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1 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Schubert
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong live from the Chapel of
Merton College, Oxford 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Barbican, London.
Elgar Violin Concerto, Sibelius Symphony No. 4. Nikolaj Szeps-znaider (violin), London Symphony Orchestra/mark Elder 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Paul Robeson in Five Songs 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
2 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Schubert
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. Beethoven Egmont Overture, Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2, Caroline Shaw Entr’acte for strings, Sibelius Symphony No. 5. Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/ Joshua Weilerstein
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Paul Robeson in Five Songs 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am
Unclassified with
Elizabeth Alker
3 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Schubert
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from the Barbican, London. Rossini Overture: William Tell, Victoria Borisova-ollas Violin Concerto ‘A Portrait of a Lady by the Swan Lake’ (UK premiere), Shostakovich Symphony No. 15. Baiba
Skride (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra/sakari Oramo 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay
Paul Robeson in Five Songs 11pm-1am Late Junction
4 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life Andrew Yee (cellist in the Attacca Quartet)
1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Gaming with composer Jessica Curry 4-5pm Music Planet 5-6.30pm J to Z
6.30-10pm Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice. Hei-kyung Hong (Euridice), Hera Hyesang Park (Amore), Jamie Barton (Orfeo), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/mark Wigglesworth 10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
5 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private
Passions 25th anniversary programme. Jools Holland (pianist, bandleader)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5.30pm EBU Day of Holy Week Music Auckland 5.30-6.30pm EBU Day of Holy Week Music Munich 6.30-7.30pm EBU Day of Holy Week Music Prague 7.30-9.30pm EBU Day of Holy Week Music Denmark 9.30-11pm EBU Day of Holy Week Music Latvia
11pm-12 midnight
String Theories 12 midnight-12.30am
Classical Fix
6 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Beethoven
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Enescu Cantabile et presto, Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (arr. Emily Beynon), Mucha Na e cesta, Fauré Fantaisie Op. 79, Martin˚u Flute Sonata. Emily Beynon (flute), Andrew West (piano)
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from City Halls, Glasgow. Villalobos Danças dos mosquitos, Enrico Chapela Antiphaser (Concerto for electric violin and orchestra; world premiere), Lisa Robertson Seabird Cities, Nielsen Symphony No. 6 ‘Sinfonia semplice’. Pekka Kuusisto (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/
Thomas Dausgaard 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
The Odd Woman 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
7 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Beethoven
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Royal Festival Hall, London. The Undiscovered Beethoven. Beethoven Overture: King Stephen, Grosse Fuge
for String Orchestra, Ah Perfido!, Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II. Lise Davidsen (soprano), Angharad Lyddon (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Foster-williams (bass-baritone), London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Vladimir Jurowski
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
The Odd Woman 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
8 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Beethoven
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong A recording from the archives 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
The Odd Woman 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
9 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Beethoven
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
The Odd Woman
11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am
Unclassified Live with
Elizabeth Alker
10 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Beethoven
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert CHOICE 2-5.15pm Afternoon Concert live from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Bach St Matthew Passion. Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Anthony Gregory (tenor), Gwilym
Bowen (tenor), James Newby (baritone), David Shipley
(bass), BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/john Butt
5.15-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert live from King’s
College, Cambridge. Dvoˇrák Stabat Mater. Philippa
Boyle (soprano), Catherine Wyn-rogers (mezzo-soprano), Jamez Mccorkle (tenor), Henry Waddington (bass-baritone), Philharmonia Chorus, BBC
Concert Orchestra/daniel Hyde 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay
The Odd Woman
11pm-1am Late Junction
11 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical
Life Anne Mcaneney (trumpeter in the London Philharmonic Orchestra) 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Gaming with composer Jessica Curry 4-5pm Music Planet 5-6.30pm J to Z
6.30-10pm Opera on 3 from the Leeds Grand Theatre.
Weill Street Scene. Giselle Allen (Anna Maurrant), Robert Hayward (Frank Maurrant), Gillene Butterfield (Rose Maurrant), Alex Banfield (Sam
Kaplan), Miranda Bevin (Greta Fiorentino), Christopher Turner (Lippo Fiorentino), Claire Pascoe (Emma Jones), Richard Mosley-evans (George Jones), Michelle Andrews (Mae Jones), Rodney Vubya (Dick Mcgann), Amy J Payne (Olga Olsen), John Savournin (Carl Olsen), Byron Jackson (Henry Davis), Quirijn de Lang (Harry Easter), Stuart Laing (Daniel Buchanan), Dean Robinson (Abraham Kaplan), Laura Kelly-mcinroy (Jennie Hildebrand), The Orchestra of Opera North/james Holmes 10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
12 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private
Passions Chris Watson (musician, sound recordist) 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt)