RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 3
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SATURDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2025
SAT 00:30 Through the Night (m002jgcp)
Schoenberg and Zemlinsky from the BBC Proms
From the 2024 BBC Proms, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft play Schoenberg and Zemlinsky. Penny Gore presents.
12:31 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Pelleas and Melisande, Op 5
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
01:12 AM
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Die Seejungfrau
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
01:54 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
The Mermaid's song (H.26a.25) from 6 Original canzonettas set 1
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Mahan Esfahani (fortepiano)
01:58 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in A minor, D784
Alfred Brendel (piano)
02:18 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Die schöne Melusine - overture Op 32
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
02:31 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
String Quartet no 4 in A minor, Op 25
Oslo Quartet
03:07 AM
Božidar Širola (1889-1956)
Missa Poetica
Slovenian Chamber Choir, Vladimir Kranjčević (director)
03:40 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Scherzo no 1 in B flat major, D.593
Halina Radvilaite (piano)
03:46 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Ballad from Karelia suite, Op 11
Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi (conductor)
03:54 AM
Joseph Lauber (1864-1952)
Trois Morceaux Caracteristiques for solo flute, Op 47
Marianne Keller Stucki (flute)
04:00 AM
Carlo Ambrogio Lonati (c.1645-c.1712)
Sonata Quinta
Eva Saladin (violin), Daniel Rosin (cello), Johannes Keller (harpsichord)
04:08 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Trumpet Suite
Blagoj Angelovski (trumpet), Velin Iliev (organ)
04:15 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Nocturne in B major, Op 33 no 2
Stéphane Lemelin (piano)
04:22 AM
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in E minor, K.81, arr. recorder and harpsichord
Bolette Roed (recorder), Joanna Boślak-Górniok (harpsichord)
04:31 AM
Nicolaos Mantzaros (1795-1872)
Sinfonia di genere Orientale in A minor
National Symphony Orchestra of Greek Radio, Andreas Pylarinos (conductor)
04:41 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
3 Pieces from Slatter (Norwegian Peasant Dances), Op 72
Håvard Gimse (piano)
04:49 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV.228
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
04:58 AM
Luigi Donorà (1935-2022)
There where Kvarner lies… for viola and strings
Francesco Squarcia (viola), I Cameristi Italiani
05:06 AM
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Introduction and variations on a theme from Mozart's Magic Flute, Op 9
Ana Vidovic (guitar)
05:14 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
4 Notturni
Vancouver Chamber Choir, Wesley Foster (clarinet), Nicola Tipton (clarinet), William Jenkins (bass clarinet), Jon Washburn (director)
05:22 AM
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op 2
Tale Olsson (violin), Johanna Sjunnesson (cello), Mats Jansson (piano)
05:51 AM
Wojciech Kilar (1931-2013)
Orawa for string orchestra (1988) (Vivo)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wojciech Rajski (conductor)
06:00 AM
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907)
Sextet for piano and wind quintet in B flat major, Op 6
Jae-Eun Ku (piano), Tae-Won Kim (flute), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon), Kwang-Ku Lee (horn), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Hyong-Sup Kim (male) (oboe)
SAT 06:30 Breakfast (m002jv2p)
Roll out of bed into classical music
Ahead of a big day on Radio 3 celebrating the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, Hannah French presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show.
You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’
SAT 07:30 Train Tracks (m002jv2r)
Live from Inverness
Saturday 27 September 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, when George Stephenson drove Locomotion No. 1 on its inaugural journey from Shildon to Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, to great fanfare. The 26-mile journey was a landmark moment in public transport and the springboard for the great Victorian age of the railways, transforming how the world traded, travelled, and communicated.
Anchored by resident train enthusiast Petroc Trelawny, Radio 3 is celebrating this historic occasion by travelling from Inverness to London on the Highland and East Coast Main Lines, aboard the Highland Chieftain, one of the longest direct train journeys in the UK.
Over the course of the eight-hour, 581-mile journey, Petroc will provide updates from the train as it speeds south. He’ll be joined by fellow Radio 3 presenters at stations along the route, including Tom Service at Pitlochry, Tom McKinney at Edinburgh Waverley, Elizabeth Alker at Darlington and Georgia Mann at King’s Cross.
The day will be framed by a specially curated railway-themed soundtrack, featuring music inspired by trains from across the UK and beyond, as well as pieces that resonate with the locations the train passes through. And there will be live music on location from Inverness, Pitlochry, Edinburgh, Darlington and London, including a Scottish piper, a brass band and a jazz quartet.
There will also be two brand new commissions from composers Erland Cooper and Jasper Dommett. Erland's piece, Unfolding Landscapes, is inspired by the Caledonian Sleeper and J.M.W. Turner’s 1844 painting Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway, and Jasper wraps things up at King's Cross with All Change!
Plus, we’ll hear from a range of special guests throughout the day, visit iconic railway destinations - including the National Railway Museum in York - and let the trains themselves do some of the broadcasting, as we revel in evocative field recordings of locomotives recorded across the UK.
And as the train departs Inverness station at 0755, the Highland Chieftain will be sent on its way by Pipe Major Iain Campbell playing one of the Highlands most loved bagpipe tunes.
SAT 08:00 Train Tracks (m002jv2v)
Live from Pitlochry
Saturday 27 September 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, when George Stephenson drove Locomotion No. 1 on its inaugural journey from Shildon to Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, to great fanfare. The 26-mile journey was a landmark moment in public transport and the springboard for the great Victorian age of the railways, transforming how the world traded, travelled, and communicated.
Anchored by resident train enthusiast Petroc Trelawny, Radio 3 is celebrating this historic occasion by travelling from Inverness to London on the Highland and East Coast Main Lines, aboard the Highland Chieftain, one of the longest direct train journeys in the UK.
Over the course of the eight-hour, 581-mile journey, Petroc will provide updates from the train as it speeds south. He’ll be joined by fellow Radio 3 presenters at stations along the route, including Tom Service at Pitlochry, Tom McKinney at Edinburgh Waverley, Elizabeth Alker at Darlington and Georgia Mann at King’s Cross.
As the train reaches the picturesque Pitlochry in Scotland, Tom Service is poised - broadcasting live from the station platform and its beautiful surrounding area.
Pitlochey's station platform will being bursting to life with live music from the Strathspey Queens - fiddler Patsy Reid and cellist Alice Allen. Tom will also take a walk from the platform over the iconic Pitlochry Dam and Salmon Ladder to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, which nestles in the stunning landscapes of Highland Perthshire to hear live music from Scots Opera and chat to the theatre's artistic director, Alan Cumming.
Plus throughout the show, live updates from Petroc Trelawny as he continues on his day-long train journey from Inverness to London.
SAT 11:00 Train Tracks (m002jv2x)
Live from Edinburgh Waverley
Saturday 27 September 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, when George Stephenson drove Locomotion No. 1 on its inaugural journey from Shildon to Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, to great fanfare. The 26-mile journey was a landmark moment in public transport and the springboard for the great Victorian age of the railways, transforming how the world traded, travelled, and communicated.
Anchored by resident train enthusiast Petroc Trelawny, Radio 3 is celebrating this historic occasion by travelling from Inverness to London on the Highland and East Coast Main Lines, aboard the Highland Chieftain, one of the longest direct train journeys in the UK.
Over the course of the eight-hour, 581-mile journey, Petroc will provide updates from the train as it speeds south. He’ll be joined by fellow Radio 3 presenters at stations along the route, including Tom Service at Pitlochry, Tom McKinney at Edinburgh Waverley, Elizabeth Alker at Darlington and Georgia Mann at King’s Cross.
Broadcasting live from Edinburgh Waverley, Tom McKinney is joined by special guests Neil Brand to explore train music in films through the ages, and Heather Waugh, who until 1st September, was Scotland’s only female freight train driver to explore women on the railways.
There's also live music courtesy of Sequoia Duo, and Andrew Maclean - assistant director and head curator at the National Railway Museum - introduces us to one of their most interesting exhibits. Plus there will be more historic and evocative locomotive recordings from the National Railway Museum archive, and Tom will catch up with Petroc as he speeds across the country aboard the Highland Chieftain.
SAT 13:00 Train Tracks (m002jv2z)
Live from Darlington
Saturday 27 September 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, when George Stephenson drove Locomotion No. 1 on its inaugural journey from Shildon to Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, to great fanfare. The 26-mile journey was a landmark moment in public transport and the springboard for the great Victorian age of the railways, transforming how the world traded, travelled, and communicated.
Anchored by resident train enthusiast Petroc Trelawny, Radio 3 is celebrating this historic occasion by travelling from Inverness to London on the Highland and East Coast Main Lines, aboard the Highland Chieftain, one of the longest direct train journeys in the UK.
Over the course of the eight-hour, 581-mile journey, Petroc will provide updates from the train as it speeds south. He’ll be joined by fellow Radio 3 presenters at stations along the route, including Tom Service at Pitlochry, Tom McKinney at Edinburgh Waverley, Elizabeth Alker at Darlington and Georgia Mann at King’s Cross.
The train arrives in Darlington - the place where it all began on 27 September 1825 with the inauguration of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Elizabeth Alker presents live from the station, joined by the Championship Section NASUWT Riverside Band and live guests Railway 200's Alan Hyde, and Leona White-Hannant, development director of the Hopetown Darlington Museum, to bring that first journey to life and to explore the impact it had on the area and the world beyond. Plus, Elizabeth features one of Radio 2's specially commissioned tracks for 21st Century Folk celebrating the 200th anniversary of the railways.
And throughout the show, live updates from Petroc Trelawny as he continues on his day-long train journey from Inverness to London.
SAT 15:00 Train Tracks (m002jv31)
Live from Kings Cross Station
Saturday 27 September 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, when George Stephenson drove Locomotion No. 1 on its inaugural journey from Shildon to Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, to great fanfare. The 26-mile journey was a landmark moment in public transport and the springboard for the great Victorian age of the railways, transforming how the world traded, travelled, and communicated.
Anchored by resident train enthusiast Petroc Trelawny, Radio 3 is celebrating this historic occasion by travelling from Inverness to London on the Highland and East Coast Main Lines, aboard the Highland Chieftain, one of the longest direct train journeys in the UK.
