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BBC Radio 3 schedule 20 - 26 April 2015

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00:00	00:30 Available now Through the Night — Proms 2014: Beethoven and Mozart From Proms 2014: Beethoven's Symphony No 4 and Mozart's Requiem.	00:30 Available now Through the Night — Piano Recital by Nelson Goerner With Catriona Young. Includes a recital of music by Chopin from pianist Nelson Goerner.	00:30 On air Through the Night — Piano Duets from the BUNT Belgrade Festival Catriona Young introduces piano duets performed at the 2014 BUNT Belgrade Festival. Listen live Listen live (BBC Radio 3 homepage)	00:30 Through the Night — 23/04/2015 Continuous broadcast of concert music and opera, recorded in locations around Europe.	00:30 Through the Night — The Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra performs Villa-Lobos Includes the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Brazilian musicians performing Villa-Lobos.		00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz — Lennie Tristano Geoffrey Smith celebrates the work of unique free jazz pioneer pianist Lennie Tristano.
01:00						01:00 Through the Night — Il Giardino Armonico - Vivaldi and Castello With Il Giardino Armonico and director Giovanni Antonini performing Vivaldi and Castello.	01:00 Through the Night — Proms 2013: CBSO in Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and J Strauss II From Proms 2013: Andris Nelsons conducts the CBSO in Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and J Strauss II.
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06:00	06:30 Available now Breakfast — Monday - Petroc Trelawny Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.	06:30 Available now Breakfast — Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.	06:30 Breakfast — Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.	06:30 Breakfast — Thursday - Petroc Trelawny Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.	06:30 Breakfast — Friday - Petroc Trelawny Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
07:00						07:00 Breakfast — Saturday - Victoria Meakin Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.	07:00 Breakfast — Sunday - Victoria Meakin Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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09:00	09:00 Available now Essential Classics — Monday - Rob Cowan with John Hegley With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Purcell chamber music.	09:00 Available now Essential Classics — Tuesday - Rob Cowan with John Hegley With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Rameau: Dardanus Ballet Suite.	09:00 Essential Classics — Wednesday - Rob Cowan with John Hegley With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme.	09:00 Essential Classics — Thursday - Rob Cowan with John Hegley With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Handel: Ballet music (Alcina).	09:00 Essential Classics — Friday - Rob Cowan with John Hegley With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Rameau: Suite (Les Paladins).	09:00 CD Review — Building a Library: Verdi: Macbeth With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Verdi: Macbeth.	09:00 Sunday Morning — Rob Cowan Rob Cowan presents a variety of waltzes and Mozart's Piano Sonata No 17 in B flat.
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12:00	12:00 Available now Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Bonn Beginnings 1/5 Donald Macleod explores Beethoven's apprentice years and presents neglected early works. (R)	12:00 Available now Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Summer in Heiligenstadt 2/5 Donald Macleod explores how Beethoven's acceptance of his deafness spawned masterpieces. (R)	12:00 Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Too Much of a Good Thing 3/5 Donald Macleod discusses a special four-hour concert Beethoven mounted in 1808. (R)	12:00 Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), From the Ridiculous to the Sublime 4/5 How the success of Beethoven's 'potboiler' led to the revised version of his opera Fidelio (R)	12:00 Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Three Late Masterpieces 5/5 Donald Macleod unpicks the overlapping origins of three late Beethoven masterpieces. (R)	12:15 Music Matters — Karol Szymanowski Tom Service explores the life of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski.	12:00 Private Passions — Phyllida Law Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Phyllida Law. (R)
