Radio & TV listings
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1 MONDAY
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 from Combins Hall, Verbier, Switzerland. Glazunov From the Middle Ages: Prelude, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4, Melodie from Souvenir d’un lieu cher. Janine Jansen (violin), Verbier Festival
Orchestra/mikhail Pletnev 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
2 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Schubert
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from Maida Vale, London.
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Piazzolla The Four Seasons.
Igor Jusejovich (violin),
BBC Symphony Orchestra 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
3 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon 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 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela, Schoenberg Song of the Wood-dove from Gurre-lieder, Debussy orch. Kloke Suite: Pelléas et Mélisande, Messiaen L’ascension: Majesty of Christ, Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus. Ruxandra Donose (mezzo), London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Vladimir Jurowski
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
4 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Schubert
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from City Halls, Glasgow. Programme to include works by Mozart, Mahler and Wagner. Laura Samuel (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am
Unclassified
5 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 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert live from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. Stravinsky Suite, Britten Sinfonietta, Britten Temporal Variations, Colin Matthews Spiralling. Jess Gillam (saxophone), BBC National Orchestra of Wales
10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Late Junction
6 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
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
7 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Chibundu Onuzo (novelist) 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 John Foulds: Life, Death and Resurrection
7.30-9pm Drama on 3 The Blackwood (Jacob Polley) and (After) Fear by (Oliver Emanuel) 9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series
8 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Vaughan Williams 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from Auditorium, Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy. Bruckner Te Deum, Mahler Das Lied von der Erde. Gerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano), Clay Hilley (tenor), Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/antonio Pappano 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
Acting Unrehearsed 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
9 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Vaughan Williams 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Philharmonic Hall,
Liverpool. Mendelssohn Overture, Nocturne and Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Schumann Symphony No. 2. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/
Vasily Petrenko
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Acting Unrehearsed 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
10 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Vaughan Williams 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from the Lighthouse,
Poole. Borodin In the Steppes of Central Asia, Nurymov
Symphony No. 2 (UK premiere), Rimsky-korsakov Antar. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/kirill Karabits 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Acting Unrehearsed 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
11 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Vaughan Williams 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. Schumann Piano Concerto, Schubert Symphony No. 9
‘The Great’. Mitsuko Uchida (piano), London Symphony Orchestra/simon Rattle 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Acting Unrehearsed 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified
12 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Vaughan Williams 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-9pm TBA
CHOICE 9-10.45pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Barbican, London. Paul Weller (singer and lead guitar of The Jam), BBC Symphony Orchestra/jules Buckley 10.45-11pm The Essay
Acting Unrehearsed
11pm-1am Late Junction
13 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast 9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-2pm Inside Music
2-3.30pm Radio 3 in Concert BBC Concert Orchestra 3.30-4pm TBA
4-5pm Music Planet 5-6.30pm Radio 3 in
Concert BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 6.30-7.30pm TBA
7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert BBC Philharmonic 10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
14 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11am Sunday Morning 11am-1.30pm Radio 3 in Concert Ulster Orchestra 1.30-3pm Radio 3 in
Concert BBC Singers
2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service 5.30-7.30pm Radio 3 in Concert BBC National Orchestra of Wales
7.30-9pm Drama on 3 9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series
15 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mozart’s Operas 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from LAC, Lugano, Switzerland. Saint-saëns Cello Concerto
No. 1, Enrico Chapela Magnetar: Concerto for Electric Violin and Orchestra, Franck Symphony in D minor. Johannes Moser (cello), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana/alexander Vedernikov 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
Science Notes
11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
16 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mozart’s Operas CHOICE 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Schubert Impromptu No. 1, Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15,
Piano Quintet. Paolo Zanzu (fortepiano), Consone Quartet 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Science Notes
11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
17 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mozart’s Operas 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Schubert German Dances, Menuet
No. 3, Liebeslauschen, An Schwager Kronos, Auf Dem
See, Der Fischer, An Der Mond, Robert Schumann Widmung, Sehnsucht, Mein schöner Stern, Zum Schluß, Clara Schumann Liebst du um Schönheit, Sie liebten sich beiden. Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Paolo Zanzu (fortepiano), Consone Quartet 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 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Science Notes
11pm-12.30am
Night Tracks
18 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mozart’s Operas 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert from the Royal Welsh College of
Music and Drama. Haydn Quartet Op. 50 No. 6
‘The Frog’, Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet. Consone Quartet 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. Programme to include Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/mark Wigglesworth 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
String
Science Notes 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified with Elizabeth Alker
19 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mozart’s Operas 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert from the Royal Welsh
College of Music and Drama. Schubert String Quintet. Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Consone Quartet
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
Science Notes
11pm-1am Late Junction
20 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 10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
21 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Tim Harford (economist)
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 CHOICE 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature
Our Classical Commonwealth with Errollyn Wallen
7.30-9pm Drama on 3
French like Faiza
9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series
22 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Ruth Gipps
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 Blue Hall, de Singel,
Antwerp, Belgium. Beethoven Missa Solemnis. Malin
Hartelius (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Steve Davislim (tenor), Hanno Müller-brachmann (bass), Arnold Schoenberg Chorus, Le Concert Olympique/jan Caeyers 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay Becoming Animal 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
23 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Ruth Gipps
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 Media City, Salford. Copland Appalachian Spring, Cowell Symphony No. 9, Carter Instances, Ives Symphony No. 3 ‘The Camp Meeting’. BBC Philharmonic/ludovic Morlot 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Becoming Animal 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
24 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Ruth Gipps
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 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Becoming Animal 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
25 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Ruth Gipps
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. Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1. Pablo Ferrández (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/alpesh Chauhan 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Becoming Animal
11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified with Elizabeth Alker
26 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Ruth Gipps
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 Media City, Salford. BBC Philharmonic/john Wilson 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay Becoming Animal
11pm-1am Late Junction
27 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
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
28 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Caroline Bird (poet/playwright) 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 Between the Ears Concrete Paris
7.30-9pm Drama on 3
The Fishermen
9-11pm Record Review Extra