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Classical Fix—Bryony Gordon
Restorative Rachmaninov: Bryony finds solace in Clemmie's classical playlist. (R)
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00:30
Through the Night—Tempests and Rhapsodies
The RAI National Symphony Orchestra are joined by cellist Nicolas Altstaedt.
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00:30
Through the Night—Alexander Gadjiev plays Chopin
A recital given by Alexander Gadjiev at the Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo.
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00:30
Through the Night—Musique Française
The Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Olivier Latry play Ravel, Poulenc and Roussel.
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00:30
Through the Night—Mendelssohn and Dvorak from Spain
Chamber music from the Pau Casals festival in El Vendrell. John Shea presents.
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00:30
Through the Night—Villa-Lobos, Ginastera, Copland and Grofé
French harpist Xavier de Maistre joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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00:00
Freeness—Acoustic Ecologies
Corey Mwamba presents improvised music inspired by nature.
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01:00
Composed—Composed with Emeli Sandé, Find inspiration with mind-expanding music
Emeli Sandé explores music to invigorate the mind and inspire creativity.
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01:00
Through the Night—Beethoven, Czerny and Hummel from City Church Thun
Beethoven's Universe, performed by CHAARTS Chamber Artists at the GAIA Music Festival.
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02:00
Gameplay with Baby Queen—Lose yourself in nature
Baby Queen leads a trail through video games that capture the power of nature.
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03:00
Through the Night—Nicola Benedetti at the 2020 BBC Proms
Violinist Nicola Benedetti with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
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06:30
Breakfast—Monday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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06:30
Breakfast—Tuesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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06:30
Breakfast—Wednesday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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06:30
Breakfast—Thursday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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06:30
Breakfast—Friday - Petroc's classical picks
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including the Friday poem.
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07:00
Breakfast—14/05/2022
Elizabeth Alker sets up your Saturday morning.
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07:00
Breakfast—Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
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09:00
Essential Classics—Georgia Mann
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
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09:00
Essential Classics—Georgia Mann
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
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09:00
Essential Classics—Georgia Mann
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
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09:00
Essential Classics—Georgia Mann
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
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09:00
Essential Classics—Georgia Mann
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
- See AlsoBBC Radio 3 - Schedules, 18 - 24 April 2022BBC Radio 3 - Schedules, 19 - 25 December 2022BBC Radio 3 - Schedules, 4 - 10 October 2021BBC Radio 3 - Schedules, 12 - 18 December 2022
09:00
Record Review—Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony in Building a Library with Mark Lowther and Andrew McGregor
The ultimate recommendation for Vaughan Williams's intensely dramatic Fourth Symphony.
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09:00
Sunday Morning—Sarah Walker with an inspiring musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.
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11:45
Music Matters—Vaughan Williams Today
Tom Service with a Vaughan Williams special to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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12:00
Composer of the Week—Vaughan Williams Today, To War and Back Again
6/20 Active service and amateur music-making during the Great War. With Donald Macleod.
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12:00
Composer of the Week—Vaughan Williams Today, All Change for a New Start
7/20 New opportunities back in London and a trip to the US, presented by Donald Macleod.
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12:00
Composer of the Week—Vaughan Williams Today, Dramatic Works
8/20 Donald Macleod talks to Eric Saylor about Vaughan Williams' music for the stage
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12:00
Composer of the Week—Vaughan Williams Today, Cities and Country
9/20 Walking with friends and a move to the country. Presented by Donald Macleod.
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12:00
Composer of the Week—Vaughan Williams Today, Relationships
10/20 Deep friendships and a lifelong commitment to amateur music. With Donald Macleod.
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12:30
This Classical Life—Jess Gillam with... Kunal Lahiry
Jess Gillam and pianist Kunal Lahiry have a listening party of tracks they love.
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12:00
Private Passions—Waheed Arian
Michael Berkeley’s guest is doctor Waheed Arian.
