Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Swedish Radio Orchestra from 1961
Johan Helmich Roman and Bernhard Crusell from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Thursday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
09:00
Essential Classics—Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Tracy Chevalier, Winifred Atwell plays the Palladium, Saint-Saëns's Tarantella
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Franz Schubert (1797-1828), After Beethoven
4/5Schubert’s life and music. Today, it's not easy following in the footsteps of Beethoven.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Beethoven from West Cork
Music from the 24th West Cork Chamber Music Festival.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Prom 48 repeat: Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Silvestri
BBC SO, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru, with pianist Seong-Jin Cho.
17:00
In Tune—Leon McCawley, Maggini Quartet, Ryan Wigglesworth
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
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Evening
19:00
Classical Mixtape—Stationary Traveller
A whistlestop dance across the globe from the Bazaars of old Baghdad to the Andes in Peru.
19:30
BBC Proms—2019, Prom 63: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov
Live BBC Proms. Staatskapelle Dresden, Myung-Whun Chung and Yuja Wang.
22:00
Sunday Feature—Blind, Black and Blue
Gary O'Donoghue asks why so many early blues musicians in America's Deep South were blind.(R)
22:45
The Essay—Forests, Brothers Grimm
Dare to enter the dark Germanic forest of the Brothers Grimm.(R)
23:00
Late Junction—Tunng’s Late Junction mixtape
Nick Luscombe presents a mixtape from experimental folk band Tunng.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Schubert Lieder and French Art
Simon Keenlyside and Malcolm Martineau perform songs by Brahms, Poulenc and Schubert.
