2009
BBC Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals
Radio 3 travels the length and breadth of the British Isles during the summer months seeking out the best of the festivals. From Aldeburgh to Edinburgh and from Cheltenham to Cork, we'll bring you live performances from the world's leading soloists and orchestras, as well as a wealth of new and emerging talent, including Radio 3's own New Generation Artists.
As always, there's a huge variety on offer to suit all musical tastes, from early music, to classical, to contemporary new music, world music and jazz. We also present the BBC Proms, with every Prom broadcast live on Radio 3. So sit back and enjoy the music - full broadcast details are below. Alternatively you can catch up with any of the concerts for 7 days after broadcast on the iPlayer.
Visit the Festivals' websites
Aldeburgh
Bath
Cheltenham
Clandeboye
City of London
East Neuk
Edinburgh
Freedom of the City
Glasgow Jazz Festival
Hay
Lufthansa
Mananan
Meltdown
Proms
West Cork Chamber Music
Womad
York Early Music
Radio 3 Broadcast Details
May | June | July | August | September | December
- 4 May 200923:15Cheltenham Jazz FestivalWill Vinson Quartet
Paul Dunmall
Julian Arguelles trio with John Abercrombie
Convergence Quartet
Get the Blessing - 11 May 200923:15Cheltenham Jazz FestivalThe Profound Sound Trio
Dave Douglas Quintet - 18 May 200919:00Lufthansa Festival of Baroque MusicBalthasar-Neumann-Chor
Concerto Köln
Ivor Bolton - conductor
Handel: Athalia - 18th May 200923:15Freedom of the City FestivalHighlights of the Freedom of the City Festival
- 22nd May 200919:00Lufthansa Festival of Baroque MusicSt James' Baroque
James O'Donnell - conductor
Purcell & Handel - 23rd May 200916:00Cheltenham Jazz FestivalHenry Grimes from the Cheltenham Music Festival
- 25th May 200923:15Cheltenham Jazz FestivalDave Douglas Quintet
- 28th May 200919:00Bath International Music FestivalSibongile Khumalo - mezzo
Jason Yarde - saxophones
Joanna McGregor - piano
Voices of Africa Ensemble - 30th May 200916:00Cheltenham Jazz FestivalDave Liebman from the Cheltenham Music Festival
- 31st May 200924:00Bath International Music FestivalJazz Line-Up at the Bath International Music Festival including Bojan Z and Abram Wilson
June
- 1st June 200923:15Cheltenham Jazz FestivalJulian Arguelles & John Abercrombie
- 4th June 200919:00Bath International Music FestivalNikolaj Znaider
LSO Chamber Ensemble
Brahms: Sextet no. 1 in B flat Op. 18
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht - 6th June 200913:00Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
Music for a WhileRobin Blaze - countertenor
Monica Huggett - violin
Purcell & Handel - 7th June 200913:00Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
The Oxford PsalmsCharivari Agréable
Blow, Child, Lawes, Locke, Purcell - 10th June 200919:00Bath International Music FestivalLeopold String Trio
Beethoven: String Trio in D Op. 9'2
Ysaye: String Trio 'Le Chimay'
Mozart: Divertimento in E flat K563 - 16th June 200913:00Bath International Music FestivalJerusalem Quartet
Bartok: String Quartet No. 4
Debussy: String Quartet - 17th June 200913:00Bath International Music FestivalEnsemble 360
Poulenc, Britten, Debussy, Mozart - 18th June 200913:00Bath International Music Festival
- 19th June 200913:00Bath International Music FestivalJoanna MacGregor
Kurtag, MacGregor, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky - 23rd June 200913:00Aldeburgh FestivalAndrew Tortise - tenor
Benjamin Hewlett - tenor
Allan Clayton - tenor
Jennifer Johnston - soprano
Caryl Hughes - mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau - piano
Songs by Britten - 23rd June 200919:00Aldeburgh FestivalLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
Steven Osborne - piano
Vladimir Jurowski - conductor
Gabrieli, Stravinsky, Birtwistle, Britten - 24th June 200913:00Aldeburgh FestivalMinetti Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet Op. 64 no. 4
Webern: Six Bagatelles
Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 59 no. 2 'Razumowsky' - 24th June 200919:00Aldeburgh FestivalThomas Adès - piano
Steven Isserlis - cello
Andrew Marwood - violin
Fauré: Cello Sonata no. 2
Adès: New Work (World Premiere)
Janacek: Violin Sonata
Ravel: Piano Trio - 25th June 200913:00Aldeburgh FestivalTabea Zimmermmann - Viola
Bach, Stravinsky, Zimmermann, Kurtag, Britten, Bach - 25th June 200919:00Aldeburgh FestivalBBC Symphony Orchestra
Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano
George Benjamin - conductor
Debussy, Carter, Anderson, Benjamin, Ravel - 26th June 200913:00Aldeburgh FestivalQuatuor Diotima
Nicholas Daniel - oboe
