elegie auf den tod eines pudels WoO.110 for voice and piano MON Walter Olbertz MON Singer: MON Peter Schreier MON DGG MON 00:22 MON Ludwig van Beethoven MON Cantata on the death of the Emperor Joseph II WoO.87 for MON soprano, alto, tenor, MON Singer: MON Charlotte Margiono MON Singer: MON Veronica Verebély MON Singer: MON Ulrike Helzel MON Singer: MON Clemens Bieber MON Singer: MON William Shimell MON German Opera Berlin Orchestra. Choir: German Opera Berlin MON Chorus. MON Christian Thielemann MON DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON MON 00:33 MON Ludwig van Beethoven MON Octet in E flat major Op.103 for wind MON Ensemble: MON Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer MON EMI MON 00:42 MON Ludwig van Beethoven MON 24 Variations on 'Venni amore' by Righini WoO.65 for piano MON Alfred Brendel MON BRILLIANT MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 DECEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 06:30 Breakfast b03lzc2m (Listen) TUE Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, with TUE specially recorded carols from the BBC Singers and your TUE requests in our Advent Calendar of seasonal music. TUE Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music TUE requests or Musical Map suggestions. TUE TUE Music Played TUE 00:12 TUE Johann Sebastian Bach TUE Cantata no. 36 BWV.36..: Part 1; Schwingt freudig euch empor TUE (Chorus) TUE Choir: TUE Collegium Vocale Gent TUE Director: TUE Philippe Herreweghe TUE Harmonia Mundi TUE 00:17 TUE Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart TUE Overture: Cosi fan tutte TUE Sir Neville Marriner TUE Academy of St. Martin in the Fields TUE EMI TUE 00:24 TUE Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky TUE The Seasons (Op.37b) orch. Gauk [orig. for piano], December TUE (Christmas) TUE Neeme Järvi TUE Detroit Symphony Orchestra TUE Chandos TUE 00:33 TUE Giuseppe Verdi TUE Aida - Act 2 sc.2; Gloria all'Egitto [chorus] - TUE Giuseppe Sinopoli TUE Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutche Oper. TUE Deutshe Grammophon TUE 00:39 TUE Josef Suk TUE Meditation on an old Czech hymn "St Wenceslas" Op.35a vers. TUE for string quartet TUE Ensemble: TUE Signum Quartet TUE BBC Radio 3 TUE 00:51 TUE Antonio Vivaldi TUE Concerto for violin and orchestra (RV.310) in G major, TUE transc. for trumpet TUE Alison Balsom TUE Ensemble: TUE Scottish Ensemble TUE EMI Classics TUE 01:02 TUE Richard Wagner TUE Die Walkure [Part 2 of 'Der Ring ...'], Act 3; The Ride of TUE the Valkyries TUE Daniel Barenboim TUE Orchestre de Paris TUE Deutsche Grammophon TUE 01:09 TUE Will Todd TUE My Lord has come TUE Nigel Short TUE Choir: Tenebrae. TUE Signum Classics TUE 01:18 TUE Erik Satie TUE 3 Gymnopedies for piano, no.1 in D major; TUE Anne Queffélec TUE Mirare TUE 01:21 TUE Émile Waldteufel TUE Les Patineurs [The skaters] - waltz Op.183 TUE Philharmonia Orchestra TUE Herbert von Karajan TUE EMI Classics TUE 01:34 TUE Ludwig van Beethoven TUE Sonata no. 31 in A flat major Op.110 for piano: 1st TUE movement; Moderato cantabile TUE Igor Levit TUE Sony Classical TUE 01:41 TUE Michael Praetorius TUE Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen for 4 voices arr. Jan Sandstrom TUE Choir: TUE Choir of Clare College, Cambridge TUE Ross Graham TUE Harmonia Mundi TUE 01:46 TUE Johannes Brahms TUE Symphony no. 4 in E minor Op.98: 3rd movement; Allegro TUE giocoso TUE Gewandhausorchester Leipzig TUE Riccardo Chailly TUE Decca TUE 02:01 TUE John Rutter TUE Shepherd's pipe carol TUE Choir: BBC Singers. TUE 02:05 TUE Frank Bridge TUE Sir Roger de Coverley - Christmas dance arr. for full TUE orchestra TUE BBC National Orchestra of Wales TUE Janice Graham TUE Richard Hickox TUE Chandos TUE 02:10 TUE Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov TUE Suite for 2 pianos no. 2 (Op.17), Valse TUE Martha Argerich TUE Александр Рабинович-Бараковский TUE Warner Classics and Jazz TUE 02:16 TUE George Frideric Handel TUE Alcina - Act 1 sc.15; Tornami a vagheggiar [aria] TUE Singer: TUE Danielle de Niese TUE Les Arts Florissants TUE William Christie TUE Decca TUE 02:21 TUE Sellers Engineering Band TUE A Christmas Fantasy - medley of Christmas carols arr. for TUE chorus & orchestra TUE Music Arranger: Langford, Gordon. Choir: TUE The Huddersfield Choral Society TUE Brian Kay TUE Chandos TUE TUE 09:00 Essential Classics b03lzccg (Listen) TUE Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and TUE comedian, Sandi Toksvig. TUE 9am TUE A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the TUE Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from TUE the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We TUE also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30. TUE TUE 10am TUE Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski. TUE TUE 10.30am TUE Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, TUE Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 TUE listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the TUE travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things TUE You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My TUE Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows TUE including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. TUE She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for TUE more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week TUE in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas TUE and Queues, was published earlier this year. TUE TUE 11am TUE Rob's Essential Choice: TUE Rimsky Korsakov TUE Christmas Eve Suite TUE L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande TUE Ernest Ansermet (conductor) TUE DECCA 443 4642. TUE TUE Music Played TUE 00:00 TUE Jean-Philippe Rameau TUE Les Indes Galentes: Danse des Sauvages TUE Les Musiciens du Louvre TUE Marc Minkowski TUE Archiv TUE 00:03 TUE Morton Gould TUE Latin-American Symphonette: 1st