BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Through the Night

Continuous broadcast of concert music and opera, recorded from locations throughout Europe

Through the Night; Through the Night

Through the Night: Through the Night

30/03/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

John Shea concludes the programme with music by Butterworth, Grieg, Debussy, Abel, Mozart, Schnizer, Pachelbel, Jenner, Grainger and Jarzebski.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Breakfast

Radio 3's breakfast show, waking the UK up with the finest classical music in the best performances

Breakfast: 30/03/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 30/03/2008

Including music by Coleridge-Taylor, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Copland and Bach.

Including Coleridge-Taylor: Petite suite de concert. Holst: Ave Maria. Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs. Various: Variations on an Elizabethan Theme.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Music includes: 
7.00-8.00: Coleridge-Taylor Petite Suite de Concert New London Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp Hoist Ave Maria Westminster Cathedral Choir, conductor James O'Donnell 
8.00-9.00: Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano) 
Tippett, Britten, Walton et al Variations on Sellinger's Round 
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jac van Steen 
9.00-10.00: Copland An Outdoor Overture 
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conductor Erich Kunzel Bach Cantata No 67: Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ Soloists, Amsterdam Baroque Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Ton Koopman

Sunday Morning

Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Iain Burnside

Sunday Morning: 30/03/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Morning, 30/03/2008

Iain ponders the relationship between music and sexuality.

Iain ponders the relationship between music and sexuality with cultural commentator David Benedict. The music includes pieces by Szymanowski, Saint-Saens, Britten and Tippett.

Iain Burnside introduces a typically eclectic miscellany of musical treasures and surprises.
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Private Passions

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives

Private Passions: 30/03/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, 30/03/2008

Former dancer Paul Old chooses music by Steve Reich, John Cage and Nina Simone.

Michael Berkeley's guest is former dancer Paul Old, who chooses pieces by Steve Reich, Gavin Bryars and John Cage as well as songs by Leonard Cohen and Nina Simone.

Michael Berkeley meets Paul Old , a former dancer with the Rambert and Siobhan Davies dance companies, who is now enjoying a second career as a wine-maker in the Languedoc region of France. His choices are influenced by his interest in contemporary music, with works by Steve Reich , Peter Maxwell Davies , Gavin Bryars and John Cage , but also include songs performed by Leonard Cohen and Nina Simone.

The Early Music Show

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Dufay's Europe

Dufay's Europe

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Dufay's Europe

A look at the career of composer Guillaume Dufay.

Lucie Skeaping reflects on the career of the composer Guillaume Dufay, who spent much of his career working in some of the most active political centres of the day.

Guillaume Dufay was one of the most famous and successful composers of the mid 15th century. Born in Cambrai in what is now northern France, he spent most of his career touring Europe, working in some of the most important and influential centres of his day. He found himself in the middle of many of the major political struggles comfronting the 15th century which inevitably had a profound impact both on his life and music. Lucie Skeaping reflects on Dufay's Europe.

Dufay's Europe 
Guillaume Dufay was one of the most famous and successful composers of the mid-15th century, and spent most of his career working in some of the most active political centres of the day. Lucie Skeaping reflects on Dufay's Europe. Producer Chris Wines

Radio 3 Requests

Weekly pick of music requests from Radio 3 listeners

Radio 3 Requests features a wide breadth of classical works requested by the station's listeners.

The final edition of Radio 3 Requests was broadcast on 1st May 2011.  We can no longer accept new requests.

Radio 3 Requests: 30/03/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Requests, 30/03/2008

Chi-chi Nwanoku plays listeners' requests, which include Mahler's Ruckert Lieder.

Chi-chi Nwanoku plays listeners' requests, which include Mahler's Ruckert Lieder, Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 and a rarely heard work by Verdi.

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces another selection of listeners' favourites. 
ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, CF5 2YO 
Phone: [number removed] (calls from a landline cost no more than 8p a minute) EMAIL: radio3requests®bbc.co.uk

Choral Evensong

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: 30/03/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, 30/03/2008

From Portsmouth Cathedral. Introit: Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe (Harris). Responses: Rose. Office Hymn: Now is Eternal Life 
(Christchurch). Psalms: 30,114 (Howells, Bairstow). First Lesson: Daniel 6, vv6-23. 
Canticles: Brewer in D. Second Lesson: Mark 15, v46-end: 16, v1-8. Anthem: Great Is the Lord (Elgar). Final Hymn: The Day of Resurrection 
(Ellacombe). Organ Voluntary: Paean (Howells). Organist and Master of the Choristers David Price. Sub-organist Marcus Wibberley.

Discovering Music

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week, looking at the musical form or the composer's style, and exploring the many things contributing to the overall experience

Discovering Music: Schubert's Trout Quintet

23/12/2007

Schubert's Trout Quintet

BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, Schubert's Trout Quintet

Stephen Johnson with the Gould Piano Trio and friends explore Schubert's Quintet.

Stephen Johnson explores the structure and background of one of Schubert's best-loved chamber pieces with the Gould Piano Trio and friends.

Recorded before the Norfolk and Norwich Music Club, Stephen Johnson explores, with the help of the Gould Piano Trio and friends, the structure and background of one of Schubert's best-loved chamber pieces, the Trout Quintet.

At the Norfolk and Norwich Music Club, Stephen Johnson explores one of Schubert's best-loved chamber pieces, the Trout quintet, performed by the Gould Piano Trio and friends.

Choir and Organ

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an irresistible mix of music and singing.

The Choir

Choir and Organ: 30/03/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Choir and Organ, 30/03/2008

Aled talks to a choir director hoping to perform large-scale Western choral music in China

Aled Jones is joined from Beijing by a choir director hoping to perform large-scale Western choral music in China. Plus a visit to New York to look at the gay choral scene.

Aled Jones is joined from Beijing by a choir director on a one-man mission to perform large-scale Western choral music in China.

Drama on 3

Series of drama performances, ranging from experimental works to the Classics

Drama on 3: A Long Way from Home

A Long Way from Home

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A play about the singer Marvin Gaye's final years, spent in Begium.

A Long Way from Home, by Caryl Phillips: A play about the singer Marvin Gaye's final years, spent in Begium, where he composed the song Sexual Healing shortly before his murder.

Marvin Gaye was an iconic musician who found a new kind of fame in death when he was murdered by his own father. 
Caryl Phillips's drama imagines the conflicting forces in Gaye's life that formed him and failed him. The story focuses on the final years when he was offered a lifeline in the unlikely setting of Belgium's Ostend where he would compose Sexual Healing.    
Producer Chris Wallis ; Director Ned Chaillet

Sunday Feature

Exploring music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

In-depth documentaries which explore music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.

Sunday Feature: Homer's Landscapes

Sunday Feature: Homer's Landscapes: Episode 1: The Poet and His World

Episode 1

Episode 1: The Poet and His World

Homer's Landscapes

The Poet and His World

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Homer's Landscapes, The Poet and His World

Focusing on the locations from where Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were said to have come.

Adam Nicolson visits the locations from where Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were said to have come.

Adam Nicolson travels along the eastern Mediterranean, from the Ionian Sea to the western coast of Turkey to trace the origins of the poems at the root of modern European thought.

Visiting the island of Chios, where Homer might have come from, and then travelling on to Troy and Ithaca and sailing the Aegean, Adam reads The Iliad and The Odyssey, to explore their landscapes and world from which these important epic poems emerged.

Adam Nicolson traces the origins of the poems at the root of modern European thought

Adam Nicolson travels along the eastern Mediterranean, from the Ionian Sea to the western coast of Turkey to trace the origins of the poems at the root of modern European thought

1/3. The Poet and His World. Over three programmes, Adam Nicolson travels the eastern Mediterranean from the Ionian Sea to the western coast of Turkey to investigate the landscapes of Homer's poems. Visiting the island of Chios, where 
Homer might have come from, travelling on to Troy and Ithaca and sailing the Aegean, he reads The Iliad and The Odyssey to explore the world from which these epic poems emerged. Producer Tim Dee

Words and Music

A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: A Change in the Weather

A Change in the Weather

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Mark Strong and Niamh Cusack read poetry on the theme of the weather.

A Change in the Weather: Mark Strong and Niamh Cusack read poetry on the theme of the weather. Including writings by Donne, Auden and AA Milne, and music from Ravel and Gershwin.

A Change in the Weather 
Mark Strong and Niamh Cusack read poetry on the ever-changing weather by John Donne , AA Milne , Christina Rossetti , Austin Clarke , Laurence Binyon , Shakespeare, WH Auden and Ted Hughes. Music includes works by Ravel, Gershwin, 
Flanders and Swann, Mahler and Chopin, and the unearthly ice music of Terje Isungset. EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk 
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visitwww.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic

The Early Music Show: Henry VIII

30/06/2007

Henry VIII

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Henry VIII

Lucie Skeaping presents a selection of secular music from the so-called "Henry VIII" manuscript, including works by Henry VIII himself,  Cornysh and Fayrfax, both important musicians in Henry's court.

