06:30

Breakfast

Sara Mohr-Pietsch shares her personal choice of music. Including 7.00, 8.00 News. 7.30, 8.30 News Headlines

09:00

Essential Classics

With Sarah Walker. Including the Essential CD of the Week: Le Voyage Magnifique. Schubert Impromptus performed by Maria Joao Pires. 9.30 The daily brainteaser and performances by Artists of the Week the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez. Garan Sascher (guitar). 10.30 Guest Claire Tomalin reveals music that brightens her day and a piece that makes her laugh. 11.00 Sarah's Essential Choice. Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner

12:00

Composer of the Week: William Walton; News R

Donald Macleod explores the composer's music for a number of patriotic wartime films. Walton: Went the Day Well (Opening sequence). Spitfire Prelude. Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by the composer. Christopher Columbus: A Musical Journey (excerpts). Julian Glover (speaker: Christopher Columbus), Jamie Glover (speaker: Ironic Spirit/Herald), Philip Lloyd Holtam (speaker: Sailor/Voice), Caroline Carragher (soprano: Isabella), Jean Rigby (mezzo: Beatriz), Tom Randle (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Craig Ogden (guitar), BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox. Prologue; Once More unto the Breach; Agincourt; Epilogue (Henry V). Laurence Olivier (speaker), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor William Walton. Orb and Sceptre. London Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult

13:00

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

More from last summer's Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival, the theme of which was performer-composers. Today's programme features music by Bach, Purcell, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Messiaen in performances by violinists Lena Neudauer and Tai Murray, violist Jennifer Stumm, cellists Alexander Chaushian, Richard Harwood and Kristina Blaumane and pianists Ashley Wass and Martin Roscoe. Bach: Five two-part Inventions for violin and cello. Messiaen: Theme et variations for violin and piano. Purcell: Three Fantasias for string trio. Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes for cello and piano, Op 17. Liszt: Les preludes for two pianos

14:00

Afternoon on 3

Katie Derham presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2011 Beethoven Festival in Bonn, with conductor Sylvain Cambreling, in the third of three concerts from their recent tour of Germany. On their programme is music by Weber and Mahler, plus a quirky little piece by David Fennessy consisting of the last chord or gesture of a work from each year of the 20th century - 100 chronological chords starting in 1900 and finishing in 1999. Weber: Overture to Oberon. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sylvain Cambreling. Mahler: Symphony No 4. Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sylvain Cambreling. 3.25 David Fennessy: Dead End. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Shelley

15:30

Choral Evensong

Live from Manchester Cathedral. Introit: Corpus Christi Carol (The Choirbook for the Queen) (Judith Bingham) (first performance). Responses: Tomkins. Office Hymn: O Trinity of Blessed Light (Plainsong). Psalms: 42, 43 (Camidge, Stokes). First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 3, vv1-15. Magnificat (Stadlmayr). Second Lesson: John 17, vv20-26. Nunc Dimittis (Giorgi). Anthem: Judicame, Deus (Andrea Gabrieli). Jubilate Deo in E flat (Britten). Hymn: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (St Edmund). Organ Voluntary: Moto ostinato from Musica Dominicalis (Petr Eben). Organist and Master of the Choristers: Christopher Stokes. Sub Organist: Jeffrey Makinson

16:30

In Tune

Suzy Klein presents a selection of music, with studio guests and a round-up of news from the arts world. Including 5.00, 6.00 News (Dance)

18:30

Composer of the Week: William Walton R

Donald Macleod explores the composer's music for a number of patriotic wartime films. Walton: Went the Day Well (Opening sequence). Spitfire Prelude. Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by the composer. Christopher Columbus: A Musical Journey (excerpts). Julian Glover (speaker: Christopher Columbus), Jamie Glover (speaker: Ironic Spirit/Herald), Philip Lloyd Holtam (speaker: Sailor/Voice), Caroline Carragher (soprano: Isabella), Jean Rigby (mezzo: Beatriz), Tom Randle (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Craig Ogden (guitar), BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Richard Hickox. Prologue; Once More unto the Breach; Agincourt; Epilogue (Henry V). Laurence Olivier (speaker), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor William Walton. Orb and Sceptre. London Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Adrian Boult

19:30

Radio 3 Live in Concert

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, Marin Alsop conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme featuring Liszt's first two piano concertos framed by Czech masterpieces. Presented by Martin Handley. Stephen Hough (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop. Martinu: Symphony No 6 (Fantaisies symphoniques). Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat. 8.15 Music Interval. A selection of Bohuslav Martinu's seldom-heard choral music. 8.35 Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A. Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G

22:00

Night Waves

Writer William Boyd tells Rana Mitter about his latest novel Waiting for Sunrise, a love story set during the Second World War (Arts)

22:45

The Essay

Author Trish Cooke examines the relevance of `self-identification' in the books she read as a child and children's books today, discussing how the Ladybird series Peter and Jane - about white middle-class families - affected how she saw herself as a black child growing up on a Bradford council estate in the 1960s (Arts)

23:00

Late Junction

Verity Sharp introduces the words of Thomas Hardy set by composer Ian Venables and sung by Andrew Kennedy, plus the Japanese bamboo shakuhachi flute played by Tajima Tadashi, and songs by multi-linguist Aldona Nowowiejska. Also featured are Voreia Monoipatia, Northern Footpaths, by Cretan lyra player Stelios Petrakis, and Quatuor Helios perform Imaginary Landscape No 1 by John Cage

00:30

Through the Night

Presented by Jonathan Swain. Koch: Nordic Capriccio, Op 26. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat, Op 73 (Emperor). Peter Friis Johansson (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Per Hammarstrom. 1.20 Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 (Pastoral). 2.01 Faure: Piano Trio in D minor, Op 120. 2.23 Albeniz: Cordoba (Nocturne) (Cantos de Espana, arr unknown for guitar and cello). 2.31 CPE Bach: Magnificat in D, Wq215. 3.07 Buxtehude: Ciacona in E minor, BuxWV160. 3.13 Francaix: Concerto (Divertissement) for bassoon and 11 string instruments. 3.36 Mozart: Nine Variations on a minuet by Duport for piano, K573. 3.46 Bree: Concert Overture in B minor. 3.57 Hotteterre: La Noce Champetre ou l'Himen Pastoral. 4.10 Liszt: Concert Paraphrase on God Save the Queen, S235. 4.17 Handel: Bajazet's final aria - Figlia mia, non pianger no! (Tamerlano, Act 3). 4.22 Kraus: Overture: Olympie. 4.31 Mozart: Overture: Magic Flute. 4.37 Vaughan Williams: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in E minor. 4.48 Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat, H VIIe 1. 5.05 Hurlebusch: Concerto in A minor for two oboes, solo violin, strings and basso continuo. 5.18 Elgar: Overture: In the South (Alassio), Op 50. 5.40 Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax sincera for soprano and orchestra, RV630. 5.47 Weiss: Prelude, Toccata and Allegro in G. 5.57 Mozart: Piano Trio in G, K564. 6.12 Kunzen: Overturel: Vinhoesten. 6.17 Grieg: Lyric Pieces Nos 2, 4, 3 (Book 5 for piano, Op 54)