Over the course of the eight-hour, 581-mile journey, Petroc will provide updates from the train as it speeds south. He’ll be joined by fellow Radio 3 presenters at stations along the route, including Tom Service at Pitlochry, Tom McKinney at Edinburgh Waverley, Elizabeth Alker at Darlington and Georgia Mann at King’s Cross.
For the Train Tracks’ grand finale at Kings Cross station, Georgia Mann celebrates the London transport hub as Petroc heads towards the city. There’s train-inspired music from Vivian Ellis, Meredith Monk and Heitor Villa-Lobos, as well as more historic and evocative locomotive recordings from the National Railway Museum archive.
Georgia’s special guests include the architect Colin Bennie from John McAslan and Partners, the architects who transformed Kings Cross back in 2012, and she’ll be joined by jazz trumpeter Poppy Daniels and friends who will grace the station concourse with live music.
There’s also a look to the future of train travel with Dr Debbie Hopkins, Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford and Tom Cheesewright, an Applied Futurist.
Plus, composer Jasper Dommett will introduce their new piece All Change!, a world premiere commissioned and specially recorded by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
SAT 17:00 Earlier... with Jools Holland (m002jv33)
More Train Tracks with Jools
Saturday 27 September 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, when George Stephenson drove Locomotion No. 1 on its inaugural journey from Shildon to Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, to great fanfare. The 26-mile journey was a landmark moment in public transport and the springboard for the great Victorian age of the railways, transforming how the world traded, travelled, and communicated.
Radio 3 is celebrating this historic occasion with train enthusiast Petroc Trelawny travelling from Inverness to London on the Highland and East Coast Main Lines, aboard the Highland Chieftain, one of the longest direct train journeys in the UK.
With Petroc having arrived in London, we join Jools Holland at his recording studio - which is itself designed as a railway station - to round off today's celebrations with a special guest, record producer and fellow railway enthusiast Pete Waterman.
Jools introduces music by Georg Philipp Telemann, Richard Strauss, Arthur Crudup and Bob Dylan, and Pete brings along some of his favourite classical pieces by Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn and Saint-Saens. They discuss Pete’s collection of trains (both full-size and model), his record-breaking model railway layout based on 1930s Leamington Spa, and why making model railways isn’t so different to making chart-topping pop hits.
SAT 18:00 Opera on 3 (m002jv35)
Verdi's Il Trovatore
Recorded earlier this year at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Giacomo Sagripanti conducts a performance of Verdi's dramatic opera, Il Trovatore, the Troubadour.
One of the most popular of Verdi's operas, it's full of wonderfully memorable music, a complicated plot involving family conflict, and the inevitable doomed lovers. Rachel Willis-Sorenson and Michael Fabiano lead the cast as the tragic Leonora and her lover Manrico, the Troubadour.
Martin Handley presents this performance in conversation with the music writer and broadcaster Flora Willson.
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Manrico, the Troubadour ..... Michael Fabiano (tenor)
Leonore, his lover ...... Rachel Willis-Sorenson (soprano)
Azucena ..... Agnieszka Rehlis (mezzo-soprano)
Count di Luna ..... Aleksei Isaev (baritone)
Ferrando, his aide ..... Riccardo Fassi (bass)
Inez, Leonore's confidante ..... Valentina Puskas (mezzo-soprano)
Ruiz, soldier ..... Ryan Vaughan Davies (tenor)
Old gypsy ..... Dominic Barrand (bass)
Messenger ..... Andrew O'Connor
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor Giacomo Sagripanti
For further details about the production including synopsis visit https://www.rbo.org.uk/opera-essentials-il-trovatore
SAT 21:30 Music Planet (m002jv37)
Noura Mint Seymali's Return Journey
Lopa Kothari selects new roots-based music from across the world. Plus, Mauritanian griot Noura Mint Seymali shares two tracks of personal significance - one that she encountered on her travels and one that reminds her of home.
Descending from one of the most respected Moorish griot families, Noura Mint Seymali has been developing her spiritual music practice since childhood. From composing and singing for her step-mother to evolving an idiosyncratic musical style blending traditional singing accompanied on the ardin, a traditional 9-stringed harp historically reserved for women, with psychedelic grooves, she has contributed to popularising Mauritanian music all over the world. Her new album, Yenbett, is coming out in November.
Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3. To listen on most smart speakers, just say: “Ask BBC Sounds to play Music Planet.”
SAT 22:30 New Music Show (m002jv39)
The Hermes Experiment, Dai Fujikura and Malika Kishino
Tom Service presents the latest music from the Hermes Experiment, recorded at Sinfonia Smith Square in London, and the world premieres of both Dai Fujikura's Ritual at the Lucerne Festival and Malika Kishino's Quinta materia at the Witten Contemporary Chamber Music Festival. Plus Ensemble Modern play Anna Meredith's Tripotage Miniatures and Tom has some of the most exciting new albums.
SUNDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2025
SUN 00:30 Through the Night (m002jv3c)
Dreams and Visions: Estonian music from the Baltic Sea Festival
The Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under Tõnu Kaljuste presents a programme of Estonian music ranging from well known pieces by Arvo Pärt to a premiere by Allison Kruusmaa commissioned for this year's Festival. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Ester Mägi (1922-2021)
Vesper
Tallin Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
12:37 AM
Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023)
Terra Memoria
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
12:54 AM
Alisson Kruusmaa (b.1992)
And If I Had a Dream
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
01:05 AM
Marianne Martines (1744-1812)
Il Primo amore
Yena Choi (soprano), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
01:17 AM
Heino Eller (1887-1970)
Homeland Tune
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
01:21 AM
Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
Greater Antiphons
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
01:33 AM
Erkki-Sven Tüür (b.1959)
Deep Dark Shine
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
01:44 AM
Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
01:51 AM
Erkki-Sven Tüür (b.1959)
Illusions
Tallin Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
01:55 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Molly on the Shore
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
01:59 AM
Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962)
Blessed is the Man
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
02:03 AM
Eric Ewazen (b.1954)
Andante from Concerto for Marimba and Strings
Heigo Rosin (percussion), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Risto Joost (conductor)
02:14 AM
Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
Magnificat for chorus
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
02:21 AM
Eduard Tubin (1905-1982)
Festive Overture
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor)
02:31 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Cello Sonata in C major, Op 119
Claudio Bohórquez (cello), Ana Maria Campistrus (piano)
02:54 AM
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Timon of Athens, the man-hater - incidental music, Z.632
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael George (bass), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
03:15 AM
Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962)
Stonehenge
BBC Concert Orchestra, Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)
03:35 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Komm, heiliger Geist – chorale-prelude for organ, BWV.652
Bine Katrine Bryndorf (organ)
03:45 AM
Zoltán Jeney (1943-2019)
Bird Tempting
Győr Girls' Choir, Miklós Szabó (conductor)
03:52 AM
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
Wind Octet, Op 65
Members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
04:03 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Arabesque in C, Op 18
Hans Leygraf (piano)
04:09 AM
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Arabesque
Shirley Brill (clarinet), Piotr Spoz (piano)
04:12 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arr. Nancy Allen
Arabesque no 2
Mojca Zlobko (harp)
04:16 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Variations for Brass Band
Hannaford Street Silver Band, Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
04:31 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 23 in D major, K.181
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
04:42 AM
Dario Castello (1602-1631)
Sonata XII, a due soprani e trombone
Musica Fiata Köln
04:50 AM
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Canon and Gigue
La Scintilla Orchestra, Riccardo Minasi (conductor)
04:56 AM
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889), arr. David Stanhope
Fantasy and variations on a Cavatina from 'Beatrice di Tenda' by Bellini
Geoffrey Payne (trumpet), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halász (conductor)
05:03 AM
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), William Walton (1902-1983)
Drop, Drop, Slow Tears - two settings
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
05:09 AM
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
Suite for large orchestra in A minor, Op 42
Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson (conductor)
05:29 AM
Clara Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17
Erika Radermacher (piano), Eva Zurbrugg (violin), Angela Schwartz (cello)
05:57 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Serenade for string orchestra in C major, Op 48
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Hannu Koivula (conductor)
SUN 06:30 Breakfast (m002jsst)
Breakfast with the best classical music
Mark Forrest presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m002jssw)
Three hours of classical sparkle
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, with a special Train Tracks twist!
Today, Sarah revels in the tranquility of solo piano music with an Intermezzo by Brahms, and a Nocturne by Chopin which sounds as silky as a moonlit sky. There’s also the flutteringly virtuosic flute concerto by Cécile Chaminade, and Robert Schumann looks to the stars.
Around 11 o clock, JS Bach’s beloved cantata Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme, or ‘Sleepers Awake!’ will be played in full. And Sarah reflects on Radio 3’s Train Tracks and the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway with some special train-related music, and sounds from the National Railway Museum’s archive.
Plus, this week’s Choral Reflection harks back to summer…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m002jssy)
Richard Armitage
The actor Richard Armitage refuses to be pigeon-holed. He first made a national impact as the mill-owner John Thornton in the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South. Audiences around the world know him as Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson. He’s played a serial killer in Hannibal, a spy in Spooks, and has starred in four Harlan Coben thrillers on Netflix.
He’s also written thrillers: the most recent is The Cut, which examines childhood trauma and the dangers of buried secrets - and also draws on his own musical experiences, because the main character, like Richard, plays the cello.
His choices include works by Arvo Part, Mahler, Rameau, and Gluck.
Presenter Michael Berkeley
Producer Clare Walker
SUN 13:30 Music Map (m002jst0)
Janacek's Sinfonietta
Leoš Janáček composed the Sinfonietta, premiered in June 1926, at the age of 72, as a vibrant celebration of Czech national pride and military strength. Dedicated to the Czechoslovak Armed Forces, the work reflects themes of independence, strength, and civic pride. Sara Mohr-Pietsch charts a path to the Sinfonietta, exploring the musical influences on Janacek, and the impact the piece had on music that followed it.
To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers), just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Music Map.'
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m002jj2w)
Westminster Abbey
Live from Westminster Abbey.