movement, Rhumba TUE The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra TUE Felix Slatkin TUE EMI TUE 00:09 TUE anon TUE Qui creavit celum TUE Choir: TUE Gabrieli Consort TUE Paul McCreesh TUE Signum TUE 00:12 TUE Frédéric Chopin TUE Ballade no.3 in A flat, op.47 TUE Cedric Tiberghien (piano). TUE HARMONIA MUNDI TUE 00:20 TUE Anton Webern TUE Langsamer Satz TUE Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne TUE Heinz Holliger TUE Zig Zag Territories TUE 00:31 TUE anon TUE Originally Written For TUE Ensemble: anon. TUE 00:34 TUE Jean-Philippe Rameau TUE Les Boreades: Act IV scene 4 - Entree de Polymnie TUE Les Musiciens du Louvre TUE Marc Minkowski TUE Archiv TUE 00:42 TUE Edvard Grieg TUE Landkjenning TUE Choir: Malmo Chamber Choir. Choir: Lund Student Singers. TUE Malmö SymfoniOrkester TUE Bjarte Engeset TUE Naxos TUE 00:50 TUE François-André Danican Philidor TUE Quartet No. 5 for flute, 2 violins and basso continuo TUE Ensemble: TUE Camerata Köln TUE CPO TUE 01:02 TUE Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart TUE Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550 TUE Les Musiciens du Louvre TUE Marc Minkowski TUE Archiv TUE 01:35 TUE Johann Strauss II TUE An der schonen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 TUE Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. TUE Willi Boskovsky TUE Decca TUE 01:49 TUE Gian Carlo Menotti TUE Amahl and the Night Visitors (excerpt) TUE Singer: Ike Hawkersmith. Singer: Kirsten Gunlogson. Singer: TUE Dean Anthony TUE Singer: TUE Todd Thomas TUE Singer: Kevin Short. Singer: Bart LeFan. Choir: TUE Chicago Symphony Chorus TUE Choir: TUE Nashville Symphony Chorus TUE Nashville Symphony Orchestra TUE Alastair Willis. TUE Naxos TUE 01:30 TUE Schumann (arr. Segovia) TUE Soldatenmarsch TUE Segovia (guitar). TUE RCA TUE 02:03 TUE Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov TUE Christmas Eve Suite TUE Suisse Romande Orchestra. TUE Ernest Ansermet TUE Decca TUE 02:46 TUE Anton Bruckner TUE String Quartet in C minor TUE Zehetmair Quartet TUE ECM TUE 02:59 TUE CPE Bach TUE Symphony in C, Wq 174 TUE Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Christian Zacharias (conductor). TUE MDG TUE TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week b03lzd2c (Listen) TUE Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Summer in Heiligenstadt TUE TUE For Beethoven, 1802 marked both an emotional nadir and a TUE peak of creativity. Donald Macleod explores how the TUE composer's acceptance of his deafness spawned a string of TUE masterpieces. TUE TUE If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its TUE officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 TUE Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might TUE have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where TUE he had been locked up by his drunkard father Johann, or TUE witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to TUE 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this TUE abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the TUE greatest musician of his age - the composer who absorbed the TUE Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly TUE transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course TUE of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of TUE Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at TUE composition to the extraordinary productions of his final TUE years. TUE TUE Today's programme focuses on six months in 1802, when TUE Beethoven, on doctor's orders, took a rest-cure in the tiny, TUE picturesque spa-town of Heiligenstadt. For some years the TUE composer's hearing had been deteriorating but, by 1801, TUE things had started to reach crisis point. In June of that TUE year Beethoven wrote a despairing letter to his childhood TUE friend Franz Wegeler, now a distinguished medic. Wegeler TUE recommended a change of doctor, and it was the new man - TUE Johann Adam Schmidt - who advised Beethoven to abscond to TUE Heiligenstadt to give his hearing a rest away from the noisy TUE bustle of Vienna. Here Beethoven wrote the document known by TUE posterity as the Heiligenstadt Testament - a letter to his TUE brothers, to be read only after his death, in which he TUE expressed despair at his hearing loss but determination TUE nonetheless to fulfil what he felt to be his artistic TUE destiny. His productivity during the summer of 1802 bears TUE witness to that determination; here he wrote or completed TUE his 2nd Symphony, the three violin sonatas Op 30, two of the TUE piano sonatas Op 31, and more besides. TUE TUE Music Played TUE 00:01 TUE Ludwig van Beethoven TUE 7 Bagatelles Op.33 for piano TUE Stephen Kovacevich TUE PHILIPS TUE 00:05 TUE Ludwig van Beethoven TUE Sonata no. 16 in G major Op.31`1 for piano TUE Daniel Barenboim TUE EMI TUE 00:20 TUE Ludwig van Beethoven TUE Symphony no. 2 in D major Op.36 TUE La Chambre Philharmonique. TUE Emmanuel Krivine TUE NAIVE TUE 00:35 TUE Ludwig van Beethoven TUE Sonata no. 9 in E major Op.14`1 for piano TUE Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus String Quartet. TUE MEMBRANE RECORDS TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 DECEMBER 2013 WED WED 06:30 Breakfast b03lzc2p (Listen) WED Clemency Burton-Hill presents a Christmas edition of Radio WED 3's classical breakfast show. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or WED text 83111 with your music requests. WED WED Music Played WED 00:00 WED Traditional Carol WED Deck the Halls WED London Chamber Orchestra WED Christopher Warren-Green WED Music Arranger: WED Craig Leon WED SONY CLASSICAL WED 00:02 WED [traditional] WED O little town of Bethlehem - trad. carol, arr. Vaughan WED Williams/Armstrong.. WED Choir: WED The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge WED Andrew Nethsingha. WED Chandos WED 00:06 WED Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev WED Lieutenant Kije - suite for orchestra, with baritone ad lib. WED (Op.60), Troika WED André Previn WED Los Angeles Philharmonic WED Telarc WED 00:09 WED Johann Sebastian Bach WED Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV.248: Pt.2, no.21; Ehre sei Gott WED [chorus] WED Ensemble: King's Consort. Robert King. WED Hyperion WED 00:19 WED Arcangelo Corelli WED Concerto grosso (Op.6`8) in G minor "Christmas night", 6th WED movement; Largo WED Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach WED Hartmut Haenchen WED Thorsten Rosenbusch WED Karl-Heinz Schröter WED Harald Winkler. Raphael Alperman. Christian Trompler. WED Sony Classical WED 00:33 WED [traditional] WED BF BBC Singers Carols: Mendelssohn/Willcocks - Hark the WED Herald Angels Sing WED Choir: BBC Singers. WED 00:37 WED Leroy Anderson WED Sleigh ride for orchestra WED Scott A.Stewart. Ensemble: Emory Symphonic Winds. WED Naxos WED 00:40 WED Dietrich Buxtehude WED Der Herr ist mit mir...(BuxWV.15), Alleluia WED Choir: Accentus Chamber Choir. WED Concerto Köln WED Laurence Équilbey WED Naive WED 00:43 WED Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky WED Nutcracker - concert suite transc. Pletnev, no.1; March & WED no.2; Dance... WED Simon Trpceski. WED EMI Classics WED 00:49 WED Philip Lane WED Overture on French carols for orchestra WED Barry Wordsworth WED BBC Concert Orchestra WED Naxos WED 00:54 WED [traditional] WED The Holly and the ivy - trad. arr. for chorus WED Antony Pitts WED Music Arranger: Pitts, Anthony. Choir: WED Tonus Peregrinus WED Naxos WED 00:58 WED Thomas Weelkes WED To shorten winters sadnesse for 5 voices [1598] WED Ensemble: Quadriga Consort. Music Arranger: Nikolaus WED Newerkla. WED Deutsche Harmonia Mundi WED 01:01 WED Philip Lawson WED Lullay, my liking - carol for chorus [text 15th-C] WED Choir: WED The King's Singers WED Signum Classics WED 01:07 WED [traditional] WED The Little drummer boy - carol arr.Katherine K Davis WED Boston Pops Orchestra WED John Williams. WED Philips Classics WED 01:16 WED Richard B. Smith WED Winter Wonderland arr. Dave Brubeck WED Dave Brubeck WED Music Arranger: WED Dave Brubeck WED Felix Barnard. WED Telarc WED 01:34 WED Claude Debussy WED Children's corner for piano, no.4; The Snow is dancing WED Angela Hewitt WED Hyperion WED 01:37 WED [traditional] WED Ding dong merrily on high - trad. carol arr. for chorus and WED organ WED Stephen Cleobury WED Choir: WED Choir of King's College, Cambridge WED Music Arranger: WED Mack Wilberg WED Ben-San Lau. WED King's College WED 01:40 WED Leopold Mozart WED Die Schlittenfahrt [A musical sleigh ride] WED Barry Wordsworth WED BBC Concert Orchestra WED Music Arranger: WED Philip Lane WED Naxos WED 01:48 WED Johann Sebastian Bach WED In dulci jubilo [BWV.751] arr. Kempff for piano WED Wilhelm Kempff WED Deutsche Grammophon WED 01:53 WED John Fox WED Carol fantasia WED Gavin Sutherland. RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin. WED Naxos WED 02:04 WED [traditional] WED The First Nowell - carol arr. for brass ensemble WED Ensemble: WED Canadian Brass WED Music Arranger: WED Stephen McNeff WED Philips WED 02:07 WED George Frideric Handel WED Messiah, Pt.1, no.12; For unto us a child is born [chorus] WED Ensemble: Dunedin Consort and Players. WED Linn WED 02:18 WED Jule Styne WED Let it Snow arr.Rob Moose WED Joshua Bell WED Music Arranger: WED Rob Moose WED Julian Lage WED Rob Moose WED Michael Aarons. Singer: WED Chris Lightcap WED William Holhouse. WED Sony/Masterworks WED 02:25 WED Hely-Hutchinson, Victor WED Carol symphony, 1st movement; Prelude WED Gavin Sutherland. WED City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra WED Naxos WED WED 09:00 Essential Classics b03lzccj (Listen) WED Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and WED comedian, Sandi Toksvig. WED 9am WED A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the WED Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from WED the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We WED also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30. WED WED 10am WED Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski. WED WED 10.30am WED Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, WED Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 WED listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the WED travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things WED You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My WED Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows WED including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. WED She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for WED more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week WED in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas WED and Queues, was published earlier this year. WED WED 11am WED Rob's Essential Choice: WED Wagner WED Siegfried Idyll WED Berlin Philharmonic WED Rafael Kubelik (conductor) WED DG 478 5188. WED WED Music Played WED 00:00 WED Jean-François Dandrieu WED Noels for Organ WED Ensemble: Les Boreades. WED Atma Classique WED 00:03 WED Ferdinand Hérold WED Zampa: Overture WED Suisse Romande Orchestra. WED Ernest Ansermet WED Decca WED 00:11 WED Jonathan Dove WED The Three Kings WED Choir: WED Gabrieli Consort WED Paul McCreesh WED Signum WED 00:17 WED Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach WED Sonata in A, H135 WED Danny Driver WED Hyperion WED 00:32 WED anon WED Puzzle WED 00:34 WED Richard Wagner WED The Flying Dutchman: Overture WED Les Musiciens du Louvre WED Marc Minkowski WED Naive WED 00:44 WED anon WED Puzzle WED 00:46 WED Claude Debussy WED Sonata for cello and piano WED János Starker WED György Sebök WED Mercury Living Presence WED 01:00 WED Johann Sebastian Bach WED Christmas Oratorio, Part VI: Chorale 'Nun seid ihr wohl WED gerochen' WED Choir: WED Monteverdi Choir WED