Schedule
Early
00:00
Britten 100—Britten by Night, A Charm of Lullabies
2/2Sequence exploring Britten's preoccupation with the nocturnal, supernatural and creepy.
01:00
Through the Night—Concertgebouw Archives, Episode 2
2/2John Shea presents music conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and John Eliot Gardiner.
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Morning
07:00
Breakfast—Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, marking Britten 100.
09:00
Sunday Morning—Sunday Morning Britten
Britten biographer Paul Kildea, tenor Ben Johnson and guitarist Sean Shibe join Suzy Klein
11:00
Britten 100—Britten String Quartets, Quartet No 1
3/3Members of Ensemble 360 perform Britten's String Quartet No 1, plus a work by Shostakovich
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Afternoon
12:30
Britten 100—Britten Plus, Gamelan
Suzy Klein is joined by composer Colin Matthews, who worked as Britten's assistant.
13:00
Private Passions—Private Passions: Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling tells Michael Berkeley how Britten has inspired her painting and sculpture.
14:00
Britten 100—Britten's Church Parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace
2/3Britten's second Church Parable The Burning Fiery Furnace, with tenor James Gilchrist.
15:30
Britten 100—Backgrounds to Britten
Live from Southwold, the BBC Singers perform some of Britten's best-loved pieces for choir
16:45
Britten 100—Britten Answers
Tom Service and John Bridcut answer questions about Britten and ask who inspired him.
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Evening
18:00
Britten 100—Noye's Fludde
Louise Fryer presents Noye's Fludde, live from the town of Britten's birth, Lowestoft.
19:00
Britten 100—Britten Round-up
Suzy Klein, Tom Service and John Bridcut pick highlights from Radio 3's Britten 100 events
19:30
Radio 3 Live in Concert—Peter Hill - Bach, Berg, Messiaen, Schoenberg
Pianist Peter Hill performs music by Bach, Berg, Schoenberg and Messiaen in Sheffield.
22:00
Drama on 3—Austerlitz
Adaptation of WG Sebald's novel about remembering the Holocaust.(R)
23:30
BBC Performing Groups—Brostrom, Bystrom, Eliasson
BBC SSO under Andrew Manze in music by Tobias Brostrom, Britte Bystrom and Anders Eliasson
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—25/11/2013
John Shea's selection includes music by David Popper to mark the centenary of his death.