13:00	13:00 Available now Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Wigmore Hall Mondays: Miah Persson, Malcolm Martineau and Birgit Kolar Miah Persson (soprano) features in music by Handel, Donald Waxman and Strauss.	13:00 Available now Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield Music in the Round, Episode 1 1/4 Chamber music by Grieg, Haydn and Brahms from Leeds and Sheffield.	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield Music in the Round, Episode 2 2/4 Chamber music by Grieg, Mozart and Janacek from Leeds and Sheffield.	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield Music in the Round, Episode 3 3/4 Chamber music by Debussy, Bystrom, Sibelius and Saint-Saens from Leeds and Sheffield.	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Leeds International Chamber Season and Sheffield Music in the Round, Episode 4 4/4 Chamber music by Tveitt, Sinding, Saeverud, Thoresen and Franck from Leeds and Sheffield.	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Franco Fagioli with Academia Montis Regalis Countertenor Franco Fagioli sings arias by Porpora and Handel with Academia Montis Regalis	13:00 Available now Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Wigmore Hall Mondays: Miah Persson, Malcolm Martineau and Birgit Kolar Miah Persson (soprano) features in music by Handel, Donald Waxman and Strauss. (R)
14:00	14:00 Available now Afternoon on 3 — BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 1 1/4 Katie Derham introduces music by Sibelius, Grieg and B Tommy Andersson.	14:00 Available now Afternoon on 3 — BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC NOW Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff 2/4 Live from BBC Hoddinott Hall, BBC NOW in Rebel, Ravel, Milhaud, Sibelius and Ginastera.	14:00 Afternoon on 3 — BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 3 3/4 Presented by Katie Derham. The BBC NOW performs music by Copland, Hummel and Dvorak.	14:00 Afternoon on 3 — Thursday Opera Matinee, Purcell - The Fairy Queen Katie Derham presents a performance of Purcell's opera The Fairy Queen given in Graz.	14:00 Afternoon on 3 — BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 4 4/4 BBC SSO in Sibelius, Shostakovich, Arutiunian, Haydn, Tchaikovsky and B Tommy Andersson.	14:00 Saturday Classics — Dance, Wayne Sleep 2/4 Dancer Wayne Sleep introduces his favourite classical music with a dance theme.	14:00 The Early Music Show — Medieval Dance Lucie Skeaping discovers the delights of medieval dance with choreographer Darren Royston.
15:00			15:30 Choral Evensong — Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge From the Chapel of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.				15:00 Choral Evensong — Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge From the Chapel of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. (R)
16:00	16:30 Available now In Tune — Anneke Scott, Steven Devine, Chiara Enderle Suzy Klein with live music from Anneke Scott with Steven Devine plus Chiara Enderle.	16:30 Available now In Tune — Morgan Szymanski, Helen Callus, Jack Liebeck, Professor Brian Cox Suzy Klein with live music from guitarist Morgan Szymanski and viola player Helen Callus.	16:30 In Tune — Brodsky Quartet, Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton, Stephen Hough Suzy Klein with the Brodsky Quartet, soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Joseph Middleton.	16:30 In Tune — Proms 2015 Launch Special Live from Maida Vale, Suzy Klein presents a special edition launching the 2015 Proms.	16:30 In Tune — 24/04/2015 A selection of music and guests from the arts world.	16:00 Jazz Line-Up — Mark Edwards and the Cloggz - Part 2 Julian Joseph presents the Cloggz in concert at the 2015 South Coast Jazz Festival.	16:00 The Choir — Dance Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores choral music related to dance.
17:00						17:30 Opera on 3 — Live from the Met, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci live from New York's Met.	17:30 Words and Music — Boyhood Texts and music on the theme of boyhood, with readings by Roger Ringrose and James Stewart
18:00	18:15 Available now Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Bonn Beginnings 1/5 Donald Macleod explores Beethoven's apprentice years and presents neglected early works. (R)	18:30 Available now Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Summer in Heiligenstadt 2/5 Donald Macleod explores how Beethoven's acceptance of his deafness spawned masterpieces. (R)	18:30 Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Too Much of a Good Thing 3/5 Donald Macleod discusses a special four-hour concert Beethoven mounted in 1808. (R)	18:30 Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), From the Ridiculous to the Sublime 4/5 How the success of Beethoven's 'potboiler' led to the revised version of his opera Fidelio (R)	18:30 Composer of the Week — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Three Late Masterpieces 5/5 Donald Macleod unpicks the overlapping origins of three late Beethoven masterpieces. (R)		18:45 Sunday Feature — In Their Own Write: Notes from the Congress of Vienna The story of the Congress of Vienna and how it still affects us 200 years later.
