Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—20/08/2012
Jonathan Swain presents a special programme for the National Day of Hungary.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Monday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
09:00
Essential Classics—Monday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice.
11:00
Edinburgh International Festival—2012, The Calder Quartet
The Calder Quartet from Los Angeles plays music by Mozart, Ades, Norman and Mendelssohn.
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Afternoon
13:00
BBC Proms—2012, Proms Chamber Music, Escher Quartet
The Escher Quartet in Hugh Wood's String Quartet No 4 and Debussy's String Quartet.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Proms 2012 Repeats, Prom 34 - Schubert, Dubugnon, Strauss
BBC SO/Semyon Bychkov in Schubert, Strauss. Plus the Labeque sisters in music by Dubugnon.(R)
16:30
In Tune—Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jacob Shaw, Tarek Al-Shubbak, James MacMillan
With live music from pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, plus composer James MacMillan.
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Evening
19:30
BBC Proms—2012, Prom 50, Beethoven, Mozart
1/2BBC Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vanska. Beethoven: Egmont Overture. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto.
20:15
Twenty Minutes—Kew Gardens
Lindsay Duncan reads Virginia Woolf's sumptuous story of a sweltering summer's day at Kew.(R)
20:35
BBC Proms—2012, Prom 50, Delius, Nielsen
2/2BBC Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vanska. Delius: Eventyr. Nielsen: Symphony No 5.
22:00
The Lebrecht Interview—Andris Nelsons
Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, music director of the CBSO, talks to Norman Lebrecht.
22:45
The Essay—InterRail Postcards, Adam Thorpe
1/5Adam Thorpe on the sense of arrival into adulthood which the InterRail pass signified.(R)
23:00
Jazz on 3—Beats & Pieces and Sid Peacock's Surge
Jez Nelson presents British big bands Beats & Pieces and Sid Peacock's Surge.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—21/08/2012
Jonathan Swain introduces Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in a performance from the 2011 Proms.












