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

20/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

John Shea concludes the programme with music by Goldmark, Vivaldi, Sermisy, Mozart, Vedro, Falla, Haydn, Dvorak, Larsson and Crusell.

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: 20/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 20/04/2008

Including works by C Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven, Durufle, Ravel and Elgar.

Including C Schumann: 3 Romances. Mozart: Two interludes (Thamos; Konig in Agypten). Beethoven: Concerto in C for violin and orchestra. Durufle: 4 motets sur des themes gregoriens.

Alexandra Wilson

Music includes: 
7.00-8.00: Clara Schumann Three Romances Micaela Gelius (piano), Sreten Krstic (violin), 
Stephen Haack (cello) Mozart Thamos , Konig in Agypten, K345 LSO, conductor Peter Maag 
8.00-9.00: Beethoven, compl Fischer Violin Concerto in C, WoO5 (fragment) 
Gidon Kremer , LSO, conductor Emil Tchakarov Duruflé Quatre Motets sur des Themes Grégoriens Schola Cantorum of Oxford, conductor Jeremy Summerly 
9.00-10.00: Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Nigel Kennedy (violin), Lynn Harrell (cello) Elgar Suite: The Spanish Lady 
Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conductor Gavin Sutherland

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: 20/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Morning, 20/04/2008

With Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre. Featuring music by Frank Bridge.

To mark Shakespeare's birthday, Iain is joined by Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre. Music includes works by Bridge, Schubert, Berlioz and Vaughan Williams.

lain Burnside

lain Burnside is joined by Nicholas Hytner. director of the National Theatre, to wish 
William Shakespeare many happy returns. Music includes Frank Bridge's There Is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook, and works by Schubert, Berlioz and Vaughan Williams. EMAIL: [address removed]

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: 20/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, 20/04/2008

Singer and songwriter PJ Harvey chooses music by Part, Vaughan Williams and Nina Simone.

Michael Berkeley's guest is singer and songwriter PJ Harvey, who chooses music by Part, Vaughan Williams, Nick Cave and Nina Simone.

J Michael Berkeley talks to PJ Harvey, one of the most successful female rock artists of her generation, whose latest album, White 
Chalk, was released last autumn. Her wide musical interests include works by Arvo Part, 
Vaughan Williams and Nick Cave , as well as Nina Simone 's version of You'll Never Walk Alone.

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: Antonio Caldara

Antonio Caldara

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Antonio Caldara

Exploring the life and music of Venetian-born baroque composer Antonio Caldara.

Antonio Caldara: Catherine Bott explores the life and music of Venetian-born baroque composer Antonio Caldara.

Catherine Bott presents a programme looking into the life and music of the Venetian born Baroque composer, Antonio Caldara.

Catherine Bott presents a programme that looks at the life and music of Venetian-born Baroque composer Antonio Caldara.

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: 20/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Requests, 20/04/2008

Music by Vaughan Williams, Dvorak and Schumann, plus music to remember Stephen Lawrence.

Chi-chi Nwanoku presents Radio 3 listeners' requests, with music by Vaughan Williams, Dvorak and Schumann. Plus music to remember Stephen Lawrence, who died 15 years ago this week.

Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces a selection of listeners' requests, with music by Vaughan Williams , Dvorak and Schumann. 
ADDRESS: Radio 3 Requests, BBC Wales, CF5 2YO 
Phone: [number removed] (calls from a landline cost no more than 8p per min) EMAIL: [address removed]

Choral Evensong

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: 20/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, 20/04/2008

From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.
Introit: Sermone Blando Angelus (Tallis).
Responses: Radcliffe. Psalm: 104 (Trent,
Parratt). First Lesson: Zechariah 4, vvHO.
Canticles: Coventry Service (Graham Whettam ). Second Lesson: Revelation 21, vvl-14. Anthem: Otcenas (Janacek). Final Hymn: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem (St Fulbert). Organ Voluntary: Paean (Leighton). Organ scholars Leon Charles and Tim Ravalde. Director of music Andrew Nethsingha.

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: History of the Serenade

Discovering Music: History of the Serenade: Episode 2

Episode 2

History of the Serenade

BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, History of the Serenade, Episode 2

Exploring the history of the serenade, focusing on the form after Mozart.

History of the Serenade: 2/2. Charles Hazlewood explores the history of the serenade and focuses on the form post Mozart, as exemplified in works by Dvorak and Martinu.

Charles Hazelwood explores the history of the serenade

Charles Hazelwood is joined by the National Orchestra of Wales to explore the history of the serenade

2/2. History of the Serenade. Charles Hazlewood concludes his history of the serenade, exploring what happened to the form after Mozart. He is joined by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to look in more depth at two post-Mozartian examples: Dvorak's Serenade for Strings and Martinu's Serenade for Chamber Orchestra.

Choir and Organ

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

The Choir

Choir and Organ: 20/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Choir and Organ, 20/04/2008

A look at Vaughan Williams's contribution to choral music plus the Leith Festival.

To mark 50 years since Vaughan Williams's death in 1958, Aled Jones explores the composer's contribution to choral music and visits the Leith Hill Festival, founded by him in 1905.

