Schedule
Early
00:00
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz—Lee Morgan
Geoffrey Smith surveys the meteoric career of trumpet prodigy Lee Morgan.
01:00
Through the Night—16/03/2014
Jonathan Swain with Graeme Koehne's Time is a River and Schubert's String Quintet.
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Morning
07:00
Breakfast—Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist.
09:00
Sunday Morning—Nocturnes
Rob Cowan explores the nocturne and introduces Mozart's Symphony No 35, K385 (Haffner).
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Afternoon
12:00
Private Passions—Sally Davies
Michael Berkeley meets Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies and hears her choice of music.(R)
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—LSO St Luke's 2013, Wihan Quartet
1/4Wihan Quartet in Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K421. Dvorak: Quartet in F, Op 96.(R)
14:00
The Early Music Show—Opera Profiles, Rameau - Platee
9/9Lucie Skeaping delves into Rameau's comic masterpiece Platee.(R)
15:00
Radio 3 Live in Concert—San Francisco Symphony - Mahler's Symphony No 3
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Mahler's Symphony No 3.
17:00
Choral Evensong—Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford
From the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford.(R)
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Evening
18:00
Choir and Organ—Choral Tourism
Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses people who go on holiday to sing.
19:30
Words and Music—The Four Temperaments
Texts and music about the Four Temperaments. Readings by Joe Dunlop and Joanna Tope.(R)
20:45
Sunday Feature—Music and the Jews, There's a Place for Us
2/3Norman Lebrecht traces the history of female Jewish singers.
21:30
Drama on 3—Lorca's Rural Trilogy, Blood Wedding
3/3Lorca's classic drama of passion and repression in an atmospheric re-working by Ted Hughes(R)
22:55
BBC Performing Groups—The New Babylon
Ilan Volkov conducts the SSO in Shostakovich's music for the silent film The New Babylon.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—17/03/2014
Jonathan Swain presents a concert of Palestrina with the Alamire Chamber Chorus.