19:00	19:15 Available now Opera on 3 — From the Met, Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk From New York's Metropolitan Opera, Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.	19:30 Available now Radio 3 Live in Concert — Czech Philharmonic - Smetana, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Dvorak Czech Philharmonic/Jiri Belohlavek in Smetana, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams and Dvorak.	19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert — BBC Philharmonic - Bernstein, Barber, Copland John Wilson conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Bernstein, Barber and Copland.	19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert — CBSO - Elgar, Bridge, Tippett Edward Gardner conducts the CBSO in music by Elgar, Bridge and Tippett.	19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert — BBC SO - Beethoven, Rouse, Lutowslawski Michal Nesterowicz conducts the BBC SO in music by Beethoven, Rouse and Lutowslawski.		19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert — Philharmonia Orchestra - Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Dvorak Philharmonia Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov in Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov and Dvorak.
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21:00						21:00 Jazz Record Requests — Jim Galloway, Martin Taylor Alyn Shipton presents music including by Jim Galloway and Martin Taylor.
22:00	22:45 Available now The Essay — Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects, 'Whereyouwanttogoto' - The Wardrobe and the Other World 1/5 Novelist Ian Sansom explores the history and symbolism attached to wardrobes. (R)	22:00 Available now Free Thinking — Caryl Phillips, Stanley Wells, Ah, Wilderness! Including Caryl Phillips, Shakespearean actors, South African protests and Ah, Wilderness! 22:45 Available now The Essay — Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects, Who's Been Sitting in My Chair? Our Shadow Selves 2/5 Ian Sansom examines our complex physical, mental and emotional relationship with the chair (R)	22:00 Free Thinking — What does Global Shakespeare Mean? Anne McElvoy asks what we understand Shakespeare to mean around the world. 22:45 Available now The Essay — Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects, Je suis un table 3/5 Ian Sansom explores the literary, philosophical and cultural history of the table. (R)	22:00 Free Thinking — English Civil War, Indigenous Australia Anne McElvoy hears how a mid-1970s play might cast light on today's political landscape. 22:45 Available now The Essay — Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects, Old Mother Hubbard and the Cabinet of Curiosity: The Story of Storage 4/5 Novelist Ian Sansom explores what cupboards and cabinets reveal about human nature. (R)	22:00 The Verb — Inua Ellams, Will Abberley Ian McMillan's guests on the cabaret of the word include Inua Ellams and Will Abberley. 22:45 Available now The Essay — Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects, An Intimate History of the Bed 5/5 Novelist Ian Sansom considers the symbolism of beds in literature, art and film. (R)	22:00 Hear and Now — CD Review, Michael Finnissy's Beat Generation Ballads Ivan Hewett reviews recent releases of new music with Zoe Martlew and Tom McKinney.	22:00 Drama on 3 — Ghosts Ibsen's classic adapted and directed by Richard Eyre for the Almeida Theatre and Radio 3. (R)
23:00	23:00 Available now Jazz on 3 — Let Spin at the Marsden Jazz Festival Jez Nelson presents quartet Let Spin in concert at the 2014 Marsden Jazz Festival.	23:00 Available now Late Junction — Tuesday - Anne Hilde Neset Anne Hilde Neset's selection includes west African swing, Camille Norment and Spectre.	23:00 Late Junction — Wednesday - Anne Hilde Neset Anne Hilde Neset's selection includes Lighting Bolt, Susanna and Derek Piotr.	23:00 Late Junction — Thursday - Anne Hilde Neset Anne Hilde Neset's selection of music includes Martin Denny, Ligeti, Run DMC and Henry Cow	23:00 World on 3 — Mary Ann Kennedy - Lucia Pulido in a Live Session Mary Ann Kennedy with new world music and Colombian singer Lucia Pulido in a live session.		23:25 BBC Performing Groups — Bax and Elgar The BBC Philharmonic in performances of music by Bax and Elgar.