Introit: Come, my joy (John Rutter) (World Premiere)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm 119 vv1-32 (Attwood, Attwood, Bairstow, S Wesley)
First Lesson: Hosea 11 vv1-11
Canticles: Second Service (Gibbons)
Second Lesson: 1 John 4 vv9-21
Anthem: See, see the word is incarnate (Gibbons)
Hymn: Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round (Song I)
Voluntary: Fancy in gamut flatt (Gibbons)
Andrew Nethsingha (Organist & Master of the Choristers)
Matthew Jorysz (Sub-Organist)
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Choral Evensong”.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m002jst2)
Trains And All That Jazz!
To tie in with Radio 3's Train Tracks celebration of 200 years of Britain's modern railway, Alyn Shipton presents a special train themed programme. No reservation required to get on board for a first class selection of tracks from Duke Ellington and the Washingtonians (Choo Choo Train), Meade Lux Lewis (Honky Tonk Train Blues), Peggy Lee (The Train Blues) plus selections from John Coltrane, Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson's classic Night Train.
Get in touch: jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Jazz Record Requests”
SUN 17:00 The Early Music Show (m002jst4)
Early Music Today
Hannah French hears about two 500-year old choir books recently brought back to life, looks ahead to festivals in Brighton, Tetbury & Salisbury and explores a raft of new recordings
Presenter Hannah French finds out about two 500-year old choir books recently brought back to life, which are kept in Lambeth Palace and Buckland Abbey.
There's news from three upcoming early music festivals in Tetbury, Brighton and Salisbury, and a wealth of new recordings to explore, including recent releases from Les Arts Florissants, Accadema Bizantina and Collegium Musicum 23, who are performing on a selection of Bach's instruments from St Thomas' Church in Leipzig.
To listen to this programme using most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play The Early Music Show".
SUN 18:00 Words and Music (m001lbzr)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Tom Glenister and Ellie Haddington bring us readings reflecting on what a night out looks like in the working men’s club depicted in Alan Sillitoe’s first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and a description of a Sunday stroll after visiting the Pump Room in Bath in a Jane Austen novel. We hear about the animals assembling on a Sunday to receive their orders in George Orwell's Animal Farm and about the loneliness of a student listening to Miles Davis conjured in Caleb Azumah Nelson's novel Small Worlds. Other music includes Mendelssohn, Handel, and Elton John.
Producer: Paul Frankl
READINGS:
Alan Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Michael Frayn: Towards the End of the Morning
Edith Nesbit: Saturday Song
Princess Victoria: Diary Entry, 14th March 1837
Colm Tobin: Brooklyn
Caleb Azumah Nelson: Small Worlds
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
Graham Greene: The Destructors
Emily Dickinson: Some keep the Sabbath going to church
George Orwell: : Animal Farm
Louis McNeice: Sunday Morning
Sarah Wimbush: Inside Lingerie
Charles Bukowski: Downtown
SUN 19:15 Sunday Feature (m002jst7)
Joining the dots - 200 years of Braille Music
2025 marks 200 years since Louis Braille invented his revolutionary 6-dot tactile writing system for blind people. Braille was also an organist, and he went on to adapt his system into Braille Music, allowing blind musicians to access and study scores like never before.
Award-winning lutenist Matthew Wadsworth travels to France to learn about the origins of Braille Music and explores the impact it's had on blind musicians over the last 200 years.
Matthew visits the Musée Louis Braille (Braille's childhood home) in Coupvray, France to learn about Louis Braille’s early life. He also travels to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (The National Institute for Blind Youth) in Paris - the institute for blind students where Louis Braille was a student and teacher. The school still teaches blind students today and organ teacher Alexandra Bartfeld tells Matthew how the institute trained famed blind organists like Jean Langlais, Louis Vierne and Gaston Litaize.
Philippa Campsie, independent researcher into the history of blindness, explains how Charles Barbier’s Night Writing code using raised dots inspired Louis Braille. And Mireille Duhen, from the Valentin Haüy museum, shows Matthew period tactile music scores from the turn of the 19th century.
Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Ignasi Cambra explains at the piano how he uses Braille Music to memorise a score.
Viola player Takashi Kikuchi is a member of Paraorchestra. He recently learned the music for the Virtuous Circle – an orchestral performance of Mozart’s 40th Symphony with additional music by Oliver Vibrans. He discusses the challenges of memorising contemporary music and how he worked with fellow viola player and Assistant Music Director of Paraorchestra, Siobhan Clough, to access the score.
James Risdon, recorder player and Access Lead at ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music), talks to Matthew about the ways digital Braille Music scores have benefited his career. And Dr Sarah Morley Wilkins from the Daisy Consortium Braille Music project and Jay Pocknell (Project Manager at Sound Without Sight and Music officer at the Royal National Institute for Blind People) discuss their work with music publishers to improve access to Braille Music scores in the digital age.
SUN 20:00 Record Review (m002jst9)
Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
A complete performance of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, the LSO conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, plus newly-released Chopin from pianist Goran Filipec.
SUN 21:00 20th Century Radicals (m002jstc)
Luigi Nono: Revolutionary song, and the retreat into sound
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore present BBC Radio 3's series exploring the pivotal 'modern' musical works of the 20th century, the groundbreaking composers who created them, and the radical cultural and artistic movements which gave rise to them. In this episode, Gillian explores the highly charged left wing politics of Luigi Nono's early pieces and finds a contrast with the quiet works which he composed in the later years of his life. On the way to a full performance of his final work "Hay que caminar" soñando KOE 20A (premiered in Berlin in October, 1989), we explore the approaches of political composers in Italy who laid the groundwork for Nono’s music, find ourselves wandering without destination with Morton Feldman, and discover how to listen truly deeply with Pauline Oliveros.
Produced by Sam Phillips
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
To listen on most smart speakers just say, “ask BBC Sounds to play 20th Century Radicals”
SUN 22:00 Night Tracks (m002jstf)
Immersive music for after-hours
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening focusing on youth, family and landscape, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
SUN 23:30 Unclassified (m002jsth)
Edinburgh Festival Highlights
Join Elizabeth Alker with a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists as we journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds. Tonight she plays highlights from some of Unclassifield’s favourite artists’ live concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Unclassified”
MONDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2025
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m002jstk)
Beethoven, Schumann and Tchaikovsky from Cologne
Pablo Ferrández is the soloist in Schumann's Cello Concerto performed with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Beethoven's 'Egmont' Overture complete the programme. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Overture to 'Egmont', Op 84
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Andrés Orozco-Estrada (conductor)
12:40 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Pablo Ferrández (cello), WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Andrés Orozco-Estrada (conductor)
01:05 AM
Pau Casals (1876-1973)
El cant dels ocells, for solo cello
Pablo Ferrández (cello)
01:08 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op 64
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, Andrés Orozco-Estrada (conductor)
01:56 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), arr. Pau Casals
Apres un reve, Op 7 no 1 arr. for cello & piano
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
02:00 AM
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Sonata for viola and piano, Op 147
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Markus Hadulla (piano)
02:31 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594), arr. Francesco Soriano
Missa Papae Marcelli arr. Soriano for double choir (orig. 6 vv)
BBC Singers, Bo Holten (conductor)
02:57 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata in A minor, Op 42 (D.845)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
03:33 AM
Anon,John Coperario (1570-1626),William Lawes (1602-1645), arr. Pedro Memelsdorff / Andreas Staier
Court Masques under Charles I and II
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
03:44 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra
BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
03:58 AM
Ludvig Norman (1831-1885)
2 Songs: Such' die Blumen dir im Thal (1850); Herbstlied (1850)
Olle Persson (baritone), Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano)
04:04 AM
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
Samuel Niederhauser (cello), Denis Linnik (piano)
04:12 AM
Jan van Gilse (1881-1944)
Concert Overture in C minor
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor)
04:22 AM
John Field (1782-1837)
Andante inédit in E flat major for piano
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
04:31 AM
Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709)
Sonata in D for Trumpet, Strings and Basso Continuo
Sebastian Philpott (trumpet), European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
04:38 AM
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
From Jewish Life, B.54
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Alexander Lonquich (piano)
04:48 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (no 6 from Lyric pieces, Op 65)
Valerie Tryon (piano)
04:56 AM
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Suite in A major, Op 98b
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Katowice, Stanislaw Macura (conductor)
05:15 AM
Chan Ka Nin (b.1949)
Four seasons suite
Ottawa Winds, Michael Goodwin (conductor)
05:27 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in G major, Op 77 no 1
Royal String Quartet
05:47 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no 38 in D major, K.504, 'Prague'
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Oksana Lyniv (conductor)
06:18 AM
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Alma Redemptoris Mater & Ave Maria, O auctrix vite
Sequentia, Elizabeth Gaver (medieval fiddle), Elisabetta de Mircovich (medieval fiddle)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m002jsxl)
Birdsong and Bach to banish those morning blues
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’
MON 09:30 Essential Classics (m002jsxq)
A classical soundtrack for your morning
Georgia Mann plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Including the Playlister challenge: our regular listener-created sequence inspired by a different piece of music each day. Plus a new classical release in focus for Album of the Week.
1000 Playlister starter: listen and send us your ideas for the next step in today's musical journey. Text 83111 or email essentialclassics@bbc.co.uk.
1030 Album of the Week: an exciting new classical release in focus throughout the week.
1115 Playlister reveal: an uninterrupted sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter piece.
1200 Feast of a Piece: indulge your ears with an orchestral masterpiece.
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
MON 13:00 Classical Live (m002jsxv)
Brahms's 2nd Viola Sonata live from Wigmore Hall
Brahms's 2nd Viola Sonata live from Wigmore Hall with violist Lawrence Power and pianist Ryan Wigglesworth, plus highlights from the recent Cowbridge Fetival and popular orchestral works by Elgar and Beethoven from the Ulster Orchestra. Introduced by Al Ryan.
We begin the programme with a live concert from London’s Wigmore Hall. Viola player Lawrence Power and pianist Ryan Wigglesworth perform Brahms's own transcription of his second clarinet sonata alongside George Enescu's virtuosic Concertstück which he wrote for the Paris Conservatoire in 1906. Also on their programme is Stravinsky's own chamber arrangement of music from his ballet The Fairy's Kiss.
Elsewhere, we have special recordings all this week from the Ulster Orchestra, and today they play a pair of much loved orchestral works - Beethoven's Fourth Symphony and Elgar's Cello Concerto in which they are joined by cellist Nadège Rochat.
