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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

29/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

John Shea concludes the programme with music by Chopin, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, F Mendelssohn and Schubert.

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: 29/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 29/04/2008

Including music by Gottschalk, Salieri, Schumann, Toldra, Milhaud and Lully.

Including Gottschalk: Ses yeux. Salieri: Sinfonia in Pantomima. Schumann: Manfred Overture. Toldra: Seis canciones (excerpts). Milhaud: Scaramouche.

Rob Cowan

Music includes: 
7.00-8.30: Gottschalk Ses Yeux 
Eugene List and Cary Lewis (pianos) Salieri Sinfonia in Pantomima 
Mannheim Mozart Orchestra, conductor Thomas Fey Schumann Overture: Manfred 
Bavarian RSO, conductor Rafael Kubelik 
8:30-10.00: Toldra Seis Canciones (excerpts) Teresa Berganza (mezzo), Juan Antonio Alvarez-Parejo (piano) Milhaud Scaramouche 
Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Oleg Maisenberg (piano) Lully Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (excerpts) 
Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski

Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: 29/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, 29/04/2008

With music by Haydn, Schumann, Bridge, Britten, CPE Bach, Alkan, Debussy and Vivaldi.

Including Haydn: Symphony No 44 in E minor. Schumann: Etudes symphoniques. Bridge: Enter Spring. Britten: Winter Words. CPE Bach: Solfeggietto in C minor. Alkan: Comme le vent.

With James Jolly. 
Haydn Symphony No 44 in E minor (Trauer) English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock 
10.22 Schumann Etudes Symphoniques, Op 13 Marc-André Hamelin (piano) 
10.48 Bridge Enter Spring 
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Groves 
11.08 Britten Winter Words Anthony Rolfe  Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) 
11.31 CPE Bach Solfeggietto in C minor, Wq117/2 Lyn Garland (piano) 
11.32 Alkan Comme le Vent (12 Etudes in minor keys, Op 39 No 1) Ronald Smith (piano) 
11.36 Debussy Etude No 7 (Pour les Degres Chromatiques) Mitsuko Uchida (piano) 
11.39 Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor, Op 1 No 12 (La Follia) Musica Antiqua, Koln 
11.49 Debussy Etudes: Nos 11 and 12 (Pour les Arpèges Composees; Pour les Accords) Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

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: Addinsell and Coward

Composer of the Week: Addinsell and Coward: Episode 2: Coward: Songs and Beyond

Episode 2

Episode 2: Coward: Songs and Beyond

Addinsell and Coward

Coward: Songs and Beyond

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Addinsell and Coward, Coward: Songs and Beyond

Donald Macleod explores Coward's lesser known music, focusing on an operetta and ballet.

Richard Addinsell and Noel Coward: 2/5. Coward: Songs and Beyond. Donald Macleod explores some of Coward's lesser known music, focusing on an operetta and ballet.

Donald Macleod explores the music of Richard Addinsell and his contemporary Noel Coward

Donald Macleod explores the music of Richard Addinsell and his close contemporary Noel Coward, who both composed songs and music for stage and screen from the 1920s to the 1960s

Composers of the Week: Addinsell and Coward: Coward: Songs and Beyond

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Noel Coward's more expansive forms of music for the stage and screen, composed with the help of orchestrators.

Coward

Sail Away - Noel Coward, unnamed orchestra, conductor Peter Matz

Ladies of the Town; If Love Were All, Dear Little Cafe (Bitter-Sweet) - Soloists and chorus of the New Sadler's Wells Opera, conductor Michael Reed

Private Lives - Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, unnamed orchestra, conductor Ray Noble

Symphonic Suite: The Astonished Heart - LSO, conductor William Blezard

I Travel Alone - Ian Bostridge, Jeffrey Tate (piano)

Parisian Pierrot - Noel Coward, Phoenix Theatre Orchestra, conductor Clifford Greenwood

London Morning (excerpt) - City of Prague PO, conductor Robin White

(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: 29/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 29/04/2008

The Lunchtime Concert features works by Cui, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov.

1.00pm Lunchtime Concert: A trio of musicians perform works by Cui, Borodin and Rimsky Korsakov. 2.20pm Russian and British Music: Featuring Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 2 in C minor.

With Suzy Klein. 
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 
In the first of four concerts from the Sage Gateshead, a trio of musicians perform works by three of the so-called Mighty Handful, five composers prominent in 19th-century Russia. 
Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), 
Alexander Chaushian (cello), Katya Apekisheva (piano) Cui Violin Sonata in D, Op 84 
Borodin Cello Sonata in B minor 
Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Trio in C minor 
2.20 Russian and British Music 
Arnold Guitar Concerto, Op 67 Craig Ogden , Ulster Orchestra, conductor Rumon Gamba Tchaikovsky Symphony No 2 in C minor (Little Russian) BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda 
Handel Sonata in D minor, HWV367a Sharon Bezaly (flute), Terence Charlston 
(harpsichord), Charles Medlam (viola da gamba) Bainton Concerto Fantasia for piano and orchestra Margaret Fingerhut, 
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Paul Daniel 
Rachmaninov The Bells, Op 35 Dmitri Voropaev (tenor), BBC National Chorus of Wales, London Symphony Chorus, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Vasily Petrenko

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: 29/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 29/04/2008

With conductor Pierre Boulez on his upcoming concerts with the LSO, and Leslie Howard.