English Baroque Soloists WED John Eliot Gardiner WED Archiv WED 01:05 WED Marc-Antoine Charpentier WED Messe de minuit pour Noel WED Singer: WED Annick Massis WED Singer: WED Magdalena Kožená WED Singer: WED Eric Huchet WED Singer: WED Patrick Henckens WED Singer: Russell Smythe. Singer: WED Jean-Louis Bindi WED Choir: WED Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre WED Les Musiciens du Louvre WED Marc Minkowski WED Archiv WED 01:33 WED Giacomo Puccini WED Gianni Schicchi: 'O mio babbino caro' WED Singer: WED Renée Fleming WED London Philharmonic Orchestra WED Sir Charles Mackerras WED Decca WED 01:43 WED Edvard Grieg WED Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 WED Berlin Philharmonic. WED Herbert von Karajan WED DG WED 01:59 WED Johann Sebastian Bach WED Sinfonia no.6 in E, BWV 792 WED Simone Dinnerstein (piano). WED SONY WED 02:01 WED Richard Wagner WED Siegfried Idyll WED Berlin Philharmonic. WED Rafael Kubelík WED DG WED 02:21 WED Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin WED Piano Sonata No. 5 in F sharp, Op. 53 WED Igor Zhukov WED Melodiya WED 02:35 WED Johann Strauss II WED Cinderella WED The National Philharmonic Orchestra WED Richard Bonynge (conductor). WED DECCA WED WED 12:00 Composer of the Week b03lzd2f (Listen) WED Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Too Much of a Good Thing WED WED Beethoven unveils his 5th and 6th symphonies, 4th piano WED concerto and more besides in a four-hour concert in the WED biting cold of a Viennese December. Donald Macleod asks why. WED WED If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its WED officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 WED Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might WED have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where WED he had been locked by his drunkard father Johann, or WED witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to WED 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this WED abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the WED greatest musician of his age ? the composer who absorbed the WED Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly WED transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course WED of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of WED Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at WED composition to the extraordinary productions of his final WED years. WED WED Today's programme homes in on a single day, the 22nd of WED December 1808, when Beethoven mounted an extraordinary WED 'benefit' concert ? that is, a concert for his own financial WED benefit, in the Theater an der Wien. He had been petitioning WED the authorities for months for permission to do this, and WED eventually he took the only date he could get, despite the WED fact that it clashed with a major charity event being held WED on the same evening in another theatre. That, though, turned WED out to be the least of Beethoven's problems, foremost of WED which was the temperature inside the auditorium, which he WED couldn't afford to heat. Then there was the programme; four WED hours' worth of the most challenging new music ? difficult WED for an audience under the most favourable of conditions, let WED along listening inside an icebox. To make matters worse, WED Beethoven had fallen out with the orchestral musicians at a WED previous concert, and they refused to rehearse with him. The WED evening concluded with the Choral Fantasia, which the WED composer had hastily finished off to provide a suitably WED grand conclusion to the proceedings. In the event, the WED performance came so badly unstuck that Beethoven had to stop WED the music halfway through and start again from the top. As WED one contemporary who shivered his way through the whole WED evening observed, "one can easily have too much of a good WED thing". WED WED Music Played WED 00:00 WED Ludwig van Beethoven WED Fantasia in G minor Op.77 for piano WED ONYX WED 00:04 WED Ludwig van Beethoven WED Symphony no. 6 in F major Op.68 (Pastoral) WED Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century WED Frans Brüggen WED PHILIPS WED 00:17 WED Ludwig van Beethoven WED Concerto no. 4 in G major Op.58 for piano and orchestra WED Mitsuko Uchida WED Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. WED Kurt Sanderling WED PHILIPS WED 00:25 WED Ludwig van Beethoven WED Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67 WED Gewandhausorchester Leipzig WED Riccardo Chailly WED Decca WED 00:42 WED Ludwig van Beethoven WED Fantasia in C minor Op.80 for piano, chorus and orchestra WED Evgeny Kissin WED Singer: WED Cheryl Studer WED Singer: WED Kristina Clemenz WED Singer: WED Camille Capasso WED Singer: WED John Aler WED Singer: WED Hiroshi Oshima WED Singer: WED Friedrich Molsberger WED Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. WED Claudio Abbado WED Deutsche Grammophon WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 DECEMBER 2013 THU THU 06:30 Breakfast b03lzc2r (Listen) THU Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, featuring THU seasonal music, the Musical Map of Britain and listener THU requests. THU Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music THU requests or Musical Map suggestions. THU THU Music Played THU 00:00 THU The Cambridge Singers THU What sweeter music - carol for chorus THU City of London Sinfonia THU John Rutter THU Collegium THU 00:05 THU Arvo Pärt THU Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten for string orchestra and THU bell THU Staatsorchester Stuttgart THU Dennis Russell Davies THU ECM THU 00:10 THU Frédéric Chopin THU Berceuse for piano (Op.57) in D flat major THU Maurizio Pollini THU Deutsche Grammophon THU 00:15 THU Johann Sebastian Bach THU Cantata no. 82 BWV.82 (Ich habe genug) THU Singer: THU Olaf Bär THU Scottish Chamber Orchestra THU Douglas Boyd THU Peter Schreier THU EMI Classics