Radio & TV listings
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1 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-10.15am
Essential Classics
CHOICE 10.15am-1pm New Year’s Day Concert live from the Musikverein, Vienna. Ziehrer Schönfeld-marsch, Josef Strauss Transactionen: Walzer, Die Tänzerin: Polka française, Sphärenklänge: Walzer, Hellmesberger Jr Elfenreigen, Entr’acte valse, Johann
Strauss Jr Express: Polka schnell, Nordseebilder: Walzer, Overture to ‘Der Zigeunerbaron’, Künztlerleben: Walzer, Die Bajadere: Polka schnell, Csárdás aus ‘Ritter Pásmán’, Egyptian March, Lob der
Frauen: Polka mazur, Eduard Strauss Mit Extrapost:
Galopp, Opern-soiree: Polka française. Vienna Philharmonic/ Christian Thielemann
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4.30pm Afternoon Concert 4.30-5.45pm Words and Music 5.45-7pm New
Generation Artists
7-9.30pm Proms 2018
Prom 57 (rpt) Bernstein
On the Town. Barnaby Rea (Judge Pitkin), Nadim Naaman (Ozzie), Fra Fee (Chip), Nathaniel Hackmann (Gabey), LSO/JOHN Wilson
9.30-11pm Proms 2018
Prom 73 (rpt) Hildegard von Bingen Ordo virtutum – In principio omnes, Padilla Deus in adiutorium, Gallus Pater noster, Allegri Miserere, Tallis Te lucis ante terminum (I), Pärt Nunc dimittis, John Browne
O Maria salvatoris. Tallis Scholars/peter Phillips 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
2 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Gershwin
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong A recording from the archives 4.30-5.45pm Words and Music 5.45-7pm New
Generation Artists
7-9.30pm Proms 2018
Prom 66 (rpt) Paul Dukas
La Péri – Fanfare, Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 3, Schmidt Symphony No. 4. Yuja Wang (piano), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/kirill Petrenko 9.30-11pm Proms 2018
Prom 13 (rpt) Delia Derbyshire The Delian Mode, Laurie Spiegel Only Night Thoughts, Suzanne Ciani Improvisation on Four Sequences, Daphne Oram Still Point. Suzanne Ciani (piano), Shiva Feshareki (turntables), James Bulley (electronics), London Contemporary Orchestra/robert Ames 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
3 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Gershwin
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4.30pm Afternoon Concert 4.30-5.45pm Words and Music 5.45-7pm New Generation Artists
7-9pm Proms 2018
Proms at Alexandra Palace (rpt) Coleridge-taylor Hiawatha’s Wedding feast, Cellier The Mountebanks – All Alone to my Eerie… Whispering
Breeze, Smyth Overture to
The Boatswains Mate, Sullivan ‘When I went to the Bar’ from Iolanthe, Stanford So it’s kisses you’re craving, Parry Excerpts from The Birds and The Tempest, Sullivan Trial by Jury. Neal
Davies (The Learned Judge), Mary Bevan (The Plaintiff),
Sam Furness (The Defendant), BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra/jane Glover
9-11pm Proms 2018
Prom 7 (rpt) Jacob Collier (singer), Becca Stevens (singer), Sam Amidon (folk artist), Hamid El Kasri (guembri), Take 6 (ensemble), Metropole Orkest/jules Buckley 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
4 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Gershwin
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4.30pm Afternoon Concert 4.30-5.45pm Words and Music 5.45-7pm New
Generation Artists
7-9pm Proms 2018
Prom 67 (rpt) Mahler Symphony No. 3. Susan Graham (mezzo), CBSO Chorus & Youth Chorus, Boston So/andris Nelsons 9-11pm Proms 2018 Prom 23 (rpt) Mista Savona (keyboard), Randy Valentine, Solís Brenda Navarette (vocals), Julito Padrón (trumpet), Matthieu Bost (saxophone), Rolando Luna (piano), Manuel Garcia (drums) 11pm-1am Music Planet
5 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
6.30-10pm Opera on 3 from the Metropolian Opera. Verdi Otello. Sonya Yoncheva (Desdemona), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Emilia), Stuart Skelton (Otello), Alexey Dolgov (Cassio), eljko Luˇci´c (Iago), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/ Gustavo Dudamel
10pm-12 midnight
Hear and Now
12 midnight-1am
Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
6 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Clarke Peters, actor
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 Keats goes North
7.30-9pm Drama on 3
The Victim
9-10.30pm Proms 2018
Prom 74 (rpt) Handel Theodora. Louise Alder (Theodora), Iestyn Davies (Didymus), Benjamin Hulett (Septimus), Ann Hallenberg (Irene), Tareq
Nazmi (Valens), Arcangelo/ Jonathan Cohen
10.30-12 midnight
Early Music Late 12 midnight-12.30am
Classical Fix
7 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mendelssohn
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Mozart Piano Sonata in C, Rachmaninov Preludes in G flat, G minor & G sharp minor, Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7. Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano) 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2018
Prom 63 (rpt) Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book 2. András Schiff (piano) 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
An Ode to John Keats 11pm-12.30am Jazz Now
8 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mendelssohn
