MARCH’S RADIO 3 LISTINGS
Schedules may be subject to alteration. For up-to-date listings see Radio Times
1 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Clementi (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 City Halls, Glasgow. Webern Passacaglia for orchestra, Schoenberg Lied ver waldtaube (Gurrelieder), Bruckner Symphony No. 4. Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/alpesh Chauhan 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
2 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Clementi (rpt) 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4pm Afternoon Concert 4-5pm Choral Evensong live from Lincoln Cathedral on Ash Wednesday 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert from Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 3 ‘Pastoral’, On Wenlock Edge, Symphony No. 5. Alessandro Fisher (tenor), BBC Philharmonic/ Mark Wigglesworth 10-10.45pm Feature 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
3 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Clementi (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10.45pm Radio 3 in Concert live from Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4. Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/mirga Gra inyte-tyla • 10.45-11pm The Essay 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified
4 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Clementi (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape CHOICE 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from the Barbican, London. Brutalism meets orchestral beauty as the Barbican celebrates its 40th anniversary. Judith Weir Concrete, Elgar
Cello Concerto, Ravel Daphnis et Chloé. Senja Rummukainen (cello), Adjoa Andoh (speaker), BBC Symphony Orchestra &
Chorus/sakari Oramo 10-10.45pm Feature 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Late Junction
5 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 Royal Opera House, London. Handel Theodora. Joyce Didonato (Irene), Jakub Józef Orli´nski (Didymus), Ed Lyon (Septimus), Gyyula Orendt (Valens), Thando Mjandana (Messenger), Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House/harry Bicket
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Freeness
6 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Esther Rantzen (TV journalist, founder of Childline and
The Silver Line)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong from Lincoln Cathedral (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 Black Female Fellowship (exploring the lives of the successors of Florence Price) 7.30-9pm Drama on 3
The A to Z of Things
9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series 12-12.30am Classical Fix
7 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Henriëtte Bosmans. Exploring the importance of family, with Dr Helen Metzelaar and Dr Lauren Vastenhout 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4.30pm Afternoon Concert 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
New Generation Thinkers 11pm-12.30am Northern Drift
8 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Henriëtte Bosmans’ early career as a concert pianist 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from Temple Church, London. International Women’s Day.
Melissa Dunphy I am the world (BBC Radio 3 commission, world premiere), Judith
Bingham The Clouded Heaven, Ghislaine Reece-trapp Mass for the Mystery of Faith (world premiere), June Nixon Alleluias. Anna Lapwood (organ), BBC Singers/grace Rossiter
2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape CHOICE 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from Kings Place, London. International Women’s Day. Newly discovered madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, alongside works by her contemporary Barbara Strozzi. Fieri Consort 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
New Generation Thinkers 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
9 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Henriëtte Bosmans. The period of the Second
World War, when she risked her life, storming the Gestapo Headquarters to get her Jewish mother released
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4pm Afternoon Concert 4-5pm Choral Evensong from the Chapel of Keble College, Oxford. Stanford O for a closer walk with God, Battishill O
Lord, look down from heaven, Kingsfold I heard the voice of Jesus say, Whitlock Fantasie Choral No. 1. Daniel Mathieson (organ), Choir of Keble College, Oxford/paul Brough
5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Lighthouse, Poole. Jonathan Dove Sunshine, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22, Schubert Symphony No. 9 ‘Great’. Imogen Cooper (piano),
BBC So/mark Wigglesworth 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
New Generation Thinkers 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
10 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Henriëtte Bosmans and her friendship with
Benjamin Britten
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. Wagner Tristan und Isolde: Prelude und Liebestod, Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending, Sibelius Symphony No. 1. Rosanne Philippens (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Mark Wigglesworth
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay New Generation Thinkers 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified
11 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Henriëtte Bosmans and her muse, the singer Noémie Pérugia
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Barbican, London. Krása Overture from Small Orchestra, Haas Study for String Orchestra, Schulhoff Symphony No. 5, Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time. Students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, BBC Symphony Orchestra/alpesh Chauhan 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay New Generation Thinkers 11pm-1am Late Junction
12 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. Strauss Ariadne auf
Naxos. Lise Davidsen (Ariadne), Brenda Rae (Zerbinetta), Isabel Leonard (Composer), Brandon Jovanovich (Bacchus), Sean Michael Plumb (Harlekin), Johannes Martin Kränzle
(Music Master), Thomas Allen (Major-domo), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/
Marek Janowski 10pm-12 midnight New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Free the Music
13 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Katy Brand (comedian)
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 7.30-9pm Radio 3 in Concert 9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series 12-12.30am Classical Fix
14 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Debussy
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4.30pm Afternoon Concert 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 Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Northern Drift
15 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-2pm See Mon 14 March 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape CHOICE 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from Wigmore Hall, London. Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Dyson A poet’s hymn, Bax
The white peace, Gardiner Winter, Coleridge-taylor
A song cycle: Sons of the sea, Keel Trade Winds from ‘Three Salt Water Ballads’, Warlock Captain Stratton’s Fancy, Ireland Phantasie-trio in A minor,
Mozart Fantasia in C minor, Serenade in B flat ‘Gran Partita’. Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Nash Ensemble
10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