Al also has highlights from this month's Cowbridge Festival which featured the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective playing music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. And throughout the week Linton throws the spotlight on the Orsino Ensemble and its members. Today they play Francis Poulenc's Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano.
1.00
Live from Wigmore Hall, introduced by Hannah French.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
None but the lonely heart, Op. 6 No. 6
Igor Stravinsky
Divertimento for violin and piano
George Enescu
Concertstück
Johannes Brahms
Viola Sonata in E flat, Op. 120 No. 2
Lawrence Power (viola)
Ryan Wigglesworth (piano)
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Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Nadège Rochat (cello)
Ulster Orchestra
Chloé van Soeterstède (conductor)
Francis Poulenc
Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Orsino Ensemble
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
Ulster Orchestra
Pawel Kapula (conductor)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 1
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live”
MON 16:00 Composer of the Week (m000xlh8)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Ophelia
Donald Macleod pulls back the curtain on Berlioz’s greatest obsession.
Hector Berlioz was one the most innovative and rebellious musicians of 19th-century France. He was a man of unwaveringly high expectations, in his wider life as well as his music. As the quintessential Romantic, one friend said that love was the “alpha and omega of his existence”. This week Donald Macleod looks at Berlioz through the passions and relationships that shaped who he was and what he created, exploring the romantic obsessions of an especially obsessive man. We’ll also hear a movement of his Symphonie Fantastique each day – Berlioz’s best-known work, and the musical embodiment of his most powerful infatuation.
Today, starting with the woman who would have a fatal influence over him – his Ophelia. As the curtain rises for a performance of Hamlet at the Paris Odeon theatre, little does Berlioz know what he would later call the “supreme drama” of his life, is about to begin...
Marche Funèbre pour la dernière scène d‘Hamlet (Tristia, Op 18)
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Irlande (La belle voyageuse)
Anne Sofie von Otter, soprano
Cord Garben, piano
Romeo et Juliette – Scène d’amour
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis, conductor
Lelio – Choeur d’ombres
John Alldis Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis, conductor
Symphonie Fantastique (1st movement – Reveries – Passions)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor
Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker
MON 17:00 In Tune (m002jsxz)
Live music from soprano Mary Bevan and Fibonacci Quartet
Petroc Trelawny presents live music from soprano Mary Bevan and pianist Joseph Middleton, who have a new album 'Elegy' and a recital at Wigmore Hall coming up. There's also live music from Fibonacci Quartet ahead of the YCAT Lunchtime Series at Wigmore Hall, and Petroc talks to YCAT Composer Fellow Fergus Hall.
MON 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m002jsy1)
Classical music to inspire you
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m002jsy3)
Víkingur Ólafsson plays Beethoven
In the Philharmonia Orchestra’s 80th birthday season, principal conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali takes the helm for the UK debut of a new work by the Philharmonia's featured composer, Gabriela Ortiz: music that is infused with the flavour of her Mexican homeland. Renowned for his interpretations of music ranging from Bach to Glass, the pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3. Plus, Olivier Latry showcases the organ of the Royal Festival Hall in Saint-Saëns’s magnificent Organ Symphony.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 25th September
Gabriela Ortiz: Si el oxígeno fuera verde (UK premiere)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (organ)
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
Olivier Latry (organ)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)
To listen on most smart speakers just say "ask BBC Sounds to play Radio 3 in Concert".
MON 21:45 The Essay (m001xnml)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands
Hildaland
Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...
Tonight Orcadian historian and storyteller Tom Muir is our guide to the myth and magic of Hildaland, one of Orkney's vanishing islands and the summer home of the Finfolk.
Score by Erland Cooper
Recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson
The Lost Sister - a poem by John Burnside - read by Keeley Forsyth
Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3
MON 22:00 Night Tracks (m002jsy5)
Reflective music for the day’s end
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
MON 23:30 'Round Midnight (m002jsy7)
Jamie Leeming’s Flowers
‘Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
From Monday to Thursday this week, Soweto is joined by guitarist Jamie Leeming. A much called on artist, Jamie regularly works with fellow talented UK musicians including Alfa Mist, Tom Misch, and Jas Kayser.
To begin his week, Jamie chooses to give Flowers to one of his close collaborators who has inspired him.
Also in the programme, music from A Song For You, Nate Smith, and Elisa Thorn.
TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2025
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m002jsy9)
Lieder in Spain
From the 2023 Schubertiade in Vilabertran, Spain, soprano Dorothea Röschmann and pianist Wolfram Rieger perform a programme of lieder by Schumann, Mahler and Wagner. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, Op 135
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
12:41 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Liederkreis, Op 39
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
01:10 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Rheinlegendchen, from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
01:13 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Das irdische Leben, from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
01:16 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
01:19 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Lob des hohen Verstands, from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
01:22 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Verlorne Müh, from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
01:25 AM
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
01:34 AM
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Wesendonck Lieder
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
01:56 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Es muss ein wunderbares sein
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
01:58 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Die Lotosblume, Op 25, from 'Myrthen'
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Wolfram Rieger (piano)
02:01 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen, Op 74 no 1 (motet)
Grex Vocalis, Carl Høgset (director)
02:06 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Eri Klas (conductor)
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata no 32 in C minor, Op 111
Tatjana Ognjanovic (piano)
02:59 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata - 'Ich hatte viel Bekummernis' BWV 21
Antonella Balducci (soprano), Frieder Lang (tenor), Fulvio Bettini (baritone), Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Ensemble Vanitas Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
03:34 AM
Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991)
Trio Sonata
Zagreb Guitar Trio
03:47 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in G minor 'Rider', Op 74 no 3
Quatuor Ebène
04:08 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Waltz of the Flowers (from The Nutcracker)
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
04:16 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (b.1932)
Two Love Songs
Elmer Iseler Singers, Claire Preston (piano), Lydia Adams (director)
04:21 AM
Karol Rathaus (1895-1954)
Prelude and Gigue in A major for orchestra, Op 44
Polish National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Joel Suben (conductor)
04:31 AM
Clément Janequin (c.1485-1558)
Escoutez tous gentilz (La bataille de Marignon/La guerre)
King's Singers
04:38 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture from Die Zauberflote K.620
Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Richard Bradshaw (conductor)
04:46 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Op 43
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
05:00 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Andrew Nicholson (flute), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)
05:12 AM
Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521)
Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi, for 24 voices
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
05:21 AM
Daniel Bacheler (c.1572-1619)
Pavan for lute
Nigel North (lute)
05:26 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
String Quartet no 4 in A minor, Op 25
Yggdrasil String Quartet
06:01 AM
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Piano Concerto in F sharp minor Op 20
Alexei Volodin (piano), Sinfonia Varsovia, Robert Treviño (conductor)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m002jt2y)
Launch the day with classical music
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’
TUE 09:30 Essential Classics (m002jt32)
The very best of classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Including the Playlister challenge: our regular listener-created sequence inspired by a different piece of music each day. Plus a new classical release in focus for Album of the Week.
1000 Playlister starter: listen and send us your ideas for the next step in today's musical journey. Text 83111 or email essentialclassics@bbc.co.uk.
1030 Album of the Week: an exciting new classical release in focus throughout the week.
1115 Playlister reveal: an uninterrupted sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter piece.
1200 Feast of a Piece: indulge your ears with an orchestral masterpiece.
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
TUE 13:00 Classical Live (m002jt35)
Vaughan Williams' 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus
An afternoon of compelling performances including Brahms's Horn Trio from the Cowbridge Festival and Vaughan-Williams's folksong inspired Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus from the Ulster Orchestra. Introduced by Al Ryan.
All week, Al is foregrounding brilliant recent performances from the Ulster Orchestra. Today we’ll hear them in Vaughan Williams's Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus. Not so much a set of variations on the folksong but rather an imaginative fusion of different takes on the tune as its been passed down through the oral tradition. In contrast the Ulster Orchestra also present Antonin Dvorak's dazzling set of Symphonic Variations.
We are also shining a light on the Orsino Ensemble, who we will hear in music by Beethoven. And, Al also introduces highlights from the 2025 Cowbridge Festival from earlier this month. Today, the Carducci Quartet play Haydn's ‘Sunrise’ Quartet and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective are joined by horn player Ben Goldscheider for Brahms's Horn Trio
Joseph Haydn
Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76 No. 4, ‘Sunrise’
Carducci Quartet
Antonin Dvorak
Symphonic Variations in C major, Op. 78
Ulster Orchestra
James Burton (conductor)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Ulster Orchestra
Matthew Lynch (conductor)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sextet in E flat major, Op. 71 (arr. Mordechai Rechtman)
Orsino Ensemble
Huw Watkins
Lament for horn and piano
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Johannes Brahms
Horn Trio in E flat major, Op. 40
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Kenneth Hesketh
Uncoiling the River
Clare Hammond (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Anna Rakitina (conductor)
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live”
TUE 16:00 Composer of the Week (m000xlsc)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Camille
Donald Macleod explores the twists and turns of Berlioz’s first engagement.
Hector Berlioz was one the most innovative and rebellious musicians of 19th-century France. He was a man of unwaveringly high expectations, in his wider life as well as his music. As the quintessential Romantic, one friend said that love was the “alpha and omega of his existence”. This week Donald Macleod looks at Berlioz through the passions and relationships that shaped who he was and what he created, exploring the romantic obsessions of an especially obsessive man. We’ll also hear a movement of his Symphonie Fantastique each day – Berlioz’s best known work, and the musical embodiment of his most powerful infatuation.
Today, Berlioz wins the musical jackpot of the Prix de Rome but almost throws it in for his latest love. We’ll follow the rollercoaster ride of his engagement to the young pianist, Camille Moke, from elopement to attempted murder. Plus, Berlioz channels his hero, Lord Byron, and lives out his Romantic ideals on a heartbreak holiday in the Abruzzi mountains.
