Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Piano Trios by WS Bennett, Haydn and Schumann
Including William Sterndale Bennett's Piano Trio, plus trios by Haydn and Schumann.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist
09:00
Essential Classics—Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Victoria Glendinning
With Sarah Walker. Including Proms Artist of the Week: Ivan Fischer.
11:00
Edinburgh International Festival—2014 Queen's Hall Series, Scottish Ensemble and the Commonwealth Strings
12/15Scottish Ensemble, Commonwealth Strings in Elgar, Sculthorpe, Vaughan Williams and Tippett
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Afternoon
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Music from Ireland, Episode 1
1/4From Dublin, Faure's Violin Sonata No 1 and from Belfast, Haydn's String Quartet, Op 20.(R)
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Proms 2014 Repeats, Prom 39: Strauss, Rameau, Mozart and Bernard Rands
From Proms 2014: The BBC SSO in music by Rameau, Bernard Rands, Mozart and Strauss.(R)
16:30
In Tune—Florian Uhlig, Wu Wei, Michael Fine
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With pianist Florian Uhlig and sheng player Wu Wei.
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Evening
18:00
Composer of the Week—Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Early Success
2/5Donald Macleod explores how Tchaikovsky came to write the first Russian string quartet.(R)
19:00
BBC Proms—2014, Prom 53, Prom 53 (part 1): Brahms Night
1/2Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Brahms's Symphony No 3 in F.
19:40
BBC Proms—2014, Proms Plus Intro, Brahms and German Music
Laura Tunbridge and Nicholas Baragwanath on Brahms and German tradition, with Ian Skelly.
20:00
BBC Proms—2014, Prom 53, Prom 53 (part 2): Brahms Night
2/2Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Brahms's Symphony No 4 in E minor
21:15
Sunday Feature—Albert Camus: Inside the Outsider
Andrew Hussey celebrates the life and work of French writer and philosopher Albert Camus.(R)
22:00
Free Thinking—2013 Festival, Free Thinking Essay, False Conception: Female Sexuality in Victorian England
3/10New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell discusses women's rights activist Annie Besant.(R)
22:15
BBC Proms—2014, Prom 54: Beethoven - Missa solemnis
Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner in a performance of Beethoven's Missa solemnis.
23:45
Late Junction—Tuesday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe presents a varied selection of music.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Jonathan Swain's selection includes Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno.
