December’s radio 3 listings

1 WEDNESDAY 6.30-9.30am Breakfast 9.30am-1pm Essential Classics 1-3pm Classical Live 3-4pm Choral Evensong 4-5pm Composer of the Week Berlioz 5-7pm In Tune 7-7.30pm Classical Mixtape 7.30-9.45pm Radio

COMPILED & WRITTEN BY PAUL RILEY London Sinfonietta The Story Garden, King’s Cross, London, 14 September londonsinfonietta.org.uk The UK’s leading contemporary music ensemble has green fingers! Who kn

I enjoyed reading Francesco Piemontesi’s Concert Heaven, Concert Hell interview (September) about his ‘best’ and ‘worst’ performance... in the semi-final of the Elisabeth Competition in 2007! In fact,

The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) has opted to remove its production of Puccini’s Tosca from The Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv next year after an open letter by RBO employees criticised the company for its

Premières Symphonies Works by Bizet, Gounod and Saint-Saëns Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo/Kazuki Yamada Alpha Classics ALPHA1149 89:27 mins (2CD) The most familiar of these three classically

Radiant Dawn Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Tallis, James MacMillan, Owain Park et al Matilda Lloyd (trumpet); The Gesualdo Six/Owain Park Hyperion CDA 68465 69:35 mins This is an ingenious and moving