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2018 Prom 69 (rpt) Bernstein Serenade after Plato’s ‘Symposium’, Shostakovich Symphony No. 4. Baiba Skride (violin), Boston Symphony Orchestra/andris Nelsons 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
An Ode to John Keats 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
9 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mendelssohn
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong from the Chapel of Selwyn College, Cambridge
4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape CHOICE 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from St Luke’s Church, Chelsea. Bach Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3. BBC Singers, Academy of Ancient Music/sofi Jeannin 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
An Ode to John Keats 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
10 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mendelssohn
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. Sibelius Symphony
No. 7, Hans Abrahamsen
Let me tell you, Nielsen Symphony No. 4. Barbara Hannigan (soprano), LSO/ Simon Rattle
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
11 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mendelssohn
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 St Luke’s Church, Chelsea. Bach Christmas Oratorio Parts 4-6.
BBC Singers, Academy of Ancient Music/sofi Jeannin 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay
An Ode to John Keats
12 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
6.30-10pm Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera. Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur. Anna Nebtrenko (Adriana), Anita Rachvelishvili (The Principessa), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/ Gianandrea Noseda
10pm-12 midnight
Hear and Now 12 midnight-1am
Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
13 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Sigrid Rausing, philanthropist 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 Afterwords: Martha Gellhorn 7.30-9pm Drama on 3 Ropewalk House
9-10.30pm Radio 3 in Concert 10.30-11.30pm
Early Music Late
14 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rameau
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Lembit Beecher new work, Dvoˇrák String Quartet in F. Juilliard String Quartet
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry. Rick Dior Science Fiction, John Adams Doctor Atomic Symphony, Sibelius Symphony No. 2. National
Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/kirill Karabits
10-11pm The Verb Special
TS Eliot Prize
11pm-12.30am Jazz Now
15 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rameau
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 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Brahms Three Intermezzi Op. 117, Beethoven Sonata in E flat Op. 7, Tchaikovsky Natha-valse Op. 51 No. 4, Polka peu dansante
Op. 51 No. 2, Passé lointain
Op. 72 No. 17, Couperin Suite in A, Pavanne in F sharp minor. Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
16 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rameau
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong live from Chelmsford Cathedral 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. Beethoven Violin Concerto, Strauss Symphonia Domestica. Augustin Hadelich (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/kirill Karabits 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
17 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rameau
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 Glasgow City Halls, Glasgow. Dvoˇrák Slavonic Dances (selection), Macmillan Trombone Concerto, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1. Jörgen Van Rijen (trombone), BBC Scottish So/martyn Brabbins 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
18 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Rameau
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 Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden. Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes, Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Brahms Symphony No. 2. Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano), Britten Sinfonia/mark Elder 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Music Planet
19 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
6.30-10.15pm Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera. Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande. Paul Appleby (Pelléas), Isabel Leonard (Mélisande), Marie-nicole Lemieux (Geneviève), Kyle Ketelsen (Golaud), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/ Yannick Nézet-séguin 10.15pm-12 midnight
Hear and Now
12 midnight-1am
Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
20 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Tim Firth, dramatist
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 Afterwords: Susan Sontag 7.30-9.15pm Drama on 3
Arden of Faversham by
Thomas Kyd
9.15-10.30pm
Radio 3 in Concert 10.30-11.30pm
Early Music Late
21 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Liszt
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Sibelius Valse Triste arr.
