Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet
Berlin Symphony Orchestra and Robin Ticciati perform Berlioz.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Thursday - Georgia’s classical mix
Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
09:00
Essential Classics—Essential Classics with Suzy Klein - Maxine Peake, Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture, Rostropovich plays Dvorak
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Handel, Messiah and Dublin, The Sublime, the Grand and the Tender
Donald Macleod takes us to Messiah’s triumphant premiere and reviews its charitable legacy
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—LSO St Luke's - Bruch and Vaughan Williams, Part 3
3/4The Nash Ensemble play Bruch's Piano Quintet and Vaughan Williams's String Quartet No 2.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Opera Matinee: Bellini's La sonnambula
Bellini's opera La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) recorded at the Slovene National Theatre.
17:00
In Tune—I Fagiolini, Yevgeny Sudbin, Alexander McCall Smith
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
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Evening
19:00
Classical Mixtape—The Sun, the Earth and spring
The Sun, the Earth and spring with works by Palestrina, Haydn and Strauss.
19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Images of the past, shapes of the future
Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic in music by Tippett, Stravinsky and Sibelius.
22:00
Free Thinking—Introducing the 2019 New Generation Thinkers
From techno music in Berlin to the Glasgow ‘rag trade’, and divisive dams to fake news.
22:45
The Essay—Hear Listening, The Importance of Imagination
Adventures travelling blind in both 21st and 19th centuries.
23:00
Late Junction—Burmese song, Norwegian jazz and Aldous Harding
Experimental Burmese song, Norwegian jazz and Aldous Harding.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Bliss from the BBC Concert Orchestra
The BBC Concert Orchestra performs a violin concerto by Arthur Bliss.
