A few BBC Radio 3 broadcasts to listen out for this month including ‘The Imagined Forest’ performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Mark Wigglesworth, ‘Tenebrae Factae Sunt’ sung by the BBC Singers under Will Dawes, and ‘Whirl Up, Sea—‘ for solo cello performed by Theo Bently Curtin.
The Imagined Forest
Tuesday 13th December 2022, 7:30pm
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra present 'Fantastic Fairytales,' with music by Ravel, Mahler, Mason, and Humperdinck.
The orchestra's programme opens with Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, fairy-tale miniatures evoking a delicate, magical world. Then the Great British mezzo Dame Sarah Connolly joins them for five of Mahler's settings of poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn) - tales of love, mystery, horror, magic and humour, captivated Mahler. Grace-Evangeline Mason then takes us on a journey deep into the woods. And this fantastical programme ends in the Romantic world of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.
Presented by Martin Handley
Tenebrae Factae Sunt
16th December 2022, 2pm
Afternoon Concert opens with Grace-Evangeline Mason’s ‘Tenebrae factae sunt’ performed by the BBC Singers under Will Dawes, conductor.
Presented by Penny Gore
Whirl Up, Sea—
19th December 2022, 8:40am
On the launch day of the Royal Academy of Music’s 200PIECES project to celebrate their bicentennial, the project will be introduced on BBC Radio 3 including Grace-Evangeline Mason’s ‘Whirl Up, Sea—’ for solo ‘cello performed by Theo Bently Curtin.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