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Gabriela Montero
Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero plays Chopin, Stravinsky and her own improvisations.
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Schubertiade Schwarzenberg Festival 2021 (1/4)
Songs by Schubert and Mahler, and Mendelssohn's String Quartet No 1 in E flat, Op 12
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Schubertiade Schwarzenberg Festival 2021 (2/4)
Violeta Urmana sings Schubert with Helmut Deutsch at the piano.
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Schubertiade Schwarzenberg Festival 2021 (3/4)
Schubert songs including Death and the Maiden, and Richard Strauss's Piano Quartet.
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Schubertiade Schwarzenberg Festival 2021 (4/4)
Schubert's Piano Sonata No 14 in A minor and Mendelssohn's Octet.
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13:00
Inside Music—Soprano Ailish Tynan with music to stir the emotions
Soprano Ailish Tynan opens up a colourful selection of music from the inside. (R)
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Gabriela Montero
Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero plays Chopin, Stravinsky and her own improvisations. (R)
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14:00
Afternoon Concert—Monday - Reformation
Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony, performed in Katowice.
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14:00
Afternoon Concert—Tuesday - Korngold's Symphony
Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Brno Philharmonic in Korngold's Symphony in F.
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14:00
Afternoon Concert—Wednesday - Levko Revutsky
Ukrainian composer Levko Revutsky's lyrical Second Symphony, performed in Warsaw.
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14:00
Afternoon Concert—Thursday - Missa 1724
Zelenka's Missa 1724 with Collegium 1704 in Warsaw.
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14:00
Afternoon Concert—Friday - Sibelius in Ostrava
Kristiina Poska conducts Sibelius's Second Symphony in Ostrava
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14:00
The Early Music Show—Réunion des goûts
Ensemble Molière play Lully, Couperin and Telemann, showing C18 French and Italian tastes.
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15:00
Sound of Cinema—The Multiverse
Matthew Sweet features music from movies that engage with the multidimensional multiverse.
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15:00
Choral Evensong—11/05/2022
Live from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, with the BBC Singers. (R)
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16:30
New Generation Artists—Anastasia Kobekina plays Bach
Anastasia Kobekina plays Bach's Cello Suite No 3 in C.
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16:00
Choral Evensong—11/05/2022
Live from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, with the BBC Singers.
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16:30
The Listening Service—The Musical Recycling Plant
From composers to composters: how and why do composers re-use their own music? (R)
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16:00
Music Planet—Ye Vagabonds
Kathryn Tickell with a studio session from Irish Trad folk duo Ye Vagabonds.
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16:00
Jazz Record Requests—Your Favourite Things
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you.
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17:00
In Tune—Helen Grime, Ensemble 360, Iyad Sughayer and Nicky Spence
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
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17:00
In Tune—Ophélie Gaillard, Thomas Dausgaard
Cellist Ophélie Gaillard performs live in the studio for presenter Sarah Walker.
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17:00
In Tune—François-Frédéric Guy, Nao, Kathryn McCusker, Helen Charlston and Toby Carr
Pianist François-Frédéric Guy performs live in the studio.
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17:00
In Tune—National Open Youth Orchestra, Marian Consort
The Marian Consort perform live in the studio.
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17:00
In Tune—Trevor Pinnock, Graham Griffiths, Maria Zachariadou, Richard Leach
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
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17:00
J to Z—Daniel Casimir in session
Daniel Casimir in session, plus Kathrine Windfeld’s inspirations.
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17:00
The Listening Service—Going Slow
Tom Service on what happens when our music goes slow. (R)
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17:30
Words and Music—Cats
Felines in works by Chaucer, Aaron Copland, Stevie Smith, SF Said, Ravel and Hauschka.
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18:30
Opera on 3—Sir John in Love - Vaughan Williams 150
Vaughan Williams's rarely heard, Shakespeare-inspired opera, Sir John in Love.
