Artist Focus

Like a lot of Radio 3 listeners, I scan the listings in Radio Times for the week ahead, looking for particular pieces of music I would like to hear. They can usually be picked out easily by composer because the composer’s name is in bold type. Some changes to the layout now make this harder. For example, the pieces in Artist Focus aren’t highlighted in this way so it is easy to miss something I’d want to hear. Often they are just snippets from something longer, but not always. Last week Susan Graham performed in this slot several pieces I’d worked on, and fortunately I found out in time to go back using Listen Again and catch them. But on a first pass through Radio Times I missed them altogether.