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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

30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, Through the Night

John Shea concludes the programme with music by Beethoven, Wagner, Mozart, CPE Bach, Gorczycki, Chambonnieres, Boieldieu, Rontgen, Zarzycki and Dutsch.

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: 30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, 30/04/2008

Including music by Cimarosa, Bach, Handel, Bartok, Roussel and Schubert.

Including Cimarosa: Overture (Il fanatico per gli antichi romani). Bach: Kantate: Sehet, wir geh'n hinauf gen Jerusalem. Handel: Passacaille. Roussel: Le festin de l'araignee.

Rob Cowan

Music includes: 
7.00-8.30: Cimarosa Overture: II Fanatico per gli Antichi Romani Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, conductor Armin Jordan 
Bach Cantata No 159: Sehet, wirgeh'n hinaufgen Jerusalem Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), St Hedwigs Cathedral Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Karl Forster 
Handel Passacaille Anne Queffelec (piano) 
8:30-10.00: Bartok Rhapsody No 1 Andre Gertler (violin), Brno PO, conductor Janos Ferencsik Roussel Le Festin de L'Araignée 
Orchestre Colonne, conductor Pierre Dervaux Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor, D784 Alfred Brendel

Classical Collection

Programme presenting a sequence of great music in classic recordings

Classical Collection: 30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, 30/04/2008

Including music by Stravinsky, Czerny, Rachmaninov, Simpson, Haydn, Chopin and Arnell.

Including Stravinsky: Four studies for orchestra. Czerny: Two studies for four hands. Goldmark: Violin Concerto in A minor. Rachmaninov: Etudes tableaux. Simpson: Volcano.

With James Jolly. 
Stravinsky Four Studies for orchestra Montreal SO, conductor Charles Dutoit 
10.11 Czerny Two Studies for four hands, Op 74: 
No 45; No 20 Isabel Beyer and Harvey Dagul (piano) 
10.16 Goldmark Violin Concerto in A minor Joshua Bell , Los Angeles PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen 
10.50 Rachmaninov Etudes Tableaux: Op 59 No 8; Op Posth No 3 Arcadi  Volodos  (piano) 
11.00 Simpson Symphonic Study (Volcano) Desford Colliery Caterpillar Band, conductor James Watson 
11.13 Haydn Symphony No 51 in B flat Austro-
Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, conductor Adam Fischer 
11.33 Chopin Etudes, Op 10 (excerpts) Murray Perahia (piano) 
11.47 Amell Overture: The New Age Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates

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 3: The Second World War

Episode 3

Episode 3: The Second World War

Addinsell and Coward

The Second World War

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Addinsell and Coward, The Second World War

Donald Macleod explores the roles Addinsell and Coward played during World War II.

Richard Addinsell and Noel Coward: 3/5. The Second World War: Donald Macleod explores the roles Addinsell and Coward played during the war. Featuring Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto.

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

3/5. The Second World War Donald Macleod is joined by Philip Lane to explore the composers' contributions to the war effort, with Coward dabbling in espionage and Addinsell working for the Crown Film Unit scoring propaganda films. Coward Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans Noël Coward, Robb Stewart (piano) 
Addinsell Gaslight: Cavalry of the Clouds March (The Lion Has Wings) Royal Ballet Sinfonia, conductor Kenneth  Alwyn  Coward London Pride 
Noël  Coward , conductor Carroll Gibbons 
Nina Noël  Coward , Piccadilly Theatre Orchestra, conductor Mantovani 
Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun Noël  Coward , conductor Carroll Gibbons Addinsell Love on the Dole 
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Rumon Gamba I'm Going to See You Today 
Nothing New to Tell You Joyce Grenfell , unnamed orchestra, conductor William Blezard Warsaw Concerto Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), BBCSO, conductor Hugh Wolff Rptd 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: 30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 30/04/2008

The Lunchtime Concert features songs by Borodin, Cui and Mussorgsky.

1.00pm Lunchtime Concert: Sergei Leiferkus and Semyon Skigin perform songs by Borodin, Cui and Mussorgsky. 2.00pm Russian and British Music: Featuring Rachmaninov's Symphony No 1.

