The BBC has announced that it has a sustainable plan for the future of the BBC Singers, in association with The VOCES8 Foundation.
The threat to reduce the staff of the three English orchestras by 20% has not been lifted, but it is being reconsidered.
See the BBC press release here.
RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 3
Unofficial Weekly Listings for BBC Radio 3 — supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/
Arcoverde and coco | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:44:13 | Duration 00:03:59 | Link | |
Azulao | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:06:36 | Duration 00:08:30 | Link | |
Cavafy (trans Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard) | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:09:22 | Duration | Link | |
Cavafy (trans Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard) | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:40:03 | Duration | Link | |
Coco Raizes and clog dancing | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:48:13 | Duration 00:05:59 | Link | |
Cowboys in the desert | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:54:13 | Duration 00:04:15 | Link | |
Decline of Forro | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:17:07 | Duration 00:05:40 | Link | |
Forro | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | Duration 00:06:35 | Link | ||
Goethe (trans Stephen Plunkett) | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:56:02 | Duration | Link | |
Homer (trans by George Chapman) | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:04:55 | Duration | Link | |
J Borges and his work | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:40:22 | Duration 00:03:50 | Link | |
Keats | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:01:12 | Duration | Link | |
Marlowe | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:23:06 | Duration | Link | |
Matthew Arnold | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 01:07:12 | Duration | Link | |
Plato (trans Benjamin Jowett) | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:45:19 | Duration | Link | |
Racine (trans by Robert Bruce Boswell) | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:47:00 | Duration | Link | |
Shakespeare | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:29:04 | Duration | Link | |
Tennyson | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:15:50 | Duration | Link | |
W. H. Auden | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:31:41 | Duration | Link | |
Walmir Silva | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:29:36 | Duration 00:10:45 | Link | |
World's biggest open air theatre | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:22:48 | Duration 00:06:47 | Link | |
Yeats | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 01:01:15 | Duration | Link | |
Anon (artist) | Play of Daniel | Discovering Music | 2008-12-28 | 17:00 | Duration | Link | |
Anton Bruckner | Os iusti | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 01:37:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Antonio Vivaldi | Concerto Grosso in A minor Op3/8 | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 02:36:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Azulão (artist) | Dona Teresa | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:14:02 | Duration 00:03:06 | Link |
Azulão (artist) | Dor de Cotovelo | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:19:45 | Duration 00:03:02 | Link |
Benjamin Britten | Start of Phaedra to "I want your sword's spasmodic final inch" | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:50:30 | Duration | Link |
Carl Maria von Weber | Preciosa Overture | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 00:03:00 | Duration 00:09:01 | Link |
Coco Raizes (artist) | Abelha | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:51:30 | Duration 00:02:42 | Link |
Coco Raizes (artist) | Balanco da canoa | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:46:04 | Duration 00:02:18 | Link |
Dmitri Kabalevsky | Colas Breugnon Overture | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 01:31:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Franz Schubert | Andante from String Quartet No 13 in A minor D804 | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 00:34:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Frédéric Chopin | Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 02:12:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Georges Bizet | Toreadors Song from Carmen | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 01:20:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Hector Berlioz | 'Harold aux montagnes', 1st mvt of Harold in Italy | Composer of the Week | 2008-12-30 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | 'Marche Funèbre' - 1st mvt of Grand symphonie funèbre et triomphale | Composer of the Week | 2009-01-01 | 13:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | 'Écot de joyeux compagnons (Histoire d'un rat)', from Huit scènes de Faust, op.1 | Composer of the Week | 2008-12-30 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | 3 songs from Neuf Mélodies (later titled Irlande) | Composer of the Week | 2008-12-31 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | Extract from 'Tuba mirum' section of Grande Messe des Morts [1837] | Composer of the Week | 2008-12-29 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | Extract from Romeo & Juliette, op.17 | Composer of the Week | 2008-12-30 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | La mort de Cléopatre | Composer of the Week | 2009-01-01 | 13:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | Les Troyens, Act I, no.11 - Finale; Marche Troyenne | Composer of the Week | 2009-01-02 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | Les Troyens, Act I, nos 2 (pt)-3 | Composer of the Week | 2009-01-02 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | Les Troyens, Act IV, scene 2, nos 35-37 | Composer of the Week | 2009-01-02 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | Les nuits d'été (pno version) | Composer of the Week | 2008-12-31 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | Messe solennelle [1824-5] All parts excluding the Offertory motet | Composer of the Week | 2008-12-29 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | Tristia | Composer of the Week | 2009-01-01 | 13:00 | Duration | Link | |
Hector Berlioz | Zaïde | Composer of the Week | 2008-12-31 | 12:00 | Duration | Link | |
Henri Duparc | L'invitation au voyage | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:11:31 | Duration | Link |
Herbert Lucena (artist) | Balanca Boeiro | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:07:54 | Duration 00:03:14 | Link |
Igor Stravinsky | Prologue to Apollon Musagete | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 01:02:18 | Duration | Link |
Jacques Offenbach | Couplets des Rois from La belle Helene | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:20:22 | Duration | Link |
Johann Sebastian Bach | Allegro from Concerto for harpsichord and strings in A major, BWV 1005 | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 01:03:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Joseph Haydn (artist) | Dann bricht der grosse Morgen an from The Seasons | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 02:06:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Jules Massenet (artist) | Scenes pittoresques | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 01:42:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Leonard Bernstein | Agathon from Serenade (after Plato's Symposium) | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:40:32 | Duration | Link |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Allegro con brio from Symphony no 5 in C minor | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 00:17:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Leonore Overture No 1 | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 00:42:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Luiz Gonzaga (artist) | A Feira de Caruaru | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:04:58 | Duration 00:01:27 | Link |
Luiz Gonzaga (artist) | Danado de Bom | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:01:38 | Duration 00:00:56 | Link |
Maciel Melo (artist) | Brasil Pernambuco | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:43:33 | Duration 00:00:40 | Link |
Maurice Ravel | Lever du jour from Daphnis et Chloe, Lever du jour from Daphnis et Chloe | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | Duration | Link | |
MAW (artist) | Odyssey | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:06:55 | Duration | Link |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in E minor | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 01:08:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
Richard Strauss | End of An dem Baum Daphne | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 01:09:05 | Duration | Link |
Richard Strauss | Zweite Brautnacht from Die Agyptische Helene | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:24:24 | Duration | Link |
Schubert (artist) | Ganymede | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:57:17 | Duration | Link |
Tippett (artist) | O rich-soiled land from King Priam | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:35:01 | Duration | Link |
Tippett (artist) | Start of King Priam ("War! War!") | Words and Music | 2008-12-28 | 22:15 | 00:30:13 | Duration | Link |
Unknown cowboys (artist) | Improvisation about the World Routes team | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:56:29 | Duration 00:01:59 | Link |
Waldir Silva (artist) | Casa de Maroca | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:36:34 | Duration 00:02:57 | Link |
Waldir Silva (artist) | Improvisation for Paulo Andre | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:32:03 | Duration 00:01:49 | Link |
Waldir Silva (artist) | Nesse coco eu mao brinco mais | World Routes | 2008-12-27 | 15:00 | 00:27:30 | Duration 00:02:05 | Link |
William Walton | What cheer | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 00:31:00 | Duration 00:16:00 | Link |
York Bowen | Toccata | Breakfast | 2008-12-31 | 07:00 | 00:12:00 | Duration 00:04:22 | Link |