BBC Radio 3 schedule 15 - 21 June 2015

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00:00	00:00 BBC Performing Groups — William Alwyn Film Music Rumon Gamba conducts the BBC Philharmonic in film music by William Alwyn. 00:30 Through the Night — Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers from Poland Jonathan Swain's selection includes Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 performed in Poland.	00:30 Through the Night — Bach Cantatas With Jonathan Swain. Includes Bach performed by Les Ambassadeurs under Alexis Kossenko.	00:30 Through the Night — Hana Blazikova and Andreas Staier - Tomasek, Chopin, Schumann John Shea presents a concert featuring soprano Hana Blazikova and pianist Andreas Staier.	00:30 Through the Night — Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Mendelssohn, Chausson Jonathan Swain's selection includes a concert given by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra	00:30 Through the Night — Veronique Gens and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra - Ravel and Canteloube Including a concert by the Danish NSO with soprano Veronique Gens. Presented by John Shea.		00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz — Sarah Vaughan Geoffrey Smith picks highlights from the career of singer Sarah Vaughan. (R)
01:00						01:00 Through the Night — Tobias Koch in piano music by Chopin and contemporaries Jonathan Swain presents a recital by pianist Tobias Koch on historic pianos in Poland.	01:00 Through the Night — Proms 2014: BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Elgar, Wagner and William Mathias With Jonathan Swain. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Elgar's Symphony No 1.
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06:00	06:30 Breakfast — Monday - Clemency Burton-Hill Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.	06:30 Breakfast — Tuesday - Clemency Burton-Hill Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.	06:30 Breakfast — Wednesday - Clemency Burton-Hill Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.	06:30 Breakfast — Thursday - Clemency Burton-Hill Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.	06:30 Breakfast — Friday - Clemency Burton-Hill Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.
07:00						07:00 Breakfast — Saturday - Martin Handley Presented by Martin Handley. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.	07:00 Breakfast — Sunday - Martin Handley Presented by Martin Handley. Including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices.
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09:00	09:00 Essential Classics — Monday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam Artists of the Week: the Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Smetana's String Quartet No 2.	09:00 Essential Classics — Tuesday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam Artists of the Week: Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Dvorak's String Quartet in G.	09:00 Essential Classics — Wednesday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam Artists of the Week: The Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Pavel Haas's String Quartet No 2.	09:00 Essential Classics — Thursday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam Artists of the Week: The Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Janacek's String Quartet No 2.	09:00 Essential Classics — Friday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam Artists of the Week: The Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Schubert's Death and the Maiden.	09:00 CD Review — Building a Library: Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg; With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg	09:00 Sunday Morning — Rob Cowan Rob Cowan explores pastoral music and presents Beethoven's First Cello Sonata.
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12:00	12:00 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), A One-Man Cantata Factory 1/5 Donald Macleod focuses on the first of Bach's annual Leipzig cantata cycles.	12:00 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Jewel in the Crown 2/5 Donald Macleod explores Bach's first known passion oratorio, the St John Passion.	12:00 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Great Passion 3/5 Donald Macleod explores what came to be known as Bach's 'Great Passion': the St Matthew.	12:00 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Bach the Recycler 4/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's trinity of oratorios: for Christmas, Easter and Ascension	12:00 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Art of Self-Borrowing 5/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's B Minor Mass.	12:15 Music Matters — Murray Perahia Pianist Murray Perahia talks to Tom Service about the music which currently occupies him.	12:00 Private Passions — Alison Goldfrapp For Radio 3's Classical Voice, Michael Berkeley is joined by singer Alison Goldfrapp.
