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Programme information

Saturday 23rd November to Friday 29th November 2019

WEEK 48

Nicola Benedetti | photo credit: Andy Gotts

THE FULL WORKS CONCERT – FEMALE TRAILBLAZERS

Thursday 28th November, 8pm to 10pm

To celebrate the centenary of the first female Member of Parliament, Jane Jones

presents an evening of female trailblazers: the composers, musicians and conductors who have paved the way for others.

Violinist Nicola Benedetti (above), who recently launched a foundation to promote

music teaching, plays Saint-Saëns’ Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, before we hear part of Debbie Wiseman’s score for Wolf Hall. The legendary pianist Martha Argerich is

the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.20, and trumpeter Alison Balsom and conductor Marin Alsop also take to the stage.

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WEEK 48 SATURDAY 23rd NOVEMBER 3pm to 5pm: MOIRA STUART’S HALL OF FAME CONCERT This afternoon’s concert begins with Vaughan Williams’ 5 Variants of ‘Dives & Lazarus’, which was first performed in the UK eighty years ago this month. Moira also includes another great British favourite: Parry’s Jerusalem. Other highlights include Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, Hans Zimmer’s score for Gladiator and the legendary Vladimir Ashkenazy at the keyboard for the Piano Concerto No.2 by Brahms. Ralph Vaughan Williams 5 Variants of ‘Dives & Lazarus’ Mark Elder conducts the Hallé Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581 Andrew Marriner directs the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble from the clarinet Hans Zimmer Gladiator – Earth Gavin Greenaway conducts the Lyndhurst Orchestra Hubert Parry Jerusalem Carl Davis conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Brighton Festival Chorus Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major Opus 83 Piano: Vladimir Ashkenazy Bernard Haitink conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 5pm to 7pm: SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES with ANDREW COLLINS Andrew continues his month-long celebration of the legends of cinema and tonight, he shines the spotlight on the people responsible for writing the music that underscores the films we love: the composers. John Williams, who has written some of the most recognisable and critically acclaimed scores in cinematic history, begins this evening’s programme. Andrew plays music from favourites including Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List and Star Wars. One of John Barry’s eleven James Bond scores features, as well as his Academy Award-winning soundtrack to Dances with Wolves. We’ll also hear scores by the legends of the Golden Age of Hollywood, including Korngold’s musical depiction of The Adventures of Robin Hood.

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SATURDAY 23RD NOVEMBER 7pm to 9pm: COWAN’S CLASSICS with ROB COWAN Rob treats listeners to a star-studded performance of Beethoven’s Piano Trio No.3 featuring violinist Pinchas Zukerman, cellist Jacqueline du Pré and her then pianist husband Daniel Barenboim. One of Ravel’s charming piano works is also included, colourfully orchestrated by Percy Grainger and brought to life by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle. We then hear Ravel’s own arrangement of a work by another composer: Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. 9pm to 10pm: HIGH SCORE with EÍMEAR NOONE (3 / 6) So many favourite video games are set in futuristic worlds and foreign planets – but what about games that turn back time, and journey into the past?

Tonight on High Score, Eímear Noone features music from video games set in the Wild West, courtesy of Red Dead Redemption and an instalment of the Total War series based in Napoleonic Europe.

There are excerpts from games inspired by both World Wars, such as Battlefield I, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, The Saboteur and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. We also transport ourselves to ancient Norway and other medieval lands to feature music from God of War and Mount & Blade, as well as a game set in the golden age of piracy: Assassin’s Creed IV.

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SUNDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 3pm to 5pm: CHARLOTTE HAWKINS Charlotte’s Young Classical Star is the Belgian clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe. Van Wauwe began playing the clarinet at the age of eight and went on to study at top institutions in Berlin, Paris and Rome. She has since won numerous international competitions and performed with some of the world’s leading orchestras. In 2018, Van Wauwe co-founded the Brussels chamber music ensemble Carousel and in the same year, she signed to the Dutch record label Pentatone. This afternoon, Charlotte features her recording of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata No.1, from her 2019 album Belle Épogue. 7pm to 9pm: DAVID MELLOR As temperatures plummet and woolly jumpers become a daily essential, join David for a programme of suitably frosty music. Highlights include ‘Winter’ from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons performed by the early music specialists Red Priest, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.1 – nicknamed ‘Winter Dreams’ – courtesy of Mariss Jansons and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. 9pm to 10pm: EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC with CATHERINE BOTT Catherine Bott dedicates tonight’s programme to the try-harders: those that didn't give up, had false starts, or suffered a whole host of setbacks. This week marks the 75th anniversary of the passing of Florence Foster Jenkins, an amateur soprano labelled as “the world's worst opera singer”. But her story of perseverance, dedication and love for music has stayed with us, even becoming the basis of the 2016 film Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep. Along with music from that very film, Catherine sheds light on the stories of fellow musicians who, at one point or another, hit a bump in the road. The ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from Handel's Messiah, for example, helped the composer bounce back from illness. We’ll also hear Rachmaninov's Symphony No.1, the premiere of which he called “the most agonising hour of my life”; and a work by a composer who dedicated himself to music, even resorting to using a finger-stretching device to improve his piano playing.

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MONDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 8pm to 10pm: THE FULL WORKS CONCERT – DISASTROUS PREMIERES: PART 1 Jane Jones presents the first of two Full Works Concerts exploring those popular pieces of music that, perhaps surprisingly, were not at all well-received on the night of their premiere.

