Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Montgomery and Beethoven in Minnesota
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performs Beethoven's Triple Concerto.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Tuesday - Ian's classical alternative
Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
09:00
Essential Classics—Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Pook's How Sweet the Moonlight, Sally Phillips, William Dunbar's Thistle
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975), Family life in a time of upheaval
Donald Macleod meets the Shostakovich family at a time when they were wartime evacuees.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—New Town Concert Series, String Quartets from Edinburgh's New Town
Germany's Schumann Quartet play Schubert and Bartok from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—21/05/2019
Concerts from the BBC performing groups and orchestras from across the world.
17:00
In Tune—Jacques Imbrailo, Wayne Marshall, Stewart Goodyear
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
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Evening
19:00
Classical Mixtape—Music for Revision
A sequence of classical, alternative and world music perfect to listen to while studying.
19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Irrepressible Energy
Lawrence Power joins Britten Sinfonia in Gerald Barry's Viola Concerto, plus Beethoven.
22:00
Free Thinking—Censorship and sex
Naomi Wolf discusses the criminalisation of love with presenter Matthew Sweet.
22:45
The Essay—True Venetian, True Venetian Islanders
2/5How the geography of Venice has allowed segregated and separate communities to evolve.
23:00
Late Junction—Ambient excursions and Italian sound art
Nick Luscombe pulls a rare Japanese ambient record out of the bag.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Previn's Mahler Symphony No 9
A chance to hear Andre Previn conducting Mahler's musical foreshadowing of death.
