Afternoon on 3 - The Consolation of Philosophy - Episode 3

Penny Gore presents music inspired by philosophy and philosophers. Monteverdi uses the death of the philosopher Seneca as the model against which to judge the Roman Emperor Nero, while Elisabeth Lutyens' remarkable setting of Ludwig Wittgenstein's masterpiece of logical philosophy contrasts with Michael Tippett's moving and uplifting oratorio A Child of Our Time. Monteverdi: Seneca's death (The Coronation of Poppea) Liberto ...... Lars Johansson Brissman (baritone) Seneca ...... Lars Arvidson (bass) Nero ...... Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano) Lucano ...... Thomas Walker (tenor) Drottningholm Court Orchestra Mark Tatlow (conductor) Lutyens: Excerpta tractatus-logico philosophici (Wittgenstein Motet) BBC Singers James Wood (conductor) 2.30pm Tippett: A Child of Our Time Jill Gomez (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto) Kenneth Woollam (tenor) John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor) 3.45pm Highlights from Radio 3's 2009 Leeds Pianothon, a celebration of amateur piano playing which took place at the Clothworkers Concert Hall at the University of Leeds. Mary Ann from Preston JS Bach: Fantasia in C minor (from Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 906) Peter Foster from Weatley, Oxfordshire Messiaen: Premier Communion de la Vierge (no. 11 of Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus)