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

18/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

Jonathan Swain concludes the programme with music by Wagner, Giovanelli, Bernardi, Mozart, Bridge, Schubert, Moritz, CPE Bach, Rory, La Rue, Schumann, Hartmann and Sibelius.

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: 18/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 18/04/2008

Including music by Whitacre, Massenet, Gibbons, Verdi, Grainger and Ravel.

Including Whitacre: Sleep. Massenet: Meditation (Thais). Gibbons: Fantasia a 4 for the Great Dooble-Base. Verdi: Ah si, ben mio... Di quella pira (Il Trovatore).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Music includes: 
7.00-8.30: Eric Whitacre Sleep 
Polyphony, conductor Stephen Layton Massenet Méditation (Thais) 
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Vienna PO, conductor James Levine 
Gibbons Fantasia a 4 for the Great Dooble-Base 
Fretwork 
8.30-10.00: Verdi Di Quella Pira'(II Trovatore) Placido Domingo  (tenor), Los Angeles PO, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini 
Grainger Random Round ('Set' version) 
Susan Gritton (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Mark Tucker (tenor), City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox Ravel La Valse 
Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire (pianos)

Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: 18/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, 18/04/2008

James Jolly introduces music by Bach, The Beatles, Delius, Kodaly, Schumann and Donizetti.

Including Bach: Fantasia in G. Delius: Violin Concerto. Kodaly: Missa brevis. Schumann: Symphony No 2 in C. Donizetti: Rondo finale (L'eremitaggio di Liverpool).

Introduced by James Jolly. Bach Fantasia in G, BWV572 Noel Rawsthorne (organ) 
10.16 Delius Violin Concerto 
Albert Sammons , RLPO, conductor Malcolm Sargent 
10.41 Kodaly Missa Brevis 
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, 
Stephen Layton (organ), director Stephen Cleobury 
11.10 Schumann Symphony No 2 in C RLPO, conductor Marek Janowski 
11.47 Donizetti Rondo Finale: L'Eremitaggio di Liverpool 
Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Geoffrey Mitchell Choir , Philharmonia, conductor David Parry

Composer of the Week

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Claude Debussy

Composer of the Week: Claude Debussy: Episode 5: The Final Chapter

Episode 5

Episode 5: The Final Chapter

Claude Debussy

The Final Chapter

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Claude Debussy, The Final Chapter

Looking at the complex and contradictory nature of Debussy's character.

Claude Debussy (1862-1918): 5/5. The Final Chapter: Donald Macleod examines what has been described as the complex and contradictory nature of Debussy's character.

Donald Macleod examines the life and work of Claude Debussy

Composer of the Week: Debussy

5/5. The Final Chapter. Donald Macleod builds a complex and contradictory picture of Debussy. Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé 
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Jose van Immerseel (piano) Iberia (Images, No 2) 
Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit Violin Sonata 
Augustin Dumay , Maria Joao Pires  (piano) Dialogue du Vent (La Mer) 
Philharmonia, conductor Geoffrey Simon Repeated at 8.45pm

Afternoon Concert

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3

Afternoon Concert: 18/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 18/04/2008

Lunchtime Concert: Britten Sinfonia. British Symphony Series: Ralph Vaughan Williams.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Britten Sinfonia. 2.00pm British Symphony Series: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Including Symphony No 9. BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis.

Introduced by Louise Fryer. 
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 
This week's final concert from Cambridge features an unusual work for piano left-hand only. Members of the Britten Sinfonia Holbome Music for Brass Oliver Knussen Masks 
Pawel Lukaszewski Concertino 
Locke For His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts Janacek Capriccio 
2.00 British Symphony Series 
Ralph Vauqhan Williams (1872-1958) 
Vaughan Williams completed his last symphony, at the age of 85 in 1958, the year of his death. Larchet Nocturne: By the Waters of Moyle Ulster Orchestra, conductor Celso Antunes 
William Schuman New England Triptych BBC NOW, conductor Edwin Outwater Ginastera Harp Concerto Catrin Finch , BBC NOW, conductor Josep Caballe-Domenech Martinu Estampes 
BBC NOW, conductor Walter Weller Poulenc Le Travail du Peintre 
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) 
Sean 0 Riada Nomos No 1 (Hercules Dux Ferrariae) Ulster Orchestra, conductor Celso Antunes Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 
Steven Isserlis , BBC NOW, conductor Walter Weller Herrmann Suite: Psycho 
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Robert Ziegler Vaughan Williams Symphony No 9 
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis

In Tune

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians. If it's happening in the world of music, you'll hear it first on In Tune.