Fleuve du Tage
Stephanie d’Oustrac, soprano
Thibaut Roussel, guitar
Tempest Fantasy
Toronto Symphony Chorus
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis, conductor
Symphonie Fantastique, arr. Liszt for piano (2nd movement)
Roger Muraro, piano
Carnaval Romain
Anima Eterna
Jos van Immerseel, conductor
Harold in Italy (1st movement - “Harold aux montagnes”)
Tabea Zimmerman, viola
Les Siecles
Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor
Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m002jt38)
Drivetime classical
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
TUE 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m002jt3b)
Expand your horizons with classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m002jt3d)
Boris Giltburg plays Rachmaninov
The virtuoso pianist Boris Giltburg plays a programme of Rachmaninov's Preludes, which are undisputed jewels of the piano repertoire. Starting with the great Prelude in C-sharp minor, which depict the tolling of great bells, to the highly imaginative flights of fancy in the last set of preludes that Rachmaninov wrote, his Opus 32.
Boris Giltburg has firmly placed his own stamp on these Preludes and tonight's Radio 3 in Concert is a rare chance to hear all 24 of them in one performance. Giltburg writes: ‘Musically speaking, the cycle of Preludes is a treasure trove of tangible, breathing atmosphere, of arresting narratives and emotional snapshots, endlessly varied. No two of them are fully alike.’
Recorded on 28th September at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and presented by Martin Handley.
Rachmaninov: Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.3 No.2
Rachmaninov: 10 Preludes, Op.23
Rachmaninov: 13 Preludes, Op.32
Boris Giltburg (piano)
To listen on most smart speakers just say "ask BBC Sounds to play Radio 3 in Concert".
TUE 21:45 The Essay (m001xnm4)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands
The Isle of Demons
Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...
The Isle of Demons - or Île des Démons - was believed to be located at the top of the Straits of Belle Isle which divides Newfoundland and Labrador. It first appeared in 1508 on Johannes Ruysch's world map with the description: "Demons assaulted ships near these islands, which were avoided, but not without peril.” It also appeared on other leading cartographers' maps including Gérard Mercator's 1569 world map; Giovanni Battista Ramusio's map of New England and New France in 1556; and Abraham Ortelius’ 1569 map.
The phantom island gained notoriety when French noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval claimed to have been abandoned there by her uncle in 1542. After Marguerite's rescue and return to France, her story was told in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron in 1558, Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques in 1572, and Andre Thevet's Cosmographie Universelle in 1575.
L'Île des Démons is thought perhaps to be based on a real island, most logically the remote Quirpon Island (pronounced Karpoon). Ed English comes from a seafaring family and owns the Quirpon island lighthouse and adjacent Lighthouse Inn, together Ed and Erland explore this ghostly phantom isle. Perhaps the terrifying screams came from the now extinct Great Auk - Erland remembers a stuffed specimen in the Orkney museum in Stromness.
Score by Erland Cooper, recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson
Readings by Keeley Forsyth from Marguerite or The Isle of Demons by George Martin (1886)
Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3
TUE 22:00 Night Tracks (m002jt3g)
A bewitching night time soundtrack
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUE 23:30 'Round Midnight (m002jt3j)
One from Laura Misch
‘Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
Guitarist Jamie Leeming is back with a second Flowers pick of the week, and tonight he spotlights an internationally celebrated vocalist who has consistently created imaginative and transcendental music over the past six decades.
There is also music from Harben Kay, David Ferris Septet, and Tamar Osbourne, Will Glaser, Yohannes Kebede.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
WEDNESDAY 01 OCTOBER 2025
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m002jt3l)
Poulenc Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings
The RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra under Oscar Jockel plays Bach and Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony. Olivier Latry, organ and Petra Vidmar, timpani, join the ensemble for Poulenc's mighty concerto for organ, timpani and strings. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Anton Webern
Ricercar a 6, from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Oscar Jockel (conductor)
12:40 AM
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings in G minor, FP 93
Olivier Latry (organ), Petra Vidmar (timpani), RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Oscar Jockel (conductor)
01:03 AM
Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
Toccata, from Suite gothique, Op 25 (encore)
Olivier Latry (organ)
01:08 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No 41 in C, K. 551 'Jupiter'
RTV Symphony Orchestra, Oscar Jockel (conductor)
01:42 AM
Josef Suk (1949-2011)
Elegy Op 23 arr. for piano trio
Trio Lorenz
01:49 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Syrinx for solo flute
Boris Campa (flute)
01:53 AM
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909), arr. unknown
Cuba (Suite espanola no 1, Op 47 no 8)
Tomaž Rajterič (guitar)
01:59 AM
Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)
Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in D major
Irena Baar (soprano), Mirjam Kalin (alto), Branko Robinsak (tenor), Marco Fink (bass), RTV Slovenia Chamber Choir, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Marko Munih (conductor)
02:31 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Violin Sonata no 1 in F minor, Op 80
Petterli Iivonen (violin), Philip Chiu (piano)
03:01 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Oboe Concerto in C major, K.285d/314a
Heinz Holliger (oboe), ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)
03:22 AM
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Quatre pièces fugitives, Op 15
Diana Ketler (piano)
03:34 AM
Grace Williams (1906-1977)
Sea Sketches
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
03:53 AM
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Toward the Unknown Region
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
04:05 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Three pieces for Clarinet Solo
Martins Circenis (clarinet)
04:09 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Prelude, theme and variations for horn and piano
Mindaugas Gecevicius (horn), Ala Bendoraitiene (piano)
04:20 AM
Dorothy Howell (1898-1982)
Two Pieces for Muted Strings
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Michael Collins (conductor)
04:31 AM
Anonymous
Worldes blis ne last no throwe
Sequentia, Benjamin Bagby (harp)
04:43 AM
Mel Bonis (1858-1938)
Salome, Op 100
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
04:48 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Nocturne for piano no 6 in D flat major, Op 63
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
04:57 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 no 2, HWV 320
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (conductor)
05:09 AM
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Adios nonino
Musica Camerata Montréal
05:19 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Verklärte Nacht, Op 4 arr. for string sextet
Aronowitz Ensemble
05:48 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Alles redet itzt und singet, TWV
20:10
Barbara Schlick (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Michael Schneider (recorder), Konrad Hünteler (recorder), Hans-Peter Westermann (oboe), Pieter Dhont (oboe), Michael McCraw (bassoon), Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (conductor)
06:17 AM
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
Sonata for solo violin and bass continuo
Sabine Lier (violin), Salzburger Hofmusik, Wolfgang Brunner (director)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m002jtf0)
Boost your morning with classical music
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’
WED 09:30 Essential Classics (m002jtf4)
Relax into the day with classical
Georgia Mann plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Including the Playlister challenge: our regular listener-created sequence inspired by a different piece of music each day. Plus a new classical release in focus for Album of the Week.
1000 Playlister starter: listen and send us your ideas for the next step in today's musical journey. Text 83111 or email essentialclassics@bbc.co.uk.
1030 Album of the Week: an exciting new classical release in focus throughout the week.
1115 Playlister reveal: an uninterrupted sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter piece.
1200 Feast of a Piece: indulge your ears with an orchestral masterpiece.
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
WED 13:00 Classical Live (m002jtf8)
Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in G minor from the Cowbridge Festival
Shostakovich's masterly Piano Quintet recorded at this month's Cowbridge Festival is just one of today's programme highlights alongside the rarely heard Stanford 2nd Piano Concerto with Finghin Collins and the Ulster Orchestra forming part of this week's spotlight on that orchestra. Presented by Al Ryan.
Also from the 2025 Cowbridge Festival, the Carducci Quartet perform music by Welshman Huw Watkins and today's programme also includes a lilting Romance from Dvorak as Al shines a light on the Orsino Ensemble.
Charles Villiers Stanford
Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op. 126
Finghin Collins (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Antonin Dvorak
Romance in F minor
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
Orsino Ensemble
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a
Ulster Orchestra
Matthew Lynch (conductor)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Huw Watkins (piano)
Carducci Quartet
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live”
WED 15:00 Choral Evensong (m002jtfb)
Trinity College, Cambridge
From the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge with members of the Rodolfus Choral Course.
Introit: Hear my prayer, O Lord (Purcell)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalms 6, 7, 8 (Battishill, Turle, Ley)
First Lesson: Proverbs 2 vv1-15
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Second Lesson: Colossians 1 vv9-20
Anthem: Rivers of Living Water (Trevor Weston)
Voluntary: Organ Sonata No 4 in B flat (Allegro con brio) (Mendelssohn)
Simon Toyne (Conductor)
George Herbert (Organist)
Recorded 19 August.
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Choral Evensong”.
WED 16:00 Composer of the Week (m000xlyz)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Harriet
Donald Macleod follows the drama as Berlioz finally marries the woman of his dreams.
Hector Berlioz was one the most innovative and rebellious musicians of 19th-century France. He was a man of unwaveringly high expectations, in his wider life as well as his music. As the quintessential Romantic, one friend said that love was the “alpha and omega of his existence”. This week Donald Macleod looks at Berlioz through the passions and relationships that shaped who he was and what he created, exploring the romantic obsessions of an especially obsessive man. We’ll also hear a movement of his Symphonie Fantastique each day – Berlioz’s best known work, and the musical embodiment of his most powerful infatuation.
Today, Berlioz’s dreams come true when he finally manages to win the attention of his unrequited muse, Harriet Smithson, at the triumphant premiere of his Symphonie Fantastique. But after years of waiting, can she live up to his idealised image of her?
Requiem: Lacrimosa
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Roger Norrington, conductor
Chanson de Brigands (Lelio)
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Symphonie Fantastique (3rd movement - Scene aux champs)
Les Siecles
Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor
Benvenuto Cellini: Overture
Orchestre National de Lyon
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
La Mort d’Ophélie
Susan Graham, soprano
Malcolm Martineau, piano
Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker
WED 17:00 In Tune (m002jtff)
Live classical performance and interviews
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
WED 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m002jtfh)
Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m002jtfk)
Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony
The London Philharmonic Orchestra launches its new season with concert of musical favourites. Yefim Bronfman joins the orchestra for the grandest of Beethoven's piano concertos, the fifth, before the LPO takes centre stage with Tchaikovsky's fate-ridden fifth symphony. And to start, a work by the LPO's Composer in Residence, George Benjamin.
Recorded last week at the Royal Festival Hall, and presented by Ian Skelly.
George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major Op.73, 'Emperor'
Interval
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op.64
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)
WED 21:45 The Essay (m001xmqb)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands
The Auroras
Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...