Haydn: Quartet Op. 20 no. 1
Elliott Carter: Oboe Quartet
Janacek: Quartet no. 2 'Intimate Letters' - 26th June 200919:00Aldeburgh FestivalMahler Chamber Orchestra
Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano
Susanna Mälkki - conductor
Birtwistle, Ligeti, Haydn - 29th June 200919:00Aldeburgh FestivalMahler Chamber Orchestra
Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano
Susanna Mälkki - conductor
Haydn, Stockhausen, Beethoven - 29th June 200923:15Meltdown FestivalJazz on 3 at the Meltdown Festival
- 30th June 200913:00Aldeburgh FestivalBritten-Pears Alumni
Philip Smith - baritone
Katharine Broderick - soprano
Ben Johnson - tenor
Nicky Spence - tenor
Songs by Britten
July
- 1st July 200913:00Aldeburgh FestivalArcanto Quartet
Ravel: Quartet in F
Schubert: String Quintet (with Olivier Marron - cello) - 2nd July 200913:00Aldeburgh FestivalLouis Lortie - piano
Schumann: Nachtstücke Op. 23
Holliger: Elis
Schumann: Fantasiestücke Op. 111
Carter: Night Fantasies
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit - 3rd July 200913:00Aldeburgh FestivalBritten-Pears Alumni
James Greer - tenor
Benedict Nelson - baritone
Robin Tritschler - tenor
Elizabeth Atherton - soprano
Malcolm Martineau - piano
Songs by Britten - 5th July 200923:30Glasgow Jazz FestivalBBC Big Band at the Glasgow Jazz Festival
- 7th July 200913:00City of London FestivalDaniela Lehner - mezzo soprano
Jose Luis Gayo - piano
Songs by Schumann, Grieg, Rachmaninov, Jensen and others - 8th July 200913:00City of London FestivalJennifer Pike - violin
Martin Roscoe - piano
Grieg: Violin Sonata no. 2 in G major, Op. 13
MacMillan: After the Tryst
Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 8 in G major, Op. 30 no. 3 - 9th July 200913:00City of London FestivalAndreas Brantelid - cello
Katrine Gislinge - piano
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro
Stefan Lindgren: Scherzo (UK Premiere)
Chopin: Sonata - 10th July 200913:00City of London FestivalPavel Haas Quartet
Prokofiev: Duo for 2 violins
Haydn: String Quartet Op. 42
Prokofiev: String Quartet no. 2 in F, Op. 92 - 11th July 200922:30Aldeburgh FestivalBirmingham Contemporary Music Group
Quatour Diotima
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
London Sinfonietta
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
Knussen, Carter, Birtwistle - 12th July 200913:00York Early Music Festival
Live EditionThe Clerk's Group
Members of Risonaza
Baroque Fever
Savadi
Minster Minstrels - 12th July 200917:00Aldeburgh Festival
Discovering Music - BirtwistleLondon Sinfonietta
Elgar Howarth - conductor
Birtwistle: Cortège (Ritual Fragment)
Birtwistle: Secret Theatre - 13th July 200919:00Cheltenham Music FestivalOrchestra Europa
Scott Ellaway - conductor
Nicola Benedetti - violin
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Schubert: Symphony no. 9 - 14th July 200913:00City of London FestivalTai Murray - violin
Gilles Vonsattal - piano
Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano in B flat KV378
Ysaÿe: Sonata for Solo Violin in D minor, Op. 27 no. 3
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata no. 1 in f minor, Op. 82 - 15th July 200913:00City of London FestivalJennifer Pike - violin
Andreas Brantelid - cello
Shai Wosner - piano
Tchaikovsky: Trio in A minor, Op. 50 'In Memory of a Great Artist' - 16th July 200913:00City of London FestivalShai Wosner - piano
Schubert: German Dances D820
Davies: Three Sanday Places (World Premiere)
Schubert: Sonata in D D850 - 17th July 200913:00City of London Festival
- 19th July 200913:00York Early Music FestivalEarly Music Young Composer's Award
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips
Works by John Taverner plus the winner in the NCEM Young Composer's Awards - 21st July 200913:00City of London FestivalMaxim Rysanov - viola
Evgeny Samoyloff - piano
Bach: Suite no. 1
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet fragments
Shostakovich: Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 147 - 22nd July 200913:00City of London FestivalSophie Bevan - soprano
Allan Clayton - tenor
Giuliano Sommerhalder - trumpet
Mahan Esfahani - harpsichord/organ
Arias and songs by Purcell, Handel and Alasdair Nicolson - 23rd July 200913:00City of London FestivalMeta4 - string quartet
Kuusisto: Play III
Saariaho: Terra Memoria
Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 'Voces Intimae' - 24th July 200913:00City of London FestivalTom Arthurs - jazz trumpet
Richard Fairhurst - piano
Tom Arthurs: Postcard from Pushkin (World Premiere, BBC Commission) - 24th July 200923:15WomadHighlights from Womad 2009