THU 00:22 THU George Butterworth THU The Banks of green willow - idyll for orchestra THU Hallé Orchestra THU Mark Elder THU Halle THU 00:34 THU Valda Aveling THU Good King Wenceslas - traditional carol THU Music Arranger: THU Douglas Gamley THU Singer: THU Joan Sutherland THU Choir: THU The Ambrosian Singers THU Philharmonia Orchestra THU Richard Bonynge THU Singer: THU Patricia Clark THU Decca THU 00:37 THU Franz Schubert THU Symphony no. 5 (D.485) in B flat major, 2nd movement; THU Andante con moto THU Claudio Abbado THU The Chamber Orchestra of Europe THU Deutsche Grammophon THU 00:48 THU Franz Liszt THU Weihnachtsbaum S.186 for piano: Adeste fideles (Gleichsam THU als Marsch) THU Leslie Howard THU Hyperion THU 00:51 THU Juan de Araujo THU Los Coflades de la estleya - Christmas negrito for voices THU and instruments THU Ensemble: THU Ex-Cathedra THU Jeffrey Skidmore THU Hyperion THU 00:57 THU Johannes Brahms THU Hungarian dance no.6 in D major orch. Parlow [orig. pf. THU duet] THU Iván Fischer THU Budapest Festival Orchestra THU Orchestrator: Parlow. THU Philips THU 01:01 THU Einojuhani Rautavaara THU Cantus arcticus (Concerto for birds and orch) (Op.61), 3rd THU mvt; Swans migrating THU Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. THU Leif Segerstam THU Ondine THU 01:10 THU Gabriel Fauré THU Cantique de Jean Racine for chorus and organ [1865] or THU harmonium & str quartet THU Choir: THU The Choir of New College, Oxford THU Edward Higginbottom THU Erato THU 01:16 THU Ralph Vaughan Williams THU Fantasia on Christmas carols for baritone, chorus and THU orchestra THU Sir David Willcocks THU Singer: THU Hervey Alan THU Choir: THU Choir of King's College, Cambridge THU London Symphony Orchestra THU Decca THU 01:33 THU Arturo Márquez THU Conga del fuego Nuevo THU Gustavo Dudamel THU Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de la Juventud Venezolana Simón THU Bolívar THU Deutsche Grammaphon THU 01:39 THU [traditional] THU The Twelve days of Christmas - trad. carol arr. for chorus THU Nigel Short THU Choir: Tenebrae. Music Arranger: THU Andrew Carter THU Signum Classics THU 01:43 THU Ludwig van Beethoven THU Sonata no. 28 in A major Op.101 for piano: 2nd movement; THU Allegro molto THU Igor Levit THU 01:50 THU Rodney Bennett, Richard THU I saw three ships THU Choir: BBC Singers. THU 01:54 THU Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky THU 1812 overture Op.49 THU Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra THU Erich Kunzel THU Telarc THU 02:11 THU Duke Ellington & His Orchestra THU Nutcracker suite [after TCHAIKOVSKY] for jazz ensemble, THU no.1; Overture THU Composer: THU Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky THU Columbia THU 02:17 THU Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart THU Ave verum corpus - motet for chorus and strings (K.618) THU Choir: THU The Choir of New College, Oxford THU Ensemble: Capricorn. THU Matthew Halls THU Christopher Hughes THU Edward Higginbottom THU Erato THU 02:20 THU Philip Lane THU Wassail dances THU City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra THU Gavin Sutherland. THU Naxos THU THU 09:00 Essential Classics b03lzccl (Listen) THU Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and THU comedian, Sandi Toksvig. THU 9am THU A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the THU Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from THU the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We THU also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30. THU THU 10am THU Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski. THU THU 10.30am THU Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, THU Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 THU listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the THU travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things THU You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My THU Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows THU including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. THU She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for THU more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week THU in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas THU and Queues, was published earlier this year. THU THU 11am THU Rob's Essential Choice: THU Tchaikovsky THU The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Act 1 THU London Symphony Orchestra THU Antal Doráti (conductor) THU DECCA 442 5622. THU THU Music Played THU 00:00 THU Leroy Anderson THU Bugler's Holiday THU Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra THU Frederick Fennell THU Mercury Living Presence THU 00:03 THU Christoph Willibald Gluck THU Orphee et Eurydice: Act II - Air des Furies THU Les Musiciens du Louvre THU Marc Minkowski THU Archiv THU 00:08 THU anon THU This Endere Nyghth I saw a Syghth THU Choir: THU Gabrieli Consort THU Paul McCreesh THU Signum THU 00:16 THU Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky THU Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 THU London Symphony Orchestra THU Kenneth Alwyn THU Decca THU 00:33 THU Jacques Offenbach THU Les fees du Rhin: Grand Valse THU Les Musiciens du Louvre THU Marc Minkowski THU Archiv THU 00:41 THU Arvo Pärt THU Spiegel im Spiegel (version 2, for two pianos) THU Ensemble: Jeroen and Sandra van Veen. THU Brilliant Classics THU 00:51 THU Amilcare Ponchielli THU Paolo e Virginia THU Sharon Kam THU Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn THU Ruben Gazarian. THU Berlin Classics THU 01:01 THU Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky THU The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Act II - 'Chocolate', Spanish Dance THU London Symphony Orchestra THU Antal Doráti THU Mercury Living Presence THU 01:04 THU Christoph Willibald Gluck THU Armide: Act II, scenes 4-5 THU Singer: Valerie Gabail. Singer: Sandrine Rondot. Singer: THU Myriam Sosson. Singer: THU Jerry Gregoire THU Singer: Jean-Christope Hurtaud. Singer: Marcus Loureiro de THU Sak. Singer: Nicole Heaston. Singer: THU Mireille Delunsch THU Les Musiciens du Louvre THU Marc Minkowski THU Archiv THU 01:18 THU Jacques Ibert THU Escales THU Boston Symphony Orchestra THU Charles Munch THU Sony THU 01:36 THU Georges Bizet THU Carmen: 'Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre'; 'Toreador, en THU garde' THU Singer: THU Sherrill Milnes THU Singer: THU Yvonne Kenny THU Singer: THU Alicia Nafé THU Singer: THU Teresa Berganza THU Singer: George Main. Singer: Robert Lloyd. Singer: Gordon THU Sandison. Singer: Geoffrey Pogson. Choir: THU The Ambrosian Singers THU London Symphony Orchestra THU Claudio Abbado THU DG THU 01:44 THU Amy Beach THU Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 'Gaelic': 1st movement THU Detroit Symphony Orchestra THU Neeme Järvi THU Chandos THU 01:58 THU Frédéric Chopin THU Mazurka in C, op.24 no.2 THU Marjan Kiepura (piano). THU PATRIA THU 02:01 THU Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky THU The Nutcracker: Act I THU London Symphony Orchestra THU Antal Doráti THU Mercury Living Presence THU 02:43 THU György Ligeti THU Concert Romanesc THU Berlin Philharmonic. THU Jonathan Nott THU Teldec THU 02:55 THU Isaac Albéniz THU Tango, op.165 no.2 THU Arthur Grumiaux (violin). Istvan Hajdu (piano). THU PHILIPS THU THU 12:00 Composer of the Week b03lzd2h (Listen) THU Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), From the Ridiculous to the THU Sublime THU THU Donald Macleod explains how the phenomenal success of THU Beethoven's trashy potboiler, Wellington's Victory, had THU positive repercussions; it led to the revised version of THU Fidelio. THU THU If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its THU officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 THU Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might THU have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where THU he had been locked by his drunkard father Johann, or THU witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to THU 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this THU abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the THU greatest musician of his age ? the composer who absorbed the THU Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly THU transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course THU of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of THU Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at THU composition to the extraordinary productions of his final THU years. THU THU Today's programme charts one of the most extraordinary THU episodes in Beethoven's life, from late 1813 to the end of THU the following year. For the previous decade, Europe had been THU dogged by the Napoleonic Wars. Now Napoleon's fortunes were THU beginning to unravel, and in June 1813, Austria abandoned THU its neutrality and joined the alliance against the French. THU In the same month, the French army, fighting under THU Napoleon's brother, Joseph I, was defeated by Wellington at THU the Battle of Vitoria. Vienna was awash with a tide of THU patriotic fervour, and that's when the imperial court THU mechanician, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, came to Beethoven with THU an unusual proposal ? would he compose a patriotic piece THU celebrating Wellington's victory? The work was originally to THU be written not for orchestra but for the Panharmonicon, a THU bellows-powered contraption-in-a-case of Mälzel's invention THU that could reproduce the sounds of a military band. THU Beethoven agreed, but in the event he produced an orchestral THU version instead. Premièred at a public concert in December THU 1813, this fatuous work became an immediate sensation, and THU several more performances followed. By the law of unexpected THU consequences, when the management of the Viennese court THU opera were looking for a new production, they turned to the THU most successful composer of the moment: Beethoven. They THU approached him with a view to staging his opera Fidelio, and THU he agreed, but only on the basis that he would be able to THU revise it completely ? in the process, creating the version THU most widely performed to this day. THU THU Music Played THU 00:00 THU Trad THU Stero canon shots from opening of wellington's victory THU commentary track THU 2nd New Jersey Light Artillery. Gerald G Stowe. THU Mercury Living Presence THU 00:02 THU Ludwig van Beethoven THU Symphony no. 8 in F major Op.93 THU ARCHIV THU 00:08 THU Ludwig van Beethoven THU Wellingtons Sieg or Die Schlacht bei Vittoria Op.91 (Battle THU symphony) THU London Symphony Orchestra THU Antal Doráti THU MERCURY THU 00:16 THU Ludwig van Beethoven THU Elegischer Gesang Op.118 (Sanft wie du lebtest) for 4 solo THU voices and string qu THU Singer: THU Rebecca Evans THU Singer: THU Pamela Helen Stephen THU Singer: THU Mark Padmore THU Singer: THU Stephen Varcoe THU Ensemble: THU Collegium Musicum 90 THU Richard Hickox THU CHANDOS THU 00:25 THU Ludwig van Beethoven THU Fidelio (Leonore) - opera Op.72 final vers. [1814] in 2 THU acts THU Decca THU 00:30 THU Ludwig van Beethoven THU Fidelio (Leonore) - opera Op.72 final vers. [1814] in 2 THU acts THU Singer: THU Nina Stemme THU Singer: THU Jonas Kaufmann THU Singer: THU Falk Struckmann THU Singer: THU Christof Fischesser THU Mahler Chamber Orchestra THU Lucerne Festival Orchestra. THU Claudio Abbado THU Decca THU 00:45 THU Ludwig van Beethoven THU Sonata no. 27 in E minor Op.90 for piano THU Charles Rosen THU SONY THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 DECEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 06:30 Breakfast b03lzc30 (Listen) FRI Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's Breakfast, featuring FRI the Musical Map of Britain and listener