Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Music by Rachmaninov, Schubert, Fauré and Brahms
John Shea presents music performed by former Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Breaking Free: Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show, with a special twist to Bach before Seven.
09:00
Essential Classics—Breaking Free: Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Susie Orbach
With Rob Cowan. Including the Leipzig String Quartet in Schoenberg's String Quartet No 1.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Breaking Free: The Father
2/5Donald Macleod focuses on Schoenberg's family life, including his troubled first marriage.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Martha Argerich Project 2016, Beethoven, Strauss and Bach
1/4Music by Beethoven, Strauss and Bach from the Martha Argerich Project 2016.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Breaking Free - the minds that changed music, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
2/4Penny Gore presents music by Schoenberg, Webern, Berg and Mozart.
16:30
Words and Music—Memory
Texts and music on the theme of memory, with readings by Tom Hiddleston and Eleanor Bron.(R)
17:45
New Generation Artists—Schubert, Schumann and Berg
Radio 3's New Generation Artists perform music by Schubert, Schumann and Berg.
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Evening
19:00
BBC Proms 2016—Prom 59: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - Beethoven
Herbert Blomstedt conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in an all-Beethoven Prom.
21:05
The Listening Service Extra—Boiling Water (Episode 5 of 12)
Tom Service focuses on Schoenberg's own experience in the new atonal world that he entered
21:08
BBC Proms 2016—Prom 65: Pierre Boulez, Bela Bartok and Elliott Carter
Ensemble intercontemporain and the BBC Singers perform music by Bartok, Boulez and Carter.
22:45
The Essay—Breaking Free, Stephen Johnson
2/5Stephen Johnson discusses Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2.
23:00
Late Junction—Breaking Free - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt focuses on the work of Austrian composer Anton Webern.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Complete Mozart piano concertos - programme 10
With Mozart's Piano Concerto No 4, concluding a series of his complete piano concertos.












