Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—05/10/2011
Jonathan Swain presents Donizetti's Opera L'Elisir d'amore from the Royal Opera House.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Wednesday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Verdi, Vaughan Williams and Strauss.
09:00
Essential Classics—Wednesday - Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan with a sequence of great music in classic recordings.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—William Schuman (1910-1992), Episode 3
3/5Schuman's all-American baseball opera The Mighty Casey and his Violin Concerto.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (2 of 4)
The Borodin Quartet perform a Tchaikovsky quartet preceded by an early Beethoven trio.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Mozart, Mahler, Shostakovich and Stanford.
15:30
Choral Evensong—Exeter Cathedral
From Exeter Cathedral.
16:30
In Tune—05/10/2011 Idina Menzel, Marvin Hamlisch, English Touring Opera
Glee comes to 3 - the great singer Idina Menzel sings live with Marvin Hamlisch at piano.
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Evening
18:30
Composer of the Week—William Schuman (1910-1992), Episode 3
3/5Schuman's all-American baseball opera The Mighty Casey and his Violin Concerto.
19:30
Radio 3 Live in Concert—Radio 3 Live in Concert, Berlioz, Mendelssohn
1/5Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth SO in music by Berlioz and Mendelssohn.
20:10
Twenty Minutes—Ryabov and Kozhin
A man confronts the former policeman who had a hand in his own father's fate years before.(R)
20:30
Radio 3 Live in Concert—Radio 3 Live in Concert, Prokofiev
2/5Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.
22:00
Night Waves—Claire Tomalin, Forward Poetry Prize, Gerhard Richter, The Iliad
Philip Dodd talks to Claire Tomalin about her new biography of Charles Dickens.
22:45
The Essay—The Darkest Hour, Episode 3
3/5Author AL Kennedy explores why she has always found the nights too thrilling to sleep.
23:00
Late Junction—Fiona Talkington - 05/10/2011
Fiona Talkington with music from Sevara Nazarkhan, Oskar Schinning and Bratsch.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—06/10/2011
Jonathan Swain's selection includes Brahms's Symphony No 4 and Dvorak's Piano Trio, Op 21.