requests. FRI Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music FRI requests or Musical Map suggestions. FRI FRI Music Played FRI 00:00 FRI Sir Edward Elgar FRI Salut d'amour (Op.12) vers. for orchestra FRI Gil Shaham FRI Orpheus Chamber Orchestra FRI Naoko Tanaka FRI Deutsche Grammophon FRI 00:03 FRI Vincenzo Bellini FRI Concerto for oboe and string orchestra in E flat major FRI Nicholas Daniel FRI Peterborough String Orchestra. FRI Helios FRI 00:11 FRI Claude Debussy FRI La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches for orchestra, no.1; De l'aube FRI a midi sur la mer FRI Claudio Abbado FRI Lucerne Festival Orchestra. FRI Deutsche Grammophon FRI 00:20 FRI Johann Sebastian Bach FRI Prelude and fugue for organ (BWV.541) in G major, Prelude FRI Christopher Herrick FRI Hyperion FRI 00:24 FRI Jean Sibelius FRI Karelia - suite (Op.11), Intermezzo FRI Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky FRI London Symphony Orchestra FRI Castle FRI 00:28 FRI Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart FRI Kontretanz KV 603 Nr 1 FRI Ensemble: FRI Concentus Musicus Wien FRI Nikolaus Harnoncourt FRI Sony FRI 00:34 FRI Felix Mendelssohn FRI (Mendelssohn) [7] Songs (S.547)..., no.1; Auf Flugeln des FRI Gesanges (Op.34`2) FRI Antonín Kubálek FRI Music Arranger: FRI Franz Liszt FRI Dorian FRI 00:39 FRI Erich Wolfgang Korngold FRI Much ado about nothing - incidental music (Op.11), Overture FRI John Storgårds FRI Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. FRI Ondine FRI 00:44 FRI Ralph Vaughan Williams FRI Hodie: Christmas cantata: XV – Choral FRI Choir: FRI BBC Singers FRI BBC Radio 3 Recording FRI 00:48 FRI Franz Schubert FRI 6 Deutsche [German dances] for piano (D.820) [complete] FRI Mitsuko Uchida. FRI Philips FRI 00:58 FRI Georg Philipp Telemann FRI Concerto for violin in C major [Overture from 'Der geduldige FRI Sokrates'] FRI Julia Schröder FRI Kammerorchester Basel FRI Deutsche Harmonia Mundi FRI 01:05 FRI Jean Sibelius FRI Valse triste FRI Paavo Berglund FRI Philharmonia. FRI EMI FRI 01:11 FRI Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov FRI Caucasian Sketches (Op.10)no. 4 Procession of the Sardar FRI David Zinman FRI Baltimore Symphony Orchestra FRI Telarc FRI 01:15 FRI Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart FRI Symphony no. 36 (K.425) in C major "Linz", 4th movement; FRI Presto FRI Scottish Chamber Orchestra FRI Sir Charles Mackerras FRI Linn FRI 01:24 FRI Tommy Connor FRI Lili Marlene FRI Composer: FRI Hans Leip FRI Composer: FRI Norbert Schultze FRI Marlene Dietrich FRI Rhino FRI 01:35 FRI Dmitri Shostakovich FRI The Gadfly - suite from the film music (Op.97a), no.8; FRI Romance FRI Chloë Hanslip FRI London Symphony Orchestra FRI Paul Mann. FRI Warner Classics FRI 01:44 FRI Antonio Vivaldi FRI Concerto in D major RV.214, Op.7`12 for violin and FRI orchestra: 3rd mvt FRI Ensemble: FRI Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet FRI Decca FRI 01:47 FRI Sir William Walton FRI Granada - prelude for orchestra FRI London Philharmonic Orchestra FRI Bryden Thomson FRI Chandos FRI 01:54 FRI Eric Whitacre FRI Lux aurumque for a capella choir FRI Choir: FRI Elora Festival Singers FRI Noel Edison FRI Naxos FRI 01:59 FRI [traditional] FRI Rosa negra no meu pietro (Black rose in my heart) arr. FRI Pluhar FRI Choir: FRI L'Arpeggiata FRI Music Arranger: FRI Christina Pluhar FRI Singer: Misia. Director: FRI Christina Pluhar FRI Virgin Classics FRI 02:02 FRI Ludwig van Beethoven FRI Sextet for 2 horns and string quartet (Op.81b) in E flat FRI maj, 1st mvt; Allegro.. FRI Ensemble: FRI Signum Quartet FRI Nury Guarnaschelli. Peter Erdei. FRI Capriccio FRI 02:06 FRI Gabriel Fauré FRI Fantaisie for flute and orchestra (Op.79) orch. Albert FRI Edward Beckett FRI The London Festival Orchestra FRI Ross Pople FRI Black Box FRI 02:10 FRI Johann Sebastian Bach FRI Concerto for keyboard & string orch no.5 (BWV.1056) in F FRI min, 3rd mvt; Presto FRI András Schiff FRI Ensemble: FRI The Chamber Orchestra of Europe FRI Decca FRI 02:15 FRI Franz Schubert FRI Quartet for strings (D.810) in D min "Death and the maiden", FRI 4th mvt; Presto FRI Ensemble: FRI Hagen Quartett FRI Deutsche Grammophon FRI FRI 09:00 Essential Classics b03lzccn (Listen) FRI Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and FRI comedian, Sandi Toksvig. FRI 9am FRI A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the FRI Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from FRI the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We FRI also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30. FRI FRI 10am FRI Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski. FRI FRI 10.30am FRI Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, FRI Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 FRI listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the FRI travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things FRI You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My FRI Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows FRI including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. FRI She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for FRI more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week FRI in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas FRI and Queues, was published earlier this year. FRI FRI 11am FRI Rob's Essential Choice: FRI Bach FRI Christmas Oratorio; Part 3 (For the 3rd Day of Christmas) FRI Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Evangelist - tenor) FRI Nancy Argenta (soprano) FRI Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano) FRI Olaf Bär (bass) FRI The Monteverdi Choir FRI The English Baroque Soloists FRI John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) FRI ARCHIV 469 769-2. FRI FRI Music Played FRI 00:01 FRI Ludwig van Beethoven FRI 11 Bagatelles for piano, Op. 119: No. 7 in C FRI Ronald Brautigam