Schedule
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Early
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00:30
Through the Night—World Premiere of Wynton Marsalis's Concerto for Orchestra
Marsalis's Concerto for Orchestra commissioned and performed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra
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Morning
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06:30
Breakfast—Wake up your senses with classical music
Join Mark Forrest every Sunday for Radio 3's Breakfast show
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09:00
Sunday Morning—Your perfect Sunday soundtrack
Petroc Trelawny with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.
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Afternoon
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12:00
Private Passions—Daniel Katz
Michael Berkeley's guest is the art dealer and collector Daniel Katz.
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13:30
Music Map—A journey to Grieg's Peer Gynt
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores a piece of classical music, mapping it in a musical landscape.
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15:00
Choral Evensong—Portsmouth Cathedral
Choral Evensong across the country
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16:00
Jazz Record Requests—06/07/2025
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you.
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17:00
The Early Music Show—Live from the York Early Music Festival
Performance and news from the world of early music.
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Evening
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18:00
Words and Music—Miniatures
Exploring the small from dolls houses to netsuke figures, piano miniatures to haiku.
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19:15
Sunday Feature—The Hiawatha Phenomenon
Uchenna Ngwe charts the changing fortunes of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Song of Hiawatha.
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20:00
Record Review—Building a Library on Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony
Kate Kennedy's recommended recording of Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony.
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21:00
20th Century Radicals—Knussen: A God of small things
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.
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22:00
Ultimate Calm—Hania Rani: Series 4, Sounds exploring the beauty in absence
12/12 Music shaped by silence and absence, with guest, Actress. (R)
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23:00
The Night Tracks Mix—Music for night owls
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. (R)
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23:30
Unclassified—06/07/2025
Elizabeth Alker with music by a new generation of composers who defy classification.
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Late
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00:30
Through the Night—Musical inspirations: Vaughan Williams, Respighi & Mussorgsky
The WDR Symphony Orchestra plays works by Vaughan Williams, Respighi and Mussorgsky.
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