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1 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Kaija Saariaho: Making inroads into opera
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 Barbican, London. Villa-lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Ligeti Violin Concerto, Mahler Symphony
No. 4. Camilla Tilling (soprano), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Lso/simon Rattle 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Late Junction
2 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Music Planet 5-6.30pm J to Z
6.30-10pm Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera, New
York. Janáˆcek Kát’a Kabanová. Susanna Phillips (Kát’a), Daniela Mack (Varvara),
Dolora Zajick (Kabanicha),
Pavel Cernoch (Boris), Stefan Margita (Tichon), Paul Appleby (Vanya), John Tomlinson (Dikoi), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/lothar Koenigs
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
3 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private
Passions Hannah Rankin
(boxer, bassoonist) (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature Tate Modern: Blowing up the Canon
7.30-9pm Drama on 3
9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12 midnight Slow Radio 12 midnight-12.30am
Classical Fix
4 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. Stravinsky Three Movements from The Firebird Suite (arr. Christian Lindberg/roland Pöntinen), Weber Romance, Christian Lindberg Land of the Rising Sun, Roland Pöntinen L’heure bleue, Debussy Préludes Book II: Feux d’artifice, Christian Lindberg Black Hawk Eagle. Christian Lindberg (trombone), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Dvoˇrák Hall, Prague. Gluck Don Juan: Ballet Suite, Beethoven Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 8. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/ Giovanni Antonini 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay Christian Marclay:
Tate Modern Ticking 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
5 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 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Christian Marclay:
Tate Modern Ticking 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
6 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 from Salisbury Cathedral 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape CHOICE 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from the Royal Festival
Hall, London. Playing the
Game. Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy: One Winged Angel, Libera Fatali, Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Jessica Curry Everybody’s
Gone to the Rapture: An Early Harvest, The Mourning Tree, Mozart Requiem: Agnus Dei, Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite: Trepak, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Hayes World of Warcraft Suite, Debussy
Clair de lune, Garry Schyman Bioshock: Bathysphere Ride, Mozart Requiem: Lacrimosa, Chopin Fantasisie-impromptu Op. 66, Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain, Koji Kondo Zelda Suite. Crouch End Festival Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra/ Bramwell Tovey
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Christian Marclay:
Tate Modern Ticking 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
7 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 live from Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Mahler Symphony
No. 3. Alice Coote (mezzo), Ladies of the Hallé Choir, Hallé Children’s Choir, Hallé Orchestra/mark Elder 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Christian Marclay:
Tate Modern Ticking 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified
8 FRIDAY
6.30am-2pm As Thurs 7 May 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from the City Halls, Glasgow. Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture ‘Fingal’s Cave’, Helen Grime Percussion Concerto (Scottish premiere), Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’. Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Colin Currie (percussion)/ François Leleux 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay Christian Marclay:
Tate Modern Ticking 11pm-1am Late Junction
9 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Music Planet
5-6pm J to Z
6-10pm Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Donizetti Maria Stuarda. Diana Damrau (Maria Stuarda), Jamie Barton (Elisabetta), Stephen Costello (Leicester), Andrzej Filonczyk (Cecil), Michele Pertusi (Talbot), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/ Maurizio Benini
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
10 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Andrew O’hagan (author)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong
4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-6.15pm Words and Music 6.15-7pm Sunday Feature The Women Who Painted the Peace 7-10pm BBC Young
Musician Final
10-11pm Record Review Extra 11-12pm Black Classical
11 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Byrd (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall,
London. Trad/icelandic
5 folk songs, Grainger Folk songs, Liszt Songs on Poems by Victor Hugo, Korngold Abschiedslieder Op. 14, Turina Poema en forma de canciones Op. 19. Stuart Skelton (tenor), Richard Peirson (piano)
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from Kuppelsaal, Hanover.
Ravel La valse, Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos, Milhaud Scaramouche: Brasileira, Rachmaninov Pâques from Suite No. 1 in G minor, Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar Plum
Fairy, Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier: Suite, Ravel Boléro, Johann Strauss Blue Danube Waltz, Radetzky March. Martha Argerich (piano), Shin-heae Kang (piano),
NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/andrew Manze 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
Five Faces of William Byrd 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
12 TUESDAY
6.30am-5pm As Mon 11 May 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert from Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Debussy Gigues, Ibéria, Rondes de Printemps, Varèse Arcana, Tuning Up, Amériques. CBSO/MIRGA Gra inyt˙e-tyla & Jaume Santonja Espinós
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Five Faces of William Byrd 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
13 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Byrd (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert
2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from the Lighthouse,
Poole. Elgar Cello Concerto, Holst The Planets. Steven Isserlis (cello), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/kirill Karabits 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Five Faces of William Byrd 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
14 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Byrd (rpt)
1-7.30pm As Mon 11 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Debussy Jeux, Karl Jenkins Stravaganza, Ives Central
Park in the Dark, Copland Appalachian Spring. Jess
Gillam (saxophone), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/ryan Bancroft 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Five Faces of William Byrd 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am
Unclassified
