Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Pau Casals International Music Festival
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & Mendelssohn performed by the 2023 Pau Casals Festival Orchestra.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
09:00
Sunday Morning—Your perfect Sunday soundtrack
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.
11:00
BBC Proms—Unforgettable Proms, The King’s Singers and VOCES8
Live at the BBC Proms: The King’s Singers and VOCES8.
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Afternoon
13:00
New Generation Artists—Haydn from the Consone Quartet
The period instruments of the Consone Quartet play Haydn at the Octagon Chapel in Norwich.
13:30
Music Map—A Journey to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the sonic connections between music across time and space.
15:00
Choral Evensong—From Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London
From Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London with Imperial College Chamber Choir.(R)
16:00
Jazz Record Requests—Helen Merrill - Soft Machine - Stan Tracey - Lonnie Liston Smith
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you.
17:00
The Early Music Show—Bronze
As the Paris Olympics draw near, Hannah French explores early music connected with bronze.
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Evening
18:00
Words and Music—Gold, Silver, Bronze and Brass
With winter Olympic medal ceremonies, we explore precious metals in poetry, prose, music.
19:15
Sunday Feature—The Pigeons at the British Museum
Will Abberley reconsiders Richard Jefferies's essay The Pigeons at the British Museum.(R)
19:30
BBC Proms—2024, Prom 4: Sir Mark Elder conducts Mahler’s Fifth
Live at the BBC Proms: the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder in Mahler's Fifth Symphony.
22:00
Night Tracks—Music for the evening
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
23:30
Unclassified—Guy Garvey’s Listening Chair
Elizabeth Alker invites Elbow frontman Guy Garvey to share a track that transports him.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Ditta Rohmann and Kristoffer Hyldig
Ditta Rohmann and Kristoffer Hyldig perform Debussy, Prokofiev, Janáček and Shostakovich.