We begin with Rossini’s overture to The Barber of Seville, which was sabotaged at its first performance by a rival composer who brought a mob of jeering hecklers to disrupt the performance. Elgar’s Cello Concerto, meanwhile, was so under rehearsed that one reviewer wrote about its premiere: “never has so great an orchestra made so lamentable an exhibition of itself”. We’ll also hear Mahler’s Symphony No.1, which the composer continued to revise for years after it was first published.

As for J.S. Bach, he wrote his Brandenburg Concertos as part of a job application, for which he never received a response! Gioachino Rossini The Barber of Seville – Overture Antonio Pappano conducts the National Academy of St Cecilia Orchestra Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor Opus 85 Cello: Yo-Yo Ma André Previn conducts the London Symphony Orchestra Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major BWV.1047 Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Gustav Mahler Symphony No.1 in D major Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

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TUESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 7pm to 10pm: THE FULL WORKS CONCERT – DISASTROUS PREMIERES: PART 2 To begin our second night exploring the premieres that did not quite go as planned, Jane Jones opens with Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture, which was disrupted by a group of high-society ballet fans. The premiere of Haydn’s Symphony No.96, aptly nicknamed the ‘Miracle’ symphony, narrowly avoided a catastrophe after a chandelier fell from the ceiling of the concert hall. There’s also Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3, which the composer had to perform from memory, as he had not had time to write down the entire work on paper; and an opera that the composer did not live to see become a great success. Richard Wagner Tannhäuser – Overture Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Joseph Haydn Symphony No.96 in D major (‘Miracle’) Bernard Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Maurice Ravel Bolero Paavo Järvi conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor Opus 37 Jan Lisiecki directs the Academy of St Martin in the Fields from the keyboard Georges Bizet Carmen Suite No.2 Pablo Gonzalez conducts the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

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WEDNESDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 8pm to 10pm: THE FULL WORKS CONCERT – MUSICAL NICKNAMES Jane Jones presents a concert of works known by something other than their original title.

The evening opens with Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A (‘Trout’), before a laugh along to Mozart’s ‘A Musical Joke’. The centrepiece of the evening is Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6 (‘Pathétique’) – one of the defining works of the Romantic era – before Chopin bids us ‘Adieu’ with a waltz for the piano. Franz Schubert Piano Quintet in A major D.667 (‘Trout’) Violin: Anne-Sophie Mutter Viola: Hwayoon Lee Cello: Maximillian Hornung Double-bass: Roman Patkolo Piano: Daniil Trifonov Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento for Two Horns K.22 (‘A Musical Joke’) Yuli Torovsky conducts I Musici de Montreal Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6 in B minor Opus 74 (‘Pathétique’) Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Swedish Chamber Orchestra Frederic Chopin Waltz in A-flat major Opus 69 No.1 (‘L’Adieu’) Piano: Pavel Kolesnikov

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THURSDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 8pm to 10pm: THE FULL WORKS CONCERT – FEMALE TRAILBLAZERS To celebrate the centenary of the first female Member of Parliament, Jane Jones presents an evening of female trailblazers: the composers, musicians and conductors who have paved the way for others. Violinist Nicola Benedetti, who recently launched a foundation to promote music teaching, plays Saint-Saëns’ Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, before we hear part of Debbie Wiseman’s score for Wolf Hall. The legendary pianist Martha Argerich is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.20, and trumpeter Alison Balsom and conductor Marin Alsop also take to the stage. Music by Amy Beach eases us into Smooth Classics, after a symphony by Louise Farrenc, who fought for equal pay at the Paris Conservatoire. Camille Saint-Saëns Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Opus 28 Violin: Nicola Benedetti Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Debbie Wiseman Wolf Hall – Anna Regina Debbie Wiseman conducts studio musicians Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor K.466 Piano: Martha Argerich Claudio Abbado conducts Orchestra Mozart Leonard Bernstein Divertimento for Orchestra Marin Alsop conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Manuel de Falla 7 Spanish Popular Songs (arranged for trumpet and orchestra) Trumpet: Alison Balsom Edward Gardner conducts the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Louise Farrenc Symphony No.2 in D major Opus 25 Christophe Konig conducts the European Soloists of Luxembourg Amy Beach Invocation Opus 55 Violin: Tasmin Little Piano: John Lenehan

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FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER 8pm to 10pm: THE FULL WORKS CONCERT – RECORD BREAKERS Catherine Bott ends the week on a high, with a programme celebrating musical record breakers: those who have played the most, the fastest, and the furthest. André Rieu – a violinist who has smashed records with his many albums, DVDs and live shows – begins our concert. Catherine also reveals the richest composer of all time, celebrates the most recorded orchestra, and plays the piece that is currently orbiting 13 billion miles from earth. Johann Strauss Junior Wine, Women & Song Opus 333 André Rieu leads the Johann Strauss Orchestra from the violin Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude & Fugue No.1 in C major BWV.846 Piano: Glenn Gould James Horner Titanic – An Ocean of Memories Soprano: Sissel Studio Orchestra Johannes Brahms Symphony No.4 in E minor Opus 98 Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Flight of the Bumblebee David Garrett directs a studio orchestra from the violin Max Bruch Concerto in E minor Opus 88 Viola: Nobuko Imai Clarinet: Thea King Alun Francis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra Max Richter Sleep – Space 21 Max Richter conducts the American Contemporary Music Ensemble George Gershwin Second Rhapsody for Piano & Orchestra Michael Tilson Thomas directs the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from the piano