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Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians.

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In Tune: 24/11/2011 Blossom Street Singers, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society

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24/11/2011

24/11/2011 Blossom Street Singers, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, 24/11/2011 Blossom Street Singers, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society

With music from the Blossom Street Singers and Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.

Presented by Sean Rafferty. With music from the Blossom Street Singers and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and My Essential Symphony with broadcaster Stuart Maconie.

As they prepare to launch their new album, the Blossom Street Singers perform live in the In Tune studio with conductor and composer Hilary Campbell. The 20-piece choir perform works from their new release 'Sleep, Holy Babe - A Collection of Christmas Lullabies', including a new piece written by Hilary.

Recently named 2012 Musicians of the Year by the Musical America newspaper, co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Wu Han and David Finckel visit the In Tune studio. Along with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, violinists Ani Kavafian and Arnaud Sussmann, viola player Paul Neubauer and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, they will perform works by Schumann and Barber live in the studio as they continue their residency at Wigmore Hall.

Also including "My Essential Symphony" with broadcaster Stuart Maconie. 

Exclusive to In Tune, "My Essential Symphony" features a range of advocates sharing their thoughts on a particular symphony, running throughout a month of programmes celebrating the Symphony across Radio 3 and BBC4 television and also featuring Rufus Wainwright, Joan Armatrading, Will Self, Alan Hollinghurst, Alexander Armstrong, Penny Smith, Sandi Toksvig, James Naughtie & Brian Blessed.

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