Friedrich Hermann, Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor
II. Allegro brusco, Oliver
Knussen Reflection for violin and piano, Mahler Symphony
No. 5 IV. Adagietto, Bernd Alois Zimmermann Sonata for violin and piano. Leila Josefowicz (violin), John Novacek (piano) 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 from the Royal Festival Hall, London. Gieshoff Burr, Hillborg Sound Atlas, Grime Percussion Concerto (world premieres), Andriessen Agamemnon (European premiere), Tuur Solastalgia for piccolo and orchestra (UK premiere). Stewart Mcilwham (piccolo), Colin Currie (percussion), London Po/marin Alsop 10.45-11pm
The Essay Yorkshire 11pm-12.30am Jazz Now
22 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Liszt
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 from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Beethoven Piano Concerto
No. 4, Mahler Rückert Lieder, Symphony No. 10. Stephen Hough (piano), Catriona Morison (mezzo-soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/ Thomas Søndergård
10-10.45pm Free Thinking
10.45-11pm
The Essay Yorkshire 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
23 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Liszt
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong live from Winchester Cathedral 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 Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. Grieg Suite: Peer
Gynt, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3, Sibelius Symphony
No. 4. Beatrice Rana (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/vasily Petrenko 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm
The Essay Yorkshire 11pm-12.30am Late Junction
24 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Liszt
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 Belfast Waterfront, Belfast. Strauss Four Last Songs, Shostakovich Symphony No. 4. Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Ulster Orchestra/rafael Payare 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm
The Essay Yorkshire
11pm-12 midnight Exposure 12 midnight-12.30am
Late Junction
25 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Liszt
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 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Berlioz Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, Saint-saëns Piano Concerto No. 5, Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica. Stephen Hough (piano), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Ladies of the Hallé Choir/mark Elder 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm
The Essay Yorkshire
11pm-1am Music Planet
26 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
6.30-9.30pm Opera on 3 from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Simon Boccanegra. Carlos Álvarez (Simon Boccanegra), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacopo Fiesco), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/henrik Nánási 9.30-10pm Between the Ears Singing not Drowning
10pm-12 midnight
Hear and Now 12 midnight-1am
Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
27 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Lisa Appignanesi, 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
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature Afterwords: Ursula Leguin 7.30-9pm Drama on 3 9-10.30pm Radio 3 in Concert 10.30-11.30pm Early
Music Late
28 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Tippett
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Wigmore Hall, London. Enescu Légende for trumpet and piano, Takemitsu Paths (In Memoriam Witold Lutoslawski), Hindemith Trumpet Sonata, Savard Morceau de Concours, Gaubert Cantabile et scherzetto, Charlier Solo de Concours. Simon Höfele (trumpet),
Frank Dupree (piano)
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10.45-11pm The Essay
Weird England
11pm-12.30am Jazz Now
29 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Tippett
1-2pm Sean Rafferty at home with Bryn Terfel
2-2.30pm Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
2.30-5pm Afternoon Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert from Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela, Violin Concerto, Brahms Symphony No. 4. Christian Tetzlaff (violin), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/karl-heinz Steffens 10.45-11pm The Essay
Weird England
11pm-12.30am Late Junction
30 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Tippett
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong live from Ely Cathedral
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 Royal Festival
Hall, London. Purcell Dido and Aeneas, Handel Water Music Suite. Marie-claude Chappuis (Dido), Lucy Crowe (Belinda), Benjamin Appl (Aeneas),
London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Roger Norrington
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Weekly TV & radio highlights
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31 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm
Composer of the Week Tippett 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 11pm-12 midnight Exposure 12 midnight-12.30am
Late Junction