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Music: Classical

Music: Classical: Experimental & New

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and studio sessions from the best new groups, and premiering works commissioned by the BBC

Hear and Now: Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Hansel and Gretel

Simon Armitage's re-imagining of the classic fairy tale with music by Matthew Kaner

Simon Armitage's take on this classic fairy tale, with music by Matthew Kaner, in a stage production devised and performed live by the Goldfield Ensemble with narrator Adey Grummet

A re-imagining of the classic fairy tale by the poet Simon Armitage with music by Matthew Kaner, a work devised for the stage by the Goldfield Ensemble.  This touring production was inspired by the visual creations of artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins, with puppeteers working alongside the chamber ensemble and narrator Adey Grummet.  Kate Molleson introduces a recording of the London performance which took place at Milton Court Concert Hall in October. Also tonight, a selection of some of the best new releases of 2018.

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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