15 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Byrd (rpt)
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 The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay
Five Faces of William Byrd 11pm-1am Late Junction
16 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema
4-5pm Music Planet
5-6.30pm J to Z
CHOICE 6.30-9.50pm Opera on 3 from the Royal Opera House, London. Janáˆcek Jen˚ufa. Asmik Grigorian (Jen˚ufa), Karita Mattila (Kostelniˆcka Buryjovka), Pavel Cˇernoch ( teva Buryja), Allan Clayton (Laca Klemen), Elena Zilio (Grandmother Buryjovka), James Cleverton (Foreman), Jeremy White (Mayor), Helene Schneiderman (Mayor’s Wife), Hongni Wu (Karolka), Stephanie Wake-edwards (Herdswoman), Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (Barena), Renata Skarelyte (Tetka), Yaritza Véliz (Jana), Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/ Vladimir Jurowski
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
17 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Heather Phillipson (artist)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature Electronic India
7.30-8.45pm Drama on 3 Five Faces of William Byrd (omnibus) 8.45-11pm Record
Review Extra
11-12pm Black Classical
18 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. Haydn String Quartet in D
Op. 20 No. 4, Hindemith String Quartet No. 2. Aris Quartet 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape CHOICE 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from City Halls, Glasgow. Beethoven Roots Festival. Rouget de Lisle Hymne dithyrambique sur la conjuration de Robespierre, Beethoven Heiligenstadt Testament
(reading in English), Symphony No. 2, Gossec Marche lugubre, Beethoven Symphony No. 7.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/thomas Dausgaard 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
19 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Beethoven
1-7.30pm As Mon 20 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from City Halls, Glasgow. Beethoven Roots Festival. Eybler Symphony No. 2: II. Menuetto, Beethoven Symphony No. 4, Symphony No. 5, Méhul Symphony No. 1: III. Menuetto, IV. Allegro agitato. BBC Scottish So/thomas Dausgaard 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
20 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 First Vespers of the Ascension from Our Lady of Victories, Kensington, with Cardinal Vaughan Schola Cantorum 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from City Halls, Glasgow. Beethoven Roots Festival. Haydn Symphony No. 101 ‘The Clock’: II. Andante, Beethoven Symphony No. 8, Knecht Le portrait musicale de la nature: III. L’orage accompagne des vents, Beethoven Symphony No. 6. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/thomas Dausgaard 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
21 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 live from City Halls, Glasgow. Beethoven Roots Festival. Cherubini Hymne du
Panthéon, Méhul Le Chant du départ, Gossec La Marseillaise, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’. Camilla Tilling (soprano), Maite Beaumont (mezzo), Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Thomas E Bauer (baritone), Chorus of Scottish Opera & City of Glasgow, BBC Scottish So/thomas Dausgaard 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified
22 FRIDAY
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 The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Late Junction
23 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Gaming 4-5pm Music Planet
5-6.30pm J to Z
6.30-10pm Opera on 3 from the Vienna State Opera. Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream Lawrence Zazzo (Oberon), Erin Morley (Tytania), Théo Touvet (Puck), Peter Kellner (Theseus), Szilvia Vörös (Hippolyta),
Josh Lovell (Lysander), Rafael Fingerlos (Demetrius), Rachel Frenkel (Hermia), Valentina Naforni¸ta (Helena), Peter Rose (Bottom/zettel), Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera/ Simone Young
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
24 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Brian Greene (physicist)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature The Street Singers of
Taksim Square
7.30-9pm Drama on 3
9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12 midnight
Black Classical
25 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Pejaˇcevi´c (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Marais Troisième livre de pieces de viole: Suite in D minor, Tombeau de Mr Méliton, Sujet & Diversitez, Premier livre de pieces de viole: Suite in G. Paolo Pandolfo, Amélie Chemin (viola da gambas), Thomas Boysen (theorbo, lute, guitar), Markus
Hünniger (harpsichord)
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
26 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Pejaˇcevi´c (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-9.30pm Radio 3 in Concert from Milton
Court Concert Hall, London. Handel Coronation Anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’, Morley
I heard a voice from heaven, Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks, Coronation Anthem ‘The king shall rejoice’, Purcell Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, I was glad when they said unto me, My heart is inditing. Academy of Ancient Music,
BBC Singers/sofi Jeannin 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
27 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Pejaˇcevi´c (rpt)
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 from the Barbican, London. Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus: Overture, Piano Concerto No. 4, Pejaˇcevi´c Symphony. Paul Lewis (piano), BBC So/sakari Oramo 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
28 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Pejaˇcevi´c (rpt)
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 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am
Unclassified
29 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Pejaˇcevi´c (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Assembly Rooms,
Bath. Mozart Symphony No. 36 ‘Linz’, Ligeti Ramifications, Richard Strauss Brentano
Lieder, Morgen Op. 27,
Brahms Serenade No. 1 in D. Johanna Wallroth (soprano), Bath Festival Orchestra/peter Manning 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Late Junction
30 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Music Planet
5-10pm Opera on 3 from the Royal Opera House, London. Wagner Tristan und Isolde. Michael Weinius (Tristan), Ricarda Merbeth (Isolde),
Franz Josef Selig (King Marke), Johan Reuter (Kurwenal), Ruxandra Donose (Brangäne), Neal Cooper (Melot), Orchestra
Music to my Ears: The Podcast
BBC Music Magazine is launching a new podcast in which we interview artists, composers and leading figures from outside the classical music world about the music that has shaped their lives. Guests include saxophonist
Amy Dickson, pianist Isata Kanneh-mason, and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani.
Coming soon to Acast, Apple Music and other major podcast providers. of the Royal Opera House/ Semyon Bychkov
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
31 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Laura Cumming (art critic) 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature 7.30-9pm Drama on 3 9-11.30pm Record
Review Extra
11.30pm-12am Slow Radio