Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Proms 2015: Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
John Shea with a performance of Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail from the 2015 Proms
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Sound Frontiers: Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny
Live from London's Southbank Centre, Petroc Trelawny presents the Radio 3 breakfast show.
09:00
Essential Classics—Sound Frontiers: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Lucian Msamati
Including Artist of the Week: Michael Gielen, featured conducting Debussy's Jeux.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Five under 40, Sound Frontier: Helen Grime
3/5Donald is in conversation with young British composer Helen Grime.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—East Neuk Festival 2016, Episode 2
2/4Joseph Moog (piano) and Julian Steckel (cello) in Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Sound Frontiers: BBC Performing Groups, Live from MediaCityUK in Salford
3/6Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic performs music by MacMillan, Britten and Haydn.
15:30
Choral Evensong—Archive - In memoriam George Thalben-Ball
An archive recording of the Memorial Evensong for Sir George Thalben-Ball.(R)
16:30
Afternoon Concert—Sound Frontiers: BBC Performing Groups, Episode 4
4/6BBC Singers/Martyn Brabbins. Britten: Ad Majoren Dei Goriam. Harvey: The Annunciation.
17:00
In Tune—Sound Frontiers: Voces8, James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, Southbank Sinfonia
As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, Suzy Klein's guests include James Gilchrist.
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Evening
19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Sound Frontiers: Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Mozart and Bruckner.
21:55
Three Score and Ten—Dylan Thomas
5/50A 1950 archive recording of Dylan Thomas reading his poem In the White Giant's Thigh.
22:00
Free Thinking—Sound Frontiers: HG Wells
As the 2016 London Literature Festival opens, Matthew Sweet chairs an HG Wells discussion.
22:45
The Essay—New Generation Thinkers, Telephone Terrors
3/5Poet Sarah Jackson explores the phone and its voices in philosophy and fiction.
23:00
Late Junction—Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe with music by Chlorine, Lee Fraser, I Am Rhino and Ruin, and Jay Glass Dubs.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Mendelssohn, Panufnik and Dvorak from the Apollon Musagete Quartet
John Shea presents string quartets by Mendelssohn, Panufnik and Dvorak.
