Full September Radio 3 listings and television highlights
Schedules may be subject to alteration. For up-to-date listings see Radio Times
1 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12.15pm Record Review – Building a Library
12.15-1pm New
Generation Artists
1-3pm Inside Music
3-5.30pm Proms 2018:
Proms at… Alexandra Palace. Arthur Sullivan Trial by Jury, works by Parry, Coleridge-taylor and Stanford. Neal Davies (The Learned Judge), Mary Bevan (The Plaintiff), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra/jane Glover 5.30-6.30pm Jazz
Record Requests 6.30-7.30pm J to Z 7.30-10.15pm Proms 2018: Prom 66 Dukas La Péri – Fanfare, Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, Schmidt Symphony No. 4. Yuja Wang (piano), Berlin Philharmonic/ Kirill Petrenko
10.15pm-12 midnight
Hear and Now 12 midnight-1am
Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
2 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Eugenia Cheng, mathematician 1-2pm Proms 2018: Proms Chamber Music 7 (rpt)
Chopin Waltzes in A flat and C sharp minor, Impromptu in A flat, Fantasy-impromptu in C sharp minor, Fantasies in F minor and A flat, Mazurkas, Scherzo in E. Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
2-4pm Proms 2018: Prom 67 Mahler Symphony No. 3.
Susan Graham (mezzo), CBSO Chorus & Youth Chorus, Boston So/andris Nelsons
4-5pm Choral Evensong (a recording from the archives) 5-6.45pm Proms 2018:
Prom 51 (rpt) Wagner Parsifal – Prelude to Act 1, Richard Strauss Four Last Songs, Per Nørgård Symphony No. 3. Malin Byström (soprano), London Voices, National Youth Chamber Choir, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/thomas Dausgaard 6.45-8pm Words and Music 8-10.15pm Proms 2018:
Prom 68 Richard Strauss
Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven Symphony No. 7. Berlin Philharmonic/kirill Petrenko 10.15pm-12 midnight
Early Music Late 12 midnight-12.30am
Classical Fix
3 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Chausson
1-2pm Proms 2018: Proms Chamber Music 8
Lili Boulanger Nocturne, Trois morceaux pour piano, Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp, Nina enk Baca, Ravel Introduction and Allegro. Soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic
2-5pm Proms 2018: Prom 52 (rpt) Wagner The Flying Dutchman – Overture, Rolf Wallin Violin Concerto, Sibelius Symphony No. 2. Alina Ibragimova (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/edward Gardner 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2018: Prom 69 Bernstein Serenade after Plato’s ‘Symposium’, Shostakovich Symphony
No. 4. Baiba Skride (violin), Boston So/andris Nelsons 10-11pm Proms
Poetry Competition 11pm-12.30am Jazz Now
4 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Chausson
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Proms 2018:
Prom 54 (rpt) Enescu Suite
No. 1 – Prélude à l’unisson, Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Mahler Symphony No. 4. Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Budapest Festival Orchestra/iván Fischer 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2018:
Prom 70 Tango Prom. Pablo Ziegler (piano), Héctor Del Curto (bandoneon), Claudio Ragazzi (guitar), Pedro Giraudo (double bass), Franco Pinna (drums), Britten Sinfonia/clark Rundell 10-10.45pm Literary Pursuits: Maurice (rpt)
10.45-11pm The Essay
Hanging On (rpt) 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
5 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Chausson
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Proms 2018:
Prom 64 (rpt) Verdi Requiem. Lise Davidsen (soprano),
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Dmytro Popov (tenor), Tomasz Konieczny (bass), London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir/ Andrés Orozco-estrada 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong from Armagh Cathedral 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2018:
Prom 71 Berlioz Harold in Italy, Le Corsaire – Overture, La Mort de Cléopâtre, The Trojans – ‘Royal Hunt and Storm’, ‘Dido’s death scene’. Antoine Tamestit (viola), Joyce Didonato (mezzo), Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique/john Eliot Gardiner 10-10.45pm Feature Whatcha doin’, Marshall Mccuhan? (rpt) 10.45-11pm The Essay
Hanging On (rpt)
11pm-12.30am Late Junction
6 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics