BBC Radio 3 celebrates Ten Pieces
CD Review
Saturday 27 September 9.00am-12.15pm
Building a Library in CD Review surveys The Planets by Gustav Holst. David Owen Norris considers versions of this ever popular show piece.
Breakfast
Monday 29 September – Friday 10 October 6.30-9.00am
Follow the Ten Pieces every weekday morning at 7.30. Children and musicians introduce each of them as Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show.
Afternoon on 3
Monday 29 September – Friday 10 October 2.00-4.30pm
The chance to hear each of the Ten Pieces in full – every weekday afternoon from 2.00pm.
Highlights include the BBC Philharmonic with Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, the Ulster Orchestra with Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Mussorgsky’s Night on Bare Mountain, and Holst’s Planets Suite.
In Tune
Monday 29 September – Friday 10 October 4.30-6.30pm
Ten Facts: Ten Pieces. A free download every weekday.
Every weekday at 5.30 on In Tune – Radio 3’s drivetime programme, Suzy Klein presents a special series of daily features about each of the Ten Pieces – Ten Facts: Ten Pieces. Each short feature which is available as a free download gives parents and grandparents an entertaining and accessible guide to share with their children about each of the works.
In Tune + Blue Peter
Thursday 9 October 4.30-6.30pm
From our Salford studios, Suzy Klein and In Tune come together with CBBC's "Blue Peter" and Barney Harwood for a first ever "live" simulcast to celebrate the BBC's Ten Pieces. Suzy is joined by the BBC Philharmonic and a hundred local children from the North West - for a performance of Handel's "Zadok the Priest". Also on the programme, violinist Jennifer Pike; plus music by Beethoven, Sibelius, Nielsen and Grieg.
Essential Classics
Tuesday 29 September – Friday 10 October 9.00am-12.00noon
Every weekday, Essential Classics recommends a piece of music with a link to one of the Ten Pieces.
30 September: Tchaikovsky: Symphony 4 in F Minor linked to Beethoven: Symphony No 5
1 October: Berlioz: The Trojans, Royal Hunt & Storm linked to Britten: Storm Interlude
2 October: Dvorak: The Water Goblin linked to Grieg: In The Hall of the Mountain King
3 October: Holst: A Fugal Overture linked to Adams: Short Ride in A Fast Machine
6 October: Monteverdi: Coronation of Poppea linked to Handel: Zadok the Priest
7 October: Sibelius: Lemminkainen’s Return linked to Holst: Mars from ’The Planets’
8 October: Schumann: Konzertstuck for 4 horns & orch. linked to Mozart: Horn Concerto No.4
9 October: Prokofiev: Scythian Suite linked to Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
10 October: Reich: Clapping Music linked to Anna Meredith: Connect It
And Ten Pieces Ambassador Cerys Matthews is the Essential Classics guest for the week beginning 6 October.
Saturday Classics
Saturdays 2.00-4.00pm
Ten Pieces Ambassadors introduce their choice of music.
Radio 3’s weekly afternoon sequence of music, Saturday Classics, gives the opportunity to hear about the musical passions of three Ten Pieces Ambassadors.
Laura Mvula - The classically trained singer/song-writer, (27 September)
Alison Balsom - Trumpet-player and former BBC Young Musician of the Year (4 October)
Catrin Finch - Harpist, composer and former National Youth Orchestra player (11 October)
When to hear Ten Piece on BBC Radio 3:
Every weekday between 29 September and 10 October, Radio 3, Breakfast, Afternoon on 3 and In Tune focus on one of the Ten Pieces:
29 September - Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (1st movement)
30 September - Britten: 'Storm' Interlude from 'Peter Grimes'
1 October - Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King from 'Peer Gynt'
2 October - John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
3 October - Handel: Zadok the Priest
6 October - Holst: Mars from 'The Planets'
7 October - Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 (3rd movement)
8 October - Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
9 October - Anna Meredith: Connect It
10 October - Stravinsky: The Firebird – suite (1911) (Finale)