- 25th July 200913:00York Early Music FestivalLa Risonanza
Emanuela Galli - soprano
Fabio Bonizzoni - director
Stradella, Marchitelli, Porpora, Handel - 25th July 200915:00WomadHighlights from Womad 2009
- 25th July 200922:30WomadHighlights from Womad 2009
- 26th July 200923:00WomadHighlights from Womad 2009
- 28th July 200913:00East Neuk FestivalDoric String Quartet
Maximiliano Martin - clarinet
Haydn: String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 50 no. 1
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major K581 - 29th July 200913:00East Neuk FestivalLeopold String Trio
Martinu: Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola (1947)
Beethoven: String Trio in E flat major, Op. 3 - 30th July 200913:00East Neuk FestivalLeipzig String Quartet
Mendelssohn: String Quartet, Op. 44 no. 2
Schumann: String Quartet, Op. 41 no. 3 - 31st July 200913:00East Neuk FestivalChristian Zacharias and Stefan Loges
Schubert: Selected songs from Schwanengesang
Schubert: Sonata in A D959
August
- 4th August 200913:00Hay FestivalSir Thomas Allen - baritone
Gary Matthewman - piano
Songs by Haydn, Beethoven, Ives, Barber and Copland - 5th August 200913:00Hay FestivalBoris Giltburg - piano
Bach-Busoni: Chaconne
Grieg: Sonata, Op. 7
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata no. 2, Op. 36 (1931 version) - 6th August 200913:00Hay FestivalTai Murray - violin
Gilles Vonsattel - piano
Stravinsky: Divertimento
Dvorak: Sonata in F, Op. 57
Suk: Four Pieces, Op. 17 - 7th August 200913:00Hay Festival
- 11th August 200913:00Mananan International FestivalRaphael Wallfisch - cello
Stephen Coombs - piano
Bloch: From Jewish Life - three sketches for cello and piano
Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes for cello and piano
Franck: Sonata for cello and piano (trans. from Violin Sonata) - 12th August 200913:00Mananan International FestivalGillian Webster - soprano
Doric String Quartet
Puccini: Crisantemi
Respighi: Il Tramonto for voice and string quartet
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 - 13th August 200913:00Mananan International FestivalGillian Webster - soprano
Michael Collins - clarinet
Julius Drake - piano
Poulenc: Fiancailles pour rire
Howells: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Schubert: The Shepherd on the Rock D965 - 14th August 200913:00Mananan International FestivalMarkus Werba - baritone
Julius Drake - piano
Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge
Schumann: Dichterliebe - 16th August 200917:00Mananan International Festival
Discovering Music - Peter WarlockMichael Slattery - tenor
Adam Walker - flute
Daniel Bates - cor anglais
Stephen Coombs - piano
Doric String Quartet
Warlock: The Curlew and other works - 18th August 200913:00West Cork Chamber Music FestivalCallino Quartet
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in C major, Op. 9/1
Beethoven: String Quartet no. 13 in B flat, Op. 130 - 19th August 200913:00West Cork Chamber Music FestivalDanel Quartet
Storioni Quartet
Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 7 in F sharp minor, Op. 108
Haydn: Piano Trio in G major Hob. XV: 25 'Gypsy Rondo'
Mozart: Serenade in E flat, K375 - 20th August 200913:00West Cork Chamber Music FestivalHagai Shaham - violin
Jennifer Stumm - viola
Anne Gastinel - cello
Jeremy Menuhin - piano
David Geringas - cello
Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Janacek: Pohadka
Fauré: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15 - 21st August 200913:00West Cork Chamber Music FestivalAlina Ibragimova - violin
Alexander Melnikov - piano
JS Bach: Violin Concerto in E major BWV1042
plus Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues - 25th August 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalAlexei Ogrintchouk - oboe
Boris Brovstyn - violin
Maxim Rysanov - viola
Boris Andrianov - cello
Britten: Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings
Mozart: Duo in B flat K424
Haydn: String Quartet in B flat Hob.II
Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F K370 - 26th August 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalLisa Milne - soprano
Malcolm Martineau - piano
Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Scott and Bennett - 27th August 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalBejun Mehta - countertenor
Julius Drake - piano
Songs by Purcell, Haydn, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Howells and Berkeley - 28th August 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalHebrides Ensemble
Christopher Maltman - baritone
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Berg: Adagio from Chamber Concerto