With Suzy Klein. 
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 
Continuing the Russian Romantic repertoire in this week of concerts from the Sage Gateshead, baritone Sergei Leiferkus and pianist Semyon Skigin perform songs by Borodin and Cui, and Musorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death. 
2.00 Russian and British Music 
Britten Sinfonietta for ten instruments, Op 1 BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Rumon Gamba 
Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet BBCSO, conductor Lionel Bringuier 
Bliss Violin Concerto Lydia Mordkovitch , BBC NOW, conductor Richard Hickox 
Britten Nocturne for tenor, seven instruments and string orchestra, Op 60 Allan Clayton (tenor), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Rumon Gamba Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor BBC NOW, conductor Owain Arwel Hughes

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: 30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 30/04/2008

With Amanda Roocroft and director John Copley on a new version of Lehar's Merry Widow.

Sean Rafferty's guests include soprano Amanda Roocroft and director John Copley, who talk about a new version of Lehar's Merry Widow. Sean also chats to tenor Roberto Alagna.

Performance on 3

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

Performance on 3: 30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Performance on 3, 30/04/2008

Russian chamber music, featuring works by Glazunov, Gliere, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

Catherine Bott presents a concert of Russian chamber music. Featuring Glazunov's Two Pieces, Gliere's Duets and Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor.

Catherine Bott presents a concert of Russian chamber music given earlier this month at Wigmore Hall. 
Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Olli Mustonen (piano) 
Glazunov Two Pieces, Op 20 Gliere Duets, Op 39 
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 1, Op 80 Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2, Op 67

Composers Of the Week

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: 30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, 30/04/2008

American writer Nicholson Baker discusses his new book Human Smoke.

Philip Dodd talks to American writer Nicholson Baker about his new book Human Smoke, which explores the social landscape and political decisions which led to the Second World War.

Philip Dodd talks to the American writer 
Nicholson Baker about his controversial new book Human Smoke. Producer MohitBakaya

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: 30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Artist Focus, 30/04/2008

Featuring Joshua Bell, who performs John Corigliano's music for the film The Red Violin.

Catherine Bott profiles violinist Joshua Bell, who is heard performing John Corigliano's music for the film The Red Violin.

Catherine Bott presents a sequence of music with a featured performer; tonight, Joshua Bell with John Corigliano 's music for the film The Red Violin.

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 3

Symmetry and the Monster

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

Mark Ronan follows the work in the 1930s of Harvard mathematician Richard Brauer.

Symmetry and the Monster: Series on the quest to understand symmetry. 3/4. Professor Mark Ronan follows the work of Richard Brauer in the 1930s.

The Essay: Symmetry and the Monster

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

The Essay Symmetry and the Monster

3/4. Professor Mark Ronan follows the journey of Jewish mathematician Richard Brauer , who left Germany in the 1930s for Toronto before moving on to Harvard, where he influenced a new generation of mathematicians.

Late Junction

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

Late Junction: 30/04/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, 30/04/2008

With Catherine Lambert singing 14th century songs and Sigrid Molestad playing fiddle music

Fiona Talkington's musical mix includes Catherine Lambert singing 14th century songs, Sigrid Molestad playing 18th century Norwegian fiddle music plus Indian classical music.

Catherine Lambert sings 14th-century songs by Machaut, Sigrid Molestad plays 18th-century 
Norwegian fiddle music, and Debashish Bhattachayra brings Indian classical music up to date.

Through the Night: 01/05/2008

01/05/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Through the Night, 01/05/2008

John Shea presents works by Schubert, Chopin, Strauss, Dussek, Handel, Beethoven and Bach.

Including 1.00 Muffat, Lully, Schubert, Chopin. 3.10 Strauss, Dussek, Csiky, Schubert, Haydn. 5.05 Handel, Nardelli, Frederick the Great, Sarasate, De Fesch, Beethoven, Bach.

With John Shea. Muffat Concerto IV in F minor (Dulce Somnium) Corelli Concerto in C, Op 6 No 10 
Lully Suite: Psyche Muffat Concerto V in D (Saeculum) Holland Baroque Society, conductor Matthew Halls 
1.50 Schubert/Mahler Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden) 2.30 Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor 
3.10 Strauss Sinfonia Domestica 3.55 Maldere Sinfonia inFa4 4.05 Dussek Piano Sonata in D, Op 31 No 
4.25 Csiky Wind Divertimento 4.40 Schubert Notturno in E flat, D897 4.50 Haydn String Trio in B flat, Op 53 No 
5.05 Handel Gentle Morpheus, Son of Night (Alceste) 
5.20 Nardelli Three Pieces 5.30 Frederick the Great Flute Sonata in C minor 5.40 Sarasate 
Zigeunerweisen 5.55 Willem de Fesch Concerto in D, Op 5 No 16.05 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op m 6.30 Bach Magnificat in D, BWV243

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