To explore the Aurora Islands in the South Atlantic - Erland is joined by Chilean historian Natalia Gándara Chacana, an expert on the scientific and cultural history of Latin America in the colonial and early republican period.
The Auroras take their name from a Peruvian ship which reported a group of three Islands in 1762 whilst on a voyage from Lima to Cádiz, midway between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. South Georgia is about 500 miles from the South Orkney islands - named after Erland's home - which are located at roughly the same latitude south as Orkney is north. They are claimed by both Argentina and Britain.
The Auroras were spotted by numerous more ships including in 1794 by the Spanish corvette Atrevida, which was despatched to find them as part of a scientific survey of the Patagonian coast. In a region where colonial powers were competing for control of the seas, islands held a particular importance and the Auroras had great geostrategic value, in addition to being a potential navigational hazard to ships in one of the most dangerous places to sail. They were dismissed as non-existent by the British admiralty in 1825 but they continued to be sighted and appeared on maps until the 1870s.
Score by Erland Cooper
Recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson
Readings by Keeley Forsyth from the journals of the Captain of the Atrevida and the Captain of the Helen Baird
With thanks to Sara Jane Hall
Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3
WED 22:00 Night Tracks (m002jtfm)
Sublime sounds for nightfall
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WED 23:30 'Round Midnight (m002jtfp)
Brand new Kassa Overall
‘Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
Tonight Jamie Leeming has another artist that he admires and would like to highlight. This time, it’s the turn of an American saxophonist and producer known for his futuristic and avant-garde output.
There is also music from B.H.A.M, Ines Valesco, and Ensemble C.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
THURSDAY 02 OCTOBER 2025
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m002jtfr)
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Third Piano Concerto
Hungarian pianist Petra Somlai is the soloist with Concerto Stella Matutina in Beethoven's third concerto for the instrument in a concert given in Austria, followed by Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Coriolan, overture Op 62
Concerto Stella Matutina, Thomas Platzgummer (conductor)
12:39 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto no 3 in C minor, Op 37
Petra Somlai (fortepiano), Concerto Stella Matutina, Thomas Platzgummer (conductor)
01:14 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op 67
Concerto Stella Matutina, Thomas Platzgummer (conductor)
01:48 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sehnsucht (D.123) (Longing)
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
01:51 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet no 14 in C sharp minor, Op 131
Alexander String Quartet
02:31 AM
Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550-1602), Andrea Gabrieli (1532-1585), Elam Rotem (b.1984)
Lamentations: Prima Diem
Profeti della Quinta
02:52 AM
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Variations on an original theme (Enigma) Op 36
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Neville Marriner (conductor)
03:21 AM
Richard Flury (1896-1967)
Three pieces for violin and piano
Sibylle Tschopp (violin), Isabel Tschopp (piano)
03:29 AM
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Allegro appassionato in C sharp minor Op 70
Stefan Lindgren (piano)
03:36 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sposa son disprezzata, from 'Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet)', RV.703
Julie Fuchs (soprano), La Scintilla Orchestra, Anna Gebert (conductor)
03:46 AM
Nicolaos Mantzaros (1795-1872)
Sinfonia di genere Orientale in A minor
National Symphony Orchestra of Greek Radio, Andreas Pylarinos (conductor)
03:56 AM
Franz Doppler (1821-1883)
L'oiseau des bois (Bird in the woods) - idyll for flute and 4 horns, Op 21
János Balint (flute), Jenö Keveházi (horn), Peter Fuzes (horn), Sandor Endrodi (horn), Tibor Maruzsa (horn)
04:02 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Gesange der Fruhe (Songs of Dawn), Op 133
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:17 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Trio Sonata in G major HWV 399 for 2 violins, viola and continuo Op 5 No 4
Musica Antiqua Köln
04:31 AM
Peter Benoit (1834-1901)
Panis Angelicus
Karen Lemaire (soprano), Flemish Radio Choir, Joris Verdin (harmonium), Vic Nees (conductor)
04:36 AM
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
3 Pieces for cello and piano
Zoltán Despond (cello), Vesselin Stanev (piano)
04:43 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Première rapsodie arr. for clarinet and orchestra
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
04:52 AM
Christoph Schaffrath (1709-1763)
Chamber Sonata in E flat major, CSWV D:6
Flor Galante
05:02 AM
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
Suite no 4 for two pianos, Op 62
James Anagnason (piano), Leslie Kinton (piano)
05:21 AM
Anonymous arr. Nicola Matteis (c. 1650-after 1713)
Passages in Imitation of the Trumpet; 5 Marches from Playford's New Tunes
Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder), Andreas Staier (harpsichord)
05:31 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV131 (Cantata)
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto), Krystian Adam (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass), Wrocław Philharmonic Chorus, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)
05:55 AM
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834)
Harp Concerto in C major
Xavier de Maistre (harp), Indiana University Orchestra, Gerhard Samuel (conductor)
06:18 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Grand duo in E major on themes from Meyerbeer's 'Robert le Diable'
Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m002jvdl)
Start the day with classical music
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’
THU 09:30 Essential Classics (m002jvdn)
Celebrating classical greats
Georgia Mann plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Including the Playlister challenge: our regular listener-created sequence inspired by a different piece of music each day. Plus a new classical release in focus for Album of the Week.
1000 Playlister starter: listen and send us your ideas for the next step in today's musical journey. Text 83111 or email essentialclassics@bbc.co.uk.
1030 Album of the Week: an exciting new classical release in focus throughout the week.
1115 Playlister reveal: an uninterrupted sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter piece.
1200 Feast of a Piece: indulge your ears with an orchestral masterpiece.
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
THU 13:00 Classical Live (m002jvdq)
Wagner live from the Ulster Orchestra
This week on Classical Live, we are featuring the Ulster Orchestra and today they perform live into the programme from their home in Belfast. Their programme includes music by Satie, Wagner and Stravinsky under conductor Jack Sheen. The programme is introduced by John Toal.
And Al Ryan is in the Classical Live studio with further highlight from the 2025 Cowbridge Festival as the Carducci Quartet play music by Fanny Hensel. And there's also more from members of the Orsino Ensemble in music by Ravel.
Henry Purcell (arr. Stokowski)
Dido's Lament
Ulster Orchestra
Matthew Lynch (conductor)
Fanny Hensel
String Quartet in E flat major
Carducci Quartet
Anton Webern
Langsamer Satz
Ulster Orchestra
Jonathan Berman (conductor)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto in A major BWV. 1055
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
David Fray (piano/director)
Ravel (arr. Paul Silverthorne)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Adam Walker (flute)
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Anneleen Lenaerts (harp)
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Live: The Ulster Orchestra from Belfast
Eric Satie (arr. Sheen)
Le Fils des Étoiles - Prélude (world premiere)
Wagner
Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Stravinsky
Divertimento from The Fairy's Kiss
Ulster Orchestra
Jack Sheen (conductor)
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live”
THU 16:00 Composer of the Week (m000xmjk)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Marie
Donald Macleod introduces us to Berlioz’s enigmatic mistress and second wife.
Hector Berlioz was one the most innovative and rebellious musicians of 19th-century France. He was a man of unwaveringly high expectations, in his wider life as well as his music. As the quintessential Romantic, one friend said that love was the “alpha and omega of his existence”. This week Donald Macleod looks at Berlioz through the passions and relationships that shaped who he was and what he created, exploring the romantic obsessions of an especially obsessive man. We’ll also hear a movement of his Symphonie Fantastique each day – Berlioz’s best known work, and the musical embodiment of his most powerful infatuation.
Today, Berlioz’s success finds him touring across Europe, with a mystery companion who claims to be his wife. We’ll trace his affair with the opera singer, Marie Recio, as his real marriage crumbles, and Marie’s disguise soon becomes a reality. In this less obsessive relationship, he’ll find a new kind of love – and loyalty.
Marche Hongroise
London Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle, conductor
Nuits d’été (1. Villanelle, 5. Absence)
Brigitte Balleys, mezzo-soprano
Orchestre des Champs-Elysees
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Symphonie Fantastique (4th movement – Marche au supplice)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Robin Ticciati, conductor
L’Enfance du Christ, Part II : La fuite en Egypte
Yann Beuron, tenor
Tenebrae
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis, conductor
Béatrice et Bénedict, Act II No 10 : “Dieu, que viens j’entendre?....Il m’en souvient “
Susan Graham, soprano (Beatrice)
Choeur et Orchestre de l’Opera de Lyon
John Nelson, conductor
Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker
THU 17:00 In Tune (m002jvdt)
Live classical performance and interviews
Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.
THU 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m002jvdw)
Classical music for focus or relaxation
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m002k19s)
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
Mists swirl over the Welsh borders, a drowned cathedral rises glistening from the deep, and in fairytale Russia, we hear sounds of immortal triumph.
Conductor Andrew Manze guides the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in a spectacular, rarely-heard version by Sir Henry Wood, featuring every one of the orchestra’s famous collection of church bells.
The concert begins with George Butterworth's rhapsody "A Shropshire Lad", followed by the UK premiere of a viola concerto by Liverpool composer and Artist in Residence Mark Simpson. His concerto, called "Hold your heart in your teeth" features former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout as the soloist. You can also hear music by Graham Fitkin - "Metal", which was composed for the reopening of Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in 1995, and Sir Henry Wood's orchestral arrangement of Debussy's piano piece "La cathédrale engloutie".
Recorded on 25th September at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and presented by Penny Gore.
George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
Mark Simpson: Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth (Concerto for viola and orchestra) (UK premiere)
Graham Fitkin: Metal
Claude Debussy (arr. Sir Henry Wood): La cathédrale engloutie
Modest Mussorgsky (arr. Sir Henry Wood): Pictures at an Exhibition
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Royal LIverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)
To listen on most smart speakers just say "ask BBC Sounds to play Radio 3 in Concert".
THU 21:45 The Essay (m001xmnz)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands
Frisland
Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...
In 1558, the Venetian senator Nicolò Zeno published a text: "Dello scoprimento dell'isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engrouelanda, Estotilanda e Icaria fatto sotto il Polo artico da' due fratelli Zeni, M. Nicolò il K. e M. Antonio" in which the writer claims that as a child he discovered letters and a map from his ancestors, two knights and expert sailors who travelled north to these unknown islands in the north in the late 14th century - but in his youthful ignorance he tore the documents up. Years later, on realising their importance, Nicolò recovered them.
The letters describe a voyage north to Frisland which is decribed as an island larger than Ireland. On Frisland, Nicolò's ancestors encounter a Prince Zichmni - later suggested to be the Earl of Orkney - who had recently defeated the King of Norway. The accompanying navigational chart included islands called Estotiland, Icaria, and Drogeo - which would find their way onto major maps by leading cartographers of the early modern period such as Ortelius and Mercator.
Joining Erland on this imaginary journey to Frisland is Liz Horodowich, Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She also points to some of the personal and political reasons for the publication of Zen's text.
Score by Erland Cooper
Recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson
Reading by Keeley Forsyth from Thomas Elyot's The Boke named the Governour (1531)
Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3
THU 22:00 Night Tracks (m002jvf0)
Harmonious music for nighttime listening
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THU 23:30 'Round Midnight (m002jvf2)
An anthemic release from Queenstown Collective
‘Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
Rounding off his week on Flowers, guitarist Jamie Leeming’s final bouquet goes to a master of the instrument who Jamie has long been influenced by.
Jamie Leeming’s new album “Sequent” is out now.
Also in the programme, music from Feya Faku, Sun Mi Hong, and Tortoise.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
FRIDAY 03 OCTOBER 2025
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m002jvf4)
Dvořák, Widmann and Stravinsky from Stockholm
Soloist Stefan Dohr joins the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Daniel Harding in Jörg Widmann's Horn Concerto plus works by Dvořák and Stravinsky. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 AM
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
The Wild Dove op 110
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
12:53 AM
Jörg Widmann (b.1973)
Horn Concerto
Stefan Dohr (horn), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
01:33 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Petrushka (1947 version)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
02:09 AM
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Igor Stravinsky (arranger)
Concerto in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks' arr. for two pianos
James Anagnoson (piano), Leslie Kinton (piano)
02:24 AM
Česlovas Sasnauskas (1867-1916)
Little Blue Dove
Virgilijus Noreika (tenor), Vilnius String Quintet
02:31 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata in A major, Op 47 'Kreutzer'
Geir Inge Lotsberg (violin), Einar Steen-Nøkleberg (piano)
03:08 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV.42 - cantata
Voces Suaves, Cafebaum
03:36 AM
Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871)
Variations on 'Home, sweet home' for piano, Op 72
Dennis Hennig (piano)
03:42 AM
August de Boeck (1865-1937)
Fantasy on two Flemish Folk Songs
Vlaams Radio Orkest [Flemish Radio Orchestra], Marc Soustrot (conductor)
03:50 AM
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935), George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Passacaglia after Handel
Byungchan Lee (violin), Cameron Crozman (cello)
03:57 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
'Agrippina'; overture
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenárd (conductor)
04:04 AM
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Fantasy for flute and piano
Lóránt Kovács (flute), Erika Lux (piano)
04:09 AM
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), arr. R. Klugescheid
My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice, arr. for piano trio
Moshe Hammer (violin), Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello), William Tritt (piano)
04:13 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Keyboard Sonata in A minor, Wq 57 no 2
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)
04:22 AM
Franz Schreker (1878-1934)
Scherzo for String Orchestra
Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds (conductor)
04:31 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in D minor, Op 3 no 11, from 'L'Estro Armonico'
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (conductor)
04:40 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
3 Studies for piano, Op 104b
Sylviane Deferne (piano)
04:48 AM
Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693)
Exulta satis - Offertorium for countertenor, tenor, two violins, viola and bc
Hassler Consort
04:58 AM
Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566)
3 works for Arpa Doppia
Margret Köll (arpa doppia)
05:07 AM
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Italian Serenade
Ljubljanski Godalni Quartet [Ljubljana String Quartet]
05:15 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Quadro in G minor, TWV 43:g4
Bolette Roed (recorder), Arte dei Suonatori
05:25 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No 92 (H.
1.92) in G major, 'Oxford'
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg (conductor)
05:50 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Muhseligen, Op 74 no 1
Hover State Chamber Chorus of Armenia, Sona Hovhannisyan (conductor)
06:01 AM
Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940)
Piano Trio in A minor
Gould Piano Trio
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m002jtlf)
Wake up your senses with classical music
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’
FRI 09:30 Essential Classics (m002jtlj)
A feast of great music
Georgia Mann plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Including the Playlister challenge: our regular listener-created sequence inspired by a different piece of music each day. Plus a new classical release in focus for Album of the Week.
1000 Playlister starter: listen and send us your ideas for the next step in today's musical journey. Text 83111 or email essentialclassics@bbc.co.uk.
1030 Album of the Week: an exciting new classical release in focus throughout the week.
1115 Playlister reveal: an uninterrupted sequence of music suggested by you in response to today's starter piece.
1200 Feast of a Piece: indulge your ears with an orchestral masterpiece.
To listen on most smart speakers say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Essential Classics”
FRI 13:00 Classical Live (m002jtll)
Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Rachmaninov's engaging virtuosic and witty Paganini Variations continues the spotlight on the work of the Ulster Orchestra today in a programme whcih also features chamber music highlights from the recent Cowbridge Festival. Introduced by Al Ryan.
Today, the Ulster Orchestra are joined by Chinese-American pianist Zhang Zuo - aka Zee Zee - for Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and two great symphonies: Mahler's epic First Symphony, the "Titan", and by way of contrast Mozart's poised and jewel-like Symphony No 39, with conductor Kristian Salinen.
Al also has more highlights from this year's Cowbridge Festival in Wales, including more Mozart - the Horn Quintet played by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective with horn player Ben Goldscheider.
And there's also more from the Orsino Ensemble with music from Pavel Haas.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 39 in E flat major, K543
Ulster Orchestra
Kristian Salinen (conductor)
Dora Pejačević
Impromptu for Piano Quartet
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Quintet in E flat major, K. 407
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and Ben Goldscheider (horn)
Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Zhang Zuo (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Tianyi Lu (conductor)
Pavel Haas
Wind Quintet, Op. 10
Orsino Ensemble
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 1 in D major, "Titan"
Ulster Orchestra
Eduardo Strausser (conductor)
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live”
FRI 16:00 Composer of the Week (m000xn4q)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Estelle
Donald Macleod sees Berlioz’s life come full circle as he tries rekindling an old flame.
Hector Berlioz was one the most innovative and rebellious musicians of 19th-century France. He was a man of unwaveringly high expectations, in his wider life as well as his music. As the quintessential Romantic, one friend said that love was the “alpha and omega of his existence”. This week Donald Macleod looks at Berlioz through the passions and relationships that shaped who he was and what he created, exploring the romantic obsessions of an especially obsessive man. We’ll also hear a movement of his Symphonie Fantastique each day – Berlioz’s best known work, and the musical embodiment of his most powerful infatuation.
In today's programme, having buried both his wives, Berlioz decides to seek out his childhood love, Estelle Duboeuf. This boyhood passion always stayed with him and sparked not only his desire to compose, but his lifelong quest for ideal love. For Berlioz, Estelle was the first, and it would fall to her to end the story.
Au Cimetière (Nuits d’été)
Veronique Gens, soprano
Opera National de Lyon
Louis Langree, conductor
Rêverie et caprice for violin
Renaud Capucon
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Daniel Harding, conductor
Les Troyens : Act IV, Nos 34b-37 ("O blonde Ceres…Nuit d’ivresse")
Kenneth Tarver (Iopas)
Michelle DeYoung (Didon)
Ben Heppner (Enee)
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Colin Davis, conductor
Le dépit de la bergère, H. 7
Elsa Dreisig, soprano
Jeff Cohen, piano
Symphonie Fantastique (5th movement – Songe d’une nuit de sabbat)
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Produced in Cardiff by Amelia Parker
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m002jtlp)
Wind down from work with classical music
BBC New Generation Artists The Kleio Quartet and the BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg join Petroc Trelawny in the In Tune studio to talk about their forthcoming recitals and to play live in the studio.
FRI 19:00 Classical Mixtape (m002jtlr)
The perfect classical half hour
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.
FRI 19:30 Friday Night is Music Night (m002jtlt)
Celebrating John Rutter and Bob Chilcott
The BBC Symphony Chorus joins the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductors Neil Ferris, Bob Chilcott and John Rutter at Saffron Hall in a celebration of music and the legacy of two of the great choral composers of our time as they reach significant anniversaries.
Presented by Katie Derham.
Carwithen: Prelude from Suffolk Suite
Tarik O’Regan: Coronation Agnus Dei
Bob Chilcott: Can you hear Me?
Bob Chilcott: Slow Tandem
John Rutter: Et misericordia from Magnificat
John Rutter: Pie Jesu from Requiem
Becky McGlade: He that dwelleth in the secret place
Cecilia McDowall: Sanctus & Benedictus from Da Vinci Requiem
Mendelssohn: O for the wings of a dove
Carwithen: Suffolk Morris from Suffolk Suite
INTERVAL
John Rutter: Celebration Overture
John Rutter: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
John Rutter: For the beauty of the earth
Rebecca Dale: Panis Angelicus Reimagined (BBC CO Commission)
Copland: Variations on Shaker Melody Simple Gifts (Appalachian Spring)
Will Todd: Amazing Grace
Michael Higgins: He’s gone away (Three American Songs)
Ken Burton: A Prayer
Arr. Bob Chilcott: Skye Boat Song; O Danny Boy
Vaughan Williams: Antiphon - Let all the world (Five Mystical Songs)
Soprano Rebecca Lea
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductors Neil Ferris, Bob Chilcott, John Rutter
FRI 21:45 The Essay (m001xmxm)
Erland Cooper's Phantom Islands
Saint Brendan's Isle
Join Orcadian composer Erland Cooper on a late-night voyage around the Atlantic in search of Phantom Islands...
Saint Brendan was an Irish abbot born in the 5th century, known for travelling long distances to found monasteries- he reputedly visited Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes. Several centuries after his death, a Latin text - Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis - appeared which told the story of his extraordinary seven-year voyage across the seas, which culminated in his arrival on the Land of Promise. It was a self-tilling, fruitarian paradise where the weather was always just right, and visitors could find precious stones in abundance.
Painting the picture of this heavenly island is Sebastian Sobecki, Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto. As a phantom island, St Brendan's Isle or the Fortunate Isles began appearing from the 13th century. One version of the text references the Atlas mountains and they sometimes appeared near the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores. Another text mentions that Brendan travelled West from Ireland and so the phantom island began appearing in the North Atlantic near Canada.
Cartographers at the time took Brendan's voyage seriously and it was also used by Dr John Dee to justify Elizabeth I's colonial ambitions in North America - which highlights how phantom islands can also serve a political purpose.
Score by Erland Cooper
Recorded at Studio Orphir
Violin, Freya Goldmark
Cello, Klara Shumann
Soprano, Lottie Greenhow and Josephine Stephenson
Readings by Keeley Forsyth from Denis O’Donoghue's translation of the Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis and a 12th-century poem by a Norman-English trouvère.
Producer: Victoria Ferran
Exec producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 3
FRI 22:00 Late Junction (m002jtlw)
Fragmented infinities and glittering chaos
Join Verity Sharp as she delves into another treasure-trove of ear-bending and adventurous sound. There's a weaving of symbolic snippets from duo Stephen Vitiello and Edwin Torres, who trade fragments of composition and text on their upcoming project 'sublingual infinities'; Jamie Roberts' Blawan project returns with shuddering and glittery might in the form of SickElixir, his debut full-length record; and Alexandra Spence’s meditations on landscape explore the liminal edge between the real and the imagined.
Elsewhere in the show: the shimmering and imperfect vocal stylings of Scandinavian group IKI; crackling rain and bioacoustics from Pablo Diserens & Ludwig Berger; and Lucretia Dalt’s razor sharp exorcisms of human connection.
Produced by Alex Yates
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Late Junction”
FRI 23:30 'Round Midnight (m002jtly)
Coco Maria’s mixtape in tribute to Eddie Palmieri
‘Round Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.
Tonight Soweto welcomes Mexican-born, Europe based DJ, radio host and curator Coco Maria as his Friday night guest. Coco Maria has honed her craft as a specialist in South and Central American, Brazilian and Caribbean releases. She has DJ’d at festivals internationally, curated albums compilations, and is also a regular broadcaster.
In this Friday night programme, Coco shares a special 30-minute mixtape in tribute to the late Puerto Rican New Yorker and legendary Latin jazz pianist and pioneer of salsa Eddie Palmieri, who sadly died on 6th August of this year. Expect a selection of grooving compositions and infectiously danceable rhythms.
To listen on most smart speakers, just say: 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Round Midnight.'
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
'Round Midnight
23:30 MON (m002jsy7)
'Round Midnight
23:30 TUE (m002jt3j)
'Round Midnight
23:30 WED (m002jtfp)
'Round Midnight
23:30 THU (m002jvf2)
'Round Midnight
23:30 FRI (m002jtly)
20th Century Radicals
21:00 SUN (m002jstc)
Breakfast
06:30 SAT (m002jv2p)
Breakfast
06:30 SUN (m002jsst)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m002jsxl)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m002jt2y)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m002jtf0)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m002jvdl)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m002jtlf)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m002jj2w)
Choral Evensong
15:00 WED (m002jtfb)
Classical Live
13:00 MON (m002jsxv)
Classical Live
13:00 TUE (m002jt35)
Classical Live
13:00 WED (m002jtf8)
Classical Live
13:00 THU (m002jvdq)
Classical Live
13:00 FRI (m002jtll)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 MON (m002jsy1)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m002jt3b)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 WED (m002jtfh)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 THU (m002jvdw)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m002jtlr)
Composer of the Week
16:00 MON (m000xlh8)
Composer of the Week
16:00 TUE (m000xlsc)
Composer of the Week
16:00 WED (m000xlyz)
Composer of the Week
16:00 THU (m000xmjk)
Composer of the Week
16:00 FRI (m000xn4q)
Earlier... with Jools Holland
17:00 SAT (m002jv33)
Essential Classics
09:30 MON (m002jsxq)
Essential Classics
09:30 TUE (m002jt32)
Essential Classics
09:30 WED (m002jtf4)
Essential Classics
09:30 THU (m002jvdn)
Essential Classics
09:30 FRI (m002jtlj)
Friday Night is Music Night
19:30 FRI (m002jtlt)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m002jsxz)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m002jt38)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m002jtff)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m002jvdt)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m002jtlp)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m002jst2)
Late Junction
22:00 FRI (m002jtlw)
Music Map
13:30 SUN (m002jst0)
Music Planet
21:30 SAT (m002jv37)
New Music Show
22:30 SAT (m002jv39)
Night Tracks
22:00 SUN (m002jstf)
Night Tracks
22:00 MON (m002jsy5)
Night Tracks
22:00 TUE (m002jt3g)
Night Tracks
22:00 WED (m002jtfm)
Night Tracks
22:00 THU (m002jvf0)
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (m002jv35)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m002jssy)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m002jsy3)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m002jt3d)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m002jtfk)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m002k19s)
Record Review
20:00 SUN (m002jst9)
Sunday Feature
19:15 SUN (m002jst7)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m002jssw)
The Early Music Show
17:00 SUN (m002jst4)
The Essay
21:45 MON (m001xnml)
The Essay
21:45 TUE (m001xnm4)
The Essay
21:45 WED (m001xmqb)
The Essay
21:45 THU (m001xmnz)
The Essay
21:45 FRI (m001xmxm)
Through the Night
00:30 SAT (m002jgcp)
Through the Night
00:30 SUN (m002jv3c)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m002jstk)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m002jsy9)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m002jt3l)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m002jtfr)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m002jvf4)
Train Tracks
07:30 SAT (m002jv2r)
Train Tracks
08:00 SAT (m002jv2v)
Train Tracks
11:00 SAT (m002jv2x)
Train Tracks
13:00 SAT (m002jv2z)
Train Tracks
15:00 SAT (m002jv31)
Unclassified
23:30 SUN (m002jsth)
Words and Music
18:00 SUN (m001lbzr)
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES ORDERED BY GENRE
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Drama
Words and Music
18:00 SUN (m001lbzr)
Factual
Sunday Feature
19:15 SUN (m002jst7)
Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media
The Essay
21:45 MON (m001xnml)
The Essay
21:45 TUE (m001xnm4)
The Essay
21:45 WED (m001xmqb)
The Essay
21:45 THU (m001xmnz)
The Essay
21:45 FRI (m001xmxm)
Music
Late Junction
22:00 FRI (m002jtlw)
Music: Classical
20th Century Radicals
21:00 SUN (m002jstc)
Breakfast
06:30 SAT (m002jv2p)
Breakfast
06:30 SUN (m002jsst)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m002jsxl)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m002jt2y)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m002jtf0)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m002jvdl)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m002jtlf)
Classical Live
13:00 MON (m002jsxv)
Classical Live
13:00 TUE (m002jt35)
Classical Live
13:00 WED (m002jtf8)
Classical Live
13:00 THU (m002jvdq)
Classical Live
13:00 FRI (m002jtll)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 MON (m002jsy1)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m002jt3b)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 WED (m002jtfh)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 THU (m002jvdw)
Classical Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m002jtlr)
Composer of the Week
16:00 MON (m000xlh8)
Composer of the Week
16:00 TUE (m000xlsc)
Composer of the Week
16:00 WED (m000xlyz)
Composer of the Week
16:00 THU (m000xmjk)
Composer of the Week
16:00 FRI (m000xn4q)
Earlier... with Jools Holland
17:00 SAT (m002jv33)
Essential Classics
09:30 MON (m002jsxq)
Essential Classics
09:30 TUE (m002jt32)
Essential Classics
09:30 WED (m002jtf4)
Essential Classics
09:30 THU (m002jvdn)
Essential Classics
09:30 FRI (m002jtlj)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m002jsxz)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m002jt38)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m002jtff)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m002jvdt)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m002jtlp)
Music Map
13:30 SUN (m002jst0)
Night Tracks
22:00 SUN (m002jstf)
Night Tracks
22:00 MON (m002jsy5)
Night Tracks
22:00 TUE (m002jt3g)
Night Tracks
22:00 WED (m002jtfm)
Night Tracks
22:00 THU (m002jvf0)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m002jssy)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m002jsy3)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m002jt3d)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m002jtfk)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m002k19s)
Record Review
20:00 SUN (m002jst9)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m002jssw)
Through the Night
00:30 SAT (m002jgcp)
Through the Night
00:30 SUN (m002jv3c)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m002jstk)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m002jsy9)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m002jt3l)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m002jtfr)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m002jvf4)
Train Tracks
07:30 SAT (m002jv2r)
Train Tracks
08:00 SAT (m002jv2v)
Train Tracks
11:00 SAT (m002jv2x)
Train Tracks
13:00 SAT (m002jv2z)
Train Tracks
15:00 SAT (m002jv31)
Words and Music
18:00 SUN (m001lbzr)
Music: Classical: Choral
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m002jj2w)
Choral Evensong
15:00 WED (m002jtfb)
Music: Classical: Early Music
The Early Music Show
17:00 SUN (m002jst4)
Music: Classical: Experimental & New
New Music Show
22:30 SAT (m002jv39)
Unclassified
23:30 SUN (m002jsth)
Music: Classical: Opera
Opera on 3
18:00 SAT (m002jv35)
Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals
Friday Night is Music Night
19:30 FRI (m002jtlt)
Music: Jazz & Blues
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m002jst2)
Music: Jazz & Blues: Jazz
'Round Midnight
23:30 MON (m002jsy7)
'Round Midnight
23:30 TUE (m002jt3j)
'Round Midnight
23:30 WED (m002jtfp)
'Round Midnight
23:30 THU (m002jvf2)
'Round Midnight
23:30 FRI (m002jtly)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m002jst2)
Music: World
Late Junction
22:00 FRI (m002jtlw)
Music Planet
21:30 SAT (m002jv37)
Night Tracks
22:00 SUN (m002jstf)
Night Tracks
22:00 MON (m002jsy5)
Night Tracks
22:00 TUE (m002jt3g)
Night Tracks
22:00 WED (m002jtfm)
Night Tracks
22:00 THU (m002jvf0)
Religion & Ethics
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m002jj2w)
Choral Evensong
15:00 WED (m002jtfb)