TV & Radio

MAY’S RADIO 3 LISTINGS

 Schedules may be subject to alteration. For up-to-date listings see Radio Times

1 FRIDAY

6.30-9am Breakfast
9am-12noon Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of
the Week Kaija Saariaho: Making inroads into opera

1-2pm Lunchtime Concert
2-5pm Afternoon Concert
5-7pm In Tune

7-7.30pm In Tune Mixtape
7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert from the Barbican, London. Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Ligeti Violin Concerto, Mahler Symphony No. 4. Camilla Tilling (soprano), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), LSO/Simon Rattle

10-10.45pm The Verb
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 Opera on 3 from
the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Janácek Kát’a Kabanová. Susanna Phillips (Kát’a), Daniela Mack (Varvara),

Dolora Zajick (Kabanicha), Pavel Cernoch (Boris), Stefan Margita (Tichon), Paul Appleby (Vanya), John Tomlinson (Dikoi), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/Lothar Koenigs

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 Hannah Rankin
(boxer, bassoonist) (rpt)

1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt)
2-3pm The Early Music Show
3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt)
4-5pm Jazz Record Requests
5-5.30pm The Listening Service
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music
6.45-7.30pm Tate Modern: Blowingup the Canon