BBC Music Magazine

APRIL’S RADIO 3 LISTINGS

Your complete guide to what’s on Radio 3 this month, plus TV highlights

1 FRIDAY

6.30-9am Breakfast

9am-12 noon Essential Classics

12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Biber (rpt). Donald Macleod explores the music and what little is known of the life of Baroque master Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

1-2pm Lunchtime Concert

2-5pm Afternoon Concert

5-7pm In Tune

Caplet •Dvořák

Dvor?ák: Cello Concerto

7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape

7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from the Barbican, London. Canadian conductor Jordan de Souza makes his UK concert debut. Édith Canat de Chizy Omen (UK premiere), Vaughan Williams Concerto for Two Pianos, Berlioz Symphonie fantastique. Noriko Ogawa (piano), Kathryn Stott (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jordan de Souza

10.45-11pm The Essay

11pm-1am Late Junction

2 SATURDAY

7-9am Breakfast

9-11.45am Record Review

11.45am-12.30pm Music Matters

12.30-1pm This Classical Life

1-3pm Inside Music

3-4pm Sound of Cinema

4-5pm Music Planet

5-6.30pm J to Z

6.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert

10pm-12 midnight New Music Show

12 midnight-1am Freeness

3 SUNDAY

7-9am Breakfast

9am-12 noon Sunday Morning

12 noon-1pm Private Passions Francesco da Mosto (architect, author, historian)

1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt)

2-3pm The Early Music Show

3-4pm Choral Evensong

4-5pm Jazz Record Requests

5-5.30pm The Listening Service

5.30-6.45pm Words and Music

6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature I Arrive Without Leaving

7.30-9pm Drama

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