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Spirit of the Age

on BBC Radio 3

Wotan, Valkyries, Valhalla and the Twilight of the Gods - these words are the very stuff of Wagnerian opera, but their origin in ancient Germanic and Norse mythology is less familiar. Christopher Page looks at poems from the old Icelandic Edda - a collection of stories of giants and dwarves, prophecies and visions - with musical interpretation by the ensemble Sequentia. Repeated from Sunday 3.15pm

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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