In Tune: 18/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 18/04/2008

With the Saraband Consort and Valery Gergiev in conversation with Sean Rafferty.

Sean Rafferty talks to the Saraband Consort ahead of a concert at The Nave, London. Plus Valery Gergiev in conversation during recent rehearsals with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Performance on 3

Performance on 3 has been replaced by Radio 3 Live in Concert.

Performance on 3: 18/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, 18/04/2008

Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform music by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky

Catherine Bott presents a concert given by Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, who perform Beethoven's Leonore Overture No 3 and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique symphony.

Catherine Bott introduces a concert from the 2007 Lucerne festival, featuring the orchestra founded by Daniel Barenboim. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim 
Beethoven Overture: Leonore, No 3 Schoenberq Variations for Orchestra 
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathetigue)

The Verb

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance

The Verb: 18/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, 18/04/2008

With Adam Foulds on his narrative poem about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya.

Ian McMillan talks to Adam Foulds about his narrative poem on the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. Plus Jon Canter on his new comic creation and David Gaffney's 'sawn off' opera.

Ian McMillan showcases new writing, performance and global literature.

Jazz Library

Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings

Programme offering advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings or adding to an existing one

Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.

Jazz Library: Ken Colyer

Ken Colyer

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Ken Colyer

With recordings of jazz trumpeter Ken Colyer, who led Britain's New Orleans revival.

Ken Colyer: Alyn Shipton and Colyer's biographer Michael Pointon explore the recordings of the man who became known as 'the Guvnor' of the New Orleans Revival in Britain.

Ken Colyer 
On what would have been Ken Colyer 's 80th birthday, Alyn Shipton and Michael Pointon , Colyer's biographer, look back over the trumpeter's recordings. Producer Alyn Shipton

Jazz on 3

Celebrating the best contemporary jazz, with exclusive concert recordings and features

From free jazz to fusion, post-bop to electronica – Jazz on 3 celebrates the music as a living and developing art form, with exclusive concert recordings and in-depth features

Jazz on 3: Gato Libre

Gato Libre

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz on 3, Gato Libre

A gig recorded at the Seven Arts Club featuring Japanese quartet Gato Libre.

Gato Libre: Jez Nelson presents a gig recorded in February, with Japanese quartet Gato Libre led by husband-and-wife duo of trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii on accordion.

Gato Libre 
Jez Nelson presents a gig by Japanese quartet GatO Libre. Producer Robert Abel

Through the Night: 19/04/2008

19/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 19/04/2008

Jonathan Swain introduces works by Berlioz, Chopin, Schoeck, Mendelssohn and Telemann.

Including 1.00 Berlioz. 3.06 Chopin, Ravel, Schoeck, Mendelssohn, Dautrecourt, Mozart, CPE Bach. 5.00 Gounod, Fux, Palestrina, Schumann, Prokofiev, Boccherini, Duparc, Telemann.

With Jonathan Swain.

Berlioz The Damnation of Faust

3.06 Chopin, arr Liszt Meine Freuden

3.11 Ravel, transcr Kocsis Pavane pour une Infante Defunte

3.17 Lawes Suite a 4 in G minor

3.24 Schoeck Violin Concerto in B flat, Op 21 (Quasi una Fantasia)

4.00 Gibbons What Is Our Life?

4.05 Merikanto Merella

4.09 Mendelssohn Overture: Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt

4.22 Dautrecourt Concert a Deux Violes No 44 (Tombeau des Regrets)

4.33 Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191

4.50 CPE Bach Allegretto con Variazoni in C, Wq118/5

5.00 Gounod Salut, Demeure Chaste et Pure (Faust)

5.04 Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op 35 No 1

5.14 Fux Turcaria (1683)

5.26 Palestrina Tu Es Petrus

5.33 Langlais Mon Ame Cherche un Fin Paisible (Neuf Pieces, Op 40 No 7)

5.37 Mozart Fuga in G minor, KV401

5.42 Satie, arr Milhaud Jack-in-the-Box Pantomime

5.49 Schumann/Liszt Widmung, Op 25 No 1

5.53 Prokofiev Cinderella's Waltz (Cinderella Suite No 1)

5.59 Boccherini Cello Concerto No 6 in D

6.16 CPE Bach Keyboard Sonata in G minor, Wq65/17

6.30 Duparc Limitation au Voyage: La Vague et la Cloche

6.41 Telemann Overture des Nations Anciens et Modemes in G, TWV55 No 4

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