Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Vivaldi and his French contemporaries
La Voce Strumentale performs a Baroque programme at the Stockholm Early Music Festival.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Wednesday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
09:00
Essential Classics—Georgia Mann
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Dvořák and America, Meeting Harry Burleigh
3/5Dvořák forms a bond with African American musician Harry T Burleigh. With Donald Macleod
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Belfast International Arts Festival 2020 (2/4)
Performances from the Doric Quartet, Leonard Elschenbroich and Martin James Bartlett.(R)
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Wednesday - Also Sprach Zarathustra
The SWR Symphony Orchestra perform Richard Strauss’s tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra.
16:00
Choral Evensong—York Minster
Live from York Minster.
17:00
In Tune—Palisander
The Palisander recorder quartet join Sean Rafferty in the In Tune studio.
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Evening
19:00
Classical Mixtape—Thirty minutes of classical Inspiration
Lose yourself in a 30-minute mix of music quirkily inspired by the Baroque dance suite.
19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Royal Northern Sinfonia play Haydn
Sir Roger Norrington's final appearance on the podium.
22:00
Free Thinking—Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922
Shahidha Bari looks at the writing of Woolf and Joyce and what was really popular in 1922.
22:45
The Essay—Journeys to the Grave, Diana Souhami on Radclyffe Hall
Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
23:00
Night Tracks—Around midnight
Hannah Peel with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—BBC Proms 2019 - Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Lutoslawski
Daniel Barenboim and his West–Eastern Divan Orchestra are joined by Martha Argerich.
