Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—12/12/2013
Catriona Young presents Catalan baroque music from the 2012 Torroella de Montgri Festival.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring the Advent Calendar.
09:00
Essential Classics—Thursday - Sarah Walker with Miranda Seymour
With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Hummel: Piano Quintet, Op 87.
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Afternoon
12:00
Composer of the Week—Iceland, Sagas and Requiems
4/5Exploring the influence of Iceland's sagas on its music and the contemporary music scene.
13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—LSO St Luke's Mozart Chamber Music Series, Chiaroscuro Quartet
3/8The Chiaroscuro Quartet in Mozart: String Quartets in C K465 (Dissonance); in E flat, K428
14:00
Afternoon Concert—Thursday Opera Matinee, Thursday Opera Matinee - Verdi 200: La Forza del Destino
Penny Gore presents the seldom heard original version of Verdi's La Forza del Destino.
17:00
In Tune—La Nuova Musica, Mark Bebbington
Sean Rafferty presents live music from La Nuova Musica and pianist Mark Bebbington.
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Evening
18:30
Composer of the Week—Iceland, Sagas and Requiems
4/5Exploring the influence of Iceland's sagas on its music and the contemporary music scene.
19:30
Radio 3 Live in Concert—Live from City Halls, Glasgow, BBC SSO - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Adams (part 1)
1/2BBC SSO in Beethoven: Symphony No 4. Shostakovich: Violin concerto No 1 (with James Ehnes)
20:40
Discovering Music—John Adams: City Noir
John Adams's orchestral paean to post-war Hollywood, and the world of the film noir.
21:00
Radio 3 Live in Concert—Live from City Halls, Glasgow, BBC SSO - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Adams (part 2)
2/2The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles in John Adams's City Noir.
22:00
Night Waves—American Pyscho, Roosevelt, Medieval Christmas, British Architects
Anne McElvoy presents a first-night review of a new musical adaptation of American Psycho.
22:45
The Essay—Wagner's Philosophers, Wagner and Nietzsche
4/5Michael Tanner explores the relationship between Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche.(R)
23:00
Late Junction—Thursday - Nick Luscombe
Nick Luscombe with music by Sufjan Stevens, plus a new track from Bosq of Whiskey Barons.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—13/12/2013
Les Ambassadeurs play all four concerti Vivaldi wrote for the Dresden Court Orchestra.
