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

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Tom Service

Stephen Johnson

Iestyn Davies

Music Matters: Villa-Lobos, Ravel Correspondence, Iestyn Davies, Boulevard Solitude

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Music: Classical

01/03/2014

Villa-Lobos, Ravel Correspondence, Iestyn Davies, Boulevard Solitude

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Villa-Lobos, Ravel Correspondence, Iestyn Davies, Boulevard Solitude

Tom Service explores the life and music of Villa-Lobos and talks to Iestyn Davies.

Tom Service explores the life and music of Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos, looks at the correspondence between Ravel and Vaughan Williams and talks to countertenor Iestyn Davies.

Tom Service explores the life and music of Villa-Lobos ahead of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion day on the Brazilian composer. As Radio 3 prepares for its Ravel Day on Friday, Tom visits the British Library with musicologist Stephen Johnson to look at the correspondence between Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He talks to countertenor Iestyn Davies during rehearsals for English National Opera's new production of Handel's Rodelinda and travels to Cardiff to review a rare production of Henze's opera Boulevard Solitude at Welsh National Opera.

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