13:00	13:00 On air Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Wigmore Hall Mondays: Gould Piano Trio The Gould Piano Trio performs music by York Bowen and Schubert at Wigmore Hall in London. Listen live Listen live (BBC Radio 3 homepage)	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015, Episode 1 1/4 Performances by Nadine Koutcher (soprano), Jaeyoon Jung (tenor), Celine Forrest (soprano).	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015, Episode 2 2/4 Performances by Lauren Michelle, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Anais Constans and Ilker Arcayurek.	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015, Episode 3 3/4 With performances by Aviva Fortunata, Nico Darmanin, J'nai Bridges and Insu Hwang.	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015, Episode 4 4/4 Performances by Sebastian Pilgrim, Marina Pinchuk, Jongmin Park and Regula Muhlemann.	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Ben Johnson Tenor Ben Johnson performs a programme of Schubert lieder.	13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert — Wigmore Hall Mondays: Gould Piano Trio The Gould Piano Trio performs music by York Bowen and Schubert at Wigmore Hall in London. (R)
14:00	14:00 Afternoon on 3 — BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 1 1/4 Verity Sharp presents the BBC NOW performing Finzi, Elgar, Stanford, Mendelssohn and Holst	14:00 Afternoon on 3 — BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 2 2/4 The BBC NOW performs music by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Strauss.	14:00 Afternoon on 3 — BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 3 3/4 Verity Sharp presents the BBC NOW performing Rossini, Mozart, Respighi, Verdi and Elgar.	14:00 Afternoon on 3 — Thursday Opera Matinee, Rufus Wainwright - Prima Donna Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright's opera Prima Donna, starring Janis Kelly.	14:00 Afternoon on 3 — BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 4 4/4 Verity Sharp presents the BBC NOW in Ravel, Lalo, Saint-Saens, Widor, Faure and Durufle.	14:00 Saturday Classics — Classical Voice Season: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa In a special live programme, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa introduces her favourite pieces of music.	14:00 The Early Music Show — French Baroque Vocal Music - Lully and Charpentier Lucie Skeaping introduces vocal music from the French Baroque by Lully and Charpentier.
15:00			15:30 Choral Evensong — King's College, London From the Chapel of King's College, London.				15:00 Choral Evensong — King's College, London From the Chapel of King's College, London. (R)
16:00	16:30 In Tune — James Gilchrist, Daniel Taylor, Charles Daniels, Adrian Butterfield Sean Rafferty is joined by tenor James Gilchrist and conductor Adrian Butterfield.	16:30 In Tune — Tuesday - Sean Rafferty Sean Rafferty is joined by the Escher Quartet who perform live in the studio.	16:30 In Tune — Veronika Eberle, Paul Curran, Swept Away Festival Guests include Veronika Eberle, Paul Curran and perfomers from Swept Away at Kings Place.	16:30 In Tune — Thursday - Sean Rafferty Sean Rafferty is joined by viol trio Fantasticus, who perform live.	16:30 In Tune — Classical Voice Season: BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Sean Rafferty presents music and guests from BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015.	16:00 Sound of Cinema — Classical Voice Season Live from Cardiff, Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music for film inspired by opera.	16:00 The Choir — Classical Voice Season Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a special edition from Cardiff for Radio 3's Classical Voice season
17:00						17:00 Jazz Record Requests — Classical Voice Season Alyn Shipton introduces listeners' requests as well as live music from pianist Geoff Eales	17:30 Words and Music — Women in Love Texts and music inspired by the love between women. Readers: Diana Quick and Sophie Ward.
18:00	18:30 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), A One-Man Cantata Factory 1/5 Donald Macleod focuses on the first of Bach's annual Leipzig cantata cycles. (R)	18:30 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Jewel in the Crown 2/5 Donald Macleod explores Bach's first known passion oratorio, the St John Passion. (R)	18:30 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Great Passion 3/5 Donald Macleod explores what came to be known as Bach's 'Great Passion': the St Matthew. (R)	18:30 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Bach the Recycler 4/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's trinity of oratorios: for Christmas, Easter and Ascension (R)	18:30 Composer of the Week — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Art of Self-Borrowing 5/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Bach's B Minor Mass. (R)	18:00 Jazz Line-Up — Glasgow Jazz Festival 2015 Preview A preview of 2015's Glasgow Jazz Festival and music from Andy Sheppard/Rita Marcotulli.	18:45 Sunday Feature — Classical Voice Season: An Anatomy of Singing Mary King explores how advances in our knowledge of anatomy are changing the way we sing.