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18:45
Between the Ears—Noise
A sonic trip through our tick-box, on-hold, automated world, turning bureaucracy into art.
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19:00
Classical Mixtape—Classical Music mix inspired by Vaughan Williams
An eclectic mix inspired by Radio 3's Vaughan Williams Today season.
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Orchestra of Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of St Cecilia in Beethoven, Mozart and Sibelius.
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19:00
Classical Mixtape—Classical music mix inspired by Vaughan Williams
An eclectic mix featuring works inspired by Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music.
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Music Inextinguishable
Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev, Kidane and Nielsen.
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19:00
Classical Mixtape—Classical music mix inspired by Vaughan Williams
Continuing our celebration of Vaughan Williams, a mixtape built around his Folksong Suite.
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—The Ordering of Moses
The CBSO give the UK premiere of Nathaniel Dett's oratorio The Ordering of Moses.
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19:00
Classical Mixtape—Classical music mix inspired by Vaughan Williams
An eclectic mix featuring Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony.
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—The Hallé, live from Bridgewater Hall
Mark Elder conducts The Hallé in Stravinsky, Strauss, Elena Langer and Vaughan Williams.
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19:00
Classical Mixtape—Classical music mix inspired by Vaughan Williams
An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Mari Samuelsen performs Glass
New music from Britain and the USA. Anna-Maria Helsing conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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19:15
Sunday Feature—Here Be Mermaids
Why are mermaids an ideal tool for describing things that our society does not understand?
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19:30
Drama on 3—Adventures with the Painted People
David Greig's compelling drama about love and culture set on the River Tay 2,000 years ago (R)
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21:05
Record Review Extra—Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music.
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22:00
Music Matters—Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená
Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená talk about performing the music of Kurt Weill together. (R)
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22:45
The Essay—Dietrich in Five Songs, Falling in Love Again
Marybeth Hamilton charts a song Dietrich initially loathed yet never stopped singing.
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22:00
Free Thinking—Mental Health
Anne McElvoy looks at ASMR, clean air, loneliness and a memoir exploring mental health.
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22:45
The Essay—Dietrich in Five Songs, When Love Dies
David Thomson charts the collaboration between Dietrich and director Joseph von Sternberg.
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22:00
Free Thinking—Soil
John Gallagher and guests dig deep into the significance of soil.
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22:45
The Essay—Dietrich in Five Songs, In the Ruins of Berlin
Karin Wieland analyses a song that charted Dietrich's bitter relationship with home.
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22:00
Free Thinking—Soho
Matthew Sweet is joined by Jingan Young, Benjamin Halligan and David McGillivray.
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22:45
The Essay—Dietrich in Five Songs, Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Paul Morley marks Dietrich's dive into a Pete Seeger anti-war folk song she transformed.
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22:00
The Verb—Books and Pens
Ian McMillan's guests Emma Smith, Naush Sabah and Gerry Cambridge celebrate books and pens
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22:45
The Essay—Dietrich in Five Songs, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
Le Gateau Chocolat revels in how Dietrich and Burt Bacharach reforged a classic show tune.
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22:00
New Music Show—Janet Beat, Jessica Curry, George Lewis and Dai Fujikura
Kate Molleson presents a work from the New Music Biennial 2021, She Who by Jessica Curry.
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23:00
Night Tracks—Music after dark
Hannah Peel with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
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23:00
Night Tracks—The constant harmony machine
Hannah Peel with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
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23:00
Night Tracks—Evening soundscape
Hannah Peel with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
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23:00
The Night Tracks Mix—Music for the darlking hour
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening
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23:30
Unclassified—Crashing waves and curlew calls
Escape with Elizabeth Alker for an hour of music that defies classification.
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23:00
Late Junction—Joe Rainey’s Mixtape
Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from Native American pow wow singer Joe Rainey.
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23:00
Anoushka Shankar's Journey Through Indian Classical Music—Carnatic Music
Anoushka Shankar takes us on a journey through the music of south India.