Schedule
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Early
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00:30
Through the Night—Seven Last Words
Casals Quartet plays music by Haydn at the Vilabertran Schubertiade.
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Morning
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06:30
Breakfast—Thursday – Along the Severn with Petroc Trelawny
Join Petroc live in Purton Hulks, Gloucestershire, on his River Severn journey.
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09:00
Essential Classics—Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Mudlarked Bellarmine Bottles, Walton’s Henry V, Nicholas Crane
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. Part of Radio 3's Along the River season.
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Afternoon
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12:00
Composer of the Week—Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Turning the Tables
4/5 Donald Macleod focuses on signs of a decline in Schumann's mental and physical health.
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Ludlow English Song Weekend, 16/05/2019
3/4 A concert from the Ludlow English Song Weekend featuring music by Britten and Tippett.
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14:00
Afternoon Concert—Opera Matinee: Nino Rota's The Italian Straw Hat
A delightful comic opera from Godfather composer Nino Rota.
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17:00
In Tune—Ex Cathedra, Francesca Dego, Allan Clayton and Christopher Purves
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest musicians.
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Evening
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19:00
Classical Mixtape—Music for contemplation
A reflective and emotional uninterrupted half hour.
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Israel in Egypt
The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers perform Handel’s epic oratorio, conducted by Gergely Madaras.
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22:00
Free Thinking—Sebald, Anti-semitism, Carolyn Forche
The walking and photographs of WG Sebald and an exhibition of money and Jewish history.
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22:45
The Essay—From the Source, The Power of the Thames
4/5 Helen Czerski shares a physicist's view of the River Thames
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23:00
Late Junction—Ellen Arkbro’s mixtape
Max Reinhardt with a mixtape by Swedish composer Ellen Arkbro.
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Late
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00:00
Slow Radio—The Water's Music, a piece made entirely from the sounds of a Northumbrian burn
A musical collaboration between sound artist, radio producer and a burn in Northumberland
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00:30
Through the Night—The Joyful Science
Bernard Haitink conducts the LSO in Mahler's Symphony No 3.
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