Schedule
Early
00:00
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz—Ahmad Jamal
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, a personal journey taking in great musicians and great music.
01:00
Through the Night—The 42nd Spoleto Festival USA
Vivaldi, Kagel and Brahms from South Carolina's festival of the arts. John Shea presents.
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Morning
07:00
Breakfast—Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Breakfast including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
09:00
Sunday Morning—Sarah Walker with Josquin Des Prez, Cheryl Frances Hoad and Saint-Saëns
Sarah Walker with a broad range of music, including her Sunday Escape.
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Afternoon
12:00
Private Passions—James Burke
Michael Berkeley's guest is science writer and broadcaster James Burke.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Pianist Imogen Cooper performs Liszt and Brahms
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Imogen Cooper plays piano music by Brahms and Liszt.(R)
14:00
The Early Music Show—Leonardo: Music and Science
Music from the time of Leonardo da Vinci performed by Ensemble Lucidarium in York.
15:00
Choral Evensong—Southwark Cathedral
Live from Southwark Cathedral.
16:00
Choir and Organ—10/02/2019
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces another selection of irresistible music for voices.
17:00
The Listening Service—What does ancient history really sound like?
What did the music of Paleolithic caves or Roman arenas actually sound like?
17:30
Words and Music—The Moon
The silvery goddess loved by poets and composers including music actually sent to the Moon
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Evening
18:45
Sunday Feature—Cold War in Full Swing - Louis Armstrong in the GDR
Kevin Le Gendre discovers how Louis Armstrong came to play jazz in communist East Germany.
19:30
Drama on 3—The Masque of Anarchy
A commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre in August 1819.
20:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Revolution, Destruction and a Nobel Prize
Krzysztof Ksiazek plays on Chopin's Buchholtz Warsaw piano, recreated for the first time.
22:00
Early Music Late—La nascita dell'opera (The birth of opera)
Soprano Magdalena Kozena and La Cetra mine the dramatic wealth of early Italian opera.
23:00
Percussion Century—Multicoloured
Colin Currie hand picks some of the greatest percussion music of the past 100 years
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Late
00:00
Classical Fix—Davina McCall
Euphoric running, new discoveries and a rekindled love of classical.
00:30
Through the Night—Razumovsky in the Alps
The Ebene Quartet perform Beethoven and Faure in Verbier. Presented by John Shea.
