Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs works by Brahms, Faure and Debussy.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Friday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
09:00
Essential Classics—Friday - Rob Cowan with Michael Frayn
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential Choice: Brahms orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No 1.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), A Wider World
5/5Donald Macleod discusses Haydn's receiving commissions from Naples, Paris and London.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Liverpool Chamber Music Series, Episode 4
4/4Chamber music by Poulenc and Shostakovich performed at St George's Hall in Liverpool.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 4
4/4With Katie Derham. The BBC SSO in Rameau, Adams, Rebel, Beethoven, Grieg and Berlioz.
16:30
In Tune—Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Iestyn Davies, John Williams, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Sean Rafferty presents readings and music from the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London.
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Evening
18:30
Composer of the Week—Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), A Wider World
5/5Donald Macleod discusses Haydn's receiving commissions from Naples, Paris and London.
19:30
Radio 3 Live in Concert—Celebrating Simon Rattle, Episode 5
5/5Simon Rattle conducts the CBSO. Beethoven: Symphony No 8; Symphony No 9.
22:00
The Verb—Don Paterson, Paul Farley, Scanner, Maddy Paxman
Ian McMillan and guests Don Paterson and Paul Farley consider the impact of a poet's death
22:45
The Essay—The Book that Changed Me, Sir Paul Nurse on Conjectures and Refutations
5/5Geneticist Sir Paul Nurse discusses the book Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper.
23:00
World on 3—Celtic Connections, Mary Ann Kennedy Live from Celtic Connections 2
2/2With music from Taraf de Haidouks, Songhoy Blues and Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino.
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Late
01:00
Through the Night—Prokofiev's Cello Symphony
Prokofiev's Cello Symphony and Dvorak's Sixth Symphony with the Polish National Radio SO.
