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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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Inside Music: A search for the essence of music with Paul Lewis

A search for the essence of music with Paul Lewis

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, A search for the essence of music with Paul Lewis

Pianist Paul Lewis introduces a colourful selection of music - from the inside.

Pianist Paul Lewis opens up a colourful selection of classical music from the inside - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

Today pianist Paul Lewis is bemused by a performance on the player-piano by Marc-André Hamelin, finds the voice of Dame Clara Butt both terrifying and entrancing, and discovers that the combination of two voices, double bass and the composer Antônio Carlos Jobim serves to conjure up the very essence of chamber music.  He also puts things into perspective by subjecting us to ‘one of the worst recordings of all time’.

At 2 o’clock Paul plays his Must Listen piece - a work by Schubert for male voices and strings in which Paul hears a depth of sound colour that he’s often searching for in his piano playing.

The series in which each week a musician reveals a selection of music - from the inside. 

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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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