Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—14/05/2014
John Shea's selection includes excerpts from Tchaikovsky's opera The Queen of Spades.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist
09:00
Essential Classics—Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Stewart Copeland
With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Strauss: Piano Quartet in C minor.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Grieg's Double Bass Concerto
3/5Donald Macleod on a Grieg cello sonata arranged for double bass, plus the Holberg Suite.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Russian Romantics, Yevgeny Sudbin
2/4Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) performs music by Scriabin, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and Mozart.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Great Ballets of the Twentieth Century, Episode 3
3/4Ian Skelly presents great 20th-century ballets by Debussy, Glazunov and Stravinsky.
15:30
Choral Evensong—St Pancras Church: London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
From St Pancras Church, as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.
16:30
In Tune—Pretty Yende, Matthew Herbert, Martin Yates
Sean Rafferty with composer Matthew Herbert and soprano Pretty Yende.
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Evening
18:30
Composer of the Week—Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Grieg's Double Bass Concerto
3/5Donald Macleod on a Grieg cello sonata arranged for double bass, plus the Holberg Suite.
19:30
BBC Young Musician—2014, Woodwind Category Final
Coverage of the Woodwind Category Final of the BBC Young Musician 2014 competition.
22:00
Free Thinking—Ivan Klima, the East-West divide in Europe, Science Fiction in Theatre
Philip Dodd talks to Czech novelist Ivan Klima and asks if Europe always needs an East.
22:45
The Essay—TV Dinners to Roadside Diners, Michael Cunningham
3/5American Novelist Michael Cunningham on his attachment to macaroni cheese in a box.(R)
23:00
Late Junction—Wednesday - Anne Hilde Neset
Anne Hilde Neset with music from Peter Ablinger, Booker Little and Diamanda Galas.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—15/05/2014
With John Shea. Including Korean pianist Tae-Hyung Kim in Bach, Schumann and Prokofiev.