Henry VIII was one of the most remarkable and formidable English monarchs.  The portrayal of Henry as a cantankerous despot has outshone the youthful Henry who was devoted to sports and arts.  In his twenties and thirties, Henry penned several secular compositions, a variety of partsongs and consorts, 34 of which were compiled in the so-called "Henry VIII manuscript".  This manuscript also included works by several other musicians who passed through Henry's court, such as William Cornysh and Robert Fayrfax, and in today's programme Lucie Skeaping presents a selection of secular music from this manuscript.

PLAYLIST:

Anon: Greensleeves
I Fagiolini
The Forbury Consort
Cantoris  CRCD2365
Track 19

Henry VIII: Pastyme with good companye
I Fagiolini
The Forbury Consort
Cantoris  CRCD2365
Track 1

Henry VIII: Consort V (extract)
Sirinu
Chandos CHAN 0621
Track 5

Henry VIII: O my heart
The Hilliard Ensemble
Saga Classics  SCD9003
Track 5

Henry VIII: Gentil prince de renom (extract)
Sirinu
Chandos CHAN 0621
Track 29

Robert Fayrfax: Somewhat musing
The Hilliard Ensemble
Saga Classics  SCD9008
Track 8

Henry VIII: Consort XX (extract)
Members of the New London Consort
Saga Classics  SCD9003
Track 7

Heinrich Isaac: La my (extract)
Musica Antiqua of London
Amon RA CDSAR51
Track 3

William Cornysh (jnr): A robyn, gentyl robyn
I Fagiolini
Cantoris  CRCD2365
Track 5

Anon: Time to Pass with Goodly Sport / Taunder naken
The City Waites
SoundAlive SAMT008 CD
Track 22

Anon: England be Glad
The City Waites
SoundAlive SAMFNCD 301
Track 1

William Cornysh (jnr): Trolly lolly
I Fagiolini
The Forbury Consort
Cantoris  CRCD2365
Track 7

Anon: I am a jolly foster
The City Waites
SoundAlive SAMFNCD 301
Track 9

Richard Pygott: Quid petis, O fili
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, director
Collins Classics 14922
Track 10

Jacques Barbireau: En frolyk weson
The Hilliard Ensemble
Members of the New London Consort
Saga Classics  SCD 9003
Track 11

Henry VIII: Consort XVI
Sirinu
Chandos CHAN 0621
Track 16

Anon: Puzzle canon VI
The Hilliard Ensemble
Members of the New London Consort
Saga Classics  SCD 9003
Track 17

William Cornysh (jnr): Yow and I and Amyas
Emily Van Evera, soprano
Andrew Lawrence-King
CRD 3448 CRD
Track 22

Henry VII: Helas Madame
Pro Cantione Antiqua
Harmonia Mundi GD77178
CD 2 track 9

Henry VIII: Thow that men do call it dotage
Sirinu
Chandos CHAN 0621
Track 3

Producer: Rebecca Bean
BBC Manchester

Henry VIII 
Lucie Skeaping presents music from the so-called "Henry VIII manuscript". Producer Rebecca Bean

Through the Night: 31/03/2008

31/03/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 31/03/2008

John Shea introduces works by Enescu, Beethoven, Bach, Dvorak, Durante and Strauss.

Including 1.00 Enescu, Constantinescu, Negrea, Constantiniu, Grefiens, Buciu, Donceanu, Pascanu, Pop, Spatarelu, Beethoven. 2.57 Bach, Dvorak, Mozart. 5.00 Vivaldi, Kutev, Ireland.

With John Shea. Enescu Waldgesang Constantinescu Axion Neqrea Psalm 123 Constantiniu In the Sunset 
Grefiens Cranes Dan Buciu Dreaming Felicia Donceanu Among Birds Pascanu May Night Adrian Pop Das Wasser Spatarelu Towards Jarda Ma luai, luai Oschanitzky Two Lai Carols Cezar Flames and Wheels (excerpt) Diana Voda The Little Crocodile 2.02 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) 2.57 Bach Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor, BWV1003 3.20 Dvorak Piano Concerto in G minor 
4.00 Durante Concerto No 5 in A 4.08 Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome) 4.17 Mozart Flute Quartet in G, K285a 4.27 Piston Prelude and Allegro 4.38 Gallot Pièces de Lute in F minor 4.49 J Strauss (son) An der schonen blauen Donau, Op 314 5.00 Vivaldi Concerto in C for two trumpets and orchestra. RV537 5.07 Forster Jesu Dulcis Memoria 5.14 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 
5.21 Strauss Love Scene (Feuersnot) 5.31 Kutev Pastoral 
5.42 Bach Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV1056 
5.53 Gluck, arr Salzedo Gavotte (Iphigenie en Aulide) 
5.57 Saint-Saens Havanaise 6.06 Kabalevsky Suite: The Comedians 6.24 Ireland A Dowland Suite 
6.41 Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191

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