19:00	19:30 Opera on 3 — Richard Ayres's Peter Pan Erik Nielsen conducts WNO's new production of Richard Ayres's Peter Pan.	19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert — City of London Sinfonia - Haydn, Mozart, JC Bach, Handel City of London Sinfonia in music of Georgian London, by Haydn, Mozart, JC Bach and Handel.	19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert — CBSO - Mahler, Esenvalds Andris Nelsons conducts the CBSO in Mahler's Symphony No 3 and a work by Eriks Esenvalds.	19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert — BBC Philharmonic - Nielsen, Mahler BBC Philharmonic in Nielsen's Symphonies Nos 6 and 3, plus music by Mahler.	19:30 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World — 2015, Finals, Classical Voice Seaon: Song Prize Final 1/2 Coverage of the Song Prize Final of the 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.	19:30 Radio 3 Live in Concert — Olena Tokar - Faure, Ravel, Medtner, Strauss Faure, Ravel, Medtner and Strauss sung by soprano Olena Tokar with pianist Igor Gryshyn.	19:30 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World — 2015, Finals, Part 2 2/2 Iain Burnside presents coverage of the final of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015.
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22:00	22:00 Music Matters — Oliver Knussen Tom Service presents an extended conversation with composer and conductor Oliver Knussen. (R) 22:45 The Essay — Napoleon and Me, Julia Blackburn 1/5 Julia Blackburn looks for the ghost of Napoleon on St Helena, where he died in exile. (R)	22:00 Free Thinking — John Boorman Director John Boorman talks about his film-making career with Matthew Sweet. 22:45 The Essay — Napoleon and Me, Andrea Stuart 2/5 Writer Andrea Stuart celebrates Napoleon's first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais. (R)	22:00 Free Thinking — Jonathan Sacks, Milan Kundera Novel, Stephen Adly Guirgis Play Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks to Philip Dodd about confronting religious violence. 22:45 The Essay — Napoleon and Me, Adam Nicolson 3/5 Writer Adam Nicolson recalls being a teenager as father wrote about Napoleon and 1812. (R)	22:00 Free Thinking — Muriel Spark, Digital Life, 2015 Forward Prizes for Poetry New Generation Thinker Laurence Scott talks to Rana Mitter about living in a digital world 22:45 The Essay — Napoleon and Me, Kirsteen McCue 4/5 Kirsteen McCue discusses singing and interpreting James Hogg's Scottish Napoleonic songs. (R)	22:15 The Verb — Classical Voice Season: The Voice Ian McMillan presents the word cabaret from Cardiff for the BBC's Classical Voice season.	22:00 Hear and Now — Donaueschingen 2014 and Borealis Music Festivals Tom Service presents highlights from the 2014 Donaueschingen and Borealis Music Festivals.	22:00 Drama on 3 — The Father August Strindberg's shocking play from 1890 about an imploding marriage, in a new version. (R)
23:00	23:00 Jazz on 3 — Alexander Hawkins Trio Jez Nelson presents pianist Alexander Hawkins and his trio in concert at London's Cafe Oto	23:00 Late Junction — Tuesday - Fiona Talkington With Fiona Talkington. Including music from Arvo Part, Emily Portman and Anouar.	23:00 Late Junction — Wednesday - Fiona Talkington Presented by Fiona Talkington, with music from Verneri Pohjola, JPP and A Filetta.	23:00 Late Junction — Thursday - Fiona Talkington Fiona Talkington's varied selection includes Christian Fennesz and Ola Gjeilo.	23:00 World on 3 — Lopa Kothari - Ngawang Lodup in Session Lopa Kothari presents a BBC Introducing session from Tibetan singer Ngawang Lodup.		23:30 Recital — Chilcott: The Angry Planet A performance of Bob Chilcott's 2012 'environmental cantata' The Angry Planet.