Radio & TV listings
Including complete BBC Radio 3 programme details
1 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rachmaninov
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 St George’s Church, Brighton. Brighton Early Music Festival: La Contenance Angloise. Sollazzo Ensemble 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay A Body of Essays (Series 3) 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
2 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rachmaninov
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 Hall, London. Elgar Polonia, Paderewski Piano Concerto, Szym´anski new work, Lutos¯awski Symphony No. 1. Janina Fialkowska (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Micha¯ Nesterowicz 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay A Body of Essays (Series 3) 11pm-1am Music Planet
3 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast 9am-12.15pm Record Review Building a Library
12.15-1pm Music Matters 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-6.30pm J to Z
CHOICE 6.30-9.30pm Opera on 3 from the Royal Opera House, London. Wagner Das Rheingold. John Lundgren (Wotan), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Alan Oke (Loge), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Erda), Sarah Connolly (Fricka), Lise Davidsen (Freia), Markus Eiche (Donner), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/ Antonio Pappano
9.30-10pm Between the Ears Container Ship Karaoke 10pm-12 midnight
Hear and Now 12 midnight-1am
Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
4 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Choir and Organ 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 9-10.30pm Radio 3 in Concert 10.30-11.30pm
Early Music Late
5 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Couperin
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Ysaÿe Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor ‘Georges Enescu’, Debussy La plus que lente, Tchaikovsky Valse-scherzo
Op. 34, Paganini La Campanella. – Aleksey Semenenko (violin),
Inna Firsova (piano)
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. Kelly Elegy for strings ‘In Memoriam Rupert Brooke’,
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin, Stanford Mass Via Victrix. Kiandra Howarth (soprano),
Jess Dandy (mezzo-soprano), Ruairi Bowen (tenor), Gareth Brynmor John (baritone),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/adrian Partington 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
Minds at War
11pm-12.30am Jazz Now
6 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Couperin
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 Cadogan Hall, London. Hildegard von Bingen
O viridissima virga, David Childs Salve Regina, César Alejandro Carrillo Magnificat, Mark Sirett Ce beau Printemps, Jean Absil
Le bestiaire, David Griffiths Lie Deep my Love, Helen Fisher Pounamu, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae, Samuel Barber To Be Sung on the Water, David Hamilton Ecce beatam Lucem, Eric Whitacre Lux Aurumque, David Hamilton Karakia of the Stars. Horomona Horo (taongo p¯uoro – traditional M¯aori instruments), Voices New Zealand/karen Grylls 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Minds at War
11pm-12.30am Late Junction
7 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Couperin
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong live from St Paul’s Cathedral, London, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert
from Glasgow City Halls. CPE Bach Symphony No. 2, Mozart Symphony No. 29, Piano Concerto No. 24, Rondo in A. Scottish Chamber Orchestra/ Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano) 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Minds at War
11pm-12.30am Late Junction
8 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Couperin
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 Hall, London. Macmillan All the Hills and Vales Along, Shostakovich Symphony No. 4. Ian Bostridge (tenor), National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra/gianandrea Noseda 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Minds at War
11pm-12.30am Late Junction
9 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Couperin
1-3pm Lunchtime Concert from LSO St Luke’s, London. Bax Elegiac Trio for flute, viola and harp, Butterworth Love Blows as the Wind Blows, Patrick Hadley Scene from ‘The Woodlanders’, Rebecca Clarke Piano Trio.
Lucy Crowe (soprano),
Nash Ensemble
3-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Haydn String Quartet in D, Op. 20 No. 4, Bartók String Quartet No. 4, Brahms String Quartet No. 2 in A minor. Takács Quartet 10-11pm The Verb 11pm-1am Music Planet
10 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast 9am-12.15pm Record Review Building a Library
12.15-1pm Music Matters 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-6.30pm J to Z
CHOICE 7-10pm Opera on 3 live from the Barbican Hall, London. Mark-anthony Turnage The
Silver Tassie. Ashley Riches (Harry), Sally Matthews (Susie), John Tomlinson (Croucher), Claire Booth (Mrs Foran), Marcus Farnsworth (Teddy), Charles Rice (Barney), Finchley – Children’s Music Group, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra/ryan Wigglesworth 10pm-12 midnight
Hear and Now 12 midnight-1am
Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
11 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning CHOICE 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Margaret Macmillan (historian) explores the lives of composers who had been held in Ruhleben, the German internment camp 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) CHOICE 2-3pm
Gorécki Symphony
No. 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’, Penderecki Fanfare for Orchestra from the Royal Festival Hall, London. Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), London Sinfonietta/david Atherton 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Choir and Organ 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45m Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature The Ruhleben Legacy
CHOICE 7.30-9.30pm Radio 3 in Concert live from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Britten War Requiem. Susan Bullock (soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Roman Trekel (baritone), BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/mark Wigglesworth 10.30-11.30pm
Early Music Late
12 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rossini
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Haydn Piano Sonata in A flat,
Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6. Jonathan Biss (piano) 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. Debussy Berceuse Héroïque, Lindberg Triumph to Exist, Stravinsky Requiem Canticles, Janáˇcek The Eternal Gospel. Andrea Danková (soprano), Angharad Lyddon (mezzo-soprano), Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor), Maxim Mikhailov (bass), London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra/vladimir Jurowski 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Letters to Artists
11pm-12.30am Jazz Now
13 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rossini
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. Vaughan
Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Brahms A German Requiem. Elizabeth Watts (soprano), James Newby (baritone), Choir of the
Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/marin Alsop 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Letters to Artists 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
14 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rossini
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong live from Croydon Minster 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 Wigmore Hall, London. V¯ıtols 10 Chants populaires Lettons Op. 29, Rachmaninov Preludes (selection), Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F, Beethoven Piano Trio in D
Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’. Baiba Skride (violin), Lauma Skride (piano), Antonina Suhanova (piano), Trio Palladio 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Letters to Artists 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
15 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rossini