FRI BIS FRI 00:02 FRI Camille Saint-Saëns FRI Morceau de concert FRI Ulf Hoelscher FRI Philharmonia Orchestra FRI Pierre Dervaux. FRI EMI FRI 00:13 FRI Benjamin Britten FRI A Boy Was Born: "Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour" FRI Choir: FRI Gabrieli Consort FRI Choir: Trebles of Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir. Singer: FRI Nicholas Algot Swensen. FRI Paul McCreesh FRI Signum FRI 00:17 FRI César Franck FRI Redemption (morceau symphonique) FRI Orchestre de Paris FRI Daniel Barenboim FRI DG FRI 00:32 FRI anon FRI Only Connect FRI anon. FRI 00:35 FRI Antonio Vivaldi FRI Concerto in F for viola d'amour, 2 horns, 2 oboes, bassoon & FRI b.c., RV 97 FRI Ensemble: FRI Ricercar Consort FRI Ensemble: La Pastorella. FRI Ricercar FRI 00:49 FRI Olivier Messiaen FRI Theme and Variations for violin and piano FRI Gidon Kremer FRI Martha Argerich FRI DG FRI 00:58 FRI Hector Berlioz FRI L'Enfance du Christ: The Shepherds' Farewell to the Holy FRI Family FRI Choir: Tenebrae. FRI London Symphony Orchestra FRI Colin Davis. FRI LSO Live FRI 01:04 FRI Schubert FRI Symphony No. 3 in D, D.200 FRI Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. FRI Marc Minkowski FRI Naive FRI 01:25 FRI Dandrieu FRI A minuit fut un reveil FRI Ensemble Faux Bourdon. FRI RICERCAR FRI 01:34 FRI Leonard Bernstein FRI West Side Story: Mambo FRI Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de la Juventud Venezolana Simón FRI Bolívar FRI Gustavo Dudamel FRI DG FRI 01:42 FRI Ethel Smyth FRI Mass in D: Benedictus FRI Singer: FRI Eiddwen Harrhy FRI Choir: Plymouth Festival Chorus. Plymouth Festival FRI Orchestra. FRI Philip Brunelle FRI Virgin FRI 01:49 FRI Claude Debussy FRI Fetes FRI The Philadelphia Orchestra FRI Leopold Stokowski FRI Andante FRI 01:58 FRI Dandrieu FRI Ou s'en vont ces gais bergers? FRI Ensemble Faux Bourdon. FRI RICERCAR FRI 02:00 FRI Johann Sebastian Bach FRI Christmas Oratorio: Part 3 (For the Third Day of Christmas) FRI Singer: FRI Nancy Argenta FRI Singer: FRI Anne Sofie von Otter FRI Singer: FRI Olaf Bär FRI Choir: FRI Monteverdi Choir FRI English Baroque Soloists FRI John Eliot Gardiner FRI Archiv FRI 02:23 FRI Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart FRI Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K.595 FRI Wilhelm Kempff FRI Berlin Philharmonic. FRI Ferdinand Leitner FRI DG FRI 02:57 FRI Mendelssohn (arr. Maisky) FRI On Wings of Song, op.34 no.2 FRI Mischa Maisky (cello). Sergio Tiempo (piano. FRI DG FRI FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week b03lzd2k (Listen) FRI Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Three Late Masterpieces FRI FRI In today's programme, Donald Macleod unpicks the overlapping FRI origins of three late Beethoven masterpieces: the Missa FRI Solemnis, the Diabelli Variations and the 9th Symphony. FRI FRI If Bonn had had a child protection unit in the 1770s, its FRI officers would doubtless have been frequent callers at 24 FRI Rheingasse, the Beethoven family home. A neighbour might FRI have heard little Ludwig calling out from the cellar where FRI he had been locked up by his drunkard father Johann, or FRI witnessed one of the regular beatings Johann administered to FRI 'encourage' his son to practice the piano. Yet from this FRI abusive background, Ludwig van Beethoven emerged as the FRI greatest musician of his age ? the composer who absorbed the FRI Classical legacy of Haydn and Mozart, then utterly FRI transformed it. This week, Donald Macleod charts the course FRI of this transformation in a series of five snapshots of FRI Beethoven's life and work, from his first attempts at FRI composition to the extraordinary productions of his final FRI years. FRI FRI Today's programme picks up the trail in the early months of FRI 1819, with Beethoven planning to write a High Mass for the FRI installation of his patron and pupil, Archduke Rudolph, as FRI Archbishop of Olmütz the following March. In the event, the FRI scale of the work grew so far beyond his original conception FRI that Beethoven overshot his self-imposed deadline by three FRI years. Meanwhile, another commission had come along. The FRI publisher, Anton Diabelli, wanted to bring out a patriotic FRI collection of piano variations on a light-hearted waltz of FRI his own composition, to be contributed by the 50 most FRI celebrated composers and virtuosi of the Austrian empire. FRI Each composer was to provide a single variation, Beethoven FRI included. Something about the project evidently fascinated FRI him because, instead of one variation, he ultimately came up FRI with 33 ? his largest and many would say greatest piano FRI work. So he broke off work on the mass to write the first FRI two-thirds of the Diabellis. He then set those aside for FRI another new commission, to compose three more piano sonatas; FRI they would be his last. Only then, in 1822, did he return to FRI the mass, when he also started work on the 9th Symphony. FRI That too was set aside while he completed the Diabelli FRI Variations, after which he polished off the 9th. Confused? FRI You won't be after today's show. FRI FRI Music Played FRI 00:00 FRI Sir Michael Tippett FRI Symphony no. 3 for soprano and orchestra FRI Colin Davis. London S O Ensemble. Singer: FRI Heather Harper FRI DECCA FRI 00:03 FRI Ludwig van Beethoven FRI Mass in D major Op.123 (Missa solemnis) FRI Singer: FRI Charlotte Margiono FRI Singer: FRI Catherine Robbin FRI Singer: FRI William Kendall FRI Singer: FRI Alastair Miles FRI Choir: FRI Monteverdi Choir FRI John Eliot Gardiner FRI ARCHIV FRI 00:16 FRI Ludwig van Beethoven FRI 33 Variations on a waltz by Diabelli in C major Op.120 for FRI piano FRI András Schiff FRI ECM FRI 00:33 FRI Ludwig van Beethoven FRI Symphony no. 9 in D minor Op.125 (Choral) FRI Decca FRI
17 January, 2014
Breakfast, EC and CotW for 21/12/2013 - 27/12/2013
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