Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Mahler and Haydn from the 2016 BBC Proms
Mahler Symphony No 5 and Haydn Symphony No 34 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Tuesday - Georgia's classical picks
Georgia Mann presents Breakfast, including the next of our American Portraits.
09:00
Essential Classics—Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Hadley's Hills, Ravel's Bolero, Adrian Scarborough
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), The Bohemians
2/5Donald Macleod turns his focus on Puccini's heroines to La Boheme's Mimi and Musetta.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—2018 Hay Festival - Mendelssohn Plus performed by Soraya Mafi and Simon Lepper
Sarah Walker presents Mendelssohn Plus performed by Soraya Mafi and Simon Lepper.
14:00
Afternoon Concert—BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour
Shostakovich and Mahler from the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival.
17:00
In Tune—Kirill Gerstein, Nuevo Tango Quintet, Laurie Stras
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
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Evening
19:00
Classical Mixtape—The Mega MoMA Mix
A sequence of music celebrating the reopening of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Britten: the Shostakovich connection
BBC NOW and Jac van Steen celebrate the friendship between two 20th-century titans.
22:00
Free Thinking—The 2019 Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate
Museum directors from Asia and France join Anne McElvoy and an audience at RIBA.
22:45
The Way I See It—Margaret Cho and Lady Vengeance
7/30What will stand-up comedian Margaret Cho see when she rewatches the film "Lady Vengeance"?
23:00
Night Tracks—The constant harmony machine
An immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Bucolic Beethoven
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra performs Beethoven's Symphony No 6, 'Pastoral'.