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 Hall, London. Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1, Ethel Smyth Mass in D. Lucy Crowe (soprano), Catriona Morison (mezzo-soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Duncan Rock
(baritone), Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Sakari Oramo
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Letters to Artists 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
16 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rossini
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 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. Jazz Voice (London Jazz Festival Opening Gala). Seal, Jacob Collier, Paloma Faith, Gregory Porter, Angélique Kidjo, Mica Paris (singers), The Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay Letters to Artists
CHOICE 11pm12.30am Jazz Now live from Kings Place
17 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast 9am-12.15pm Record Review Building a Library
12.15-1pm Music Matters 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests CHOICE 5-10pm Opera on 3 from the Royal Opera House, London. Wagner Die Walküre. Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Emily Magee (Sieglinde),
John Lundgren (Wotan), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Sarah Connolly (Fricka), Ain Anger (Hunding), Alwyn Mellor (Gerhilde), Lise Davidsen (Ortlinde), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/ Antonio Pappano
10pm-12 midnight
Hear and Now 12 midnight-1am
Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
18 SUNDAY
– 7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions John Harvey (author)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Choir and Organ 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service 5.30-6.45m Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday
Feature Kristapurana
7.30-9pm Drama on 3
The Cherry Orchard by
Anton Chekhov
9-10.30pm Radio 3 in Concert 10.30-11.30pm
Early Music Late
19 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Billy Strayhorn
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall,
London. Caccini Dolcissimo sospiro, Dalla porta d’oriente, Kapsberger Passacaglia, Monteverdi Ecco di dolci raggi il sol armato, L’incoronazione di Poppea – Disprezzata Regina, Sí dolce è’l tormento, Voglio di vita uscir, Bassani Toccata per B quadro, Frescobaldi Canzone a basso solo, Merula Folle è ben che si crede, Rossi La bella più bella, D’india Intenerite voi, lagrime mie, Cruda Amarilli. Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Rodney Prada (viola da gamba), Craig Marchitelli
(lute), Franco Pavan (lute) 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Guildhall, Bath.
Mahler Piano Quartet, Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat. Amatis Piano Trio, Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola) 10-10.45pm
Music Matters (rpt) 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Jazz Now
20 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Billy Strayhorn
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert from Bath Mozartfest
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert from Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Rudi Stephan
Music for Orchestra 1912, Walton Viola Concerto, Howells Elegy, Shostakovich Symphony No. 9. Lawrence Power (viola), BBC Philharmonic/moritz Gnann 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
21 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Billy Strayhorn
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert from Bath Mozartfest
2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong from Manchester Cathedral with the BBC Philharmonic 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert from Symphony
Hall, Birmingham. Roxanna Panufnik Faithful Journey – A Mass for Poland, Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker – extracts.
Mary Bevan (soprano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/mirga Gra inyt˙e-tyla 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
22 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Billy Strayhorn
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert from Bath Mozartfest
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Beethoven Symphony No. 1, Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1, Beethoven Symphony No. 5. Robert Plane (clarinet), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/xian Zhang
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
23 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm
Composer of the Week
Billy Strayhorn
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert from Bath Mozartfest
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Purcell Room, London. Music by Loose Tubes flautist and composer Eddie Parker, inspired by Debussy. Eddie Parker (flute), Debussy Mirrored Ensemble 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Music Planet
24 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast 9am-12.15pm Record Review – Building a Library
12.15-1pm Music Matters 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests CHOICE 5-10pm Opera on 3 from the Royal Opera House, London. Wagner Siegfried. Stefan Vinke (Siegfried), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), John Lundgren (Wanderer), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/ Antonio Pappano
10pm-12 midnight
Hear and Now 12 midnight-1am
Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
25 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Choir and Organ 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45m Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature Harlem on Fire
7.30-9pm Drama on 3
The Moors of England 9-10.30pm
Radio 3 in Concert 10.30-11.30pm
Early Music Late
26 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Women of Renaissance Ferrara (rpt) 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Grieg Violin Sonata No. 2 in G, Philip Glass Pendulum, Saintsaëns Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor. Tai Murray (violin),
Silke Avenhaus (piano)
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert from Wigmore Hall, London. Schumann Andante and Variations for Two Pianos, Two Cellos and Horn, Wagner Wesendonck Lieder, Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in
G minor. Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Ian Brown (piano), Alasdair Beatson (piano), Nash Ensemble 10.45-11pm The Essay Contagious Cities 11pm-12.30am Jazz Now 27 TUESDAY 6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Women of Renaissance Ferrara (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 from the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Debussy Nocturnes, Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Debussy Prélude a l’après-midi d’un faune, La mer. Joaquin Achucarro (piano), RCS Voices, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/thomas Dausgaard 10.45-11pm The Essay Contagious Cities 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
28 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Women of Renaissance Ferrara (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 Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Purcell ed. Britten Chacony, Bartók String Quartet No. 6 ‘Burletta’, Romanian Dances, Britten Simple Symphony, Serenade. Mark Padmore (tenor), Martin Owen (horn), Britten Sinfonia
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Contagious Cities 11pm-12.30am
Late Junction
29 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Women of Renaissance Ferrara (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 Contagious Cities
11pm-12 midnight Exposure 12 midnight-12.30am
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30 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Women of Renaissance Ferrara (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 live from the Barbican Hall.
Bax November Woods, Cheryl Frances-hoad Last Man Standing, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 4. Marcus Farnsworth (baritone),
BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Martyn Brabbins
10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay Contagious Cities
11pm-1am Music Planet