As part of Radio 3's programmes marking the 50th anniversary of the death in 1958 of Ralph Vaughan Williams , Aled Jones explores his contribution to choral music and visits the Leith Hill Festival, founded by the composer in 1905.

Drama on 3

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

Drama on 3: Yesterday an Incident Occurred

Yesterday an Incident Occurred

BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Yesterday an Incident Occurred

After an unprovoked attack in a shopping centre, no one comes forward as a witness.

Yesterday an Incident Occurred, by Mark Ravenhill: After an unprovoked attack takes place in a shopping centre, no one comes forward as a witness. How can justice be done?

Recorded in front of a live audience in the now disused Victorian civil court of St George 's Hall, Liverpool, Mark Ravenhill 's play looks at our relationship with the War on Terror and takes the moral temperature of a nation unsure of itself.  
Producer Kate Rowland

Performance on 3

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

Performance on 3: Catoire

Catoire

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, Catoire

Room-Music perform Catoire's Piano Trio in F minor and D minor Elegy for violin and piano.

A recording of the Room-Music ensemble performing Catoire's Piano Trio in F minor, Op 14 and Elegy in D minor for violin and piano, Op 26

Georgy L'vovich Catoire

Two of the Russian composer's chamber pieces performed by the ensemble Room-Music. - 
Piano Trio in F minor, Op 14; Elegy in D minor. Op 26

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: An American Legend: James Agee

16/09/2007

An American Legend: James Agee

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Blake Morrison visits the writer's home in Tennessee and follows his footsteps to Alabama.

An American Legend: James Agee. Blake Morrison visits Agee's hometown in Tennessee and talks to the writer's children to re-appraise this 'sovereign prince of the English language'.

Sunday Feature: An American Legend:James Agee

James Agee 's account of the lives of poor white farmers in 1930s Alabama, Let Us Now Praise 
Famous Men, is an exquisitely difficult classic, and his novel, A Death in the Family, won the Pulitzer Prize. He lived hard and was dead by the age of 45. Yet James Agee remains virtually unknown in the UK. Blake Morrison visits Agee's Tennessee hometown and follows in his footsteps to 
Alabama to re-appraise this "sovereign prince of the English language". Producer Alan Hall

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: Two Americas

08/04/2007

Two Americas

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William Hope and Yolanda Vasquez read poetry and prose on the theme of Two Americas.

Two Americas: William Hope and Yolanda Vasquez read poetry and prose on a theme of Two Americas, North and South. With music by Villa-Lobos, Aaron Copland and Charles Ives.

TWo Americas 
William Hope and Yolanda Vasquez read poetry and prose on the theme of Two Americas, North and South, including works by Wait Whitman , TS Eliot , Robert Frost , Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda. With music by Villa-Lobos, Copland, Piazzolla and Ives.  EMAIL: [address removed]
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic

The Early Music Show: Acis and Galatea

13/04/2008

Acis and Galatea

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Acis and Galatea

Lucie Skeaping explores Acis and Galatea, one of Handel's most popular works.

Acis and Galatea: Lucie Skeaping explores one of Handel's most popular works. With excerpts from recordings conducted by Trevor Pinnock, John Eliot Gardiner and Adrian Boult.

Lucie Skeaping looks in detail at one of Handel's most popular and enduring works: Acis & Galatea. With extracts from recordings by Trevor Pinnock, John Eliot Gardiner and Adrian Boult, among others.

Lucie Skeaping explores one of Handel's most popular vocal works: Acis and Galatea. With excerpts from recordings by Trevor Pinnock , among others. Producer Les Pratt

Through the Night: 21/04/2008

21/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 21/04/2008

John Shea introduces works by Bach, Britten, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Debussy and Chopin.

Including 1.00 Bach, Bruckner. 3.22 Tippett, Britten, Respighi. 5.00 Bach, Szymanowski, Roussel, Chopin.

With John Shea. Bach Cantatas: No 78. Jesu, derdu meine Seele: No 179: Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchlei sei; No 200: Bekennen will ich seinen 
Namen; Mass in G, BWV236.Z.09 Bruckner Symphony No 7 E 3.19 Anon Hanacpachap Cussicuinin (Ritual 
Formulario) 3.22 Tippett Dance, Clarion Air 3.27 Britten Canadian Carnival 3.40 J Strauss (son), arr Schoenberq Kaiser-Walzer , Op 437 3.52 Haydn Piano Trio in G. H XV 25 (Gypsy Rondo) 4.07 Dufay Balsamus et Munda Cera 
4.12 Respighl Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No 3 4.32 Pergolesi Violin Concerto in B flat 4.45 Schubert Scherzo No 1 in B flat, D593 4.52 Sibelius Petite Suite 5.00 
Bach Prelude in A minor, BWV922 5.06 Szymanowski String Quartet No 2, Op 56 5.23 Mendelssohn Organ Sonata in A,Op 65 No 3 5.34 G Gabrieli Sonata 18 a 14 
5.41 Kapp Dance of Saarepiiga and Kalevipoeg 
5.46 Svendsen Romance 5.55 Mosonyl Festival Music 
6.06 Roussel Three Pieces, Op 49 6.15 Debussy Trois Images 6.49 Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31

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