16 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Debussy
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4pm Afternoon Concert 4-5pm Choral Evensong from Truro Cathedral. Southwell
Lord Jesus, think on me, Tallis The Dorian Service, Gombert Lugebat David Absalon, Eisenach Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts, Bruhns Praeludium in E minor ‘Big’. Choir of Truro Cathedral/christopher Gray 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Royal Festival Hall, London. Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, Piano Concerto
No. 1, Symphony No. 6 ‘Pathétique’. Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano), Philharmonia/ Santtu-matias Rouvali 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
17 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Debussy
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Grace Wiliams Sea Sketches, Mahler Symphony No. 5.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/tadaaki Otaka 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified
18 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Debussy
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.45-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from Ulster Hall, Belfast. Sally Beamish Piano Concerto No. 1 ‘Hill Stanzas’, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27, Sibelius Symphony No. 3. Ronald Brautigam (piano), Ulster Orchestra/jac van Steen 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Late Junction
19 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. Handel Rodelinda. Elza van der Heever (Rodelinda), Jamie Barton (Eduige), Iestyn Davies (Bertarido), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Unulfo),
Paul Appleby (Grimoaldo), Adam Plachetka (Garibaldo),
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/harry Bicket
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am
Free the Music
20 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Misan Harriman (photographer, social activist, first black man to shoot a cover of British Vogue in the magazine’s history)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong from Truro Cathedral. Southwell
Lord Jesus, think on me, Tallis The Dorian Service, Gombert Lugebat David Absalon,
Eisenach Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts, Bruhns Praeludium in E minor. Choir of Truro Cathedral/ Christopher Gray (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 The Emperor and the Pianola 7.30-9pm Drama on 3
What We May Be (Linda
Marshall Griffiths)
9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series 12-12.30am Classical Fix
21 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Mighty
Handful (Rimsky-korsakov, Musorgsky, Borodin)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4.30pm Afternoon Concert 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 Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay Different Ways of Being 11pm-12.30am Northern Drift
22 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Mighty
Handful (Rimsky-korsakov, Musorgsky, Borodin)
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 Aberystwth. Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville, Elgar Serenade for Strings, Fauré Pavane, Handel arr. Harty Water Music: selection, Brahms Symphony No. 2. BBC National Orchestra of Wales/owain Arwel Hughes
10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay Different Ways of Being 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
23 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Mighty
Handful (Rimsky-korsakov, Musorgsky, Borodin)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4pm Afternoon Concert 4-5pm Choral Evensong live from the Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Barbican, London. Haydn The Creation. London Symphony Orchestra/
Simon Rattle
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay Different Ways of Being 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
24 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Mighty
Handful (Rimsky-korsakov, Musorgsky, Borodin)
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, London. Sofia Gubaidulina Fairytale Poem (UK premiere), Musorgsky arr. Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death, Shostakovich Symphony No. 5. Kostas Smorginas (bass-baritone),
BBC Symphony Orchestra/
Eva Ollikainen
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Different Ways of Being 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified with
Elizabeth Alker
25 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week The Mighty
Handful (Rimsky-korsakov, Musorgsky, Borodin)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Barbican, London. Stravinsky Variations (Aldous Huxley in Memoriam), Frank Zappa Pedro’s Dowry, Bob in Dacron, Sad Jane, Envelopes, Mo ‘N Herb’s Vacation, Strictly Genteel. BBC Symphony Orchestra/brad Lubman 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay Different Ways of Being 11pm-1am Late Junction
26 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. Verdi Don Carlos. Sonya Yoncheva (Élisabeth de Valois), El¯ına Garanˇca (Eboli), Matthew Polenzani (Don Carlos), Etienne Dupuis (Rodrigue), Eric Owens (Philippe II), John Relyea (Grand Inquisitor), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/yannick Nézet-séguin
10pm-12 midnight
New Music Show 12 midnight-1am Free the Music
27 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Richard Holloway (writer, former Bishop of Edinburgh)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4.30pm Choral Evensong from the Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge 4.30-5.30pm Jazz
Record Requests
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature 7.30-9pm Drama on 3 Middlemarch Monologues 9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series 12-12.30am Classical Fix
28 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Biber (rpt)
1-10pm See Mon 21 March 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Northern Drift
29 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Biber (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 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Vaughan Williams Towards the Unknown Region, Symphony No. 4 ‘Job’. Hallé Choir, BBC Philharmonic/ Andrew Davis
10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
30 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon
Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Biber (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-4pm Afternoon Concert 4-5pm Choral Evensong from the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London
5-7pm In Tune
7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert from Royal Festival Hall, London. Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Brahms Four Serious Songs, Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande. Bryn Terfel (baritone), London Philharmonic Orchestra/edward Gardner 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
31 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12 noon
Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Biber (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 City Halls, Glasgow. Debussy Marche ecossaise sur un thème populaire, Wim Henderickx Clarinet Concerto ‘Sutra’ (BBC co-commission, world premiere) (see BBC Music Magazine Interview, p34), Chausson Poème de l’amour et de la mer, Debussy La mer. Annalien van Wauwe (clarinet), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/
Martyn Brabbins
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified