Radio & TV listings
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1 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Josquin des Prez: 500th anniversary of his death 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Proms 2021 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Abel Selaocoe (cello/voice), Simo Lagnawi (guembri), Chesaba, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/clark Rundell (rpt) 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong from the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Harris
Prelude in E flat, Ford Almighty God, who hast me brought, Byrd Responses, Stanford Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in B flat, Bainton And I saw a new heaven, Melita Eternal Father, strong to save, Parry Fantasia in G, Hymn The King of Love my Shepherd is. Jonathan Eyre (organ), Trinity Laban Chapel Choir/ralph Allwood
4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert Hall,
London. Handel Donna, che in ciel, Bach Christ lag in Todes Banden, Handel Dixit Dominus. Ann Hallenberg (mezzo), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner 10-10.45pm Feature (rpt) 10.45-11pm The Essay (rpt) 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
2 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Josquin des Prez 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Proms 2021 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. To Soothe the Aching Heart: An evening of opera excerpts on the themes of separation and reconciliation. Cannini
La liberazione di Ruggiero
Suite, Beethoven Fidelio: Abscheulicher!... Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern, Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!... In des Lebens Frühlingstagen, O namenlose Freude!, Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice: Che faro senza Euridic?, Che faro senza Euridice?, Puccini La bohème: Che gelida manina… Mi chiamano Mimì, O namenlose Freude!, Bizet Carmen: La fleur que tu m’avais jetée, Handel Rodelinda: Io t’abbraccio, Humperdinck Hansel and
Gretel: Der kleine Sandmann bin ich… Abends, will ich schlafen gehn, Dream Pantomime. Sally Matthews, Natalya Romaniw, Nardus Williams (sopranos), Christine Rice (mezzo), Nicky Spence, Freddie De Tommaso (tenors), BBC Philharmonic/
Ben Glassberg (rpt)
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. 20th-century British film music. Doreen Carwithen The Men of Sherwood Forest – Overture, Vaughan Williams
Three Portraits from ‘The England of Elizabeth’, Arnold Hobson’s Choice – Concert Suite, Scherzetto for clarinet and orchestra (from ‘You Know What Sailors Are’, The Belles of St Trinian’s – Comedy Suite (Exploits for Orchestra).
BBC Concert Orchestra/ Bramwell Tovey (rpt) 10-10.45pm Feature (rpt) 10.45-11pm The Essay (rpt) 11pm-12.30am Edinburgh International Festival
Piano Series A concert from 2019. Grieg Lyric Pieces (selection), Wagner trans. Liszt Transcriptions from Rienzi, Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner Sonata for the Book of Mrs MW. Llˆyr Williams (piano)
3 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Josquin des Prez 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Proms 2021 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Górecki Harpsichord Concerto, Edmund Finnis The Centre is Everywhere, Eastman The Holy Presence of Joan d’arc, Dobrinka Tabakova Suite in
Old Style, ‘The Court Jester Amareu’, Joseph Horovitz
Jazz Harpsichord Concerto. Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Manchester Collective/rakhi Singh (violin) (rpt)
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert
Hall. Kirill Gerstein (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Semyon Bychkov
10-10.45pm Feature (rpt) 10.45-11pm The Essay (rpt) 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 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema
4-5pm Music Planet
5-6.30pm J to Z
6.30-7.30pm TBC
6.30-10pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus – overture, Berg Seven Early Songs, Ravel La valse, Korngold Symphony. Miah Persson (soprano), Sinfonia of London/john Wilson
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
5 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Sunday Morning 11.45am-1pm Proms 2021 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. JS Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542,
Widor Symphony No. 5: I. Allegro vivace, Saint-saëns Rêverie du soir (from ‘Suite algérienne’), Fantaisie in E flat, Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’. Thomas Trotter (organ)
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 TBC
7.30-10pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Dvoˇrák Cello Concerto, Grace-evangeline Mason
The Imagined Forest (BBC
Proms co-commission with
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: world premiere), Richard Strauss Don Juan, Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber.
Sheku Kanneh-mason (cello), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/domingo Hindoyan 10-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series 12-12.30am Classical Fix
6 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
CHOICE 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Julius Eastman
1-2pm Proms 2021 live from Cadogan Hall, London. Pauline Viardot and her Circle. Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano) 2-5pm Proms 2021 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Nubya Garcia (saxophone) (rpt) 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Philip Glass Mad Rush,
Samy Moussa A Globe Itself Infolding (UK premiere). James Mcvinnie (organ), BBC Concert Orchestra/anna-maria Helsing 10-10.45pm Feature (rpt) 10.45-11pm The Essay (rpt) 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
7 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Julius Eastman 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Proms 2021 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Josquin des Prez Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi (a24), Tallis Loquebantur variis linguis, Ken Burton Many are the Wonders, Hildegard von Bingen O virdissima Virga, Janequin Le chant des oiseaux, Bernard Hughes Birdchant (BBC Proms commission: world premiere), Stravinsky Tres sacrae cantiones – Illumina nos, Sweelinck Je sens en moy une flamme nouvelle, Nico Muhly
A New Flame (after Sweelinck) (BBC Proms commission: world premiere), Byrd Ave verum corpus, Roderick Williams Ave verum corpus Re-imagined, Shiva Feshareki Aetherworld (BBC Proms commission: world premiere). Shiva Feshareki (turntables/immersive electronics), Liam Byrne (viola da gamba), BBC Singers/
Sofi Jeannin (rpt)
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2021 10-10.45pm Feature (rpt) 10.45-11pm The Essay (rpt) 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
8 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Julius Eastman
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Proms 2021 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Programme to be announced 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong from St David’s Cathedral on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Rachmaninov Bogoroditsye Dyevo, Farley Castle Her Virgin eyes saw God incarnate born, Wood Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E flat No. 2, Parsons Ave Maria, Taylor Sing we of the blessed Mother, Peeters Toccata, Fugue et Hymne sur ‘Ave Maria Stella’. Oliver Waterer (organ), St David’s Cathedral Choir/simon Pearce
4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert
Hall, London. Programme
to be announced 10-10.45pm Feature (rpt) 10.45-11pm The Essay (rpt) 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
9 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12noon-1pm Composer of the Week Julius Eastman
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Proms 2021 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements. London Symphony Orchestra/ Simon Rattle (rpt)
5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10.45pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Bach St Matthew Passion (sung in German). Louise Alder (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Stuart Jackson (Evangelist), Hugo Hymas (tenor), Roderick
Williams (baritone), Matthew Rose (Christ), Arcangelo
Chorus, Arcangelo/jonathan Cohen (harpsichord) 10.45-11pm The Essay (rpt) 11pm-12.30am Edinburgh International Festival Piano Series A concert from 2017. Berg Piano Sonata, Liszt Legend No. 1 ‘St Francis of Assisi’s Sermon to the Birds’, Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28. Andreas Haefliger (piano)
10 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Julius Eastman 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Proms 2021 from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Programme to be announced 5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Programme to be announced 10-10.45pm Feature (rpt) 10.45-11pm The Essay (rpt) 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 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Music Planet
5-6pm J to Z
6-7.30pm Words and Music CHOICE 7.30-11pm Proms 2021 live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Last Night of the Proms. Gity Razaz Mother (BBC Proms commission: world premiere), Trad arr. Wood Fantasia on British Sea-songs, Arne arr. Sargent Rule, Britannia!, Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (‘Land of Hope and Glory’), Parry orch. Elgar Jerusalem, arr. Britten The National Anthem ‘God Save the Queen’, Trad Auld Lang Syne. Stuart Skelton (tenor),
Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra/sakari Oramo
12 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Valentina Harris (chef, author) 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 Studio in the Sky
7.30-9pm Drama on 3
9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series 12-12.30am Classical Fix
13 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Telemann
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 Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay Between the Essays 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
14 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Telemann
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 Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay Between the Essays 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
15 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Telemann
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 Between the Essays 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
16 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Telemann
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 Between the Essays 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified with
Elizabeth Alker
17 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Telemann
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 Between the Essays
11pm-1am Late Junction
18 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 6.45-7.30pm TBC 7.30-10pm Proms 2021 10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
19 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Francesca Stavrakopoulou (biblical scholar, broadcaster) 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
Ghost Variations: Rediagnosing Robert Schumann
7.30-9pm Drama on 3
9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series 12-12.30am Classical Fix
20 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12noon-1pm Composer of the Week Bartók
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 Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
The Songs that Shaped Me with Amit Chaudhuri 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
21 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12noon-1pm Composer of the Week Bartók
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 Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
The Songs that Shaped Me with Amit Chaudhuri 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
22 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12noon-1pm Composer of the Week Bartók
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong live from the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
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 Songs that Shaped Me with Amit Chaudhuri 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
23 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Bartók
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 Songs that Shaped Me with Amit Chaudhuri 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified
24 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Bartók
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
The Songs that Shaped Me with Amit Chaudhuri
11pm-1am Late Junction
25 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
6.30-7.30pm TBC
7.30-10pm Proms 2021 10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
26 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12noon Sunday Morning 12noon-1pm Private
Passions Peter Stanford
(writer, journalist) (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 How to Rebuilt a City
7.30-9pm Drama on 3 9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series 12-12.30am Classical Fix
27 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12noon-1pm Composer of the Week Wagner
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 Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay Postcards from Coventry 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
28 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12noon-1pm Composer of the Week Wagner
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 Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay Postcards from Coventry 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
29 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12noon-1pm Composer of the Week Wagner
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong from Worcester Cathedral.
400th anniversary of Worcester City charter. Aston Alleluya psallat, Bullock Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels. Worcester Cathedral Choir/ Samuel Hudson
4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Postcards from Coventry 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
30 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12noon-1pm Composer of the Week Wagner
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Postcards from Coventry 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am
Unclassified