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13:00 - 14:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays music by Liszt and Debussy at Wigmore Hall, London.
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14:00 - 16:30 Afternoon on 3
With Louise Fryer. BBC SSO under Donald Runnicles in Golijov, Mozart, Bruckner, Debussy.
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Belohlávek honoured
H.E. Sian MacLeod, UK Ambassador to the Czech Republic, presents an honorary CBE to BBC SO chief conductor Jirí Belohlávek. Listen to Radio 3 Live in Concert now.
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The Marriage of Figaro
Opera on 3 presents Mozart's ever-popular 1786 comic opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Listen from 6pm on Saturday 26 May.
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L'Olimpiade
Live in Concert: An unusual pasticcio setting of Metastasio's Olympic love story with music by Caldara, Vivaldi and many others. Listen from Monday 28 May at 7.30pm.
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Philip Glass premiere
Afternoon on 3: The BBC Scottish SO gives the UK premiere of Philip Glass's Symphony No.6 (Plutonian Ode) Listen from Wednesday 30 May.
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Composer of the Week
Irving Berlin: Donald Macleod explores the early life and work of a composer whose career spanned Dvorak to the Beatles. Listen from Monday 28 May at 1200.
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Classical highlights
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
The Ulster Orchestra perform Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture.
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Kevin Volans: White Man Sleeps
As part of Hear and Now 50 Siobhan Davies analyses Kevin Volans's White Man Sleeps.
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Ulster Orchestra - Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky
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JoAnn Falletta leads the Ulster Orchestra in Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.
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Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
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Antonio Pappano conducts Mozart's great comic opera The Marriage of Figaro.
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Portraits Day
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Composer of the Week
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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Donald Macleod introduces Grieg's best known work: his piano concerto.
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BBC Orchestras & Singers
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Latest Classical Reviews
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This Is the Day: Music on Royal Occasions
John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers
Sacred choral easy listening of the highest standard.
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Alfredo Casella
Thoroughly recommended recordings of some Italian magic.
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Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Danny Driver; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Rory MacDonald)
Erik Chisholm
Striking and brilliantly performed music that mixes its influences beautifully.
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String Quartet, Piano Trio, Deux Danses, Reverie
Claude Debussy
A confident, vital, lyrical reading of the Quartet, plus delightful extras.
Coming Up
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Afternoon on 3
14:00 – 16:30
With Louise Fryer. BBC SSO under Donald Runnicles in Golijov, Mozart, Bruckner, Debussy.
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In Tune
16:30 – 18:30
Presented by Sean Rafferty. Including the Vienna Piano Trio performing in the studio.
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