Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—18/01/2012
Susan Sharpe presents the opera Pierre de Medicis by Jozef Michal Poniatowski.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents music by Chopin, Rachmaninov and Saint-Saens.
09:00
Essential Classics—Wednesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Arias of Anna de Amicis.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), The Stage Works: Shakespearean Portraits
3/5Donald Macleod explores Vaughan Williams's works on Elizabethan and Tudor themes.(R)
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—LSO St Luke's Mozart Series, Skampa Quartet
2/4Skampa Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet in B flat (Hunt); String Quartet in D (Prussian).
14:00
Afternoon Concert—BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 3
3/3The BBC SSO in music by Debussy, Berlioz, Julian Anderson, Messiaen and Mozart.
15:30
Choral Evensong—Winchester Cathedral
From Winchester Cathedral.
16:30
In Tune—Kristian Bezuidenhout, Schubert Ensemble, Matthias Pintscher
With music from Kristian Bezuidenhout and the Schubert Ensemble, plus Matthias Pintscher.
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Evening
18:30
Composer of the Week—Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), The Stage Works: Shakespearean Portraits
3/5Donald Macleod explores Vaughan Williams's works on Elizabethan and Tudor themes.(R)
19:30
Radio 3 Live in Concert—Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London, Prokofiev: Symphonic Song; Piano Concerto No 5
1/2The London Philharmonic in Prokofiev: Symphonic Song, Op 57; Piano Concerto No 5.
20:15
Twenty Minutes—A Russian Bloomsbury
Lesley Chamberlain on the 'aesthetic Bolsheviks', a 1920s Russian artistic community.(R)
20:35
Radio 3 Live in Concert—Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London, Prokofiev: Symphony No 6
2/2Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Prokofiev's Symphony No 6.
22:00
Night Waves—Roger Scruton, WG Sebald, Travelling Light, Being Scottish
Matthew Sweet talks to Roger Scruton about his new book, Green Philosophy.
22:45
The Essay—New Generation Thinkers, 2011, Light in the Dark
3/5Alexandra Harris explores the history of artificial light through literary sources.
23:00
Late Junction—Fiona Talkington - 18/01/2012
Fiona Talkington presents music from John Russell, Devon Sproule and Johan Hedin.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—19/01/2012
Susan Sharpe presents a concert of Martinu, Bartok and Dvorak with the Prague RSO.