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Schoenberg arr. Webern: Chamber Symphony no. 1, Op. 9
Strauss II: Rosen aus dem Süden, Op. 388
September
- 1st September 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalBryn Terfel - bass/baritone
Malcolm Martineau - piano
Songs by Ireland, Warlock, Keel, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Handel, Mozart, Schubert and Fauré - 2nd September 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalElisabeth Leonskaja - piano
Chopin: Selected works for piano - 3rd September 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalChristoph Prégardien - tenor
Andreas Staier - piano
Songs by Chopin, Schubert, Burgmüller and Schumann - 4th September 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalScottish Ensemble
Tenebrae
Ravel: Petite Symphonie à Cordes
MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross - 8th September 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalRicercar Consort
Bach: Komm, du Süsse Todesstunde BWV161
Bach: gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV106 - 9th September 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalBernarda Fink - mezzo-soprano
Anthony Spiri - piano
Songs by Schubert and Dvorak - 10th September 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalChristian Zacharias - piano
Haydn: Sonata in F Major Hob.XVI/29
Scarlatti: Selected Keyboard Sonatas
Haydn: Sonata in B minor Hob.XVI/32
Brahms: 4 Ballades, Op. 10
Haydn: Sonata in D major Hob.XVI/24 - 11th September 200913:00Edinburgh International FestivalEmerson String Quartet
Mendelssohn: String Quartet no. 1 in E flat, Op. 12
Beethoven: String Quartet in E flat, Op. 74
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 - 14th September 200919:00Edinburgh International FestivalRosemary Joshua - soprano
Sarah Connolly - mezzo-soprano
Reno Troilus - counter-tenor
William Burden - tenor
Neal Davies - bass
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
William Christie - conductor
Handel: Judas Maccabaeus - 15th September 200919:00Edinburgh International FestivalLe Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall - conductor
Handel: Water Music Suites 1 & 2
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Marais: Alcione (excerpts) - 16th September 200919:00Edinburgh International FestivalEuropean Union Baroque Orchestra
Chiara Banchini - violin/director
Corelli, Muffat, Geminiani, Handel - 17th September 200919:00Edinburgh International FestivalMonteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner - conductor
Bach: Cantatas
Handel: Exodus (from Israel in Egypt) - 20th September 200917:00Cheltenham Music Festival
Discovering Music - SchnittkeAronowitz Ensemble
Schnittke: Piano Quintet
Schnittke: Piano Quartet
Mahler: Piano Quartet (completed Schnittke) - 21st September 200919:00Edinburgh International FestivalDeutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Christian Tetzlaff - violin
Ingo Metzmacher - conductor
Webern: Passacaglia
Berg: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony no. 4 - 22nd September 200913:00Clandeboye FestivalMichel Lethiec - clarinet
Richard Watkins - horn
Graf Mourja - violin
Michael D'Arcy - violin
Paul Neubauer - viola
Andres Diaz - cello
Barry Douglas - piano
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from 'The Seasons'
Kahn: Trio Serenade in F minor
Rachmaninov: Vocalise for violin and piano
Borodin: String Quartet no. 2 in D - 23rd September 200913:00Clandeboye FestivalRichard Watkins - horn
Graf Mourja - violin
Andres Diaz - cello
Barry Douglas - piano
Strauss: Adagio for horn and piano
Tchaikovsky: Trio for violin, cello and piano - 24th September 200913:00Clandeboye FestivalMichael D'Arcy - violin
Paul Neubauer - viola
Andres Diaz - cello
Barry Douglas - piano
Schumann: Sonata no. 1 in F sharp minor
Mendelssohn: Quintet for Strings no. 2 in B flat major, Op. 87 - 25th September 200913:00Clandeboye FestivalMichel Lethiec - clarinet
Paul Neubauer - viola
Andres Diaz - cello
Barry Douglas - piano
Tchaikovsky: Pezzo Capriccioso for cello and piano, Op. 62
Schumann: Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, viola and piano
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - 27th September 200913:00York Early Music Festival
Black DeathAlla Francesca
December
- 15-18 and 22-25 December 200913:00Cheltenham Music Festival
8 lunchtime broadcastsFeaturing mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, pianist Angela Hewitt, The Nash Ensemble, Haydn Trio Eisenstadt and a range of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
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