Schedule
Early
01:00
Through the Night—29/05/2009
Music including Coleridge-Taylor, Vaughan Williams, Dowland, Locke, Elgar and Strauss.
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Morning
07:00
Breakfast—Sara Mohr-Pietsch
With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Including at 8.30am Clive James reading his poem Signing Ceremony.
10:00
Classical Collection—Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker presents music by Haydn, Abel, Schumann, Gershwin, Lutoslawski and Mozart.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—John McCabe (1939- ), Episode 5
5/5Donald Macleod talks to John McCabe about his future as a composer and a performer.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—The Frick Collection, Julian Rachlin and Itamar Golan
4/4With Ian Skelly. Julian Rachlin (violin), Itamar Golan (piano) in Dvorak and Britten.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Kings and Queens, Handel: Riccardo Primo, Act 3
5/5Ian Skelly presents Act 3 of Handel's Riccardo Primo. Plus Smetana, Bliss, Rubbra, Elgar.
14:02
Handel Opera Cycle—Riccardo Primo, Riccardo Primo, Act 3
2/2Ian Skelly presents Act 3 of Handel's Riccardo Primo.
17:00
In Tune—29/05/2009 Ivan Ilic and Grange Park Opera
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With pianist Ivan Ilic and Grange Park Opera.
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Evening
19:00
Performance on 3—Mendelssohn, Bach, Fri, 29th May 2009 - Part 1
1/2Choral and organ music by Mendelssohn and the composer he most admired - Bach.
19:50
Twenty Minutes—A Tale Told by Moonlight
By Leonard Woolf. An English novelist visiting Ceylon falls in love with a prostitute.(R)
20:10
Performance on 3—Mendelssohn, Bach, Fri, 29th May 2009 - Part 2
2/2BBC Singers perform Mendelssohn: Aus Tiefer not; Fantasia and Fugue in G minor.
21:15
The Verb—Seamus Heaney
Ian McMillan talks to Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.
22:00
Composer of the Week—John McCabe (1939- ), Episode 5
5/5Donald Macleod talks to John McCabe about his future as a composer and a performer.
23:00
The Essay—Looking for Ghosts, Vienna Holocaust Memorial
5/5Michael Goldfarb visits Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust memorial in Vienna.
23:15
World on 3—Mary Ann Kennedy
Mary Ann Kennedy presents a studio session from the Michael McGoldrick Band.
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Late
01:00
Through the Night—30/05/2009
Music including Chopin, Beethoven, Dvorak, J Strauss II, Stenhammar, Giuliani and Bach.
