BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Choir and Organ

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an irresistible mix of music and singing.

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Choir and Organ: English Madrigals with Emma Kirkby

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Music: Classical: Choral

13/02/2011

English Madrigals with Emma Kirkby

BBC Radio 3 - Choir and Organ, English Madrigals with Emma Kirkby

Soprano Emma Kirkby joins Aled Jones to discuss English madrigals.

Soprano Emma Kirkby joins Aled Jones to discuss the overheated world of Elizabethan madrigals. Plus some modern settings of verses by Shakespeare.

Dame Emma Kirkby joins Aled Jones among a crowd of cavorting nymphs, randy shepherds and love-sick youths as they sample the overheated world of Elizabethan Madrigals. Plus some modern settings of verses by Shakespeare.

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