Sean Rafferty has music and guests from the arts world. With conductor Pierre Boulez on his upcoming concerts with the LSO, and pianist Leslie Howard performing live in the studio.

Performance on 3

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

Performance on 3: 29/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, 29/04/2008

The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus and soloists perform Verdi's Requiem.

Catherine Bott presents a performance of Verdi's Requiem by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, and soloists, under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.

Presented by Catherine Bott. 
Barbara Frittoli (soprano), lldiko Komlosi (mezzo), Massimo Giordano (tenor), Ferruccio Furlanetto 
(bass), London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Jurowski Verdi Requiem

Composers of the Week:Addinsell and Coward

Night Waves

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Over 350 editions available in the archive.

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Search the extensive archive for interviews, debates and reviews. Go to Free Thinking for the new home of arts and ideas on Radio 3.

Night Waves: 29/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, 29/04/2008

Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to Sebastian Barry about his new novel The Secret Scripture.

Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to author Sebastian Barry about The Secret Scripture - the follow up to his Booker-shortlisted novel A Long Long Way.

Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to Sebastian Barry about The Secret Scripture - the follow-up to his Booker-shortlisted novel A Long Long Way. Producer Zahid Warley

Artist Focus

Programme focussing on the work of a specific artist

Programme focussing on the work of a specific artist.

This programme is no longer broadcast.  The details have been left here for information.

Artist Focus: 29/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Artist Focus, 29/04/2008

Featuring American violinist Joshua Bell, who performs Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1.

Catherine Bott profiles American violinist Joshua Bell in a programme that features his performance of Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1.

Joshua Bell performs a much-loved concerto - 
Bruch's Violin Concerto Nol. With Catherine Bott.

The Essay

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

Essay: Symmetry and the Monster

The Essay: Symmetry and the Monster: Episode 2

Symmetry and the Monster

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Symmetry and the Monster, Episode 2Close menu

Mark Ronan charts the progress of the Norwegian Sophus Lie as he develops Galois's ideas.

Symmetry and the Monster: Series on the quest to understand symmetry. 2/4. Professor Mark Ronan charts the progress of Norwegian Sophus Lie's work as he developed Galois' ideas.

The Essay: Symmetry and the Monster

Series exploring the quest to understand one of most famous mathematical problems

Symmetry and the Monster 
2/4. Professor Mark Ronan charts the quest of Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie, whose work led to advances in theoretical physics.

Late Junction

Journeys in music, ancient to future. The home for adventurous listeners

Late Junction: 29/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, 29/04/2008

With whale music by ecologist/composer David Rothenburg plus New York singer Dawn Landes.

Fiona Talkington's musical mix includes whale music by American ecologist/composer David Rothenburg, New York singer Dawn Landes and a slide guitar version of a Barry White classic.

Whale Music by American ecologist and composer David Rothenburg , the voice of New York singer 
Dawn Landes , and a slide-guitar arrangement of a Barry White classic. Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Through the Night: 30/04/2008

30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 30/04/2008

John Shea introduces works by Faure, Franck, Erkel, Wesley, Mozart, Wagner and Gorczycki.

Including 1.00 Faure, Franck, Erkel. 4.00 Wesley, Biber, Mozart, Fischer. 5.00 Beethoven, Wagner, CPE Bach, Gorczycki, Boieldieu, Rontgen, Zarzcki, Dutsch.

With John Shea. 
Fauri Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 1171.20 Franck Cello Sonata in A Andreas Brantelid , Bengt Forsberg 
(piano) 1.50 Erkel Bank Ban 4.00 Wesley Andante in E 
4.05 Biber Violin Sonata in C minor 4.20 Mozart 
Overture: Lucio Silla 4.35 Fischer Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland 4.50 Anon Suite: La Bourgogne 5.00 Beethoven Overture: Die Geschopfe des Prometheus 5.10 Waqner Mögst du, mein kind (Der Fliegende Hollander) 
5.15 Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K545 5.25 CPE Bach Sinfonia in D, Wq 183/15.35 Gorczycki Ecce Nunc Benedicite: Laetatus Sum 5.45 Chambonnieres 
Pavane: L'Entretien des Dieux 5.50 Boieldieu Viens 
Gentille Dame (La Dame Blanche) 6.00 Rbntqen Piano Trio in C minor, Op 50 No 4 6.20 Zarzycki Polish Suite 
6.45 Deutsch Overture: The Croatian Girl

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