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

JANUARY’S RADIO 3 LISTINGS

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

Proms 2019 Prom 59 (rpt). 11.30pm-12.30am
Three to look out for Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini. Unclassified
Michael Spyres (Benvenuto 3 FRIDAY
Cellini), Sophia Burgos
Alan Davey, the controller
(Teresa), Maurizio Muraro 6.30-9am Breakfast
of BBC Radio 3, picks out (Balducci), Tareq Nazmi 9am-12noon Essential Classics
three great moments to (Pope Clement VII), Vincent 12 noon-1pm Composer of
tune into this January Delhoume (Francesco), the Week Tchaikovsky
Lionel Lhote (Fieramosca), 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert
Beethoven Unleashed Adèle Charvet (Ascanio), 2-5pm Afternoon Concert
To kick off our year-long Ashley Riches (Bernardino), 5-6.15pm New
celebrations of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, Duncan Meadows (Perseus), Generation Artists
the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Welsh Monteverdi Choir, Orchestra 6.15-7.30pm Words and Music
National Opera recreate the composer’s epic 1808 Révolutionnaire et Romantique/ 7.30-10.15pm Radio 3 in
John Eliot Gardiner
Concert Proms 2019 Prom 55
Vienna concert when several major works received 10-10.45pm Free Thinking (rpt). Handel Jephtha. Allan
premieres, including his Fourth Piano Concerto 10.45-11pm The Essay Clayton (Jephtha), Jeanine De
and Symphonies Nos 5 & 6.
11pm-12.30am Night Tracks Bique (Iphis), Hilary Summers
Radio 3 in Concert: 19 January, 7.30pm New Year Special (Storgè), Tim Mead (Hamor),
Cody Quattlebaum (Zebul),
New Year New Music 2 THURSDAY Rowan Pierce (Angel),
In this special edition of the New Music Show, 6.30-9am Breakfast Scottish Chamber Orchestra &
we’re bringing in the new year by asking 11 of our 9am-12noon Essential Classics Chorus/Richard Egarr Generation game:
presenters to name their favourite pieces of music 12 noon-1pm Composer of 10.15-11pm The Verb Benjamin Grosvenor
composed in the last decade. Choices include the Week Tchaikovsky 11pm-1am Late Junction performs in New
works by John Luther Adams, Dobrinka 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 4 SATURDAY Generation Artists Week
Tabakova and Rebecca Saunders. 2-5pm Afternoon Concert
New Music Show: 4 January, 10pm 5-6.15pm New 7-9am Breakfast
Generation Artists 9-11.45am Record Review
6.15-7.30pm Words and Music 11.45am-12.30pm
New Generation Artists Week 7.30-9.35pm Radio 3 in Music Matters 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt)
Ahead of its full day of 20th anniversary Concert Proms 2019 Prom 12.30-1pm This Classical Life 2-3pm The Early Music Show
celebrations on 1 February, our New Generation 68 (rpt). Weber Der Freischütz 1-3pm Inside Music 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt)
Artist scheme showcases some of its most – Overture, Wagner Siegfried 3-4pm Sound of Gaming 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests
prestigious alumni in a week-long series of concerts. – Forest Murmurs, Franck Le 4-5pm Music Planet 5-5.30pm The
Radio 3 in Concert: 27-31 January, 7.30pm chasseur maudit, Wagner 5-9.50pm Opera on 3 from Listening Service
Götterdämmerung – Dawn the Metropolitan Opera, New 5.30-6.45pm Words and Music
and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, York. Richard Strauss Der 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature
Duet: ‘Zu neuen Taten, Rosenkavalier. Camilla Nylund Gentileschi’s Revenge
teurer Helde’, Siegfried’s (Marschallin), Magdalena 7.30-9.30pm Drama on 3
1 WEDNESDAY
and readings for the New Year. Death and Funeral March, Ko!ená (Octavian), Golda The Wild Duck (Henrik Ibsen)
6.30-9am Breakfast Britten A New Year Carol, Willis Brünnhilde’s Immolation Schultz (Sophie), Katharine 9.30-11pm Radio 3 in Concert
9-10.15am Essential Classics It came upon a midnight clear, Scene. Christine Goerke Goeldner (Annina), Orchestra 11pm-12 midnight Black
10.15am-1pm New Year’s Stanford Magnificat in B flat, (soprano), Stephen Gould of the Metropolitan Opera/ Classical The first of a
Day Concert live from the Vaughan Williams Love bade me (tenor), Royal Philharmonic Simon Rattle three-part series on BAME
Musikverein, Vienna. Vienna welcome, Warlock Bethlehem Orchestra/Marc Albrecht 9.50-10pm Between composers from the 16th
Philharmonic/Andris Nelsons Down, Finzi In terra pax, Elgar 9.35-11.30pm Radio 3 in the Ears All Ball century to the present day
1-2pm Sound of Gaming Pomp and Circumstance March Concert Proms 2019 Prom CHOICE 10pm-12 12 midnight-12.30am
Special Jessica Curry presents No. 4 in G. Poems by Christina 74 (rpt). Handel Music for the midnight New Year Classical Fix
her pick of the best games Rossetti and Alfred Lord Royal Fireworks, Beethoven Ah! New Music 6 MONDAY
soundtracks from 2019 and Tennyson. Anne Hailes (reader), perfido, JS Bach orch. Elgar 12 midnight-1am Freeness
looks ahead to music from Charles Wood Singers, Ulster Fantasia and Fugue in C minor 5 SUNDAY 6.30-9am Breakfast
2020’s new films. Orchestra/David Hill BWV 537, Beethoven Fidelio 9am-12 noon
2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 4.30-6.15pm New – Overture, Symphony No. 5. 7-9am Breakfast Essential Classics
3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong Generation Artists Elizabeth Watts (soprano), NDR 9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Composer of
from St Patrick’s Cathedral, 6.15-7.30pm Words and Music Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/ 12 noon-1pm Private Passions the Week George Walker
Armagh. A sequence of music 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert Andrew Manze Carlo Rovelli (physicist, writer) 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live

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